Gray Byrd gives his valedictorian speech at Fayetteville's E. E. Smith High School The Cumberland County School Board prevented transgender valedictorian Gray Byrd from freely speaking about the ...

Checking his watch, Logan Baumgaertner admitted that he’d begun writing his graduation day speech eight hours earlier. “Remember,” the senior class president said, “we are more prepared than we think.

After 40 or more years listening to graduation speeches for first grade through college and including a medical school and as a family member, student, teacher and administrator, I feel I have become ...