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Rushion interviews Simone Lawrence, creating "HBCU job and academic opportunities in Utah," · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: we go. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, and you're listening to money
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  Speaker 1: your host, Rashan McDonald. As always, I want to hear
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  Speaker 1: from you today. As always, this shows your show. I
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  Speaker 1: recognize that we all have different definitions of success, and
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  Speaker 1: today it's a very special show because our guess today
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  Speaker 1: we focused on HBCU what I like to call Black excellence,
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  Speaker 1: because I recognize that we have to have an ability
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  Speaker 1: to be able to communicate and share this slice of opportunities.
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  Speaker 1: This is happening on these HBCU campus Now, frankly, I
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  Speaker 1: did not graduate from an HBCU campus, but that does
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  Speaker 1: not stop me for being an advocate of an HBCU.
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  Speaker 1: I from graduate University of Houston, which is right down
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  Speaker 1: the street from Texas Southern University in third Ward, Texas,
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  Speaker 1: in Houston, Texas, and I almost went to HBCU and
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  Speaker 1: Baton Rouge Southern University, and I enrolled in the summertime
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  Speaker 1: and I opt out and rolled in University of Houston,
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  Speaker 1: and seven years later I got my degree. And I've
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  Speaker 1: always been a fan of what the opportunities that, what
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  Speaker 1: did what could have been, Not that my degree I
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  Speaker 1: got a uh has failed me. It's not failed me
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  Speaker 1: at all. But they are all different experiences, and I
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  Speaker 1: guess I have with my show that they are important
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  Speaker 1: because they're going to share with you the possibilities. If
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  Speaker 1: you're sitting on the fence, if you were curious about
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  Speaker 1: what an HBCU is, let me just give you some
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  Speaker 1: facts about an HBCU. And these can be checked. That
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  Speaker 1: fifty percent all graduates of HBCUs who are black public
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  Speaker 1: school teachers are black come from HBCUs. Hpcent of the
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  Speaker 1: HBCU graduates black judges come from HBCUs. Seventy percent of
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  Speaker 1: the Black doctors come from HBCUs, fifty percent of the
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  Speaker 1: Black lawyers come from HBCUs, forty percent of the black
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  Speaker 1: engineers come from HBCUs, twenty four percent of the STEM
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  Speaker 1: graduates come from HBCUs, seventy five percent of the black
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  Speaker 1: veterinarians come from HBCUs, seventy percent of the Black dentists
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  Speaker 1: come from HBCUs. These are facts. These are individuals who
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  Speaker 1: are graduating from these schools and paying taxes and becoming
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  Speaker 1: an affected professional organizations, a group that is rather than
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  Speaker 1: this country. And we need to know that. And sometimes
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  Speaker 1: I feel that if you don't have people like me chirping,
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  Speaker 1: screaming promoting black excellence from these schools, then a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people will know. Because we all know about Dion Sanders,
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  Speaker 1: we all know what he's doing. That's sports. I'm talking
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  Speaker 1: about the academic side. Or your child can go to
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  Speaker 1: school and be an incredible academic achiever, an incredible professional,
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  Speaker 1: and one of these areas a doctor, a lawyer, engineer black.
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  Speaker 1: I forgot forty percent of the members of Congress who
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  Speaker 1: are black come from HBCUs or graduate from HBCUs. So
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  Speaker 1: if you have a gift, I want you to leave
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  Speaker 1: with your gift and don't let your friends, family, or
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  Speaker 1: co workers stop you from planning or living your dream.
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  Speaker 1: We were discussing how to overcome the arts in life.
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  Speaker 1: Like I stated earlier, my guests on the show today
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  Speaker 1: represent people were creating Black Excellent opportunities. But first guests
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  Speaker 1: would be introducing her in a minute. She founded HBCU Week.
