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“As America sits at the significant crossroads of another opportunity to choose whom she will become,” Rye said in her speech. “She’s had so many opportunities to make a different and more constructive decision toward a more perfect union, and you all sit in a tremendous seat of power to help her make that decision.”
President of the university, Dr. Makola Abdullah, said each graduate was a VSU point of pride.
“It doesn’t matter how long it took you to achieve this goal. What matters is you hung in there, and now you can say, ‘We made it,’” she said.
In total, VSU honored 700 graduates including the seven who received their doctoral degrees. One of those seven was Benjamin Crump, the acclaimed attorney who famously represented the family of George Floyd.