President Obama is set to announce Monday he’s launching a nonprofit organization to help black youth – one of his post-presidency initiatives to “find ways to help people,” he suggested.
The group’s called My Brother’s Keeper Alliance, and it’s due to open its doors at Lehman College in the Bronx, the Hill reported. Today, the president is going to meet with youth and hold a roundtable discussion, the White House said in a statement.
The White House said the group was formed to combat societal ills that have led to tensions between police and communities.
“As a proud son of Baltimore, this week’s announcement comes at a time of unique and special resonance for me,” said Broderick Johnson, the chairman of the group, the Hill reported. “The president’s ‘My Brother’s Keeper Initiative’ is about recognizing that our young people are not the problem, but rather the solution.”
The president had hinted a few days ago he would be returning to community-focused work in his post-White House days.
“I’ll be done being president in a couple of years and I’ll still be a pretty young man,” he said, during an event with students at the Anacostia Library in Washington, D.C., the Hill reported. “And so I’ll go back to doing the kinds of work I was doing before, just trying to find ways to help people.”
