
Guests: Ameen Akbar & Kenny Holdsman, "Slam Dunk for Youth"
Race to Social Justice
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The Importance of Diversity in Life
Kenny grew up in Elkins Park, Philadelphia to two parents who had a real tradition of service. His mom's been a career in the Philadelphia school district both as a teacher and then as a guidance counselor. And his dad was a mid level government guy worked for HUD and did housing urban in a bunch of different communities. So that sense of disparity, race, class, power, privilege, although I wouldn't have used those words in my adolescence, really stuck with me early on.
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