Has Obama Improved Young Black and Brown Lives?

Has Obama Improved Young Black and Brown Lives?
AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais

One by one, smartly dressed young African-American men emerged from dark curtains, each wearing a big smile and holding aloft a small sign displaying one of the most heartening sentences in the English language: “I got the job!”By the end of this mid-November day, more than 300 young men had left interviews at Detroit's Cobo Center with offers from a wide variety of Detroit-area companies, large and small. There were retail jobs, Pepsi delivery jobs, energy company apprenticeships, food industry jobs,

By the end of this mid-November day, more than 300 young men had left interviews at Detroit's Cobo Center with offers from a wide variety of Detroit-area companies, large and small. There were retail jobs, Pepsi delivery jobs, energy company apprenticeships, food industry jobs, bank clerk and teller jobs, all a result of the so-called opportunity summit organized by My Brother's Keeper Alliance, along with several partners.

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