Former photographer Gary McCarthy received the Merit Award for best news picture and former intern Jaivon Grant won the Merit Award for best youth writer.

Gary McCarthy

The National Newspapers Association is an association of more than 200 African-American-owned community newspapers from around the country.

Larry Taylor

Larry Taylor has been elected to the board of directors of the African-American Board Leadership Institute.

Taylor has served as a practice leader and senior consulting manager for Ernst & Young and Deloitte & Touche, two professional services firms. He has more than 40 years of consulting, training, auditing and management experience in the manufacturing, service, government and international assistance sectors.

Larry Dozier

Larry Dozier, of the Dozier Family singing group, has been selected to serve as pastor at St. John’s United Methodist Church in Watts. He preached his first sermon on July 3.

He currently serves as an executive with the United Methodist Men at the national level. He has extensive experience speaking to men’s groups and at other church functions. Dozier’s background is in communications, as he retired in 2008 as the official spokesman of the U.S. Postal Service in the Los Angeles basin.

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Wilson is an alumnus of the African-American Board Leadership Institute, which recruits, prepares and places African Americans on a wide range of governing boards.

Craig Collins

Craig L. Collins has been appointed senior vice president of commercial sales and operations for the West Region of Frontier Communications Corporation.

Collins will lead commercial business development and expansion initiatives for California, Oregon and Washington from the company’s West Coast headquarters. He has more than 24 years of senior leadership experience in the communications and technology industry with companies such as Time Warner Cable, XO Communications, Intermedia, Bell Atlantic and AT&T.

Prior to joining Frontier Communications, Collins served as president of business services for Time Warner Cable’s western region. During his tenure, he provided strategic direction and operational management for sales, marketing, product management, customer care and service delivery to businesses of all sizes.

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The board was created to eliminate racial and identity profiling and to improve diversity and racial and identity sensitivity in law enforcement.

Johnson is an alumnus of the African-American Board Leadership Institute, which aims to recruit, prepare and place African-Americans on a wide range of governing boards.

RISE Financial Pathways, a South Los Angeles based nonprofit serving underserved communities in Los Angeles County for nearly 25 years, has been awarded a $15,000 workforce development grant from Bank of America to help serve military women veterans.

The initiative, Women Veterans Entrepreneur Network-Los Angeles, is designed for women veterans and their spouses who want to start or expand their own small business. The program will offer both hands-on classroom-style training and microloans, which will be available to everyone that completes the 4-6 week training and follow-up sessions, compiles their business plan and applies for the funds.

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Hartnett is a graduate of the African-American Board Leadership, which recruits, prepares and places African-Americans on a wide range of governing boards.

Airman Francis Trujillo of Hawthorne, received honors as one of four “Sailors of the Quarter,” for the second quarter of 2016, on Naval Electronic Attack Squadron 133.

An aviation electrician’s mate, Trujillo also earned Plane Captain of the Quarter as he enabled the squadron to safely launch and recover 155 sorties from the flight deck and contributed to a 97 percent sortie completion rate.

He will continue to serve VAQ-133 at sea, providing security and stability aboard the USS John C. Stennis in the Indo-Asia-Pacific.

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The star of ABC’s “Scandal” and HBO’s “Confirmation” is being recognized by the foundation as a SAG-AFTRA member who has given back to fellow actors and the community at large.

President Barack Obama appointed Washington to the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities in 2009, and in 2013 she was honored with the NAACP President’s Award, which recognized her special achievements in furthering the cause of civil rights and public service.

In 2014, Time magazine included Washington on its annual Time 100 list of the Most Influential People in the World. Washington received the GLAAD Media Vanguard Award in 2015 and the ACLU Bill of Rights Award in 2016.

The California Endowment was the recipient of the Al Wooten Jr. Heritage Center’s 23rd annual Catch the Vision Award.

The California Endowment is the largest private health foundation in the state. It gave the Heritage Center more than $40,000 in grants last year as part of the initiative, Building Healthy Communities to transform neighborhoods devastated by health inequities. Their project tackles issues such as health care, fresh food, affordable housing and violence prevention.

