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On this episode of Our Neighbor's Keeper, Josiah Gilliam talks with Majestic Lane from Mayor Peduto's Office, Mark Lewis from the POISE Foundation, and Malcolm Minnekhekh Thomas from Reaching Back.
A
A
B
You
know
so
really
it
really
got
us
to
thinking
about.
You
know
as
part
of
an
equity
agenda
as
part
of
an
agenda
on
black
men
and
boys.
How
do
we
really
think
about
you
know
the
the
wellness
quotient
and
then
how
we
start
to
improve
the
wellness
quotient
in
these
kind
of
like
six
core
areas
and
wanting
to
start
really
with
framing.
B
You
know
what
have
what
things
kept
us
well
in
the
past,
what
things
are
keeping
us
well
in
the
future
present
and
what
things
will
keep
us
well
going
forward.
I
mean,
I
think,
we're
really
aware
of
some
of
the
many
challenges
that
we
face,
but
really
shifting
to
a
to
a
asset
based
model,
because
we're
being
made
aware
in
our
living
many
of
the
deficit-based
models
all
the
time.
So
it's
really.
How
do
we
start
to
think
about
what
are
the
things
that
we
know
have
worked?
What
are
the
things
that
are
working?
B
So
one
of
the
important
roles
that
I
play
is
the
chief
equity
officer
really
thinking
about
how
do
we
minimize
the
and
or
mitigate
the
issues
around
all
people
in
our
city,
so
that
you
know
age,
race
orientation
is
not
a
stand-in
for
quality
of
life.
We
know
right
now
that,
if
you
just
were
to
say
here's
a
black
male
that
that
male
black
men
will
probably
live
six
to
eight
years
shorter
than
a
white
male
of
same
background,
same
financial
background,
all
of
it
right.
B
So
we
know
that
there
is
a
challenge,
just
fundamentally
that's
connected
to
race
because
of
being
in
america,
but
also
that
you
know
having
that
conversation
needs
to
be
at
the
highest
levels
of
government.
That
doesn't
need
to
sometimes
just
to
be
a
conversation,
we're
having
in
activist
circles
we're
having
in
academic
circles.
We
have
to
have
it
at
the
highest
levels
of
all
the
work
we
do.
So
that's.
Why,
looking
at
and
trying
to
make
sure
there's
a
lens
of
thinking
about
equity.
A
C
Sure,
first
of
all,
thank
thank
both
you,
anne
chief
lang
for
inviting
me
on
to
participate
with
you
today.
It's
quite
an
honor
respect
both
of
you
and
appreciate
the
work
that
both
you
are
doing
in
the
city
as
well.
So
again,
my
name
is
mark
lewis,
I'm
the
president
and
ceo
of
the
poise
foundation.
C
Poise
foundation
is
one
of
the
only
I
only
know
of
three
black
community
foundations
in
the
country
two
created
by
people
that
I
know
very
well
and
we're
kind
of
mentoring
them
poise
is
the
oldest
black
community
foundation
in
the
country,
be
celebrating
our
40th
anniversary
this
year,
although
that
took
place
in
december
of
2020.,
so
basically
poise
foundation.
Like
I
said
it's
a
community
foundation
which
means
we've
we're
asset
organization.
C
We
create
funds
and
manage
funds
on
behalf
of
various
individuals
who
have
made
donations
to
the
foundation,
some
very
specific,
some
for
various
troubled
purposes
that
they
determine
some
people
decide
to
stay
involved
and
they
make
recommendations
where
they
want
funds
to
go.
So,
for
the
most
part
you
know
we
were
created
by
a
man
named
bernie
jones,
who
grew
up
in
the
hill
district,
saw
a
lot
right,
so
he
was
there
when
the
hill
district
was
thriving,
that
his
thriving
can
be.
He
was
there
when
the
hill
district
was
destroyed.
C
C
Right,
so
we
can
talk
about
that
if
you
want
to
get
into
it
a
little
bit
later,
but
in
that
process
he
saw
especially
for
young
people
that
had
gone
through
some
of
the
devastation
and
had
little
opportunity
in
their
community.
He
created
began
creating
organizations,
so
it
started
as
a
social
organization.
He
created
urban
youth
action
which
basically
the
first
two
classes
or
groups
of
urban
action,
were
cleaning
up
their
own
neighborhood
and
he
paid
them
to
do
that
right
to
give
them
some
self-worth
in
their
own
neighborhood.
C
After
that,
as
the
program
went
along,
he
began
to
get
young
people
jobs
and
we're
talking
young
people
from
14
to
early
19
jobs
and
corporations,
and
pittsburgh
used
to
be
the
third
largest
corporate
headquarters
in
the
country.
So
he
began
to
introduce
them
downtown
right.
There
was
this
big
disconnect
between
the
hill
and
other
places
in
downtown,
and
so
he
he
saw
both
this
social
need
to
get
our
young
people
involved
in
various
opportunities.
C
But
along
the
way
he
learned
about
the
this
process
of
creating
endowment
funds
and
what
the
endowment
fund
was
really
geared
towards
was
a
way
where
black
people
could
contribute
to
an
endowment
fund
that
we
owned.
That
would
be
a
future
asset,
as
chief
lane
talked
about
creating
an
asset
that
would
be
there
for
our
future
generations.
C
So
poorly
started
with
about
a
hundred
and
seventy
thousand
dollars
we're
up
to
about
close
to
12
million
now
in
assets,
very
still,
very
small,
but
it's
assets
that
we
control
its
control
through
our
community
and
that
we
as
a
black
organization,
go
back
and
see
try
to
figure
out.
