She was actually down there, too, from WTMJ.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
So she actually, I don't know if she served or not, but I know she was down there.
Okay.
And so I was like, Oh, see how I got two people to go stand up and say, I know that story.
I'm in the media.
I'm in the media.
I swear I work.
Yes.
News talk station me right here.
Yeah.
So you could I said that because that's what happens when you get up there.
I'm like, OK, cool, cool, cool.
But yeah, so just being able to tour the island and get the history of and finding out about their government and how all of that stuff works as well and seeing where some historical things took place.
So it was it was amazing.
But, you know, we also had a chance to.
We embarked from New York.
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So yeah, Bailey.
What are you saying?
Well, I'm saying it said you can watch in us.
So I was just making sure that people understood that.
that you could watch us on Facebook live.
It's fairly hollow.
Triangle so it was great.
It was amazing and if you get a chance to go and just Free your mind as I said everything that happened while I was away It was waiting for me as soon as I got black.
Yes all of the crazy situations the school with the
Teenager with the gun all of that all that was in criminal complaints was in my emails.
So I had about 300 400 emails So, you know, all of that was there.
So that's why I say leave all of that I know that you had time to definitely dive into them.
So I won't go black and Regurgitate that and give my opinion.
But yeah
You already know, kind of like what my opinion would have been on a lot of the situations.
Yeah,
And I'm sure the other shows also talked about a lot of those different things as well.
So I won't go into that.
I'll just say yeah, yeah, I got hit with all that and I came like really really But then they was like okay blow we ain't gonna let you down Yesterday a 17 year old was murdered allegedly by a 14 year old right that's who they got in custody for it right
Okay.
So what the hell is wrong with you generals?
What is it?
Is it mental health?
Y'all can't live your lives without all this mental health going well So are the generals should we look at the generals as people who have mental health issues?
because
What would you say about her behavior?
Would you say that it's a mental?
It's got to be and especially seeing that the car that you don't understand the things she's done after being released right on a Tuesday right Black to work on a Thursday
So now when I say that, when I say mutated generation and I say I'm not talking about everybody, what you have just clarified is what I mean when I say that.
You get what I'm saying?
No, it's not everybody that was born, but the ones that are doing some of these things are part of the PWKs.
They didn't exist to this degree when we were coming up.
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And but here, here, here's the thing and here's the test of it all.
I know that for those who would speak, I'll be like, hell no, it's not a representation of us.
And that's just the same logic that I need people to use when people try to act like, oh, well, it's always this is all, you know, you, you.
Why is this any other?
No, don't don't.
If you know that you don't fit.
Under that umbrella then when somebody does just say that that person us be specific in saying That woman, you know got some issues instead of saying like well all of them all of them I don't always say all of them I always say a lot or some of them or those people that do this I don't just
generalize in the sense and where people take it like, you can't say we all crazy over here at King.
You're right, which is the point that I'm making.
No, no, I don't think that that's a real representation of the generals that I know.
I know her because then I would have been like, yeah, she different.
You know what I'm saying?
Yeah, because I listened to the voice message.
I listened.
And
So yeah So so that that's the thing like it shouldn't represent the school as a whole We have people that will end up doing that.
Well, see that's why I don't like going to tech That's why I don't like going to you you know saying and even when there are some things that may not be right with NPS Just to throw the whole NPS away.
You may have had some bad
issues with law enforcement but to throw the whole law enforcement away no let's talk about those people who are bogus or are wrong in doing that and not just throw away everything else which you know I often spend a lot of time trying to explain that it's like okay I get it maybe you had a bad
running in with law enforcement, maybe they some law enforcement officer did something very egregious to you, did something out of the role of law enforcement.
Yeah.
And yeah, those people should be punished.
Those people should be fired.
You give them saying there should be some consequences to their actions.
But when we just throw the whole thing away, it's like people will say throw the whole judicial system away.
