How The Urban League Brings College Access To San Antonio

You can feel when something is built for the long haul, not for a headline. That’s the energy behind my conversation with Quincy and Mario, two former HBCU athletes who turn a years-long friendship into a community mission: bringing the Urban League’s work to San Antonio and creating the HBCU Live Experience to open doors for students, families, and student-athletes.

We get personal about the HBCU foundation that shaped our confidence, our leadership, and our ability to navigate bigger spaces later in life. Then we get specific about what the Urban League movement stands for and how it operates, from education and youth development to workforce development, justice and advocacy, health and wellness, and housing and community development. The goal is simple and serious: raise resources, invest them back into the community, and build relationships that make the work hard to undo.

Mario breaks down the HBCU Live Experience model from a student-athlete perspective, with special focus on NAIA HBCUs and the talent that deserves more exposure. We also talk through the college and career fair, why access and exposure change outcomes, and how community support turns an event into a pipeline.

Here are the key dates shared: Friday, April 17 at 10 a.m. at the Alamo Communication Center for the HBCU college fair and career fair, then Saturday, April 18 at 3 p.m. at the same venue for the women’s all-star game followed by a performance and the all-star game. Listen, share this with a parent, student, coach, or employer, then subscribe and leave a review. What would you want to see your city build for young people next?

Transcript

Welcome And Community Announcements

Monique Robinson 0:22

Welcome to a Better Chance for Youth television show with your host, Monique Robinson, where we highlight, celebrate, and recognize students from all over the country who are doing great things in the classroom, community, and athletics. Every student deserves an opportunity, an opportunity for hope and a future. So let's celebrate our students, the next generation of teachers, engineers, entrepreneurs, and future leaders. Join us on another incredible segment of a Better Chance for Youth show with your host, Monique Robinson.

SPEAKER_03 0:55

Hey guys, welcome, welcome, and welcome. Yeah, my you know, throat is a little scratchy, but I'm still here. So welcome to today's episode of A Better Chance for Youth television show with me as your host. But before we get started, I have to tell you we are probably gonna sell out. So if you don't have your ticket, the HBCU awards, community people's choice awards, get your ticket now because it's gonna go down on that weekend. All right, I had to say that first, but seriously, the last day to vote for your people's choice is coming up fast, and I will update those totals probably tomorrow because I need to rest my voice. But today we have a very, very interesting show. Um, I met our guest a while back, but y'all know I never meet a stranger, and once people meet me, it's either I'm the HBCU lady or the girl that graduated from local force. So today's guests are you know kind of close to my heart because they're from a program that if you was in Dayton, Ohio and you was a young kid, you went through their program one way or the other. So let's welcome to the show our guests for today, and pray I push the right buttons. Welcome, welcome. How are you both today?

SPEAKER_06 2:34

Thank you, Dr. Monique. We're good. Great, ready to have some fun with you on this show.

SPEAKER_03 2:39

Oh Lord. So, you know, I already said you at the Urban League, but you also got an HBCU story that I just want to know about.

SPEAKER_06 2:49

So, so before we start, I believe in putting my money where my mouth is. I don't know if you secured all your sponsorships for the event yet. I need you to resend me that dick.

College Sports Bond And HBCU Paths

SPEAKER_03 2:59

Say thanks. I will definitely send it. And um, I want you to be in the place. We might have to shout y'all out when you get there.

SPEAKER_06 3:07

Okay. Good. That works. So so the backstory is Mario was a basketball star on the football, on the basketball team, and I was one of the football stars. And then the third person you see is this like a trifecta. Dony Wilson was uh was our top running back at offensive MVP. I was a defensive MVP, and Mario was to jump out the gym, dunk on you, or back you down and dunk on you guys. And I always tell the story that when he would jump, I would automatically turn and run the other way because I knew what was getting ready to happen to somebody who didn't know. And there we had a whole bunch of foolish people who would always try to go up, and somewhere they'll stop, and Mario would keep going, and then he'll bang on. That ain't no lie. I it happened to me one time, and that's all it took. And then we would always do these half-court uh shoe contests that he would, if we did 20 of them, he won 19 or 18 of them. I might have won two the whole time, if that. But yeah, we was we was good in college, and uh again, Lincoln gave us both a great experience because we was both D1 recruited athletes, and I got into um I got into some trouble and had to lead a D1 where I was at. And Lincoln was perfect. God had a plan, right? Uh, I was not supposed to be at the University of Arkansas Pine Bluff or any other school where I got recruited uh in the Power Five conferences. I was supposed to end up at Lincoln with Coach Jack Bush Jr. And uh I'll let Morio tell you a bit of his story, but yeah, we went to college together and we we had a whole bunch of fun at school. And like I said, we rolled tight the whole time at school, and then God found a way to put us back together about five or six years ago. So I'll let Morio tell you his path to get to Lincoln.

