When he was in fifth grade, Aaron Clark used to lie in bed at night, bouncing a tennis ball against the ceiling and planning his escape from the rats and roaches, gang shootings and stomach-knotting stress of life in the housing projects of Oakland, Calif. "I made a promise to myself," says Clark, now 24. "If I can get to college, I'll take care of people here in the projects. I'll remember kids like me. And I'm going to pull them up." He's a man of his word. After becoming the first male in his family to gradate from college (the University of California,...
- 6/14/2012
- by Ken Lee
- PEOPLE.com
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