Single mom’s inspiring post about graduating from Harvard Law goes viral

Briana Williams, a 24-year-old single mom who just graduated Harvard Law school, has mastered the art of multitasking. Last year, she finished a final exam while she was in labor. After her daughter, Evelyn, was born during her final year of law school, she learned to breastfeed with one arm while writing a paper with the …

MOM OF FIVE, ONCE A HIGH SCHOOL DROPOUT, GRADUATES FROM LAW SCHOOL WITH HELP FROM KIDS

One morning nine years ago — at the height of her despair — Ieshia Champs thought about ending it all and driving her car off a freeway bridge after dropping her children off at daycare. Last week, Champs graduated from Texas Southern University’s Thurgood Marshall School of Law at the top of her class. And the Houston-based …

6-year-old WWII vet gets degree delayed by nearly 7 decades

Bob Barger stands during the national anthem at the commencement ceremony at the University of Toledo, Saturday, May 5, 2018, in Toledo, Ohio. Now, 68 years since he last sat in a classroom, Barger graduated after a review of his transcripts from the late 1940s showed he completed enough courses to qualify for an associate's …

MINORITY STUDENT AT STUYVESANT AIMS TO FIGHT FOR RACIAL EQUALITY

 Venus Nnadi, a high-achieving Stuyvesant High School student, holding up medals in her Queens home. Queens teenager Venus Nnadi is special by any reckoning, winning admission against the odds to not just an elite city high school, but to THE elite city high school. The senior born to working-class Nigerian parents has excelled at Stuyvesant …