Powerful Harvard Graduation Speech in Spoken Word Format

[romanigypsyeyes]

It’s the speech Harvard University is calling “the most powerful, heartfelt” speech “you will ever hear.”

Donovan Livingston, a master’s graduate at the university, was chosen by a committee of faculty, staff and students to speak at the School of Education’s convocation, a rep for Harvard told ABC News.

Instead of a traditional speech, Livingston used spoken word to perform his poem, “Lift Off.”

Livingston told ABC News that the “true inspiration behind the piece” was the fact that he couldn’t perform a poem when he gave his commencement remarks during his senior year of high school.

http://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/graduation-speech-harvard-calling-powerful-youll-hear/story?id=39427065

Has anyone seen this? It’s “gone viral” over the last few days but I don’t see any threads about it.

Maybe it’s because I, and pretty much everyone in my in-law family, has worked in low income, minority-majority districts as educators, but the poem hit me hard.

[coolweather]

He should teach language art and literature instead of going to administration.

[Nrdsb4]

Thanks for posting.

[Mothersv]

Fantastic speech