SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — A Black woman was finally named valedictorian at her Illinois high school nearly four decades after her graduation.
Tracey Meares, a law professor at Yale University, was a star student at Springfield High School in Springfield, Illinois. But when she graduated in 1984, she was not awarded the title of valedictorian despite having the highest academic ranking in her class, she said. Her story is now the subject of a new documentary,"No Title for Tracey."
"As a 17-year-old, achieving something like being valedictorian is probably the biggest thing…It was incredibly disappointing," Meares told"Good Morning America." "I didn't talk about it ever…Many of my best friends that I have known since I was an adult have asked me why I never told and I didn't want to talk about it. It was terrible. It was really hard," she reflected.
This year, her sister, Dr. Nicole Florence, a first-time filmmaker, turned Meares' story into a documentary to spotlight the impact of structural racism.
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