The split heard round the world generated thousands of comments about proper graduation celebrations and whether the student in question
_This essay discusses sexual violence._
It wasn’t rape. But it wasn’t consensual. It wasn’t violent. But I was crying and told him to stop. He wasn’t a rapist. I knew him. I wasn’t a victim.
I was at an overnight college debate tournament when I was raped and physically assaulted by a fellow debater. The next morning, I woke up in the hallway with no ID and no phone. Days later, no matter…
Jennifer Lopez is officially an empty-nester with her twins graduating this year, and along with this major life milestone come some big changes. Emme, who graduated from high school on May 28, with Lopez, their brother Max, and former stepbrother Samuel Affleck in attendance, revealed a new name. The change was divulged publicly in March, […]
A Kentucky student denounced homophobia and racism during a speech at his 8th-grade graduation. The words rapidly went viral as he left behind the campus he called an oppressive environment.****
“Apparently, this school doesn’t know better than to give an angry gay kid a microphone,” Daniel Mattingly said in a short speech at Stuart Academy in Louisville.
The school had asked him to give a…
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"I realized I shouldn’t chicken out because I need to speak from my heart and tell these people what they need to be told."
His commencement speech was greeted with applause and even cheers, but Jonas Hole, Salutatorian of the Class of 2026 at his Mississippi high school, had to endure being called “young lady,” being misgendered, and deadnamed by the same administrators who handed him his diploma.
“Despite my own self-acceptance, others judged me without understanding me. I became my label, and it felt as if my…
A Mississippi high school is facing backlash after a Facebook post celebrating its 2026 salutatorian deadnamed the transgender student and appeared to digitally alter his appearance.
The post, published Sunday by D'Iberville High School in Biloxi, congratulated salutatorian Jonas Hole with the caption, “Pride. Tradition. Excellence. Congratulations to our DHS Salutatorian,” before…
O’Neal received his graduate degree from LSU’s College of Humanities & Social Sciences while addressing students at commencement. NBA Hall
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Over 170 students set to graduate from North Carolina State University were about to get the surprise of a lifetime when they filed into the arena in their red caps and gowns. As with all graduation speeches, possibilities seemed palpable; hopes and dreams were waiting on the horizon. Unbeknownst to the scholars, their commencement speaker, […]
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When Mr. Carl Craft nearly died from a brain hemorrhage, he and his wife Dawn reviewed their bucket list. Carl wanted to travel, Dawn said she wanted to go to medical school. “He thought I was crazy,” she said. Now though, Dawn Zuidgeest-Craft proudly carries a doctorate in medicine after finishing as the school’s oldest-ever […]
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What to get the high school and college grads in your life.
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Graduation season is closer than you think, and with the 2026 academic year coming to a close, the countdown is officially on. While students, parents, and even teachers are all looking forward to summer break, graduation marks something much bigger — it’s the end of one chapter and the start of a new beginning. And before anyone […]
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