President Barack Obama Launches My Brother’s Keeper Alliance
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President Barack Obama is relaunching his “My Brother’s Keeper” initiative into a non-profit foundation. This initiative was created in 2014 after Trayvon Martin’s killing with a goal of trying to help supporting and empowering young minority men in often poor neighborhoods across the United States. According to White House officials, President Obama will use the foundation as context to speak to the Baltimore Riots 2015 and the broader systemic issues that are still in so many neighborhoods across the country. Video Source: CNN — Obama’s My Bother’s Keeper Initiative
In a speech from the campus of Lehman College in the Bronx, New York, President Obama said, “That sense of unfairness, powerlessness, people not hearing their voices — that’s helped fuel some of the protests that we’ve seen in places like Baltimore, and Ferguson, and right here in New York.”
President Barack Obama at Launch of My Brother’s Keeper Initiative in 2014
According to White House reports, nearly 200 mayors, tribal leaders, and county executives across 43 states and the District of Columbia have accepted the My Brother’s Keeper Community Challenge. To learn more, visit website at: https://www.whitehouse.gov/my-brothers-keeper
More resources:
My Brother’s Keeper | Creating opportunity for boys and young men …
http://mbk.ed.gov/
What is My Brother’s Keeper… The President’s Call to Action: On February 27, 2014, President Barack Obama joined · The Task Force: An interagency task force …
Barack Obama’s Brother’s Keeper enters new phase – CNNPolitics …
http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/04/politics/president-barack-obama-brothers-keeper/
President Barack Obama will re-launch his “My Brother’s Keeper” initiative into a new, nonprofit foundation, from the campus of Lehman …
Barack Obama speech on the My Brother’s Keeper Initiative
Barack Obama launches a new effort aimed at empowering boys and young men of color, a segment of our society that too often faces disproportionate challenges and obstacles to success. February…
My Brother’s Keeper Community Challenge
http://www.mbkchallenge.org/
The My Brother’s Keeper Community Challenge is a call to action for cities, Tribal Nations, towns, and counties to build and execute robust plans to ensure that …
Obama gets personal in effort to help young men of color
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/obama-gets-personal-effort-help-young-men-color/
Obama on My Brother’s Keeper: A mission for the ‘rest of my life …
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/obama-my-brothers-keeper-mission-the-rest-my-life
The My Brother’s Keeper Alliance, which arrives on the heels of protests … private sector-funded expansion of his MBK initiative, …
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Around the Web
- Obama: Will work ‘for rest of my life’ to help poor minority men
- My Brother’s Keeper enters new phase
- In wake of Baltimore unrest, Obama expands My Brother’s Keeper program – Miami Herald
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