Dear Hannah - My name is Derrick. I have one purpose today. I want to tell people who I am, and what I do, hope, and dream about ... let me share my journey's progress over the last year ... Love, Daddy

Dear Hannah: LEarning - Talk To Me (A Game That Teaches The Language of ANY Subject)

Jun 9th, 2024 14m 53s

Dear Hannah - LEarn to do math, then learn what math does. I developed the game Talk To Me to support this LEarning journey ...

Dear Hannah: LEarning - Reach - Then Teach (Small-Group "Discipling" Fellowship)

Jun 9th, 2024 3m 16s

Dear Hannah, I help people who help people. Then we help people to help people. I do this by creating and nurturing a "discipling" fellowship that uses mentoring, mediation, and problem solving to promote personal growth ...

Dear Hannah: Fight The Good Fight (Truth, Grace & The School Board Race)

Jun 2nd, 2024 47m 19s

Dear Hannah - Truth without grace is mean. Grace without truth is meaningless.

Dear Hannah: Mission Statement Part 4 - Family Fellowship

May 26th, 2024 16m 30s

Dear Hannah, My name is Derrick. My name means "leader of my people". I am the brother from another planet. My ways are strange - even to strange people. I know why the caged bird sings. And still I rise. I like to gather "my people" for small-

Dear Hannah: LEarning (Mission Statement (Episode 5 - Dunleith's Black Girl Magic))

Apr 28th, 2024 15m 37s

Dear Hannah - In January 2024, your school (Dunleith Elementary School) won our school district's Reading Bowl for perhaps the first time ever. That's a great story ... but it is part of a bigger story ... one that I do not know how to tell com

Dear Hannah: LEarning (Mission Statement (Episode 8 - #CircumspectAboutDisrespect))

Apr 21st, 2024 37m 57s

Dear Hannah ... I'm a #StandupStoryteller. I'm the brother from another planet. Strange people think I am strange. I think that what I experience is strange. And still I rise. I am learning to be #CircumspectAboutDisrespect. Let me show you som

Dear Hannah: LEarning (Thoughts On Balance) (BELL)

Apr 7th, 2024 13m 57s

[1-16-2017] Being part of a church has helped me to grow - both in my walk with God, and in my understanding of life and people.Church helped me to wake up, grow up, speak up, and wise up. The experience has not always been "pretty" - but has t

Dear Hannah: LEarning - Crossing Paths (The Story of Tim Reid, New Millennium Studios, and The Spook Who Sat By The Door) (VIDEO)

Mar 31st, 2024 10m 58s

[3-3-2017] A long time ago (1997) in Petersburg, VA (where my wife Keisha was born and raised), Tim and Daphne Maxwell Reid launched New Millennium Studios - a 15,000-square-foot full-service movie production studio on 60 acres of land ... land

Dear Hannah: LEarning - Games People Play (The Story of Monopoly)

Mar 28th, 2024 1m 31s

[2-26-2017] Charles Darrow lost his job as a heater salesman at the beginning of The Great Depression in 1929. He then created, patented, copyrighted, and licensed Monopoly between 1933 and 1935 - but Monopoly was based on versions of real esta

Dear Hannah: LEarning - The "Real" Matrix (VIDEO)

Mar 27th, 2024 4m 24s

[3-5-2017] A long time ago, a movie called "The Matrix" captured our attention. The movie conveyed that reality was not "real" - but simulated and imagined. It made lots of "real" money, though. A few years after, author Sophia Stewart sued the

Dear Hannah: LEarning - Honor Role (The Power Of Mentors) (VIDEO)

Mar 24th, 2024 5m 3s

[3-17-2017] American history has not been kind to Paul Robeson. Robeson was a complex individual. Even complex individuals can be erased - one dimension at a time. As an actor and singer, he was erased - even as one of the most powerful and pop

Dear Hannah: LEarning (Honor Role - The Power Of Mentors (Tribute to Darryl Robinson) - EPILOGUE) (VIDEO)

Mar 17th, 2024 8m 37s

[2-4-2018] I was able to attend Brother Darryl Robinson's homegoing yesterday. I drove down with Willie Frasier. We met during the 1985 Clemson Career Workshop, too, and have been friends ever since. He shared some great memories of "Cheese" du

