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[quote=Anonymous]Let's hear from the students, shall we?
Their opinions do matter don't they?
I mean they're the ones attending Harvard...

Michael Huggins, president of the Harvard Black Graduate Student Alliance, began organizing the event after finishing his first year at the Kennedy School, where he noticed an absence of programming to connect black graduates across disciplines. Huggins completed his bachelor’s degree at Stanford from 2010, where he noted a “long tradition” of similar graduation ceremonies for black alumni.
[i]“I think there’s so many good opportunities to build networks, to build fellowship, to build community,” Huggins said. “This is an opportunity to hear stories that are often not told.”[/i]

Kristin A. Turner, president of the Harvard Black Law Students Association, said the event looks to help black students “claim our visibility” at the University, an institution that has historically been majority white.
[i]“We chose Black Commencement as not only a commemoration of all the different dynamics that go into being a person of color at Harvard University, but also a celebration of what an accomplishment it is to come out on the other side,” Turner said.[/i]

Four students, who will all graduate later this month, were selected to speak at the event and will highlight various parts of the black student experience at Harvard, according to Huggins and Courtney A. Woods, a student at the Graduate School of Education.  Woods said her own speech will discuss “what it means to walk across the stage and symbolically bringing my family, my community.”

Organizers of the event said this history often complicated their experiences at Harvard.
[i]“I will be frank and say that of course there have been times where I’ve felt isolated,” Woods said. “But that doesn’t mean that my experience at Harvard is something I don’t want to remember and cherish for the rest of my life.”[/i]

[url]http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2017/5/10/black-commencement-event/[/url][/quote]

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