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morning, and thank you for joining me for the Scoop with Tanya Flanagan. I'm so happy you decided to wake up and start your day with me. Here on the Scoop, where we talk about life, joy, funny moments, trending topics, and so much more. We promise to keep you in the know and find out what you know. So let's get started. Good morning, good morning, good morning, listening audience. We are at the end of September. We are at a time where we are ready to usher in and welcome fall. Believe it or not, we're in a new season. We have to say goodbye to summer, although our temperatures here allow us to not necessarily feel like we're saying goodbye to summer. We're just getting to the good part where we can spend some time outside in the daytime, and feel like our city is a little bit more walkable, like some other cities feel in the summertime. Maybe Chicago, with a little bit of humidity, and maybe even DC, which I visited recently. Both of those, and so it's nice to go to walk into the space of cooler temperatures to welcome in a new season, to see organizations and the community get out for activities and come together. So this morning, in that spirit, I am delighted to welcome to the program the Dr. Reverend Kelsey West of Nehemiah Ministries.

Rev. Dr. Kelcey West 1:45
Good morning. How are you doing? I

Tanya Flanagan 1:47
am fantastic. How are you doing?

Rev. Dr. Kelcey West 1:48
Wonderful. It is always a pleasure to share Sunday morning conversation with you, and so I am just honored to be in this space with you on this day.

Tanya Flanagan 1:57
Thank you for coming back and spending some time with me. I was excited about knowing that I would have an opportunity to sit down with you, watching you up close and afar, and knowing that your consciousness about community from a prophetic space of accountability and just a public community consciousness-you're always doing so many things. I was like, this is going to be a fun conversation. I get to find out what is in the in the oven, what's in the fire, and just talk to you about what's been going on with you.

Rev. Dr. Kelcey West 2:33
Wonderful. Well, I'm I'm excited. Thank you for for that introduction and and and to your to your your point and and observation, I believe wholeheartedly in being active in our community. If there was ever a time for those who feel they've been called to serve in any form of leadership to be on the front line, it's now. We with the elections coming up with life, life, and people need to know that there are people out there that care, and so every day I'm looking for something. I'm looking for good trouble. In the words of the late great John Lewis, I'm looking for good trouble to get into, and so right now I'm in a lot of good trouble. You

Tanya Flanagan 3:20
are in a lot of good trouble. We this has been this is the final weekend of September, and so we've seen so much just this weekend alone go on. One of the things you do is take our children and families and give them an opportunity to be exposed to historically black colleges and universities across the country, predominantly south and east and what have you, but on Saturday, Commissioner William McCurdy the second, welcome to Doolittle has as has been happening for oh god I think 20 years now almost

Rev. Dr. Kelcey West 3:53
20 years

Tanya Flanagan 3:54
yeah the HBCU college tour so kids and families were able to lots of kids and families were over at Doolittle taking a look at the different colleges and universities, but you do a program. So

Rev. Dr. Kelcey West 4:06
I host the tour. You can, in partnership with Commissioner McCurdy, following in the footsteps of Dr. Weekly, they host the fair. So they bring it was 3030 over 30 schools here yesterday, and so the kids are receiving on-site admissions. And then where I fit in is after a child has been admitted, or if they're thinking of going to a school, then we have the four tours that they can go on. So starting from freshman through their senior year, each year we put a tour together where they can visit eight to 10 schools. So next March, march 13 or 19th, we're we're prepared. I'll make this announcement on your show. You're hearing it here first. We're sold out. So 100. Are you

Tanya Flanagan 4:53
serious?

Rev. Dr. Kelcey West 4:54
Yes, 156 students have signed up. Their parents have signed them up, and they will be. Visiting Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi, so Texas Southern Prairie View, Xavier Dillard, Southern Grambling, Jackson State, Alcorn State, plus we just added Tugaloo College, and so and we've added Six Flags. We're going to spend the day at Six Flags. Historically, I've taken them to church, but this year we're going to do a chapel service in the hotel. My son will lead that, and then we'll go to Six Flags and have some fun.

Tanya Flanagan 5:29
I am literally mouth open, folks. You can't see me, but my mouth is dropped open in September.

Rev. Dr. Kelcey West 5:35
In September, it

Tanya Flanagan 5:35
is set for spring break, or the Clark County School District. It aligns with spring break every year that it occurs, and it is already sold out.

