Texas teen was told girls of color couldn't do well. She's graduating college at 14.
Alena McQuarter isn’t like other teenagers.
She graduated from high school at 12 years old, made national headlines as the youngest person to intern at NASA and is the youngest Black person to get accepted to medical school.
Now, she's just a few months away from graduating from college at the age of 14.
And somehow, the native Texan and teenage prodigy had time to start the Brown STEMGirl, an organization for girls of color who want to study science, technology, engineering and math.
“I’ve always tried to prove that girls of color … they can do what they put their minds to," she told USA TODAY last week. "Being able to graduate at the age of 12 from high school and going into college, I just want to inspire other girls to follow their dreams.”
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/education/2023/08/13/texas-teenager-science-graduating-college/70565236007/
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for dislike, to fail, or at least serve as silent victims for abuse. Probably most of us can remember a few.
Forty-five years ago, though, was already a very different world from generations before. And as for the world the NEXT 45 have created, advances that most of us here have been part of!
Acceleration.
On this morning's CBS Sunday Morning, i saw a clip of Morgan Freeman producing a movie on 761st black tank battalion. Nothing shocks me any more about how communities of color are disenfranchised and persecuted. to hear of young ppl, esp'ly kids of color, achieve great things gives me hope we as a nation despite all the problems are moving towards a more perfect union.
