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Beyond Academics: The Legacy Scholarship Empowering Black Excellence
We celebrate our Takisha A Davis Scholarship presentation, awarding promising HBCU students across the country. The competition was fierce with over 70 initial applicants narrowed down to ten outstanding finalists representing schools including Florida A&M, Prairie View, Howard, and Spelman.
• Anthony H. Brown joins to help present the scholarships and shares news about his book "Inspire Me Moments"
• Special guest Pamela Davis emphasizes the importance of educational foundations and returning to basics in teaching
• Board members are introduced, highlighting the dedicated team behind A Better Chance for Youth
• Scholarship honorees in places 7-10 receive recognition for their leadership and community service
• Six scholarship recipients are awarded amounts ranging from $100 to $1,000
• Florida A&M University students dominate the competition with four winners, including the $1,000 top prize
• The scholarship continues Takisha Davis's legacy by supporting students with funds that go directly to them, not their institutions
• Scholarship funds can be used for essentials, books, dormitory needs, or personal expenses
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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 3:Hello guys, and guess what, today might be a little different show, because today we are actually doing our annual Takesha, a Davis Scholarship presentation, and then we have a couple of friends here visiting us today and a really important guest. I'm sorry I'm sliding out the chair, but you know, it would only be fitting if you know today that I have one of my dearest, dearest friends, a mentor, to co-host with me today. Well, actually, you know, to be truthful, is partially his fault that I'm in this. Anyway, so let's welcome to the show Mr Anthony H Brown, all the way from Cleveland, ohio, and bear with me because I am trying to find him on the screen. There you go, hey, anthony.
Speaker 4:Hey Monique, how are you and everyone? What's really happening?
Speaker 3:Can you believe we are ready to add another name to this list? First of?
Speaker 4:all wait, I'm here. I don't know what's happening, but the lighting is lighting. I don't know about you, but I look amazing.
Speaker 3:All right. I said, oh my God, we haven't been.
Speaker 4:This is your boy, mr Cunningham. He's your, your best friend, it's your all-around family guy all the way from cleveland, ohio. So glad to be here on a better chance of you uh future show, as well as to talk about the scholarship, oh my gosh, monique congratulations yes, it's, this is our.
Speaker 3:You know, we started with 70 this year, so it was really tough. I'm not going to lie, it was tough, it was tough.
Speaker 4:Meeting some of the scholars. It's like, oh my God, this is gut-wrenching right here, because they have been on it For those who are just tuning in. Sure you like, comment, follow, subscribe and share so you never miss a video or a moment now, whether you're watching us on facebook or on one of my next pages or one of my pages, or you're watching us on youtube also, leave a comment, let us know where you're watching us from. Shout out your hbcu, yes, so we can show you some love. Okay, all right.
Speaker 3:Well, that's the goal. We always try to do that. But, anthony, can you believe this is like the fifth year for this.
Speaker 4:No, it seemed like just yesterday you started this little bad mamma jamma.
Speaker 3:Right, and I was like, oh my God, it is year five, gambling right. And I was like, oh my god, it is year five. But, um, we could not have done this without our board members and people that just pour into our organization and have them, and I'm really grateful. But, uh, we have a really special guest, you know she, she's in the back people, she's in the bed so talk about it.
Speaker 3:Well, um, today, you know she comes once a year and everybody loves when she come on the show. I don't know what to expect today. I don't.
Speaker 4:I really don't um because she already came in here earlier in pre-production checking folks like what's wrong with your camera? Why do I have this where my letters? Yeah, let me get my hair right.
Speaker 3:You can't see my jacket yeah, I mean I, I love her too nice, but so, yeah, she'll be here real soon, but she always come. This is a show. She always come and people love to see her on here. So every year is just, you know, tradition that we have her on here. So let's bring her on. Let's bring her on. Do I hope I push the right button I got it there.
Speaker 5:She go hello, hello, texas and cleveland. How are you? What's going on, pamela david? Yes, yes, yes, all the way from Dayton Ohio. I'm in Dayton Ohio.
Speaker 4:Yep, I love it.
Speaker 5:My way of Wubble Forest, and this is my beautiful Dr Mo. Oh yeah, wubble Forest, oh yes, oh yes. May the forest be with you. How?
Speaker 4:you doing yes, how you doing mother.
Speaker 5:I'm doing great. I'm doing great. I'm doing great. I'm so proud of my Momo, I'm so proud of her, I don't know what to do. So I was just here just enjoying all the shows and enjoying you, and it's been wonderful. Well, thank you so very much. That's what I'm doing.
Speaker 4:Listen, we appreciate your prayers, your feedback, your behind-the-scenes consultation. Yeah, your representation of Delta Sigma, theta Sorority Incorporated. Uh-huh, yeah, all that.
Speaker 5:Incorporated.
Speaker 4:Yeah, all that Listen. Matter of fact, I saw I'm going to go back real quick I saw some video and some images. When you all had your 50th anniversary for your class reunion earlier in this year, I said look at it. I said, look at it, look at it. Y'all up there just regulate.
