wendell pierce. wendell pierce, the actor, he was on "the wire," a native of my home town. he has been dedicated for five years now on katrina of rebuilding the neighborhood that we both grew up been called pontchartrain park. he has invested a lot of his own money. he has assembled and put together an entire strategy to rebuild this historic neighborhood in new orleans. wendell pierce. he has not sought aggressively attention for his work, but he is a prominent actor, he is a very smart, intelligent, caring man. you should bring him here and listen to him talk. he is an example of somebody who has used the power of his celebrity and his passion to do something significant. the second one is magic johnson, who has been involved in the national urban league, which just honored him this past summer, but to some extent the celebrity effort, the efforts to give back to the committee of many prominent, public personalities. they don't get the love and they don't get the attention and don't get the recogni