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Wes Moore

Registration is open to the public for the Minority Male Leadership Initiative Best Practices Summit Sept. 14-15 at the Muse Center at ��«Ӱҵ’s Rankin Campus. The summit is free but registration is required.

To register, see the ��«Ӱҵ website at:

The summit, “Preparing African American Males for Success in the 21^st Century,” begins at 10 a.m. Sept. 14 and ends with a closing plenary session on Sept. 15.

The summit is open to high school students and principals, parents, current and retired educators – anyone interested in attending. The headline speaker is Wes Moore of Baltimore, a New York Times best-selling author who works for social justice.

For more information about the summit, contact Dr. Shakira Cain at 601.987.8109 or by email at Shakira.Cain@hindscc.edu.

The M2M Minority Male Initiative is a grant-funded project based at ��«Ӱҵ’s Jackson Campus-Academic/Technical Center on Sunset Drive. The initiative provides leadership training, career counseling, tutoring, mentoring and opportunities for travel to senior level universities for program participant.

As Mississippi’s largest community college, ��«Ӱҵ is a comprehensive institution offering quality, affordable educational opportunities with more than 170 academic, career and technical programs. With six locations in central Mississippi, ��«Ӱҵ enrolled nearly 12,000 credit students in fall 2014. To learn more, visit or call 1.800.��«ӰҵCC.