WEBVTT - INTERVIEW: Stacey Lee Spratt Discusses HBCU Opportunities, Student Scholarships, Harlem Hops +More 0:00:00.440 --> 0:00:04.920 Wake that ass up in the morning the Breakfast Club Morning. 0:00:04.960 --> 0:00:08.119 Everybody is dj n V Charlamagne to God. We are 0:00:08.160 --> 0:00:10.559 to Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in the building. 0:00:10.640 --> 0:00:12.080 Yes, indeed, Stacy. 0:00:12.000 --> 0:00:13.360 Lee Spratt Welcome. 0:00:13.600 --> 0:00:14.040 What's up? 0:00:14.080 --> 0:00:15.200 How you feeling listen? 0:00:15.280 --> 0:00:15.920 Feeling good? 0:00:16.079 --> 0:00:18.120 Director of the United Negro College Fund. 0:00:18.280 --> 0:00:19.640 Yes, empower Me Tour. 0:00:19.760 --> 0:00:20.159 There you go. 0:00:20.280 --> 0:00:20.720 That's right. 0:00:20.760 --> 0:00:22.599 I feel like I've been hearing about the United Negro 0:00:22.680 --> 0:00:26.320 College Fund my whole life, but not more, not that much. 0:00:26.160 --> 0:00:27.400 In recent times. 0:00:27.640 --> 0:00:27.960 Really. 0:00:28.040 --> 0:00:30.159 Yeah, So what does United College Fund do? 0:00:30.520 --> 0:00:30.880 Listen? 0:00:31.080 --> 0:00:33.560 We've been around going on eighty years, so that's why 0:00:33.600 --> 0:00:36.839 you've been hearing about it since you were little. But 0:00:37.400 --> 0:00:42.279 you know, we provide educational support for minority students. So 0:00:42.520 --> 0:00:45.760 with the empower Me Tour, it's a traveling road show 0:00:46.200 --> 0:00:49.680 where we talk about college readiness, we talk about career readiness, 0:00:49.720 --> 0:00:52.720 and we give millions of dollars in scholarships for people 0:00:52.760 --> 0:00:56.840 to attend school, not just graduating high school seniors, but 0:00:56.960 --> 0:01:01.640 also people in college can still get scholarships through the UNCF. 0:01:02.000 --> 0:01:04.120 Always want to, you know, like, do people are people 0:01:04.120 --> 0:01:06.880 as aware of resources like this as they need to be? 0:01:07.160 --> 0:01:09.319 You know what I feel like we can always do 0:01:09.360 --> 0:01:12.720 a better job of making sure people know that resources 0:01:12.760 --> 0:01:16.360 are there. Un CF is not just to get students 0:01:16.440 --> 0:01:20.679 to college. It's our responsibility to get students through college also. 0:01:21.360 --> 0:01:24.800 So with the resources are coming in all the time 0:01:24.800 --> 0:01:28.360 to un CF, So I tell students and parents to 0:01:28.520 --> 0:01:32.120 visit UNCF dot org every other week because we have 0:01:32.120 --> 0:01:35.959 scholarships that pop up all throughout the month, all throughout 0:01:36.000 --> 0:01:38.680 the year, and to just know what is actually out 0:01:38.720 --> 0:01:41.120 there for students to attend college for free. 0:01:41.200 --> 0:01:42.959 I mean, education is expensive. 0:01:43.240 --> 0:01:45.440 Sure, what are some of the qualifications to get some 0:01:45.480 --> 0:01:46.880 of the students in college? You know what? 0:01:46.920 --> 0:01:50.000 It honestly depends on the type of scholarship there is. 0:01:50.040 --> 0:01:53.920 You know, some have three point zero GPA qualifications, some 0:01:54.000 --> 0:01:56.440 might even have two point seven or your three point 0:01:56.480 --> 0:01:58.880 five and above. Some of them you have to write 0:01:58.920 --> 0:02:02.320 an essay. It really all depends on the type of 0:02:02.360 --> 0:02:05.640 scholarship that you're applying for. Like with the empower Me Tour, 0:02:05.720 --> 0:02:08.640 we have counselors that come on site and give on 0:02:08.760 --> 0:02:11.200 site admissions to students on the spot. 0:02:11.440 --> 0:02:14.320 Not just that, we have college. 