June 2, 2020
I’d like to invite you and your teams (and families) to a session next week — Tue, Jun 9 at 12pm ET — with Antoine Joyce, a longtime community activist and leader who will talk about long-term solutions to racism and police violence.
Just this morning, Antoine published an important Op-Ed in the Dallas Morning News – Dallas, we need to have some hard conversations about race in order to heal.
And, he has graciously agreed to join us next week.
Antoine Joyce
Solutions to Racism and Police Violence?
Tue, Jun 9
12pm ET, 9am PT
Would you like to join us?
If yes, reply back and we’ll send you the details.
And feel free to invite colleagues, friends, or family. Just email me (or have them email me).
Thanks,
Phyl
P.S. Below is Antoine’s biography, links to his TEDx talk and other resources, and some unusual facts about him, his life, and his philosophy.
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Antoine Joyce Biography
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Vice President and City Leader
All Stars Project of Dallas
Antoine Joyce is a global leader in building long-term solutions for inner-city young people.
As a young African-American from Bed-Stuy, Antoine began performing and then volunteering with a youth development (and anti-violence) program called the All Stars. He was so dedicated that he joined the staff in 1997 and today he’s the Vice President and City Leader of Dallas All Stars.
Through experience gained growing up with the All Stars, Antoine has been instrumental in developing programs around the world with concentrated focus in New York, Dallas, Newark, and the San Francisco Bay Area.
Antoine is also a DJ and promoter and has produced concerts and tours for, among others, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Hip Hop pioneer, Grandmaster Flash.
From All Stars corporate partners, Antoine learned the art of working with business leaders and became so good that Hunt Consolidated Energy Chairman and CEO Hunter Hunt invited him to move to Dallas to launch the All Stars there.
As a social entrepreneur, Antoine built the Dallas program from the ground up, where he and his team have worked with more than 5,000 young people and their families in the poor communities of South Oak Cliff and West Dallas.
Read Antoine’s Op-Ed in today’s Dallas Morning News
Watch Antoine’s TEDx talk
Watch NBC Dallas on Police Violence and Antoine’s Dallas Program
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Some unusual facts about Antoine Joyce
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Antoine Joyce is unusual in many ways:
— Grew up poor in Brooklyn’s Bed-Stuy
…failed 10th grade, but then turned his life around and is now Vice President of an international youth program and has traveled the world speaking (including giving a TEDx talk).
— He’s angry about police brutality *and*
…he works with police chiefs and departments to create new kinds of relationships between the police and African-American, Chicano, Asian, and poor white youth
— He’s political in a broad sense *but*
…NOT partisan. He works closely with Republicans, Democrats, and Independents — he believes everyone, including, of course, poor youth, should have a seat at the table.
— He’s a DJ and rapper and boardroom organizer
…who has produced concerts for hip hop pioneer, Grandmaster Flash (first rapper to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame) AND he sits in boardrooms organizing corporate CEOs and other leaders to do something positive for youth.
P.S. We have lots of other great talks coming up and archives worth watching. See below. Email Britany if you’d like an invite.
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And, email Britany if you’d like to schedule a dry-run of a talk you are preparing (members only).
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