WEBVTT - A Different World Is Coming Back—But Do We Still Have the Same World? 0:00:02.279 --> 0:00:04.720 I'm a homegrowd that knows a little bit about everything 0:00:04.800 --> 0:00:06.920 and everybody, you know, if. 0:00:06.840 --> 0:00:11.960 You don't lie about that, right Lauren, Hey, y'all. 0:00:11.720 --> 0:00:15.360 What's up. It's Lauren Rosa and this is another episode 0:00:15.440 --> 0:00:18.080 of the Latest with Laura l. Rosa. This is your 0:00:18.120 --> 0:00:21.160 Deily dig on all things about culture, entertainment, news, and 0:00:21.280 --> 0:00:24.840 all of the conversations that shape the room. Baby. So today, 0:00:25.040 --> 0:00:28.240 y'all know, we kick off the podcast every single day 0:00:28.320 --> 0:00:34.000 with checking it behind the scenes of the Grind. And 0:00:34.040 --> 0:00:35.960 I don't know if y'all cannot tell, and my voice, 0:00:36.040 --> 0:00:43.680 I am exhausted. I recorded this whole opening for you guys, 0:00:43.760 --> 0:00:45.279 and then I was like, you know what, I'm too 0:00:45.280 --> 0:00:49.120 tired to even go into the detail of it. It's 0:00:49.200 --> 0:00:52.680 almost midnight right now, and the podcast goes live at 0:00:52.720 --> 0:00:56.880 six am, and my call time for Breakfast Club is 0:00:56.880 --> 0:01:01.240 about five thirty. So I running on fumes right now. 0:01:01.360 --> 0:01:03.520 But it really made me think about a lot of 0:01:03.560 --> 0:01:08.120 what my day entailed and why. And I was on 0:01:08.160 --> 0:01:09.959 a phone with one of my homegirls and I was 0:01:09.959 --> 0:01:12.039 telling her like, Oh, I'm about to go into a 0:01:12.080 --> 0:01:17.360 production meeting to prep for my show segments tomorrow, and 0:01:17.440 --> 0:01:20.160 she was like, damn, you still working like you've been 0:01:20.200 --> 0:01:23.559 at work all day long, Like you're just getting home. 0:01:24.440 --> 0:01:27.399 That's probably around like five six o'clock. She's like, you 0:01:27.560 --> 0:01:30.600 just getting home and you about to like work for 0:01:30.800 --> 0:01:33.680 a few more hours tonight. And I was like, yes, 0:01:35.280 --> 0:01:39.039 normally it's so crazy because normally I don't even like 0:01:39.160 --> 0:01:42.760 unless we're texting, I won't even really like just sit 0:01:42.840 --> 0:01:45.240 on the phone with my friends a lot during the week. 0:01:45.480 --> 0:01:49.200 I'm tired of y'all. I am pushing through though, because 0:01:49.680 --> 0:01:52.200 we made a commitment to consistency this year. We made 0:01:52.160 --> 0:01:55.720 a commitment to which we've been consistent. Like I do 0:01:55.800 --> 0:01:58.880 pride myself, like a daily podcast is not an easy thing, 0:01:59.640 --> 0:02:04.520 but I told myself that this year, not only was 0:02:04.600 --> 0:02:06.200 I going to be consistent and making sure you guys 0:02:06.200 --> 0:02:07.960 get episodes, but I was gonna be consistent in my 0:02:08.080 --> 0:02:11.799 upload times, which mean a lot as we're building together 0:02:11.800 --> 0:02:15.200 in the community. So here I am tired and all 0:02:15.960 --> 0:02:18.240 behind the scenes of the grind, but we pushing through 0:02:18.680 --> 0:02:21.520 because we're gonna go from grinding to living one day soon. Okay, 0:02:22.120 --> 0:02:24.839 but we gotta get the work done first, so let's 0:02:24.840 --> 0:02:28.480 get on into the latest. So it's different inspirations A 0:02:28.520 --> 0:02:30.640 Different World. Do you guys know the TV show A 0:02:30.680 --> 0:02:33.799 Different World Dwayne, Wayne and Whitley, and you know they 0:02:33.840 --> 0:02:38.600 go away to HBCU. A Different World has a spin 0:02:38.639 --> 0:02:40.960 off show or kind of like a sequel show that 0:02:41.080 --> 0:02:46.520 is coming to Netflix on September twenty fourth. Now this 0:02:46.680 --> 0:02:50.440 is amazing because majority of all of the original casts 0:02:50.720 --> 0:02:54.880 will be returning. The original A Different World premiere back 0:02:54.880 --> 0:02:57.680 in nineteen eighty seven and followed a group of students 0:02:57.919 --> 0:02:59.840 who went away to college for the first time. At 0:02:59.880 --> 0:03:02.840 the it's like fake HBCU called him in college. But 0:03:02.919 --> 0:03:06.160 I feel like every student, Shoot, we're not students anymore. 