It's like, no, Judge David Borowski is doing a great job.
in my opinion becoming sick and tired of and and he said it when he was sentencing that boy he was like look this you know it's so much that keeps coming out of y'all community like like come on like he don't want to have to say let me just throw the book at him and a lot of us are fed up to a level to where we're like yeah y'all can't y'all can't keep letting him out
I've seen a woman that made a post that if something does happen law enforcement coming to get you Because she was like I'm calling all gangsters.
I'm calling all the killers.
I'm calling all the they they murdered somebody that she is her son or a relative to her and she was like Go get them.
Go get she was calling it.
She wasn't calling out law enforcement She was calling out everything else and just know though
If something happens, they're coming to see you.
Yeah.
Because you put like an all call on this.
And yeah, there's consequences to your actions when you do those kind of things.
So that's that's the reality check.
You feel no saying that I think that people have to understand what some of these things are happening and some of these things are going on.
You know, it is it's not.
It's not sweet and those who do certain stuff.
Yeah, they should have to pay for their actions They should not be let off with a slap on the wrist, but again a lot of judges are elected
in every election.
wasn't aware of the vote and
calling for a recall.
We'll rally the troops after
We will have an allegiance.
When I look at a lot of the people who appear on the news that are so caring and concerned because this person was their immediate loved one.
Where is our community intervention?
Where is that?
Why do we have to see the hurt the pain and they never did nothing and all of that after the fact, right?
If you, you know, it's more people that show up at some people's funeral than they do when they're out celebrating that they got a job or they celebrating something positive.
You get more people that will come to your funeral.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I'm gonna miss him.
I'm gonna miss her.
and that's that's what we That's what we need to understand and take accountability for as a community You know, yeah, they kill my cousin.
Okay, but he was in where she was in the Commence of a robbery
or just shot at somebody or shot somebody.
Right.
And they shot black.
They just killed you.
You know what I'm saying?
So the community, in my opinion, responsibility is not on the level that it needs to be in order to really start making these changes.
Yeah, we really got to start understanding how important and involved we have to be.
Right.
As the community.
you got to move up out of here yep you don't just get to stay here and deteriorate what we have going on here
That part you know if you're not trying to help me a part of the solution then we have to look at you as part of the problem and and you are not welcome too many people are welcome in environments that Are trying to do something people who may have made mistakes, but they're trying to get their life right But then you got people that they done made mistakes and they still continuing to make mistakes and they're trying to
Uh, invite other people into their melee or they mess.
That that is a problem.
Um, so, you know, until we really, in my opinion, uh, take our own self accountability as a community and as a people, we're going to continue to have, uh, stories that are more tragic than all of the great stories.
They morph.
Yeah.
And, and.
Also, Bailey, do you notice that a lot of times when we talk about some of the great things that are going on phone lines are dead?
Comments are
What about the good thing?
We talk about that.
But why don't you let us know when we talk about it?
Like I tell people, I can let people know and I've done it for decades of the things that I'm doing.
to try to turn this situation around.
But it's not gonna only be just me.
Our community violence interrupters are not gonna be able to just keep doing this by themselves.
The family members of these people that y'all love and care about, they gotta do they part too.
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What are we doing?
What are we doing?
What are we doing to change the narrative instead of just blaming everybody else?
except some of the damn people and the families that are putting us in these situations.
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I'm the legendary home.
We're blow along with my girl
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We're going to go to, we were just talking about things that, you know, we as a community could do.
You know, we become dependent on so many other people all the time that it's like we can't do anything without them, the system doing it for us.
Right.
We have been survivors long before the system even let us peek in the door.
Yes, can you hear me?
Yep, we got you now.
Good morning.
Yeah, those people are going to have, they're going to either have to move or the people who live in the community going to have to move.
There's so much the community can do.
You can try to tell them, hey, don't do that.
Watch your kids after a while.
You just say to hell with it.
Okay.
Was two kids setting fires down the street from my house.
Yes.
They'd like with a problem maniacs.
Okay.
We, the community said, Hey, put the fire out.
They go.
to put another fire, okay?
