From the OP's link......................
The segregation will include only graduate students this year, but there are plans to expand such racial separation next year to all university students, including undergrads.
Michael Huggins, a Harvard graduate student who helped orchestrate the separate ceremonies, told
The Root that the segregation "is not about segregation."
“This is an opportunity to celebrate Harvard’s Black excellence and Black brilliance,”
said Huggins. “It’s an event where we can see each other and our parents and family can see us as a collective, whole group. A community.
“This is not about segregation,” he continued. “It’s about fellowship and building a community. This is a chance to reaffirm for each other that we enter the work world with a network of supporters standing with us. We are all partners.”
Shockingly, this is not as rare as it may seem. As noted by BET, "Stanford, Temple and Columbia all have Black student graduations."
Martin Luther King Jr. would be proud.
The OP tried to make it look like Harvard is the only ones doing this, but, as you can see, he left off the last 2 paragraphs of the article when he posted it. Not only is Harvard doing it, but so are Stanford, Temple and Columbia.
And, it wasn't Harvard that came up with this idea, it was the students themselves who wanted it.
Nothing much to see here.