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12/04/09 - Speech to Urban League of Nebraska
Michael B. Adams (draft 14); INCLUDE, INVEST, INSPIRE
Hello everyone,
Thank you for the warm welcome
Thank you, Deidra, Jean, CEO Warren, Urban League Family, friends and guests.
Thank you Jamilah for the very kind introduction.
I am happy to be home to visit family and friends and to spend some time with all of you. Family here today include son Anthony, and his son and daughter Anthony and Jamilah, and Cousins George and Jean who are my partners in deep thinking about serious questions. I bring greetings from balmy San Francisco where the Ocean never freezes and we can see Japan from the Golden Gate Bridge.
10/1/09 - Pew Partnership for Civic Change Executive Summary
Charting the Future: Omaha’s African American Community
While every complicated human situation has multiple causes and outcomes, research and experience show without reservation that lack of jobs; family dysfunction; poverty; and low educational attainment are deadly combinations for losing hope and perpetuating despair. This study, prepared by the Pew Partnership for Civic Change, found that all these factors have affected the African American community in Omaha in greater proportion than whites. These negative social indicators have prevented African Americans from realizing their own potential and have prevented Omaha from realizing hers. This is an issue that all of Omaha must embrace not just African Americans.
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