My Newest Venture, A Scholarship Fund

Like many Americans, the current "Administration" has brought a push-has-come-to-shove mentality when it comes to the state of the socioeconomics in this country. I started to think of what I could do to tip the scales. I believe change will come when we start uplifting the group of citizens that get the shortest end of the stick, African-American Males. I want to do what I can to break this “boogie man” stereotype that my brother gets, that my uncle gets, that my nephew gets. The only way to do that is through exposure and expericenes. I’ve been traveling the country with the Book of Mormon National Tour for almost two years. We play big cites and small. Chicago to Skenectity, NY, Nashville to Scraton, PA. What I found is that a lot of cities are still segregated. When you don’t grow up with any diversity in your neighborhoods, football teams, in your teachers to look up to, it becomes too easy to fear the unknown. It becomes too easy to take other people’s word for it and not form your own opinions.

This has led me to found MWALIMU MEN INC,  a scholarship fund and foundation committed to increasing the African-American, male grade-school teaching population in the USA.  Mwalimu means teacher in Swahili. I am making it my mission to raise money to help diversify the teaching field in grade-school, but also to bring humanity back to the perception of Black American man.

So far, we've raised $1,048 of the $2,000 goal for the first scholarship to be awarded to on special Mwalimu Man this fall. If you would like to help, please donate at MwalimuMen.org/Donate. If you, or someone you know, is an African-American man on the way to becoming an educator, apply for the scholarship at MwalimeMen.org/Apply