Last night, the Campaign for Black Male Achievement opened the first Rumble Young Man Rumble event in Baltimore at City Hall. Mayor Catherine Pugh welcomed the event, which connects young African-American men, “flyweights,” to older counterparts, “heavyweights,” to foster mentoring relationships and try to improve outcomes and build power for young men of color in Baltimore.
OSI-Baltimore Director Diana Morris spoke at the event, and said it felt like a “family reunion,” since CBMA CEO Shawn Dove launched the program while he was her colleague at Open Society Foundations, before spinning it off into its own entity. Other speakers at the Rumble include City Solicitor and OSI-Baltimore Advisory Board member Andre Davis and 1999 OSI-Baltimore Community Fellow David Miller, founder of Dare to Be King.
For more information, read Yvonne Wenger’s Baltimore Sun story and follow the Rumble Young Man Rumble Twitter feed.
