AfricanAmerican History is how bad it is. So the history piece is one thing, but also even in this moment. Thats how i started off right . In this moment its all a about how we are diagnose, right . Slow death dying right . At what point do i have any agency to do anything you know, theres a distinction in the world between optimists and pessimists. Turns out that optimists get things done. Optimists succeed. It turns out that pessimists are right about the world. Right. [laughter] right right right right. And i just want to, i want to introduce a term. This is not an academic term, but its a term that i got from some of the black women that i worked with in detroit who were around 16 years old. And they said theres a difference between a struggle, the struggle and struggley with an ly, and they say a struggle is what we go through as human beings on this planet. The struggle they define as specific to the africanamerican experience in this country. And they said but struggley is when
Journalist in rome, italy. I worked for a daily newspaper and i was coming out of an african platform shoes and i asked my editor, was the uniform. What was the code of dress to be a fashion journalist . He introduced me to a woman and she said, dont judge a book by its cover because the cover is what sets the tone for its how people will determine whether or not you already to be sent into this world. She gave me some fast and safe ideas. She said if you dont have expensive jewelry, invest in a nice set of pearls. Put on some sensible shoes because they will believe youre saving the high heeled shoes for later in the evening. And always wear black big because when you wear black, you dont know how expensive or how cheap the article of clothing is. And as you can see, if you watch television you see fashion, you see these women running around, they are all in black. But to date the women here on this panel have, going to tackle the topic, fashioning the self the image is black. They co
Philly institute of hip hop entrepreneurship is all about inspiring local youth to become Business Owners tayibb smith and Meegan Denenberg are taking a new approach when it comes to teaching young people Business Practices. We worked with a lot of young men and women who are looking to i think be founders, president s, all these big labels and everything they want to do. And we realized that a lot of them had no idea on how to run a business. So the pair received a 300 thousand dollar grant from the Knight Foundation to teach a group of urban millennials in philly how to create their own companies and the institute of hip hop entrepreneurship was born. We have a lot of people who maybe came through the lens of wanting to be an artist or a performer, or have some kind of connection to the music industry. So hip hop as an ethos of inspiration, because hip hop is influenced so many different Business Practices in the last 30 years. 24 participants were chosen out of 300 to meet up once a
Philly institute of hip hop entrepreneurship is all about inspiring local youth to become Business Owners tayibb smith and Meegan Denenberg are taking a new approach when it comes to teaching young people Business Practices. We worked with a lot of young men and women who are looking to i think be founders, president s, all these big labels and everything they want to do. And we realized that a lot of them had no idea on how to run a business. So the pair received a 300 thousand dollar grant from the Knight Foundation to teach a group of urban millennials in philly how to create their own companies and the institute of hip hop entrepreneurship was born. We have a lot of people who maybe came through the lens of wanting to be an artist or a performer, or have some kind of connection to the music industry. So hip hop as an ethos of inspiration, because hip hop is influenced so many different Business Practices in the last 30 years. 24 participants were chosen out of 300 to meet up once a
Asking. The how prurp is joking with the local leaders. Plus a first the president is making tonight. Nbc 10 news starts now. Right now at 11 00, a growing effort toe clean up hundreds of vandalized headstones at a philadelphia Jewish Cemetery. As the search intensifies. Good evening, im denise, this vandalism is the latest in a strong of antisemitic actions as well as threats across the nation. Were bringing you Live Team Coverage of this mornings discovery. We begin with drew smith whos live at the cemetery. Drew, the reward has grown since your report at 6 00. Reporter yes, 3,000 more added by the fraternal order of police, thats in addition to the 10,000 that the Antidefamation League is offering. Theyre hoping itll bring someone out to bring information about whoever got past this fence and a locked gate here to damage hundreds of graves. An evening prayer at sundown to bring some comfort to people disturbed by the toppled and damaged headstones at mt. Caramel Jewish Cemetery. Hun