"The focus of the FIVE MILLION KIDS Initiative is to break the back of the high school dropout rate in America, where being dumb has become cool. We must make smart sexy and cool, again."
John Hope Bryant, founder of Operation HOPE and 5MK

PACE NEWS Editor-in-Chief Dr. Gloria Zuurveen was in the room at Baldwin Hills when John Hope Bryant brought Capitalism for All home to Los Angeles.

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