The message he finally got back six weeks later wasn’t quite as playful. “I’m thinking he’s going to be like, ‘Hey, Big Papa,’” Mr. McCaskill said with a laugh. Though the corporate speak they settled into just after wasn’t exactly a love language, Mr. McCaskill, then an independent diversity, equity and inclusion consultant in Harlem, felt a tug to pay it forward. Especially one who was younger.”Mr. McCaskill, 46, told Mr. Johnson, 30, to send him his résumé. “I was at a crossroads,” Mr. Johnson said, about a potential move between corporate jobs in Atlanta, where he lived.

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