1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 3 00:00:40,123 --> 00:00:42,793 REPORTER 1: The streets of Baltimore are tense tonight. 4 00:00:43,293 --> 00:00:45,921 Violent protestors overran parts of the city 5 00:00:46,004 --> 00:00:47,422 this afternoon, 6 00:00:47,506 --> 00:00:48,549 attacking police, looting stores... 7 00:00:48,882 --> 00:00:50,384 REPORTER 2: The charge of six officers 8 00:00:50,467 --> 00:00:51,927 in the case of Freddie Gray, 9 00:00:52,010 --> 00:00:54,054 who died after being in police custody, 10 00:00:54,137 --> 00:00:55,597 and at the center of the story... 11 00:00:55,681 --> 00:00:56,765 STEPHANIE RAWLINGS-BLAKE: This is one of 12 00:00:56,849 --> 00:00:58,600 our darkest days as a city 13 00:00:59,351 --> 00:01:01,311 and I know that we are much better than this. 14 00:01:01,395 --> 00:01:03,689 COACH G: Attention! Attention! 15 00:01:03,772 --> 00:01:05,232 (FEET STOMPING) 16 00:01:05,315 --> 00:01:07,943 GIRLS: (CHANTING) You may think you may know, 17 00:01:09,278 --> 00:01:12,239 but there's one thing that's for sure. 18 00:01:12,322 --> 00:01:14,616 That the Lethal Ladies of BLSYW 19 00:01:14,700 --> 00:01:16,869 are the ones you can't resist. 20 00:01:16,952 --> 00:01:19,496 Sisterhood and integrity, 21 00:01:19,580 --> 00:01:21,415 you mess with my sister and you mess with me. 22 00:01:21,498 --> 00:01:24,418 We step with soul, we step with pride. 23 00:01:24,501 --> 00:01:26,503 Lethal Ladies till the day we die. 24 00:01:30,841 --> 00:01:32,801 (INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS) 25 00:01:32,885 --> 00:01:34,636 Come on, ladies. 26 00:01:45,689 --> 00:01:48,025 (SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY) 27 00:01:48,108 --> 00:01:50,027 (OVERLAPPING CONVERSATIONS) 28 00:01:52,738 --> 00:01:55,073 (BELL RINGING) 29 00:01:57,659 --> 00:01:59,411 COACH G: All right. Okay. 30 00:01:59,494 --> 00:02:00,996 -Hello, everyone. -GIRLS: Hi. 31 00:02:01,079 --> 00:02:03,457 I'm Gari. I'm the new step coach. 32 00:02:03,540 --> 00:02:05,209 Did you all hear you got a new step coach? 33 00:02:05,292 --> 00:02:08,712 Y'all can call me Coach G. You good with that? 34 00:02:09,046 --> 00:02:10,464 I'm a first-generation college student. 35 00:02:10,547 --> 00:02:12,049 I'm the only person in my family who has a degree. 36 00:02:13,050 --> 00:02:14,843 I live on Gilmor Street, 37 00:02:14,927 --> 00:02:16,386 where Freddie Gray was murdered, 38 00:02:16,470 --> 00:02:19,014 so I'm very well-rounded with 39 00:02:19,097 --> 00:02:21,183 what goes on out in these streets. 40 00:02:21,266 --> 00:02:23,519 I want everyone to introduce themselves to me. 41 00:02:23,602 --> 00:02:25,479 Tell me why you like to step. 42 00:02:25,562 --> 00:02:26,688 My name is Amanda Leonard. 43 00:02:26,772 --> 00:02:28,899 I like to step because it's empowering. 44 00:02:28,982 --> 00:02:31,401 It's a form of art that brings us all together. 45 00:02:31,485 --> 00:02:34,446 I can express myself in different ways during step 46 00:02:34,530 --> 00:02:36,323 and this is also my side hustle 47 00:02:36,406 --> 00:02:38,659 because I don't do hair or makeup. 48 00:02:38,742 --> 00:02:39,868 -(LAUGHING) -(SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY) 49 00:02:39,952 --> 00:02:42,496 I like to step because it's a passion of mine, 50 00:02:42,579 --> 00:02:43,747 I'm good at it 51 00:02:43,830 --> 00:02:46,792 and I like to see our ideas come to life. 52 00:02:46,875 --> 00:02:48,210 Step is life. 53 00:02:48,293 --> 00:02:49,753 -COACH G: Step is life. -Yes. 54 00:03:04,768 --> 00:03:06,603 COACH G: Five, six, seven, eight. 55 00:03:13,443 --> 00:03:14,695 BLESSIN: Sometimes I feel like I just go 56 00:03:14,778 --> 00:03:16,530 somewhere else when I step. 57 00:03:16,613 --> 00:03:19,491 It's like therapy a little bit. 58 00:03:19,575 --> 00:03:21,034 Like you up there screaming and yelling 59 00:03:21,118 --> 00:03:22,494 and faces and muggin' 60 00:03:22,578 --> 00:03:25,747 and steppin' like you just stomping your life away. 61 00:03:25,831 --> 00:03:28,542 Throwing your hair everywhere. You clappin'. 62 00:03:28,625 --> 00:03:32,713 Got all your friends around, you know? Just like... 63 00:03:32,796 --> 00:03:35,340 We makin' music with our bodies. 64 00:03:35,424 --> 00:03:37,551 Like, that's some slick stuff. 65 00:03:37,634 --> 00:03:39,970 That's slick though, ain't it? That's slick. 66 00:03:40,053 --> 00:03:41,388 COACH G: One more time, ladies. 67 00:03:41,471 --> 00:03:44,141 BLESSIN: Step is a complete getaway for me. 68 00:03:44,224 --> 00:03:47,686 Like a complete erase from home. 69 00:03:48,437 --> 00:03:50,522 My community is pretty poisonous, 70 00:03:50,606 --> 00:03:52,191 I'm not even gonna lie. 71 00:03:53,275 --> 00:03:54,610 It feels good to know that, 72 00:03:54,693 --> 00:03:56,778 like, you and your teammates are all on the same page 73 00:03:56,862 --> 00:03:59,239 and that you're just moving as one. 74 00:04:01,700 --> 00:04:04,286 I started the step team in sixth grade 75 00:04:04,369 --> 00:04:06,830 and over the years, we got good, 76 00:04:06,914 --> 00:04:09,791 but last year, everything just fell apart. 77 00:04:10,542 --> 00:04:12,628 I missed about 53 days of school 78 00:04:12,711 --> 00:04:15,839 and my grades didn't meet the GPA requirement, 79 00:04:15,923 --> 00:04:17,966 so I was kicked off the step team. 80 00:04:18,342 --> 00:04:20,344 We lost every competition that year. 81 00:04:22,221 --> 00:04:24,515 Ladies, that was good! That was on point. 82 00:04:24,598 --> 00:04:26,767 But that was last year, right? 83 00:04:27,434 --> 00:04:29,144 What's up this year? 84 00:04:29,228 --> 00:04:31,230 We taking it to the next level, right? 85 00:04:31,855 --> 00:04:32,940 Y'all ready? 86 00:04:34,024 --> 00:04:35,567 I want them to understand 87 00:04:35,651 --> 00:04:38,320 that this is way bigger than stepping. 88 00:04:38,904 --> 00:04:41,240 It's about not making excuses 89 00:04:41,323 --> 00:04:44,576 making sacrifices, having a positive attitude. 90 00:04:44,952 --> 00:04:48,121 I know it gets tough. We're in Baltimore City. 91 00:04:48,205 --> 00:04:49,540 They come home to no lights, 92 00:04:49,623 --> 00:04:51,124 come home to violence in their neighborhood, 93 00:04:51,208 --> 00:04:53,293 not having food in the refrigerator, 94 00:04:53,377 --> 00:04:55,212 not having a refrigerator at all. 95 00:04:55,796 --> 00:04:57,464 But when they come to step practice, 96 00:04:57,548 --> 00:05:00,217 all those things are erased out of their mind. 97 00:05:01,009 --> 00:05:03,554 So that is why they can succeed. 98 00:05:03,637 --> 00:05:04,972 'Cause they can make it through step practice, 99 00:05:05,055 --> 00:05:07,850 so they can make it through life. 100 00:05:07,933 --> 00:05:09,893 (INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS) 101 00:05:11,562 --> 00:05:13,188 (SINGING INDISTINCTLY) 102 00:05:18,277 --> 00:05:21,822 In exactly 274 days, 103 00:05:21,905 --> 00:05:24,825 we will graduate our first twelfth-grade class. 104 00:05:25,409 --> 00:05:27,077 We have an entire city 105 00:05:27,160 --> 00:05:29,913 that's waiting for the power that we will unleash. 106 00:05:30,414 --> 00:05:32,416 PAULA: My mission is to make sure 107 00:05:32,499 --> 00:05:33,959 each and every one of you 108 00:05:34,042 --> 00:05:36,253 from sixth grade through twelfth grade 109 00:05:36,336 --> 00:05:39,756 is accepted to and graduates from college. 110 00:05:40,340 --> 00:05:42,593 This is just the beginning 111 00:05:42,676 --> 00:05:45,262 of a litany of success and greatness 112 00:05:45,345 --> 00:05:47,097 that will be the grand history 113 00:05:47,181 --> 00:05:49,933 of the Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women. 114 00:06:00,235 --> 00:06:04,448 Ah! I was such a cute child. What happened? 115 00:06:05,282 --> 00:06:07,326 I don't know why my mother made us pose like this 116 00:06:07,409 --> 00:06:09,119 at every school picture. 117 00:06:09,578 --> 00:06:11,288 Like, look at that gut! 118 00:06:12,289 --> 00:06:13,415 I remember this year. 119 00:06:13,498 --> 00:06:14,583 -Mmm-hmm. -(GENEVA SPEAKING) 120 00:06:14,917 --> 00:06:17,085 That's Briona being baptized. 121 00:06:17,794 --> 00:06:19,379 I loved that church. I loved that church so much. 122 00:06:19,463 --> 00:06:20,797 Grace Bible Baptist on Rolling Road. 123 00:06:20,881 --> 00:06:21,924 They taught... 124 00:06:22,007 --> 00:06:23,884 (SINGING) Oh, down by the river 125 00:06:23,967 --> 00:06:25,385 GENEVA: Down by the river 126 00:06:25,469 --> 00:06:27,721 I took a little walk 127 00:06:27,804 --> 00:06:29,389 I took a little walk 128 00:06:29,473 --> 00:06:31,308 I met up with the Devil 129 00:06:31,391 --> 00:06:33,060 I met up with the Devil 130 00:06:33,143 --> 00:06:34,895 We had a little talk 131 00:06:34,978 --> 00:06:36,813 We had a little talk 132 00:06:36,897 --> 00:06:38,315 I pushed him in the river 133 00:06:38,398 --> 00:06:40,067 I pushed him in the river 134 00:06:40,150 --> 00:06:41,902 And I hung him on the line 135 00:06:41,985 --> 00:06:43,862 And I hung him on the line 136 00:06:43,946 --> 00:06:45,781 I said, we can beat the Devil 137 00:06:45,864 --> 00:06:47,783 We can beat the Devil 138 00:06:47,866 --> 00:06:50,118 Any old time 139 00:06:50,202 --> 00:06:52,663 That was like the best song ever. 140 00:06:52,746 --> 00:06:54,706 Now you see how they had me steppin' on the church bus 141 00:06:54,790 --> 00:06:56,250 before I was even steppin'. 142 00:06:56,333 --> 00:06:58,001 I was like, you could count on me, like, 143 00:06:58,085 --> 00:06:59,878 Brother Jerry's like, "Keep the beat, Blessin!" 144 00:06:59,962 --> 00:07:02,256 "Keep the beat!" Like, I got that beat. 145 00:07:03,006 --> 00:07:05,050 This is my father. He drew this of himself 146 00:07:05,133 --> 00:07:08,011 when he had a lot of time to just draw. 147 00:07:09,054 --> 00:07:10,931 GENEVA: I tried to do the best that I could 148 00:07:11,014 --> 00:07:13,934 with raising my girls as basically a single parent, 149 00:07:14,017 --> 00:07:17,020 because their father and I... 150 00:07:17,938 --> 00:07:20,107 Well, their father and I do better 151 00:07:20,190 --> 00:07:21,525 when we're not in the same household. 152 00:07:21,608 --> 00:07:23,694 I'll put it like that. Yeah. 153 00:07:25,571 --> 00:07:26,697 BLESSIN: Is this my handwriting? 154 00:07:26,780 --> 00:07:29,700 (LAUGHS) Oh, I remember this. "The Frankenstein." 155 00:07:29,783 --> 00:07:34,788 (READING) "This is a story by Blessin. 4-2-2003." 156 00:07:34,872 --> 00:07:37,374 (READING) "One day, a spooky monster came into the night 157 00:07:37,457 --> 00:07:40,627 "to kill the woman that break up with him. 158 00:07:41,378 --> 00:07:42,963 "Her door bust open 159 00:07:43,046 --> 00:07:44,756 "and Frankenstein bust in the house 160 00:07:44,840 --> 00:07:46,216 "and made something go like boom!" 161 00:07:46,300 --> 00:07:47,342 (GENEVA SPEAKING) 162 00:07:47,426 --> 00:07:50,387 You know, a family coordinator asked me what was that about. 163 00:07:50,470 --> 00:07:52,472 BLESSIN: What was going on in your house? 164 00:07:52,556 --> 00:07:55,434 It's just that when you hear, "Boom!" you know to zoom! 165 00:07:55,517 --> 00:07:57,060 -You know what I'm sayin'? -(FAMILY LAUGHING) 166 00:07:58,395 --> 00:07:59,396 It go boom. 167 00:08:01,523 --> 00:08:03,233 (GENEVA SPEAKING) 168 00:08:03,317 --> 00:08:04,318 We would fight. 169 00:08:05,569 --> 00:08:07,738 We would fight. I'm a fighter, you know? 170 00:08:09,865 --> 00:08:12,534 Once, I saw it was like a black-out. 171 00:08:13,243 --> 00:08:16,079 And I just heard Brittany and Brooke behind me screaming, 172 00:08:16,163 --> 00:08:17,289 "Mommy don't kill him". 173 00:08:18,582 --> 00:08:20,501 Because I had him pinned down 174 00:08:20,584 --> 00:08:22,586 and I was literally choking him out. 175 00:08:24,463 --> 00:08:26,798 And then I said no. I'm not going to do it. 176 00:08:26,882 --> 00:08:30,928 You know, somebody has to back down in order to keep the sanity about you, so I left. 177 00:08:31,720 --> 00:08:35,891 And I stayed in transitional housing for 22 months. Me and my children. 178 00:08:40,395 --> 00:08:43,774 Probably had depression since I was a teenager. 179 00:08:44,775 --> 00:08:46,068 My children know. 180 00:08:46,777 --> 00:08:47,986 They know when I'm depressed, 181 00:08:48,070 --> 00:08:49,780 they know when I'm worried, you know. 182 00:08:49,863 --> 00:08:52,282 And they'd be very concerned about me. 183 00:08:52,950 --> 00:08:53,951 Mmm-hmm. 184 00:09:04,253 --> 00:09:05,629 (COACH G SHOUTS) 185 00:09:09,591 --> 00:09:12,719 (CHANTING) You know you like it. 186 00:09:12,803 --> 00:09:14,721 CORI: I'm kind of an introvert. 187 00:09:14,805 --> 00:09:17,182 I'm not very dramatic. 188 00:09:17,683 --> 00:09:20,352 But all those parts come out of me when I step. 189 00:09:21,895 --> 00:09:24,690 I'm just everything that step is not. 190 00:09:24,773 --> 00:09:26,191 COACH G: Y'all take a ten-minute break. 191 00:09:26,275 --> 00:09:27,818 5:40 come back. 192 00:09:27,901 --> 00:09:29,194 (SQUEALING) 193 00:09:31,655 --> 00:09:33,490 CORI: So, since sixth grade, 194 00:09:33,574 --> 00:09:36,076 I've really been working super-hard 195 00:09:36,159 --> 00:09:38,203 to graduate top of my class, 196 00:09:38,287 --> 00:09:41,164 because my dream school is Johns Hopkins University. 197 00:09:42,082 --> 00:09:47,254 Hopkins costs about $60,000 per year in tuition and 198 00:09:47,337 --> 00:09:49,673 I don't have $60,000 per year for tuition 199 00:09:49,756 --> 00:09:51,383 so I'm hoping to get a full ride. 200 00:09:51,466 --> 00:09:52,843 Wait, did you all wash your hands first? 201 00:09:52,926 --> 00:09:54,261 -Yes. -No. 202 00:09:54,344 --> 00:09:57,055 TRIANA: I got half yeses and half nos. 203 00:09:57,139 --> 00:09:59,141 CORI: I have six siblings, so, 204 00:09:59,224 --> 00:10:00,934 my parents aren't gonna have enough money 205 00:10:01,018 --> 00:10:03,187 to send me to school for four years, 206 00:10:03,270 --> 00:10:04,855 especially not at Hopkins. 207 00:10:05,189 --> 00:10:07,232 Taylor said the soup is delicious. 208 00:10:08,817 --> 00:10:11,320 Who the bomb? Who's the woman? 