Cara Janeal Walton’s Scholarship Page

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🐝🐝Happy Birthday Alabama State University!🐝🐝

Cara Janeal Walton attended 📚and GRADUATED 👩🏾‍🎓(Class of 2020) from this awesome HBCU located in the home of the Civil Rights Movement.

During her time, she actively participated in multiple organizations and dedicated her mind to getting it in done in 4 years ✅✅

Her legacy at O’ Mother Dear continues through a scholarship 📜💰in her memory.

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Cara Janeal Walton was a REGISTERED VOTER in her hometown of Memphis, TN. She even took her passion for the process during her time @ Alabama State University🐝!!! Participated in the campaign to help get the 1st AFRICAN-American Mayor in Montgomery, AL!

On behalf of the Cara Janeal Walton Scholarship🧡💜, VOTE 📣📣📣LIKE YOUR LIFE MATTERS- IT DOES!!

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****Cara Janeal Walton Scholarship 2024****

We are pleased to announce the awarding of a CJW Scholarship to a Class of 2024 graduating high school senior at Brown Missionary Baptist Church 2024 Baccalaureate Service on Saturday, June 8, 2024. Eligibility includes being a member of BMBC, plans to attend a 4 year college or university, an academic achiever, active in the community and in the church.

🎓🎓Congratulations to our 2024 recipient🎓🎓
*****************RAVENN SANDERS*****************
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Ravenn is the daughter of Robert and Carrie Diggs. She is a 2024 Honor graduate of Exemplary Distinction with a 4.34 GPA from Whitehaven High School.

Ravenn high school recognition includes: State Distinctions, MSCS Honors, member of National Honor Society, English Honor Society and Spanish Honor Society.

She is also a finalist in the Questbridge National Scholarship and a US President Biden Academic Excellence Award Recipient.

Ravenn is heading to the University of Southern California, USC Thornton School of Music as a Music Industry major this fall. Her career goal is to become
CEO of an Artist Talent Agency under her brand “Eromaa” established when she was just twelve years old!

She is an active and involved member of Brown Missionary Baptist Church and is currently teaching music this summer at the Brown Christian Academy.

We are all so excited for Ravenn and I ask that you please join me in congratulating this phenomenal young lady!!!
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Cara was a devoted and active member of Brown Missionary Baptist Church during her lifetime. We feel blessed to honor Cara’s legacy of service and scholarship to aid students in their academic pursuits in this holy space.🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🎓💜🧡

Currently, the CJW Scholarship awards through Brown Missionary Baptist Church(HS graduate) and Alabama State University (continuing collegiate student).

Thank you for your continued financial support, encouragement and prayers in this scholarship effort.

The Cara Janeal Walton Scholarship 📚is so proud of each recipient as they continue to pursue their dreams at their HBCU! We want to share what some of them have been doing this academic year.

Today we are spotlighting our CJW Fall 2023 Scholarship recipient KYRA MITCHELL👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

This precocious young lady has been excelling in the classroom at Alcorn State University in Lorman, MS as a Nursing major. She finished her freshman year strong as a Dean’s Scholar with 3.8 GPA.

In addition to being an exceptional student, she is also excelling in the community!

*Dedicated team member at Chick fil-A in Olive Branch

*Volunteer counselor for Camp Bold, a camp for children
and adults with developmental disabilities like
autism

* Volunteer with The Arc of the MidSouth

This future Labor and Delivery Nurse 🩺💉💊is definitely on right track to realizing her dream!

Congratulations Kyra!!!! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

Keep shining 🌟🌟🌟🌟

The Cara Janeal Walton Scholarship is pleased to announce the college graduation 👩🏾‍🎓of Fall, 2022 scholarship recipient JADA CAIN!!! ❤️💙

Jada is a Spring, 2024 honors graduate of Lane College with a Bachelor of Science in Biology with a concentration in Chemistry.

She was accepted into the graduate program at George Mason University in Northern Virginia💚💛 to pursue her Masters degree in Forensic🔎👩🏾‍🔬🔬 Science.

In the words of Jada- “Her journey is still unfolding”

Keep shining!!!🌟🌟🌟

We are so proud of you Jada!!! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

The Cara Janeal Walton Scholarship 📚is so proud of each recipient as they continue to pursue their dreams at their HBCU! We want to share what some of them have been doing this academic year.

Next up is Jaila Hampton- Book Scholarship Recipient, Fall 2023

Jaila Hampton is a force to reckon with! She journeyed down to Texas Southern University for her FRESHman year in Fall, 2023 and planted her feet 👣 firmly!

