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25 Secret Things You Didn’t Know About MEN WHO SPEAK

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This week at the Urban Academics Roundtable, we are honoring Twenty-Five Men Who Speak; It’s Black King Joy, for sure!. The vast majority of men will tell you they know women speak more often and out loud more than men. Even one Chosen Visionary swears women have a certain gland somewhere between the mouth and ears (probably the throat too), causing women to talk to hear themselves talk. He says it’s science, but the jury is still out on that one.

Here, we are celebrating Twenty-Five Men Who Speak: It’s Black King Joy during this special occasion HOT-Segment – You don’t want to miss this. Every Thursday at 9:30 pm (EDT); A FREE invitation for you to join us, but you should Register Here.

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Three Books You Should Read Now

  1. Enduring The Call; A 14 Day Journey, by Jocelyn Fagan ($14.00)
  2. The ZOLA Experience: A Journey of Recovery From Loss, by Katurah A Bryant, LMFT ($14.99)
  3. When The Heart Takes Flight, by Carla Yarbrough ($9.99)

Introducing Twenty-Five Men Who Speak:

Notable Men Who Speak at Urban Academics

  1. Ed Joyner, Ph.D., New Haven Board of Education, (New Haven, CT)
  2. Rev. James Whitfield, Associate Pastor at Ministries, (Meriden, CT)
  3. James Hills, Acting Director, Drive Boston (Boston, MA)
  4. Carlton White, State of CT Department of Children & Families (Waterbury, CT)
  5. Garry McFadden, Sheriff – Mecklenburg County (Charlotte, NC)
  6. Anthony Gay, State of CT Department of Children & Families (Hartford, CT)
  7. Pierre Reddick, DC Schools – Achievement First (Washington, DC)
  8. Andre Davis, Street MD of Healing (DC, New Haven, and New York)
  9. Andre Evans, Founder, The B.E.A.N. TV Network (Boston, MA)
  10. Malcolm Ashley, Yale University Economist (New Haven, CT)
  11. Edmund B*Wak Comfort, Artist Extraordinaire (New Haven, CT)
  12. Raymond Sanders, Child Prodigy Musician and Singer/Songwtiter (Middletown, CT)
  13. Kevin P Muhammad, Founder Much Mudd, LLC Youth Education (Bridgeport, CT)
  14. Rev. Nelson B Rivers, VP to Al Sharpton, National Action Network, (Charleston, SC)
  15. Palmer Dupree, Mortuary Director at Long Funderal Home, (Charlotte, NC)
  16. Alphonso Brown, Propritor and Tour Guide, Gullah Tours, (Charleston, SC)
  17. Linwood Ali Jabaar Branham, Founder at Freedman’s Bureau (New Haven, CT)
  18. Elder Roger Wilkins, Pastor at Maranatha Life Changing Ministries
  19. Manny James, Community Activist and Platinum Streaming Singer/Songwriter (New Haven, CT)
  20. Glenn Murray, Founder at 220 Communications and Marketing Guru (Chicago, IL)
  21. Gregory Holtz, Sr, Artistic Director at Real Life Theater and Writer (Newark, NJ)
  22. Dave Pickens, Founder at “I Can Fix That LLC” and Creator of COVID-19 Aprroved Cleaner (Charlotte, NC)
  23. DC “The Brain” Supreme, Half of the Platinum Rocording Group “Tag Team” and Voice Over Artist (Atlanta, GA)
  24. Joseph Matthews, Basketball & Football Coach, and Community Activist, (James Island, SC)
  25. Esau Greene, Jr., Pastor at New Antioch Ministries, (Branford, CT)

Three Things You Should Do Now

What’s More

These Black Men Who Speak are eager to hear from each of you now. They are each chosen visionaries who should be in a HOT-Seat forever, today and tomorrow. We honor men who speak and pay homage to YOU.

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Who should attend? Administrators, C.E.O.s, Child Advocates, Civil Service Members, Content Creators, Educators, Entrepreneurs, First Responders, Guidance Counselors, Journalists, Mental Health Professionals, Parents, Political Figures, Students, Upward Mobile Professionals, School Systems Interested in Change, Teachers, and People Involved in Motivating Our Students Higher (PIMOSH.) Subsidiaries. GRAB a Seat HERE.

Do You Have Any Questions?

