Posted on 01/15/2014 6:37:53 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
WASHINGTON (AP) -- First lady Michelle Obama and singer Alicia Keys are teaming up to turn the message of a movie about two inner-city boys battling long odds into a call for the nation to do more to help young people get the support they need to make it to -- and through -- college.
The first lady held a White House screening of "The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete," for educators and others helping young people make it. The Grammy-winning Keys was the movie's executive producer and did its score. The movie tells the story of two boys in New York left to take care of themselves.
(Excerpt) Read more at local8now.com ...
Didn't he play piano on "Rockin' Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu"?
Alicia has experience in that since she teamed up with Blackberry last year they have done some significant plummeting.
Founder of the Black Panther Party
Drug dealer, rapist, and murderer
Murdered an Oakland police officer in 1967
Murdered a 17-year-old prostitute in 1974
Was killed by a drug dealer he had failed to pay
much more at link
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1524
“Are these inner city boys Irish?”....
Don’t know much about the potential movie but my money says, they’re not inner city Amish either. More racisim advertising.
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