The Harlem Miracle →

What Geoffrey Canada, Harlem Children’s Zone’s founder and president, has done is “the equivalent of curing cancer for these kids. It’s amazing. It should be celebrated. But it almost doesn’t matter if we stop there. We don’t have a way to replicate his cure, and we need one since so many of our kids are dying — literally and figuratively.”
Canada spoke at the GEL Conference in one of the best talks I’ve ever seen:

Geoffrey Canada at Gel 2006 from Gel Conference on Vimeo.