And the Winner Is
First Annual A.M.E. Today Founder's Day Essay Contest 

By Rev. John Fisher
Editor and Publisher, A.M.E. Today

Claynishia McGhee, 15, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana is the official winner of the First Annual A.M.E. Today Essay Contest.  

Claynishia, an active member of Bethel A.M.E. Church, in Baton Rouge, where the Rev. Dr. Herman O. Kelly, Jr. is pastor, garnered 178 of the 501 votes cast in the contest. 

Claynishia, who is active in the choir and teen-age Bible studio at church and is an avid basketball player at school will be receiving a $50 U.S. Savings Bond from A.M.E. Today. 

 If you read the essays, you have to realize this is a contest with no losers, we all are winners to have such talented youth in our midst.  

Congratulations to Claynishia and all of the essay writers! To read Claynishia's winning essay [GO] To view the contest compositions . [GO]