Southern University at New Orleans

Well, let me say this.

As an alum of Southern University at New Orleans

and

somebody that's attended a few of those Bayou Classic games, I can tell you right now, I'm not surprised if he doesn't do what he should do because this has been going on for years.

Our email address is talk@talklouisiana.org. And we begin with two civil rights legends, Press Robinson Sr., and Maxine Crump, who also is a journalistic legend for the last 14 years, who's been president of Dialogue on Race, Louisiana.

And Press Robinson began his career as a professor of chemistry at Southern, retired 41 years later, serving as associate vice chancellor, chancellor at Southern New Orleans, and vice president of the system.

He has been around for a while in this town we call Baton Rouge.

Good morning to both of you.

Sadai Livingston is a New Orleans native and a creative strategist.

She serves as the director of the Small Business Development and Management Institute at Southern University at New Orleans and holds a master's of international business along with a BS in business administration with a focus in entrepreneurship.

She is experienced in both the for-profit and nonprofit sector and currently sits as the executive director and founder of the Louisiana Afro-Indigenous Society, producers of numerous cultural festivals, including the New Orleans Juneteenth Festival.

sadai is also the publisher of women of leisure magazine a seasonal publication dedicated to feminine holistic wellness and work-life balance through her work sadai is committed to development sacredness and protection of humanity and the planet So Sadai, I want to welcome you to the show and just give you an opportunity to share a little more about yourself.

So, yeah, I do numerous things.

I know you mentioned it.

I'm currently the director of the Small Business Development and Management Institute at SUNO, Small Business Incubator for short.

Yeah, we host various workshops and events.

Go look at the rankings of colleges every year and see who's at the bottom and see if these historically black colleges and universities really are doing a favor to their supposed preferred community.

Because The worst college one year, when I was in New Orleans for a few years, the worst college in the country, just at the bottom of the rankings, happened to be the Southern University of New Orleans.

And it was made because when they started UNO, they're like, well, we have to have a separate but equal black institution.

And the numbers on that were dismal.