The world of Stephen Brockelman: Memoir, Arts, Opinion
Dulé Hill reads “As Fast As Words Could Fly.” A wonderful, thoughtful, & teachable 16 minutes.
I joined Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists—now, SAG-AFTRA—in 1972. For the past 48 years, I’ve been constantly in awe (and a faithful promoter) of the good work that my union does for members and non-members alike.
Storyline Online from the SAG-AFTRA Foundation is one of our literacy projects for young people that I’m proudest of. Here’s a 16-minute story that’s important for everyone in this day and age. Enjoy. And, feel free to share.
Dulé Hill reading As Fast As Words Could Flyfor the Storyline Online series.
Plot summary.
Written by Pamela M. Tuck and Illustrated by Eric Valasquez this is a story of a boy, Mason Steele, who takes pride in turning his father’s talks about civil rights incidents into handwritten letters. One day, his dad comes home with a gift from a civil rights group. It’s a typewriter! Thrilled with the present, Mason spends his spare time teaching himself to type.
When the group wins a school desegregation case, Mason learns he will now be attending a formerly all-white high school and he fears prejudice and intolerance.
Mason competes in a typing tournament, decides to take a stand, and uses his skills to triumph over prejudice and break racial barriers.
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Here’s Eva Longoria talking about Storyline Online.
As a Sr. Writer at T. Rowe Price, I work with a group of the best copywriters around. We belong to the broader creative team within Enterprise Creative, a part of Corporate Marketing Services.
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A long and winding road: My path to T. Rowe Price was more twisted than Fidelity’s green line. With scholarship in hand, I left Kansas at 18 to study theatre in New York. When my soap opera paychecks stopped coming from CBS and started coming from the show’s sponsor, Proctor & Gamble, I discovered the power of advertising and switched careers. Over the years I’ve owned an ad agency in San Francisco; worked for Norman Lear on All in the Family, Good Times, Sanford and Son, and the rest of his hit shows; and as a member of Directors Guild of America, I directed Desi Arnaz in his last television appearance— we remained friends until his death. In 1988 I began freelancing full time didn’t look back.
In January 2012 my rep at Boss Group called and said, “I know you don’t want to commute and writing for the financial industry isn’t high on your wish list, but I have a gig with T. Rowe Price in Owings Mills…” I was a contractor for eight months, drank the corporate Kool-Aid, became a TRP associate that August, and today I find myself smiling more often than not.
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