MVP Weekend
3rd Annual MVP Weekend Hosted by Felix Jones of the Dallas Cowboys June 23-25, 2011
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MVP Fatherhood Weekend coming to Tulsa
BY GINNIE GRAHAM World Staff Writer Veteran NBA player Etan Thomas wants the country to deal with its daddy issues. The former Booker T. Washington High School and Syracuse University defensive standout has moved from the paint into social activism, placing fatherhood at [...]Read More
All IN for young Black MEN!
Attorney Damario Solomon-Simmons discusses his partnership with former NBA Star and Fatherhood Author Etan Thomas as they present the 1st MVP Fatherhood Weekend Saturday April 6, 2013 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The Fatherhood Weekend features a “Manhood Conference” targeting 100 Black young males. During [...]Read More
Whys,Cries, and Neckties: Turning Boys into Men!
Attorney Damario Solomon-Simmons and former NBA Star and Fatherhood Author Etan Thomas discuss the powerful 1st MVP Fatherhood Weekend Saturday April 6, 2013 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The Fatherhood Weekend featured a “Manhood Conference” targeting 100 Black young males. During the conference the young [...]Read More
Teaching Today for Tomorrow!
Attorney Damario Solomon-Simmons discusses his partnership with former NBA Star and Fatherhood Author Etan Thomas as they presented the 1st MVP Fatherhood Weekend Saturday April 6, 2013 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The Fatherhood Weekend featured a “Manhood Conference” targeting 100 Black young males. During [...]Read More
Recent Blogs
MVP Fatherhood Weekend Seeks Solution To Black Fatherhood Crisis
According to the latest U.S. Census Bureau report, more than 25 million children now live apart from their biological fathers. That’s a 15.3 percent increase (eight to 23.3 percent) from 1960 to 2006. Worse, nearly two in three (65 percent) of black children [...]Read More
Football Recruits Warned About NCAA Fine Print
There is no time in which promises, potentiality, and pleading are more celebrated than during college football recruiting and the upcoming National Football Signing Day. Whether it be the daily phone calls, mountains of letters, or in-home visits, college recruiters will tell top [...]Read More
Report Cites NCAA’s Failure to Graduate Black Athletes
Outside the fact that we now have our first Black President, no other area has had more sustained and visible growth for African-Americans over the last fifty years than the number of Black Male Student Athletes (“BMSAs”) participating in revenue-generating college sports (football [...]Read More
Pipeline to Success: Inner-City Students Empowered by Legal Diversity Program
I am very excited to share with you that the N.O.B.L.A.’s Third Annual Pipeline Plus Legal Diversity Program (“Program”) was a huge success. On Thursday, October 11, 2012, 48 inner-city high school students from Tulsa Public Schools and lawyers, judges, paralegals, and court [...]Read More
