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10/14/2026

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10/14/2026

What started as a comedy and hip-hop television show in 2005 has grown into a brand that continues to create opportunities more than 20 years later.

Now, Nick Cannon is taking Wild ‘N Out to arenas across North America, with a 20-city tour beginning November 10, 2026. But the bigger story isn't just the tour. It's what he's building around the brand.

Cannon says he plans to expand Wild ‘N Out into clothing, merchandise, video games and retail products that could eventually be found in grocery stores, convenience stores and shopping malls.

Think about that for a moment.

He didn't just create a television show. He created intellectual property (IP)—something that can grow into multiple businesses and generate opportunities long after an episode airs.

And there's another part of this story that deserves attention.

Wild ‘N Out has helped introduce comedians, rappers and entertainers to larger audiences. Cannon says he continues searching platforms like TikTok, YouTube and Facebook for emerging talent, and that performers don't necessarily need a huge following to get an opportunity.

At Reach 4 Your Dreamz, there are two lessons we want young people to understand.

First, your creativity has value. An idea for a show, game, clothing line, character or digital platform could eventually become a business you own.

Second, success isn't just about how far you go. It's also about how many doors you open for others along the way.

We want young people to see more than the entertainment. We want them to understand the business behind it—the branding, licensing, marketing, production, technology and ownership.

Because the real opportunity isn't always being the person everybody watches. Sometimes it's being the person who owns what everybody is watching. 💙
And that's a conversation worth having with the next generation.

10/13/2026

High school seniors and parents, here's an opportunity worth sharing!

Rapper and entrepreneur A$AP Rocky has announced a four-year, full-tuition scholarship for ONE incoming freshman attending the Roc Nation School of Music, Sports & Entertainment at Long Island University in Brooklyn, New York.

And this opportunity isn't just for students who want to become rappers or singers!

The school offers career pathways in music production, sports management, entertainment business, entrepreneurship, marketing and more.

The selected student will also have access to industry mentorship and opportunities to learn in a professional music production environment.

📌 SCHOLARSHIP DETAILS

🎓 Award: Four years of full tuition

🏫 School: Roc Nation School at Long Island University

📅 Starting: Fall 2027

📝 Who can apply: First-time freshmen entering Fall 2027

🎥 Requirement: Submit a written essay or video explaining what motivates you to pursue a career in music, sports or entertainment.

⏰ Deadline: December 15, 2026

🔗 Apply here: https://apply.liu.edu/rn

At Reach 4 Your Dreamz, this is exactly why we believe exposure matters.

So many young people love music, sports and entertainment but may not realize how many careers exist behind the scenes. You don't have to be the artist on stage or the athlete on the court to build a successful career in these industries.

You can be the producer, engineer, manager, marketer, entrepreneur or business owner helping make it all happen.

Talent is everywhere, but opportunity and access aren't always equal. Scholarships like this can help open doors for young people who have the ambition but need an opportunity to pursue their dreams.

Parents, educators, counselors and mentors, please share this with a high school senior who could benefit.

One application could open the door to an entirely different future. 💙

10/02/2026

Jalen “JUBOH” Uboh's story is a reminder that entrepreneurship doesn't have to fit inside one box.

Based in Atlanta, Uboh describes his entrepreneurial journey as beginning at just 7 years old. Today, he serves as Co-Founder, Executive Chairman and President of JUBOH Companies International, a group of companies operating across real estate, healthcare, transportation, consulting, education, government affairs and other sectors.

And his journey didn't wait until later in life to get serious.

At 23 years old, after purchasing four semi-tractor trucks and trailers, Uboh says Black Enterprise recognized him as “America's Youngest Trucking Fleet Owner.” He later moved into real estate development, including a luxury-home development connected to a new 200+ acre golf course in the Atlanta area.

His work eventually expanded into banking and financial services. According to his biography, Ellis & Whitmore Capital has provided more than $60 million in funding to small businesses since 2020, with an emphasis that includes minority-, women- and veteran-owned businesses.

