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![Passing the Baton - Michelle Obama delivered a commencement speech to North Carolina A&T’s class of 2012 and urged the new graduates to think about how they can follow the example set by the Greensboro Four, whose activism desegregated lunch counters in the South, by helping to make the world a better place. “[Now] it's your turn. It's time for you to take that baton. Take it. It's time for you to carry the banner forward. It's time for you to wake the rest of us up and show us everything you've got,” the first lady said. (Photo: Sara D. Davis/Getty Images)](https://images.paramount.tech/uri/mgid:arc:imageassetref:shared.bet.us:f4901a15-48fb-11e7-a442-0e40cf2fc285?quality=0.7&gen=ntrn)
