AMERICA I CAN THEY DID IT SO CAN YOU

“Your Little Black Book Series” pocket companion gives the reader snap shot summaries of great

African Americans and Latinos. User friendly, concise, easy to understand, and to share, these books

do not gather dust. Like a movie trailer for an exciting feature film, the heroes and heroines featured

within will peak reader interest in further research, encourage wider reading and inspire the thirst for

knowledge about African American and Latino role models.

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America I AM

America I AM

URBAN CITY SCHOOLS FUNDRAISER

Disciple One Publishing has partnered with Baron Jay Family Foundation to utilize Your Little Black

& Brown Book Series on Black & Latino Achievement as a fundraiser for urban city schools, rather

than having children sell cookies and candy which results in diabetes. This will empower our next

generation as entrepreneurs of information. Baron suggests he’s creating “Book Dealers not Drug

Dealers.”Books sell for $10.00 each and the school

earns 50% of their sales. For example, 200 students sell 10 books each, which

equals 2000 books at $10. Sales total

$20,000 and the school earns $10,000.

BATTLE OF THE MINDS

Baron Jay has teamed up with All Star Baseball Player Kenny Lofton’s production company,

“FILMPOOL,” to bring the “Battle of the Minds” game show to selected inner city schools.

Similar to Jeopardy, but based on Baron Jay’s “Your Little Black & Brown Book Series,” the

game features Inventions, First, History, Business, Sports, Science, and Entertainment. Look

for Battle of the Minds board game to be released in 2010. Baron Jay is planning to reach out

to Walmart to become an Educational Partner to produce Battle of the Mind game shows to

air on PBS and at the America I AM Exhibit.

This is one of many solutions to decrease the dropout rate and enrich the mindsets of future

entrepreneurs and business leaders of Black and Latino descent.

CURRENT COMMERCIALS You can see Baron Jay and A-List Actor Ashton Kutcher in a Nikon Commercials directed

by Academy Award Nominee Bennett Miller airing now nationally.

Baron Jay on the set of the Nikon Hollywood Party Commercial

BARON JAY AND UNPARALLELED

SOLUTIONS

Annually, Littleton coaches Unparalleled

Solutions students how to pitch their

ideas and inventions through role-

playing exercises that build self-

confidence. He also hands out and signs

copies of his inspirational books, Your

Little Black and Brown Book Series on

Black and Latino achievements.

Unparalleled Solutions, Inc., founded in 1992, contracts

with 35 Chicago inner city schools, grades 1 – 12, to

offer educational services, including math and reading

tutoring. The organization, which employs 250 college-

trained tutors, was certified in 2004 as a Supplemental

Educational Service provider by the state of Illinois,

and in 2008, was ranked number one in math tutoring and

third in reading tutoring among Chicago tutoring

organizations. According to founder Venetia Clark, a

Chicago-based pharmacist, Littleton’s motivational

tour is right in step with her organization’s goals.

Baron Jay and the Eracism Foundation

Baron Jay and Lou Gossett, Jr.

Lou Gossett, Jr. invited Baron Jay to do a book signing at Urban Legends shoe store in

Los Angeles, California. Lou promotes Baron’s Your Little Black and Brown Book

Series on Black and Latino achievement thru his Eracism Foundation.

Baron Jay and Baron Davis

Hollywood, CA, August 12, 2009. African-American actor, film

producer, publisher, and entrepreneur Baron Jay Littleton, Jr. is

joining forces with Los Angeles Clipper All Star basketball player

Baron Davis, who sponsors the Baron Davis Basketball Camp.

Littleton is donating copies of his Your Little Black and Brown Book

Series, African American Patents and Inventions, Volume 2, to

young future inventors at Davis’ alma mater, Crossroads High

School in Santa Monica, California.

Littleton has published two volumes in his Little

Black Book series, which inspires and educates

youth about the achievements of African

Americans and Latinos. Littleton said he would

like to co-author a future book, African Americans

in Sports, with Davis. He added that if the co-

authorship project becomes a reality, he plans to

secure a corporate sponsor for the book and

hopes to gain permission to donate 20,000

copies to basketball fans at a Los Angeles

Clipper Game during Black History Month in

2010.

