Our Founder – bmosc

BRUCE A. TREZEVANT

Founder, Project Unity USA & Black Men of South Carolina

Community Leader • Former Law Enforcement Officer • Entrepreneur • Advocate

“My vision is to bring Black men together in great numbers—not only in South Carolina, but across this nation—to strengthen families, protect our communities, mentor our youth, and build safer, stronger communities for generations to come.” — Bruce A. Trezevant

Bruce A. Trezevant, affectionately known throughout the community as “Mr. Bruce,” is a former law enforcement officer, entrepreneur, community advocate, and founder of Project Unity USA and the Black Men of South Carolina (BMOSC) initiative.

Born August 8, 1959, in Evanston, Illinois, to Ezekiel H. and Elizabeth Trezevant, Bruce was raised in a family with a deep tradition of service, leadership, entrepreneurship, and commitment to community.

His father, Ezekiel H. Trezevant, founded Trezevant Funeral Home and Crematorium, which established the first Black-owned crematorium in the state of South Carolina. He also served as one of the early Black members of the South Carolina funeral board.

His mother, Elizabeth Trezevant, devoted her professional life to caring for others as a Registered Nurse at Richland Memorial Hospital. Together, Bruce's parents helped countless individuals and families throughout their community and instilled in their children the importance of service to others.

That tradition of leadership extended another generation. Bruce's grandmother, Eva P. Trezevant, was a pioneering Black woman in South Carolina civic life. She was the second Black woman to vote in the state of South Carolina and founded the Avant Club, an organization dedicated to teaching etiquette, character, and social development to young Black men and women.

For Bruce, community service was not simply something he learned later in life. It was his inheritance.

EDUCATION AND A CALL TO SERVICE

Education and a Call to Service

Bruce attended Arden Elementary School, Alcorn Middle School, W.A. Perry Middle School, and C.A. Johnson High School before attending Eau Claire High School, where he graduated in 1977.

He later attended Midlands Technical College before relocating to Los Angeles, California, where he began a career in law enforcement with the Los Angeles Police Department.

During his law enforcement career, Bruce served in several demanding assignments, including patrol, gangs, narcotics, and homicide. His service exposed him firsthand to the devastating consequences that violent crime, drugs, broken families, and a lack of positive leadership can have on neighborhoods.

During his tenure with the Los Angeles Police Department, Bruce received numerous awards and commendations, including recognition for bravery under fire.

While in California, he also attended the University of Southern California, continuing his education while developing the experience and perspective that would later influence his approach to community engagement.

RETURNING HOME AND BUILDING A BUSINESS

Returning Home and Building a Business

In 1996, Bruce returned to Columbia, South Carolina.

Drawing upon his law enforcement background and interest in technology, he entered the security and surveillance industry and ultimately established Tactical Surveillance Systems, LLC, a technology and security company that he continues to own and operate.

His professional experience provided Bruce with a unique perspective: technology and law enforcement are important tools for fighting crime, but neither can replace the involvement of strong families, responsible adults, mentors, community organizations, churches, businesses, and engaged citizens.

That understanding became the foundation for his next mission.

THE BEGINNING OF PROJECT UNITY USA

The Beginning of Project Unity USA

Bruce founded an organization originally known as Project Unity SC with a fundamental belief: many of the most difficult problems confronting communities cannot be solved by law enforcement alone.

Real and sustainable change requires unity.

As the organization's work and relationships expanded beyond South Carolina into other states, Project Unity SC became Project Unity USA, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.

Under Bruce's leadership, Project Unity USA has worked in areas including domestic violence, human trafficking, narcotics, violent crime prevention, youth engagement, and community building.

Bruce has spent years building relationships among law enforcement agencies, community organizations, judges, faith leaders, businesses, elected officials, families, and citizens. His philosophy has remained consistent: communities become stronger when the people and institutions within them stop operating independently and begin working together toward common objectives.

