#GetaHeadStart: Steve Osunsami
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Steve Osunami: I tell everyone I’m a Head Start kid.
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George Stephanopoulos: ABC's Steve Osunsami is on the scene in Raleigh. Good morning, Steve.
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Steve: I think it's an important thing to know.
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Diane Sawyer: And Steve Osunsami is here now. Steve?
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Steve: People will look at you and look at you today and assume, you know, certain things about you.
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Steve: Once again, Americans of all colors plan to march from here to Montgomery.
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Steve: And when I tell them I'm a Head Start kid they get a better picture.
We were dead broke. We lived in – it's called Harrison Homes. It's still there to this day. Head Start filled a really important role at the time in giving me not just a place to go, but a place to learn, and learn early.
My memories of it were entirely positive. When I started school, school was a positive. I was looking forward to school. And then the same letters that we had in Head Start – the blow up letters – they had in my grade school. You know, I was already – I sort of knew some of that already.
My mother – I mean, I got to give her a lot of credit. She really – she wanted better for her children than she and my dad had for themselves. And that's why she was adamant that I be part of this.
My message to Head Start is to keep on keeping on. I think that the work is important. I think that the work makes a difference. I can speak plainly that the work made a difference for me.
Narrator: For information about Head Start programs in your area, please visit acf.hhs.gov/HeadStart. #GetaHeadStart. Produced in 2016 by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Head Start services prepare students for success! Hear from ABC News Senior National Correspondent Steven Osunsami as he details his experience with the Head Start program and how it laid the foundation for his career.
