First lady <a gi-track='captionPersonalityLinkClicked' href=/galleries/search?phrase=Michelle+Obama&family=editorial&specificpeople=2528864 ng-click='$event.stopPropagation()'>Michelle Obama</a> (R) embraces honorary degree recepient and song writer <a gi-track='captionPersonalityLinkClicked' href=/galleries/search?phrase=Valerie+Simpson+-+Musiker&family=editorial&specificpeople=235722 ng-click='$event.stopPropagation()'>Valerie Simpson</a> during the Bowie State University graduation ceremony at the Comcast Center on the campus of the University of Maryland May 17, 2013 in College Park, Maryland. Obama received and Honorary Doctor of Laws degree before addressing the 600 graduates of Maryland's oldest historically black university and one of the ten oldest in the country.
{"Image ImageDescription": "COLLEGE PARK, MD - MAY 17:  First lady Michelle Obama (R) embraces honorary degree recepient and song writer Valerie Simpson during the Bowie State University graduation ceremony at the Comcast Center on the campus of the University of Maryland May 17, 2013 in College Park, Maryland. Obama received and Honorary Doctor of Laws degree before addressing the 600 graduates of Maryland's oldest historically black university and one of the ten oldest in the country.  (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)", "Image Copyright": "2013 Getty Images"}