On November 2, 2009, from 9:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m., Littleton was a featured speaker at a Los

Angeles United School District School event held at the California Science Center. The event

was dubbed Family & Parent/Community Service Branch presents: The Culturally Relevant and

Culturally Education That Benefits African American Students and All Other Students. A

collaboration between parents and the Office of Standard English Learner Program, the event

presented fourteen action steps that students, parents, and community members can take to

enhance students’ awareness about African American achievement. They purchased copies of

Littleton’s Little Black Book: African American Patents and Inventors at the event.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Author/Actor/Producer Baron Jay Littleton Celebrates African-American

Achievement with the Tavis Smiley Presents America I AM Exhibition at the

California Science Center in 2009-2010 Los Angeles, CA, and October 26, 2009.

African-American actor, film producer, author, and humanitarian entrepreneur Baron Jay

Littleton, Jr. has teamed up with the Tavis Smiley Presents America I AM:

The African American Imprint (www.AmericaIAM.org) exhibition, to celebrate and

educate the public about great African-American achievers.

Conceived by syndicated radio columnist and best-selling author Tavis Smiley, and proudly

sponsored by Walmart, America I AM: The African American Imprint is a touring

museum exhibition, celebrating 500 years of African American contributions to the nation.

The exhibition’s goal is to bring together Americans of all cultures, ages, and backgrounds

to memorialize the indelible African-American imprint on our nation’s heritage. Twelve

galleries encompassing over 15,000 square feet chronicle the African- American journey

from struggle to triumph to celebration. Los Angeles is the third stop on the exhibition’s 10-

city, four-year tour, following Philadelphia’s National Constitution Center and the Atlanta

Civic Center.

Littleton, himself a chronicler of African-American achievement, authored Your Little Black

Book: African American Patents and Inventors, a pocket-sized volume written in a simple,

concise style that presents snapshots of greatness designed to inspire and educate students

and the general public about important inventions and firsts from African-Americans. AEG

Worldwide (www.aegworldwide.com), a leading sports and entertainment presenter, has

purchased copies of Littleton’s book to be exhibited and sold at the California Science

Center, which is hosting the America I AM exhibition from October 30, 2009 to April 10,

2010. Littleton will hold several book signings at the Science Center, with dates to be

released in November. He is also in talks with Hill Harper, author of the bestselling The

Conversation: How Black Men and Women Can Build Loving, Trusting Relationships, and

with Academy Award Actor Louis Gossett, Jr., to encourage them to appear with him to

support the book signings.

Littleton also authored Latino Contributions to Society and the World, a pocket-sized volume

of important inventions and firsts from Latino-Americans. Disciple One Publishing has

partnered with the Baron Jay Family Foundation to use Littleton’s books as fundraising tools

for urban city schools. Administrators and teachers distribute Littleton’s books to students,

who sell them to friends and family for $10.00 per copy. The schools keep 50% of the

proceeds for use in school programs; the rest goes to Littleton’s Baron Jay Enterprises to

fund humanitarian outreach initiatives. Littleton suggests that with this approach, he’s

creating “book dealers, not drug dealers.”

Littleton, a former bat boy for the Detroit Tigers, said he went from being a bat boy to a

book boy, or serious reader, and he wants to encourage the next generation of young

people to do the same.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Littleton recently wrapped on Safe House, a feature suspense thriller he executive produced

and played a leading role in. Safe House, directed by Bill Morroni, is scheduled for Blue Ray

DVD release in 2010. Littleton is also working with screenwriter Robert Rivenbark to secure

financing to produce Every Move Counts. This feature biopic, scripted by Rivenbark and Kate

Danaher, celebrates the life of Atlanta-based chess master Orrin Hudson

(www.besomeone.org), who risks everything to teach chess and critical thinking skills to at-

risk youth, encouraging them to look for meaning in a chess board and realize—before it’s

too late—that in chess as in life, Every Move Counts.

