Norfleet Video Project
"JAHMOL’S VISION FOR YOUTH PEACE”
Jahmol Norfleet, 20, was shot to death outside his Roxbury home on November 28, 2006. Jahmol was exceptionally charismatic, and in the year prior to his murder he led a peace movement among the youth of Boston. Mayor Thomas Menino hailed Jahmol Norfleet as an important architect of the gang truce that prevailed the summer before he died.
This film follows a group of Norfleet’s friends in their efforts to carry through on his commitment to peace, including their participation in peace events throughout the city and meetings with prominent area residents including Deborah Prothrow-Stith from the Harvard School of Public Health, Ambassador Charles Stith, and Professor Charles Ogletree from Harvard Law School. But the video really belongs to the youth themselves, as it movingly traces their development from a state of mourning to becoming powerful advocates for the reduction of youth handgun violence.
The film was produced and directed by Tony Bennis and filmed and edited by Mike King. The executive producers are City Mission Society and a group of local pastors, including Rev. Miniard Culpepper of Pleasant Hill Baptist Church, Jahmol Norfleet’s pastor.
You Can Help!
For more information about “Jahmol’s Vision for Youth Peace,” including how to host a showing of the film, and about City Mission Society's other efforts to promote peace in our city's neighborhoods, contact June Cooper, Executive Director of City Mission Society at 617-742-6830 x203 or jrcooper@cmsboston.org.
To support the City Mission Society in its efforts to distribute the film as widely as possible, go to the Donate page of this website.
