Jela McKinney, a freshman at Chicago High School for the Arts emerged a national winner in the NAACP’s Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics (ACT-SO) competition held July 20-22 in Los Angeles. McKinney picked up a bronze medal in the Visual Arts Drawing category.
The
Westside branch had a total of seven youth competing in this year’s competition:
Breanna Smith, Performing Arts Music: Inst./ Classical; Kayla Robertson,
Performing Arts Music: Inst./ Contemporary; Layla West, Performing Arts
Oratory; Shaondell Black, Visual Arts Filmmaking; Destiny Thompson, Performing
Arts Dramatics; and Ebonee Wilkins, Visual Arts Scuplture.
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