sitting down and he walked in like it changed the trajectory of my life dramatically. that meeting had a big impact on president obama, as well. one of the things that led him to launch an initiative called my brother s keeper which announced at the white house in 2014. christian, lazerous and james were there. that was your first time in d.c. my first plane ride and that was really my first time being out of my neighborhood. good afternoon. good afternoon. christian champagne was 18 years old at the time. he sad down with us and shared his story and to my surprise, he was just like me growing up without a father and sometimes not too concerned with school. [ laughter ] okay. that s pretty nice that this is
pipeline. there are companies suffering the attacks and most don t get their money back. the difference here, obviously, now the fbi says they are trying to figure out who these people are behind the hack so the story will continue. yeah, incredible development. evan, thank you very much and thanks to all of you. ac 360 special barack obama starts now. welcome to this ac 360 special barack obama on fatherhood, leadership and legacy. after leaving the white house, president obama mostly stayed out of politics but last year did campaign for president biden. the former president and first lady started podcast and mr. obama continued his work with a program he launched while in the white house called my brother s keeper part of the obama foundation. his mission is to provide support for what it calls pathways of opportunity to young men of color. it s a deeply personal mission for president obama who grew up hardly knowing his own father
leadership and legacy. after leaving the white house, president obama mostly stayed out of politics. though, last year, he did campaign for president biden. the former president, and former-first lady have signed production deals with netflix. they both started podcasts, and mr. obama has continued his work with the program he launched, while he was in the white house called my brother s keeper. it s now part of the obama foundation. its mission is to provide support for what it calls pathways of opportunity to young men of color. it s a deeply personal mission, for president obama, who grew up hardly knowing his own father. and who, by his own account, didn t find his way until his late teens. he writes about this, as well as how he balanced governing with being a husband and dad in his recently-published book a promise land. we dropped in a high school where he was visiting with a young men who had been part of my brother s keeper to talk about their lives and the challenges they
daniels, and christian champagne. today, in the same classroom, they sat in eight years ago, at the hyde park academy, high school on the south side of chicago, mr. obama is catching up with them, again. james and lazerus are now 26. christian is 25. he says talking with the president, back then, was life-changing. it was so crazy. that first period that i went to class. it was like, i m fitting to meet the president on my lunch. like, that was the most in unconceivable thing that you could possibly think of. and then, like, my heart was, like, racing. like, when we was just sitting down, he just walked in. it was just like i m forever grateful. and it changed the trajectory of my life, dramatically. that meeting had a big impact on president obama, as well. one of the things that led him to launch an initiative called my brother s keeper. which he announced at the white house, 2014. christian, lazerus, and james were there. james, that was your first
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Elizabeth Gonzales cries at a rally for the George Floyd Act at the Capitol in Austin, Texas on Thursday March 25, 2021. Lawmakers are taking up a sweeping police reform package named in honor of longtime Houston resident George Floyd. It comes as a white former Minneapolis police officer is set to stand trial next week in Floyd s death. (Jay Janner /Austin American-Statesman via AP)Jay Janner, MBR / Associated Press
After a summer filled with cries for police reform, a City Council committee has recommended revising police policies in key areas, including how officers deal with members of the LGBTQ community and people experiencing mental health crises