SPEAKER_05 4:58

So I was an all-state selection in Oklahoma on basketball court, and but I'm from a small community, a small area where I didn't get heavily recruited. So I went the junior college route and I played at Connor State College. And unfortunately, I didn't have uh a kind of up and up coach. So I had I had uh multiple Division I scholarship offers that I didn't know about. And he had he had promised one of his uh colleagues at a Division I school that I would go to his school. Now, if I knew that, everything would be cool, but I didn't know anything. And I had a at the time I had a cousin who was coaching at Lincoln University, and I just happened to go up there and visit with him uh for a short while. I think I even ran into Quincy while I was up there. I was on y'all 40 yard recruiting trip. Yeah, so I, you know, I wasn't even, it wasn't, it was like a they had a recruiting trip, but it was an unofficial recruit trip for me because I wasn't supposed to be there. But as Quincy said, God would have it that uh I eventually chose to uh sign and play with Link University and the rest is history.

SPEAKER_06 5:59

It was one of the few winning seasons in basketball that we had.

SPEAKER_05 6:03

Yeah, that year that year uh we had the biggest uh biggest turnaround in NCAA history. Um from a we had won two games the year before we won 20 games. Um we won 20 games and won the conference in our first year at Lincoln. Yeah. That that is a big difference. Yeah, real big difference. Uh so we had a lot of momentum and uh things going in a positive direction at Lincoln around that time, the early 2000s. I won't you know say our age, but yeah.

SPEAKER_03 6:35

No, no judgment here. Uh but I'm glad that it brought y'all back together to where you're doing good things, you know.

SPEAKER_05 6:44

The funny the funny story about us getting back together is that uh I was living in Trinidad and Tobago at the time. Uh both of our wives are trendy, by the way. And uh I was living there, keep they would come and visit, and I didn't even know. Yeah, and we never we never you know connected while they were there. And um, you know, out of the blue after uh uh post-COVID, I decided my family decided to um migrate back to the US. And uh I got a message from Quincy on LinkedIn out of the blue, and I and I told him, I you know, he asked me what I was doing, and I told him, Man, I'm about to move to Austin in a couple of weeks.

SPEAKER_06 7:26

Wow, we can't say what I said. No, we definitely can't say what I said, but I got a phone call shortly after. I thought he was joking, I thought he was joking, and I thought he knew I lived in Austin. I said, I said, man, right, uh, I should must tell Ronda to say that. Uh, but it wasn't, it was the truth. And so I said, No, I got this thing I'm trying to do. Uh, do you want to lead it? And he said, Yes, and we've been working together ever since.

SPEAKER_03 7:56

That's cool. Definitely cool. That's that's a brotherhood right there. That's a brotherhood. I I like that. Um, how you all come together now. We gotta take a short, short commercial break. But after the commercial break, I want you all to tell us about the urban league and you know how that that side of the the work works for you.

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Urban League Roots And National Reach

SPEAKER_03 9:20

Welcome back, welcome back. I'm here with um, I want to say, you know, new friends, because I kind of met Mr. Quincy a while back, you know.

