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NFL’s Brandon Carr Tackles Youth Literacy

Post on: May 26, 2020

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The NFL player, Brandon Carr who made a name for himself playing for Dallas Cowboys, the Baltimore Ravens and the Kansas City Chiefs, but now the NFL cornerback is tackling a new challenge: youth literacy.

According to TheGrio.com, Carr wanted to be a pediatrician growing up, decided to focus on literacy through his non-profit organization, Carr Cares Foundation. He references the stark statistics regarding literacy amongst Black boys, with only 10 percent of eighth-grade Black boys in the U.S. proficient in reading, according to DoSomething.org.

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