Source: Sean Rayford / Getty She's outta here! South Carolina State University has reversed course after student protests over the planned selection of Pamela Evette as its 2026 commencement speaker. The anti-DEI lieutenant governor, who claims she, Donald Trump, and Governor Henry McMaster had done more than anyone to support HBCUs, will no longer appear at the commencement ceremony, and students are celebrating her Orangeburg ousting.