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  Speaker 1: That's Ashley Christopher and she created academic and professional Black
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  Speaker 1: Excellent Opportunities. And Simone Lawrence who is creating HBCU job
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  Speaker 1: at academic Opportunities in Utah. And as always, our theme
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  Speaker 1: is there's no perfect time to start following your dreams.
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  Speaker 1: Let's get this show started. My guests on the show
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  Speaker 1: today is Ashley Christopher. She is a double HBCU ALAM
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  Speaker 1: of Howard University at UDC David A. Clark School of Law.
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  Speaker 1: Miss Christopher is paving a way for black youth to succeed.
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  Speaker 1: She draws from a law life experiences and celebrates how
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  Speaker 1: far she's come as an attorney, CEO, founder of HBCU
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  Speaker 1: Week Foundation, stroke survivor, and mother. Since twenty seventeen, HBCU
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  Speaker 1: HBCU Week Foundation has raised more than fifty million dollars
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  Speaker 1: for scholarships and created dozens of events to ensure that
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  Speaker 1: black youth no higher education is an option. The world
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  Speaker 1: took notice and landed her some of the most significant
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  Speaker 1: partnerships such as Walt Disney Company, Bank of America, Capital One,
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  Speaker 1: the American Chemistry Council, and the NFL, to name a few.
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  Speaker 1: Please welcome to Money Making Conversations, masterclass, Miss Ashley Christopher.
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  Speaker 1: How you doing, Ashley? I'm doing well, Rashan. Thank you
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  Speaker 1: so much for having me, and thank you for that
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  Speaker 1: great introduction. Well, first of all, I'm speaking the truth,
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  Speaker 1: and that's what we're going to talk about. The truth,
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  Speaker 1: the excellence that comes out of HBCUs that oftentimes doesn't
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  Speaker 1: get there, that the notoriety, what is being accomplished to
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  Speaker 1: these schools. And when the Congress sits out there and
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  Speaker 1: tells us they're given two point eight billion dollars to HBCU,
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  Speaker 1: it's almost like they're doing a favor which they should
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  Speaker 1: be given ten times an amount based on the academic
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  Speaker 1: and professional success of HBCUs. Can you comment on that? Oh, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I have to agree with that. You know, HBCUs continue
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  Speaker 1: to graduate the best and the brightest, year over year
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  Speaker 1: and contribute so much to just the world at large.
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  Speaker 1: And these institutions cannot continue to be overlooked. They need
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  Speaker 1: to be funded adequately and the opportunities need to continue
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  Speaker 1: to be extended the students who are looking forward to
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  Speaker 1: attending these institutions, because we can't get lost on the
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  Speaker 1: fact as to why they were even created. Because there
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  Speaker 1: was a time in this country where we were prohibited
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  Speaker 1: by law from matriculating into any higher education institution. So
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  Speaker 1: these colleges and universities were made specifically for us to
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  Speaker 1: get that education. And we have to remember that as
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  Speaker 1: we continue to push this message forward and that message
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  Speaker 1: and when we talk about that message. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: my relationship would Ashley Christopher's twofold. I met her when
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  Speaker 1: she was in college at Howard when I was managing
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  Speaker 1: Steve Harvey at the time, and then I managed met
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  Speaker 1: her again when she was she stationed in the Wilmington,
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  Speaker 1: Delaware works for the Mayor's office and they invited Stephen A.
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  Speaker 1: Smith down to honor him at an HBCU week event,
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  Speaker 1: and that's how I met her again, and that's how
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  Speaker 1: I found out about the event HBCU Foundation. But between
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  Speaker 1: all this the value of what an HBCU brings into
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  Speaker 1: your life personally. And people ask you, what is the
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  Speaker 1: first thing comes out of you through your mind process
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  Speaker 1: when you start talking about promoting or even talking about
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  Speaker 1: or being a symbol of HBCU success. Oh yeah, well
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell you this, Like I tell everybody when they
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  Speaker 1: ask me that question, going to an HBCUs the best
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  Speaker 1: decision I could have ever made for myself. What I've
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  Speaker 1: drawn from that experience is that no matter what room
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  Speaker 1: I walk into and who's in that space, I know
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  Speaker 1: that I had value. My voice is necessary and my
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  Speaker 1: presence is needed. And I don't know that I would
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  Speaker 1: have gotten that same sense of self confidence if I
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  Speaker 1: didn't choose a black institution, But going to how it
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  Speaker 1: really firmed up that confidence in me, and it gave
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  Speaker 1: me what I needed, you know, to go out into
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  Speaker 1: the world and to choose whatever career path it may be.
