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Dexter Jones has been cutting hair for his entire life. There have been bad days and good days, slow days and profitable ones. Through it all, he has remained a leader in the Dixwell community, holding after-school sessions for community youth in his neighborhood barbershop.
That kind of character has made him one of eight remarkable citizens who have stood out to Michael Briscoe, director of Public Safety and an active member of the local Chi Omicron chapter of Omega Phi Psi, over the last year. Next month, Jones will be honored as “Citizen of the Year” at a celebration of Omega Phi Psi’s national “Achievement Week.”
Tuesday, Briscoe joined WNHH-LP host Michelle Turner to discuss what Achievement Week, and the national black fraternity more broadly, means to him. To listen to the episode, you can click on the audio below, download the sound file from Soundcloud, or find it in iTunes or any podcatcher under “WNHH Community Radio.”
“You don’t have to hold a certain title to be a leader,” he shared. “Leaders exist across all levels of an organization, a society, a community.”
“We will preserve through just about anything to see it through. That’s how simple it it. It is incumbent upon us that we prepare our youth for the future”