5 years ago, I was blessed to teach some youngsters with the Sunflower County Freedom Project. I was even more blessed to be able to come back and watch them graduate from high school.  Here are some pictures from the event:

the 5 graduates, all my former students 🙂

Me, with Ms. Ward- my little one, who will be going on to Howard University.  I’m so proud of her!

“to be young, gifted, and black/oh what a lovely precious dream/…cause you know in the whole wide world/there’s a million boys and girls/who are young, gifted, and black…and its shonuff where it’s at”