--Tracey K. Muhammad
One
Year Later
FCN
OnlineDETROIT--The Million Man Alumni Association has garnered the respect and admiration of Detroit citizens.
Ranging in age from 25 to 65 and working out of the Inner City Sub Center with assistance from the Center's director Paul Taylor, these men have implemented a tutoring and youth development program, voter registration activities, an East Detroit basketball tournament, and formed a community patrol squad.
The patrol secured the school grounds of Malcolm X Academy earlier this year after the majority Black male school was harassed by white residents in the surrounding neighborhood.
"Black men should be more involved in the rearing of our children and show more respect for self," says alumnus Donald Corley.
Upon returning from Washington, "we got together and brainstormed over economic development for the survival of our community and to train our youth into entrepreneurship," added Mr. Corley.
Million Man Products, Inc., is such an enterprise, fathered by the alumni, and currently marketing personal care items, which include a hand and body lotion, and soon to be released bath gel.
The Alumni and Muhammad Mosque No. 1 are hosting an Oct. 16 Family Day at Belle Isle Park to commemorate the Million Man March and World Day of Atonement.
On his experience during the march, Mr. Corley related, "I felt a newness was coming over me--a transformation mentally and spiritually."
The Million Man Alumni Association holds meetings every Thursday at
7 p.m. For more information, please contact Paul Taylor at (312)921-0200
--Tracey K. Muhammad
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