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News Articles: Spelman College

Berry College in Rome, Ga., held its spring commencement ceremony on May 10, 2025. (Berry College/ Facebook)

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Congrats Class of 2025! A look through Georgia's commencement ceremonies

It's graduation season! Georgia colleges and universities will hold commencement ceremonies to celebrate and honor the Class of 2025. 

May 19, 2025
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From left to right, Michael O. Leavitt, Tabernacle Choir President; Mack Wilberg, Tabernacle Choir Music Director; Dr. David Morrow, Morehouse College Glee Club director; Dr. Kevin Johnson, Spelman College Glee Club director; and Elder Ahmad S. Corbitt of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints gathered for a press conference at State Farm Arena on Tuesday, September 10, 2024 ahead of the free Wednesday night concert. Ambria Burton/GPB News

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Morehouse and Spelman students reflect on the power of music between Tabernacle Choir performances

The Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will perform a free concert at the State Farm Arena in Atlanta on Wednesday, Sept. 11, alongside the glee clubs of Morehouse and Spelman Colleges.

September 11, 2024
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  • Ambria Burton
Miles Ross is a Navy veteran and Morehouse class of 2024

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Will Biden's Morehouse speech sway young Black voters? Opinions among students are divided

The graduation ceremony at Morehouse College is not just a milestone for its students, it is a celebration of their transformation from "men of Morehouse" to "Morehouse Men." But this year's ceremony is marked by a unique controversy surrounding the choice of commencement speaker: President Joe Biden.

 

May 17, 2024
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  • Pamela Kirkland
Ford Hall at Berry College.

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2 Georgia colleges named in 'Prettiest College Campuses in America' list

Two colleges in Georgia were named among a list of the "Prettiest College Campuses in America": Berry College in Rome, Ga., and Atlanta's Spelman College.

May 06, 2024
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  • Ambria Burton
Nancy Gobran, instructor and owner of Safety Driving School, poses in an empty parking lot where she holds her driving lessons on Feb. 6, 2024 in Stone Mountain, Georgia.

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Teaching refugee women to drive goes farther than their destination

A greater Atlanta program called Women Behind the Wheel offers 14 hours of free drivers' education to mostly refugee and immigrant women. Many of the women who enroll come from countries that discourage women from driving or working outside their home.

April 12, 2024
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GPB evening headlines for April 3, 2024

Spelman College extends the deadline for enrollment deposits. 

Norfolk Southern derailment last year in eastern Ohio was not declared a public health emergency.

April 03, 2024
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  • GPB News Radio
Martin Luther King III, right, the son of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., walks with his daughter Yolanda, and Naomi King, left, the wife of Rev. King's brother, A.D., through an exhibition devoted to the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to King at the Martin Luther King Jr. Historical Site, Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2014, in Atlanta. Civil rights activist Naomi Barber King died Thursday, March 7, 2024, in Atlanta, according to family members. She was 92.

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Civil rights activist Naomi Barber King, a sister-in-law to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., dies

Naomi Barber King, a civil rights activist who was married to the younger brother of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., has died at age 92. Family members say she died Thursday in Atlanta.

March 08, 2024
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The $100 million comes as Spelman marks 100 years since its official naming in 1924.

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Atlanta's Spelman College receives historic $100 million donation

The donation is from businesswoman and philanthropist Ronda Stryker and her husband, William Johnston, Chairman of Greenleaf Trust.

January 18, 2024
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  • Collin Kelley
Christine King Farris, sister of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. speaks at the King holiday commemorative service at Ebenezer Baptist Church, the church where King preached, Jan. 19, 2015, in Atlanta. Farris, the last living sibling of Martin Luther King Jr., has died Thursday, June 29, 2023, according to her niece, the Rev. Bernice King.

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Christine King Farris, the last living sibling of Martin Luther King Jr., dies at 95

Christine King Farris, the last living sibling of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., has died. Her niece, Bernice King, tweeted that her aunt died Thursday. She was 95.

June 29, 2023
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On April 28, Spelman College officially inaugurated their 11th president, Dr. Helene Gayle.

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Spelman College inaugurates Helene Gayle as 11th president

Spelman College formally inaugurated Dr. Helene D. Gayle as its 11th president during a ceremony on April 28 at the Morehouse College Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel.

May 01, 2023
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  • Isaiah Singleton
In this March 4, 2020 photo, Roslyn Pope poses with a framed copy of "An Appeal for Human Rights" in her home in Atlanta. Roslyn Pope, a college professor and musician who wrote “An Appeal for Human Rights,” laying out the reasons for the Atlanta Student Movement against systemic racism in 1960, has died. She was 84. Pope died on Jan. 18 in Arlington, Texas, where she moved from Atlanta to be with her daughters after her health began to fail in 2021, according to her family's obituary.

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Roslyn Pope, author of 'Appeal for Human Rights,' dies at 84

Roslyn Pope has died aged 84. She was a 21-year-old senior at Spelman College when she wrote "An Appeal for Human Rights," laying out the reasons for the Atlanta Student Movement in 1960.

February 13, 2023
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Taniyah Pilgrim and Messiah Young address the press at Morehouse College in Atlanta. Prosecutors filed charges against six officers involved in the couple's arrest.

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Atlanta officers won't face charges from 2020 arrest of 2 college students

On bodycam footage, officers are shown confronting two young Black adults, Taniyah Pilgrim and Messiah Young, after the pair were out past curfew following protests over George Floyd's death.

May 24, 2022
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  • Ayana Archie
Pres. Tatum of Spelman College receives a $500,000 grant from Carnegie Corp. to be used for the college's academic priorities.

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Political Rewind: McMichael plea deal denied; Fulton DA seeks FBI help; HBCU bomb threats

Tuesday on Political Rewind: A judge rejected a plea deal in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery. Meanwhile, the Fulton County district attorney asked the FBI for security help as she investigates former President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the election. Sonny Perdue could be back on track to become the next chancellor for the Georgia university system. And a Senate committee takes up constitutional carry today at 4 p.m. 

 

 

February 01, 2022
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Members of the Morehouse College speech and debate team at the 2019 Pi Kappa Delta National Championship at Hofstra University. Coach Kenneth Newby is seen at the center, and student debater Daniel Edwards is at front left.

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A Reckoning After Morehouse Withdraws From Debate Tournament, Citing 'Anti-Blackness'

"This tournament was a culmination of years of innate and not-so-well concealed racism within the debate community that came to a head," says Daniel Edwards, the Morehouse College team captain.

April 30, 2021
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  • Laurel Wamsley
The campus of Morehouse College in Atlanta. The college announced it would require all students to get the vaccine for COVID-19 before class begins fall 2021.

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5 Private Georgia Colleges To Require Vaccines For Students

Five Atlanta-area private colleges will require students to have received COVID-19 vaccinations before class begins next fall. 

April 20, 2021
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