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Way back in 1979, #NCStateCALS alumnus Billy Ray Vickers was the second-leading rusher for the last PackFootball team to win an ACCSports Championship. He was also the first person in his family to go to #college and is now the one of the nation’s top #Black business owners. The Forest City, North Carolina, native learned his work ethic picking cotton and garden #farming on his grandfather’s land in the Rutherford County foothills, oftentimes with a mule, a plow and a wagon. It was the first steps that brought him on a journey to study #AnimalScience at NCState a little over four decades ago. But his journey didn't come without challenges. There are parts of the Black community where not everyone feels like they have the same opportunities. So we have a responsibility to get out in those communities and help teach and help people understand that responsibility. #Education is the key if we are ever going to eradicate #RacialTension, and we have to start that at a young level to make...

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