Though Xavier Jones, just 14, was a stranger to LaTonia Collins Smith, something clicked when they met. "That kid, that day, it was just something that resonated with my spirit," Collins Smith said.

A St. Louis teen can spend the next four years not stressing over how he’ll pay for college after a six-mile walk to receive his middle-school diploma moved administrators at one historically Black ...

ST. LOUIS (KMOV/Gray News) – A young teenager walked for more than two hours to make it to his eighth-grade graduation, and his commitment to showing up has now secured him a full-ride scholarship for ...