But decades of law enforcement and community work also led Bruce to recognize what he believes is one of the most significant challenges confronting many Black communities.

Too many communities are missing the consistent presence of Black men serving as leaders, mentors, protectors, providers, fathers, and positive examples for the next generation.

That realization would eventually lead to his most ambitious community initiative.

BLACK MEN OF SOUTH CAROLINA

Black Men of South Carolina

In February 2026, Bruce developed the concept for Black Men of South Carolina (BMOSC), a statewide initiative of Project Unity USA.

The vision was bold but straightforward:

Bring Black men together from every county, city, town, neighborhood, profession, organization, and walk of life across South Carolina—and turn those numbers into organized community action.

BMOSC was created not to compete with existing organizations, fraternities, churches, nonprofits, civic groups, or community leaders, but to work alongside them.

The initiative seeks to create symbiotic relationships with organizations, groups, businesses, churches, community leaders, and individuals whose missions complement the goal of strengthening Black families and communities.

At the center of the initiative is a call for Black men to become more actively engaged as leaders, mentors, protectors, providers, volunteers, fathers, businessmen, and servants of their communities.

The Black Men of South Carolina Community Unity Rally at the South Carolina State House was conceived as the public kickoff of this statewide movement—a visible demonstration of Black men standing together with a common purpose.

But Bruce's vision extends far beyond a single rally.

The rally is the gathering. The movement is what happens afterward.

BUILDING A STATEWIDE COMMUNICATION NETWORK

Building a Statewide Communication Network

Recognizing that a statewide movement requires the ability to communicate rapidly, BMOSC has developed a dedicated Black Men of South Carolina mobile app and digital communications network.

The goal is to create a direct communications link capable of reaching BMOSC participants across South Carolina quickly when their communities need them.

Through the BMOSC network, participants can receive Missing and Vulnerable Person Alerts, creating a community-based rapid notification network designed to mobilize thousands of eyes across South Carolina when someone is missing or at risk.

The platform is also designed to support and promote Black-owned businesses, allowing business owners to submit their businesses for free listing and giving members another way to intentionally circulate resources within their communities.

The communications network can also mobilize members when collective participation is needed—whether for community events, rallies, city or county council meetings, peaceful demonstrations, boycotts, volunteer projects, mentorship opportunities, or other matters affecting their communities.

The BMOSC website and mobile app are designed to work together as the digital infrastructure behind a much larger objective:

Connecting Black men—and converting communication into action.

FAMILY, LEGACY AND THE NEXT GENERATION

Family, Legacy and the Next Generation

Despite his professional accomplishments and years of community service, Bruce considers family and legacy central to his purpose.

He is the father of four adult children—Tiffany, Brandon, Milisent, and Thaddeus—and grandfather to Bre'ana, Sami'ya, Hunter, Brave, and Brixten.

For Bruce, the work of Project Unity USA and Black Men of South Carolina is ultimately about what today's generation will leave behind for them and for thousands of children like them.

His vision is not limited to reducing crime.

It is about creating communities in which children see successful Black men mentoring them.

Communities where fathers are present.

Communities where men protect the vulnerable.

Communities where Black businesses are supported.

Communities where young men have positive examples to follow.

Communities where organizations collaborate instead of compete.

And communities where Black men understand that leadership is not simply a position or title—it is a responsibility.

After decades in law enforcement, business, technology, and community service, Bruce A. Trezevant believes the next chapter of his life's work is bringing Black men together on a scale large enough to create measurable and lasting change.

His goal begins in South Carolina, but his vision reaches much farther.

“Our power is in our numbers. Every man who steps forward strengthens the movement. When Black men come together as leaders, mentors, protectors, and providers, we can change the direction of our communities and the future of our children.”

ONE PEOPLE. ONE MISSION. ONE SOUTH CAROLINA.

Bruce A. Trezevant
Founder & CEO, Project Unity USA
Founder, Black Men of South Carolina
Owner, Tactical Surveillance Systems, LLC