Presidential Statements 2022-2023
Thank you, Howard Community 🎓
To the graduates, I especially want to extend my thanks to you for your understanding and grace as we navigated this situation. I sincerely hope our efforts made clear just how deeply proud this community — this family — is of each and every one of you.
Read More about Thank you, Howard Community 🎓Observing Memorial Day 2023
Memorial Day is a forceful and humbling reminder that the continued struggle for equality must be inextricably linked with an unrelenting passion for amplifying each other’s humanity.
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Memorial Day is a forceful and humbling reminder that the continued struggle for equality must be inextricably linked with an unrelenting passion for amplifying each other’s humanity.
Read More about Observing Memorial Day 2023Our Collective Humanity
As I looked out at the graduates and their families during this year’s Commencement Convocation, I could not help but feel humbled at the scene of collective humanity encompassing Capital One Arena. The excitement and joy that binds us all together during these moments of celebration serve to highlight those details we share in common, instead of the ones that threaten to keep us splintered.
Read More about Our Collective HumanityCommemorating Pride Month 2023
As renewed attacks on LGBTQ+ rights emerge nationwide, we must remain firm in our allyship and unapologetic that Howard University is and will forever be a champion of the LGBTQ+ community.
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As renewed attacks on LGBTQ+ rights emerge nationwide, we must remain firm in our allyship and unapologetic that Howard University is and will forever be a champion of the LGBTQ+ community.
Read More about Commemorating Pride Month 2023In Observance of Juneteenth 2023
Juneteenth should be an annual remembrance of how rights have been historically apportioned unevenly, and our continued responsibility to ensure the American ideals of liberty and justice for all.
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Juneteenth should be an annual remembrance of how rights have been historically apportioned unevenly, and our continued responsibility to ensure the American ideals of liberty and justice for all.
Read More about In Observance of Juneteenth 2023Observing Independence Day 2023
Even as we celebrate America’s freedom, we must examine the contradictions between the principles we hold dear, and the realities still experienced by far too many. As Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said 58 years ago today, “If America is to remain a first-class nation, she can no longer have second-class citizens.”
Read More about Observing Independence Day 2023Observing Independence Day 2023
Even as we celebrate America’s freedom, we must examine the contradictions between the principles we hold dear, and the realities still experienced by far too many. As Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said 58 years ago today, “If America is to remain a first-class nation, she can no longer have second-class citizens.”
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