ATLANTA, Jan. 17, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- The 2018 Bounce
Trumpet Awards, the prestigious annual event celebrating
African-American achievements and contributions, will air
exclusively on Bounce on Sunday,
February 11 at 9:00 p.m.
ET.
Larenz Tate, Screen Actors
Guild (SAG) Award-winner and Power series star and
Erica Ash, who appears on
Survivor's Remorse and stars in the upcoming BET legal drama
series In Contempt, will serve as this year's hosts. The
gala black-tie ceremony will be held at the Cobb Energy Performing
Arts Centre in Atlanta, Georgia on
Sat. Jan. 20, 2018.
2018 Honorees announced today: Jermaine Dupri, Cameo, Richelieu Dennis,
Tamika Mallory, Marley Dias, Dr.
Lonnie Johnson and
Rhyon Brown.
Performers at the event will include: Doug E. Fresh, Keke Wyatt, Anthony Hamilton, Bow Wow, Sir the Baptist,
Arrested Development, Estelle, Bilal, Big Daddy
Kane, V. Bozeman, Donald
Lawrence, Major, We' McDonald, Mr. TalkBox, Kevin Lemons & Higher Calling, Rhyon Brown, Michel'le, Stokley Williams and Carl Thomas.
Cee Lo Green, Omar Gooding and Angell Conwell will be among the
presenters.
About this year's honorees and awards:
- GRAMMY® Award-winning record producer, songwriter, hip-hop
artist, Jermaine Dupri will
receive The Music Innovation Award. Dupri has worked with
Mariah Carey, Usher, Jay-Z, Janet
Jackson, Aretha Franklin, Anthony
Hamilton and Alicia Keys. He
founded So So Def Recordings in 1993 which launched the careers of
Bow Wow, Xscape, Da Brat, Jagged Edge and many others.
- American soul-influenced funk group Cameo will be
presented with this year's Lifetime Achievement Award. With
a career spanning four decades, Cameo has released 17 albums and is
well-known for their dance floor hits including Single Life, Candy
and Word Up!, which led to the pop-culture catch phrase of the same
name. Their undeniable impact to contemporary music can be heard in
songs from Tupac Shakur to The
Beastie Boys.
- Founder of Sundial Brands and Essence Ventures Richelieu
Dennis will be recognized with The Entrepreneur Award.
Driven by his passion for entrepreneurship and sustained by a
vision to fill unmet consumer needs, Dennis founded SheaMoisture in
1991 which has grown into one of the world's most recognized beauty
brands. Just this month, it was announced that Dennis's Essence
Ventures, LLC will acquire Essence Communications, Inc. which
includes Essence Magazine.
- Activist and National Co-Chair of the Women's March,
Tamika Mallory, will receive
The Impact Award. In 2009, Mallory became the youngest
Executive Director of the National Action Network (NAN). She gained
recognition as one of four co-chairs of the Women's March on
Washington, which saw
participation from five million people worldwide. Her role in the
March landed her on the 2017 Time 100 Pioneers List and Fortune's
2017 List of the World's Greatest Leaders.
- 13-year old social activist behind the #1000BlackGirlBooks,
Marley Dias, will be given The Trailblazer Award.
Dias has appeared on Ellen, CBS This Morning and
BET's Black Girls Rock and recently became the youngest
person featured on this year's Forbes 30 Under 30 List.
- Nuclear Engineer and Inventor Dr. Lonnie Johnson will be honored with The
Innovator Award. Dr. Johnson holds more than 80 patents,
including his most famous invention, the Super Soaker® water gun,
which is one of the most popular toys in the world with sales
approaching sales of $1 billion.
- Actress, singer and dancer Rhyon
Brown will receive the Rising Star Award presented by
McDonald's. Brown is best known for her role as Elizabeth
"Lizzie" Sutton on the ABC Family series Lincoln
Heights and has had recurring roles on That's So
Raven, Judging Amy and Tyler Perry's For Better or Worse.
The Trumpet Awards were conceived to recognize the
outstanding accomplishments of African Americans and those who have
succeeded against great odds and inspired success in others.
Founded in 1992 by American Civil Rights leader Xernona Clayton, The Trumpet Awards were
acquired by Bounce in 2016. The list of prestigious honorees over
its 26-year history includes Muhammad
Ali, Beyoncé, Jamie Foxx,
Halle Berry, Stevie Wonder, The African-American Women of the
United States Congress, Steve
Harvey, Martin Luther King
III, Janelle Monáe and Spike
Lee. Visit www.trumpetawards.com for more information.
Bounce (@BounceTV) airs on the broadcast signals of local
television stations and corresponding cable carriage, and features
a programming mix of original and off-network series, theatrical
motion pictures, specials, live sports, and more. Bounce has grown
to be available in more than 99 million homes across the United States and 95% of all
African-American (AA) television homes, including all the top AA
television markets. Among the founders of Bounce are iconic
American figures Ambassador Andrew
Young and Martin Luther King
III. Bounce is part of The E.W. Scripps Company (NYSE:
SSP).
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