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The HBCU Journey: Family Support for College-Bound Scholars
Parents take center stage in this moving third round of the Takesha A. Davis Scholarship competition, where we meet the families behind our top 20 scholars heading to Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
The Jones family opens up about their daughter Mia's acceptance to Spelman College—a milestone representing generational progress. "This is a monumental accomplishment," her father explains, revealing how neither parent had the opportunity to experience campus life when they were younger. Growing up in Newark during challenging times, college seemed an impossible dream. Now, watching their daughter achieve what they couldn't creates an emotional full-circle moment that has their entire extended family celebrating.
We're introduced to the Padgett family from Alabama, whose twins are both headed to Fort Valley State University. Their mother, a Xavier University graduate, meticulously tracked scholarship applications using spreadsheets to minimize potential student debt. Her practical advice shines through: "Take advantage of college tours, parent groups, and alumni networks to navigate this journey."
The episode showcases how these families view HBCUs as more than educational institutions—they're cultural havens where students thrive surrounded by excellence. When the James family discusses their daughter Amaris's powerful essay on colorism, her mother proudly acknowledges: "She has a pen of fire. She's going to change lives with it."
These conversations reveal the delicate balance parents strike—pushing children toward opportunities while letting them make their own choices. As one mother perfectly summarizes: "Even though we see them as young adults who should be able to do this themselves, still check in. Those check-in moments are getting them ready to remember when they're on their own."
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Speaker 3:Welcome, welcome, welcome. And we are going to have another another, another lovely round of Takesha, a Davis Scholarship. Now let me tell you, our young people have went above and beyond and I couldn't be more proud to see them, as they have really put in a lot of work. They really put in a lot of work. They went from 70 to 66 to top 50, top 40, top 30. And now we are in our final phase of interviewing and now we're at our top 20. You know, that means we're in round three.
Speaker 3:Those who know and have watched for the last five years. Round three is actually my favorite. This is where we get to meet the parents and not to put any pressure on our parents, but we get to see exactly how our scholars were taught or how our scholars have various mannerisms. Now, our first person to kick off our round three today or for the week. She did a fabulous job in her initial interview, so I, you know, can only expect greatness from her parents. Now I am extremely excited, like I said, as we are getting to meet our parents and right after our first commercial I'm going to bring them on and I bet you can see what I mean by excellence.
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Speaker 3:Welcome back, welcome back. So I am going to invite our family. That is kicking off round three and, as you know, I love round three. This is like my ultimate favorite round. I know it should probably be the essays, but I actually love to talk to the parents because I just want to know. So let's welcome to our show. Welcome, how are you how?
Speaker 6:are you?
Speaker 5:doing well in you.
Speaker 3:I can't complain. So um, tell the audience who you are and you know your scholars name and what school you're representing well, um, I am jay jones.
Speaker 7:This is my wife, stephanie jones. This is our daughter, mia jones. We are the jones family and, uh, as you can clearly see, we are representing spelman college our daughter has, uh, exceeded our expectations and and um, gotten to spelman and and you know, and we understand the weight of that decision that she made to strive to get there and getting in.
Speaker 3:Wow, and that's not an easy task to do. I know that's a very, very rigorous process and you have to really play the part to get there. So congratulations on making the cut. I'm shocked she didn't say it. Usually when Mia come and do her interviews, I'm going to be number one because she being illustrious.
Speaker 6:I mean, look, you see how on board we are right now. Look, I'm going to tell you I'm board. We are right now we are Listen, look, I'm going to tell you, I'm going to be 100% honest with you. Every conversation, I know people at work are sick of me. Everybody's tired of me. You know my daughter's going to spell me, I mean, every time I speak to anybody. So, look, I'm trying to be humble. But let me tell you something.
Speaker 6:I am definitely using this as an accomplishment personally too, because we all go to Spelman and we are so proud of our daughter. I'm about to burst if I'm being honest as you totally have the right to be.
Speaker 3:So I mean I know that everybody got the Spelman gear on, as you totally have the right to be. So I mean I noticed you know everybody got the Spelman gear on. You know she's training y'all. Are y'all ready for move-in day?
Speaker 5:No, as we leave this weekend and she moves in, we're not. I'm very, very I'm excited and sad that she's going to be so far away from us, but I am so excited for the journey she's about to begin. It was just from the beginning. I feel like this was just God's will for her, because it was initially started off I introduced it to her. We just went to an event and I was like go to this. And she was sold on somewhere else and I was like go in the junior year, attend this. And then she went to Junior Preview day. She liked what she saw. She went again, but it was still never like really, really, um.
Speaker 5:But every guy just kept pushing her in that direction and even they got, they deferred her in December. So we were like, okay, well, you know, if it's not, you know not the way, we're going to pray on it and let it be April 1st. Baby, when they accepted her, it was just like. She was like mom, this is where I wanted to go all along, okay. So we, we got to figure it out. We weren't. You know, we're just praying, we just god brought us this far and I was like he will continue, um, to make sure we see it through.
Speaker 7:I mean to be honest with you.
Speaker 7:For me, when we went to uh, we went to an event yeah, the first event the first event that my wife hooked up and I went there and I sat there and I sat there. And you know, initially I didn't want my daughter to go all the way. You know we're from the Northeast. I didn't want her to go that far away to school because I wanted to be able to have a certain amount of access to her right, this is my first child. It's very hard to deal with the fact that she won't be under the same roof as us.
Speaker 7:For me personally, right, but you know, I say I got to let go, I got to let her fly, Right, but once I saw how amazing the women were that got up and spoke, you know, and I've always heard about Spelman, right, I have, I have friends of mine who have went to Morehouse and, and you know, but I've always heard about the, the, the quality of, of, of graduates from Spelman, and these are the women that are running our community, essentially, right, these are the elite of our community.
