Do you think there might be some ways that corporate America, through its powerful advertising arm, can be effective in addressing changes

   As a product of that exact environment, what was called the urban inner-city, and being part of the demographic that usually succumbs to some of the worst outcomes possible thereof (poverty, born to a single mother who had multiple children by multiple men, etc., etc., etc.), I can vouch from personal experience as to the importance of education as a way out. My mother, while extremely trapped in several interlocking vortexes that held her back, is nonetheless an amazingly intelligent woman when viewed academically.  Even with all of her many parenting/motherhood deficiencies, she valued knowledge over many other concerns, so much so that she took an unprecedented step in investigating schools all over the city and enrolled us in one miles from our neighborhood and its low-achieving slum-mill of a school. Being a kindergartner at the time, I was neither aware of nor would I have understood the difference in educational opportunities between the two schools, but to this day I am grateful for her concern. Stemming from her efforts to teach us all to read by age two or three, the added measure of a great school reinforced everything we learned at home. This all took place prior to forced busing being the law of the land, and I don’t know how she worked it out, but she arranged for a school bus to go all the way into the ‘hood and whisk us across town to town to a “white school”*. Of course, being five siblings, we all came away with five varying results of our upbringing, and not all five of us valued and value education equally, but the seed was well planted anyway. Three years later, when I began the second grade, forced busing did take place, and 50% of students from the affluent neighborhood were sent to the schools in the ‘hood for half of the school year, and 50% of the students from the ‘hood were sent to the schools in the affluent neighborhood.  The second half of the school year, the other 50% of each side took the ride.  With my own 7-year-old eyes, I saw the vast differences between “black schools”* and “white schools”*.

*I detest referring to schools by color or race (ethnicity), but it is an unfortunate reality from my past. 

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He admitted this week that he fathered a daughter -- born in May, 1999 -- out of wedlock with Karin Stanford, a former poltiical [sic] science professor who ran his organization's Washington office."
https://www.realchange.org/jackson.htm  There have been continuing instances of sexual harassment by other women.

Not only that, his son, Jesse Jr. also had a child out of wedlock and later spent two years in prison for fraud.