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On 8 May 2017, the Daily Wire reported that Harvard University would be holding a blacks-only graduation ceremony in 2017: Daily Wire specifically said that Harvard University is segregating graduation ceremonies, but the site linked to a BET (Black Entertainment Television) article which reported on an individually organized commencement ceremony and not the university's larger overall event: Although BET's item was slightly ambiguous, it made it very clear that students at Harvard, and not the university itself, had planned an additional ceremony for black students from the Class of 2017. We contacted Harvard University and Harvard Business School's African American Student Union (AASU) for further clarification. An AASU spokesperson told us that the ceremony is the first of its kind at Harvard, but similar events have been held at elite colleges across the nation in order to provide a sense of solidarity among students who might otherwise feel marginalized: Harvard University further confirmed that this is a student-organized ceremony that complements their official commencement event. Even without that confirmation, the source material made it clear that Harvard University was not segregating their 2017 graduation ceremony.
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