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![Cornell Brooks: "Love Boldly, Lead Bravely"](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/events/Degree-graduation-bennington_900x450.jpg?itok=2zIoYwQS)
Cornell William Brooks, President and CEO of the NAACP, gave the Commencement address for the graduating class of 2017.
![Commencement 2017](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/7J5A9997.jpg?itok=3vfVe0el)
Bennington College celebrated the achievements and the future promise of the Class of 2017 at Commencement this year, with an inspiring and rousing sendoff by Cornell William Brooks, a leading civil rights activist and former head of the NAACP.
![Charlotte Albright](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/vivian_fine.jpg?itok=olmMvAi4)
With the arrival of commencement season, Vermont Public Radio commentator Charlotte Albright ’72 reflected on her Bennington commencement ceremony 45 years ago.
![Introducing B-Rad](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/B-rad-logo_30x225.jpg?itok=MSiuH4HV)
The College debuted a new campus radio station, B-Rad, in Spring 2017. The station offers a microphone to the voices of the Bennington.