{"id":262256,"date":"2026-08-09T20:46:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T20:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/262256\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T20:46:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T20:46:06","slug":"philadelphias-office-of-black-male-engagement-hosts-first-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/262256\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia\u2019s Office of Black Male Engagement hosts first summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For Markee Marshall, an attendee from West Philadelphia, the summit offered networking opportunities as he continues on his path toward becoming an attorney.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wanted to be surrounded by Black men,\u201d Marshall said. \u201cI heard that it was going to be a lot of resources.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Marshall said he was particularly interested in the summit\u2019s reentry session because of his previous work experience in juvenile justice and <a href=\"https:\/\/whyy.org\/articles\/philadelphia-youth-fighting-juvenile-justice-reform\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reentry<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just want to stick with that,\u201d Marshall said. \u201cHelp out the city of Philadelphia with the youth because I\u2019ve been there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For Edwards, who also leads the Mayor\u2019s Commission on African American Males, establishing connections is exactly what he envisioned the inaugural summit would accomplish.<\/p>\n<p>He said he wanted attendees, particularly young Black men, to leave with people in their corner who could continue helping them after the event.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope they connect with a mentor,\u201d Edwards said. \u201cI hope they connect with somebody that they can learn from, and I hope they connect with somebody who can give them an opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For Markee Marshall, an attendee from West Philadelphia, the summit offered networking opportunities as he continues on his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262257,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[26504,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-262256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-black-men","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}