The Young & Powerful Group Launch Event
For our launch event, Marvin Dickerson, President of the 100 Black Men of Greater Washington, DC, an organization whose purpose is to provide positive leadership for underprivileged young males gave words of support. R & B songstress Mya spoke on the power music has in the intellectual development of children. Finally, Raheem Devaughn joined us in a spectacular concert.
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Young & Powerful MLK Presidential Brunch
On Sunday, pioneers of the contemporary civil rights movement attended The Young & Powerful Group’s MLK Brunch. Not only did Dr. Michael Eric Dyson and the Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. raise us to our feet, Rev. Al Sharpton, the honorable Marc Morial of the National Urban League and actress Tatyana Ali found The Young & Powerful Group’s positive message the place to be in lieu of so many other options.
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Young & Powerful Community Event
Monday, we joined Ben Affleck, Martin Luther King III, Herbie Hancock, Serve DC, 10 Universities and DC Office of the Mayor and many others, as we answered the national call for community service and participated in feeding hundreds of D.C.’s homeless. Working in this capacity was our most humbling and most joyous of any of the events. No matter what success our organization has, if there are still members of our society that aren’t given an opportunity for upward mobility, none of us are a success.
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Young & Powerful Political Forum & Roundtable Discussion
Once the community service project was completed, hundreds of college students, community leaders, and political enthusiasts joined us at Howard University for an awe inspiring forum devoted to looking at this historic presidential election through the lens African-Americans. Jeff Johnson of BET moderated the forum.
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Young & Powerful Black Tie Gala
Later that evening, over 800 young and powerful professionals let their hair down for our marquee event…The Black Tie Gala. With the theme focused on the heritage of Barack Obama, participants dined on Polynesian, Indonesian, and Kenyan cuisine and were entertained by Howard University’s soulful gospel choir and both an African and Hawaiian dance ensemble. We danced the night away and celebrated the success of both our organization and President Barack Obama.
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Young & Powerful Inauguration Semi-formal Celebration
After witnessing the swearing in of our Nation’s 44th President, The Young & Powerful Group’s final event was a semi-formal gathering.
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