Saturday, October 29th was a colorful day on the campus of Drake University, inside and out. Outdoors, autumn was everywhere in all its splendor. And indoors at the Olmstead Center the first annual Young Men of Color Conference pulsed with a positive energy, most of it coming from some 200 DMPS middle school and high school students who came to pick the brains of a host of positive examples and role models.

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