Dplej South Carolina stepping up for its students. Did you want men to put it under the homework drop boxes . Reporter mikalah is determined to graduate from columbia South Carolina even after finding herself homeless during the pandemic. I was terrified, so i just prayed. Id rather be homeless than be in a stocks oic sayings. Hoipts mikalah says she was out of options. In an effort to avoid an abusive home life she slept in her car at night. I wanted to spend days crying and moping. It was challenge having to get up and find a place to brush your teeth. Troipt 19yearold who earned a full academic scholarship worked two jobs and hunted for Internet Access to complete her studies. It was challenging Getting School work done and maneuvering two jobs and everything, it was hard. Reporter the director of o specialized programming. She was in a dire place. She definitely had housing insecurity. She needed food. She need basic necessary. Reporter campus was close bud she arranged to take care of mikalahs needs, including a safe place to stay. Benedikt college is a safe place and so to be asked to leave that space put a number of our students at risk. Reporter benedikt is at small historically black college. About 80 of their students are dependent on financial aid. About 40 like mikalah rt first generation students. When covid closed campus, the administration raised enough money within 36 hours to send everyone loam but they didnt realize home was not an option for many. We were shocked, quite frankly, at the knuckleball of students who manifested housing insecurity issues, food coin security issues. So we spent a great deal of the summer fa sill tagt those requests, fundsing those requests and in some instances negotiating short term housing situations and in some instances shelter placement. Reporter one superior va found 15 of students at fouryear institutions were homeless. 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He sat down for a kwhat our gayle king. We create the culture. How do we think about whats going to happen to us in the black Community Five years . From a creative standpoint, what does that look like . Thats the question nba star Carmelo Anthony is trying to answer. With a new clothing collection hes calling a black future. Its part of the propel program, a new initiative anthony is launching to support the black Creative Community and hes calling on seven emerging designers to make that vision a reality. What was your mission . What was your goal . I didnt know what it was at and Brown Community affected fwha. So how do we give people dealing with this trauma neegd outlet or needing resources. It doesnt sound like this is a one and done for you. No. One of the best things ive done. To sit there with theners the zoom calls. I want to thank everybody. What im trying to create here hasnt been done yet. It wasnt just about design ng. We had real conversations just about life. A lot of those zierns are actually still in those communities thats been affected. How do you feel sitting here . There was another incident in the news involving a black man and a police officer. Also in the news, two Police Officers shot. Allow you navigating all optical this processing this . Its hard. Its hard to wake up and hear about another tragedy, Police Killing or somebody killing the police, right. Its just thats just where were at as a country right now. For the black community, were tired of it. Were just fed up with it. So on the flip seidt that, to see the two cops who got shot, we dont want that, either. Welch dont need that. You wrote a very moving letter in july addressed to young men and women of color. And you said, its hard for me to tell you not to be afraid when im afraid. What did you seen in. Im afraid of the unknown. I dont know how to keep having these conversations with the younger generation, my son. I never thought i would have to have this conversation with him at 13. Im fearful of like telling him the wrong thing or myotio co into beiut the fore front. Hes going to take everything i say and how i say it and hes going to build off of that. Conversation no black parent wants to have with their child but despite the fear, anthony is setting an example for his son kyan by using his voice to speak for change. You know what . Enough is enough. You were recently guest editor in chief of slam magazine. Yeah. What was your message . The overall message was the time is now my son is on his cover. These are the new voices, the most important voices. This is the future. Our time is now to make a change. Im sure it was a deliberate choice. You both were in hoodies. Yes. Nichols a hoody. Being in a hoody dont make me a gangster, dont make me a bad guy, dont make necessity or that. My son is not intimidatining anybody and im not intimidating anybody. Earlier this year, he spoke candidly about the challenges he faced after parr bmp eventually joining the portland trail blazers. On the uninterrupted podcast you talked very frankl where you said you hit rock bottom and that gout through with the help of kobe and la bron. What did you mean . I thought this could never sthap to me. I was so naive able to. Yeah. So kobe was there for me when i was talking to him. Lebron was there at times. It was certain people that was just giving me little nuggets here and there. And it came from people you respected, too. It came from people i respected. That makes a difference. Also it came from people i dont know, either. Youre in portland. Uhhuh. When you went to portland, did you think that portland would be the place for you . Because youre kicking butt in portland. I didnt think that i didnt know what to think. By the time up got to portnd. I could just tell you i had worked so hard mentally, emotionally, spiritually to get to the point where i was able to accept it. Ong had dinectelf in the game because i just felt like the game doesnt love me the way i love the game anymore. So maybe its time for me to walk away. And thats where i was at. When i have got the call from portland, it was like i already knew what i wanted. Itches at peace with it. You know. Are we going to be able to work snogt are we going to be able to do this together . Do you need me or do you want me . Was that an important distinction . Do you want me or need me . Whats more important . Want. Want. If up want men you would do whatever you have to do to make it work. Right. If you need me, you can up need you but we can look over here, too, right. Yael. So i was very big on them saying look, weapon want you here, you know, we believe in you. Are you happy there . Ppy. I get the impression that black excellence are not just words to you. No. Black excellence is a movement. Its who we are, its what we have inside of us. Weve always had black excellence bullpen now we have our voice. We have a platform, and im going to continue bringing people along with me. Im only 17. I dont know anything but i know i miss you. Thats taylor swift performing at the academy of Country Music awards, something Country Music fans thought they may never seen. The event was postponed for six months. All the socially distanced fash. Gayle king had some of the highlights. And it goes like ooh what i wouldnt do for the first time in acm awards history the shows top prize was shared by two artist it is. Le. Oh, no way. We have a tie. Country stars thomas rhett and Carrie Underwood took home entertainer of the year. And despite the pandemic, Country Musics biggest stars did not let social differencing stifle their song. Running wide open with awards coming from three iconic veew bircafe. Keep a oird in my heart. Nashvilles historic rye man auditorium. Theres a hole making this wine and the grand old opry. Home makes whiskey the artists also touched on state of the country. Shes sundays paid, over word. A full throated mem to his fellow country artists to speak out about issues like racial injustice. Mission every color if youre only seeing black and white and cane browns powerful message with his balance ad w5r8d wide beautiful. Worldwide beautiful and thats the cbs overnight news for this friday. For some of you the news continues. For others, checkheck back for this morning and follow us online anytime at cbs news doichlt reporting from the nations capital, im kris van cleave. Its friday, september 18th, 2020. This is the cbs morning news. Building momentum in minnesota. President trump and joe biden are set to campaign in the battleground state today where early voting kicks off. This is the worst weve ever had it here in rain and flooding. Sallys aftermath. The storm tears apart homes and businesses as the National Guard takes on a lifesaving mission rescuing hundreds of people stranded by floods. Football during a pandemic. A fan tests positive after attending the first nfl game of the year. The year. So what happens now . Captioning funded by cbs