Today we’d like to introduce you to D. Marque Hall.
Hi D. Marque, so excited to have you with us today. What can you tell us about your story?
My story starts with God. As a child, I was always searching for friendship and guidance. My family was rough like a lot of ours, even violent at times. I come from a poor family with broadening views as well as a broadening outreach and foundation. Wilmington, Delaware is where I now work and live. I’m a Boxer and community activist and author. I believe in the beloved community. We seek to help the marginalized in Delaware. The Delaware Poor People’s Campaign, Kairos Prison Ministry, FineBlackArt.com, Fight Hate with Gloves & many other organizations and movements like Decarcerate Delaware are coordinated with my help. I am a friend to many and a guide to all who seek to learn and be inspired. I put God first in everything. I am single. My mother and Grandmother live here in the suburban Atlanta outskirts where I am frequently for holiday visits and I do not have children. The organizations I work with have a national presence, premise and purpose. What happens in Delaware can guide the rest of the nation. What happens in Georgia can guide us as well. Let’s go.
Alright, so let’s dig a little deeper into the story – has it been an easy path overall and if not, what were the challenges you’ve had to overcome?
Prison/jail. Drug dealing, poverty, violence. Being without means and education was difficult but I always had a mind and hope. I always cared about myself and others. Schooling in computer networking opened a lot of doors as well as working and training in sales/marketing.
I didn’t always make the healthy decisions as far as diet/exercise go. I was sick, very overweight. I smoked cigarettes and drank regularly. I wasn’t a good boyfriend or fiancé. When I was in my early twenties, I paid for many abortions and got my heart broke when the woman who I envisioned spending the rest of my life with had an abortion without telling me.
Appreciate you sharing that. What else should we know about what you do?
We seek to help the marginalized in Delaware. The Delaware Poor People’s Campaign, Kairos Prison Ministry, FineBlackArt.com, Fight Hate with Gloves join Open Streets and many other events in Wilmington, Apple Scrapple in Georgetown, Town Halls, tabling, protests and lobbying in Dover and throughout Delaware, Zoom voting rights presentations as well as Online and in-person voter registrations for formerly incarcerated as well as currently incarcerated people. Advocacy for these vulnerable populations and their families including spouses, siblings, parents and children. School presentations. Jail and detention center demonstrations inside and outside facilities. Bails and Advocacy especially dealing with schools and student resource officers or police at school functions like athletic games getting youth out of lock-up when called upon and helping families navigate the court system with attorneys we’re connected to. We seek to effectively dismantle the school to Prison pipeline that takes students from regular activity for their culture and survival to Prison and indefinite hardship. Training in Fight or Flight readiness and Discernment, Self-Defense, Non-violence, Mindfulness, Art-appreciation, Organizing, Sales, Entrepreneurship, Website Development, Fundraising, Collaboration AND MORE!
We seek to reach poor/impoverished people, elderly, disabled, people of low wealth, allies, the working poor, justice system-involved youth and families and more.
How do you think about luck?
I believe in God.
“Luck” or fortune as I would consider fate has its place but I do my best to give God the glory and to lean on Him.
I ask for guidance, direction and for Him to make ways out of no way, to move mountains that are in place, to help me to believe when it’s hard.
“Luck” is often used to take credit away from God’s power. I trust God to provide always.
Pricing:
- Keep up the GOOD Fight the Untold Story of an Unknown Athlete-Activist is $20.22
- The 6 O’clock Diet is $20.22
- The Black Lives Matter Coloring Book for Adults & Advanced Adolescents is $20.22
- Resilient D Coloring Book for $20.22
- PowerThinking Membership $9.95 per month
Contact Info:
- Website: Fineblackart.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamblackamerica/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/davond.marquehall
- Youtube: Youtube.com/DMarqueHall
- Other: https://linktr.ee/DMarque
