At State Farm, we're committed to uplifting Black Futures.

In collaboration with organizations like 100 Black Men and National Urban League, State Farm

provides high school students with the opportunity to learn and apply best practice strategies

for saving and investing all while offering academic support life skills and

exposure to college access programs to prepare these students for life after high school. to to donate and learn more. Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there.

We, as Black people, are so resourceful.

We are so imaginative.

And many of us never lose that even in the face of adversity. We look for ways around it. Think about

this. A guy like A.G. Gaston who started the Gatsden Motel in Birmingham, Alabama, one of the premier places for people to stay.

The people who started the Lorraine Motel where Aretha Franklin, Mahalia Jackson State, these people realized a

version of the American dream parallel to what white people were doing with less resources,

more imagination, more determination, more

more self-leaf.

More self-worth.

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Everybody walking back to Wild Black. Welcome back, welcome back.

Yeah, so you know how we typically do. We've got some amazing information for you today,

something I'm actually really, really excited to talk about because it's so tied to history

and we have heard about it. We haven't talked about it on

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