Young, Black and Gifted: June 2007

Wednesday, June 13, 2007

Young, Black and Gifted - The Engagement of Robert Gray and Keisha Williams

This beautiful story - told through the wonderful photography of Atlanta's Ross Oscar Knight, shows that young people do build healthy relationships in our community. For anyone out there who thinks that all young brothers do is think about how NOT to have a committed relationship - they should check this link. For anyone out there who thinks that all young sistas are sitting at home NOT doing the right thing. Check the link too. Read the photographer's blog at http://www.rossoscarknight.blogspot.com/ and follow the link to the engagement story.

Friday, June 08, 2007

Young, Black and Gifted - Northwestern University Black Students Launch Literary Magazine

Check out the Spring 2007 edition of Voice and Vision, the literary magazine of Northwestern University's African-American student community. Download here.

Wednesday, June 06, 2007

Young, Black and Gifted - Kenyan Artists Showcase Creativity of Urban Youth

Kenya celebrates youth creativity via the Sanaa Noma festival. Learn more about it from the BBC News.

About Me

Name: Kesha Boyce Williams

Location: United States

Kesha Boyce Williams has been an award-winning journalist and interactive professional for more than 12 years. She's written for The Charlotte Observer, The Commercial Appeal (Memphis) and the Times-Union (Jacksonville). She's managed Web sites for a variety of corporations and non-profit organizations. A Laurens, S.C. native, she currently resides in the Midwest, but has a heart in the Diaspora. She's the proud wife of Zachery Williams, publisher of The Black Public Intellectual online magazine. The purpose of this site is to INSPIRE, ENCOURAGE and INFORM those that are young, black and gifted. All young people should know that they have a gift and that gift should be encouraged. To the not so young - stop planting seeds of doubt in young people and talking about how bad this generation is. That is discouraging. BE ENCOURAGED by these stories. Psalm 71:5-6 "For You are my hope, O Lord GOD; You are my trust from my youth. By You I have been upheld from birth; You are He who took me out of my mother's womb. My praise shall be continually of You."

Young, Black and Gifted