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Georgia Father and Son Graduate Together from Morehouse College
Two men named Dorian Joyner graduated on Sunday from Morehouse College in Georgia. They are a father and son who have supported each other as classmates and family.
Dorian Joyner Sr., 46, was a student at Atlanta’s Morehouse College in 1988 when he decided to take some time off from school to pursue a career opportunity in computers. Over the next 20 years, he worked as a senior analyst in data and finance for several major corporations, including a large law firm.
After growing more and more interested in law, he went back to school in 2006 to get an associate’s degree in paralegal studies to make sure he really loved law before investing time and money in law school.
In 2010, Joyner Sr. approached his son to tell him about his decision to go back to Morehouse.
”I just told him to repeat the question one more time and repeat the answer one more time because I thought I heard a different answer,” Dorian Joyner Jr., 23, told ABCNews.com with a laugh. ”I thought he was coming to visit friends. He was coming back as a student.”
The two were never in the same class, but shared some of the same teachers. Joyner Sr. chuckled as he recalled teachers doing a double-take when they saw that they had a Dorian Joyner in their class when they had previously taught one of a different age.
”When we saw each other, we’d greet each other, talk to each other and see how the other was doing in classes,” Joyner Jr. said. ”Sometimes, people would walk past us when we were talking and say, ’Wow, you two look just alike.’”
”The only thing he doesn’t do is say, ’Dad,’ on campus. He’ll call me Dorian,” Joyner Sr. said.
Joyner Sr. said that on campus, he fit in by dressing like the other guys and carrying his backpack. He said that most students kept their distance from ”the old guy” for the first few months of each semester until after the first group project, when he realized how he excelled in presentations from all of his work experience. Then, they flocked to be in his group.
Their roles were reversed, with Joyner Jr. keeping a watchful eye on his father at school.
”He acts like he’s my father on campus,” Joyner Sr. said. ”He’ll say, ’Did you get your class? Did you register?’ He makes sure to check up on everything.”
On Sunday, both donned caps and gowns to graduate with a mutual pride in each other.
”I’m definitely proud of him,” Joyner Jr. said. ”I’m proud of him as a man to go back and fulfill a degree. A lot of people his age have a family, have a career and really don’t have the time or finance to go back to school. The fact that he took the opportunity to find financing and time to go back to school while maintaining a social life and a family is very astounding. That’s hard to do.”
”It’s just going to be an exciting time all around,” Joyner Sr. said. ”It makes me proud. I watched him struggle through school and he’s my firstborn, so it really makes me proud.”
President Obama gave the commencement speech at Morehouse’s graduation ceremony.
The school is one of the country’s leading historical black colleges and universities. Alumni include Martin Luther King Jr., Spike Lee and Samuel L. Jackson, among others.
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so nice
THAT’S AWESOME!
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fail major fail
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Justin Bieber Booed at Billboard Music Awards, Says He “Should Be Taken Seriously”
Apparently tens of millions of Beliebers are not enough to make pop star Justin Bieber feel like he’s a serious artist. At the 2013 Billboard Music Awards Sunday night, Bieber took the stage to accept his fan-voted Milestone Award award and was met with boos from the audience.
After a long pause, Bieber felt the need to defend himself, saying, ”I’m 19 years old. I think I’m doing a pretty good job.”
He continued, ”Basically from my heart I really just want to say it really should be about the music. It should be about the craft that I’m making. This is not a gimmick, and I’m an artist, and I should be taken seriously.”
Even host Tracy Morgan came to Bieber’s defense, saying after the speech, ”Don’t be booin’ nobody, this ain’t ’Showtime at the Apollo.’”…
By Tiffany Lee
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i have no gas money let me catch a ride on ya handle bars lol
Lol Z.
LMAO !!!!
just rode my daughter on the handle bars…we didnt do so good..lol
lol cold world
I want to get a bike too. I used to ride around town in Colorado.
so much fun…and great excercise!
I love bike riding it look like you was having fun… I wish I lived down the street from you we would of been racing word uppppp
haaaaa!! BET!!
Stationary bike in my bedroom. I be watching Tv, listening to music on my ride.. Lifting my onion just a little bit more, lol….
lmaooooo at lifting my onion just a little bit more
it works…lol..ive been riding daily..i see it already!!