So it's time for them, and it's time for them and their mother to go.
Okay, and if mama, it had to be a man in the house cause they no kids walking down the street with a blow torch.
And if she don't work at a nail salon, she don't need a blow torch.
You hear what I'm saying?
Also, some of you, some of this start with your parents.
Okay, prime example, I'm sitting at home, this woman yelling and screaming in front of her two kids, I ate your box and your box was nasty.
And you know what her little
You know what her little daughter said?
Her little daughter said, Mama, I don't want to hear all that.
She's going to tell her daughter to get out of my business.
So you yelling and screaming that you sitting down here munching on somebody cooler with a bad pH balance in front of your kids.
That's why your kids are f-ed up.
They need to go.
But what happens is in the community, people have been so beat up and normalized that now they feel the person that's doing all the evilness is the victim.
So now...
They're stuck with it.
Y'all got to go.
I don't care where you go.
I don't care if you go to hell.
You go up there with Jesus with you if you want to.
I don't care.
You got to go.
I don't care where you go.
You go with Donald Trump.
You can go wherever you want.
I don't care.
Just go.
Find it like it's given $800 the moves you can take your section a you got a man up in the house cuz he tapping that ass right now Okay, all
But it's it's always.
It kind of just amazes me how we don't want other people talking about us, but we give other people things to talk about us about.
Like, why are we giving him something to talk about?
Why are we, uh, when, uh, people comment on some of these news stations post about a story and some of the, uh, yeah, we know that there are some racist people, uh, and the orange man has made it where, Hey, you don't have to wear a sheet anymore.
You are good.
Say it.
Say it with your chest.
Say it with your breasts.
It's okay.
Uh, and, but a lot of, uh,
Black people, in my opinion, end up getting mad and frustrated at some of the comments.
But the reality is for me, in my opinion, I don't like to have to wake up at four or something in the morning.
You don't understand, start getting ready five to be able to be in here and have to hear about two people being shot or three homicides.
And people ain't, I don't drink coffee, but people ain't even made a chance to drink coffee yet.
That's it.
So when they say that, be like, wow, uh, really, uh, we didn't even get our coffee yet and they're already out killing each other.
But you want to get mad and frustrated at those comments, but we're setting up a crazy messed up precedent for that type of behavior.
Yeah.
If you already know how they react.
Yeah.
to our community, black people, and now you just, that's fuel to the fire.
Absolutely.
But you don't want them to say nothing about it.
If we talk about it, why we got to talk about that?
Why is it happening?
Can I ask you the question?
Why is it happening?
Can we have peaceful evenings?
Can we have peaceful gatherings?
Can we go out to enjoy nightlife without having to hear that you heard they was fighting over here?
Somebody got shot down here.
You know what I'm saying?
It's like, why?
And especially if you hear about it at a place that you know more black people frequent than white
We want to save it.
We've got our interview coming up.
So when we return here on Truth in the Morning, hold it, baby.
We got to have to table it.
We got to table that.
We're going to table that till after 8.30, all right?
But coming up.
We're going to have from the 41st annual black and white ball.
I guess Dr. Eve M. Hall, president and CEO of the Greater Milwaukee Urban League, along with Tim Ricketts, founding member and business manager of Cigarette Break Band.
We're going to be talking to them about this event that is coming up.
This is a huge event.
It's one of their biggest fundraisers
that they
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Welcome black to truth in the morning.
We are pleased and honored to be joined in the studio on this morning from the Greater Milwaukee Urban League.
This sister worked so hard just throughout the year and she has such an amazing team.
It's always an honor to be in her presence.
And when I'm able to do things to help support her and the Greater Milwaukee Urban League, that is the one, the only Dr. Eve M. Hall.
Welcome to Truth in the Morning.
Great morning to you.
How you doing and feeling?
All right.
Yeah, we didn't hear it.
I'm just trying to make sure.
All right.
Go ahead.
Say it again.
We can't I didn't pick you up.
So there you go.
All right.
There I'm here.
