{"id":183194,"date":"2026-02-18T17:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T17:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/183194\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T17:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T17:20:08","slug":"kern-leaders-rising-hopes-to-mentor-and-empower-young-men-in-bakersfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/183194\/","title":{"rendered":"Kern Leaders Rising hopes to mentor and empower young men in Bakersfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 As Kern County celebrates Black History Month, a local organization is launching an initiative aimed at empowering leaders in our community.<\/p>\n<p>Kingdom Men of Action was created to bring men of color together to support each other and serve their community.<\/p>\n<p>The group is now launching Kern Leaders Rising to help strengthen and provide mentorship to young men in Bakersfield.<\/p>\n<p>Pastor Traco Matthews joined ARC Bakersfield to share more about what the organization hopes to accomplish.<\/p>\n<p>The group meets in the historic Woolworth&#8217;s Building in Downtown Bakersfield.<\/p>\n<p>Matthews says the location gives the group the opportunity to honor civil rights history.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Image provided by Kingdom Men of Action\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/4b043cf9-f495-4212-96f4-24c4c817105e-KMOAWoolworthsBW221.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Image provided by Kingdom Men of Action<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>Kingdom Men of Action can be found on Instagram <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/kingdommoa\/reels\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">@kingdommoa<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 As Kern County celebrates Black History Month, a local organization is launching an initiative&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183195,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":{"0":"post-183194","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bakersfield","8":"tag-bakersfield","9":"tag-bakersfield-headlines","10":"tag-bakersfield-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}