Speaker 7:When I sat down and we sat through all of that, my prayers went for her to go to Spelman. I didn't want her to go anywhere else. Right, and it's not just because it's an all-girls school, because Morehouse is right there, right, it's just the network of people that she'll have access to and they say you know, if you wanna look at somebody and you wanna see how successful they are, look at the people that are around and look at the company that they keep. You keep great company like that right. Just from an education standpoint, from a personal standpoint, I know that my daughter going here is gonna put her ahead of the page.
Speaker 5:I agree standpoint.
Speaker 3:I know that my daughter going here is going to put her ahead of the test. I agree that's, that's awesome and I, um, I couldn't agree with you more. Uh, with that, and as I talk to parents, it's, it's reality time. It's like got to drop my kid off. I've talked about four of them last week. They're like I dropped my kid off. Are you available? I'm like not really, but I'll talk to you Now. You said you're from Northeast. What part?
Speaker 5:Jersey. We're from New Jersey.
Speaker 3:New Jersey, that's a drive? Yes, I am. You sure?
Speaker 1:No, I am you sure? No, it will be fine, it will be us.
Speaker 5:I'm going to miss them, though. You got to.
Speaker 5:FaceTime them. She's doing something that neither one of us has never done. I am a teacher, but I went to college when she was a young girl. She actually attended my college graduation. I wanted to go to HBCU that was what I wanted. But my even to go away to college. But my parents you know being young parents they got married at 19, had me at 20. They were like you got to go, we can't afford that. We don't know this. Going away, life like that's expensive. Yeah, you watch a different world, but we're not the Cosby, so you know I had to work, then I went to school later. So this is really like new territory for all of us. So that's why I'm as excited, as nervous as I am to let her go. I am so excited that she's getting to live her dreams and I can live my dream.
Speaker 7:Yeah, I mean, and similarly for myself, I lost my father at a young age. My father passed away when I was 13 years old. My mother, you know, I appreciate it, and you know I've always kind of had to be an adult, you know, just from you know my dad being very sick. Growing up, I feel like I've been an adult since I was 11, right, and I've had a lot of responsibility in high school. When I was in high school, I was helping my mother pay the mortgage to the house.
Speaker 7:I was doing a lot of different things where it wasn't even an option for me at the time, so I thought to even go away. There was no resources there, you know at all, and you know I've, you know, kind of shaped my life into a way where, you know I've we, and you know I've always taken care of my family and I've always been a hard worker, right, and I wanted my daughters, both of my children, I want them to be able to live a life that I wasn't able to live. You know what I mean and and, and that's the reason why I work the way I do. My wife works the way she does, and you know it's one of the main reasons why we decided to, you know, kind of be the family and the kind of parents that we are right, we, we are, uh, helicopter parents in a sense right. But yeah.
Speaker 5:Well, it's because we don't have any margin for error, not to cut you off. It's because we started from the bottom, like literally, and we worked our way to be able to do the things that we're doing, and it's like we don't have any margin for errors for them going to college and to mess up. So going to Spelman College is it is, as it is, expensive. So the scholarships, the programs that's why I was really my helicopter. Parenting came in where I was like, well, you have, you have to be involved, you're going to have to apply to scholarships. This is what mommy and daddy have. You were at my college graduation.
Speaker 5:We knew you were going to college, but nobody sat us down at 27 years old and said this is how you save, we try to pay the bills. So it's just that piece, that margin of error, that we don't have, that it's like, okay, we can get you here, but we got to figure out the resources. And the thing that I loved about every HBCU college tour we went to, they told us they said, don't worry about the money. If your child comes here and they succeed and they do this, there's money. They will alumni report, not at the PWIs but in Stone's Shade. But I'm just saying every college tour we went to the networks was saying alumni are going to unlock. Don't let the money or the price tag keep your child from coming here and experiencing this greatness. I'm like we prayed about it. We're going to have to trust God because we see the bills. But everyone said the same thing.
Speaker 7:Everyone said the same thing, not for nothing. For me, being a blue-collar guy and hardworking guy, I see the value in education. I see the value in having a network of people to put you in a certain echelon in life. I see that in the company that I work for, there are so many people there that are very skilled. There are people that are that, that have a lot of talent and a lot of brains, but the thing that kind of elevates them in said company is the relationships that they had. Mm, hmm.
Speaker 3:And that's. I'm glad you brought that up, because relationship capital is really important and that's something that I hope we kind of taught them throughout this competition. I tell, I've told them from day one if you see somebody going to your school, reach out, connect. It's easy to go through an experience with somebody you know, versus showing up on campus and you, like, I need to find my tribe, I don't know anybody. So I hope we did good this year with that. But we got to take a short, short, short commercial break. But I always give people something to think about before. So when we come, the one thing, uh, the one lesson or um that you could teach another parent that had to go through this whole college process, what's the one thing that you would want them to know right after this?
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Speaker 3:Welcome back. I'm sitting here with the Jones family. You know Mia, one of our standout top 20, I think. Mia, what rank are you this week? I think I'm like 11 this week. Oh okay, look guys, we got to get busy. We got to get busy. Mia got to be in 10 because she did a powerful epic essay that is circulating on all platforms. It's even on our BuzzFeed and people have downloaded.
Speaker 11:So I had to keep her in here.
Speaker 3:So y'all know what to do. I'm going to run it across the bottom, but I did give the parents a task. So what was the lesson that you could give a parent that is going to be in your shoes when we start our next class in September? So what would you tell a parent? Well, what I would tell a parent that is going to be in your shoes when we start our next class in September.
Speaker 5:So what would you tell a parent? Well, what I would tell a parent that started in this journey right now is to trust the process and trust their child right. So, even though I was a micromanager and a hoverer and I was reminding her a lot, it was her process, it was her decision, it was her choice because she has to be there right. So your child is the one that is going to have to be there.
Speaker 5:And I suggested, but I didn't push and even though we see them as young adults and we see them as they should be able to do this by themselves, still check in, because those check-in moments are getting them ready to remember to be on their own. I would still remind her we had a shared calendar, Like these are the dates, but I didn't do it, I was just reminding I was. That's where she became felt like I was doing a lot, but they still need that. And while they're under your you know your roof, this is your last chance for them to take that voice with you, with them off to college. So, yeah, just trust the process.
