More than 40 years ago, Coretta Scott King became the first female commencement speaker in the history of The City College of New York when she addressed CCNY’s Class of 1971. Her charge to the graduates came eight years after her slain husband, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., had delivered the commencement address to the Class of 1963. City College’s tradition of notable commencement speakers continues on June 3, 2016, when Michelle Obama, the first African-American First Lady of the United States, speaks at the school’s 170th commencement exercises in Harlem. The occasion is likely to be more
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