December 6, 2005

SCHOLARSHIP: WSU journalism student to get Wilson award

Wayne State University journalism student Leah D. Boyd is this year\'s winner of the Flip Wilson Scholarship, a prize that covers up to $33,000 in tuition, fees, books and room and board. Boyd is the third student from WSU's Journalism Institute for Minorities, or JIM, to receive the award. Boyd will get her award at a reception for the Free Press\' new editors, Paul Anger, vice president and editor, and Caesar Andrews, the second African-American executive editor in the paper\'s history. The reception, sponsored by JIM and the Detroit chapter of the National Association of Black Journalists, also is a fund-raiser for JIM and for the Robert McGruder Scholarship Fund. McGruder was the first African-American executive editor at the Free Press. The event begins at 6:30 p.m. Dec. 13 at St. Andrews Church on the Wayne State campus.

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