Featuring My brother’s Keeper 617, a non-profit based out of Dorchester, created to provide mentoring to young men and boys in the Boston community aged 8 and up. The goal is to show the youth that they can make choices that will increase academic growth and professional opportunities. By pursuing these opportunities, they will grow to become an asset to the community and leaders of the next generation. MBK617 @mybrotherskeeper617 , was founded in 2014 when six men raised in Dorchester came together to make a change in the neighborhood (not to be confused with Obamas My Brothers Keeper Alliance).....Having grown up in the neighborhood and experienced the struggle from Boston's streets, these six men were uniquely familiar with the pressure to go down the wrong path. My interview with Mario & Tony begins with Mario asking how my moms doing because no big surprise, each of us in the interview are related in someway (that’s being Cape Verdean in Boston for you). We go on to speak in depth about the immigrant experience, gang violence & how MBK aims to expose the community to more opportunities in life. From snowboarding, to baseball games at Fenway Park, to starting & running a business MBK does so much !

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Music by Blessin @blessinindisguise and Lubiggz @Bahnanabites

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