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We Must Accept and Learn From Our Past — Not Drown In It

Posted 03 March 2011 | By Baltimore BORN | Categories: In the News | No Comments

“Not only does revising history ignore the progress for which so many have fought, it also impedes us from reaching our proper destination in the future.”

Domonique Foxworth, President and Founder of Baltimore BORN, shares his views on Black History Month and the importance of not ignoring our history, as a guest columnist for the Huffington Post.

Closing the Achievement Gap Without Widening a Racial One- nytimes.com

Posted 18 February 2011 | By Baltimore BORN | Categories: In the News | No Comments

Ronald Ferguson, an expert in his field, provides a factual, researched-based view of the educational achievement gap, its connection to race, and how to close it.

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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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We Must Accept and Learn From Our Past — Not Drown In It

Closing the Achievement Gap Without Widening a Racial One- nytimes.com