Orlando is known as "The City Beautiful,'' but some of its neighborhoods aren't featured in the glitzy travel brochures.
USF nickel back Daquan Evans is from one of those places — the Parramore District, a once thriving historically Black community that lost its identity when the construction of Interstate 4 barreled through its heart and soul, accentuating the segregation and leaving behind a place now associated with crime, poverty and economic hardship.
"The projects, the hood, call it what you want … but that was where I grew up,'' said Evans, 22. "I spent a lot of years just hanging around, doing stuff I shouldn't have been doing.