thrived. on this stage none other than duke ellington, pearl bailey and ella fitzgerald. also president franklin roosevelt would gather friends and family for birthday celebrations. tonight a greater moment of presidential history, president barack obama, much anticipated new memoir is finally available to readers. presidential memoirs take us inside the white house, and tonight want to take the lessons learned and apply them to work that still needs to happen to protect and defend democracy in the united states. joined by members of my brother s keeper, foundation he started more than six years ago to help young men of color fulfill their potential as they strive to live out the american
set things up such that the if it s a controversy, the benefit of the doubt is always going to go to the police officer even when there is film showing something happened. so we re still going to have to change laws, change rules. and often times when you set up smart rules and smart laws and you enforce them, then behavior changes as well. we re going to keep this conversation going. coming up, much more with president obama and members of my brother s keeper. oh! are you using liberty mutual s coverage customizer tool? so you only pay for what you need. sorry? limu, you re an animal! only pay for what you need. liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty.
have a duty to share that information. whatever i m getting and receiving, it s up to me as my brother s keeper to make sure that my brother is well. there is something we said when we talked earlier about the fact that what was terrific, i think it was you, dr. quezada, what is unique about my brother s keeper, what the students told you there are programs geared to the gifted students and hyper smart students and my brother s keeper is geared to everyone. talk a little bit about that, and also about the leadership demands of my brother s keeper. so, jonathan, here is what we know. young men of color are more likely to be suspended in school, less likely to graduate. okay? that is that type of data we need to change. we need to address the needs of every young man, every student in our schools. and in yonkers, the president s program, the former president s
what has it meant to the students there? thank you. my brother s keeper is a movement. it s an opportunity to truly affect the live experiences of the students that have been left behind. and i have often said that s on behalf of the students that have been intentionally left behind in america. president obama has set the conditions for us to create the initiatives on behalf of the young people to support them, to care for them, and to give them a place in our society. president obama, have they met the expectations you set out for my brother s keeper? they ve exceeded them. these two young guys, when i met them they weren t all fancy and looking sharp, but they re an example of the incredible talent that s out there.
not the existential ones. to talk about policy more and talk about sort of the warfare between parties less. but that s going to require all of us to cooperate, including the media, which is a hard thing to do because, let s face it, over the last four years, the news of the clash in visions between progressives and the right, between democrats and republicans, has, you know, been continually amped up in ways that we have gotten almost numb to. and it would be good if we can dial it down a little bit. well, mr. president, we ve got a lot to talk about. coming up, the obama initiative still changing the lives of young, black men across the country. we will talk to some of those impacted by my brother s keeper. stay with us. much more ahead.