About PHILLY TRUCE
PHILLY TRUCE was founded in 2020High school classmates Steven Pickens and Mazzie Casher as the homicide rate in Philadelphia crept up to 500. In October of that year, the lifelong friends began brainstorming solutions to a familiar cycle. They recalled the last time Philadelphia saw 500 homicides: 1990, when they were in 10th grade. Their hearts went out to the youth navigating the same streets they had 30 years prior.
The PHILLY TRUCE mission is to drive the impact of Sustainable Black Manhood. The essence of Sustainable Black Manhood is crystallized in a vision that transcends conventional expectations, aiming for transformative change on multiple fronts.
The Vision of Sustainable Black Manhood
• Zero involvement with the criminal justice system:
• Engage in no criminal activity.
• Zero involvement with the family court system:
• Engage in no unplanned paternity.
• Zero involvement with the state welfare system:
Engage in no economically imbalanced lifestyles.
• Infinite pursuit of self knowledge:
• Seek cultural, familial and personal self knowledge.
• Infinite pursuit of useful education:
• Seek information that contributes to the synthesis of personal self-knowledge into a personal mission.
• Infinite pursuit of ethical financial freedom:
• Seek knowledge of all legal income streams available that will help to facilitate fulfillment of the personal mission.
This work is essential because the Black community (including other communities of color and impoverished communities) in Philadelphia is not sufficiently preparing its sons for manhood. Many mature physiologically without maturing psychologically, emotionally, or intellectually, leading to poor choices, poor options and premature deaths.
Until the African-American population in Philadelphia has sufficient familial and community leadership from its men, their lot will be a 2nd class status, and Philadelphia will continue to be saddled with crime and poverty for generations to come.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Mazzie Casher
Dr. Ronda Rose Davis
Dr. Ronda Rose Davis
Founder
Interim Board Chair (Non-Voting)
Dr. Ronda Rose Davis
Dr. Ronda Rose Davis
Dr. Ronda Rose Davis
Public Health PhD
Vice Secretary
Steven Pickens
Dr. Ronda Rose Davis
Steven Pickens
Founder
Board Director
Ray Soriano
Dr. Ronda Rose Davis
Steven Pickens
Cyber Security
Treasurer
Maya Stallings
Michelle Sudhakar
Michelle Sudhakar
Drexel University
Secretary
Michelle Sudhakar
Michelle Sudhakar
Michelle Sudhakar
Project Manager
Board Director
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