0:03:06.240 --> 0:03:09.400 Y'all be grown. I feel like every student, or some 0:03:09.440 --> 0:03:12.040 of y'all may be students, every student who is going 0:03:12.600 --> 0:03:17.280 to an HBCU, or every alumni or alumni who have 0:03:17.480 --> 0:03:21.079 graduated from HBCU, at least one time you have sat 0:03:21.120 --> 0:03:22.960 and watched A Different World because they went to a 0:03:22.960 --> 0:03:25.000 fictional HBCU. It was Hill in college, and I think 0:03:25.000 --> 0:03:27.040 a lot of us envisioned hum in college in many 0:03:27.040 --> 0:03:30.960 different ways for ourselves as what we thought at HBCU 0:03:31.000 --> 0:03:33.919 would be like. So one of the original cast members, 0:03:33.960 --> 0:03:37.680 her name is Don Lewis. She co wrote the song 0:03:37.920 --> 0:03:40.480 that is the different World theme song that we know. 0:03:40.560 --> 0:03:42.400 Let's listen to the original theme songs. 0:03:43.040 --> 0:03:52.760 Know my Parents Love Me, sing behind Me, read. 0:04:00.480 --> 0:04:05.480 I'm right, But now a Different World has a new 0:04:06.040 --> 0:04:11.280 re done freshly redone theme song Our Girl Brandy. That's 0:04:11.280 --> 0:04:13.640 said liaten A Brandy doing the Different World theme song. 0:04:14.200 --> 0:04:20.039 It's a different world and where you come from? Ye see, 0:04:20.200 --> 0:04:25.360 you know, go again tole I know my parents love 0:04:26.560 --> 0:04:29.120 stand behind me, Come one, lady. 0:04:30.320 --> 0:04:31.240 And none of that. 0:04:31.680 --> 0:04:37.080 I'm ready for how Bunny we have them faces. It's 0:04:37.160 --> 0:04:44.080 the different world and where you come from it's the 0:04:44.240 --> 0:04:45.240 different world. 0:04:46.560 --> 0:04:53.440 Then where you come from, it's a different world. The 0:04:53.640 --> 0:05:00.880 way you come from, it's a different world and where 0:05:00.960 --> 0:05:01.800 it comes from. 0:05:10.240 --> 0:05:11.359 Some mom different world. 0:05:12.000 --> 0:05:14.720 Put me in the world. What's so dope about this 0:05:14.880 --> 0:05:17.000 to me is when I think about, you know, like 0:05:17.200 --> 0:05:21.240 motivation in the space and pride and what I'm doing 0:05:21.320 --> 0:05:24.320 and how I'm doing it and like all of that. 0:05:24.520 --> 0:05:28.080 Of course, I mean, you got these staple shows that 0:05:28.160 --> 0:05:34.159 I think about, Cosby Show, Living Single Girlfriends, Moesha, but Moesha, 0:05:34.279 --> 0:05:37.920 but Moesha, I remember why? I mean a different world 0:05:37.960 --> 0:05:39.320 as well. We're talking about a different world. But I 0:05:39.320 --> 0:05:42.400 remember watching a Different World and wanted to go to 0:05:42.480 --> 0:05:47.120 an HBCU. I remember watching Living Single and wanted to 0:05:47.160 --> 0:05:51.040 work at a magazine because you know, like Queen Latifa, 0:05:51.120 --> 0:05:55.600 they ran a magazine. And I remember watching Girlfriends and 0:05:55.680 --> 0:05:57.640 wanted to be fly. I wanted to be successful, want 0:05:57.680 --> 0:05:59.400 to own a home and do all the cute look 0:05:59.640 --> 0:06:02.479 you know, lunch outings and grabbing drinks with my girlfriends. 