Morehouse College | 140TH COMMENCEMENT | 2024 |
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- Morehouse College will welcome Joseph R. Biden, the 46th President of the United States of America, as its keynote speaker for the 140th Commencement Exercises on Sunday, May 19, 2024, at 9 a.m. on the College's Century Campus.
President Biden's speech will culminate a week of undergraduate and alumni reunion events, celebrating the class of 2024 as well as milestone alumni anniversaries, including Academy Award-winning director and producer Spike Lee '79; human rights activist Martin Luther King III '79; Global Head of Blackstone Strategic Partners Verdun Perry '94; pioneering tech entrepreneur, investor and inventor Paul Q. Judge'99; and Oscar, Tony and Emmy Award-nominated actor Brian Tyree Henry '99. Additionally, honorary doctorates will be presented to President Biden and Dr. Michael Lucius Lomax '68, president and CEO of the United Negro College Fund (UNCF), who is also celebrating 20 years of service with UNCF.
President Biden served as a senator from Delaware for 36 years before assuming the role of the 47th Vice President of the United States. Following his victory in the 2020 presidential primary election, President Biden was inaugurated as the 46th President of the United States. He also served as chairman and ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee for 16 years, becoming widely recognized for writing and spearheading landmark legislation. President Biden also served as chairman or ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for 12 years, playing a pivotal role in shaping U.S. foreign policy.
Dr. Michael L. Lomax '68, a distinguished fundraising executive, author, educator, and the esteemed president and CEO of UNCF, will be honored with the honorary Doctor of Humane Letters for his dedicated leadership in leading the nation's largest private provider of scholarships and educational support to African American students. Under Lomax’s leadership, UNCF has raised more than $4 billion and helped more than 150,000 students earn college degrees. As a leading advocate of college readiness, UNCF enables 50,000 students to attend college through annual scholarships. Dr. Lomax oversees the organization’s 400-plus scholarship initiatives, which award more than 10,000 scholarships a year. He also launched UNCF's Institute for Capacity Building, which supports member HBCUs in becoming stronger, more effective, and more self-sustaining.
The traditional baccalaureate service will be held at 3 p.m. on Saturday, May 18, 2024, in the Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel.The speaker will be Reginald W. Sharpe Jr. '13, senior pastor of the Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church in Chicago, Illinois. Pastor Sharpe holds esteemed credentials as a charter member of the Academy of Preachers and an inductee into the Morehouse College Martin Luther King Jr. Board of Preachers. Additionally, he has contributed to academia as an adjunct professor in the Religion and Philosophy Department at the College. Since assuming leadership of Fellowship Chicago in December 2019, Pastor Sharpe has overseen remarkable growth, even amidst the challenges of the pandemic. Notably, he spearheaded #TheVirtualShip, a virtual extension of the church's ministry, engaging an average audience of 25,000 people weekly.
For a complete list of commencement events and supporting information, visit morehouse.edu/commencement.
THANK GOD FOR THE PERFECT WEATHER CONDITIONS for your outdoor graduation ceremony. 🙏
Congratulations young men on your graduation and accomplishments. Praying that you all will rise above the 'noise', seek truth in love and write your own narratives in order to live out your God-given potential.
CONGRATS CLASS OF 2024 GRADUATES ! HALLELUJAH and AMEN.🙏
Congratulations Morehouse Men!!
Two young men taking the 2nd LIEUTENANT oath for US ARMY.
CONGRATULATIONS 👍
Beautiful, uplifting ceremony.Congrats my brothers. Brings back happy memories my graduation day. Minus Biden of course.
Congrats to graduates! Sorry you had your event taken over for political purposes. Proud of those who turned their backs!
Biden speech was pessimistic and uninspiring, he was saying, Black educated men, you can’t make it.
Black people voting for the Democrats that enslaved them and has them living in poverty TODAY is one of the least intelligent things i have ever seen in my life.
