About the author
LaDell Beamon (screenwriter, filmmaker, composer, director, producer, and youth advocate) is a native Memphian, and he currently resides in the city of Memphis as CEO of Heal the Hood Foundation of Memphis. Beamon was born into a single parent home in which he was raised by his mother and grandmother. After seeing the lives of several youth being affected by the media, Beamon decided to use his talents of being a musician, writer, actor, producer, director and minister of the Gospel to become a catalyze for change through the arts. He has worked on several projects and serviced over 400,000 youth with the powerful anti-social deviance tour known as The Wake Up Tour. Beamon is also the co-creator of Wake Up Tour Evolution Comic Book Series in which he doubles as the Super Powered Hero "Wake." This work has added author to his list of many titles, and he still shows no signs of slowing down with a new book series entitled, "Hood Fables."
LaDell has as worked with stars such as: Master P, Lil Romeo, Day 26, Vivica A. Fox, Gospel Legend John P. Kee, Ginuwine, Tank, Lil P-Nut, Trevor Jackson, Sammie, Jacob Latimore, Tiny, Robert Townsend, Michael Jai White, Taimak, Adolpho Shabbadoo Quiones and comic book creator Martheus Wade.
His newly developed passion is to complete the new youth and family facility called the Hero Empowerment Center that will house the first fully Functional 4D Theater in Memphis and a Museum of Heroes dedicated to Urban, Modern, Fictional and Non-Fictional Heroes. The Hero Empowerment Center will be the light on the Hill.