President Obama on Wednesday held the final White House summit of
his My Brother's Keeper program, an initiative launched nearly three
years ago aimed at breaking down barriers for young men and boys of
color. Some 300 leaders and young people in the program from across the
country attended the event.
Malachi Hernandez was one of several young men
to share the stage with the president. Growing up in a poverty-stricken
neighborhood of Boston, Hernandez said "success seemed out of reach."
His father left the family when Hernandez was 7 years old, but that also
stopped the violence he said he often witnessed at home.
Now, Hernandez is a freshman at Northeast
University, in a very different Boston neighborhood. He's the first
member of his family to attend college.
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