2006 Commencement Speakers
 

Soror Marian Wright Edelman, Founder and President of the Children’s Defense Fund will deliver the commencement address at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore on May 19, 2006.

Children's Defense Fund founder and president Soror Marian Wright Edelman will deliver the Commencement address at Emory University's 161st commencement ceremony Monday, May 15, 2006 and will receive an honorary doctor of humane letters degree.

Mayor Soror Shirley Franklin to Deliver Commencement Address at Talladega College
 

The Honorable Shirley Franklin, Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia will be the commencement speaker at the 131st Commencement Exercises at Talladega College, Sunday, May 7, 2006.

WOW...Mrs. Edelman will be a busy person next week...TWO ceremonies in the same week (Monday and Friday)...

AKA Member Phylicia Rashad was Benette College Commencement Speaker
 

Phylicia Rashad, best known as Clair Huxtable from the “Cosby Show,” will be the commencement speaker for Bennett College for Women’s annual commencement exercises on Saturday, May 6 at 4:30 pm in the Special Events Center, Greensboro Coliseum Complex. Rashad was elected to the Bennett College Board of trustees for three years.

Earl G. Graves, founder and publisher of Black Enterprise magazine will be the commencement Speaker for Cambridge College (Mass.) on June 11, 2006.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984 for leading the nonviolent movement against apartheid in South Africa, will deliver the 2006 commencement address at the College of William and Mary on May 14, 2006.

U.S. Senator Barack Obama will deliver the keynote address and receive an honorary doctor of laws degree at the University of Massachusetts Boston’s 38th Commencement ceremony on June 2, 2006.

Congressman Elijah E. Cummings will be UofM @ Baltimore Commencement Speaker
 

Congressman Elijah E. Cummings will be the Commencement 2006 at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, May 19, 2006.

http://www.umaryland.edu/commencement/

John Hope Franklin, the distinguished scholar and James B. Duke Professor Emeritus of History at Duke University, will deliver Duke’s 2006 commencement address on Sunday, May 14, 2006.

http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/2006/03/commence.html

Dr. Cosby will be Spelman College 2006 Commencement Speaker
 

Comedian, philanthropist, author and community servant Dr. William Cosby will return to the campus of Spelman College as it celebrates 125 years of women who change the world. A longtime friend of the College, Cosby will give a charge to more than 500 graduates during Commencement on May 14, 4 p.m., at the Cathedral at Chapel Hill in Decatur, Ga.

Honorary Degree Recipients
The honorable Shirley Clarke Franklin, mayor of Atlanta, is a former member of the Spelman College Board of Trustees. Her commitment to education, leadership and service is exemplary of Spelman’s mission. In 2005, she created “Next Step…The Atlanta Promise,” a program for high school seniors of the Atlanta Public Schools designed to help them prepare for their future, whether it is college, technical school, military or the work force. The program raised $1.1 million in scholarships for 300 graduates in the past year. In 2005, Time magazine named her one of the top-five mayors in the country. U.S. News & World Report and Harvard University’s Center for Public Leadership named her one of “America’s Best Leaders.” She is the first female and first African-American woman to serve as mayor of a major southern city.



http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/520331/

Kenneth I. Chenault American Express CEO to deliver June 17, 2006 Graduation Convocation address at Kellogg School of Management.

man, this is BS! all great people i wouldve rather listened to than Anthony Kennedy, Supreme Court Justice. His speech was nothing but Bush-rhetoric.

For real. I wish we could have had Mayor Franklin instead of the ridiculous Home Depot founder who got up there and started talking about how quotas kept him out of medical school and from fulfilling his dreams :(

(The only reason we even had this guy was because Home Depot funds the GA Aquarium, and the guy who built the thing's son was graduating or some such thing ... it was such as crappy speech, and so right wing.)

Colin Powell spoke at Marymount University

His address can be found at cpan.com