Charles Pickett and Mercedes Pickett

00:00 It is September 26th 2020. We are located in Chicago, Illinois. And this is my brother Charles Pickett September 26th, 2029 from Chicago, Illinois and Mercedes Pickett soda. Kick start this what is developmental resources me connect marginalized communities on the westside of Chicago to free education career Financial Health and Wellness and conflict escalation. What is save the West Side Chicago Chicago is a disenfranchised stock news that happened. We must not put attention to over the last 40 to 50 years since the doctor Martin Luther King riots in 68 is pretty much are

00:59 Promise to the West Side Chicago to continue to empower and uplift ourselves is a call of action of the West Side Chicago and we believe if the communities come together and maneuver CT Jake Lee we can Bridge those guys can become but our community needs and we also believe that order to connect with attendees. You must connect with them on three separate levels, which is stuff families from that Community which we serve Trumbull Park Austin Garfield Park Douglas Park North Lawndale, square and also the surrounding disinvested areas including some of the Suburban areas like Oak Park in West Town and some of the West Loop area of Chicago was well, we do look to expand but we like to focus on families in those communities the small business in those communities and the local Foundation staff.

01:59 Serve those communities if you pay attention to all three of those pillars, that's how you get the trust of those communities. And I was one of the main reasons why are families have been so successful in 2020 and changing our directions to help Target those opportunities that produce the high crime rate within our communities indicate. The lack of resources Earth remedies is establishing connections with resource Center's Community leaders small businesses family the other organizations that help with where the communities are divided. Our goal is to connect a community development in order to thriveworks community. I'm sorry what our society has spelled in the most of the West Side Chicago campaign is a prime example of how resources together can help our community. See I have a question. How did it go?

02:59 Army founded how did it start? Yes, Earth remedies was founded Earth Day of 2016. We became Incorporated the last day of Black History Month on a leap year. So February 29th, it's we started our initial focus with students We Begin connecting students to educational resources tutoring mentorship College assistant, we would help students with their college application to job applications and also paint scholarships and grants. We then continue to support families during the holiday season and afterwards we started small initiative to help God and the vegetables on the brink of homelessness with covid-19 shifted and we had to maneuver with the time that we had to connect ourselves to Resource Centers, but also with small businesses that

03:59 Affected by kobuk in the Looting and my question for you is what initiatives came after save the Westside that campaign. That was like I said, they do a side Chicago was a phone call to action. It was for African Americans black and minorities to stand up for themselves and uplift our cells with the collective dollar of the city of Chicago. We noticed that the city of Chicago this state and also the nation had a very delayed response and we're more so serving in providing financial assistance to the fortune 200 Fortune 500 companies with millions of dollars. We found out that a lot of people a lot of famous people are receiving financial aid of 1.2 million dollars when they should not receive it imagine if that would have went to the small businesses that there was made a priority we ready.

04:59 Cystic. 50% of the small black businesses have been out of business Institute. That's a crazy number. Also considering that is not a lot of African Americans in the United States to 50% has been wiped out we have to try to save another we try to save the Westside tried to save these small businesses and the result of that was we were able to fundraise $23,000 and we provided financial assistance to all 26 small businesses that applied and we also created a small business network will be really nice was a lot of the local efforts were just sending out checks to be small businesses. You wanted to connect with the small businesses learn about find out their story was very similar to this and help connect them with the community with Re Max with our efforts in pretty much reinvest and a recycle that black dollar.

05:59 So speaking on that, how is Earth's remedies reinvesting in a recycling in helping reimburse and restock with a Black Sabbath to connecting low-income families to a developmental resources which include a small organization such as Earth remedies developmental resources such as NHS which help with first home ownership programs such as project Exploration with connect the family family to science technology engineering and Mathematics and for Earth remedies to be developing partnership. It allows for an individual to come into our facilities stuff on our website and get the funk out there need our community is in a state of an emergency.