How
can
we
best
invest
in
the
future
of
our
community?
And
so
you
know
that's
what
we've
been
doing
for
40
years
and
I'll
talk
a
little
bit
later
about.
You
know
what
the
future
looks
like
as
well.
A
C
Sure
so
I
think
that
came
from
a
couple,
a
couple
different
things
and
thoughts
that
we
had
over
the
years.
First
was
the
the
idea
of
poise
foundation.
Being
this
tiny
asset
right
in
our
community,
we're
blessed
to
have
large
foundations,
rk
melon,
three
billion
heinz
endowments.
You
know
about
two
billion.
I
can
go
down
the
line.
You
know
pittsburgh
foundation,
1.2
billion-
and
here
we
sit
with
you-
know
a
few
million
dollars
in
assets
right
and.
C
C
C
But
when
you
look
at
the
black
family,
I'd
say
over
the
last
you
know:
50
60
years,
for
example
in
19
right
at
the
end
of
the
1960s
two
parent
households
made
up
about
seventy
percent
of
black
families
fast
forward
that
today
we're
at
about
23
of
our
families,
our
two
parent
households-
and
we
could
do
you-
know
five
shows
on
why
that's
important,
and
you
know
what
that
has
cost
for
our
community,
but
even
beyond
just
the
the
nuclear
family.
If
I
know
when
I
was
growing
up,
I
had
a
huge,
extended
family
right.
C
That
was
very
close.
We
all
pretty
much
lived
in
the
same
area,
at
least
the
same
city
and
even
beyond
that
we
had
a
strong
community
family
again
fast
forward
this
many
years
later
and
because
of
jobs.
Because
of
just
how
migration
happens,
many
people
don't
have
extended
family
living
closely
and
our
community
structure
has
broken
down
so
that
whole
sense
of
family
is
really.
C
You
know,
I
don't
say
disintegrated,
but
has
has
not
gone
in
the
right
direction
over
the
last
few
decades
and
for
us,
if
we're
trying
to
get
back
to
how
to
become
more
sustainable,
how
to
rebuild
our
community,
it
has
to
start
with
a
family
and
when
you
think
about
a
lot
of
foundation
dollars
and
a
lot
of
nonprofits,
most
of
those
profits
are
not
necessarily
thinking
or
focus
just
on
the
family.
They're
focused
on
individuals
in
the
family
right
and
for
us
it's.
How
do
we
really
focus
on
those
connections
in
the
family?
C
A
E
Peace,
thank
you
for
having
me.
Thank
you
chief
lane.
Thank
you,
brother
mark
lewis,
thank
you,
josiah,
mr
kingdom,
for
having
me
here
and
the
work
that
you
all
are
doing
in
the
community,
which
I
I
learned
from
I'm
inspired
by.
My
name
is
malcolm
thomas.
People
in
the
community
know
me
as
brother
minnick.
So
if
you
hear
that
name,
that's
me
too,
and
I
have
been
a
pittsburghburg
resident
all
of
my
life.
E
I
currently
reside
in
the
hill
district,
and
I
am
the
executive
director
of
reaching
back
my
educational
or
my
professional
career
started
really
with
working
with
an
organization
with
the
hill
house.
Essentially,
so
all
of
my
adult
life
I've
worked
with
families
and
worked
with
young
people.
I
was
the
coordinator
for
the
young
fathers
program,
one
of
the
program
coordinators
there
at
the
hill
house
under
tony
bell
and
in
that
capacity
was
working
essentially
with
young
men
who
had
not
graduated
from
high
school.
E
So
we
were
ged
program
and
my
job
was
to
create
a
mentoring
structure,
an
educational
structure
that
helped
them
to
deal
with
all
of
those
things.
So
I
was
the
first
mentoring
coordinator.
There,
as
well
as
one
of
the
instructors
fast
forward,
I
went
to
then
work
with
a
lot
of
young
men
who
were
at
the
national
council
for
urban
peace
and
justice,
which
was
called
the
gang
peace
council
at
one
point,
and
that
led
me
to
my
introduction
to
working
in
the
schools
where
my
degree
is.
E
That
really
needed
to
be
in
place
to
help
us
to
deal
with
the
distractions,
with
the
infrastructural
things
with
the
soft
skills,
as
we
call
them
which
to
me,
aren't
really
seen
as
anything
but
secondary
or
tertiary
to
most
people,
and
so
that
led
me
to
eventually
you
know
dealing
with
some
retreats
with
those
young
men
and
the
people
there,
and
it
was
very,
very
powerful
and
fast
forward.
I
didn't
went
to
mental
health.
I
worked
at
mercy
for
10
years,
emergency,
behavior,
mercy,
health
systems
and
now
am
the
executive
director
of
reaching
back.
E
What
we
do
is
we
have
a
two-fold
concept.
The
first
fold
is,
you
know,
reaching
back
to
retrieve
the
cultural
ideas.
We
call
the
ageless
wisdom
as
in
which
is
informed
best
practices
throughout
the
ages.
We
believe
that
everything
that's
new
is
not
improved
and
some
of
the
best
things
are
things
which
have
been
lost
or
have
been
co-opted
and
claimed
by
others.
E
So
we
have
to
retrieve
our
culture.
We
don't
have
to
look
for
answers
for
things
that
we
are
trying
to
solve,
because
many
of
those
things
have
been
solved
elsewhere.
So
we
take
a
global
and
historical
perspective
toward
problem
solving,
so
we
can
begin
to
look
at
where
analogous
situations
have
occurred
and
where
we
can
extract,
you
know,
ideas
and
solutions
and
practices
and
principles
to
begin
to
apply
them
for
21st
century
situations.
