Virginia Peninsula Chapter of the 100 Black Men Inc.

09/13/2017

07/31/2016

Congratulations to one of our mentees, Raja Richmond-Sargent, for receiving the Director's Award from the Department of Veteran Affairs. Raja is a fourth year volunteer with the VA & was honored with the highest award. Congrats again on a job well done!

07/21/2016

A big thank you to Go-Karts Plus for hosting our Camp Esteem participants for a day if fun! We appreciate your support & look forward to coming back next year!

03/25/2015

Looking for a job in production skill trade? Norfolk Naval Shipyard is hiring 1500 by the end of September! Link: http://www.13newsnow.com/story/news/local/mycity/portsmouth/2015/03/25/norfolk-naval-shipyard-career-fair/70426108/

03/20/2015

Need a bowtie? Check out Mo's Bowties! Even moreso, read this article of 11-year-old Mo who at a tender age already owns a six-figure business!

What were you doing when you were 13? Mo’s Bows CEO Moziah Bridges is building an international bow tie brand.

03/14/2015

Our gala will be here before you know it! Take a look, bring your family, invite your friends, and we'll see you there!

03/14/2015

Today is considered Pi Day because the date, 3/14, equates to the numerical Pi equation, 3.14. To go further, today's date and year, 3/14/15, extends to the larger equation of Pi, 3.1415. To take it even further, today's date, year and time, 3/14/15 at 9:26:50, sums up the larger Pi summation of 3.14159265.

Unsure what we are speaking of? In today's community, statistics state that the African American community are taking less advancements in Math and Science. One reason this article states as being a lack of guidance. Check out the article below:

With black unemployment reaching historic levels, banks laying off tens of thousands and law school graduates waiting tables, why aren't more African-Americans looking toward science, technology, engineering and math – the still-hiring care...

03/14/2015

The march on Selma inspired us all but it is a story that remains unheard in our own community. Spreading the message and the story keeps the retention alive. It is seeing the bad that makes us appreciate the good. It is knowing the fight that encourages us to continue in our endeavors. We all have equal opportunity!

50 years later, they learn that it doesn’t matter if you are white or black: “God created us all equal.”

03/06/2015

Here is a great and relative read for our mentors to mentees. R. Dwayne Betts was sixteen years old when he was tried nine years as an adult in VIRGINIA for his first-ever crime of carjacking. Betts spent some of those years in the worst adult prison facilities. Now released, he runs many literature initiatives and is currently a student at Yale Law School.

03/06/2015

From our brothers over at 100 Black Men of North Metro, Inc., ten great merit-based scholarship opportunities for African-American students: http://bit.ly/1BLv4Yp

Check out the top 10 most popular scholarships for HBCU students online, compiled just for our members of HBCUConnect.com and HBCU.COM! Please share this info with a college student in your family or church...

03/05/2015

100 Black Men of North Metro, Inc. shared a great modeling of mentor-ship. Tell us your experience with being mentored or in mentoring someone else?

03/05/2015

Teen, Akintunde Ahmad, has been accepted to almost all Ivy league schools. Having a 5.0 GPA and 2100 out of 2400 SAT score while attending Oakland Public Schools, Akintunde speaks on skipping a party to write an essay in which those he was to attend with were shot. Re-focusing our children can save them AND uplift them. What an inspiration in Bro. Tunde!

(video originally produced by ABC News 7, Does Not Belong To The Fiiix)