Robert F. Smith stunned Morehouse College graduates in 2019 with a life-changing announcement.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For nearly four hours Sunday, the campus of Morehouse College was charged with excitement and pride as families and educators ...

An African drum procession. Fraternity members barking in celebration. Black kings adjusting each other's proverbial crowns. There's no graduation quite like Morehouse College's commencement — a ...

In 1989, Oprah Winfrey began funding scholarships at Morehouse. In 2019, a $13 million gift brought her total to $25 million, ...

The graduating seniors of the Oprah Winfrey Scholars Program at Morehouse College sat down for their pre-graduation dinner on the evening of April 24, 2026, with no reason to expect anything unusual.

Morehouse College will still bring President Joe Biden to speak at the school's commencement ceremony in Atlanta next month, amid some complaints about the invitation from faculty members, students ...

ATLANTA – Morehouse College has tapped Chris Paul to deliver the keynote address at its 142nd Commencement on May 17, putting an HBCU graduate at the lectern in front of the Class of 2026. Paul is ...

Morehouse awarded a posthumous degree to Dennis Hubert, a student lynched in 1930. Morehouse College’s recent commencement ceremony commemorated the lynching of Dennis Hubert in June 1930 by giving ...

NBA star Chris Paul challenged graduates at Morehouse College's 2026 commencement ceremony to lead with accountability, purpose and collective responsibility during a wide-ranging speech Sunday that ...

Morehouse College announced on Friday that Cornell alumnus Robert F. Smith ’85 and his family completed their promise to the Class of 2019 with a $34 million donation to the new Morehouse College ...