Boy Scouts of America Archives - The Washington Informer

Shane Bennett, Dameion Crook II, Dylan Gaines, Kyle Gaines, Chandler Green, Daniel Hinton, Marshall Hudson, Marcellus Jordan III, Eron Lord, Eric Sims, Asa Singleton and Benjamin White are all a part of Boy Scout Troop 242, a historic troop located at Wheeler Ave Baptist Church.

Black Experience

Soar Like an Eagle: 12 African-American Teens Reach Pinnacle of Success in the Boy Scouts

by WI Guest Author January 14, 2019October 31, 2020

In the Boy Scouts of America, the highest achievement or rank that one can attain is the designation of Eagle Scout and reaching that accomplishment is not an easy task.

Court of Honor inductees (beginning second from left) Elmer Douglas Ellis Jr., James Omar Dorman, Ian Hunter Groom, Campbell James Wilson and Columbus Jared Giles take the Scout oath with other Eagle Scouts and Scout leaders at Peoples Congregational UCC Church in northwest D.C. on July 21. (Roy Lewis/The Washington Informer)

Eagle Scouts Spread Wings, Bound for College

by Brenda C. Siler August 15, 2018October 31, 2020

Columnists, Op-Ed, Opinion, Raynard Jackson

The Boy Scouts are No Longer ‘Morally Straight’

by Raynard Jackson May 27, 2013October 30, 2020

Columnists, Op-Ed, Opinion, Raynard Jackson

Boy Scouts Shouldn’t Become ‘Gay Scouts’

by Raynard Jackson January 28, 2013October 30, 2020