ANNOUNCEMENT...Congratulations to the youth basketball team I coach the Senior Lakers. On 04/18/09 we won the Hillside Rec League championship in an exciting overtime thriller 69-66 and we did it as the 4th seed in a 4 team tournament. Congats!

MEET GEORGE COOK,
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Contact info. Phone 908 963 3824, email george@letstalkhonestly.com

My name is George Cook. I am in my early forties. I am a African American man married with one child. I served in the army from 91 to 94 after a year of college at Virginia State University an African American college where I  developed my love for writing.

I am proud and honored to be a trustee on The Hillside High Scholarship Fund. The board gives out small scholaships to local kids to help with college cost and to reward their academic excellence. I am also an NAACP member

I am a local PTA member at my daughters school, Calvin Coolidge.

I am an avid sports fan who coaches young kids ( 10-14 year olds. ) in intramural basketball and football as a way to keep the little knuckleheads out of trouble.

In 2009 on 04/18/09 my rec league basketball team the Senior lakers won the league championship. Congrats boys. The flag football team I coach the Hillside Giants won the town championship in November 2005 due to my excellent coaching...(smile.) My favorite teams are the NY Football Giants and my beloved Syracuse Orange Basketball Team. 2003 NCAA champs just in case you didn't know.

Some of my speeches and pictures are below:

Pictures of the winners of my poetry contest at a local school ( Calvin Coolidge ) Go Cougars! Click the picture to read their winning poems.

Pictures of some of the teams I have coached as a volunteer.

Here I am in the white t shirt and bald head handing out the trophies to my flag football team for our championship in the Hillside Rec. League.

Click here to listen to George Cook's speech in Washington DC for the Jena 6

George Cook speaking in Baltimore on 02/07/09 at a vigil for missing woman Mia Lynn Nicolls

Click here to read my book Let's Talk Honestly Volume 2 for free in an Ebook ( PDF format)

LET'S TALK HONESTLY VOL. 2 ISBN 1424303370

George Cook's short film Barber Shop Politics which was filmed in Hillside, as featured on CNN

George Cook/www.letstalkhonestly.com in the news.

Click here to listen to George Cook's interview with Fox Talk Radio's John Gibson on 01/01/09

Hillside man to drive voters to the polls

George Cook's short film "Barbershop Politics featured on CNN

Dems say volunteer effort at full tilt

So many new NJ Voters, so little time to log them in

Local activist organizes voter drive in Hillside

Hillside hires 4 new cops

Lack of Financial Education Maintains Economic Gap

Who’s on the brand spanking new Alliance

LTH PICTURES

This is a picture of my brother Chris Cook and I after we ran in the Project Children 5K race in Maplewood NJ on 08/07/08. My brother Chris finished the race with a time of 24.35 and I finished with a time of 29.44. That's me on the left, George Cook

This is me and Master Sergeant Shade M. Lee, one of the original Tuskegee Airmen.

This is me and Tuskegee Airmen Malcom Nettingham.

 

Here I am with Robert Scott a member of the NY Black Yankees from 1946-1950.

This is me with Pamela DeLeon Lewis author of "CRYING THROUGH THE TEARS, a cancer survivor's odyssey.