Rev. Dr. Kelcey West 5:47
Yeah,

Tanya Flanagan 5:47
an opportunity really if you can get in on all four years. It gives you a chance unless there's some repetitiveness in the schools that are going to be taught, and there never is over that right choice. So you get a chance to, you get a chance to go see all the schools, which I coming through college many years ago, and I'm not going to say how many years ago. Yesterday,

Rev. Dr. Kelcey West 6:10
yesterday,

Tanya Flanagan 6:10
it was just yesterday. I just got out like five years ago, and I'm in my prime.

Rev. Dr. Kelcey West 6:14
That's right.

Tanya Flanagan 6:14
Whatever. I had five decades to that, but at any rate, it's an opportunity to really familiarize yourself with the different campuses, their strengths, the programs, the social life, understanding the community that surrounds those campuses. That's right. But to be sold out already, so I have to be on the wait list for the South. If I was a freshman, the South Moric opportunities, which is still a lot of time to spend. But I'm also going to

Rev. Dr. Kelcey West 6:43
also do something special for your show. We have been working on a second tour, a summer tour, so I'm announcing that today on your show. I have the

Tanya Flanagan 6:54
slide of first. You are breaking. You are getting today. Yes, there will be

Rev. Dr. Kelcey West 6:59
a second tour this year.

Tanya Flanagan 7:00
Okay,

Rev. Dr. Kelcey West 7:00
and so that you are hearing it first, so people just stay tuned. That information will be in the schools next week.

Tanya Flanagan 7:08
So, how will summer work? Because, and I'm only curious: is it middle of summer as campus kicks back up? Because kids go back to school so much earlier now than they used to. Yes, so that they get some sense of college or campus life,

Rev. Dr. Kelcey West 7:21
they'll still get that that that some campus feel. It's not the same as when you're there fall or spring. However,

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purpose of the tour. I want you to see the campus. I want you to see the city. I want you to familiarize yourself with where you're located. There are a lot of kids, and and I'm just using this school, so I don't want grambling upset with us. But there are a lot of kids that have never heard of Ruston. So when they think Louisiana, they think in New Orleans. No, baby, you're not going to New Orleans. You're going to Ruston. So you need to know where Walmart, where where Target is, what the community is like. We're to to be here on your show. I'm on the campus of UNLV. I didn't see this campus until I arrived for for class.

Tanya Flanagan 8:07
You're right. I I recall that because I'm did not have the well when I came through, HBCUs were slow to respond, and so they've gotten much more responsive over the years, and so I actually had a full academic scholarship to the University of Arizona.

Rev. Dr. Kelcey West 8:24
Wonderful.

Tanya Flanagan 8:25
So I'm a wildcat, you know. It is what it is.

Rev. Dr. Kelcey West 8:27
That's right.

Tanya Flanagan 8:28
Go red and blue, bear down Arizona, bear down. But I'm also a graduate of UNLV. I have my master's from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. But HBCUs weren't responsive. Yeah. And so back to the point of going to college, other than going to orientation, and you know U of A was close enough, but it was an hour and a half away at the same time, so you didn't just you know that's

Rev. Dr. Kelcey West 8:50
right,

Tanya Flanagan 8:50
and you don't see it until you kind of get there. Where's the dorm? What's the campus look like? And you start discovering and exploring, trying to find your way and figuring out, you know, is the star for far away? What can I get to eat that's not just right here? So you're right; you don't really make the discovery of what the town, because Tucson is very much a college town. It's a very no

Rev. Dr. Kelcey West 9:15
idea. You know what? Thank you for that, because as as you're making me think about august 18, 1989, when I moved here, my cousin lived by the Meadows Mall, so literally I'm learning Las Vegas, and there's a lot between a campus and the Meadows Mall, and so before I knew it, yeah, I was. It took me a minute to learn UNLV, so I host the tours because I want students to become students and to stay a student as long as you can.