Dear Hannah: Mission Statement (Episode 7 - #HappyBlackHistoryMonth) (VIDEO)

Mar 13th, 2024 38m 49s

[3-2-2024] Hey folks. My name is Derrick Brown. I'm a #StandupStoryteller. I'm the brother from another planet. Strange people think I am strange. I think that what I experience is strange. And still I rise. #HappyBlackHistoryMonth. On a good d

Dear Hannah: Mission Statement (Episode 6 - Finance) (VIDEO)

Mar 13th, 2024 33m 31s

[2-11-2024] Good morning, good people. Let me show you something ... I am a missionary on a journey to powerful purpose ... with a charge to help others get there, too. That pathway is paved with ministry, entrepreneurship, stewardship, literc

Dear Hannah: LEarning (Honor Role - The Power Of Mentors (Tribute to Darryl Robinson)) (VIDEO)

Mar 10th, 2024 6m 56s

[1-28-2018] I met Darryl "Cheese" Robinson when I was 15 years old. He was my hall counselor during the Clemson Career Workshop in 1985. He may have been the head counselor - then again, maybe not.But if he wasn't - it sure seemed like he was.

Dear Hannah: LEarning (Project Chaos - A Story of Organized Noise) (11-29-2020)

Mar 6th, 2024 22m 6s

Today, I will share a story that articulates a concrete strategy to create sustainable change through *persistent* efforts to connect (with like-minded people), collect (information), protect (spirit, energy, and identity), and project (collabo

Dear Hannah: LEarning (TheSeeSayShow - Lemon Street's Legacy) (2-4-2021)

Mar 3rd, 2024 1h 16m

On 2-4-2021, I hosted and moderated a conversation. The participants in this conversation were all connected to the history and legacy of the Lemon Street Schools. The Lemon Street Schools were segregated schools for Cobb County Blacks. When in

Dear Hannah: LEarning - Why Harriet Tubman Chased Chickens (video repeat of 5-1-2017 episode)

Feb 18th, 2024 1m

Harriet Tubman conducted 13 rescue missions on the Underground Railroad over a 10-year period. Those long journeys to freedom resulted in lots of hungry people. Tubman was a professional cook - which provided her mission's startup capital, and

Dear Hannah: LEarning (Blind Spots) (1-24-2021)

Feb 14th, 2024 14m 20s

I am a "Standup Storyteller". I am comfortable standing up and speaking my truth. Here's today's truth - I have blind spots. Help me to see them today by listening. I have a special set of skills ... acquired over a long career ... that make me

Dear Hannah: LEarning (The Tuskegee Airmen (2-21-2022))

Feb 11th, 2024 5m 14s

I don't know a lot about the Tuskegee Airmen. Don't know a lot of details, but now here's what I do know. I know that they were a group of courageous men of color ... who sought to break barriers in a profession ... that constructed a lot of th

Dear Hannah: LEarning (Meeting The President (8-4-2018))

Feb 4th, 2024 7m 59s

Once upon a time, the President gave a group of African-American community leaders a seat at the table. The leaders brought their own menu. It took a long time to make the meeting a reality - lots of letters & telegrams, and several more civil

Dear Hannah: LEarning (A Tribute to Lemon Street's Lewis C. Scott (2-10-2022))

Feb 1st, 2024 34m 40s

(Marietta, GA) Lemon Street High School's Mr. Lewis Clyde Scott taught many students ... several of whom became teachers. He has transferred his wealth (his knowledge) in ways that have personally inspired me ... without my ever having met him.

Dear Hannah: LEarning (TheSeeSayShow - Hugh Grogan)

Jan 21st, 2024 19m 47s

The "SeeSayShow" is a short "class monologue" that shares stories powered by "real-world" LEarning. I teach my classes in a building that used to be an annex to the former segregated high school for Cobb County Blacks. Today's episode shares a

Dear Hannah: LEarning (TheSeeSayShow - MLK 2.0 (Letter To Harry Belafonte))

Jan 16th, 2024 11m 44s

MLK's letter writing practice was strategic. It probably helped him remember who he was meeting, who they were, and what their encounters and meetings produced. These letters were probably his KnowledgeBase, and helped him to make moves.