FAYETTEVILLE, N.C., Nov. 8 -- Fayetteville State University issued the following press release:
When my mother was battling stage 4 cancer, I made her a promise that would change the course of my life.
For years, she had encouraged me to return to college, believing in potential I had yet to recognize in myself. As her health declined, she confided that one of her greatest disappointments was that none of her sons had earned a college degree.
During one of our final conversations, I promised her I would become the first.
She smiled and replied, "I would love to see that."
Although my mother did not live to see me graduate, her faith in me became the foundation for everything that followed.
My mother, Sandra Ohara Harmon, was much more...