Jaila is doing great things and ended her freshman year as a 2nd semester sophomore! 📚📚📚

*President List scholar💻📚📝
*TSU Debate 🗣️Team - traveled to Dublin, Ireland and
other locations to compete
*BMBC Next Gen Ministry- one of the young adults
virtual Wednesday morning prayer leads during Black
History Month 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
*Active in Student Government Association
*Elected SGA Chief of Staff for 2024-2025 academic
year

Keep shining ⭐️

Congratulations Jaila!!!!👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

The Cara Janeal Walton Scholarship 📚is so proud of each recipient as they continue to pursue their dreams at their HBCU! We want to share what some of them have been doing this academic year.

Keep shining ⭐️young people!!!

1st up- AUSTIN TAYLOR- Spring, 2022 Scholarship recipient

The “Singing Football 🏈Player” has been excelling on the football field, CLASSROOM, in the community and this spring began his fraternity journey as a member (legacy) of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, INC.

Let his record 🗣️ speak for itself!!👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

*2023 AAMU B.E.S.T. Athletic Award for having a 4.0 GPA -only football player for this achievement. 40 total student athletes to earn this award.

* 2023 Presidential Award for 4.0 GPA

* 2022 - 2024 Football 🏈📚Academic Award

* National Society of Student Leadership and Success

* Alabama A&M University-Alpha Phi Alpha 🖤💛
Chapter: Delta Gamma
Spring 2024 initiate
Vice President Elect 2025 -2025

* Community work with local elementary school near
Alabama A&M

Congratulations Austin!!!!👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

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Cara Walton was always interested in “why?” regarding Civil Rights. This is a throwback to Spring Break 2014 -visiting Selma, AL and walking the Edmund Pettis Bridge.

🐝🐝Two years later, she was matriculating down the street in Montgomery at Alabama State University🐝🐝

🖤♥️💚BLACK HISTORY FUTURE💚♥️🖤

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The Cara Janeal Walton Scholarship 🧡💜is pleased to share that one of our amazing recipients - Jada Caun, Memphis, TN and upcoming Spring 2024 graduating senior from Lane College ♥️💙 has been accepted into the Master’s Program at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.

Jada will be pursuing her graduate degree in Forensic Science as she works toward a career as a Forensics DNA Analyst. The program will be rigorous and Lane College has prepared her for a path to succeed!

We are so proud of Jada for her success as a scholar and continued service in the community.

Please join us in congratulating Jada! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

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Day 2 💜Heart Choice💜

♥️💚🖤💛February is Black History Month♥️💚🖤💛

The Cara Janeal Walton Scholarship 🧡wants to honor our history by sharing aspects of the culture throughout the month.

Day 1 HISTORY OF HBCUS 🏫👩🏾‍🎓👨🏾‍🎓📚5 Quick Points

⭐️⭐️Tidbit- Cara Walton was a proud 2020 MAGNA CUM LAUDE graduate of Alabama State University- a HBCU in Montgomery, Alabama⭐️⭐️

5 Things To Know: HBCU Edition Historically black colleges and universities––commonly called “HBCUs”––are defined by the Higher Education Act of 1965 as, “…any historically black college or university that was established prior to 1964, whose principal mission was, and is, the education of black Americans,…"

HAPPY Heavenly BIRTHDAY to our reason for this scholarship- Cara Janeal Walton! We celebrate her with great memories, balloons, flowers and of course… CAKE!

Her legacy lives on through scholarship and service.

The Cara Janeal Walton Scholarship honors the memory of Dr. Martin Luther King by reminding each of us to ask this question.. “What are YOU doing for others?”

Cara was a ready volunteer at The National Civil Rights Museum here in her hometown Memphis, TN and among other organizations here and away at school in Montgomery, AL. 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾

Service is not just today but everyday!

The Cara Janeal Walton Scholarship is pleased 🥰to announce the awarding of a scholarship on Cara’s beloved Sorority - Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. Founder’s Day to a member of Cara’s chapter Beta Eta at THE Alabama State University!!

This young lady is phenomenal! Excelling on all levels at ASU! 🐝

The recipient of this scholarship at Alabama State University is CHANDLER BROWN, a junior Psychology major/Chemistry minor maintaining a whooping 3.9 cumulative GPA from Brandywine, Maryland.

She serves as the 2023-2024 Chief Golden 💛🖤Ambassador, which is composed of esteemed students serving as the official greeting body for Alabama State University🐝👨🏾‍🎓👩🏾‍🎓

Chandler is a Spring, 2023 initiate of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.- Beta Eta chapter.

She is very active within ASU’s psychology department in which she serves as Vice President of the Psychology Club and has gained opportunities such as interning with corporations like Clinical Forensic Associates, where she interned with Dr. Tyreese Mcallister during her freshman year. Last summer she was involved with conducting a research study on the associations between adolescent cannabis use, food insecurity, and attention, at Yale’s School of Medicine.