209 00:10:11,403 --> 00:10:14,406 Who makes great soup? Yeah, baby! 210 00:10:18,785 --> 00:10:20,412 BROTHER: Cori, what's this? 211 00:10:21,079 --> 00:10:22,956 CORI: It's called coding. 212 00:10:23,040 --> 00:10:26,126 You make a secret code to make pictures. 213 00:10:26,210 --> 00:10:27,419 BROTHER: Stay still, Taylor. 214 00:10:27,503 --> 00:10:28,462 You want to make a bunny? 215 00:10:28,545 --> 00:10:29,630 -TAYLOR: A bunny? -Hmm? 216 00:10:29,713 --> 00:10:30,756 Wanna make a bunny? 217 00:10:30,839 --> 00:10:31,840 Yes. 218 00:10:32,174 --> 00:10:35,928 So if I make it 300, his ear will be gone. 219 00:10:36,011 --> 00:10:37,054 (GIGGLES) 220 00:10:37,137 --> 00:10:38,722 CORI: It's really important for my mom 221 00:10:38,805 --> 00:10:42,142 to see her kids do well in life, in school. 222 00:10:42,768 --> 00:10:43,977 My mom didn't go to college 223 00:10:44,061 --> 00:10:45,604 because she didn't really have anybody 224 00:10:45,687 --> 00:10:47,981 who was there to support her through the process. 225 00:10:48,065 --> 00:10:50,984 And she also had me when she was 16. 226 00:10:53,529 --> 00:10:54,738 TRIANA: Isn't this crazy? 227 00:10:55,864 --> 00:10:57,324 'Cause you have a Mickey Mouse blanket. 228 00:10:57,407 --> 00:11:00,661 Yes. My room was Mickey Moused-out! 229 00:11:00,744 --> 00:11:02,871 You were six months old with your mom 230 00:11:02,955 --> 00:11:04,831 and her Mickey Moused-out room. 231 00:11:04,915 --> 00:11:07,584 (LAUGHS) And this was my Junior Prom. 232 00:11:08,752 --> 00:11:11,338 I was 15, I was in the 10th grade 233 00:11:11,421 --> 00:11:13,006 and my stepfather asked me, he said, 234 00:11:13,090 --> 00:11:14,341 "So what are you gonna do?" 235 00:11:14,424 --> 00:11:16,593 And I said, "What do you mean, what am I gonna do? 236 00:11:16,677 --> 00:11:17,678 "I'm keeping my baby." 237 00:11:18,595 --> 00:11:20,764 It was easy because her father, 238 00:11:20,848 --> 00:11:22,683 we worked together really well. 239 00:11:22,766 --> 00:11:24,351 With both of us working 240 00:11:24,434 --> 00:11:26,144 and both of us having our own cars 241 00:11:26,228 --> 00:11:27,354 even though we were young, 242 00:11:27,437 --> 00:11:29,648 it was just easy with her. 243 00:11:30,899 --> 00:11:33,819 CORI: My mom is like... (CHUCKLES) 244 00:11:34,361 --> 00:11:36,780 A magic wand in human form. 245 00:11:37,406 --> 00:11:38,991 I never had to worry about 246 00:11:39,074 --> 00:11:40,492 where my next meal would come from, 247 00:11:40,576 --> 00:11:42,744 or where would we be staying. 248 00:11:42,828 --> 00:11:43,996 At one point we were homeless 249 00:11:44,079 --> 00:11:45,747 and I actually didn't even know it. 250 00:11:46,373 --> 00:11:48,584 Hey, Shane, can I have a kiss? 251 00:11:48,959 --> 00:11:53,046 Shelton and I, we have not been married a year yet. 252 00:11:53,130 --> 00:11:54,882 And so, we are just kind of 253 00:11:54,965 --> 00:11:57,050 getting into the flow and groove 254 00:11:57,134 --> 00:11:58,844 of this whole blended family life 255 00:11:58,927 --> 00:12:00,804 and wife and husband life. 256 00:12:01,805 --> 00:12:04,558 We are still not in a place financially 257 00:12:04,641 --> 00:12:06,935 where we can just pay our bills. 258 00:12:07,019 --> 00:12:09,396 And when the money is not in place, 259 00:12:09,479 --> 00:12:11,565 everything else is like downhill. 260 00:12:15,652 --> 00:12:17,905 Five, six, five, six, seven, eight. 261 00:12:23,660 --> 00:12:27,623 (RAPPING INDISTINCTLY) 262 00:12:28,498 --> 00:12:31,835 Last year, we went to a lot of step competitions 263 00:12:31,919 --> 00:12:34,379 and we didn't win first place in any of them. 264 00:12:34,463 --> 00:12:36,715 And I feel like this year is our time for redemption. 265 00:12:36,798 --> 00:12:37,799 And I feel like people are actually 266 00:12:37,883 --> 00:12:39,801 gonna want to work hard 267 00:12:39,885 --> 00:12:42,304 to get the rewards that we deserve. 268 00:12:43,096 --> 00:12:47,267 Left, right, clap, here. 269 00:12:47,351 --> 00:12:49,394 COACH G: We have a big year ahead of us, 270 00:12:49,478 --> 00:12:53,190 the biggest competition is Bowie State. 271 00:12:53,273 --> 00:12:57,277 Bowie is a competition for the DMV. 272 00:12:57,361 --> 00:13:00,072 That's DC, Maryland and Virginia. 273 00:13:01,532 --> 00:13:03,951 There's never been a team from Baltimore 274 00:13:04,034 --> 00:13:05,953 who has came out there and won. 275 00:13:07,538 --> 00:13:10,207 (INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS) 276 00:13:10,958 --> 00:13:12,459 (CHANTING) 277 00:13:14,378 --> 00:13:16,755 BLESSIN: If we win Bowie, like... 278 00:13:16,839 --> 00:13:17,965 Jesus! 279 00:13:18,048 --> 00:13:21,635 If we win Bowie, like, we gonna let them know, 280 00:13:21,718 --> 00:13:23,178 like, man, we from Baltimore, 281 00:13:23,262 --> 00:13:25,848 like, whatcha all talking about up here in Bowie? 282 00:13:32,354 --> 00:13:33,397 Oh! 283 00:13:33,814 --> 00:13:36,441 (INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS) 284 00:13:37,401 --> 00:13:39,403 PAULA: We're gonna talk about what your options are. 285 00:13:39,486 --> 00:13:41,905 So today is reality check. 286 00:13:41,989 --> 00:13:47,035 These grades, this overall 1.1 GPA 287 00:13:47,119 --> 00:13:48,954 from ninth through eleventh grade, 288 00:13:49,037 --> 00:13:50,873 is not indicative of who you are. 289 00:13:51,456 --> 00:13:53,876 So this is the time when you pass by my office 290 00:13:53,959 --> 00:13:56,336 and I'm giving you the side-eye, this is why. 291 00:13:56,420 --> 00:13:57,671 You hid from me last year. 292 00:13:57,754 --> 00:13:59,339 It's okay, you can say you didn't but you did. 293 00:13:59,423 --> 00:14:01,800 My absence was bad, so Blessin hid from herself. 294 00:14:01,884 --> 00:14:02,843 "Blessin hid from herself." 295 00:14:02,926 --> 00:14:05,095 Well, I'm glad, we're glad to see Blessin. Okay? 296 00:14:05,470 --> 00:14:08,182 I'm aiming for all A's this quarter. All A's. 297 00:14:08,265 --> 00:14:10,350 And we're here to help you and support you to do that. 298 00:14:10,434 --> 00:14:12,019 Now, the biggest piece 299 00:14:12,102 --> 00:14:14,563 is our parent night for seniors. 300 00:14:14,938 --> 00:14:16,982 -My mom has to be here? -Yes. 301 00:14:17,065 --> 00:14:18,817 We've had some situations in the past 302 00:14:18,901 --> 00:14:20,944 getting in touch with mom, getting mom to come. 303 00:14:21,028 --> 00:14:22,112 In fact, you know, 304 00:14:22,196 --> 00:14:24,531 I've never met your mother in three years. 305 00:14:24,615 --> 00:14:25,741 What can we do because 306 00:14:25,824 --> 00:14:27,492 I need her as part of this process, 307 00:14:27,576 --> 00:14:30,245 because the financial pieces, you cannot do. 308 00:14:34,208 --> 00:14:35,209 Well... 309 00:14:37,377 --> 00:14:39,421 You know, usually I... I don't know. 310 00:14:43,634 --> 00:14:45,052 So I had my academic meeting 311 00:14:45,135 --> 00:14:46,887 with Ms. Dofat today, our college advisor. 312 00:14:46,970 --> 00:14:48,055 GENEVA: Mmm-hmm. 313 00:14:48,138 --> 00:14:50,057 You really don't know her that much. 314 00:14:50,140 --> 00:14:52,768 I've met her. You think I forget stuff, 315 00:14:52,851 --> 00:14:54,144 but I remember Ms. Dofat. 316 00:14:54,228 --> 00:14:56,355 I remember things you tell me. 317 00:14:56,438 --> 00:14:58,774 BLESSIN: Okay. Well, she gave me my transcript 318 00:14:58,857 --> 00:15:01,235 and some possible colleges I could be attending 319 00:15:01,318 --> 00:15:02,486 if I get a certain GPA this year. 320 00:15:02,569 --> 00:15:03,737 (GENEVA SPEAKS) 321 00:15:03,820 --> 00:15:04,821 Which are? 322 00:15:04,905 --> 00:15:09,201 Oh, Allegany, FIT and, um, it was one more. 323 00:15:09,284 --> 00:15:11,119 I took notes on it, but here you go. 324 00:15:11,203 --> 00:15:14,039 What's this about Allegany? Isn't that closer to us? 325 00:15:14,122 --> 00:15:16,542 Yeah, it's not that far, you can drive there. 326 00:15:16,625 --> 00:15:18,585 I know you want to go away for school, 327 00:15:18,669 --> 00:15:22,172 but I don't want you too far from me, you know? 328 00:15:22,256 --> 00:15:24,967 BLESSIN: I'll be a phone call away. I'm ready to go! 329 00:15:25,050 --> 00:15:26,301 BRITTANY: Go, girlfriend! 330 00:15:26,885 --> 00:15:28,303 Share your talents with the world. 331 00:15:29,263 --> 00:15:31,431 You ready to eat anything yet? 332 00:15:31,515 --> 00:15:33,892 GENEVA: I went to college for a while. 333 00:15:33,976 --> 00:15:36,103 I didn't graduate. I stopped after two years 334 00:15:36,186 --> 00:15:37,938 because I had problems with math 335 00:15:38,021 --> 00:15:40,065 and I would always withdraw 336 00:15:40,148 --> 00:15:41,441 just before the grades would come out 337 00:15:41,525 --> 00:15:45,153 and I would always get the incomplete on my grades. 338 00:15:45,779 --> 00:15:47,781 And eventually I stopped going 339 00:15:47,865 --> 00:15:49,491 and then you look up 10 years later, you say, 340 00:15:49,575 --> 00:15:51,827 "Wow, you should've stayed." 341 00:15:52,369 --> 00:15:53,704 Mmm-hmm. 342 00:15:54,079 --> 00:15:55,080 That's me. 343 00:15:55,414 --> 00:15:58,125 So, yeah, on the 24th, Ms. Dofat said that 344 00:15:58,208 --> 00:16:00,627 you need to come to the school for a meeting. 345 00:16:00,711 --> 00:16:02,379 GENEVA: What's this meeting gonna be about? 346 00:16:02,462 --> 00:16:03,714 BLESSIN: So I can get financial aid. 347 00:16:04,089 --> 00:16:07,718 To see what kind of grants you'll qualify for? 348 00:16:08,260 --> 00:16:10,804 I will be there and not be square. 349 00:16:13,098 --> 00:16:15,684 (INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS) 350 00:16:18,979 --> 00:16:22,274 COACH G: Plie. However, it's like this. 351 00:16:22,357 --> 00:16:23,358 Hold up. Coach. 352 00:16:23,442 --> 00:16:24,484 Come on. 353 00:16:25,402 --> 00:16:27,112 Hold your arms straight out. 354 00:16:28,113 --> 00:16:31,450 Oh, my God. This is ridiculous. 355 00:16:32,326 --> 00:16:33,994 (TAYLA SPEAKING) 356 00:16:34,077 --> 00:16:36,914 I'm like a notch down from Beyoncé because I do still mess up. 357 00:16:37,581 --> 00:16:38,749 Beyoncé don't mess up. 358 00:16:39,082 --> 00:16:42,002 Well, even if she do, she, like, pull it off so good 359 00:16:42,085 --> 00:16:43,921 and I just don't even notice it. 360 00:16:45,088 --> 00:16:46,298 COACH G: All right, let's do it one more time 361 00:16:46,381 --> 00:16:48,383 then we're gonna go on to something different. 362 00:16:49,259 --> 00:16:51,303 -Five, six seven, eight. -GIRLS: (CHANTING) 363 00:16:51,678 --> 00:16:57,434 We are the lovely ladies of LLOB. 364 00:16:57,935 --> 00:17:01,522 Unlike these imitators, we are so unique. 365 00:17:02,105 --> 00:17:05,609 We started our steppin' just seven years ago 366 00:17:05,943 --> 00:17:09,947 and ever since then we've been rockin' the show. 367 00:17:10,989 --> 00:17:12,991 MAISHA: It has become a daily routine. 368 00:17:13,659 --> 00:17:17,621 It's in my schedule. Work, step, home. 369 00:17:18,247 --> 00:17:20,249 I've watched all of these girls grow up 370 00:17:20,332 --> 00:17:22,376 so I don't only go for her, 371 00:17:22,459 --> 00:17:25,879 Tayla, I go for everybody. 372 00:17:25,963 --> 00:17:28,090 I would love to have had 373 00:17:29,258 --> 00:17:32,052 a big family and lots of children, 374 00:17:32,135 --> 00:17:33,512 but that wasn't my calling. 375 00:17:33,595 --> 00:17:36,849 My calling was to have one as I did. 376 00:17:36,932 --> 00:17:38,267 Hello? Hello? 377 00:17:38,350 --> 00:17:39,643 COACH G: Good! 378 00:17:39,726 --> 00:17:41,395 The queen is waiting. 379 00:17:41,478 --> 00:17:43,730 COACH G: Now look around. "Hello? Hello?" 380 00:17:43,814 --> 00:17:46,650 NUSH: Hello? The queen is waiting. 381 00:17:47,025 --> 00:17:50,904 (MAISHA SHOUTING) 382 00:17:50,988 --> 00:17:52,322 (BLESSIN LAUGHING) 383 00:17:54,992 --> 00:17:58,328 Hello? The queen is waiting. 384 00:17:58,829 --> 00:18:00,581 There it is. One more time. 385 00:18:00,956 --> 00:18:04,668 BOTH: Hello? Hello? 386 00:18:04,751 --> 00:18:06,628 NUSH: The queen is waiting. 387 00:18:06,712 --> 00:18:07,921 MAISHA: There it is. 388 00:18:08,005 --> 00:18:10,048 That's what's gonna get. 389 00:18:10,132 --> 00:18:11,133 Thank you. 390 00:18:12,176 --> 00:18:14,595 (INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS) 391 00:18:14,678 --> 00:18:18,307 (SINGING) My daddy Alabama Momma Louisiana 392 00:18:18,390 --> 00:18:20,475 You mix that negro with that Creole 393 00:18:20,559 --> 00:18:22,436 make a Texas bama 394 00:18:22,895 --> 00:18:25,898 TAYLA: My mother is annoying. 395 00:18:26,690 --> 00:18:29,776 She can take it overboard 396 00:18:29,860 --> 00:18:33,614 and have too much fun, like she's 17 or 18. 397 00:18:33,697 --> 00:18:35,157 And I'm just like, 398 00:18:35,240 --> 00:18:36,909 "Mom, you gotta chill sometimes." 399 00:18:36,992 --> 00:18:39,203 She'll be like, "What? I'm just having fun!" 400 00:18:39,286 --> 00:18:40,871 And I'm just, like, 401 00:18:40,954 --> 00:18:43,457 "Okay, you're embarrassing me but whatever." 402 00:18:44,625 --> 00:18:47,044 Oh, my gosh! Why would you ever do that? 403 00:18:57,721 --> 00:18:58,722 REPORTER: (ON TV) In other news, 404 00:18:58,805 --> 00:18:59,848 the trials for the six officers charged 405 00:18:59,932 --> 00:19:02,476 in Freddie Gray's death are back on the docket. 406 00:19:02,559 --> 00:19:05,771 And today, expect it to be finalized. Here's a look at the order now. 407 00:19:05,854 --> 00:19:07,940 Officer Edward Nero's trial is scheduled 408 00:19:08,023 --> 00:19:10,567 for May 10th, after that the driver. 409 00:19:13,028 --> 00:19:14,279 When I was coming up, 410 00:19:14,363 --> 00:19:16,031 the police were my biggest heroes. 411 00:19:16,114 --> 00:19:18,116 I grew up in northwest Baltimore. 412 00:19:18,450 --> 00:19:20,369 You had officer friendlies. 413 00:19:20,452 --> 00:19:21,828 They would walk the beat, 414 00:19:21,912 --> 00:19:25,123 they would come to school, talk to you. 415 00:19:25,207 --> 00:19:29,586 And that's why I wanted my job as a correctional officer. 