'A proud moment for Canada': Princeton's first black valedictorian is a Montrealer

People who watched Nicholas Johnson grow up thought he’d accomplish big things. But even his parents didn’t predict that a kid from Montreal would make history quite so quickly—and do it in a different country’s history books. This month, at 22, Johnson was named the first-ever black valedictorian of Princeton University, inspiring an excited article in the New York Times and other U.S. news outlets, and a raft of praise from well-known Americans. “This Princeton al