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Posted 04 January 2012 | By Baltimore BORN | Categories: BORN Updates | Comments Off

In 2009, Domonique Foxworth founded Baltimore BORN to provide boys from the Oliver neighborhood of East Baltimore in grades 5-12 the support and services necessary to succeed academically, socially and emotionally. The organization was established to create meaningful and long-lasting change in these young men’s lives. After careful analysis and consultation with other professionals, Baltimore [...]

A Trip to the Yards!

Posted 22 March 2011 | By Baltimore BORN | Categories: BORN Updates | No Comments

On an emerging spring morning, the 5th grade boys gathered early at the BORN house for a pancake breakfast before heading to Oriole Park at Camden Yards for a guided tour of the stadium. The students have spent weeks reading Jackie and Me and discussing the impact that Jackie Robinson had on the game of baseball.

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Michelle Obama:

"I had many friends who could have gone to college but they didn't have parents who thought that they should go into debt to pay for them to go to college...So when you grow up in communities where you see, where you're surrounded by, and you grow up with really bright, talented kids and you slowly see people slipping through the cracks, you know that there but for the grace of God...So I just keep thinking about those kids who are missing opportunities by a hair, by a breath, by a parent, by a teacher, by a dollar amount, and I'm kind of working to make up some of that difference to the extent that I think I can."

- In an interview from Time Magazine, First Lady Michelle Obama

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A Trip to the Yards!