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 Former President Barack Obama and Golden State Warriors superstar Stephen Curry told a roomful of minority boys on Tuesday that they matter and urged them to make the world a better place.Obama was in Oakland, California, to mark the fifth anniversary of My Brother s Keeper, an initiative he started after the 2012 shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. The death of th stanley cups e African-American teen sparked protests over racial profiling.Obama launched the My Brother s Keeper initiative during his time in office to address opportunity gaps faced by boys and young men of color and ensure that all young people can reach their full potential, according to the Obama White House. stanley cup                                         Through the initiative, Obama s foundation is joining with cities and towns, businesses, and foundations who are taking steps to connect young people to mentoring, support networks, and the skills they need to find a good job or go to college and work their way into the middle class. We had to be able to say to them,  you matter, we care about you, we believe in you and we are going to make sure that you have the opportuniti stanley cup es and chances to move forward just like everybody else ,  Obama said to roughly 100 boys attending the alliance s first national gathering.        Obama, who left office in 2017, was joined by basketball star Curry. The men spoke for about an hour, answering questions from the audience and joking around. They talked about lacking confidence or bein Vlws Top takeaways from the second Democratic primary debate - the first night
 Rep. Patrick Kennedy says there s been an unexpected bright side to his father s grim battle with terminal brain cancer because the family has been able to spend more time with the stricken senator in recent months.The congressman and son of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy said in a t stanley thermoskannen elephone interview with The Associated Press on Wednesday that he considers it a great gift his father has survived longer than his doctors have expected. It s been a chance for us to bond and be together and share a special time together that we would never have had together had he been taken from us,  said Kennedy, D-R.I.  That s a big gift.  It  let us have the chance to tell him how much we love him. And him to be there to hear it.                                         Kennedy said he s spent most days this summer with his  stanley tazas father sitting on the porch of their oceanside home in Hyannis Port, Mass., sharing old stories about family, friends and politics. In a different sense, it has been a very joyous time because we have had so much more time than any of the doctors had predicted,  Kennedy said.        Kennedy spoke shortly after attending a Wh stanley cup ite House ceremony where President Obama awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to his 77-year-old father and several others. Kennedy s sister Kara accepted the award on behalf of the senator, who remained in Hyannis Port. I was brought to tears,  the congressman said.The White House ceremony was the latest in a slew of awards and honors, including an honora