On today's episode. If I didn't know, maybe you didn't either. I will share with you two HBCUs that I hold near and dear to my heart. One's around, one's a rattler, and five hundred miles separates the two. I didn't know. Maybe you didn't. No, I didn't know. No, I didn't know. Maybe you didn't. I didn't know. I didn't know. I didn't know. Okay, buck of your seat belts and let's take a road trip through black excellence. First stop, Winston Salem,
North Carolina. Winston Salem State University founded in eighteen ninety two by Simon g Atkins. You know how bold you got to be the founder university In eighteen ninety two, that man said segregation. Jim Crow ain't nobody got time for that, so he started Slater Industrial Academy, which is now Winston Salem State University. Back then you were learning
brick land and cooking. Today you might be in a no lab, putting I v's in mannequins, or recording your podcasts in one of the only Adobe labs on an HBCU campus. Samon Gak is probably looking down at WSSU like that single mom be looking at them kids open them Christmas presents on Christmas morning, and no, let me talk about the legend who walk through those doors of Winston Salem State University. You ever heard of Lewis Farrakhan a WSSU grab. You ever been watching Wilding Out and
seeing Chico Bean? Yeah? Being a ram two. The name of our band is the Red Sea of Sound. Our cheerleaders or you may have seen them on the ground stomp and shake excellence. We talking about Powerhouse of Red and White, and around two thousand and seven, Shavon Oestrada pretty much revolutionized the version of stomping shake that we
see today. But that's a whole nother episode. One of the most notable chants at Winston Salem State University is chewed up, backup, chewed up backup, chewed up backup, spit. If you ain't a dam, then you ain't. We try to keep a PG for the children and the elderly. They want to sing along. That's good, old ESU. Now let's head down I ninety five to Tallahassee, Florida and visit Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University better known as FAM. You they got a chant too. It's usually led by
loose kid. He'll say I represent and all the ratleers say Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, October third, eighteen eighty seven. What exactly Fam You was found at? October third, eighteen eighty seven. Now Tallahassee, Florida has seven huge heels, and the part of Florida they gave fam was the highest heel. But it was filled with rattlesnakes. So the state of Florida was like, y'all can have fifteen acres and two mules, good luck. So what did fam You do? Turned it
into one of the top HBCUs in the country. They embraced those rattlesnakes, became the fam You Ratless And if you meet any rattler, they'll let you know that they're from the highest of seven hills. That's right, Fam You sits at the highest points in Tallahassee, Florida. Even Florida State got to look up at the ratlers and they hate that Fam You is so iconic it makes you want to enroll just for homecoming. No cap I experienced it last year. And don't let the march in one
hundred touch the field. Have you ever seen them before? The band might do as much work as the football team on Saturdays, and Fam You has some of the dopest alumni in the game. Keisha Lance Bottoms, the former mayor of Atlanta. Fam You grad What about the movie director Will Packer here Ratler and he even got a
perform in Arts Amphitheater right on campus. So, whether it's Winston Salem State University with the motto enter to Learn, depart to serve in the heart of North Carolina or fam You with the motto excellence, it's carrying down there in the Sunshine State. These schools are more than just campuses. They're launching pads for greatness. And they're two of my favorites. Okay bye,