Showing posts with label Kamali Thompson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kamali Thompson. Show all posts

Thursday, February 06, 2020

Meet Kamali Thompson, the medical student with dreams of Olympic gold in fencing

Kicking off “Breaking Through,” a month-long series marking Black History Month, TODAY’s Craig Melvin spotlights Kamali Thompson, a medical student with big dreams of competing in Tokyo this summer as a fencer. She acknowledges there are not a lot of African-Americans in fencing yet, “but it’s growing” – and she gives Craig a lesson in the sport.