Cities United works to support the network of Mayors who are concerned with the issue of keeping young Black men and boys and their families safe, healthy and hopeful. Cities United partners with these leaders in the quest to reduce the homicide of Black men and boys by 50% by the year 2025.

Our featured trailblazer is Anthony Smith, CEO of Cities United.

Anthony Smith works with Mayors of cities and intergenerational local partners to eliminate violent deaths of Black men and boys, particularly via handguns. CBMA is a founding investor in the launch of Cities United in 2011. This is one of the thorniest and seemingly intractable issues in our community and Anthony is leading the charge, along with a host of partners, to eliminate gun violence in cities across the country.

Anthony is also leading a massive economic mobility effort in Louisville called Russell: Place of Promise that is putting Black people at the center of home ownership and property acquisitions in a historic Black neighborhood in the Louisville which battling gentrification.

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