Mental Health Awareness is Real 🚨
We often don’t think about mental illness until it affects us or someone we love, and by then, it’s sometimes too late. With our new This Is… campaign, starting with Schizophrenia, we’re taking you inside the mind of someone on the edge — someone like Mike, who couldn’t catch the signs in time. In this story, Schizophrenia isn’t just an illness; it’s a demon, a voice in Mike’s head, guiding him down a dark path.
Our goal is to raise awareness and save lives. If Mike had recognized his symptoms, he could have asked for help. But like so many, he didn’t know what was happening until it was too late.
💡 This is why we need your help. We’ve partnered with @mentorreddy to create more powerful stories on mental health, from schizophrenia to bipolar disorder, addiction, and beyond. But we can’t do it without you.
👉 Please donate and help us continue creating impactful films to raise awareness, fight stigma, and give people the tools they need before it’s too late. Your support will allow us to team with organizations worldwide and make real change. Visit for more info. 🙌
🎉 Join us at the first-ever Mentor Reddy event on Sept 28th and be part of this mission! Head to the website to learn more and get involved.
Let’s start the conversation, raise awareness, and help save lives. #ThisIsSchizophrenia #FightTheStigma #MentalHealthMatters #DonateNow #SupportTheCause #MentorReddy #SchizophreniaAwareness #SuicidePrevention #September28 #LetsChangeTheWorld
A church cannot worship in a community and ignore the people living around it.
That is not ministry. That is occupation.
Rev. Dr. Dwaine A. Jackson, Senior Pastor, reminds us in this chapter of Measure of a Man that being a community church means more than opening doors on Sunday morning. It means opening hearts, extending hands, and asking one simple question:
“What do the people around us need?”
Because the needs of the community should help guide the work of the Church. Those are God’s people too. Those are families we pray for, children we invest in, elders we protect, and neighbors we are called to serve.
Scripture tells us:
“Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.” — Philippians 2:4
And Jesus made it plain:
“Love your neighbor as yourself.” — Mark 12:31
How can we worship beside people and never work for them?
How can we praise God inside the walls but ignore pain outside them?
The Church was never called to simply sit in a neighborhood. The Church was called to serve it.
🎬 MEASURE OF A MAN
Faith. Service. Legacy.
Presented by Temple Network.
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Bon Jour Ma Babies!!! 🤎✨
People ask me all the time… “Why do you teach people how to cook Creole food?” 👀
Truth is… I just love cooking.
I love seeing somebody take that first bite and say:
“Now THAT’S good food.” 😮💨
And growing up, food meant more than eating.
It meant family dinners.
People sitting together.
Laughing at the table.
Talking about life.
Making memories.
These days everybody’s moving fast… but I want to pass down the kind of cooking that brings people back together again.
Because over here, Ma Babies, I don’t measure much 😂 I cook from love, feeling, memory, and flavor.
And I’m sharing it so you can bring that same feeling into your own home 🤎
📺 Want more authentic Creole cooking, stories, and recipes? Head over to YouTube and subscribe to My Creole Table
And if you’ve tried one of our recipes already…
👇🏽 Tell me which one and how it turned out!
Because at this table…
**we don’t just cook — we pass it down.
🙏🏾✨ COMMUNITY. CULTURE. CONVERSATION. ✨🙏🏾
We were honored to welcome Mayor Karen Bass and local leaders to Lonell’s Soul Food Cuisine for an important conversation about Los Angeles, community, and the future ahead.
Moments like this remind us that Lonell’s has become more than a place to eat.
It’s a place where people gather.
A place where conversations happen.
A place where leadership, culture, and community can sit at the same table.
Mayor Bass shared something that meant a lot to us — how important restaurants like Lonell’s are to neighborhoods like ours and how spaces rooted in community matter. That means everything to a small business built with faith, sacrifice, and love.
Making it through our first year has already been a blessing. And to see leaders, neighbors, and supporters walk through our doors reminds us that we’re building something bigger than a restaurant.
To Mayor Bass: thank you for taking the time to visit, support local business, and pour into South Los Angeles.
And to our community: thank YOU for helping make Lonell’s what it is becoming.
🍗 Good food.
🎤 Karaoke Wednesdays & Saturdays | 6PM–9PM
🎷 Live Jazz Fridays | 6PM–9PM
🎬 New episodes of Play Son dropping
Come for the food. Stay for the culture.
📍8501 S. Vermont Ave • Los Angeles
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Happy Birthday to the kid… 44 times around the son. All praise to YHWH, forever on the mission.
