at grambling, part of the mass, major was that you learn reporting and editing like everyone else. i was the co-editor of the college newspaper. i started a magazine. when i got to detroit my goal was to figure out a way to married that reporting with what they wanted me to do in graphics. i told them that if something happened, i was going. they said that was fine with them. whenever i was feeling burned out or someone was shot, i was there on the scene so that i could visually tell that story. that became a valuable skill. not a lot of people were doing that in that space at the time. >> why did you pick grambling in the first place a historic black college? >> it was close to where i grew up. it is where my mother also went to college and where a couple of my brothers went to college. it was not my first choice. i had a wanderlust and wanted to get far away from my tiny space. i had been accepted a couple of places and even had full scholarships. my mother cannot imagine her youngest son being far away. she talked and talked until i relented and said okay. i found it to be an am

at the time . >> why did you pick grambling in the first place?it is 20 minutes from where i grew up. it is where my mother also went to college. the couple of my brothers went to college there. it was not my first choice. i had a wanderlust and want to get as far away from my time and space as i possibly could. -- my tiny space as possibly could. i have full scholarships and other places. my mother, however could not imagine her youngest son being far away from her. she talked and talked and talked until i relented and said okay. i found it to be an amazing experience in one way. i think this is true of many historical black colleges. it removes the idea of race from education because if you do not succeed, there is no way to blame it on anything else other than your own inability to succeed. having that experience up for one period in your life is very interesting. if you don't get elected to the student council, it is because we don't like you. there's a freedom that comes up with that. i really enjoyed that. >> you finished rather well, magna