Speaker 4:This is how we're going to do it. And I said look at it. I said look at them. I said look at, look at, look. Oh wow, look. Look y'all up there. Just regulate like this is how we gonna do it. We've been here. This is how we gonna do it exactly I loved it.
Speaker 3:Indeed, that's the same. Indeed, that's right because, that's right.
Speaker 5:Right, it's been a great. It's been a great year. My husband and I.
Speaker 3:Oh, she was here, my dad was here.
Speaker 5:My husband and I were inducted yeah, we were inducted into the Golden Graduate yes, 1975, from Wilberforce University. So we were given. I'm sorry.
Speaker 4:When did you all meet?
Speaker 5:We met. Believe it or not, we met at Wilberforce. Although we went to the same grade school, we went to the same church, we did not know each other.
Speaker 4:Really.
Speaker 5:We got to Wilberforce we did not know each other Really. We got to Louisville we didn't know. I knew his family, but he was so quiet I'd never met him. I met him on campus, wow. And we have been married come December, 53 years Wow, still in love.
Speaker 4:Were you all like in choir or athletics or anything together.
Speaker 5:No, we were in education classes.
Speaker 4:Okay, man Come on educators, education.
Speaker 5:We were in education together. You wanted to visit me. You had to bring your books because I was on scholarship, so I had to keep my grades up, huh as a retired educator.
Speaker 4:Uh, even though I mean, even though I say you retired in the formal sense you were still educating young people, because then you got two little bitty ones in the house now that you were helping to raise. But as a retired engineer, what words of encouragement do you have for oh yeah, who are watching today? I was saying so, what words of encouragement do you have?
Speaker 5:well, I think that well, I think what needs to happen is we need some old school teaching and we're doing a whole lot of everything and not enough of it's like let's go back to reading, writing and arithmetic the foundation, Because a lot of the kids don't have the foundation. Because a lot of the kids don't have the foundation, You're trying to get them to run through all of this. How can you, how can you bring somebody up? You know what I'm trying to say. Why, why are you trying to? Oh, I don't know the word I'm looking for, but if they don't have a foundation, they can't do the rest of the work.
Speaker 5:So we're testing, testing, testing and that's not good.
Speaker 4:There is nothing wrong. It's good to go back to the old-time way. It's good to go back. That's when you got your basics. That's when I learned how to tell time. I knew how to. I knew how to mind my manner. There was a moral to the story.
Speaker 5:Right.
Speaker 4:Right.
Speaker 5:Okay, that's what I tell the kids. I say you will get more with honey than you vinegar. A little honey will go a long way If you use your manners. You can get a lot from people. A little bit of honey, that's all it takes. But our children have. I think they have so many rights. Focus on education, getting the foundation again. If you don't know your multiplication tables, if you don't know your prime numbers, then you won't be able to reduce those fractions. I don't care what they do.
Speaker 5:Definitely so you need to go back. We need to go back and pick up those things that they're missing Etiquette, math skills, writing skills. You know it's not going to get any better if we don't do that. It's not going to get any better. And I don't like seeing educators look. You can't tell them the difference between the student and it educate, and I don't think you should wear flip-flops and all the different.
Speaker 5:I'm talking about a dress oh you know, when I was going back 50 years ago. Okay, come on now Some of the places you had to have. You know you wore dresses. Mama said y'all can't come in with these flip-flops. You had your little heel on, you know, and you had your little gloves on.
Speaker 4:So it's so different now that I think you can just wear anything you want to wear okay, have no flip-flops, nope, torn jeans, no.
Speaker 5:So we need to get back to uh-huh right. We need to get back to dressing properly and showing the children you know right, and then we can educate, because what do you? Think what I learned.
Speaker 4:You say you're having so many discipline problems I learned that if they don't know what professional dress looks like, if they don't see the people in the building dressing professional, or what does it look like for them to dress, or a shirt and tie, then how would they ever emulate that and be able to go out here in the workforce if they've never seen it? That's true, you got to show them, because sometimes they learn just by what they see.
Speaker 5:Mm-hmm, and you gotta learn how we got it under authority.
Speaker 4:Yeah, yes, so when I welcome back that right.
Speaker 5:You have to be under authority A lot of our children. I had to come back the most of the kids think they can talk to you. He kind of.
Speaker 4:I'm here for.
Speaker 3:I'm here for it too, but she cut up and I'm like mom, but we got to take a short commercial break and then we come back um I can't hear you you can't hear me for real, but we're gonna take a commercial break and when I come back um we'll bring on our next guest and my mom would probably hang out for the rest of the show.
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Speaker 3:so yes, I don't know if you know, but Anthony has a book out now. He's doing big things.