06:59 And if our facilities it's almost like an operation room and eat our we can better serve the needs of our community Charles. Could you talk about your personal narrative how the community grew up with you and how they impacted your activist. So I was born in 1995. So what 90s baby I was in that last curve of Technology also being a part of the no technology curb little bit. So pretty much. I attended the gray School of Brian Piccolo which with the neighborhood school and we attended the connection portion of it which was built to empower that use but in a different sense arm the teachers were actually there cuz they shared about the students you have to be I believe in the road or you have to have a sibling that was already a part of that program still the very

07:59 Special program that list family knitted and it's a rose that I brought the students up and then help them get into a better College better than high school. So I was able to get into the high school Whitney Young which was a r a selective-enrollment school. And from there at the age of 14 are definitely saw the disinvestment from the west side and what I was experiencing from Whitney Young when he was I would say what's a safe haven for a lot of the students because when you are coming from the hood or the East disinvested communities and then you come to a school that's a little bit almost like a private school cuz they're mad at school. So they get separate funding from parents in from different foundation and also to get money from TTS. It's almost a privilege to go to that school that also saw the different. When you clean my skin color

08:58 Made me realize the difference between myself and how I was raised and other people but I didn't really find out what it was truly meant to be black or be an African-American anything exposed the real world to me and I didn't really understand who I was so I went to the University of illinois-chicago there. I learned more out myself about an African-American. I saw more people like myself. I stayed with a very close group of friends that experienced the exact same thing to her from the different neighborhoods of Chicago trying to better themselves getting a college degree so that they can pretty much give back to the community. So seeing that seeing everyone has that same passion allow me to reconnect and my sister she was running a nonprofit organization or remedies and I really love what it was about and we were able to connect and

09:58 Uplift our friend of you to see why I moved in and out. Everyone is looking at us and saying man, what's next? Oh, we continuously have to strive to be better. So I have to push that status quo. So that's my question and you explain more about your background. How did your childhood affect how you found it or fremitus for me? I was a notorious for doing community service working with the community helping other student was one of my it was in a sentence for me. I started all tutoring my classmates and for me, I was on the other side where if you are part of academic you are highly praised and I saw other students were neglected. So the fact that I received Straight A's or I was getting me a science world wars and making it to the city and even by the national they would

10:58 Over attentive eyes me and I saw her other students were being left bag and neglected because in the marginalized communities in low-income communities, they know on your sternum that will make it out and they would invest in those individuals. I happened to get the Bill Gates scholarship from Bill and Melinda Gates Millennium Scholarship and that allowed me from to go from a low-income school or Academy to DePaul University. That was my dream school since the third grade only because I saw volunteers come to my elementary and do the work. I was in my high school and they had programs at DePaul to bring an additional resources to that low-income school and connected with their mission sharing St. Vincent de Paul. He actually cares for the poor and I didn't know that until I went to the fault that I was able to get us.

11:58 Starship to Aid because of my community service in my academic, but I went to a school that incentivize individuals that wanted to give back and with which in Depaul I continue to Twitter at my high school and at my elementary but I realize that wasn't enough I was going through the education around with CPS and I start restricting within a curriculum. I knew that I wanted to give more but I did not know how I want to start at at home. I took a moment to look at how black Cheney was struggling. I took a moment to look at all of our individual problems and how we could rectify those issue that look at the contributing factors that

12:47 Contributed to those issues and I came across earth remedies

12:53 Earth remedies I decided that education was my passion but I couldn't go through it coming from Chicago public schooling. I decided to tutor I decided to connect my resources my knowledge to those communities to the use to the students that were underdeveloped and who were struggling and afterwards with my brother. We were able to engage more organizations, which allow Earth remedies to connect more people and based on my experience. I saw how there was a strategic starvation on the westside. I saw how small businesses is how families Thrive and continue to invest in the communities in without proper education without proper resources the black community. Can I develop in those ways without local businesses? Our neighborhood would not be

