Welcome back, it's the Ballads 2023, coming to you from PLOS TV Africa. We are taking a conversation next to education and we have two guests joining us. Joining us by a service, Burlau Oyele, an educator and professor, Louis Anzegwer, professor of Business School and former Director of International Business Resource Center. Many thanks for joining us, lady and gentleman. Thank you for joining us. Thank you. Let's start with ladies first. We'll try to. Let's talk with Mrs Oyele. It's important that we understand the deaths of education in Nigeria. First things first, we have over 10 plus million out-of-school children. We're hoping that in 2024 and the years beyond we would be able to reduce that number and we haven't even begun to scratch the surface when it comes to the SDG goals in terms of education. Why do you think that Nigeria is continuously lagged behind in this regard? Well, let me get something out of the way because I noticed that there's a bit of a hesitation in knowing what to call me. I am Dr Oyele. So yeah, let's get out of the way. But here is the thing. The question I have for all of us as Nigerians is this. Why is it election years that we start to wonder about the things that happen in our country? It's usually because we think that someone who's going to get in position and do something miraculous. But there is no such magic bullet. This is an everyday thing. You quoted a number. The question is what has led to this number of children being out of school, being uneducated. We don't speak about those, but we want on this day to start addressing those things. So my view is that we continue to lag behind because we wait for one person to come fix things, whereas these problems are everyday problems. The education system in Nigeria is not the purview, really, for the most part, of the federal government. They have the unity schools and those. But the education in Nigeria is the purview of the local government who are not having an election today, and the state government who are not having an election today. So the problem, if we're going to fix it, cannot be a one-day thing when we're waiting for someone to come fix things. Our policies are set for the most part. Whoever comes in today, we can only hope, provides a vision that catalyzes the other systems of education that we have to move forward. But let's stop this one-day discussion. Every single day is a day we must wonder why we keep lagging behind. To say that these conversations are not being had is not being fair to the people who are in the forefront of fighting or advocating for good education. Now, let me show you where I'm going to. Every single year we celebrate World Education Day or Day of the Girl Child or something, and we always pivot in the direction of education. I'm not in any way saying that we should not have these conversations every day. But when I was younger, we had the directorate of education. Those people who monitored schools, primary education was a beautiful thing. I went to public school. But today, can we say that you can send your child to public education, to public schools? These people who are in charge of the education, whether it be at local government or state levels, how accessible are they? They come out and give us these very bogus figures and tell us that they're doing this and that. But if we go and look at it, nothing's been done. So again, should we say that we're not doing our jobs or are we not pushing as much as we should? Let me go to a thing that I think a previous speaker talked about. Understanding our democracy is important. If I know that the person that's supposed to put a school in my neighborhood is a local government, and everybody pays attention to that. When they're running for election, we know what they did. We know what they didn't do. We know what each sector of government is supposed to provide. And we focus on that. Rather than is my king's man there, is my sister's mother's son there. And how much of the national cake or the state cake or the local government cake can come to me personally. If we know, if our education is geared towards the system that we run, and our children know who's responsible for what, and our secondary school kids know who's responsible for what, then we know where to go. But at this point, we have no idea what the thing is anymore. You spoke about the inspectors of education. I remember them too. Except my younger brothers went to a school that was called Local Authority One and Local Authority Two. And we know who was in charge of that. But then we adopted this new thing we have, and we don't understand it. And we're not teaching our kids history. And we're not teaching them enough social studies. So we will never be able to know where the problem is. And we treat our political roles like Cheap Tency Titles. So once I get it, everybody's afraid to challenge me because they think it's something I should hold forever. It's really more than we pick a problem here, we pick a problem there. It is fundamental to who we are as Nigerians, that we understand the system that we run, that we hold people accountable, that we see what's going on around us. When I say what's going on around us, I don't mean the Western countries. I mean what's going on in African countries. We're smaller than us. Less and doubt than us. All right, let's bring Professor Anzego into the conversation right now. Yeah, Maryanne talked about going to public school. I also attended a public school. But right now, the issue right now is that most parents are taking their children to private school because of the disaster we have in public education in Nigeria, except for maybe a state like Lagos, where the state government actually is accessing the UBE. There's a UBE fund, and various states government are supposed to provide some sort of equity contribution before they can actually access the funds. Maryanne talked about out of school children. One of the reasons why people might not even stay in school is because they don't even have the facility to take care of this infrastructure and all of that. Some states, if you go to some state, what you see there are students having their classes under the trees.  Their funds are provided by the Universal Budget Education, the UBEC. But these states are not accessing the fund because the state governments are not channeling funds into their own contribution to getting those funds from the federal government. How do we resolve all of that? Thank you so much. I went to public school anyway. We all did. The biggest problem is that I will look at, for example, when ministers like Egu and ministers like Sir Abahabed, we are in power, they have a good leadership and those leadership, for example, built on experience. So I think one of the biggest challenges we have in here in terms of even though we have the funding, we don't have enough funding in education today. We have not actually made the UN United Nations goal. We had about 7.5 percent of this goal whereby, for example, the United States say 15 to 30 percent. So that's a part.  So leaders, for example, those people, for example, that are giving these funds are not channeling in the own way. Even though, for example, you went to public schools, I know for sure, during that particular time there was free education. At the same time, there was food for people in that particular period. But right now, when you look at people who are going to private schools, they are going there. We are getting that not enough Nigeria can afford that, the private schools. And so the only way now we can be able to solve this particular problem is the leadership in terms of whoever is going to handle that particular funds. How do I mean by leadership, for example? I mean, it starts from the head. It starts from the minister of education. It starts also from the programs that we are going to be able to develop. Correclon is also very, very important. More important, just like Bola mentioned, about Correclon, we need to teach our students liberal arts. When you look at Nigeria, Nigeria is on the last, on the bottom of the list, in the world. We are on the bottom of the list in terms of children that are out of school. And then that means, for example, if we are in the bottom of that particular list, it all means that policies are not being implemented the way they are supposed to be implemented. About 27 million Nigerians, children, for example, are polyeducated. They are polyeducated. Because they are polyeducated, they mean, for example, the curriculum they have been developed are not being enhanced. So teachers, for example, need to be trained. We need to train our teachers so that they can be able to implement those policies that have been spent, because it is hard to implement those policies at the key issue here. Talking about the fact that these policies are not being implemented or teachers are not being trained, etc. There are people who, the pundits who would say that these strategies are not hard to implement or these policies are not hard to be implemented, but it's a calculated attempt by those in power to keep Nigerians on a southern level. So things like what we've seen today, which continue to happen, which will be beneficial to the political class. I don't know how true that is. I think the problem now is what is dressing today. Remember again that the education is for the human rights of human beings in every country. We are not about it.  What we see today basically are not the true aspects of education. We see the different, you know, bargain of what education can provide. And so until we are able to enhance that particular curriculum, teach people the knowledge, teach people the skill they need, then we're going to be still having this problem we're having today, you know, this talk that we see around, you know, especially in places like Lagos. All right, okay, let's get Dr. Abola Oile.  I don't know if it was in agreement or if you're not agreeing to what we're saying. Let's just get to your input right now, Dr. Oile. I agree with what he said a lot. The part that I want to bring into it is this. We keep using the word leadership. And when we use leadership, it sort of absolves us of our responsibilities. But where does leadership come from? Our leadership, they rise from among us. So when a government creates a system, who runs the system? The average Nigeria. The average Nigerian is the one who decides whether they're going to open your file or not. The average Nigerian is the one who decides if they're going to teach that thing that the curriculum said. I mean, I have a lot to say about the curriculum, not today. But what I am hoping we also take from this conversation is this, to build the Nigeria that we want. Each of us must recognize that we need to change something. The government creates a train. The average Nigerian decides they're going to have extra ways to teach people out of the train fairs. I'm saying that he's right. The curriculum is not right. The people who put in charge don't have a love for this country. We still think our country is a cake to be shared. All of those things are correct, but the average Nigerian must recognize we must change. We want things to change, but we like all our perks. We want to continue to do the things we want to do. So I agree with him a lot. But then I say, it's you, it's me. It's me not buying exam papers. It's me not siphoning the money. It's me doing the job Monday through Friday that I am hired to do. It's me inspecting those schools without asking them for money ahead of time. It's us, every one of us. The curriculum, the people in school, the infrastructure, it doesn't matter really what any government does. The average Nigerian can get there and dismantle it. And so far a lot of what we're seeing is each of us saying, let me get my own. Let me get my own. Let me get my own. And then the people on the bottom have nothing. How many leaders do we have? Are they up to a million? But there's 200 million of the rest of us. A handful of them. 200 million. I'm sorry. It's a handful of them. Exactly. So if the rest of us are the ones that work in the ministry, the ones that work in the banks, the ones that work in the schools, if we're doing everything that we're supposed to do, our own good deeds will overpower their own bad deeds. We have to go for a very quick break. Please stay with us. We're also being joined by Akir Kikbalu. He's a principal consultant of Edu Hub. When we come back after the news break, we're still going to be talking about education. Stay with us, please. Hello. Hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.


