Thursday, December 15, 2016

College Freshman Recounts Impact of Obama's 'My Brother's Keeper' Program

President Obama on Wednesday held the final White House summit of his My Brother's Keeper program, an initiative launched nearly three years ago aimed at breaking down barriers for young men and boys of color. Some 300 leaders and young people in the program from across the country attended the event.

Malachi Hernandez was one of several young men to share the stage with the president. Growing up in a poverty-stricken neighborhood of Boston, Hernandez said "success seemed out of reach." His father left the family when Hernandez was 7 years old, but that also stopped the violence he said he often witnessed at home.

Now, Hernandez is a freshman at Northeast University, in a very different Boston neighborhood. He's the first member of his family to attend college. 

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