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Photo Gallery: 20th Annual Rites of Passage Ceremony
The Rites of Passage is held annually at Rutgers University for black and Latino graduating students.
Old Queens chapel was packed full of family, friends and good wishes on for the 400 graduates taking part in the 20th annual ceremony on Thursday.
Black and Latino students are invited to take part in the event, which honored the graduates through poems, songs, speeches and presentation of special stoles to each graduate, handmade and imported from Ghana.
According to Rutgers spokesman Steve Manas, 1,500 black and Latino students are in the current graduating class.
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