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2004 Commencement Speakers

by Black Issues , May 6, 2004

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•University of Southern
 California  
 Senator John McCain
 Arizona senator and former presidential contender

•University of Southern
 California Law School
 Bruce Karatz
 Chairman and chief executive officer of KB Home, one of the largest homebuilders in the United States and France 
•Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
 Pierre Thomas
  ABC News Justice Department correspondent and Virginia Tech alumnus

  •Wake Forest University (N.C.)
 Colin Powell
 U.S. Secretary of State

•Washington university
in St. Louis
 Thomas L. Friedman
 Three-time individual Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for the New York Times 

•Wellesley College (Mass.)
  Toni Morrison
 Nobel Prize-winning author

•Wheaton College (Mass.)
  Mary Robinson
  Advocate of universal respect for fundamental rights and freedoms; Ireland's first woman president; United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights; Harvard Law fellow; Winston Churchill Medalist
 
•Winston-Salem State
 University (N.C.)
 Dr. Mae Jemison
 First African American female
astronaut 

•Xavier University (La.)
 Kathleen Babineaux Blanco
  Louisiana governor 



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