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INTERVIEW: Stacey Lee Spratt Discusses HBCU Opportunities, Student Scholarships, Harlem Hops +More · The Breakfast Club

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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: a better job of making sure people know that resources
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  Speaker 5: are there. Un CF is not just to get students
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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: argument with people for the last there is not an
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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: up in New York, there were no HBCUs and the
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  Speaker 1: only time that I seen it was on a different
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  Speaker 1: world and that's what made me want to go to
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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: I think the named Edward Bron doing these attacks on
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  Speaker 4: you know, the Fearless Fund and people who are providing
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  Speaker 4: fundings strictly for black people.
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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 5: institutions were historically black, not exclusively black.
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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 3: that Clark Atlanta.
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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 5: okay and the other one went to Clark Atlanta.
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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 5: Clark Atlanta since.
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  Speaker 3: I was two years old, you know, because both my
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  Speaker 3: parents went there.
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  Speaker 5: And just watching the relationships that my parents had with
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  Speaker 5: other people from Clark Atlanta University and like those are
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  Speaker 5: my aunts and aunts uncle's extended family. I just fell
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  Speaker 5: in love with it.
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  Speaker 4: People don't talk about that aspect enough of the networking
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  Speaker 4: that happens at these hbcs. What did you or who
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  Speaker 4: did you meet that led you to end up being
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  Speaker 4: the director of the United Nego College one.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, first of all, my father received a un
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  Speaker 5: CF scholarship, so watching him talk about receiving a un
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  Speaker 5: CF scholarship and watching him work at General Motors and
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  Speaker 5: then turn around and give back for other black and
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  Speaker 5: brown people and people at Clark Atlanta, Spellman and Moorhouse
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  Speaker 5: to be engineers, and just watching that Foster. I always
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  Speaker 5: had a good, loving relationship for you and CF. But
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  Speaker 5: it really is the networking. You have relationships with people.
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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 5: when you think about Okay, if I have an event
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  Speaker 5: taking place, I'm thinking about, well, who can I help.
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  Speaker 3: That went to Clark Atlanta with me? Or who you
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  Speaker 3: know went to another HBCU.
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  Speaker 5: A lot of the work that I do, even in
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  Speaker 5: the events world, I provide opportunities for other HBCU graduates.
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  Speaker 4: Well, what's some advice on tips you can give to
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  Speaker 4: help students apply for and receive scholarships from you UNCA.
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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: dot org and just continue to check back. Make sure
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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 you have your statement written out of why you
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  Speaker 5: want to even go to college, whatever college or university.
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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: but sometimes senior year might be a little too late
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  Speaker 1: because you just don't necessarily know. So how early should
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  Speaker 1: I should parents should be looking into colleges, and same
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  Speaker 1: thing with students.
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  Speaker 5: You know, you can set up your account at UNCF
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  Speaker 5: dot org.
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  Speaker 3: I mean as a.
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  Speaker 5: Freshman in high school, okay, and start looking at different
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  Speaker 5: scholarships and looking for what is it that you need
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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 5: to fill out that financial aid information. And I know
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  Speaker 5: the FASTFA has changed over the course of this year,
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  Speaker 5: so it's making sure you fill out your FASTFA set
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  Speaker 5: up that account at UNCF dot org. It doesn't matter
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  Speaker 5: how old you are. You can start talking to your
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  Speaker 5: kids about scholarships in you know, fifth, sixth, seventh grade.
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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 1: want to say have problems with scholarships, but have problems
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  Speaker 1: with scholarships because they get this scholarship to get their
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  Speaker 1: kid into school. But now their kid is in school,
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  Speaker 1: they're freshmen. Now what happens sophomore year? Are some of
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  Speaker 1: these scholarships four year scholarships or they just one year
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  Speaker 1: scholarship You got to get in then you're on your own.
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  Speaker 3: Oh no.
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  Speaker 5: A lot of scholarships are four year renewable scholarships as
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  Speaker 5: long as you continue to keep that GPA requirement, as
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  Speaker 5: long as you continue to keep whatever the requirements are
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  Speaker 5: for that scholarship.
