Anthony Anderson graduates college: '30 years in the making'

After a three-decade delay imposed first by financial issues and then by a flourishing comedy career, Anthony Anderson on Saturday finally graduated from Howard University.

He went on to thank university president Dr. Wayne Frederick and others including Tony Award-winning and five-time Emmy-nominated actor Phylicia Rashad, the dean of Boseman College. He additionally thanked his son Nathan, the younger of his two children with his estranged wife Alvina Anderson, "for inspiring me to return to school to finish my degree after he was accepted into Howard University." Nathan Anderson, whom Anthony Anderson previously noted had since left the school, posted an Instagram photo of his father amid a jubilant crowd of graduates.