Tanya Flanagan 9:49
It's also a wonderful way to become acclimated and excited about the opportunity. I remember growing up when we had, and I introduced it here, an African American student. Leadership conference in Phoenix that was wildly popular, and it was a day to immerse yourself on the campus, change classes. Different organizations on campus that you could become a member of came in and did presentations about their purpose, what community was like, how you navigate class, how you navigate financial aid applications, just all the different things pertaining to being a successful student in your first year until your last year, and then there were scholarship opportunities, and it culminated with a step show, which made it fun, and everybody came out like 2,500 people came out just to hang out for the. Oh, this student conference was so fun that it. We look forward to it every year, and we either they did it at Arizona State University, or they did it at like even sometimes on a community college campus once or twice. But it was wildly popular, so we introduced it here through the Urban League Young Professionals and had an African American Student Leadership Conference, which now partners with Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated, and the Omega Psi Phi Uplift Foundation, and we still do this student conference every year. They do it usually on the campus of CSC in Cheyenne of late. But when we first did it under the Urban League, we did it here UNLV, and the idea behind it is to give kids a chance to see what is it like to come onto a college campus, change classes, get a feel for being on campus. Kind of feel like you're in a different world and you're being exposed to in a different experience. And so that's what I like about the idea behind doing the college tours and seeing the history on campus. And you know, if you're in high school, you see the Divine Nine, especially at HBCUs. You see the Divine Nine organizations, the sororities, and the fraternities. But when you're on a HBCU, you see a different historical perspective of what has gone on in that part of the country, of movements of accountability. You talked about Good Trouble and John Lewis. There are some spaces where you see that history really played out, right? And so I think that's another good thing about having having the tour. So thank you for doing that.

Rev. Dr. Kelcey West 12:08
No problem. And you'll like this story. We were on a tour one year. This was our Georgia, Alabama, and Florida tour. And when we do the Georgia tour, we always visit the Dr. King Center. We take him to his birth home. They go to his gravesite, and so we were at the center, and something told me open the door, and I turned to hold the door, and in walks John Lewis.

Tanya Flanagan 12:33
Oh wow! And

Rev. Dr. Kelcey West 12:34
that's how I met John Lewis. Same tour. We're at the airport, and I love sneakers, and so I'm rocking. I think was had to be Air Force Ones, and and a wheelchair bumps the back of my sneakers. Luckily, I didn't turn around with attitude because when I turned to see who was bumping me, it was Rosa Parks.

Tanya Flanagan 12:58
Wow!

Rev. Dr. Kelcey West 12:58
Yeah, that is

Tanya Flanagan 13:00
really neat.

Rev. Dr. Kelcey West 13:00
So that that's so. Those are the other things I love. Is when students get a chance to meet history. They get to meet because I I tell students because

Tanya Flanagan 13:08
those are rare moments in life. I tell students

Rev. Dr. Kelcey West 13:11
in life always be prepared for the unexpected because you never know when you're going to meet somebody.

Tanya Flanagan 13:17
There will be the odd moments. My ah moment was when I saw the Urban Leagues. Oh my God! I just how you draw a blank and you come back to you. It'll come back to me. But we were at an Urban League convention in Washington D.C. and I looked up and I saw him. And oh my God! I'm having a whole moment. He's one of the past executive directors, but I'll think of it before we come out of the out of the show. But I know what you mean. It's when you have that. It's crazy. You're like, oh my god, there's that person.

Rev. Dr. Kelcey West 13:50
The only time I've been no, that it wasn't a tour, but that was the only person that's ever starstruck me was Muhammad Ali. That's the only time I've been starstruck. But outside of those two, a big moment for me on a college tour. We were on the campus of Morehouse, and we were in in the elevator, and and I heard a voice say, "Hold it for me, and I did, and then walked Spike Lee, and so that's got

Tanya Flanagan 14:16
to be fun too. Yes, I I had that moment. We were at I was at a National Association of Black Journalists conference, and Donna Britt, who was a syndicated columnist with the Washington Post, and at this point I'm in my heyday as a journalist. I'm getting started. I'm excited. I've got you know all this stuff, and I see this career in journalism, and in walks Donabrit, and I'm like the Donabrit, the Washington Post Donabrit, the syndicated columnist Donovan, and we had a little conversation in the elevator. That, in the moment that I was in elevator with, you know, Kamala. Yeah, that was those were my elevator moments, right? I had an elevator with Donovan and an elevator with Kamala Harris. It's like who does that? But my aha, crazy aha with Urban League. Vernon Jordan,

Rev. Dr. Kelcey West 15:00
Vernon Jordan,

Tanya Flanagan 15:02
Vernon can read, and I looked up and was like, "Oh, mr. Jordan is right there, and it's just, I'm not that passing by Idris Elba in Lascelles Square in London for the women who can appreciate Idris Elba, and you know that's all of us, right?

