Do The Right Thing

For the past four years, we have recognized 1,800 students and parents for our Annual Do the Right Thing Awards Celebration. This event recognizes local African American and other minority youth for their achievement in school and the community as well as African American and other minority parents/adults for their involvement in the community and in their child or someone else child’s education.  

This event is part of an annual nationwide celebration of our youth and parents/adults sponsored by the National Urban League and its affiliates called the Achievement Matters campaign. Achievement Matters II is a component of the Campaign for African-American Achievement (CAAA), a community mobilization and advocacy initiative created to raise awareness and promote the understanding that achievement matters. Enacted throughout local Urban League offices nationwide, the Campaign seeks to counter anti-achievement messages young people receive and to ensure that educators and policymakers provide quality education, youth development opportunities and adequate support to our young people. More information about The Campaign for African American Achievement is available on the National Urban League Web site at   www.nul.org/ 

The celebration, which includes a keynote speaker, focuses on the good that Africans Americans and other minorities are doing in their community and bringing them together to applaud their outstanding efforts in going over and beyond to make their community a better place to live and work.

This years Do the Right Thing Award celebration was held at East High School, honoring 100 students and parents/adults. The Keynote Speaker was the honorable Harold Collins.

Click the links for highlights and names of those honored for the 2008 Do the Right Thing Awards