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The digital blue Navy Working Uniform is made of a 50-50 nylon cotton blend that is not flame resistant. The Navy's chief of information, where Admiral John Kirby, explains what the Navy is doing about it. I wanted to talk to you a little bit about an issue you may have seen in a Navy Times story online about the Navy Working Uniform, the Type 1 Uniform. You may have also seen a message from Admiral Gortney, the Fleet Forces Commander, about the same issue. The issue is this, the Type 1 Navy Working Uniform is not flame resistant. Now we knew this, and hopefully you knew this. There's been no requirements since 1996, as a matter of fact, for that working uniform or any working uniform aboard ship to be flame resistant. Because we know we're going to issue you, when you get a board ship, the right organizational clothing you're going to need based on where you're working aboard that ship and based on your firefighting duties for what you need. Now this test was done back in October. It was an impromptu test, not one that we planned for, but it found that in fact the uniform is not flame resistant. It also found that it burns robustly till complete consumption and that it melts. That also is not a huge surprise because it is a 50% nylon uniform. Now the question is, is the requirement right? The requirement that has existed since 1996. And that's what Admiral Gortney and Admiral Haney want to go look and try to find out. So together they've agreed that they need to continue to look at our requirements for working uniforms, determine the best way forward and they're going to do that. Right now there's no change to the fleet requirement for the working uniform at sea. Right now you can continue to wear that uniform, you should continue to wear that uniform appropriately and as the mick pond likes to remind us, the focus needs to be on wearing it smartly and rightly and that's where we're going to be focused right now. I guarantee you that as things develop and as we know more, we're going to be in touch with you just as readily and as quickly as we can to keep you informed.


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But Khan, un-King, un-New-Hast-King! The water-dog-King, swiftest and strongest of Eskimo-lead dogs, blazes the trail through storm and snow for Sergeant Preston as he meets the challenge of the Yukon. Sergeant Preston was typical of the small band of Northwest-mounted police who preserved law and order in the new Northwest country where the greed for wealth and power led to frequent violence and bloodshed. But in sight of the odds against them, Sergeant Preston and his wonder-dog-King met that challenge and justice ruled triumphant. The small roadhouse of Jan Peters on the trail to Dawson City held very distinguished visitors one night in early winter. Mr. Williams, a mining engineer from San Francisco, and his daughter, Mary. They sent before the huge stove in the big cab after supper, and Mary's father smiled as he saw how eagerly his daughter listened to old Jan. Yeah, I've been up here in the North country for a good many years. I never expect to leave. It's fascinating. I've never seen such mountains and vast stretches of snow. I wouldn't have missed it for anything. You were lucky getting a man like Big John to bring you here. He'd make anybody's trip easy. He's the best guy I know. He can certainly handle a dog team and make a camp. Him too. He never questioned anything he does or orders them to do. How did you happen to get Big John? Well, a money medicine cell character. This guy was with him and the money made to deal with him for us. This money? He wasn't a big fella, about six feet four? Sergeant Preston? Yes. Yes, that was his name. I guess you'd be surprised if I told you that Big John led Sergeant Preston on a long chasance, helping a murderer escape. What? Yep, it's true. Do you mean to tell me that that Mountie would send us up here with a criminal? No, not Sergeant Preston. He's the best Mountie in the country.  He and a sergeant are the best friends. But you said... Oh, please tell us about it. I've told it hundreds of times because I heard it from both Sergeant Preston and Big John. People up here like to hear stories. The only past time we have... Everybody likes to hear stories. Well, yes, I better tell you about Big John first. As I said before, John's father was part white and John inherited the big frame and the brains of his white grandfather, who was a fur trader from the States. John had a young brother, about five years younger than he was. His father died when they were pretty young, so John more or less took care of the kid and his mother. His brother's name was Imago. John was crazy about the kid, acted more like his father than his brother. Imago was a bad one. He lied, stole. Nobody liked him. Didn't Big John know it? No, he didn't, and for a very good reason. The first time anyone told him, there was fireworks. John had come home from a hunting trip and was met by a black eagle, one of the trotters. Do what? Do you have good hunt? Let him eat. Get many fur in trap, see? Big John may be give half to black eagle. Black eagle want to trade? Give furs to black eagle, or furs your brother Imago steal from him to trade for fire water. Black eagle call my brother Thief? He is Thief. No, no, no! Big John!   Get up, I say! Ah, you'll see what happened to him who call my brother Thief. After that, no one dared tell Big John about the way his young brother carried on.  Imago got worse and worse, but none of the doings reached the ears of his older brother. Short time later, Big John got a chance to take some prospectors up to Dawson. In way nearly two months. It was during that time that Sergeant Preston was called in the headquarters to investigate Imago. I'm glad you got the time to take over this case, Sergeant. We have two witnesses who saw the killing.  Is Imago from the Indian village north of here? Yes. He isn't very well liked by the members of his tribe. I doubt that you'll have much trouble finding out where he went to question him. I'll go to the village at once, sir. I'll take supplies and carry on from there. Hello, black eagle. How? I'm looking for a friend of yours, Imago. Imago, not my friend. Oh? You know where he is? Imago, leave fast. Him go trail north. Him try me brother. His brother's the man called Big John. You know catch Imago if him meet Big John. Big John, best guy to north. Thank you, black eagle. I'm certainly going to try. Untangle your husband. It was just about that time that Imago met Big John a trail about 20 miles from the Indian village. Big John leering home and traveling light. He haunt this team as Imago stepped in front of him on the trail. Big John, at last I find you. Imago, what is wrong? Where you go? Man in town. He tried to kill me. We fight. I hit him before. Now white man's lord tried to get me. Big police fellow come. You tell white man what happened? I try. They say hang me. I run. White man not hang you. Come. We go to north country. White man not find you if you with Big John. Sergeant Preston had taken the trail north. It was well traveled and the trail of Imago had disappeared under the tracks of many sleds. He was about 15 miles out of town when he saw two figures beside a huge rock. He haunted his team and approached them. Hello King. Hello you hunkies. Hello. Anything I can do? You can help me get this man on my dog sled Sergeant. I found him wounded here beside the trail. Who are you? I'm Zeb Hunter. This man is Pete Grimes. He's been stabbed. Oh. He jumped me from behind this rock. Took my supplies. Are you badly hurt? He got him in the shoulder. I can get him back to town all right. Are these the tracks of the half-breed? Yes. I think he went north. I see. He's going to make it easier for me. I think the man who stabbed you is the man I met here. Now I'll have a trail to follow. Come on Pete, I'll help you on the sled. Big John was wise in the ways of the trail. He covered his tracks well. Sergeant Preston lost time finding it again. Seven days had passed. Imago was getting sullen. Only a few days of supplies were left. The winter was bad that year. It wasn't much game. John knew better than to spend too much time thinking. They were mushing along near the mountains when all of a sudden Big John... Big John. You all right? My foot. I step in hole. My ankle. It broke I think. You try standing. Here I help. Oh, no, no. I cannot. What do we do? We make up. You build fire. Maybe I can fix foot. You help me over there beside rock. Bad luck. It slows down. Here. It's all right. Now you get firewood. Goodbye Big John. Imago. What do you mean? Good enough for only one. This can walk really far away. Push. Push out. Imago. Imago. Come back. It was a pretty bitter moment for Big John. He knew then that his brother was everything people said. The thief and the murderer. But he didn't have much time to think. Because far away and then closer he heard them. Timberwolves. Big John had his knife. But his gun was on the dog sled. He crawled around on his hands and knees and gathered a few dry sticks and managed to start a small fire. But he knew it was no use. What he didn't know was that a few miles away that fire was sighted.  See who it is. There's one man all by himself. It's not bad if him alone. Hear that? He can't be a muggo, a Big John. No sign of a dog, Tim. It may be Trapper. Whoever it is, he's in trouble. It's a very small. He won't camp here, can he? They got there fast. A front king? I'm tanked! I'm your husband! Big John sat with his back against the rock. He held his knife in his hand and waited. Three big wolves sat watching him across the little fire.  They were lean and starved and slightly mad with hunger.  