0:02:13.919 --> 0:02:18.919 Admissions counselors offering full for year scholarships to students who 0:02:18.960 --> 0:02:21.639 didn't even know that they could attend college or could 0:02:21.639 --> 0:02:24.720 attend an HBCU. We really try to do the empower 0:02:24.800 --> 0:02:28.000 Me Tour in places where there aren't HBCUs so we 0:02:28.000 --> 0:02:32.240 can educate people that HBCUs exist and scholarships are available. 0:02:32.280 --> 0:02:34.360 So this is only for HBCUs. You only given college. 0:02:34.400 --> 0:02:39.079 Yes, No, we give scholarship money to not just HBCUs. 0:02:39.440 --> 0:02:41.800 People can get a un c of scholarship and attend 0:02:42.000 --> 0:02:45.200 any school of their choice. We just want to make 0:02:45.200 --> 0:02:49.480 sure people know in places, in spaces that HBCUs exists. 0:02:49.600 --> 0:02:51.360 Is there HBCU in New York. I've been having this 0:02:51.760 --> 0:02:53.400 argument with people for the last there is not an 0:02:53.480 --> 0:02:56.280 HBCU in need, So fairly is not an HBCUs. 0:02:56.400 --> 0:02:58.480 That is not an HBCU in New York? 0:02:58.560 --> 0:03:00.679 Okay, Stacey said it not me because I've been saying 0:03:00.680 --> 0:03:01.840 it for the long because I was like, I didn't 0:03:01.840 --> 0:03:03.520 know it was because I always say, you know, growing 0:03:03.560 --> 0:03:06.040 up in New York, there were no HBCUs and the 0:03:06.080 --> 0:03:08.600 only time that I seen it was on a different 0:03:08.639 --> 0:03:10.280 world and that's what made me want to go to 0:03:10.600 --> 0:03:13.120 the best hbc You not Clockhampton University. 0:03:13.120 --> 0:03:15.520 You know it could be second best because number one 0:03:15.639 --> 0:03:19.440 is what on this chest Clark and Learning University. 0:03:19.480 --> 0:03:21.680 So being that y'all give money to everybody, y'all don't 0:03:21.720 --> 0:03:23.000 have to worry about like, you know, because you know 0:03:23.040 --> 0:03:25.320 now you see all of these people, like what's the name, 0:03:25.480 --> 0:03:27.880 I think the named Edward Bron doing these attacks on 0:03:28.120 --> 0:03:30.639 you know, the Fearless Fund and people who are providing 0:03:30.800 --> 0:03:32.240 fundings strictly for black people. 0:03:32.720 --> 0:03:33.840 You don't have funding is. 0:03:33.800 --> 0:03:37.480 Not just strictly for black or brown people, you know. 0:03:37.600 --> 0:03:43.200 Again, I like to remind people HBCUs were created during 0:03:43.240 --> 0:03:46.440 a time that black and brown people couldnot attend. Majority 0:03:46.480 --> 0:03:49.960 institutions were historically black, not exclusively black. 0:03:50.840 --> 0:03:52.920 What was so important for you to go to HBC? 0:03:53.120 --> 0:03:54.600 Of course you went to clock Atlanta. 0:03:55.000 --> 0:03:56.760 Well, of course I went to Clark Atlanta. 0:03:56.760 --> 0:03:57.400 Where you're from? 0:03:57.400 --> 0:03:58.160 You gotta stop blushing. 0:03:58.200 --> 0:03:59.280 I'm originally fro Mississippi. 0:03:59.280 --> 0:04:00.000 You from Missisippi. 0:04:00.240 --> 0:04:03.840 So every time you hear Clarkey blush, listen, that's. 0:04:03.680 --> 0:04:05.920 Where my husband came from. So baby, that's you know 0:04:07.520 --> 0:04:08.360 that Clark Atlanta. 0:04:08.480 --> 0:04:10.480 DJ Drama went to Clock Atlanta. Took Yes. 0:04:10.560 --> 0:04:11.960 DJ Drama went to Clark Atland. 0:04:12.000 --> 0:04:14.680 We were there around the same time my parents went 0:04:14.720 --> 0:04:16.640 to Clark College. My brother went to Howard, my other 0:04:16.680 --> 0:04:20.000 brother went to Morehouse. Like we are an HBCU family. 0:04:20.160 --> 0:04:24.400 Like my business partners you know, went to Hampton one 0:04:24.600 --> 0:04:26.400 okay and the other one went to Clark Atlanta. 