E
The
second
fold
is
reaching
back
to
our
community,
so
we
don't
believe
in
the
whole
idea
we're
just
going
to
get
out
and
go
be
successful
and
come
back
to
visit.
Occasionally.
We
believe
that
we
have
to
take
our
talents,
our
gifts,
our
skills,
our
expertise,
whatever
empowerment
or
privilege,
we're
able
to
to
garner
or
we've
been
granted
and
blessed
with
to
be
able
to
share
that
for
the
benefit
of
the
people.
E
E
For
most
of
my
last
11
years,
I've
worked
at
university
preparatory
school
and
we
wanted
to
make
the
program
more
robust,
so
we
included
chess
because
I
like
playing
chess,
I
realized
that
a
lot
of
our
children
had
an
anti-intellectual
identity
and
by
teaching
them
chess.
It
was
one
of
the
fastest
and
most
powerful
ways
that
I
could
help
them
to
counter
that.
So
I
would
sit
them
down
for
15
minutes.
E
A
Thank
you,
brother,
malcolm,
so
you
know
one
of
the
things
that
is
remarkable
about
your
work
and
reaching
back-
and
I
know
we've
talked
about
this
in
brief,
but
others
have
communicated
similar
things.
Is
that
the
significant
strength
in
your
efforts,
because
it's
seems
to
be
designed
to
be
robust,
meaningful
and
enriching
regardless
of
the
infrastructural
barriers,
regardless
of
the
presence
of
helpful
policy
or
lack
you
know,
or
lack
thereof
or
or
harmful
policy,
rather,
and-
and
I
think
to
do
that-
you
have
to
understand
what
it
is
that
folks
are
dealing
with.
E
Well,
from
my
perspective,
I
think
that
you
know
we
have
a
whole.
You
know
just
a
plethora
of
things
that
our
young
people
are
dealing
with,
and
we've
amassed
a
great
deal
of
data,
much
of
which
points
to
a
lot
of
dissatisfaction
with
the
educational
system
with
the
learning
process-
and
I
I've
heard
this
over
and
over.
E
In
the
past
year,
but
I
think
what
everyone
refers
to
as
an
inflection
point,
where
I
think
the
people
are
now
the
point
where
the
young
people
realize
one
thing
that
2020
did
for
me
and
a
lot
of
people.
I
think
that
young
people
have
spoken
to
in
particular.
Is
you
realize
that
any
nothing
that
you
really
put
your
trust
and
faith
in
is
necessarily
permanent?
E
You
know
you,
you
have
this
idea,
there's
a
quote
by
emerson,
it's
one
of
my
favorite
quotes
of
all
time,
but
it
it
talks
about
how
you
have
this
idea
that
the
things
that
are
in
the
world
are
actually
permanent
things
when
in
fact
they
were
the
idea
of
someone
at
some
time,
and
so
what
you
realize
in
2020
is
a
lot
of
what
we've
accepted
as
gospel
a
lot
of
we've.
What
we've
accepted
is,
you
know,
absolutely
unchallengeable:
it's
influx
anything
could
change
at
any
time.
E
There
are
people,
I
know
who
have
not
been
to
work
since
march.
There's
young
people,
I
know
who
have
not
set
foot
in
the
school
since
march.
There's
young
people.
I
know
right
now
who
have
opted
out
of
education
because
they
couldn't
deal
with
the
online
platform.
There's
people.
I
know
right
now
who
have
lost
10
people
that
they
know
due
to
coving,
and
so
what
happened.
E
E
C
C
In
other
words,
they
come
into
this
world
having
little
to
no
knowledge
or
anything.
I
don't
know
what
they
learn
in
womb
right,
but
when
you're
born
you
really
don't
know
much,
and
so
what
you
learn.
What
you
absorb
is
what's
around
you,
and
so
I
think
the
bigger
question
is:
what's
the
wellness
of
our
family?
What's
the
wellness
of
our
community,
because
the
wellness
of
our
community
is
going
to
determine
in
so
many
respects
the
wellness
of
our
children.
C
C
But
this
idea
of
how
do
we
look
at
you
know
the
the
community
and
what's
happening
in
community
if
kids
grow
up
in
a
neighborhood
of
poverty,
that
becomes
their
world
view
because
that's
what
they
see
if
they
never
get
out,
it's
those
kids
that
might
live
in
there,
but
also
take
trips
through
different
things
and
get
exposed
to
different
people.
Now
that
have
a
different
world
view,
so
we
we
really
have
to
look
at
this
and
only
bring
us
up
to
say.
C
If
I
had
a
somewhat
stable
financial
situation
in
my
household
and
then
that
financial
stability
is
taken
away,
yes,
that's
going
to
impact
the
kids
right,
but
we
need
to
look
at
this
from
a
view
of
what's
happening
from
a
community
perspective.
And
how
are
we
making
sure
that
we're
building
stronger
communities
that
our
kids
now
have
the
ability
to
absorb
and
thrive
in
those
type
of
communities.
A
Thank
you
chief
lane,
I'd
like
to
ask
you
here,
sir,
because
when
I
hear
brother,
malcolm
and
mr
lewis
talk
about
these
ideas,
it
reminds
me
to
a
certain
extent
of
conversations
had
in
the
mayor's
office
and
the
beginning
of
the
office
of
equity,
which
is
around
this
idea
of.
How
can
you
be
supportive
at
the
neighborhood
at
the
community
and
at
the
family
level,
and
sometimes
we
take
a
primary
secondary
or
tertiary
role,
but
we
want
to
keep
that
in
mind
at
all
times.