416 00:19:30,087 --> 00:19:32,923 And I love my job. I love it. 417 00:19:34,591 --> 00:19:37,594 Some deserve to be there and some don't. 418 00:19:37,970 --> 00:19:40,764 A lot of our children are lost. 419 00:19:40,848 --> 00:19:42,558 They have no one. 420 00:19:43,183 --> 00:19:45,561 And I feel as though it's my obligation 421 00:19:45,644 --> 00:19:48,188 and my civic duty to help them. 422 00:19:48,897 --> 00:19:50,732 (SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY) 423 00:19:54,486 --> 00:19:56,488 (INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS) 424 00:20:01,994 --> 00:20:05,664 We must remember that college is a business. 425 00:20:05,747 --> 00:20:06,999 So where do I fit financially? 426 00:20:07,082 --> 00:20:09,334 'Cause some of these colleges are outrageous. 427 00:20:09,793 --> 00:20:12,212 I don't know anybody's financial situation, 428 00:20:12,296 --> 00:20:13,714 but I seriously doubt 429 00:20:13,797 --> 00:20:18,343 that the average American has $40,000 or $50,000 430 00:20:18,427 --> 00:20:20,095 sitting around in their bank account, 431 00:20:20,179 --> 00:20:22,723 waiting to be written to a college. 432 00:20:22,806 --> 00:20:24,057 Yes? 433 00:20:24,141 --> 00:20:25,726 TRIANA: The part that scares me 434 00:20:25,809 --> 00:20:28,937 is me not being there enough for Cori. 435 00:20:29,813 --> 00:20:32,524 (VOICE BREAKING) That's overwhelmingly scary for me. 436 00:20:32,608 --> 00:20:35,986 I feel like I won't be enough support for her. 437 00:20:36,069 --> 00:20:38,071 PAULA: And we're gonna make it through it, okay? 438 00:20:38,155 --> 00:20:40,699 You're fabulous. Come here, mama. (LAUGHS) 439 00:20:41,950 --> 00:20:43,577 (INDISTINCT CONVERSATION) 440 00:20:44,995 --> 00:20:47,164 BLESSIN: When my mom didn't show up for parent night, 441 00:20:47,247 --> 00:20:49,666 I'm not gonna say that I expected her to be there, 442 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:52,586 but when I actually seen her not show up, 443 00:20:52,669 --> 00:20:54,213 I was just thinking, like, 444 00:20:54,296 --> 00:20:56,006 "Okay, she promised me she'd be here. 445 00:20:56,089 --> 00:20:57,216 "Where is she?" 446 00:20:57,299 --> 00:20:58,342 PAULA: Once again, thank you so much. 447 00:20:58,425 --> 00:21:00,677 If you have any questions, I'll be happy to answer them. 448 00:21:07,392 --> 00:21:09,102 PAULA: What's going to happen now, you know the next step, 449 00:21:09,186 --> 00:21:11,772 February 11th is your interview. 450 00:21:11,855 --> 00:21:13,148 You're there to make sure 451 00:21:13,232 --> 00:21:15,275 that Cori is a good fit for University of Maryland 452 00:21:15,359 --> 00:21:16,777 and also that University of Maryland 453 00:21:16,860 --> 00:21:18,487 is a good fit for Cori. 454 00:21:18,570 --> 00:21:21,240 Barnard, I'm not concerned about you getting accepted. 455 00:21:22,449 --> 00:21:24,076 They would be crazy if they didn't accept you. 456 00:21:24,159 --> 00:21:25,953 And not because I like you so much, 457 00:21:26,036 --> 00:21:27,329 but because of your credentials. 458 00:21:27,412 --> 00:21:28,455 I think there's no reason 459 00:21:28,539 --> 00:21:29,581 that you shouldn't be accepted. 460 00:21:29,998 --> 00:21:33,126 The situation is gonna come in the money piece. 461 00:21:33,210 --> 00:21:35,254 I'm pretty sure there are gonna be loans on there. 462 00:21:35,838 --> 00:21:36,880 I don't like the L word. 463 00:21:36,964 --> 00:21:39,007 -I know. I know. -(CHUCKLES) 464 00:21:39,091 --> 00:21:45,138 If you ended up with a total $5,000 465 00:21:45,222 --> 00:21:48,475 in loans per year for your four years, 466 00:21:48,559 --> 00:21:50,727 I know that's $20,000, 467 00:21:50,811 --> 00:21:53,772 but it's really not a lot of money 468 00:21:53,856 --> 00:21:57,150 in the sense of what people come out owing. 469 00:21:57,234 --> 00:21:59,570 Your face says no, I get that. 470 00:22:10,998 --> 00:22:13,292 CORI: My stepdad just lost his job 471 00:22:14,293 --> 00:22:17,296 and it's like bills and bills and bills and bills. 472 00:22:23,760 --> 00:22:26,305 It's not the first time the power has been off. 473 00:22:27,347 --> 00:22:28,599 It happens. 474 00:22:30,934 --> 00:22:34,605 I don't know, like, for me, well, for my family, like, 475 00:22:34,688 --> 00:22:38,025 the idea of comfortability has been like cyclical. 476 00:22:38,108 --> 00:22:39,943 Like, it's on and off. It's on and off. 477 00:22:40,027 --> 00:22:41,570 And it's really frustrating to live like that 478 00:22:41,653 --> 00:22:43,030 because as soon as you get comfortable, 479 00:22:43,113 --> 00:22:44,865 it seems like one thing goes bad. 480 00:22:44,948 --> 00:22:46,116 Then when one thing goes bad, 481 00:22:46,200 --> 00:22:48,952 everything else goes bad and like... 482 00:22:50,245 --> 00:22:51,622 I don't know... 483 00:22:51,705 --> 00:22:53,123 I don't want to have to live like this 484 00:22:53,207 --> 00:22:56,043 and I don't want my family to have to live like this. 485 00:22:58,295 --> 00:22:59,713 So I'm gonna work my hardest 486 00:22:59,796 --> 00:23:01,965 to make it not happen in my life. 487 00:23:11,517 --> 00:23:12,809 (SNIFFLING) 488 00:23:25,531 --> 00:23:26,740 MS. THOMPSON: We are gonna do 489 00:23:26,823 --> 00:23:28,742 one last presentation for today. 490 00:23:28,825 --> 00:23:32,079 And that will be Blessin and Quanshe. 491 00:23:32,829 --> 00:23:33,997 Once the Supreme Court brought attention 492 00:23:34,081 --> 00:23:36,250 to the Fourteenth Amendment equal protection law, 493 00:23:36,333 --> 00:23:39,753 public schools were forced to desegregate its facilities. 494 00:23:39,837 --> 00:23:41,213 Next slide, please. 495 00:23:41,296 --> 00:23:43,257 So, this is shown where 496 00:23:43,340 --> 00:23:44,883 the desegregation was required. 497 00:23:44,967 --> 00:23:47,219 As you can see, that's in a lot of the southern states. 498 00:23:47,302 --> 00:23:48,428 Any questions? 499 00:23:48,512 --> 00:23:51,431 GIRL: What's the difference between this and the KKK? 500 00:23:51,515 --> 00:23:54,017 The KKK aligned and further pushed 501 00:23:54,101 --> 00:23:55,936 that movement towards violence 502 00:23:56,019 --> 00:23:59,147 because they actually went out at night in hooded cloaks 503 00:23:59,231 --> 00:24:01,441 and actually abused and attacked African Americans 504 00:24:01,525 --> 00:24:03,819 while they were already being suppressed, uh, 505 00:24:03,902 --> 00:24:05,904 economically and socially. 506 00:24:06,363 --> 00:24:08,407 Round of applause for the ladies. 507 00:24:08,490 --> 00:24:10,117 (CLASS APPLAUDS) 508 00:24:10,200 --> 00:24:11,743 (TEACHER SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY) 509 00:24:18,166 --> 00:24:20,794 BLESSIN: Oh, they sell cool strips of color in the front. 510 00:24:20,878 --> 00:24:23,839 They have like little bundles of color. 511 00:24:24,214 --> 00:24:26,216 See, but if I did go platinum blonde, 512 00:24:26,300 --> 00:24:27,467 I'm gonna go all the way. 513 00:24:27,551 --> 00:24:28,969 NAYSA: I thought you were going regular blonde. 514 00:24:29,052 --> 00:24:31,263 BLESSIN: No, I'm gonna go platinum. 515 00:24:31,346 --> 00:24:32,347 (HAIR BLOWER WHIRRING) 516 00:24:32,890 --> 00:24:33,974 (BLESSIN SPEAKS) 517 00:24:34,057 --> 00:24:35,434 You want your hair to look like Martin Luther King. 518 00:24:35,934 --> 00:24:37,311 (CHUCKLES) Malcolm X. 519 00:24:37,394 --> 00:24:39,438 (LAUGHS) 520 00:24:39,521 --> 00:24:42,316 BLESSIN: Okay, if you all were alive back in the day, 521 00:24:42,399 --> 00:24:46,904 would you be with Malcolm X or the MLK movement? 522 00:24:46,987 --> 00:24:48,697 I'd probably be with Malcolm. 523 00:24:48,780 --> 00:24:50,616 BLESSIN: I think I would be with Martin. 524 00:24:50,699 --> 00:24:52,492 I mean, like, I would have some homeboys 525 00:24:52,576 --> 00:24:54,828 that would be Black Panthers 526 00:24:54,912 --> 00:24:57,497 so if anybody ever spit in my face, 527 00:24:57,581 --> 00:24:59,958 I could call up my squad. 528 00:25:01,877 --> 00:25:04,796 Hard work is what really makes you somebody that's great. 529 00:25:04,880 --> 00:25:06,465 Somebody that should really go down. 530 00:25:06,548 --> 00:25:08,175 DOMONIQUE: Kim Kardashian didn't do a damn thing. 531 00:25:08,258 --> 00:25:09,426 Kim Kardashian isn't great. 532 00:25:09,510 --> 00:25:12,179 Kim Kardashian is pretty. 533 00:25:12,262 --> 00:25:14,598 You just gotta work twice as hard. 534 00:25:14,681 --> 00:25:16,892 And I'm willing to work. 535 00:25:16,975 --> 00:25:19,937 That's the way you have to get what you want in life. 536 00:25:22,523 --> 00:25:24,525 BLESSIN: I have a lot of dreams. 537 00:25:24,608 --> 00:25:27,444 Maybe I dream too much. (CHUCKLES) 538 00:25:27,528 --> 00:25:29,905 I'm passionate about dancing and step 539 00:25:29,988 --> 00:25:32,699 and choreographing everything. 540 00:25:32,783 --> 00:25:35,160 I fell in love when I seen the movie Chicago. 541 00:25:35,244 --> 00:25:37,204 Like, just the way they move. 542 00:25:37,287 --> 00:25:39,748 I'm just, like, I can do that. 543 00:25:39,831 --> 00:25:42,125 I can show people how to do that. 544 00:25:43,252 --> 00:25:45,295 COACH G: I need y'all to really listen to this song 545 00:25:45,379 --> 00:25:48,048 and really think of ways that y'all can make the beat. 546 00:25:48,382 --> 00:25:49,967 All right, here we go. Listen. 547 00:25:50,551 --> 00:25:53,053 (UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING) 548 00:25:54,471 --> 00:25:55,722 BLESSIN: I'm good with rhythms, like... 549 00:25:55,806 --> 00:25:57,724 I'm always the one like, boom, tap, tap, boom, tap, tap. 550 00:25:57,808 --> 00:26:00,519 Like with my mouth, that's how I remember steps. 551 00:26:00,602 --> 00:26:02,062 You need to have certain people on the floor 552 00:26:02,145 --> 00:26:03,772 laid down in this position 553 00:26:03,856 --> 00:26:06,066 and we need to have some people like this. 554 00:26:06,149 --> 00:26:08,652 (VOCALIZING) Step. 555 00:26:08,735 --> 00:26:10,863 Now we step. Now we step. 556 00:26:10,946 --> 00:26:12,531 COACH G: Yes! Yes! 557 00:26:12,614 --> 00:26:13,949 BLESSIN: Then the dance part. 558 00:26:14,032 --> 00:26:15,909 -Like levels, right? -Yep. 559 00:26:15,993 --> 00:26:17,411 BLESSIN: It's like a four-count... 560 00:26:17,494 --> 00:26:18,912 COACH G: We're gonna do those two moves. 561 00:26:18,996 --> 00:26:20,163 COACH G: She stands out. 562 00:26:20,247 --> 00:26:21,415 She's the one who comes up with things, 563 00:26:21,498 --> 00:26:22,875 like, out of nowhere. 564 00:26:22,958 --> 00:26:26,003 Like, Blessin the visionary. 565 00:26:26,086 --> 00:26:27,588 When you see her step, she's the one 566 00:26:27,671 --> 00:26:29,882 who your eyes go directly to. 567 00:26:29,965 --> 00:26:32,092 Because her heart is in it. 568 00:26:32,176 --> 00:26:33,552 (CHANTING) Lethal! 569 00:26:34,511 --> 00:26:35,596 COACH G: Wrong leg. 570 00:26:35,679 --> 00:26:37,264 (CHANTING) Ladies! 571 00:26:44,521 --> 00:26:45,522 ALL: (CHANTING) Come on, Freddie Gray, 572 00:26:45,606 --> 00:26:47,649 I got the victory, the victory. 573 00:26:47,733 --> 00:26:50,110 Because the devil is defeated and God be praised. 574 00:26:50,194 --> 00:26:52,696 I got the victory, the victory. 575 00:26:52,779 --> 00:26:54,072 (CHANTING CONTINUES) 576 00:26:54,156 --> 00:26:56,325 COACH G: Attention, please! 577 00:26:56,408 --> 00:26:58,452 This is a expo. We're here to learn, 578 00:26:58,535 --> 00:27:02,164 enhance, grow, move forward. 579 00:27:02,247 --> 00:27:04,291 I know you all want to take down the Lady Raiders. 580 00:27:04,374 --> 00:27:05,417 Yes. 581 00:27:05,501 --> 00:27:09,129 And this expo is the expo that the Lady Raiders 582 00:27:09,213 --> 00:27:12,883 and the Boy Raiders go to to enhance their step show. 583 00:27:15,052 --> 00:27:17,012 I need y'all to work on your facial expressions. 584 00:27:17,387 --> 00:27:20,682 I want you to imagine yourself 585 00:27:20,766 --> 00:27:23,810 the most elegant woman on earth. 586 00:27:24,186 --> 00:27:27,189 But she steps hard and with confidence. 587 00:27:28,565 --> 00:27:30,526 You gonna watch me step. 588 00:27:30,609 --> 00:27:34,071 Actually, I'm gonna make you watch me step. 589 00:27:34,154 --> 00:27:38,325 I'm gonna get my step, is gonna get up in your grill. 590 00:27:38,408 --> 00:27:40,953 I'm gonna take you by your neck 591 00:27:41,036 --> 00:27:44,164 and you gonna watch me do what I do. 592 00:27:45,082 --> 00:27:47,668 That's what you're supposed to project 593 00:27:47,751 --> 00:27:50,546 every time you get in front of somebody. 594 00:27:50,963 --> 00:27:53,674 That's what you step on. 595 00:27:53,757 --> 00:27:58,762 If you not steppin' on that, sit down, go home, good night. 596 00:27:59,555 --> 00:28:04,268 So, stand at attention and give me that face. 597 00:28:04,351 --> 00:28:06,687 Let's, let's, let's, 598 00:28:06,770 --> 00:28:09,189 let's get this step off started right! 599 00:28:09,273 --> 00:28:11,859 GIRLS: (CHANTING) Ay, ay, whoo! 600 00:28:15,195 --> 00:28:20,409 'Cause you don't want it. Let's get it started! 601 00:28:24,371 --> 00:28:26,373 'Cause you don't want it. 602 00:28:27,291 --> 00:28:28,292 (LORA LAUGHS) 603 00:28:29,168 --> 00:28:30,711 (ALL LAUGHING) 604 00:28:30,794 --> 00:28:32,212 LORA: They on fire, aren't they? 605 00:28:32,296 --> 00:28:34,715 They on fire! Come on! 606 00:28:37,634 --> 00:28:40,179 PAULA: Today, college application day. 607 00:28:40,262 --> 00:28:42,222 So we have a lot to do, a lot to accomplish. 608 00:28:42,306 --> 00:28:44,641 Ladies, we are gonna get it done today. 609 00:28:44,725 --> 00:28:46,185 Do you have an account already? 610 00:28:46,268 --> 00:28:47,227 Account? No. 611 00:28:47,311 --> 00:28:49,813 (SINGING) Baby, I'm worth it 612 00:28:49,897 --> 00:28:52,608 Her GPA could be a little bit higher. 613 00:28:52,691 --> 00:28:54,735 We just had this conversation. 614 00:28:54,818 --> 00:28:56,528 Our first impression is very important. 615 00:28:57,321 --> 00:28:58,906 And we only get how many chances 616 00:28:58,989 --> 00:29:00,991 to make a first impression? One. 617 00:29:01,074 --> 00:29:03,452 In the club with the lights off Whatchu acting shy for? 618 00:29:03,535 --> 00:29:05,495 PAULA: Your degree can say NYU. 619 00:29:05,579 --> 00:29:08,248 Your degree can say Spelman. 