68: Raising Excellence w/Kellye Britton of The Harvard Debate Council Diversity Project

While Black

REVOLT

Self-improvement, Education

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🗓️ 2 February 2020

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Welcome to episode one of four in our Black Future Month series. Black Future Month is all about honoring those that came before us by investing in those coming after us. How do we take the phrase I am my ancestors wildest dream and enrich it to the point that those who are next ultimately end up functioning at a level so much higher than our ancestor could dream. We start by sitting down with Kellye Britton of The Harvard Debate Council Diversity Project (HDCDP) an Atlanta-based pipeline program that recruits, trains, and sends black youth to a summer debate residency program at Harvard. (Thats the official wording but in reality it is so much more than that). Kellye has a passion for black youth and it is overly obvious as you listen. She discusses the HDCDP methodology, her personal passions for enrichment, and even dives into strategic thought on how parents can really help....she also makes it plain that we are not raising children we are raising adults. One tip she has and we support is simply - "Get out of their way" For more information on the Harvard Debate Council Diversity Project please follow them on IG:@harvarddcdp or check out there website at:https://harvarddcdp.org/ Lastly, don't forget to get social with us IG: WHILE_BLACK; TWITTER @whileblackpc; FB @whileblackpodcast or email: whileblackpodcast@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, while Black Family, this is Vince.
0:02.0	I wanted to chat with you just for a moment
0:04.0	to do a couple of things.
0:05.0	One, wish you happy Black History Month.
0:07.7	Two, to remind you that although February
0:10.3	is officially Black History Month,
0:12.2	you can and should celebrate that every day.
0:15.2	It's your history.
0:16.8	Three, to quickly explain to you
0:18.7	what we're doing this entire month here on Wild Black.
0:22.3	I want to start with the fact that we celebrate Black history
0:25.1	in almost every podcast, both through our conversation,
0:28.4	but also directly through our dope quotes.
0:30.8	So we decided this month to celebrate Black History Month a little bit
0:34.8	differently. Most of you are familiar with the statement that we are our
0:39.5	ancestors wildest dreams and this month on Wild, we want to stretch that statement.
0:45.0	So ride with me for a minute.
0:47.0	If our parents' generation and our generation have accepted that we are our ancestors wildest dreams,
0:54.0	than being honest, don't we have a responsibility
0:56.8	to make sure that the future generations are so powerful,
1:00.6	so prepared, so able, and so confident that they in turn become something so awesome
1:07.0	that our ancestors and maybe even ourselves can't even fathom.
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