00:00Ladies and gentlemen, AT&T invites you to dream in black.
00:06Joining us on behalf of AT&T is your favorite TV host, Terrence J.
00:11And AT&T Assistant Vice President of Fiber, Jaren Felder and
00:15AT&T's HBCU rising future maker, Kalaya Sibley.
00:19Give it up for them right now.
00:20Give it up for them right now.
00:22Yeah.
00:23Terrence J, North Carolina in the building.
00:25What's up, what's up?
00:26New Orleans, make some noise.
00:31All right, I got one question.
00:33If you went to an HBCU, where you at?
00:36Put your hands up.
00:39Hold on, hold on, hold on.
00:40I got a better question than that.
00:43If you graduated from an HBCU with a 3.0 or better, make some noise.
00:49Hey, Terrence, that's what's up.
00:57Hey, listen, everybody.
00:58First of all, what's up, Essence family?
01:01My name is Jaren Felder.
01:02I'm the Assistant Vice President of Business Fiber with AT&T.
01:06But I'm also a proud HBCU alum.
01:09And I'm a graduate of the Claflin University in Orangeburg,
01:12South Carolina.
01:14See you.
01:15Shout out to all those Panthers in the building.
01:17But hey, listen, we're in the Bayou State,
01:19so we have to give shout outs to all of those Louisiana
01:23college graduates out there tonight.
01:26All right, I'm going to do a quick HBCU roll call.
01:30Xavier, Southern, Gramblin.
01:33Y'all in the building?
01:36All right, what about Suno, Southern Shreveport, or Dillard?
01:42Awesome.
01:45All right, speaking of Dillard alum,
01:47I'm going to turn it over to my girl, Calaya.
01:49OK, OK, the crowd is lit.
01:51I see all HBCUs in the building.
01:54My name is Calaya Sibley, and I just graduated
01:56from the illustrious Dillard University
01:59right here in New Orleans, Louisiana.
02:04And I am one of the 25 selected HBCU students
02:08from the 2022 AT&T Rise and Future Maker class.
02:12The AT&T Rise and Future Maker program
02:14was created to empower, uplift, and support those of us
02:18to move our communities forward and ensure we have access
02:21to the network and resources to realize
02:24our greater possibility.
02:25It is such a blessing to receive access to mentors, events,
02:29a tech package, and $5,000 in cash to support me and my goals.
02:35Shout out to AT&T.
02:37Yeah, yeah.
02:38Big ups to AT&T and their continued commitment to HBCU.
02:42Shout out to my alma mater, A&T, North Carolina A&T.
02:47Aggie Pride, baby.
02:48And shout outs to all the Greeks out there.
02:50Big ups to the Greeks.
02:51Ayo, ayo, ayo.
02:56All right.
02:57A lot of people out there representing tonight.
02:59So Terrence, Kalaya, we should do something cool, right?
03:04I think we should give away a free device, 5G enabled,
03:09and some Dreaming Black AT&T swag to an HBCU student.
03:14So if you're currently an HBCU student,
03:17let me hear you make some noise.
03:22All right.
03:23Who we got, Kalaya?
03:25So they're telling me we have a winner
03:27from Prairie View A&M University?
03:31OK.
03:32Congratulations to Makayla Roberts.
03:34Come join us on the stage.
03:38Makayla, congratulations.
03:41All right, and with that said, y'all said y'all went to HBCU.
03:45So you know what I need y'all to do?
03:46I need y'all to stand up right now.
03:48Because if you went to an HBCU,
03:49we got to turn this thing up the right way.
03:52If you with somebody that you love, that went to an HBCU with you,
03:56put your arm around it right now.
04:00And drop that.
04:06Left, right, slow it down.
04:09Holla, holla, holla.
04:10Bring it back one more time.
04:12Bring it back one more time.
04:14Stop the music.
04:15If you went to an HBCU, stand up.
04:18Put your arms around your best friend.
04:20I hand up to my back.
04:23Yeah.
04:24You know I'm about to play.
04:25Yeah.
04:26Right, slow it down.
04:28Yeah.
04:30Right, slow it down.
04:31Yeah.
04:33Right, slow it down.
04:35Yeah.
04:36Right, slow it down.
04:38AT&T.
04:40Dream and play.
04:41One, two, one, two, three, I'm on it.
04:45Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow.
04:51That's right, that's right.
04:52I surf, I, I surf, I, I surf.
04:55What, what?
04:56I feel like this is the third thing.
04:58Oh, boy.
05:00Coming in a down.
05:02New Orleans, Essence, we love you.
05:08Good night.
05:10synchronize the band.
05:12Good night, y'all.
05:13I worked with a Süolu당.
05:15Eight,Super are poder Eugene Martin.
05:17Good night,
05:26you solid工作.
05:31Let it go.
05:36Good night.
05:36Good night.
05:37Good night, y'all.
05:38G- land?
05:38Good night, y'all.
05:39Good night.
05:39Good night, y'all.
05:39Good night.
05:39Good night, y'all.
05:40Good night, y'all.
05:40Nice.
05:40Good night, y'all.
05:40Good night.
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