13:53 The home and I figured that Earth remedies in our pillars couldn't help support those businesses. I'm essentially rebuild a more cohesive networks in Chicago. And yeah, that's my journey into activism to talk a little bit more about direct experience of myself. I remember not talking to my girlfriend. I remember being in grade school and it was almost a threat that if you did not perform to a certain level you were to be sent your neighborhood high school and I didn't when I was younger. I didn't understand how bad that was and how that didn't help The Narrative of the west side of Chicago by spinning the assholes when they're kids. I received bad grades to particular areas of the city that were disenfranchised and Justin best it and didn't get the funding for

14:52 Schools in it's almost as if it's like drafting a little bit you send kids to school so high school in different areas that you feel as though it would provide a better a better a better a better. Better education to those parents in what we want to do is to continue to empower those schools and not just in particular is still closed or because of pretty particular Foundation really get money from the city base off the grades of the attendance from those schools and the community the students are a reflection of the Investments for that Community soldiers of a couple of things that I saw when I was a kid and then coming to Whitney Young it was the complete opposite coming from a distant desiderius who invested area CNN

15:52 The teachings were pretty much a little bit more enforce how everyone had a particular motive because they were in a better environment and you are a reflection of your environment. You are a reflection of your community. And if your community has a dead-end, are you still at that? You can't get out you going to be the reflection of that you're going to bless you have no hope but when you are in 1 T, I wouldn't young you have those opportunities. You can play the guitar with those two car houses. You can practice stem with the different SIM card. If they have you can go down the psychro econ is a lot of different extra classes that you can take to for fill those passions. So seeing the almost like a 180 from from grade school coming in high school do that things that made me believe that I wanted to find a way to get back to my community on a school standpoint and it branded from there today.

16:52 Fire west side of Chicago in the different pillar that we believe that are sitting is there were two experiences that I still talk about today. The first I was in high school. I was going to the science fair and there's a moment when you have a break and you can just take a moment and walk around and look at the other students. I felt as though my project was lacking resources. I was able to get a control group and variables. However, I can only conduct one experiment based on the limited resources. We had I saw how students were able to conduct multiple resources up past and change their variables based on their previous results. And I feel as if my school did not have enough funds in my my my teacher has a paid for the coli that I was using and other p

17:52 Traditional I didn't understand until I was walking around and seeing as a school game in abundance when I went back and got braided. They told me that I had too many variables which was on me, but once I figured out the winning spices that work well with that work against E. Coli I should have read it the test again and again and she never got my results and we don't have the time or the money. So I feel as if I was going to try John because the low resources in my school. However, they said that this was a profound project at Pine Lake Michigan had a large money coli that was causing the beaches to go to be close to the senior. So I couldn't answer the project again experience. I was leaving High School entering college and I already knew that I was not receive.

18:52 Human resources that I need to drive up in that one environment. I felt overwhelmed walking into a university where students were expected to know things and I had no idea. I did not know what I did know. I was overwhelmed and

19:14 I had no knowledge of seeking resources and the way that

19:24 The school made me feel as if I wasn't the desk. I was just a big business small town and they I wasn't challenged. I

19:38 Like I was

19:41 That I was not going to make it out of college and through studying and connecting with professors and networking with like-minded individuals. I was able to pick up my grades and continue with my scholarship. I was I did not lose my scholarship and it was a moment where I felt as if I wasn't going to make it and people could understand like why wouldn't you make it you have to deal with a scholarship? So I felt isolated in my community. I felt isolated only campus and that was our conversation to be had a funeral after I left it all in that organization spoke about that disconnect. And that was one reason why I fell as up low-income students needed a way to transition and not joining Junior and Senior year of high school, but almost investing in their education not just for college before trade.

