Adrien Passee places the commencement sash over the shoulders of fellow graduate Sara Parsons during the Sunday afternoon ceremony at the Virginia State University Multi-Purpose Center.
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“Everything that has happened in my life — everything that I have survived and everything that I have accomplished — prepared me for what I am doing now,” Congresswoman Lucy McBath of Georgia told an arena full of graduates, family members and friends at Sunday afternoon’s commencement ceremony at Virginia State University.