An abandoned school building in Maryland is being refashioned into a movie studio.

The old Fairmont Heights High School, which was Prince George’s County's first publicly funded high school built for Black students during segregation, closed in 2017 and sits fenced off to keep vandals out.

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The Fairmont Heights High School Alumni Association has fought to preserve the building that opened in 1950 and its history.

“We just thought, ‘OK, is the building going to be torn down? Is it going to be burned down?’” association President Joan Crowder said. “The vandalism, all of that.”

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