Rising country music artist, Corey Lea of the Lil’ Cowtown Ranch and Rodeo, is lending his likeness to help raise over $50 million over the next 5 years for the Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund. The Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund helps ease the financial burden of students that attend Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
The program uses new subscriptions of Directv and Dish Network as it’s catalyst to raise these funds. With each new subscription of Directv or Dish Network that is ordered online on www.MyHBCU.tv, $30 will be donated to the Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund.
Horlin Carter, Chair for Construction and Safety at NC A&T, says ” I’ve known about this project for about year and this could be the prototype on how African-Americans can benefit from Corporate America. We spend over $700 billion on goods and services in this country and getting very little in return. If you look up what Corey Lea stands for on www.Lilcowtown.com, you will see that he is the kind of person that can make a meaningful impact very quickly.”
Corey Lea says, “I see the day to day struggles of African-Americans and we will all agree that education is the best place to start. I am a product of an HBCU and some of the most brilliant people I have ever met were in those same classrooms. It is also part of my mission to help young Americans to dare to dream.”