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Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!Meet Dale Long, a Big Brothers Big Sisters volunteer for the past 34 years in his hometown, Dallas. He has mentored six youths from adolescence to adulthood, while inspiring countless other African-American boys to overcome their own tough reality. Long, 58, was even named national Big Brother of the year in 1989 and was invited to visit the White House with his little brother at the time, Michael Johnson. Johnson is now a Big Brother himself. Long, with the help of fraternity brothers, hopes to enlist 10,000 mentors across the country. ...
A few weeks ago, First Lady Michelle Obama launched a White House mentoring program for 20 girls from local high schools. If the lucky mentees have the common sense to cultivate relationships with the top White House women assigned as their mentors, they will have hit the networking jackpot. Interesting, I thought, but a very small project with just a few girls. Now, Mrs. Obama is going to expand her efforts and take her mentoring act regularly on the road, either monthly or every other month. Her first stop is in Denver on Monday. She will gather high-profile females there -- the city ...
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