.LZGranderson writes: 'Before Colin Kaepernick took a knee; before the Golden State Warriors told the White House “nah, I’m good”; before the phrase “Black Lives Matter” crowbarred its way into the nation’s consciousness, there was Trayvon Martin.'
, the leverage black athletes have long held is now being utilized in ways beyond refurbishing basketball courts and selling shoes., as recently as 2013, “only 14 percent of black boys and 18 percent of Hispanic boys scored proficient or above on the 4th grade reading component of the National Assessment of Educational Progress compared to 42 percent of white boys and 21 percent of black and Hispanic girls.
I was in the East Wing that afternoon in 2014 when President Obama announced the creation of MBK and said philanthropies and corporate leaders had pledged to invest at least $200 million over the next five years — on top of the $150 million they already had invested — to fund programs geared toward helping young men of color. A who’s who of influential leaders, including Magic Johnson, was present.
“We have been very intentional not just to bring in pretty faces; we are bringing folks that live this work,” said Broderick Johnson, chairman of the MBK board of directors. “People like Steph that are writing checks, that are spending time in their personal life mentoring.”
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