Yeah.
Happy
Monday.
You know, I was teasing this morning.
I said, Doctor Homer blow for the community because he is the doctor of this community.
you.
And his passion
Thank you for coming in this morning.
I know you already have busy and long days.
Also join in the studio.
a great friend, a great brother, family man, creator, you know, man of many gifts and talents, and that is my brother, T. Ricketts, also known as Timothy Ricketts, founder and creator of Cigarette Break, the band.
Great morning, Tim.
How you doing,
man?
What's going on, blow man?
Good to see you this morning.
You know,
Yeah, I can't say I ain't seeing you in a minute because we always see each other.
You know what I'm saying?
So that's a great thing.
So how's life been treating you, bro?
Life is amazing.
All right.
Speaking of amazing.
We're talking about 41 years of this amazing event.
Well, I'm so honored to have the honorable Tim Ricketts here.
So cigarette break is actually our featured entertainment.
Nice.
And he is promising something
very, very special for this 41st year.
But Tim and Cigarette Break
have been friends to us all along.
So they've always provided the entertainment on some level.
But this year they are the premier and the front line.
So we're just excited because we already know what they do.
We also know Tim's commitment to this community as well.
in supporting organizations like ourselves.
So, I'm just
does.
He has that list of who he invites in and
you
never know
And when you have that love and respect in the community and in the city,
You know, people know like, oh man, this is going to be an awesome, you know, a headlining performance going on.
So, Tim, you know, you've been as Dr. Eve M. Hall has said that, you know, you've worked with the Greater Milwaukee Urban League many times and are a go to.
What was the extra excitement to hear that, you know, a lot of times, I've seen y'all even play for some of the other headliners.
What is it like?
to say now we are the headline.
I mean, honestly, it's a dream come true.
It's like I always believe that Milwaukee could tie into the hometown homage because like most of us have playing on the road, you know, like we got amazing musicians at our birth here.
Demonte Pose, the Wesley McVicker, Sean Hinton, like the line just goes on, but
all perform at that high level.
And I feel like who's better to actually showcase in our city but us?
right that part that part uh so when people come without giving away any of your surprises man uh what should they be prepared to do it's going to be a lot of great dancing is going to be just some tremendous vocalism i mean
What can they expect?
I've seen cigarette brain.
Okay.
Plain in
general.
Okay.
But it's like a headline, you know what I'm saying?
You put a little more in it.
So what should the people?
I mean, you know, we come out dressed, you know, to the nine, right?
Correct.
Should they bring some loafers for the cigarette?
Well, this
is what I can promise.
This is what I can promise.
I can promise you all y'all will see Dr. Hall dance all night.
Okay.
So we got we got a funk show.
That's crazy.
A whole lot of James Brown.
So like that one time you performed with us at the bamboozle.
Yes.
Like that.
Yes.
Okay.
Okay.
And you're right.
You know I love to dance at
any
time we've been out, you know, and he's playing.
I always do.
And you know, let me just add this to
you know traditionally and for years it's always been about headliners from out of town.
I mean that's been the quote unquote tradition of the ball
really
since it's beginning and I'm excited about a new direction in making sure that we are now really supporting and highlighting our own.
because, as Tim said, we have some dynamic individuals
absolutely do.
And so that really will begin to be more of our direction with the ball, quite frankly.
We did some of that last year, you know, as a start, but why not?
promote those at home.
And it's, you know, it's always nice to have others to come in, but it's it always makes a difference when we are supporting and strengthening our own because guess what?
needs to start at home.
correct
So, you know again hundred years We were part of that first decade of urban leaks that were started in this country because we originated in 1910
And just as a reminder, we were here to support the Great Migration when we were moving from the south to the north.
And so our focus was boots on the ground, helping families, helping individuals who were here in employment,
education,
health, housing, entrepreneurship, and being that urban liaison between business government.
in our community
to encourage and ensure that we had
jobs and we had some kind of quality of life.
