Word: jenningses
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Last night, Pulitzer Prize winning-writer Ron Suskind spoke with Cedric Jennings, the subject of his new book, A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey From the Inner City to the Ivy League.
About 300 people came to see Suskind and Jennings at the Harvard Graduate School of Education's Askwith Education Forum.
Suskind's novel and Pulitzer-Prize- winning Wall Street Journal articles document Jennings' journey from one of the nation's worst inner-city public schools, Frank W. Ballou Senior High School in Washington D.C., to Brown University.
Although Jennings' life story has been likened to that of Hiawatha and Homer, Sandy Seddacca, dean of external relations at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, introduced him as one survivor among tens of thousands of inner city kids.
Jennings, who grew up with a drug dealer as a father and an average of 12 homicides every year at his high school, named three specific factors in his life that enabled him to escape from the inner city.