20:41 To understand finance and just do day today. It needs to start at a young age. And we also have to develop programs for the parents because that do affect the way the children Uber and I was affected by so much and my new way most people they go through so much but because I was given my parents and have a lot but they gave us everything we need it because I was in a better predicament and I still felt inadequate.

21:13 It made me think about the other people who were told that they were inadequate and how they did not receive the resources. So if I have to speak of. I learned from my community, I wish I was more so coming together every year the block that we lived on the ridge for the Black Box apart and all the kids had that date mark on the calendar is a day of fun all the parents in the block came together put money into a pot to bring you out dancing groups to bring out bouncy houses shut down the entire block fun music fun time. All the kids ride their bikes plays football today basketball. See you in the seeing how the community can come together for particular event on limited funding was amazing to me and I can tell you don't remember how fun those things were and then I the when you grow up you kind of

22:11 Remember those things and how you can try to implement them into the future and we must give back to your community. Also was very small things like that that I saw and I see me personally and also I was saying you learned from my mom. My mom is heavily invested in the community in the neighborhood. She does on the exact same block her entire life. She bought property literally 10 houses down on the very same plot, which really show me you don't run you don't run from a neighborhood you have to say and that's still feel something in the continued to Bill and you you own that piece of property with a lot of African Americans don't have they don't have the proper investment knowledge. They don't have the opportunities, but now we're seeing a little curve in it because of how open is knowledge is with the internet with particular foundations are willing to help.

23:11 Is that so there are building programs and especially with covid-19. How is exposed the disparity between neighborhoods and communities for an example of the folded map project if you look at 69479 of the southside of Chicago and its 79th north of the north side of Chicago is a huge difference. You see houses on one side you see empty vacant lot on the other side. You see ads pretty much promoting College on the other side you see ad promoting liquor stores are trying to be mode unblocked on one side uce Investments and new property being built in neighborhood. Can you take care of on the other side? You see houses being built down you see police on every other corner and heavy policing does not mean that box tops. I think Chicago is a cute example for that. So it really started

24:11 I was young how to do with values that you weren't when you worked it or when you were growing up help you figure out about your community started in the household. I remember my mother taking a time to clean out our closet and find the toys that were not used to know in good condition to gift to the nearby church. I remember her having us get a lot of gifts for a birthday and select some of the gifts that we wanted to give to the other children on the Block birthday was also around ours as well. I remember when they had my parents have their restaurant in on the holiday. They were closed the restaurant to serve the homeless or the community and that was shocking to me because most people would assume that the holidays would be booming do two individuals wanted food. My parents thought that was best to just give individuals free food.

25:11 I saw how the community continue to grow as they saw other individuals grow whether it was just taking care of their land whether it was making sure that another neighbor had the resources that they need. I'm not religious. I'm spiritual but when I was trying to look at churches, I came across one Church where individual she was almost homeless and the women of the church to curl her children out and then men of the church, they imply apologies the men of your church, they sell refurbished her home and they also pay three months rent for her and I thought that was beautiful. I'm just sitting there like, I'm not even a member of this church and I feel overwhelmed with her testimony in the ask her if she was okay for the Mishary. She said yes, I'm like, I'm glad that you shared it because it encouraged me and I sometimes you feel hopelessness. You still divided you feel

26:11 Is so much happening in this world and you can be taken back by what's wrong or you can go into a bubble positivity, but I was able to see

26:22 Love how to be louder than hate and they gave his womenfolk. They gave her community and I think that's something that I wanted to implement outside of a church. I wanted to allow neighborhood across Chicago to unify. It doesn't matter your skin color. We're all going through a systematic Harsha and with cold it almost even the playing field for everyone just doesn't know any guy don't know how ever we noticed that bass singer ethnicity. You may not receive equal Health Care. You mean to have access to Insurance to pay for those medicines and I just keep reflecting on my childhood when I did not understand why my people was hurting and now I understand the Ryan to the reason. I'm trying to connect with more individual so we can get this message out and it's not just about one organization is about Collective movement and there's

