Category: Youth Written by Rossano P. Stewart

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The early spring rainfall couldn’t dampen the pride of the 120 high school students, parents, relatives and friends of the area schools in Pittsburgh on March 25 at Heinz Memorial Chapel. The Urban League of Greater Pittsburgh held the Fifth Annual National Achievers Induction ceremony. The NAS Mission is to encourage, recognize and reinforce achievement among African-American youths. The Urban League of Greater Pittsburgh takes great pride in traditionally recognizing high school students from the greater Pittsburgh area who have achieved a GPA of 3.0 or higher as well as a record of community service, personal achievement and accomplishments.

NATIONAL ACHIEVERS SOCIETY MALE INDUCTEES

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Category: Youth Written by Courier Newsroom

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ATLANTA—The National Society of High School Scholars announced that Keystone Oaks High School student Cameron T. Ogden from Pittsburgh, has been selected for membership.
The society recognizes top scholars and invites only those students who have achieved superior academic excellence. The announcement was made by NSHSS founder and chairman, Claes Nobel, a senior member of the family that established the Nobel prizes.

CAMERON T. OGDEN

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Category: Youth Written by Debbie Norrell

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“Oh, what a precious dream, to be young, gifted and Black, open your hearts to what I mean.”

On March 13 at the Churchill Valley Country Club, St. Mark African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church Young Adult Christian Ministry presented their third annual “Young, Gifted and Black” Awards Dinner. The 10 honorees included an actor, high school principal, journalist and an entrepreneur.

YOUNG, GIFTED AND BLACK—Shawn McNeil, Ashley Johnson, Gina Johnson and Wayne Walters, Ph.D.

Mistress of ceremonies Michelle White, said, “Young people are important and they need each one of us to stand behind them.”

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At 600 Pitt St. in Wilkinsburg, declining membership within the once thriving St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church was the catalyst for opening the doors a little wider as the parishioners reached out to the drastically changing community. The Episcopal church, in the midst of an African-American neighborhood, made a decision to “walk alongside their Wilkinsburg neighbors in friendship,” to attain “reconciliation across barriers of race and life experience, and to provide care in places of great need.”

AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM—Anthony Jackson, in charge of the after-school program, plays and sings with the kids.

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