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C E L E B R AT I N G HONORED WITH LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS 30

C OTheCBlack A Stars - CNews O L2015 A Annual SUPPORTS RISE UP FUND Awards Dinner will honor Mayor F ORep. R Charles WOMEN-OWNED BUSINESSES David Dinkins,

Rangel, Rep. Yvette Clarke, The Coca-Cola Company proud suppliers. R. Donahue Peebles,isBarbara to support the launch of RiseSabrina The Rise Up Crowdfunding Arnwine, Inez Barron, Lamb, Dr. Rudy Crew, Stephen funding portal offers a new Up Crowdfunding. The equity Byrd, Alia Jones, and the crowdfunding portal empowersCentralsolution for business owners Park Five survivors of gross injustice to gain access to a process for investors from the general on December 18 from public 6:00pm – to invest in women andHarlem, minority10:00pm at MIST 46 West owned116th smallStreet. companies and

and the general public. And if successful, it could help them gain a supplier diversity contract. “Coca-Cola’s purpose is to

startups looking to raise “Each honoree chosencapital. for

recognition has demonstrated

exceptional leadership and vision in Coca-Cola’s commitment her or his respective profession or to supplier diversity focuses endeavor and in some significant on maximizing procurement measure has contributed towards opportunities and proactively creating a more just society in this engaging and building country,” says Black Star News founderwith and diverse publisher Milton partnerships

Allimadi. “Obviously much work needs to be done here and around theEworld.” R IS UP The gala starts at 6:00pm with a

David Dinkins

was a member of the New York City Council, representing the 40th council district in Brooklyn, succeeding her mother, Una S. T. Clarke. In the current 114th Congress Clarke serves on the Energy and Commerce Committee, responsible for consumer protection, food safety, energy development, public health, communications, the environment, and interstate and international commerce.

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York and a former chancellor of the New York public schools system.

Pioneering producers Stephen Byrd and Alia Jones, through their company Front Row Production, brought “Cat on a and Hot Tin Roof” to support businesses and “A Streetcar Named Desire” underrepresented groups within with a multi-ethnic cast to the communities we serve,” said Broadway. In 2016 they bring Fernando Hernandez, Senior “Eclipsed” with Oscar Winner Director, Supplier Diversity, Lupita Nyong ’O to Broadway.

The Coca-Cola Company. Honorees, the so-called Central “This much-needed resource Park 5, are collectively and individually heroes. They are can, in many cases, help small survivors of one of the ugliest Charles Rangel businesses scale up or expand miscarriage of justice in New York’s their operations, open new history; having been railroaded majority. She now leads The locations and grow their brands.” and unjustly convicted for a crime Transformative Justice Coalition.

they did not commit and for which Arnwine was for 26 years executive they served long prison sentences director of the Lawyers’ Committee “We believe in a future where the ranging from seven years for Civil Rights Under the Law. next world-changing businessto 13 years before being exonerated when the Inez Barron, honoree, formerly adoes not go unrealized because actual rapist confessed. They are: State Assembly member, is nowof a lack of access to capital. We Yusef Abdus Salaam; Raymond a New York City council member are excited to be with Santana Jr., working Antron McCray, Kevin and a champion of education for Richardson, and Kharey Wise. The Coca-Cola Company in this our youth. venture makeStar theNews, change we focuses ThetoBlack which Honoree Imhotep Gary Byrd is on investigative journalism, has a legendary radio talk show host all want to see in the world finally been featured as a result of some if and executive producer, radio DJ,happen,” said Ruth E. Hedges, its news scoops, on CNN, The New poet, songwriter, music recordingCEO of Rise Up Crowdfunding York Daily News, The New York artist and producer, rapper, writerLLC. Post, The Village Voice, and Brill’s and community activist. He began Content magazine. his career as a radio DJ in Buffalo PastCrowdfunding Black Star Newshas honorees at age 15. For over 30 years, he’s Rise Up also partnered with business have included: Gil Noble (Like It been a talk show host at WBLS and Is), Rep. Maxine Waters, Soledad WLIB radio in New York City. Heorganizations to introduce this O’Brien (CNN), Camille Cosby, also has a Friday night radio talk to their members forMs. possible Voza Rivers (New Heritage Theatre), show on WBAI.

C ROW NG cocktailDFUNDI hour to be followed by the dinner and awards ceremonies. There FUNDI N G will be musical entertainment by opera Psinger O RCassandra TAL Douglas and from harmonica phenomenon R. Donahue Peebles, honoree, is O FFER S A David NEW William Galison. Dinkins is a leading developer and founder of honored for Lifetime Achievement SO LUTI ON The Peebles Co., the nation’s largest — he was New York City’s first African American-owned real AfricanBUSI American mayor and also FOR NESS estate firm with $3.5 billion worth welcomed Nelson Mandela to the of properties under development OW NERS TO city after his release in 1990. or management — he was one Rep. Charles Rangel, also honored GAIN ACCESS of the pioneering developerswho for Lifetime Achievement, has helped turn around and revitalize TO AinPROCESS served Congress since 1971. He is investing to(NY1 referNews), their Amel the once-blighted Anacostia Erroland Louis Honoree Sabrina Lamb, founder a recipient of The Bronze medal for neighborhood in Washington, D.C. members to the funding portal as FO R R AI SI N G Larrieux (Entertainer), Dr. William of the World of Money, is aachampion helping save soldiers behind enemyraisingA capital champion of African-American from the crowd, refresh world and make another way to raise capital. Pollard (Medgar Evers College), of financial literacy for youth-- she line during the Korean War. C AP ITAL FROM is whicheconomic could beempowerment a community Peebles’ of difference, and we share Rise Herm Edwards (NY Jets), Nayaba contemplating a possible run for NYC teaches knowledge about handling Rep. Yvette Clarke is a Democratic Arinde (Amsterdam News), La-Verna their customers, fans, followers, Up’s Crowdfunding’s THE C ROWD. money, budgetingmission and planning. mayor in 2017. member of the US House of Representatives from New York whose 9th district covers much of central Brooklyn. Before entering Congress in 2007, she

Honoree Barbara Arnwine, civil rights lawyer, is a champion of protecting voting rights of ethnic minority groups — the emerging

Dr. Rudy Crew, honoree, is one of the nation’s leading educators. He’s president of Medgar Evers College of The City University of New

Fountain (Columbia University), Lillian Roberts (DC37), Desiree Dancy (New York Times), Greg Floyd (Local 237), Rev. Al Sharpton (National Action Network), and many others.

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