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Everything You Wanted to Know About GULLAH GEECHEE PEOPLE and Were Too Embarrassed to Ask

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We celebrate BLACKNESS every day, but across the world, February is a constant reminder of how far we’ve come as a people; Look @ Us! Closing out Black History Month 2021 COVID-19 Edition is a historian caught in the “Twilight Zone.” Someone who can remember “Before Freedom!”


My mother was born and raised in a tiny little place in South Carolina, not even on the map, one of twelve siblings, yet I’ve never heard her refer to the term “Geechee Gullah, nor Gullah Geechee, but why? Learning of this cultural and wealthy legacy has changed my life, and I pray it changes yours as you travel through time with a tour guide who uses the term “After Freedom.”


Black History month may be coming to a close based on the world’s calendar, but Being black in America will always be a mixed-bag of emotionally charged questions from one generation to the next. However, today is the dawning of a new day where the truth shall make us free. Change has come. Let us not miss this moment.

Gullah

Gullah is a combination of Creolized language taking root through customs, traditions, and awful circumstances resulting from slavery in the US. This “Gullah” language was spoken by slaves settling in both South Carolina and Georgia. It’s not written language; It’s the passage and patios of the Lowcountry.


A good pot of GUMBO passed down over time might sum it up? African, English, and any adaptations, expressions, and words – Even foreign languages picked up, based on slave owner’s nationality.

The word “Gullah” might be a mixture of the African word Gora or Gola (names of tribes living in Sierra Leone). Some believe the Gala or Gallinas are the African connection for the Gullah people in the Sea Islands.

Three Books You Should Read:

  1. Enduring The Call; A 14 Day Journey, by Jocelyn Fagan ($14.00)
  2. The ZOLA Experience: A Journey of Recovery From Loss, by Katurah A Bryant, LMFT ($14.99)
  3. When The Heart Takes Flight, by Carla Yarbrough ($9.99)

Who’s In The HOT-Seat

Alphonso Brown, Author, Entrepreneur and Famous Historian of Gullah Geechee Culture in the HOR-Seat at Urban Academics Thursdays at 9:30 pm EST: https://bit.ly/UranAcademicsRoundtableSeat
Alphonso Brown, Author, Entrepreneur and Famous Historian of Gullah Geechee Culture in the HOR-Seat at Urban Academics Thursdays at 9:30 pm EST: https://bit.ly/UranAcademicsRoundtableSeat

Alphonso Brown was born and reared in Rantowles, SC, a rural area about 12 miles south of Charleston. He graduated from Baptist Hill High School. He received a BS Degree from S. C. State University in Music and a Masters’s from Southern Illinois University. Other Graduate studies in music include The University of SC, Charleston University, and The Citadel.

Notable Accomplishments

Author: A Gullah Guide To Charleston, by Alphonso Brown – BUY THE BOOK NOW

A Gullah Guide To Charleston, by Alphonso Brown ($5.01)

Professional Affiliations, and Memberships

  • Entrepreneur: Owner & Operator, Gullah Tours
  • Lecturer: The Gullah Language & Black History of Charleston
  • Licensed Tour Guide | City of Charleston, SC
  • National Educators Association
  • Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Inc.
  • SC Band Directors Association
  • SC Music Educators Association
  • The American Hymn Society

What’s More?

King Alonso is a member and the organist/choirmaster of Mt. Zion A.M.E. Church in Charleston. His concert choir participates in community events throughout the Southeast at colleges, churches, Fortune 500 conventions, and the Kellogg Foundation convention. And the annual Piccolo Spoleto Festival of Churches, where they do an all-Negro Spiritual Concert, looks forward. Also, every other year, the Choir performs the Dubois’ “Seven Last Words of Christ. During Christmas, they fulfill several selections from Handel’s Messiah.


Mr. Brown is a retired Band Director from The Charleston County School District, where he worked at Rivers High/Middle School for many years. He and his late wife, Laquines, are the proud parents of three sons: Howard, Terrence, and Joel, three daughters-in-law, and presently, eight grandchildren.

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Who should attend? Administrators, Educators, Child Advocates, Entrepreneurs, Guidance Counselors, Mental Health Professionals, Parents, Political Figures, Students, Upward Mobile Professionals, School Systems Interested in Change, Teachers, and People Involved in Motivating Our Students Higher (P.I.M.O.S.H.) Subsidiaries. GRAB a Seat HERE.

Do You Have Questions?

Use the Comments Section Below to ask questions or get in touch with this HOT-Seat Chosen Visionary or the Urban Academics staff. Ask away, and she will get to your questions and quickly as possible.