Is education a priority in the black community?

To walk across the stage will be just as important as being drafted, maybe even more important because that lasts an entire lifetime.”- Kevin Durant
"If you do the numbers and you look at the count, you’ll probably see players who came out of high school that were much more successful on average than players who went to college for a year or two or however long. It seems like the system really isn’t teaching players anything, if you go to college."- Kobe Bryant

Education is vitally important for later economic success, but when education fails, something must fill the void."-Joseph C. Phillips (
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