‘Work together and create one family’: Champaign organizations connec…

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (WCIA) — Busy Body Incorporated hosted the first annual Hood Hoops Tournament to help put unity back into the community.

Marc Levi is a Chicagoland native who’s been planting his roots in Champaign for the last decade. He said instead of seeing individual cities try to tackle their violence problems alone, he wants them to work together. His basketball tournament is just one way he hopes to achieve Victory Over Violence.

“Normally the word hood is attached to negativity and also to people in the community as well. So, our thing is changing the narrative,” said Levi.

It takes more than one person to make up a community and the Busy Body president said it’ll take more than one community to stop violence across central Illinois.

“Hood is for heading our own destinies and hoops is helping our ordain purposes surface,” said Levi.

He said there’s no need for one organization to try to do it all when there are so many organizations…