Speaker 4:I don't know about big things, but we do have a copy of the book right here, listen. It's been selling at Barnes Noble, amazon out the trunk of my car. Listen, we're going to have a book available on sale. I'm so excited about that. In a couple of days, monique, I will be a keynote, one of the keynote speakers, at the University Hospitals Men's Full Life Summit. That'll be on September 27th. It's an all-day event and so I am one of the keynote speakers and I'm doing a workshop and doing some book signing at that event. So I'm so excited about that.
Speaker 4:I'll be on a show you pound up with some other distinguished men in the community. So just to say like, oh, wow, they want me to be part of this conversation, as I'm'm. I'm speaking on matter of fact. I got the, I got the book this time because they always act like so actually I am uh, oh, it's chapter seven, so I'm speaking chapter seven, which is called the power of brotherhood. So yeah, um, so that's the, that's the chapter I'll be speaking about and I'm sharing. Then we're going to have a lunch and learn conversation to continue the conversation after I've done my session that morning, and then we're going to engage the men and women who come that day. As a matter of fact, I told my church members today, I told all the men and I told all the ladies for the men in your house, no excuses. I told all the deacons and the trustees and listen, we're going on a field trip september 27th, yes, and you all are coming with me and the pastor and we're going to this health event so we can save some lives.
Speaker 3:oh wow. Well, that's going to be kind of a busy weekend because our next guest done milked me into something, what's that? And you know I, I go to bed at 10, so this is going to be a hey me Now. You know I'm already yawning, I go to bed at 10, but let's welcome to. If y'all don't know, anthony is actually our board president and our next guest is our board vice president. These two here from day one treat me as the little sister they always wanted, I guess because they're so overprotective and I don't really get to do much, but I love them to life.
Speaker 7:so let's welcome mr leon fry hey, hey, good afternoon, good afternoon everybody what's going on, brother fry? Good good, Good good how you doing, Anthony, Listen, I woke up this morning. Oh yeah, always. Hey, that's a good thing, that's a good thing Now listen.
Speaker 4:Before we get down, I need you to go back to the piano and give us an A&B selection. I want you to play us out. I want you to play us out to a commercial break.
Speaker 3:Dude, let's keep wondering. Ribbons in the stands? Yeah man, If that piano actually worked, I'll even sing today.
Speaker 5:You hear that. Yeah, I see that he's tuning up.
Speaker 7:He's tuning up. I got one tune I can do on that and that's it.
Speaker 4:That ain't been tuned. He got one right next to him, he good.
Speaker 3:Little by player Willie. I wasn't expecting him to have the piano, but Leon got an event on the 26th and I actually plan on going. It's going to be a Leon. Tell us about your event.
Speaker 7:Yeah, so it's the 100th anniversary of the State Fair Classic in Dallas, texas, and we have a welcome reception party at the DoubleTree Hotel September 26th. So I'm partnering with the G-Man Nation organization. They're former Gremlin football players and some former NFL players, so we're going to have a Southern Soul type welcome reception, award ceremonies, welcome reception and Southern Soul party, as you will, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the State Fair Classic between Grambling and Prairie View. That will be going down Friday September 26th in Dallas, texas, at the Double Tree Hilton Market Center Hotel. Definitely need to come put her touches on the event, like we always do for the event.
Speaker 3:I'll be there. I'm going to be tired, but I'll be there.
Speaker 4:Wait a minute. So Monique is going to go for the whole weekend.
Speaker 7:Yeah, definitely yeah. So we're going on. Friday, September 26th is the Legacy Kickoff Party with the G-Man Nation. Then Saturday is the actual State Fair Classic Game between Gremlin and Prairie View, with the fabulous World of Fame and Prairie View doing the Battle of Bands Halftime Show.
Speaker 3:Okay, you like how you put that world fame out there, though, right yeah, g, g, g man nation.
Speaker 7:Uh, also, that's world.
Speaker 4:Maybe that's world, famous on y'all side of the country because I don't know world.
Speaker 7:You know who I was talking about, though, didn't you?
Speaker 4:I really I missed it. I, the world-famous.
Speaker 7:Gremlin State University marching Tigers against the Prairie View A&M at the State Fair Classic.
Speaker 5:It's going to be hot but I'll be there.
Speaker 7:This year they have in the TFC as the post-game concert. It's their farewell tour, so this is their last tour and they're going to have TLC performing after the game. So it's definitely going to be a treat, something special for everyone this year.
Speaker 4:Listen. Yeah, well, if that's what you want to believe, congratulations I can't.
Speaker 3:I can't.
Speaker 7:We'll see you, Anthony. We'll see you.
Speaker 4:I'm just saying Well, anyway, nt Way. So listen, leah, I wanted to give a shout out to you. Thank you for serving on the board here and serving as our vice chair for our, as our, as our vice chair, um for a better chance for you, futures inc. And you know, and the work that you do, certainly the collaboration that you bring, the energy that you bring, listen, ladies and gentlemen, used to be a time when, uh, leon was like he'll be in the way, in the background. What are, are you?
Speaker 7:saying Word.
Speaker 4:Leon was saying word. You know he'll pull that old Russell Simmons type stuff. He'll slide up in the front. Thank y'all for coming. God bless you. Good night.