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  Speaker 1: That I'm valuable and my voice is necessary. So that
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  Speaker 1: hbc experience really developed that in me, and I think
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  Speaker 1: that every black student across the world deserves that same experience.
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  Speaker 1: And do you feel that there's competition, you know, as
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  Speaker 1: in athletics, there's competition you know, you know, you see
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  Speaker 1: these big schools like Michigan and University of Texas and
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  Speaker 1: Tennessee and you see eighty thousand, one hundred thousand people
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  Speaker 1: in the stands, and you know, but that's their reputation.
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  Speaker 1: But every but the HBC, you got their reputations to
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  Speaker 1: those bands, those bands and that athleticism and that that's
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  Speaker 1: that swag. You know, the HBC's bring that swag to
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  Speaker 1: the table. So we may not have a hundred thousand
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  Speaker 1: people in the stand but we got the swag of
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  Speaker 1: one hundred thousand. That is really that is really something
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  Speaker 1: that really is that they puts a smile on your face, right, oh, absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: And what you'll find is, you know, just like a
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  Speaker 1: lot of other things in black culture, people try to
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  Speaker 1: duplicate it. So even though we're small, we're very mighty,
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  Speaker 1: and we're very influential, and the things that we do
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  Speaker 1: on those HBC campuses influences people across the world. So
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  Speaker 1: you were right on a spot or right on a target.
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  Speaker 1: And when you mentioned, you know, the swag and the
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  Speaker 1: bands and maybe small in numbers, but we're mighty in
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  Speaker 1: our influence and that influence is great, and we're gonna,
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna, We're gonna swing. I'm gonna have for a
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  Speaker 1: couple of breakshit because we're gonna slow it down to
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  Speaker 1: talk about what she's doing from a standpoint of how
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  Speaker 1: the whole process of academic opportunities. I've been to her events.
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking about these college day events. You know, thousands
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  Speaker 1: of kids showing up there walking away with full scholarships,
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  Speaker 1: walking away with opportunities that they never is an entire weekend,
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  Speaker 1: and it's also traveling around country. But the whole idea
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  Speaker 1: of giving Scollish high school students is it? How did
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  Speaker 1: that whole idea of the HBCU foundation WE Foundation come about?
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  Speaker 1: And also we know where it is now and it's
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  Speaker 1: not nowhere where we wanted to be. I say we
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  Speaker 1: because I got you on the show to say, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: I'm an advocate of HBCU week I'm an advocate of
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  Speaker 1: what you're doing. I'm a believer that you are a
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  Speaker 1: person who's living her dream, and her dream is to
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  Speaker 1: create black excellence in our and our future leaders. So
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  Speaker 1: how did they come about HBCU WE Foundation is? Please
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  Speaker 1: explain to everybody what exactly it is. Yeah, So you
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  Speaker 1: know I was employed in the Mayor's office in Wilmington,
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  Speaker 1: Delaware as his special assistant, And what he did was
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  Speaker 1: asking me to come up with programming that was directed
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  Speaker 1: at Wilmington's most underserved communities. And I wanted to make
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  Speaker 1: sure that whatever focus I had, it was on education.
