"My humanity is defined by yours.” Elie Wiesel, Dartmouth Commencement, 2006 In 1990, as I sat at my college graduation in my pale blue cap and gown, not listening to the commencement speaker, I never ...

Something funny has happened to the familiar commencement address in the past 10 years. That something is YouTube. Steve Jobs' 2005 address at Stanford, to take just one example, has been viewed ...

I had two commencement speeches: one in 2024 for my undergrad at Vassar College, and another in 2025 at Northwestern University for my master's. For two consecutive summers, I sat amid thousands of ...

Unapologetically Black was the name of FLOTUS’ game. “Our history provides us with a better story, a better blueprint for how we can win. It teaches us that when we pull ourselves out of those lowest ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. American singer-songwriter Eric Church delivered a moving commencement speech at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ...

Every few years, America rediscovers the commencement speech. A clip goes viral and social media declares it “the greatest ever.” Commentators rush to crown a new oracle for the graduating class. This ...

Just because you’ve been funny on TV, or funny in a movie, does not mean you will be funny at a college commencement. We know because we listened to a lot of speeches this graduation season and, well, ...