Attorney Ben Crump delivered spring commencement speech at Morgan State University
BALTIMORE -- Civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump delivered Morgan State University's spring commencement address on Saturday.
Crump was asked to be the keynote speaker at Morgan's 146th Spring Commencement Exercises, which took place at the Hughes Memorial Stadium.
The commencement exercises began at 10:00 a.m.
During his speech, Crump told the crowd of graduates that they have to "continue to lift" as they climb the ladder of success.
"Take this great Morgan State University college education and take it back to the hood, to your homeboys, to your homegirls, to your cousins, your family," he said.
Crump and sexual abuse attorney Adam Slater are representing survivors of childhood sexual abuse perpetrated by members of the church.
The Maryland Attorney General's Office released a 456-page report this year on an investigation that details clergy, teachers, seminarians and deacons within the Archdiocese who allegedly assaulted more than 600 children going back to the 1940s.