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Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning the Breakfast Club Morning.

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Speaker 1: Everybody is dj n V Charlamagne to God. We are

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Speaker 1: to Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in the building.

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Speaker 2: Yes, indeed, Stacy.

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Speaker 1: Lee Spratt Welcome.

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Speaker 3: What's up?

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Speaker 1: How you feeling listen?

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Speaker 3: Feeling good?

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Speaker 1: Director of the United Negro College Fund.

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Speaker 3: Yes, empower Me Tour.

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Speaker 1: There you go.

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Speaker 3: That's right.

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Speaker 4: I feel like I've been hearing about the United Negro

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Speaker 4: College Fund my whole life, but not more, not that much.

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Speaker 2: In recent times.

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Speaker 5: Really.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So what does United College Fund do?

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Speaker 3: Listen?

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Speaker 5: We've been around going on eighty years, so that's why

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Speaker 5: you've been hearing about it since you were little. But

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Speaker 5: you know, we provide educational support for minority students. So

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Speaker 5: with the empower Me Tour, it's a traveling road show

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Speaker 5: where we talk about college readiness, we talk about career readiness,

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Speaker 5: and we give millions of dollars in scholarships for people

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Speaker 5: to attend school, not just graduating high school seniors, but

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Speaker 5: also people in college can still get scholarships through the UNCF.

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Speaker 4: Always want to, you know, like, do people are people

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Speaker 4: as aware of resources like this as they need to be?

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Speaker 5: You know what I feel like we can always do

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Speaker 5: to college. It's our responsibility to get students through college also.

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Speaker 5: So with the resources are coming in all the time

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Speaker 5: to un CF, So I tell students and parents to

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Speaker 5: visit UNCF dot org every other week because we have

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Speaker 5: scholarships that pop up all throughout the month, all throughout

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Speaker 5: the year, and to just know what is actually out

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Speaker 5: there for students to attend college for free.

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Speaker 3: I mean, education is expensive.

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Speaker 1: Sure, what are some of the qualifications to get some

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Speaker 1: of the students in college? You know what?

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Speaker 5: It honestly depends on the type of scholarship there is.

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Speaker 5: You know, some have three point zero GPA qualifications, some

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Speaker 5: might even have two point seven or your three point

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Speaker 5: five and above. Some of them you have to write

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Speaker 5: an essay. It really all depends on the type of

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Speaker 5: scholarship that you're applying for. Like with the empower Me Tour,

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Speaker 5: we have counselors that come on site and give on

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Speaker 5: site admissions to students on the spot.

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Speaker 3: Not just that, we have college.

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Speaker 5: Admissions counselors offering full for year scholarships to students who

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Speaker 5: didn't even know that they could attend college or could

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Speaker 5: attend an HBCU. We really try to do the empower

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Speaker 5: Me Tour in places where there aren't HBCUs so we

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Speaker 5: can educate people that HBCUs exist and scholarships are available.

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Speaker 1: So this is only for HBCUs. You only given college.

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Speaker 5: Yes, No, we give scholarship money to not just HBCUs.

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Speaker 5: People can get a un c of scholarship and attend

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Speaker 5: any school of their choice. We just want to make

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Speaker 5: sure people know in places, in spaces that HBCUs exists.

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Speaker 1: Is there HBCU in New York. I've been having this

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Speaker 1: HBCU in need, So fairly is not an HBCUs.

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Speaker 3: That is not an HBCU in New York?

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Speaker 1: Okay, Stacey said it not me because I've been saying

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Speaker 1: it for the long because I was like, I didn't

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Speaker 1: know it was because I always say, you know, growing

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Speaker 1: the best hbc You not Clockhampton University.

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Speaker 5: You know it could be second best because number one

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Speaker 5: is what on this chest Clark and Learning University.

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Speaker 4: So being that y'all give money to everybody, y'all don't

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Speaker 4: have to worry about like, you know, because you know

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Speaker 4: now you see all of these people, like what's the name,

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Speaker 4: you know, the Fearless Fund and people who are providing

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Speaker 2: You don't have funding is.

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Speaker 3: Not just strictly for black or brown people, you know.

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Speaker 5: Again, I like to remind people HBCUs were created during

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Speaker 5: a time that black and brown people couldnot attend. Majority

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Speaker 1: What was so important for you to go to HBC?

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Speaker 1: Of course you went to clock Atlanta.

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Speaker 3: Well, of course I went to Clark Atlanta.

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Speaker 1: Where you're from?

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Speaker 2: You gotta stop blushing.

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Speaker 3: I'm originally fro Mississippi.

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Speaker 1: You from Missisippi.

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Speaker 2: So every time you hear Clarkey blush, listen, that's.

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Speaker 3: Where my husband came from. So baby, that's you know

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Speaker 1: DJ Drama went to Clock Atlanta. Took Yes.

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Speaker 3: DJ Drama went to Clark Atland.

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Speaker 5: We were there around the same time my parents went

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Speaker 5: to Clark College. My brother went to Howard, my other

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Speaker 5: brother went to Morehouse. Like we are an HBCU family.

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Speaker 5: Like my business partners you know, went to Hampton one

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Speaker 3: So it just fostered.

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Speaker 5: Relationships HBCUs and just homecoming. There's no homecoming like in

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Speaker 5: HBCU fact Okay, So that's why I love it so well.

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Speaker 2: People don't talk about that before.