0:06:02.880 --> 0:06:05.720 But I remember watching Moisha and just wanting to be 0:06:08.440 --> 0:06:12.280 just be like Moaisha's story was such a story of 0:06:12.400 --> 0:06:17.120 a young black girl just going through life. Like you know, 0:06:17.560 --> 0:06:19.760 we experienced so many different things for the first time 0:06:19.800 --> 0:06:22.680 with her, learned so many things for the first time 0:06:22.680 --> 0:06:25.600 with Mosha, but she really just was a black young 0:06:25.800 --> 0:06:29.160 woman going through like figuring things out as you know 0:06:29.600 --> 0:06:33.080 it came along, and I wanted to be in Mosha 0:06:33.160 --> 0:06:35.240 like I wanted to be in the show. I wanted 0:06:35.560 --> 0:06:37.720 like I wanted to be in something that felt like 0:06:37.839 --> 0:06:44.479 that watching her and now she is singing the theme 0:06:44.560 --> 0:06:48.200 song to A Different World, which another show where it's 0:06:48.240 --> 0:06:50.240 like yo, I wanted to go to the HBCU like 0:06:50.279 --> 0:06:52.080 I wanted to hang out in the student center like 0:06:52.120 --> 0:06:54.440 they did where the merch, like they did find my 0:06:54.640 --> 0:06:56.560 you know, find my love who and shout out to 0:06:56.640 --> 0:06:59.440 my man Cozy both friends Adel State, find my Love 0:07:00.040 --> 0:07:03.760 you know at college like Dwayne, Wayne and Whitley did, 0:07:03.920 --> 0:07:06.960 like all of these. What I'm trying to say is 0:07:07.600 --> 0:07:10.800 I think it is so fitting for Brandy. If anybody 0:07:10.960 --> 0:07:12.400 was going to redo this theme song, it was so 0:07:12.560 --> 0:07:15.960 fitting for her because A Different World it was such 0:07:16.000 --> 0:07:20.440 a staple show for so many young people. It made 0:07:20.560 --> 0:07:23.800 such an impact on people, and Brandy, you know, she 0:07:23.920 --> 0:07:26.880 says that it made an impact on her. So she 0:07:27.000 --> 0:07:30.120 gave a quote to Netflix, which is where again the 0:07:31.600 --> 0:07:34.360 new rendition of a Different World will be. Although it 0:07:34.360 --> 0:07:37.000 don't have the original cast, there will be a new 0:07:37.080 --> 0:07:39.600 young cast. And the storyline in the plot is that, 0:07:39.840 --> 0:07:43.640 you know, Dwayne, Wayne and Whitley's daughter is going away 0:07:43.680 --> 0:07:46.440 to college and she's experiencing her first year of college. 0:07:46.800 --> 0:07:48.880 And guess where she's going, y'all? She following her parents. 0:07:48.920 --> 0:07:51.840 She's going to Hilman. But Brandy says, when they called 0:07:51.880 --> 0:07:53.800 me to do the theme song, I was so blown away. 0:07:53.920 --> 0:07:56.360 First of all, I had to get myself together that 0:07:56.520 --> 0:08:00.480 show was actually coming back. What because I'm a fan 0:08:00.560 --> 0:08:03.000 of the show. She says, a Different World inspired me 0:08:03.080 --> 0:08:04.920 as a kid. It made me feel like I could 0:08:04.920 --> 0:08:07.200 go out into the world and become my own person. 0:08:07.720 --> 0:08:10.360 With hard work and with dedication, I could make my 0:08:10.440 --> 0:08:13.400 dreams come true. Brandy, who became known for her throwing 0:08:13.520 --> 0:08:16.320 rolls and Mosha which was from nineteen ninety six to 0:08:16.440 --> 0:08:20.600 two thousand and one, and Rogers and Hammerstein's Cinderella Yo 0:08:21.080 --> 0:08:24.080 in ninety seven with Whitney Houston. Watching Brandy and Cinderella 0:08:24.720 --> 0:08:27.920 was so magical and it's so crazy that she's saying 0:08:27.960 --> 0:08:30.240 at a different world that inspired her and made her 0:08:30.320 --> 0:08:33.680 want to be on TV and do all these magical things, 0:08:34.000 --> 0:08:35.760 and then she goes on to do them and now 0:08:35.800 --> 0:08:38.839 it's coming back full circle and she is singing the 0:08:39.000 --> 0:08:45.439 theme song, and I'm like, we had such good, feel good, 0:08:45.679 --> 0:08:50.120 substantive television and movies that were black, and it wasn't 0:08:50.240 --> 0:08:56.160 like it wasn't like black where it's like they couldn't act, 0:08:56.280 --> 0:08:59.440 like they couldn't talk about the black experience. I feel 0:08:59.480 --> 0:09:00.880 like a lot of suf now it's like, yeah, you 0:09:00.960 --> 0:09:03.200 got black people on television and a lot of these series, 0:09:03.840 --> 0:09:06.920 but you know, it's like they're racially in big ambiguous, 0:09:07.080 --> 0:09:11.400 or you might have one conversation about things are actually 0:09:11.480 --> 0:09:15.640 happening in young black people's