I don't think people realize how much a persons surrounding circumstances can affect a child's ability to succeed. Great work placing these kids in a environment to succeed!

I cannot explain how happy I am after seeing this. I'm not Black. But I'm tired of seeing people bash on the black Identity with thugs,low lifes etc. Lets hope this grows into a bigger higher educated black community.

This needs to be made into a nation wide effort.

Black youth making a difference! That's what I love to see!

This is why I fuck with you AJ+, nothing to say but this fills me with a lot of emotions. This is what makes you want to do better for yourself and others

Wow this video makes me cry, hits really close to home.

This is a great program, but they shouldn't just be pushing these kids into going to college and then graduating with debt and trying to get a job in white america. Teach them the skills to pursue a trade or start their own business.

Awesome! Brought tears to my eyes. Trying to do some community outreach in Baltimore. Keep up the great work! ❤from bmore

the part in the beginning where kids interact with cops in an open way is something evry city should do

I love this!

Proud of these brothers, really putting in work with ideas. AJ showing us real progress man.

Love the video changing game for young black males, just want to say thank God for the black male adults for helping our young black men. God bless all.!!!🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

this mini doc is so so so good. crazy good.

This video gets me so hyped and happy. It's amazing to see things like this get implemented and giving people opportunities.

this shit is fuckin beautiful

Its great to see mentors like us teach functionality to the youth. Our community needs us and it starts with great leadership. Good work !

This made my heart smile. So glad I came across this video for my research paper

Thank you for this. It's good to be aware but it is also good to build hope. Too often we see the issues but not the solutions.

😂😂😂😂😂 I love this!! Keep up the good work my people. 😂😂😂

Beautiful 😊

its hard growing up black and not a wealthy as all your white friends, no offence. my white friends are surprised when i tell them I've never been on a plane. and as being black its like you have a target.

I would love to have the opportunity to talk to and get inside the minds of young black males. How do I go about getting their attention and finding out what it is they want. For example one of my dreams is to have a program that teaches them day trading as a means to build wealth. What are some strategies needed to hold their attention long enough to ignite their passions?

We all make our own hell and personal responsibility a role we must own

This is dope!!

My heart hurts every time I see these videos. I am so proud of everyone in thus video. You are all doing such an AMAZING job. On the flip side of that, it is so shocking to have these statistics blaring and obvious.

Shine young men. It’s great to see another side of young black men that don’t play into the stereotype’s of what you see on the news great video 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

Where can I get links to references of the info used in the short documentary.

This really brought tears to my eyes

This is why we all need stick together as fathers. The father is absolutely vital to the life of a child, regardless of race.

We need more of this.

Wow I’m glad I came across this video.

who's the guy at 1:51? what's his name?

Perhaps a uniform policy for black males is in order;this is a great post that must be shared in all urban school districts.

excellent

I've noticed in a lot of media the "Kings" and "Queens" references. I'm not clear what that is exactly.

Black Youth Culture is about to make the biggest change in our history for generations to come . MARK MY WORD 👨🏾‍🦲👀

I'm impressed. I thought this was going to be another let's-throw-white-people-under-the-bus video, but you actually focused on how black people are fully capable of taking responsibility and helping themselves. And why wouldn't they be? They are equal to everyone else; they are human.

Y'all black folks are going to act right because I Love y'all!!❤❤❤ we are going to Love ourselves and eachother!!! Most of all God!

I grew up in Oakland. Home sweet home. Just make sure that these males helping and mentoring these young men are not predators. We had a sh$$ ton of predators when I was growing up in Oakland.

I love thissss!

We need this for every kid. All of them are pretty lost today.

These teachers are true heroes!

Bravo!!!!

A pilot program is truly needed in Winona Minnesota public schools. It's agonizing to see how they are seemingly crushing the spirit of the male children there. If someone has a real remedy like yesterday please let me know. Seriously. Thank you truly.

Great video. Shoutout to Oakland.

I like this. Help make a change and give everyone a chance

Give them dad's.

This makes my heart happy ❤️

Black Culture and single motherhood is the problem, denying these issues will not lead to progress.

I love the town!

SINGLE PARENT HOUSEHOLD??? Where did all of the irresponsible black fathers go??

He asked everyone who lost a freind to violence and everyone raised their hands... And the guy shouted OH MY GOD! The idiot didnt realise they were all raising their hands for TUPAC!

😍👏🏻❤️ beautiful

so on another note, i like how they are teaching the kids that the slave part was done by Europeans and not just white people, though on the same note i find it stupid that they are calling themselves African Americans, like unless you're from Africa yourself then you should be called just American, but thats just my own views on the whole thing

AJ or who it may be concerned I compliment you moving forward, but you know it takes more than just one person. can I suggest that you would reach out to King Randall, he's 21 year old African American man that lives in Georgia and that is building a school for young African American boys. Also look up Dr. Claud Anderson. Dr. Anderson teaches on black economics and raising back the community for African American people.

There needs to be a change for all young males in the face of rampant feminism.

Congratulations to our current and future kings!!!

If it were up to me every black American young man would get a full scholarship to any school or program he is accepted to, regardless of "class". I don't want them burdened with debt.