27:22 Reason for a child to be hungry. There's no reason for a child to be abused and I have anyone to connect with and I just wanted is remedies to be a voice a safe haven in a monument in low-income communities connect to the larger part of Chicago and I think one of the main reasons why on Earth remedies honestly fits in with a lot of people in my people understand it it's because it's real is here and is present and you have to establish a presence Network. Friendly's is doing with each neighborhood. When he first gave out the grass you notice that it was really hard to reach out to be much foundation and small businesses and families in North Lawndale Douglas Park and Homan Square not mainly because they were on the outskirts of the west side of Chicago but also because

28:22 It's a very tight-knit Community, you know who is going to come to you to try to get help and if they're outside of that Circle, then you don't African Americans black minority. I've been burned several times by the government by the city of Chicago by the state of Illinois in regards to especially free money and grants. So when the city of Chicago finally in the state finally came out and said, hey, we have this covid-19 grant release. A lot of people wanted didn't receive money or two. They didn't take it today. Do not understand if they needed to pay that back which is pretty much goes into understanding Investments and no opportunities understanding what is a good opportunity wants to buy out and pretty much a knowledge in that. I had a friend that although his mom owns a business. He was running the business. He was understanding how to operate house.

29:22 That's how to finance a business, but she it was her business because she didn't understand the inner workings of it. He was my college friend. So he went to school for finance. So he understood that so imagine if I don't have a son that went to school for finance to understand the business side of it. It was his one lady. Also, she tried to open two businesses prior to finally having a successful business. Thanks to a collective effort of her family mathematics people that probably don't have that running of a collective effort in they sell in the game and the seed doesn't really have a establishment for empowering small blister businesses minority businesses until recent. I didn't find out that there's actually a department for small businesses in Chicago until probably four or five months ago, but it's things that you don't know until you actually look up at research.

30:22 Are some lessons you can learn from me. One of the things that I always had diverse many proud of you about was.

30:34 Whenever you said something you sit and you also pushed that image and one thing that I've learned since her friend me started it has not been used and although it's been a lot of people and put it on different things out of her friend of these can be implemented into different neighborhoods or different Partnerships, but stand firm having a dream and pushing that dream until it is a reality in the city of Chicago. Now Ephraim is not a household name, but people recognize people will remember I last seen that on the news I seen that are seen out here in the message has not changed and that's what he wants to continue to push. That's all you wanted. The biggest thing I learned this when you have a dream you have a commitment in your passion about something don't change it. You can always make it bigger, but don't change that original Foundation that original framework and

31:34 Do that in eventually after people are going to see the hours behind that image hour behind the Pratt and those are things that I saw Mercedes work on time because we live right next to each other like a Chromebook for Rome when you're in college. So I will see her go to her different events for herb remedies see her try to connect with different things not the time. I was in college to I was focusing on my entire. I'm just adjusting as a black man from high school to college and when I first started college, I was struggling a little bit like they said it's because when you go to the high school can go to these gray schools, here are a big fish in a small pot then Whitney Young. I was a small fish in a big pond and then you I see I was still got small fish in a big pond and I have to continue to adjust to that after being held to such a high standard at a grade school that did not have the right front. So seeing Mercedes after going through all the

32:34 Steel be committed to the community. It inspired me to help throwing her in an uplifter Friendly's. I see how you present yourself. I see how people love you and they checked me to buy you your charisma your energy and I want to learn from the and I am lighter than that and the way you connected or Grandma so many power houses across Chicago and you wanted to collaborate with me and you we could have been divided. It shows the message behind North remedy. It shows the pursuit. It shows that we are living by our word and I see that I owe you could have had a dream I could have had a dream for like collaborating has Amplified the mission and I do appreciate it because this is a learning experience and I believe every day we learn something new and I am honored to be carded up with someone that I can learn so heavily from

33:34 And it's about a beautiful Partnership of the last I probably spies 60 months a year. We learned so much about each other and we just put that into a remedy you put pretty much Blood Sweat and Tears into Earth remedies several phone calls dropped a week several meetings. And now we're at the point where people understand I think that's the biggest difference in the past too many people have to understand and see you we held several events. We've done several great things for the black and Brass community and with a simple Google search with a simple Facebook search you see that and now that's when we first started we want to be able to knock on anyone's door you say this is what we are and we can leave and then they can look into that and now whenever I meet someone new. What do I do? How do I pull up?

