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Dr. Hendricks' Students Help With Commerce Cleanup, Clothes Drive

Dr. LaVelle Hendricks, Facebook

Dr. LaVelle Hendricks, head of the A&M-Commerce Department of Psychology and Special Education, organized students to help pick up fallen branches after the recent ice storms and also provided new clothes for children at the Commerce Elementary School, with the help of the College of Education and Human Services. Dr. Hendricks also discusses his annual trip during Black History Month with students to civil-rights landmarks in the South.

John Mark Dempsey is the host of the public interest program The Blacklands Café from KETR News. Dempsey is also the play-by-play announcer for Commerce Tigers Football on 88.9 FM and on ketr.org.