Big John met it in the air with his knife ready and then suddenly heard a rifle shot and he saw the gray shape of a huge dog spring at one of the wolves coming at him from the side. There goes the other one. You all right, man? You come just in time. I was afraid we wouldn't make it. Who are you? Me, Big John. Big John? But you're the one we're after. Where's your brother? Him go. You mean he went off and left you here, helpless? Do you think men lie about Amago? Do you not know him bad? I know he's your brother, Big John. But Amago has killed him and we're going to get him and you'll make camp here all night and I'll fix your ankle.   Now me help you. For the next three days that Chase went on, told the sergeant down a lot carrying Big John on the sled, but they made up for it by Big John's knowledge of the country. It was the third day and they were nearing a trail that led up a mountain when suddenly they heard a shot and a bullet whizzed past the sled. Okay. All behind the sled can it do. Big John, get out of here beside me. And Amago, he must be behind rock. That shot come close. Look, those shots started in Mavelanche. Well, that's the end of Amago. It better this way. It better that Martin kill Amago. Yes John, I'm glad it happened too. Come on, we'll go back. And so Sergeant Preston and Big John got to know each other. The mountain never arrested him for trying to save his brother and since then Big John would die for Sergeant Preston. This is an amazing country, isn't it? It's a hard country, but a wonderful one. There are many stories as exciting as that one about it. Millions of them. I could tell you dozens about Sergeant Preston and that big dog of his. There's one thing sure. If a man has committed a crime, there's one thing he hates to hear and that Sergeant Preston coming after him through the snow, his voice ringing out in the stillers. These copyrighted dramas originate in the studios of WXYZ Detroit and all characters, names, places and incidents used are fictitious. They are sent to you each week at this same time. Larry McCann speaking, this is a Michigan...


I'm tired and I've got an appointment in just over an hour. I guess that means I've got to get ready.  Now this has been a highly requested subject since I put the feeler and recommendation and suggestion out there which was about a month ago. Now when I say blaming other people I don't mean how to bake her out of any reasons why, I don't mean that. And what I'm talking about is people use trolls and abusers play some responsibility in how we feel. Do they have a place of blame within the situation? Just be blunt and get my opinion straight out there? Yes. I'm not saying they are the ones physically making us kill ourselves or trying to kill ourselves or sell harm. Do their malicious comments play a role in how we feel? Yes they're there to be malicious and they're knowing that they are causing harm. If you are knowingly causing harm and knowingly making someone ill you have a responsibility and you have a place of blame within that group. So as you guys know this year got off to a very rocky start. I was being harassed, bullied and followed on a phenomenal scale and I couldn't cope with it. And it got to an anniversary of my ex-partner's suicide and the trolling got worse. It was like oh it didn't happen and then I got some messages excruciating detail like oh did you hear the crunch, the bones, the GTC, the blood and all around triggering messages. So these people are going out of their way knowing that it was going to make me worse. Do they then play a role in the fact that I then made an attempt on my life? Yes they do and that's exactly how the police saw it when they took to hospital. As a whole do I think it's okay to blame people? Absolutely. If someone plays a role in you making an attempt on your life they have to take responsibility. Like yes me as a person, yes I tried to kill myself, I tried to hang myself, yes that was my actions. But did I make myself feel that way? Hell no. I do everything with my power to avoid feeling like that and let me take in medication, practicing some skills that I have, sleeping. No matter what my coping skills are it's irrelevant. If someone is then maliciously messaging me with the intention of triggering me they play a role in the fact that I then made an attempt on my life. People say it's not right to blame people. So when I have flashbacks of an incident that's my fault. It's not the fault of the person who say attacked me, raped me, you know. It's not the responsibility of the person who caused the damage. Not blaming other people is categorically, it just doesn't make sense. Like there's always going to be a responsible person like yes we are the ones physically self-harming and acting on our suicide of thoughts. But it's those who push us every other year apart from this year while I've been dealing with this trauma. I've never made an attempt on my life. That day I got pushed over the edge to a point where I don't think it would have mattered who was here, what was going on. I was going to kill myself. That was my intention. That was as a consequence of you know months and months of harassment. There's no difference between harassment and bullying people. Harassment is just more persistent bullying. It's never okay and it's never right and I will advocate for that forever. Because I have a firm belief that while I'm the one who acted on a thought I wouldn't have been pushed to even thinking about it. Had people not been bullying me. And I have a very simple policy. If you don't like me, don't watch. The whole bullying thing with me, it played a huge role in my suicide attempt. It really did and the people who were behind that knew the effect they were having on me because it was all public. It's not like I hit my phone down my head and it's not like I hit it from anybody. Everyone knew what was going on and I made it public knowledge. It's my alarm telling me that I need to start getting ready to go out. Genuinely but then I just can't believe it. People think that it's okay to bully people and take no responsibility.  You can't nicely harass someone. You can't nicely bully someone.  And I know people will say trolling is just part of the internet. You know you put your life out there. Yeah I've put my life out there.  Like that's just cruel and anyone who believes that? Seriously?  A lot of people have felt that they have the authority to comment on whether or not I take certain medications. When people was commenting on my medication there was like oh my gosh it's just an addict. Mate I forget to take my medication more than I remember to. You know like this has been my life so long now that taking medication yeah I take it when it helps. You know I'm not going to sit in struggle and I know I can take a tablet and take away the feeling. You know I'm not going to just sit in struggle when I have to. But you know I'm not alone in that. And just because I choose to take burns at Iazapines does not make me an addict. Yes they have an addiction factor. So does pregabalin. So does most pain medication. So does tramadol. So does guvapentin. So does pregabalin. Pregabalin is the one thing I have flat out refused to take because it actually has been proven. Proven here. Scientifically proven that it is more addictive than men's Iazapines. But on the subject of blaming others.   Although not that you know I had it worse. That doesn't mean my trauma is invalid. Like yeah sorry you went through that. But my trauma is still my trauma. It still traumatized me in a way.  Is it okay to bully people online? No. I don't care if you don't like what they do. At all I don't. Like can I say this like if you don't like someone. You do not have to watch what they do and like the post or follow them even. Because that was a big thing. People were like well she puts her life online so it's okay for us to bully her. No. If you put a malicious comment on someone's post. You are therefore taking responsibility for how that person feels. Because hating on people has never led to a positive outcome. Hating on people has never led them to become some. It's never contributed any positive. You know it's always always always being a contributing factor to someone's depression. Or super excited. Or when people are like you know she can't put blame on people. Yes I can. If you've made a comment that's like you're an addict. You know you're not worthy of help. She's just wasting resources. How do you think that's going to make someone feel? Because you said that that contributed to that person feeling that way. So yes I do think there is a place where we can blame people. And I think it is perfectly acceptable to place blame on other people. Given people will disagree with what I say. That's fine. You know free world. As soon as you make a comment on someone's life. You are therefore contributing to that person. You are adding something to their life. Whether it's negative or positive. And you have to take responsibility for that. I will never excuse people for leaving negative comments. Like if you don't like someone. All you have to do is unfollow or unsubscribe.  Like this person said this this this and this this. I don't like this about her. She's lying about this. She can't be honest. This is wrong. Unless you're my psychiatrist. You have no right to comment on my treatment. My channels are very honest and blunt platform. I don't sugarcoat things. I don't say things that I don't believe. And if I've had a bad experience or something. I'm damn well going to say. I'm not against therapy. I'm not anti-therapy. It's anyone who doesn't know. I'm actually on a waiting list for trauma therapy. But that's completely besides the point. There's any sense I can say about this subject. Like I've rambled on for like over half an hour. And I'm literally thinking it's like 10 seconds of it. But oh well. I hope I got my opinion across and my thoughts across. And kind of explain where I've been. That's me. Yeah. Bye guys.


