Past Events
Saving Our Sons
| Location: | Bronx, New York |
| Event Date: | July 11, 2009 |
This free community event addresses the educational crisis facing young men of color and strategies for helping them achieve academic, professional, and social success.
Savings Our Sons includes a panel discussion presented by Raising Him Alone, featuring prominent women who have successfully raised their sons alone. Panelists include Mahalia A. Hines (mother of rapper and actor Common), Brenda Greene (mother of rapper and activist Talib Kweli), and Sheron Smith (mother of actor and rapper Mos Def). Saving our Sons will be moderated by MESHELLE: The Indie-Mom of Comedy (as seen on Nickelodeon's Search for the Funniest Mom in America 3).
Address
Eagle Academy for Young Men
244 East 163rd Street
Bronx, New York
Phone: 1-212-777-7070
Raising Him Alone and the Eagle Academy are grantees of the Open Society Institute.
