Educator uses The Breakfast Club to aid in Academic Success of Black Students
Challenges Chris Sain Jr. an athlete turned educator who happens to love the Lord, hip hop, investing and entrepreneurship was able to avoid death and prison but nevertheless still faced many challenges as a young, black man in America. The message he and so many of his peers received growing up was that they'd be dead or in jail by by 25. So driven by those words and the low expectations others placed on his life, Chris brought back both a bachelors and Masters degree to the hood by the age of 24. Chris spent his childhood in prisons, the Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC) visiting his older brother and knew early on he would not end up their despite what the media and data suggested when it came to young, black inner-city kids. What Chris deemed as an unsuccessful athletic career, the former Division I athlete would not accept failure, nor defeat and instead dedicated his life to helping others; Young Black Men to be specific. If you talk to anyone in educatio...