EBONY Extends Voting for HBCU Campus Queens

Voting Continues Now Through May 29th for 54 Participating Schools

CHICAGO — The 2015 EBONY HBCU Campus Queens program participation has been stellar and the competition continues to heat up.

Noting that only the Top 10 vote earning Queens will be selected to represent their schools in the September 2015 issue of EBONY, we are extending the voting period by one week so that the campaigns for each campus Queen will have additional time to turn up and finish strong enough to reach the pinnacle of the Top 10.



Therefore, we are thrilled to announce that our new date and time for the voting program to close is 5:00 pm ET on Friday May 29th, 2015. This means you have some additional time to organize your campuses, alumni, sororities and fraternities, families, friends, community groups and influencers to push as hard as possible to cast as many votes as they'd like to select you as a member of the Top 10 EBONY photo shoot finalists.

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 29th; 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.

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