Speaker 7:Thank you, god bless him.
Speaker 4:Good night, that's all he was saying. But this year Leon got to the banquet this year. Listen here, mama Davis. He the banquet this year. Listen here, mama david. He got up to the banquet this year and leon had a whole script. He had a speech he was just as loquacious is, he still talking. All right, so leon talking, talking today. He said he had remarks, he had an opening statement, he even gave a thesis, his three bullet points.
Speaker 7:I said you only giving the welcome. See, my favorite part was the stroll in the way I came into the.
Speaker 4:He had to have his beam used to walk in through the door.
Speaker 7:It's a work in progress, man. I get that one day, like you.
Speaker 3:Everybody can't do what he do.
Speaker 7:I got good examples to follow, you know.
Speaker 3:So, between you and monique, hey, you got some good mentors, man, so I get there that's okay, you're just gonna be speaking more this year, I'll be sitting in the background, so I um did want to. While we are talking about the board, I wanted to, you know, let people see who actually make decisions, because it really isn't just me like we meet, and I have the most dedicated board in the world. Um, they, they are funny. You don't even feel like we work sometimes, even though we do have three seats available this year. But these are actual board faces. You see myself, our board chairperson. President, mr Anthony Brown, leon Fry, pesha Mabry, penda, james, melanie Scales is also entertaining because Melanie and Sequey's both graduated from the Southern University, so our meetings are always entertaining and Dr Crystal Cross. So if you are going to see the newsletter this week, you will see all of their lovely bios. Some of our bios have grown since last year. You know, shout out to lovely bios. Some of our bios have grown since, uh, last year.
Speaker 4:Uh-huh, you know, shout out to our board president is, uh, principalship masters and all the above, all the great things. Hey, peter.
Speaker 3:By the way, one of our board members right here in the chat you know leon got all cleaned up for the gala, so you see him. You know leon got all cleaned up for the gala.
Speaker 4:So you see him, miss pinda pisha again.
Speaker 3:Yeah, there she goes, she's watching us right now, and dr crystal cross oh no, oh, I'm sorry and melanie in sequence. So that is our actual board. They make decisions and I truly, truly love, love being in meetings with them. Sometimes we forget that the meeting is over because we sit there and it's really important that you know. Our board members have that HBCU culture and you know, I want to say 90, 99% of us have graduated from HBCUs. But even if you don't have to be an HBCU graduate to be on the board, but you do have to have the passion and drive.
Speaker 4:I'll say that that part.
Speaker 3:Got to have the passion and drive. So yeah, and then I don't know I was talking about it earlier, but Anthony, look, I don't know if y'all can see it.
Speaker 3:Oh, that's the plaque for all the scholarship, yeah I didn't realize it was this this long, like, oh my god. And actually some of our I want to say yeah, a lot of our winners still keep in contact with me. We follow them. We make sure that they are doing some amazing things. I know Mia. She's from Cleveland. Mia is doing really well at North Carolina A&T. We also have our past winner from last year who is still doing some amazing things at Morehouse. So we keep in contact, we track the young people and you know, I don't know if this year they can top like this year. Competition was really, really intense, y'all like it.
Speaker 4:It came down to the litter literally the last day, down to the wire, like yeah, so we want to let everyone know who's watching us right now, just in a little bit. We haven't got to it yet, but but very soon we're actually going to announce the scholarship recipient awesome, so now do the, do the families know? Do the students know? Have you text them and email them, monique? Let them know that this is live right now.
Speaker 3:I have in their group chat. Every year our scholars have a group chat and I give them messages, I send them things, give them other information about scholarships. So yes, they do know. Some of them are actually texting me. They're watching on YouTube and they're watching on LinkedIn, so whichever platform you are watching on from the bottom of my heart, congratulations to those who will be receiving these.
Speaker 4:So that's the case. Deanne, for those who may be watching, if you're vying for the scholarship or if you're rooting for a particular student, make sure you leave a comment in the chat to let us know who you are rooting for, because this has been a long process. We started off with over 70 applications and a series of interviews. Monique and the team have interviewed students. They've interviewed parents. They've interviewed the students again. The students have to come online. They have to come and do a little testimony dedication they have to actually talk about.
Speaker 4:I don't care about if they use chat, gpt. They have to come on here live and talk about their passion and their purpose and why they wanted the scholarship and what they want to do while they're you know, and what they want to do you know while they're in school and what they hope to do when they graduate. And then, you know we left one of the biggest responsibilities to mama davis listen. So she sat and read every essay every essay.
Speaker 3:So you get that final, the final cylinder yeah.
Speaker 4:So I mean, yeah, those are, those are parents listen now this one right here. No games first of all. Uh, oh, I told y'all about that. Orange and green I got.
Speaker 3:I got a strike so many times by fam, you students this year.
Speaker 4:I'm like so our students will be awarded? Um, and listen, every dollar counts. Because we don't count every dollar right? So whether they're getting a $500 scholarship all the way up to a $1,000 scholarship, listen every bit helps.
