"To see it taken away was heartbreaking," 18-year-old Olecia James claims in a federal lawsuit A black high school graduate in Mississippi claims that instead of becoming the first salutatorian at ...

He went on to describe it as a feeling of "being ... first Black male valedictorian in our school's history," he said, prompting loud cheers and applause from the crowd of masked students.

One Georgia teen just made history by becoming the first male African American valedictorian of his high school. » RELATED: After a lifetime of learning, Atlanta woman earns college degree at ...

A North Carolina student is celebrating an outstanding achievement after becoming Valedictorian at R.J. Reynolds High School in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Alecia Washington is the first ...