 |
On January 29, 2007, the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) hosted a special dinner tribute to the civil rights generation to commemorate the first anniversary of Coretta Scott King's death. The dinner took place in the Cannon Caucus Room on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. and was organized by the NMAAHC in collaboration with Karz Productions for the purposes of the "Legacy" documentary. The 18 participants represented a wide variety of backgrounds and professions, including business, politics, the media, academia, and the arts.
|
|
Dinner Guests
- Lonnie G. Bunch, Host
Founding Director, Smithsonian’s National Museum of
African American History and Culture
- Tanya Barfield
Playwright, author of “The Blue Door”
- Donna Brazile
Founder and Managing Director, Brazile and Associates, and
Chair of the Democratic National Committee’s Voting Rights Institute
- Chuck D
Founder and frontman of the rap group, Public Enemy, and
Founder of the Rapstation.com “supersite”
- Marian Wright Edelman
President and Founder, Children’s Defense Fund
- Rev. Dr. Floyd H. Flake
Senior Pastor, Greater Allen A. M. E. Cathedral of New York,
and President, Wilberforce University
- Thelma Golden
Director and Chief Curator, Studio Museum in Harlem
- Earl Graves
Founder and Publisher, Black Enterprise Magazine
- Dr. Dorothy Height
Chair, National Council of Negro Women
- Bill T. Jones
Co-Founder and Artistic Director, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company
- Rep. John Lewis
Congressman from Georgia and Civil Rights leader
- John McWhorter
Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute, and author of
Winning the Race: Beyond the Crisis of Black America
- Dr. Ben Chavis Muhammad
CEO, Hip-Hop Summit Action Network
- Orlando Patterson
Professor of Sociology, Harvard University, and National Book Award winner
- Deborah Roberts
ABC News correspondent
- Theodore M. Shaw
Director-Counsel and President, NAACP
Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.
- Beverly Daniel Tatum
President, Spelman College
- Roger Wilkins
Professor of History and American Culture, George Mason University,
and former chairman of the Pulitzer Prize Board
|
