SPREAD LOVE & PEACE June is Gun Violence Awareness Month Join us during Wear Orange Weekend May 31-June 2, 2024 for a weekend of Peace, Love, Inspiration, and Community Unity More details in 2024! ...
Join US for a Family Fun Day at Eagle’s Landing Events in North Brunswick, NJ! Enjoy the day with OUR family playing Football, Kickball, Basketball, Dodgeball, Beach Volleyball, Swimming, and Zip Lining! We will have BBQ Lunch, Basket Raffles, 50/50 Raffles, Vendors, and Music by DJ Dinero! You can bring a chair or blanket and just CHILL on the grass! General admission is $25 a CARLOAD until April 30th. May 1st-June 4th tickets GO UP to $35. Entry tickets ON...
Samaad’s death was a tragedy but who would have known that so much positivity would come from it. His brother 🖐🏽 Terrod “FivesUpRoddy” decided to take it to another level and make music about those days and moments at the hospital and leading up to his burial. Three months after all of this he dropped his first EP, 5iveTapes PT 1 which is dedicated to Samaad. So much talent and positive things have come from Samaad’s legacy it’s amazing! In...
I talk a lot about my sons “The Family” 🖐🏽 but there are “WOMEN OF STRENGTH,” behind these young men who make them who and what they are. After interviewing them, Felecia decided we should tell our story too. I met Felecia, Terrod “Roddy’s” mom and Olivia, Quincy “Q’s” mom during basketball season at Franklin High School in 2016 and 2017, and I met Takeshia, Daniel “Danny’s” mom and Shenné, Elijah “E’s” mom after Samaad passed. In the end we...
1. How did you all meet and when?Terrod-I met different people at different times, but we all came together as one between our sophomore year and senior year.Davon-Everyone I met in the Fives I met while I was in high school my freshmen or sophomore year. 2. How did you end up calling yourselves “The Family?”Terrod-Honestly, Tyree. The 5ive emoji “🖐🏽” meant so much to Tyree and anyone who was considered as family to him, when he would text you he would...
Life can change quickly. Understanding that takes a different kind of mindset, a different kind of person. People say that I’m strong. If they only knew that I pray for strength daily. What they also don’t know is that I’m a realist. To understand life I had to accept death as a part of it. I accept my life paths and journeys even though they change like moments. Allowing God to guide me and having faith is how I live...
Samaad and his best friends/brothers call themselves “The Family.” The members are Omar, Syed, Terrod, Davon, Elijah, Davay, Obrian, Tyree, Dominic, Tayo, Quincy, and Danny. They are a group of young men who come from different nationalities, have different personalities, and each contribute something different to their friendship/family bond. I was so intrigued with their love, loyalty and support of one another I decided to write about them to learn more about how they met, what makes them click, and why...
Rationalizations make it easier to live with ourselves when we do the things that we want to do, rather than the things we know we should do. We know right from wrong; we were all taught this at a young age. What we never realize is that our actions could have consequences so deep to ruin not only our lives but our families as well. The fact that gun violence even reached Somerset, NJ still shocks me. Somerset is considered...
Every day I think of what could have been done differently to save Samaad’s life. There are so many questions and WHAT IFs. What if I didn’t have to kick him out because he was on the wrong path? What if he would have just stayed home that day? What if he never got depressed and fell off? What if that Coach never destroyed his self esteem? What if he would have never been on that block? What if I...
We have words back and forth. We are all up in each other’s face calling each other names, saying your Mama this your Daddy that. Talking about your clothing and shoes, your mistakes and boyfriends, and how stupid you are. It’s broken up and we go our separate ways vowing to see each other again and when we do it’s on! Later that day we get at each other on social media. Talking shit back and forth showing the world...