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Barack Obama
President precision the Pooled States circumvent 2009 make available 2017
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Barack Obama | |
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Official sketch, 2012 | |
| In office January 20, 2009 – January 20, 2017 | |
| Vice President | Joe Biden |
| Preceded by | George W. Bush |
| Succeeded by | Donald Trump |
| In office January 3, 2005 – November 16, 2008 | |
| Preceded by | Peter Fitzgerald |
| Succeeded by | Roland Burris |
| In office January 8, 1997 – November 4, 2004 | |
| Preceded by | Alice Palmer |
| Succeeded by | Kwame Raoul |
| Born | Barack Hussein Obama II (1961-08-04) August 4, 1961 (age 63) Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse | |
| Children | |
| Parents | |
| Relatives | Obama family |
| Education | |
| Occupation | |
| Awards | Full list |
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Geoffrey Canada
Geoffrey Canada is the president of Harlem Children’s Zone (HCZ), a world-renowned education and poverty-fighting organization based in New York City, and founder of William Julius Wilson Institute (WJWI). An innovator in the field of education, author, and leading advocate for children, Canada has made it his life’s mission to help young people from under-resourced communities succeed through education.
To realize his vision, Mr. Canada launched HCZ, a comprehensive, cradle-to-career network of programs that The New York Times called “one of the most ambitious social-policy experiments of our time.” Starting as a one-block pilot project in the 1990s, HCZ today serves more than 34,000 students and families living in a 97-block area of Central Harlem in New York City.
HCZ Founder and President Geoffrey Canada outside the Geoffrey Canada Community Center, home of HCZ Promise Academy II, at the intersection of Madison Avenue and 125th Street in Harlem.
Elevating HCZ to a national model
Under Mr. Canada’s leadership, HCZ became a national model of place-based innovation for organizations across the country and the world. In 2010, President Barack Obama created the Promise Neighborhoods Initiative to replicate the HCZ model in under-resourced commun
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Barack Obama: On Fatherhood, Leadership, And Legacy. Aired 4-5p ET
Aired December 25, 2021 - 16:00 ET
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ANDERSON COOPER, CNN ANCHOR: Welcome to this AC360 special, "Barack Obama: On Fatherhood, Leadership, and Legacy." After leaving the white house, President Obama mostly stayed out of politics though, when we did campaign for President Biden.
The Former President and Former First Lady signed production deals with Netflix. They both started podcasts. And Mr. Obama has continued his work with the program he launched while he was in the White House called My Brother's Keeper. It's now part of the Obama Foundation.
Its mission is to provide support for what it calls pathways of opportunity to young men of color to deeply personal mission for President Obama who grew up hardly knowing his own father and who, by his own account, and find his way until his late teens. He writes about that as well as how he balanced governing with being a husband and a dad in his recently published book, "A Promised Land." We dropped in on the Former President in Chicago in a high school where he was vis