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<\/a>Kachelle Pratcher<\/strong> Everyone came out in their best red carpet attire on April 3rd for the \u2018Black Elegance, Black Elite Jackson State University Class of 2014 Class Council Awards show honoring student leaders and administrators on campus.<\/p>\n \u201cThe awards show was an opportunity for those who do great things for our university but never get noticed, it\u2019s always the popular ones that seem to get everything, so we wanted to highlight others,\u201d said Dontrell Banks, a junior accounting from McComb, Miss.<\/p>\n The show started off with introduction of the 2014 Student Government Association Class Council: Charles Cathey III, Student Government Association President; T\u2019erica Hudson, Vice president;\u00a0 Adriunna Boyd, Secretary;\u00a0 Y\u2019Tasha Smoots, Assistant Secretary; Dontrell Banks, Business Manager; Darryl Williams, Parliamentarian;\u00a0 Maurice Martin Jr. and William Parks, Senators; Manisha Heard, Miss Junior and Alvin Perkins II, Mr. Junior.<\/p>\n Many students in the audience were anxious to see who would win awards.<\/p>\n \u201cThis was my first time attending my class awards show and I must say I was impressed, it really resembled an awards show seen on television,\u201d said Knesha Thomas, a junior accounting major from Anguilla, Miss.<\/p>\n With DJ King Kong on the 1\u2019s and 2\u2019s, the awards show was vibrant and lively during the presentation of awards in categories that included: Thee I love; the 20 most phenomenal men and women on campus; and the 14 of 2014, which were seven men and women in the junior class that have shown hard work and leadership.<\/p>\n \u201cThe exclusive Class of 2014 awards show was a great success. We gave out several awards to dedicated individuals along with faculty and staff that serve campus and within the community,\u201d said Manisha Heard, a junior mass communications major from Bolton, Miss.<\/p>\n During the show, the Jacksonian Award was presented to junior DeAngelo Grant and the Humanitarian Award was presented to junior Nicole Lewis.\u00a0 Hilliard Lackey, Associate Professor of Educational Leadership, accepted the Lifetime Achievement award.<\/p>\n Lackey gave words of encouragement and the show ended with the crowd chanting his well-known JSU quote, \u201cTiger born, Tiger bred, and when I die, I\u2019ll be Tiger dead.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Kachelle Pratcher Blue & White Flash\/Staff Writer Everyone came out in their best red carpet attire on April 3rd for the \u2018Black Elegance, Black Elite…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"editor_plus_post_options":"{}","editor_plus_copied_stylings":"{}","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/jsuflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/jsuflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/jsuflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/jsuflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/jsuflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/jsuflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/jsuflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/jsuflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/jsuflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nBlue & White Flash\/Staff Writer<\/strong><\/p>\n