620 00:29:08,332 --> 00:29:10,334 Your degree can say anything you want it to say. 621 00:29:11,710 --> 00:29:13,712 CORI: I have an email about paying the enrollment fee. 622 00:29:14,922 --> 00:29:16,423 Ooh, I don't like that number. 623 00:29:16,507 --> 00:29:17,674 (CHANTING) 624 00:29:17,758 --> 00:29:21,220 My college application just erased. It erased twice. 625 00:29:21,303 --> 00:29:22,554 The entire thing. 626 00:29:22,930 --> 00:29:24,348 Give it to me, I'm worth it 627 00:29:24,431 --> 00:29:26,350 It's all on you it's all on you 628 00:29:26,725 --> 00:29:29,478 And tell her to bring her taxes, bring the W-2's. 629 00:29:29,561 --> 00:29:30,646 Did you work in 2015? 630 00:29:33,524 --> 00:29:37,110 You have to find $40,000 for yourself. 631 00:29:38,946 --> 00:29:41,657 I spoke with you about Blessin Giraldo. 632 00:29:41,740 --> 00:29:43,450 We were waiting for her mid-year grades. 633 00:29:43,534 --> 00:29:45,035 They're gonna be so much better 634 00:29:45,118 --> 00:29:46,870 than what we sent to you already. 635 00:29:47,204 --> 00:29:48,789 Make it happen tonight because 636 00:29:48,872 --> 00:29:51,333 I don't put my name out there for no reason. 637 00:29:51,416 --> 00:29:54,545 And I put my name out there. Don't make me look crazy. 638 00:29:55,170 --> 00:29:57,047 (INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS) 639 00:30:05,389 --> 00:30:06,598 You made the honor roll? 640 00:30:08,600 --> 00:30:09,601 I knew you could do it. 641 00:30:11,144 --> 00:30:12,938 -NAYSA: Yeah, Blessin! -(APPLAUDING) 642 00:30:13,021 --> 00:30:15,232 BLESSIN: Anatomy and physiology, 83. 643 00:30:15,315 --> 00:30:19,486 Foundations of Technology, a 95. (CHUCKLES) 644 00:30:19,570 --> 00:30:20,737 In English, I have a 72, 645 00:30:20,821 --> 00:30:23,156 but, like, I worked very hard for that 72. 646 00:30:23,240 --> 00:30:25,200 No assignments late, no assignments missing. 647 00:30:25,784 --> 00:30:27,995 So, you know, just gonna try new tactics 648 00:30:28,078 --> 00:30:30,706 and aim better for quarter two. 649 00:30:33,625 --> 00:30:35,419 This is the lady that is getting me into college. 650 00:30:35,794 --> 00:30:38,839 BLESSIN: Seeing my mom at school was... 651 00:30:38,922 --> 00:30:40,507 It was a big deal for me, you know. 652 00:30:40,591 --> 00:30:41,925 I don't know what she went through 653 00:30:42,009 --> 00:30:43,135 that morning to get up, 654 00:30:43,218 --> 00:30:45,596 or what she was even thinking entering the building. 655 00:30:46,638 --> 00:30:48,015 She's trying. She is and I can see it. 656 00:30:48,098 --> 00:30:49,349 (PAULA SPEAKING) 657 00:30:49,933 --> 00:30:53,437 I'm so pleased to meet you. I'm going to tell you, I love this girl. 658 00:30:53,520 --> 00:30:56,273 She works my last nerve but I love this girl. 659 00:30:56,773 --> 00:30:59,693 She's gonna be amazing. We just gotta wrangle her. 660 00:30:59,776 --> 00:31:01,028 So anything you and I can do 661 00:31:01,111 --> 00:31:03,280 to partner on that, I would appreciate it. 662 00:31:03,363 --> 00:31:04,865 -And Michelle. -PAULA: No, all of us. 663 00:31:04,948 --> 00:31:08,035 Because it's gonna take a team, village, a country, 664 00:31:08,118 --> 00:31:09,077 whatever it's gonna take, we gonna do that. 665 00:31:09,161 --> 00:31:10,245 MICHELLE: We've been working on it. 666 00:31:10,329 --> 00:31:12,039 All right. Okay, thank you, it was really nice to meet you. 667 00:31:12,122 --> 00:31:13,123 I appreciate it. 668 00:31:17,461 --> 00:31:18,712 NAJIA: (CHANTING) Hands up! 669 00:31:18,795 --> 00:31:20,172 GIRLS: Don't shoot! 670 00:31:20,255 --> 00:31:21,381 NAJIA: Hands up! 671 00:31:21,465 --> 00:31:22,508 GIRLS: Don't shoot! 672 00:31:22,591 --> 00:31:23,634 NAJIA: Hands up! 673 00:31:23,717 --> 00:31:25,219 GIRLS: Don't shoot! 674 00:31:25,302 --> 00:31:26,553 NAJIA: Say it loud! 675 00:31:26,637 --> 00:31:28,889 ALL: I'm black and I'm proud. 676 00:31:28,972 --> 00:31:30,933 COACH G: The Bowie competition is at the end of the year 677 00:31:31,016 --> 00:31:32,726 and we're working towards that. 678 00:31:32,809 --> 00:31:34,561 But in the meantime, we got invited 679 00:31:34,645 --> 00:31:36,647 to the Baltimore High School Step Show. 680 00:31:38,482 --> 00:31:39,983 This is the first time that 681 00:31:40,067 --> 00:31:43,487 the girls have stepped with other girls from Baltimore. 682 00:31:44,488 --> 00:31:46,490 We can pick whatever theme that we want to do. 683 00:31:46,573 --> 00:31:49,618 So my theme is going to be Black Lives Matter. 684 00:31:50,202 --> 00:31:55,832 (CHANTING) You need to stop, look and listen. 685 00:31:58,252 --> 00:32:01,839 COACH G: They start with "Stop, Look and Listen" chant. 686 00:32:03,173 --> 00:32:07,970 (CHANTING) 'Cause you're about to witness... 687 00:32:08,804 --> 00:32:11,390 COACH G: ...something that is stupendous. 688 00:32:11,807 --> 00:32:13,767 And then, let's tell them who we are. 689 00:32:13,851 --> 00:32:16,770 So we are the showstoppers, 690 00:32:16,854 --> 00:32:19,273 (CONTINUES CHANTING) ...trailblazers, hit makers. 691 00:32:19,356 --> 00:32:24,486 We are the show takers, hip poppers, floor rockers. 692 00:32:25,153 --> 00:32:27,114 COACH G: All right. Last pose! 693 00:32:27,197 --> 00:32:29,116 And then they're doing this pose 694 00:32:29,199 --> 00:32:31,702 where it's so powerful, 695 00:32:31,785 --> 00:32:33,495 with their right fists up 696 00:32:33,579 --> 00:32:35,247 showing that black lives matter. 697 00:32:36,039 --> 00:32:37,958 (COACH G COUNTING) 698 00:32:45,465 --> 00:32:47,926 (INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS) 699 00:32:50,470 --> 00:32:51,972 COACH G: All right, so listen, guys. 700 00:32:52,055 --> 00:32:54,391 First of all, I wanted to show you guys 701 00:32:54,474 --> 00:32:57,352 the importance of these images back here 702 00:32:57,728 --> 00:33:02,149 that symbolizes how 40, 50, 60 years later, 703 00:33:02,232 --> 00:33:03,317 we still have to protest 704 00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:05,485 for our rights as African Americans. 705 00:33:05,569 --> 00:33:08,322 As women, you guys are considered, 706 00:33:08,405 --> 00:33:10,282 as women, we, not you guys... 707 00:33:10,365 --> 00:33:12,743 We are considered the bottom of the barrel 708 00:33:12,826 --> 00:33:14,786 as African-American women. 709 00:33:14,870 --> 00:33:18,457 So when you all heard about Freddie Gray, where were you? 710 00:33:18,540 --> 00:33:19,833 GIRL: We were at school. 711 00:33:19,917 --> 00:33:21,335 (INDISTINCT CHATTER) 712 00:33:21,418 --> 00:33:24,630 Did you all get a text that you all were supposed to riot? 713 00:33:24,713 --> 00:33:25,839 NAJIA: It was on Twitter. 714 00:33:25,923 --> 00:33:27,591 GIRL: There was a lot of stuff on social media. 715 00:33:28,050 --> 00:33:30,344 I didn't like how they tried to portray Baltimore, like, 716 00:33:30,427 --> 00:33:32,012 it was like a lot of bad stuff going on, 717 00:33:32,095 --> 00:33:34,848 but when you'd put on local news like WJZ, 718 00:33:34,932 --> 00:33:38,227 people was cleaning up, but CNN didn't showcase that. 719 00:33:38,310 --> 00:33:39,311 They only showcased us 720 00:33:39,394 --> 00:33:40,896 fighting and throwing everything. 721 00:33:40,979 --> 00:33:42,981 GIRL: CNN portrays us as being bad. 722 00:33:43,065 --> 00:33:45,067 Yeah, we're not like that. 723 00:33:46,109 --> 00:33:47,694 COACH G: These are little black girls 724 00:33:47,778 --> 00:33:49,696 who are going to be going to college 725 00:33:49,780 --> 00:33:52,032 and they have been at this small all-girls school 726 00:33:52,115 --> 00:33:53,617 and they don't understand that 727 00:33:53,700 --> 00:33:55,869 it's some people who won't care about your life, 728 00:33:55,953 --> 00:33:58,121 or some people who don't understand 729 00:33:58,205 --> 00:33:59,957 that you are valuable. 730 00:34:00,624 --> 00:34:02,960 So you have to understand, as young black women, 731 00:34:03,043 --> 00:34:04,211 it could've been us, 732 00:34:04,294 --> 00:34:07,548 it really could have been you and it still can be. 733 00:34:14,054 --> 00:34:17,140 (SIRENS BLARING IN DISTANCE) 734 00:34:27,985 --> 00:34:30,737 (SINGING) Ain't got no troubles in my life 735 00:34:31,488 --> 00:34:34,658 No foolish dreams to make me cry 736 00:34:35,325 --> 00:34:38,287 I'm never frightened or worried 737 00:34:39,454 --> 00:34:41,999 I know I always get by 738 00:34:42,332 --> 00:34:43,834 I heat up 739 00:34:44,251 --> 00:34:45,794 I cool down 740 00:34:46,211 --> 00:34:49,214 When something gets in my way I go around it 741 00:34:50,340 --> 00:34:51,884 I've got the music in me 742 00:34:52,342 --> 00:34:53,844 I've got the music in me 743 00:34:54,178 --> 00:34:55,721 I've got the music in me 744 00:34:58,056 --> 00:34:59,558 I've got the music in me 745 00:34:59,641 --> 00:35:01,727 I've got the music in me 746 00:35:01,810 --> 00:35:05,230 I've got the music in me Yes, I do down in my bones 747 00:35:05,314 --> 00:35:06,857 I've got the music in me 748 00:35:07,608 --> 00:35:08,859 Sure no better than me 749 00:35:10,068 --> 00:35:11,528 I've got the music 750 00:35:11,987 --> 00:35:15,741 Pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty music 751 00:35:16,742 --> 00:35:19,369 I've got the music in me 752 00:35:19,703 --> 00:35:22,247 Yeah 753 00:35:27,419 --> 00:35:29,713 Everybody's up for BLYS. 754 00:35:29,796 --> 00:35:32,216 (AUDIENCE CHEERING) 755 00:35:35,052 --> 00:35:39,223 (CHANTING) You need to stop, look, and listen. 756 00:35:43,018 --> 00:35:48,023 'Cause you're about to witness 757 00:35:49,733 --> 00:35:51,235 (AUDIENCE CHEERING) 758 00:35:51,735 --> 00:35:56,365 something that is stupendous. 759 00:35:57,574 --> 00:36:00,577 Let's tell them who we are. 760 00:36:00,661 --> 00:36:04,831 We are the trailblazers, hit makers. 761 00:36:05,249 --> 00:36:09,837 We are the show takers, hip poppers, floor rockers. 762 00:36:10,587 --> 00:36:12,881 We are the showstoppers. 763 00:36:12,965 --> 00:36:17,594 Wanted all over the city, and still sitting pretty. 764 00:36:17,678 --> 00:36:19,346 (AUDIENCE CHEERING) 765 00:36:19,805 --> 00:36:20,806 Let's go! 766 00:36:29,898 --> 00:36:30,899 (AUDIENCE CHEERING) 767 00:36:47,207 --> 00:36:49,334 (CHEERING CONTINUES) 768 00:37:00,429 --> 00:37:04,850 Due to the deaths of several unarmed 769 00:37:04,933 --> 00:37:07,853 African-American men and women, 770 00:37:07,936 --> 00:37:10,814 it would be remiss of us not to mention... 771 00:37:11,231 --> 00:37:12,608 ALL: ...it could've been us. 772 00:37:13,275 --> 00:37:14,818 (AUDIENCE CHEERING) 773 00:37:16,236 --> 00:37:17,237 NAJIA: Hands up! 774 00:37:17,321 --> 00:37:18,322 Don't shoot! 775 00:37:18,405 --> 00:37:19,489 NAJIA: Hands up! 776 00:37:19,573 --> 00:37:20,741 Don't shoot! 777 00:37:20,824 --> 00:37:22,159 NAJIA: Say it loud! 778 00:37:22,242 --> 00:37:23,452 I'm black and I'm proud. 779 00:37:35,714 --> 00:37:37,925 (AUDIENCE CHEERING) 780 00:38:10,624 --> 00:38:11,834 What are you doing? 781 00:38:12,417 --> 00:38:14,586 Working on my application for Barnard. 782 00:38:14,670 --> 00:38:15,921 Oh. 783 00:38:16,004 --> 00:38:17,714 Looks like I have everything in. 784 00:38:19,091 --> 00:38:20,926 CORI: I feel like anybody else in this school 785 00:38:21,009 --> 00:38:24,304 is just as capable of being valedictorian as I am, 786 00:38:24,388 --> 00:38:27,057 but I'm a very competitive person. 787 00:38:27,599 --> 00:38:29,476 Once I got the taste of, like, being at the top, 788 00:38:29,560 --> 00:38:31,103 I was like, "Oh, I like this." 789 00:38:31,186 --> 00:38:34,731 It's definitely my motivation to keep my grades high. 790 00:38:35,315 --> 00:38:37,901 CORI: You remember what my EFC was from the FAFSA? 791 00:38:37,985 --> 00:38:39,820 Your Expected Family Contribution? 792 00:38:39,903 --> 00:38:41,321 TRIANA: Oh, no, I don't remember. 793 00:38:41,405 --> 00:38:43,407 We can log on and see. 794 00:38:44,825 --> 00:38:47,494 Most schools like Barnard don't give out lots of money. 795 00:38:47,578 --> 00:38:50,873 They're like need-based aid. 796 00:38:50,956 --> 00:38:53,417 And according to this FAFSA we have a lot of need, 797 00:38:53,500 --> 00:38:56,003 so they probably would give a lot of money. 798 00:38:56,086 --> 00:38:58,672 But you still have to pay some money. 799 00:38:58,755 --> 00:39:00,424 I just don't think that's something 800 00:39:00,507 --> 00:39:02,259 you should be sweatin', period. 801 00:39:02,342 --> 00:39:03,844 Don't worry about it. If that's where you want to go, 802 00:39:03,927 --> 00:39:05,721 we gonna make it happen like we always do. 803 00:39:06,471 --> 00:39:07,848 TRIANA: If you can look us in the eyes 804 00:39:07,931 --> 00:39:09,516 and tell us that we don't come through 805 00:39:09,600 --> 00:39:11,602 on the stuff that's important, 806 00:39:11,685 --> 00:39:13,312 then you have a reason to be worried, 807 00:39:13,395 --> 00:39:15,772 but you can't do that, so you should have no worries. 808 00:39:15,856 --> 00:39:17,191 Mmm-hmm. 809 00:39:17,274 --> 00:39:21,278 Yeah. Mama hitting on something now, huh? Yeah. (CHUCKLES) 810 00:39:28,285 --> 00:39:31,330 Salt is more valuable to some people than gold. 811 00:39:31,413 --> 00:39:35,792 So a lot of the study of economics is why do things have value? 812 00:39:35,876 --> 00:39:37,044 (BELL RINGING) 813 00:39:37,711 --> 00:39:39,296 I went to Allegany. I like Allegany. 814 00:39:39,379 --> 00:39:40,714 I know you do. 815 00:39:40,797 --> 00:39:43,133 -I really like Allegany. -I understand that, 816 00:39:43,467 --> 00:39:45,886 but with Allegany, when we did the calculation, 817 00:39:45,969 --> 00:39:48,388 you're gonna be somewhere around $20,000 a year. 818 00:39:49,097 --> 00:39:52,851 That is, for me, a two-year school, I think that's crazy. 819 00:39:53,227 --> 00:39:55,562 If you can afford it, that's one thing, 820 00:39:55,646 --> 00:39:57,564 but I don't think that's a great option. 821 00:39:57,648 --> 00:39:59,316 It's a lot of money. 822 00:40:01,318 --> 00:40:02,486 I mean, I do hair and makeup and stuff, 823 00:40:02,569 --> 00:40:03,904 you don't think I can, like... 824 00:40:03,987 --> 00:40:06,907 Okay, Blessin, we will get full information 825 00:40:06,990 --> 00:40:08,742 like every other student, 826 00:40:08,825 --> 00:40:10,702 see what financial aid packages look like 827 00:40:10,786 --> 00:40:12,412 and then we will make the decision. 