0:04:26.480 --> 0:04:28.360 So it just fostered. 0:04:27.800 --> 0:04:32.800 Relationships HBCUs and just homecoming. There's no homecoming like in 0:04:33.080 --> 0:04:37.400 HBCU fact Okay, So that's why I love it so well. 0:04:37.400 --> 0:04:39.160 People don't talk about that before. 0:04:39.400 --> 0:04:41.359 What made you want to go? Was it instilled with 0:04:41.440 --> 0:04:42.080 your family or. 0:04:42.040 --> 0:04:43.640 Is it it wasn't still with my family? 0:04:43.760 --> 0:04:47.160 It was you know again, I've been attending homecoming at 0:04:47.200 --> 0:04:48.239 Clark Atlanta since. 0:04:48.040 --> 0:04:50.159 I was two years old, you know, because both my 0:04:50.279 --> 0:04:51.040 parents went there. 0:04:51.680 --> 0:04:55.000 And just watching the relationships that my parents had with 0:04:55.120 --> 0:04:59.000 other people from Clark Atlanta University and like those are 0:04:59.040 --> 0:05:02.120 my aunts and aunts uncle's extended family. I just fell 0:05:02.160 --> 0:05:02.760 in love with it. 0:05:02.960 --> 0:05:05.560 People don't talk about that aspect enough of the networking 0:05:05.640 --> 0:05:09.680 that happens at these hbcs. What did you or who 0:05:09.680 --> 0:05:11.400 did you meet that led you to end up being 0:05:11.400 --> 0:05:13.160 the director of the United Nego College one. 0:05:13.279 --> 0:05:15.680 I mean, first of all, my father received a un 0:05:15.720 --> 0:05:20.280 CF scholarship, so watching him talk about receiving a un 0:05:20.320 --> 0:05:24.599 CF scholarship and watching him work at General Motors and 0:05:24.720 --> 0:05:28.520 then turn around and give back for other black and 0:05:28.560 --> 0:05:31.760 brown people and people at Clark Atlanta, Spellman and Moorhouse 0:05:32.000 --> 0:05:35.479 to be engineers, and just watching that Foster. I always 0:05:35.560 --> 0:05:39.520 had a good, loving relationship for you and CF. But 0:05:40.160 --> 0:05:44.719 it really is the networking. You have relationships with people. 0:05:44.800 --> 0:05:47.000 I do business with people that I went to school with. 0:05:47.440 --> 0:05:51.240 We still have those genuine relationships you work with them 0:05:51.560 --> 0:05:54.159 when you think about Okay, if I have an event 0:05:54.240 --> 0:05:57.400 taking place, I'm thinking about, well, who can I help. 0:05:57.400 --> 0:06:00.440 That went to Clark Atlanta with me? Or who you 0:06:00.440 --> 0:06:01.920 know went to another HBCU. 0:06:02.000 --> 0:06:04.200 A lot of the work that I do, even in 0:06:04.240 --> 0:06:08.799 the events world, I provide opportunities for other HBCU graduates. 0:06:09.040 --> 0:06:10.839 Well, what's some advice on tips you can give to 0:06:10.880 --> 0:06:15.040 help students apply for and receive scholarships from you UNCA. 0:06:15.120 --> 0:06:17.080 The first thing I would want them to do is 0:06:17.120 --> 0:06:19.880 to go to UNCF dot org and set up an 0:06:19.880 --> 0:06:23.880 account and check back there every other week, because again, 0:06:24.320 --> 0:06:29.360 scholarships pop up every day that we're offering. Again, if 0:06:29.400 --> 0:06:32.320 you're a graduating senior in high school, check it out. 0:06:32.360 --> 0:06:33.280 Set up an account. 0:06:33.440 --> 0:06:37.160 If you are in college and looking for an internship, 0:06:37.360 --> 0:06:41.680 looking for scholarship opportunities, set up an account at UNCF 0:06:41.720 --> 0:06:44.240 dot org and just continue to check back. Make sure 0:06:44.279 --> 0:06:47.160 you have your resume, you know, written out. Talk to 0:06:47.200 --> 0:06:51.120 someone that does resume building. It's so important make sure 0:06:51.120 --> 0:06:53.480 that you have your statement written out of why you 0:06:53.520 --> 0:06:56.720 want to even go to college, whatever college or university. 