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Through their devotion, the BMF became a brotherhood. “BMF’s got to be a family, it’s got to be fun,” Ashong says. “Where you can go out [to] without worrying about folks clutching their purse when you walk by, because that happens in Harvard Square, [although] people don’t know that. I can go to BMF and know that that’s a place you won’t feel that...
Taking over as president in 1998, Bernard decided he to build on these traditions and solidify the organization’s brotherhood. He pushed BMF toward the direction of a fraternity, designing a coat of arms, slapping on a mission statement, coming up with a fraternal grip and a motto: “Brotherhood, Manhood and Fidelity...
...members also elected Bryan C. Barnhill Jr. ’08 as Brotherhood Chair, Jon W. Barfield ’07 as Treasurer, Michael P. Anderson ’08 as Social Chair, and Jon E. Gentry ’07 as Secretary...
Seeking protection and status, many inmates join gang syndicates such as the Bloods, the Mexican Mafia and the Aryan Brotherhood, whose inflexible ethic of vengeance ensures that no knife attack can ever be the last. "The guards can't solve all this fighting," laments one convicted murderer, Kenneth Foutenette. "The only solution is the inmates." Says William Charles, a lanky con in his 20s serving an eight-year sentence: "It's fighting for race. They stab someone, and we get 'em back." Above Charles' sink, like a battle flag, hangs the distinctive red kerchief of the Bloods, a major gang...
Jackie Presser once seemed in imminent danger of going the same route as three of the five previous presidents of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters: being indicted for a federal crime. But after a three-year investigation of padded-payroll practices in Cleveland's Teamsters Local 507, where Presser, 58, serves as secretary-treasurer, the Justice Department said last week that it had overruled a recommendation by a federal organized-crime strike force in that city and would not prosecute the union boss. Although Presser 's was the only major labor organization to back Ronald Reagan for President...