New York Life is launching the program to honor its first African-American agent, McSween, in conjunction with the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, Chicago.
McSween is a 26-year qualifying member of the Million Dollar Round Table, Park Ridge, Ill. McSween also is a civil rights activist who once worked closely with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
The first 7 recipients of the McSween scholarship are Rebekah Childers, a freshman at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Matthew Dugan, a sophomore at North Carolina A&T State University; Dexter Flowers, a freshman at the International Academy of Design & Technology; James Hamelin, a freshman at Fond Du Lac; Keenan Nelson Klein-Winters, a sophomore at Morehouse College; Antonia Opiah, a sophomore at New York University; and Michael Pearson, a freshman at the University of Massachusetts?Amherst.