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  Speaker 1: I am a double HBCU, I'm from Wilmington, Delaware, and
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  Speaker 1: to be frank, there are a lot of students in
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  Speaker 1: my community that feel like higher education or college just
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  Speaker 1: isn't even an option for them, and I wanted to
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  Speaker 1: show them that that was not true. So what I
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  Speaker 1: did was I assembled in a college fairlike setting. Um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I planned for about two hundred high school
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  Speaker 1: students five or six HBCUs for students who engage directly
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  Speaker 1: with these admissions counselors, so that they would know what
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  Speaker 1: it took to get into these institutions and what they
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  Speaker 1: had to look forward to once they were admitted. But
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  Speaker 1: when I started to market that idea, those two hundred
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  Speaker 1: students spiked to seven hundred. So I knew that this
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  Speaker 1: was something you were you buy yourself, that it was
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  Speaker 1: just an idea by yourself. When you were lied, you
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  Speaker 1: gotta get some people around you. Huh oh, my gosh. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it was just like, wait, how did this number spike?
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  Speaker 1: You know, just a little old woman to Delaware. You know,
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  Speaker 1: two hundred I thought was an ambitious goal. But when
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  Speaker 1: we started to see the numbers coming in as to
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  Speaker 1: all the RCPs from the surrounding schools, we knew, okay,
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  Speaker 1: well it's not two hundred or seven hundred, so we've
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  Speaker 1: got to change venues very quickly and course correct to
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  Speaker 1: make sure we're accommodating these students. But from then I
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  Speaker 1: knew that there was an appetite woman to Delaware to
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  Speaker 1: learn more about HBCUs. And as you mentioned earlier where
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  Speaker 1: Shan we met back at when I was at Howard,
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  Speaker 1: when I was a vice chair of Howard home Coming
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  Speaker 1: two thousand and six, and I wanted to In my mind,
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, how do I take Howard home Coming on
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  Speaker 1: the road because I don't know the listeners. I'm hoping
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  Speaker 1: that you guys could experience how We're home coming before,
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  Speaker 1: but if not, you got about one hundred thousand people
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  Speaker 1: that descend upon the nation's capital to experience Howard home Coming.
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  Speaker 1: So being vice chair, it really gave me, you know,
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  Speaker 1: that backdrop of what I needed for high level event planning.
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  Speaker 1: So in deciding how to execute, you know how we're
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  Speaker 1: homecoming and bringing on the road, I knew this would
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  Speaker 1: really be exciting to these students, So let's excite them,
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  Speaker 1: have some fun, but also give them the opportunity to
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  Speaker 1: get accepted into college on the spot and get a
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  Speaker 1: scholarship award. So it's really transcended from a one day
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  Speaker 1: college fair, like I went to a week long of
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  Speaker 1: the activities. You're saying that that students can come to
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  Speaker 1: your event, just college their event, and bring their transcript
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  Speaker 1: and these test scores, which is ACT or the SAT
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  Speaker 1: test scores? Right? Oh, absolutely yes. So what happens is
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  Speaker 1: a lot of the participating college is engaging and on
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  Speaker 1: the spot acceptance process at our college fair. So if
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  Speaker 1: you're a graduating senior, we encourage you to come with
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  Speaker 1: copies of your transcript and your SAT or ACT scores
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  Speaker 1: because right there, on the spot, the admissions counselors will
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  Speaker 1: evaluate your academic record and tell you whether or not
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  Speaker 1: you're admitted and if you are eligible for a scholarship.
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  Speaker 1: And these scholarships range anywhere between a one time five
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  Speaker 1: thousand dollars award all the way up to a full ride. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: now parents, you hear this this HBCU week. Now we're
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  Speaker 1: not we're not jumping around. There are no like, no
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  Speaker 1: no admission fee. This is free them to come. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: there are no registration fees. When you're feeling out the application.
