Macon Man Returns Home to Great Job after High-End Education in Auto Industry

Leon Tarver is BMW of Macon’s newest master service technician. He’ll earn at least $55,000 a year and could one day advance into auto design or become a field service technician, traveling the country to help stumped mechanics. During his senior year, he landed a full $21,000 scholarship to Nashville Auto-Diesel College. A year later, BMW of Macon paid the $11,000 tuition to send him to Orlando, Fla., for a program to specialize in servicing the high-end cars. Read his story from the Macon Telegraph.

Young, Black and Gifted - Cleveland Student Wins Gates Scholarship

Arthur Hill is headed to Howard University - all expenses paid - thanks to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He is one of 1,000 Gates Millennium Scholars. Learn more about him and how he accomplished his goal from this WKYC report.

Young, Black and Gifted - California Woman Achieves Dream of Stuyding at Oxford

Sharron Pearson was accepted to a prestigious summer program at Oxford University, but her family could not afford the trip. She took a courageous step of fundraising that resulted in reaching her goal for the trip. Read more about it in the Los Angeles Times.

Young, Black and Gifted - Savannah Teen Excels in Academics, Music

Meet Joseff Kolman, recently honored as Student of the Mounth by his local school. Read more in The Savannah Tribune.

Young, Black and Gifted - S.C. Student Show Power of Pen

Ty'Sheoma Bethea made national news in February because she wrote a passionate letter to President Barack Obama about the poor conditions of her Dillon, S.C. school. Read more about her.

Young, Black and Gifted - Students Interview Elders in Photography Project

Cleveland students become inspired by the words of their elders in a photography project. Watch the video on a segment of Romona's Kids from WKYC-TV Cleveland.

Young, Black and Gifted - Lil Champs @ PS 89Q

he Lil Champs are a group of third, fourth, and fifth graders in Elmhurst, New York City. They are members of the LATCH After-School Program, which is supported by the Child Guidance Center of New York. The Lil Champs CD is a mix of hip-hop and R&B with songs ranging from a tribute to Black History to a humorous remix of traditional holiday songs. Listen to their rhymes.

Young, Black and Gifted - Xenson

Uganda's Ssenkaaba Samson (Xenson) is a young multi talented creator of the unconventional with extraordinary imagination and unfound creativity greatly influenced by the grandeur of African arts, African cultures, vitality of African dance and Hip-Hop as a free expressive art form. He is at the vanguard of a youthful art renaissance that refuses to be pigeonholed into a singular artistic expression.
Learn more about him here.

Young, Black and Gifted - Rev. Otis Moss

Rev. Otis Moss III is one of America's brightest theologians shaping ministry in this relevant age. Here in a video from the DNC's 2007 Black History Month event, he connects the power of African-American history to the prophetic promise of the hip-hip, Post Soul generation - the young, black and gifted generation. Watch it here.

Young, Black and Gifted - S.C. Students Show Entrepreneurial Skills

While Ahmad's Quick Snacks drew in hungry folks with juice boxes and ziplocked pickles, Venture Crew #469 from Mt. Moriah Baptist Church kept business booming next door with crowd-favored cookies.

A recent Black Expo brought stiff competition among businesses vying for the attention of tens of thousands of Expo-goers at the Charleston Area Convention Center. Read more from the Post and Courier.

Young, Black and Gifted - Detroit Man Honored as Photographer of the Year

Detroit Free Press photographer Rashaun Rucker was named Photographer of the Year by the Michigan Press Photographers Association on Saturday in its 55th annual Pictures of the Year contest. Learn more him from freep.com.