WGN News Series - How a Hunger Strike Saved a Southside High School |#ThrowbackThursday

A group of activists went on a 34-day hunger strike to keep Bronzeville’s Dyett High School from shuttering its doors. WGN Radio’s Dometi Pongo looks at how leaders grappled with how to take the school in a new direction and how successful that protest was.[audio src="https://dometi.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/3415416_2017-10-25-233316-8225-0-0-0.64kmono.mp3"][/audio]Dyett High School for the Arts Principal Beulah Mcloyd[audio src="https://dometi.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/3415420_2017-10-25-235020-8225-0-0-0.64kmono.mp3"][/audio]1871 CEO Howard Tullman who heads the Eagle Entrepreneurship Program[audio src="https://dometi.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/3415422_2017-10-25-235222-8225-0-0-0.64kmono.mp3"][/audio]