SPEAKER_06 9:30

Can I tell you a story? So I mean Dr. Monique met uh was at uh when we were planning um the for the urban league to come into town, and this is one of those times where we got pulled into uh a local black um uh art gallery, uh and we got the chance to meet, and I knew this sister was a kindred soul because we about our people and we're unapologetically black who in the skin that we in, and you might look at me and say, black, huh? Yeah, black, come on. On this video, don't get it twisted. So so it was a matter of time before we hooked up to start doing this kind of service and support for our community, right? And I'm gonna say thank you, Monique, because you you were consistent. I I'm going a million miles all the time in a million directions, and you stayed the course. So thank you for that. And it's gonna bear fruit in our relationship and how we'll serve God's people in San Antonio.

SPEAKER_03 10:37

No problem. I'm always down for the cause when it's HBCU, but most importantly, the Urban League. Like, you know the story, but I guess our audience don't. The Urban League helped me get my first summer job. That's a great story. But my mom was like, you go into this program, and yeah, it was good.

SPEAKER_06 11:09

Same thing we used to have to go to urban league programming in the summer and after school. Uh, but the the backstory with the urban league is uh I grew up in urban league programming, and I had no clue that there was a national movement until in the early 2000s in my professional life when I moved to New York City.

SPEAKER_03 11:29

Wow.

SPEAKER_06 11:30

And I started working at the New York affiliate and was fortunate enough to uh get brought up to the national team, and I got to see the breadth of the movement uh across 36 states, so 92 affiliates across 36 states and in the District of Columbia. Uh so it's a total of 94, 95 now nonprofits that make up the totality of the urban league movement. Two sides, the national movement, two parts, I should say, of one movement, the national movement and the affiliate movement that works together under the Urban League, under the National Urban League Movement. And again, my desire in moving, so at the New York Urban League for two years, uh, then at the National Urban League for almost seven, and then I left for a year and went and worked for the Police Athletic League. It was the best and the worst experience at the same time. But I always knew I was coming back home to the movement, right? And you would see on the back of my shirt, it says the movement. So when you see that the movement, they're talking about the Urban League. And so the Urban League is set up to provide uh an equitable quality of life in five areas: education and youth development, health and wellness, justice and advocacy, workforce and community development, and what don't miss housing and community development, right? And so, so you got to figure when you look at those quality of life areas, that's where the biggest disparity exists uh for non-white communities. And I say it just like that black, lay black focus, but I serve who come to the door, who come through the door, black, white, or brown. We're not turning nobody away. Yeah, we serve uh 80 to 90 percent uh uh American Africans, and I said it that way on purpose. No, I am dyslexic, but no, I didn't say it backwards. I said it that way on purpose. I want our people to understand that in situations where somebody needs to conduct advocacy on behalf of our people, and uh this sports arena with my with my friend, and I can call my brother. I need to just tell the truth with my brother, this is one of those spaces where it's actually happening, right? Where we're not pretending to do the work, it's where my job is to raise money. So I go, I go raise money from all kinds of sources to make sure it's invested back into our community uh uh in a way that raises the quality of life for our people. And so when you think about that as a value proposition, I know people are looking like, why is Urban League coming to San Antonio? Well, no one organization or one group, one faction, one person can do all of the work. The disparities are so great, it's more work than one entity or one individual or one group can do. So there's space for all of us when we decide to collaborate, right? And so this HBCU live experience thing was a was a it was one of my um one of my brain ideas, and I said, damn, I can't pull this off until I find the right people to do it because I want to do it, having participated in HBCU uh football games and basketball, but I I had to find the right people. And God said, building an icon, and his word doesn't come back void. You see, Mario sitting right next to me. This is a this divine intervention. First off, because this is my boy, I could trust him with my life, and I could trust him with my movement, and I could trust him most importantly with my family, right? Uh, and vice versa. So when I showed him what I had on paper for the HBCU live experience, he went into this space where all I had to do was, hey Mario, what you need me to do? I sometimes he ain't always happy with me. Uh, and like that's my job. I'm not here to make everybody happy, I'm here to bring forth the fruit of Mario and my labor. I could take partial credit for this, but I'm gonna tell you the evolution of the HBCU live experience from a basketball perspective. When God sends you the right people, you have to get out of their way and do the support mechanism or the lead. Uh you know, you have to learn how to lead from the back, is really what it is. I don't have to tell this man how to be a leader. He was the captain of the basketball team. Uh, he he's the head of his household and he is his wife's partner, and he's a child of God. So I can get out of the way and trust that if we set something in motion, it's gonna yield high fruit. That doesn't always work out the way that we want it to, but again, we're not doing this for props from the community. We're doing this because we got a challenge and we got a direction from God to do this work, and so my job is uh uh uh support my friend. Uh, yeah, I'm the CEO. Yes, he's the director of special initiatives, but again, you have to know how to support, even as the leader, and support. I I can be a leader and support the leader of this elite initiative while being the leader of the entity. I don't they'll tell you there are times when I won't say much, then there's times when I talk too much, like now. So I'm gonna be quiet and I'm gonna let Mario talk about the HBCU live experience because again, sometimes just gotta shut up.

