This Juneteenth teams of volunteers chose to work, cleaning, painting and planting at an Oak Cliff apartment complex where men coming out of prison will have a fresh start.
The workers at the Lockridge Apartments are volunteers from powerful corporations like Turner Construction North Texas and AECOM Hunt.
The apartments were purchased by Dallas County as transition housing as part of a second-chance initiative for men getting out of prison. Before they can come to the apartments, they have to go through a 5-week training by the Regional Black Contractors of America. They must get OSHA certifications and then Regional Black Contractors finds them a job."I'm very grateful and thankful after doing twenty-two years it was hard for me to get any leg up," said Sean Reeves, a resident at the apartments.
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