A
Could
you
just
riff
on
that
a
little
bit
and
how,
from
your
perspective,
the
role
of
of
government
and
systems
can
do
this,
because
you
know
a
lot
of
times.
There's
there's
inertia
at
play
too,
and
sometimes
these
systems
aren't
as
responsive
as
we'd
like
to
see
them
be
in
real
time
and
in
overtime.
So
you
know
what
are
your?
What
are
your
thoughts
there
and
how
do
we
think
about
it?.
B
B
What
I
heard
brother
minicake
talk
about
was
pivoting
and
resiliency
right
that
young
people
have
began
to
pivot
in
situations
that
are
that
are
really
challenging
and
so
they're
still
challenging
the
systems
that
didn't
really
serve
them
well.
Prior
right-
and
you
know,
when
I
hear
markets
really
saying:
okay,
we
have
an
ecosystem
here,
and
none
of
us
exist
outside
of
our
ecosystem.
None
of
us
exist
in
silos,
even
if
that's
how
funding
takes
place
right.
B
What
role
do
you
play
in
either
being
helpful
or
harmful
to
the
presenting
challenge
I
have,
or
what
role
do
you
play
in
being
helpful
to
the
solutions
that
are
there,
and
I
think
that
government
traditionally
in
the
black
community
has
been
harmful
right?
I
mean
that's
not.
You
know
that
history
abounds
with
examples
of
that.
I
think
we
are
now
trying
to
turn
the
corner
of
the
awareness
of
that
unhealth
of
of
those
things
and
trying
to
figure
out.
B
At
the
same
time,
we
do
understand
that
in
this
city
and
across
the
country,
you
still
are
seeing
a
lot
of
inter-community
violence
right
and
intra-community
violence
in
in
that
is
still
occurring
because
of
the
larger,
broader
legacy
and
the
current
kind
of
exacerbated
issues
that
are
occurring
right.
So
that's.
This
is
an
example
of
when
government
listens
and
hears
what's
happening,
okay!
Well,
if
young
people
are
being
resilient,
how
do
we
start
to
help
that?
And
if
mark
says,
okay,
you
can't
deal
with
it
outside
of
the
ecosystem?
B
I
think
far
too
often,
you
know
you
hear
in
our
community.
You
know
stay
in
your
lane
right
or
play
your
part,
and
I
think
sometimes
government
doesn't
play
its
part.
It
starts
to
think
that
it
can
do
things
that
are
maybe
best
or
well
more
well
done
by
others
instead
of
also
looking
at.
Where
can
it
really
be
a
part
of
this
positive
ecosystem
right?
And
so
I
think,
that's
the
that's
the
challenge
for
all
of
us
going
forward.
That's
for
all
institutions.
It's
saying
the
health
care
system.
How
big,
how
you
know?
B
How
have
you
exacerbated
challenges?
What's
the
role
to
play
to
be
most
helpful
government?
How
have
you
done
this
schools
all
philanthropy
and
that's
really
the
challenge
to
really
say
that
and
use
these
examples
to
really
start
to
to
augment
the
ecosystem,
because
there
is
a
positive
ecosystem.
I
want
to
go
back
to
that
asset
based
perspective.
There
is
a
positive
ecosystem.
B
The
conversation
we're
having
now
in
the
mentorship
that
everyone
on
this
conversation
has
done
is
part
of
the
positive
ecosystem,
the
institutions
everyone
here
represents
in
the
legacy
whether
it's
brother,
bernard
jones
or
many
of
the
elders
that
brother
miniket
has
built
with
and
have
informed
his
amazing
work.
We
have
an
ecosystem,
it's
also
about
augmenting
it
not
about
creating
a
new
one
right
which
is
about
that
wellness.
A
Yeah,
you
know,
I
sense
a
a
golden
era
of
opportunity
in
a
lot
of
ways.
I
think
covent
has
been
clarifying
in
many
ways
and
institutions,
sectors,
businesses,
different
entities
are
asking
questions
about
how
they
can
be
part
of
positive
change,
stabilizing
conditions
and
positive
change,
and
I've
heard
you
know
conversations
you
mentioned
healthcare
about
how
folks,
in
that
sector
can
support
college
attainment
and
how
they
can
incentivize
that
put
resources
there.
A
I've
also
heard
them
talk
about
how
they
can
jump
into
violence,
prevention,
intervention
efforts
and
and
build
on
the
good
that's
taking
place
in
that
space,
and
I
think
you
know
more
examples
of
that
in
the
ecosystem,
so
to
speak,
gives
us
a
good
chance
at
being
more
successful
and
along
those
lines
mark.
I
wonder
if
you
would
share
with
us
about
the
black
equity
coalition,
because
it
sounds
like
this
is
there's
a
lot
of
similar
ideas
into
what
went
into
creating
this
coalition
and
and
the
purpose
of
it.
C
But
the
basic
things
of
life
are
the
basic
things
of
life
right,
so
that
piece
doesn't
change
regarding
the
coalition,
so
we
came
together
as
a
result
of
you
know
the
virus
hitting
our
community
and
very
early
on
you
know
I
was
one
of
those
people
that
the
virus
first
hit.
My
first
thought
was
wow.
This
is
going
to
be
something
where
it
doesn't
care.
What
race
you
are.
C
You
know
who
you
are
what
age
you
are
it's
just
it's
out
there
it's
going
to
hit
everybody,
and
I
would
say
within
30
days
it
took
less
than
30
days.
We
started
getting
statistics
back,
it's
hitting
the
black
community,
two
three
four
times
as
bad
as
hitting
the
white
community.
