Capturing legacies, sharing hope, and inspiring connection worldwide. I was staring down a shotgun barrel at the hate-filled eyes of a white, New Jersey police officer. It was the riotously inflamed summer of 1967, I was 18, college bound within weeks and this was my first day as photojournalist for the NY Urban League. I went on to became the president of the black student organization at my college, the founder of the first and only Black Art Directors Group of New York, a Harlem community organizer, a world traveler, was accepted for publication by the National Geographic ,started and managed several successful businesses, a motivational public speaker, a widely published photographer having shot many iconic world figures, a proud and loving farther and ultimately an adept spiritual seeker having meditating daily for the last 45 years. In my book One Less Rascal and photo-illustrated series of public talks, I take people on my mind-blowing and wonderful journey from militancy to spirituality, from Harlem to Heaven. By sharing the remarkable and awe-inspiring stories of my encounters with monumentally successful people of achievement, along with my own lifelong aspiration for personal transformation, I can inspire and motivate people to aspire to a life beyond limitation, mediocrity and stagnation and to find their own inner remark ability.