828 00:40:13,664 --> 00:40:17,084 Unfortunately, it's not my first choice. 829 00:40:25,634 --> 00:40:27,219 BLESSIN: Uh-huh. Uh-huh. 830 00:40:27,302 --> 00:40:29,263 Uh-huh. Uh-huh. 831 00:40:35,978 --> 00:40:37,104 What you doing? 832 00:40:37,187 --> 00:40:38,313 (TIYON GRUNTING) 833 00:40:39,523 --> 00:40:41,191 -(TIYON EXCLAIMING) -(BLESSIN MIMICKING TIYON) 834 00:40:42,150 --> 00:40:43,193 BLESSIN: What you want, a facial? 835 00:40:44,152 --> 00:40:45,320 That's what I'm about to do. 836 00:40:45,404 --> 00:40:46,488 (LAUGHING) No. 837 00:40:46,572 --> 00:40:47,948 (TIYON SPEAKING) 838 00:40:48,031 --> 00:40:51,702 Ow, ow, ow. Stepped on glass. 839 00:40:54,288 --> 00:40:55,330 (BLESSIN SPEAKING) 840 00:40:55,414 --> 00:40:56,540 Let me see it. 841 00:40:56,623 --> 00:40:57,624 Hold it. 842 00:40:58,750 --> 00:41:03,213 (SINGING) N-E-P with a little bit of H-N-E 843 00:41:04,339 --> 00:41:09,720 W that spells my, my nephew my nephew, my nephew 844 00:41:09,803 --> 00:41:11,805 N-E-P 845 00:41:11,889 --> 00:41:12,890 You ain't gonna sing it with me? 846 00:41:12,973 --> 00:41:13,974 Mmm-mmm. 847 00:41:15,225 --> 00:41:16,226 (CHUCKLES) 848 00:41:17,728 --> 00:41:19,646 BLESSIN: Tiyon, did you eat anything yet? 849 00:41:19,730 --> 00:41:21,023 I know when the food gets here 850 00:41:21,106 --> 00:41:24,151 I'm gonna start eating like a gorilla like I always do. 851 00:41:24,902 --> 00:41:26,737 BLESSIN: Well, we get some food stamps 852 00:41:26,820 --> 00:41:29,698 on the sixteenth, so we be all right. 853 00:41:30,657 --> 00:41:31,658 Tiyon! 854 00:41:31,742 --> 00:41:32,910 What? 855 00:41:32,993 --> 00:41:35,996 One minute your foot broken, next minute you playin'. 856 00:41:40,083 --> 00:41:43,253 As of right now, it's no food in the 'frigerator. 857 00:41:44,796 --> 00:41:46,673 I mean, I'm not eating, that's fine as of right now, 858 00:41:46,757 --> 00:41:48,425 like, I'm just waiting for 859 00:41:50,010 --> 00:41:51,094 my sister to come home 860 00:41:51,178 --> 00:41:54,973 so she can order something, but he's six. 861 00:41:59,269 --> 00:42:00,812 I mean, it's okay, though. 862 00:42:00,896 --> 00:42:02,940 Just gotta make the best out of what you have. 863 00:42:04,900 --> 00:42:06,944 'Cause if I didn't, I would be angry, 864 00:42:07,027 --> 00:42:08,820 upset and a bitter person, 865 00:42:08,904 --> 00:42:11,490 and I don't want to be that type of person. 866 00:42:11,573 --> 00:42:15,577 I just think of what I go through, I just hold it there. 867 00:42:23,585 --> 00:42:26,129 (VOICE BREAKING) I'm sorry. Sorry. 868 00:42:26,213 --> 00:42:29,007 (SNIFFLES) And I just keep me going, 869 00:42:29,091 --> 00:42:32,553 keep me going, make me work harder and harder, 870 00:42:33,929 --> 00:42:35,597 and put my all into everything I'm doing, 871 00:42:35,681 --> 00:42:37,766 because this is not it for me. 872 00:42:41,645 --> 00:42:42,813 (SNIFFLES) 873 00:42:48,193 --> 00:42:50,195 (MUSIC PLAYING ON RADIO) 874 00:42:57,828 --> 00:42:58,829 COACH G: Why are you late? 875 00:43:01,123 --> 00:43:02,958 You forgot your shirt. 876 00:43:03,417 --> 00:43:07,421 You practice in the Uggs? You practice in the Uggs? 877 00:43:08,714 --> 00:43:10,424 You practice in the Uggs? 878 00:43:10,924 --> 00:43:12,676 You forgot your shirt. 879 00:43:13,302 --> 00:43:14,887 All right, so, let's just say this. 880 00:43:14,970 --> 00:43:18,098 If you forget your shirt, your shoes, whatever, just don't even come. 881 00:43:18,182 --> 00:43:19,725 'Cause I could surely replace y'all. 882 00:43:20,517 --> 00:43:21,768 Are we ready to start? 883 00:43:21,852 --> 00:43:23,187 No. 884 00:43:23,562 --> 00:43:25,147 GIRL: God! Christ! 885 00:43:26,190 --> 00:43:27,983 COACH G: Do we need to sit the wall? 886 00:43:28,734 --> 00:43:30,235 I think we should. That's a good way. 887 00:43:30,319 --> 00:43:31,695 -(GIRLS DISAGREEING) -Come on. Let's go! 888 00:43:32,362 --> 00:43:36,366 One, two, three, down. 889 00:43:42,998 --> 00:43:43,999 Up. 890 00:43:44,708 --> 00:43:47,127 BLESSIN: Ah! Whoa. Wait a minute! 891 00:43:47,711 --> 00:43:51,089 One two, three, down. 892 00:43:52,841 --> 00:43:54,384 (CHUCKLING) 893 00:43:59,765 --> 00:44:01,350 -Everybody up. -(SIGHS) 894 00:44:02,935 --> 00:44:06,855 One, two, three, down. 895 00:44:06,939 --> 00:44:08,190 Arms out. 896 00:44:10,192 --> 00:44:13,195 Every time somebody goes down, you all gonna stay longer. 897 00:44:14,488 --> 00:44:15,531 Why you go down, Nush? 898 00:44:15,614 --> 00:44:16,615 (ALL ARGUING) 899 00:44:18,242 --> 00:44:20,994 COACH G: Excuse me, is that how we encourage our teammates? 900 00:44:21,078 --> 00:44:24,122 That's not teamwork. That's not cool. 901 00:44:24,206 --> 00:44:26,792 That's not sisterhood. That's not integrity. 902 00:44:27,709 --> 00:44:31,672 Yelling at Nush, yelling at each other. That's not what winners do. 903 00:44:31,755 --> 00:44:35,509 You gotta have the mindset. The mindset of a winner. 904 00:44:36,009 --> 00:44:40,013 Not being disrespectful to each other, to yourselves. 905 00:44:40,097 --> 00:44:42,724 This is step. Handle your business. 906 00:44:42,808 --> 00:44:45,310 And that's how you all gonna handle it on this wall. 907 00:44:45,394 --> 00:44:47,855 One, two, three, down. 908 00:44:51,942 --> 00:44:55,320 They love step, but their focus isn't winning. 909 00:44:55,779 --> 00:44:57,197 I hope everyone gets home safely. 910 00:44:57,281 --> 00:44:58,949 You all have a blessed night. 911 00:44:59,908 --> 00:45:02,911 We have a competition coming up at Bowie. 912 00:45:03,328 --> 00:45:07,374 They've been twice already and have not placed or won. 913 00:45:07,457 --> 00:45:10,294 For the seniors, this is it. 914 00:45:10,377 --> 00:45:12,838 And if they don't straighten up and fly right, 915 00:45:12,921 --> 00:45:16,049 it could fall apart. Completely fall apart. 916 00:45:24,558 --> 00:45:27,686 COACH G: See, if you all wasn't talking, you all would've been ready. 917 00:45:27,769 --> 00:45:30,189 You all need to practice proper habits. 918 00:45:30,272 --> 00:45:32,774 You all got lazy. Do it again. 919 00:45:32,858 --> 00:45:33,984 (INDISTINCT CHATTER) 920 00:45:34,067 --> 00:45:35,068 Coach! 921 00:45:41,950 --> 00:45:43,702 Her report card looks like shit. 922 00:45:44,161 --> 00:45:45,746 Oh, that's why. 923 00:45:45,829 --> 00:45:46,914 Are you kidding me? 924 00:45:46,997 --> 00:45:50,584 -Ooh, that's not good. -Wait, wait. You mean, like... 925 00:45:50,667 --> 00:45:52,669 -Come here, Tayla. -Like C's? 926 00:45:52,753 --> 00:45:54,004 I don't play 60s, 927 00:45:54,087 --> 00:45:56,423 I don't play 70s and I don't play 80s, 928 00:45:56,507 --> 00:45:57,925 because that's not the child that she is. 929 00:45:58,008 --> 00:45:59,259 Absolutely, I agree. 930 00:45:59,343 --> 00:46:01,470 Show your coach what your grades look like. 931 00:46:01,553 --> 00:46:03,222 (ASSISTANT COACH SPEAKING) 932 00:46:03,305 --> 00:46:04,932 It's a sixty-six! 933 00:46:05,015 --> 00:46:06,808 What was it again? 934 00:46:06,892 --> 00:46:08,185 -What you say? -Sixty-seven? 935 00:46:08,268 --> 00:46:09,770 A what? 936 00:46:09,853 --> 00:46:12,898 My daughter has never, for as long as she's been going to school, 937 00:46:12,981 --> 00:46:14,608 bring me no damn 60. 938 00:46:14,691 --> 00:46:16,151 I don't tolerate that in my house. 939 00:46:16,235 --> 00:46:17,236 COACH G: It's something that you're doing. 940 00:46:17,319 --> 00:46:18,862 Is there something that's distracting you? 941 00:46:19,196 --> 00:46:21,365 I think it's the little friend that she has now. 942 00:46:22,824 --> 00:46:25,452 You don't need to be distracted by anybody. 943 00:46:25,536 --> 00:46:27,037 ASSISTANT COACH: 'Cause all it takes is that one time. 944 00:46:27,120 --> 00:46:28,163 COACH G: Friends, men, that's all it takes. 945 00:46:28,247 --> 00:46:29,790 You cannot let nobody stop you. 946 00:46:29,873 --> 00:46:31,124 They not really rockin' with you 947 00:46:31,208 --> 00:46:32,334 if they stopping you 948 00:46:32,417 --> 00:46:33,961 -from getting what you need to get. -(MAISHA SPEAKING) 949 00:46:34,378 --> 00:46:37,631 And if you are still a virgin, that's the way the hell you stay. 950 00:46:37,714 --> 00:46:39,174 Because it's going to be a problem. 951 00:46:39,842 --> 00:46:41,510 -(ASSISTANT COACH CHUCKLING) -(COACH G SPEAKING) 952 00:46:41,593 --> 00:46:43,929 I'm going to let you go ahead and let me talk to your mom for a second. 953 00:46:44,555 --> 00:46:45,764 (MAISHA SPEAKING) 954 00:46:45,848 --> 00:46:47,808 I really think it's this little boy. 955 00:46:47,891 --> 00:46:50,477 ASSISTANT COACH: And it probably is! It probably is. 956 00:46:50,561 --> 00:46:52,604 MAISHA: But she knows her morals and values, 957 00:46:52,688 --> 00:46:55,399 but sometimes she gets sidetracked. 958 00:46:56,900 --> 00:46:59,778 I said don't have no children out of wedlock like me. 959 00:46:59,862 --> 00:47:01,613 Because this is what you're going to go through. 960 00:47:01,697 --> 00:47:02,656 (COACH G SPEAKING) 961 00:47:02,739 --> 00:47:04,324 Keep communicating. Keep communicating. 962 00:47:05,909 --> 00:47:07,578 (RHYTHMIC CLAPPING AND STOMPING) 963 00:47:14,001 --> 00:47:17,671 MAISHA: If you don't keep up your grades, it's gonna be a problem. 964 00:47:18,172 --> 00:47:21,175 Your goal is 4.0. Nothing less. 965 00:47:21,258 --> 00:47:26,597 So you don't let anyone stop you from striving to get what you need to get. 966 00:47:28,223 --> 00:47:30,934 Boys have cooties. Stay away! 967 00:47:38,108 --> 00:47:40,402 Oh, I left my spray in the car. 968 00:47:41,612 --> 00:47:43,280 BRIONA: I don't want my hair to be sticky, you know? 969 00:47:44,573 --> 00:47:45,908 See, now I'm stressing 'cause it's raining outside. 970 00:47:45,991 --> 00:47:47,117 (BRIONA SPEAKING) 971 00:47:47,618 --> 00:47:48,785 What's wrong with rain? 972 00:47:48,869 --> 00:47:50,370 -How my hair gonna stay down? -(MICHELLE SPEAKING) 973 00:47:50,454 --> 00:47:52,539 Well, how about you all cancel this date 974 00:47:52,623 --> 00:47:54,416 since it's a school night and do it another night? 975 00:47:54,499 --> 00:47:55,542 (BLESSIN SPEAKING, LAUGHING) 976 00:47:55,626 --> 00:47:56,752 No, let's do it. 977 00:47:57,336 --> 00:47:58,378 (MICHELLE SPEAKING) 978 00:47:58,795 --> 00:47:59,880 Is that paper done? 979 00:47:59,963 --> 00:48:01,048 (BLESSIN SPEAKING) 980 00:48:01,131 --> 00:48:02,132 No, not yet. 981 00:48:05,802 --> 00:48:08,138 Oh, here you go, my station, right here. 982 00:48:08,639 --> 00:48:10,057 Lo mein, baby. 983 00:48:10,807 --> 00:48:12,226 I want to start off 984 00:48:12,976 --> 00:48:14,269 probably, like, in Baltimore 985 00:48:14,353 --> 00:48:16,730 and eventually make my way up to New York. 986 00:48:16,813 --> 00:48:17,981 New York? 987 00:48:18,941 --> 00:48:22,903 New York is the place to be. Choreography, Broadway. 988 00:48:24,404 --> 00:48:27,157 What? Everybody wants to move to New York. 989 00:48:27,241 --> 00:48:28,534 Everybody wants to do that. 990 00:48:28,617 --> 00:48:30,410 I'm not saying you not one in a million. 991 00:48:30,494 --> 00:48:31,662 I'm not saying that. 992 00:48:31,745 --> 00:48:32,871 So what are you saying? 993 00:48:32,955 --> 00:48:35,999 If I couldn't get, in case of an emergency, that, you know... 994 00:48:36,083 --> 00:48:38,669 That's what I'm saying! Like, I wouldn't be that far. 995 00:48:39,378 --> 00:48:41,713 Obviously we have two different views on it. 996 00:48:41,797 --> 00:48:43,841 Our views on what? 997 00:48:44,258 --> 00:48:46,009 Me going to college. 998 00:48:46,093 --> 00:48:47,719 It's not about you going to college. 999 00:48:47,803 --> 00:48:49,388 You're saying you basically want me to stay in the city 1000 00:48:49,471 --> 00:48:51,348 without just saying that exact thing. 1001 00:48:51,765 --> 00:48:53,934 That's what you want to do, go ahead. 1002 00:48:54,017 --> 00:48:56,228 Go ahead. That's what you want to do. 1003 00:48:57,855 --> 00:49:01,441 Everything that I'm saying, you're just, like, "But this, but that." "Location." 1004 00:49:01,525 --> 00:49:02,609 "You don't have money for this. 1005 00:49:02,693 --> 00:49:03,944 "You don't have money for that." 1006 00:49:04,027 --> 00:49:05,279 If I don't have it, I'm gonna find a way, 1007 00:49:05,362 --> 00:49:06,363 I've been doing it my whole life. 1008 00:49:06,446 --> 00:49:07,698 Well, do it then. 1009 00:49:07,781 --> 00:49:09,533 (MILD MUSIC PLAYING ON SPEAKER) 1010 00:49:10,701 --> 00:49:11,702 I will. 1011 00:49:11,785 --> 00:49:12,828 All right. 1012 00:49:20,419 --> 00:49:22,337 (INDISTINCT SHOUTING IN HALLWAY) 1013 00:49:24,381 --> 00:49:26,884 PAULA: This year, Blessin was doing really well, 1014 00:49:26,967 --> 00:49:29,219 and then she started slipping. 1015 00:49:29,761 --> 00:49:32,222 I'm not exactly sure why or what happened 1016 00:49:32,306 --> 00:49:35,309 and, I don't know, maybe it's that... 1017 00:49:35,392 --> 00:49:37,311 Maybe it's that she thinks she can't get into college, 1018 00:49:37,394 --> 00:49:39,563 so what's the point of even doing well? 1019 00:49:40,564 --> 00:49:43,483 Things happen at home. Things happen outside. 1020 00:49:43,567 --> 00:49:48,530 Girlfriends, boyfriends, all kinds of things and then 1021 00:49:48,614 --> 00:49:50,449 we're right back where we started. 1022 00:49:54,244 --> 00:49:55,245 Hello! 1023 00:49:55,329 --> 00:49:58,248 Hello! So, I spoke to your teachers. 1024 00:49:58,332 --> 00:49:59,499 -Mmm-hmm. -Here's what we have. 1025 00:49:59,583 --> 00:50:01,376 When we pull up your progress report, 1026 00:50:01,710 --> 00:50:03,170 you have, as of the day 1027 00:50:03,253 --> 00:50:05,339 that Mr. Cournoyer had to submit his grades, 1028 00:50:05,422 --> 00:50:07,132 you had a 38. 1029 00:50:07,633 --> 00:50:09,301 Are these grades your best? 1030 00:50:09,384 --> 00:50:11,094 Does this show as good as you are? 1031 00:50:11,178 --> 00:50:12,179 No. 1032 00:50:13,430 --> 00:50:15,641 Why does the step team get your best and I don't, 1033 00:50:15,724 --> 00:50:16,934 in this building in a classroom? 1034 00:50:17,309 --> 00:50:19,686 I'm trying. And it's a learning process. 