0:06:56.760 --> 0:07:00.000 That is so just being proactive and preparing yourself. 0:07:00.000 --> 0:07:02.880 How early is too early? I know you said senior year, 0:07:03.240 --> 0:07:05.400 but sometimes senior year might be a little too late 0:07:05.440 --> 0:07:08.279 because you just don't necessarily know. So how early should 0:07:08.520 --> 0:07:11.360 I should parents should be looking into colleges, and same 0:07:11.360 --> 0:07:12.080 thing with students. 0:07:12.160 --> 0:07:14.960 You know, you can set up your account at UNCF 0:07:14.960 --> 0:07:15.640 dot org. 0:07:15.800 --> 0:07:16.600 I mean as a. 0:07:16.520 --> 0:07:19.800 Freshman in high school, okay, and start looking at different 0:07:19.840 --> 0:07:23.240 scholarships and looking for what is it that you need 0:07:23.280 --> 0:07:26.520 to apply for those certain types of scholarships. It's never 0:07:26.600 --> 0:07:31.080 too early to talk to students about scholarships. About financial aid, 0:07:31.200 --> 0:07:34.200 I mean that is so important for parents and students 0:07:34.240 --> 0:07:37.040 to fill out that financial aid information. And I know 0:07:37.080 --> 0:07:40.880 the FASTFA has changed over the course of this year, 0:07:41.320 --> 0:07:43.880 so it's making sure you fill out your FASTFA set 0:07:43.960 --> 0:07:46.280 up that account at UNCF dot org. It doesn't matter 0:07:46.440 --> 0:07:48.120 how old you are. You can start talking to your 0:07:48.160 --> 0:07:51.800 kids about scholarships in you know, fifth, sixth, seventh grade. 0:07:51.520 --> 0:07:54.160 Like, we need money for you to attend school. 0:07:54.320 --> 0:07:56.600 Now, you know, a lot of parents are I don't 0:07:56.600 --> 0:07:58.400 want to say have problems with scholarships, but have problems 0:07:58.400 --> 0:08:00.480 with scholarships because they get this scholarship to get their 0:08:00.560 --> 0:08:03.160 kid into school. But now their kid is in school, 0:08:03.440 --> 0:08:06.000 they're freshmen. Now what happens sophomore year? Are some of 0:08:06.040 --> 0:08:08.280 these scholarships four year scholarships or they just one year 0:08:08.320 --> 0:08:10.040 scholarship You got to get in then you're on your own. 0:08:10.120 --> 0:08:10.440 Oh no. 0:08:10.720 --> 0:08:14.200 A lot of scholarships are four year renewable scholarships as 0:08:14.200 --> 0:08:17.920 long as you continue to keep that GPA requirement, as 0:08:18.000 --> 0:08:20.960 long as you continue to keep whatever the requirements are 0:08:21.280 --> 0:08:22.440 for that scholarship. 0:08:22.640 --> 0:08:25.200 And it's so important to look and say, okay. 0:08:24.960 --> 0:08:28.160 Is this scholarship renewable, you know, for my student, so 0:08:28.200 --> 0:08:31.320 they can plan accordingly. There are some scholarships that might 0:08:31.400 --> 0:08:33.840 be a one time So if you do get that 0:08:33.880 --> 0:08:36.040 scholarship that's one time, then you have to go back 0:08:36.080 --> 0:08:38.280 to the drawing board and say, okay, let me see 0:08:38.280 --> 0:08:40.920 about some scholarship money over here, over here, over here. 0:08:41.040 --> 0:08:43.920 You can also piecemell it together. It doesn't all have 0:08:44.000 --> 0:08:45.080 to come from one place. 