The Wooten Center presents the Vision Award to a donor who makee a significant impact on the agency’s after-school and summer programs for grades 3-12. The California Endowment supported activities such as Teen Talk, a weekly live Internet radio show and Justice Jeopardy, digital game teaching teens about their rights and how to exercise them.

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Upon earning a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Stanford in 2001, she starting working at Children of the Night, a nonprofit shelter for youth escaping sex trafficking. She said that it began a passion for working with at-risk youth.

She continued her mission at Hawthorne High School, where she taught special education for seven years. She also launched an SAT boot camp at the Lincoln Family Life Center, an organization that provides programs and services for multiple generations and ethnicities.

Smith will complete her post-doctoral research at UCLA, and she hopes to eventually obtain a tenure-track position at a university conducting research and training teachers. She would like to focus on topics involving the African-American community and bring a cultural understanding that she says is often lacking in such research.

Antonia Hernandez

Antonia Hernández, president and CEO of n, has been honored as a “thought leader” by the African-American Board Leadership Institute.

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Brown was recognized for his fulfillment and promotion of the organization’s mission, which is to recruit, prepare and place African Americans on a wide range of governing boards.

Yvette Chappell-Ingram

Yvette Chappell-Ingram, the CEO and president of the African-American Board Leadership Institute,has been elected to the Phillips Graduate University Board of Trustees.

The university aims to provide hands-on training for those pursuing advanced degrees in counseling and consulting.

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The commission manages programs and initiatives aimed at increasing the number of Californians engaged in service and volunteering. Members do not receive a salary and can serve no more than two three-year terms.

AABLI recruits, prepares and places African-Americans on a wide range of governing boards.

Tanya Hart

Tanya Hart, an Emmy-Award winning producer, television host, syndicated radio personality and pop culture commentator, has been elected as co-chair of the Caucus of Producers, Writers & Directors for a two-year term.

Hart becomes the first African-American and first woman to head up the 40-year-old entertainment industry trade organization. She is also the host of “Hollywood Live with Tanya Hart,” a daily syndicated radio and online program, and the head of Tanya Hart Consulting, a multi-media content company.

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The board aims to make higher education affordable by providing resources for initiatives, programs and scholarships to benefit the college’s students, faculty and staff.

Smith is an alumnus of the African-American Board Leadership Institute, which recruits, prepares and places African-Americans on a wide range of governing boards.

Allison Queen

Allison Queen, the founder and CEO of Queen Publicity, has been recognized with a Pat Tobin PR Excellence Award.

Queen started her business in 1999, after working as a junior publicist for Tobin herself. Tobin is the president and founder of Tobin and Associates, a business she built by focusing on black consumer power. The award recognizes the same pioneering spirit in communications executives who are making an impact in the industry.

Queen Publicity represents creative artists, stage plays, nonprofit organizations, book authors and creative businesses. Some of her clients have included Grand Marnier, Quincy D. Jones III, international magician  “Ice” McDonald and the Los Angeles Women’s Theatre Festival.

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The Y’s mission is to provide people of all ages with lifelong opportunities to become stronger in spirit, mind and body.

Gamino is the vice president of global philanthropy at JP Morgan Chase & Co. and an alumnus of the African-American Board Leadership Institute, which recruits, prepares and places African-Americans on a wide range of governing boards.

Darrell Miller

Darrell D. Miller, chair of the national Entertainment Department at Fox Rothschild LLP, managing partner of the firm’s Los Angeles offices and author of “The 16th Minute of Fame: An Insider’s Guide for Maintaining Success Beyond 15 Minutes of Fame,” has been named the 2016 Entertainment Lawyer of the Year by the Entertainment Law Section of the Beverly Hills Bar Association.

Miller is nationally recognized for his strategies in brand building for his clients, who include Academy Award-nominated actress Angela Bassett and rapper/actor Chris “Ludacris” Bridges.

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