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Barack Obama: Those statistics should break our hearts and compel us to act.

On the recordFebruary 26, 2014
Those statistics should break our hearts and compel us to act.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Remarks on the 'My Brother's Keeper' Initiative

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