Joseph Business School Helps Local Economy by Hosting Free Career Fair and Procurement Expo; Precedes 16th Annual Economic Empowerment Summit
The Career Fair and Procurement Expo precede the Joseph Business School’s 16th Annual Economic Empowerment Summit, on Friday, November 6 and Saturday, November 7th. Speakers during this year’s summit, a paid event, include spiritual and business visionary Bishop T.D. Jakes; Hollywood actor Derek Luke; Dr. Steve Perry, educator and CNN Education Contributor; global businesswoman Dr. Janice Bryant Howroyd, and multi-millionaire businessman Ephren Taylor, and others. For more information visit www.EES09.com or call 1-888-9SUMMIT (978-6648).

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Derek Luke had one big reason for signing up for his first television series.

He had worked with executive producer Peter Berg before. Luke, who plays paramedic Cameron Boone on “Trauma” (tomorrow at 9 p.m. on WHDH, Ch. 7), appeared in Berg’s 2004 film “Friday Night Lights.”

‘When I did ‘Friday Night Lights’ with him, I remember him giving us this speech,” Luke said in a recent interview in Pasadena, Calif.

“He said, ‘Some of you guys think you’re famous, but this movie is really going to make you.’ He just had this bravado. After that, he won over my heart because his style was a lot of power, but you couldn’t contain it. At the end of filming, we all just felt something dynamic.

“When I found out about ‘Trauma’ and heard he was attached, I thought, ‘Let me give it a try because he understands.’ ”

The New Jersey native described his character as a “complex family man without a filter. His trauma and his drama is the fact that he doesn’t know how to deal with work and how it’s affecting him. There’s a slogan I’ve come up with for Boone – he wants to bring a piece of home to work but instead he’s bringing a piece of work home.” Continue Reading?

Actor Derek Luke is coming home to Jersey City tomorrow for 'Give Back to the Community Day.'

Actor and Jersey City native Derek Luke will make a homecoming appearance with the city’s youth and local officials tomorrow, 3 p.m., at Emmanuel Pentecostal Church, 47-49 Kearney Ave according to today’s Jersey Journal.

Luke – the star of Hollywood blockbusters “Antwone Fisher,” “Notorious” and NBC’s new drama, “Trauma” – is taking a break from the filming of “Trauma” to participate in the “Give Back to the Community Day.”

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daemonstv.com recently did an interview with Trauma co-star Kevin Rankin! And Kevin is so happy to be working with both Curtis and Derek!

Is there an actor that you’d love to work with that you haven’t had a chance to?

Kevin Rankin: Ooh, yeah. There’s plenty of them. I’d say Gary Oldman. Wow, there’s a huge list. I’m working with two of them right now, with Cliff Curtis and Derek Luke. Literally, those are two guys that are on my list and now I’m doing a series with them so I couldn’t be happier about that, for sure.

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Derek Luke is surprised that word has already gotten out about a gay paramedic character being among the personalities on NBC’s soon-due “Trauma” series. He says he doesn’t even know which character it will be.

Could it be Luke’s guy, Boone? “Not that I know of,” says the actor, who’s playing a family man fraught with issues at work and home.

What he does know is, “As actors, we’re excited. We want the show to be sophisticated, not just surface and one-dimensional. I appreciate getting a chance to see different ideas and beliefs, and the effect people have on each other.”

He wants to learn what is going to happen from the scripts alone. “I keep telling them, ‘Wait. I want to have my own reaction.’” As far as the gay character’s reveal, “It’s supposed to be in the next couple of scripts. I’ll have to find out who’s who.”

With a busy career in features — and credits ranging from “Antwone Fisher” and “Glory Road” to this year’s “Notorious” (as P. Diddy) and “Madea Goes to Jail” — Luke wasn’t in the market to do a series when “Trauma” came along. Peter Berg, who directed him in “Friday Night Lights,” is, however, executive producer of the high-octane “Trauma” show about paramedics who are first responders at catastrophes. That made all the difference. Luke recalls that once he met with Berg, he found himself saying, “Dude, I for sure at first was convinced I was not going to do the show.’”

Berg “made me pretty comfortable. You know what? Pete is invested in this. He didn’t steer me wrong in ‘Friday Night Lights.’ He totally had my attention. And, you know, it’s Pete Berg’s style, no matter whether it’s TV or film — it translates.

“Me and my wife kind of deliberated, and I came to a verdict myself,” he says.

Now he’s happily pulling long, grueling days on the San Francisco-set show: “I love my job. I love my life!”

How many episodes have they done? “I thought I shot 13 but I heard we only shot three,” he jokes. “I feel like I shot a season already. We’re starting No. 4.”

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