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The University of California-Berkeley’s African American Studies Department announced it would be hosting its annual "Black Graduation" ceremony for students on May 19 in a virtual format. “The Department of African American Studies plans on hosting our annual Black Graduation ceremony, which is open to all majors and degree programs across the campus,” read the announcement. The separate ceremony for African American students appears to have started as an annual event at the public university in 2013. The graduation ceremony is separate from the main graduation ceremony, which will be held virtually on May 15. Megan Wang, a sophomore at...

Tis commencement season, and so without further ado, we present TVNewser’s fifth annual list of who’s-speaking-where-and-when at America’s colleges and universities (in alphabetical order): ABC/CNN’s Christiane Amanpour: University of Southern California - Annenberg School of Journalism (CA), May 11 NBC’s Tom Brokaw: Arizona State University (AZ), May 3…Vanderbilt University (TN) – Senior Class Day, May 10 FNC’s SVP of News Editorial Michael Clemente: Warren County Community College (NJ), May 19 ABC’s Katie Couric: University of Virginia (VA), May 20 NBC’s David Gregory: Emerson College (MA), May 14 CNN/CBS’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta: University of Michigan (MI), previously on April 28 NBC’s...