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The president's Morehouse address
Cal ThomasPresident Obama gave two commencement addresses in one to graduates of Morehouse College in Atlanta, Ga., last weekend. It would be easy for this conservative to critique the political and social elements of his speech. Instead, I choose to focus on the...Tags: Barack Obama, Religion and Belief, Social Issues, Values, Education
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Why USC and not a black college, Dr. Dre?
I was in Detroit preparing to give a speech last week when the news came across my Twitter feed: "Dr. Dre and music producer Jimmy Iovine donate $70 million to USC to create new degree." As one of the first university presidents from the hip-hop...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Spelman College, Howard University, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Education
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Obama tells Morehouse grads to think of more than careers
The Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionPresident Barack Obama roused the new graduates of Morehouse College on Sunday with a commencement address that spoke directly to racial issues in a way the first African-American president does only sparingly. Through a steady downpour, Obama -- at the...Tags: Politics, Teaching and Learning, Morehouse School of Medicine, Colleges and Universities, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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Some Spelman parents barred from graduation
The Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionSeveral parents of Spelman College graduates were irate Sunday when they missed their children's graduation after being barred from the ceremony. Parents from as far away as California, Brooklyn and Canada said they were kept from entering a half hour...Tags: Barack Obama, Brooklyn (New York City), Spelman College, Graduation, Education
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Obama urges Morehouse College graduates to help others
WASHINGTON — President Obama urged graduates of a celebrated historically black college Sunday to use their education to help others and to work for "something larger than yourself," citing the example of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr....
Tags: Barack Obama, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Education, Graduation, Colleges and Universities
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AP PHOTOS: College commencements across nation
In a commencement address at Atlanta's historically black Morehouse College, President Obama said graduates should "find time to defend the powerless." The president said his own success was due to "the special obligation I felt, as a black man like you,...Tags: Barack Obama, Graduation, Hofstra University, Rutgers University, Colleges and Universities
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Streetwise and Camera Ready
The Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionThe music cranked as party-goers boogied, drank, got high and caroused, loudly carrying on like they did most nights at Perry Homes. The combustible mix gave folks in the sprawling public housing project many reasons to be on edge. A wrong word,...Tags: Politics, Political Corruption, Georgia Institute of Technology, Kentucky State University, Arts and Culture
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Man has diploma, but Morehouse says he didn't graduate
The Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionTerry Boyd says he graduated from Morehouse College 33 years ago. And he's got the diploma that proves he has a degree. Or at least that's what Boyd thought the diploma meant. But when the Atlanta man applied for a job that would've paid him a $150,...Tags: Litigation, Lawyers, Newspaper and Magazine, Science and Technology, Colleges and Universities
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Obama, at Ohio State, calls on graduates to be active citizens
WASHINGTON — Speaking to the graduating class of Ohio State University in Columbus on Sunday, President Obama called on the students to embrace the school’s motto, “education for citizenship,” and to press the government to act....
Tags: Religion and Belief, Education, Graduation, Berlin Wall's Fall (1989), Barack Obama
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Controversy surrounds Phila. pastor's canceled speech
The Philadelphia InquirerThe Rev. Kevin Johnson, senior pastor of Bright Hope Baptist Church in North Philadelphia, was disinvited from speaking at Morehouse College because he wrote a newspaper column critical of President Obama's administration, according to a group of alumni....Tags: Barack Obama, U.S. Cabinet, Religion and Belief, Education, The Philadelphia Inquirer
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Marching for civil rights
What's remarkable about photojournalist Leonard Freed's book "This Is the Day: The March on Washington" (Getty: $29.95), a photo essay documenting the historic Aug. 28, 1963, civil-rights march, is that it includes only one photograph of Martin Luther...
Tags: Demonstration, Labor Legislation, Civil Rights, Career and Workplace, Arts and Culture
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Award-winning UIC poet: 'desire is not enough'
For RedEyeUniversity of Illinois-Chicago assistant professor Roger Reeves may have just won one of the biggest awards an American writer could hope to receive--a $25,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts--but when he was younger, he didn't know he...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Lil Wayne, Colleges and Universities, Murder, Travel
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