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| Oral Brown Sends Kids to College |
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Oral Lee Brown opens her heart and pocketbook to send underprivileged kids to college. CNN's Dan Simon reports Click herefor video |
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Hosted by Maria Shriver with remarks by Mary J. Blige, The Grand Finale was an evening to celebrate and honor our five extraordinary 2010 Minerva Award winners. The event culminated with a special musical performance by Sarah McLachlan. Click herefor video |
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Oral Brown receives Maria Shriver's Minerva Award Winner |
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Ms. Oral Brown, Founder/CEO of the Oral Lee Brown Foundation was chosen June, 2010 by Maria Shriver, first Lady of California and, it was announced on Good Morning America that Ms. Brown, will be receiving the prestigious Minerva Award October, 2010 along with Oprah Winfrey, Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor and two other awardees.We ask you to help us support Ms. Browns dream of helping students break their cycle of poverty through education. Click Here for Video | | |
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FOUNDER OF OAKLAND SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM A LONG WAY FROM MISSISSIPPI ROOTS.OAKLAND — It was their last piece of salt pork. It sat at the bottom of a pot, seasoning collard greens that would be served with dinner. Oral Lee Brown watched her mother prepare food in their small Mississippi home. Although the family was far from well off, Brown and her 11 siblings never went hungry. A young neighbor knocked on the door, asking for whatever meat they could spare to prepare her own collard greens. Oral Lee Brown watched her mother pull that last piece of salt pork out of the pot, cut it in half, wrap it, and hand it to their neighbor. "When you give all you got, I think that's the greatest gift anyone can give," Brown said. "In the '50s and '60s, in the South, it really was a village. Everyone looked out for each other. Click Here for the full story | | |
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The Book
The Promise: The Story of a Woman with a Big Heart and Even Bigger Dreams The Nothern America rights to 'The Promise: The Story of a Woman with a Big Heart and Even Bigger Dreams', the memoirs of Oral Lee Brown has been sold to Doubleday (Randomhouse). The book is being written in conjuction with Caille Millner, whose work has appeared in Children of the Dream: Growing Up Black in America, Essence magazine, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, Newsweek, Art & Understanding, and The Fader. Millner has received awards from the National Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts, the National Press Club, and the New York Black Journalists’ Association, as well as a Berta Ledecky Fellowship from Harvard Magazine. In addition, she was recently voted one of Columbia Journalism Review’s "Ten Young Writers to Watch." The book will be published in September of 2004. Click Here for details | |
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San Francisco Chronicle Highlights the Children of the Oral Lee Brown Foundation
In March 2003 the San Francisco Chronicle updates us on Oral Brown and her students.Click Here for the full story. | | | | | |
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