Speaker 4:They can help pay for some books, they can help pay for some residential hall needs, they can pay for some essential grooming products. I mean it can go towards a variety of things to help the student just to be able to maintain and to be able to just have a little bit of a breathing room to get them to the next day over that next little hump. You know, I know that you know, we just not getting into school.
Speaker 4:What third, fourth, fifth week of school? Of school, probably for some, but still every little bit helps again, if you want to be involved. I always say that you know. If you want to be involved and you want to help support, you understand that our scholarship recipients and the students that we service are not just from san antonio texas at all so we have students from all over the country, as monique said a few moments ago.
Speaker 4:Um, mia dent is actually from cleveland, right here in my hometown, um, and I get you know, you know network and fellowship with her mother because she's part of our hbcu alumni group here in cleveland. So we, so we get excited every time I get to see her. Pisha, listen, I got a promo code. Matter of fact, pisha, they got a dress. You can get the dress.
Speaker 7:Get the matching dress.
Speaker 4:You get the matching dress. Pisha, I got a promo code just for you, uh-huh, just so you know you ain't got to have a jacket, you can get the dress, all right. So, um, I just want to kind of share those pieces and parts. Uh, monique, did we have? I don't know. Are we gonna talk about how we can give and donate? I don't know.
Speaker 3:Yes, um, you can, um, actually you can give on, give the fly. We do have, give apply as one of our, our main donates, um as giving, and then you can look it up. Um, a better chance for you, futures incorporated, and I can drop the link in the chat. Um, and then, that way, you can give that way. And then, um, some of our recipients they have their links as well, and actually somebody is voting right now, but they're like let me just pull through, get this last little hurdle in.
Speaker 3:But in all, you know, sincerity and and everything this year has been the best class. Uh, and I'm like I don't know what to expect. You know, it literally came down to the wire and we had one contestant that she didn't place, but her speech was so, um, impactful. Uh, kamara christian. She, you know, she's the one that had on the white dress and she stood up and was like I deserve a seat at the table. I'm like, oh, because she does, and she's going to tuskegee, so you know, I might have some extra plan for her in another way. You know, some type of internship, maybe she could co-host with me. And so we do, even if they don't win, we still find a way to support them we do like, even if they don't play.
Speaker 3:So I think she came in like 18th or something like that, but we still find a way to support. And that's like last year. We had another scholar who didn't place but took advantage of an opportunity because we meet people all the time that are looking for interns and she got to intern in california from tuskegee this year as a sophomore because she was a freshman. Last year she did an engineering intern with Bayer Pharmaceuticals. I'm like, hey, we help, you just got to let us know and trust the process. There you go. All right, we're going to take a quick, quick, quick commercial break break and we come back.
Speaker 3:Y'all ready to give out, give out these awards, because I see see parents looking like, so take a quick commercial break and then we get back. I guess I can't find it sorry, sorry y'all, we, we usually do this tape.
Speaker 6:So bear with me, I should have took herself out the screen, but she didn't play the commercial.
Speaker 4:That's okay, though we ain't gonna hold her, are you?
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Speaker 3:That part all right so and I heard what you said. That's because I the light was in my eye and I couldn't see the right button. That's why we record. Now it's it's I see, why we don't go live ever, because it's like can't see nothing. But anywho, um, all right. So, uh, we are about to announce our um recipients, um, starting with our top 10, and my mom asked before the show that we put uh keisha's picture on here. So mom asked before the show that we put uh keisha's picture on here. So uh, put the one that I could find it's not the greatest picture. My sister was a beautiful person. She um loved young people, so I know she's probably smiling in some manner. Um, that's beautiful. So we're you know. So, yes, she, she's, she's love. But, um, and actually on the a, actually this week it was an anniversary of her passing, so it's been, it's been a very emotional, yet, um, I'm glad it's. It's been a victorious week overall you know.
Speaker 4:So, before we get going, um, mama Davers, do you want to say a few words on behalf of the family, or just in the memory of your daughter, and just talk about the legacy of this scholarship? Mama davis, did you hear me? Seems like we may be having some technical difficulties. No worries, no worries at all. So, monique, I'm going to default to you then.
Speaker 3:All righty Well, on behalf of the Davis family and our family. This is something that we love to do every year. We love to make sure that this lives on and that's mainly why we don't have a requirement per se. But we will make you work to get it, because nothing in life is free and that's something that my parents, both my mom and dad, have always instilled in us is that if you want something, you go after it and you work hard to get it. And this actually helps us with the healing process of knowing that her legacy is living on by helping other young people, because the stipend goes directly to them. It doesn't go to the school. Mostly, how it's awarded is they get, you know, increments until the end of the first semester. So you know parents they might not call you a are getting something but them while they're in sch. Why, I don't know. Maybe me call her and see what' with no worries.
