Past Speakers

U.S. Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock delivered the Fall Commencement Address at Morgan State University on December 19, 2025.

Thasunda Brown Duckett delivered the Spring Commencement Address at Morgan State University on May 17, 2025.

Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey delivered the Fall Commencement Address at Morgan State University on December 13, 2024.

Sir Samuel E. Jonah delivered the Spring Commencement Address at Morgan State University on May 18, 2024.

Kim Godwin delivered the Fall Commencement Address at Morgan State University on December 15, 2023.

Benjamin Crump delivered the Spring Commencement Address at Morgan State University on May 20, 2023.

Governor-Elect Wes Moore delivered the Fall Commencement Address at Morgan State University on December 16, 2022.

David E. Talbert delivered the Spring Commencement Address at Morgan State University on May 21, 2022.

Dr. April D. Ryan delivered the Fall Commencement Address at Morgan State University on December 17, 2021.

Dr. Michael V. Drake delivered the 144th Commencement Address at Morgan State University on May 15, 2021.

Congressman Elijah Cummings delivered the 143rd Commencement Address at Morgan State University on May 16, 2019.

Elizabeth Warren, senior United States Senator from Massachusetts, delivered the Fall Commencement Address at Morgan State University and received an honorary doctor of laws degree on December 14, 2018.

Congressman James E. Clyburn delivered the Fall Commencement Address at Morgan State University on December 13, 2019.

Tom Joyner delivered the 142nd Commencement Address at Morgan State University on May 19, 2018.

Boyd K. Rutherford, Maryland Lt. Governor, delivered the Fall Commencement Address at Morgan State University and received an honorary doctor of public service degree on December 15, 2017.

Joe Biden, 47th U.S. Vice President for two terms in the Obama administration, delivered the 141st Commencement Address at Morgan State University and received an honorary doctor of public service degree on May 20, 2017.

Roland S. Martin, nationally syndicated columnist, author and noted broadcast journalist, delivered the Fall Commencement Address at Morgan State University on December 16, 2016.

Nancy Pelosi, U.S. House Democratic Leader, delivered the 140th Commencement Address at Morgan State University and received an honorary doctor of public service degree on May 21, 2016.

Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr., noted civil rights leader and human rights activist, delivered the Fall Commencement Address at Morgan State University on December 18, 2015.

The Honorable Graca Machel, delivered the 139th Commencement Address at Morgan State University on May 16, 2015.

Julián Castro, secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, delivered the December Commencement Address at Morgan State University on December 19, 2014.

Calvin G. Butler Jr., chief executive officer of Baltimore Gas and Electric Company (BGE), the nation’s first gas utility, delivered the 138th Commencement Address at Morgan State University on May 17, 2014.

Byron Pitts, ABC News anchor and tenured journalist, delivered the first Fall Commencement Address at Morgan State University on December 20, 2013.

Arne Duncan, 9th United States Secretary of Education, delivered the first December Commencement Address at Morgan State University on December 20, 2013.