In this module, we are going to discuss a technical concept which is called price to book or the PBE ratio. So, as we have already discussed that the book value and the market value both play an important role in explaining the overall financial position of a company. There is this technical way of determining that the market value is doing good as compared to the book value or the book value is better than the market value for a certain company. And this particular value will help us in deciding whether or not we need to invest in a certain company. So, when we look at this price to book ratio, there is this very simple formula which is used to calculate the price to book ratio. When we say price to book ratio, we are putting the market price of a share in the numerator and the book value per share in the denominator. So, market price will be placed and it will be divided by the book value per share. So, the number which you will get is the price to book ratio. If the market value of a share is exactly equal to the book value of that share, then the ratio will become 1. And if the ratio is 1, then it is very easy to understand what it implies. It means that there is no difference between the book value and the market value of a share and the two values are at par. They are equal to each other. This means that the company behaves in the stock market and the company behaves in the terms of financial statements. There is no significant difference in that. But if you have calculated the ratio, the price to book ratio and your value is 1 to small, this means that the value of the denominator which is the book value of a share is large as compared to the market value of a share. So, you will get a ratio of 1 to small. When 1 to small means that the share is undervalued, means the share in the financial market or the stock market is less as compared to the share in the financial statements. This means that the sentiment of the investor or the investor's optimism is not visible for this particular company. Despite having a strong position when we look at the financial statements that your share is undervalued. On the contrary, there is a possibility that the market share of the company is higher in value as compared to the book value. In this case, the price to book ratio's value will be greater than 1 because the numerator's value is large as compared to the denominator. So, we will say that in this case, your share is overvalued. This means that the investor is giving more value to this particular company's share as compared to its financial statements. So, now this is a tricky situation. You must be thinking that the value of 1 to bigger is better or the value of 1 to smaller is equal to 1. So, basically, it is important to understand that the stock market changes according to the seconds. So, I told you that the stock market is a very volatile market. Volatile means that there are very fast changes in that market. You get to see the changes after every minute. So, at the beginning of the day, you get to see any share overvalued. But in the evening, you get to see it undervalued. So, only undervalued or overvalued, you should not take it towards ultimate decision-making. So, we have to keep in mind all the things that the overall financial position is. So, it is not just the PV value, which is, for example, if it is larger than 1 or it is smaller than 1 and on the basis of which you can decide that we need to invest in this share or not. Both the book value and the market value, they are offering two different insights into the company's valuation or the performance in terms of its financial performance. So, it is important to consider both of them. And again, if you are getting to see the overvalued or undervalued, then you have to look at a longer spectrum that throughout this particular time period, in a certain prime period, its value is going up or down, the market value. According to that, if you decide on any investor, they need to compare the two values. And when we are going to look at the company, whether we are going to invest in or not, it is not one thing or just the PV ratio, which is to be considered. The investor will overall look at the overall spectrum or the overall performance of the company in long-term and then decide whether to discount or disregard the performance of the values of the parameters. And then you are going to decide whether or not to invest in it or not.


So, I welcome you all once again to my channel, Explore Education, I am Dr. Rashmi Singh, Assistant Professor, Department of Education, S.S. Khanna Girls degree college, University of Allahabad. And nowadays, we are discussing the topics of educational statistics in which I have already covered the concept of the measures of central tendency and how to compute mean, median and mode for both the grouped and ungrouped data. Now, it is the term of measures of variability. Okay? And the lecture will be in bilingual mode and it must be useful for your conceptual clarification. So, what we are discussing is measures of variability, which learn shield to come up and how vary, how we are differing, how much is the difference, we are going to talk about it. So, what is the need to understand this? What is the need to study measures of variability? And a lot of people found out what is the difference between a speciality or what can be explained to us. In this lecture, we discussed the data about measure of central tendency. So, what is the need of measure of variability? And where the directions of central tendency are low. You may now understand the importance of variability. So, what was the measure of central tendency? Gives and average of a set of observations and data. What was given to us? If there was an akra or a prediction, it would give us an ausat, central tendency. However, the average cannot be a true representation of data because of variations in the distribution. Here, the page is stuck. The page is stuck? It is saying that it is not necessary that the ausat is performing the right performance. Why is it so? Because there can be variations in the environment. There can be violence. There can be violence. Therefore, the average doesn't perform the right performance of our ausat many times. However, the average cannot be a true representation of data. For example, let's look at two data sets. Data 1, data 2. Data 1 has an ink. 8, 2, 6, 4, 8, 2, 10, 5, 5, 10. So, n is equal to i of 10. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. If the total is 60, then how much does it mean? If we have to run from the total to the end number, then it is 6. We have got the second data set. B has an ink. 7, 7, 7, 6, 7, 5, 5, 6, 5, 5, 5. Here, n is equal to 10 and total is equal to 60 and mean is equal to 6. That is, if we don't know the distribution of these two data sets, then we will come to know that we both have an ausat which is 6. In this data set, the first data set is varying from 2 to 10. That is, it has gone from 2 to 10, but the ausat is still 6. And here, it is varying from 5 to 7. Either it is 5 or 6 or 7. Even then, your ausat or the average is 6. This means that the ausat can't be told many times that it is 6 ausat. This means that it will be 5 or 6 or 7. We don't know that it can be 2 or even 10. That is, the distribution of these scores cannot be told by the measure of central tendency. This is what it says. That the mean is same for data A and data B. Both are good for the ausat or the average for the ausat. But the data vary in terms of their deviation from the mean. But both the ausat and the ink are very much fluctuating. Here, if it is 6, then it is 5 or 7. That is, it is different from plus 1 to minus 1. And here, it is different from minus 4 to plus 4. Minus 4, that is, 2 plus 4, that is, 10. Here, it is only minus 1 plus 1. So, it is saying that we need to know the concept of variability. We need to know how much data is varying from the mean. It is also called dispersal in data. How much difference is there in the data. How much difference is there in the ink. It actually refers to the variations that exist within and amongst these scores obtained by this group. That is, if you get an ink from a samosa, then how much are they varying from one to the other. We get to know from the concept of variability or dispersal. So, what is dispersal? It is an important statistic. This is a chart of Mahatpakon Sankhi which helps us to know how far the sample population varies from the universe population. We have talked to you many times about the universe population and the sample population. The universe is everything that we want to focus on. And since it is not practically possible that anyone, whoever you have covered in your population can go and study, then we have to choose its sample. The basis of the whole quantitative study is that you will be able to generalize as much as you choose the sample.  