everyday heroes

  1. Ya' Cousin Cleon

    In 2014, Anna Jones along with 11 others went on a hunger strike to save a Chicago Public School

    Jones, 36, joined 11 other activists in a 34-day hunger strike that began in August to protest the closing of Dyett High School, the last open-enrollment public high school in Bronzeville. On day 18 of the strike, CPS announced that Dyett would reopen, but with a focus on the arts rather than...
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