Urban Connection: An UYS Podcast

Nokobe Dean, linebacker for the Philadelphia eagles. Stops into the urban youth racing school to talk stem, his education and of course football.

Larry Miller and Laila Lacy, join us live from the Power 99 studio at iheartmedia’s Philadelphia headquarters. This is an inspirational must listen for all! Named the first chairman of the Jordan Brand Advisory Board in January 2019, Larry Miller led Michael Jordan’s $200-million basketball shoe company to become a $4-billion athletic apparel global powerhouse. After helping found the Jordan Brand at Nike in 1999, he was president of the Portland Trailblazers from 2007 to 2012 and has served in leadership and advocacy roles for the Urban League, Junior Achievement, and Self Enhancement, Inc. In Jump, Miller begins his story with the violence of his 1960s West Philadelphia upbringing and incarceration and shares his later opportunities of education, redemption, and success. Laila Lacy, a native of Philadelphia, graduated from Central High School. She earned a degree from Howard University in Washington, DC, where she studied Psychology and Human Communications and has studied at New York’s Bank Street Graduate School of Education. Lacy taught middle school for the New York Board of Education and later served as a business development manager for several mortgage banking firms in California. In addition to collaborating on her father’s memoir, she has written op-eds and product reviews that have been featured in the several online magazines.

Steve Phelps the commissioner of NASCAR joins us live from Dover motor Speedway!

Welcome to urban connection! With your host Anthony and Michelle Martin founders of the urban youth racing school.