Recent articles by Mike Green from governing.com http://www.governing.com/authors/rss/rss/?a=215859071 Mike Green, a New York Times Leadership Academy Fellow and an award-winning print and digital-media journalist, is the founder of the Saving America's Black Boys National Campaign and co-founder of the America21 Project. Cities, Startup Culture and the Neglected Role of Our Public Schools http://www.governing.com/blogs/view/col-startup-culture-disadvantaged-youth-innovators-entrepreneurs-neglected-public-schools.html Plenty of would-be entrepreneurs are sitting in our K-12 classrooms. They're not getting the help they need to become the innovators who could boost our economies. Struggling Cities and the Promise of Inclusive Competitiveness http://www.governing.com/blogs/view/col-cities-regions-entrepreneur-inclusive-competitiveness.html Entrepreneurs are busy in our increasingly multicultural urban landscape, but they're not creating many jobs. That could change if we invested in them. How Today's Black Boys Could Be the Entrepreneurs of Tomorrow http://www.governing.com/blogs/view/col-investing-american-black-boys-entrepreneurship.html They are competitive, creative, innovative, resilient and courageous. If those sound like core characteristics of successful entrepreneurs, they are, and we need to build on them.