0:08:45.160 --> 0:08:47.319 Got when they talk when you talk about certain requirements 0:08:47.320 --> 0:08:48.880 and I didn't go to college. To forgive me for 0:08:48.920 --> 0:08:51.720 my stupidness, But is this scholarships that just like you, 0:08:51.880 --> 0:08:54.000 if you're five six, you. 0:08:53.960 --> 0:08:56.360 Know what, there's a scholarship out there. If you're left handed, 0:08:56.400 --> 0:09:01.000 that's okay. It is scholarship money out there forever everything you. 0:09:00.920 --> 0:09:01.400 Can think of. 0:09:01.440 --> 0:09:03.400 And I think that's the key to it. You have 0:09:03.440 --> 0:09:05.520 to look for scholarships that make you might be thinking 0:09:05.600 --> 0:09:08.320 like I mean, it was a left handed scholarship, but 0:09:08.400 --> 0:09:11.480 it's out there. There are scholarships for all things, whether 0:09:11.520 --> 0:09:14.160 you play sports, whether you don't play sports, whether you're 0:09:14.200 --> 0:09:18.840 majoring in STEM, whether you're majoring and marketing, even entrepreneurial scholarships. 0:09:19.000 --> 0:09:21.400 So it is scholarships available for everyone. 0:09:21.480 --> 0:09:25.480 It's doing the research, spending the time to do the research, 0:09:25.760 --> 0:09:28.640 being organized about where you're looking and what you're looking for. 0:09:28.720 --> 0:09:31.199 I wonder why why do they have a scholarship for 0:09:31.240 --> 0:09:32.000 like left handed people? 0:09:32.080 --> 0:09:33.960 Yes, I don't know, because I didn't create. 0:09:34.000 --> 0:09:36.680 That might have been a left handed billionaire that says, 0:09:36.720 --> 0:09:38.079 you know what, I just want to support other left 0:09:38.080 --> 0:09:38.959 handed people out there. 0:09:39.160 --> 0:09:41.920 You can come up with what, however, you want to do. 0:09:42.160 --> 0:09:43.199 You know, scholarships. 0:09:43.200 --> 0:09:47.360 When myself in Pinky Call, we gave scholarship money for 0:09:47.840 --> 0:09:50.600 thirty graduating seniors at Clark and Landa University. 0:09:51.120 --> 0:09:52.360 We had no rhyme or reason. 0:09:52.760 --> 0:09:54.960 Our reason was that they would not be able to 0:09:55.000 --> 0:09:58.560 graduate if they didn't pay that dollar amount. So sometimes 0:09:58.600 --> 0:10:00.560 you have people that just say, you know what, I 0:10:00.559 --> 0:10:03.280 want to make sure these students graduate. I don't care 0:10:03.320 --> 0:10:05.760 what their GPA is. It could be a two point oh, 0:10:05.800 --> 0:10:07.560 it doesn't matter. I want to make sure they get 0:10:07.600 --> 0:10:09.600 the money so they can walk across that step two 0:10:09.600 --> 0:10:11.760 point And that's what we did. Hey, we didn't care, 0:10:12.360 --> 0:10:14.640 it didn't matter. You owed money and we wanted to 0:10:14.679 --> 0:10:18.120 make sure that you were able to graduate in the spring. 0:10:18.280 --> 0:10:19.640 And so that's what we did. 0:10:19.679 --> 0:10:21.000 My daddy said, if I get a two point on, 0:10:21.000 --> 0:10:21.920 I'm coming back to Queens. 0:10:22.160 --> 0:10:25.320 Listen, you can graduate college still with the two point 0:10:25.360 --> 0:10:27.400 oh you graduate and thank you, Lottie. 0:10:27.600 --> 0:10:31.720 But you're graduatingege, thank you, lad. 0:10:40.440 --> 0:10:43.200 How can students prepare and pay for college, especially with 0:10:43.240 --> 0:10:45.160 the federal student aid deadline coming up. 0:10:45.240 --> 0:10:47.800 Oh yeah, the deadline is around the corner. So they 0:10:47.840 --> 0:10:48.520 need to apply. 0:10:48.640 --> 0:10:52.360 You must apply to see what you qualify for. What 0:10:52.440 --> 0:10:56.160 kind of scholarships you qualify for? Again, Google is your 0:10:56.160 --> 0:11:00.400 best friend. YouTube, university is your best friend. Really look 0:11:00.480 --> 0:11:02.800 up what scholarships are available. 0:11:02.920 --> 0:11:04.200 But again go. 0:11:04.080 --> 0:11:07.800 To UNCF dot org because we have thousands of scholarships available. 0:11:07.800 --> 0:11:09.600 We give away millions of dollars. 