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“Dominate Your Environment”

On Veteran’s Day, November 11th, Baltimore BORN was honored by a visit from Gunnery Sergeant Stuart Shine. Mr. Shine came as a guest speaker to share his academic and career experiences, and discuss the need for perseverance, honesty, and giving back to others. Mr. Shine’s talk with the boys was framed around the encouragement to [...]

BORN screams for Halloween ice cream!

On October 18th, April Yvonne Garrett of Amplify Baltimore invited a group of BORN students to visit Taharka Brothers to partake in the Halloween episode of the TV25 show. The boys were ecstatic to be a part of the exciting day, that involved the Taharka Brothers family and Fire Chief Kevin Cartwright. Taharka Brothers is [...]

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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