CNN's Don Lemon and novelist Sapphire are scheduled to be the commencement speakers at Brooklyn College in Brooklyn, New York.
Sapphire, ’97, whose novel Push served as an inspiration for the movie Precious, one of this year’s Oscar nominees, will speak at the Master’s ceremony on May 26 in Whitman Auditorium, in the first-ever indoor ceremony in the College’s history. The next morning, Don Lemon, ’96, an Emmy Award–winning journalist who anchors the weekend CNN Newsroom, will address the baccalaureates on the Central Quadrangle. Both will receive Distinguished Alumni Honors. For more information follow the link.
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Sapphire, ’97, whose novel Push served as an inspiration for the movie Precious, one of this year’s Oscar nominees, will speak at the Master’s ceremony on May 26 in Whitman Auditorium, in the first-ever indoor ceremony in the College’s history. The next morning, Don Lemon, ’96, an Emmy Award–winning journalist who anchors the weekend CNN Newsroom, will address the baccalaureates on the Central Quadrangle. Both will receive Distinguished Alumni Honors. For more information follow the link.
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