The 2014 Miss Black and Gold Scholarship Pageant is now history. The winners of the titles are: Adebisi Adeniji Adele, Miss Black & Gold Eta Gamma and Aloria Prince, Miss Black & Gold Epsilon Tau Lambda. The young ladies will represent the chapters in the 2015 Miss Black & Gold hosted by the Texas Conference of Alpha Chapters on February 14.
The pageant, themed "12 Shades of Black: 12 Shade of Beauty, " featured 12 of the most dynamic, talented and progressive young women at Prairie View A&M University.
Adebisi is a 21 year old junior Mechanical Engineering student from Houston, Texas by way of Lagos, Nigeria. She on the Dean’s List and Who’s Who Among Students and a member of the National Society of Black Engineers, Golden Key International Honor Society and the African Students Association. Adebisi aspires to become a professional engineer. She admires Forest Whittaker and enjoys public speaking and debate. In her spare time she volunteers and serves as a mentor for children with disabilities, the Boys and Girls Club and advocates for AIDS eradication in Africa. Her Platform is Reintroducing STEMM to high school students in lower socio-economic areas. She wowed the judges and won the talent competition with her Dramatic Interpretation of Human Trafficking.
Aloria Prince is a 19 year old junior nursing major from Highland Village, Texas. She
is a Presidential scholar, a member of the famed Black Foxes of the Marching Storm at Prairie View A&M University and a former Miss Fort Worth Outstanding Teen. Her platform is Depression is Real. Acknowledging Mental Illness in Our Community. She enjoys volunteering in her spare time and teaching dance to young teens in the community and science fiction. Aloria aspires to become a dentist. Among her favorites are Sidney Poitier, John Legend and Gabrielle Union. Prince performed an exuberant interpretive dance for her talent competition.
The members are hopeful that queens will be victorious at the pageant. Nadia Grier, Miss Black & Gold Eta Gamma was selected Miss Black and Gold Texas and named First Runner-up to Miss Black and Gold Southwest Region of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. Briana Clark, Miss Black & Gold Epsilon Tau Lambda was Second Runner-up in the District Pageant.
Producers for the pageant were Frederick V. Roberts and Richard Amagwula and Choreographer Kenneth Epting from the Exclamation Dance Theater of Houston.
For information on the pageant and programs, contact:
missblackandgold2016@gmail.com
