Over the summer, My Brother's Keeper Alliance and Chicago Public Schools, brought together more than 100 young men on the South Side of Chicago for the first MBK-Obama Leadership Academy. These rising freshmen learned important academic, mental, and leadership skills they’ll need as they prepare for high school. I’m so proud of them and can’t wait to see where they go. | Barack Obama

President Obama spoke in Dallas,Texas, at a memorial service for five police officers killed last week. He addressed race relations in the United States, and called for unity. | VOA Learning English

“Know what your story is. That will give you the power to guide your life.” That was the advice Barack Obama had for students last week at his Futures Series talk at Hyde Park Academy—the high school right across the street from the site of the Obama Presidential Center campus in Chicago. It’s all part of our ongoing mission to expose young people to the pathways to realizing their potential. Get a glimpse. | Obama Foundation

“If you're walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.” - Barack Obama, born on this day in 1961. | Biography