Guest column
FSU’s impact reaches children’s lives long before college Fayetteville State University can impact children in powerful and positive ways, long before they become students at the university.
By Traverro L. Harden Contributed photos
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My family is living proof of FSU’s far-reaching impact. In the summer of 2017, my three sons—PaHeru Nubia-Ra, Khalid, and Emir Selah, at ages 6, 5, and 4, respectively—were the youngest entrepreneurs at FSU’s Murchison Road Flea Market. Their business: a homeschool economic empowerment project called 3 Brothers Stand. In fact, the boys’ lemonade enterprise began in Fall
2016 at the end of our driveway in Fayetteville’s Lakedale subdivision. Eventually, the boys moved from the driveway to a booth at the Raeford Road Flea Market, and then to the Black Heritage Farmers’ Market on Saturdays in Spring Lake in 2017. In 2018, 3 Brothers Stand settled at the FSU Murchison Road Farmers’ Market because of the support and steady business this optimal location provided. Every week, Don Bennett and Julius Cook helped us set up our tent and table for vending homemade lemonade, chocolate chip cookies, brownies and, later on, handmade
