Thanks to mother and grandmother, Bailey Gardin beats the odds
Things like a mothers love. Things like a grandmothers wisdom. Things like courage and determination and resiliency and pride. All of those things shaped Bailey into the young man he is today - a young man who was just elected student body president for the upcoming school year at Appalachian State University in Boone. "I was an unwed Black mother," said Polly Gardin Kitchens, while taking a quick break from her job as a 911 dispatcher in Mecklenburg County. "I had a Black son. But I was not g...
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