Calling All Brothers welcomes Hartford students back to school NBC Connecticut [Video]

It was a lively, energetic environment as Calling All Brothers welcomed Hartford students back into the classroom at Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School.

Tuesday was the first day of school for thousands of students in the city.

Students were greeted with cheering, music, and high-fives as they entered the building.

“It’s a place that’s just electrifying with community people and people who care,” said Rev. AJ Johnson, with Calling All Brothers.

Johnson said for nine years now, Calling All Brothers has focused on Hartford because as a community the children face different challenges.

“Any point in time in any one of our children’s lives, they’ll have to come to school with an uncle or a friend being shot by gun violence. They have to come to school living in a public housing unit that’s deplorable, that has things that no other student has to contend with, but are still …