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  Speaker 1: This is telling your child are you coming with your
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  Speaker 1: child to the event. And they got they got several
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  Speaker 1: of them. We're gonna talk about the other eventure they're
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  Speaker 1: coming up. But I just want to I just want
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  Speaker 1: to put a disclaim about that because you're you know,
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  Speaker 1: our broadcast on Famie but then cook them. But then
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  Speaker 1: with Thun Cookman, h Clark, Albindy stay Texas and you
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  Speaker 1: you put some people on fire when you're talking about
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  Speaker 1: home coming in I just gotta put in disclaimers. Some
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  Speaker 1: people might get mad at you, girl, you know, talk
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  Speaker 1: about how good how it's home to coming is. I'm thinking,
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  Speaker 1: I just got I just got I just got through
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  Speaker 1: to put what's to satan state. I just got throws
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  Speaker 1: in support out for my schools to let them know
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  Speaker 1: y'all got it going on with your home coming because
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  Speaker 1: the schools you're inviting to come to your HBCU Week events. Correct. Oh, absolutely,
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  Speaker 1: we have welcomed um. To date, since we started a
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  Speaker 1: culture in twenty seventeen, we've had about sixty HBCUs show
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  Speaker 1: up to engage directly with the st So you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's all we're all family, HBCU love all the way
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  Speaker 1: around and sort. The beauty of it is that you
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  Speaker 1: maybe we're gonna, we're gonna this is why Like so
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  Speaker 1: I met her and Howard like she said university and
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  Speaker 1: then when I met in the Wimblton you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: it's a it's a local event in Wimblton at the time,
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  Speaker 1: it's not. It's not just in Wimblton anymore. We're gonna
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  Speaker 1: get that on our next break is that you come
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  Speaker 1: in there and you got When I went, it was
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  Speaker 1: about thirty five different HBCUs at the event that I
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  Speaker 1: went to up thinking what's in twenty and eighteen, I believe, yes, yes,
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  Speaker 1: thirty five HBCUs and I think there were thirty five
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  Speaker 1: hundred students there in twenty nineteen. UM this past year. No,
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  Speaker 1: don't don't, don't tell you we're gonna say that. We're
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  Speaker 1: gonna say that for them. We'll tell them we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: we gotta get them again hanging around. But before we
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  Speaker 1: go to break, tell everybody how they can well with
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  Speaker 1: the website and the social media numbers and and studying
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  Speaker 1: it will check any things out so when they come
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  Speaker 1: back from break they can start calling us to find
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  Speaker 1: out how they get their kids over. They get these
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  Speaker 1: scholarship opportunities at these hbc use How can we reach
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  Speaker 1: out to you? Absolutely, you can reach us at hbcuweek
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  Speaker 1: dot org. You can connect us directly. You can connected
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  Speaker 1: with us I'm sorry, directly through the website and on
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  Speaker 1: every social channel. We're at hbcueek that's Instagram, Facebook, Twitter,
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  Speaker 1: and LinkedIn. Okay, hbcuweek dot org And at hbcueek you
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  Speaker 1: can find out about scholarship opportunities. There are no tricks all.
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  Speaker 1: It is all complementary opportunities. But academic success. You got
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  Speaker 1: the scores you got to You only get there by
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  Speaker 1: by finding out. You only get that by doing research
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  Speaker 1: you want to get that. This is one stop shopping.
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  Speaker 1: Like I said, they got access to all the top
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  Speaker 1: universities of HBCU related data out there, Black colleges and
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  Speaker 1: university as well. There they are probably academically training our
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  Speaker 1: minority students of a couple of students of black or
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  Speaker 1: brown descent. But what I wanted to make sure that
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  Speaker 1: everybody understands that you know, hbcuweek dot org is the
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  Speaker 1: website they should consider any information more about academic training
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  Speaker 1: and professional opportunities for your job. We'll be right back
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  Speaker 1: know it sounds unbelievable that your child can just show
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  Speaker 1: up with their test scores, their academic scores from high school,
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  Speaker 1: especially they're graduating senior, and they can get and roll
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  Speaker 1: on the spot at these events that they can get
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: a full ride scholarship at these events. I've seen them,
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: I've been there. Stephen A. Smith is an ambassador for
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: HBCU Week, A proud ambassador of HBCU Week. Now as
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: we talk about this, you're being a double alum. I
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: was at the event in twenty and eighteen when I
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: saw thirty five hundred students show up and it was
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: like just a line of kids, very organized. Plus you
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: also bust some local kids in from high school to
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  Speaker 1: attend as well. Now, this event is going around the country,
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: but we want to talk about why is it traveling now?
