>> Welcome back, everyone.
It’s that time of year families
are definitely getting ready
for back to school today.
There’s a big event. Half I
mean, at the grb in downtown
Houston to get you prepared
with us today is the senior VP
of the National Urban League.
Rhonda Spears Bell. Good
morning to you. Rhonda. Thank
you so much for joining us.
This morning. Please tell us
about your community and Family
Day Expo. This happening today.
Good morning and thank you for
having us. Listen, we are here
and we are excited. The
National Urban League has been
here for the last 3 and will
culminate in today with that
community and Family Day Expo.
>> It is definitely the place
to be for everyone because we
have some thing for everyone in
the family and we’re excited to
come down to opens at 10:00AM.
come on down to the door.
John Brown Convention Center
Community Family Day Expo is
really I get back to this
commute and adding we’ve been
here all week talking about
serious and important issues in
our country. But you know what?
What really? What really
matters to us today. We really
want to share our sales the
share what we have available
for the people in the Houston
area and this region. And
there’s so much that you can
expect to be ready to talk
about it. I’ll be happy.
>> 2, 8, yes, exactly around.
Like you said, this is for the
whole family getting everybody
prepared. We know there’s lots
of giveaways, all kinds of
things. Yes, Phyllis, and what
can we expect?
>> Listen, I’m very excited
because the community family
days, something that we came up
with a few years ago, we really
want to share with everyone in
the community and we are giving
away more than 10,000
backpacks. Well, all the kids
getting back to school. You
lead with that and you’re
absolutely right as they’re
prepared for school. More than
10,000 backpacks filled with
school supplies and resources
for parents information.
We have a free wellness and
help the zone we have. We’re
giving away shoes were given to
place so much information
anyway, excited about it
because it would make sure that
our kids are and that they
prepared for successful school
year. We had over 60 colleges
and universities who will be
here as a part of our college
fair. So listen, if you have a
child that’s headed to college
or even if you just want
information about financial
aid, resources and tools to
prepare you for college life,
come on down and you can find
information from any over 60
universities and colleges that
we have here also is a free
medical clinic because you know
what? Sometimes they’re people
who need to understand their
rights and need to know, hey, I
might have something on my
record that I need to see if I
can get that off. So we have a
free legal clinic and an
expungement clinic ready.
We have attorneys here ready
to talk to people free of
charge that, you know,
mentioned not everything is
absolutely free. Of course,
tons of giveaways times of
crisis celebrities meet and
greet just a lot of information
and you have an opportunity to
check your voting status
because that’s really
important. Check your voting
status. And if you’re not
registered to vote, you can
register right here. Registered
to vote down here at the
convention center with us.
But let me just say this about
Houston and Houston has been an
amazing host for us and we want
to highlight and showcase many
of the vendors and
entrepreneurs here in the
Houston area and we’re able to
do that throughout really good
and black own marketplace.
We have over 60 or 70 vendors
and small businesses here and
showcasing their specialties,
their products, their goods,
their services. So I really am
marketplace. We have a business
exports. Colin, and listen,
if you’re looking for a job as
a recruitment, now we have
people down here looking for
people to hire the come on
down. If you’re looking for a
job and you might get recruited
today and there is a tech
space. You know, we have
something for the ladies in
her space and we did not get
the man in King’s corner.
So that mentioned there’s
literally something for
everyone. And it’s all
happening today at 10:00AM
downtown at the George R Brown
Convention Center. The National
Urban League’s Community and
Family Day. And I just want to
say thank you to our partners
have partnered with the Houston
Area, Urban League and of
course, Mayor Sylvester Turner,
the city of Houston. They’ve
been amazing.
Just a wonderful event out
there starts at 10 o’clock this
morning. Rhonda, thank you so
much for joining us.
>> And you can find all this
information and a replay of
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