Three top students give thumbs up
Sometimes DuSable High School senior Marquis Johnson gets depressed at the sight of drug dealers openly peddling their poison—sometimes even to Chicago policemen, he says. Or at kids being beaten by gang members. Or prostitutes hustling just below the Robert Taylor Homes apartment that has been his home for 17 years. To blot out that grim reality, Marquis, a WMAQ-TV intern, is set to graduate in June, earn a college degree in social psychology and counsel inner-city clients.