hello and welcome to thirty frames a nd that's where i sit back relax i take it by seeing who's at my table and myself you know what day it is it's takeover tuesday we are so excited to be back here we have a wonderful guest today and a great line up that's right thirty frames a  really all that your co hosts today on thirty frames a nd take over tuesday i am a model choreographer and have my own production company and i travel a lot you may have seen me recently with steve harvey on the residential wise person we gave her that title you'll figure out why later i'm going to go here and introduce the person next to her because i am so proud to label her friend and sister in christ this go and see this is the singer actress writer and director and i testify that she is all of those things she's also a member of the advisory board of the african american day parade and she is our special guest today we will be talking more about the parade in a moment the woman next to her i know you get tired of hearing me say it and i don't get tired of saying it her name is veronica kid and this woman should need no introduction if you you are one of the best it takes a special agents name to me and you said it doesn't i don't know i was going to say it makes a special patients to be a editor and veronica is incredible and if you watch us at all you know busy a lot about the people's film festival we are so proud of that let's get right into it who africa and american day yes ok now you may not know he answered to this this may be a  why african american and a person well i think that what happens is a lot of times we can celebrate give a lot of different i'll just say black cultures in the united states but we don't really focus on the african american men are here and it's just time for us to celebrate that we have to we hear about all the bad things that goes on in our community but we don't fell a break the wonderful things that are actually happening so this program focuses on the great accomplishments of black african americans love  street a th avenue and will finish it will finish by one hundred and thirty six dollars st and we have something special this year we're doing the actual prepare a performance so it's the st time this will actually be happening where we'll do a like a big performance of street twelve o'clock we have good news and bad news about that ok but no is that it's going to be wonderful we have a great time the bad news the tickets for the reviewing stand already sold out so for next year you no if you want to come preferably will do it again it's not open where people that we also have a section for the seniors and the seniors get tickets and what happens is they come to the parade early we feed them we actually feed them we give them food to eat they have snack they have sandwiches of for free and they get to sit in the shade they have a ca at what time should they be there they usually need to arrive at least by like eleven you know going to those tickets are already sold out also they were free they were free tickets but they're already given out so i know for next year i'll try to come on the show again i haven't done it in let people this year it's about politics and government and know a little we're going to have about integrity and good government so we're going to honor those people who or in the government were doing good so i'm going to read a few things real quick we have a grand marshal we have  brian benjamin we're going to have and there's dickens we're going to have a hakeem jeffries we're also going to have some judges that are going to be also walking for the walking through the crowds we're going to have what winning s that they all have the same and they said yes got to be really great and that that prepare parade performance i'm really excited about it because they've allowed me to put that together so we're going to have some young ladies from harlem school the a community cop and this is what he said this is actually on a on your website yes he said he said the reason why he started it will you know like he was a feisty man he would say when he said we were so sick and tired of having negative press yesterday in our community we started the parade to deal with the dignity and pride of the black community and when he came in here it was like oh and ye it was just on like he was when you have it and he told the history of it yes he told his involvement but it was something that was so dear to his honor yes he was an amazing man but he would put us all there and that's why we would have access and many years ago i watched in the program are the choir that's there after i'm a gospel singer most of you don't know that sitting around the table i'm an actress also most of you did know was good government yes but it said if you i believe in a cause you must be willing to put yourself on one line for that cause that was from adam clayton powell jr but i am because when i st heard that statement it came from basle pattison basil paterson years ago was new york state senator and lawyer and everything but he is the father of our former governor david paterson and that  pegasus said to me i said well why did you march he said if he said add more he said he's a lot of people go out and march and everything like that he says but if you a serious about this and i'm kind of like paraphrasing and think you should be people's film festival for the public media awards because guess what the rule is a member of president office have supported us so i you know it's very rare when you see her because a lot of times you know this is a person who is to look up the parade and maybe the viewing audience do you think that dynamic may be slightly different with all the changes that are in harlem in harlem now maybe but the energy is still the energy is still there have pri organizations part of the east installed the juvenile was always approved the st sunday in may up and down the streets but all that died out and i'm so glad that they have the of the parade and i just can't even imagine harlem without it right that the dynamic wouldn't be the same i love it i can tell in the morning on my way to church because the they said i already know but already certain people got the purpose of making sure that this parade is being run the way it needs to some people have tried to put it in different areas bring it on th avenue but they're like no we want to stay on th avenue because we don't want to take it out of our area this is our parade we want like i said earlier the elders to be able to sit in their windows and watch as the parade go by we want the children to be able to see it and i have to say honestly like some time from the years back you know it was easy for me to go to the parade and then complain oh i  sanitation workers i don't want to see this on what i want to see the why why don't i doing this but instead of complaining i said well let me see what i can do to help out so i was able to meet a friend that i know who was working there and to be able to be a part of the committee and then i would give my ideas and when they were ready time well actually what happens is the parade the parade happens always in september and then what happens is after the like a month before the end of the month we get together to talk about how the parade when then by january february we start preparing preparing for the next year and so it's we meet every month so it's every month meeting you know we just come get together talk about what we have planning what we're going to do for the future and we keep working together to make things happen is there a place that people can you can sign up you can help out anything we always need your help you know i'll just one more