Howard University’s board of trustees voted unanimously on Friday to revoke the honorary degree awarded to Sean “Diddy” Combs in 2014, indicating he is “no lengthier deserving to maintain the institution’s optimum honor.”

Howard, a private, historically Black investigation university in Washington, D.C., will also return Combs’ $1 million contribution and terminate a $1 million pledge agreement from the Sean Combs Basis, the board claimed in a statement.

“Mr. Combs’ behavior as captured in a a short while ago launched video is so essentially incompatible with Howard University’s core values and beliefs that he is considered no for a longer period deserving to keep the institution’s maximum honor,” the board pointed out in its statement. “The College is unwavering in its opposition to all functions of interpersonal violence.”

The rebuke is in particular key presented Combs’ longtime ties to the college. Combs was a organization important at Howard, but nevertheless left just following his second 12 months. In 2014, he obtained an honorary doctorate in humanities from Howard and sent the commencement address.

Final thirty day period, CNN very first aired a 2016 surveillance video clip exhibiting Combs physically assaulting his former girlfriend, singer Casandra “Cassie” Ventura, in a hallway at the now-closed InterContinental Resort in the Century Town neighborhood of Los Angeles. In the film, dated March 5, 2016, Combs appears to shove Ventura to the ground, kick her twice, drag her down a hallway and toss glass vases at her.

The video clip of the attack was graphic and disturbing – a single of the handful of occasions the neighborhood has actually viewed, and not just study by way of or study about, an incident of domestic abuse.

Combs unveiled a video clip posted on Instagram days following the video’s launch, expressing, “My habits on that movie is inexcusable. I take total responsibility for my steps in that video.”

But no apology can make individuals now un-see that video. “We locate the pictures extremely disturbing and tricky to look at,” the spot of function of L.A. District Legal expert George Gascón wrote in a assertion on Instagram on Might 17. But the D.A. incorporated that “if the conduct depicted happened in 2016, sadly, we would be not able to cost.”

Recognized in 1867, Howard provides undergraduate, graduate and certified levels in far additional than 120 applications. Notable Howard alumni from the arts include things like actors Chadwick Boseman, Phylicia Rashad, Anthony Anderson, Roxie Roker and Taraji P. Henson comedian and Tv individuality Nick Cannon novelist Toni Morrison novelist and poet Paul Laurence Dunbar and writer and journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates.