President Barack Obama Adviser and Civic Leader Valerie Jarrett will deliver the 2017 commencement speech at Spelman College.
Professional boxer, television personality and author Laila Ali will deliver the 2017 commencement speech at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University.
Actress, singer and stage director Phylicia Rashad will deliver the 2017 commencement speech at The University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff.
U.S. Senator Kamala Harris will deliver the 2017 commencement speech at Howard University. She is also an alumna of the Washington D.C. university.
Radio host/philanthropist Tom Joyner will deliver the 2017 commencement speech at Tennessee State University & Shaw University.
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Mathematician Katherine Johnson, whose real-life story was told in the hit film “Hidden Figures”, will deliver the 2017 commencement speech at Hampton University.
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Music artist/actress Janelle Monae will deliver the 2017 commencement speech at Dillard University.
Bakari Sellers, who made history by becoming the youngest Black elected official in the nation, will will deliver the 2017 commencement speech at Winston-Salem State University.
Jennifer Benjamin Pinckney will deliver the 2017 commencement speech at Central State University.
She is the widow of Senator Clementa Pinckney who was one of nine killed in 2015 by a white supremacist at a Charleston, South Carolina church.
ESPN Sportscenter anchor Jay Harris will deliver the 2017 commencement speech at Alcorn State University.
