Drake plans to graduate high school this summer
theGRIO REPORT - Rapper Drake is adamant about obtaining his high school diploma and is just one credit from completing his goal...
High school dropout graduates college at 52
Teresa Pitts managed to overcome the odds, go back to school, and graduate from the University of California at 52 after a lifetime of tragedy...
Why do blacks cheer louder at graduations?
OPINION - If you encounter a 'disruptive cheerer' who is making it hard for other people to hear, don’t call the cops -- just do what has been done for ages...
Diploma denied because family cheered loudly
theGRIO REPORT - A Cincinnati, Ohio high school senior was denied his diploma, not for failing classes, but because his family cheered too loud at his graduation...
7 siblings graduate school together
VIDEO - They look like a gathering of the United Nations, but you can just call them the Seitz Senior seven...
Mom arrested for cheering at child's graduation
theGRIO REPORT - Shannon Cooper was as excited as any mother would be as her daughter walked across the stage of her high school graduation. Cooper cheered with enthusiasm as her daughter received her diploma...
Viola Davis addresses high school alma mater
CENTRAL FALLS, R.I. (AP) - Viola Davis on Thursday addressed graduating seniors at the high school in the struggling Rhode Island city where she grew up, urging them to treasure 'hard times and joyous moments'...
Obama to graduates: 'A new feeling about America
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) - President Barack Obama declared Wednesday the world has a 'new feeling about America' and more respect for its leadership, weaving re-election themes into a commencement speech to jubilant graduates of the U.S. Air Force Academy...
Oprah will be the Spelman 2012 commencement speaker
Oprah Winfrey is scheduled to speak at the graduation ceremony for the Spelman class of 2012...
Urban Prep grads all college-bound again
Chicago's Urban Prep Academy will continue it's remarkable run this year, as its entire all-male, All-African-American class of graduates have been accepted to college for the third straight year in a row...
