Links:
The Black Star Project's website:
Black Star Journal:
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Welcome to the First Annual
MLK Mentor Weekend
Celebrate Dr. King's Birthday
with
Black Male Achievement
and
Black Male Development
This
weekend includes:
Friday
- Taking young Black men and boys to see a powerful movie or documentary, like
the currently playing SELMA
Saturday
- Providing workshops, guidance, counseling, career exposure and teaching young
Black men and boys to value education
Sunday
- Taking young Black men and boys to worship to improve their spirituality and
resiliency to the obstacles that they have to face
Monday
- Providing opportunities for community service and human service for young
Black men and boys in their communities, in their cities and in their world in
the spirit of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
MLK Mentor Weekend Is Sponsored by the Coalition for
Black Male Achievement. To Join the Coalition, please call 773.285.9600 or
email blackstar1000@ameritech.net.
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MLK Mentor Day
Celebrated in
Detroit, Michigan with showing of
SELMA
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In Chicago,
Take A Young Black Man
To Worship
at
The Apostolic House of Prayer
On
Sunday, January
18, 2015,
Service will
start at
12 noon and end
at 2:00 pm.
4952 S
Paulina
Chicago,
Illinois
Please call Vince Cain at 773.285.9600 for more
information.
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The Men of Morehouse
Alumni Chicago Chapter
Will Mentor Hundreds of
Young Black Men and Boys
for
Dr. Martin Luther King Weekend
on
Saturday, January 17, 2015
10:00 am
Quinn Chapel AME Church
2401 South Wabash Avenue
Chicago, Illinois
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Please call
773.285.9600 to bring young Black men and boys or for more information about
this session.
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Take A Young Black Man
to the Movies
Suggested Films, Movies and Documentaries
for
Dr. Martin Luther King Weekend
on
Friday, January 16, 2015
Please consider renting or purchasing or viewing these films:
1.
Selma, 2.
Ali, 3.
American
Promise, 4.
Amistad, 5.
Black Wall
Street, 6.
Bring Your "A"
Game, 7.
Central Park
5, 8.
Django
Unchained, 9.
Do the Right
Thing, 10.
Emmett Till - Untold
Story, 11.
Eyes on the
Prize, 12.
Glory, 13.
Hidden Colors 1, 2,
and/or 3, 14.
Hurricane, 15.
Malcolm
X, 16.
Marcus
Garvey, 17.
Powernomics, 18.
Pursuit of
Happiness, 19.
Red
Tails, 20.
Roots, 21.
Rosewood, 22.
Sankofa, 23.
School
Daze, 24.
Spit'in
Anger, 25.
Spook Who Sat By The
Door, 26.
Tuskegee
Airmen, 27.
Unforgivable
Blackness, 28.
When We Were
Kings, 29.
12 Years A
Slave
We highly recommend that you pre-screen
any movie or documentary that you might show for appropriate content and
tone.
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Join the Men of
Quinn Chapel AME Church
on Dr. Martin Luther King
Weekend
to
Take A Young Black Man To
Worship
On
Sunday, January 18, 2015
10:00 am
2401 South Wabash Avenue
Chicago, Illinois
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The Men and Boys of Quinn Chapel AME
Church with Pastor James M. Moody, Sr. (seated center, second row, 4th from
left)
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Beautiful,
historic Quinn Chapel AME Church has had many national leaders stand in the
Quinn Chapel pulpit including Presidents
William B. McKinley and William Howard Taft, human rights activist Ida B. Wells,
educators George Washington Carver and Booker T. Washington, poet and literary
genius Paul Lawrence Dunbar, gifted preachers Rev. Martin Luther King, Sr., Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr. and Rev. Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., Chicago Mayor Richard
M. Daley, Illinois Congressmen Danny K. Davis, Bobby Rush, Jesse Jackson, Jr.,
Illinois Governor Pat Quinn and Illinois Senator Barack Obama (now President
Obama).
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Please
call 773.285.9600 to
have your place of worship invite young Black men to worship with you this
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Bridgeport, Connecticut
Prepares
to Mentor Young Men
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