This is Lonnie Speights, an 11th grade student here at South Broward High School. Journalism is interesting to him because he loves photography and writing. Speights sees writing as a way to express himself freely and show others what he’s passionate about. Academically, his strength is memorizing history. Learning about international history is one of his favorite things to do at school. When Speights is at home on of  his hobbies is reading the Bible. He even holds his own bible studies at his house. In 10 years, Speights hopes to become a Christian missionary spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ

 In his free time Speights also likes to listen to music. His favorite music genre is gospel. Kirk Franklin is his favorite artist. If Speights could have a superpower, he would control the weather and keep it at his ideal temperature of 80 degrees and sunny. His favorite animal is a parrot, because he finds it cool that they can mimic people's language. Speights used to play the saxophone in middle school, but says he’s not too proud of it because he "sucked" at it.