ATLANTA - A year after 16-year-old Bre'Asia Powell was shot during an informal post-graduation celebration, hundreds of people marched at Benjamin Mays High School with a message: Put the guns down.

Graduations throughout the United States erupt with some familiar sounds every year: the passionate cheering of friends and families, the lofty grandeur of speeches and, of course, one very ...

Since the very start of freshman year, every college student anticipates the moment they will walk across the stage at graduation with a degree to show for their efforts in pursuing a higher education ...