You talk about more than ever we need more HBCUs.

Tell us why.

Because that's one of those aspects, education, where the rubber meets the road for the mayor

and the city council, working with the school board, because you're dealing with kindergartners.

You're dealing with high schoolers. You're dealing with high schoolers.

You're dealing with the universities that are located in your municipalities.

Talk to us about this need for HBCUs, why they're important.

And what do you think Donald Trump's executive order on Monday, eliminating diversity, inclusion, equity,

and inclusion efforts and programs at the federal level

across the country, how that may impact

what you're doing with your HBCUs and schools in your city.

Well, look, historically black colleges and universities are as relevant today as they were in 1867.

Now, I'm not going to dare, I'm not going to say, I dare say more.

I don't mean that.

They were extremely important in 1867.

But I believe what's happened at the university and college level in the last 10 years

is why it's extremely important today.

We are talking about a significant amount of black boys and girls becoming teenagers

and then young adults who would be first-generation

college university students but for the hbCU experience which is a holistic experience well

beyond the academia part of just being educated we We need places where these young black men,

these young black women feel safe, are nurtured,

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