Remembering the Young Victims of 9/11 | Afro

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Remembering the Young Victims of 9/11 | Afro

By NewsVision reporters Teniyah Keve, Desiree Williams and Ariana Cobb for HU News Service Twenty years after one of America’s worst tragedies, local schools in Washington, DC continue to honor those lost in the terror attacks on September 11, 2001. .Twenty years after one of America’s worst tragedies, local schools in Washington, D.C., continue to […]

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