Jeremiah Armstead, a college basketball player who was formerly unhoused, is being honored with a courage award.
The NCAA tournament is in the home stretch. On his way to receive an honor and catch the college basketball championship game is an athlete out of Long Beach , whose family had experienced homelessness.Jeremiah Armstead will be in Arizona to receive the Perry Wallace Most Courageous Award from the U.S. Basketball Writers Association.Armstead is on the basketball team at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee.
"He was surrounded by family and supporters. Among the nonprofits that have helped his mom and siblings secure housing are Interval House, the Sisters of Watts, and the Do Good Daniels Foundation. The nonprofit, We Educate Brilliant Minds, also worked to get him into college. In the summer before college, the family had been staying at a domestic violence shelter. They’d experienced homelessness for four years with Armstead, at 6-foot-5, even having to sleep in the car with his family.
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