So
once
again
you
know
it
comes
down
to
it.
Doesn't
matter
what's
happening
in
society
because
of
our
history
because
of
the
stress,
because
everything
else
that
we've
been
under,
we
always
get
impacted.
C
You
know
exponentially
greater
than
the
you
know
the
white
community
for
the
most
part,
so
the
the
black
equity
coalition
was
really
formed
from
you
know.
A
few
people
asking
some
questions.
Are
we
thinking
about
this?
How
are
we
going
to
deal
with
this?
You
know
as
it
comes
to
as
it
relates
to
the
black
community,
and
so
it's
a
group
of
you
know
a
few
people
in
philanthropy
some
epidemiologists
and
researchers,
business
people.
C
D
C
And
so
we
were
able
to
at
the
very
early
stages.
Almost
a
year
ago
began
tracking.
You
know
how
this
virus
was
impacting
the
black
community
versus
white
community.
How
many
cases
we
were
having
you
know,
per
our
population
compared
to
other
populations,
and
again
we
were
able
to
see
that
you
know
we
were
being
impacted
in
a
much
better
way,
so
the
coalition
began
gathering
data
and
then
offering
solutions
and
working
really
behind
the
scenes,
a
lot
of
respects
trying
to
drive
an
equity
lens
both
in
philanthropy.
C
You
know
with
some
of
the
non-profits
working
with
allegheny
county
health
department
working
with
the
state
health
department,
so
we
were
having
monthly
meetings
with
dr
levine
before
she.
You
know
promoted
to
the
white
house
really
trying
to
understand
and
and
inject
information
from
an
equitable
perspective
of
how
the
vaccine
was
impacting
us.
Excuse
me
how
the
virus
is
impacting
us,
and
now
we've
shifted
to.
C
How
do
we
make
sure
the
vaccine
is
getting
to
our
community
right
in
an
equitable
way,
but
the
coalition
is
is
much
greater
than
just
this
immediate
health
issue.
The
coalition
is
really
taking
a
framework
that
is
focused
on
social
determinants
of
health,
looking
at
all
of
the
different
categories,
be
it
health,
health
care,
economic
stability,
education,
neighborhood
and
built
environments
and
social
context.
C
We
understand
that
again,
we
don't
live
in
any
one
particular
sector
or
segment.
All
of
these
impact
us
on
a
daily
basis.
The
the
issue
in
the
past
has
been
that
systems
have
been
developed,
there's
not
been
an
equitable
voice
at
the
table
or
there's
been
intentional
policies,
and
now
I
won't
just
call
it
policies
right,
because
policies
could
be
neutral,
it's
all
about
who
is
there
enacting
those
policies
and
how
those
policies
are
enacted
by
individuals
as
to
whether
those
policies
are
enacted
in
an
equitable
way.
So
we.
C
Coalition
as
a
as
a
growing
voice
right,
it's
not
something
that
just
exists
of
these
individuals
or
these
organizations.
This
is
something
that
we
are
building
at
the
at
the
core.
We
believe
that
it's
about
the
community
and
it's
about
relationship
and
it's
about
how
do
we
create
greater
networks
so
that
we
all
know
what
we're
doing
the
idea
is
not
to
stop
anybody
from
doing
what
they're
doing,
but
we
all
need
to
have
a
greater
understanding
of
what
we're
doing
individually
and
how
that
impacts.
C
These
networks,
how
do
what
we
do
around
economic
stability
impacts
education
right?
How
do
both
of
those
impact
health
care?
How
does
health
care
impact
education?
All
of
this
is
intertwined,
and
so
our
equity
coalition
is
really
formed
around
you
know,
first,
looking
at
virus
and
the
disease
that
is
out
there
now
because
that's
impacting
and
killing
our
community.
So
how
do
we
deal
with
that
and
make
sure
there's
an
equitable,
more
equitable
response
to
that?
C
A
Thank
you
yes,
and
you
know,
building
onto
the
idea
that
there's
nothing
new
under
the
sun
and
the
reality
of
persistent
disparities,
opportunity
and
achievement
gaps.
You
know
that's
what
informed
in
many
ways
our
approach
to
my
brother's
keeper
here
in
the
city
in
the
county.
There's
there's
nothing
new
about
the
idea
that
there
have
been
tremendous
challenges,
but
is
there
a
is
there
a
chance?
Is
there
an
opportunity
to
understand
what
better
could
be
to
design
better
and
to
implement
better
at
the
various
at
the
various
levels?
A
And
I
hear
you
know
brother
thomas
talking
about
this
idea
of
of
young
people
in
real
time
pivoting
and
forging
them
their
own
path,
and
so
I
wonder
you
know,
for
each
of
you
taking
a
second
even
to
to
consider
what
counsel
you
would
give
to
to
young
black
men
or
just
to
young
people
in
general
or
to
people
in
general
during
this
time.
What
would
you
encourage
them
to
invest
in
in
terms
of
their
own
time
and
their
own
energy
in
terms
of
their
own
physical,
mental
or
emotional
practices?
A
E
Well,
I'll
start
the
first.
The
first
thing
I
would
say
is:
I
think
that
we
have
to.
I
was
talking
with
a
younger,
a
younger
brother,
now
who's
running
his
own
organization
and
one
of
the
things
he
said
is
I
wanted
to
invest
in
myself.
He
was
offered
a
job
and
it
was
a
job
with
the
school
district
and
instead
what
he
did
is
he
started
his
own
fight,
his
own
501c3,
but
she
now
runs
and
employs
10
other
people
so
investing
in
yourself,
it
could
be,
it
could
come
off.