0:11:09.840 --> 0:11:11.120 To date, U and. 0:11:11.080 --> 0:11:14.720 CF is probably given out over four billion dollars in 0:11:14.920 --> 0:11:16.640 educating young people. 0:11:17.360 --> 0:11:20.280 What today is today is doctor Martin Luther King Junior Day, 0:11:20.320 --> 0:11:23.600 So for that day, are you guys doing something special 0:11:23.640 --> 0:11:24.319 for today? 0:11:24.440 --> 0:11:27.840 Or doctor Martin Luther King went to Morehouse College. But 0:11:28.000 --> 0:11:31.719 we're not doing anything in particular besides what we always do, 0:11:31.960 --> 0:11:35.360 which is provide an education for black and brown and 0:11:35.400 --> 0:11:35.920 young people. 0:11:36.080 --> 0:11:37.560 What are some benefits of going to an HBCU. 0:11:37.559 --> 0:11:40.240 Because my daughter's fifteen now, and you know she's of 0:11:40.320 --> 0:11:43.120 course she's already talking about college. What's the benefits of 0:11:43.120 --> 0:11:45.000 going to an HBCU versus the PWS. 0:11:45.080 --> 0:11:47.520 You know, I think for me, it's seeing people that 0:11:47.600 --> 0:11:52.439 look like you doing great things. It's again that community. 0:11:52.880 --> 0:11:56.640 It's a smaller classroom. It's also go where you're celebrated, 0:11:56.679 --> 0:11:57.719 not where you're tolerated. 0:11:59.040 --> 0:12:00.080 What's the point of being an adulta? 0:12:00.559 --> 0:12:01.480 What's the point of being. 0:12:03.600 --> 0:12:17.079 What's the benefit? Don't you must have a must don't mother? 0:12:18.360 --> 0:12:19.520 My wife's mother is adult. 0:12:19.720 --> 0:12:21.080 What's the point of being at Delta? 0:12:21.240 --> 0:12:22.840 Wow? What's the benefit? 0:12:22.840 --> 0:12:28.120 It's respectful at the point, the benefits, the benefits of being. 0:12:28.520 --> 0:12:34.160 Wow, look at the being a gallery it up Listen. 0:12:34.280 --> 0:12:37.120 Being a member of Delta Signa the Sorority Incorporated was 0:12:37.200 --> 0:12:42.800 one of the greatest decisions for me. They are my sisters, 0:12:42.880 --> 0:12:46.520 my line sisters, my big sisters, my little sisters. Again, 0:12:46.800 --> 0:12:49.719 I not only work with them, I love them. It 0:12:49.840 --> 0:12:51.920 is a sisterhood. I don't have sisters. I have two 0:12:51.960 --> 0:12:52.640 older brothers. 0:12:53.280 --> 0:12:53.440 You know. 0:12:53.480 --> 0:12:55.600 I have a sissy that you know is my cousin. 0:12:56.120 --> 0:12:59.080 But it is about the love, it's about the sisterhood. 0:12:59.120 --> 0:13:02.400 It's about the commune unity, it's about giving back. So 0:13:02.600 --> 0:13:05.480 all of those things are what Delta encompasses. 0:13:05.679 --> 0:13:07.040 Yeah, because I think about it. If you go to 0:13:07.040 --> 0:13:10.600 an HBCU, that's one level of sisterhood, absolutely and together 0:13:10.600 --> 0:13:11.839 and it's with your black Black people. 0:13:11.880 --> 0:13:13.800 But then you get pledged delta. That's the whole other. 0:13:13.760 --> 0:13:17.199 Level listen, a whole other level of sisterhood and brotherhood. 0:13:17.240 --> 0:13:21.280 I mean again that HBCU camaraderie is a sisterhood and 0:13:21.280 --> 0:13:25.000 brotherhood in itself, whether you pledge something or not. And 0:13:25.080 --> 0:13:28.200 even pledging delta, I still have a ka's that I 0:13:28.240 --> 0:13:28.560 so love. 0:13:28.640 --> 0:13:29.559 I mean, my public is. 0:13:29.480 --> 0:13:33.840 An AKA, you know, but you know it's still that 0:13:34.000 --> 0:13:36.719 love of fraternities and sororities. 0:13:36.760 --> 0:13:37.280 Absolutely. 