DAD IS NOT A NOUN

This Episode of Dad Is Not A Noun  sponsored by Real Dads Week 2021

Honoring Black Fatherhood Worldwide.

Sharing Honor. Sharing Love. Celebrating Real Dads starting June 5th til June 12th organized by the Real Dads

Network(www.realdadsnetwork.org) Welcome back to Dad Is Not A Noun everyone. Please Like, Subscribe, & Share to the channel because it's all about changing the narrative for men of color in fatherhood. In talking about changing the narrative it's important to write your own  narrative in media and these three black owned companies Render Squad  Industries LLC (https://rendersquadindustries.com/)

, AMARA Entertainment (https://www.astoundingadventures.net/), and SPOOF Animation (https://youtube.com/channel/UC5mV4TWwScoXO26RX4HvH7A) came together to work on a upcoming animation project entitled Omari "A Hero Defined," In which a hero born from the stars, struggling to balance his political career while protecting the Earth from aliens bent on its domination. Their primary goals with this animated film is to tap into the world of Black Sci Fi while remaining true to Black people by producing a film about us and by us. For more information go to https://instagram.com/aherodefined?igshid=no6mlljqq962

This Episode of Dad Is Not A Noun  sponsored by Real Dads Week 2021

Honoring Black Fatherhood Worldwide.

Sharing Honor. Sharing Love. Celebrating Real Dads starting June 5th til June 12th organized by the Real Dads

Network(www.realdadsnetwork.org)

Register go to https://www.eventbrite.com/e/real-dads-week-2021-tickets-151790701073 On this Episode of Dad Is Not A Noun with my cohost Boyd Melson had amazing conversation with Pastor Derrick Boseman (about growing up with his brothers Kevin and Chadwick in a home fulfilled with faith, love, family, and discipline that became the foundation of their strive for greatness and to never forget where they came from..

The idea for the Bino & Fino cartoon series came about around 2007. The creator of the show, Adamu Waziri, realised that there was a massive lack of true African made children's educational cartoon shows. In Nigeria at the time there were no indigenous cartoon shows that showed children a reflection of themselves. All the cartoon shows were imported and had no link to Africa in anyway.

Children are highly impressionable and the human brains learning capacity is the most between 0-6 years. Children’s media is one of the most powerful when it comes to shaping minds. So the fact that children across the world had no cartoon they could watch that genuinely taught them about Africa or represented the continent in a proper way was a worrying one.

The Bino & Fino Cartoon Show was created to help rectify this imbalance.

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This Episode of Dad Is Not A Noun  sponsored by Real Dads Week 2021

Honoring Black Fatherhood Worldwide.

Sharing Honor. Sharing Love. Celebrating Real Dads starting June 5th til June 12th organized by the Real DadsNetwork register at www.realdadsnetwork.org

Richmond Virginia native, Douglas Powell/Roscoe Burnems is a poet, published author, spoken-word artist, comedian, educator, father, and husband who has dedicated his craft to entertaining and educating. He is a graduate of the Watering Hole Writer's Fellowship and  Richmond, VA's first poet laureate.  I had the opportunity to chat it up with Douglas Powell/ Roscoe Bournems on his TEDTalk on toxic masculinity, redefining masculinity, and how that has effected him when as a child growing up and now as a father of two.. We touched on his Traumedy Show  show available on Amazon Prime and Tubi.. Also, his Father's Day Live Show entitled " My Life As A Black Dad," A Poetry and Comedy Show Special at The HofGarden  in Richmond, Virginia June 6, 2021 @ 7pm est

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This Episode of Dad Is Not A Noun  sponsored by Real Dads Week 2021

Honoring Black Fatherhood Worldwide.

Sharing Honor. Sharing Love. Celebrating Real Dads starting June 5th til June 12th organized by the Real Dads Network register www.realdadsnetwork.org

& Sticking to the Real Dads Week 2021 theme I had opportunity to talk Media Mogul husband and father Femi IIoyi out of the UK. He is CEO and founder of FeroMedia (ferotv.com) , a family owned media company that is dedicated in creating content for us and by us..  He is better known to the U.S. as the father of the rapping baby Khaliyl who went viral in 2011, but I want the world to get know Femi as amazing father of 3 amazing children, husband, entrepreneur, and much more.

With the release of Yasuke animation series on Netflix I thought it would be awesome to have in collaboration with Jeek Nation, Tuskegee  Heirs, & KloudScape Studios to have a discussion with the author of the African Samurai Thomas Lockley to gives us the historical story of Yasuke...

