First ‘Black Men Lead Boston’ class graduates with a new sense of direction
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Boston; Community;
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Ten years ago, Lamont Thomas felt hopeless. The Roxbury YMCA had laid him off from a youth mentoring job, and he bounced from security, to retail, to overnight stockingjobs without a purpose.
“I went in the direction of whatever [job] came first, and I wasn’t happy,” Thomas, a 35-year-old Roxbury native, said. “I fell out of working with the community.”
But at abriefceremony this week at City Hall, Thomas found himself with a new sense of direction, walking across a stage with 23 other Black men as the first graduates of Black Men Lead Boston, a new civic engagement program designed to equip the city’s Black men with tools to make a change in their communities.
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By Tiana Woodard Globe Staff,
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bostonglobe.com
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