US University to hold separate commencement event for black students to celebrate black excellence

The Ivy League Harvard University is set to hold its first school-wide commencement ceremony dedicated to black students. The student-organized event, dubbed Black Commencement 2017, will be held on May 23. Students attending it will wear African kente cloth stoles over their traditional graduation robes. 

Until now, previous black commencement events at Harvard have excluded graduate students. Michael Huggins, the president of the Harvard Black Graduate Student Alliance,said in an interview that the event is "not about segregation."