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via BlackAmericaWeb: Oprah Winfrey paused before talking politics Friday as she stood in front of a crowd of graduates at the University of Southern California. Then she decided it was safe. “The rumors from my last big speech have finally died down,” she said to laughter and applause. That speech at the Golden Globe Awards in […]

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First Lady Michelle Obama will deliver the 2014 commencement speech at Dillard University in New Orleans, LA on May 10th. The University is supporting the First Lady’s higher education initiative and doing their part to answer the President’s call to ensure that by the year 2020, America once again has the highest proportion of college graduates in the world. […]

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  President Barack Obama will give the commencement speech at Atlanta’s Morehouse College this Sunday, the school announced over the weekend. According to a White House official, Morehouse was selected because it is “one of the nation’s leading historical black colleges and universities (and) is among the best and brightest institutions of higher education in the country. Known for its […]

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A White House official saysPresident Barack Obama will deliver the commencement address at all-male Morehouse College in Atlanta this spring. The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. is among the historically black institution’s alumni. Commencement is scheduled for May 19. Obama typically speaks each spring at a handful of college and university commencement ceremonies, including at one of the military service […]

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Denzel Washington makes remarks during the University of Pennsylvania’s 255th Commencement Monday, May 16, 2011, in Philadelphia. *Denzel Washington says there’s a lesson to learn in his decision to deliver the commencement speech at the University of Pennsylvania.] Addressing about 5,000 graduates at the Ivy League school in Philadelphia on Monday, the Oscar- and Tony-winning […]

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Denzel Washington makes remarks during the University of Pennsylvania’s 255th Commencement Monday, May 16, 2011, in Philadelphia. *Denzel Washington says there’s a lesson to learn in his decision to deliver the commencement speech at the University of Pennsylvania.] Addressing about 5,000 graduates at the Ivy League school in Philadelphia on Monday, the Oscar- and Tony-winning […]

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On May 18, first lady Michelle Obama will deliver the commencement address to the liberal arts women’s college located in Atlanta, Georgia, White House sources said today. “In a personal address, the first lady will discuss her upbringing, and the significance of being part of the first generation in her family to graduate from college,” […]