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Ode To Dad
Ok, I want to create an “Ode To Dad” and need your help. I put it out there but the response wasn’t what I was looking for so I’m asking Omari Hardwick, Kevin Hart and Jeff Clanagan to help me make this a success.
Please add a verse. The only requirement is that you sue Ode to Dad in your verse. It doesn’t have to rhyme. Here is what I have so far
Ode To Dad
Ode to Dad, Ode to Dad, the only one I ever had
Not always there but don’t be fooled, on many issues I was schooled (me)
Ode to Dad, you were loved while you were here and you’re cherished now that you’re gone. (Marcus Wolfe)
Ode to dad, his name was Bill, but we called him “Dollar”, because whenever you were broke, you only had to holler. To the rescue he would come, not a question he would ask nor did he pass judgment, just came up with the cash. (Michele Tuck-Ponder)
Promises Kept
I was listening to the radio today and the host loved a particular song and asked everyone to buy it. I was moved by the act of one giant helping an up and comer. I’m certainly no giant but I would like everyone to spread the word about Hilary Beard‘s new book PROMISES KEPT. This book presents 10 parenting and educational strategies that researchers have discovered can assist parents, educators, and other members of their proverbial Village to help Black boys become the happy, healthy, well-educated, well-developed people they are capable of being.
The book is a companion to the film American Promise. This book is more than a must read, it is a must do! If we are to make the world a better place, it starts with our children and the problems surrounding African American boys have reached epidemic proportions.
Let’s participate in the discussion.
I purchased my book on Amazon. Hilary is touring the nation taking about strategies which can begin to help the nation benefit from happy, healthy, well-educated, well-developed people African American boys are capable of being. Check her out at http://www.hilarybeard.com/books/
Hilary Beard’s New Book
Academy Award Winner Lupita Nyong’o on Beauty
The Academy awards are over and my friend and radio host Brian Babylon wants to know why are Black people so happy that Lupita Nyong’o won best supporting actress for 12 years a slave? Well, people like seeing folks who look like them win even if it is for a film about slavery and possibly a film they didn’t even see. It signals that anything is possible. They are also happy that the academy (along with Hollywood’s questionable diversity) recognizes excellence by people of color. This is most significant when most things we see about Blacks is negative. For many Black people, Lupita’s win is their achievement as well. The indoctrination of insuperiority is removed even if just for a moment. Then if you saw her work , and heard her acceptance speech all you can think of is Pharrell’s Happy 🙂 Honestly, I can see what the fuss is all about. listening to her acceptance speech and this one at Essence, I’m confident that Lupita’s win allows us to see the great person she is and inspires other African American to greatness.
Reggie Ponder - The Reel Critic 