Jimmy King climbed the stage steps and as he shook hands and hugged professors and counselors at the University of Michigan’s Black Celebratory ceremony in April, he heard what he had waited more than three decades to hear.
“Jimmy King, LSA,” it was announced to the crowd.
At the event that supplements the traditional Michigan commencement, he greeted and thanked those who had helped on his path to graduating, 32 years after he arrived at Michigan as a freshman about to become part of basketball lore as a member of the “Fab Five.”
