VCU students walk out of commencement protesting Youngkin speech

VCU students walk out of Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s commencement speech

Dozens of graduating students walked out of Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) on Saturday after Gov. Glenn Youngkin took the stage to deliver a commencement address.

Virginia Graduates Walk Out As Glenn Youngkin Delivers Commencement Speech

Scores of students at VCU staged a walkout during their graduation ceremony as Youngkin took the podium to deliver a commencement address.

Dozens of students walk out as Gov. Youngkin speaks at VCU

About 60 students in caps and gowns silently walked out during Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s commencement speech Saturday at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond.

VCU students walk out of commencement protesting Youngkin speech

Students at the Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) walked out of their commencement ceremony to protest an address by Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R-Va.). About 100 of the 1,200 graduates at the graduation ceremony Saturday quietly filed out of the Greater Richmond Convention Center, some wearing kaffiyeh scarves and signs reading “Teach Black history” and “Book bans…

Virginia Commonwealth University students walk out of graduation

Dozens of VCU grads left during Gov Glenn Youngkin's speech, in part over his comments on campus protests.

Lt. Gov. Austin Davis delivers commencement address at Cheyney

Lt. Gov. Austin Davis served as keynote speaker Saturday at the 169th commencement of Cheyney University of Pennsylvania at Cheyney’s Historic Quadrangle. The Class of 2024 is the university’s largest graduating class in five years, with over 130 undergraduate degrees being conferred, Cheyney said. The graduates, along with their loved ones and the Cheyney faculty, heard from the commonwealth’s first Black lieutenant governor and the youngest li…