Biden literally wrote the 94 crime bill used to imprison nearly every black person today because he didn't "want his sons to grow up in a racial jungle".
sad
Congratulations gentlemen. Proud of you.👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Martin Luther King Jr. is rolling over in his grave . To be silent in the face of injustice , is injustice itself !
Thank you Jesus
PRAISE AND THANK GOD GRADUATES🎓
Congratulations, graduates. Regretfully, your day was marred by political pandering. God bless and much success.
Lies
Dr. Lea we are proud of you and your words were outstanding!
Congratulations to the Graduates 🎓 🙏💖🙏
Black people are Israelites that where never given reparations
Biden is replacing Black Americans with illegal migrants
Brave grads who turned their back on him while others just stood like plants
Congratulations to the Class of 2024! From SUCCESS WIRE CLOTHING AND ACCESSORIES! Let Success Build Success!
this school has taught very brave men!!! thank you for those who stood for the right of palestinians.. our struggles are deeply intertwined.
Biden’s speech was uninspiring, pessimistic and depressing. Biden basically was saying Black men with degrees can’t make it in USA(democrat’s vision)
Congratulations Black Men on your graduation accomplishment.
FJB Hijacked them kids graduation. To make a former WS a honorary morehouse man is wild. Old Blacks are dangerous.
Compare this to spellmans commencement and you'll see willie lynch in full display.
Shameful!
Ignorance is not your best trait.
How could you call yourself a HBCU and invite Joe Biden to give the commencement speech and have these men listen to him breathe “what is democracy?” And bring up Martin Luther King a bunch of times. This hypocrisy.
Biden is replacing Blacks with illegal migrants who getting millions
Nope. We were on point for what is important.
Agree HBCU are democrat sellouts, because they ignore Black americans for HBCU. Where's the millions of dollars HBCU gets from the feds?
@@hgoodgame1867 Biden got 90% of Black votes now he replacing us with illegal migrants from his open borders. Why are millions of dollars going to illegals in NYC, Chicago, DC, Boston, Detroit, Denver, LA, etc. No one from Morehouse ask Biden, but y'all ask help for Arabs in Gaza. So backwards.
What a horrible speech. It's about the students not politics not about your division message it's about the hard work the students put in. And the families sacrifice through it all. Biden please never come again.
Blame the President and the Board of Morehouse...spineless uncletoms !
Congratulations morehouse class of 2024
What a brave, strong, resilient class of graduates! Intolerant of that which should NOT be tolerated, and whom all went through serious challenges in 2020 that no other generation can understand. I’m proud of you! Now take on the world and I know you all will make it better
FJB
Congratulations to the men of Morehouse! This day was supposed to be about you, sorry it was turned into a political pandering speech.
Congratulations men and stand tall and proud! 🎓
They made this more about politics then a graduation ceremony
If you had any kind of humanity you wouldn't write that. Biden speaks with a fork tongue! I Congratulate all who took the stand against genocide and apartheid. Biden needs Black votes. But know that some African, Asian, Indigenous, and middle Eastern. Amerikkkans and maybe more of those in his cabinet are pretty much under the spell of this corrupt government and follow the money. Though we as Black people may benefit from the Democratic wing , know that those benefits may be the exploitation of people of color and the poor, from Turtle Islands (Trail of Tears), South America to Africa to Asia and the parts of the middle East ! You can follow the money but our Creator knows and we will all be judged on the final days. Satan disguises himself in various ways. But you 'àll keep following the money and sell your souls to the devil. Our ancestors like MLK and Brother Malcolm, Fannie Lou Hamer and a host of others could see through his plastic mask. He calls for an immediate ceasefire because of the elections. It is poli -ticks and his linked with Zionism, greedy Corporations that will continue massacre children, families of the Congo for their resources and the genocide ,carnage of the innocent Palestinians for the Zionist who stoled the land.
This is a very dark speech
Please President Biden listen to what the students are trying to say
PRAISE GOD. HISTORY IS BEING TODAY🙏🏾🙏
What history?
Congratulations to the graduates ❤
That was a doom and gloom speech Joey
I was present and the prayer is still reverberating in my soul.