FOR A REVIEW COPY OF LITTLETON’S BOOKS OR TO SCHEDULE AN INTERVIEW, PLEASE

CONTACT:

LISA HAMILTON, DISCIPLE ONE PUBLISHING

10153 ½ Riverside Drive, Suite 467

Toluca Lake, California 91602

818-568-3330 or 323-654-8579

Email:yourlittleblackbooks@yahoo.com

www.yourlittleblackbook.net

Bat Boy to Book Boy

Actor, publisher and humanitarian, entrepreneur Baron Jay Littleton, Junior went from

Bat Boy to Book Boy. Former Bat Boy for Major League Baseball and Detroit Tigers

now finds enjoyment in hitting home runs of knowledge to inspire people to do better.

Manny Ramirez and Baron Jay

Baron Jay and Reality TV

Los Angeles, CA, January 12, 2010. Actor, film producer, author, and humanitarian

entrepreneur Baron Jay Littleton, Jr. is partnering with philanthropist and real estate magnate,

Donald T. Sterling, owner of the Los Angeles Clippers, to give some of Los Angeles’ homeless a

second chance in life. Littleton has conceived an as-yet-untitled reality TV show that will pair a

person who’s recently become homeless, a longtime homeless person, and a homeless family

with three sponsoring families.

The sponsoring families will help the homeless participants re-integrate themselves into society

as self-supporting members. Sterling will donate housing for the homeless participants.

Conceived in a real-time format, the show will run four months, after which the homeless

individual (or family) and sponsoring family, working together, will either succeed or fail at

achieving desired goals.

Littleton is a 2009/2010 graduate of the University of Southern California Passing the Mantle

(PTM) Institute. The PTM Institute—an organization supported by a grant from the San

Francisco-based James Irvine Foundation (www.irvine.org)—is designed to equip pastors,

clergy, faith-based non-profit leaders, and church board members for better mission

conceptualization and successful civic engagement. Littleton will apply skills acquired in the

PTM Institute in launching his reality show.

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT YLBB

“This book is big on facts that need to magnified even further”

-Joe Jackson (Legendary Father of the First Family of Music)

"This is cool most teenagers my age don't know about this stuff." -Steccie Davis (10th grader, Hillside Educational Center, Pasadena, Ca)

"It has the knowledge you need to link your past to your future. It's a 'must have' for every

household."

-Deann Dunkins (Tom Joyner Foundation)

"This is an extraordinary collection of great African American inventors that should be

available to young people not only in the Boys and Girls

Clubs, but also within public schools."

-Bobby Lee Smith (Boys and Girls Club of America)

"What a wonderful book! Who knew of all these inventors? We're looking

forward to sharing this book with teachers in our district." -Lezlie Hiner (Work-To-Ride Organization)

"The Little Black Book is modest in it's title and massive in it's scope and influence."Richard Lee (Academic Specialist Michigan State University)

"Wow! A must read for African Americans everywhere. This is definitely something that I

wished I had this book when I was a child." -Alicia M. Allen (Black Entertainment Television)

Book Review African American Patents and Inventions

By Elzena Rankins Sentinel Intern

October 29, 2009

African American Patents and Inventions, is an extraordinary little black book that focuses on

the inventions of African Americans that have helped paved the way for millions. It is a book about the

brilliant works of African men and women who innovatively created the works of art ranging from the:

Remote Control to the Door Knob as well as the Iron Board to the Pressing Comb just to name a few.

It is a book that gives you a sense of who you are, where you have come from and the

contributions that we have made as African American men and women. It is a book that clearly opens

your intellect and makes you proud of who you are.

These African Inventors started from the earliest years of the 1800’s and are still going all the

way into new millennium. Nonetheless, many of those Inventors and patents of the 1800’s and early

1900’s were slaves, educationally deprived and stripped of all integrity and rights yet still rose above the

negativity to produce something great. However, many of the inventions created by our African

descendents were not recorded under their names because their slaveholders stole them, but we still

made it through.

