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Young Black Men Find Hope, Direction in Minneapolis

Young Black Men Find Hope, Direction in Minneapolis
Korey Dean, founder of the Man Up Club, in Minneapolis, Minn., on May 31, 2020. Charlotte Cuthbertson/The Epoch Times
Charlotte Cuthbertson
Charlotte Cuthbertson
Senior Reporter
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MINNEAPOLIS—Young black men are finding hope and a bright future through the Man Up Club in Minneapolis.

As Korey Dean, the club’s founder, worked as a student advocate in a local Twin Cities high school, he discovered that African American boys faced the most challenges. They were disproportionately filling detention halls, disproportionately sent downtown with police escorts after an altercation, and disproportionately failing to graduate.

Charlotte Cuthbertson
Charlotte Cuthbertson
Senior Reporter
Charlotte Cuthbertson is a senior reporter with The Epoch Times who primarily covers border security and the opioid crisis.
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