E
There
was
a
cliche
because
we
say
that
to
people,
and
I
think
that
what
we
have
to
understand
with
our
young
people
is
that
in
our
educational
system,
one
of
the
things
that
you
have
to
invest
in
is
a
real
self
exploration
to
understand
what
your
gifts
and
talents
are,
it's
possible,
unfortunately,
to
go
to
school
for
12
years
and
still
not
even
really
know
what
you're
good
at
in
life.
When
you
really
understand
talent,
what
really
talent
is
there?
Is
it's
impossible
to
be
a
talentless
person?
E
E
I
wonder
if
this
brother
realize
how
talented
he
is
in
this
area
right
and
I
think
a
lot
of
our
young
people
don't
know
their
talents,
and
so
you
don't
know
what
to
invest
in
where
to
put
really
your
time,
because
you
don't
have
an
infinite
amount
of
time,
and
one
of
the
things
you
realize
when
you
get
to
be
my
age
is
how
little
time
you
may
have,
when
you
see
so
many
pass
away.
Two
of
my
closest
friends
passed
away
last
year.
E
I
think
you
cut
your
learning
curve,
at
least
in
half,
by
being
able
to
invest
your
time
in
people
who
are
older,
for
example,
one
of
the
things
you
see
as
part
of
ageless
wisdom
in
other
cultures
and
societies
as
young
people
spend
a
good
bit
of
their
time
with
elders,
not
just
with
their
peer
group.
There's
a
required
amount
of
time.
E
You
see
this
in
all
thriving
communities
that
they
necessitate,
that
their
young
people
spend
time
in
structured
ways
with
people
who
can
teach
them
something,
because
what
can
happen
in
a
conversation
like
this
one,
as
we
can
say
well,
young
people
are
going
to
solve
the
problem.
The
young
people
are
the
present
young
people
of
the
future.
E
That
is
true,
but
I
believe
we
have
to
always
be
intergenerational
in
our
approach
to
the
greatest
extent
possible,
at
least
for
people
who
are
progressive,
thinking
forward,
thinking
and
willing
to
honestly
assess
what
we
need
to
do
to
move
forward.
So
I
think
that
we
have
to
also
invest
in
people
who
can
truly
help
us
do
those
things,
and
I
think
we
also
have
to
begin
to
truly
invest
in
health
and
personal
development
itself.
I
mean
we
have
to
have
the
energy,
the
vitality.
E
You
know,
there's
a
lot
of
things
to
invest
in,
but
my
specialty
is
what
I
focus.
My
energy
on
is
how
to
raise
the
energy
and
how
to
cultivate
the
personal
aptitudes
in
the
things
that
are
most
important
to
be
able
to
have
success
in
your
life.
The
things
that
are
not
taught
elsewhere,
so
I
think
we
have
to
find
out.
You
know-
and
I
heard
sean
parker
say
this-
was
the
first
president
of
facebook.
E
E
I
don't
want
to
go
into
those
eight
and
try
to
plug
the
program,
but
we
believe
that
there
are
certain
things
that
when
I
look
at
you
guys
when
I
look
at
other
people,
there
are
certain
basic
skills
that
you
have
to
have
in
life.
You
have
to
be
able
to
communicate.
If
any
of
us
couldn't
communicate.
We
wouldn't
be
on
this
right
now,
either
in
verbal
form,
written
form
and
even
non-verbally.
You
have
to
learn
how
to
do
that.
You
have
to
learn
certain
things
about
relating
to
people.
E
E
And
how
can
I
get
better
at
those
things,
because
I
believe
you
have
to
be
able
to
do
fewer
things
better,
sometimes
sometimes
I
know
for
me
at
different
times.
I
was
a
mile
wide
and
an
inch
deep.
I
was
trying
to
do
too
many
things
and
I
was
going
nowhere
because
I
was
trying
to
be
everywhere,
so
I
think
we
have
to
figure
out
what
is
our
real
gifts
and
talents,
and
then
his
majestic
alluded
to-
and
mark
also
alluded
to.
C
Yeah,
so
you
know-
and
maybe
this
is
to
emphasize
what
you
know
brother
malcolm
just
said
to
me-
it
was
going
to
be
relationships.
You
know
after
you
invest
in
yourself.
You
know
it's
the
relationships
and
he
talked
about
that.
You
know
I
have
this
broad
kind
of
like
three
category
formula
for
success.
C
It's
education,
opportunity
and
execution
right,
and
if
one
of
those
are
not
present,
it's
extremely
hard
to
be
successful,
you
can
have
all
the
education
in
the
world.
You
can
be
the
best
worker.
If
you
never
have
an
opportunity
to
demonstrate
it,
then
you'll
get
nowhere
right.
So
for
me
it's
really
it's.
It
really
is
investing
in
relationships.
C
D
C
So
if
there's
nothing
new
necessary
under
the
sun,
then
it's
really
about
how
do
we
do
right?
What
we
do
and
how
do
we
do
it
differently?
How
we
do
it
more
efficiently,
we're
not
necessarily
creating
but
we're
creating
things
in
a
more
efficient
way,
and
that's
where
young
people
have
probably
opportunities
that
we
didn't
have
20
30
40
years
ago,
when
I
first
started
my
first
job,
we
didn't
have
personal
computers,
didn't
have
cell
phones
right,
and
so
you
know
we
we
did
with
what
we
had
at
that
time.
C
The
the
critical
thing
about
relationships
above
and
beyond
learning
from
somebody
about
how
to
do
something
better
is
learning
what
not
to
do.
We
probably
spend
more
of
our
time
as
adults.