lives, if at all. Outside 0:09:15.640 --> 0:09:17.400 of that, everybody's on stream. And I'm not mad at 0:09:17.440 --> 0:09:20.839 the stream, but it's like we had television that was 0:09:21.120 --> 0:09:24.720 it was like curated and centered around certain conversations, even 0:09:24.760 --> 0:09:26.400 if they had to fight behind the scenes to make 0:09:26.440 --> 0:09:30.840 those conversations happen, almost like a teacher has a curriculum 0:09:30.840 --> 0:09:34.079 at school. And we learned so much it was crazy, 0:09:34.080 --> 0:09:36.600 if you think about it. We learned so much by 0:09:36.679 --> 0:09:38.880 the conversations they were having on shows like a Different 0:09:38.920 --> 0:09:42.440 World like Moesha through the TV, and if you were 0:09:42.559 --> 0:09:44.600 lucky and blessed enough, you were taking that back into 0:09:44.640 --> 0:09:46.920 your home and having those conversations at home as well too. 0:09:47.600 --> 0:09:51.760 But think about what that exposure and seeing people like you, 0:09:52.880 --> 0:09:55.959 really like you too, I mean, dressing like you, lip gloss, 0:09:56.040 --> 0:09:58.760 popping brown lip, lying a girl around the way like 0:09:58.880 --> 0:10:03.719 you on televis Brandy continues, you know, watching all of 0:10:03.880 --> 0:10:07.199 this and watching a Different World inspired her singing career 0:10:07.280 --> 0:10:09.600 and inspire her to want to do more acting. She says, 0:10:09.760 --> 0:10:12.000 just seeing people that look like me on television made 0:10:12.040 --> 0:10:15.600 me dream bigger. I know exactly what she's sad. Even 0:10:15.720 --> 0:10:22.280 living in California because Brandy like lived in California. I thought. 0:10:22.440 --> 0:10:27.520 I was like I literally remember being like, I'm going 0:10:27.559 --> 0:10:28.920 to move to California and I want to go to 0:10:28.960 --> 0:10:31.800 school in California because I want to hang out and 0:10:32.200 --> 0:10:34.360 do the things like that Brandy and her friends was doing. 0:10:34.520 --> 0:10:38.199 Like I remember one episode specifically of Moosha where she 0:10:38.400 --> 0:10:40.760 was dating Q and they was head into the house 0:10:40.840 --> 0:10:43.880 parties and she had the like the jeep, I think 0:10:43.920 --> 0:10:45.960 it was his jeep, and then it broke down. They 0:10:46.000 --> 0:10:48.360 weren't supposed to be there. It was like a whole key. 0:10:48.840 --> 0:10:50.760 But when I moved to La, I wanted to get 0:10:50.800 --> 0:10:54.079 the jeep. I wanted to be like Moysha. When I 0:10:54.120 --> 0:10:58.640 went to the HBCU, I wanted to be like all 0:10:58.679 --> 0:11:02.640 of the people that I watched World. So whoever put 0:11:02.720 --> 0:11:05.200 that connection together, I'm just like, Okay, if we're going 0:11:05.240 --> 0:11:07.599 to do this, we need somebody who like, you know, 0:11:08.480 --> 0:11:11.959 can actually sing and it sounds good, but also like 0:11:12.280 --> 0:11:16.040 it's also a staple in television that impacted and change 0:11:16.040 --> 0:11:18.840 people's lives, and I think with you know, a lot 0:11:18.920 --> 0:11:21.120 of these newer shows being added to Netflix. Like I 0:11:21.160 --> 0:11:24.000 remember when Moisha was added to Netflix. There's a younger 0:11:24.120 --> 0:11:28.000 audience who doesn't remember the impact of Masha on television 0:11:28.080 --> 0:11:30.199 that is going to watch it because it went so viral. 