Congratulations to these Men of Morehouse ! Onwards and Upwards Young Brothers
All of them who didn't turn their backs on this Zionist are Morehouse cowards !
I’m so sorry, my Morehouse brothers, that on the day you worked so hard to get to, you sat through a campaign speech that moved the spotlight away from you and your accomplishments. After all you’ve endured during these craziest of times, you deserved better. We’re proud of you. 🩵♥️
Again, sad.
Morehouse not only failed their students but all of humanity in giving a platform to the man that has happily sent bombs, munitions, and aid to Israel to commit genocide. The students failed in their silence.
They made him sit there and be compared to evil
Black Americans have absolutely nothing to do with the war in Israel or Palestine. Black Americans are fighting racism against police brutality in American right now. Stand up and fight against racism in your land like we stand up and fight against racism in America. Not one Palestinian stood up for Civil Rights in America 🇺🇸. Fight your battle and we will be praying 🙏🏾 for you and for peace!
@@anthonycruz3615 ALL Americans have everything to do with the genocide being perpetrated on Palestinians. US taxpayer dollars are funding it, supplying bombs, munitions, and aid to Israel. I am an American, sorry to burst your assumption. Above all, I am a human as you should be too, and willing to stand up for all injustice.
Biden is overcrowding Black communities with the new Blacks, illegal migrants. Biden is depopulating Black Americans with Planned Parenthood abortions planted in Black communities
Ignorance
buydin litterally had to corner a bunch of students at their own graduation ceremony to have an audience 😂
Most popular man in all recorded history on Earth with 81 million votes 🤣🌊🤡🌎
Congrats Morehouse Men from a Class of 1997 Morehouse Man. Welcome to the family!
Congrats and god bless
Ironic that one speaker made a reference to being nurtured in the womb of Mother Morehouse when, thanks to planned parenthood, the womb is the most dangerous places for a black person to be in America.
From 1939 to 1942 Sanger was an honorary delegate of the Birth Control Federation of America, which included a supervisory role-alongside Mary Lasker and Clarence Gamble- in the Negro Project, an effort to deliver birth control to poor black people.[80] Sanger, over the objections of other supervisors, wanted the Negro Project to hire black ministers in leadership roles. To emphasize the benefits of hiring black community leaders to act as spokesmen, she wrote to Gamble (Proctor & Gamble):
We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. We don't want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.
- Margaret Sanger
Congratulations Morehouse Men
❤🎉
So proud of the class of 2024
This was not the time for politics comments
Having the President visit and then use this as a vote getter, was the purpose in the first place.
But they made it more about politics than a graduation ceremony
Today was about the morehouse graduates not politics
It was terrible. It wasn't the time for politics. It was a time to be celebrating these these these kids and their accomplishments and to speak positivity onto their lives and encourage them for the future cuz it's going to be a tough job market. It wasn't time to talk about the civil Rights movement and George Floyd and how tough it is to be black. They did something fantastic and should have been congratulated. It's a shame that he was up there speaking.
Beautiful voices of our future
Congratulations to all!
Who said they needed whips & chains?
Amen Sister...Amen...💯🎯🙏📿🕊️⛪✝️💣🏴☠️
so sorry you had to listen to the political speech instead of your accomplishments and the last 4yrs Politics is a horrible.
African colors throughout, but 99.99% have never been to Africa, and does not want to, because they know they are already in a much better place.
You should do your research on the percentage of the diaspora that attends Morehouse instead of commenting such ignorance on a public platform.
Congratulations!!!🎉
Free Palestine
Congratulations 🎊🎈🎉
Poor students. FJB
Trump 2024!!!!
NONE of these Men are "poor" in ANY capacity.