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: And what did advantages of it traveling is going to
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  Speaker 1: bring to other students who are not near the Wimblington,
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: Delaware area. Yeah, so, I mean I knew that if
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  Speaker 1: a small city like Wilmington, Delaware could attract so much
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: attention and participation, that the appetite for this around the
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: country would would be pretty right. So I decided that
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: we should probably explore taking this, you know, around the
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: nation to get more and more students the opportunity. Because
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: what started to happen was people are getting winto this
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: college there. They're seeing about it on social media, maybe
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: hearing about it from other family members or friends they
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: may have in the area, and they're wondering, well, what
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: about our kids? How can we particular right to Wilmington?
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: You know. So we're making arrangements because we want to
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: have as many students have access to as opportunity as possible.
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: Whether the beauty is accessed, that's really the key. And uh,
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: like I said, I was fortunate to be a part
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: of the event. If you want to call and ask
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  Speaker 1: Ashley any questions called for zero four eight eight zero
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  Speaker 1: nine two five five four zero four eight eight zero
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  Speaker 1: nine two five five If you want to get any
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  Speaker 1: more or ask any questions. Uh can be your child
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: or just somebody you know, a cousin, or you could
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: be an auntie who wanted to inquire about these opportunities
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: as being presented at HBCU week dot org for information,
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: but you also can talk to alive. The thing that
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: the interests me is like these these events are always
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: sponsored driven and they're motivating. Um. You know we went
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: there the whole run where in twenty twenty, when you
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: know HBCUs was you couldn't walk without reading and see
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: something flashed about HBCUs or some type of um donation
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: being made to HBCUs. Where are we at right now?
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: Do you feel on that synergy level? It's it's still
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: kind of like up there, or it's kind of like
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: settled now and now you have to get back there
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: and start grinding and not saying you didn't you weren't grinding,
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: but there was at a point where people were gladly
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: making donations to HBCUs and events like your event. M yeah,
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: you know what I'll say about that is very interesting.
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  Speaker 1: The dust is starting to settle now and you can
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  Speaker 1: see which companies have a real intentional arm of support
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  Speaker 1: for diversity, equity, and inclusion. I would say in twenty
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: twenty it was a trend. Hey let's do this to
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: make it look like we're in support of that, or
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: to check a box. But as time is going on,
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: a lot of those companies who are at the forefront
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: of that fight may not necessarily be there. But the
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: ones who had real intentionality behind their actions and authenticity
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: behind their actions, they're still there. Right. So I'll leave
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: it at that without you know, calling out any company.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: Oh absolutely absolutely. But then I always say that because
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: I can feel it, I can see it, you know,
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: I mean to me, I understand where you know, you know,
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: you see, it's got really political out there, you know
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: where you know, a politics. Once people start moving stuff
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: into politics, it's unnecessarily you know, you know, questioning colleges
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: who support diversity, equity and inclusion opportunities, namely Florida as
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: a state that's really battling that issue with their governor,
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: and now the state of Texas is doing that. It's
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: sad that in our conversation about HBCUs, we have to
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: talk about that issue because it is becoming an issue
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: which causes companies to back off a little bit. They
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: don't want to be prought. They want to be a
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: flag bearer, and that whole political situation they get caught
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: up into, which in turn hurts a cause, a great
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: cause that you guys are trying to do and are
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: doing at HBCU. Weak. Yeah, it's very interesting. Um So,
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: conversations are starting to shift just a little bit, right,
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: But I'm just happy to say that we do have
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: the support of enough companies you do dismission moving forward
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: pretty strongly. Yet, well, what are the companies you do?
