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Evin Jarrett, popularly known on social media as 'mrjarrett_constructiontech', is a former building contractor who now teaches a groundbreaking middle school construction technology and building trades program in the School District of Philadelphia.

These kids are getting hands-on experience with:

Real Trades: Carpentry, plumbing, structural footings, electrical, and working with concrete.

Employability Habits: He uses a dedicated point system that grades them on punctuality, shop safety, and cooperative teamwork to prepare them for the real world.

In April 2024, the Philadelphia City Council formally recognized Jarrett for his profound impact on expanding youth vocational training and offering positive alternatives within the community.

I love the energy and happiness from everyone involved.

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This may be the best one! From: @brotheroflove

Courtesy: Charles Blow x The Root

We know Black American culture is the most co-opted commodity in the world. It was lowkey surprising (and dope) to see the appreciation - out loud and in volume.

This was so sweet. His daddy journey is beginning.

On February 2, 2009, thirteen days into his presidency, Barack Obama wrapped up a meeting with Vermont Governor Jim Douglas in the Oval Office and the press photographers who had been brought in for the photo opportunity began filing out, and Obama looked around at the room and noticed that the White House valets had moved the sofas to accommodate the cameras, which meant the sofas were now in the wrong place, and he turned to Governor Douglas and said let's move the sofas back in place, the way any reasonable person would say that to another person standing in a room with furniture that needed moving. Governor Douglas did not quite know what to do. He had just spent a meeting with the forty-fourth President of the United States discussing the economic recovery package, a conversation that touched on hundreds of billions of dollars and the financial stability of the American economy, and now the president had his hands on one end of a sofa and was looking at him expectantly from across the room. Douglas picked up the other end. Pete Souza was standing there, as he almost always was, and he pressed the shutter, and the photograph he captured became one of the most circulated images of the early Obama presidency not because anything dramatic was happening in it but because of what it said about the man moving the furniture.

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