Writing About My Father’s Suicide Put Me Through College
I became a man at the moment the medics proclaimed my father dead
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3 min readOct 5, 2020
I graduated from Morehouse College in 2019 — part of the class that had its student loans paid off by the wealthiest Black man in the country, billionaire Robert Smith. However, I was also financially supported by several scholarships that in sum exceeded…