Jeffrey Osborne Heads NAACP ACT-SO Benefit Honorees’ List
Singing star Jeffrey Osborne will head the list of honorees at the NAACP’s 10th annual ACT-SO luncheon at 11 a.m. Thursday at the Los Angeles Hilton.
ACT-SO, an acronym for Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics, not only showcases top students but aims to encourage all black young people to strive in academic and cultural pursuits.
Funds raised at the luncheon will help to send 75 talented local high school students this summer to Detroit, where students in grades 9 through 12 will vie for cash and medals in the fields of art, science, mathematics and the humanities in the national ACT-SO competition.
Other honorees at the luncheon will be Lonnie Bunch, curator of the California Afro-American Museum; Bernard Kinsey, vice president and general manager of Voice Systems of Xerox, and LaDoris McClaney, businesswoman and philanthropist. A special award will be presented to Horace Walker, vice president of Urban Affairs at Wells Fargo Bank, for his service to ACT-SO and other youth organizations.
For tickets or further information call Dorothy Posnick at (213) 858-1751.
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