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Farrah Gray made his first million by the time he was 14.
The 'Reallionaire'
Want to Be a Millionaire? Farrah Gray Says Ask Yourself
Three Questions
By BOB BROWN
Farrah Gray began contributing to his family's financial support at
the age of 6, and he made his first million by the time he was 14. His
success made a lot of people change their thinking about where life in
the projects of Chicago's South Side could lead.
 His
head is shaved, and he now dresses impeccably in expensive, tailored
suits when he goes to work in one of his offices in Las Vegas or New
York; but he looks only slightly older than his age, which is 21. Part
of what motivated him to begin earning money at such a young age was
watching his mother work so hard.
"When I went to sleep, she was up; when I woke up, she was up," he
said. "So I never really was sure that she did go to sleep. And I really
felt that out of that feeling of struggle, my mom had a heart attack,
and I said there must be something I can do to help her." More
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Commentary: It’s Time to End the
Racial, Economic Disparities Still Holding New Orleans Under Siege
Date: Friday, May 18, 2007
By: Judge Greg Mathis, Special to
BlackAmericaWeb.com
August will mark the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.
While the storm affected other Gulf Coast cities, the country
paid the most attention to New Orleans, and with good reason. The
nation quickly realized that the majority of those trapped in the
flooded city, without food or water, were black and poor. The public
dialogue, for a short time at least, focused on race and poverty and
the ways the two often intersect. Today, race is still very much an
issue in New Orleans: The city’s black residents are having a harder
time rebuilding their lives, and many believe their race is the reason
behind their hardships.
According to a study released by the Kaiser Family Foundation, a
think tank that focuses on public policy issues, a majority of both
white and African-Americans felt the affects of Katrina immediately
after the storm. However, African-Americans are still struggling with
the storm’s impact, while whites seem to be doing better. In
post-Katrina New Orleans, African-Americans are also twice as likely
as whites to be unemployed. Forty-seven percent of African-Americans
say their financial situation has declined post-storm, compared to
only 32 percent of whites. And, in a city that saw the average rent
increase from $500 to $1,500 per month, 56 percent of
African-Americans say their housing costs have risen significantly,
compared to 42 percent of whites.
Rebuilding efforts in the Lower Ninth Ward, a predominantly poor
and working class black community, are slow going. Many residents in
African-American neighborhoods can’t obtain the permits they need to
rebuild, and still others say they can’t get the basic city services
-- electricity, for example -- they need to lead their lives. Not
surprisingly, resident’s thoughts on the rebuilding process are also
split along racial lines. According to the report, 55 percent of
African-Americans in New Orleans believed they aren’t receiving the
same opportunities to rebuild as whites. In comparison, less than 20
percent of whites believe the rebuilding process is biased.
Unfortunately, much of the media, moving on to other stories,
has turned its attention away from New Orleans, leaving our brothers
and sisters to cope in silence. It is time for the country to turn its
attention once again towards the Big Easy, this time with the goal of
addressing the social and political issues that could create an
environment where so many black people could live with so little.
Perhaps New Orleans could serve as a model for other cities, and the
country could, once and for all, develop a plan for ending racial and
economic disparities.
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Judge Greg Mathis is national vice president of Rainbow PUSH and a
national board member of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
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Happy Guitar Fans
Monday, May 21st, 2007 will be the last "Live Show"
of Music and Word Broadcast and then the final show will be on
Memorial Day, May 28th, 2007 (pre-recorded).
From the mouth of Gregg Haynes
"Let me just say that these past (7) years will go down in history as
some of
 best times of
my life! Thank you for allowing me into your homes, places of
business, automobiles, by way of this medium called Radio."
Some of you remember when I first started, boy was I nervous! There
were good times, sad times, sick times, misunderstanding times,
Krazy times, Comical times, etc., etc., you name it we had it.
Let me personally thank some of our Long and Short Term Co-Sponsors:
Vicki Greenlee of Willow Multimedia, Sterling
Moody of Sterling's Market &
All Star
Distribution, Drexel Stith of "The Palace",
Prentice Holland of New Frontier Financial Service,
Shirley Owens of Trinity Christian Book Store,
Steve Williams, James Ross, Thereasa Robinson, Dr. Gerald,
and Mr. & Mrs. Marcus Kelley, Sr. , Kevin Neeley
of KBN Production, and I'm pretty sure I
forgot somebody. Please don't take it personal, I'm getting older."
If you have ever been a guest on our show, please call in and express
yourself "Live" on the broadcast, Monday, May 21st, between 5pm and
6pm -Radio Line: (314) 969-6900 or (618)
874-5785
Also I'm asking our listeners to email or call-in and give us one of
your top or memorable shows and we will try and dig in our
archives and play it on Memorial Day!
I Love all of you Soooooooooooooo much!!! I'm excited about the next
chapter and new beginning of my ministry.
Also don't forget
the DVD's are ready, order online: www.happyguitar.com
or call (314) 869-6594
Your Happyness,
Elder Gregg "Happy Guitar" Haynes
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Greatness is in our young people. Let's expect
more from them. He Started High School at
12, started College at 16, after graduating in 3 1/2 years he is headed to
the NFL as a 1st round draft choice.
Amobi Okoye (born June 10, 1987 in
Anambra, Nigeria) is an American football player for the Houston Texans.
