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Bro. Joseph E. Marshall, Jr. is the Executive Director and Co-founder of
Omega Boys Club, a violence prevention organization that emphasizes academic
achievement and non-involvement with drugs.Through this organization, founded
in March of 1987, Marshall has helped send more than 180 young men and women
to college supported by the Omega Boys Club Academic Scholarship Fund. To
date 72 Omegas youth have graduated from college.
With a growing list of success stories, the Omega Boys Club continues to
receive national acclaim. Marshall, staff and members of the club have been
profiled in the New Yorker Magazine, People Magazine, the New York Times
Magazine, the Los Angeles Times Magazine, Essence Magazine, CNN, the Disney
Channel, CBS Evening News, The Today Show, McNeil Lehrer Report, the Oprah
Show, B.E.T. Tonight and the VIBE Television Show.
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