Chandler has aspirations of attending medical school and becoming an adolescent and child psychiatrist, where she plans on basing her focus on childhood adversities that affect future trajectories for children apart of minoritized races.

Please join us in congratulating👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 this amazing young woman👩🏾‍🎓 who emulates what this scholarship stands on- scholarship and service! Continue to shine in your gifts and talents Chandler!!!⭐️🙏🏾⭐️

Congratulations to a former recipient of the Cara Janeal Walton Scholarship (Fall, 2022). Jada Cain is a Memphis, TN native senior biology major at Lane College.

Continue to shine bright Jada! ⭐️📚⭐️

Lane College is pleased to celebrate Jada Cain for being awarded the $10,000 Rooted in Science Scholarship through the United Negro College Fund (UNCF). Read more here: https://www.lanecollege.edu/news/miss-uncf-lane-college-receives-10-000-uncf-scholarship

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🥳🎶🎊Happy 19th Birthday to the CJWalton 2023 Book📚 Scholarship recipient Jaila Hampton!🎶🥳🎊

May you have a blessed day all the way down at Texas Southern University!!!

‼️ATTENTION‼️

The Cara Janeal Walton Memorial Scholarship 📚👩🏽‍🏫at Alabama State University 🐝link is now open for application‼️

*******Note the updated criteria********

•3.50 GPA minimum
•Out of State resident
•Evidence of campus/community involvement
•Faculty recommendation
•College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences major
•Classified as a Junior or Senior at ASU
•Current member of Beta Eta Chapter, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc

Cara Janeal Walton Memorial Scholarship The Cara Janeal Walton Memorial Scholarship at Alabama State University was established by her mother Patsy Morgan Walton to provide financial assistance to a deserving member of Beta Eta Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc that is studying in a major under the College of Liberal Arts and Soc...

****Cara J. Walton Book 📚Scholarship 2023****

We are pleased to announce the awarding of the one-time CJW Book Scholarship to a Memphis Class of 2023 graduating high school senior!!!

Eligibility included being a Class of 2023 graduating high school senior from Memphis, TN., planning to attend a HBCU, academic achiever and active in the community.

🎓🎓Congratulations to our 2023 recipient🎓🎓
******************JAILA HAMPTON*****************
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Jaila is a 2023 graduate of St. Agnes High School where she was involved as leader in the Christian retreat leader for grades 2-11 and President of the Black Student Union. She also served as a dedicated member of the Bridge Builders Youth Advisory Board.

Jaila is active in the community specifically in initiatives At the age of 17, she founded the non-profit organization Operation R.A.E. (Resources, Advocacy, and Education), a youth-led initiative focused on crafting impactful programs that provide safe spaces for youth to learn about the dangers of gun violence. Jaila's tireless efforts center on advocating for a decrease in gun violence, particularly among youth.

Recognized for her exceptional commitment, Jaila is an integral part of Mayor Lee Harris’ Shelby County Council on Gun Safety, contributing her insights to drive meaningful change. In January 2023, she played a key role in organizing and leading Memphis’ inaugural Day of Peace (DOP), a peace rally sponsored by the Catholic diocese. At the DOP event, Jaila delivered the closing keynote speech, captivating the audience with her inspiring words.

Her commitment to nurturing the spiritual growth of her peers also led her to become the lead assistant worship coordinator at Brown Missionary Baptist Church.

She will be heading to Texas Southern University in Houston, Texas this fall to begin studies in political science.

We are all so excited for Jaila and I ask that you please join me in congratulating this phenomenal young lady!!!
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Currently, the CJW Scholarship awards through Brown Missionary Baptist Church(HS graduate), Alabama State University (continuing collegiate student).

Thank you for your continued financial support, encouragement and prayers in this scholarship effort.

🙏🏾Blessed to honor Cara’s legacy of service and scholarship by aiding students in their academic pursuits🙏🏾

We are one week- 7 days from announcing our 2023 Book Scholarship recipient!!!!

Memphian
Class of 2023 High School Graduate 👩🏾‍🎓👨🏾‍🎓
Headed to a HBCU this fall

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The application for the one-time
book 📚 scholarship to a Memphis/Shelby County Class of 2023 graduating high school senior has CLOSED.

Thank you to all applicants who took the time to apply for consideration!!! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

The recipient will be announced here on August 11, 2023!!!

Cara Janeal Walton Scholarship Application The Cara J. Walton Scholarship was established in her memory to assist students newly enrolled and/or currently enrolled in a Historically Black College or University (HBCU) with their academic studies. The award is given with her legacy in the forefront - a commitment to academic excellence, involv...