Since its founding, BCF has awarded over $4.5 million to more than 200 nonprofit organizations and more than $1 million in scholarships to Kansas City’s Black students.
These strategic investments across education, scholarships, and community programs demonstrate BCF’s belief that when seeds of opportunity are nurtured, they blossom into generational impact.
Featured guest:
Joy-Ann Reid
Award-winning political analyst, New York Times bestselling author, and MSNBC national correspondent Joy-Ann Reid was the longtime host of MSNBC’s beloved The ReidOut. Reid made history with her namesake show as the first Black woman to host a primetime cable news program. Prior to The ReidOut, she hosted the hit weekend morning news show AM Joy.
Reid is the author of Fracture: Barack Obama, the Clintons, and the Racial Divide, We Are the Change We Seek: The Speeches of Barack Obama, which she co-edited, and the New York Times bestseller The Man Who Sold America: Trump and the Unraveling of the American Story.
She also hosts two podcasts Reid This, Reid That, with Emmy-winning journalist Jacque Reid, and a books podcast What to Reid. MSNBC’s new special, The Culture Is, features Reid as co-host, moderator, and executive producer for the first episode, The Culture Is: Black Women. A soughtafter keynote speaker, Reid is celebrated for her no-nonsense commentary and insights, taking audiences beyond the headlines in impactful engagements.
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