We had the good fortune of connecting with LANDERS ISOM and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi LANDERS, we’d love to hear more about how you thought about starting your own business?
I wanted to move into an arena to where I could have an affect on the most minds going into the future, simply because I hate the society had developed in the manner it had, with humanity taking a back seat to the dollar. And with our children from the world of academia having no higher a level of humanity than the dope bot on the corner.

What should our readers know about your business?
HueMan African Amerikan & Arts LLC is a business that is to use music and theater arts as a vehicle and or pathway to work with individuals or groups in the developmental areas of Social and emotional learning, EQIQ, and self awareness.

What sets us apart is or ability to address the needs and/or necessities of the community in the areas of Culture, Education, Economics and Politics. In a manner that will allow past practices to re-accessed and updated or stop altogether due to the ineffectiveness being constant with the results.

What I’m most excited about is to know that this work is endless, but to know that you are equipped to perform the task at hand.

How we got where we are doing today? Well let’s just say it has a been a long journey that has been frustrating at times ,but the growing confidence that came with mastering the intellectual properties we are in possession of was what made it easy as it is now.

Lessons learned along the way. Everyone that says their interested in this work and want to be apart of it do not know exactly what that entails and when they really see it, they move around.

That at the root of it all, to help usher in a more suited mind set that would not only produce a better way of life for self, but also one’s family, community, and then the world.

If you had a friend visiting you, what are some of the local spots you’d want to take them around to?
We would start with a Sunday brunch say, at the Blu Mesa out at 75 and Park, and an evening atop the Southside building at pool side for a light dinner.

Monday would be a day of rest, and a trip to Cutie Pies pizza place for an evening of football and entertainment.

Tuesday would surely be a trip to the Pan Afrikan in the glendale shopping center and to Baraks in the Big T.

Wednesday we’d go to Austin Avenue for a crazy night of kareoke.

Thursday would be a nice evening a Sandaga’s where a local band preforms and a Bar B Que baked potato that will put you straight to sleep the time it’s all said and done.

Friday night would be set at the hottest high end club in uptown called Theory where tables start out at $1,500 and the service comes with all the bells and whistles.

The Shoutout series is all about recognizing that our success and where we are in life is at least somewhat thanks to the efforts, support, mentorship, love and encouragement of others. So is there someone that you want to dedicate your shoutout to?
Shoutout to the small but striving Muslim community in Oak Cliff Texas, to whom, I have been apart of since returning to society in January of 2004. And by The Most High I am now leading that same community as we embark on the next chapter of a journey that for started many many years ago.. As for any additional Shoutouts they are to pretty much go as followed
First and foremost my mother Doris Williams who never waivered in her support of me as she travel from California to Texas two, sometimes three times a year, up to this very day, continuously working on me.
My Fathers simply because he prepared me to be by myself but yet not alone in the world.
My best friend Teresa Ballard who gave me an opportunity to begin acting in theater projects as well as film, giving me a chance to participate in something that really breathe life into what I was capable of that opening night at the Majestic Theater in Dallas. The other thing that means so much about our friendship is she welcomed me into her family, made me Godfather to both her daughters and lastly. She as well as her family look at me from the benefit of not actually knowing of my past, so she can’t or finds it difficult to believe any of the stories I may sit and tell.
Next up, My ex-wife who surely pushed me to the best I am capable being by challenging me to do the right thing because it’s the right thing to do, not because you’re looking for something in return. And to stop complaining and making excuses.
And last but definitely not least, Damon Jamil Tyler who is and has been my unexpectedly but surely appreciated childhood therapist, that help me navigate the pain that caused me to spend all but 13 months between 1988 and 2004 on a modern day plantation called TDC or TDCJID.

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