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Gala benefits University’s first-ever $10 million The Students First Campaign for student scholarships
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Xernona Clayton, Founder & Chief Executive Officer of The Trumpet Awards and Psychedelic Soul and R&B singer-songwriter Janelle Monáe will be among honorees at The Lincoln University’s 3rdAnnual Lion Awards at 6 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 21 at The Union League, 140 South Broad Street.
LEFT: Xernona Clayton, Founder & CEO, Trumpet Awards
RIGHT: Psychedelic Soul and R&B singer-songwriter Janelle Monáe
The annual black-tie gala, which benefits The Students First Campaign for student scholarships, recognizes and honors the tremendous contributions of extraordinary individuals across various fields of endeavor, including Business, Law, Government, Education, Media, Religion and Lifetime Achievement. Clayton will receive the Living Legend Award while Monáe will be honored for Entertainment.
Other honorees include: Everett Love, ’94 for Business; Honorable Levan Gordon, ’58, Law; Senator Dominic Pileggi, Government; Dr. James A. Donaldson, ’61, Education; Renee Chenault-Fattah, Media; Pastor James S. Hall, Religion; Peter Kjellerup and Mandy Cabot, founders of Dansko Company, Lifetime Achievement.
Tickets are $150. For reservations, call: (484) 365-7440
EDITOR’S NOTE: ‘THE LINCOLN UNIVERSITY’ IS NOW THE OFFICIAL NAME FOR THE INSTITUTION FORMERLY REFERRED TO AS ‘LINCOLN UNIVERSITY’ OR ‘LINCOLN UNIVERSITY OF PA’ AND SHOULD BE ADHERED TO IN ALL REFERENCES.
Founded in 1854, The Lincoln University (PA) is the FIRST of four Lincoln Universities in the world and is the nation’s FIRST degree-granting Historically Black College and University (HBCU). The University combines the elements of a liberal arts and science-based undergraduate curriculum along with select graduate programs to meet the needs of those living in a highly-technological and global society. Today, Lincoln, which enrolls a diverse student body of approximately 2,000 men and women, possesses an international reputation for preparing and producing world class leaders such as Thurgood Marshall, the FIRST African American U.S. Supreme Court Justice, Lillian Fishburne, the FIRST African American woman promoted to Rear Admiral in the U.S. Navy, Langston Hughes, the noted poet, Kwame Nkrumah, the FIRST President of Ghana, Nnamdi Azikiwe, the FIRST President of Nigeria and a myriad of others.