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He was the two-time captain of Tufts University’s men’s basketball team and played professional basketball in Helsinki, Finland, where he spent the dark winter nights teaching English. He first picked up a basketball on a court in Newtown, Massachusetts, at age eight and didn’t stop. After graduating from Tufts University, Khari Brown (far right) played professional basketball in Helsinki, Finland. Like Georgetown’s former head coach, Brown’s career started on the basketball court. His leadership shows the power of mentorship as a tool to bring out the very best in our young people and enable them to thrive.” “His passion for the game is deeply connected to his work with young people and his commitment to education. “Khari’s journey shares special resonance with that of John Thompson - through his own love of the game of basketball as both a former player and as a coach,” DeGioia said. DeGioia recognized Brown’s transformative impact in the community and presented him with the award. He has broken down barriers for low-income students and empowered college and career growth, achieving a 61% college graduation rate at CPE – a rate nearly triple that of similar students nationally.Īt the Jan. Under his leadership, Brown has expanded CPE’s reach from serving 50 students a year to 470. responded to Cooper’s response today, noting, among other things, “I never said the pic of him was from Florence.” The tremendously wet tweet had “Nothing to do with Florence.Also a former basketball player and coach, Khari Brown is the CEO of Capital Partners for Education (CPE), a nonprofit that provides mentoring and college and career success programming to low-income students in Washington, DC. But I at least thought that they and you should know the truth.” “I don’t expect the president’s son to ever admit he was wrong,” Cooper said, “or one of the president’s former advisers, or, frankly, anyone else who’s retweeted these pictures. The CNN host ended the segment noting that the camera operator shown in the Hurricane Ike photo, Doug Thomas, passed away last year.
I did not see him down in North Carolina the last few days helping out or lending a hand, but i’m sure he was busy doing something important besides tweeting lies.” “I know he considers himself an outdoorsman and pays a lot of money to be led to wildlife in Africa that he then kills, but I’m not sure he’s ever actually been to a hurricane or a flood. “I whether I should even respond tonight to the president’s son,” Cooper said. The memes drew an angry on-air nine-minute response from Cooper last night, who pointed out the actual location and date of the photo and called the crackpot conspiracy theory “frankly idiotic.” Referring to “Donny Junior,” Cooper said, “I’ve covered hurricanes for about 14 years and it really does make me sad to think that I would fake something or overly dramatize a disaster.” She added the caption, “You know it’s sad when even the WEATHER is #FakeNews.” Lynne Patton, a top official with the Department of Housing and Urban Development and a longtime Trump family employee, shared the meme on her Instagram account over the weekend. “You know it’s sad when even the WEATHER is #FakeNews,” Patton wrote, right around the time that an infant had been reported drowned in the flooding. Trump Jr.’s tweet was followed by a similar one from former Trump official Gavin Smith (“Absolutely disgraceful,” he tweeted), and on Monday, as the death toll in North Caroline rose, HUD official Lynne Patton (Trump Jr.’s former wedding planner) took time from her day to share an Instagram meme of Cooper about to be devoured by shark. didn’t say that the photo was taking during CNN’s coverage of Hurricane Florence – it’s a 10-year-old photo of Hurricane Ike – the implication was, well, an implication. Stop Lying to try to make look bad.” The meme was making the Twitter rounds in an apparent attempt to suggest Cooper was kneeling in the water to make it look deeper.Īnd while it’s true that Trump Jr. What’s worse is there’s a simple solution that they refuse to accept. retweeted a meme of Cooper standing in waist-deep floodwaters, writing “It’s a shame that CNN’s ratings are down 41%. Gavin Newsom Says He Has Talked With WGA & Studios In Past Week & Will Meet Again With Them "Later This Week" - Watch
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