PHOTOS BY MAATOLOGY
EARLY ARRIVALS RED CARPET
THE PRE-DINNER
MORE EARLY ARRIVALS
The DJ/violinist during the reception
The chef of the dinner and guest
VIP RECEPTION
THE AWARDS CEREMONY
The audience watching a video of a past Power event.
The mistress of ceremonies was Holland
Wells Fargo's Vanessa Foster-Cooksey recited a poem about tonite's evening before bringing up....
.....Motivational speaker Koran Bolden....
The first awards were given to the Everyday Heroes which
included Cecilia Harris, Coach Antonio Irons,
Dr. Miranda Avant-Elliot, Dr Nicole Evans, Dr Rodney Lewis, Garon Patrick Mosby....
...Michael Brown, Robert Steeples, Roosevelt Mitchell III,
Tara Washington, Shirley Moore and
Steve Roberts.
The next set of awardees were for Pushing The Culture. The honorees were Angela Grady, Cornell "Niddy" Thirdkill, Dr Art McCoy, Michael Kennedy Jr, ,Keisha Mabry, Khalia Collier, Eric Madkins, Nate Johnson, Rasheen Aldridge, Rep Bruce Franks Jr., Sheronica Hardin, Theron Morgan, Tony Davis, Lashell Eikerenkoetter and Sarita Moody.
The next honorees were for Black Business Owners. The honorees were Rob McCully, Haven Hobbs, Kristy Jackson, Rance John, Dallas Holland, Katina Mims, Sheryl and James Myers, Roland Paige, Jason Wilson and William Porter,.
The next honorees were for Influencers. The awardees were Afton Johnson, Michelle Tucker, Timothy Moore, Sheldon Jackson, Ahmad Muhammad, Arika Parr, Arvetta Powell, Craig Thomas....
....Bijal Desai-Ramirez, Darren Sunkett, Damion Jones, Damarco Davidson, Eric Mitchell, Michael B Thomas, Lawrence Bryant, Lisa West.....
.....Markus Goldston, Kory Bernaug, Ms Robbie Montgomery and Michael Roberts Sr.
The next category was for Game Changers. The awardees were Michael Woods, Barbara Perry, Brandy Butler, Chalana Scales-Ferguson, Darryl Tyler, Dean Kpere-Diabo, Kayla Thompson, Lafayette Burns, Rosalyn Manahan, Ed D., , Nashad Carrington, Bradley J Rayford.....
.....Serajeni Hammond, Stacy Hollins, Vega Sills and Winnie Caldwell.
The next set of awards had gone to Community Builders. The honorees were Abdul-Kaba Abdullah, Leroy Schumpert Jr, Terry L Wilson, Vanessa Hughes, James Clark and Dr. Karla Frye.
The next set of awardees were Up and Coming. The honorees were Vanessa Townshend, Tony Thompson, Sunni Minnx, Deerra Williams, Charee O, Rocki Jones, Cheryl Walker, \
Veta Jeffrey...Gary Spiller, Sean Brasfield, Stephanie McCloud and Kendra Elaine.
The Legacy Award had gone to the late Jaz Loron Granderson. Accepting was his father.
A picture of Granderson flashed on the screen during his fathers speech,
His father was humbled and shedded tears when remembering his son .
The next set of awards had gone to Distinguished Honorees. They were:
Gary Gunter
Kelvin Adams----pictured are Power 100 creator Keith Griffin II, a rep for Adams, and Cooksey.
The family of actor Sterling K Brown accepted his award on his behalf as Griffin looks on.
Griffin poses with the next honoree was Dr. Nina Caldwell.
Distinguished awardee Adrian Bracy speaks after accepting her award.
Griffin poses with awardee Dr. Jason Purnell.
Griffin poses with awardee Irasa Downing and presenter Laurence Hopkins
The Trailblazer Award had gone to Dr Dwan J Warmack posed with Griffin and Hopkins.
Rep Bruce Franks presented Griffin a Proclamation from the city commemorating the event.
Attendees grab copies of Power 100 program with all the honorees.
Close up of the programs.
An awardee, a guest and Franks.
Attendees take a final red carpet pic.
NOTE: It was reported about 800 people attended this event which was the biggest attended so far. Kudos to Delux and the team for a well produced event. It has quickly become the gala to attend to network and schmooze with St Louis' who's who. Besides a brief situation involving the removal of Mr Couture's sash upon request of the event producer (that was resolved and handled without any problems ), from our point of view, everything ran smoothly and everyone seemed to have had a great time celebrating excellence at The Ritz Carlton.