Graduation

If Astra Armstrong’s life were a play, the opening scene would show an elementary school playground in Southeast Washington in the middle of the night. There, a basketball hoop without a net would sit near a slide and a set of monkey bars.…

Each year, hundreds of people graduate from the University of the District of Columbia and go out to make a mark in the world. Many UDC graduates are under 25 years old and haven’t yet hit the workforce. And then there are graduates like…

Throughout high school, Tarrell Talbert had to mine an array of sources to know which colleges he should apply to and what requirements he needed to meet before he could earn his high school diploma.

Aniya Cox is sure she wants to be a dermatologist. What she’s been less sure about is what she needs to do to get there — she’s just 16, a sophomore at Eastern Senior High School in Washington, D.C.