{"id":269822,"date":"2026-06-17T17:56:46","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T17:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/269822\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T17:56:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T17:56:46","slug":"40th-annual-conference-of-100-black-men-of-america-to-honor-south-florida-chapter-mentee-in-manhattan-wsvn-7news-miami-news-weather-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/269822\/","title":{"rendered":"40th\u00a0Annual Conference of 100 Black Men of America to honor South Florida chapter, mentee in Manhattan &#8211; WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MIAMI (WSVN) &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/100blackmensf.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">The 100 Black Men of South Florida<\/a> organization is taking mentorship to the friendly skies and beyond,\u00a0with their sights set on New York City.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Members and chaperones along with 22 of the organization\u2019s middle school and high school mentees, who are part of the Dr. Harold E. Guinyard Leadership Academy, departed Miami International Airport Wednesday morning, bound for Manhattan.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The group is set to join hundreds of attendees at the 40th\u00a0Annual Conference of 100 Black Men of America, Inc., which is the organization\u2019s annual gathering of mentors, executives, policymakers and educators.<\/p>\n<p>The conference provides professional development, youth programming and panels on economic empowerment. Mentees will also take part in an African American History competition and enjoy a trip to Broadway to see \u201cMJ: The Musical.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>South Florida Chapter President Pierre Rutledge said one of the main goals is to expose the mentees to something more.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is what we do: We\u2019re exposing our kids and we\u2019re exposing ourselves to something bigger than what they can actually believe,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Rutledge added that it takes the community as a whole to make efforts like this possible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPray for us as we take our trip. Thank you for all of our supporters, thank you for the families, thank you for the community, just thank you for the village who\u2019ve gotten us this far, and we\u2019re on our way,\u201d he said<\/p>\n<p>The South Florida chapter has also been named the 2026 Medium Sized Chapter of the Year by the national organization, along with mentee Chai Footman, II, who has been named the 2026 National Mentee of The Year.\u00a0 Each will receive the official designation during the annual conference, which runs from Wednesday\u00a0through Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Sunbeam Television Corp. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p>\tJoin our Newsletter for the latest news right to your inbox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI (WSVN) &#8211; The 100 Black Men of South Florida organization is taking mentorship to the friendly skies&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269823,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-269822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}