Meet Northeast Guilford High’s first African-American valedictorian

GUILFORD COUNTY, N.C. — Sabree Flood, 18, is getting ready for one of the biggest days of her life.

“It’s a very overwhelming feeling,” Flood said.

She graduates from Northeast Guilford High School on Saturday not only as valedictorian but as the first African-American valedictorian in the school’s history.

“I was just shocked,” Flood said. “I didn’t know what to say.”

She says, at first, she didn’t realize how much of a big deal that was.

“My family had to tell me it was a serious moment,” she said. “This is a step in history.”

“This is history,” said her father Waseem Abdul-Haqq. “This is not the average thing.”

Northeast Guilford High School opened in 1962.

Principal Fabby Williams says, back then,…