An African drum procession. Fraternity members barking in celebration. Black kings adjusting each other’s proverbial crowns. There’s no graduation quite like Morehouse College’s commencement — a ...

ATLANTA — When he gives the commencement address at Morehouse College, President Joe Biden will have his most direct engagement with college students since the start of the Israel-Hamas war at a ...

On the rainy morning of May 17, 2025, Morehouse College called Dennis T. Hubert’s name during its 141st commencement ceremony and posthumously awarded him a Bachelor of Arts in Religion. His ...

As Imam Plemon El-Amin stood on stage at Morehouse College in front of hundreds of people, donning graduation regalia his uncle Dennis Hubert never got to wear, all he could think was that Hubert ...

Cornell alumnus Robert F. Smith ’85 announced a plan to pay the student loan debt of nearly 400 Morehouse College graduates on Sunday, a gift estimated at $40 million. Smith was the commencement ...

The commencement speaker at a historically black college today surprised graduates of the class of 2019 by announcing he will pay off the student debt of the entire class of 400 students. The Atlanta ...

Morehouse College and Spelman College announced last week that the institutions have officially trademarked the term ...

"They’re using every penny to pay off that debt." By his account, Elie Kirkland shouldn't have been at Morehouse College's commencement last year, when billionaire Robert Smith pledged to the class of ...