1035 00:50:20,020 --> 00:50:22,105 I was where you were. 1036 00:50:22,189 --> 00:50:24,233 School is what got me out of Brooklyn. 1037 00:50:24,858 --> 00:50:27,110 College is what's gonna get you out of Baltimore. 1038 00:50:27,194 --> 00:50:30,239 I need to make sure that you are right when you leave this building. 1039 00:50:30,322 --> 00:50:32,032 So understand, am I always gonna be on your case 1040 00:50:32,115 --> 00:50:34,117 until June third? Yes. 1041 00:50:34,576 --> 00:50:37,579 Because I expect more from you. We clear? 1042 00:50:38,413 --> 00:50:39,414 All right. 1043 00:50:40,040 --> 00:50:42,167 Now I need to go find somebody to put my makeup on. 1044 00:50:42,251 --> 00:50:44,253 I love you dearly and I'll see you later. 1045 00:50:48,257 --> 00:50:49,800 (EXCLAIMS IN FRUSTRATION) 1046 00:51:01,019 --> 00:51:02,437 BLESSIN: I have, like, two people inside of me 1047 00:51:02,521 --> 00:51:04,857 that I struggle with every day. 1048 00:51:04,940 --> 00:51:08,902 One Blessin is the Blessin that is unstoppable, 1049 00:51:08,986 --> 00:51:12,239 the Blessin that can do anything when she put her mind to it. 1050 00:51:12,322 --> 00:51:15,576 And the other Blessin is, she feels lost a lot 1051 00:51:15,659 --> 00:51:17,327 and she feels stuck. 1052 00:51:17,786 --> 00:51:20,247 COACH G: You want to just do that one move or you want to do it with her? 1053 00:51:20,581 --> 00:51:22,082 -I got it. -COACH G: Let's see. 1054 00:51:22,165 --> 00:51:27,004 Five, six, just you two, five, six, seven, eight. 1055 00:51:29,339 --> 00:51:32,342 You didn't even do that. Hold on, you ain't do that right. 1056 00:51:32,426 --> 00:51:34,219 I know! It's just this... 1057 00:51:36,180 --> 00:51:38,223 Blessin! You gotta not have a bad attitude, 1058 00:51:38,307 --> 00:51:39,766 because things are gonna change. 1059 00:51:39,850 --> 00:51:42,853 Hers has changed three times and look at her. She doesn't look sad. 1060 00:51:42,936 --> 00:51:44,188 -Be a leader. -(BLESSIN SPEAKING) 1061 00:51:44,271 --> 00:51:45,522 Okay, Coach, I got it. 1062 00:51:45,606 --> 00:51:47,566 COACH G: Let's see. Five, six... 1063 00:51:47,649 --> 00:51:50,110 I'm so disappointed in Blessin. 1064 00:51:50,194 --> 00:51:51,528 Everyone's complaining about her. 1065 00:51:51,612 --> 00:51:54,781 She has a really bad attitude a lot of the times. 1066 00:51:54,865 --> 00:51:56,116 And now it's gotten to the point where 1067 00:51:56,200 --> 00:51:57,618 -she's threatening someone. -(COACH G SPEAKING) 1068 00:51:58,535 --> 00:51:59,536 Excuse me! Excuse me! 1069 00:51:59,870 --> 00:52:02,331 She was talking about it like I have no talent. 1070 00:52:02,706 --> 00:52:04,208 The end. It's over. 1071 00:52:04,291 --> 00:52:06,919 I said I'm going to break her and that was rude. How is it over? 1072 00:52:07,377 --> 00:52:09,296 She needs to apologize. 1073 00:52:09,379 --> 00:52:10,797 Apologize! For what? 1074 00:52:10,881 --> 00:52:13,926 You know what, Blessin? You can actually step outside because you're not listening. 1075 00:52:14,009 --> 00:52:15,135 And I will. I will step outside. 1076 00:52:15,219 --> 00:52:16,303 Thank you. Appreciate it. 1077 00:52:16,386 --> 00:52:19,431 COACH G: I think that she realizes Naysa, Tayla 1078 00:52:19,515 --> 00:52:21,975 and a lot of the other girls are going off to college, 1079 00:52:22,059 --> 00:52:24,436 and she has been screwing around all this time 1080 00:52:24,520 --> 00:52:26,563 and now she's seeing, 1081 00:52:26,897 --> 00:52:30,651 "Dang, I should've been doing what I was supposed to be doing. 1082 00:52:30,734 --> 00:52:31,902 "I should have been doing 1083 00:52:31,985 --> 00:52:33,403 "what Tayla and Naysa were doing." 1084 00:52:33,904 --> 00:52:34,988 (ANSWERING MACHINE BEEPS) 1085 00:52:35,072 --> 00:52:37,866 (ON PHONE) Hi, this is Mrs. Bond calling from the Baltimore Leadership School 1086 00:52:37,950 --> 00:52:39,117 for Young Women. 1087 00:52:39,201 --> 00:52:40,827 Blessin did not attend school today. 1088 00:52:40,911 --> 00:52:43,830 Please call me back to let me know that everything is okay. 1089 00:52:45,290 --> 00:52:47,000 She said she basically needed a break, 1090 00:52:47,084 --> 00:52:50,671 because she felt like she would have been too confrontational 1091 00:52:50,754 --> 00:52:52,256 if she had gone to school, 1092 00:52:52,339 --> 00:52:54,424 and she don't want to mess up, 1093 00:52:54,508 --> 00:52:57,803 uh, the work that she has achieved so far. 1094 00:52:59,346 --> 00:53:01,849 When I look at her, I see myself so much. 1095 00:53:01,932 --> 00:53:05,352 But she's doing a wonderful, wonderful job 1096 00:53:07,354 --> 00:53:11,191 at handling it, because, physically, 1097 00:53:11,275 --> 00:53:15,946 I would have beat the shit out of them two girls by now and anybody else. 1098 00:53:16,280 --> 00:53:19,283 That's the only thing Blessin don't take after me. 1099 00:53:19,658 --> 00:53:23,954 And trying to get her to restrain that is a big part for me. 1100 00:53:24,705 --> 00:53:26,164 And that's the truth. 1101 00:53:33,130 --> 00:53:34,798 (HUMMING) 1102 00:53:37,050 --> 00:53:38,844 GENEVA: So where you been? What's going on? 1103 00:53:38,927 --> 00:53:40,262 You already know what happened. 1104 00:53:40,345 --> 00:53:42,806 GENEVA: Well, I just need to hear it from your mouth. 1105 00:53:43,515 --> 00:53:45,225 I need to hear it from your mouth. 1106 00:53:45,309 --> 00:53:47,394 I told you yesterday, like, 1107 00:53:47,477 --> 00:53:50,355 I see myself beating them up. Like I told you. 1108 00:53:50,439 --> 00:53:51,857 (GENEVA SPEAKING) 1109 00:53:51,940 --> 00:53:54,151 But I don't want you to go there physically. 1110 00:53:54,234 --> 00:53:56,153 Yeah! Like, I was really ready to fight. 1111 00:53:56,236 --> 00:53:57,404 Both of them. 1112 00:53:57,487 --> 00:53:59,489 Tayla first, then Naysa. 1113 00:54:00,324 --> 00:54:02,784 They text, they hang with each other outside of school. 1114 00:54:03,452 --> 00:54:06,413 I'm just irritated as hell, who am I gonna talk to on the team? 1115 00:54:06,496 --> 00:54:07,664 GENEVA: Mmm-hmm. 1116 00:54:09,082 --> 00:54:12,294 Which one of them am I gonna talk to? None of them. 1117 00:54:13,128 --> 00:54:14,671 It's annoying, 1118 00:54:15,172 --> 00:54:17,007 but it's life. 1119 00:54:19,343 --> 00:54:21,762 -I'm fine, Mom. -I know you are. 1120 00:54:21,845 --> 00:54:25,432 -I just hate talking about it, like... -GENEVA: I know you do. 1121 00:54:28,268 --> 00:54:31,730 GIRLS: (SINGING) Happy birthday, dear Tayla 1122 00:54:31,813 --> 00:54:33,857 Happy birthday to you 1123 00:54:35,526 --> 00:54:36,818 (INDISTINCT CHATTERING) 1124 00:54:37,194 --> 00:54:38,570 It's your birthday. 1125 00:54:38,654 --> 00:54:39,821 -"Your." -(MAISHA SPEAKING) 1126 00:54:40,364 --> 00:54:41,782 What was going on yesterday? 1127 00:54:42,866 --> 00:54:44,618 Ain't my child, ain't my problem. 1128 00:54:44,701 --> 00:54:46,954 This is my birthday. Let's talk about me. 1129 00:54:47,037 --> 00:54:49,706 MAISHA: But it becomes all of y'all problem, because like I said before, 1130 00:54:49,790 --> 00:54:51,667 there's no "I" in "team". Y'all are a team. 1131 00:54:52,209 --> 00:54:55,546 There's definitely an "I" in Blessin. In Blessin. Never mind. 1132 00:54:55,629 --> 00:54:58,340 MAISHA: It saddens me for you all to be thinking like that. 1133 00:54:58,715 --> 00:54:59,716 Us? 1134 00:55:00,300 --> 00:55:01,468 MAISHA: Yes. 1135 00:55:01,552 --> 00:55:03,470 The people that come to practice, 1136 00:55:03,554 --> 00:55:06,306 and we don't bring our problems into practice 1137 00:55:06,390 --> 00:55:07,975 and we talk to each other about our problems. 1138 00:55:08,058 --> 00:55:09,309 MAISHA: Everybody is different. 1139 00:55:10,060 --> 00:55:13,981 You never know what a person is going through. 1140 00:55:14,064 --> 00:55:15,315 (NAYSA SPEAKING) 1141 00:55:15,399 --> 00:55:16,608 So we're supposed to figure it out? 1142 00:55:16,692 --> 00:55:18,068 I'm not saying figure it out. 1143 00:55:18,151 --> 00:55:20,571 What I'm saying is, have a little bit more 1144 00:55:20,654 --> 00:55:23,240 consideration than what you all do. 1145 00:55:24,199 --> 00:55:27,202 Just be there as a friend. 1146 00:55:28,745 --> 00:55:30,330 (INDISTINCT CHATTERING) 1147 00:55:50,392 --> 00:55:51,685 COACH G: I don't know what more I can say. 1148 00:55:51,768 --> 00:55:53,520 I've been pleading with you all. 1149 00:55:53,604 --> 00:55:55,439 'Cause I don't want you all to go and lose. 1150 00:55:55,522 --> 00:55:58,692 We have the material. Y'all can step! 1151 00:55:59,026 --> 00:56:02,779 You want to know what's stopping y'all if y'all do lose? You! 1152 00:56:03,322 --> 00:56:07,951 Next week, like literally one, two, three, four, five practices, that's it! 1153 00:56:08,410 --> 00:56:09,953 That's all you have! 1154 00:56:10,287 --> 00:56:12,748 You have an hour and five practices. 1155 00:56:13,290 --> 00:56:15,876 And you can either walk away with your head down crying, 1156 00:56:15,959 --> 00:56:17,211 because y'all came all the way to Bowie 1157 00:56:17,294 --> 00:56:19,963 for the how many other times and lost. 1158 00:56:25,469 --> 00:56:27,137 (GENEVA SPEAKING) 1159 00:56:27,221 --> 00:56:28,972 You got some mail in there from... 1160 00:56:29,056 --> 00:56:30,140 BLESSIN: From where? 1161 00:56:30,224 --> 00:56:31,683 One of the colleges. I don't know which one. 1162 00:56:31,767 --> 00:56:32,726 (SCOFFS) 1163 00:56:32,809 --> 00:56:33,810 Came today. 1164 00:56:35,270 --> 00:56:36,271 -For real? -Mmm-hmm. 1165 00:56:36,730 --> 00:56:37,814 I'm scared. 1166 00:56:37,898 --> 00:56:38,941 Go open them. 1167 00:56:41,026 --> 00:56:42,653 They're right there on the table. 1168 00:56:42,736 --> 00:56:44,112 BLESSIN: Michelle! GENEVA: Oh. 1169 00:56:44,863 --> 00:56:46,365 Potomac just sent me some mail. 1170 00:56:46,448 --> 00:56:48,116 -Potomac University, West Virginia. -(MICHELLE SPEAKING) 1171 00:56:48,200 --> 00:56:49,201 What it say? 1172 00:56:49,284 --> 00:56:51,161 I don't know. I don't want to open it. 1173 00:56:51,495 --> 00:56:52,496 Open it. 1174 00:56:52,829 --> 00:56:55,249 (MICHELLE ENCOURAGING BLESSIN) 1175 00:56:58,252 --> 00:56:59,461 (SIGHS) 1176 00:57:00,504 --> 00:57:05,259 (READING) "Thank you for applying to Potomac State University, West Virginia. 1177 00:57:05,342 --> 00:57:08,178 "I regret to inform you that you, 1178 00:57:09,179 --> 00:57:10,681 "that you are unable to... 1179 00:57:10,764 --> 00:57:15,394 "That we are unable to admit you for Fall 2016." 1180 00:57:15,477 --> 00:57:16,895 MICHELLE: What school was that? 1181 00:57:16,979 --> 00:57:18,522 GENEVA: Potomac in West Virginia. 1182 00:57:18,605 --> 00:57:21,149 ANDRE: It's not the end of the world. 1183 00:57:22,234 --> 00:57:26,029 BLESSIN: Man, if I could've went and did that interview, I'd have got in there. 1184 00:57:26,113 --> 00:57:29,283 I'm telling you, man, my people skills are serious. 1185 00:57:29,825 --> 00:57:32,077 It's cool though. 'Cause in a few years, they gonna know 1186 00:57:32,160 --> 00:57:33,745 that they should have let me in that university, 1187 00:57:33,829 --> 00:57:35,664 'cause I'm gonna make the whole world know. 1188 00:57:40,377 --> 00:57:42,796 (SINGING) Tell 'em I'm your man 1189 00:57:42,880 --> 00:57:44,756 You're my girl 1190 00:57:44,840 --> 00:57:46,717 (SONG PLAYING ON SPEAKERS) 1191 00:57:46,800 --> 00:57:47,885 (EXHALES) 1192 00:57:49,803 --> 00:57:53,098 PAULA: So, Miss Blessin, always a pleasure. 1193 00:57:53,182 --> 00:57:56,560 Thank you for sharing, you know, your Potomac decision with me. 1194 00:57:56,643 --> 00:57:58,937 I had already spoken with Admissions 1195 00:57:59,021 --> 00:58:02,399 and asked them if I could send them your mid-year grades and move you 1196 00:58:02,482 --> 00:58:05,652 from that decision to waitlist. Okay? 1197 00:58:05,736 --> 00:58:06,987 (BLESSIN SPEAKING) 1198 00:58:07,070 --> 00:58:08,822 Miss Dofat, I don't want to stay at my mother's house. 1199 00:58:09,907 --> 00:58:12,743 I don't... I can't. I want to go. (CHUCKLES) 1200 00:58:12,826 --> 00:58:15,495 It's that time. I don't want to be home. 1201 00:58:15,579 --> 00:58:18,457 Okay. All right. So, I'll tell you what. 1202 00:58:18,540 --> 00:58:22,127 We'll put a couple of plans in place, and all of those plans 1203 00:58:22,211 --> 00:58:24,838 will have you outside of your home. 1204 00:58:25,631 --> 00:58:31,261 So, you're at a 2.67 for the semester. 1205 00:58:32,429 --> 00:58:33,555 You should be proud of yourself. 1206 00:58:33,639 --> 00:58:35,807 So you got to stay focused, stay on this track. 1207 00:58:35,891 --> 00:58:37,017 I'm trying. 1208 00:58:37,100 --> 00:58:39,102 You're not trying, you're doing it. 1209 00:58:41,104 --> 00:58:42,189 All right, thank you, Miss Dofat. 1210 00:58:42,272 --> 00:58:44,608 -Can I have a hug? -Yes! All the time. 1211 00:58:45,192 --> 00:58:46,401 (INDISTINCT) 1212 00:58:51,448 --> 00:58:53,283 (TRIANA SPEAKING) 1213 00:58:53,367 --> 00:58:55,118 Seriously, don't overthink. 1214 00:58:55,953 --> 00:58:58,330 Just go with the flow of things. You know, that's my motto. 1215 00:58:58,413 --> 00:58:59,414 (CORI SPEAKING) 1216 00:58:59,498 --> 00:59:00,499 That was the plan. 1217 00:59:00,582 --> 00:59:01,542 -(BOTH LAUGH) -(TRIANA SPEAKING) 1218 00:59:01,625 --> 00:59:02,709 You are my child. 1219 00:59:06,213 --> 00:59:09,633 PAULA: So, Johns Hopkins, we've been waiting since tenth grade, 1220 00:59:10,133 --> 00:59:13,136 so let's pull it up and let's see what we have. 1221 00:59:15,013 --> 00:59:16,890 -Oh, my God. Mom, you good? -TRIANA: No, are you? 1222 00:59:16,974 --> 00:59:19,476 -Yeah, yeah. I'm gonna hope I'm good. -TRIANA: I'm good. 1223 00:59:24,481 --> 00:59:25,899 PAULA: Oh, now available. 1224 00:59:27,818 --> 00:59:29,069 (GASPS) 1225 00:59:29,945 --> 00:59:31,113 I got in! 1226 00:59:31,196 --> 00:59:32,322 (WOMEN SHRIEK AND LAUGH) 1227 00:59:33,073 --> 00:59:35,909 -Congratulations! -CORI: I really was not expecting to get in. 1228 00:59:35,993 --> 00:59:38,078 Read this out loud. What does that say? 1229 00:59:38,495 --> 00:59:39,496 CORI: (READING) "As a Baltimore Scholar, 1230 00:59:39,580 --> 00:59:40,831 "you'll receive a full tuition award 1231 00:59:40,914 --> 00:59:43,333 "for all four years of your undergrad study at Hopkins." 