To everybody calling and texting, thank you so much I feel very loved today and appreciate you all truly.
This is gonna be a fun year so buckle up.
Happy 10th Birthday to my son, Millard Walton V — Mansa.
Before you were ever born, I already knew there would be a Fifth. Growing up as Millard Walton IV, watching my father, grandfather, and great-grandfather, I understood early that a name could carry history, responsibility, and love all at once.
Three days before my birthday, you entered this world. And on my birthday, your mother and I walked out of Hollywood Presbyterian carrying you in our arms. I thought I was bringing my son home, but really, God was walking me into the last piece to the start of my legacy.
Years ago, I told your mother I wouldn’t cut my hair until she gave me a son. I imagined we’d grow our hair together for years and get our first cut side by side one day.
Life happened differently.
You started asking for a haircut like mine because you said, “You’re my hero.” I told you if you still felt that way at 10, we’d do it.
And here we are.
Your first haircut wasn’t just a haircut to me. It was a moment I’ll carry forever. A reminder that while I’ve been watching you grow, you’ve been watching me too.
Mansa, you are funny, creative, athletic, kind-hearted, and full of light. You love music, water, sports, and dreaming big. And this year, I’m finally giving you what you’ve been asking for since you were 5 — the chance to start building your own show and your own voice.
Son, one day when you read this as a man, remember this:
You are not random.
You are not small.
You were loved before the world ever met you.
And before the world ever knew your name, me and your mom was already praying over it.
You are Millard Walton V.
But more importantly… you are Mansa.
A king in training.
Happy Birthday, son.
I love you forever.
— Dad
Yesterday, we stepped into a backyard that felt more like a sanctuary.
Church hats caught the sunlight like crowns. Jazz floated through the trees. Soul food moved from hand to hand while mothers, daughters, aunties, grandmamas, and lifelong friends laughed together so beautifully you could almost forget grief was sitting at the table too. Almost.
This brunch was held in honor of a mother whose body may no longer be here, but whose love still is. You could feel her in the recipes, in the stories, and in the way joy refused to leave the room.
And honestly… it did something to me.
As a husband, a son, and a filmmaker, there’s something powerful about watching Black women gather in softness. Not surviving for the world. Just being beautiful. Being held. Being loved out loud.
Yesterday reminded me that many of us first learned love through a woman. Through a mother praying quietly in another room. Through a grandmother fixing a plate before herself. Through aunties who stepped in when life got heavy.
Scripture says, “Her children rise up and call her blessed.” Yesterday felt like that scripture coming alive.
To my mother, thank you.
To my wife, thank you for the way you love and raise our son every day. Watching you mother him has shown me a kind of patience and mercy that feels heaven-sent.
And to every mother reading this — thank you for carrying families, memories, prayers, and generations on your backs with grace.
Yesterday wasn’t just an event.
It was legacy sitting at the table together.
And moments like these deserve to be remembered beautifully.
At Freemynds Studios, we don’t just capture events — we preserve the feeling of them. The laughter. The tears. The people you never want to forget.
If you have a graduation, wedding, family celebration, or special event coming up, DM us today. We’d be honored to help tell your story with care, beauty, and love.
Happy Mother’s Day.
With Love,
Millard & Freemynds Studios
🎬🍗 EPISODE ONE: “THE INTRODUCTION” 🍗🎬
The plan was simple…
Cover the ribbon cutting.
Celebrate Lonell’s making it through Year One.
Get some clean interviews.
Introduce the team.
Easy, right?
Yeah… until THIS man walked in acting like he already owned the restaurant. 👀
I asked him his name…
He said:
“LJ.”
I said:
“What that stand for?”
This man looked dead into the camera and said:
“Lonell Junior.”
🚨 Yeah… the ribbon cutting almost became a family reunion.
In Episode One, y’all meet:
🎥 Isabel — helping us take Lonell’s social media to the next level
🍗 Chef Lonell — trying to celebrate a major milestone
🤦🏾♂️ And LJ… who seems VERY eager to tell Lonell something that probably should’ve stayed off-camera.
The only problem?
We still gotta get Lonell away from the ribbon cutting before this gets completely out of hand. 😂
Welcome to:
🎬 “Lonell’s Cuisine: PLAY SON”
Not every family recipe was planned.
👇🏾 WATCH EPISODE ONE NOW
Tag somebody who would absolutely pull up acting like this 😂
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