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...internet portal network. BMF President Tracy “Ty” Moore II ’06 said his organization decided to help sponsor the event because the aims of the conference to help empower youth and redefine the image of black people worldwide coincided with the BMF??s mission. Moore said that there is a prevalent misconception that Africa is in a state of chaos, and that it is imperative for the media’s focus to be redirected toward “what we have instead of what we don’t have?...
...Moore II ’06 said that with all the resources available at Harvard, he wonders “what type of infrastructure is in place at these other institutions” with lower graduation rates. Moore attributed the high rate of graduation at Harvard partially to the BMF??s outreach efforts for freshmen, along with the College’s own programs. Moore said that programs like the BMF??s brother-to-brother program, which matches first-years with upperclassman mentors, immediately acclimate freshmen to Harvard and can directly affect the school?...
...skin. It doesn’t matter how may times I attend the Monday meetings of the Black Men’s Forum. People are not going to see that on the street, in class, or when I go out at night. Even when I wear a tie for BMF??s tie day, people think it’s for something else. I have to wear my tie with informal clothes just so people will realize that I am identifying myself with the BMF, and not just dressing...
This year, the BMF freshmen have already started to contribute to the BMF??s efforts in concrete ways...
Anderson put together Harvard’s first hip hop festival at the end of February to present hip hop as not just “something that the Mongols do.” The ’08s have also been key in developing BMF??s newest community service initiative, the David Walker program. Owusu-Kesse’s brainchild, the program targets the specific needs of young black boys with an African-American studies curriculum—developed by BMF member Bryan C. Barnhill II ’08—and a life skills tutorial...