0:13:37.360 --> 0:13:37.600 Yeah. 0:13:38.120 --> 0:13:40.360 My oldest is a sophomore in high school. Like I said, 0:13:40.400 --> 0:13:43.520 we're already starting to look for colleges. When should students 0:13:43.559 --> 0:13:45.240 start seriously looking into. 0:13:45.320 --> 0:13:49.360 Honestly, again, I would say seventh eighth grade years. Start 0:13:49.720 --> 0:13:52.800 talking to your kids about college and and what kind 0:13:52.840 --> 0:13:54.160 of college would they want to go to? 0:13:54.240 --> 0:13:56.600 What do they want to do? You know, as they 0:13:56.760 --> 0:13:57.720 you know, get older. 0:13:58.120 --> 0:14:01.480 And I always also tell studentudents, if you don't know 0:14:01.520 --> 0:14:05.240 exactly what you want to do, it's okay to say that, 0:14:05.559 --> 0:14:06.480 it's okay. 0:14:06.120 --> 0:14:07.120 To change your mind. 0:14:07.559 --> 0:14:11.480 But I also say, as a junior in college, just 0:14:11.520 --> 0:14:14.360 go ahead and finish whatever that major is and figure 0:14:14.400 --> 0:14:16.880 out how to apply it to whatever it is you 0:14:16.920 --> 0:14:19.600 want to do or become. That's right, Like, don't pay 0:14:19.600 --> 0:14:24.080 all that money to take extra classes or additional classes. 0:14:24.520 --> 0:14:25.520 Just move forward. 0:14:25.840 --> 0:14:28.640 Yeah, I always say HBCUs sometimes have to do a 0:14:28.640 --> 0:14:31.480 better job at trying to get students, especially on the 0:14:31.520 --> 0:14:34.080 East Coast, because we don't see them as much, especially 0:14:34.120 --> 0:14:36.360 in New York and in New Jersey or or even 0:14:36.400 --> 0:14:39.400 Delaware and Philly. We don't see it as much. And 0:14:39.800 --> 0:14:41.840 like I said myself, my biggest thing was a different world. 0:14:41.840 --> 0:14:44.040 That's what made me see what an HBCU is like. 0:14:44.880 --> 0:14:46.280 So I would say they have to do a better 0:14:46.360 --> 0:14:49.080 job and hopefully things like this will encourage more students 0:14:49.080 --> 0:14:49.880 to check out HBC. 0:14:50.080 --> 0:14:52.240 Yes, and we actually did the empower me to or 0:14:52.360 --> 0:14:56.120 in New York with high school students. It was some 0:14:56.200 --> 0:15:01.400 years ago, was right before COVID and again hugely successful 0:15:01.400 --> 0:15:05.600 because students didn't know about HBCUs that they're available, you know, 0:15:05.640 --> 0:15:06.520 for them to attend. 0:15:06.680 --> 0:15:08.920 Do you agree with MV that you know HBCUs have 0:15:09.000 --> 0:15:12.360 to do a better job or do we as black 0:15:12.360 --> 0:15:15.960 people have to start valuing our own better. 0:15:16.480 --> 0:15:19.240 I think it's both. I think it's I think it's twofold. 0:15:19.280 --> 0:15:23.240 I think one it's important for us to continue to 0:15:23.280 --> 0:15:24.960 give back to our HBCUs. 0:15:25.000 --> 0:15:27.600 It's not just about. 0:15:26.720 --> 0:15:31.240 Homecoming and coming home, it's also coming home, loving on 0:15:31.280 --> 0:15:35.400 your people, but also giving back to your institution. So 0:15:35.480 --> 0:15:38.280 I just really think, you know, it's imperative, and we 0:15:38.360 --> 0:15:40.760 do have to do a better job of letting kids 0:15:40.960 --> 0:15:45.560 know that HBCUs are attainable, that they're available, and that 0:15:45.640 --> 0:15:46.560 money is available. 0:15:46.600 --> 0:15:48.040 The reason them to attend. 