The Tar Heel community celebrated nearly 6,500 Carolina graduates — including the student-athletes that Rams Club members support every year — at Spring Commencement on Sunday as keynote speaker Bryan Stevenson urged them to speak the truth, get uncomfortable when it means making a positive change and stay hopeful.

“Your hope is your superpower. Believe things you haven’t seen. Believe you can do things that haven’t been done before,” said Stevenson, the renowned public interest lawyer and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative.

Chancellor Kevin M. Guskiewicz presided over the ceremony at Kenan Stadium that celebrated the roughly 3,930 undergraduates, 1,690 master’s degree students and 307 doctoral students. Among this year’s class, more than 5,000 are North Carolina residents, 761 are first-generation students and 510 are Carolina Covenant Scholars.

To read more about Spring Commencement, visit UNC.edu.