Local JCPS program, Brother 2 Brother, teaches kids life skills [Video]

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — LOUISVILLE, KY.– Days before the last day of school. Mentors in Brother 2 Brother , honored young male students at Kenwood Elementary.

Brother 2 Brother is a mentoring program for Black and Brown boys in the third through fifth grade. 

Highlighting key topics  like identity, entertainment, social entrepreneurship and life skills.

“If anything we made a commitment to be consistent , to show up,” says Jerron Jones, mentor and member of Black Male EDquity Network .

The network made up of doctors and doctoral students at UofL and surrounding universities, help one another and those in their community.

The goal for the young kids, rewriting the narrative of what it means to be a Black Man.

“Understanding the challenges of being a Black man and navigating certain spaces that we don’t always belong …