“Preserving and Advancing Excellence” Tougaloo College Inauguration Week and 2021 Commencement “Preserving and Advancing Excellence” Tougaloo College Inauguration Week and 2021 Commencement By Levell Williams, Contributing Writer, Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba at the investiture ceremony of the presidential inauguration of Dr. Carmen J. Walters, 14th president of Tougaloo College (left). Credit: Kathleene Quinn, Tougaloo College Office of Communications and External Relations It is said that one’s true character shows only when tried with adversity. By that sentiment, Tougaloo College is a place full of people of unmovable character and enduring tenacity. Despite such difficulties as the COVID-19 pandemic and a host of accompanying troubles, Tougaloo celebrated the inauguration of its fourteenth president, Dr. Carmen J. Walters, as well as graduation for the Tenacious Class of 2021.