Illinois Teen Named Valedictorian Sixty Years After Grandmother Earned the Same Title

Illinois Teen Named Valedictorian Sixty Years After Grandmother Earned the Same Title

An Illinois teen followed in her grandmother’s footsteps by graduating at the top of her class. Nina Mitchell, a recent graduate of DeKalb High School, is the first Black female valedictorian in the school’s 159-year history. She graduated with a…

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‘They Just Believed In Me’: A Young Black Man’s Journey from Nearly Being Placed In Special Education Classes to Law School

‘They Just Believed In Me’: A Young Black Man’s Journey from Nearly Being Placed In Special Education Classes to Law School

Rehan Staton, a 24-year-old man Maryland native, has garnered national attention for his incredible journey — one of having gone from a sanitation worker to support his family while he was in college to recently being accepted to Harvard Law…

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