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It Is The Most Painful Thing To See How Young Children Become Collateral Damage Of Wars, But When Peace Treaties Are Signed Landmines Do Not Respect Any Of These Accords. And As Long As These Silent Killers Linger After Wars, Children Will Never Know Peace

Kids Made Fun Of Me Because I Was Dark Skinned, Had A Wide Nose, And Was Dyslexic. Even As An Actor, It Took Me A Long Time To Realize Why Words And Letters Got Jumbled In My Mind And Came Out Differently.

I Remember When Langston Hughes Used To Write A Column In Black Newspapers Around This Character Jesse B. Semple. He Always Used That As A Voice, Sometimes In Comic Ways, Of Having Everyday People's Voice Come Through This Common Folk Hero, Who Was An Ordinary Working Guy. He Would Talk About Anything From Police Brutality To The Korean War. Those Kinds Of Expression And Identification Are No Longer Prevalent In Our Popular Culture.

Today, The Media Dictatorship Is Becoming A Substitute To Military Dictatorship. The Big Economic Groups Are Using The Media And Decide Who Can Speak, Who The Good Guy Is And Who The Bad Guy Is.

Some Of The Most Amazing Stories Are Happening On The Global Scene. My Extraordinary Producing Partner, Joslyn Barnes, She's Just Virtually Changed My Life With The Way She Constructed This Company And How We Go About Telling The Stories We Want To Tell.