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Feb

Between Cultures

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I felt inspired and hopeful after speaking with students in @TheTellingRoom’s Young Writers & Leaders program. I wrote #APromisedLand in part because I hoped to reach young people like those in this group—the unique voices of a new generation, energized and unafraid to dream big. https://t.co/LP1Ri8Epva
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) February 18, 2021

'No matter what somebody’s accomplished—the greatest novelist, the greatest surgeons, the greatest political activists—they didn’t start that way' — @BarackObama met with writing students to talk about their ambitions and share his own experience of growing up between cultures pic.twitter.com/6u6i5mPP5m
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) February 18, 2021

In our @MBK_Alliance town hall yesterday, I mentioned James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time. From 1962, it remains a s… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Barack Obama (@BarackObama) June 04, 2020

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Young Black men and women have always been at the forefront of progress. As @BarackObama said, "know that your live… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) June 03, 2020

"The way this young man died, watching the video, it made me so sad. It was so painful. It made me cry. I kept sayi… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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CBS This Morning (@CBSThisMorning) June 04, 2020