Our guest today is Mr. Darryl L. Russell of the Russell Group. He talks with Rising Oak Foundation Founder & CEO, Jeanette M. Davis-Loeb about growing up in Wyoming, and the difference between goal achievement and goal setting.

In our second episode, Rising Oak Foundation Founder & CEO, Jeanette M. Davis-Loeb has the pleasure of conversing with three generations of the Williams men, as they discuss their experiences, and what it feels like being them.

Welcome to Season Two of Conversations With Black Men. To kick off the season, Rising Oak Foundation Founder & CEO, Jeanette M. Davis-Loeb receives a Hip Hop 101 lesson from Mr. Michael Dean, Principal of Team Digital Media, and the creator of Onblastmedia: A Podcast for the Urban Landscape.

In This Issue - We're Building a Lighthouse - Student African American Brotherhood (S.A.A.B.) - The Incomplete Village - Jeanette's Selection of the Month

A (2006) Holiday Greeting from Rising Oak Foundation - Be a light in someone's life, and "gift" yourself today.

Grandparents Parenting Again: Picking up the pieces of shattered families and trying to heal the next generation's wounds.

Our 1st episode is a (3) part, healing conversation between a brother and sister, Jeanette M. Davis-Loeb, Founder & CEO of the Rising Oak Foundation and Robert H. Davis IV (Jeanette’s brother Bob). The conversation centers around the absence of their father and the pain of silence. Also discussed are some of their thoughts on universal truths, love and fatherhood.

This is the 2nd of a (3) part healing conversation between a brother and sister, Jeanette M. Davis-Loeb, Founder & CEO of the Rising Oak Foundation and Robert H. Davis IV (Jeanette’s brother Bob).

This is the 3rd of a (3) part healing conversation between a brother and sister, Jeanette M. Davis-Loeb, Founder & CEO of the Rising Oak Foundation and Robert H. Davis IV (Jeanette’s brother Bob).

In our 2nd Episode (Part 1 of 3), Rising Oak Foundation Founder & CEO, Jeanette M. Davis-Loeb and her youngest brother Eric D. Davis, bring the discussion about their father’s absence full circle. Their conversation focuses on the joy, responsibility, and sanctity of fatherhood and marriage. Later, Eric talks about self-esteem, and how black men have the choice of being and inspiration or detrimental to the emotional well being of our black boys.