ROCKFORD If you haven’t seen the series “The Queen’s Gambit” on Netflix, then I am a photographic genius and portrait photographers like Annie Leibovitz and Platon are put on notice. But if you have binged the hit drama series like I have, then you’ll recognize the mind-bending aesthetics I shamelessly borrowed to make this portrait.
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Winners Announced for 2021 Virtual Oratorical Contest
By Staff and Wire Report
Published April 29, 2021
From left are Terri Lyons, LaRita Shelby of Sigma Gamma Rho, Mia Moore, 1st place winner, Jennifer Moore Walker, Mia’s mother, and OASC President Ernestine Jan Gordon. (Photo by Curtis Sabir)
Three local teens secured the top spots in the 2021 Oratorical Contest sponsored by Our Authors Study Club (OASC) and the Sigma Sigma Alumnae Chapter of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc.
The virtual event was held March 27 and the awards were presented on April 10, with each recipient receiving certificates, gifts and cash prizes.
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th grader from Glendale, won 1
Mia Moore, a 9
st Place for her excellent exhortation of the topic
The Black Family: Representation, Identity & Diversity.
Coming in 2
th grader
Hunter Young, a student at Branded Genius Academy and a member of Boy Scout Troop 848 in Los Angeles.
11
Jeremiah Davis placed 3
rd from St. John Basco in Bellflower, CA and he also represented the Gamma Zeta Boule’ Foundation.
An honorable mention was awarded to
Ryshaun Brown, a 9
th grader from Blue Ridge Academy in Santa Clarita, CA.
Oratorical Contest sponsored by Our Authors Study Club & Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc Sigma Sigma Chapter 2021 winners Hunter Young (2nd), Mia Moore (1st), Jeremiah Davis (3rd). Photo by Curtis Sabir
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. –
The Florida State Track and Field team will be spending the weekend split between two meets, the Tom Jones Invite at Florida and the Virginia Challenge at Virginia. Both take place on April 16 and 17.
Tom Jones Invite
The majority of the squad will be returning to the University of Florida campus for the Tom Jones Invite at the Percy Beard Track in James G. Pressly Stadium. With schools like Ole Miss, Arkansas, Kentucky, Miami, Louisville, Georgia, and NC State attending, this weekend’s meet will be strong competition for the Seminoles from top to bottom.
There will be some familiar faces this weekend competing in their first outdoor competition, all of whom are coming off spectacular indoor performances. Among that group is Jeremiah Davis (long jump), Maudie Skyring (1500m & 800m) and Ruta Lasmane (triple jump & long jump).