You already know
Bike riding is perfect for shaping the buttocks… I use to ride real heavy back in the day and I was skinny as hell with a lump lump in the back
I just noticed you got snacks and shit all up in your lil basket
those are my babygirls…lol
@KMonroe loks like you were enjoying the ride…. To smile is to express you inner joy and aint nothing better.
noth’n!! Im always HAPPY with my babies…
sunny Cali!
Lmaoo Awwwwhl
cant wait for mines to get old enough to ride a bike w/o training wheels lol but thats so cute K
what u doing on a bike I hope u didn’t fall swag
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yall gotta chill on the edm music -_- all sounds the same
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Who is watching the Billboard Music Awards? #BBMA
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pitbull really found his trap
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LOL KID ROCK GAVE A SHOUT OUT TO ARTIST PERFORMING ON PRE RECORDED SONGS LIVE AND THREW THE MIC DOWN WHEN PRESENTING TOP RAP SONGS AND THIS CATEGORY IS WEAK AF
haha I know. This is why I always perform live. I hate singing over a pre recorded track. I have my background vocals on but that is all. It’s not real to me if you sing over the track. Forget being perfect show the talent you got.
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14-Year-Old Girl Shot And Killed While Riding The Bus In Queens
A 14-year-old girl was tragically and senselessly murdered on Saturday in Queens, after an unidentified shooter emptied 10 shots at an idling Q6 bus.
Daja Robinson was simply sitting in her seat when her bus was barraged by bullets, one bursting through a window and hitting her in the head. Robinson was rushed to Jamaica Hospital, but it was simply too late.
The bus was cordoned off by NYPD and investigated for ballistic evidence, as it remained on the corner throughout the night.
Witnesses say they saw a group of teens following Robinson before she got on the bus, right before shots were fired at the bus. Jamaica resident Jamaal Jefferson knew the teen girl, telling the NY Daily News, ”She was sweet. She was young…she was going to school, living her life. It’s just a tragedy.”
Neighborhood resident Christopher McIlwain had maybe the most appropriate response to the tragedy out of anyone. He told reporters, ”It’s outrageous. First of all, it was a young girl. Secondly, it was useless. A life wasted for what?”
Source: nydailynews.com.feedsportal.com
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Happy Sunday Fam..Hope all is well!!
Woke and the birds where chirping in my window… #itsthelittlethings#SpreadLOVE ❤❤❤
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#FACTS!! ”if you got a plan b you’re already setting yourself up for failure.” – @Wayno119
I THINK DA ONLY PLAN SHOULD B KILL ANYBODY WHO GET IN YO WAY
That Is very true!
I don’t know I think who came up with that was just trying to motivate themselves… Because I know to many people that plan B saved they azz from plan A
I don’t know I think who came up with that was just trying to motivate themselves… Because I know to many people that plan B saved they azz from plan A
I have no plan B. Plan A all the way. I had an extra credit assignment I could do for school and I’m not going to do it. Why? Because the assignment was to plan my future after school and I couldn’t pick a rock star, athlete, singer, artist or etc. The teacher said we had to pick something realistic. smh I’m going to make this a career!
WOW!!! THE TEACHER SAID PICK SOMETHING REALISTIC. THE NERVE! BECOMING A TEACHER AINT EVEN REALISTIC WHERE IM FROM. U GOTTA GRADUATE COLLEGE FOR THAT. THE AUDACITY OF YOUR TEACHER TO TRY TO BOX YALLS YOUNG MINDS IN. SMH DISGRACEFUL
I know I was like how can you tell us not to DREAM and not to act on our dreams. I thought it was cray cray. Even crazier it was coming from my home school. So some of the other kids in home school is just like me. Chasing dreams and acting on them like becoming an artist, actress, or actor. It makes no sense.
not after the club sometimes you gotta have a plan b c d…..that use to be me….uuuuuuh yeah
I have no plan b plan a is my plan b
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S/O TO ALL NBA PLAYERS WHO WILL FOREVER BE BENCH WARMERS THROUGHOUT YALL PROFESSIONAL CAREER CLEAN UNIFORMS AND UNLIMITED GATORADE YALL GOT IT MADE
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TOMORROW NIGHT ATL!!!! 14 hours, 53 minutes ago · View
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did I just hear the guy in Florida,Georgia line say,silverado candy paint,wow!!!!
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Completely crushed LA last night @playhousehw,we back in the A tomorrow night in all white,@AGentertainment new spot Prive,then we in Chicago on tues at Sub 51 








WAS WORKING..I MISSSED IT.
it was okay i guess