Rev. Dr. Kelcey West 15:19
That's right. Yeah. Now I share this with you as we're talking. You know I'm in the community, and I just want you to say okay. I want you to know that you provide those moments for our students. I need you to know that that you when people see people like yourself, other community leaders, it's like seeing Ebony magazine and Jet up close.

Tanya Flanagan 15:43
Thank you.

Rev. Dr. Kelcey West 15:44
And I need you to really know that that it is a wild moment. Oh, that's her. That's there's

Tanya Flanagan 15:49
that accountability. And if you think that as an everyday person you don't have that responsibility, I'm glad you brought that conversation up. We do as everyday people who have navigated life to achieve whatever you've achieved.

Rev. Dr. Kelcey West 16:03
That's right.

Tanya Flanagan 16:04
You do have that responsibility because to that little boy or little girl who's trying to figure out who they want to be and what they want to be when they grow up, and they see you at a distance.

Rev. Dr. Kelcey West 16:14
That's right.

Tanya Flanagan 16:14
How you, how we present ourselves, how we carry ourselves, how we respond to situations, and the graciousness with which you respond to people, because everyone needs grace. Someone is looking at you. I remember Pastor Fowler, may he rest in peace, saying that you never know when a little boy or a little girl is looking at you.

Rev. Dr. Kelcey West 16:35
That's right.

Tanya Flanagan 16:35
And you are the larger than life image that they see in that little smile that forms it. I remember getting out of the car one day at the grocery store. You know, business clothes. I got enough work. I needed to grab something, and I saw a little girl. And you could tell the family had some struggle, but she looked at me like I was a normal.

Rev. Dr. Kelcey West 16:58
That's right.

Tanya Flanagan 16:59
Like I was a rare sighting, right? And it brought to mind that message that he had shared-that we all have a moment when we play without ever having a word spoken. That's

Rev. Dr. Kelcey West 17:11
right.

Tanya Flanagan 17:11
We play a pivotal role in someone else's life as they shake the image in their mind of their trajectory, who they want to become, and what they want to overcome. No, I'm

Rev. Dr. Kelcey West 17:20
I'm giving you your kudos because even even from this space, you're the voice. You're the voice that someone is hearing through through through a speaker, and so I remember Eddie Murphy sharing how there's a generation of children who don't recognize him from Axel Foley or from Prince of King, but they go, "Hey, that's Donkey from Shrek, because they know his voice. Sure, they

Tanya Flanagan 17:47
know his voice. So

Rev. Dr. Kelcey West 17:48
there's a child, there's a young person who, when they hear your voice, they go, "Wow, that's her. And so a lot of times we tend to say, "Well, I'm nobody or I'm justice. No, to that person, you are Oprah Winfrey.

Tanya Flanagan 18:02
Yeah, I think we. I think it's the person's way of holding on to, because the one thing I never want to lose is humility.

Rev. Dr. Kelcey West 18:08
Oh, watch this! I just

Tanya Flanagan 18:09
never. You can be watch this.

Rev. Dr. Kelcey West 18:11
You can be humble and factual at the same time. And so, when we're in the community, one of the things I'm in love with right now, I am love. I love watching people connect and roll up their sleeves to help other people. It's political season, and I love. I don't when I define unity, it's I don't use unity with the word all, because I I don't look for all. I just look for those who are working together, and so I I strive to be a part of that, and you are a part of that. You you lend your voice, you lend your your your energy to help other people, other causes, and and and I applaud that because that's that's what we have to really show this next generation, it doesn't have to be your party for you to, you know, just to be a host or to help blow up balloons or to whatever is needed, and I appreciate that about you and many of our community leaders right now.

Tanya Flanagan 19:16
You know, I had a really interesting conversation recently about engagement around the space, and people are sometimes discouraged from attending events that they could event, where they could meet people, ask their questions and stuff. And sometimes it's because there's $1 amount affixed to the opportunity to be in the room. And so my education moment was, yes, it says suggested friend, and I'm not going to go down the list of prices, but you know what those price points say. I'm like, you don't really need to have $1 to walk in that room,

Rev. Dr. Kelcey West 19:46
or

Tanya Flanagan 19:46
you could have $1 and still walk in that room. I said, nothing's required. It's not ticketed. It's just a practice and a habit of writing the same thing on the flyer invitation. All the time, and people don't realize they miss people miss the opportunity to connect. And it, I learned it as a young person because I happened to work in the space of other elected officials, and there was an event, and I learned. Oh, suggested means exactly. It's just a suggestion. You don't actually have to have anything. They just would like it if you could help them. But if you can't, it's more important that they meet you.

