EBONY Celebrates the HBCU Campus Queens

Voting Continues Now Through May 22nd

CHICAGO — EBONY magazine is proud to continue the tradition of celebrating the accomplishments of African-American college students with the launch of its annual HBCU (Historically Black Colleges and Universities) EBONY Campus Queens feature.

For nearly four decades, EBONY has celebrated the next generation of rising Black professional women in the magazine. The HBCU Campus Queens is one of EBONY’s longest-running editorial franchises, and the young women highlighted are poised to affect great social change within their communities.

The Top 10 vote getters on the website will receive an all-expense paid trip complete with a stay at a luxury hotel. The royal treatment continues as each of the 10 Queens receive a makeover with professional hair, makeup and wardrobe styling for an exclusive photo shoot that will appear in the September 2015 issue of EBONY magazine.

Voters can select their favorite Queen on EBONY.com now through May 22nd; however, the Queens will not be the only winners in this campaign. Each voter can enter a sweepstakes to win a free pair of Beats by Dr. Dre headphones each time he or she submits a vote. A total of four sweepstakes winners will be selected, with one winner announced every Friday. Voters are welcome to vote as many times as they like throughout the duration of the online campaign period.



On April 20, the EBONY.com digital community kicked off the voting for their favorite HBCU Campus Queen. There are 54 queens in the competition and the top 15 queens as of May 6, 2015 are as follows:

1. Prairie View A&M University
2. Grambling State University
3. Savannah State University
4. Howard University
5. Oakwood University
6. Southern University & Agricultural & Mechanical College
7. Morehouse College
8. Tuskegee University
9. The University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff
10. Clark Atlanta University
11. Hampton University
12. Tennessee State University
13. Bethune-Cookman University
14. Alabama State University
15. Florida A&M University

Contest Rules: Only 10 beautiful, talented and accomplished queens will be featured inside EBONY’s September 2015 issues. Votes do not have to come exclusively from students at the schools represented in the contest; so all networks (family, friends, community organizations, etc.) are encouraged to vote.

If contest followers want to be sure their queen of choice stays in the top-10, they can visit the following page to check the ranking and place their vote: http://www.ebony.com/style/todays-top-hbcu-campus-queens-053

For more information, visit EBONY.com or the HBCU Campus Queens 2015 microsite http://www.ebony.com/hbcu-campusqueens/

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