Speaker 7:Yeah, I would like to add, too, that one thing that we as parents have to realize is that being a parent is a lifetime commitment, right, and no matter whether you want them to be an adult, we're still there to be a sounding board and to guide them right. And you know, the best way to guide your kids is to have all the information right. So another thing that I would caution parents to do is to do research on that university, you know. Ask your kid exactly what direction they want to go to and try to lead them in the place that's going to help them be as successful as possible in the field that they're trying to go into. And also go see these universities too. Right, because, you know, take advantage of all of those different things, like you know, when they have the admitted freshman day and things like that. Like take that drive, take, make that commitment, because if you show your kids the commitment to you know their dreams, you know, I think that goes a long way to them being successful, because they look and say, hey, man, look what my mom and dad, they're willing to sacrifice and drive me through all these universities. They're willing, they're lock and step with me, and I think that was one of the things for me.
Speaker 7:You know, I don't come from a college background, I'm a blue collar guy, so sometimes, you know, I'm always about. You know, one plus one equals two. I'm, you know, I'm very, very uh. I need to see the results. I need to see exactly what's the, the, the, the sum total of why we're doing this right. Why am I taking off of work? I can't afford to take off of work. Why are you telling me to drive you to Lincoln? And she doesn't want to go to Lincoln, like, why am I doing this Right? The thing is is that you need to juxtapose all of these places against each other and then you can really make a real informed decision as a family.
Speaker 3:I love it, I love it, I love it. And you are absolutely correct in both of you, you know, saying like it's a team effort, that we got to do what's right. One of the things, honestly, that stood out and yes, I did put it across the bottom because we got to get me at the 10.
Speaker 3:I have truly, truly enjoyed her throughout this competition. And then, you know, even after, I'm still going to bother her. I even reached out to one of our Spelman scholars from last year like, look, we got a kid coming there. You know, help her stay there, because you know, they know my rule in the door out by four, five, If your major requires that. But so, yeah, we got to keep her there. But one of the things that stood out in her interview and I laugh every time I watched the replays like she was, like I thought human was a real school.
Speaker 6:I was like girl we all did it. We all did, and you know we come from the era when a different world was actually on television. Yes, right, we grew up into that construct.
Speaker 5:That's what made a lot of our generation even want to go to college that's how I wanted to visit hinton because they said some of the scenes of the outside was hansen right and some with the agency like yeah yeah, but you know what?
Speaker 7:that's what made it a dream of mine to go to college. I always wanted to go to college. I always wanted to go to a hbcu. It was never. I never wanted to go to a pwi and I was an athlete and I wanted to, even playing football. I wanted to play football for historically black university, because of Bill Cosby and because of a different world. You know what I mean. Like I know a lot of people say things about Mr Cosby, but he's a legend to me and I still respect the legacy that he left behind for, for, for black folks. To be honest with you, you know that's real's real.
Speaker 3:That's real facts. Honestly, Different World will always be my favorite show I watch it. It's sad People. They laugh at me, my friends they really do, because I watch it every day, as if I've never seen all the episodes.
Speaker 7:The same thing. It was such a powerful thing. It was for for our generation and generations yeah that are behind us and our children.
Speaker 5:Yeah, those are the first people I ever saw that went to college. My parents did not go to college. My father went to the military. They got married at 19. Like, I know, one in my family, uh, went to college. My, I think my uncle went away but he didn't graduate. So so you know, it was not. There weren't college educated people around me. So I was like this is like. There are people who live like this. You know, and I, you know that wasn't our reality, but it was nice to see that it was more, cause I grew up in Newark, so it was more. It was more to see Newark, new Jersey right, there was.
Speaker 7:And all of our families from Newark and you know my mother was a teenage mother. My mother didn't. I think my mother might've got her GED. You know my father had a lot of challenges and things. So we're you know they didn't go to college either. Right and and and and both of our families there there was a lot of tragedy a lot of a lot of things that you that it was the 80s.
Speaker 6:We don't want to air our dirty laundry, but all the things that came with the 80s affected both of our families.
Speaker 3:No judgment here. I know Newark very well. I have classmates and people from there and then I guess, since you're probably around the same age as me, newark used to be. I don't know if it still is.
Speaker 5:No, it's much better Shout out to our medicine.
Speaker 7:No, it was rough in the 80s and the 90s. It was rough. It was a rough place to be Right and you know you don't see this kind of you're just trying to survive Right, so you're not thinking about. This is like a dream when you think about it you know, going to college is like what, going away.
Speaker 7:Going away like I can't even go, you know, I can't even leave the city half the time, right? So for us, this, this blows us away and it's just I'm gonna be honest with you like getting back to a different world, right, and I don't mean to just make it like it's more than what it is. It it is.
Speaker 3:It was a vital thing for a lot of people to be honest with you, absolutely my classmates in my mind, I mean, even though they were older than me, they were like my real class, yeah, yeah we, we all went with them, and it's always expressed in like, when mia will say she'll, she's filling out stuff.
Speaker 5:Now I'll say oh, are you first generation cop? And technically she's not. Because I went to college and she was five, I was like but you're, I'm sorry, but technically she really is first generation to be able to go away and have that. Yes, I have a degree and I became a teacher, but she is the first to do that. And I was like, even so, they should be like are you second generation? Because it's still ceilings and levels, because you know, my college degree is not debt free. I had to take out student loans to go to college. So it's like that's a that puts her at a disadvantage too. So it's always interesting when she's like my, it says first gen, I'm not first gen, I'm like well, you know, sorry, the moment you say your mother's a teacher, I do have a college degree. Doesn't ask you if my loans are paid, but do have a college degree.
Speaker 7:It doesn't ask you if my loans are paid, but put that in the essay. Conversely, college is not about the books, it's not about the building. It is about the experience. She is the first generation of our family, on both sides, to be able to go away and experience college in its purest form actually being on campus.
Speaker 3:You're going to the top girl, you're going to the max, right, right.