0:11:30.280 --> 0:11:33.520 People were having conversations about Moisha. She was a good friend, 0:11:33.640 --> 0:11:35.839 horrible friend, a good person, a bad or like it 0:11:36.000 --> 0:11:40.120 started a conversation, and conversation is like word of my 0:11:40.240 --> 0:11:42.640 recommendation at this point. So then you have a bunch 0:11:42.679 --> 0:11:46.960 of younger audiences that will go and watch a different world, right, 0:11:46.960 --> 0:11:49.199 And they're going to trickle in through the Moosha and 0:11:49.280 --> 0:11:53.199 the Brandy realm of things, but then they get to 0:11:53.240 --> 0:11:55.719 a different world and they get to experience not only 0:11:55.880 --> 0:11:58.439 the original different world because you can watch that on 0:11:58.600 --> 0:12:04.199 Netflix as well, but now this new refreshed story and 0:12:04.320 --> 0:12:07.959 I think the intergenerational thing is just amazing. So I 0:12:08.080 --> 0:12:10.040 was excited to see this. I'm excited to see what 0:12:10.120 --> 0:12:15.160 the spinoff gives, and I'm excited to review it. Actually, 0:12:15.280 --> 0:12:18.560 I think when that drops, we'll do like some dedicated 0:12:18.640 --> 0:12:22.520 episodes just to it, because like, I really can't tell 0:12:22.600 --> 0:12:25.560 y'all enough how watching these shows are the reason y'all 0:12:25.559 --> 0:12:30.000 are hearing from me right now, like literally speaking of school. 0:12:30.520 --> 0:12:35.760 There was a video that was circulated on my timeline 0:12:35.800 --> 0:12:38.839 today on Instagram as I was just trying to take 0:12:38.880 --> 0:12:41.640 a second to wind down from work in between going 0:12:41.720 --> 0:12:44.720 back to work for the podcast. But there's a chef. 0:12:45.160 --> 0:12:47.640 His name is Darius Williams, but he goes by Darius 0:12:47.760 --> 0:12:52.079 Cooks on Instagram. He's known, you know, pretty known online. 0:12:52.559 --> 0:12:55.120 I actually didn't know him as it cook This video 0:12:55.240 --> 0:12:58.880 actually is what brought me to him in his Instagram. 0:12:59.360 --> 0:13:01.439 But I was like doing some diggings just finding out 0:13:01.480 --> 0:13:02.719 who he was, and I saw that a lot of 0:13:02.800 --> 0:13:05.400 people were talking about how he's this like really well 0:13:05.480 --> 0:13:08.000 known chef online. Then I went to his Instagram and 0:13:08.040 --> 0:13:10.240 saw a lot of the plating and the food. But 0:13:10.400 --> 0:13:14.440 more recently he had posted a video talking about decorating 0:13:14.520 --> 0:13:17.160 his class for the first time first day at school, 0:13:17.920 --> 0:13:22.280 and this was literally this week. These videos were posted 0:13:22.320 --> 0:13:25.520 this week. He's an early first time teacher who is 0:13:25.960 --> 0:13:29.120 getting a very rude awakening about what our education system 0:13:29.160 --> 0:13:34.160 has done. We talk about, you know, hope, belief, inspiration 0:13:34.280 --> 0:13:36.439 and having that through television. We don't have that, But 0:13:36.520 --> 0:13:41.400 we also don't have a lot of the educational practices 0:13:41.440 --> 0:13:43.800 outside of school that you know, I feel like our 0:13:43.880 --> 0:13:47.720 parents were doing with us, and it's shown in the kids. Honestly, 0:13:47.800 --> 0:13:49.840 I feel like this has always been an age hotel, 0:13:49.960 --> 0:13:53.000 especially in inner city schools with black kids. But let's 0:13:53.000 --> 0:13:54.520 take us to the Varius Williams. 0:13:55.640 --> 0:13:59.079 So I am on my lunch break. It is I 0:13:59.120 --> 0:14:04.800 don't know, eleven thirty or something like that, and I 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:11.840 just finished a three hour class. We have what's called block, 0:14:12.000 --> 0:14:15.800 and block is where first and second periods are combined 0:14:17.080 --> 0:14:19.320 for subjects that needed. 0:14:19.920 --> 0:14:20.160 And so. 0:14:22.080 --> 0:14:26.440 I literally broke down in the middle of class because 0:14:30.600 --> 0:14:36.760 I'm teaching seniors. These kids are leaving high school and 0:14:36.960 --> 0:14:44.840 going to college hopefully. After they finished, we had two 0:14:45.000 --> 0:14:55.320 paragraphs to read, one sentence complete to write. I gave 0:14:55.440 --> 0:15:02.320 them the sentence stamps, basically configured the sentence for them 0:15:02.720 --> 0:15:03.320 in the model. 0:15:07.080 --> 0:15:14.960 These are seventeen and eighteen year old kids, and they 0:15:15.000 --> 0:15:20.720 couldn't fill in four words four words. 