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Operation Oliver

As shared in previous posts, Baltimore BORN was involved in the Pat Tillman Foundation Day of Service on July 11th in the Oliver Community with a variety of other influential organizations, including the 6th Branch and One Green Home at a Time Foundation. April Yvonne Garrett participated in the cleanup and covered the day for [...]

Program seeks to break sterotypes of young urban black males

This article appeared in the Daily Record on August 21st, 2011 written by Darren Botelho Eleven-year-old Tra’Shawn Brown was walking to a convenience store on his block in East Baltimore’s Oliver neighborhood when a man ran up to him, grabbed his money and ran off. “I filed a police report,” Tra’Shawn said. “But seriously, who [...]

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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