NAACP announces local ACT-SO competition
The Atlanta Branch of the NAACP is gearing up for ACT-SO by hosting a local competition March 31 at Frederick Douglass High School, 225 Hamilton E. Holmes Dr.
Local winners represent Atlanta in July at the national finals Houston.
The NAACP’s nationally recognized Afro-Academic Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics (ACT-SO), is a year-long achievement program designed to recruit, stimulate and encourage high academic and cultural achievement among black high school students.
Information: 404-756-5447 or email Mary Ross at mary@naacpatlanta.org
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Ernie Suggs is an enterprise reporter covering race and culture for the AJC since 1997. A 1990 graduate of N.C. Central University and a 2009 Harvard University Nieman Fellow, he is also the former vice president of the National Association of Black Journalists. His obsession with Prince, Spike Lee movies, Hamilton and the New York Yankees is odd.