1232 00:59:43,417 --> 00:59:45,127 TRIANA: Full tuition! 1233 00:59:45,502 --> 00:59:46,795 (ALL CHEERING AND LAUGHING) 1234 00:59:52,634 --> 00:59:54,011 PAULA: You are so welcome! 1235 00:59:55,971 --> 00:59:57,639 TRIANA: See this pat on my back? 1236 00:59:57,723 --> 00:59:59,850 PAULA: Oh, my... Yes! (LAUGHS) 1237 00:59:59,933 --> 01:00:01,393 (CORI SPEAKING) 1238 01:00:01,476 --> 01:00:03,270 I'm surprised I got in. 1239 01:00:03,353 --> 01:00:04,354 Why, though? 1240 01:00:04,438 --> 01:00:06,356 Your scores were high enough to get into the school. 1241 01:00:08,275 --> 01:00:10,777 You know, Hopkins looks for a certain type of people. 1242 01:00:11,445 --> 01:00:13,280 And you're one of them. And I didn't know I was one of them. 1243 01:00:13,363 --> 01:00:14,865 -Changing the game, Cori. -(CHUCKLES) 1244 01:00:14,948 --> 01:00:16,783 Changing the game, shortie! (LAUGHS) 1245 01:00:20,370 --> 01:00:22,539 I don't know if the words that I know 1246 01:00:22,623 --> 01:00:25,375 are adequate enough to describe how I feel. 1247 01:00:26,084 --> 01:00:27,711 (WOMAN AND CHOIR SINGING GOSPEL MUSIC) 1248 01:00:27,794 --> 01:00:30,797 There is always light at the end of the tunnel. 1249 01:00:31,548 --> 01:00:34,551 We are all human, we all go through things. 1250 01:00:34,968 --> 01:00:38,555 The common denominator between every human is we have problems 1251 01:00:39,598 --> 01:00:40,891 and they will keep coming 1252 01:00:40,974 --> 01:00:43,477 and so you get up from that place. 1253 01:00:43,560 --> 01:00:45,562 You can't stay there. 1254 01:00:46,897 --> 01:00:48,815 God has blessed me. 1255 01:00:48,899 --> 01:00:51,527 A lot of parents who had children my age, 1256 01:00:52,528 --> 01:00:54,655 they don't have this story. (CHUCKLES) 1257 01:00:54,738 --> 01:00:57,908 WOMAN: (SINGING) How great 1258 01:00:57,991 --> 01:01:00,744 Is our God? 1259 01:01:02,746 --> 01:01:05,499 WOMAN: (THOUGH SPEAKERS) Come on, just sing, people of God, "How great". 1260 01:01:05,582 --> 01:01:09,086 How great is our God. 1261 01:01:09,169 --> 01:01:11,129 CHOIR: (SINGING) Is our God? 1262 01:01:11,213 --> 01:01:13,215 WOMAN: Sing, sing with me 1263 01:01:14,091 --> 01:01:15,968 How great... 1264 01:01:16,760 --> 01:01:18,929 Hey! 1265 01:01:21,515 --> 01:01:24,810 -TAYLA: This is so nice. -I'm so proud of you! 1266 01:01:26,937 --> 01:01:29,356 I have some fantastic news. 1267 01:01:29,439 --> 01:01:32,484 Your niece got accepted into Alabama A&M. 1268 01:01:32,568 --> 01:01:33,819 Ah! 1269 01:01:34,611 --> 01:01:35,946 Yeah! 1270 01:01:36,029 --> 01:01:38,824 I'm excited. I'm about to do cartwheels. 1271 01:01:38,907 --> 01:01:41,910 No, I need you alive for when I go. 1272 01:01:42,369 --> 01:01:43,954 Um... 1273 01:01:45,455 --> 01:01:48,959 You know the thing hang low. You know it does. 1274 01:01:49,042 --> 01:01:51,044 Ah. (SHRIEKS) 1275 01:01:51,920 --> 01:01:53,463 TAYLA: She's so excited. 1276 01:01:53,547 --> 01:01:55,215 (STOMPING RHYTHMICALLY) 1277 01:01:55,632 --> 01:01:57,301 Mom, look. 1278 01:01:57,968 --> 01:01:59,887 GRANDMA: (ON PHONE) You're a smart cookie! 1279 01:01:59,970 --> 01:02:01,638 Must take after your grandma. 1280 01:02:01,722 --> 01:02:03,390 I take after my mom. 1281 01:02:03,473 --> 01:02:05,142 MAISHA: Hey! 1282 01:02:05,934 --> 01:02:07,477 Proud Mommy. 1283 01:02:07,978 --> 01:02:09,479 GRANDMA: Aren't we all. 1284 01:02:10,397 --> 01:02:12,065 Our children did good. 1285 01:02:12,149 --> 01:02:13,317 Yeah. 1286 01:02:13,400 --> 01:02:14,484 My mommy do good. 1287 01:02:14,985 --> 01:02:16,486 Proud daughter. 1288 01:02:17,821 --> 01:02:20,324 GRANDMA: Let me call Marla and see if she's home. 1289 01:02:20,407 --> 01:02:21,408 MAISHA: All right. 1290 01:02:28,665 --> 01:02:31,251 GIRL: (SINGING) Goin' on a journey 1291 01:02:31,335 --> 01:02:33,420 ALL: (SINGING) We're goin' on a journey 1292 01:02:33,504 --> 01:02:37,257 We're on our way to college We're on our way to college 1293 01:02:37,341 --> 01:02:38,884 And we gonna get there 1294 01:02:40,761 --> 01:02:41,762 Hello! 1295 01:02:41,845 --> 01:02:43,263 Hey, Miss Blessin. 1296 01:02:43,347 --> 01:02:44,765 How are you? 1297 01:02:44,848 --> 01:02:46,433 (INDISTINCT INTRODUCTIONS) 1298 01:02:46,517 --> 01:02:49,353 PAULA: So the program that we're talking about is BridgeEdU. 1299 01:02:49,728 --> 01:02:51,271 It's a first-year college program, 1300 01:02:51,355 --> 01:02:55,192 and it combines academics, real-world internships, 1301 01:02:55,275 --> 01:02:58,987 and you have coaches through your academic time there. 1302 01:02:59,488 --> 01:03:01,490 -I have a question. -BLESSIN: Mmm-hmm. 1303 01:03:01,990 --> 01:03:05,327 If you could start your high school over, 1304 01:03:05,869 --> 01:03:08,539 what would you do differently? 1305 01:03:08,622 --> 01:03:11,583 First, I would come every day. Um... 1306 01:03:11,667 --> 01:03:12,918 And not only come physically, 1307 01:03:13,001 --> 01:03:14,545 but just be in class mentally, 1308 01:03:14,628 --> 01:03:16,797 and just know what's going on, be engaged. 1309 01:03:16,880 --> 01:03:19,675 Lot of the times when I didn't understand exactly what was going on, 1310 01:03:19,758 --> 01:03:23,387 I would just shut down or I just wouldn't be there. 1311 01:03:23,470 --> 01:03:27,641 And then once I got my first report card back that I actually tried on, 1312 01:03:27,724 --> 01:03:30,686 it just gave me a good feeling, and I don't want to let it go. 1313 01:03:30,769 --> 01:03:33,480 I want to keep persevering. I want to keep seeing what I can offer, 1314 01:03:33,564 --> 01:03:35,983 what I can do. What can I learn? 1315 01:03:36,483 --> 01:03:39,319 We're gonna see where this goes. We don't know, but, um, 1316 01:03:39,403 --> 01:03:41,363 we're gonna put it in and we're gonna go for it. 1317 01:03:41,446 --> 01:03:43,115 Thank you so much. Nice meeting you. 1318 01:03:43,198 --> 01:03:45,075 JUANITA S. BELLAMY: You're welcome. Nice meeting you. 1319 01:03:46,326 --> 01:03:47,828 BLESSIN: Have a great day. 1320 01:03:49,246 --> 01:03:53,542 I'm gonna say this to you in all honesty, 1321 01:03:54,084 --> 01:03:57,212 and understand, I'm not trying to put pressure on you, 1322 01:03:59,423 --> 01:04:02,509 but this program is truly what she needs. 1323 01:04:02,593 --> 01:04:05,387 If this girl doesn't get in this program... 1324 01:04:05,470 --> 01:04:06,597 JUANITA: We understand. 1325 01:04:06,680 --> 01:04:08,223 I don't know... 1326 01:04:08,307 --> 01:04:09,308 We understand. 1327 01:04:10,017 --> 01:04:13,312 She's made her mistakes, she's done her stuff, but... 1328 01:04:14,771 --> 01:04:17,357 I'm just saying, if we don't come together for this, 1329 01:04:17,441 --> 01:04:19,902 this girl is not gonna make it. 1330 01:04:20,611 --> 01:04:21,612 Thank you. 1331 01:04:23,197 --> 01:04:25,949 So, I'm just asking, please, to really, really consider... 1332 01:04:26,033 --> 01:04:29,036 This is so unprofessional. I'm so sorry. 1333 01:04:31,830 --> 01:04:33,874 (INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS) 1334 01:04:37,794 --> 01:04:39,171 COACH G: What are you doing? 1335 01:04:39,254 --> 01:04:40,631 I'm filling out... Okay, so, 1336 01:04:40,714 --> 01:04:43,759 I got into this program, well... Mmm... 1337 01:04:43,842 --> 01:04:44,968 God willing, I got into the program, 1338 01:04:45,052 --> 01:04:46,303 but yesterday, I had an interview... 1339 01:04:46,386 --> 01:04:47,846 You're applying for a program? 1340 01:04:47,930 --> 01:04:49,223 BLESSIN: Yes. BridgeEdU. 1341 01:04:49,306 --> 01:04:53,060 I was thinking, like, okay, so what if I really gotta stay at my mother's house? 1342 01:04:53,143 --> 01:04:57,064 -What's gonna be that change for me? -That's the struggle! 1343 01:04:57,147 --> 01:04:59,024 High school, I completely messed up. 1344 01:04:59,107 --> 01:05:00,817 -I wasn't even in school. -You dropped out? 1345 01:05:00,901 --> 01:05:02,486 I dropped out. Yes. 1346 01:05:02,903 --> 01:05:06,406 And when I got my head on my shoulders, like, dang! 1347 01:05:06,490 --> 01:05:07,574 I really shouldn't have messed up. 1348 01:05:07,658 --> 01:05:09,243 I really should've been buckled down. 1349 01:05:09,326 --> 01:05:11,662 That's where I'm at right now. I'm at that point right now. 1350 01:05:11,745 --> 01:05:14,248 I can tell. I can tell it's hard, 1351 01:05:14,331 --> 01:05:16,500 but you have to know it's not too late. 1352 01:05:17,042 --> 01:05:18,252 I genuinely did not know, like, 1353 01:05:18,335 --> 01:05:20,504 that you stopped school and then... 1354 01:05:20,587 --> 01:05:21,797 Mmm-hmm. 1355 01:05:21,880 --> 01:05:25,342 You did all of that. Like, I want to do that. 1356 01:05:25,425 --> 01:05:28,178 Like, I really do want to do exactly what you did. 1357 01:05:28,262 --> 01:05:30,681 Do better. Do better. 1358 01:05:33,016 --> 01:05:35,394 BLESSIN: "It is never too late to make a turnaround. 1359 01:05:35,477 --> 01:05:38,939 "I have made contributions to my school environment, 1360 01:05:39,022 --> 01:05:41,942 "including being a founder, the founder, 1361 01:05:42,025 --> 01:05:44,027 "of the step team at BLSYW. 1362 01:05:44,528 --> 01:05:47,197 "I will be the first person in my family to go to college 1363 01:05:47,614 --> 01:05:49,157 "and I will be more than honored 1364 01:05:49,241 --> 01:05:52,744 "to join the BridgeEdU... 1365 01:05:52,828 --> 01:05:54,079 -Family. -"...family." 1366 01:05:54,496 --> 01:05:55,789 This is good. 1367 01:05:55,873 --> 01:05:57,040 COACH G: Listen up! 1368 01:05:57,457 --> 01:05:59,168 I need everybody over here around this mat. 1369 01:05:59,585 --> 01:06:02,129 The only way this is gonna make it in the show is if we work together 1370 01:06:02,212 --> 01:06:04,047 and you all be safe and practice technique. 1371 01:06:05,215 --> 01:06:07,426 Our arms are tight, right? 1372 01:06:08,010 --> 01:06:11,054 Whose hand is in my spine? Move it now! 1373 01:06:11,138 --> 01:06:12,222 ADAJAH: I'm slipping. 1374 01:06:12,306 --> 01:06:13,348 (ALL CONVERSING INDISTINCTLY) 1375 01:06:13,682 --> 01:06:14,975 (SHRIEKS) 1376 01:06:16,310 --> 01:06:18,896 ALL: Ten, 11! 1377 01:06:19,688 --> 01:06:20,814 COACH G: Breathe! 1378 01:06:22,065 --> 01:06:24,067 Let's go, ladies, let's go! 1379 01:06:25,569 --> 01:06:27,029 (INDISTINCT SHOUTING) 1380 01:06:31,533 --> 01:06:32,910 (GROANS) 1381 01:06:36,455 --> 01:06:38,248 COACH G: Good. Good! 1382 01:06:39,458 --> 01:06:40,834 Yes, ladies. 1383 01:06:40,918 --> 01:06:42,294 BLESSIN: If you feel comfortable you can scoot 1384 01:06:42,377 --> 01:06:44,087 it over a little bit, but just not in the back. 1385 01:06:44,922 --> 01:06:47,424 COACH G: So where do the knees need to go for it to feel comfortable? 1386 01:06:47,508 --> 01:06:49,218 Mine's right here. 1387 01:06:49,301 --> 01:06:52,179 Being with them, little did they know it or not, 1388 01:06:52,262 --> 01:06:54,515 it really was just something that I needed. 1389 01:06:54,598 --> 01:06:56,183 Okay, this is a lot better. 1390 01:06:56,266 --> 01:06:58,185 They never let me forget, like, Blessin, 1391 01:06:58,268 --> 01:07:02,022 you know, it's not too late to fix that 1392 01:07:02,105 --> 01:07:04,149 and, you know, start over. 1393 01:07:11,740 --> 01:07:12,908 COACH G: Good job, Blessin. 1394 01:07:14,076 --> 01:07:15,285 Naysa, yes! 1395 01:07:15,744 --> 01:07:17,120 Go ahead, Amanda! 1396 01:07:17,579 --> 01:07:19,581 Okay, Najia! 1397 01:07:20,290 --> 01:07:21,667 That's what I'm talking about. 1398 01:07:22,292 --> 01:07:25,796 Oh, my God, I can't concentrate, you all look so good! 1399 01:07:27,172 --> 01:07:28,382 Give me life! 1400 01:07:28,882 --> 01:07:30,300 Good job! 1401 01:07:30,384 --> 01:07:31,385 Yes! 1402 01:07:32,302 --> 01:07:33,303 Good! 1403 01:07:34,054 --> 01:07:35,055 Great job! 1404 01:07:38,392 --> 01:07:40,060 Guys, let's go! 1405 01:07:40,143 --> 01:07:42,980 I need y'all to gather around for one second. 1406 01:07:43,063 --> 01:07:46,441 All right, I need to get one more run-through. 1407 01:07:46,525 --> 01:07:48,235 This is the last time you all stepping. 1408 01:07:48,318 --> 01:07:50,779 The literally last time you stepping for Bowie 1409 01:07:51,154 --> 01:07:54,199 before you hit the stage. 1410 01:07:55,742 --> 01:07:59,329 From Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women, 1411 01:07:59,413 --> 01:08:00,664 (GIRL WHOOPING) 1412 01:08:00,747 --> 01:08:04,501 the Lethal Ladies of BLSYW Step Team! 1413 01:08:05,752 --> 01:08:09,756 ALL: I bet you remember. I bet you remember. 1414 01:08:10,340 --> 01:08:12,217 COACH G: That's what I'm talking about! 1415 01:08:12,301 --> 01:08:15,429 Go Kiante! Go Kiante! Go Kiante! 1416 01:08:17,097 --> 01:08:21,185 ALL: Do you remember the time? 1417 01:08:23,187 --> 01:08:24,354 We're gonna win. 1418 01:08:25,689 --> 01:08:29,109 So let's talk about what we're gonna wear tomorrow walking in. 1419 01:08:29,651 --> 01:08:31,320 'Cause what did you all, like... 1420 01:08:31,403 --> 01:08:35,115 Like a lot of the girls' teams, they always coordinated like the whole thing. 1421 01:08:35,199 --> 01:08:37,576 They come in with their leggings on, 1422 01:08:37,659 --> 01:08:40,746 their representative shirts, like their heels on. 1423 01:08:40,829 --> 01:08:43,123 All together in a straight line, look like a parade. 1424 01:08:43,207 --> 01:08:47,711 I think that we got something that will work for everyone. 1425 01:08:47,794 --> 01:08:51,924 And that will be what Ms. Hamilton is wearing. 1426 01:08:52,549 --> 01:08:54,468 (ALL CLAMORING AND SHOUTING) 1427 01:08:57,429 --> 01:08:59,139 You get a tracksuit! You get a tracksuit! 1428 01:08:59,223 --> 01:09:00,807 You get a tracksuit! 1429 01:09:03,060 --> 01:09:04,645 (ALL CHATTERING EXCITEDLY) 1430 01:09:08,440 --> 01:09:10,317 Let's practice walking in. 1431 01:09:10,776 --> 01:09:12,611 -Five, six... -AMANDA: What we doin'? 1432 01:09:12,694 --> 01:09:15,781 We walkin'. Five, six... Play the music. 