The Gentlemen's League

We told you to stay tuned. 👀 Now here it is. 🔥

Introducing Exploration Day: Built Different Summer Experience, and this is a FIRST TIME EVER moment for The Gentlemen’s League! 🏆

This is a hands-on summer experience designed specifically for teens ages 14–18 to explore their passions, discover new opportunities, and start building their future, RIGHT NOW.

✂ Barbering | 🧘🏾 Yoga | 🎭 Acting | 🎵 Music | 🍽️ Food | and SO much more!

📅 Saturday, June 27, 2026
⏰ 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM
📍 Streets Ministries – Downtown | 430 Vance Ave, Memphis, TN 38126

⚠️ Spaces are LIMITED and you must register to attend. Don’t let your teen miss this. Lock in their spot TODAY 👇🏾

🔗 https://bit.ly/TGLSummerEvent

Part of Safer Shelby Summer Nites 🌙

🌟 2026 GOLDEN APPLE AWARDS 🌟

The Executive Director's highest recognition goes to those who believe in this mission so deeply, they give it EVERYTHING.

This year we had three Golden Apple recipients:

MR. TROY BRADLEY (Leadership Prep)
A volunteer mentor/site coordinator who didn't have to show up. He showed up anyway. His personal investment in our Gents is an act of pure love.

MR. ANTONIO McKAY- not pictured (KIPP Middle)
Leading with excellence. Under his watch: GPAs rising, absences dropping, behavior improving. That's mentorship that changes lives.

BLAKE KELLY (Bellevue Middle → Rising 9th Grade)
A young man who embodies what we stand for. Leadership among peers. Engagement. Excellence. The future of the Gents.

These three represent the heart of what we do. Thank you for your sacrifice, your excellence, and your belief.

Some awards you give. Some awards a school earns.

This year, one school stood above the rest, and it wasn't by accident.
PCA Southeast Elementary is our 2026 School Site of the Year. And the man leading the charge there is our 2026 Site Coordinator of the Year, Mr. Jaylon Holmes.

Here's what one grandmother had to say about Mr. Holmes:
"Mr. Holmes is present for my two grandsons during school and if I need to contact him after school. If my grandsons need advice or have an issue, he helps with it. I worked 33 years serving four different government agencies, and I can certainly say, we need more men and mentors like Mr. Holmes."

That's the kind of presence that changes a school's entire culture. And the numbers prove it.
📊 PCA Southeast Elementary End of Year Data:
📉 Absences down 67% from Q1 to Q4
📉 Behavior infractions down 57% from Q1 to Q4
📈 GPAs up 7% from Q1 to Q4

In one school year.

That's not a program. That's a transformation. That's what The Gentlemen's League looks like when a school is fully committed, and when you have the right person leading it every single day.

Congratulations, Mr. Holmes. Congratulations, PCA Southeast Elementary. You showed Memphis what Built Different really means.

The school year might be over. But the impact these men and women had on our boys? That's lasting.

Our Site Coordinators are the heartbeat of The Gentlemen's League at every school. They recruit the mentors. They manage the program. They show up, every single day, so our boys don't have to figure it out alone.

📍 2026 Site Coordinators:
Believe Memphis Academy — Justin Cooper & Josh Stanley | Bellevue Middle — Equan Ashe | Dexter — Ricardo Harrison & Bryson Wallace | Downtown Elementary — Natisha Gaither | JCS Coleman — Nicholas Finnie | JCS East — Amanda Johnson & Sophia Hardy James | KIPP — Antonio McKay | Leadership Prep — Troy Bradley | Lester Prep — Stanley Ross | PCA Southeast Elementary — Jaylen Holmes | PCA Southeast Middle — Anthony Wilson | Sharpe Elementary — Sam Murphy | University High — Marquez Brown | Wells Station — Tavarus Ward

And our Mentors of the Year: these are the folks who gave their time, their energy, and their wisdom every single week. They didn't have to. They chose to. And our boys are better for it.

