Toriano Porter
Author. Speaker. Mentor. Journalist.
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April 19, 2023 ·
Finding a work/life balance is harrrrrrddddddddd. As an opinion writer for the Kansas City...
December 4, 2021 ·
Sports parents often get a bad rap. But being the parent of a youth athlete is hard. We invest,...
September 25, 2021 ·
My day began at 6:30 a.m. I had no idea it would start like an 1980s action movie. The train...
July 5, 2021 ·
The last few months have been a whirlwind. Yet, I continue to show up. This year alone, I...
June 5, 2021 ·
Some of you may know that my first born son Toriano II was murdered about 12 years ago at age 16....
May 29, 2021 ·
I prayed to God after my 16-year-old son, Toriano II, was shot and killed in north St. Louis. It...
April 26, 2021 ·
“This is the biggest fight of my life and I’m gonna win.” - Boris Powell on ALS diagnosis.
My...
January 18, 2021 ·
Leaders, how are you showing up for others? Are you offering words of encouragement or tearing...
December 31, 2020 ·
My first-born son and namesake, Toriano II, was just 16 when he was gunned down outside a...
November 23, 2020 ·
When I was 12, I was an avid reader of the local newspaper where I grew up, the St. Louis Post...
May 23, 2020 ·
This is not the average career blog post. This is a short journey through my professional arc...
March 26, 2020 ·
Recently, I stopped at a local meat market to stock up on some goods before a shut-in was ordered...
January 21, 2020 ·
I am so very grateful to be a Kansas City Public Schools Success Mentor. Ten years ago, life had...
January 7, 2020 ·
Today, I cried. Now, did the tears flow from my face like a baby? Nope. Did I boo-hoo like a...
October 1, 2019
Inspired by and written for Wesley Maurice “Milk” Drummond and contained in the book The Pride of...
May 25, 2019 ·
10 YEARS AGO, MY GOOD FRIEND RICKY SIMMS, JR. TOOK HIS OWN LIFE AT the age of 35. Me and Rick...
May 11, 2019
I wrote this piece in Feb. 1999, a few days after The Young General, now 20, was born. I included...
December 8, 2018
Eleven years ago I worked at my uncle’s gas station as a cashier. I didn’t start out in the...
September 28, 2018
Prelude Monday, April 22, 2018 would have been my son’s 25th birthday. He was shot and killed in...
September 27, 2018
I knew why my step sister Antoinette called. I knew exactly what she would say. Still, I had to...