0:15:24.960 --> 0:15:31.960 I gave them the scenario we annotated together. I gave 0:15:32.080 --> 0:15:38.440 them the answers before we even had the problem, and 0:15:38.560 --> 0:15:39.320 they couldn't do it. 0:15:42.680 --> 0:15:43.120 I don't know. 0:15:44.920 --> 0:15:51.360 I simply don't know where the problem is. This is 0:15:51.480 --> 0:15:58.640 only day two, and I have seniors who simply cannot 0:16:00.440 --> 0:16:09.160 read and singers cannot write. They cannot write, they can reason, 0:16:10.480 --> 0:16:14.040 they have the ability to defend their reasoning if it's 0:16:14.120 --> 0:16:19.000 talking to their homeboy, but applying that to a written text, 0:16:19.320 --> 0:16:27.800 to paragraphs, and they couldn't do it. Our young black men, 0:16:29.120 --> 0:16:34.160 our young brown men, our young black girls, and our 0:16:34.280 --> 0:16:35.720 young prop girl. 0:16:42.720 --> 0:16:46.080 Now I begin looking up, like what is reading literacy 0:16:46.440 --> 0:16:49.360 like for black students in the United States? According to 0:16:50.240 --> 0:16:54.200 a website called DC Action, there is a severe and 0:16:54.320 --> 0:16:59.920 persistent achievement gap. So national data shows that only about 0:17:00.120 --> 0:17:03.000 seventeen percent of black fourth graders and fourteen percent of 0:17:03.040 --> 0:17:08.560 black eighth graders read at or above proficiency levels, trailing 0:17:08.600 --> 0:17:12.440 significantly behind their white and Asian peers. Which is crazy 0:17:12.480 --> 0:17:15.000 because think about in eighth grade, where like if you 0:17:15.119 --> 0:17:17.240 remember where you were in eighth grade as far as 0:17:17.320 --> 0:17:18.960 like what your mental was like and the things that 0:17:19.040 --> 0:17:21.160 you were beginning to think about. Like I remember being 0:17:21.200 --> 0:17:22.760 in eighth grade and I was excited to go to 0:17:22.880 --> 0:17:25.840 high school, but like you're getting prepared to drive, you're 0:17:25.840 --> 0:17:30.199 getting prepared to like start working eventually, and there are 0:17:30.240 --> 0:17:32.800 some people that are having to prepare for all of that, 0:17:33.680 --> 0:17:36.359 and then it's like college prep stuff if you're starting 0:17:36.440 --> 0:17:39.000 that early in ninth grade. Once you're leaving eighth grade, 0:17:40.560 --> 0:17:43.760 you know, you start doing SAT classes if you're early 0:17:43.840 --> 0:17:45.320 enough and smart enough, and a lot of the schools 0:17:45.400 --> 0:17:48.760 just offer that ahead of time now so that you're 0:17:48.800 --> 0:17:52.520 not cramming to prepare for the SATs. Imagine all of 0:17:52.640 --> 0:17:56.399 that and you can't read or write proficiently. Now. Some 0:17:56.520 --> 0:17:59.720 of the contributed factors to this poverty and resources. So 0:17:59.760 --> 0:18:04.200 black children faced higher rates of economic disadvantage in neighborhood poverty, 0:18:04.240 --> 0:18:09.080 which directly correlates with lower school funding and fewer learning supports. 0:18:09.400 --> 0:18:11.600 The sad thing about this is I went to an 0:18:11.640 --> 0:18:14.119 inner city school. Shout out to Howard High School Technology. 0:18:14.520 --> 0:18:16.720 I went to an inner city school, and I remember 0:18:17.720 --> 0:18:21.280 what school was like before the state stepped in, and 0:18:21.400 --> 0:18:23.840 what school was like after. I was kind of toward 0:18:23.920 --> 0:18:26.159 my end of my matriculation through the high school at 0:18:26.200 --> 0:18:28.239 that point, like I was a senior headed out by 0:18:28.280 --> 0:18:30.800 the time the state stepped in. But I just remember 0:18:30.880 --> 0:18:33.440 our teachers, like I said this all the time that 0:18:34.280 --> 0:18:37.200 the high school I went to saved lives. They didn't 0:18:37.280 --> 0:18:40.040 just teach us as students. It saved lives because our 0:18:40.119 --> 0:18:43.200 teachers were working with nothing. I remember our buildings falling apart, 0:18:43.320 --> 0:18:47.359 our books were old, like you know. Literally toward my 0:18:47.640 --> 0:18:50.479 junior senior year, we started getting more support. I went 0:18:50.520 --> 0:18:52.200 to a votech high school. At I was a legal 0:18:52.240 --> 0:18:56.359 administrative assisting career path like that, I was learning how 0:18:56.400 --> 0:18:58.080 to do that. A lot of the people I went 0:18:58.119 --> 0:19:01.199 to high school with didn't go on a college. They 0:19:01.280 --> 0:19:05.480 became legal administrative assistants and then went on to be paralegal. 