{"id":43750,"date":"2022-09-16T14:33:39","date_gmt":"2022-09-16T14:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/?p=43750"},"modified":"2022-09-16T14:33:39","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T14:33:39","slug":"jeremiah-armstead-from-homelessness-to-college-bound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/jeremiah-armstead-from-homelessness-to-college-bound\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeremiah Armstead From Homelessness To College Bound"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"Jeremiah<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Jeremiah Armstead, a 19-year-old teen from Los Angeles who was homeless while in high school, has been accepted at Fisk University, an HBCU in Nashville, Tennessee, and will play basketball for its team.<\/p>\n

\u201cAny type of adversity that I went through, for the most part, it motivated me and pushed me,\u201d Armstead said he felt after seeing his acceptance letter, according to\u00a0ABC News<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

In the past 3 years, Jeremiah has lived mostly in cars and domestic violence shelters with his mother and siblings.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not surprised Jeremiah is where he\u2019s at today,\u201d his mother Mindy Brooks said. \u201cI\u2019m not surprised because he\u2019s always been a good person.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jeremiah says that getting into Fisk was not easy for him as he juggled his studies and the effects of homelessness. But he managed to push through as he received a lot of support from his family, coaches, and organizations like We Educate Brilliant Minds and Sisters of Wyatt.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was bringing smarts, of course, but it was hard to do that being homeless and juggling everything, like domestic violence situations, just stuff like that,\u201d he said. \u201cLiving in a shelter, living in a car \u2014 it was hard to think, go to school, worry about my mom or my brother, my sister.\u201d<\/p>\n

A graduate from Long Beach Polytechnic High School in Long Beach, California, Jeremiah is now a college student studying kinesiology. He has joined Fisk University men\u2019s basketball team under the guidance of team coach Kenneth Anderson, who was a formerly played for the NBA\u2019s Los Angeles Clippers.<\/p>\n

Jeremiah pursuing higher education has motivated his younger siblings to dream big and go to college as well. And he wants other people to see it, too.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s all I ever needed in life was a chance,\u201d he said. \u201cI just want to show people that\u2019s in my circumstances like \u2018don\u2019t stop\u2019. Don\u2019t ever think of giving up because just like that, stuff could change.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jeremiah Armstead, a 19-year-old teen from Los Angeles who was homeless while in high school, has been accepted at Fisk University, an HBCU in Nashville, Tennessee, and will play basketball for its team. \u201cAny type of adversity that I went through, for the most part, it motivated me and pushed me,\u201d Armstead said he felt Read More…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43752,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1361,56,7,1,182],"tags":[1293],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43750"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43751,"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43750\/revisions\/43751"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}