Saturday’s workshop is open to high school and college African-American males. To register visit www.EZTaylor.org.
Tag: Black men
At Embarc, Sending Kids to College Is Not the Holy Grail
Meet Embarc, a youth-serving organization that bucks conventional wisdom and is deliberately reducing the number of its grads who enroll in college. We’ve already discussed their unconventional approach to social-emotional learning; in this post, Embarc co-founder Imran Khan describes their groundbreaking perspective on life after high school. In a time when too many students leave college with debt but no…
Don’t Make Excuses For Jobless Youth
Nearly half of Black men ages 20-24 are out of school and out of work. That is according to a report released this week by the University of Illinois at Chicago’s Great Cities Institute. This unemployment rate is higher than the unemployment rates of Black men in other major cities in America. Some have suggested that these numbers have a…