Failing
right,
then
we
do
succeed.
That
doesn't
mean
don't
do
things.
You
know
you.
Sometimes
you
you've
got
to
keep
going.
You
experiment
you
explore.
There
are
some
inventors
that
have
failed
a
thousand
times
to
get
that
one
success,
but
if
you
could
talk
to
somebody
and
they
can
tell
you
hey-
I
tried
this.
I
tried
this.
I
tried
this.
C
Don't
go
down
these
paths.
Do
you?
Do
you
understand
how
much
time
that
could
save
you
in
focusing
on,
like
malcolm
said,
those
one
or
two
things,
or
those
one
or
two
paths,
to
go
down
versus
wasting
your
time
here,
because
you
can
go
down
that
path?
A
million
times
still
it's
still
a
dead
end
right.
C
C
So
it's
hard
to
say:
okay,
let's
just
go
and
grab
this
person
and
have
conversations
because
we're
spread
out
so
far
and
we
have
so
few
institutions
and
owned
so
few
businesses
that
is
hard
to
point
and
for
the
ones
that
do
have
those
positions
they
become
the
people
that
you're
always
you
know
pulling
on,
and
so,
as
malcolm
said
time
is
not
infinite.
There's
only
so
many
people
I
can
talk
to
or
he
can
talk
to
or
the
desire.
You
know,
brother
lane
or
others
can
talk
to.
We
need
to
figure
out.
C
You
know
how
one
to
make
those
individuals
more
visible
and
for
us
to
begin
begin
to
think
more
community-minded.
So,
if
I'm
having
a
certain
level
of
success,
I
don't
just
run
to
the
suburbs
and
enjoy
that.
Just
with
me,
my
family,
I've
got
to
figure
out.
How
do
I
translate
that
into
opportunities
for
others?
How
do
I
bring
up
that
next,
young
man?
C
How
do
I
just
show
be
visible
so
that
young
man
can
see
hey
there?
Is
you
know
another
black
successful
person
out
there?
So
if
I
see
it,
then
I
can
try
to
achieve
it
as
as
young
people
as
human
beings,
we
learn
most
by
modeling
and
what's
modeled
in
front
of
us,
and
so
you
know
when
brother
malcolm
talks
about
the
programs
he's
doing
in
manhood
maximizing
they
are
modeling
what
it
looks
like
to
young
men.
D
C
That
I
should
be
looking
towards
to
understand
what
it
means
to
be
a
man,
and
so
relationships
to
me
is
is
critical
and
it's
also
critical
to
figure
out
who
are
those
key
people,
because
you
can
invest
in
bad
relationships
as
well
right?
Who
should
I
be
surrounding
myself
with?
If
I
don't
know,
somebody
don't
know
a
lot
of
people.
Who
is
that
one
person
that
can
recommend
hey
talk
to
this
person?
Talk
to
this
person?
They
can
steer
you
in
the
right
direction.
A
Thank
you
so
much
you
know,
chief
lane,
part
of
the
pleasure
of
working
for
the
mayor
is
that
I
have
a
chance
to
have
one-on-ones
with
you.
We
talk
about
work
and,
and
life
and
coven
and
we've
had
a
lot
of
conversations
recently
along
these
lines.
You
know
how
can
we
approach
our
own
health
and
wellness
during
this
time?
B
So
I
think
for
me:
I
want
to
continue
on
the
path
that
that
they
have
shared
and
what
I
think
about
is
investing
in
networks
and
what
I
mean
is
there's
investing
in
yourself.
There's
investing
in
those
mentoring
relationships,
there's
investing
in
those
broader
relationships
like
mark
talked
about,
but
also
investing
in
networks
investing
in
the
people
who
who
want
to
do
the
things
you
want
to
do
and
some
folks
who
don't
want
to
do
the
things
you
want
to
do.
B
D
I
believe
we
need
honesty,
transparency,
vulnerability
and
brotherhood,
and,
if
I
can
just
you
know,
leave
you
all
with
this.
If
you
can
internalize
these
words,
we
must
give
up
to
go
up.
We
must
give
up
to
grow
up.
We
must
give
up
on
the
way
up
and
give
up
even
more
to
stay
up.
I
cannot
teach
what
I
do
not
know.
I
cannot
lead.
Why
will
not
go?
I
am
because
we
are.
We
are
because
I
am.
I
am
my
brother's
keeper.
I
am
my
sister's
keeper.
A
So
that's
brother
leon,
ford,
a
very
impressive
young
man,
someone
that's
making
an
incredible
impact
and
it's
you
know
only
just
the
beginning.
You
know
of
his
journey
brother
minnick,
I'd
like
to
start
with
you,
sir.
You
know
what
is
your
heart?
How
does
your
heart
react
to
that,
and
can
you
tell
us
about
what
you
see
in
that
clip.
E
Well,
you
know:
that's
it's
amazing,
because
I'm
meeting
with
leon
later-
and
he
was
has
been
one
of
our
mentors
and
he
you
know,
leon,
has
attended
events
and
retreats
of
ours
up
in
zillion
opal.
You
know,
despite
whatever
limitations
he
may
have
had
physically,
he
was
there
for
the
weekend
and
he
was
volunteering
at
the
school
for
over
five
years
on
a
weekly
basis.
E
So
he's
incredible
to
me-
and
I
just
say
that
when
I
see
brothers
like
him
and
the
young
men
who
have
that
same
type
of
spirit,
young
women
who
have
that
same
type
of
spirit,
it
just
makes
me
excited
about
where
we
can
go
and
what
we
can
do,
because
he
in
many
ways
is
further
along
in
so
many
areas
than
I
was
at
his
age.