But here's an important part young people shouldn't miss: he continued learning while he was building. Uboh studied Commercial Real Estate Development at Cornell University and Economics and Finance at Kennesaw State University.

At Reach 4 Your Dreamz, we talk a lot about exposure because a child who only knows about a few careers can only imagine from what they've seen.

We don't just want children dreaming about getting a job someday. We want them exposed to what it means to build, own, invest, develop and create opportunities for other people too. 💙

Jalen's story shows just how far an entrepreneurial mindset can grow when it's combined with education, experience and the willingness to keep expanding.

10/01/2026

H.J. Russell & Company, founded by Atlanta entrepreneur Herman J. Russell, has been involved in some of the most recognizable construction projects in Atlanta and beyond—including Mercedes-Benz Stadium, the former Georgia Dome, what is now State Farm Arena, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport and other major developments.

And there's one project that carries an especially powerful meaning: the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.

Russell didn't build the museum alone. The company was part of the Clark/Smoot/Russell joint venture that provided construction management for the nearly 400,000-square-foot museum. The Smithsonian confirms that partnership, and H.J. Russell lists the museum among its projects.

Think about the significance of that.

A Black-founded construction company helped construct the national museum dedicated to preserving and telling the African American story. A museum filled with our history also has Black business history embedded in the story of how the building itself came to exist.

That's something we want young people to understand at Reach 4 Your Dreamz: when you look at a stadium, airport, museum or skyscraper, don't only think about the athletes, pilots, exhibits or businesses inside. Somebody designed it. Engineered it. Financed it. Managed it. Built it.

There are careers and businesses behind everything we see.

Herman J. Russell's story reminds us that our children shouldn't only dream about entering great buildings. They can dream about owning the companies that help build them. 💙

09/30/2026

🖤 TODAY, WE GO BLACK FOR NOLAN WELLS.

Today, September 30, our community is being asked to stand together in remembrance of Nolan Wells.

Sometimes there aren't words big enough for a loss. But there are ways a community can show a family that they are not carrying that loss alone.

Today’s Blackout for Nolan asks everyone to change their profile picture, share Nolan’s name, and fill our timelines with his memory.

For Reach 4 Your Dreamz, a young person's life is never just another story or another name on social media. Every young life represents dreams, possibilities, family, friendships, memories and a future that mattered.

So today, we stand with Nolan's family, friends, teammates, classmates and everyone whose life was touched by him.

Behind his name was a life.
Behind his face were dreams.
Behind his loss is a family and community that will forever remember him.

Today we say his name.

Nolan Wells. 🖤

InMemoryOfNolan

09/30/2026

Dr. Delana Wardlaw and Dr. Elana McDonald are twin sisters who built careers in medicine—and then used their experience to help address health disparities in the Philadelphia communities they know and love.

Dr. Wardlaw is a board-certified family medicine physician with more than 20 years of experience. Her interest in medicine was influenced by losing her maternal grandmother to breast cancer at just 53. She earned her medical degree from Penn State College of Medicine and has dedicated much of her career to increasing access to quality healthcare. In 2020, she was named the Pennsylvania Academy of Family Physicians' Family Physician of the Year.

Her twin sister, Dr. McDonald, is a board-certified pediatrician and owner/chief medical officer of three Philadelphia outpatient practices. Her path is another powerful example of why exposure matters: while attending Temple University, she participated in a summer internship where she shadowed African American physicians. Seeing doctors who looked like her helped her realize that becoming a physician was attainable.

Together, the sisters created the Twin Sister Docs Foundation, focused on health, wellness and self-advocacy while helping build trust and provide reliable health information in underserved communities.

And that part of their story really connects with Reach 4 Your Dreamz.

Dr. McDonald didn't just dream about medicine—she was exposed to Black physicians doing the work. That exposure helped turn an idea into something she could actually picture for herself.

That's why representation matters. A child can hear, “You can become a doctor,” a hundred times. But sometimes seeing someone who looks like them wearing the white coat is what makes them believe it.