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: You got the mouse, the jack mouse came into your world,
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: and I will tell you once you know, certain people
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: can tap you on the shoulder and you realize that, hey,
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: this is a blessing that I didn't see coming. And
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: you went to Disney. What's the Disney World of Disney?
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: What's what's in Orlando? Is the Disney World in Orlando?
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: Disney World? Okay, Disney World in Orlando. And so that
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: was kind of like the HPCU week on stir Ards
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: stir Roards because it wasn't it win within Delaware anymore?
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: Now you uh yeah, Okay, So tell us how that
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: event and how did they get to that? And also
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: what's the ultimate goal because like as earlier saying, since
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: twenty seventeen, HPCU Week Foundation has raised more than fifty
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: million dollars for scholarships. Wow huh yeah, I mean, honestly,
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: we're shun. It grew at a pace that I was
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: never anticipating. Um, and it is the most exciting roller
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: coaster ride that I could have ever imagined. Um. Every
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: turn I made, there's another their opportunity to consider, or
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: another idea, you know, to to build out. And I
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: couldn't be more grateful for the spot that I'm in.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: So I'm really happy that we're in a space right now.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: We're able to scale and we're able to grow. And
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: I mean, who would have ever thought from Wilmington, Delaware
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: to Walt Disney World. I mean that is the biggest
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: jump that we could have ever experienced. So having that
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: opportunity was incredible for us because to be on a
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: stage like that, it got us all the eyeballs that
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: we needed to continue to grow. And I'm especially grateful
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: because bringing on Stephen A. Smith and having him agree
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: to be our brand ambassador caught the attention of the
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: Walt Disney Company, you know, because the ESPN is a
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: part of the Walt Disney Company, and you know it
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: caught some attention of some some key decision makers and
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: the restless history. Next thing, you know, we're planning and
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: going on site visits and executing events in Orland Hill.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: So you know, now you will end Wilminton, Delaware. Thirty
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: five hundred students in Wilmington, Dallare showed up. Okay, how
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: many and so how many HBCUs attended the event the
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: college the event, that's the event we're talking about. And
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: then how many students attended the event seeking uh information
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: about HPCUS enrollment in HPCUS and as well as scholarship
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: opportunities at HBCUs. Well, you know, twenty twenty two was
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: a very special year. We had record breaking numbers. So
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: in Wilmington, Delaware, we had forty HBCUs present and seven
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: thousand students at our college fair. When we went to Walton, Holo, Holo, holo. Okay,
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: for all the HPCUS in Wilmington, Delaware, littl Willington right
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: between Philadelphia and Baltimore, right h we had forty and
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: seven thousand students show up to that. But then months
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: later when we went to Walt Disney World, we had
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: eight thousand, six hundred students and fifty seven HBCUs. So
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: every time we execute this event or reactivate HBCU, we
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: can get bigger and better. I have no idea what
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: to even expect later this year in the fall when
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: we do this again. Um, but it's just really growing
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: at a pace that I couldn't be more grateful for. Well,
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: the so you know, you're throwing out these numbers. You
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: don't got your ball here stumbling now, so let's do
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: some quick math, you know. Yeah, so yeah, but roughly
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: ninety seven HBCUs that attended a lot of them were
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: the same though. Let me Brad can id can I Brad.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: That's why some people need marketers. So that's why people
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: need to have managers and consultants. You know, richand that
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: would do it again. Schools, you know, because you know,
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: uh Clark Atlanta, they went to both locations. You're gonna say, well,
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: it was the same students of both locations, Rishane, you know,
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: the same students. You know, we didn't really have fifteen
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: thousand students, sixteen thousand students that you go so you
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: have so you had forty in Wilmington Delaware, and that's
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: what's in September of last year. And then you had
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: fifty seven in Orlando in October of last year, as
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: ninety seven schools HBCUs seeking a Tier one students I'd
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: like to call tier one students students who are interested
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: in going to college, seeking higher education. And then on
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: top of that almost nine thousand students, oh yeah, eighty
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: six hundred in Orlando and seven thousand in Wilmington. So
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: it was it was a huge crowd in both spaces,
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: um and nobody. Nobody paid the dime. No students paid anything.