So that was our foundation and we've always been that throughout the
years
and I always say the stabilization of our communities across this country would not have occurred without the Urban League because we were boots on the ground.
NAACP was policy in the court supporting what we did.
But what does this ball mean?
This ball is so key to supporting
our
programs and it provides us the leverage to do the many things that we do every year from the youth marketplace that we
had.
Absolutely awesome.
Our youth as
you know on Saturday because they were interviewing with you Homer.
to our first summer AI camp that we had this summer where we graduated 23 students who did amazing projects using AI to our students who won a national award from Bradley Tech because of a project that they were doing as well to our Stream Summit where we've had up to 200 students attend its discovery world.
I mean these are just a snippet.
of what we do
in
our driver's education
for both adults and
youth.
So at the core of what we do is about economic mobility and stability, making sure that we have a pathway
for our
community.
the funding that we raise allows us to do that
ball?
Our website has a donate page, also a membership page, ongoing.
You can always donate, you can donate one time, you can have reoccurring payments
to
support us.
This just
happens to be that event.
that was formed to pull this community together across race, gender, spiritual beliefs, et cetera, to remind us of how important it is to have collective efforts to make this a win-win community.
But you can always, always give through our website.
And if you have any questions or concerns, you can call us at 4143745850 or our website, www.tmul.org.
So
so our entrepreneurship connection which we started a while back and Actually involved Bailey a pitch contest with Myers with Cole.
Oh,
we
actually helped entrepreneurs put their product
on the shelf
Wow.
And so we are now returning to supporting entrepreneurs several ways.
So we started profiling entrepreneurs at the black of my balls.
So not just our talent, but we actually had people with their booths at again this
year.
We also provide opportunities for entrepreneurs to come together.
We just had a gathering at Molson Cores.
Alan Goodman spoke.
And so we're now planning the rest of our workshops for the rest of the year, which really provides information on resources, you know, how to build your business, how to stay healthy as an entrepreneur.
Right.
Other times we don't talk about that particular piece
of the health component.
And so when we're also working on a special project, I don't want to announce it
quite yet.
Okay.
No, I'm not.
I'm not.
I'm not.
My
me.
But it is involved.
a new way of supporting some cohorts of entrepreneurs.
Okay.
We got to get ready.
Take care of some bills.
We are blessed and honored to be joined in the studio this morning.
Dr. Eve M. Hall, who is the president and CEO of the Greater Milwaukee Urban League, along with Tim Ricketts, founder of Cigarette Break and also the headliner this year at the 41st annual Black and
white ball happening on November 7th.
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Yes.
I had this date circle since I think 2018.
That was one year after I've been
here.
wait, and he was on our committee my first year
I mean back to when we used to attend when they had the Celebrations at the Bradley Center on the Bucks floor.
always said that one day You know, we're gonna be on that stage.
but back then I thought it was gonna be that I was gonna be on tour with Jay-Z or something like that
God shifted things and he blessed cigarette break to you know climb through the channels
And we was actually able to perform the last year in, like, as a jazz trio in the Bradley Center as some pre-entertainment.
Then, when I met Dr. Eve Hall, I was able to join the committee.
And I just seen it unraveling.
You know, it's
see it, you see it, now you feel it, now you're
Now you're a part of it, you're seeing it happening.
So I just said, man, we need to show the city that...
We are just as
guys.
Thank you.
Long time.
My brother.
Yeah.
My brother.
to him.
and performers here and that are from here as well.
So I love to see when that happens when you all come out and you're able to showcase what you have because it's a lot of behind the scenes for a lot of people.
Like Sean's for so many years, you know, was here, but then was on tour with all these different people.
And I know
you
guys.
This is amazing.
Yeah, it's amazing.
We are happy.
We got the phone call.
We said, we got to put together a show right away.
Yeah.
Well, first of all, the people understand once again the level of impact that we have.
in this community.
So I will be highlighting some individuals who've been able to make some strides because of our work together and because of what they believed as well.
