Her inner circle includes roommate Rashida Duvall (Alijah Kai, another standout), a driven scholarship student who calls herself “the Simone Biles of school” and whose eventual bond with Deborah echoes Whitley’s odd-couple friendship with her own Hillman roommate, Kim (Charnele Brown, who also guest stars). Hazel Henry (Kennedi Reece), whose church-girl innocence belies big ambitions, completes the trio. Among Shaquille’s boys are Kojo Achebe (Chibuikem Uche), whose aspirations of becoming a fashion designer don’t exactly thrill his strict African parents, and Amir Rodale (Jordan Aaron Hall), a formerly incarcerated student whose time in…
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