Rhyon Nicole Brown (profile) and Mishon Ratliff (profile) attended the 41st Annual NAACP Image Awards on Friday, February 26, 2010 held at The Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, CA. The ABC Family drama series “Lincoln Heights” (now canceled) in which both had co-starring roles, won the award for Outstanding Drama Series! Although the show has been canceled you can still see episodes of Lincoln Heights weeknights at 11pm ET on TV One.

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Last night was a winning night for a few of the stars here at YBS! We’d like to send a big congratulations out to Keke Palmer (profile), Rhyon Nicole Brown (profile), Mishon (profile) and Jaishon Fisher (profile)! Keke Palmer took home the award for Outstanding Performance in a Youth/Children’s Program. “Lincoln Heights” won the award for Outstanding Drama Series during the pre-show, and the movie “Gifted Hands,” in which Jaishon Fisher played a very significant role, snagged the award for Outstanding Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special!

After her big win Keke Palmer tweeted the following: I just want to thank all of the fans, I only want to make people happy. I was so shocked I won, thanks be to God, so amazing!

Rhyon Brown also took to her twitter to share her excitement about winning saying: “We won!!!!!!!!! ahhhhhhhhh best drama of the year!!!:) All I can say is GOD IS AMAZING…. When they say he’ll give u more then u can imagine….IT’S TRUE”

Congrats to everyone who won last night! We’ll have pictures of those who attended later. Enjoy your Saturday! If you’re not sure what to do today see the post beneath this one!

It’s Saturday, schools out and maybe you’re looking for something fun to do. How about reading a book!? Believe it or not, reading can be a lot of fun. Especially if you have a good book that really interests you. Many of your favorite YBStarz love to read! Here’s what they had to say about reading and why they think it’s fun and important:

What I love about reading is, there’s a lot you can learn from reading. – Bobb’e J. Thompson

You can expand your vocabulary, become more knowledgeable about worldly issues and just be a little more wittier! – Brandon Mychal Smith

Reading is very fundamental, not just for fun or education wise, but if you want to grow up and be an actor or singer it’s very good to get your reading in so you could read your scripts and lyrics. – Doc Shaw

You can imagine anything! Like, magical fairies, talking animals or even being in junior high school! is why Yara Shahidi loves reading!

Below you can find a list of books read and loved by some of your favorite Young Black Starz. You may enjoy reading them too!

• 9 year old Yara Shahidi enjoys reading the Encyclopedia Brown books. Another book she recommends is a book called Chains by author Laurie Halse Anderson

• Rhyon Nicole Brown, 17, lists the following as her favorite books: This Lullaby, The Truth About Forever, Just Listen, and Dreamland by New York Times Best Selling Author Sarah Dessen. Her all-time favorite book is The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini.

• Sierra McClain, 15, is also a big fan of Sarah Dessen’s books!

• China Anne McClain, 11, loves the Twilight Series by Stephanie Meyer.

• Lauryn McClain, 13, enjoys reading the Goosebumps book series by author R. L. Stine.

• Kortney Nash, 8, really like Cam Jansen and Junie B. books. If you’re in her age group you might want to check those out!

• 13-year-old upcoming rapper/singer Breje recommends The Great Brain Book by H.P. Newquist

Hope that helps! Now step away from the computer and head to your nearest free library and check out some good books! ;)
Enjoy your Saturday Guys!

Quotes and video courtesy of www.scholastic.com

Some of young Hollywood’s biggest stars recently joined together in an effort to record a 25 and Under Edition of the song “We are the World” for Haiti and Unity! YBStarz Mishon (profile), Zachary Williams (profile), Oren Williams (profile), Ben Lee Foster (profile), Small Change, Lil Mama and Naturi Naughton are only a few of the stars who lent their voices to the track.

See a behind the scenes clip of the video underneath. The official music for the song video will be available on March 1st!

Brothers Chris (profile) and Kyle Massey (profile) were pictured at the 41st Annual NAACP Image Awards’ Celebrity Golf Challenge in Palos Verdes Estates, CA yesterday (February 25, 2010). On Tuesday (February 23, 2010) the brothers attended the Movie Guide Awards and Gala at the Beverly Wilshire Four Seasons Hotel in Los Angeles. See pictures from the award by clicking read more below.

The 41st NAACP Awards will air LIVE tonight on FOX at 8/7c, be sure to tune in! “Good Luck” to all of our nominees here at YBS!

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