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	Nazere Jones, 15, left, and Rahkim Thomas, 13, two of the young men accompanying the 100, received some advice from Detroit Mayor Dave Bing on Jan. 21, 2012 at the Carrier Dome.

A group of young men enrolled at Percy Hughes School, Westside Academy and Fowler High School in Syracuse traveled Jan. 21, 2012 with members of 100 Black Men of Syracuse as their guests to Syracuse University's 27th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration. Keynote speaker Dave Bing, the Mayor of Detroit and a Hall of Fame basketball player, urged the young men and other students in attendance to break stereotypes by first taking pride in themselves.

"If you truly want to celebrate Dr. King, start by being a better you," said Bing, who was an All-American basketball player at Syracuse University in the 1960s before entering the NBA as the first draft pick of the Detroit Pistons. 

The trip to the Carrier Dome is among the special activities 100 Black Men of Syracuse has planned for its mentees during National Mentoring Month.  Other activities planned during January include a book reading at Percy Hughes School on Jan. 25, a return trip back to the Carrier Dome on Jan. 28 to see the Syracuse University men's basketball team play West Virginia University and a screening of the film "Red Tails."

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