Former President Barack Obama returned to Chicago this week to highlight cities across the country who will serve as “model communities” for his namesake My Brother’s Keeper initiative.
Former President Barack Obama leads a panel discussion at Venue Six10 in Chicago Wednesday for his My Brother’s Keeper initiative.
Obama moderated a panel with officials from those four model cities to close out Wednesday’s daylong event. Much of his foundation’s work has centered on civic leadership development. “My main charge to everybody here is: fight cynicism,” Obama said at the conclusion of the panel. There is a prevailing cynicism that shootings, deaths, dropouts, joblessness and despair “is just the norm, and that there’s not much you can do to fix it and that most programs are not successful, and that’s simply not true,” he said.
“Part of what we’re highlighting today is that with the application of targeted, smart, data-supported investments, we can make progress” and begin seeing reduction in violence, improved graduation rates and employment.
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