Susan L. Taylor
Susan L. Taylor, former Essence magazine Editor, will be in Detroit for a “Becoming Responsible For Our Imperiled Youth” Inspirational Session hosted by the Rev. Horace L. Sheffield III, executive director of the Detroit Association of Black Organizations (DABO), and Dr. Curtis L. Ivery, chancellor of the Wayne County Community College District.

The event will be held on Thursday, Aug. 28, at 11 a.m. at the Downtown Campus of the Wayne County Community College District (WCCCD), 801 W. Fort Street.

Rev. Sheffield, who serves on the National Board of the National Cares Mentoring Movement and is the founder of DABO’s Last Chance Academy, along with Dr. Ivery invited Taylor to Detroit for the session, said, “Ms. Susan L. Taylor, who at the height of her occupational success, was so moved by the need for providing direction and support for discouraged and endangered inner city youth, left her prosperous post with Essence magazine to be the founder of the National Cares Mentoring Movement.

“Consequently, Ms. Taylor is coming to Detroit on Thursday Aug. 28 to discuss and launch with parents, educators, service providers and volunteers the Detroit Cares Mentoring Movement. Clearly, no one who has ever expressed concerned for our city and for this city’s troubled youth should be absent from this powerful session.”

Dr. Curtis L. Ivery, a person who has dedicated his whole life to coupling education and encouragement for some of America’s most endangered youth, said, “This is an unparalleled opportunity to match sheer will with diminishing resources. Many of our youth have overcome more than most just to survive and they now need a constant chorus of personal cheer leaders persuading them to preserver and to prosper.

“There is no one person more suitable to conduct that choir and to pen that chorus than Susan L. Taylor, someone whose personal imperiled pilgrimage is characterized by her ability to turn trial into triumph.

“And we need to learn and to be taught better by her how to help these young people who often only have themselves to lean on.”