Speaker 4:But thank like Monique said, that th just go towards their academic needs. It could be for their dormitory, their personal needs, just a little. You know, just something in their pocket so they can have a little change. Just because you know it's homecoming and I don't know, it's like oh, I need a new shirt. I don't know, I'm hungry, I need a fish dinner. Come on, Leon, you know about them days when we had to go to the homecoming. We want to go to the game.
Speaker 7:Oh yeah, definitely Get that two-piece and a pepper from on-campus mom-and-pop shops. The $2 movie theater Listen that part right there.
Speaker 4:With that said, we we're gonna go ahead and get started and we're going to start to acknowledge some of these students in this see. Um, okay, so as I get my notes out and ready, I hope, uh, monique is following along so I can share so again good evening everyone and welcome to the Takesha A Davis Scholarship Awards.
Speaker 4:Tonight we honor the legacy of Takesha A Davis by celebrating 10 extraordinary student leaders Now. Six will receive scholarships tonight and four will be honored for their outstanding achievement Now. We thank our sponsors, families, board members and supporters for making this possible. Now let's begin by recognizing our honorees first. So this is our seventh through tenth place scholars In the number 10 slot. We wanna acknowledge a young lady who was at Spelman College. Her name is Mia Jones. Now Mia is a student, has served as student council president, she was treasurer of the National Honor Society and a student has served as student council president. She was treasurer of the National Honor Society and a student ambassador. She also represented seniors on the superintendent student council. Now, beyond school, she was active in the Newark New Jersey NAACP at her church. Again, congratulations to one of our honorees, mia Jones. Uh-oh, sorry about that.
Speaker 4:In our ninth place we have all the way currently attending that other other school in Florida, promise Smith, who is currently at Florida A&M University. Now Promise is a leader in student government. She was, she was, she's a member of the Future Health Professionals and served several honor societies, and when she was in high school. She was a varsity cheerleader and a two-time UCA All-American. She also served through Phi Theta Kappa and the unite program. Ladies and gentlemen, let's celebrate promise in our eighth place. All the way from Fayetteville State University, amaris James. Now, amaris has been a leader in the Black Student Union, promoting inclusivity and celebrating Black heritage. She even shared her journey on A Better Chance TV. Now she will begin her study. Well, she's already began her study this fall in sociology at Fayetteville State. So, ladies and gentlemen, come on, y'all, show some love for Amaris James.
Speaker 4:And in seventh place, we want to acknowledge from other school again in Florida, florida A&M University student Aiden Glover. Aiden served as president of the National Honor Society in high school and a board member of student government and an active member of the debate club, the Florida, the florida business, the future business leaders of america and senkofa club. Now she also serves on the mayor's young leaders advisory council and a city council page. Listen, doing some great things down there. Fam, you Y'all show some love and let's honor Aiden. Wow, okay, so far that's what we got. Now, here we go. We're getting ready to now acknowledge our just by chance. But for those who are just joining us again if you want to give a donation and you want to still support the scholarship opportunity. We did drop the link in the chat, so if you're watching us on Facebook, the link is there and if you're watching us on YouTube, we'll make sure we get the link over there to you real soon.
Speaker 2:All right, so now here we go.
Speaker 4:Let's get ready to acknowledge our sixth place winner.
Speaker 2:This is when the money comes in. This is where the money resides where the money resides.
Speaker 4:Where the money resides, all right, ah, ah, all right here we go.
Speaker 4:Sixth place For a donation, a scholarship of $100. Jay Sean Boyd. I hope I'm saying that correctly. Our sixth place scholarship went up $100. Served three years in the National Honor Society and contributed through the Youth Advisory Council, building life and leadership skills while serving his community. Y'all show some love while he's at Prairie View A&M University, jay Sean. All right, listen, leon, look at that. We got some Prairie View in the house. I don't know if I see Grambling yet you might be in there somewhere.
Speaker 7:I don't know if I see Grambling yet. You might be in there somewhere.
Speaker 4:I say All right, in fifth place. Our fifth place winner of $200 is to Aiden Glover. In addition to her many leadership roles at school, aiden's civic engagement through the Mayor's Youth Leadership Advisory Council and City Council TAGE program shows her commitment to service and community. And right now, what school is she? Oh my gosh, wait a minute, monique, you got to make sure we get to clarify, because she's in seventh place and in fifth place. I hope that is correct and if so, I'm just reading the script. Ladies and gentlemen, so if it is true and it's right, well, it is not, because I didn't say it, so I can't go back and take it back. So, aiden Glover, you're getting $200 at Florida A&M University, fourth place. What is this?
Speaker 2:Hold on.
Speaker 4:Wait a minute, mama Davis, I don't know. Listen, we're going to have to have a conversation about this In fourth place with $400, also at Florida A&M University. I don't know about this and, ladies and gentlemen, you'll know why I keep saying this if you know my undergraduate institution.
