Colin Kaepernick, Alicia Keys, Swizz Beatz and more were honored during the 2024 Gordon Parks Foundation 2024 gala dinner at Cipriani 42nd Street.
It was the end of the evening at Cipriani 42nd Street, dinner long since served, and Lee was onstage to present the last honoree at the 2024 Gordon Parks Foundation awards. While Lee was feeling down because of the New York Knicks’ Game 7 loss at home in the NBA playoffs, he shifted his attention at Tuesday’sand Swizz Beatz, artist Mickalene Thomas, former chair of the NAACP Myrlie Evers-Williams, and actor Richard Roundtree, posthumously, who starred in Parks’ directorial debut “Shaft.
“Nights like this also make me think about all the people who aren’t here. All the doors, all the barriers that we still have to kick down so everybody else can come through,” added Kaepernick. “So when we leave here today, ask for one thing: That all of us walk in that power. Kick those doors down. Open those windows up. Break those walls down.
“Shout-out to all the giants in the room,” said Swizz, following his wife. “Which are all the creatives and all the people that support the creative arts in all formats.”The evening’s live auction, which included one Hank Willis Thomas work in addition to several Gordon Parks photographs, raised $640,000. The gala raised a record amount of more than $2 million to support the foundation, which preserves Parks’ work and supports artists through an annual fellowship program.
Other gala guests included the foundation’s executive director Peter W. Kunhardt, Parks’ daughter Leslie Parks Bailey, actor Tim Reid, Sherri Bronfman, Hannah Bronfman, Hannah Traore, Young Paris and photographer Louis Mendes. The evening opened with a performance by the Anthony Morgan Inspirational Choir of Harlem and DJ D-Nice closed out the evening with a dance party.
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