C.W. Cherry II: Black students need Excellence Without Excuse! VIDEO INTERVIEW - Mr. Media Interview

Today's Guest: Charles W. Cherry II, attorney, publisher of the Florida Courier and Daytona Times, and author of Excellence Without Excuse: The Black Student's Guide to Academic Excellence.

Watch this exclusive Mr. Media interview with Charles W. Cherry II, attorney, publisher of the Florida Courier and Daytona Times, and author of Excellence Without Excuse: The Black Student's Guide to Academic Excellence, by clicking on the video player above!

Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience of television stereotypes of students including Urkel, Lionel Jefferson and the cast of 'A Different World' … in the NEW new media capital of the world… St. Petersburg, Florida!

Charles W. Cherry II didn’t have to write a book.

He could have swallowed hard on his experiences as an African-American student, good and bad, kept his thoughts to himself and moved on with his life as a rising young attorney and heir to a black media empire of newspapers and radio stations.

But he didn’t.
CHARLES W. CHERRY II podcast excerpt: "I came to the University of Florida's law school during Affirmative Action. But all we black students knew was it gave us a chance. We got in the place, but we had to stay.You'd get a chance to come in and produce but they didn't give away any grades when I was there. Every A, B or C that I earned, I earned. Affirmative Action was a chip on my shoulder because of the hostility that some of the instructors and my fellow classmates had that black students shouldn't even be in the school at that point (in 1978)."
You can LISTEN to this interview with attorney and newspaper publisher CHARLES W. CHERRY, author of EXCELLENCE WITHOUT EXCUSE: THE BLACK STUDENT'S GUIDE TO ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE, by clicking the audio player above!

Instead, Cherry wrote a book geared to underachieving black students that attempts to teach them the essentials of learning and studying in an education system that often s