FBN Takes You To “My Hometown”

fbn_9-7.jpgFBN has launched a series every Friday called, “Opportunity in America: My Hometown,” where an anchor or reporter spends the entire day reporting from their hometown on various issues facing the area.

On Friday, contributor Charles Payne reported from Harlem, and specifically the neighborhood he grew up.

He interviewed business owners and other community leaders, and gave his own assessment of the economic issues that have improved or stayed the same from when he grew up in the area.

Click continued to see one of the segments, in which Payne gets choked up while describing to anchor Alexis Glick what it was like to take his mother back to the city where he was raised…


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