Against all odds: School offers hope, opportunity for young men

The odds were never good for 16-year-old D'Angelo Gardner. His father died of a heroin overdose when he was 9 years old, and by the eighth grade, he was caught up in a gang.

The Urban Prep Charter Academy for Young Men was founded in 2002 to help students on Chicago's southside.

1 of 2 "I had a real bad attitude towards ... everybody. I didn't wanna talk, I didn't wanna do work," D'Angelo recalls. "It was just hard, and I didn't wanna be there."


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