The Awards

The Seventh Annual

Mahogany Dime™ Awards

Saturday April 17, 2010

Carolina Theatre of Durham

309 West Morgan Street

Tickets on Sale February 15, 2010

919-560-3030

What is the Mahogany Dime Awards?

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Mahogany Dime Awards Reel

Hosted by Broadway Actress and television star, Roz Ryan, know for her hilarious portrayal of Amelia Hetebrink on the sitcom, Amen.

Enjoy an evening of honors and entertainment with performances by:

The National Award Winning Bouncing Bulldogs

Singer Jennifer Evans along with dancer Nia Hampden

Collage Dance Company

Poet Tim Jackson and his daughter Ashae Jackson

Comedienne Simpli Net

Ninth Street Hip Hop Dance Instructors

Proceeds from the Mahogany Dime Awards benefit the Mahogany Dime Foundation, a non profit organization. The mission of the Mahogany Dime Foundation is the boost the self esteem of African American girls through cultural programming, educational opportunities and community partnerships.

Mahogany Dime™ Award Recipients 2008 (from left to right)
The Honorable Eva Clayton, The Honorable Cora Cole McFadden, Angela Ray, Carol Boston Weatherford, Dr. Lorine C. McLeod, and Geneva Dillard

Mahogany Dime™ Award Recipients 2007 (from left to right)
The Honorable Patricia Timmons Goodson, Gloria Sawyer, Andrea Harris, Angela Ray, Michele Andrea Bowen, Stephanie Tyson,
Vivian Joiner

Mahogany Dime™ Award Recipients 2006 (from left to right)
Dr. Linda Norflett, Dr. Jeannette Council, Angela Ray, Jane Johnson Chavis Dr. Alma Adams and Constancia Ross

Mahogany Dime™ Award Recipients 2005 (from left to right)
Dr. Annie McCullough Chavis, Lori Gibbs, Angela Ray, Dr. Eunice Dudley, and Gloria Sawyer
not pictured (April Turner)

Meet the 2009 Mahogany Dime™ Award Recipients

MaryAnn Black of Durham
The Mahogany Dime™ Award for Leadership

MaryAnn Black is one of the community's most respected and experienced leaders. As the Associate Vice President for Community Relations at Duke University, Black is a leading health advocate for health and human services with a background as a social worker specializing in psychotherapy with children an their families. She was named the 1994 "Social Worker of the Year" by the National Association of Social Workers. Her experience was further heightened in the political arena during her lengthy tenure and strong leadership as a Durham County Commissioner from 1990-2002 and as chair of the Commissioners from 1996-2002.

Black's experiences as a clinical social worker, combined with her strong leadership of the county commission, gives her valuable insight. Her leadership experience with the government is valuable link between the health system and the diverse community it serves. Black has received numerous other awards for her outstanding leadership experience. A few of her past awards include an honor at the 34th Annual NAACP Freedom Fund Banquet, Social Worker of the Year by the National Association of Social Workers, and an Eagle Award from the North Carolina Alliance for Healthy Communities.

Joselyn Williams of Raleigh
Mahogany Dime™ Award for entrepreneurship

Joselyn Williams is the principal of Joselyn Marketing Group, In. (JMG, Inc.), a Marketing, Promotions and Event Planning Company in business since 1998. She is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she was a pioneer in women's track and field as an athlete and assistant coach. She later went on to Miami University, Oxford, OH, as Women's Head Track and Field Coach before moving into sports marketing working with Village Companies, Sports Letter Inc. in Chapel Hill, NC. Moving into the corporate arena, she joined Sara Lee Corporation as a Marketing Supervisor and company liaison for Women's Athletics in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).

Over the past thirty years she has developed a superb reputation as an expert, effective and skillful in corporate marketing, promotions and event management. Most notable have been her associations with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Basketball Program and the Michael Jordan Foundation of the Carolinas.

In the last twelve years, she has been instrumental in the development and coordination of the Aggie-Eagle Football Classic, CIAA and MEAC Basketball Tournaments while held in Raleigh, NC. She is currently playing a prominent role in the marketing, promotions and coordination of the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Inc’s upcoming International Grand Conclave taking place in Raleigh, NC, July 2010, as well as coordinating conferences and conventions for the North Carolina General Baptist State Convention.

