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News from TLOD National Partnership

JSD Foundation/Medgar and Myrlie Evers Foundation

Congratulations ATEAAM/TLOD

Ambassadors of the Evers Academy for African-American Males

Lady Audrie Lawton
ATEAAM/TLOD National TLOD Consultant
12th National President 2014 Boys to Men Initiative
Top Ladies of Distinction, Inc. rolled out its TLOD Teens to Men Initiative dur-
ing celebration of its 50th Anniversary held in Houston, Texas, October 30, 2014.
Top Ladies of Distinction, Inc. forged a partnership with the Medgar Evers Foun-
dation and Doty Foundation in this initiative. The partnership joined together the
groups to become the ATEAAM/TLOD Boys Mentoring Initiative.
Six chapters representing the six areas of the organization chose to pilot ATEAAM/TLOD Initiative Program,
which will officially be launched in January 2015. The chapters were: Inglewood Chapter, East St. Louis Chapter,
Houston Chapter, Washington DC Chapter, Memphis Chapter, and the Cincinnati Chapter. We now have nine
Chapters with ATEAAMs throughout the country.

Lady Peggy Lewis LeCompte,
ATEAAM/TLOD National Coordinator
We are very excited about this program. Lady Peggy Lewis LeCompte is the Na-
tional ATEAAM /TLOD National Coordinator and works closely with the Coor-
dinators for program planning. We are excited to begin a new year of mentoring
and encouraging and changing the lives of African American males and helping
them achieve their dreamed-about goals and thus build better communities and a
better world.
We are a people who have made it past slavery. We have blazed trails, invented
machines, written books, built cities and achieved the office of President of the
United States, but we have much yet to do and now must overcome new obstacles and come over obstacles that
have again been put in the pathway to success. It is programs such as this that encourage our sons, nephews,
grandsons, godsons and those African American males yet unborn to pick up the gauntlet and move upward and
onward.