He played defensive tackle at the University of Louisville from 2003 to
2006. The Houston Texans drafted Okoye as the 10th overall pick in the
2007 NFL Draft. Family friend of NFL star Christian Okoye in Nigeria.
HIGH SCHOOL CAREER
Originally from Anambra, Nigeria, Amobi moved to Huntsville, Alabama when
he was 12 years old. After only spending two weeks in middle school, he
tested into the 9th grade. He first started playing football as a
sophomore, knowing virtually nothing about the game before his high school
coach suggested he go play Madden NFL football to learn. By the time he
was a senior, he won first-team All-State honors as both a defensive
lineman and offensive lineman.
COLLEGE CAREER
Amobi went to the University of Louisville at the age of 15, majoring
in biology. He later switched his major to psychology, in order to
graduate a semester early (thereby completing his degree in three years).
He also became the youngest player in the NCAA, at age 16. Okoye played in
all 13 games as a freshman at defensive tackle and was credited with 17
tackles and a sack. Recorded then-career-best three tackles against Tulane
and recorded his first career sack against UTEP.
As a sophomore, Okoye appeared in 11 of 12 games, recording 26
tackles and a sack. Okoye's only missed game was against East Carolina,
because of a shoulder injury. Okoye also made his first collegiate start
against Army, recording career-high seven tackles.
In his junior season of 2005, he recorded 23 tackles and four
tackles for a loss. In the biggest game of the year, against the West
Virginia Mountaineers, Okoye recorded four tackles. He missed the Florida
Atlantic matchup due to a foot sprain. Against Kentucky, Okoye registered
two tackles and a fumble recovery. Okoye also totaled three tackles
against South Florida.
As a senior in 2006, Okoye finally started all 13 games. In those 13
games, Okoye registered 55 tackles, eight sacks, and recovered three
fumbles. Okoye garnered Associated Press Second-Team All-American honors
and first-team All-Big East honors. As the NCAA's youngest senior at 19
years old, Okoye garnered first-round draft status during the season.
During the Senior Bowl, Okoye's stock rose dramatically with strong
practice and game performances.
PRO CAREER
Amobi Okoye was drafted by the Houston Texans as the tenth pick of the
first round of the 2007 NFL draft. He is the youngest player to ever be
drafted in the first round of the NFL Draft at only 19 years old. He is
also the highest draft pick to come out of the University of Louisville.
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Fantasia makes even grown men cry as Celie in "The Color Purple"
By CLIVE BARNES
May 18, 2007 -- THAT she could sing, we knew. Ever since the moment
she launched into Gershwin's "Summertime" on "American Idol," there was no
doubt.
But that she could act . . . and act so wonderfully. So tenderly, so
touchingly, so effortlessly. That came as a surprise.
I'm talking, if you haven't guessed, about Fantasia, who has taken
over so commandingly the role of Celie in the musical "The Color Purple"
at the Broadway Theatre.
Four cheers for Fantasia, for face it, Alice Walker's 1982
epistolary novel of the rural South "The Color Purple" - made up of
letters mostly to God from Celie, its narrator heroine - was an odd choice
on which to base a Broadway musical, and it needs all the help it can get.
Its bleak first act has narrative difficulties, and the second act -
with that odder than odd African dance dream sequence - simply sinks into
a morass of sentimentality.
What held together this musical of dauntless black feminism was its
performance.
Now, among the leading roles, only the terrific Elisabeth
Withers-Mendes' siren-like blues singer Shug Avery remains; every other
leading part is new.
I mean to take nothing away from LaChanze's luminous original Celie,
fighting spiteful male oppression to find joyful vindication in simple
self-esteem - oddly, for its time and place, racism seems scarcely an
issue here - but there is some elemental quality to Fantasia that is
either greatness or something close to it.
The musical takes Celie from a homely teenager with a good soul but
a bruised heart right through to a self-confident woman in her late 50s -
and the 22-year-old Fantasia, in what I presume is her stage debut,
carries it off as honestly and as powerfully as she idiomatically sings
the rock, soul and blues of the coolly efficient score.
I feel a lot in the theater - I wouldn't stick in this business if I
didn't - but usually I don't cry. With this performance, I found tears
running down my cheeks.
She has wonderful help from all the other newcomers - I fear I can
only list them for their all their brilliance: actually NaTasha Yvette
Williams' feisty Sofia refuses just to be listed, but the others are Alton
Fitzgerald White, Chaz Lamar Shepherd, Darlesia Cearcy, Krisha Marcano and
Larry Marshall.
If you haven't seen "The Color Purple," see it now; if you have seen
it, see it again. Something extraordinary is happening at the Broadway
Theatre that is not to be missed.
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George Benson
returns to the Emerson Jazz Stage on Saturday, June 2 at 6:30p.m.
General admission lawn seating is $20, per person. Children 12 and under
are free. The Jazz Festival will present 10 premier performances on two
stages.
The sounds of summer will
fill the air on Saturday, June 2 as the Saint Louis Jazz & Heritage
Festival, transforms Clayton’s Shaw Park for the
seventh season into one of the region’s premier music festivals. The new single-day
format – we cut the days, not the music – will feature a return visit by
festival favorite George Benson. Benson will perform at 6:30 p.m. on the
Emerson Stage. George Benson has been lighting up the jazz scene since he
first hit the stage in his hometown of Pittsburgh, PA when he was 8 years
old. In the 1960’s, Benson was among the musicians who defined the
straight-ahead jazz guitar. His music continues to incorporate funk, soul,
rock, and R&B. Benson’s version of Leon Russell’s “This Masquerade” from
his 1976 album “Breezin’” earned him his first of eight Grammy awards. For
more information on George Benson visit
www.georgebenson.com. |
