Vote: Miss NCCU, Imani Johnson – Black College Queens Highlights Young African American Women
by Kathy Grear 11/09/2020For the first time in NCCU’s history, your Miss NCCU, Imani Johnson is a top ten finalist in the Miss National Black College Alumni Hall of Fame Pageant. I am also the first Miss NCCU to win the service award and scholarship given and judged by former Miss NBCA Hall of Fame titleholders.
To celebrate both of these historic events, let’s keep the momentum going by helping me bring the national crown home to NCCU!
You can help make this a reality by voting for me 10 times a day until November 16th or by adding more votes by donating to the HBCU Queens College fund. The winner of the competition is chosen by the queen with the most votes.
Let’s bring it home!
The Competition of Black College Queens highlights young African American women who have been chosen by their respective college or university to represent them with the coveted title of “campus queen.” The Competition highlights the intellect, talent, and personalities, as well as provides scholarships, to these young women attending HBCUs. During her reign, Miss NBCA Hall of Fame serves as spokesperson, board member and panelist on the Legacy Lecture Series Tour for the NBCAHOF Foundation.
The 21-year-old senior, Miss NCCU and GDN intern was featured in this publication a year ago for her leadership of North Carolina Central University’s (NCCU) Political Action and Civic Engagement (PACE) committee. As PACE chair, she led the way to creating the “Student Model” of civic engagement for “A Call to Colors”. In the midst of numerous other efforts to enhance student voting participation, Ms. Johnson introduced the GDN HBCU Voting Outreach Research Project, and feels, particularly now during the COVID-19 pandemic that has either limited or closed many HBCU campuses across the state, that it is a unique and productive way to keep the civic engagement fires burning.
“I wanted to create a project that is dedicated to documenting what HBCU students are doing to get students out to vote in this pandemic, not only for this election cycle, but for the next election cycles to come,” Ms. Johnson told GDN in a recent phone interview.
Among other questions, the project asks student HBCU campus leaders what they have done to promote civic engagement on campus or in the community, and what problems they’ve encountered with civic engagement on their campuses.
