Archive for 'High School'
Congratulations to Englewood Urban Prep Class of 2010 – All Boys Charter School
Posted on12. Mar, 2010 by Leshell Hatley.
100 percent of first senior class at all male, all African-American Englewood academy is accepted to universities.
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Antenor Firmin: Haitian Scholar and Anthropologist who predicted Barack Obama's Presidency over a century ago
Posted on13. Jan, 2010 by Leshell Hatley.
Anténor Firmin (1850-1911) was born and educated in Haiti. He studied law and held several political offices before being posted as a diplomat to Paris, where he was admitted to the Societé d’Anthropologie de Paris and wrote De L’Égalité des Races Humaines. He was a Haitian anthropologist, journalist, and politician.
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Khadijah Williams: From Homeless to Harvard
Posted on05. Nov, 2009 by Leshell Hatley.
Khadijah Williams, 18, overcomes a lifetime in shelters and on skid row. Khadijah was in third grade when she first realized the power of test scores, placing in the 99th percentile on a state exam. Her teachers marked the 9-year-old as gifted, a special category that Khadijah, even at that early age, vowed to keep.
“I still remember that exact number,” Khadijah said. “It meant only 0.01 students tested better than I did.
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Derrion Albert: A Great Scholar in the Making
Posted on30. Sep, 2009 by Leshell Hatley.
The Black Scholars Index celebrates the life of Derrion Albert and his status as an honor roll student at Christian Fenger Academy High school on Chicago’s South Side. We send our prayers to his family and friends and will remember him as a Great Scholar in the Making!