Speaker 14:You're starting at the top, Like what.
Speaker 7:But it's super important, it's a huge thing for us and our family, because she is setting the stage for her sister, she's setting the stage for her future children that one day, hopefully, and in generations of our families, this is, this is a monumental accomplishment, right, and it's just the beginning. Right, it's just the beginning. She's got to stay there. I know it's a lot of pressure on her, but we, we, we definitely remind her of the weight that this carries in our family and everybody in our family. It's people in our family that we had no idea even cared. You know, everybody's showing up for me, everybody's proud, everybody's talking about it, like on boat, like cousins, everybody. People are blown away by this. So you know, I, you know I can't, I can't make it any plainer how proud we are.
Speaker 3:I'm extremely, extremely proud of her and, as I tell everybody, even if you know it doesn't pan out through this way, we still offer and extend our support because our goal is that everybody make it to the finish line. I know we this competition is very, very, very competitive. But, past the competition, if you need help throughout the school year you got all my numbers and all my emails we we will pair you up with whatever we can but me. I didn't know you had siblings. I'm thinking you're the only child. How you? I? Have a younger sister.
Speaker 3:Uh-oh, is she ready for you to go?
Speaker 1:Yes, she's probably playing in the room. She's like when are you leaving again?
Speaker 5:She wants her parents back. She wants it to be about her for four years.
Speaker 1:As if they weren't mine first. But it's okay, I love her anyway To be honest with you.
Speaker 7:She says that, but she, she's gonna be in shambles.
Speaker 6:That that's her big sister.
Speaker 7:She loves her big and and, uh, her she. She thinks that she's gonna be all right, but she won't be.
Speaker 3:She's gonna miss you because she's not gonna have nobody to blame nothing on her. Do the extra help around the house yes, yes she's gonna miss you once that. You know, that reality set in it. So, just saying so, I I have truly, truly enjoyed the jones family segment. You know they can't represent this film.
Speaker 3:And now, please don't forget, keep me in now. She got to be top 10, and you know we have a little bit of time because we can't top 10, and you know we have a little bit of time because we can't officially end to all parent interviews. So we got like 20, some parents that you are going to have the pleasure of. But, um, truthfully, truthfully, I have enjoyed you all. Please have a safe trip, mom don't cry don't cry too hard on the way back now.
Speaker 5:We won't. We'll try not to. We'll try not to. I'm going to be in shambles, but thank you so much for this opportunity. I am too Thank you to this. This sounds like such a wonderful thing that you all do Just for the exposure for my daughter and hopefully you know her blessing will come from this or from somewhere Just for her being a part of this at this moment. So thank you.
Speaker 7:It's a blessing to be able to connect with people like you guys, anyway Absolutely so we've already got a part of the blessing right.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you got a huge part of it. But before we go because I asked the young people this and you probably know what I'm about to ask you, because I'm going to give you the spotlight why should our viewing audience and people seeing this?
Speaker 5:why should our viewing audience and people seeing this? Why?
Speaker 1:should they vote for me Go first, you go first, who me yes, you go first.
Speaker 7:Well, look, you know, unbiasedly, you know, I think that they'll definitely get a return on the investment that they're making in my daughter. My daughter is someone who has fought through a lot in her academic career and she's come out on top. My daughter is a person who was a leader in her class. My daughter is somebody who was a leader on her cheerleading team. My daughter has always been someone that people have overlooked, but once she gets involved she always exceeds our expectations. So she might be the best investment you've ever made, because this is a child that I think is set up to do some very, very special things in this world, and also because how good of a person she is. She is a caring, loving and I know I'm her father, but I'm just really being honest she's one of the most caring, loving, thoughtful people that you can never meet and I think that you know her compassion is going to really help this world once she gets out of school.
Speaker 5:I agree and just even though you say it was great, I have one thing to add that Mia is not just about Mia.
Speaker 5:She is about giving back and paying it forward.
Speaker 5:Ever since she started middle school, right, she wanted to be a leader and a mentor and try to help and bring other people up to where she is. She liked to invest in others, the way people have always poured into her, and just to share with you. She won a laptop from a scholarship that she applied to, and she wound up winning something else that was able, because her school told her she had to get a specific kind of laptop. So she was like you know what? I want to invest in someone else. I got this blessing, I want to pass it on to someone else, and so she donated the laptop that she won, because she believes in reaching back and pulling us up and pulling other people up, and this is just who she is innately, and I think it's because she's lived the life where she's seen people pour into her and she doesn't want to let that go. Um, and you know she doesn't want to let her cup empty. She wants to keep filling it up with, with giving back to others.
Speaker 7:So, mia, an investment in me is not just an investment in me, it's an investment in the future yeah, definitely, and also the what she wants to go into right, she wants to be a social justice lawyer, right? Yes, like what? And this is not something that we parroted to her, this is something she came to us with. She saw that there was a problem out here and that's what what her passion has been since she was a little girl, and, and, and it's inspiring, like you know. You know, we talk about her mentoring and she, she's changed my thought process and I'm her father. Yeah, right, so you know, she, she's, she's changed the way I view things. Definitely, man, I didn't mean to try to take over.
Speaker 5:No, that's fine. Vote for Mia.
Speaker 7:Definitely vote for Mia man.
Speaker 5:Mia Lachelle Jones.
Speaker 3:I love it. I love it. I always ask. I mean because?
Speaker 5:you kind of sub-guard with that? I wasn't thinking about that question. It's best to speak from the heart. No, yeah, it was, it was straight off.
Speaker 3:You were supposed to prep me.
Speaker 5:You do your job, man I don't know why I didn't think that yeah, yeah, she does okay, okay, I'm about to say now she's supposed to train, but I have truly, truly enjoyed you.
Speaker 3:You are the first family to kick this off for round three, so you know tough act to follow y'all. They came first.
Speaker 5:See, that's not like we come first, because then you could. It's more expectations. So now you know.