And then just, you know, every time I look out at the audience, when I'm standing up on that stage, I get chills because what I know
is that if everybody in that audience, black, white, Hispanic, male, female, whoever, did everything they could do in whatever roller position they held in the city, county, or state that we could truly move the needle.
Because we have everyone in there on all levels.
And I don't know if people really understand the power that is in that room.
and if it could be carried on every day.
There's a tone we try to set at the ball that I want us to continue where people feel engaged.
It's not stuffy.
I don't think so, Tim.
it's not.
And people just feel good about who they are and being in the room.
And during a time like this, having that kind of place for our city,
and a place where we're also highlighting black excellence,
very important.
And so having that mirror that night is important to me, and it's always my vision.
What about host?
Who's the host?
I know that I've been to several black and white balls.
Who will be the host and who will be that person?
I call him the money person.
You know, uh, they, they really reach out and, and let people know and understand why we're here.
Yeah.
And nobody is left out.
You know, nobody is left out.
So from the higher denominations, uh, to the, what can you do?
That's right.
we've paid all that money for our dresses and shoes,
need a little bit of that that night.
Okay, because it's a party, but it's a party with the purpose.
right.
And it's to continue to do and be who we are in
Yeah, we are fortunate to have enterprise mobility as our chair, our presenting
sponsor.
And they have been so committed to our organization, even beyond that
And so for me, they really represent so much.
Now, we have phenomenal board members
know, are at certain levels, but I mean, they are presenting sponsor
We're also proud to have a new entrepreneur, Cream City Cyber.
which is Dr. Celeste Cuffee and Sheldon Cuffee.
You may or may not know them, but they started a business, cybersecurity business about two years ago.
They've already outgrown their space.
They're
but the gentleman Sheldon used to be on my board.
Now, Nahib Rabadi is the chair, you know, from Enterprise
but Sheldon,
was actually on my board when he was the chief technology officer at Northwestern Mutual.
he brought a team together to actually begin to expand our computer lab.
so his commitment has just been with us ongoing, and his wife actually worked at the Urban League briefly years ago.
So they are the co-chairs.
So we have a great team that's representing
And then we're partnered
you'll see who's coming from Spectrum.
Stewart.
board chair.
Thank you very much.
And you know, I have a phenomenal team.
day.
not me.
It is my team.
And, you know, I just have all these support.
I get nervous about starting to call company names,
So just know that we have some very committed corporate and community supporters and sponsors
least help us launch.
But
there's
time with the paddle race.
I need everybody
You
donor, right?
But just, just do something
help us.
Who DT Denise
time.
Not this time.
Yes.
So we have a surprise from someone local.
Oh, yeah.
Oh,
that
who's actually
And that's always important.
You know, it's always important.
Even when I think about entertainment at my birthday party for the kids, you know, I'm like, hey, I want the kids to see kids here that are entertainers, whether it is a seven-year-old, eight-year-old, nine-year-old that raps or sings or whatever.
I'd like to highlight them.
That's right.
I know y'all are excited.
What are some other things that both of you would like to let
uh, truth nation, no, and everybody that, uh, is planning to attend or people who are, uh, contemplating if they're going to attend.
Why does Tim Ricketts let the truth nation know why they need to be there?
Um, like Dr Hall said, like even just the entrepreneurship comment, it's like.
Milwaukee is built upon entrepreneurship.
We built upon community involvement and Urban League has always been at the core of that.
So we got to show up.
We got to support.
So these efforts continue.
I don't know what else to say, except come on out
7th.
right.
Be with our cigarette break, our headliner, our premier so
we can dance and have a good time and contribute.
And
Yes, and you can come visit you can volunteer, but just please go to our website We make it so easy to become a member to do a one-time donation to do a recurring donation again every
Every penny counts, especially now, and we want to continue to make a difference.
So it's www.tmul.org.
which stands for the Milwaukee Urban League, although we
with a greater Milwaukee Urban League
also collaborate with counties surrounding Milwaukee
And then the number 414-374-5850.