Now these twin sisters are wearing those coats—and using what they've achieved to reach back into their community. 💙

Learn more about the Twin Sister Docs

09/29/2026

For more than three decades, Marion Stokes recorded television—day after day, around the clock. What might have looked like an obsession at the time ultimately became an extraordinary historical archive.

Stokes was a Black civil rights activist and television producer who understood something important: what appears on television today can disappear tomorrow. Her serious around-the-clock recording effort took shape around the 1979 Iran hostage crisis, and by the 1980s she was operating multiple VCRs simultaneously. She continued recording until her death in 2012.

Her collection eventually totaled an estimated 71,716 video cassettes, documenting decades of news, politics, culture, advertising and everyday television. Her family donated the collection to the Internet Archive, where the enormous task of preserving and digitizing it continues.

But here's what makes her story especially meaningful: Marion understood the value of preserving information before the rest of the world understood why her collection would matter.

She wasn't simply recording television. She was preserving the way history was reported while it was happening—including material that television networks themselves might not have kept. Her son later described the work as a form of activism.

At Reach 4 Your Dreamz, there's another lesson here for young people: your interests don't always have to make sense to everyone else. Curiosity can become expertise. An unusual idea can become important work. And sometimes the person everyone thinks is doing “too much” is actually creating something future generations will need.

History isn't only made by the people in front of the camera. Sometimes it's protected by the person who thought enough about tomorrow to press RECORD today. 💙

09/28/2026

At just 12 years old, Teddy Gant Jr. learned that he nearly died during childbirth. His heart rate repeatedly dropped during his mother's contractions, eventually leading doctors to perform an emergency C-section.

That conversation stayed with him.

Today, at 30, Gant is a certified full-spectrum doula in Houston, providing physical, emotional and informational support to mothers and their families throughout pregnancy and childbirth. And as a Black man working in a field dominated by women, he's also challenging assumptions about what caregiving—and masculinity—can look like.

His work carries even greater meaning because of the maternal health disparities affecting Black women. According to the CDC data cited in the story, in 2024 the maternal mortality rate for Black women was 44.8 deaths per 100,000 live births, compared with 17.9 overall.

But Teddy's journey also teaches another lesson we love at Reach 4 Your Dreamz: children need to know that careers exist beyond the ones they hear about every day.

A 12-year-old boy heard the story of his birth, became curious about childbirth and eventually discovered a calling. He even worked as many as 70 hours a week as a security officer while serving doula clients after hours before he was able to pursue the work full time.

His philosophy says so much:

“Knowledge is power, and applied knowledge is even better.”

That's exposure. That's purpose. And that's why we should never put limits around what kind of career a young person can pursue based on gender, tradition or what we're accustomed to seeing.

Sometimes a child's future begins with one question that makes them curious enough to learn more. 💙

09/27/2026

At just 16 years old, South Africa's Bohlale Mphahlele turned concern about gender-based violence and human trafficking into innovation.

She designed the Alerting Earpiece, a wearable safety device disguised as an ordinary earring. According to the account of her invention, a hidden button could alert preset contacts, capture a photo of a potential attacker and share the wearer's location in an emergency. Her project went on to earn a bronze medal at a national science fair.

But what stands out to us is what happened next. Bohlale didn't allow the invention to remain a school project. After graduating, she founded Mphahlele Alerts (Pty) Ltd, pursued Information Technology studies and continued developing her skills while encouraging other girls interested in technology.

This is why STEM exposure matters. Young people shouldn't only be taught how to use technology—they should be challenged to ask, “What can I create with it? What problem can I solve?”

At Reach 4 Your Dreamz, we want young people to understand that they don't have to wait until they're older to have ideas worth pursuing. A teenager can identify a problem in her community, use what she's learning to develop a solution, and begin thinking like an inventor and entrepreneur.

Sometimes the next life-changing idea is sitting inside the mind of a child who simply needs someone to tell them, “Build it.” 💙