Speaker 3:Yeah, they set the bar kind of high. Our judges are probably all like oh, I don't get to judge, so one last time, mia, you know, tell us who you are, where you're from and what school you will be. You'll be going in about a week, is it this week? This week?
Speaker 8:Yes.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I'm excited for you. Thank you, hello everyone. My name is Mia Lachelle Jones and I will be attending the illustrious HBCU the first in the nation Spelman College and I'm from New Jersey.
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Speaker 3:Welcome back, welcome back, and guess what? We are officially, officially, in round three of the Takesha A Davis Scholarship for 225. 2025. I said that, all wrong, 2025. Now, guys, that last family was, you know, they were very impressive, and what I really really love is that we have some extraordinary scholars but we have extraordinary parents. Now I'm about to bring our next guest on for round three. You know, day one, round three, and I, you know they're going to come on, they're going to tell us where they are from and what school that they will be heading to really soon. Welcome, welcome. How are you?
Speaker 8:how are?
Speaker 3:you, I can't complain, and you know it's always hot in texas, so that's why I stay indoors. But you know, tell us. Tell us where you are Again. I mean, I know, hannah, but tell us where you are and where you are headed real soon.
Speaker 14:Well, my name is Hannah Padgett, I'm from Alabama, tallahassee, alabama and I am headed to Fort Valley State University tomorrow, tomorrow oh my god, mom, you ready as?
Speaker 11:ready as I can possibly Be right now, tomorrow, tomorrow, oh my God, mom you ready as ready as I can possibly be right now. I can't say if I'm completely ready, but I'm extremely proud of her and her twin brother for making that leap and making that step and walking in excellence. I'm truly proud of them.
Speaker 3:That's a big accomplishment, mom. You got two at the same time going. Yeah, yeah and they're going to. But they made it easy for you, though, because they're going to the same place they did, they did.
Speaker 11:So we only have to, you know, load, we're loading, we have at least two vehicles going, but, um, you know, at least we're going to the same space. So we're excited. We are so excited about this.
Speaker 3:Wow, I bet Two vehicles going to the same place and Jesus so powerful. How far?
Speaker 11:is the drive. It's about two and a half hours away from us. Oh, that's not too bad, not too bad, not too bad, not too bad, not too bad, not too bad, that's too bad.
Speaker 3:I mean, I made a good choice you know y'all made the best choice, so, as um you've been getting hannah and her twin prepared for school. What would you say would be like? What was the most challenging part of this?
Speaker 11:Oh, probably the most challenging part for us was applying to scholarships, locating scholarships, making sure we had all of the little pieces that needed to be there for those scholarships, that needed to be there for those scholarships, and just really making sure that all of the paperwork was in, all of their essays were in all of those types of things, because we had to do it double time and you know I really told them that I felt like their manager or their personal assistant because, having to keep up with everything, we made little spreadsheets with the scholarships and you know when we were supposed to be notified, when things were supposed to be awarded, you know if we were awarded something, yay.
Speaker 11:If we weren't then dealing with that disappointment and picking up and moving on, because one of our number one goals was for both of them to come out with the least amount of debt possible, because we know from attending school, attending college, that coming out with all of that debt can be cumbersome. So we wanted to make sure that they made a physically wise decision and I will tell you that they both did in going to the same university and they walked through it, and Hannah, specifically, really walked through the process of telling us why she chose Fort Valley State University, and she made a very wise decision and we're extremely proud of her for doing that.
Speaker 3:Awesome, Awesome. Now you can get into the next question and not even know it. Now, why an HBCU from a parent standpoint? Why do you feel it's significant for her to go to an HBCU? From a parent standpoint? From a parent standpoint, I do. You feel it's significant for her to go to an HBCU? From a parent standpoint.
Speaker 11:From a parent standpoint. I am an HBCU grad. Yay, what's up? I'm at Xavier University in New Orleans, louisiana Zulia as we call it. So I have taught them about HBCUs from the time they've been going to college fairs. They've been going to college fairs and working in those specific areas since middle school. I am an educational consultant, so I work with a lot of educators. I work with people around the area who did conduct college fairs and we actually had one in our small town community. We had one where there were lots of HBCUs that would come in and that would serve our children, giving them information, things of that nature. So they've been immersed in HBCU, in the world of HBCUs, for a long time. So, as an HBCU graduate they've heard me talk about.
Speaker 11:When I went to Xavier, you know, I was from a little small town. My graduating class had 36 people in there and so I was. When it came to the culture, I didn't know a lot, even though I was from, you know, the South and near where civil rights and all of that had happened before my time. But I did not know a lot about my culture until I went to Xavier. I didn't know about Kwanzaa. You know, sometimes I'm embarrassed to say that I didn't know about Kwanzaa until I went to college and they taught me about those principles and it's like just just being immersed in the culture.
Speaker 11:Not only did I get a great education at an HBCU, I felt appreciated, I felt valued.
Speaker 11:At no time did I feel like I had to fit into a space. I felt like I belonged, I felt like it was my space, and so all of that I relayed to them and let them know how that made me feel and how it inspired me, even though in the middle of my college career, my sophomore year, their grandmother passed away, my mom passed away and I was 18 years old, but that community man, they took me in my friends, my professors. They were so comforting and it was just like it was home, and so I had been preaching that to them since. We've been talking about college and careers. And as they got older and they started to make their decisions, I saw them leaning toward HBCUs and they've seen, you know, black excellence in a lot of their mentors. Some of their mentors went to HBCUs, and so they've really just been immersed in the talk and now they want to have the experience for themselves to talk and now they want to have the experience for themselves.
Speaker 3:I love it. I love it. Um, now I am just totally, totally excited that, uh, your daughter will, even though not the legacy at your alma mater, but they're carrying on the legacy. I know, you see, probably that she's like, yeah, did your mom try to influence you to go there a little bit?
Speaker 11:yeah, she definitely did. I might have thrown a few hints I may have it was a lot more than a few minutes, but yeah she definitely tried to influence me yeah, I understand.
