“This is something that I will be invested in for the rest of my life,” POTUS said at the initiative's final White House summit.
A new PSA for President Obama's mentorship initiative, My Brother’s Keeper encourages young men of color to achieve their dreams.
President Barack Obama clarified that although his administration has a new effort to help young Black men, he’s not leaving Black girls behind. The president has faced some criticism that he’s ignoring the problems facing young Black women after launching the My Brother’s Keeper campaign, which is aimed at mentoring young men of color in […]
There’s a number of Black women who are not too pleased with being excluded from President Obama’s My Brother’s Keeper initiative. This week, Kimberlé Crenshaw (a professor of law at Columbia University and UCLA) held a youth rally in South Central Los Angeles to spark a dialogue around young women of color getting similar treatment […]
Young men of color were given national priority as President Obama kicked off the “My Brother’s Keeper” initiative with a speech that touched on his own fatherless upbringing at the White House on Thursday. Announced in last month’s State of the Union address, the public-private program aims to correct the overwhelming disparities and plights facing […]
