Freeman Hrabowski speaks at TED2013 in Long Beach, Ca.

Freeman Hrabowski speaks at TED2013 in Long Beach, Ca.

Freeman Hrabowski once spent time in jail for participating in the Civil Rights movement as a child in Alabama. Hrabowski’s now fighting as an educator — and one of his chief missions is to push more African-American students into science, technology engineering and mathematics. Kojo chats with Hrabowksi about leading the University of Maryland, Baltimore County — and how his personal history bridges the Civil Rights era with today’s modern education challenges.

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  • Freeman Hrabowski, III President, The University of Maryland, Baltimore County

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