MINNEAPOLIS — Two Black men are on a mission to talk and share their message with people who are not Black.
The new podcast is the collaboration of two members of 100 Black Men, a mentorship non-profit: Karl Benson, a marketing executive, who grew up in a mostly White community in North Dakota, and and Dr. Gabriel Warren, a professor who grew up in a predominantly Black community in Alabama.
“I was around a lot of progressive people doing things but those weren’t the things I was seeing celebrated on TV,” explained Warren.
Benson said, “For me I didn’t have a network of Black men so the only thing that even I saw was what’s on TV. Doing this or that or musicians or athletes but you just didn’t see regular guys doing great things.”
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So, they just launched “Changing the Narrative” to amplify the many voices of Black men.
“Black men that are having good jobs, being there for their families giving back to their kids, giving back to their communities and I wanted to celebrate that,” said Warren.