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First lady gives Chicago high school graduation address

  First lady Michelle Obama is scheduled to give the commencement address for a high school not far from the Obama family home in Chicago. The evening graduation ceremony for King College Prep takes place on the city's far South Side at Chicago State University.  The high school was in the spotlight two years ago when 15-year-old honor student Hadiya Pendleton was fatally shot on the way home from class. Days earlier she had been in Washington, D.C., to perform with her drill team during President Barack Obama's second term inauguration festivities. The first lady attended Pendleton's funeral in Chicago. Last month, she gave a commencement address at Tuskegee University in Alabama in which she discussed racial discrimination. 
 

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