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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: they can plan accordingly. There are some scholarships that might
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  Speaker 5: be a one time So if you do get that
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  Speaker 5: scholarship that's one time, then you have to go back
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  Speaker 5: to the drawing board and say, okay, let me see
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  Speaker 5: about some scholarship money over here, over here, over here.
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  Speaker 5: You can also piecemell it together. It doesn't all have
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  Speaker 5: to come from one place.
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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 3: Can think of.
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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: like I mean, it was a left handed scholarship, but
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  Speaker 5: it's out there. There are scholarships for all things, whether
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  Speaker 5: you play sports, whether you don't play sports, whether you're
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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 1: handed people out there.
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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 5: thirty graduating seniors at Clark and Landa University.
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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 5: graduate if they didn't pay that dollar amount. So sometimes
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  Speaker 5: you have people that just say, you know what, I
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  Speaker 5: want to make sure these students graduate. I don't care
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  Speaker 5: what their GPA is. It could be a two point oh,
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  Speaker 5: it doesn't matter. I want to make sure they get
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  Speaker 5: the money so they can walk across that step two
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  Speaker 5: point And that's what we did. Hey, we didn't care,
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  Speaker 5: it didn't matter. You owed money and we wanted to
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  Speaker 5: make sure that you were able to graduate in the spring.
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  Speaker 3: And so that's what we did.
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  Speaker 1: My daddy said, if I get a two point on,
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  Speaker 1: I'm coming back to Queens.
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  Speaker 5: Listen, you can graduate college still with the two point
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  Speaker 5: oh you graduate and thank you, Lottie.
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  Speaker 3: But you're graduatingege, thank you, lad.
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  Speaker 4: How can students prepare and pay for college, especially with
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  Speaker 4: the federal student aid deadline coming up.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, the deadline is around the corner. So they
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  Speaker 3: need to apply.
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  Speaker 5: You must apply to see what you qualify for. What
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  Speaker 5: kind of scholarships you qualify for? Again, Google is your
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  Speaker 5: best friend. YouTube, university is your best friend. Really look
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  Speaker 5: up what scholarships are available.
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  Speaker 3: But again go.
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  Speaker 5: To UNCF dot org because we have thousands of scholarships available.
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  Speaker 3: We give away millions of dollars.
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  Speaker 1: To date, U and.
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  Speaker 5: CF is probably given out over four billion dollars in
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  Speaker 5: educating young people.
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  Speaker 1: What today is today is doctor Martin Luther King Junior Day,
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  Speaker 1: So for that day, are you guys doing something special
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  Speaker 1: for today?
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  Speaker 5: Or doctor Martin Luther King went to Morehouse College. But
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  Speaker 5: we're not doing anything in particular besides what we always do,
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  Speaker 5: which is provide an education for black and brown and
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  Speaker 5: young people.
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  Speaker 2: What are some benefits of going to an HBCU.
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  Speaker 4: Because my daughter's fifteen now, and you know she's of
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  Speaker 4: course she's already talking about college. What's the benefits of
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  Speaker 4: going to an HBCU versus the PWS.
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  Speaker 5: You know, I think for me, it's seeing people that
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  Speaker 5: look like you doing great things. It's again that community.
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  Speaker 5: It's a smaller classroom. It's also go where you're celebrated,
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  Speaker 5: not where you're tolerated.
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  Speaker 2: What's the point of being an adulta?
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  Speaker 3: What's the point of being.
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  Speaker 6: What's the benefit? Don't you must have a must don't mother?
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  Speaker 6: My wife's mother is adult.
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  Speaker 1: What's the point of being at Delta?
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  Speaker 2: Wow? What's the benefit?
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  Speaker 4: It's respectful at the point, the benefits, the benefits of being.
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  Speaker 5: Wow, look at the being a gallery it up Listen.