Why HBCU Culture Must Be Shared

SPEAKER_03 16:43

Hey, you you was on your in your zone. Right. Wasn't nothing bad, said, but Mr. Mario, what is the HBCU live?

Inside The HBCU Live Experience

SPEAKER_05 16:52

So the HBCU live experience from a uh student athlete perspective, um, we try to light on the athletes that hardly get that uh opportunity, even in their playing careers. Um, our our uh model is we work with the smaller uh HBCUs, um the uh they play in the NAIA level. And in Texas, we have five of those institutions. So when Quincy talked about the evolution of the HPCU live experience, we're gonna go back to 2022, actually our first year. It started off as an invitational event um over Thanksgiving, over the Thanksgiving period. Yeah, it was our first year, and you know, a lot of people were kind of shocked, like, why would you, you know, do that on Thanksgiving? But you know, basketball tournaments happen Thanksgiving all the time, right? At the college level. Um turnout wasn't what we expected, but the actual action on the court, um, the feedback we got from the teams, the players, and the coaches, staff. And the schools. Yes, and the schools. They were they were blown away about the about the experience that they that they had. Um, the second year, uh, we switched from invitational. We went to a classic. We ran the classic two years, two years straight. Um, and that was a that was an exceptional experience because we had the first ever HBC uh conference challenge, I would say. So we had the HBC, well, now the HBCU Athletic Conference versus the HBCUs from the Red River Conference, um, which is a conference uh um throughout Texas and Oklahoma. And it was it was wonderful. We got the support from both conferences. Um so we went and did it another year. We added a Battle of the Border game where we had Langston University from Oklahoma play against Paul Quinn from Texas, or Oklahoma, Texas kind of rivalry game. And so that was another thing that worked out. It was so successful from uh an athletic standpoint, where we got approached by the conference to try to organize a conference event. Well, unfortunately, those things didn't work out uh because we were looking at the January, uh, the spring semester um during conference season, and it didn't work out with the days, which got my my mind thinking, like, you know what, we can still do this in the spring semester, but let's let's change it up one more time. And I said, let's go with an all-star event. Now, not to be confused with what's already out there, the HBCU All-Star game that happens during Final Four weekend, which happened last year in San Antonio. That's an NC NCAA um activity that goes around the Final Four every year. Um, they're doing an excellent job, and we and we salute them. But there's nothing for the small guys, right? And that's when I say small guys, I'm going back to the uh NAI institutions. These athletes are just as good. Most of them came down from Division I institutions as well. So the talent is there, you know what I'm saying? So we we got representation uh from 22 institutions. Uh NAI has 23 HBCU institutions and their athletic uh activities. So we have 22. We have representation from 22 schools coming to San Antonio on April 18th. Now, I can't go any further to talk about the basketball side. Uh, we talk about the student part of the student athlete, and that's when we have our college and career fair that's happening on Friday, April 17th. Um, so we have about 15 HBCUs, mostly of the schools that's represented. They'll be in the place and they will be um they'll be recruiting students on the spot with some um, you know, on-the-spot admissions uh and scholarship information. So I have to get rid of them for our education and youth division and our workforce and career development division that's spirit heading both the college fair and the career fair.

SPEAKER_06 20:51

So, Dr.

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Dr.

