Tynecia Wilson

Thank you Miss Caribbean U.S. Beauty Pageant, Inc. for accepting me as your Miss USA and crowning me the 2021 Miss Caribbean US

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Growing up, Tynecia would always dance with younger students and create community amongst them. In doing this, she promoted self-esteem, and instilled confidence in the girls with whom she shared her love of dance; all before the age of 15. During her time at Temple University and as Miss Caribbean US, Tynecia took on the role of Director of Community Service Events for the Student Organization for Caribbean Awareness. Tynecia planned and executed 7 community service events including the YMCA’s first-ever Black History Month Event and a Feed the Homeless drive, feeding over 200 people experiencing homelessness. Tynecia is now focusing on Financial Education for all, all over Philadelphia. She was able to teach a first-grade class at the Overbook Educational Center about Entrepreneurship and she has also spoken the several eighth-grade classrooms across the city! Tynecia has spoken in undergraduate courses at Temple University to discuss Money Management and why ALL OF US NEED TO DEVELOP a positive financial mindset. Tynecia continues to attend any community event or town hall that she can! In doing this, she CAN speak to politicians and the local Philadelphia residents. Tynecia believes that when we want a change to happen, we must include those who the change is for. She continues to keep those who need help, guidance, and resources as the center focus and wants their voices to be heard. Tynecia uses everything in her heart to make the community a better place, and better the youth’s path in life’s journey.

THE NATIONAL FLAG OF The UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

After the American Revolution began, the first, unofficial national flag—known as the Continental Colors (or, sometimes, as the Grand Union Flag, the Cambridge Flag, the Somerville Flag, or the Union Flag)—was hoisted on a towering 76-foot (23-meter) liberty pole at Prospect Hill in Charlestown (now in Somerville), Massachusetts, on January 1, 1776; it was raised at the behest of Gen. George Washington, whose headquarters were nearby. The flag had 13 horizontal stripes (probably of red and white or of red, white, and blue) and, in the canton, the first version of the British Union Flag (Union Jack). As the flag of the Continental Army, it flew at forts and on naval vessels. Another popular early flag, that of the 1765 Sons of Liberty, had only nine red and white stripes. Various versions of “Don’t Tread on Me” coiled-rattlesnake flags appeared on many 18th-century American colonial banners, including several flown by military units during the Revolutionary War. The version carried by the Minutemen of Culpeper County, Virginia, for example, included not only the rattlesnake and the “Don’t Tread on Me” motto but also Virginia patriot Patrick Henry’s famous words “Liberty or Death.