In Conversation: Misty Copeland and Barack Obama

Magazine: Time Magazine
Date: March 28, 2016
Article: In Conversation: Misty Copeland and Barack Obama
Page: 56
Author:  Maya Rhodan
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3. Misty Copeland is looking at President Obama as a mentor.
4. President Obama has embraced Misty Copeland as a role model for young people.
5. One of President Obama's failures in his presidency is to bridge the nation's political divide.
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10. Young African-American, Latino, Asian, LGBT youth face their schools not offering any extracurricular activities and the school being underfunded.
11. President Obama says on page 59, "there's always been affirmative action, it just hasn't always been minority focused, right."  He gave an example of a big university donation and your child getting accepted by the university.  President Obama compared affirmative action to legacies.
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13. The idea is to reach young men of color.
14. Young men of color are channeled into destructive behavior, dropping out of school, and the prison pipeline.
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16. No
17. True

Reference
http://www.blackgirlmagicmag.com/
http://mistycopeland.com/
http://blacklivesmatter.com/about/
https://www.whitehouse.gov/my-brothers-keeper