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It doesn't say how black you have to be, but The Root is reporting that black graduate students will be holding their own ceremony on May 23 in "an effort to acknowledge the struggles and resilience that black students have had to possess in order to thrive in higher education."
Interestingly and although being white means you can't go, "“This is not about segregation,” said Michael Huggins, who is graduating with a master’s in public policy from the Harvard Kennedy School. "“It’s about fellowship and building a community. This is a chance to reaffirm for each other that we enter the work world with a network of supporters standing with us. We are all partners.”