100 Black Men

The Anne Arundel edition of The Sunday Sun misidentified Kevin Jackson in a story about a father-son breakfast sponsored by 100 Black Men of Maryland.The Baltimore Sun regrets the errors.On the day before Father's Day, three young black men stood in front of a group of youngsters in an Annapolis church and stressed how their cohesive families are helping them stay focused enough to become engineers and lawyers.That's part of an important message on role models and career choices that a group called 100 Black Men of Maryland hopes to drive home to youths who may be tempted by less-productive pursuits.

Kenneth Davis knows about the lure of the streets. The West Baltimore youth has friends who gave in to temptations of easy money and glittering jewelry and dealt drugs."

Whatever it is that has separated the men from the boys in Baltimore's Cherry Hill community, people there are trying now to bring them together again.About 25 black men and 50 young boys gathered yesterday over grits, eggs and hash browns in the basement of the Hemingway Temple AME Church to launch what they say will be a program to connect the neighborhood's boys with men who will become positive forces in their lives.It was one of eight such Men/Youth Day breakfasts in the Baltimore and Annapolis areas yesterday organized by The 100 Black Men of Maryland, a year-old group of black professionals who want to break the cycle of violence.