First Lady Obama to deliver commencement address at HBCU Tuskeegee University
buzzz worthy. . . First Lady Michelle Obama to Address 2015 Graduating Seniors Tuskeegee University is a historic Black college located in Tuskeegee, Alabama. This year, as part of her Reach Higher initiative, First Lady Michelle Obama will deliver commencement addresses at Tuskegee University in Tuskegee, AL; Oberlin College in Oberlin, OH; and the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Preparatory High School (King College Prep) in Chicago, IL . All of these institutions are doing their part to answer the President’s call to ensure that America once again has the highest proportion of college graduates in the world. Mrs. Obama will deliver remarks at Tuskegee University because of its legacy as one of America’s top historically black universities. She will deliver remarks at Oberlin College and King College Prep because of their outstanding video submissions to two commencement challenges issued by the First Lady last October : the “Near-Peer” Mentoring...