
24: Al Talks with one of his Heroes, Harlem Children's Zone Founder Geoffrey Canada
The Al Franken Podcast
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The Harlem Children's Zone
Ogate is the founder of the har children's zone, and basically turned around education in harlem. When he first came to New York 20 years ago, it was a complete disaster with open drug dealing on the streets. President bama wanted to adopt kind of exactly what you did in nharlem, and started these promised neighborhoods. And i was a big advocate for those, and we have one here in minneapoliswe were in minneappoles. We both came from new york to day. Ogate: "When you give your life and your soul too, and you really think you're doing good, later you find out it wasn't so good"
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