“One of the things that I like about BYFA is that it gives [young people] an opportunity to tell their stories. Young people need to not only tell their stories, but they need to learn about their history and where they come from and, . . . especially black youth, need to know the strengths that they come from. And that they’re powerful, that they’re intelligent.  They come from intelligence and they don’t know that. A lot of kids don’t know that, so they will then emulate and take charge and show the world what they can do. They just need to know that they have everything within them to do whatever it is that they want to do, and I don’t think they get told that enough, if at all, especially in the schools.”