Doris Ann Shipman of Fayetteville
Mozella Lambert McLaughlin Unsung Hero Award

A native of Shelby North Carolina, Doris Ann Shipman began teaching after earning a degree in Elementary Education from Fayetteville State College, now Fayetteville State University. She took classes in Special Education (as it was called at that time), and was one of the first teachers in Cumberland County certified in all areas of Exceptional Children, K-12.

Shipman led the way in helping the schools and communities throughout her teaching career, navigating changes in local, state, and Federal laws and needs related to exceptional children and their families. Often Mrs. Shipman was assigned to a school that had no “Special Ed” program to assist faculty and staff to establish a sound program and to accept the children needing special services.

After retiring from Cumberland County School system after 39 years in the classroom, Doris has been called back to serve Exceptional Children (as it presently is called) as an: Elementary School Reading/Math Resource Teacher, Middle School Math Tutor, High School Long-Term Exceptional Children Substitute Teacher, and again as an Middle/High School Reading Tutor. Mrs. Shipman has lived by the words of the familiar church song, “If I can help somebody along the way, then my living will not be in vain.”

Nnenna Freelon of Durham
Mahogany Dime™ Award for the Arts

Nnenna Freelon is hailed as the "international voice of Jazz." She has shared the stage or recordings with Jessye Norman, Herbie Hancock, Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, Take 6, Al Jarreau, the Count Basie Orchestra and more. In addition she has performed around the world, from Carnegie Hall to The Hollywood Bowl, the Monterey Jazz Festival to the Newport Jazz Festival, and from Montreaux to London. Freelon’s seventh Concord Records release, Homefree, will be available April 2010. Her educational efforts in master classes, clinics, workshops and teaching students around the world from technique to life-skills have made her a sought-after spokesperson and lecturer.

Nnenna Freelon has been heard and seen in feature film in "What Women Want," on In Performance At The White House to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz, Variety’s The Children’s Charity, on the #1 TV hit Mad Men, on the Jerry Lewis’ Labor Day Muscular Dystrophy Telethon, on stage alongside The Roots performing in the hit musical Ask Your Mama, and for numerous charities and at Special Events such as at the Society of Singers’ “Ella Awards" honoring the legendary Julie Andrews.

Sadiyah Shakur-Saleem of Durham
Mahogany Dime™ Award for Service

Sadiyah Shakur-Saleem, one of the original members of The Chuck Davis Dance Company in New York, is the founder and director of Collage Dance Company. She joined together with Toni K. Hall, Assistant Director and also a former member of the Chuck Davis African American Dance Ensemble to become a nurturing source for young dancers and to serve as "Mama Sadiyah." Collage Dance Company has been an artistic enterprise and a haven for young people.

A native New Yorker, she was one of the original members of the Chuck Davis Dance Company before Davis founded the African American Dance Ensemble. Shakur is also a teacher. She's worked as a director of Durham's Omuteko Gwamaziima Charter School and now as an instructor in the gifted program at Glenn Elementary.

Dr. Bertha Maxwell Roddey of Charlotte
The Dr. Johnnetta Cole Living Legend Award

Dr. Bertha Maxelll Roddey is historian, educator, and leader. Her accolades are many: She was the first black principal of a predominantly white school during the integration of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools where she served for 17 years. She conceptualized the curriculum for the Africana Studies program at UNC Charlotte at the same time she co-founded the Afro-American Cultural Center in Charlotte. In addition, she founded the Afro-American Council for Black Studies. The Afro-American Cultural Center she co-founded recently reopened as the Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts and Culture, named for Charlotte’s first Black mayor. Upon her retirement from UNC Charlotte, she was named Frank Porter Graham Professor Emeritus.

She is a member of the Links of Charlotte, Inc. and the past National President of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. a public service organization. Under her leadership, the organization established a ground-breaking partnership with Habitat for Humanity resulting in the construction of over 25 homes for low income families in the United States and Ghana.

Most recently, Roddey has been selected as a 2010 Arch of Triumph Award Recipient by Johnson C. Smith University in celebration of the 143rd Anniversary of JCSU's founding.

A special Thank you to our sponsors:

Richard Byer, CPA

KidZNotes

Creations by Mitch

The Arc of Durham County

Artful Greetings

The Banks Law Firm

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