Philadelphia Tribune, The, August 13th, 2004
Booker, Bobbi Philadelphia Tribune, The 08-13-2004 West Philadelphia native Omar Tyree wears a multitude of titles. He's a journalist, author, lecturer, poet, screenwriter, songwriter and publisher, and he's looking to create timeless African-American reading material and feature film ideas, while continuing community entrepreneurship.
Now, Tyree has reinvented himself as the Urban Griot and has written a series of books that explore such from-the-streets issues as crime, sexuality, sports, drugs and working within the system.
"I'm out to tell the truth," the Urban Griot states. "That's ho...
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