"Education is no equalizer. Rather, it is the sleep that precedes the American Dream." At the Harvard Graduate School of Education's 2016 graduation ceremony, Donovan Livingston delivers a passionate spoken word poem titled "Lift Off" to his classmates as his commencement speech, which gained attention on social media.
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