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The Baltimore Sun June 28, 2010
At 20 years old, R. Donahue Peebles was a penniless college dropout, he told an audience of hundreds Sunday, as the keynote speaker during the 30th commencement of Baltimore's Sojourner-Douglass College.
Roughly seven years later, he was a multimillionaire real estate investor. And today, at 50, he's in the top 10 on Forbes' list of wealthiest African-Americans.
... It was a message that resonated with the 170, mostly black, graduates — 32 master's candidates and 138 earning bachelor's degrees — and their families before him, filling much of the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall. Many of those in caps and gowns were women, heads of their households, who worked full-time, cared for their kids and still found the will to graduate from college with honors.
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