Busta’s Person of the Week: Hear Our Youth Summit was a serious reality check

By Busta Brown This week I was the MC and speaker for Hear Our Youth, youth summit in High Point. The theme was “Reality Check!” And that’s exactly what it was.  The summit is the vision of Mr. Jerry Mingo of High Point. “He always had a passion to help the youth in the community and he would host a youth summit every year,” said Oveter McLean. She’s the founder and CEO for the organization, Not on the Curb.  “He would make sure the youth had teachers in the community and everybody out to help the youth. So, this was dear to his heart. It was a passion that he loved doing every year to help the youth in the community shut down some of the violence during the summer and spring break, when they were out of school.  “Mr. Mingo has dementia, so me, Mrs. Greta Bush and Dr, Shanika McKiever had a previous conversation about hosting a youth summit in April, because we wanted to keep his legacy going. We’re going to record the summit so Mr. Mingo’s daughter can show it to him, so he’ll know we’re still carrying on his legacy,” shared McLean.  As founder and...