Tuesday, May 21, 2013

President Barack Obama congratulates valedictorian Betsegaw Tadele

(May 20, 2013, (Atlanta))--President Barack Obama congratulates valedictorian Betsegaw Tadele, GPA 3.99, for academic excellence at Morehouse College on Sunday, May 19, 2013, in Atlanta. Morehouse valedictorian Betsegaw Tadele praised Obama for setting a strong example.

Ethiopian American Betsegaw Tadele, a computer science major at Morehouse College, received when President Barack Obama delivered the commencement address at the historically black institution of higher education on Sunday.

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at Morehouse College graduation ceremony in Atlanta on Sunday, May 19, 2013. (Morehouse)

Past, present and future came together on a thunderstorm-filled Sunday, as President Barack Obama received an honorary doctorate and gave the commencement speech at historically black, all-male Morehouse College, where the Rev. Martin Luther King and many other prominent African-Americans spent their formative years.

After opening with several one-liners, and more smiles than we've seen from him in the damage-control-filled recent weeks, Obama delivered a serious message to the class of 2013.

During a speech rife with both personal and historical references, the president invoked a past full of challenges, often resulting from racism, but noted that African-Americans need to break free from that past to succeed in a globally competitive economy. Read more from CNN »

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