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PBS News Hour - Segments

How Steph Curry and MLK III are working to unite communities through service

PBS News Hour - Segments

PBS NewsHour

News, Daily News

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Even as racial and economic disparities persist and the Trump administration purges DEI policies in government and at universities, a new partnership aimed at healing racial divides is trying to bring communities across the country together through service. Judy Woodruff spoke with NBA star Steph Curry and Martin Luther King III for her series, America at a Crossroads. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy

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0:00.0

Judy Woodruff has more now on a new partnership in Oakland, California, seeking to bring communities across the country together through service.

0:08.7

It's part of her series, America at a crossroads.

0:13.6

This ear-splitting welcome during assembly time at the Martin Luther King Junior Elementary School in West Oakland was for some very special

0:22.8

guests.

0:23.4

What's up everybody?

0:25.0

Hello, hello, hello.

0:27.7

That's the energy I'm talking about.

0:29.7

That is why we are so excited to be here.

0:32.8

Standing next to the son of the civil rights icon, Steph Curry, the four-time NBA champion for the Golden

0:39.8

State Warriors, is about as big a celebrity as you could ask for in this city.

0:44.5

Y'all have fun at school?

0:46.5

Y'all have fun at school?

0:48.6

Six years ago, around the time the Warriors left here to move to San Francisco, Curry and his wife, Aisha, decided

0:56.3

they couldn't walk away from this community with so many in need.

1:00.8

They started their Eat, Learn Play Foundation, supporting children's well-being through access

1:07.5

to healthy food, literacy, and play. These are the pillars and the foundation of what makes a child have a happy, thriving, healthy life.

1:18.6

The Curries were here to announce a new partnership with Martin Luther King III,

1:23.6

and his wife, Andrea Waters Kings, realized the dream initiative, a nationwide

1:30.3

call to action to mobilize 100 million hours of service by 2029, the 100th anniversary of Martin

1:39.4

Luther King Jr.'s birth.

1:41.3

That's 100,000 hours right there. The partnership pledges 100,000 volunteer

1:47.7

hours here, a city where one in four African Americans and one in five Latinos live at or

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