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  Speaker 5: Being a member of Delta Signa the Sorority Incorporated was
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  Speaker 5: one of the greatest decisions for me. They are my sisters,
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  Speaker 5: my line sisters, my big sisters, my little sisters. Again,
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  Speaker 5: I not only work with them, I love them. It
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  Speaker 5: is a sisterhood. I don't have sisters. I have two
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  Speaker 5: older brothers.
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  Speaker 6: You know.
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  Speaker 5: I have a sissy that you know is my cousin.
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  Speaker 5: But it is about the love, it's about the sisterhood.
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  Speaker 5: It's about the commune unity, it's about giving back. So
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  Speaker 5: all of those things are what Delta encompasses.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, because I think about it. If you go to
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  Speaker 4: an HBCU, that's one level of sisterhood, absolutely and together
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  Speaker 4: and it's with your black Black people.
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  Speaker 2: But then you get pledged delta. That's the whole other.
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  Speaker 5: Level listen, a whole other level of sisterhood and brotherhood.
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  Speaker 5: I mean again that HBCU camaraderie is a sisterhood and
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  Speaker 5: brotherhood in itself, whether you pledge something or not. And
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  Speaker 5: even pledging delta, I still have a ka's that I
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  Speaker 5: so love.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, my public is.
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  Speaker 5: An AKA, you know, but you know it's still that
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  Speaker 5: love of fraternities and sororities.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: My oldest is a sophomore in high school. Like I said,
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  Speaker 4: we're already starting to look for colleges. When should students
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  Speaker 4: start seriously looking into.
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  Speaker 5: Honestly, again, I would say seventh eighth grade years. Start
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  Speaker 5: talking to your kids about college and and what kind
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  Speaker 5: of college would they want to go to?
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  Speaker 3: What do they want to do? You know, as they
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  Speaker 3: you know, get older.
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  Speaker 5: And I always also tell studentudents, if you don't know
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  Speaker 5: exactly what you want to do, it's okay to say that,
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  Speaker 5: it's okay.
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  Speaker 3: To change your mind.
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  Speaker 5: But I also say, as a junior in college, just
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  Speaker 5: go ahead and finish whatever that major is and figure
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  Speaker 5: out how to apply it to whatever it is you
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  Speaker 5: want to do or become. That's right, Like, don't pay
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  Speaker 5: all that money to take extra classes or additional classes.
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  Speaker 3: Just move forward.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I always say HBCUs sometimes have to do a
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  Speaker 1: better job at trying to get students, especially on the
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  Speaker 1: East Coast, because we don't see them as much, especially
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  Speaker 1: in New York and in New Jersey or or even
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  Speaker 1: Delaware and Philly. We don't see it as much. And
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  Speaker 1: like I said myself, my biggest thing was a different world.
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  Speaker 1: That's what made me see what an HBCU is like.
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  Speaker 1: So I would say they have to do a better
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  Speaker 1: job and hopefully things like this will encourage more students
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  Speaker 1: to check out HBC.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, and we actually did the empower me to or
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  Speaker 5: in New York with high school students. It was some
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  Speaker 5: years ago, was right before COVID and again hugely successful
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  Speaker 5: because students didn't know about HBCUs that they're available, you know,
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  Speaker 5: for them to attend.
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  Speaker 4: Do you agree with MV that you know HBCUs have
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  Speaker 4: to do a better job or do we as black
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  Speaker 4: people have to start valuing our own better.
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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 5: I think one it's important for us to continue to
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  Speaker 5: give back to our HBCUs.
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  Speaker 3: It's not just about.
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  Speaker 5: Homecoming and coming home, it's also coming home, loving on
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  Speaker 5: your people, but also giving back to your institution. So
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  Speaker 5: I just really think, you know, it's imperative, and we
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  Speaker 5: do have to do a better job of letting kids
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  Speaker 5: know that HBCUs are attainable, that they're available, and that
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  Speaker 5: money is available.
• 15:46
  Speaker 3: The reason them to attend.
