Ballesteros Productions

05/10/2022

https://youtu.be/aqZj69Pq1Mk

12/02/2020

Update on this long term long running black community project.

A few weeks ago 19 black families made national news, when word broke that they purchased over 100 acres of land in rural Georgia to build their own self-suffic...

11/27/2020

Fantastic!

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It's time to get the orange man out and families with true class in.

02/18/2020

Repost from Beverly Eason: "Hey Everyone, I wanted to showcase this brief Black History Month moment at Trinidad Baptist produced by Lavern Ballesteros. It plays at 24:22 and ends at 30:37. Thank you! 😁"

Join us each Sunday as we invite in the Holy Spirit through song, praise and the word where the Rev. Justin T. Rhodes is our Senior Pastor. Our Senior Pastor...

04/13/2018

02/12/2018

Each week tens of thousands of diners eat at an Olive Garden or Red Lobster restaurant. Few of these diners know that the CEO heading these large restaurant chains is a black man. Clarence Otis Jr. is the CEO of Darden Restaurants Inc., the largest casual dining operator in the nation. The firm operates nearly 1,400 company-owned restaurants coast to coast serving 300 million meals annually. Darden employs 150,000 workers and has annual revenues of $6 billion.

Born in Vicksburg , Mississippi , Otis moved to Los Angeles when he was 6 years old. His father was a high school dropout who worked as a janitor. The family lived in Watts at the time of the 1965 riots. In the post-Watts period, Otis recalls being stopped and questioned by police several times a year because of the color of his skin.

A high school guidance counselor recommended him for a scholarship at Williams College , The highly selective liberal arts institution in Massachusetts . Otis graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Williams and went on to earn a law degree at Stanford. Otis landed on Wall Street as a merger and acquisitions attorney for J.P. Morgan Securities. He joined Darden Restaurants in 1995 as corporate treasurer. He became CEO in 2004.

How many of us-or anyone else-knew this?!

(But we heard all about Michael Vick, didn't we?)

Things have got to change.

Start now, by FORWARDING THIS TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW!

02/11/2018

Happy Birthday to the Founder of Ballesteros Productions, Playwright Lavern Ballesteros (center). Take time today to share your best wishes either on her page or here!

02/11/2018

Three churches, a school, and dozens of homes were demolished

02/05/2018

10/13/2017

07/22/2017

This is a good place to post your reviews and pics of last night's production.

Post you remarks, reviews and pics in a new Post on this page.