SPEAKER_06 20:52

Monique, when you think about how you set the stage for an experience, uh you went to a you went to an HBCU, you had an HBCU experience of attorneys, sororities, and everything. How do we set that culture? We had such a great experience that how do we not share that with our community real large, right? Uh so again, we raise the resources and make the investment so it's twofold. We should be able to give out scholarships and things to the students, right? But also support the student athlete experience, but also bring others into the folder that HBCU live experience. Uh, nobody do it like HBCU's, so we might as well give everybody a piece of their life. Give you a little bit of taste, yeah. And and now you're gonna be trying to wonder well, you know, let me go check these campuses out. You know, they might not have the best residence hall, but man, my experience, I'll speak for myself because I I I went to several PWIs and got credentials and degrees, but the base was set at Lincoln University. That part. That foundation of success, that mindset and Mentality of success, not that other schools don't, other minority serving institutions, but I got something special from the two HBCUs that I went to. Right. And the ability to go into the environment and navigate the environment and find a pathway to success, the nurturing from the HBCU that I got, there's nothing else like it. And and again, Coach Bush, 75 years old, but that's my dad. If I have an issue or if I need to be reprimanded, he'll hear something, he'll call me. Have you lost your mind? He'll call me and say, Great job. He'll call me and say, Hey, I need to come down there for a couple of days just to just to check in and align. And again, that's me and Mario and Jody and a couple other HBCU grads here. We got a lot of he was still listening to grads on the team. Oh, yeah. Yeah, we got HBCU grads from across the country, right? And that's by design, right? Black led, black focus, but we're serving God's people. And again, y'all are like me. I'm on an assignment, and I'm going to complete that assignment because at the end of the day, God will make provision if we stay obedient. I struggle with that sometimes. We all do. And I push, I push me and Maureen are pushing for this HBCU live experience because again, we have something beautiful in our higher ed experience. And it's not something you can sit on, it's something you gotta share. It's something you gotta expose people to. Without access and exposure, we can see why people sitting around doing nothing.

SPEAKER_04 23:36

Right.

SPEAKER_06 23:36

And I'm not saying that's San Antonio. What I'm saying is if the urban league could bring some energy and some resources to it, then let's let's all get together and collaborate. I'm not saying we're the end all be all, but I'm saying we're a good piece to the puzzle. So if it used, if us in and let and let's go do this together, right?

SPEAKER_03 23:56

Okay, I just need to um after this commercial, if you could drop the details so we know how we can support as a community. Okay, we'll be right, right back.

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Opening A Permanent San Antonio Office

SPEAKER_06 25:26

Yep, and this is a permanent event. The difference between us and other things that's happening is we're opening an office in San Antonio, and it won't be like, you know how you have your side thing that you do? No, it'll be a full-fledged, uh, fully operating and serving urbanly office. We're gonna make the right investments, which we have been to ensure that the same attention that Austin gets San Antonio again, except for we have an Austin office now and a San Antonio office. So all of the bills and wheels, like the auxiliary groups, the YP, the Influence, and the Guild. The guild is already set up in San Antonio if you didn't know. So I'm coming to you, Monique, for you to join.

SPEAKER_03 26:07

You didn't tell me nothing. I was trying to send you my resume. I'm like, what sign me up?

SPEAKER_06 26:12

No, we send it. Listen, look, look at my face. I need that resume for real. You know how serious that be I'm gonna email it to you while we need that resume for real, but I also too. I'm gonna let Morio go into a little bit of decent detail about how to support, but I want to say this, my big um I believe in paying it forward, and we've made some some decent investments into the San Antonio community before we even open the office. And people say, Well, why would you do that? I said that they don't know me from a can of paint, they don't know the urban league, and so you have to set the right stage or provide the right mindset in order to be received.

SPEAKER_07 26:56

That's true, right?

SPEAKER_06 26:57

So, Morel, tell them a little bit about how they can uh support uh HBCU live experience in Urban League in general.

