WHO: Honorees Snoop Dogg, Ciara, Doug E. Fresh, Chris Lighty, Jim Jones and Mellody Hobson; HSAN CEO/President Dr. Benjamin Chavis; HSAN Executive Director Valeisha Butterfield; Event co-chairs Executive Vice President of Entertainment and Music Programming, Stephen Hill, and Disturbing Tha Peace Records’ CEO, Chaka Zulu; presenter Pharrell Williams; Juelz Santana, Damon Dash and Chrisette Michele
WHAT: The Hip-Hop Summit Action Network’s Fifth Annual Action Awards event, an exclusive fundraising celebration and dinner that will help support HSAN’s non-profit work to utilize the power of Hip-Hop for positive social change. Each of the Action Award recipients has made an outstanding contribution to the empowerment of others and to their communities.
WHERE: Capitale, 130 Bowery (at Bowery and Grand), in New York City
WHEN: Monday, February 25, 2008, Red Carpet begins at 6:30pm. Press check in 5:30pm.
Corporate Sponsors making the 2008 Action Awards possible include Gold Partners: Anheuser-Busch, Inc. with Silver Partners: BET, MTV and Viacom
The work of the Hip-Hop Summit Action Network started at HSAN’s inception in 2001, after the first National Hip-Hop Summit themed "Taking Back Responsibility." A series of initiatives were established and, in the past seven years, HSAN followed through –engaging the Hip-Hop generation in community development issues related to equal access to high quality public education and reading literacy, reformation of unjust laws, freedom of speech and artistic expression, voter registration and mobilization, financial literacy and empowerment and youth leadership development.
About Hip-Hop Summit Action Network:
Hip-Hop Summit Action Network is a non-profit, non-partisan national coalition of artists, entertainment industry leaders, education advocates, civil rights proponents and youth leaders united in the belief that the "hip-hop" phenomena is an enormously influential agent for positive social change which must be responsibly and pro-actively utilized to fight the war on poverty and injustice. For more information on the Hip-Hop Summit Action Network, go to www.hsan.org.
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