This article comments on President Obama's initiative for young men of color called My Brother's Keeper. It includes findings from meta-analyses of the effectiveness of evaluation of mentoring programs. In addition, it calls for something more: Attention to the proper education of blacks in colleges and universities. It asserts that as we attend to the development of young men of color we must concurrently attend to the environment from which they come. This problem is best addressed by the so-called Talented Tenth.

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