In 1993 Cedric Jennings was a student at Ballou High School where he met reporter Ron Suskind. "A Hope in the Unseen" aptly subtitled "An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League" is one of the outcomes of that meeting and Suskind's effort to track Cedric's remarkable story from Southeast Washington D.C. to Brown University and beyond.

On this episode of Campus Conversations, Cedric shares his story of hope, courage and hard work. The biography was chosen by the Maryland Center for the Book as the first ever topic of the One Maryland One Book program, an effort to get residents from across the state to read and discuss the social issues represented in the book.

Andrea Lewis of the Maryland Humanities Council, the parent organization for the Maryland Center for the Book, explains the book was chosen because of its potential to generate discussion about race and race relations and where we are 40 years after the assignation of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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