SPEAKER_05 27:06

First of all, you can go to our you can go you can go to our website at aau.org. Um, you can get all the information on all things that we do, Urban League, all of our events are listed there. Um you can go to our social media accounts at AAUL official and share, share, share, share everything that we got going on in regards to this HBCU live experience. Um there's ways that you can support by uh purchasing a block of tickets where you could pass out to some kids that you would want to get this HBCU experience. Um kids and families. Kids and families. You could you can you can spread the word and have have kids show up to the college fair. Uh if you know people in need for um employment, come to the career fair. Um and then we have opportunities for sponsorship opportunities where your your brand can be seen across uh all activities on the digital screens. Um so we'll be we'll be play uh showing those digital screens throughout Friday, Saturday, so your brand will be visible um during the HBC Live experience. And most importantly, just show up. Show up and show the support for future HBCU students, uh, past HBCU students, and just the community in San Antonio.

SPEAKER_06 28:27

And and again, Monique, the thing that people need to realize is it's not a grab and go. This is a sustainable effort so that the urban league can continue to invest in San Antonio. Uh we're going to resources from this, but then my job is to turn around and build a match to that and then invest it back into the community, right? To prove that we're serious. I'm seeking a brick and mortar down there. I want a physical building in San Antonio so that when the community needs a space, the urban league has a space that can be offered up. When they need to come for program supports special initiatives, they can come to a brick and mortar and get the support that they need, but they'll also see us on the ground in San Antonio.

SPEAKER_03 29:12

That's good. That's good. Like I uh I know I laugh and play a lot, but people really need to know that the Urban League is a good organization. Um they they molded half of the things that I've learned in my career. You know, how to advocate, how to speak up, how to hold a professional conversation that I think a lot of our communities have gotten away from teaching our young people. So I'm I'm I'm here to help. It's you know, let me know.

SPEAKER_06 29:45

We're coming. I can say we're here and we're coming. So it's it's both uh just the thing I would say to people is don't look at it as a$14 or$15 ticket. Think of it as a strategic investment into uh how we can balance equilibrium and quality of life, right? The other thing I'll say Monique when if somebody asks me how we can support, we don't know everybody. Who should we be working with and who should we be talking to and building the right relationships? I ain't talking about come out to pimp the herbal league because that's not what this is. I'm talking about and let's rub elbows together, let's put our two nickels together and let's make something shape for the community.

Tickets Sponsorships And Community Support

SPEAKER_03 30:27

Hey now, are you um I know the answer, but our audience don't because sometimes that might, you know, it might help. Are you in any other organizations?

SPEAKER_06 30:39

I'm a member of Omega Side Five Fraternity Incorporated. Uh y'all know what it is. I'm also I'm also a supporter of the NAACP, as well as several others, right? So I'm about as a whole list of organizations that I support, and that same kind of energy and support will be garnered for San Antonio. Like, you're not gonna see two or three people, we're gonna have a full service team down there, but these things take time to be done correctly. And the reason we're taking a methodical approach to doing it this way is so that it can never be undone, right? We don't need to be here and then be gone in 24 months. That's good so we plan some permanent routes, and I'm calling all talented people who want to serve the people. Come holler this up at the urban league, uh, and come be a part of a movement, or let's let's make the urban league a part of the San Antonio movement more important.

SPEAKER_03 31:36

Hey, say less. I told you I'm gonna send my resume. You think I'm playing? I ain't even gonna put I ain't even gonna put the doctor stuff on there.

SPEAKER_06 31:44

Oh no, I need you to put it on there. I need you to put that on there for a very specific reason. We laughing at each other, but I'm you know I'm serious. I know you're right, I'm dead serious because again, when we hit the ground running and we build that team, the brand is something that we have to be able to trust, and the brand has to trust us to do right by it. And you just can't bring we we got some janglers and some foot shakers down there, they they hustle, but the urban league ain't no place where you come and hustle. Not at all, you come and serve and be served.

SPEAKER_03 32:20

Not at all. That's that's the experience that I had growing up. The experience I watched my grandmother do things through the urban league, and it just you know, I got excited when I seen the symbol. I was like, Oh, they come in here.