But what happens? Our sampling does not work. Why does the error come? We get to know the difference but what does the difference actually exist? Or the difference between the sample population and the universe population is due to some error. So, we will study this again. What is the standard error of the mean? What is the sampling error? We will study it later. For now, we are trying to understand the concept of measles of variability. After the measles of central tendency, we need to understand the measure of variability. To know that the average is that much, but how much data is differing from the average? Is it more or less differing? How is the difference? For this, we need the measure of variability. Where did this come from? I am wrong. No problem. So, measles of central tendency, variability in data, measles of central tendency provide us incomplete picture of set of data. It gives insufficient base for the comparison of two or more sets of scores. If we get two sets of data, then we do not have a basis for the difference between the two. Thus, in addition to a measure of central tendency, we need an index of how these scores are scattered around the centre of the distribution. So, apart from the marks of central tendency, we also need to tell them that the average is that much, and the average is that much. So, we need to tell them how many distribution centres are on the other side of the centre, in what respect? A measure of central tendency is just a summary of scores, and a measure of dispersion is a summary of the spread of scores. That is, on the basis of the average, we need to tell them the difference between the two. In a simple figure, we can tell them how much time is there, and what is its spread, and what is its impact. Okay. So, according to Minium, King and Beer, in 2001, they said that the results of variability express quantitatively the extent to which the score in the distribution scattered around or clustered together. That means, they said that the scales of the boundary can quantitatively express the limit of the score scattered around or clustered together. Clustered together means around, like 5, 6, 7, or the scatter is more, like 2, 6, 5, 8, 10, like this. So, this tells us the results of variability. They describe the spread of an entire set of scores. They do not specify how far a particular score diverges from the centre of the group. They tell us the spread, but they do not tell us how much a particular score diverges from the centre of the group. They give us a large amount of variability. So, the important thing is that the results of central tendency provide an insufficient base in comparison to us. So, the variability in data or the results of variability is important. And what is its importance? How did it come? I did not know. So, what is its importance is used to test the extent to which an average representative represents a specific data. The use of this is that we get to know the limit, the extent where the the target is representing the limit of the target. Then, helps in identifying the nature and cause of variation. We get to know the reason for the variation helps in the comparison of this spread into or more sets of data with respect to their uniformity and consistency. We get to know that if we have more than two eyes then we can determine the spread, spread, how uniform it is and how consistent it is. Let me tell you one more thing. Facilitates the uses of other statistical techniques such as correlation, regression and so on. One more thing is going on in all of this. How did it happen? One more thing I wanted to tell you that the variability of the amount of data you have will be homogenous. Homogenous means everything. So, what will be the variability? What will be the profit? What will be the higher the variability and what will be your data? It will be heterogeneous. There will be a lot of spread and a lot of diversity. So, this is the concept. Now, we have to know the absolute and relative dispersion and why we want to tell you all this. Because you have to discuss the mean deviation and standard deviation. So, first we get to know what is the deviation, the variability. We go straight to the question. Before the question, we don't understand the concept. First, we need to understand the concept. Then, we need to understand the question. Then, we need to remember the formula. We need to remember what is the right calculation. Then, we will know. So, absolute and relative dispersion. So, we need to know the exact amount of the dispersion and the exact amount of the dispersion. So, in measuring dispersion it is imperative to know the amount of variation. We should know how much it is varying. It is called absolute measure and the degree of variation. It is a spelling mistake and I don't know what I did when I made a slide. So, it is imperative to know the amount of variation. So, it is imperative to know the absolute measure and the degree of variation. So, it is imperative to know the relative measure. So, in the former case, in the absolute measure, we measure the range. We measure the mean deviation. In the course, we ask the standard deviation questions and the standard deviation is the basis. After that, you use further statistical techniques for the standard deviation. So, this absolute dispersion is the same way that we actually know how much the data is varying. So, the range is the same. So, the range is the same. And in the later case, we consider the relative measure. We consider the relative sapekshma. So, in sapekshma, we will take out how much the percentage is different and how much the percentage is varying. So, in this case, we take out coefficient of range, coefficient of mean deviation and coefficient of variation. So, we will take out the range mean deviation, standard deviation and in the relative measure, we will take out the coefficient of this. Thus, there are two broad classes from which measure of dispersion or variability i.e. the two main broad differences between the two. The first is absolute measure and the second is relative measure. They are absolute measure of dispersion and relative measure of dispersion. Absolute dispersion usually refers to the standard deviation. We talked about the absolute dispersion is the main type. And this tells us a measure of variation from the mean. Which is your data. And what does relative dispersion tell us? It is the result of dividing the standard deviation by the mean. i.e. when Manak Vishnan runs away from the object, what will come out is relative dispersion. i.e. sapeksh Vishnan. And it may be presented as quotient or percentage. And this is also taken out in some kind of a measure. So, what you have to understand is that measure of central tendency is superior. Why is it superior? We don't know whether it is superior or not. Summary of score is known, but spread of score is not known. So, for that measure of variability is needed. We also get to know how the data is spread. If it is homogenous, if it is like this, then the amount of variability will be less. If it is heterogenous, then the amount of variability will be more. And this is the two main types. When we know the actual amount, or if we have to remove it, then it is absolute dispersion. Absolute dispersion is an example of range, mean deviation or standard deviation. Or relative dispersion is an example of coefficient, coefficient of range, coefficient of standard deviation and coefficient of mean deviation. So, in this way, I have discussed with you all the concept of the measure of variability. And in my further videos, I will discuss with you all how to compute mean deviation, range and standard deviation. Okay? So, I have completed this very topic. Thank you and don't forget to like and subscribe to my channel for more information. I have done it from my side.


We're on we're in the rainforest on the side of Kilauea and behind me is a lava tube. A great lava flow came through here in the past. The top freezes first, the sides freeze, the inside glowing hot lava comes flowing out and it drains.  And this is the way a lot of the lava gets to the coast is that the top will freeze and the insides will go sporting on out to the sea. And so it's a really interesting place, a very different kind of cave.


There's so many. There's so many. I mean, it's hard to even know exactly where to start. I'll give you three things that I did not originate, but they came from my colleague, Peter Ackerman, who co-founded the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict. And Peter says you need unity, you need planning, and you need nonviolent discipline.  One thing that a lot of movements that fail don't do very well is they don't actually listen to the people they want to support them. So they don't know how to talk to them, they don't know how to represent them. But people need unity. And so frequently oppositions have been divided. And there's a whole lot of skills around creating unity. In addition to listening, you need to be able to inspire confidence that you can achieve something, which means you need strategy. You need to be able to show people that you have a plan that works. And in fact, prove that it works through incremental steps. So strategy would be the second attribute. Understanding how the vision fits in with broader campaigns and how tactics build into those campaigns and those campaigns all feed into the vision. That's all really, really critical knowledge. What tactic to choose, why, when, how, who's going to do it, what happened before it, what's going to happen after it, all those things need to be thought through. And then nonviolent discipline for obvious reasons. If you can't remain nonviolent in the face of violent provocation, you're going to end up using violence with discredits the movement, legitimizes repression by an adversary, and then sets the whole conflict on ground where the adversary has the advantage, which is violence. I mean, most adversaries have an advantage in violence. In addition, when a movement becomes violent, a lot of participants who normally would join the movement go home. There's a lot of support there, too. So unity planning and nonviolent discipline and all the skills they go in to maintaining those and building those, I would say, are valuable.


