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CNN's Brooke Baldwin gets graduation speech advice from Charles Barkley

May 10, 2017

CNN news anchor Brooke Baldwin gets advice from former NBA star and sports personality Charles Barkley on the graduation speech she'll give for the UNC Class of 2017.

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