Inter-Alumni Council President Luther Williams says his group is open to suggestions.
One such gathering was a 24th Anniversary breakfast held by the Inter-Alumni Council of the UNCF in Los Angeles.
Under the watchful eye of Inter-Alumni Council President Luther Williams, it served as a time to reflect on what UNCF and the Inter-Alumni Council’s goals are and will be in the coming years.
It always comes back to the students.
“I receive calls all the time from students in school, and the problem isn’t that they couldn’t get there, but they can’t stay,” Williams said. “What we’re doing here is important. We’re raising money for them to continue their education, and when I receive one of them calls, I can tell them, ‘Look, just give me a few days, and we’ll take care of you.’ And we can do that. We’ve done it.”
With the backdrop of HBCU emblems, just right of a portrait of King with the words, “Yesterday’s Dream, Tomorrow’s Reality,” printed along its bottom, the breakfast served as a means to remember what King stood for, what UNCF can do to preserve his legacy and how much can be savored now, in a time King foreshadowed all those years ago.
But the years have changed for UNCF. That day served as a microcosm of the image of UNCF. The men and women represented there were mostly older; the youth weren’t well-represented, and that’s something UNCF is aware of and wants to change.
