Hope Chicago Given a Big Boost of Its Namesake

The celebrated CBS newsmagazine 60 Minutes presented a segment on August 14, 2022, titled “Hope Chicago.” The segment tells a remarkable story about what happened to students at a high school on Chicago’s South Side one day. On February 24, 2022, students at Johnson College Prep found themselves called into a school assembly without any idea why.

Almost all the students at Johnson College Prep are African American. Many come from households with…