Twelve parents and activists on a hunger strike for their vision of a local school

I spent Wednesday of this week with some of the dozen parents and activists on a hunger strike to demand that the city reopen the Dyett High School in the Bronzeville neighborhood as a Global Leadership and Green Technology school. Chicago officials on Thursday said they would reopen the school next year, but as an arts-themed school, not the proposal the hunger strikers want. They continue their hunger strike, now into its 20th day.

The shooting assignment was for AJ+, who produced this piece.

In Chicago, 12 ppl went on a hunger strike for 17 days, battling for the future of a local school – and they lost.https://t.co/cmeM2icE78

— AJ+ (@ajplus) September 4, 2015