On the recordOctober 22, 2019
I would like to celebrate an organization right here in Washington, D.C., that fights every day to increase the academic achievements of local African American students, the Black Student Fund. The fund has provided educational assistance and resources to promising Black students since 1964. Officials work with students from pre-K to 12th grade to keep their grades up, graduate high school, and go on to college. Many of these students are the first in their families to go to college, and 70 percent of them are from single-parent households. The benefits of a quality education to students and their communities are too numerous to mention in 1 minute. That is why we need more organizations like the Black Student Fund to keep more of our youth out of trouble and in the classrooms where they belong. ____________________
