They were born in the wake of 9/11, lived through school shootings and Hurricane Katrina and now confront both a once-in-a-century pandemic and a national reckoning on race. How is the class of 2020 feeling about their future?
The recent high school graduate A’Lyric Thomas was planning to work this summer in her hometown in New Orleans to save for college in the fall when the pandemic put her restaurant job to an end. Now her sun-soaked Louisiana days are spent sleeping, penning poetry, and participating in Black Lives Matter campaigns or baking butter pecan cakes in her kitchen.
A’Lyric Thomas is a New Orleans native and poet. She is quarantining with her pregnant aunt, uncle, two brothers, and grandmother. “My family is very high risk, so I couldn’t take part in any protests—that really upset me,” she says. She will be attending Louisiana State University Alexandria in the fall and living on campus where she’s planning on studying psychology.*I had a friend whose father passed away from corona, and that was kind of like a turning point for me.
I have a few family members who contracted the coronavirus, but fortunately they self-isolated. They were able to get well and back in shape. I was very thankful for that. I’m grateful today that I could see them because a lot of other people don’t get to. I think it’s so easy to be desensitized by just seeing a number. And these are actual people in our communities dying.
Tracey Truong lives in Los Angeles with her mom and three dogs. She was recently the Associated Student Body president at her high school, where she also played varsity volleyball and basketball and was cocaptain of her golf team. When California’s stay-at-home order shut down her school, one of her biggest challenges was writing essays on her sometimes-faulty Los Angeles Unified School District–issued Chromebook, so she wrote them on her phone.
My graduation was online. So it was kind of messy in the sense that the audio didn’t match what was going on with the slideshow that they made. So they were showing our cap-and-gown pictures on the screen, and then they would say the names of the people, and the person they were saying in the audio didn’t exactly match the pictures that were being displayed on the screen. That was pretty upsetting because you at least want it to be accurate and it to be something very nice.
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