PARENTING CLASS

Kimberly Elise is one of Black America's gifted and giving actors in her generation.  A fragile beauty herself her character and the characters she plays tell segments of American life for Black women in the most compelling and vulnerable of ways. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 

I first saw Kimberly Elise in the movie SET IT OFF. It was a brutal story of four Black women struggling to survive who for an assortment of reasons decide to rob a bank. A series of events reel out of control for each woman in such a way I felt it deserved to be seen by my young children. It was 1994 or '95. I took them to the movies, and we sat enthralled, and I with tears here and there throughout the movie saw parallels connected to my children's immediate and future lives. After the movie we had a memorable and intense discussion about all the things that stemmed from the stories.

It is important to take your children to hear the storytellers of every medium. A parent cannot be or do everything for their child as the structure and assumptions of the nuclear family suggest. - Gregory E. Woods,  Keeper of Stories 8/16/12

Kimberly Elise's maternal descent is of the Songhai people.

BLACK ACTRESS: Angela Bassett

actress Angela Bassett at 54 years of age.
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symbol of SUCCESS in Black America

Bern Nadette Stanis, actress GOOD TIME, * author of  Situations 101, The Good, The Bad & The Ugly , and her book of poetry: For Men Only

Dorothy Dandridge

black actresses: PHYLICIA RASHAD & SHERYL LEE RALPH

Phylicia Rashad

black actress Sheryl Lee Ralph

MYSTICISM: of the Soul

Taraji P. Henson standing in green dress !!!!

tarot Queen of Swords

the ARSENIO HALL show

Sanaa Lathan's exquisite & beautiful face

Vivica A. Fox

Beautiful, talent and under exposed black actress don't have the full backing and support of the Black American community. It is in our conditioning that we are incapable of keeping our Black and Latin actors employed. Our sense of being voiceless, and powerless in the face of powerful industries didn't keep Arsenio Hall on the air.

Arsenio Hall was the most obvious pick to continue the American tradition of nighttime entertainment Johnny Carson set at the highest level. His energy was that intangible combination of elements that I call 'negro sauce' jokingly. His creativity, and natural ability to pull the best out of people in the sweeping range of American popular culture was outstanding. The energy he created he sustained at the highest level of sustainability. It was brilliant. His band. The musicians were among the best of LA's top musicians. He even went further and hired a gorgeous woman in the band named Starr. She was cabrón!!! That whole band was in synch with Arsenio, his producers, the sponsors, and the concept they danced together as they stirred the fires within their viewers for a nightly party.

His facilitation tools were and are worthy of study. He dared himself and pushed his audience to follow his plans, his visions, his sense of play, and adventure. It led him to make some political stands. One of them ended the show. He brought on Minister Farrakhan to balance a national discussion at the time.

Not a single Black person, myself included, found his courage, his balls to speak to the powers in Hollywood. That has haunted me, and fueled my drive to excellence. After this profound disappointment I found my voice. I say this apologizing to letting Arsenio Hall down, and being a small part of dominance of mediocrity that is the standard for late night prime time talk shows.

-Gregory E. Woods

Keeper of Stories

2011

Accomplished women of note

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