Rodney Sampson, a black technical entrepreneur in Atlanta, was in a meeting when he got a phone call — one of the students enrolled in a program to teach low-income young people computer skills was in trouble.
The 19-year-old student, who was trying to cash a $500 money order given him to cover living expenses, was in police custody. A clerk at the check cashing store thought he was trying to pass a counterfeit money order.
Sampson rushed downtown to see whether he could keep the kid out of jail. And his series of Tweets called "A day in the life of a young black male engineering coding student" has gone viral.
Read the full story at today's Bill Torpy at Large column.
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