Graves, who is African American, is an evolutionary biologist at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University and UNC Greensboro.

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Obama addressed a crowd of about 15, 000, including more than 1, 200 graduates of North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, one of the state university system's historically black schools.

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He joined the Muslim Brotherhood at the age of sixteen, and, after his graduation from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, in Greensboro where he was remembered as a class clown, but religious enough to forgo meat when eating at Burger King he signed on with the anti-Soviet jihad in Afghanistan, receiving military training and establishing ties with Islamist terrorists.

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