1433 01:09:15,864 --> 01:09:17,699 (RAP MUSIC STARTS PLAYING) 1434 01:09:21,453 --> 01:09:23,539 COACH G: All right, walk like this. 1435 01:09:24,164 --> 01:09:25,499 And point like, "You all know us." 1436 01:09:25,582 --> 01:09:27,501 You all know us! You all gotta point like, 1437 01:09:27,584 --> 01:09:29,586 "You all know us! You all know us!" 1438 01:09:33,215 --> 01:09:37,302 Throw these up. We back! We back! 1439 01:09:37,386 --> 01:09:39,429 We got a new coach! We back! 1440 01:09:39,763 --> 01:09:41,515 (RAP MUSIC CONTINUES PLAYING) 1441 01:09:41,598 --> 01:09:42,850 MAN: (SINGING) Yeah, yeah 1442 01:09:43,517 --> 01:09:46,645 I'm from Baltimore, you say you was, I never seen you 1443 01:09:46,728 --> 01:09:49,231 What part you on? I got some family on The Alameda 1444 01:09:49,314 --> 01:09:51,817 I love my city, ask about me and I bet they know me 1445 01:09:51,900 --> 01:09:54,528 My name good in any hood I hung around Tivoly 1446 01:09:54,611 --> 01:09:57,030 I got a... that live on Appleton she love them killers 1447 01:09:57,114 --> 01:09:58,448 When I re-up I hit my partner... 1448 01:09:58,782 --> 01:10:00,284 BLESSIN: Real dramatic stage makeup. 1449 01:10:00,659 --> 01:10:02,536 My uncle Jimmy 'round the corner on the avenue 1450 01:10:02,619 --> 01:10:04,746 You baller blocking that's the type of shit I never do 1451 01:10:04,830 --> 01:10:05,831 BLESSIN: All right, next person! 1452 01:10:05,914 --> 01:10:07,207 ...you know what kind of shit I'm on 1453 01:10:07,291 --> 01:10:09,877 But I be everywhere I sold drugs in Woodlawn 1454 01:10:09,960 --> 01:10:12,296 I know some...down the hill that got it for the low 1455 01:10:12,379 --> 01:10:15,299 I live in Bird City... You already know 1456 01:10:15,966 --> 01:10:17,801 (AUDIENCE CHEERING) 1457 01:10:18,385 --> 01:10:20,429 (MAN TALKING INDISTINCTLY OVER SPEAKERS) 1458 01:10:21,889 --> 01:10:23,640 (AUDIENCE CHEERING) 1459 01:10:24,808 --> 01:10:26,685 (MEN CHANTING ON TV) 1460 01:10:56,215 --> 01:10:58,217 (APPLAUDING AND CHEERING) 1461 01:10:58,300 --> 01:11:00,511 All right, let's go, ladies. Let's go! 1462 01:11:07,976 --> 01:11:09,937 NAJIA: Lethal... ALL: ...Ladies! 1463 01:11:10,020 --> 01:11:12,022 NAJIA: Lethal... ALL: ...Ladies! 1464 01:11:12,105 --> 01:11:14,066 ALL: LLOB! 1465 01:11:14,149 --> 01:11:15,150 (ALL WHOOPING) 1466 01:11:17,986 --> 01:11:19,988 (MAN TALKING INDISTINCTLY ON SPEAKERS) 1467 01:11:21,198 --> 01:11:22,699 (COACH G SPEAKING) 1468 01:11:22,783 --> 01:11:24,117 You all got this. Don't forget your marks. 1469 01:11:24,201 --> 01:11:26,495 Don't forget your marks. Let's take this W. 1470 01:11:26,578 --> 01:11:29,873 Ladies and gentlemen, would you please welcome LLOB! 1471 01:11:30,332 --> 01:11:31,542 (ALL CHEERING) 1472 01:11:39,299 --> 01:11:40,384 We are... 1473 01:11:40,467 --> 01:11:44,763 ALL: BLSYW step team, all right, all right, all right. 1474 01:11:45,180 --> 01:11:47,641 BLSYW step team, 1475 01:11:50,227 --> 01:11:52,229 all right, all right, all right. 1476 01:11:58,777 --> 01:12:02,281 Lethal Ladies! 1477 01:12:08,704 --> 01:12:10,038 (AUDIENCE CHEERING) 1478 01:12:10,122 --> 01:12:11,415 Lethal Ladies! 1479 01:12:11,874 --> 01:12:13,417 (AUDIENCE CHEERING) 1480 01:12:18,505 --> 01:12:19,506 COACH G: Go, ladies! 1481 01:12:26,305 --> 01:12:27,306 (AUDIENCE CHEERING) 1482 01:12:55,667 --> 01:12:57,294 (AUDIENCE CHEERING) 1483 01:12:57,377 --> 01:12:58,754 STEP TEAM: (CHANTING) That's for sure. 1484 01:12:59,213 --> 01:13:01,965 That the Lethal Ladies of BLSYW 1485 01:13:02,049 --> 01:13:04,676 are the ones you can't resist. 1486 01:13:04,760 --> 01:13:07,054 Sisterhood and integrity, 1487 01:13:07,137 --> 01:13:09,723 you mess with my sister and you mess with me. 1488 01:13:09,806 --> 01:13:12,559 We step with soul, we step with pride. 1489 01:13:12,643 --> 01:13:16,063 Lethal Ladies till the day we die. 1490 01:13:16,146 --> 01:13:18,148 (AUDIENCE CHEERING AND APPLAUDING) 1491 01:13:21,068 --> 01:13:22,528 COACH G: Y'all killed it! 1492 01:13:22,611 --> 01:13:24,238 Y'all killed it. Y'all killed it. 1493 01:13:25,113 --> 01:13:26,114 (YELLS) 1494 01:13:28,325 --> 01:13:29,743 Y'all did good. 1495 01:13:31,119 --> 01:13:34,081 WOMAN: (THROUGH SPEAKERS) There's a lot of girl power on this stage tonight. 1496 01:13:34,164 --> 01:13:39,378 Our third-place team with a high score of 760 points, 1497 01:13:40,087 --> 01:13:42,047 Charles Herbert Flowers High School. 1498 01:13:42,130 --> 01:13:44,007 (ALL CHEERING) 1499 01:13:45,008 --> 01:13:50,138 Our second-place winners, who get a check for $500, is 1500 01:13:51,890 --> 01:13:53,934 Paint Branch High School! 1501 01:13:54,017 --> 01:13:55,936 (ALL CHEERING) 1502 01:14:03,694 --> 01:14:07,865 And our first-place winner with a high score of 803 1503 01:14:07,948 --> 01:14:12,035 and the winner of $1,000, 1504 01:14:14,913 --> 01:14:16,957 the Lethal Ladies BLSYW step team! 1505 01:14:17,040 --> 01:14:19,042 (ALL CHEERING) 1506 01:14:19,418 --> 01:14:20,544 (RAP MUSIC PLAYING) 1507 01:14:21,211 --> 01:14:23,380 (SINGING) I'm from Baltimore, you say you was, I never seen you 1508 01:14:23,463 --> 01:14:25,966 What part you on? I got some family on The Alameda 1509 01:14:26,049 --> 01:14:28,594 I love my city, ask about me and I bet they know me 1510 01:14:28,677 --> 01:14:31,388 My name good in any hood I hung around Tivoly 1511 01:14:31,471 --> 01:14:34,141 I got a... that live on Appleton she love them killers 1512 01:14:34,224 --> 01:14:36,602 When I re-up I hit my partner them in Garden Village 1513 01:14:36,685 --> 01:14:38,729 My uncle Jimmy 'round the corner on the avenue 1514 01:14:38,812 --> 01:14:41,315 You baller blocking that's the type of shit I never do 1515 01:14:41,398 --> 01:14:44,067 I'm from the east side you know what kind of...I'm on 1516 01:14:44,151 --> 01:14:46,653 But I be everywhere I sold drugs in Woodlawn 1517 01:14:46,737 --> 01:14:49,448 I know some... down the hill that got it for the low 1518 01:14:49,531 --> 01:14:51,825 I live in Bird City... You already know 1519 01:14:51,909 --> 01:14:54,328 And I don't go nowhere unless a...strapped up 1520 01:14:54,411 --> 01:14:57,623 And if you...a Morgan... You better strap up 1521 01:14:57,706 --> 01:15:00,250 It's been a long road. 1522 01:15:00,667 --> 01:15:04,838 Long road from stomping in the kitchen 1523 01:15:04,922 --> 01:15:07,132 to bringing home the bacon! 1524 01:15:07,216 --> 01:15:09,051 Right! We showed them! 1525 01:15:13,764 --> 01:15:15,349 (ALL CONVERSING EXCITEDLY) 1526 01:15:19,520 --> 01:15:23,106 BLESSIN: Step is definitely something that can help you, because it helped me. 1527 01:15:23,941 --> 01:15:26,860 Step taught me discipline. Step taught me to be courageous. 1528 01:15:27,611 --> 01:15:31,114 Make people smile, make people laugh, make people want to dance. 1529 01:15:32,533 --> 01:15:34,952 Step gave me a mission, that if you come together 1530 01:15:35,035 --> 01:15:36,828 with a group of powerful women, 1531 01:15:36,912 --> 01:15:39,039 the impact will be immense. 1532 01:15:39,998 --> 01:15:43,001 And I'm very happy to be a part of that. 1533 01:15:49,758 --> 01:15:51,468 (HORNS HONKING) 1534 01:15:59,685 --> 01:16:01,562 (INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS) 1535 01:16:12,656 --> 01:16:15,492 MAISHA: Oh, my gosh, Tayla. You ready? 1536 01:16:16,785 --> 01:16:18,328 This is it. 1537 01:16:20,330 --> 01:16:23,083 We thank You, Father God, that Cori is strong 1538 01:16:23,166 --> 01:16:25,210 in her mind, in her spirit, in her body. 1539 01:16:25,294 --> 01:16:26,587 It's all because of Your grace, 1540 01:16:26,670 --> 01:16:28,755 it's all because of Your glory. 1541 01:16:29,214 --> 01:16:30,841 (INSPIRATIONAL MUSIC PLAYING) 1542 01:16:31,592 --> 01:16:34,136 (SINGING) Feel the sound 1543 01:16:35,304 --> 01:16:36,763 (AUDIENCE CHEERING) 1544 01:16:38,265 --> 01:16:41,018 Of your heartbeat 1545 01:16:42,686 --> 01:16:45,355 Daring love 1546 01:16:46,315 --> 01:16:49,902 CHEVONNE HALL: To the class of 2016, I say congratulations. 1547 01:16:50,235 --> 01:16:54,198 100% of you were accepted into college, and let's be clear, 1548 01:16:54,281 --> 01:16:56,575 that does not happen in all schools in the United States. 1549 01:16:57,367 --> 01:16:58,911 (ALL CHEERING) 1550 01:17:00,913 --> 01:17:02,331 CORI: Good evening, everyone. 1551 01:17:02,706 --> 01:17:05,792 We stand here today on the precipice of the future. 1552 01:17:05,876 --> 01:17:08,170 It's not a distant reality anymore. 1553 01:17:08,545 --> 01:17:10,339 We began high school as children, 1554 01:17:10,422 --> 01:17:11,590 but we're leaving here as adults, 1555 01:17:12,341 --> 01:17:14,384 or at least something pretty close to it. 1556 01:17:15,177 --> 01:17:18,013 The future is truly in our hands, so let's make the most of it. 1557 01:17:18,555 --> 01:17:20,224 -Thank you. -(ALL CHEERING) 1558 01:17:21,850 --> 01:17:23,685 Cori Danielle Grainger. 1559 01:17:27,564 --> 01:17:29,233 Naysa Priscilla Reames. 1560 01:17:31,026 --> 01:17:32,986 Domonique Imani Hall. 1561 01:17:34,446 --> 01:17:36,448 Kiante Corone Moore. 1562 01:17:36,907 --> 01:17:38,909 Najia Quonya Johnson. 1563 01:17:39,576 --> 01:17:41,578 Amanda Gabrielle Leonard. 1564 01:17:42,329 --> 01:17:45,832 Yakema Chantelle Rosland Barkley. 1565 01:17:46,708 --> 01:17:51,713 Diamond Monique Cache Hill. Tyrina Teresa Sneed. 1566 01:17:53,257 --> 01:17:55,259 Tamar Denae Dennis. 1567 01:17:56,009 --> 01:17:57,636 Tayla Denise Solomon. 1568 01:17:58,679 --> 01:18:00,138 That's my baby! 1569 01:18:01,181 --> 01:18:03,892 WOMAN: Blessin Sierria Giraldo. 1570 01:18:07,521 --> 01:18:10,774 It is my pleasure to congratulate the founding class 1571 01:18:11,525 --> 01:18:13,986 of the Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women. 1572 01:18:14,069 --> 01:18:16,154 The class of 2016. 1573 01:18:16,238 --> 01:18:17,948 (ALL CHEERING) 1574 01:18:20,242 --> 01:18:22,661 Mama! I graduated! 1575 01:18:26,790 --> 01:18:28,959 -GENEVA: I love you so much. -I love you, too. 1576 01:18:30,294 --> 01:18:31,295 So happy! 1577 01:18:31,920 --> 01:18:34,464 You're so dramatic. Are you crying? 1578 01:18:35,716 --> 01:18:37,718 -Give me my baby! -Okay. 1579 01:18:39,386 --> 01:18:42,055 To know how it feels to fly 1580 01:18:42,139 --> 01:18:43,974 Together we can go high 1581 01:18:44,057 --> 01:18:47,561 Stronger, deeper Light my fire 1582 01:18:47,644 --> 01:18:49,563 Even though the world is cold 1583 01:18:49,646 --> 01:18:51,732 Even when the world is cold 1584 01:18:51,815 --> 01:18:53,483 You can stand on my shoulder 1585 01:18:53,567 --> 01:18:55,694 Can't keep sitting down 1586 01:18:55,777 --> 01:18:59,239 Get up, spread your magic all around 1587 01:18:59,323 --> 01:19:01,992 It's not brave if you're not afraid 1588 01:19:02,075 --> 01:19:04,328 Trust the light, it'll lead the way 1589 01:19:04,828 --> 01:19:07,122 You gotta fight if you wanna win 1590 01:19:07,456 --> 01:19:11,168 If you fall, get up and start again 1591 01:19:11,251 --> 01:19:13,337 To make it to the other side 1592 01:19:13,670 --> 01:19:16,673 It's not brave if you're not afraid 1593 01:19:16,757 --> 01:19:20,135 To get to the other side, jump 1594 01:19:23,680 --> 01:19:26,016 Ooh 1595 01:19:31,438 --> 01:19:32,814 (BOTH LAUGHING) 1596 01:19:42,449 --> 01:19:44,493 (CHANTING INDISTINCTLY) 1597 01:19:53,710 --> 01:19:57,548 P-R-E-C... 1598 01:19:57,631 --> 01:19:58,966 (VOCALIZING) 1599 01:20:20,571 --> 01:20:22,447 (INSPIRATIONAL SONG PLAYING) 1600 01:20:22,531 --> 01:20:25,534 (SINGING) Don't look down 1601 01:20:26,910 --> 01:20:29,121 Feel the sound 1602 01:20:33,625 --> 01:20:36,420 Of your heartbeat 1603 01:20:38,547 --> 01:20:40,799 Daring love 1604 01:20:45,929 --> 01:20:48,849 It's not brave 1605 01:20:50,017 --> 01:20:52,769 If you're not afraid 1606 01:20:56,857 --> 01:21:00,027 To set darkness ablaze 1607 01:21:00,110 --> 01:21:02,029 And light up like faith 1608 01:21:02,112 --> 01:21:04,948 You got to jump 1609 01:21:05,407 --> 01:21:07,201 Go jump 1610 01:21:10,078 --> 01:21:12,873 'Cause the whole world's waiting 1611 01:21:12,956 --> 01:21:16,126 No more hesitating, jump 1612 01:21:17,211 --> 01:21:18,962 Oh, jump 1613 01:21:21,757 --> 01:21:24,510 We want to be 1614 01:21:24,593 --> 01:21:28,889 As born in belief, jump 1615 01:21:28,972 --> 01:21:33,060 Oh, jump 1616 01:21:33,143 --> 01:21:36,021 To get to the other side, jump 1617 01:21:36,104 --> 01:21:38,732 To know how it feels to fly, jump 1618 01:21:38,815 --> 01:21:41,318 Together we can go high 1619 01:21:41,401 --> 01:21:44,655 Stronger, deeper, light my fire 1620 01:21:44,738 --> 01:21:47,699 Even though the world is cold 1621 01:21:47,783 --> 01:21:50,410 You can stand on my shoulder 1622 01:21:50,494 --> 01:21:52,704 Can't keep sitting down 1623 01:21:52,788 --> 01:21:56,333 Get up, spread your magic all around 1624 01:21:57,292 --> 01:21:59,253 Ooh 1625 01:22:06,218 --> 01:22:07,427 Jump 1626 01:22:07,511 --> 01:22:09,930 'Cause the whole world's waiting, jump 1627 01:22:10,013 --> 01:22:11,849 No more hesitating 1628 01:22:11,932 --> 01:22:14,518 Jump 1629 01:22:14,601 --> 01:22:17,062 Oh, jump 1630 01:22:17,145 --> 01:22:18,730 Oh, jump 1631 01:22:18,814 --> 01:22:20,649 Who you wanna be 1632 01:22:20,732 --> 01:22:22,150 Jump 1633 01:22:24,486 --> 01:22:27,364 When your knees are shaking 1634 01:22:27,447 --> 01:22:30,409 When your heart is racing Jump 1635 01:22:31,577 --> 01:22:33,954 Oh, jump 1636 01:22:35,080 --> 01:22:36,665 Jump 1637 01:22:36,748 --> 01:22:38,876 There's no guarantees 1638 01:22:38,959 --> 01:22:43,172 That you'll land on your feet Just jump 1639 01:22:43,714 --> 01:22:46,049 Oh, jump 1640 01:22:47,593 --> 01:22:49,303 To get to the other side 1641 01:22:49,386 --> 01:22:51,180 Get to the other side 1642 01:22:51,263 --> 01:22:53,390 To know how it feels to fly, jump 1643 01:22:53,473 --> 01:22:55,684 Together we can go high 1644 01:22:55,767 --> 01:22:59,354 Stronger, deeper, light my fire 1645 01:22:59,438 --> 01:23:01,565 Even though the world is cold 1646 01:23:01,648 --> 01:23:02,983 The world is colder 1647 01:23:03,066 --> 01:23:04,526 You can stand on my shoulder 1648 01:23:04,610 --> 01:23:06,361 On my shoulder 1649 01:23:06,445 --> 01:23:07,696 Can't keep sitting down 1650 01:23:07,779 --> 01:23:10,866 Get up, spread your magic all around 1651 01:23:12,492 --> 01:23:15,537 What do you got to know? 1652 01:23:15,621 --> 01:23:17,581 What have you got to lose? 1653 01:23:24,713 --> 01:23:28,383 Jump It's your move 1654 01:23:28,467 --> 01:23:30,052 Ooh