Welcome to the premier issue of the Miss Black USA Scholarship Pageant newsletter!

YOU Could Win a Scholarship in the
Miss Black USA Pageant
More than $240,000 awarded in 2007

The Miss Black USA Scholarship Pageant is the largest single source of scholarship funds for college-age African-American women.

Apply to your state pageant today. If you're selected as your state delegate, you'll win an all-expenses-paid trip to the 2008 national pageant in The Gambia, West Africa, in conjunction with the 9th International Roots Festival, May 30 to June 14, 2008. You may have the opportunity to win a full-tuition scholarship to the school of your choice.

Click here for a downloadable application form and apply to become your state delegate today!

Dream Big!
To all young African-American she'roes...

This is an invitation to dream BIG.  Twenty years ago, I had a dream to provide a national platform for African American women to celebrate their identity and build self-esteem, and to become the largest single source of scholarship funds for women of color.

My dream became reality last June when the 2007 pageant was held in The Gambia, West Africa. His Excellency, President Yahya A.J.J. Jammeh, served as Honorary Chair. And there, under the African sky, every delegate received a scholarship that will change her life.

Next June, the 2008 Miss Black USA Pageant will take place in conjunction with the Ninth International Roots Festival.  If you are selected to represent your state, you could win the trip of a lifetime and the opportunity to win a full scholarship, cash and prizes.

In this newsletter, you'll see a few of the ways in which young women's lives have been forever changed by the Miss Black USA Scholarship Pageant and The Gambia. To join them, take the first step and apply today to represent your state in the upcoming national pageant. Just think, it may be you standing under the African sky next June, seeing your dreams come true!

Blessings,

Karen Arrington
Founder

Please forward this e-mail to anyone who may be interested in the 2008 Miss Black USA Scholarship Pageant and our support of academic achievement.