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  • Obama Slams Hoop Dreams for High School Diplomas

    07/08/2008 7:55:54 PM PDT · by TornadoAlley3 · 7 replies · 115+ views
    abcnews ^ | 07/08/09 | ABC News' Sunlen Miller Reports
    Barack Obama took a "tough love" message to African American youth, telling that finishing high school is a better route to success in life than an unlikely trip to the NBA or the top of the rap industry. "You are probably not that good a rapper. Maybe you are the next Lil' Wayne, but probably not, in which case you need to stay in school," Obama, D-Ill., told a cheering crowd, brought to a standing ovation at a town hall meeting in Powder Springs, Georgia. The presumptive Democratic nominee was speaking about high school drop out rates and the need...
  • Autistic Teen's Hoop Dreams Come True

    03/02/2006 11:49:15 AM PST · by JTN · 22 replies · 1,048+ views
    CBS News ^ | Feb. 23, 2006
    (CBS) It was the stuff of Hollywood, but it was real. Senior Jason McElwain had been the manager of the varsity basketball team of Greece Athena High School in Rochester, N.Y. McElwain, who's autistic, was added to the roster by coach Jim Johnson so he could be given a jersey and get to sit on the bench in the team's last game of the year. Johnson hoped the situation would even enable him to get McElwain onto the floor a little playing time. He got the chance, with Greece Athena up by double-digits with four minutes go to. And, in...