{"id":217887,"date":"2026-05-21T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/21\/what-graduation-speakers-are-telling-the-class-of-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T07:30:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T11:30:12","slug":"what-graduation-speakers-are-telling-the-class-of-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/21\/what-graduation-speakers-are-telling-the-class-of-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"What Graduation Speakers Are Telling the Class of 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/05\/21\/us\/commencement-speakers-class-of-2026-artificial-intelligence.html\">What Graduation Speakers Are Telling the Class of 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/05\/21\/us\/commencement-speakers-class-of-2026-artificial-intelligence.html\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/05\/21\/us\/commencement-speakers-class-of-2026-artificial-intelligence.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-21 05:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.nytimes.com\">www.nytimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a summary of the highlighted themes from various college commencement speeches, adhering to a respectful tone:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Anxiety and Challenges<\/strong>: Addressing the weight of issues like climate change, rising prices, and societal diseases, speakers like Min Jin Lee at Yale reassured students that time will help them find clarity amidst turmoil.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tough Love<\/strong>: Jonathan Haidt at NYU encouraged students to confront their vulnerabilities to become stronger, suggesting they should not shy away from challenges.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Embrace &#8216;Delusive&#8217; Optimism<\/strong>: Queen Latifah at North Carolina A&amp;T inspired graduates to have an optimistic outlook and believe in their potential, despite early setbacks.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Technology and Adaptation<\/strong>: Magic Johnson at Tuskegee University highlighted the importance of being familiar with artificial intelligence, warning graduates that familiarity can be a significant competitive advantage in the job market.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Political Commentary<\/strong>: Political topics, such as defending democratic freedoms and critiquing past administrations, surfaced in speeches from Muriel Bowser at Howard University and Nancy Pelosi at Notre Dame de Namur University.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These points reflect the array of advice, anxieties, and perspectives shared with graduates during spring commencement ceremonies.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Graduation Speakers Are Telling the Class of 2026 https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/05\/21\/us\/commencement-speakers-class-of-2026-artificial-intelligence.html Publish Date: 2026-05-21 05:00:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":217888,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2026\/05\/21\/multimedia\/21nat-commencement-zmvg\/21nat-commencement-zmvg-facebookJumbo.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-217887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217887"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217889,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217887\/revisions\/217889"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}