{"id":134088,"date":"2024-05-31T14:16:45","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T18:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=134088"},"modified":"2024-05-31T14:16:45","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T18:16:45","slug":"102-year-old-black-woman-from-virginia-makes-history-finally-earns-college-degree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=134088","title":{"rendered":"102-Year-Old Black Woman From Virginia Makes History, Finally Earns College Degree"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sarah Simpkins<\/h4>\n

Nationwide<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 At 102 years old, Sarah Simpkins has achieved her dream of earning a college degree as she recently graduated from Brightpoint Community College\u2019s Early Childhood Education program in Chester, Virginia.<\/p>\n

Even more special, she graduated alongside her proud granddaughter, Halimah Shepherd-Crawford.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t even express my emotions right now,\u201d Halimah told\u00a0WLBT<\/em><\/a>. \u201cIt was all an idea, and we\u2019re here now. And I\u2019m just so excited for my grandmother that she accomplished what she wanted.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel very wild,\u201d Ms. Sarah said. \u201cI feel very grateful to God for letting me do whatever I do. Thank you, God.\u201d<\/p>\n

Returning to college was a long-time goal for Simpkins. She initially attended Allen University in Columbia, South Carolina, but had to drop out when she got pregnant when she was 20 years old.<\/p>\n

Ms. Sarah focused on raising her family and had 12 children, but she never gave up on her dream.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s something that I had to do,\u201d Simpkins said. \u201cI\u2019m very, very grateful that God has enabled me to do this.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sarah Simpkins Nationwide\u00a0\u2014 At 102 years old, Sarah Simpkins has achieved her dream of earning a college degree as she recently graduated from Brightpoint Community College\u2019s Early Childhood Education program in Chester, Virginia. Even more special, she graduated alongside her proud granddaughter, Halimah Shepherd-Crawford. \u201cI can\u2019t even express my emotions right now,\u201d Halimah told\u00a0WLBT. \u201cIt […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134088"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134090,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134088\/revisions\/134090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}