The Leimert Park Group Legacy Awards
Sunday, August 31, 2014
The Legacy Awards honors those that have made a significant contribution to our communities in the areas of:
- Health/Wellness
- Economics/Business
- Arts/Culture
- Literacy/Education
- Leadership/Mentorship
Our 2013 honorees were:
- Health/Wellness
- Kali Sampson Alexander, CEO, Founder, Lotus on the Nile
- Janette Robinson Flint, President, Black Women For Wellness
- Economics/Business
- Bernard Bronner, CEO, Bronner Brothers Enterprises
- Gregory Dulan, Dulan's on Crenshaw
- Sherri Franklin, Urban Design Center
- Arts/Culture
- Barbara Morrison, Performer
- Lula Washington, CEO,Owner, Lula Washington Dance Academy
- Literacy/Education
- Natalie Cole, CEO, Publisher, Our Weekly
- Janette Robinson Flint, President, Black Women For Wellness
- Leadership/Mentorship
- Mark Ridley-Thomas, Los Angeles County Supervisor, 2nd District
Our 2012 honorees were:
- Health/Wellness
- Anna Marie Carter, The Seed Lady of Watts
- Jewel Thais-Williams, Founder, CEO, Village Health Foundation
- Economics/Business
- Kenneth Lombard, Senior Partner, Capri Capital Partners, Developers and Owners of The Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza
- Brenda Shockely, Executive Director, Community Build
- Arts/Culture
- Ayuko Babu, Executive Director, The Pan African Film Festival
- James Burks, Executive Director, The African Marketplace
- Ben Caldwell, Owner, Kaos Network
- Asantewa Olatunji, General Manager, The Pan African Film Festival
- Literacy/Education
- Cynthia Exum, Founder, Executive Director, The Leimert Park Village Book Fair
- James Fugate & Tom Hamilton, Owners, Eso Won Bookstore
- Leadership/Mentorship
- Herb Wesson, Jr., Los Angeles City Council President & Councilmember 10th District
Sunday, August 31, 2014
On Sunday, August 31, 2013, the Festival will present it's 4th Annual "Sankofa Sunday" celebration where we will look back to remember those in the local and global community that have transitioned since our last Festival in September 2013.
Mwalimu Kabaila, Founder of Congress of African People, an online Facebook community of over 10,000 members, serves as host of this important event. He is pictured below where he poured libations and read the names of those that had transitioned. Jai Jai Kambasa and Rene Fisher-Mimms provided traditional African drumming.
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| (Mwalimu Kabaila, Jae Jae Kambasa & Rene Fisher-Mimms.) |
UCLA Professor Scott Brown, author of "Fighting For Us: Maulana Karenga, The US Organization an Black Cultural Nationalism", provided the historical significance of Sankofa Sunday. He then left the stage to join with the audience who gathered in a circle.
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| (Far left, Professor Scott Brown) |
The festival uses the Sankofa principle to look back and remember those that have transitioned and bring forward the good that they contributed so that we may go forward with wisdom.
"Sankofa Sunday” is an interactive, and communal event, therefore, the public is invited to write the name(s) of their loved ones that have transitioned in the
past 12 months and to place their names in a basket to participate in this remembrance celebration.
It's important to note, that this is cultural and not a religious
ceremony and people of all faiths and beliefs are welcome to
participate.
Ashe (so be it).