Does it count for young Hispanic Males? Like me I'm Nicaraguese but live in the United States

The sick part is, education doesn't help black men or boys succeed. It only regulates them into certain positions in European dominated society. So, no matter how many jobs we get we're still a part of the system which routinely and methodologically disenfranchises black males from having jobs regardless of their socioeconomic or educational status. What this means is that no matter which one of us gets a job it still won't get any of us out of our situation and that any one of us that does receive one of these jobs instead of the hell that's being offered to the rest of us is simply helping the system overcome the rest of us...

This gives me hope.

I love these young men.

International Ifatunde Notorious RBG

education comes from both schools and kids' homes

My concern about such programs are: -They seem to seldom take the needs of girls into consideration thus making boys a priority. What an ugly message that send to black girls. How do people think they can improve a community without giving equal consideration to all its members? -I've never known such programs to teach black kids that what happens to them is the product of structural racism and that political engagement= good citizenship. They should believe they can and have an obligation to change things.-Many such programs use recuperative masculinity as a model to teach boys. This concept says there is something inherently wrong with boys that stigmatizes them as problems rather than looking at the barriers that lead to mass incarceration, under education, mass unemployment, and illegal economies. Black kids need to be taught there is nothing wrong with them by their parents and communities which is the opposite of what they learn even from well meaning people.

YOU EDUCATORS NEED TO SPEAK THE TRUTH ABOUT THE BLACK CORRUPT LEADERSHIP TO THESE YOUNG PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Slowly but surely...

At least America abolished slavery, Qatar.

If you refuse to suspend kids for using profanity, using the n-word, sagging their pants, wearing caps/do-rags indoors, dress code violations, then you cut back on suspensions. You can then save the suspensions for kids who attack teachers.

I just posted this on another KZfaq... When are you going to stop having conversations while showing this disgusting behavior and start taking actions. This shit must stop and it will if our black men start protecting our community. Where are our Black Oak Keepers, Black Proud Boys, Black KKK. Where the hell are our protectors...our black men. This will continue to happen until we make it stop. Take Action Now Recruit Black Oak Keepers, Black Proud Boys and Black KKK. It's time for all of you to shut up and man up. Are there any real black men protectors out there? Sign up and serve. Your community wants you.

Absentee Fathers. Listen to Stokely's speech at Huey's birthday celebration in Oakland, February 1968. the you tube link is kzfaq.info/get/bejne/asWlqsScxp3Ie4k.html Bobby, H. Rap Brown, then Stokely. Half of what Stokely says is hyperbole, but his point about what Federal "poverty programs" where doing to the Black community is timeless truth. Fathers were made irrelevant, socially and economically. The modern narrative won't deal with that.

Black lives matter to me

Persecution is sooo strong for young blackmen ,soooo strong.We are persecuted ,locked up,killed unemployed everyday.🤔👊🏿😔.

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What do we need to do? Stop having kids out of wedlock. Simple solution, simple as hell.

We are our own policeman to; get an education, respect strangers, financially support family, develop yourself/shutoff TV and disavow crime.

wasn't malcom x an extremist?

A total of 454 blacks murdered in Chicago this year. Planned Parenthood murders an average of 170,000 BLACK babies a year. Both Chicago and Planned Parenthood are run by the Democratic party. Which party do you think appear to be trying to eliminate the black race?

I hear we have to help all young black men, but we have to build the family again. We have to stop the single mother house hold and encourage family. We have to speak of god. We have to stop a mind set of victim hood. We have to use the mindset if something knocks me down, i got to get up again. Blaming other ppl like white men. ok, but in the end does it further anything? I use to blame the white man for all the ills in my life, till i realized we are all individuals and no one will help me if i never take responsibility for my life and blame others. I even blamed everyone for things i did, cuz it made me feel better. Then i woke up, found god, found who the true enemy is. Now i live my life by being an example and encourage all young men to be better, do better and follow god

To succede, you need to melange them with all other race and to teach them to auto regulated themselves. If someone does something wrong ... the others should try to correct the wrongdoer. The this will turn into a success. All we hope after all.

PAY BLACK CHILDREN TO ATTEND SCHOOL : PROBLEM SOLVED ! Teach real history !!!

Were are the black churches the black NBA and the black men that will take up time with young men we have no men in texas like this sad who cares about our men

Stereotypes exist for a very real, very legitimate, very valid reason. They bring it on themselves, which, among other things, is a construct of single black female heads of household.

God be with (all) the men in America, especially our ("BLACK MEN") IN THE USA AND THE WORLD!! IN JESUS MIGHTY NAME I PRAY. AMEN!! (Ephesians 3:20 ) Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,

KUDOS CHRIS CHATTMON!!!

Blackmails

Bring back corpal punishment.

This is segregation

If there was ever a white college expo it would be viewed as racist but a black person can openly practice racism and hatred and are never called out

Don’t agree with it

Well, they sometimes blame single parents, but even with a single parent Asian kids still do much better than blacks at any level of the education system.

If blacks are more likely to be suspended they should be more civil, if they are underperforming then they should be more assiduous, if they are viewed as a threat they should work to rewrite their image for the better. These are all things that is their fault, there's no "rigged system". Asian-Americans are a testament to this.

This is racist.

Democrats aint gonna like this at all. A young black man reading? Democrats want you in the same spot as before since 1920’s -all voting Democrat. Poor, illiterate, on welfare, pregnant, live in the hoods, so long as you vote Democrat. You wander off, they will send Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton to keep u in line.

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Well, they sometimes blame single parents, but even with a single parent Asian kids still do much better than blacks at any level of the education system.