Well, the Don’t Believe the Hype Foundation has fulfilled similar needs for over 25 years.

In addition to funding trips to journalism conferences/conventions from Seattle to D.C. and Milwaukee to Baton Rouge, a student in Sen. Royce West’s Dr. Emmett J. Conrad Leadership Program received a scholarship for the past 25 years and aspiring journalists received over $50,000 between the DFW/ABJ scholarship program and Urban Journalism Workshop.

The Don’t Believe the Hype Foundation is a 501(c)(3) organization, and we also have the Healthy Living Expo at the African American Museum on Martin Luther King Day every January.

You can make your donation to the Don’t Believe the Hype Foundation – Bank of America, through our Facebook page, or by mailing to

Our communities have been in a state of pandemonium for a long, long time.

I’m calling on everyone who cares about our future, all who have participated in the past, previous scholarship winners, or benefactors.