Speaker 4:So if you haven't figured, out where I went to undergrad, then you'll know why I keep saying it like this. But nonetheless, congratulations to these young people. Fourth place with 400 dollars at Florida A&M University Aniyah William. Now Aniyah has been vice president of the National Honor Society, again treasurer of the Black Student Union and class historian. She also competed as a varsity cheerleader. She was a member of the flag football. She was a flag football athlete and advocated for inclusivity through the amplified student coalition. Shout out to this rattler, anaya. Show your love. All right, here we go. All right, here we go. Third place Our third place scholarship winner, receiving $600, is Kaylee Thomas at Howard University. All right, we got to change it up a little bit. Kaylee has dedicated over eight years to service and leadership At church. She's been an assistant data analyst, children's Bible teacher, inventory monitor and youth mentor. Oh, she's busy. She's busy at the church and she's a young woman of purpose and faith. Y'all show some love to kaylee thomas at howard university.
Speaker 3:In second place, here we go yes, you were correct about the one winner. That I think it was going by the order of the slides. Okay, before we read the last two, I think we should take a commercial break.
Speaker 4:Oh, okay then.
Speaker 3:I know I'm doing it.
Speaker 4:Let's take a commercial break. We'll be right back with number two and the number one recipient of a Takiyah A Davis Scholarship Award. We will be right back right after this message.
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Speaker 3:y'all already know the answer Leon, you know the answer he going to say Grambling, just because.
Speaker 7:No, but I will say I'll go your way, monique Wilberforce.
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Speaker 3:I mean, hey, you know the same rules apply when I go to Cleveland. Let me tell you how Anthony does. I don't even get to go drop my stuff off at the hotel. I work from the time I get in his car until the time I go back home.
Speaker 7:From the plane to the stage.
Speaker 3:Exactly.
Speaker 4:Baby listen. She came to Cleveland one time and she still smelled like Texas.
Speaker 3:He was like come on, let's go. I'm like no People are hugging me. I'm like I don't really want you hugging me right now.
Speaker 7:Let me just say, you smell like four states Texas, Ohio.
Speaker 3:Big time. Well, mom, I just say, you smell like four states huh, texas, ohio, Big time.
Speaker 7:Well, mom, we're about to give out the top two. Yay, all right, so here we go. Let's go Back to our awards.
Speaker 4:So far, we've been having a great time. We left off when did we leave off at? Okay, we left off at Kaylee. This is the number three, right? Okay, here we go. So here we go. We are about to go to our number two winner In second place, receiving $800. Is a student currently at Prairie View A&M University and he goes by the name of William Osby II. Y'all show some love. Y'all show some love. While in high school, william was vice president of the Black Student Union, president of the Future Coaches of Texas Association and a leader on the student athlete leadership team. He excelled in athletics as well, holding the school record in the 300-meter hurdles.
Speaker 7:Again.
Speaker 4:William, congratulations, yeah, meter hurdles Again. William, congratulations, yeah, all right. And to our number one recipient, our first place recipient for this year, for the Takiyah A Davis Scholarship Award. And thank you again to all of our donors, our families, our friends. Listen, you all have to understand that this matter of fact real quick, before we actually show it. We want to say that you know families, you all were on it, right? So you all were meeting with Monique, you were meeting with the committee, you all were out here. Not only did they have to write the essay, they had to do the interviews. We actually had a poll, we had voting online. So some family was like, listen, I'm going to send the link out to my family, my friends. So everybody was on it. Listen, they were out here like you got to vote for my baby, you got to vote for my baby, you got to vote for my baby, you got to vote for my baby, you gotta vote for my baby now anthony.
Speaker 3:Yeah, this only. It came down literally to the last five minutes. Wow, literally the last five minutes. These two, I don't know these two?
Speaker 4:I don't know these two? I don't know. Look at proud dad right here he's. This is, this is William's father. Congratulations to all the winners and thank you, committee. All right, so now listen. I guarantee you every parent appreciates an extra dollar to help their child Trust and believe.
Speaker 3:William actually was in the Junior Olympics while doing this too, so he was doing a lot Wow.
Speaker 7:And.
Speaker 4:I'm also telling all the parents listen, especially if this is your first one. They don't get off your payroll no time soon.
Speaker 7:Got that grace period, man, that's that grace period.
Speaker 4:I don't know when the grace period is supposed to end. Listen, my son, I love my son. My son just turned 28. My son turned 28 this week.
Speaker 2:He's going to text me today.
Speaker 4:Hey, I'm a little sick and under the weather. Can I get some money for some, if I can go to the drugstore? He's 28. He loves you. I called him on his birthday and said hey, it's time to get up. I said it's time to go make the donuts. That's an old school saying right there now I don't know about y'all, but that's an old school saying. That was when the old I'm going back way back to the old Dunkin Donuts commercial when the old man had to get up at 5 in the morning, 4 in the morning for work they don't make it like that.
Speaker 3:No a commercial. When the old man had to get up at 5 in the morning. 4 in the morning for work. They don't make it like that, no more.
Speaker 7:Anthony, when I called my dad, the first thing he say what you want. I'm like man, I'm just calling to say hey, nah, what you want.
