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Brown to Receive Scouting Service Award at Annual Gala |
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Thursday, 20 November 2008 |
The Black Voice News co-publisher Hardy Brown will be awarded the national Whitney Young Jr. Service Award by the Boy Scouts of America at his annual birthday party next month. Brown will be recognized for his forty year commitment to promoting diversity and scouting as a volunteer, scout leader, and community activist.
The annual gala, which highlights the work of the Black Voice Foundation for Media, History &
the Arts, a non-profit he founded with his wife Cheryl over 20 years ago, will be held Thursday,
December 4, 2008 at the Riverside Convention Center in Downtown Riverside. This year’s gala will feature talented Inland Empire young adults including musicians Andrew Debarge, Hector Jimenez, J. Boykin and Akore. The Black Voice Foundation’s Buckworld will also present excerpts from a production that was featured this summer at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.
Dinne, entertainment and the silent auction will begin at 6:30 p.m. The official program begins at 7:30 p.m.
The evening’s silent auction items will include one of a kind Obama memorabilia, ethnic art, and
other unique items.
Gala tickets are available for $100 per person and table sponsorships are $1,500 for a table of 10.For more information please contact 951.682.6070. To view this year’s spectacular entertainment, visit www.blackvoicenews.com.
About The Whitney Young Jr. Service Award
The Whitney M. Young, Jr. Service Award is presented to individual volunteers or organizations
that have made an outstanding contribution toward implementing Scouting opportunities for lowincome youth in both urban and rural areas. Established by the Boy Scouts of America in 1978, this special recognition is named for the late Whitney M. Young, Jr., Civil Rights
Spokesman and Executive Director of the Urban League from 1961-1971.
About The Black Voice Foundation
The Black Voice Foundation for Media, History & the Arts has several important cultural and educational programs that have been recognized throughout the state of California including: Footsteps to Freedom Underground Railroad Study Tours, The Gospel Music History Project, Buckworld "California Hip-Hop Theater Studio", BVI and Internship Program, media projects, Booker T. Washington Public History Project, and the Isaac Family Collection of African Artifacts.
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