I am a member of the Nation of Islam under the leadership of the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan. I am a product of Forest Brook Senior High School and Prairie View A&M University.
I have served as a Staff Writer for The Final Call Newspaper since 2005. The Final Call is the most widely circulated and only remaining independent national Black weekly in the United States. You can read many of my stories and interviews at: www.finalcall.com.
I developed a passion for blogging in 2007 and launched Brother Jesse Blog. Surprisingly, I walked away with three honors from the 2009 Black Weblog Awards for this blog including Blog of the Year. I was honored to be a finalist in their 2010 and 2011 awards voting in the categories of Best Faith Blog, Best News/Political Blog and Best Microblog.
I am a guest blogger for the Houston Chronicle's religious site Houston Belief.com (http://blogs.chron.com/brotherjesse/) . I have also have the honor of being a Celebrity Blogger for Global Grind (GlobalGrind.com.)
In 2011, I was selected as one of the Top 40 Under 40 people in my city by the Houston Business Journal. (Still surprised by this! Read)
I do a weekly news commentary for several radio shows including S.O.S. Radio hosted by ZIN on Houston KPFT 90.1 every Wednesday at 1-3pm CT. I have been interviewed on FOX, ABC, NBC, CNN Radio, Black Entertainment Television (BET), The Cliff Kelly Show, Front Page with Dominique DiPrima, The Stevie Wonder Show, The Roland Martin Show, Hard Rock Radio with Davey D, Sons of Afrika Radio, KJAMZ with Sonny Mac, Suavv Mag Radio, ConversationsLIVE, The Sankofa Experience and more.
My news articles and blogs have been featured in numerous print and online publications such as AllHipHop.com, African-American News & Issues, Mathaba News Agency, New America Media, San Francisco Bay View, Style Magazine, The Defender, Louisiana Weekly, Frost Illustrated and more.
I am a husband, father, artist, budding photographer....a Renaissance brother.
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