Speaker 4:That's just messed up. Listen, it's time to get up and go make the donuts. You can't keep calling me.
Speaker 3:That's hilarious.
Speaker 4:All right, here we go. So let's get back Drum roll, please this one.
Speaker 3:Ah Woo, your drum roll is funny though, I know right.
Speaker 7:I don't have a drum roll. I got the drumsticks here ready, though I know right. I don't have a drum roll, I got the drumsticks here.
Speaker 3:ready Is it? I don't have two pencils and I really need a drumstick.
Speaker 7:I got a dog, Martin. They're true drumsticks.
Speaker 3:Okay.
Speaker 7:I'm just not a good drummer, that's all, oh no.
Speaker 4:Oh no, all right, so here we go. First place, finally, our first place winner receiving $1,000 to be able to use for any type of essentials needs. Maybe you know if you need some just to get back home because of travel. Whatever the case may be, monique, do I have to say it?
Speaker 3:I don't know who put the back call out for this school here, but they showed up and showed out. This year I've never had this many people do they all know? Each other. Have they all met? They met on campus. They have from the competition, because that's one of our rules. That we do is we tell them when you get on campus and you're in this competition, find each other, support each other, because you know that's gonna be your family for the next years while you at school.
Speaker 4:Okay. Well, here we go, receiving one thousand dollars at florida a&m university, glenroy. Oh give, how do you? Say glenroy ogilvy glenroy ogilvy at florida a&m Now, when Glenroy when he was in high school, he was active in the Black Student Union. He was part of the varsity track team and student leadership club. Now he also served through the Damien Ministry Youth Volunteers, uplifting and strengthening his community. Y'all show some love for Glenroy at Florida A&M University. Y'all show some love for glenn roy at florida a m university congratulations, congratulations I guess, ladies and gentlemen, tonight's scholarship winners are again glenn roy.
Speaker 4:How do you say his last name again?
Speaker 3:oh, movie ogvy.
Speaker 4:Ogilvy. Okay, thank you the way you spell, I'm confused. Glynroy Ogilvy $1,000. William Osby II $800. Kaylee Thomas $600. Aniyah Williams $400. Aiden Glover $200. And Ja'Sean Boyd $100. And again we show outstanding finalists Maya, promise and Maris. I'd like to thank you to all of our board members, sponsors, our families, for supporting these bright young leaders. Excellence lives here. Whoo man, congratulations. Yay, we made it through another year.
Speaker 7:excellence lives here. Whoo Congratulations.
Speaker 3:Yay, we made it through another year of the scholarship program. I don't know how anybody can come after this group of young people I'm going to take over next year and I'm going to tell you everybody from the film took me to a flop.
Speaker 5:That's what I'm doing. How about that? Okay, Well, I mean hey, so.
Speaker 4:Monique, the film took me to a clock. That's what I'm doing. How about that? Okay, well, I mean, hey, I. So, monique, how can a student get involved and support, or you know, and learn more about the scholarship and or some of the workshops and the services and the programs that we offer?
Speaker 3:well recently. Actually good, you asked that we are actually having an interest meeting on Wednesday for this year's cohort, so that information will be in the newsletter and, if you want it, just reach out to us via email or you can actually respond to this chat and I will definitely send you the link. For this Wednesday, we have one Saturday, but we're going to have another one because some people couldn't make it and we start as low as seventh grade, go all the way to 12th grade, and it's September, all the way to the end of the school year, where we will teach about HBCUs, financial literacy. The seniors work directly with me in learning what school is the best for you, so, and you do not care- what you say, my hbc, you're still better than yours, oh lord, and you don't have to go, you don't not have to live in san antonio.
Speaker 3:As you see, we deal with young people from all over. So it's thinking we do. And thank my mom for coming on. I think you know, I don't know, maybe she had technical difficulties. But, uh, on behalf of our family, we truly, truly appreciate everyone and, you know, on behalf of a better chance for you, I totally appreciate our board members for appreciate our board members for hearing me cry and hearing me out, calling them any time of day like, hey, let's talk. So, yes, we do have. Even if you want to be a board member, you do not have to live in the state of Texas, because we have already met that requirement. So if you want to be a part of that, come to the interest meeting on wednesday and you know I wish all our scholars a huge congratulations and much success. And you know the same rules apply. If you need me, I'm just a phone call away. Um, I can help you with anything but math and I'm here for this lighting again.
Speaker 4:I don't know what it is. This lighting got me looking like I'm fine. I don't know. I don't know what it is. This lighting got me looking like I'm flying. I don't know what it is. I think it might be also going to cut my beard off. Maybe that's what it is. I cut the beard off.
Speaker 3:I can't, I can't at all. So thank y'all for tuning in.
Speaker 4:We're going to run until next time. Shoot for the movie miss. You will always be amongst the stars. Until next time, make time, and take time for what the look of life has to offer, just for you.
Speaker 3:Yes.
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