BAM mentorship program allows Chicago teens to tour historically black colleges and universities

CHICAGO (WLS) — Dozens of Chicago Public School students boarded a bus Sunday, bound for countless possibilities. “This trip is one of those trips, it changes the trajectory for a lifetime,” said DeKevious Wilson, regional manager and co-director for the college tour, “Becoming A Man.” Latrell Cowley is a senior at Wendell Phillips Academy High School. He said, before he joined the Chicago mentorship program “Become A Man,” he lived a different life. “At first, I wasn’t going on trips with no one. I was just going to class, going to class,” he said. Now, Cowley and about 70 other…