(Dr. Kevin James is holding a cheque with representatives of JPay, students of Morris Brown College, and the Chair of the Department of Music, Dr. Bernard Short. Photo Credit: Alexis Grace/ The Atlanta Voice)
On Monday, September 27, Morris Brown College announced a concern with JPay to supply a euphony laboratory for the students successful the Music Department.
JPay is simply a privately owned exertion and fiscal services supplier that focuses connected offering convenient services for inmates wrong the United States Prison System.
The announcement was made earlier a Hip Hop Contest hosted by the Department of Music. The students had the accidental to justice lyrics written by incarcerated individuals. The beats were provided by Grammy Award Winning Producer Zaytoven.
Julian Ross, a inferior Music Technology large astatine Morris Brown College was affectional astir receiving the accidental to perceive the lyrics from radical that are incarcerated.
“I americium a implicit alien and they recognize that idiosyncratic is going to perceive and spot what they person to say,” Ross said.
Ross believes helium was chosen to justice this contention based connected his receptor for euphony and is excited to beryllium successful the fig with Grammy Award Winning creator Lecrae, who is the personage justice for the contest.
The Department of Music Chair, Dr. Bernard Short believes this contention was idiosyncratic to him being that helium has had household members that were incarcerated.
“For america to springiness a dependable to those who are incarcerated means a batch to maine due to the fact that I americium allowed to assistance successful a mode present that I could not for my ain family,” Short said.
This is 1 of the galore collaborations and contributions that Morris Brown College has successful the works and President Kevin E. James is acceptable to tackle the Revival of the historical institution.
“No HBCU successful past has ever travel backmost aft 20 years of losing its accreditation. This is needed work,” James stated.
While JPay donated $10,000, James is hoping the assemblage volition assistance revitalize and springiness backmost to an instauration successful need. Morris Brown College is besides a spouse with companies specified arsenic Chick-fil-a and Edible Arrangements.
Being that Morris Brown is the lone HBCU successful the authorities of Georgia with a Hospitality Management Program, James was elated to denote the plans to physique a edifice connected field for students to get hands-on acquisition earlier graduation.
“I consciousness similar God sent maine to Morris Brown College to lend what I person to connection to assistance resurrect Morris Brown,” James said.
He hopes that the Community volition hop connected committee with the thought of Morris Brown College having its “Hard Reset.”
“We request folks to spell retired and talk positively astir our institution. We request fiscal resources,” James stated.
He besides emphasized that the instauration is looking for a large donor consenting to give.
“We are anticipating that philanthropists volition accidental ‘you cognize what? Morris Brown is bully crushed and they person proven that they are bully ground,’” James lastly stated.
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