SPEAKER_06 32:34

So we don't I'm sorry, the information, nothing is more important to a new movement than information, correct and accurate information. Some of it might not be good, but we need to know it all: the good, the bad, the ugly, the beautiful, uh, where the bodies are, where the skeletons are, uh, where the new babies are. We need to know all of that. We we want to know, we want to be able to show up correctly, which is why I took the approach of over the last two or three years coming into the community, doing stuff, meeting people, shaking hands, getting to know people. It's there's a way you show up, and it wasn't just by building and show up one day. You didn't want to do that, and then it was the HBCU live experience, is it's us proving to San Antonio that we are here to stay. That that that event was in Austin, and like I said, God always got a plan. Like, they tore the convention center down. What they tore the convention center down, and and then I was like, we go to San Antonio, and we just got in the car and came down there. It was like, I was like, hey man, San Antonio is venue rich, land rich, property rich. Oh, we gotta come to San Antonio, and y'all got a few other cultural things that Austin don't have. So it's like, oh yeah, we're going down there.

SPEAKER_03 33:58

Makes sense. Hey, so y'all, y'all heard the challenge. Um, if you are watching the replay, curve play, or even just watching, period, please, please, please support this event. I know a lot of you all personally, and if I don't see y'all there, I'm definitely gonna reach out and say, you know better, you do better. So before we go, do y'all want to just run it back really, really quick? Where the event will be, what's going on, and how we can support.

Dates Details And Final Challenge

SPEAKER_05 34:29

Okay, Friday, April 17th at the Alamo Communication Center at 10 a.m., we have our HBCU College Fair and our career fair. And that's followed by April 18th at 3 p.m. at the same venue. We have our HBCU women's all-star game, followed by a live performance. And then we have to tell them who? Nah, they have to come. They have to come see that. Yeah. And then followed by me and HBCU All-Star Game. So be in the place with me. You don't want to miss it out.

SPEAKER_06 35:01

Yeah. Also, to uh connect with us, reach out to the urban league. If there are some things that we should be doing, like the whole support of the Project Marvel and understanding what is the advocacy around that. What was this when I say the support, it wasn't a for or against Project Marvel, it was actually getting the correct information out into the community so an informed vote can happen. Sometimes that type of advocacy work is the most important thing you could do. And again, we're here talking about the HBCU live experience. So individuals can understand what's in that HBCU experience for two men. Uh, and we got a we got a couple of females on the team from HBCUs. It's it's about 50-50, but but it's it's it's greatness here. It's not just black greatness, it's greatness. The other thing I'll say too, Monique is I want to work with the churches, the black churches down there too. So I'm open to it.

SPEAKER_03 35:56

Uh I was asking that. I'm like, wait a minute, you ain't went to none of the churches.

SPEAKER_06 35:59

You could have easily Pastor Georgetown over at uh uh St. Paul's.

SPEAKER_03 36:08

You need to reach out to my pastor because he he's heavy in the community. Um shout out to True Vision or Ackerman. Um my pastor. You reach out true vision.

SPEAKER_06 36:21

So so hook us up, get give me the meeting, and I'll be down there on Thursday. If you got time, hey, I like I like eating the charmboard oysters. We can go to Stoneworks, uh, oysters on the band, or or or what's the other one? There's one more that I go to to get them. But let's go get something y'all like to eat.

SPEAKER_03 36:40

That's last time you were coming from eating when I met you, just saying. Yeah. But thanks guys for showing up for us today, and I am in full support of your event. I hope you come down when we have our event in May. And if I didn't, if you don't know our event in June, it's really more fun. It's the HBCU send-off. We celebrate all the kids in the community that is going to HBCUs in the fall.

SPEAKER_06 37:08

I think that's the one I want to support.

SPEAKER_03 37:10

It's a whole day.

SPEAKER_06 37:13

Yeah, I want to support that send off. That that's the send me the sponsorship deck for that, Monique. That send-off, I think that's the place where we'll make the investment.

SPEAKER_03 37:22

That's the send-off is the time had every year.

SPEAKER_06 37:26

It just I tell you like this you have to think about the assets that the urban league brings to the table. Don't go rent equipment, talk to your boy first. I got you. I got you.

SPEAKER_03 37:42

Oh, hey. Say this, you know, I don't I don't mind reaching out. Don't mind doing that, but thank you guys for coming. Um, I'm in full support of this successful event. I might not be there Friday, but definitely be there Saturday.

SPEAKER_05 37:58

Thank you for having us. Thank you very much.

SPEAKER_03 38:02

Good seeing y'all too.

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