"I can't stand up here and pretend I want to be doing this speech right now," the teen said in his graduation speech -- wearing boots still muddy from burying his father hours earlier. A North Texas ...

Asna Tabassum is the first valedictorian the University has denied the opportunity to deliver a graduation speech at commencement. (Asna Tabassum) The Class of 2024 valedictorian, Asna Tabassum, will ...

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (WNCN) — A transgender teenager is raising his voice after he says school administrators in Cumberland County, North Carolina censored his graduation speech. Gray Byrd, 18, was the ...

The University of Southern California will not have its pro-Palestinian valedictorian deliver the 2024 commencement speech during graduation, citing security concerns and leading to condemnation from ...

This week, the University of Southern California (USC) announced that the college's valedictorian, Asna Tabassum, would be barred from speaking at commencement. The school cited concerns that Tabassum ...

USC administrators have banned the university’s class of 2024 valedictorian, who is Muslim and South Asian, from speaking at its May 10 commencement, citing safety concerns over her pro-Palestinian ...

The University of Southern California canceled a commencement speech by its 2024 valedictorian who has publicly supported Palestinians, citing security concerns, a rare decision that was praised by ...

The University of Southern California’s decision to cancel its valedictorian’s commencement speech has set off a campaign of external and internal pressure on the university to let Asna Tabassum speak ...

Campus outlets at the University of Southern California (USC) published a speech on Friday from graduating student Asna Tabassum, a Muslim-American valedictorian whose remarks were canceled last month ...

The University of Southern California has canceled the valedictory speech of a Muslim American student, saying that “tradition must give way to safety.” But the student, some academics, and others say ...

Saying “tradition must give way to safety,” USC on Monday made the unprecedented move of canceling the upcoming graduation speech of an undergraduate valedictorian who has come under fire for her ...