This year, Urban Prep Academies in Chicago graduated 252 seniors; all of them were accepted to four-year colleges or universities. Students told us about where they're from and where they're going, presenting a sort of counternarrative to Chicago's rampant gun violence.
The mother of one of those students talked to us about some of the hardships she faced after becoming a teen mom and later raising a college-bound black man on Chicago's South Side.
Music provided courtesy of APM Music.
