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7 Ways to Make the Grade – A Living Guide to Your Community’s Success is a motivational inspirational self-help book written to advise and guide young people in their quest to make the grade and become successful in their journey through life. You will journey with the author through his childhood as he relates to his loving parents and his brothers and sisters while growing up in one of the many concrete jungles dropped into urban New York’s ghettos. The Queensboro housing projects and the thousands of housing project throughout the country are to this day habitats, where only the strong-willed can survive.  It was instilled in young Bob Lee that he would be one of the survivors, a leader, a teacher and a role model to all who would listen…and it worked.  His father’s words and his concern for Bob’s well-being were the main contributors that helped shape him into the man he is today. 

7 Ways to Make the Grade – A Living Guide to Your Community’s Success traverses through a community of people:  family members, friends, teachers and mentors who took an interest in Bob during his youth and throughout his adulthood. With the safety net provided by this village, a spiritual connection and the moral values instilled in him, Bob Lee was determined to build a like network for all the young people he could reach who grew up in similar surroundings.  In 1986, he founded Bob Lee Enterprises, an Entertainment company, with the help of another radio personality, “Morning Man Ken Spider Webb” In 2004, Bob Lee’s dream of forming an educational foundation was born, “Make the Grade Foundation for Education”.  He wanted the name of the foundation to be meaningful and to support the key components that could serve and strengthen communities by forming a collaboration between parents, teachers, students, community, clergy, health care and financial literacy professionals.

7 Ways to Make the Grade – A Living Guide to Your Community’s Success is clearly, a major part of Bob Lee’s thinking, as he continues to try to help other people get what they need out of life.  By linking a book up to Make the Grade Foundation, he believes that he can reach the masses and locate other leaders to teach the youth to do as he is doing by building a unified movement for the betterment of the communities throughout the country. 

In addition to the trials and tribulations of a child growing up in the largest housing complex in North America, Queensbridge Houses, which is a 3,142-unit complex owned by the New York City Housing Authority and his plight on becoming Doctor Bob Lee, there are numerous narrations about the benefits provided by the key components of Bob’s collaboration. For instance, Bob touches on relationships between parents and their children, financial literacy, eating healthy, childhood obesity, scholarships, religion in schools, healthy minds and more. 

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“Doctor” Bob Lee of WBLS is one of the most recognized entertainment personalities in New York. For more than 30 years, he’s had a rewarding career as a Radio & TV personality, author, motivational speaker, consultant and entrepreneur. Bob is also the President & CEO of the Make the Grade Foundation, a non-profit. organization that provides mentoring & aid to school children. This inspired him to write Seven Ways to Make Grade, an autobiographical and motivational book written to help guide young people on their life’s journeys. Daily Dose of Quotes and Anecdotes is Doctor Bob Lee’s 2nd published book, written to motivate and inspire people of all ages.

Offers you, the reader, a glimpse of the subject''s background and family structure as it relates to the social and economic pressures that existed during their lifetime. Knowledge is power and by learning about the accomplishments of so many people who were not born privileged, perhaps it will, among other things, help to eradicate many racial stereotypes. It is important that we adults teach the children to understand from whence we came by devoting some time to the study of the history, culture, sociology, religion, and politics of black people in the United States as well as the people of African origin worldwide. In actuality, 90% of the people featured in this book are descendants of slaves who were brought forcibly to the United States more than four centuries ago. it not only features African slave descendants but also descendants from many other countries of the African diaspora. Intensive academic efforts to reconstruct African American history began in the late 19th century and is discussed by. W. E. B. Du Bois in The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America. Mr. Du Bois estimates that, from 1807 to 1862, not less than a quarter of a million of Africans were brought to the United States in defiance of law and humanity. People to Know in Black History & Beyond begins its journey in the 18th Century with Community Activists who put their lives on the line for their families, communities and country and brings you right up to present day 21st Century Heroes & Sheroes. The featured Men and women have made great contributions to society primarily through education, activism, health & science, parental leadership, religion and economics not only in America but throughout the World. In addition, People to Know in Black History & Beyond highlights many of the country''s trendsetters in arts and communications, as well as renowned scientists, athletes and authors. There are so many people of all nationalities who have sacrificed and aspired to greatness, whose shoulders we stand on.  They are special people doing special things ...people that may have been overlooked, particularly because they were minorities... people who have masterminded things that benefit all the people of the world...beyond Black History. By understanding their mission and following their example, you may become inspired enough to build your legacy and become an example for future generations to follow.

People to Know in Black History & Beyond: Recognizing the Heroes and Sheroes Who Make the Grade

PEOPLE TO KNOW IN BLACK HISTORY & BEYOND includes the legacies of  MORE THAN 350 Heroes and Sheroes who Make the Grade by being notable contributors to our History, comprising: Educators, Civil Rights Leaders, Religious Leaders, Famous Parents, Business Leaders, Inventors and Scientists, Athletes,  Actors and Actresses, Professional Dancers, Singers and Musicians, Authors, Publishers,  Media and Public Relations People, Politicians, Lawyers, and Military Notables.

There are so many people whose shoulders we stand on, who have sacrificed and aspired to greatness. By understanding the mission of these Heroes and Sheroes, I hope that you will   become encouraged to follow their example by living your life with purpose, building your own legacy and becoming a leader of  future generations.