Youngstown isn't just boarded up buildings. At Empowerment Conference, Sharing Stories of Success
I'm always seeing the city of Youngstown getting put down because it's a city that's 48% minority. I guess some folks have issues with minorities. Also it's 51% female. So women and minorities are the majority. But we see that the local folks aren't giving up.
This from fellow Journalist Lisa Solley.
One speaker after another offered life stories and advice to 86 young black students Saturday at an empowerment conference sponsored by the Kool Boiz Foundation. Dozens of successful black entrepreneurs, community leaders and businessmen offered powerful testimonies of how they overcame stereotypes, avoided negative influences and stayed focused on their decisions to be great.
Students in grades 7 through 12 listened intently as college-educated men, and men who overcame personal struggles to turn around their lives, offered advice and ways to become successful no matter race, economic status or upbringing.
The students were from grade 7-12. There was one 21 year old who was there because he was at one time homeless and now wished to become a entrepreneur. In closing, when you hear folks knocking the inner city minorities remember this. Youngstown has a group of 86 young blacks who want to be more than a Mariachi band musician.
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