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Boris Kodjoe, Nicole Ari Parker &
Niecy Nash Host 2011 Trumpet Awards
by Kim Ford
Photos: Leon Millette; Video: Al G. Sillah
Niecy Nash Host 2011 Trumpet Awards
by Kim Ford
Photos: Leon Millette; Video: Al G. Sillah
The 19th Annual Trumpet Awards was hosted by Boris Kodjoe, Nicole Ari Parker
and Niecy Nash. The awards show took place at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts
Centre on Saturday, January 29th in Atlanta.
Some of America’s finest turned out to witness the celebration of African American
achievers. The famed “Red Carpet” of the Annual Trumpet Awards welcomed an
international cast of who’s who in the areas of religion, politics, public service, law,
sports and entertainment.
2011 TRUMPET AWARD recipients:
Presenters for the Trumpet Awards were Danny J. Bakewell, Sr.; Idris Elba; Johnny
Gill; Cathy Hughes; Butch Lewis; Bernice King; Martin Luther King III; Roland S.
Martin; Kenya Moore; Richard Parsons; Ambassador Andrew Young and more...
Performers at the show included award-winning recording artists Eric Benét,
Angela Brown featuring Richard Smallwood, James Ingram featuring poet Hank
Stewart, Ledisi, Melvin M. Miller, NFL Players Choir featuring Donnie McClurkin &
Myron Butler, SILK featuring Angie Stone, Kelly Price & Kandi Burruss, Stax
Academy of Music All Stars, and Charlie Wilson.
The Prayer Breakfast honorees were Corey “CoCo Brother” Condrey, Dr. Cain
Hope Felder, Reverend Michael N. Harris, Dorothy Norwood, Clarisse Paulk and
Bebe & CeCe Winans.
Celebrity guests, honorees, and participants from other Trumpet Awards weekend
events included Dr. Juilanne Malveaux, president of Bennett College, who
moderated the Race Relations Symposium; panelist on this symposium were Dr.
David Satcher, Eugene Patterson, Judge Damon Keith, Tim King, Frank
McCloskey, Sonya Ross, and Roger Bobb of Tyler Perry Studios.
Jonathan Slocumb, the Christian comic, with the assistance of Delta Air Lines’
Scarlet Pressley-Brown, emceed the High Tea with High Heels affair, which was
open to the public and held on Thursday, January 27 at 3:00 p.m. at the Hyatt
Regency Downtown. This event was a fundraiser for the Trumpet Awards
Foundation’s scholarship initiative.
The International Civil Rights Walk of Fame was held at the Ebenezer Baptist
Church, followed by the unveiling of the footprints at the Martin Luther King Jr.
National Historic Site. Honorees whose footprints were placed into the granite walk
of fame include Arthur Blank, James Brown, The Reverend Dr. Gerald L. Durley,
Bishop Neil C. Ellis, Leon Hall, Bishop Barbara L. King, Marc H. Morial, Mayor Carl
Stokes, Congressman Louis Stokes and Henry “Hank” Thomas.
The Trumpet Awards Creator and Executive Producer Xernona Clayton, was the
innovative mind behind the first Trumpet Awards held in 1993.
The Trumpet Awards will air on Sunday, April 24th on TVOne.
and Niecy Nash. The awards show took place at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts
Centre on Saturday, January 29th in Atlanta.
Some of America’s finest turned out to witness the celebration of African American
achievers. The famed “Red Carpet” of the Annual Trumpet Awards welcomed an
international cast of who’s who in the areas of religion, politics, public service, law,
sports and entertainment.
2011 TRUMPET AWARD recipients:
- Drs. André Churchwell, Keith Churchwell & Kevin Churchwell –
Medicine - The Honorable Eric H. Holder, Jr. – Legal
- Alfred C. Liggins III – Media
- Paula Madison – Corporate Leadership
- Judge Greg Mathis – Humanitarian
- The O’Jays – Lifetime Achievement
- Richard Roundtree – The Arts
- The Reverend Al Sharpton – Civil Rights
- Chief Justice Georgina Wood – International
- Harry E. Johnson, Sr. for The Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial
Project – President’s Award
Presenters for the Trumpet Awards were Danny J. Bakewell, Sr.; Idris Elba; Johnny
Gill; Cathy Hughes; Butch Lewis; Bernice King; Martin Luther King III; Roland S.
Martin; Kenya Moore; Richard Parsons; Ambassador Andrew Young and more...
Performers at the show included award-winning recording artists Eric Benét,
Angela Brown featuring Richard Smallwood, James Ingram featuring poet Hank
Stewart, Ledisi, Melvin M. Miller, NFL Players Choir featuring Donnie McClurkin &
Myron Butler, SILK featuring Angie Stone, Kelly Price & Kandi Burruss, Stax
Academy of Music All Stars, and Charlie Wilson.
The Prayer Breakfast honorees were Corey “CoCo Brother” Condrey, Dr. Cain
Hope Felder, Reverend Michael N. Harris, Dorothy Norwood, Clarisse Paulk and
Bebe & CeCe Winans.
Celebrity guests, honorees, and participants from other Trumpet Awards weekend
events included Dr. Juilanne Malveaux, president of Bennett College, who
moderated the Race Relations Symposium; panelist on this symposium were Dr.
David Satcher, Eugene Patterson, Judge Damon Keith, Tim King, Frank
McCloskey, Sonya Ross, and Roger Bobb of Tyler Perry Studios.
Jonathan Slocumb, the Christian comic, with the assistance of Delta Air Lines’
Scarlet Pressley-Brown, emceed the High Tea with High Heels affair, which was
open to the public and held on Thursday, January 27 at 3:00 p.m. at the Hyatt
Regency Downtown. This event was a fundraiser for the Trumpet Awards
Foundation’s scholarship initiative.
The International Civil Rights Walk of Fame was held at the Ebenezer Baptist
Church, followed by the unveiling of the footprints at the Martin Luther King Jr.
National Historic Site. Honorees whose footprints were placed into the granite walk
of fame include Arthur Blank, James Brown, The Reverend Dr. Gerald L. Durley,
Bishop Neil C. Ellis, Leon Hall, Bishop Barbara L. King, Marc H. Morial, Mayor Carl
Stokes, Congressman Louis Stokes and Henry “Hank” Thomas.
The Trumpet Awards Creator and Executive Producer Xernona Clayton, was the
innovative mind behind the first Trumpet Awards held in 1993.
The Trumpet Awards will air on Sunday, April 24th on TVOne.
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