Detroit City Councilwoman Brenda Jones at a book signing of attorney Gregory J. Reed’s book “Obama Talks Back: Global Lessons A Dialogue With America’s Young Leaders.”
Thousand of letters from students to the president of the United States and his responses are featured in “Obama Talks Back: Global Lessons — A Dialogue with America’s Young Leaders” by Detroit attorney Gregory Reed, CEO and Founder of the Keeper of the Word Foundation.
The letters cover a wide range of emotions, fears, and concerns and echo President Barack Obama’s message for change as these young people make their spiritual and intellectual pilgrimage into adult citizenship.
Their letters reveal their concerns for peace, healthcare, freedom, education, poverty, religious tolerance, love, materialism, and equality in America. They also address concerns including immigration issues, crime, poverty, global climate change, economic issues, racism, war, religion, same-sex marriage and discrimination.
In the letters, President Obama talks of global lessons or universal lessons of change taught to him by his mother and discoveries from leaders like Abraham Lincoln, Mahatma Gandhi, Franklin Roosevelt, Rosa Parks, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., and Nelson Mandela. He speaks as to how these lessons can transform the lives of youth by adopting the values of perseverance, power of one, confidence, purpose, sacrifice, patience, unity, integrity, courage, dignity, selflessness and commitment.
The book was inspired from the multi-award winning book “Dear Mrs. Parks: A Dialogue with Today’s Youth” and the exhibit entitled, “Dear Mr. Mandela ... Dear Mrs. Parks: Children’s Letters, Global Lessons,” presented in South Africa and at Michigan State University curated by Keeper of the Word Foundation.
The book is published by Amber Communications Group. There is now an Amazon Kindle edition and it is also available from Barnes & Noble.
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