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: They just came and they met, They met the counselors,
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: They presented their their their their graduate or information from
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: their high school academic information, they transcript if they had
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: test scores, act or sets and they could have enrolled
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: on the spot. Did you have any information on from
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: Delaware how many students enrolled and how much scholarship dollars
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: were delivered there? And I'll man in the same in Orlando.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: Do you have that type of information you can share
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: with my listeners. Yeah, So between the two locations, we
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: offered over six thousand college acceptances on the spot and
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: more than fifteen million dollars and scholarship awards, So that
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: was split between each of the different locations that we
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: activated it in twenty twenty two. So I'm gonna just
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: tell you what you just did. You change six thousand
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  Speaker 1: young people's lives, fifteen million dollars and academic opportunities. If
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: you didn't have an HPCU Foundation Week Foundation, then there's
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: six thousand students who we don't know. I'm not saying
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: they would they would have been lost out there, but
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: at least they was given a sense of purpose. At
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: least they was given a direction. At least they weren't
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: tricked and they got to then they and then they
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: walking to your college day and they're not just walking
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: and talking to just one HBCU. You know, there were
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: there were There were fifty seven in Orlando, there were
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: forty in Wilm Delaware. There were options. That's the beauty
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: of what you're trying to do. So when we talk
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: about going to other locations in twenty twenty three, what
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: are the other places that you're looking at besides Orlando,
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: besides Wimbledon, Delaware that we may be able to attend
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: an HBCU Week Foundation event. Well, we're looking to activate
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: in Atlanta this year. So okay, okay, you know I'm
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: in a mouthpiece, I mean mouthpiece. Yeah, oh yeah, you know,
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: I'm excited. I love Atlanta. I love the city of Atlanta,
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: so um. It's such a rich spot for HBCU culture,
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: especially with the AUC and Morris Brown getting their accreditation back.
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: So it's just a really I think high time for
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: us to come into that city and expose those kids
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  Speaker 1: to these opportunities. So we're working on it right now.
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: We're doing some some pretty aggressive fundraising and we're on
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: our way. So I look forward to that and the
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: ultimate goal. There's always a goal to this, you know,
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: because of the fact that it is h maybe one
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: day on a telethon where you know you're honoring people,
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: are you what does the ultimate goal of the HPCU Foundation,
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: outside of just presenting academic opportunities for students who are
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: interested in tending HBCUs. Well, I have to say that
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: that does fall in line with the main goal. I
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: tell people all the time that I want HBCU Week
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: to be as big as a Super Bowl, meaning I
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: want people from every area of the world to at
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: least know what it is, right you may not even
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: have any interest in it, but you know what it
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: is because our impact is so great, and our scholarships
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: I am very very proud of, particularly the ones on
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: our corporate side, because we don't give away anything less
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: than ten thousand dollars when we give a scholarship from
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: our foundation through our corporate partners, and those awards range
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: between ten and fifty thousand dollars per students. Our most
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: popular scholarship is our Fosse Scholarship. That's for STEMS students
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: that are studying STEMS, and we give away one hundred
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: and fifty forty thousand dollars scholarships per year for students
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: that are declaring a STEM major and are headed to
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: an HBCU. So what I'd like to do is offer
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: that opportunity in every industry, not just STEM but also
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: banking or if you want to be an entertainment or
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: marketing or communications. I want people to know that if
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: they want to go to an HBCU, we have the
• 30:42
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• 31:03
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• 31:04
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• 31:06
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• 31:09
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• 31:13
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