As the nation commemorates its 250th anniversary, Carson French, a student at Booker T. Washington Magnet High School in Montgomery, Alabama, has earned national recognition as a 2026 honorable mention prize winner in C-SPAN’s annual StudentCam documentary competition.
French will receive $250 for the documentary, “When Equality Ends at the Prison Gates.”
C-SPAN also recognized Amy Hinton, who served as an adviser and mentor throughout the StudentCam competition and helped guide the nationally recognized achievement…