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2025 Honorary Degree Recipients at Howard

2025 Honorary Degree Recipients Represent the Best in Global Truth and Service

Degree designees are Levar Burton, Barbara Lee, Natasha Trethewey, Lilian Seenoi Barr, and Emery Brown.

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LeVar Burton Celebrates Howard’s Class of 2025 as Heirs to History

May 10, 2025 4 minutes
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A "Golden Couple" Celebrates Their 50th Graduation Anniversary After Meeting at Howard University

May 9, 2025 4 minutes
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Howard University's trailblazers, movers, and shakers.

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Roberta Flack (B.M.E. ’58, D.Mus. ’75) Inspired Fans and Influenced Legions of Artists Across Generations

Over the course of a legendary career, Howard alumna and 4x Grammy Awardee inspired and influenced countless performers through her talent, showmanship, professionalism, and sheer charisma. 

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Coming Full Circle: Anthony Anderson’s Journey to Howard University, Hollywood, and Back Again

Feb 24, 2025 5 minutes
Elizabeth Catlett

Elizabeth Catlett: The Artist Who Gave Voice to the People

Mar 17, 2025 6 minutes
Ben Vinson speaks at MIT

Howard University President Ben Vinson Explores “Artificial Intelligence in An Age After Reason,” During Lecture at MIT

Mar 31, 2025 7 minutes

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NBC's "TODAY with Jenna & Friends" Hosts a Howard University Reunion with Alumnae Taraji Henson, Phylicia Rashad, and Scholarship Winner Trinity Garrison

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Ben Vinson speaks at MIT

We have an obligation to ensure that AI is shaped by diverse voices, not by historical biases encoded into algorithms."

President Ben Vinson Explores Artificial Intelligence During Lecture at MIT
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History & Heritage Howard's Extraordinary Legacy of Civic Leadership

Howard University alumna Congresswoman Summer Lee

History & Heritage Howard's Extraordinary Legacy of Civic Leadership

For 157 years, Howard University has served as the nexus of intellectual engagement and social advocacy to ensure that all Americans can fully exercise all the rights of citizenship. Howard alumni include first Black U.S. vice president, Supreme Court justice, popularly elected U.S. senator, popularly elected U.S. governor, and mayors of New York City, Washington, DC, and Atlanta, among numerous other luminaries which include three secretaries of federal agencies. 

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Institute for Responsible Citizenship creates generational impact for young Black men

May 6, 2025

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Apr 30, 2025

For Howard’s on-campus recruiting leader, the fruits of her labor are seen on the field

Apr 25, 2025

LEVAR BURTON WILL BE HOWARD UNIVERSITY'S COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER FOR CLASS OF 2025

Apr 25, 2025

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