👑 Mentor of the Year
Believe Memphis Academy — Miquel Robinson | Bellevue Middle — Sylvester Fulton | Dexter — Shun Redmond | Downtown Elementary — Jeremy White | JCS Coleman — Jerry Smith | KIPP — Armani Alexander | Leadership Prep — Calvin Crump | Lester Prep — Dwayne Clark | PCA Hickory Hill Elementary — Alex Edwards | PCA Southeast Middle — Ricardo Hurt | Sharpe Elementary — Beverly Reynolds | Wells Station — Brandon Jones

To every coordinator and mentor on this list, thank you for being exactly what our boys needed. You are the reason this works.

End of Year Awards. Last week of school. And these young men made sure we remembered their names.

The Most Improved Award goes to the Gents who made a decision this year, to grow, to push through, to be better than yesterday. That takes real courage. And we see every single one of you.

🌟 Most Improved Award
Believe Memphis Academy — Preston Granger, Bellevue Middle School — Nathan McNeil, Dexter K-8 School - MSCS — Caiden Turley, Downtown Elementary — Mason Smith, JCS Coleman — Quintin Smith, JCS East — Ronnie Buffer, KIPP Middle — Kevin Dyson, Leadership Prep — Braeden Boswell, Lester Prep — Kobe Fitch, PCA Hickory Hill Elementary — Jeremiah Hopkins, PCA Hickory Hill Middle — Samuel Echols, PCA Southeast Elementary — Alonzo Garcia, PCA Southeast Middle — Antavion Morris, Sharpe Elementary — Fredrick Henderson, University High — Jackson Bannerman-Williams, Wells Station — Jholjar Fernando Lopez

And the Gent of the Year, our highest honor. These young men don't just participate. They lead. They live out Excellence, Fellowship, Integrity, and Joy every single day.

👑 Gent of the Year
Believe Memphis Academy — DonMario Newson, Bellevue Middle — Elijah Woodson, Dexter — Zavion Carr, Downtown Elementary — Joseph Washington, JCS Coleman — Jarvis Henderson, JCS East — Ofu Oselukwue, KIPP Middle — Jamarion Johnson, Leadership Prep — Yenner Villatoro Garcia, Lester Prep — Eli Braggs, PCA Hickory Hill Elementary — Dallas Echols, PCA Hickory Hill Middle — Steven Joiner, PCA Southeast Elementary — Karter Cowan, PCA Southeast Middle — Isaiah Burns, Sharpe Elementary — Ezequiel García, University High — Lexington Griffin, Wells Station — Jacob Pacheco

To every Gent on this list, we are proud of you. The work you put in this year matters. Your story is just getting started.

Drop a 🖤 for every Gent you know on this list. Share this so their whole community can see them shining.

TODAY IS A DAY WE WILL NEVER FORGET.

Let us be clear, The Gentlemen's League has celebrated graduates before. We have watched many of our boys go off to college and we are proud of every single one of them. But today is different.

Today we celebrate our FIRST EVER cohort to complete our full school-based high school program and curriculum from start to finish.

The Caste of Elders: 13 young kings from University High School. Class of 2026. They did not just graduate high school, they completed the full TGL high school experience. The mentoring. The curriculum. The brotherhood. All of it. And every single one of them, 100%, has been accepted into college.

These 13 young men just changed what's possible for every boy coming up behind them.

To the Caste of Elders: you will always hold a special place in TGL history. You were first. And first matters.

Drop a 🎓 in the comments to celebrate the Class of 2026!

The Carter-Moss Black Male Scholarship is named in honor of the late grandfathers of our Founder & Executive Director, Dr. Archie Moss Jr., Bishop Benjamin F. Carter and Lawrence Moss. Two men who led with love, integrity, and purpose. This scholarship exists because of the legacy they left behind.

This year marks our 5th annual scholarship, and for the first time ever, we expanded from 4 recipients to 6. More young men. More investment. More futures changed. 🎓

Congratulations to our 2026 Carter-Moss Scholars:
👑 Thomas Johnson — University of Tennessee, Knoxville
👑 Brandon Dill — University of Memphis
👑 Miles Caldwell — University of Memphis
👑 Isaiah Jerome Dorsey — Tennessee State University
👑 Cameron Jones — Florida A&M University
👑 Nicholas Glasper — University of Memphis

To Bishop Carter and Lawrence Moss: your legacy is walking across stages this spring. 🖤

Drop a 🎓 to congratulate these kings. 👇🏾