joy and dancing and waves of people, and you can feel the energy that flows from florida a&m, from grambling, from the mississippi to the mozambique. it reminds us of our heritage. it was the drum, when we could not communicate from plantation to plantation, when our languages were taken away from us, it was the drum that was our form of communication, that you could hear those sounds drumming, whether it was on a pot or some skins, we created a way to communicate with one another, and it's so fitting that we start off with the sound of the drum. let's hear it once again for our kids. [applause] >> thank you to russell for bringing us on stage. this will be a celebration of music, of dance, of food. it was a custom to showcase our small businesses, our entrepreneurs, our community involvement, which means that's you for being here. it's so important that we start off reminding us of the struggle that our foreparents went through because you can't have success without struggle, whether it's professionally or whether it's personally. there's always some kind of struggle that takes you over to