Christopher Rucker II and Damontae Warren are visited by Dar’tavous Dorsey, then a supervisor with the lauded Chicago mentoring program Becoming A Man a week into their freshman year at Philander Smith College in Little Rock, Arkansas. Rucker just finished college in 2 1⁄2 years with a 4.0 GPA. Warren will finish next fall, in 3 1⁄2 years.
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Christopher Rucker II was emotionally floundering his freshman year at Bronzeville Scholastic Institute High School when he learned about the Becoming A Man (BAM) program that serves at-risk Chicago Public Schools youth.
His father, who promised to be in the audience when Rucker gave his eighth-grade valedictorian speech at Harold Washington Elementary, died of a sudden heart attack.