34:34 Certain things about to know that this is how I feel and this is what I'm investing. This is how I'm putting my thoughts into action and I think that's the one the biggest reason why I was able to move into

34:50 Put so much effort into my friend for you. Must ask me. What are you doing about it and I feel as if with this pandemic and with a coded everyone had ideas but no one was really awesome. I ask you a question. Do you have any Reflections or on the latest events on police brutality affecting the black community numbers are screwed going to college with econ and trying to understand the difference the difference almost strategies in communities. I feel as if the numbers are screwed if you heavily please so it's a couple different things that you can do and I'll all use the west side as an example when you gentrified neighborhood, which would be West Campbell Park our field part in a little bit of North Lawndale, you're preaching to African-Americans that you're taking them away from those resources that you prom.

35:50 When you started coming back no neighborhood. So you're pushing to African Americans back into West Garfield Park West mobile park in Austin area with a higher concentration of African Americans in one area. Then you sent police and you have weekly statarea. You plan on putting a police station because those are the worst areas in Chicago you put a police station if they're trying to work on any Garfield Park to Henry cleats even more. I believe that going to screw those numbers even more and say hey because of the high concentration of violence.

36:25 In adding more policing that's going to solve that but we seen in Chicago since the 70s 80s 90s. Even with more policing the violence to continue going to be there if you do it best in those people. So that's probably the biggest thing is that I can learn coming from grade school high school college and being a part being around the entire city. Is that the numbers are what you look at and I think when you look at the entire picture of the west side in the history of the West side and how the West Loop is being pushed back, which I sent you put back that beautiful Asian wish pushback African Americans into the Austin area and I really believe that that's what they're trying to push black people too heavily policed heavily concentrated almost like a big brother you're watching them. You can easily find them and invite doing that you if it's a it's a pipeline directly to the Christmas and then went to get out of prison. It's a top linebackers.

37:25 Prison with the three stripes piestraks. How do you feel about the reflections on at the latest events with covid-19 in the police retiree over the last 10 20 30 years was In This Moment a lot of individuals are based in fear in terms of police. They have created situations where protesters are speaking of boy speaking their mind. There may be some mischievous individuals are not protesting that may ride Loop and or shoot the cop like the two cops and robber shot in Louisville, Kentucky Place more fear with police there going to be more trigger heavy. They say practice sugar control in the way officers are trained in America in Chicago. I do believe it could

38:17 Include more mental health check it could include more training that extends beyond the initial a year that they have to practice under and Astros stated that it's a little bit more than just policing it how individuals who are black and brown are in the judicial system how even though they account for Less drug use, they are penalized at a higher rate and also given longer sentences and then push over to the prison pipeline system and it's just a cycle that certain families cannot Escape because of the Zone developments in those communities, there's not adequate resources activities or opportunities. However, those disenfranchised communities continue to be disproportionately targeted.

39:17 With housing discrimination and redlining which is supposedly illegal many families find a difficult or impossible to secure those resources. They need to further develop. Your household justification is a direct result of policing identification is a direct result of higher interest rate property tax status bag of black owned a family's businesses to develop and I believe that it is a strategic toy to limit black individuals and I feel as if we can just take these last few minutes to share our thoughts about this conversation and our next step for Earth remedies Chicago and how we address the underlying issues. Right? Dr. McDonald in to speak on the previous conversation class will be have to change the ideas in the how black people is presented in Media.