Rev. Dr. Kelcey West 20:28
That's right.

Tanya Flanagan 20:29
Come on and learn whatever you want to learn. Make a new friend. Build relationships, and especially for our young people, that's what I used to love about my Urban League work when I used to do Urban League Young Professionals. It was an opportunity to bring people from all walks of life together to engage them around very specific agendas. Not all agendas, because you can't do all things well, but you can focus on some things and have an impact.

Rev. Dr. Kelcey West 20:54
That's right.

Tanya Flanagan 20:54
And it brought people from all different walks of life and backgrounds and professions, socio-economic levels, professional levels, together to work on causes in the community.

Rev. Dr. Kelcey West 21:06
You know, I'm so glad you shared that. And with this being Sunday morning, I want to encourage somebody. I don't want to say stop praying, but I want you to do what you can do to get through the door that you need to go through. There are a lot of events. To your point, people go, man, you're everywhere, and I don't, I do not have the bag. I am not a a person with with a lot of money, but my father taught me something when I was young. He said, Kelsey, never be afraid to ask somebody for anything, and they can only say yes or no. So there are many events I go to. My name is not on the list. You can only tell me yes or no.

Tanya Flanagan 21:46
Closed mouths don't give. That's it. So I will show. I promise you, somebody somebody signed up and didn't didn't show up.

Rev. Dr. Kelcey West 21:52
And Pete

Tanya Flanagan 21:53
and there's your opportunity.

Rev. Dr. Kelcey West 21:54
So watch this. Whether it's the Oscars or the Grammys, I I don't mind being a seat filler. I'm not offended because my name is not on the list. I just want to go in. I want to shake hands. I I believe in the power of networking.

Tanya Flanagan 22:09
It's and it's very real. I just thank you for having this conversation with me today. Just my new thing is young people, right? And we're going to run out of time to talk about young people today because we're getting toward the end of the show-not the end end, but we're, you know, under 10. It's preparing the next generation's mindset around how to navigate. And I say this because I think that a lot-I ask you this question. I think a lot of times we arrive at maybe 40s or 50s, 60s in life, and we think that because we know,

Rev. Dr. Kelcey West 22:50
yeah,

Tanya Flanagan 22:51
and we're doing, young people are getting the the lesson,

Rev. Dr. Kelcey West 22:56
right? And

Tanya Flanagan 22:56
then you see them constantly stumble, stumble, stumble, make these mistakes, whether it's financial management, etiquette on a job, holding a job, being late for a job, losing a job, whatever the struggle is, and you're looking at them like, but am I not an example? It's not enough to me anymore to just think that because you are in good standing, they're learning.

Rev. Dr. Kelcey West 23:24
That's right.

Tanya Flanagan 23:25
How do we trans? How do we really get these messages out to young people who are navigating life? And it even goes to the professional. I used to always say this for women: when you get to 30, people think you're grown.

Rev. Dr. Kelcey West 23:37
That's right.

Tanya Flanagan 23:38
I'm just gonna throw it at 30. People think you're grown, so you've gotten in a perfect scenario and storm. You graduated high school, you went to college, you got a degree, you've acquired a job, you make a little bit of money, you're in a professional setting, you're 30. So you should have all the answers. People do not have all the answers.

Rev. Dr. Kelcey West 23:55
That's right.

Tanya Flanagan 23:55
They're walking through the first doors for the first time. Remember when you walked through those doors? So how do you pay it forward by giving it back? But what do we do now in a society where everything is TikTok and AI? And you're, how do you help people? How do we help these young people? I