Demar Douglas working his magic while

me & my  co-host Greg Burnham co-author of Tuskegee Heirs / author of The Search for Sadiqah is interviewing Thomas Lockley in real-time 👊🏿👊🏿👊🏿

This Episode of Dad Is Not A Noun #DINAN is entitled "ShowTime" Jeek Nation, Dad Is Not A Noun, & KloudScape Studios collaborated with the opportunity to chat it up with Two-Time Welterweight Champion Shawn "ShowTime" Porter and All Army Boxing Championships four times Boyd "The RainMaker" Melson on boxing, comics, and fatherhood while Artist and illustrator Demar Douglas working his magic in the background... Artwork by Demar Douglas

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This Episode of Dad Is Not A Noun is about knowing your value as a content creator. And the key question we have to ask yourselves, Who has the power? Is it the person who built the kingdom or is it the person who owns the land when it comes knowing your value as a creator. My guest Marlon McKenney is a illustrator, animator, creative director, entrepreneur, and family first who can help me breakdown the importance of knowing your value and creating your own value in the marketplace.. Marlon McKenney is a San Francisco-based author, illustrator, and creative director with over 20 years of professional advertising experience working in San Francisco’s top ad agencies. In 2017, Marlon founded Conscious Culture Publishing, that focuses exclusively on African historical fiction and diverse multi-cultural content. Leveraging 3D technology, Marlon creates highly-detailed illustrations and animations that bring African histories, mythologies, and legends to life.

DINAN Rewind.... 4yrs ago when I was part of The Chronicles of a Hip Hop Legend Radio Myself, D.D. Turner, & Stats had the privileged to talk to father, author of the critical acclaimed of "Wars of the Bloods In My Viens" & "Don't Let My Tears Fool You : The War Is On" street activist, film-maker, and featured in the Sundance Channel's

"Brick City"

Dashaun "Jiwe" Morris is from Newark, New Jersey. Coming from a troubled home, a young Jiwe was recruited to join the Bloods before he was even twelve years old. By the time he was eleven, Jiwe had already participated in his first drive by shooting. Perhaps it was his talent for football that contributed to saving his life. A star athlete in high school, Jiwe was recruited to attend Delaware State University on a full athletic scholarship. But while he continued to excel on the field, his involvement with the Bloods would ultimately take a turn for the worse as Jiwe proceeded largely unabated down a path that would subsequently lead to his indictment for attempted murder. Incarcerated and faced with the prospect of raising his daughter from behind bars, Jiwe began to look deep within himself for answers that would explain his predicament. What began as a soul searching exercise would later turn into a gripping account of street life through the eyes of a full blown gang banger. In April of 2008 Jiwe's first book, War Of The Bloods In My Veins, was published by Scribner, a division of famed publishing house Simon & Schuster. Today Jiwe is a free man and uses his influence and credibility in the streets to uplift at-risk youth across America. Traveling to high schools, colleges and juvenile detention facilities, the man who once embraced a lifestyle that promoted violence now spends his time urging adolescents to fight poverty through education and earn for bigger and greater rewards outside the confines of dilapidated neighborhoods and broken homes.

I'm wrestling fan and I'm proud to say it!!! And I had the privilege to talk professional wrestler Brimstone on his career in wrestling, fatherhood, and the impact that Shad Gaspard had on his life...

Brimstone is a professional wrestler, actor, author, philanthropist and comic book/animated hero. He has had a successful and rewarding career participating in and administering numerous entertainment careers spanning well over two decades. As the co-founder and CEO of Hound Comics, Inc. Brimstone and his team of creators launched his comic book series, "Brimstone and The Borderhounds" on October 31, 2010 at Borders Books and as of January 11, 2011 went nation and world wide via Barnes & Noble, Book World, and Amazon. Bridging the gap of wrestling star and the corporate world, Brimstone has an extensive background in marketing, advertising, management, and branding. At Newsday, under Times Mirror and the Long Island Voice, he worked in Senior Management. He created and directed one of the largest employment publications in the Tri-State Area, the Employment Journal, with distribution centers in Long Island, NYC, and NJ; and administered LI Career Fairs, Long Island's top career fair company. Looking to train up and coming hopefuls in the art of professional wrestling, Brimstone launched Critical Mass Pro-Wrestling Corp, which was considered one of the biggest and best pro-wrestling training facilities in the North-East. Brimstone has also been a Head Trainer for Pro Wrestling Revolution and a guest trainer for FTW Wrestling and many other training facilities across the country.

     Brimstone's career in professional wrestling has spanned over 14 years and he has made countless appearances worldwide for the leaders in sports entertainment and throughout the Independents. As a trainer, he is responsible for an enormous amount of talent including a handful of students who have made their mark in the business on WWE and TNA. Brimstone's hard work and dedication to the industry has garnered high honors, appreciation and the recognition of his peers including a 2008 Award from the Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame. Memorable television credits include Sesame Street, Romper Room, WWF Superstars, The Ricki Lake Show, MTV's Total Request Live and BET's 106 & Park. Since his semi-retirement from the wrestling industry, Brimstone has pursued a career on the silver screen; making cameos and acting in multiple films, music videos and television pilots; and is currently under contract with Dick Clark Productions to produce his own series. Brimstone makes frequent appearances for the military, as well as speaking engagements at elementary schools for the Get-A-Voice Foundation. He donates a large portion of his time to supporting numerous charities and foundations including but not limited to The Arthritis Foundation, Dee Snider's Biker's for Babies, Wrestler's Rescue, Michael J. Fox's Parkinson's Foundation, Ronald McDonald House, Make-A-Wish, and Toys For Tots. He is a celebrity spokesperson for Paul McCartney's RADD (Rockers Actors and Athletes Against Driving Drunk) and was recently asked to be the National Spokesperson for the Jamie Isaacs Foundation For Anti-Bullying.