It is time for another special edition of Northwest Public Broadcasting Weekly News Now.

Time again for another community spotlight.

This time we are joined by the wonderful people from the Terry Buffington Foundation.

We have Terry Buffington herself and her son, Kwasi Buffington.

Thank you two so much for being here.

Thank you for having us.

You know, we've heard a lot from you folks on the airwaves, on our radio channels.

First time we've had you on the TV.

So tell us a little bit about the Terry Buffington Foundation.

Well, the Terry Buffington Foundation is a result of the Terry Buffington Papers that was gifted to by me and sponsored by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

The Terry Buffington Papers.

And in the process of the papers going viral all over the world, we decided that we needed to formulate a foundation and a production company.

The Terry Buffington Foundation will award, at some point, an academic scholarship to a student here on this campus, a boy, a girl, I don't care.

And the reason I wanted a foundation.

I'm a cultural anthropologist.

University of Memphis.

And there are less than 1800 black anthropologists in America And so it's important for me that other minorities, such as me and underrepresented population, have an opportunity to learn how to accomplish what I accomplished growing up in Mississippi, in the Jim Crow South.

So that's the foundation.

In essence.

We know that support is really important for a lot of foundations.

Tell us about how it helps you.

Well, support helps us in a number of ways.

it helps us to build community relationships.

It helps us to build a business relationships.

And being that we are a local community organization, in conjunction with WSU Pullman, It helps us reach the student population.

So I want to raise $100,000 this year.

You know these books now are so expensive.

For students a $500 scholarship will hardly textbooks these days.

So I want to be able to give the students a substantial scholarship.

And that will be coming up pretty soon.

We are community based, but without Northwest Public Broadcasting, I want to say that our works here in this community in the Pacific Northwest would have remained in darkness.

And I'm grateful to you all for that.

We are so pleased to shine the light.

Thank you for everything.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Congratulations on the big things.

And we'll talk soon.

Lots more happening.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you, Tracci.

We're delighted that you invited us.

Thank you very much.