You can donate to the campaign here: Brother’s Keeper, or read below to find out more! Strategies forged, mistakes made, and lessons learned from accessing highly selective places where Black men have historically been underrepresented.
Brother’s Keeper: Lessons Learned in Gaining Access is the book everyone interested in closing the Black male achievement gap should read. Through this collection of experiences, Malcolm Evans shares candid insights that will help Black men avoid certain growing pains, increase their likelihood of securing their desired opportunities, and streamline their path to success.
Brother’s Keeper breaks down tactics ranging from systematically maximizing academic performance to interview techniques and how firms select employees, networking strategies, discovering and pursuing passions, excelling in the workplace and much more. It also includes examples of important documents and concepts referenced throughout the book, such as resumes, cover letters, email templates for various situations, and application essays.
Inspired by a belief that young Black men should empower each other with the resources and intellectual capital necessary to navigate the societal obstacles that threaten to limit their potential, Brother’s Keeper is a standout among the trove of information written by other experts. Too often, books are written from a distanced, retrospective point of view in which the author is far removed from the shoes of their target audience. Brother’s Keeper shatters this reality by speaking millennial to millennial, truly connecting with today’s young Black men by translating experiences into a unique dialect and lifestyle.
The book’s author, 24-year-old entrepreneur Malcolm Evans, is passionate about helping others reach their goals. “This book is incredibly near to my heart. I would love to pay my blessings forward by sharing insights that can help young Black men and the people invested in their success,” Malcolm Evans says. “The insights you’ll find in Brother’s Keeper are very practical and easy to digest. My hope is that they can be used to bolster readers’ philosophy and approach and ultimately allow them to become whatever their hearts desire.”
Brother’s Keeper is sure to empower young Black men, and the various stakeholders in their lives—from parents and relatives to mentors and educators—with tools and insights to streamline the path to their goals, help address the achievement gap among Black men and, in the end, benefit society as a whole by empowering more of its young Black men to dream and achieve.
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Malcolm Evans is a 24-year-old entrepreneur living in Harlem, New York City. Malcolm was accepted to all seven colleges to which he applied, including full scholarships to two. As a freshman, he interned at Google (1 of 3 globally), and as a sophomore, he interned with Goldman Sachs (1 of 10). Malcolm raised over $100K in corporate sponsorships while presiding over campus organizations. After graduating cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business, he worked as the lead junior analyst for the #1 structured debt deal team on Wall Street while building a mobile app in his spare time. He recently finished interning for Madison Square Garden and, as of this writing, is working to launch a startup, AdviceShare (www.AdviceShare.co) and is running a tutoring business he started. Malcolm has also accepted a seat at Columbia Law School for the Class of 2018.