Trump's Baggage is worse than Joe Biden...you get Lindsey Graham & The rest of those Zionist 🇮🇱🪖✡️ State Traitors "...💯🎯🏴🏴☠️💣
Congrats to Daylon Land and the graduating Class of Spring 2024
Congratulations to the graduates. Additionally. For the speaker to be someone who cares not for the black community. On Malcolm X birthday is troubling but not unexpected. HBCU ‘s do not serve our young people well. In fact it is a detriment as opposed to an asset…😕
Congratulations to the Morehouse young men of 2024. God Bless you all on your new journey. 🥂👏🏼
The weather was cooperating today
“The House”‼
I'd rather vote for Cornell West, but he probably won't get on the ballot in NC, so...
The lesser of two evils is still Evil .
Dump Trump. Say No to Genocide Joe. Vote Green. Jill Stein for President 💚
Shame on you. You're as bad as the speaker today. This was for the GRADS!
@@iamshastagold Then why did the President show up and push a bunch of propaganda?
What Biden did 51 years in office < what Trump did 4 years in office
Joe Biden originally wrote the 1994 Crime Bill that disproportionately imprisoned and unfairly sentenced thousands of Black people.
Trump with the First Step Act released thousands of black people unfairly sentenced by Joe's Crime Bill.
HBCUs begged the White House for funding every year while Joe was in office.
Trump with the Future Act made 250million annual funding for HBCUs permanent.
What Biden did 51 years in office < what Trump did 4 years in office
Joe Biden originally wrote the 1994 Crime Bill that disproportionately imprisoned and unfairly sentenced thousands of Black people.
Trump with the First Step Act released thousands of black people unfairly sentenced by Joe's Crime Bill.
HBCUs begged the White House for funding every year while Joe was in office.
Trump with the Future Act made 250 million annual funding for HBCUs permanent!
One of the Best Original Reads, I have ever read through. @JoeBiden Morehouse Speech inspired me and I didn't go to any HBCUs. I went to a HWCU but this specific speech was for and intended for ALL BLACK MEN across this country and I felt it deep in my soul full of tears & hope.
Lord heal hearts of hatred.
You the commencement invited right?
Most of these comments are from non-human AI Bots... so...
Nope..."I don't think so....not a chance"...🏴🏴☠️💣💯🎯
Elect Trump and learn firsthand the consequences. If you think that Biden is against you, just wait.
What Biden did 51 years in office < what Trump did 4 years in office
Joe Biden originally wrote the 1994 Crime Bill that disproportionately imprisoned and unfairly sentenced thousands of Black people.
Trump with the First Step Act released thousands of black people unfairly sentenced by Joe's Crime Bill.
HBCUs begged the White House for funding every year while Joe was in office.
Trump with the Future Act made 250 million annual funding for HBCUs permanent.
If you scared go to church.
@@qdubtru4522 Thank you since you know that I am scared without saying so. I am shaking in my boots and will go to church Please save your admonitions for someone else.
Please get off the plantation
I am very disappointed in the graduates behavior! One would think that these scholars recognize the difference between facism and freedom/Democracy. Please vote blue so that you will continue to have the freedom to behave badly. If you don’t care about giving up your freedom, then you know how to proceed.
😂😂😂😂😂😂
"Nope 'Blue' 🔵 doesn't get a automatic vote.. that's how we arrived at this MESS"...💯🎯🏴🏴☠️💣
😂😂😂😢
What Biden did during his 51 years in office < what Trump did during his 4 years in office
Joe Biden originally wrote the 1994 Crime Bill that disproportionately imprisoned and unfairly sentenced thousands of Black people.
Trump with the First Step Act released thousands of black people unfairly sentenced by Joe's Crime Bill.
HBCUs begged the White House for funding every year while Joe was in office.
Trump with the Future Act made 250 million annual funding for HBCUs permanent.
What Biden did in his 51 years in office < What Trump did in his 4 years in office
Joe Biden originally wrote the 1994 Crime Bill that disproportionately imprisoned and unfairly sentenced thousands of Black people.
Trump with the First Step Act released thousands of black people unfairly sentenced by Joe's Crime Bill.
HBCUs begged the White House for funding every year while Joe was in office.
Trump with the Future Act made 250million annual funding for HBCUs permanent.
Remember Ashley Biden‘s diary, his infamous words you ain’t black.