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Speaker 1: What made you want to go? Was it instilled with

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Speaker 1: your family or.

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Speaker 3: Is it it wasn't still with my family?

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Speaker 5: It was you know again, I've been attending homecoming at

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Speaker 3: I was two years old, you know, because both my

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Speaker 5: And just watching the relationships that my parents had with

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Speaker 5: my aunts and aunts uncle's extended family. I just fell

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Speaker 4: People don't talk about that aspect enough of the networking

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Speaker 5: I mean, first of all, my father received a un

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Speaker 5: I do business with people that I went to school with.

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Speaker 5: We still have those genuine relationships you work with them

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Speaker 3: That went to Clark Atlanta with me? Or who you

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Speaker 5: A lot of the work that I do, even in

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Speaker 4: Well, what's some advice on tips you can give to

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Speaker 5: The first thing I would want them to do is

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Speaker 5: to go to UNCF dot org and set up an

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Speaker 5: account and check back there every other week, because again,

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Speaker 5: scholarships pop up every day that we're offering. Again, if

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Speaker 5: you're a graduating senior in high school, check it out.

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Speaker 3: Set up an account.

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Speaker 5: If you are in college and looking for an internship,

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Speaker 5: looking for scholarship opportunities, set up an account at UNCF

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Speaker 5: you have your resume, you know, written out. Talk to

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Speaker 5: someone that does resume building. It's so important make sure

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Speaker 5: That is so just being proactive and preparing yourself.

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Speaker 1: How early is too early? I know you said senior year,

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Speaker 1: I should parents should be looking into colleges, and same

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Speaker 5: You know, you can set up your account at UNCF

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Speaker 5: Freshman in high school, okay, and start looking at different

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Speaker 5: to apply for those certain types of scholarships. It's never

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Speaker 5: too early to talk to students about scholarships. About financial aid,

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Speaker 5: I mean that is so important for parents and students

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Speaker 3: Like, we need money for you to attend school.

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Speaker 1: Now, you know, a lot of parents are I don't

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Speaker 5: A lot of scholarships are four year renewable scholarships as

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Speaker 3: And it's so important to look and say, okay.

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Speaker 5: Is this scholarship renewable, you know, for my student, so

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Speaker 5: You can also piecemell it together. It doesn't all have

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Speaker 4: Got when they talk when you talk about certain requirements

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Speaker 4: and I didn't go to college. To forgive me for

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Speaker 4: my stupidness, But is this scholarships that just like you,

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Speaker 4: if you're five six, you.

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Speaker 5: Know what, there's a scholarship out there. If you're left handed,

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Speaker 5: that's okay. It is scholarship money out there forever everything you.

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Speaker 5: And I think that's the key to it. You have

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Speaker 5: to look for scholarships that make you might be thinking

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Speaker 5: it's out there. There are scholarships for all things, whether

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Speaker 5: majoring in STEM, whether you're majoring and marketing, even entrepreneurial scholarships.

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Speaker 3: So it is scholarships available for everyone.

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Speaker 5: It's doing the research, spending the time to do the research,

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Speaker 5: being organized about where you're looking and what you're looking for.

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Speaker 4: I wonder why why do they have a scholarship for

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Speaker 4: like left handed people?

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Speaker 3: Yes, I don't know, because I didn't create.

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Speaker 1: That might have been a left handed billionaire that says,

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Speaker 1: you know what, I just want to support other left

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Speaker 3: You can come up with what, however, you want to do.

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Speaker 3: You know, scholarships.

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Speaker 5: When myself in Pinky Call, we gave scholarship money for

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Speaker 3: We had no rhyme or reason.

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Speaker 5: Our reason was that they would not be able to

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Speaker 3: We give away millions of dollars.

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Speaker 5: Honestly, again, I would say seventh eighth grade years. Start

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Speaker 5: And I always also tell studentudents, if you don't know

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Speaker 5: But I also say, as a junior in college, just

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I always say HBCUs sometimes have to do a

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Speaker 1: That's what made me see what an HBCU is like.

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Speaker 5: Yes, and we actually did the empower me to or

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Speaker 3: I think it's both. I think it's I think it's twofold.

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Speaker 3: The reason them to attend.

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Speaker 1: The reason I talk about them so much is going

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Speaker 1: He didn't actually go to a HBC. He went to

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Speaker 2: She's also an entrepreneur.

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Speaker 1: That's right.

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Speaker 4: Harlem Hops, Bier Booths, Bites and Beach be Scott that

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Speaker 2: That's right. You know what I mean. We want to

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Speaker 4: The reason I love this because it shows that you

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Speaker 5: Absolutely, you know what I mean, absolutely do it to

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Speaker 3: It's it's inspiring and it's inspirational.

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Speaker 2: How can people get in contact with you in the UNC?

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Speaker 3: Okay, you can reach me on my ig at Stacy

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Speaker 3: Lee thirty two. That's my maiden name, Lee. I'm a Spratt.

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Speaker 6: You know.

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Speaker 3: On ig you can reach out to me directly.

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Speaker 5: You know, any kind of questions about education, any kind

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Speaker 2: And Unit A Negro College Fund dot un c F dot.

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Speaker 5: Org dot org UNCF dot org for all information about scholarships, internships,

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Speaker 3: It's all right there at your fingertips.

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Speaker 1: All right, well, Stacy Lee Spratt, we appreciate you for

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Speaker 3: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, wake that ass up

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Speaker 1: in the morning.

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