Speaker 3:I mean it's like that, but you know eventually. So I don't know if you're on the same conference. So you know, if y'all play them in any type of sports, you're not gonna be your daughter at that point.
Speaker 11:There's no well, uh, you know they're not. I would have enjoyed the right one but they're not in the same conference. But I've always assured them, I've told them it's where you feel comfortable. I had to seek my comfort and I took that leap outside of my small town and went to New Orleans and went to college and they have to have that experience for themselves wherever they want to go and wherever she wants to go and where where she wants to thrive. I'm behind her 100 but I couldn't be more pleased that she chose an HBCU, chosen HBCU, and I I, when I say I'm elated, yeah, I'm definitely tried to influence me and I thought about it.
Speaker 14:But then, like once I visited fort valley and I just got filled with the atmosphere. I was like, okay, I have to choose where I feel like I'm at home, and that's that's what I felt when I visited for a value.
Speaker 3:That's good, so yeah it's fair, as long as, like your mom said, I'm happy that you're going to one being that you know your mom had told us about. You know the experience and the town that you're in and that the exposure you know is not probably like some of the other people in different parts of the area that are, you know, vying for the same scholarship. You know you really had to get out there and make it happen for yourself, which I'm extremely proud of, because that's hard, that's extremely hard to do when that space is not open for you to have. High is the limit. I tell everybody you can't get rid of me. You're stuck with me now for the next four years, next four years, until you come out of Fort Valley. Looking forward to it.
Speaker 3:We'll meet up. Come on now. So let me know how you get the young people prepared to be sick of me. You're gonna see me a lot. So what advice, uh, mom, what advice would you give to a parent? Because in September I've had people already ask, because we do this as a class the whole year and at the end of the year is when we start doing the scholarship or stipend type things. We just open it to everybody across the United States, but September we start our new class of 7th through 12th grade. What would you tell a person that's about to go through the same process that worked out for you? You got to get a bonus deal.
Speaker 11:What would you tell a parent that's about to be in your shoes? Well, one of the first things that I would tell them is to take advantage of the things that you all do. I love that you are educating our community and educating our parents. You know my husband and I we work um, but you know we're working in the field of education, so a lot of these um opportunities we were able to research I was able to you know research and have for them, but a lot of parents may not have the time to sit down and do that. So taking advantage of different opportunities such as yours, taking advantage of using resources for consultants that may be out there that have these different resources that can educate them and really become knowledgeable about the process them and really become knowledgeable about the process.
Speaker 11:One of the biggest things that I've seen people talk about is the importance of the essay. We went on one tutorial one time with the Ron Brown Scholarship Program. They had this program called GPS GPS I think it is called something else now, but it was for pre-graduates those that were seniors, juniors where they taught you about different um scholarship processes. And one of the biggest things that one of the advisors was talking about was the importance of the essay and for it not to just be generic, but it really needs to help you stand out, show what you have to offer. So one of the biggest pieces of advice, of advice that I could give the parents is get as knowledgeable as you can.
Speaker 11:Ask questions, use your resources, because it does get tough navigating this space, especially in times when you're unsure about different funding entities, whether they're going to be there or not. We don't know what Pell Grant is going to look like next year. We don't know what all of the student loans are going to look like in the upcoming year because of all the different changes that we're going through, even politically. So keep up with all of these things and take advantage of the knowledge and the expertise of people like yourself awesome, awesome, and thank you for for naming that and thank you for um showing appreciation to us.
Speaker 3:It's a tough job. I mean, like I'm in texas, I'm in san antonio, uh, where they really I mean they, the schools don't really advocate for hbcu. So I, you know, when I have young people come on here and I'm like, look, I'm, I'm in trenches, I truly understand what you are talking about. So I get it. But that's probably why I still do a regular job, so I can let them see that success and also let them know it's somebody in your corner. You just got to ask, right, so I get it. So I love it, I love it, I it, I love it.
Speaker 3:Now, before I let you go now, people, if you are watching, I do not know hannah's current ranking because I did not look at the rankings yet this week because it hasn't been emailed, but if you look across the bottom of the screen and I gotta make it the top ten, um, these young people have worked extremely hard. I know they get sick of my emails, even though they, like you know, humor me because I email them all the time and then I also send them things in the whatsapp. But we got to get handed a 10, because you know, at least that way you know, we can make sure she's top five to get this award that is offered now. Now, mom, why should we vote for hannah?
Speaker 11:oh goodness, oh, let's see. It's so much that we may not have enough time for me to tell you. But hannah, one of the things about hannah is she is, she has is one of the most empathetic, kind people you will ever meet. Um, I've seen this girl go into situations where she will. For instance, she did research in a lab for a couple of summers and there were other students that were in there and there were, you know, lab, actual college students that were in there working with them and at the end of the session they had a research symposium and they were thanking the people that helped them. But a couple of them came up and one of them said that Hannah was their mentor, said that hannah was their mentor, and I really thought that stood out, that even among the college students and the graduate students that were there, they named hannah as a mentor in that lab because, um, one parent even told me that she was the reason her, that his daughter felt more comfortable adjusting to that situation because she was real, really nervous.
Speaker 11:So she has been a leader in helping others even adjust to these situations where they may feel nervous. Um, they may feel, you know, just a little antsy about being there. She has this knack for helping to calm them down and I've seen people come to her for advice. I've seen people I'm kind of flocked to her because she's like that person that they can come to and they know that they're going to get some empathy, they're going to get, um, some kindness, they're going to get a listening, listening ear and they're going to get some good advice and even, you know, just going through certain things herself, she has thought enough of others to reach to help pull them up as well.
Speaker 11:So, with her pursuing her education at Fort Valley State University, I know that she would put any of these funds that she's awarded to great use because she has really shown the resilience that she needs to perform at that level, the scholarship that she needs to perform at that level. And she is, she's my baby, that's all I can say. But I you know, as as a parent, that I have homeschooled her, her brother and I have other students under my tutelage, um that homeschooled them since sixth grade. I have witnessed her grow academically, um, through dual enrollment as a division one university, go in there and get automatic acceptance from performing. So I know that she can perform at the academic at the collegiate academic letter level, because she already has. And she's just, she's a wonderful person. So vote for my baby, get her to that top 10.
