PHILADELPHIA — The Democrats will release a new video Tuesday night at the Democratic Convention highlighting Hillary Clinton’s work helping at-risk inner-city youth.
The video talks about Clinton helping to found the Eagle Academy, a school serving a neighborhood where young men often found themselves in the criminal justice system, while she was a senator representing New York.
“Sen. Clinton got it from day one,” Eagle Academy principal David Banks says in the video. “She recognized how important it was to try a level of innovation in public schools, ’cause if it were not for Sen. Clinton, the Eagle Academy would have never gotten off the ground.”
On Tuesday night, the Democrats’ theme is “A Lifetime of Fighting for Children and Families,” and will focus on Clinton’s history of helping others. Prominent speakers will include the Mothers of the Movement and former President Bill Clinton.
“With Hillary Clinton you get results. People talk about doing stuff and you never see the results. Especially people like us, the neighborhood people seem to forget about,” Kelly Sanchez, the mother of a student at the Eagle Academy says on camera.
“The politicians can come through the neighborhood and shake our hands, but when it comes to the stuff they promised us, they never come through with it. Hillary was one of the few that came through the neighborhood, came into our schools and actually came through with what she promised to do.”