Okay, folks, listen, I'm Wil Mega, you're tuned in to Wil Mega TV. We've been trying to produce this Dr. Mark LeMonte Hill video. We shot last week. We had some hiccups. We had some misunderstandings. We supposed to shoot again this week today. I had some technical difficulties and a few setbacks in terms of my personal preparation. Mark was ready to go. And so what I've decided was that I'm going to share with you some vintage footage that I shot of him about eight years ago. Just because you've been expecting this interview, we're going to probably shoot this interview, the moderate interview next week. At least that's what I'm shooting toward, shooting next week instead of this week. So you can get what you deserve. Expect for us to talk Malcolm X. Expect for us to talk his personal transition, transformation, how he became who and what he is. Expect to talk about some of the rumors that have surrounded him and get some clarity. We're going to talk move. We're going to talk 76ers. He's an avid 76ers fan.  We're going to have some conversations about current events. And we're going to talk a little politics, black consciousness, black history. We're going to open the door to some current events that we've yet to share with the public. And you'll get my angle coming straight out of Philadelphia. We've decided that he will be a reoccurring guest. So maybe once every two months, maybe three months, depending on what's going on in the world, he may decide to pop in even more frequently. So that being said, I want you to enjoy. This is a very short piece. I personally like it because when I shot this, I just began to start interviewing people on my network, professional athletes, pro ball players, academics, activists, folks who are, it's kind of part of the lifestyle I live. People in my network whose stories I wanted to share with the greater community. So what I like about this piece, we literally, I'm literally thinking about this. This piece is literally shot in my father's house. Mark Lamont Hill purchased my father's house, my parents divorced when I was younger. So we're shooting in the house of my father that I grew up in when I was with my father. So it was a really weird feeling for me. Anytime I visit Mark there, you can imagine going to your childhood house. But your family doesn't live there anymore. It's just weird. So the setting is real up close. You'll see, you'll see it's intimate. Mark is young eight years ago, believe it or not. He's in a different place. Check it out. Check it out. Let us know what you think. Expect the more modern interview coming up. I already have some footage from the last one. We're going to plug in and plug some of that in. We're going to mix it up. Just bear with me. All right. Thanks for tuning in. Enjoy this piece. I call it Dr. Mark Lamont Hill Metamorphosis. My name is Mark Lamont Hill. I remember the Abbey and Ampere alumni chapter, summer 11 initiative. You can do it like that or do it the way we actually do it with your people.  Mark Lamont Hill, Abbey to Ampere alumni chapter, summer 11. OK. So, Mark, where did you attend colleges and universities? I attended Morehouse College for undergrad, but completed my undergrad studies at Temple University. Then I attended University of Pennsylvania for my graduate degree. I got my PhD there in 2005. So what brought you to the Cap Office side of maternity and corporate? You know, I come from a family of capers. My older brother was a kappa, a member of Gamma Omega Chapter, fall 1987. And my father was a spring 1953 member of Kappa Alpha side from the Gamma Omega Chapter. So I've known about Kappa my entire life. And I was never told I had to be a kappa. I was told that if I did pledge of fraternity, it needed to probably be Kappa. And then when it came time to actually decide whether or not I wanted to, I had examples of people who were interesting to me, who were smart, who were loyal and who were generous with their time. And so for me, that was kind of man I wanted to be. I was kind of person I wanted to be. I met people who were generous to my family when they needed things when we were having economic problems. You know, a guy named Wash from from Cheney University, Cheney State University at the time will come and give us stuff. And then as I got older, I understood that that was my father's lie, brother. And I understood that that his his support was out of a sense of fine new pie. It was out of a sense of brotherhood, was out of a sense of fraternity, fraternity commitment that we all aspire to have. But I saw people live it in practice, that fraternal commitment. And so I was like, I want to try and do that, you know. And when I got to Morehouse College, there was no immediate opportunity to to to to join the fraternity because of the politics at the time of the campus. They just weren't on the yard. But the cats who were noobs who were on the yard or from other places like Clark, like Morris Brown at the time, like Georgia State, when they came through, either for just parties or when, you know, the freak would happen in Atlanta back in the 90s and all those people come through. The campus to me were the coolest dudes. You know, they were the kind of cats I would want to be if I had to pick. You know, I saw Alphys, I saw Q's, I saw Sigma's and nothing was wrong with them. But when I saw noobs, I was like, yo, that's what I want to do, separate from the family stuff, separate from my brother, separate from my father, separate from all of that. I just said, that's what I want to do. And so when I had the chance to do it, I did it. OK. So you've you've matriculated through several levels of higher learning. Share with the audience something about that. You know, the journey through education for me was something that I didn't exactly know would happen in the way that it did. I thought that I would be finishing undergrad because my parents told me that's what you're going to do. I didn't have a particular investment in undergrad. And really, I went to college still thinking basketball, and that was sort of what I wanted to do. I had division three offers that my parents were like, you're not taking them. You know, I was also set to go to Elmira and play or Kentucky State and play or Dickinson and play. And they were like, no, you need to focus on your education. So I went to Morehouse and walked on to the team. And after a little bit of time, they decided that I was going to have to redshirt the first year, which wasn't a big deal. You know, people do it. But there was this moment where basketball stopped being fun and there was no game to play in and practice was a lot harder. And learning to plays was a lot different than high school. And every one day, Coach Brewer, who was assistant at the time, said, son, if I could ask you to run this play one more time, I must just think you're not that bright. And it was it was a Iowick experience. My sophomore year, I came back through and I knew basketball wasn't something I was going to do anymore, at least not there. So I walked out of class freshman year and dropped out. I said, I'm not going to be a student anymore. Playing basketball, that's kind of the only kind of goal I had in college was to play basketball. I didn't think I was going to the pros. I wasn't that good. I just but I knew I was good in playing college and I knew that that's that was kind of what I've been wanting to do. And when that didn't seem like it was going to be a real thing for me, like I just I just gave up. So I dropped out and I lived in Atlanta for a bit. I lived in Atlanta for a long time, actually, not a long time. It felt like a long time when I was home. I was on the street for a lot of that time. So, you know, when you're outside a couple of months is a long time. You know, so I left Atlanta eventually and went back to Philly. And in my mind, I was still just going to play basketball. You know, coach Newsom at Dickinson was still saying come out here. Dickinson, Kevin Newsom, it might have been somewhere else. Because I was I was actually thinking about playing Gwyneth Mercy at that point. I was like, I just want to go to Gwyneth Mercy and play a couple of my friends where that will card was there. Percy Herron was there and it was like, yo, just come here. Play. And so I started training and working out. And my parents were like, you can train and work out all you want. But if you live in our house, you're going to get a job. So then I got the job. And while I was working, I decided what might as well get an apartment. Well, I started thinking about apartment. Because I didn't want to live in my mom's house no more. You know, I was only I was 19 at this point. And I wasn't old. I just was ready to be out the house. And so it was like, I can either go to Gwyneth Mercy and play basketball. Or I can get this apartment and go to Temple. And so I got my apartment on City Avenue with the Temple and finished. Some days I regret the decision. I don't know what's your major at Temple. I changed so many times, you know, because in my house, I was I was political science, religion. And I was going to be a religion major. And then maybe education. And then I transferred to Temple and started as an education major, elementary education major. Then I transferred to Spanish. Then Spanish. Yeah, yeah, I was a high school Spanish teacher. And so how do you say Kappa Alpha Psi? I guess you say Kappa Alpha Psi, right? It's all Greek. And then I went to I dropped out and I left that program and was thinking about FM studies and then going back to education because I found I had so many credits that would count if I took a certain kind of education major without certification. So I basically got out of school as quick as possible. I was like because I had lost that year after dropping out, I felt like I was in a rush. So I was just taking any class I could take and I was taking as many classes as I could find. I didn't care what they were. I took physics in science fiction movies. I took like some online anthropology class, language anthropology. And then I ended up taking 21 credit hours my last semester. I took seven classes and, you