Author: Staff

A 55-year-old woman has been honored 38 years after her Illinois high school did not make her its first Black valedictorian. Tracey Meares was awarded the title on April 16 by the superintendent of Springfield Public Schools District 186 after a screening of the documentary “No Title for Tracey.” According to CNN, Despite earning excellent grades, Meares was shared the title of “Top Student” with a White student at her 1984 graduation. In the years before her graduation, the top student was named “valedictorian” and the second student “salutatorian,” Meares, a popular cheerleader in high school, said she felt “upset…