0:15:47.800 --> 0:15:49.840 The reason I talk about them so much is going 0:15:49.880 --> 0:15:53.440 to Hampton and going to all these homecomings. I didn't 0:15:53.440 --> 0:15:55.440 get that experience in New York. You know, you go 0:15:55.520 --> 0:15:58.400 to Florida and they have the classic where it's it's 0:15:58.480 --> 0:16:02.840 nothing but people, and they're outside and they're barbecuing and 0:16:02.880 --> 0:16:05.720 they're cooking, and there's a parade and it's just so 0:16:05.840 --> 0:16:08.040 much going on. And then you go to one in 0:16:08.080 --> 0:16:11.240 Alabama and it's the same thing, and you realize, damn, 0:16:11.240 --> 0:16:12.760 I didn't have that in New York. We didn't have 0:16:12.840 --> 0:16:15.200 to experience that. We didn't wake up wanting to go 0:16:15.240 --> 0:16:17.800 to the parade, and you missed that being in certain 0:16:17.840 --> 0:16:20.280 areas where they don't have an HBCU. That's why I 0:16:20.320 --> 0:16:21.400 said a lot of times, we have to do it, 0:16:21.520 --> 0:16:23.560 go better at going to those areas where there is 0:16:23.600 --> 0:16:25.920 no HBCU showing the students what it means, what it 0:16:26.000 --> 0:16:29.000 is and what the family is like like going to 0:16:29.080 --> 0:16:32.320 famu's homecoming. I know you Clark Atlanta, but I'm Hampton, 0:16:32.360 --> 0:16:35.080 but fam you has probably one of the best homecomings ever. 0:16:35.200 --> 0:16:38.200 They have a they have an excellent homecoming, and I 0:16:38.240 --> 0:16:42.000 will say I mean, I love my CEU. Jackson State 0:16:42.040 --> 0:16:45.440 also has a fun yes coming as well. I must 0:16:45.520 --> 0:16:48.479 say that, But I thought there was a classic here. 0:16:49.960 --> 0:16:52.920 In New Jersey. Didn't they just start. 0:16:52.680 --> 0:16:56.080 It's a game, okay, so they just to shout the album. 0:16:56.120 --> 0:16:58.040 He just he's trying to bring it back to New York. 0:16:58.120 --> 0:16:58.400 Got it. 0:16:58.440 --> 0:17:00.360 He didn't actually go to a HBC. He went to 0:17:00.360 --> 0:17:02.880 Saint John's, but he understands what it means. He has 0:17:02.920 --> 0:17:05.960 black kids, so he's trying to create the classic background. 0:17:06.040 --> 0:17:08.400 Schools are coming in the problems. I think last year 0:17:08.400 --> 0:17:11.840 they did more house in Alabama State at Alberty State. 0:17:12.000 --> 0:17:14.960 And the problem with Alberdy State, sadly is most people 0:17:15.000 --> 0:17:17.600 thought it was in Albany, New York, but albody states 0:17:17.640 --> 0:17:20.280 in Georgia. So it's like getting those schools and giving 0:17:20.320 --> 0:17:22.560 an education but he's gonna continue to do it and 0:17:22.600 --> 0:17:25.280 hopefully that gets that back hair and gets these students 0:17:25.320 --> 0:17:27.000 out here and gets them coming to see things. Because 0:17:27.040 --> 0:17:29.520 it's more than just the games they have, step shows 0:17:29.560 --> 0:17:32.399 they have, They give a place where they give the 0:17:32.440 --> 0:17:36.240 scholarships on site to kids they're doing. There's so many 0:17:36.240 --> 0:17:37.800 different things around it, and I like to be a 0:17:37.800 --> 0:17:40.840 part of it because I just love my HBCU. Yes, well, 0:17:40.880 --> 0:17:41.520 we appreciate you. 0:17:41.840 --> 0:17:43.119 She's also an entrepreneur. 0:17:43.240 --> 0:17:43.680 That's right. 0:17:44.600 --> 0:17:47.119 Harlem Hops, Bier Booths, Bites and Beach be Scott that 0:17:47.160 --> 0:17:48.040 brought us this before. 0:17:48.080 --> 0:17:49.520 That's right. You know what I mean. We want to 0:17:49.520 --> 0:17:50.479 talk about Harlem Hops. 0:17:50.520 --> 0:17:53.960 Listen. Harlem Hops is a craft beer bar. It's in Harlem. 0:17:54.359 --> 0:17:58.040 We also just opened up a second location at Peer 0:17:58.080 --> 0:18:01.560 fifty seven, so we have Harlem Chelsea also in the 0:18:01.560 --> 0:18:04.479 food hall where the Google building is, So that's our 0:18:04.520 --> 0:18:09.159 second location. And I mean we are one African American owned, 0:18:09.520 --> 0:18:11.920 you know, first black owned Crappier Barn. 0:18:11.800 --> 0:18:12.320