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Despite all the challenges they’ve faced, most older millennials are content with how their lives turned out. Here’s their best advice to the next generation.

Recent Massachusetts high school graduate Verda Tetteh is off to Harvard University this fall – and helping some of her fellow classmates along the way. We spoke to Tetteh about why she declined a $40,000 scholarship and asked it be given to other kids headed to community colleges.

Older millennials across the country share what they’d do differently in their career.

The school will become Alexandria City High School. News4’s Derrick Ward reports.

A group of La Plata High School alumni walked across the graduation stage to get their diplomas on Thursday — 52 years after they were denied the opportunity. It was in 1969 when try-outs for the school’s majorettes and warriorettes squads were marred by racism. In a school where 40% of the kids were Black, not one Black person was…

In 1945, World War II Veteran Ed Kinslow missed his high school graduation because he was busy flying for the Air Force. At age 94, he is finally getting the chance to walk across the stage on graduation day.

At her graduation from a Massachusetts high school, a Harvard-bound senior asked that her school give tens of thousands of dollars it had awarded her for a college scholarship to someone attending a community college instead.

A North Carolina high school student was originally denied his diploma after he wore a Mexican flag as a cape to his graduation ceremony. School officials said he violated the dress code.

Northern Virginia Bureau Chief Julie Carey reports on the first “near normal” high school graduation in Northern Virginia.

Last year, graduation was virtual for almost every local university. This year, many schools are having in-person graduations or some kind of hybrid ceremony. Prince George’s County Bureau Chief Tracee Wilkins reports on some of these long-awaited celebrations.

As vaccinations rise and mask mandates are lifted, families are hoping graduation ceremonies and other school events will look as normal as possible. News 4’s Cory Smith reports.

Lindiwe Tsope has become the first graduate of Oprah Winfrey’s Leadership Academy for Girls in South Africa to be awarded a PhD.

Stacey Abrams tells 2021 graduates at Teachers College, Columbia University that “what you want can be made real” if you don’t give up.

John Legend delivered Duke University’s undergraduate commencement address on Sunday, May 2.

Two years ago, 15-year old Emma Earhart and her mom, 39-year-old Kathy Earhart began their journey at the University of North Texas at Denton, and on May 1 they’ll end it just as they started: together.

Almost a year after college graduation, 45% of the class of 2020 are still looking for work, according to a survey from career website Monster.

The University of Virginia has decided to forgo in-person graduation exercises for the class of 2021 because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic

Today was graduation day at the DC Fire & EMS Training Academy. News 4’s Cory Smith spoke with the rookies now getting ready for their first assignment: inauguration day.

Psychotherapist Tess Brigham recommends these great reads to all of her college graduate-age patients, and says life “would have been a lot easier” if she read them in her 20s.