thing we have an event coming up september th that's going to be at the schomburg center we did the actual documentary about the parade it's a free event and it's going to be like you know you can come out meet the board members from the a t p african american a parade you can meet some of the grand marshals and honorees and yes it's going to be a wonderful event for we love for everyone to come on out politician you like you have the opportunity to really have hands want to have access to times we don't but we feel as though we don't have access but you will find like i just recently met prime benjamin o a's i don't know him know him well but it's like his demeanor you want to get to know him even more right because he's so open and welcoming in you know and then when i st saw him out they were more they were the hall and so but to see them come together i was really impressed with that so then when you have access like this and they have even like this and i think it's awesome to have them all at once spike can get that that's right come out you should officially old person because i was not excited about women of color and g s strings in the street grabbing their crotch i just don't see that as a form of pause with all of this curse of the dancing like you said it was very distasteful and my eight year old great grandson can run over the room when i have to turn the t v but see m t v has changed a lot as well because when he st got remember they used to have the rap you know you know yeah but now you know like you said the different shows like the eighteen it's kind of rol reality t v show that it makes sense and i just recently started watching big brother after celebrity big brother and i realized you know a lot of strategy going on in that show you know like survivor you know so so many things but you know miami with gratification at the end of this instead of the olden days so barker's you could turn on and nine months from now they still let that down oh yeah right has happened is there is a type of modeling called commercial print and that means pretty girl next door what has happened is actors and actresses are are so i don't like the word desperate they're hard up never hire someone for a campaign off the internet and if you don't show up they still have to pay to rent the building where they have paid a photographer ten dollars grand hair and make up your wardrobe stylists and full two thousand five hundred  day if you oversleep are show up with a hangover if i don't show up they see my agency and get all that money back then chances are my agency will replace me within the hour another girl so great clients and name on the cover bright clear future and when i say that i mean money that you can invest here at this table when we talk about having a career we want you to be able to make a living a living is not am i going to be able to pay the bills at the end of the week living is putting something in a savings for the future generation and that's what and i just don't see modeling as something that rolling that way so yeah i have to let a lot of worries that you know it's still college for some people that interning if a person said college one is not for me veronica can i be an internal to you say you're a famous stylist and that person running all your errands taking the clothing back to os renta they're making connections so right for years when they leave you know they can call r c a records and say remember me i used to work a blah blah blah i'm on my own if you have a young new artist that you're not sure about  work half price us can deliver it to remember maybe i use new york and bring the coast back i'm on my own now i have nd b level entertainers but if i can borrow last year's clothing and that's how they grow  but i want to say her school was larger than modeling it was an etiquette school and i love that line a lot of other places they taught you social graces there are places that you can go which one has the water leaders but we all have leaders right with it like how you said you know you would come out there after the parade and said well you know you should do this a lot of other things that this is when you step up right when there is something dear to your heart that there isn't right that exists and i'm paraphrasing it in a sense but that's the same thing with devastations in travesty that we have throughout our communities our throughout the world the country what are you prepared to do  very careful just googling you know helping puerto rico and someone says send money and we're sending things we need to be very very careful how we read but let's all if you are praying person just keeping up in prayer for those people over in puerto rico i was going to say also i noticed the last time this happened a lot of people in the hip hop community believe it or not they they decided to organize it with john wayne and they brought things down so i agree with you what you were saying and also with you about checking out the organization st that you look to see ok so what are they really doing are they actually somebody really going there to give to people is the stuff just stuck in the storage room and never get to see it and so i would say definitely check it knitting or so it up to make it more modest for a reasonable price and we feed you pete so that's right while you're there and we do it two saturdays in a row home that's right or in the harlem community and people heard about it and if you like jewelry making if you like face painting there's so many things you can get out of volunteer in give back in the feeling you get getting out of yourself and giving is one that week i just can't decide can't explain so have a feeling wonderful wonderful time so ladies the next time we seen each other it will be in november when the weather will may not as be as beautiful as it is out here now we will be closer to elections in the holidays any words going into fall for our viewers as we sign off just follow your heart like that you know lately i've been living in the moment  because as i as i found myself constantly trying to explain things why are you doing this and that can sometimes i can't so i'm just doing what i feel that is important to do and even those of you heard like out you know live in that moment for the want for once we experience it from once a bit that way you can make your own decision in terms of whether or not it's work and that's time to someone else any words or yes i want everyone to come out to the parade we're going to vote wonderful time i want to just say follow us on facebook instagram and twitter at a d p i n c n n also you go to our website african american day parade dot org we love to have is each and touch someone's life with your goodness because that will come back to you yes i remember you can get in return but touch in the wrong asking of myself what did i take to it this came when i was involved in certain projects in my church and was feeling left in one hundred percent enthused about it and i clearly heard the holy spirit said stop saying what they are doing for you and what you're not getting and from this point on just tell me what you til they're being so i just want to send just on a daily basis take something outside that can be a good word that could be a smile i've taken i purposely said today i'm a take some fruit when i see somebody hungry i'm a give it to him today i'm a take a model of water i see somebody on the side only give it to him every figure it out now and you don't have to tell anybody most kind people you will ever meet almost to a fault but national boss the world is so excited because very often we have to separate business as personal yeah and your tone has to any other words thanks