Author Archives: Phillip Jackson

Phillip Jackson The White House’s My Brother’s Keeper initiative is destroying the Black Male Mentoring Movement in America – decades-long work to save Black boys. Virtually all of the small, community-based agencies that comprise this substantial, historic effort to mentor Black boys have been left out of the overall conversation, the planning, and the funding […]

The Occupy Wall Street movement has captured the imagination of the world. We now have Occupy Tokyo, Occupy Berlin, Occupy Mexico, Occupy Australia, Occupy Brazil, Occupy Denmark, Occupy Asia and even Occupy Antarctica. But where are the young people of African descent and why are their voices silent? On Nov. 19, people of African descent are being encouraged to join […]