Osupa 11 July 2010 Education, Higher Learning, Lifestyle No Comment

BlackTalentNews.com

Posted July 11th 2010

Call­ing all girls, call­ing all girls! The Lit­tle Miss African Amer­i­can Schol­ar­ship Pageant is now except­ing nation­wide sub­mis­sions as it read­ies for its 17^th year as one of the longest run­ning com­pe­ti­tions for intel­li­gent young women aged 6–12. The orig­i­nal cre­ation of actress/ chore­o­g­ra­pher Lisa Ruf­fin, The Lit­tle Miss African Amer­i­can Schol­ar­ship pageant has con­sis­tently empha­sized brains over beauty, pos­i­tively impact­ing the lives of hun­dreds of impres­sion­able young girls over the years.

This year’s event will be held Sat­ur­day, August 21, 2010at the Uni­ver­sal Sher­a­ton Hotel at 4:00 p.m. with Red Car­pet to take place at 3:00 p.m.  The Uni­ver­sal Sher­a­ton Hotel is located at 333 Uni­ver­sal Hol­ly­wood Drive in Uni­ver­sal City, CA. The dead­line for appli­ca­tions is July 16.  For fur­ther infor­ma­tion email LittleMissAA@gmail.com. Please include a pic­ture of the con­tes­tant with her name, brief infor­ma­tion and any available links.

Past celebrity par­tic­i­pants have included Emmy nom­i­nated actress, Chan­dra Wil­son (ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy), World Box­ing Cham­pion Laila Ali and James Pick­ens Jr. (ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy). Rap­per LL Cool J made a sur­prise appear­ance at the 2008 celebration.  For more infor­ma­tion go to: http://www.littlemissafricanamerican.com