Morehouse College News

President Obama arrives in Atlanta on Saturday, May 18, 2013 to prepare for his commencement address at Morehouse College,11 a.m. on Sunday, May 19, 2013.

It was a rough week for the president. IRS. Benghazi. The AP. Even the run-up to his graduation speech at Morehouse College turned into a fight.

Compare that with four years ago, when he told Arizona State's graduating class that it was leaving college in times of "extraordinary difficulty." When he spoke to Naval Academy graduates in 2009, he highlighted their choice to serve in a time of war.

President Barack Obama will grace the Morehouse College commencement stage on Sunday afternoon, May 19, 2013, in-front of thousands of hardworking graduating students and their families.

Usually, commencement exercises at Morehouse, like the 2002 ceremony above, don't require tickets and anyone can attend.

Lavi$h, one of the hottest rising hip-hop artists in the Washington, D.C.-Metropolitan area, will be performing live in the district for the first time in 2013.

"The focus of Commencement weekend should be on the graduates, their families and the historic visit by the President of the United States," said Morehouse College President John S. Wilson in a statement.

Washington is gripped by scandal, Congress is grappling with a mammoth immigration bill, Democrats are griping and President Barack Obama is groping for a fix.

This weekend will be a busy one for Dorian Joyner, Sr. Sunday morning, he will watch his oldest son graduate from Morehouse College.

When Beyonce Knowles sang the Etta James song "At Last" at President Barack Obama's 2009 inauguration, the song could have had several meanings.

Nearly 50 years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his iconic "I Have A Dream" speech.

This week on the national scene -- the student loan crisis, and President Obama meets with two female heads-of-state. In the meantime, Emily's List launches a campaign for a woman president in America.

Reginald Wayne Sharpe Jr. of Lithonia, a Morehouse College senior, will be heading to Yale Divinity School after graduation.

Father and son Dorian Joyner, Sr. and Dorian Joyner, Jr. are both graduating from Morehouse College this year.

"Our Heritage - Atlanta's Family History Conference" will be held on May 18, 2013.

Close to 80 students took advantage of the 2013 Historical Black Colleges and Universities Tour this year.

A man who said he graduated from Morehouse College more than 30 years ago is suing the school because the college said he never met graduation requirements.

Chick-fil-A Foundation and Fellowship of Christian Athletes are joining together to offer Power Camp 2013, a need-based day camp for young people ages 8-12 this summer at Morehouse College.

The Georgia Commission on the Holocaust in partnership with the Georgia Public Library Service is bringing the travelling exhibit "Witness to the Holocaust: WWII Veteran William Alexander Scott III at Buchenwald" to libraries throughout the state from May to November of 2013.

As President Barack Obama prepares to deliver a commencement address at Morehouse, a prominent Philadelphia minister who wrote a scathing critique of Obama now says he's been disinvited to speak at Morehouse one day before Obama is scheduled to speak on May 18.