Miyaka Mackie went straight to college after she graduated from high school. She started at Fayetteville State University in North Carolina, but quit after a little more than a year.
That was 28 years ago. Since then, Mackie married, had four daughters and finished her associate degree at Richmond Community College. In 2020, she enrolled at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke with the intention of finishing her bachelor’s degree, but health issues forced her to stop going.
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