Out of all that they have been put through from the American society they still contributed to

American society setting examples to many African Americans that you can do anything that you put

your mind to, “changing and improving the way we live, work and play.” –Littleton

Creatively put together in Alphabetical order, the self published Author, Publisher,

Humanitarian, Entrepreneur, Actor and Family man, Baron Jay Littleton Jr. gives its readers a detailed

example of the inventions. His main goal is to inspire and spread the knowledge that we, “African

Americans are powerful,” and that, “We are the descendents of those great African Scientist and

Engineers that have helped paved the way for a better world.

To purchase, sponsor or make donations to your little black book series, vol. 2, African American Patents

and Inventions, go to www.yourlittleblackbook.net or call 323-654-8579 for more info.

Also if you have a new invention or a idea of your own, contact the U.S Patent and Trademark office at

www.uspto.gov or call directly at 1800-786-9199.

Who Is Your Role Model?

by Pearl Jr.

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Oprah Winfrey once said, “The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.”

Truer words have never been more germane to describe what author Baron Jay Littleton Jr. has assembled in the pages of his first volume of, Your Little Black Book of African American Inventions and Inventors. This book celebrates the accomplishments of African American inventors both past and present. The book chronicles over two hundred inventions that are being used today on a global scale. In addition to cataloging the inventors and their achievements, Baron Jay has sagaciously added a section entitled “Lists of First.” This segment is dedicated to the first African Americans to excel in their chosen field of endeavor.

After sitting down and speaking with Baron Jay for this piece, I realized his youthful visage and affable demeanor belies his elder statesmen like wisdom and business acumen. He is a classic renaissance man. As a precocious Detroit youth, he grew up in a

city known for its high murder rate, drugs, and economically deprived. Not wanting to succumb to pressures of his environment, Mr. Littleton created his own formula for success. His entrepreneurial spirit was ignited in 7th grade when Baron Jay began selling candy between classes. This enterprise proved to be so successful; he soon came to be known as “The Candy Man.” Hard work and perseverance was a constant companion to Baron Jay. He worked three jobs simultaneously at least 200 days throughout the year; while his peers chose to pursue felonious exploits.

Baron Jay demonstrated early on that he was someone special by landing the coveted position of Detroit Tigers bat boy. To earn money during his teen years he took the humble job of caddy at the Detroit Country Club. Seeing this as an opportunity, Baron Jay took full advantage by impressing the upscale patrons with his sharp wit and mental keenness. It paid off when he was offered a full four year scholarship from the Chick Evans Western Golf Association to attend Michigan State University. While attending MSU, Baron Jay took his athletic prowess to the gridiron and impressed the team’s coaching staff by securing a walk on position with the team.

While chatting about his current endeavors, I asked him about his motivation behind writing Your Little Black Book. “I wanted to bridge the dearth of knowledge of self in our youth. My heart is with our youth to raise them above their shackles of doubt to elevate them to a higher ground and most importantly I want them to know I have walked in their same shoes and I’m living proof they can make it to a great destiny. My God given purpose in life is to never give up on the underserved youth; I will always lend a helping hand. The youth are our future and need to have a sense of who they are and what they can accomplish if they are aware of the achievements of our antecedents. My desire is to encourage others to find a dream, strive for it and reach it, all the while keeping the faith in God.”

"Never be afraid to try something new." Remember: amateurs...built the Ark - professionals...built the Titanic. -unknown

In addition to wearing the hat of author, Mr. Littleton is also the founder of the Baron Jay Family Foundation and chairs the altruistic organization. Baron Jay will allocate nine hundred thousand copies of Your Little Black to the LAUSD, which is being underwritten by a educational grant; but plans to use the book as a African American historical and educational fundraiser for the Baron Jay Family Foundation. Proceeds donated to the charitable organization, are earmarked for the establishment of two high-tech African American Invention and Inventors museum in the city of Los Angeles, California and Detroit, Michigan.

Baron Jay’s vision is to augment this goal and establish satellite museums around the country.