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: The reason I talk about them so much is going
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: to Hampton and going to all these homecomings. I didn't
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: get that experience in New York. You know, you go
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: to Florida and they have the classic where it's it's
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: nothing but people, and they're outside and they're barbecuing and
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: they're cooking, and there's a parade and it's just so
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: much going on. And then you go to one in
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: Alabama and it's the same thing, and you realize, damn,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't have that in New York. We didn't have
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: to experience that. We didn't wake up wanting to go
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: to the parade, and you missed that being in certain
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: areas where they don't have an HBCU. That's why I
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: said a lot of times, we have to do it,
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: go better at going to those areas where there is
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: no HBCU showing the students what it means, what it
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: is and what the family is like like going to
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: famu's homecoming. I know you Clark Atlanta, but I'm Hampton,
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: but fam you has probably one of the best homecomings ever.
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  Speaker 5: They have a they have an excellent homecoming, and I
• 16:38
  Speaker 5: will say I mean, I love my CEU. Jackson State
• 16:42
  Speaker 5: also has a fun yes coming as well. I must
• 16:45
  Speaker 5: say that, But I thought there was a classic here.
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: In New Jersey. Didn't they just start.
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: It's a game, okay, so they just to shout the album.
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: He just he's trying to bring it back to New York.
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  Speaker 3: Got it.
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: He didn't actually go to a HBC. He went to
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: Saint John's, but he understands what it means. He has
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: black kids, so he's trying to create the classic background.
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: Schools are coming in the problems. I think last year
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: they did more house in Alabama State at Alberty State.
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: And the problem with Alberdy State, sadly is most people
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: thought it was in Albany, New York, but albody states
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: in Georgia. So it's like getting those schools and giving
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: an education but he's gonna continue to do it and
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: hopefully that gets that back hair and gets these students
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: out here and gets them coming to see things. Because
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: it's more than just the games they have, step shows
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: they have, They give a place where they give the
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: scholarships on site to kids they're doing. There's so many
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: different things around it, and I like to be a
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: part of it because I just love my HBCU. Yes, well,
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: we appreciate you.
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: She's also an entrepreneur.
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: That's right.
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: Harlem Hops, Bier Booths, Bites and Beach be Scott that
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: brought us this before.
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: That's right. You know what I mean. We want to
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: talk about Harlem Hops.
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: Listen. Harlem Hops is a craft beer bar. It's in Harlem.
• 17:54
  Speaker 5: We also just opened up a second location at Peer
• 17:58
  Speaker 5: fifty seven, so we have Harlem Chelsea also in the
• 18:01
  Speaker 5: food hall where the Google building is, So that's our
• 18:04
  Speaker 5: second location. And I mean we are one African American owned,
• 18:09
  Speaker 5: you know, first black owned Crappier Barn.
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: In New York.
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: The reason I love this because it shows that you
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: know what you do with you United Negro College. When
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: you do that, have to be of service.
• 18:17
  Speaker 5: Absolutely, you know what I mean, absolutely do it to
• 18:20
  Speaker 5: be of service to other students so they can also
• 18:23
  Speaker 5: see again, there's nothing like a mirror image to see
• 18:27
  Speaker 5: what it is that you can do and what you
• 18:28
  Speaker 5: can become. And when you see you know, a brother
• 18:31
  Speaker 5: or sister and you're like, dang, I can do that also.
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: It's it's inspiring and it's inspirational.
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: How can people get in contact with you in the UNC?
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: Okay, you can reach me on my ig at Stacy
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: Lee thirty two. That's my maiden name, Lee. I'm a Spratt.
• 18:48
  Speaker 6: You know.
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: On ig you can reach out to me directly.
• 18:51
  Speaker 5: You know, any kind of questions about education, any kind
• 18:55
  Speaker 5: of questions about scholarships, I will be glad to answer.
• 18:58
  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,
• 19:07
  Speaker 5: you know, ways to get to and through college.
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: It's all right there at your fingertips.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: All right, well, Stacy Lee Spratt, we appreciate you for
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: joining us.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, wake that ass up
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: in the morning.
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: The Breakfast Club