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Tonight: 50-Years After the Watts Riots, Rev. Al Sharpton & National Action Network Host the ‘Rise of the Phoenix’ Awards in Los Angeles Honoring Former L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Film Producer John Singleton, Bishop Noel Jones & more

Aug 12, 2015

For Immediate Release

August 12, 2015

Contact: Liz Kenigsberg/Dominic Hawkins

Phone: 202-464-9522 

 

Tonight: 50-Years After the Watts Riots, Rev. Al Sharpton & National Action Network Host the ‘Rise of the Phoenix’ Awards in Los Angeles
Honoring Former L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Film Producer John Singleton, Bishop Noel Jones & more

 

Proceeds from the Dinner Will Support NAN’s 2015 Technology Tour & Invited Participants to Include Mayor Eric Garcetti, Sean “Diddy” Combs and Earvin “Magic” Johnson

 

 

LOS ANGELES – Fifty years after the Watts Riots, one of the country’s leading civil rights organizations, National Action Network (NAN), will host the Rise of the Phoenix Awards on Wednesday, August 12, 2015 at 7:00 PM at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles. Honorees include former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Film Producer John Singleton and Bishop Noel Jones among others.

NAN will honor community leaders who have followed in the footsteps of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., whose lasting impact on the Los Angeles area is still relevant today. Dr. King visited Los Angeles in the aftermath of the Watts Riots to decry the violence; today, Rev. Al Sharpton and the Los Angeles Chapter of National Action Network are working in the same tradition to carry on Dr. King’s vision of equality.

Proceeds from the event will go towards funding NAN’s 2015 Technology Tour, which will create tech academies in five cities across the U.S., including New York, Atlanta, Detroit, Los Angeles and Oakland. Sponsors include: AFSCME Local 393/AFL-CIO; Charter Communications, Inc; The Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO; SEIU Local 2015; Nationwide; UDW; The Homecare Providers Union, United Domestic Workers of America.

This year’s honorees are:

 

WHAT:          

National Action Network Rise of the Phoenix Awards

 

WHEN:          

Wednesday, August 12, 2015

7:00 PM PT

 

WHERE:

Millennium Biltmore Hotel

506 S Grand Ave

Los Angeles, CA 90071

 

WHO: 

Rev. Al Sharpton

Janice Bryant Howroyd

Brad Johnson

Bishop Noel Jones

John Singleton

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa

NAN Executive Director Janaye Ingram

NAN LA Chapter President Reverend K.W. Tullos

Invited Participants include:

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti

Earvin “Magic” Johnson

Sean “Diddy” Combs