 So I don't know if everybody has heard about it or not, but Surely the band heads have heard about it, but the fifth quarter calm very popular message board digital meeting place for band heads is or has shut down as of last week and I'm not a band head didn't participate in band while I was in Morgan State University But this is a pretty serious story to me one because it represents The closure of a very important Outlet that represented a super important element of HBCU culture and anytime you lose a vehicle That really helps in in providing narrative and perspective on our story It's a big blow, but second and I think more importantly it also represents You know a big challenge that African-Americans have and particularly the HBCU Subsector of black America has Really controlling our story and having controlling interests of our story Most of us out there who I own and operate Media outlets cover in HBCU know how difficult it is To keep content and to keep audience Engaged with our content not because people don't care not because there's a lack of storytelling particularly from the institutions But there's just so much competition For attention and for feedback and for community building on Facebook Twitter Instagram Any website that you can provide any message board you can put up you're always in competition with those larger entities And I think it's a big danger that if we have to succeed so much of our audience To people who are outside of our communities outside of our perspective and outside of the value of the things we hold dear We're really losing opportunities To one build these companies into to multi-million dollar operations that can provide jobs and put even more meat More power behind our narratives But we also stand a chance of losing a lot of that narrative you lose a lot of the history and the perspective That you gain from generations of people operating and commenting on one One one platform or one area of community so Really sucks that the fifth quarter is no longer gonna be here But I hope it's it's an opportunity for black folks particularly in the sector To take advantage and really say and then what do we do to preserve some of these outlets? What do we do to make sure that we are preserving? Some of these places that tell our story and the way that it deserves to be told in voices that we can relate to and appreciate So I hope you guys Really take the time out to appreciate what the fifth quarter was all about Really take the time out to appreciate those other outlets HBCU game day the journal blacks in higher education only Dan calm Along with HBCU digest of course that are really out here grinding to make sure that our story in our community is well represented