Derrick Coleman
The Convener
The room, the network and the deal, brings the right people together.
Derrick Coleman reads as The Convener because his leadership runs on intergenerational accountability rather than personal platform. Choosing BK over Nike was a resource-delivery decision for Detroit youth, not a branding move. Twenty-one years of All-Star Giveback programming, mobilising around the Flint water crisis, and a career spent refusing to employ an agent all point to a man who treats influence as communal property, gathering people and resources into alignment around shared need.
“Nike is not gonna pull up to the hood with the eighteen wheeler unloaded for these kids over here. And that's what BK was. The difference was I can get on the phone and be like, hey, my high school, everybody in my neighborhood — bring a truck and we're gonna give away backpacks, coats and gym shoes.”
“It started off really in my neighborhood, rebuilding the playground that I grew up playing on. Then building strip centers, putting everybody to work that's in my neighborhood — jobs and opportunities. All-Star Giveback we've been doing for the past twenty-one years.”
“I've never had an agent in my life. I have a lawyer. I was trying to give all the cats then like, yo man, you don't need no agent — you're going top five in the draft.”
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