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Success is a Team Sport

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  SUCCESS IS A TEAM SPORT https://www.spreaker.com/episode/success-is-a-team-sport--72066819 What if your inability to make your creative dreams manifest isn't because you aren't working hard enough, but because you are trying to carry the entire block by yourself? In this episode of Tha Daily Spark , we dive deep into the week of Kuumba to look through the lens of Ujima. We live in a world that praises the isolated "grustle"—that toxic mix of hyper-individualism that keeps you locked in competition with the very people meant to help you build your empire. We parse through the ancient wisdom of the Seven Sticks to uncover why a single, brilliant career can be snapped like a twig by the random winds of life, while a bound community stands completely unbreakable. There is a hidden tension between your individual flavor and your collective responsibility, and until you resolve it, your creative fire will only produce smoke instead of real power. A Call to Inaction ...

The Gina Gee Project "Cream Of Wheat"

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The Gina Gee project is a show that my daughter created. She saw me making video, and been watching YouTube​ and decided to do her own thing. For the last year she and her sister Ms. Shasha have been recording video using up all of my storage space, and figured that it was time to support her. Her first video is about making Cream of wheat. She in a dramatic fashion microwave her breakfast and teaches the viewer. I believe that when our children show interest and dedication to something we should support them. This might be a phase, but I am trying to use it as what our ancestors call a "lure to Mastery". I believe that our children need to be taught skills and in this video project she will learn, acting, interviewing, editing, and story structure and story telling. All these are transferable skills that can be used in pursuit of her life's purpose. Of course she will get a write-up from me on our site,  at least until she ( hopefully) starts writing her own accompa...

Game Changers- 1Hood

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Now, I knew that my brothers  +jasiri X  and  +Paradise Gray  were in Pittsburgh NationBuilding, but to see the video shines a long needed light on the work that they have been doing. These brothers have moved the concept of hood media to another level. By setting up an academy that arms young people with media and the skills to control their images, they have empowered a generation of thinkers that will definitely have a say in the direction are communities go in. I only hope other youth groups embrace the model and begin to use media to build the images that they want to see rather than be victims to the images that are being produced for them and the world to see. Media is the new front lines and I salute 1Hood for building our Special Forces. checkout the video: Watch "Game Changers: The One Hood Media Academy" on YouTube Nuff said Peace & 1hunidyears