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Black Love Directive
This program will initiate the dialogue of trust, peaceful and safe living in Black communities. Blacks must feel they are all working through the same struggles for a productive journey in life. The I Love You Black, Man, Woman and Child Project in partnership with Jewish allies will work in partnership with faith-based leaders of all denominations and the private sector. The BMFSL Foundation staff and our partners will venture to specific neighborhoods in the Black community, embracing and communicating with all aspects of that constituency. Palm cards will be distributed to the Black community about what is needed for our community to begin the process of healing, working together and loving oneself and each other.
Speaker Series
Recording oral history is an essential methodology for preserving original, historically valuable information about the personal recollections of people in our community. Interviewing our citizens from all walks of life preserves their unique voices, their rich memories growing up, the changes they have witnessed and the struggles they have endured. In our opinion, it’s an underutilized tool that can be used to engage and to interact with family members, friends, and neighbors through rich conversations about their lives. Oral history is nothing less than the generational transfer of how we’ve lived and learned and struggled and succeeded. Oral history can be used in a variety of ways: families interviewing their elders; academics studying historical trends; public school students investigating how their neighborhoods have changed by reading the oral histories of their neighbors, past and present.
The Entertainment Series
There are two elements of programming that the BMFSL Foundation will expose to the Black community which is completely absent at the present day. We will target two groups: the adult mature crowd and family programming that includes children. There are no uplifting forms of entertainment in Boston that bring us together as people or
promote voting in a positive manner as in the past Civil Rights Movement. In the Civil Rights era entertainers such as James Brown worked with local political figures to ensure that different music and dance events were held to support Black initiatives. In the President Barak Obama era professional rappers, musicians, performers and athletes were used as vehicles to get Blacks to the polls to vote. Individuals and families in the Black community need to know what it’s like to have a good time together, smile at one another because they are enjoying the atmosphere and are working together on issues and initiatives for a better quality of life.
Top 100 Basketball Series
Athletic competition has always been a regular fixture of Black cultural life just like neighborhood barbecues, sweet potato pie, block parties and playing pickup games at night under the stars. Parents, community members and local businesses have always supported and nurtured community sports programs. It has always been a source of pride to watch some of these young men and women become local legends, successful college stars and occasionally, rise to the level as professional athletes. Part of the Boston Music Film Sports and Law Foundation’s (BMSFL) mission will be to celebrate the participation of our Black youth in community sports, to enthusiastically cheer them on and to build greater capacity for such programming throughout the year.