With Baron Jay’s hectic schedule of book signings and personal appearances to promote Your Little Black Book, he finds time to pursue another passion in his life…acting. As an accomplished thespian, Baron Jay’s production company, where he serves as executive producer, has successfully secured senior capital for a multi-million dollar project. The production team is entertaining junior capital offers for the movie entitled T H E D I S C I P L E film story line inspired by Baron Jay, true life chronicles of the life of a youth born to unwed teen parents, and his struggles to walk the right path in the face of despair in the dog-eat-dog neighborhoods of Detroit. The production goes to lens in the third quarter of 2007, and acclaimed film director Antoine Fuqua has been selected to helm the photoplay. In addition to the heavyweight production team, Academy Award winning actor Jamie Foxx is selected as the Lead Starr of THE DISCIPLE.

“Buy the book, get the book, and share the book. Looking forward includes us looking back,” Baron Jay exclaims as we wrapped up our interview. Baron Jay Littleton Jr. may not be a household name now, but with all the wonderful and provocative projects on tap for 2007…he is on his way to becoming just that…a household name.

To find out more up to the minute information on Baron Jay Littleton Jr. and Your Little Black Book, go to his website: www.yourlittleblackbook.net. Writer Contact :Mark E. Corry mecorry@gmail.com

Baron Jay Littleton, Jr. has been very fortunate throughout his life. He was not born into the

most advantageous of circumstances, but originating with his parents, he has consistently been

surrounded by a phalanx of people who took a vested interest in his well-being and have had a

positive influence on the choices he has made. This has been more important to Baron than all

the riches in the world. He has been taught to choose integrity and the building of character

over momentary indulgences. He learned this early on; in fact, the one indisputable constant in

his life has been an inexhaustible flow of individuals that inspired him to have an insatiable

quest for knowledge and self-refinement.

Born to unwed teenage parents, Baron Jay – as he is affectionately known to his family and

friends – is an enigma. Although his mother decided to live with her parents and opt for public

assistance so she could personally raise her infant son through his formative years, they never

felt poor or disadvantaged. His parents separated shortly after he was born; however, both his

mother and father were full participants in his journey of self-discovery. They made sure that Baron

Jay was exposed to and participated in all the activities that he naturally gravitated toward.

This ranged from judo to acting to the respected author, humanitarian and philanthropist he is

today. They taught Baron Jay that our background and circumstances may have influenced who we

are, but we are responsible for who we become. The art of living is not controlling what happens to us

but using what happens to us. And, never giving up on their self-development, his mother achieved her

degree in Education and his father attended the University of Michigan and achieved a degree in

Computer Science.

YOUR LITTLE BLACK BOOK SERIES, VOL 2 AFRICAN AMERICAN PATENTS AND INVENTIONS is a

documented reflection of Baron Jay’s quest to keep inspiration a pocketbook away for us all at

any time. Baron Jay Littleton, Jr., who studied African American History at Michigan State

University, and is a recent graduate from University of Southern California in Civic Engagement

and Public Policy says it best…

What is learned begins with what is asked. Answers live all around us and often

times in life they need to tap us on the shoulder to get our attention; that we

might be led to asking the right questions. That is what this book is: a tap on the

shoulder. With short snapshots of great inventors, my hope is that this pocket

companion will cause our youth to ask questions about themselves, the world

they live in and how they can achieve. I want them to be enriched by the

brilliant African American inventors and the history they yet bring with them into

the present, always reminding people, ‘You can too!’

I first learned of African American inventors in 1987 when I was a 4th grader at

Monnier Elementary in Detroit from Ms. Freshe, a white teacher, and my

fascination hasn’t waned with age. While I haven’t become an inventor yet, I

have never quit being a learner and because of many of these great people, I

have been encouraged to believe that no dream is impossible. Perhaps another

4th grader who gets a hold of this book will be awakened to pursue a path of

greatness by serving mankind with an invention that will cure a disease, change

the way we communicate or make an improvement on a existing product that

will help mankind. When people need a quick shot of inspiration, they can

quickly turn to this book and be empowered to keep pressing forward, to not

give up and to believe that it is okay to dream and achieve. They can also

encourage and help others by what they have learned here.