40:17 People is presented on a grander scale. For example with black on black crime that does not exist because the typically if he will look if you concentrate a certain amount of people within an area if you take data from that area black-on-black actions against each other that number is going to be screwed because majority of crime against erase happens against that you don't hear people saying to white on white crime just that doesn't sell to the media Hispanic on Hispanic crime. I never heard that before but you hear black on black crime because of the Jenna Station in the concentration of those neighborhoods, and I'm glad that we have to take all of this energy to Andrew. We just pretty much spoke over the last 40 minutes 45 minutes. You have to take that and have to put this message which breakdown the six pillars which breaks down into connecting with families connecting with small business to connect me with those organizations the foundation

41:17 Area we are not connecting with downtown organization downtown businesses downtown families know we have to connect with Garfield Park Humboldt Park North Lawndale Austin when people hear us they know that we're from the Westside their know that we're from Garfield humble part. They know the area that we represent they know what are remedies represent. And if you don't know it's a learning experience because we have people say a man. How do we not know about this? How can we get involved? We had a few outside of our community saying how come you in the balls and wishing to my question for you? How can Earth remedies Implement those six pillars not only to the westside of Chicago button to Chicago on June sharing of resources. There's a lot of competition in the for-profit world, and I've noticed there's competition in the non-profit world. The profit for non-profit is the number of families and

42:17 Individuals no longer struggle. I believe we have the resources available to bridge that divided and through Collective resources and collaborative economics. I believe Earth remedies help to support rebuilding communities as small businesses by highlighting their needs and provide additional assistance through shared resources. We would love to be at the Hub. We would love to be the decentralized distributed Network connecting is low-income communities family and individuals to free development resources and Community involvement. We also understand that other businesses need to make money, but if we're pulling the Black dollar and allowing the community to get support Elevate themselves create business support other families and small businesses. I believe we're unified, it's Harmony. We see that they are so many power.

43:17 Houses on the westside of Chicago there so many power houses in Chicago that are doing the work we're divided and I believe things are changing and we can be divided by race for the real issue is class for lack of resources, and I would love for Earth remedy to be the emergency room for marginalized communities. They come in they let us know what we think he helping and we service them one of the biggest thing is also understanding our history black history is not talk or talk about Christopher Columbus before retard about black history. I think that's a huge thing that has to be packing. I'm just learning that 400 years ago. You were a slave and then a lot of people say no Dallas crime years ago, but then almost less than a hundred fifty years ago. We were quote-unquote free, but there were still slaves even 30 40 years after that.

44:17 Placement of the Mind programming in not providing education and I believe this is only the beginning for Earth remedies. I believe you side with storycorps, but the other organizations are at the pine are message. It allows individual to invest in Earth remedies which invest directly to the community and this conversation is ending now only beginning to doubt want to thank my brother Charles for taking the time to join me and have this discussion me to having this discussion will need it where you're working hard everyday. We have a lot of plans for the rest of 2020 which includes and entrepreneurial event with our partnership the University of Illinois UIC also our holiday events in our plan for 2021, which is getting a brick-and-mortar location building our internal teams and also expanding our reach the potentially the entire.

45:17 Chicago, yes, and I'll we just had a few more events in the past where we were able to connect over 300 students to educational resources are stem education and I am just overwhelmed with the opportunities that lie ahead of us. This is only the beginning and we can't wait to increase our reach the community that we stand by what we say and I think we've been doing a great job in that and the community speaks for itself and we're just waiting for the higher-ups the city of Chicago to recognize the Grassroots efforts that everyone saying how come you stop violence. How come you stop how can you invest into black neighborhoods the minority neighborhoods connect with the Grassroots efforts of communities, the organizations that are doing the work and are from he's just trying to ask a collective goal move everyone cohesively so we can be more effective.

46:17 Conversation. Thank you so much.