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25th Anniversary Celebration

This year, Advancement Project celebrates its 25th anniversary. Together, another world is possible. Join us!

Thursday, December 5, 2024

Rubell Museum DC 6:00 pm

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Honorees

Turning The Tide Award

New Virginia Majority

New Virginia Majority works to create a powerful multi-issue, multi-racial movement to transform Virginia through large-scale civic engagement, issue advocacy, community organizing and strategic communications. We organize within Latinx, African American, Asian American Pacific Islander, and youth communities, centering the leadership and demands of working-class women of color. Together, we vote, mobilize, and engage to end mass incarceration, build just economic and social policies, protect immigrants, and preserve the environment.

Turning The Tide Award

Action St. Louis

Action St. Louis is a grassroots racial justice organization that seeks to build political power for Black communities in the St. Louis region. Action St. Louis builds campaigns that leverage organizing, communications, advocacy, and direct action to mitigate harm against our community while fighting for long-term transformation. Action envisions a region where Black people are empowered to take bold action towards transforming our own communities, making St. Louis a place where every Black life is valued and affirmed. Through organizing, we envision building communities that are free from oppressive institutions and all forms of violence.

Just Democracy Award

SEIU

SEIU President April Verrett is a fighter for working people and a visionary leader at the forefront of building a more modern labor movement that is anti-racist at its core. Having dedicated her career to helping workers build power through their unions, Verrett is driven by the conviction that unions give workers a platform to fight for more than wages, benefits and working conditions. April’s vision as SEIU president is to build enough worker power to end poverty wages once and for all, dismantle structural racism, and allow every worker to thrive.

Entertainment

Asali McIntyre

Asali Ruth-Mandla McIntyre is a Professional Violinist, Singer-Songwriter, Improvisational Performer and Creative based in the DC Metropolitan area. She has honed her skills in these disciplines for 30+ years. Asali creates unique arrangements and compositions that beckon her listeners in and puts them at ease -casting gentle sonic spells of belonging, honoring, and upliftment without judgement. Asali is also a part of syBLINGS! - an intentional forever collaboration with her sibling Spirit Paris McIntyre and they premiered their debut work syBLINGS! as part of Atlas Arts Lab 2024.

aja monet

Aja Monet is a Grammy-nominated Surrealist Blues Poet whose work powerfully explores themes of resistance, love, and joy. She's the youngest to have won the Nuyorican Poets' Cafe Grand Slam and has earned accolades including the Marjory Stoneman Douglas Award for Poetry, the Nelson Mandela Changemaker Award, and The Harry Belafonte Voices for Social Justice Award. Her debut album, "when the poems do what they do," showcases her evocative blend of poetry and music.

DJ Lumumba aka Revolution

DJ Lumumba aka Revolution is a heavily sought after DJ based in Central Brooklyn. Since 1987 he has been utilizing his skills as a DJ as a tool for his activism work. DJ Lumumba's music is a reflection of his Caribbean/Hip Hop and African Diasporic foundation. He served as the resident DJ at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture’s First Friday programs and has spun at esteemed venues such as BB Kings (NYC), Brooklyn Museum’s First Saturdays and has played domestically at HBCU homecomings and internationally in Zurich, Switzerland, Dakar, Senegal and more.

Step Afrika! "The World's leading authority on the artform of Stepping."

Founded in 1994 by C. Brian Williams, Step Afrika! is the first professional company dedicated to the tradition of stepping. Under Mr. Williams’ leadership, stepping has evolved into one of America’s cultural exports, touring more than 60 countries across the globe and ranking as one of the top 10 African American Dance Companies in the US. Step Afrika! blends percussive dance styles practiced by historically African American fraternities and sororities; traditional African dances; and an array of contemporary dance and art forms into a cohesive, compelling artistic experience. Performances are much more than dance shows; they integrate songs, storytelling, humor and audience participation. The blend of technique, agility, and pure energy makes each performance unique and leaves the audience with their hearts pounding.

Sponsors

Change Agent

Achieving America Family Foundation

Movement Partner

ACLU Foundation

Power Builders

Arnold & Porter LLP

Mobilizer

Ben & Jerry’s

Bill L. Lee, Esq

Black Voters Matter

Imagine Us

Legal Defense Fund

National Education Association

Southern Poverty Law Center

Rapid Responder

Black Alliance for Just Immigration

Center for Constitutional Rights

Color of Change

Custom Ink

Florida Rising Together

Monica Clark

State Voices

Supporter

AFL-CIO

Arlene and Willie Baker

AssuredPartners

Common Cause Education Fund

Community Change

Elizabeth and Paul Bonner

Friends of the Earth

League of Women Voters

Movement for Black Lives

Race Forward

In Solidarity

Aaron Dorfman & Geneen Massey Good Trouble Fund

Dēmos

Narrative Initiative

National Women’s Law Center

The Raben Group

Host Committee

Jose “Joe” Alvarez
Monica Clark
Courtland Cox
Stephen English and Molly Munger
Rev Eddie Hailes, Jr and Janet Hailes
Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson
Arlene Holt Baker
Helen S. Kim
Bill Lann Lee
Daniel Alejandro Leon-Davis

Uzoma Nkwonta
Ai-Jen Poo
Robert Raben
Rashad Robinson
Thena Robinson Mock
Anthony Romero
Marcia Smith and Stanley Nelson
Professor Franita Tolson
Jesse Williams
Nat Chioke Williams, PH. D
Thomasina Williams
Rinku Sen
Greisa Martinez Rosa