0:19:05.600 --> 0:19:07.119 Some of them did go to college. A lot of 0:19:07.160 --> 0:19:10.120 people went to college, and if they did, they might 0:19:10.160 --> 0:19:13.680 have stayed in the criminal you know area criminal justice 0:19:13.680 --> 0:19:15.480 areas for our study, or like they went on to 0:19:15.520 --> 0:19:19.000 become lawyers. I just remember everything we needed and how 0:19:19.119 --> 0:19:21.680 like we would be really excited when the local businesses, 0:19:21.760 --> 0:19:24.040 like the local banks or local law firms or whatever 0:19:24.560 --> 0:19:28.560 would come and partner with our career areas, because then 0:19:28.720 --> 0:19:30.960 our shops would have all of the i't want to 0:19:30.960 --> 0:19:32.520 say shops, I mean like your shop is like your 0:19:32.560 --> 0:19:35.520 career path, but like so like your main courses of study, 0:19:35.600 --> 0:19:37.280 which had to do with where you wanted to go. 0:19:38.040 --> 0:19:40.720 Trade wise, we had a lot of support in those 0:19:40.800 --> 0:19:43.080 areas because local businesses would come in. But in the 0:19:43.119 --> 0:19:45.320 other areas where local businesses are not coming in and 0:19:45.400 --> 0:19:48.320 donating books and time and all, like, it wasn't that 0:19:48.920 --> 0:19:52.639 teachers were stressed. Like we went through it, and I 0:19:52.760 --> 0:19:55.480 remember when the state stepped in, And I don't remember 0:19:55.560 --> 0:19:57.480 exactly what made them step in, but I just remember 0:19:57.520 --> 0:20:01.760 when they did, how things changed. Physical location of our 0:20:01.800 --> 0:20:04.280 school change, like we were in the same address. I 0:20:04.320 --> 0:20:07.280 don't mean that, but just like the look of it, 0:20:07.560 --> 0:20:11.840 Like they begin revamping the physical structure of our school, 0:20:12.119 --> 0:20:16.320 renovating inside of the school books. There was more technology available, 0:20:16.440 --> 0:20:21.280 Like everything just changed, and that matters. This article also 0:20:21.320 --> 0:20:24.240 talks about how many public schools have historically used outdated 0:20:24.320 --> 0:20:29.720 reading techniques rather than evidence based, phonic focused instruction. 0:20:30.320 --> 0:20:31.480 And that's what I like. 0:20:31.600 --> 0:20:34.280 When I was listening to this video and then I 0:20:34.400 --> 0:20:37.360 went back and I watched how he was teaching his class, 0:20:37.960 --> 0:20:39.800 I'm like, Oh, he reminds me like an old school 0:20:39.840 --> 0:20:42.240 teacher who's like actually taking the time to like break 0:20:42.359 --> 0:20:44.840 down and like, you know, all the things that he 0:20:44.960 --> 0:20:47.560 was talking about in that video, and I don't really 0:20:47.640 --> 0:20:50.000 know how much of that is done nowadays because there's 0:20:50.080 --> 0:20:53.480 so much technology. And that's another thing too, that a 0:20:53.600 --> 0:20:57.600 different world. I'm like really anxious to see how they 0:20:57.800 --> 0:21:01.399 navigated a different world. Is to have the task of 0:21:01.920 --> 0:21:07.080 telling the story of what HBCU looks like today while 0:21:07.240 --> 0:21:10.560 also keeping it not too like, oh my god, we're 0:21:10.560 --> 0:21:13.360 in twenty twenty six. Everything is so woke and everything's 0:21:13.400 --> 0:21:17.320 technology based in AI because a different world has such 0:21:17.520 --> 0:21:23.440 a black like enriched HBCU feel, And I really don't 0:21:23.440 --> 