2021 Signature Events 

OPENING NIGHT GALA

Hosted by Jonathan Capehart, honors Rep. James Clyburn with the John Lewis Lifetime Legacy Award, with March On Awards to filmmaker Sam Pollard and the Donors of Color Network. Musical guests Frédéric Yonnet &The Band With No Name and The Shiloh Baptist Church Gospel Choir.

THE VIVIAN MALONE COURAGE AWARD

Bestowed to Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, Nikole Hannah-Jones (1619 Project), awarded by Dr. Sharon Malone and in conversation with journalist Michele Norris-Johnson.