I
wasn't
thinking
about
certain
things
necessarily
with
the
same
platform
and
ability
to
make
the
same
impact
as
I
see
him
as
having
on
even
a
national
scale.
E
A
D
A
Out
clips
from
that
repeatedly
and
to
hear
that
pledge
you
know
recite,
it
was
certainly
something
very
special
all
right,
my
friends,
you
know
we're
coming
up
on
an
hour
here,
certainly
there's
so
much
more
that
we
could
talk
about.
Maybe
we
can
have
further
conversations,
I'd
like
to
open
it
up
for
a
final
round
of
encouragement.
C
Yeah,
so
just
very
quickly,
I
think
we
have
to
get
back
to
this
concept
of
communities
right
to
understand.
As
a
black
people.
You
know
we
are
weak
when
our
ties,
you
know
majesty
talk
about
networks
when
our
ties
to
each
other
begin
to
break
down,
then
that's
when
we're
at
our
most
vulnerable.
We
are
strongest
when
we
understand
that
we
as
a
community
can
come
together
to
take
our
assets
right,
our
time,
talent
and
treasure
to
invest
those
to
create
opportunities,
especially
for
our
younger
ones.
C
Coming
behind
us,
black
income
in
the
pittsburgh
region
is
about
four
billion
dollars
a
year
right.
It's
not
a
ton
of
money
when
you
think
about
it.
It's
a
scheme
of
things
when
you
break
that
down
by
you
know,
buy
a
household
but
as
I've
talked
to
people,
if
you
took
five
percent
of
that
and
spent
it
on
black
companies
and
black
invested
in
black
nonprofits,
that's
200
million
dollars
a
year.
That's
more
money
than
federal
government
spends
on
us
in
this
region
where
the
foundations
spend
on
us
something
we
can
control.
C
A
C
E
E
You
know,
there's
a
there's
a
tendency
whenever
you
have
a
conversation
like
we
need
to
do
this,
but
there
are
things
that
are
already
being
done
and
I
think
it's
important
to
always
take
stock
of
that
and
be
very,
very
you
know
we
do
our
inventory
of
what's
wrong
to
focus
on
an
asset
based
perspective,
but
what's
right
and
what's
going
well,
so
how
can
we
partner
with
that?
How
can
we
amplify
that?
How
can
we
scale
that?
E
How
can
we
do
more
of
that
at
a
higher
level,
as
opposed
to
trying
to
always,
you
know
kind
of
focus
on
the
things
about
our
situation
that
are
discouraging,
because
I
think
that
one
of
the
most
important
things
we
have
to
always
understand
is
that
whatever
we're
dealing
with,
we
have
the
means
to
address
it.
Whatever
is
going
on
in
the
world,
I
perceive
with
the
with
the
idea
that
we
can
do
something
about
every
single
thing
and
there
are
many
people
who
are
doing
great
work.
E
I
think
that
work
needs
to
be
highlighted,
magnified
saluted
partnered
with
supported
and
I'm
very
very
excited
about
those
types
of
young
people,
these
types
of
older,
mature,
seasoned,
veteran
brothers
and
all
the
other
people,
a
part
of
my
ecosystem,
who
pushed
me
to
try
to
work
harder.
So
I'm
very
encouraged
about
where
we
can
go
and
some
of
the
things
that
are
going
on.
E
Well,
we're
rebuilding
our
website,
so
I'm
re
branding
our
website
now,
so
that
will
be
up
by
the
end
of
next
week.
So
I
will
send
that
to
you.
It
will
also
be
on
facebook
on
our
facebook
page,
but
the
website's
being
rebuilt.
We
have
two
other
pages
that
we
have.
One
is
the
authenticeducator.com
and
one
is
manhoodtraining.com.
B
I
think
you
know
kind
of
going
back
to
the
beginning
that
we
have
many
of
the
tools
that
we
need.
Many
of
the
things
that
have
been
talked
about
today
being
asset
based,
knowing
that
we
don't
have
to
start
from
scratch,
knowing
that
community
and
the
bonds
of
community
have
been
the
things
that
have
been
strengthening
agents
even
when
the
systems
have
been
even
more
vicious
towards
the
lives
of
black
people
and
towards
the
lives
of
brown
people.
B
That
community
has
been
our
often
our
greatest
protective
factor
in
just
acknowledging
that
and
then
again
all
institutions.
Thinking
about
how
can
you
engage
individuals,
as
well
as
the
collective
of
that
protective
factor,
because
we
know
that
all
other
communities
know
that
their
networks
and
families
and
relationships
are
the
gold
or
the
stuff
that
their
communities
are
made
of.
A
A
Thank
you.
I
would
just
like
to
say
thank
you
to
all
that
have
have
come
along
on
the
journey
with
us.
Please
be
on
the
lookout
for
more
broadcasts
from
the
mayor's
office
from
the
organizations
and
initiatives
mention
the
black
equity
coalition.
You
can
engage
with
them,
they
have,
they
have
weekly
engagements
biweekly
mark.
Is
it
weekly.
A
Every
other
week
so
there's
ways
to
get
more
information
to
get
plugged
in.
I
encourage
you
to
do
so,
and
we're
going
to
continue
to
explore
these
intersections
and
and
talk
about
our
history,
the
present
moment
and
what
the
future
looks
like
and
look
for
ways
to
encourage,
highlight
and
foster
wellness
for
for
everyone
for
all
of
us.
You
know
living
here,
but
certainly
for
our
black
boys
and
girls,
men
and
women.
So
thank
you
all
very
much.
Please
stay
very
safe
and
very.