Rev. Dr. Kelcey West 24:12
want to encourage somebody. This is my Howard Stutts rule. I was an intern at R&R Advertising, and Howard Stutz, who's an amazing journalist, took me to lunch one day, and he said, "I'm going to tell you why you're not going to get hired right now as an account executive. And he he just walked me through. He said, "From he said your glasses. He said you need a more relaxed frame. You take that earring out your ear. Your watch is too shiny. I want you to go get a black, blue, gray suit. I want you to stop being so colorful, and when you're in meetings, learn to listen more than you talk. He told me when we go to events, they're inviting you, they want you to meet, but I need you to make sure you understand table etiquette. And he walked me through. He gave me. Pointers. So when I'm with young people, I believe in saying, "Come here, come sit next to me. Let me help you overcome your fears. Let me answer some questions. Let me tell you some do's and don'ts because I don't want people laughing at you. I don't want people assuming you know when you don't know. And so to all who are watching, listening to us today, whatever you can share one on one with somebody. Again, you can't. We can't. You, I can't reach all. I can't reach everybody, but I'm grateful when one mentee reaches back and tells me, "Hey, Rev, thank you, thank you. There's a young man right now. He just graduated from Howard. Shouts out to Jacob Berry. I met him when he was in middle school, and he went. We we sponsored him all four years of high school. He went to Howard. We helped him with book scholarships. He's graduated from Howard, and he wrote me and said, "Rev, I'm working for Louis Vuitton.

Tanya Flanagan 25:58
Nice.

Rev. Dr. Kelcey West 25:59
That's just so. That's

Tanya Flanagan 26:01
that's yes

Rev. Dr. Kelcey West 26:02
that's the motivation, and so to those who are listening, we work with we walk with some phenomenal community leaders. Teach what you know, teach what you know, because I'm from a small city called the Hood. People told me to go to college. Nobody told me how to graduate. And then when I get this internship at a prestigious advertising firm, I didn't know what to do. So I needed people to share with me. This is how corporate America works. Even as a pastor, I needed older pastors to share with me as much as you love New Edition. Don't forget when you go to the concert, you still the pastor. Have as much fun as you gonna have, but remember you're the pastor. And watch this. Let me share this with you. Today is Sunday. Two days ago on Friday, I was able to meet Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, I'm huge fans of theirs from the time as well as their production work with New Edition and Janet Jackson, and I was able

Tanya Flanagan 27:12
to do the If It Is in Love, the beginning in

Rev. Dr. Kelcey West 27:15
their presence they gave me the thumbs up. But this is what I was most impressed with. It was a live remote, and the the radio personality introduced me to them as a pastor.

Tanya Flanagan 27:31
Yes, yes.

Rev. Dr. Kelcey West 27:31
And so, to the person who was watching me, I was able to share with them. I'm still a pastor, but I'm still human. There you go.

Tanya Flanagan 27:41
That is, that's a mic drop message. On there's living.

Rev. Dr. Kelcey West 27:47
That's right.

Tanya Flanagan 27:48
There's respectful living. There's fun. It doesn't mean you can't enjoy life.

Rev. Dr. Kelcey West 27:54
Yes. No matter

Tanya Flanagan 27:55
what you do, no matter what you think your level of responsibility is, self respect first. Have fun. You forget to have fun.

Rev. Dr. Kelcey West 28:06
There was nothing. There was nothing. There

Tanya Flanagan 28:10
was nothing sinful about that moment.

Rev. Dr. Kelcey West 28:12
But I had Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis. Because that's and when and when the DJ dropped, if it is in love, and they they they said we think he'll dance, and I said, "Well, you don't have to think. I'm already ready, but it's but it's those things we have we have a responsibility to teach this generation not only how to lead but how to live, because there are a lot of people who are failing at living. Amen.

Tanya Flanagan 28:41
There's so much happening, and we are down to our last 30 seconds. There's so much happening in the world. We need to keep having these conversations. Invite people to the table. Lift them up. Not everyone has a mom or dad that was taught. We haven't passed it down through the generations. I don't care what color you are. There's a challenge in life, and we're all facing it, and we're all human, and that's what it's about. It's about love, respect, togetherness, reaching back, and and and uplifting one another, folks. Dr. West, thank you for being here. Thank you. I look forward to talking to you again next week. I hope I have a wonderful guest for you. I promise I will do my best. I'll see you right here on 91.5 KUNV, jazz and more. I want to thank you for tuning into the scoop with me, Tonya Flanagan, and I want to invite you to get social with me. I'm on Facebook and Twitter. My name is my handle T A N Y A F L A N A G A N. You can also find me on Instagram at tanya Almanizeflanigan. And if you have a thought, an opinion, or a suggestion, don't hesitate to shoot me an email to tanya.flanigan@unlv.edu. Thanks again for joining in. Stay safe and have a great week.

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