know, most people taking 12, 15, you know, I was taking 21 because I just wanted to be done. I didn't want the extra semester for one class. I was like, I want to graduate. So I was looking through the book to find a class and the class that I took was one called The Black Woman. I took it because it was the only thing that fit my time schedule. And I was like, there's going to be black women in there. So I went in there and I was the only brother in there. It was two, me and one other brother were in the class and there's a bunch of sisters, man. Just an amazing class. Dr. Renoir McDonough taught it in the African American Studies Department at Temple. And in that class, I didn't just learn about black womanhood. Although I did learn about black feminism, which was super important. I read a book called Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins, which is like a staple book of black feminism. And it really changed my life. But more importantly than the book itself, which certainly did change my life, was the fact that it was the first time that I had paused to actually be a student. I had grown up reading books outside of school. I had grown up going to black bookstores and reading those traditions and being a pretty rigorous student. But in college, college for me was just something to do. I was going because of basketball. Then I was going just to get out so I could get a teacher certificate. Then I was going that semester just to, you know, take whatever they would give me a C or B or whatever. But over the course of that, over the last six months or a year, I was taking all those credit hours in the summer and in the fall. I realized that I liked reading and writing. I liked thinking. I liked engaging ideas for a living. Are you friends with any of those sisters over in that class still today? No, no, no, no. I would see them from time to time in Philly, you know, because back there was this point in the late 90s. I graduated in 2000. So, you know, I would see them at shows back in the Black Lily. Back, you know, Black Lily was an amazing, amazing kind of open mic menu. Well, not even open mic. It was just it was at a club called the five spot downtown and people will go there and you would see it was right there. A harder neo soul movement. I mean, Philly is the heart of neo soul. And you could go there for five hours. I suppose called the five spot. You could go down there and hear Kendrick family soul. You could watch Questlove on the drums. You could hear Jill Scott come through. India, I read what passed through. The jazzy fat nasties will perform. Bilal would be there. Music soul child would be there. You know, Jaguar Wright would be there. And they would just come through any given night and just rock out by do a slide through sometime.  Yeah, come and be there. And it was just crazy. The five spot was crazy. That was the energy in Philly.  It was very African center. And I love African people and African things. And so I took the class and I learned in that I wanted to be a scholar. And it's at that moment that I decided to go to to go to graduate school and to pursue a PhD. And I wasn't fully prepared for what that meant because I hadn't taken a lot of the courses and done a lot of the training and things that's necessary for that kind of work. But I had the idea and because I'd worked so hard those last six months, taking all those credits and had gotten A's in most of them, my GPA had gone up to a respectable number. Still not a good number, but a respectable number. And I was able to hook up our crew getting to the University of Pennsylvania. And so you got a doctorate degree at University of Penn? Yeah. And what? I was trained in an education school. I was trained as an anthropologist. Okay. So I took courses in both anthropology and education and focused really on those intersections between culture and politics and identity.  Yeah, I left University of Pennsylvania in 2005. I forgot my PhD in four years working again. Just I had a sense of being in over working overtime because I felt like I was behind even though I wasn't anymore. And I was now 26 with his PhD and I was like, what am I going to do? And so I taught at Temple for four years in the Department of Urban Education and also in American Studies. And then Teachers College Columbia University called me in 2009 and said, hey, we'd love to have you after I applied for the job and gave a presentation. And they brought me there. And I stayed there from 2009 until 2014. So your professional trajectory took a shift. You got to be found yourself in the intangible world or as a journalist. Talk to me more about that side of your profession. What are you doing now? Well, you know, what happened was, and I walk into it, you know, I while I was in graduate school, I realized that I still love to engage bigger audiences than just other academics and I needed money. So graduate school, I was writing music reviews. I was on album reviews from hip hop magazines. I started being a regular writer for Pop Matters magazine. I started writing hip hop encyclopedia entries. And in doing so, I realized I loved having a bigger audience to speak to about issues. When I got my PhD in 2005, I decided to write a column. So I wasn't just doing music anymore. I was talking about social issues and doing cultural criticism. And I was like, yo, this is dope. Like, this is part of my understanding of my vocation is that I'm not just going to talk to academics, which is cool. But I'm also going to talk to bigger audiences about issues that aren't just in my narrow area of scholarly expertise, but also deal with issues of race and class and gender, et cetera, et cetera. So I started this column. And because I was kind of one of the early bloggers in 2005, blogging was still relatively new. And black bloggers was a novel idea.  They know who I was. They just googled my article on the Duke rape case. And my thing came up. So they called me in, and I started talking about it. And I didn't set the water on fire. I sat right in this very room. And I did an appearance through webcam. And I did OK. I didn't embarrass myself. I didn't embarrass the family, but it wasn't great. But it was my first taste of television. A few months later, they called again when I was working on the case of Janala Wilson doing some advocacy work. And I got another phone call. And this time it was headline news. They wanted me to talk about the TV show Survivor and how they were dividing the teams up by race. So that time I got a little traction. Next thing I know, Bill O'Reilly's people are calling me. And they had me come on the show. And I became a regular on MSNBC and Fox News. And then Bill O'Reilly's show really liked me. So they had me come on weekly. And then President, or at the time, Senator Obama was on the scene. And they were trying to make sense of this black senator who's going to run for president, who's audacious enough to think he could be president after a couple years in the Senate and a state senate tenure. So they started snatching up black commentators, CNN, Grab World of Martin. And MSNBC was big on Melissa Harris Perry. And so I became Fox's resident black person. Resident black person? Yes. That wasn't the official title, but that's what it felt like. There's other names for that. Yes, there are. And I did everything I could to do the job with dignity and a commitment to our people so that I didn't become the other day. And I did my best for a few years there. And I became a pretty regular pundit on Fox News. And I really got into the mix for my battles with Bill O'Reilly. And then when I left there, or more accurately, that was fired from there, just because of political views and wasn't job performance, I got a call from someone at Black Enterprise. Not BET, but Black Enterprise Magazine. And they had this TV show, which had been syndicated for years. And it used to be called Black America's Forum, I think. But in its current iteration, I was following Ed Gordon, who had just left the show. Ed being this amazing host, really a legend. I was like, I can't feel Ed's shoes, but I like a job. So I went over to Black Enterprise. And they gave me a chance to host. And I didn't know how to host. Arguing on TV is not the same thing as hosting a TV show. Two different skill sets, two different, just a whole different experience. I know what to do. I know how to do it. But they were patient with me. And they let me grow as a host. And by the second season, I felt like I was getting my sea legs. By the third season, I felt like I knew what I was doing. And so I continued to host that in aired on TV One and syndicated markets around the country. And at the same time, Huffington Post called me and said, hey, come on, we're doing this new internet thing. And I was like, man, I ain't trying to go on internet. I'm trying to get on CNN, man. And CNN was dangling a job in front of me for Court TV. What was Court TV at the time? To anchor. And that didn't feel like the right fit. But I thought TV is better than internet. And then CNN kind of pulled the offer back. And so the only thing left was HuffPost Live, this TV show. So I didn't realize that I was on the cutting edge. I didn't realize that internet was beating out TV on a certain level. And so I was the inaugural host along with eight others, Elisa Menendez, Abby Huntsman, and others, Ahmad Shabdine. And we made some history. I mean, we had a very good run. I was there for three years, three and a half years. And over the course of those three and a half years, I learned how to really be a host because I was on every day. So this is an exclusive interview with you. Most of our interviews are highlighting the achievements of young capas and graduate capas or brothers who've just moved on in their careers and touching base on how they've achieved in their lives. But I want to fast forward to the show that you're on now. And we have a few more kind of off-color questions for you. And then we'll wrap up. Yeah, well, after I left HuffPost, I left HuffPost because I wanted to create space for something new. I love my experience there. I just didn't know. I