Invitation / WebCast

Thank you for all your support in making the WPFW 30th Anniversary Gala event a great success!

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30th Anniversary Gala Overview

Purpose: Purchase & Renovate Permanent Home for WPFW

Honorary Chair: Congressman John Conyers, Jr.

Honorary Co-Chair: Attorney Roscoe Dellums

Honorary Co-Chair: Josh Williams, President, Metro Washington AFL-CIO

Date: Saturday, December 15, 2007

Time: 6:00 pm - 10:30 pm

Location: Washington Convention Center Grand Ballroom

Event Schedule:

#1 Welcome: Ron P; Zarinah S. & Lonnie Hicks+ Acknowledge LSB members and General Managers

#2 Night Wolf & Ayo Handy Kendi

#3 VOG - Dinner is Served

#4 STAGE DARK

#5 Herb Taylor/Bert Withers intro Bobby Felder and the All Star Jazz Ensemble

#6 Bobby Felder and the All Star JazzEnsemble Band

#7 VOG Intro Mayor Fente, Vincent Gray and Ron Pinchback

#8 Vincent Gray, Mayor Fente and Ron Pinchbackc

#9 VOG intro Jim Vance

#10 Jim Vance Introduction of Evening

#11 Bobby Hill and Ellen Carter intro a look back

#12 Video A Look Back at WPFW Programmers

#13 Significance of the Occasion and intro Kwame Brown - Acie Byrd and Karen Spellman

#14 Kwame Brown Intros the Peace and Justice Awards

#15 Nkenge Toure; Shani Jamila intro Dorothy Height

#16 Dorothy Height

#17 Josephine Reed & Ambrose Lane,Sr intro Howard Zinn

#18 Howard Zinn

#19 Jamal M. & Dr. Pamela Brewer intro Ron Clark

#20 Ron Clark

#21 Miyuki Williams & Rob Robinson intro Sweet Honwy

#22 Sweet Honey

#23 Nancy Alonzo intros Delores Huerta and Dan Siegal receiving award

#24 Atty Dan Siegal receives award for Delores Huerta

#25 Von Martin/Lorne Cress Love intro former programmers and musicians

#26 WPFW Former Programmers and departed musicians

#27 Ayana Gregory intro Dick Gregory

#28 Dick Gregory

#29 Rusty Hassan & Guy Middleton intro Sonny Rollins

#30 Sonny Rollins Video

#31 Sonny Rollins

#32 Lonnie Hicks & Verna Avery Brown intro Amy Goodman

#33 Amy Goodman

#34 Josh Williams & Gloria Minot intro Harry Belafonte

#35 Harry Belafonte

#36 Roscoe Dellums and & Askia Muhammad intro John Conyers

#37 John Conyers

#38 Robyn Holden, Carol Tyson & Eric Dellums intro Gloria Lynne

#39 Gloria Lynne

#40 Thanks for ComingGloria Turner & Dan Logan

Peace and Justice Awards Recipients:

1. 1. Congressman John Conyers, Jr.
2. 2. Amy Goodman, Democracy Now
3. 3. Dorothy Height
4. 4. Harry Belafonte
5. 5. Dick Gregory
6. 6. Sonny Rollins
7. 7. Ron Clark