It's Baton Rouge: Out To Lunch

There’s an old adage that says: If you catch someone a fish, you feed them for a day, if you teach them how to fish, you feed them for a lifetime. Mentorship matters, especially today, where there are so many needs and so many people are looking for role models. Trey Godfrey is executive director of 100 Black Men of Metro Baton Rouge, a nonprofit organization that mentors and empowers young Black men, starting in middle school. Through a variety of programs, 100 Black Men helps boys and young men improve their educational outcomes and develop their leadership potential. It also empowers them economically. The organization is the local chapter of a national nonprofit by the same name that was founded in the early 1990s by, among others, Trey’s father, the late Brace Godfrey Jr., a community leader and developer who helped restore and return to commerce some of downtown baton rouge’s historic buildings in the early years of the downtown redevelopment. Trey has been executive director of 100 Ba