Who doesn’t want to meet Oprah! Certainly, I did. I always felt we had so much in common. Born within a month of each other in the heart of the segregated South, she in Mississippi and I in Alabama, I believed a meeting between Ms. Winfrey and myself was predestined. And on Monday, October 7,…

What happens when an eager group of young college students gather on a Friday morning for a workshop on leadership? Nothing but fun! That was my experience in October 2019, at Alabama State University (ASU) in Montgomery, Alabama. It was an honor for me to engage with an amazing group of 15 emerging leaders who…

My work at Morehouse has been a labor of love. Through my 27 plus years of teaching at Morehouse College, I have taught over 3,500 of the most wonderful young men you would ever want to meet. These developing leaders start their Morehouse journey as eager young learners and emerge with the burning desire to…

In May 2018, I traveled as a faculty mentor with the Morehouse College Oprah Winfrey scholars to Zimbabwe. While in Zimbabwe, one of my lifelong dreams came true…I went on an African safari. As a child growing up in the state of Alabama, the continent of Africa amazed me. A place of beautiful people, beautiful…