41st annual Greater Milwaukee Urban Leagues.
Black and white ball.
Yes.
Saturday, November 7th.
Mm hmm.
What time does it start?
6 PM.
All right.
You get to take glamorous pictures, you know what I'm saying?
Oh, yes.
Oh, yes.
Don't forget the pictures.
Even if you don't look good, the cameras make you look good.
I was glamorous on that day.
But thank y'all for coming in and talking with us and letting people know the importance.
and the important work that the Greater Milwaukee Urban League does throughout the year.
This is not just a one-time thing.
They're always dedicated to making sure that they're located right here in the central city.
They haven't moved to some building downtown or whatever.
They're right there in the community, accessible to the community.
And that Dr. Eve Imha always tells me it's an important part to her to make sure that they are.
there.
So we appreciate you.
We love you.
But the Tim already know it's going down.
It's going down, man.
You know, I'm there till the end.
I am there till the end.
You're gonna learn
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Okay.
Well, you
You
all can wear that black
suit
and
change it a little bit.
I want
to go see Nas this time, man.
Okay.
Oh, I love now.
Talk about a
entrepreneur.
ran the
chamber and he was getting his story started.
one.
Oh, I know.
I know.
I mean, phenomenal individual.
That was my pre urban league time.
But
that's why
I really understood and learned the importance.
of entrepreneurs, but also the courage that it takes to start a business.
My interest is actually peaked on the front row at Christ Temple Church of God and Christ.
OK.
right
So, you know, just sitting down watching the musicians.
My mother was a singer.
Father is a preacher.
And then just watching the choir singing, you see Chris Liddell on the bass back in the day.
Just.
something and then it's like I just went through all the art schools to am Roosevelt high school art.
So I didn't know where I was gonna land.
I started with the recorder violin, trombone, tuba, baritone, sousaphone, flugel horn.
Wow.
Upright based and bass guitar and just stuck, you know.
And then UW Milwaukee, where I graduated from met
group of individuals, we formed this black elephant.
And then we had to do some shows where a band had to open up for black elephants.
So we said, okay, why not the band for black elephant?
Come up with a name
that name.
Derek Harrell gave us a cigarette break came from a poem that saw Williams wrote called her I want to be the person you call on your cigarette break not the cause of it.
So it comes from a place of endearment, not anything due to negative.
It's actually smoking because none of us smoke cigarettes.
broke loose, you know, we got Alex Julian, which he is an amazing band leader entrepreneur.
Now he was the original guitar player for cigarette break and black elephant.
That is my brother.
We went to school together.
He actually performed last year at the Urban League with Sean Hinton and his MD.
So
Just that even Mike Evans.
He's a phenomenal entrepreneur.
He got some amazing things going on downtown with the band and he runs and just seeing people Break out and make a name and money for themselves like we should never ever hate the new guy
encourage him.
We should hold his hand.
You know what I mean?
Even if it seems like they're in your same lane, you know, you always have a place if this is actually
What you're supposed to be doing.
Yeah What is this entrepreneurship of the great of Milwaukee Urban League mean for you Dr. Eve M Hall because you have dedicated your Love and passion for it and you've created so many different avenues for like just with the young entrepreneurs just all of the different things
And I know you talk about how important your team is because it's not just you but What was what was your vision when taking over the helm of the Greater Milwaukee Urban
League?
I saw all of the experiences that I've had over my career come together into one and The interesting thing is I used to work for the Urban League
as
And it was basically the first female at that time executive director.
And so it's interesting when I think about my path, Homer, because when I lived in Tampa, Florida,
a teacher at one point there.
But after school, I ran tutorial
that were part of the Tampa Urban League.
And I would recruit teachers to go to the projects for our tutorial sites.
was another connection.
Not knowing that at some point,
never know what
for you basically.
I'm going to be there.
Working in government, nonprofit, just a lot of different venues.
has made this really important.
So my passion has always been to be in a role, regardless of what it is, to impact and to influence.
And for me, the Urban League is not only one of that, but it's one of honor.
