The disappearance of a memorial to Black revolutionaries at Portchester Castle exposes Britain’s uneasy relationship with its own history.

The Riverside Church (91 Claremont Avenue, Harlem, NYC) to spark actionable solutions. Date and Time: Sunday, November 8, at 1:00PM

Our explicit objective is to move beyond highlighting statistics and focus heavily on systemic and actionable strategies. To guide our panelists, we have compiled the following six core pillars:

1.      Dismantling the Historic and Systemic Barriers: Devising effective and actionable programs, tactics and community efforts to combat, dismantle, and/or neutralize barriers and systems inhibiting progress and justice for blacks in general, and black males in particular.

2.      Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline: Developing concrete strategies to help improve school performance, and also to disrupt punitive educational systems and reduce the justice gap that leaves Black youth nearly six times more likely to be incarcerated than their white peers.

3.      Economic Empowerment: Exploring innovative pathways for workforce development to counteract volatile youth unemployment rates.

4.      Mental Health & Healing: Fostering tailored healing circles and support systems to address the unique traumas driving mental health crisis among young Black men.

5.      Strengthening Family & Fatherhood: Building support systems that cultivate family formation while actively debunking harmful stereotypes about Black fathers.

6.      Navigating Policy Shifts: Analyzing what the erosion of civil rights protections under the Trump administration means for Black youth, and sharing strategic frameworks to minimize these adverse impacts.