0:21:25.680 know how to describe the feeling I'm talking about much. 0:21:25.720 --> 0:21:26.240 It's like you. 0:21:27.880 --> 0:21:30.440 Had to experience attending an HBT you to understand what 0:21:30.520 --> 0:21:33.560 I'm saying. But it feels like home, it feels like community, 0:21:33.600 --> 0:21:36.480 it feels like family. So I'm interested to see how 0:21:36.960 --> 0:21:40.399 the directors, the epes like how they make this new 0:21:40.480 --> 0:21:43.399 different world still feel like that way, still feel like family, 0:21:43.880 --> 0:21:48.200 still feel like home, but also capture like everything that 0:21:48.359 --> 0:21:52.200 should be happening in classrooms with black students today that 0:21:52.400 --> 0:21:56.000 potentially isn't anymore because you don't like even the way 0:21:56.040 --> 0:21:59.560 that teachers like nurture kids are different because there's so 0:21:59.680 --> 0:22:01.879 many like things that you have to be careful of 0:22:02.280 --> 0:22:04.159 that I feel like during that time I mean, you 0:22:04.240 --> 0:22:07.000 still should have had been careful of certain things, like 0:22:07.119 --> 0:22:09.280 you know, all the weird stuff, But there are certain 0:22:09.359 --> 0:22:11.760 things during these times, like when you watch a different world, 0:22:12.480 --> 0:22:15.359 you know the teachers cared about the students because it 0:22:15.359 --> 0:22:18.680 wouldn't beyond the books. Twenty twenty six. It's really kind 0:22:18.680 --> 0:22:22.440 of hard to go beyond the books because I don't know, 0:22:22.480 --> 0:22:27.280 people are just weird and you you can't. Everything is 0:22:27.400 --> 0:22:30.920 so different now. So I'm excited to see how that 0:22:30.960 --> 0:22:35.119 will work out, especially because there are teachers like the 0:22:35.560 --> 0:22:38.040 literally what y'all just listen to. There are teachers like 0:22:38.119 --> 0:22:42.080 that in so many schools across the country who need 0:22:42.240 --> 0:22:46.919 to see and understand that what they're doing is a sleepless, 0:22:47.200 --> 0:22:49.520 endless fight. They don't get enough credit for, they don't 0:22:49.520 --> 0:22:52.840 get enough money for, but they literally save lives. Getting 0:22:52.880 --> 0:22:56.480 an inner city black student from middle school to high 0:22:56.480 --> 0:23:00.159 school to college literally can save their life. And I 0:23:00.200 --> 0:23:04.399 don't just mean because they're in college and you know, 0:23:04.480 --> 0:23:06.080 they graduate and they can go on to all these 0:23:06.080 --> 0:23:09.320 beautiful things. I mean, you may literally save a child's 0:23:09.359 --> 0:23:12.320 life because they're not wrong time, wrong place in their 0:23:12.320 --> 0:23:15.080 neighborhood and all the things that come with that well, 0:23:15.119 --> 0:23:18.640 it's not having a name, you know, so many different things. 0:23:18.880 --> 0:23:20.720 I feel so bad when I saw this video though, 0:23:21.320 --> 0:23:25.120 of a former chef turned teacher, Like I felt really 0:23:25.200 --> 0:23:28.560 really bad, only because I feel like those are the 0:23:28.640 --> 0:23:32.879 type of compassionate people that you need in schools, but 0:23:33.000 --> 0:23:34.879 it always seems like those are the people that get 0:23:34.920 --> 0:23:37.960 burnt out from it. He's only on day two of 0:23:38.080 --> 0:23:40.280 his teaching join this is the first week. But that's 0:23:40.320 --> 0:23:44.440 why it shows, like A Different World are important that showcase, 0:23:44.760 --> 0:23:48.920 you know, prestige education with black young people, because I 0:23:49.000 --> 0:23:52.080 think also to the kids kind of lose there, like 0:23:52.440 --> 0:23:54.879 it's you got to say, motivated to learn, And I 0:23:55.000 --> 0:23:57.640 remember all of the times I was motivated to learn 0:23:57.760 --> 0:23:59.480 and want to do better in school, it was because 0:23:59.560 --> 0:24:02.680 I love the teachers. I love the direction on top 0:24:02.720 --> 0:24:04.280