wanted the next thing to come. And so I left. And I was patient. And I swear, not even two months after I left, I got a phone call from VH1 that they were interested in doing something with me. And it took us into January to figure out exactly what it would look like. And then from January to June, we developed it. So what's the name of the show? VH1 Live. Yeah, the idea was to do a talk show. The idea was to do a daily talk show that would, in some ways, be like, watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen, where you kind of have a talk show that's also anchor to the network's programming. And so the idea was I would do a nightly talk show and I'd have a little bit of the VH1 shows in the mix. But I'd also be able to talk about sports and politics and all these other things, do celebrity interviews. And the show started off one night a week. And it's now four nights a week. Right now it's at 11 o'clock. We may move the time slide, I'm not sure yet, but it's doing well. The ratings are good. And it's shaping into the show I want it to be. So if you had to define what your professional title is, what would you say? Would you just leave it at one word? I don't think I can. Because I think there are a couple things. I think it's reasonable to. I use the word intellectual to shape a lot of my stuff. I'm an academic. I'm a writer. I'm an activist. But I think all of it is part of one big intellectual project. So somebody said, what are you? I said, I'm an intellectual. I wouldn't say I'm an academic. I wouldn't say I'm a scholar. Although there are academic dimensions to my work, although I do scholarly work, I would say I'm an intellectual. Because I think the intellectual title is broader. And it stretches into more areas. But I'm also a journalist. And I have to say that because there was a time where I would say my journalism is purely an extension of the intellectual project. That I just want to ask questions or investigate stories or whatever. And sometimes it is. When I do a documentary in Palestine on Afro-Palestinians, that's an extension of my intellectual work. But if I'm interviewing Stevie J on VH1, that's not. I'm having fun. And I'm a journalist. And sometimes I want to just ask interesting questions. Sometimes I want to interview celebrities. Sometimes I want to interview everyday people. And it's not part of the same intellectual project. It's a journalistic project that's different. So I would say I'm an intellectual. But I'm also a journalist. The New Black Week, we focus on highlighting people's achievements. What would you say would be your three most impactful or your favorite achievements in your lifetime? What are your three favorite achievements? First one is being a father. And I know it can sound cliche, but I mean, being able, being charged to help a black child navigate this world in a way that affords indignity and safety and love and care, and that gives them the tools to make the world better than they found it, I think it's pretty dope. And so being a part of that is pretty amazing for me. I think working to get people home, the work we've done on projects, I've never done it singularly. No one does. But the work we did to get Mamiya off the death row, or the work we did to get Gennaro Wilson out of prison with a draconian sentence to get Shaquana Cotton out of the juvenile facility, these things matter. Sometimes we think our activism doesn't matter. Sometimes we think the letter writing campaigns don't matter. Sometimes we think that the sit-ins and all those things don't matter, but they do. And there have been a few victories. We've had a lot of losses. You know this, we've had a lot of losses. But there are moments where we know that if not for our efforts, someone would have died. If not for our efforts, someone would still be incarcerated. If not for our efforts, someone would not have gotten justice. And so I'm always proud when I can look back and say we've had a moment where our efforts were vindicated. And then third would be the writing. Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to be a writer. I always wanted to share ideas. I was writing poems in second and third grade. Who's your favorite writer? Oh, wow. There's so many. Baldwin, James Baldwin for sure. He had a sense of America that he combined style and substance, right? I mean, he has this brilliant mind that is able to analyze America's race problems, force America to come to terms with its soul and itself. But he does own a prose that is so attractive and compelling. For me, that's important to boys. To me is the model of black intellectual life. Suppressively the African slave trade in 1896, or the Levin Negro in 1899, so was Black Folk in 1903. Just those three alone, right? Before you even get to 54, you get to black reconstruction. Those texts, to me, represent a body of work that is virtually incomparable. Of course, Du Bois had contemporaries. He had interlocutors. There were many women who helped shape his thinking, many men who helped shape his thinking. He wasn't alone, but I do think he's the towering figure. And then thirdly, I would say for me is Bell Hooks. Bell Hooks not only modeled a kind of living feminism for me, but she also modeled a kind of commitment to writing that I had not seen before.  And you don't have to be limited to the thing you're training. She wrote a PhD dissertation on Toni Morrison. But she's writing about space and location in her book, Home, where she's writing about, and remembered rapture, she's writing about the process of writing, a book that changed my life. Feminism is for everybody, or ain't I a woman?  Then her close reading of texts and outlaw culture. I mean, or her engagement with Black masculinity and we were real cool. I mean, we named book after book after book. She's been amazing. And Bell Hooks has been a hero of mine, and someone who I wish I could be like as an intellectuals, a writer, and as just a human in this world. As we wrap up and play a quick word game and then one final question. Sure. I'll give you the name. You give me one word, Ralph Abernathy. Complicated. Colin Kaepernick. Courageous. Elder Watson Diggs. Creator. Always Caze, by the way. What's the future for Mark Lamontev? Hopefully, I'll be able to continue to grow as a human being. Be able to make even better decisions to be able to love my friends and family even more, to be able to grow spiritually, to just grow as a human being. On the professional side, I want to expand the bounds of what I do even more. People couldn't see me hosting a late night talk show five years ago. They couldn't see me writing on New York Times bestseller maybe 10 years ago. Cause they said that's not what academics do. I wanna write a screenplay. I wanna write a movie. I wanna write a book of comedy stories, like a David Sideris kind of thing. But I also wanna own more of the stuff that I make. So growing my production company, producing and shooting a few projects that are where I want them to be. And then hopefully once my child is at a school, traveling a little bit more and spending more time in the Middle East and on the continent of Africa doing the kind of anthropological field work that I've always wanted to do in a more substantive fashion. Well, thanks for joining us at The New Life. If you would just bless our audience with a bidding to do. I'm Mark Lamar Hill and I'm down with The Newps.


Hi everyone, Joe for jaspeyscasebrakes.com doing a little filler pack break right here Chronicles basketball number seven six zero Giving away ten teams and pick your team ten This group of teams right here, so we'll re-randomize everybody's names after the break the name on top will get the king second name Celtics So on and so forth big thanks to all of these folks here for getting into the action And there's all the teams right here Josh we're 90% full on that base on that baseball mixer So whether it's straight-up spots or whether it's filler spots ten about ten spots one way or the other All right now for this basketball break for the break itself seven and a four and a three seven times for names and teams different dice roll at the end one two three four five Six and seven the final time Matthew down to Brian. Oh, that's for the that's for the giveaway later. This is the team list right here seven times the teams no worries X-Line two three four five Six and seven Got the pelicans down to the Raptors All right. Here's the first half of the list right here. Here's the second half of the list right there It's just printing rip. It's got some nice cards here. We've got an RJ Barrett in that XR design For the Knicks that'll be for Charles. There's everybody right here LeBron James Markey for Brian Frank The Luminance Jammer and love this design right here That is for Raymond with the gris and then the Yanis another great bit of photography here in luminance Yanis Right there for Jesse and the Bucks. All right now. Let's flip back to this screen Let's see who's gonna win those teams top ten After the dice roll so we've got Martin down to Brian and everyone in between You dice new list. Let's roll it. Let's randomize it Four to four hard eight eight the hard way one two three four five six seven and Eighth and final time after eight So at the top ten so from 11 on down, sorry Martin from 11 on down Appreciate everybody getting in you get him next time Thanks for trying though happy times for the top ten though Matthew Kyle Brian Luis Oh Martin still in John Martin's in there to Brian Charles and Martin on top All right, so I don't feel bad about Martin just missing out with this spot because he's got the top spot Look at that So there you go Martin with the Kings so we're gonna put a little rooftop symbol next to your name next to all of your names so you know They won this in that filler Martin with the Kings Charles with the Celtics Brian with the pistons Martin with the calves John with the heat Martin with the magic Luis with the Suns Brian with the Blazers Kyle with the Raptors and Matthew Shearer with the Utah Jazz there you have it Coming up in a separate video will be the break itself Jasper's case breaks.com. Bye