Today, The Black Star Project Begins to Mentor Girls 9 to 14 Years Old in Honor of Endia Martin Endia Martin, 14, was shot and killed in Chicago on April 28th by another 14 year old girl after a Facebook fight. Click Here to read the full story on her death. Bring Your Girls 9 to 14 Thursday, May 1, 2014, 6:30 pm The Black Star Project 3509 South King Drive Chicago, Illinois *************************************************************************************** Parents should call 773.285.9600 to enroll their daughters or nieces into this program. Our first event will be a girls fun and crafts day on May 1, 2014. New My Brothers Keeper Rule Means Almost No Black Organizations Can Participate Who Will Be Able to Participate in My Brothers Keeper? The 45 state rule requirement would mean that small community based organizations would be out of the running for funding. By lauren victoria burke April 30, 2014 A letter sent to the Obama Administration expressed concerns that a new grant requirement in the My Brothers Keeper initiative would effectively exclude almost all African American social, civic and mentoring organizations from participating. The new rule (at bottom) requirement for My Brothers Keeper grant eligibility states that applicants must be national organizations defined as having active chapters or subawardees in at least 45 states. A letter expressing concern over the change, written by the national President of 100 Black Men of America, Inc., states that President Obama originally announced on February 24, 2014 that a group must have a active presence in 30 states - not 45. Browns letter requests a reversal of the rule change. See the entire letter here. The change from 30 to 45 states would effectively mean that almost no Black civic, social or mentoring organizations, other than perhaps the NAACP, would be eligible for funding under My Brothers Keeper. Only the NAACP has a active presence in at least 45 states. The 45 state rule requirement would mean that small community based organizations would be out of the running for funding. I am writing to express our concern for the change in direction for the Presidents My Brothers Keeper initiative, wrote Michael J. Brown, President of 100 Black Men of America, in a letter to the Department of Justices Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. The letter was dated April 28, 2014. Brown added that the requirement change, dashed any hopes that such venerable institutions as the National Urban League, the NAACP and each of the nine Historically Black Greek Letter Organizations may have had in competing in this significant funding opportunity. Click Here to Read Full Story ********************************************************************************************* This ruling eliminates The Black Star Project and almost every other Black male achievement program from participating in the My Brothers Keeper initiative. The Community Plan to Reduce Violence in Chicago (If you are failing to plan, you are planning to fail.) Inspired by the peacemaking efforts of The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan in Chicago, the Fruit of Islam men of Muhammad Mosque No. 45 in Houston took to the streets to promote peace on July 16, 23 & 28, 2012. The brothers visited the Southwest Side. And also Crestmont and Villa Americana Apartment Complexes in the Southeast area. (Photo by Jesse Muhammad) Community Asking for a Re-Direct of $100 Million in Police Overtime in 2013 to $100 Million in Community Literacy, Mentoring, Parenting and Employment Programs to Reduce Violence The community plan includes: 1) Establish and fund 8 Community Enterprise Zones for $12 million each with police overtime money, which will include job training, entrepreneurship, small business development, jobs and corporate/community partnerships in the communities with the highest rates of violence. A community advisory board made up of community members and some government officials will govern the Community Enterprise Zones. 2) Establish Community Safety Patrols of community members that will operate on main thorough fares, in business districts, at transportation hubs and in the communities with the highest rates of violence. These men and women are not police officers will not have police powers. Their job is to promote community safety in ways that the police cannot. We would request The Nation of Islam to do the training of the Community Safety Patrols. 3) Establish a street corner mentoring of young men that puts mentors in the lives of young men on street corners, at liquor stores, at barbershops and other places that these young men frequent. Arm these mentors with resources that include educational opportunities, fatherhood programs, employment opportunities, expungement, recreational activities, gang deactivation programs and other needed resources. 4) initiate a Ban the Box legislative initiative to de-criminalize citizens who are returning to their communities from prison. They have served their time. This will help rebuild the workforce and family units in these communities. 5) Establish a Community Clean-up Corps of young men cleaning, building and beautifying the communities of which some of them are now terrorizing. Please call Chicagos City Hall at 312.744.5000 and ask for the Mayors Office or go to www/cityofchicago.org and click on Contact us to request this plan. Please request that the City of Chicago support and implement the The Community Plan to Reduce Violence! Click Here to see the men from the Nation of Islam, Mosque No. 45 bring discipline, order, peace and hope to the streets of Houston. Please call The Black Star Project at 773.285.9600 for more information about this plan.
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