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Past Honorees

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    2020 Honorees
    Traci Young-Byron
    Ken Roland
    Marleine Bastien
    Danni Washington
    Paige Harris
    2020 Honorees
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    2019 Honorees
    Addonis Parker
    James Thomas
    Jasmin D. Shirley
    Webber J. Charles
    Lanaria Johnson
    2019 Honorees
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    2018 Honorees
    Cornelia "Corky" Dozier
    Traci Lynn
    Germaine Smith-Baugh, Ed.D.
    Jacquelyn Haywood
    Adrian Francis
    2018 Honorees
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    2017 Honorees
    Tarell Alvin McCraney
    Shaun M. Davis, CPA
    Enid Curtis Pinkney
    Anthony Lockhart, Ed.D.
    Phabie Jean
    2017 Honorees
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    2016 Honorees
    Gilbert Lancelot Raiford, Ph.D.
    Ricky Wiggins
    Raeanna Murray
    Dixie Lee Hedrington-Miller
    Jaret L. Davis
    2016 Honorees
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    2015 Honorees
    Rodney Baltimore
    Barrington Irving
    Lou Ella Jordan
    Melton Mustafa
    Gaelle Mardy
    2015 Honorees
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    2014 Honorees
    Marshall Davis
    James F. Griffin II
    Estella Pyfrom
    Barbara Sharief
    Kenny Alexis
    2014 Honorees
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    2013 Honorees
    Dinizulu Gene Tinnie
    Albert & Bérénice Chauvet
    Newton Sanon
    Fedrick Ingram
    Rashard Johnson
    2013 Honorees
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    2012 Honorees
    Edith C. Bush
    Darryl Holsendolph
    Dr. Dorothy Jackson Orr, Ed.D.
    Samuel Bruce McDonald
    Jason Green
    2012 Honorees
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    2011 Honorees
    John W. Battle III
    Victoria Fleury
    Lt. Nathaniel Lasseur
    Mia Y. Merritt, Ed.D.
    Dwight & Dinah Stephenson
    2011 Honorees
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    2010 Honorees
    Dr. Emma Banks
    William "DC" Clark
    Leroy Jones
    Jhadrian Lawrence
    Perry Stokes
    2010 Honorees
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    2009 Honorees
    In Memory of Charles Mills
    In Memory of Jim McKinley
    Rev. Dr. Rosalind Osgood
    Dr. Niara Sudarkasa
    Hope Williams
    2009 Honorees
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    2008 Honorees
    George L. Burrows Sr.
    Vern Dooling
    Daisy Odom Fulton
    Andrea Kilpatrick
    Khenitha Reeves
    2008 Honorees
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    2007 Honorees
    Ramon Dawkins
    Bobby R. Henry Sr.
    Tarra Pressey
    Luctricia "Lu" Welters
    2007 Honorees
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    2006 Honorees
    C. Ron Allen
    Alycia LaFavor
    Tony Thompson
    Benjamin Williams
    Levi G. Williams
    2006 Honorees
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    2005 Honorees
    Tanesha Clarke
    Francois Leconte
    Dr. Albert E. Smith
    Maude Lewis Storr
    Alfred "Zack" Straghn
    2005 Honorees
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    2004 Honorees
    Yves Antoine
    Marie R. Gill
    Henry L. Graham
    Raymond L. Hicks
    Kitty Oliver
    2004 Honorees
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    2003 Honorees
    Henry L. Brown III
    Bishop Victor T. Curry
    Vera R. Farrington
    Angela Graham
    Ashley Greene
    2003 Honorees
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    2002 Honorees
    Janco Damas
    Gregory R. Johnson
    Denise Mincey-Mills
    Miriam McKinzie Oliphant
    Elizabeth "Libby" Jackson Wesley
    2002 Honorees
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    2001 Honorees
    Megan Simone Davis
    Trevor Duhaney
    Sheila Harvey-Lawrence
    In Memory of Emridge "E.J." Jones Jr.
    Dr. Frederick V. Miller
    2001 Honorees
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    2000 Honorees
    Leslie Bailey
    Dawn Gibson-Brehon
    In Memory of Mary Butler Hooks
    Ted Johnson
    Dr. Minnie Lowe-Joyner
    Irvin Minney
    In Memory of Chief Sandrell Rivers
    Irma Hunter Wesley
    2000 Honorees
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    1999 Honorees
    In Memory of Tyrone K. Backers Sr.
    Leslie M. Corley
    Sen. Mandy Dawson
    Jerome Gordon
    Rev. Dr. Edwin Hamilton
    Dr. Jerry Kolo
    C.J. Latimore
    Flora Philpart
    1999 Honorees
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    1998 Honorees
    Natasha Brownlee
    Sandra Close-Turnquest
    Cecil Hayes
    Shamele Jenkins
    Dr. Wilhelmena Mack
    Johnny C. Taylor Jr., Esq.
    Dr. E. Carol Webster
    Sen. Frederica S. Wilson
    1998 Honorees
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    1997 Honorees
    Rep. Dorothy Bendross-Mindingall
    In Memory of Cora E. Braynon
    Nehemiah Davis
    Dr. Gerald Johnson
    Tony Lesesne
    Angela McPherson
    Samuel F. Morrison
    Herb "Proverb" Newsome
    Keondra Pierre
    1997 Honorees
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    1996 Honorees
    Linda Houston-Jones
    Keith A. James, Esq.
    Collie Evans Jones
    Mildred Mariner, Esq.
    Dr. Roy Phillips
    Bishop Harold Ray
    Jenya Tomlinson
    Guy Wheeler
    1996 Honorees
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    1995 Honorees
    George Gadson
    In Memory of Jerome Edmund Gray, Esq.
    Irvin Kiffin
    Rev. Wayne Lomax
    Dr. Catherine Lowe
    Professor Joseph McNair
    Ernestine Ray
    Peter and Retha Spann
    1995 Honorees
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    1994 Honorees
    Gail Birks Askins
    Wayne Barton
    Charles W. Cherry II, Esq.
    Sterling DuPont
    Dr. M. Tina Dupree
    Georgia Foster
    Cartheda Mann
    Beryl Roberts
    1994 Honorees
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    1993 Honorees
    Chief Jimmie Brown
    In Memory of Vinnette Carroll
    Myrtle Corbin
    Albert Dotson Jr.
    Arthur Kennedy
    Hamish Reed
    Jeffrey Watson
    Runette L. Williams
    1993 Honorees