Built to stay.
Too much mentorship for young Black men shows up for six weeks and disappears. Black Boys 2 Men was built on a longer clock — mentees stay across the years that actually shape a life, and the people who run the room stay with them.
Who runs the room.
I've been mentoring young Black men for over a decade, across the years where most programs vanish. Black Boys 2 Men is the program I wished existed when I was a boy myself — and the room I kept getting asked to build.
I lead the young men's live session every Monday and the weekly Mothers Circle session myself. Every parent talks to me directly. Every mentor I bring in, I've vetted myself.
◆ Atlanta, GA · Founder & lead mentor since 2023
Six weeks doesn't
move the needle.
A panel doesn't change a boy. A photo op doesn't change a boy. A six-week workshop doesn't change a boy. In our experience, short-form programs for young Black men generate headlines, not lasting change.
What works is the long version. A person who is still in his phone at month 18, not month six. A brotherhood that knows his name when he walks into the room. A plan that survives the year his life gets hard. That is the version we run.
Mentor across
the years that matter.
Walk alongside young Black men, from 13 into adulthood, through the years that decide the shape of their adulthood — academically, financially, emotionally, socially — and stand alongside the mothers raising them while we do it.
A generation that
arrives already practiced.
We want young Black men who reach adulthood already practiced — who have rehearsed the hard conversations, run the money math, written the email, made the apology, asked the question. The kind of practiced you can't fake into existence later.
We want their mothers to have had a room of their own the whole way through. We want their younger brothers to come up watching this version of the program, not the one that disappeared. We want every city that runs this work to make it the floor, not the experiment.