Speaker 3:Awesome, awesome. Now, hannah, you drive and you go help drive tomorrow.
Speaker 14:Yes, I am driving tomorrow.
Speaker 11:I've already told her you already told me this.
Speaker 14:She was like I'm not driving.
Speaker 11:I have deemed myself as the passenger princess. She knows that, my husband knows that. Anyone in the house that drives they know that. You know I drove for a lot of years, so now I deserve the opportunity to be that passenger princess I love it.
Speaker 3:You earned it. You earned it and you know I won't go lay hand and get away with with you know, not telling us one more time who she is, where she's from and where she's headed in hours you headed in hours.
Speaker 14:I am hannah paget. I am from tallassee, alabama, and I'm headed to fort valley state, fort Valley State University tomorrow morning. Go white.
Speaker 3:Welcome back, welcome back. As you notice, we are in round three and I have our next family already on the screen with us today and, honestly, this is Amaris and the James family. I'll say it that way, the James family, Now Amaris. She was a heavy hitter in the competition during the essay portion because her wonderful speech about colorism and how it impacted her childhood and I think it even like touched me a little bit. I forgot for a moment that you know, look, you're not a judge. Judge, you have nothing to do with anything. All you do is just interview the families. But amaris did a wonderful job and so now we get to meet the parents. I wonder if they had something to do with her her view on that essay. So welcome, welcome, james family. Today we're so glad to have y'all here on a better chance Television. So are y'all ready for Amaris to go to school?
Speaker 3:I'm ready, I'm saying that with trepidation. But yeah, I'm ready. Oh Lord, she said I'm ready. Amaris, are you ready to go back to?
Speaker 8:school. No, no, I'm like, I'm nervous, just cause like it's different, like it's more people on campus. It's just a little nerve-wracking. I don't know if I'm ready yet.
Speaker 3:Well, I think, because you already experienced campus life a little bit, it'll be easier. But I also can say you'll find your tribe, yeah, but I also can say you'll find your tribe yeah.
Speaker 3:I promise you that Because I didn't want to go either and I still talk to people from my freshman year. So, mom, as we've been Talking to parents, mom and dad because dad is in the background as we've been talking to parents Throughout this round three Today, one of the burning questions that we have asked parents all day and have had some of the most unique answers why HBCU for your scholar?
Speaker 13:This is an excellent question. So I was raised in a home that I didn't have a choice. My father said that we all needed to go to HBCUs. But I think specifically about Amic. I wanted her to be nurtured in a community and for me that's what an HBCU would do. I also think about having long the relationships that I have with people that I met at Wilberforce and dad is in the background, he also went to an HBCU. I think, especially in this climate, it was an important thing, Like I was pushing but I had to be quiet because I really believed in the power of HBCU. So for me, I want a marriage to shine and I want to give her all the tools that she needs to be able to do that, and that's why I advocated for HBCU.
Speaker 3:Awesome, awesome and hey, it always works itself out. Now, one of the things that we did as parents previously is the challenging part of it. What advice would you give a parent? Because you know September we kick it off all over again with our 7th through 12th graders and I really work hard with the 12th graders to make sure that they are set up for success. But I know from reading Amir's essay and talking with you throughout the process what are the challenging points that you could probably assist a parent, because some schools I'm just going to name it in certain areas they don't talk about HBCUs to our kids.
Speaker 13:Well, we were in Pittsburgh and when we lived there, I remember my friend Crystal and I we went to like a college fair and a lot of the students would walk to the table and I don't want to go to an HBCU. And so we would look at each other with like incredulously because we know the power of an HBCU. And so what I would say is to a parent it's important to get on campus. Like you can't really make a decision about a school, sight unseen. You got to get the feel for it. You need to talk to alum and talk to current students and talk to professors and research what the school is known for. Look at what the professors are teaching and is it in alignment with what your child says, that they want to do?
Speaker 13:I think, not having a choice, I was mad at my dad at first, like no, I want to go to Wright State, like I don't want to, you know. But he understood that it was something I needed and so, being able to get on campus and talk to different people who went to a lot, I applied to a lot of HBCUs because we had to sit and watch the Lou Ross parade of stars.
Speaker 13:I would just tell parents I didn't tell the Maristis, but behind her back like I had joined some Fayetteville parent groups and I was in there like really paying attention, paying attention to what the parents were saying, like what are the problems that parents are complaining about. And that helped to kind of ease me because I understood that there was somebody in that group that was saying we're working on it, Okay, I'm from the such and so office and this is what we're doing to resolve it. So I did things to kind of help me. Like I reached out to alum of Fayetteville. I met the president of the Fayetteville alum and connected. He put me in a text group.
Speaker 13:So I had to do what I needed to do because I couldn't. I didn't want to pressure a mayor too much, Like she had schools that she really wanted to go to and even though I was like, please go to HBCU she really wanted to go to and even though I was like please go to a hbcu, please go to a view, like I'm, I just really couldn't do that in front of her. So I had to do my own and that's my own research that's valid.
Speaker 3:I mean because, um, america is the only child, yeah, um, and for that, for a marriage being the only child, I know that's tough for you, yeah, that's you and her dad. That has to be a tough process because it's like, look, we don't want her to just go anywhere, we don't want her to just, you know, we have to know. I get it, I get it.
Speaker 13:I think the point that, like because I'm in a sorority like I just said, fayetteville and I had a list of sorors that I could reach out to like if there was any problem, like those kinds of things that I did, but I wasn't trying to be, you know, overbearing, it was like, whatever I would have done it at any school that she would have went to, you know, I need to know that she's going to be safe and she's going to be able to stretch her wings and fly, you know, I'm like, go to the party girl, be safe, you know. But yeah, I think that's in everything I always say find a community of people that support you. She made her decision on her own and I was happy about it because I wanted her to go to HBCU well, I I think you and your husband did a tremendous job.