Because if we think about the beginnings of our Urban League, it was during a time
when people weren't always supporting the advancement of our community.
So when you stood at the helm of these kinds of organizations, you had to believe and you had to be strong.
And even with the founding of our own Urban League, that was during the year of what they call the Red Summer, which was a time when there were some of the most malicious race riots going on across this country.
including Chicago, right next door.
But we opened our doors anyway.
You know, so when I I'm a history buff, you know, I love it.
Yeah.
So could all this.
Well, because it creates your foundation.
Right.
So even when we have challenging times, if we still again understand that people die for us to sit right here, absolutely have the opportunities that we have right now.
You know, you can be in any hotel room now, Tim,
when you're traveling, right?
As
an entertainer, right?
Others couldn't always do that, right?
And so we have to keep just remembering all
that.
And that's what always moves me to do what I do and to hear Tim speak about his journey and.
how he came to be who he was, which I had no idea.
So I learned some more things
because we never we never know how we get to our place makes a difference in this country was built on small businesses
entrepreneurs.
And in our community, that was one of our ways to freedom, flexibility and some control of our lives.
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You know, it is the return I'm feeling.
I've been rejuvenated.
I'm feeling great from my amazing cruise to Bermuda, you know, had a chance to spend some time in New York.
And then we got on the ship, brand new Norwegian Aqua.
And it was a great time.
But so is the black and white ball.
And it's going to be at the Barrett Center.
You know, we've been talking about November 7th, November 7th.
We're like, OK, where the hell is it?
You are new to attending.
You know what I'm saying?
Uh, yeah, make sure you join us.
Uh, even like the parking and all of that.
I mean, they got you covered.
Oh, you are important.
You get to walk.
You're like, what?
I just walked in behind such and such and they stopped me and they interviewed me for a minute.
It's such, it's a gala.
You know what I'm saying?
You feel like the superstar that you know you are.
You know what I'm saying?
Regardless of what anybody else tells you, no big eyes and little use there, you are just there to support.
the greater Milwaukee Urban League and continue to help them continue their mission of all the things that they have been doing for over a century.
You know and centrally located right here in Milwaukee so come out and like I said if you can't that's why
go to their website, go to their website because you can still support.
Because oftentimes people are like, well, I want to go, but I'm going to be out of town.
And we can't.
Well, guess what?
You can go to the website and you can make a one time donation.
You can make a recurring donation so you can still support.
And again, the things that they have for just everybody, the youth, the young adults.
grown adults, uh, they got something for everybody and that driver's license program that they got, uh, there's so many people that have went through that and, and, and came out just proud with their license.
Yeah.
Uh, you know, you, to know you valid and they also make things so, you know, economically, it is like the thing to do.
Right.
So, um,
What was the thought process, Dr. Hall, on that with making it to where nobody could say, well, I couldn't afford it?
How important was that to you with the greater Milwaukee Urban League?
Well, given that the public schools
the free driver's education,
we knew there had to be another pathway.
especially for young people.
Now we had been doing it for adults for quite some time.
It was income-based, but we did not have that 15 through 17 and a half year olds.
And so, and as we saw the traffic instances, you know, of so many accidents, and we also wanted to have driver's education that taught safe driving.
And actually one of my team members,
really came up with making sure that we did this because of being a victim herself.
Wow.
And so, you know, and then we partnered with one of the channel four.
We partnered when we first launched it and actually had kind of a
people.
And so we know that typically it's like four, five hundred dollars for private lessons.
I'm looking for that.
I don't care if you're
know what I mean?
And so it's a small amount that they pay because you still need to always invest in yourself, but it's very reasonable.
Thank you, Bailey.
I love you.
www.tmul.org.
If nobody is a soldier that they love you today, I need to let you know that I love you and we want you to please have a safe and nonviolent remainder of the morning, afternoon, evening, night.
And hopefully the things we have to talk about in the near future won't have to be within our minute degrees of separation.
Xavier, thank you for...