By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
The entrepreneurial skills I developed producing 25 motion pictures in 25 years are the same as those needed to solve a gigantic social ill: our collective failure to ensure that foster youth receive the support they need to succeed. I wouldn’ t dare have...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
I was a World War II baby born to a prominent Harlem minister. Times were tough and money was scarce, but I remember hearing the gospel choir and soloists at church. I used to clap so long and loud that my hands became bright red. Singing with the choir made me feel...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
I was reared on a farm in a poor, rural area, but my parents taught me and my seven siblings that family, hard work, education and belief in God were the stepping stones out of poverty. It worked for us, and I believe it will work in Gardere. The Gardere Initiative...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
As Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. has said, the most segregated hour in America is 11:00 on Sunday mornings. In 1981, as a first year Asian American seminarian, I was faced with a Eurocentric curriculum that excluded non-white perspectives. That launched my campaign to...