Speaker 3:Um, I spoke about it as I was introducing Amir's. Her essay, and especially her speech and her delivery, talked about a topic that most people are scared to even touch dealing with colorism and how things play into that. Now, did she get that writing from you?
Speaker 13:I think she's always been a writer. I'm a writer but she's gifted in her own right. She doesn't consider herself a writer, but this girl has a pen of fire. She has a pen of fire. I'm always the major she's going to go into. She's going to do a lot of writing. She's going to change lives with it. I don't take credit for it, it's her.
Speaker 13:And I want to talk about the colorism because I remember those days like watching what she was you know Disney and there's not a lot of people and I remember when some of those things happened and she's like mommy, you don't understand because you like skin. And I remember how challenging that was for me because as a mom I wanted to problem solve and I wanted to make sure she was okay and I didn't have my mother and I didn't have my mother-in-law, who was chocolate, to have those conversations with her. So I'm glad that it's something she turned into a positive, because now she'll be able to reach chocolate girls who don't see the beauty in themselves in the moment. And it's powerful. They're like she's going to set the world on fire with her pen. I believe it.
Speaker 3:Definitely, definitely. I agree with that. I mean, like I had to watch it a couple of times and sometimes I don't see things in the moment when we are taping or when I'm talking to the young people, but when I, you know, watched the replay and even listened to it, I was like, oh, wow. I said I know her mom a writer. Maybe she got that gift from her, because, ooh, that was truly, truly amazing. Now, when is move-in day?
Speaker 8:The 15th.
Speaker 3:You ready? You got a couple weeks, girl, you ready.
Speaker 8:Sort of. But I'm glad that I don't have to move. Oh, so you already moved up in.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so how did you get the benefit of that?
Speaker 8:Is it because of the program or yeah, so because of the program, basically I'm staying in the same dorm my entire like year and I'm with the same roommate. So I didn't have to like move any of like my decor, anything out. I just like took clothes and toiletries oh man.
Speaker 8:So uh, you might want to tell these upcoming seniors the advantages of doing the summer program mean that you're not moving in when everybody else moving in yeah, I mean, like for Fayetteville, I was a little like, oh, I don't think I want to do this, like I want a summer, but I hope that, like because I want to graduate early. So I hope that if I like, later on I really get to see like the outcome of me doing this, because I don't know, I'm still a little like, oh, I wish I like went to the beach but I don't know, I just hope, like because I I have a feeling that it'll pay off.
Speaker 8:Like I, it was a lot of work because it was just like I graduated and then I went right back to school the next day. So I just I don't know. I think we'll see, I'll come back in three years and I'll be like hey guys, you can't all but you know I, you can't get rid of me.
Speaker 3:Uh, we actually follow everybody through their whole, like I have a whole tracker that tells me what you all's uh plan is. I know y'all can get rid of me. Thought you thought I was gonna disappear after this. I don't, um, because your goal is my goal. So me seeing you go through this and graduate is helping helping me reach my goal and I'm gonna help you reach your goal as well.
Speaker 3:So, before we go, before we go, I'm gonna ask mom now, mom, now, dad might chime in in the background, but as I put this on the bottom of the screen because I want to say Amaris is number seven right now. To make it to the absolute cutoff, amaris has to be above 10. We want her to be above five, top five, really get her in, you know, financial territory. But, um, america has done tremendous throughout this process and I am, I was blown out the water by the essay, like I've. I have people that have been responding all over on different platforms to your essay. Who is that one girl? I'm like what did she talk about? And I tell you I was like, oh, colorism, that's a marriage. So I am extremely proud of you for being really vulnerable and transparent in your essay. Um so I won't keep my fingers crossed um that you advanced, but I'm gonna ask your parents why should we vote for you?
Speaker 13:I'm trying to get some feedback over here, but, uh, I would say, vote for mares because she is such an insightful thinker, she's empathic and she will not leave anybody behind, like one thing that I know about her is that she sees and feels the people around her and always advocates for them. So the friends that she has, the activities that she gets involved in she puts her whole heart into it, and a vote for Amaris for this scholarship will help her so that she can continue to give back in ways that she's scholastic and serving. And colorism in 2025 is not something that people are talking about anymore, and I was even blown out the water, like I know that when you think about somebody that has a need to get to the next level. Amaris is not gonna take this for granted.
Speaker 3:Love it, love it, love it. So you heard it from the parents. Like I've asked every parent this question today and you all, you know, did not disappoint. Like you are extremely advocating for your scholars, which I love. If you look across the bottom of the screen, that is how you can vote. If you follow us on any platform, we do play the replay.
Speaker 3:So if you missed that, you know full interview. Please go back and check out that essay because it was amazing. It even taught me because I've dealt with that growing up, so it kind of hit home. You had me like backstage. You know like we reflect on some stuff.
Speaker 3:So, again, I'm extremely proud of you. You know it's a big deal. The marriage, you know we started with 70, you made it to 66, 50, 40, 30, now top 20. You know, hey, we hanging on, we just got to get, to get to the upper deck so we can reap the benefits. So it has truly been amazing with you guys on here today. Um, I'm extremely proud of you. Um, amiris is actually one of our babies, so you know she's a better chance baby, but I don't treat her no different. I'm just as hard as I am on the rest of the applicants for this scholarship, but I am extremely proud of you, guys.
Speaker 3:Please like, share, comment, but, most importantly, vote for our scholars, but, most importantly, vote for our scholars. Thank you, parents, for also allowing her to be in this contest. I know we require a lot, but we also want to make sure that people know our scholars and their voices are heard. So it has truly been amazing. Day one of we got like eight days, but day one of oh, we got like eight days, but day one of the parent interviews, I know, but yeah, day one is a wrap, it has been fun. I am your host, dr monique robinson, and I don't know like I don't know how they gonna top day one, but they, day one kind of brought it. So follow us on all platforms so we can see the outcome. So please vote for our babies. You can vote for all of them. I wish I could Thank you.
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