Hip-Hop Summit Action Network Announces Fourth Annual Action Awards Recipients.Earvin "Magic" Johnson, Kanye West, Debra L. Lee and BET Networks and Steve Stoute to Receive Action Awards National Celebrity Gala to Focus on Outstanding Achievements in Community Service and Empowerment NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of -- Russell Simmons Russell Simmons (born October 4 ,1957 in Queens, New York), is an American entrepreneur, the co-founder, with Rick Rubin, of the pioneering hip-hop label Def Jam, founder of another label, Russell Simmons Music Group, and creator of the clothing fashion line Phat Farm. and Dr. Benjamin Chavis, Co-Chairmen of the Hip-Hop Summit Action Network (HSAN HSAN hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathy. ), announce the Fourth Annual Action Awards, an exclusive benefit, fundraising celebration and dinner that will help support HSAN's nonprofit work to utilize the power of Hip-Hop for positive social change. Set to take place on Monday, October 16, 2006, at The Lighthouse, Pier 61, Chelsea Piers Chelsea Piers, officially Chelsea Piers Sports & Entertainment Complex, is a series of sports and entertainment buildings constructed on four adjoining piers on the West Side of Manhattan in New York City. (23rd Street at the Hudson River Hudson River River, New York, U.S. Originating in the Adirondack Mountains and flowing for about 315 mi (507 km) to New York City, it was named for Henry Hudson, who explored it in 1609. Dutch settlement of the Hudson valley began in 1629. ), in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , the 2006 Action Awards will honor Earvin "Magic" Johnson, Kanye West, Debra Lee and BET Networks, and Steve Stoute. Event Co-Chairs are entertainment industry entrepreneur Andre Harrell Andre Harrell (b. September 26 1960 in Harlem, New York) is an American entrepreneur and founder of the now defunct record label, Uptown Records. Harrell also served as CEO of Motown Records. He was also half of the hip hop duo Dr. Jeckyll & Mr. Hyde. and Universal Music Group's Motown Records' President Sylvia Rhone Sylvia Rhone (born March 11 1952 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) began her music career in 1974 with Buddha Records. Advancing to senior VP of Atlantic Records in 1988, she became the first African-American woman to head a major record company in 1990, when she was appointed . Red Carpet and Cocktail Hour begins at 6:30 p.m., with the Action Awards Dinner and Program to follow at 7:30 p.m. Music will be provided by the legendary DJ D-Nice. Corporate Sponsors making the 2006 Action Awards possible include Gold Partners: Anheuser-Busch, Inc. and Windows Live Search, with Silver Partners: Amtrak Amtrak, the National Railroad Passenger Corp., authorized to operate virtually all intercity passenger railroad routes in the United States. Amtrak was created by Congress in 1970 in response to more than two decades of continuous operating deficits by privately run , DeBeers, General Motors, BET, MTV MTV in full Music Television U.S. cable television network, established in 1980 to present videos of musicians and singers performing new rock music. MTV won a wide following among rock-music fans worldwide and greatly affected the popular-music business. , Pepsi, and Warner Music Group Warner Music Group (WMG) is one of the four major record labels. Warner Music Group also has a publishing arm, Warner/Chappell Music, which dates back to 1929, when Jack Warner, president of Warner Bros. Pictures Inc. . Russell Simmons and Dr. Benjamin Chavis jointly stated, "Earvin "Magic" Johnson, Kanye West, Debra L. Lee and BET Networks, and Steve Stoute have all made an outstanding contribution to the empowerment of people and communities. HSAN is proud to honor them with Action Awards for making a positive difference in our society and world." In prior years, the Hip-Hop Summit Action Network's Action Awards have honored the good charitable works of Sean "Diddy" Combs, Jay-Z, Mary J. Blige, Ludacris and The Ludacris Foundation, Nelly, Destiny's Child, Jermaine Dupri, Chrysler Financial, Anheuser-Busch, Inc., Pepsi-Cola North America President Dawn Hudson, Tommy Hilfiger and MTV's "Choose or Lose" Campaign. HSAN is celebrating its fifth anniversary this year. 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 five and a half 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. This past year alone, the HSAN has: * Produced in conjunction with Chrysler Financial and Anheuser-Busch, Inc. a second year of highly successful series of Hip-Hop Summits on Financial Empowerment, which included Summits in Detroit, Miami, New York, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Dallas and HSAN's first international Summit in Toronto. * Produced Philadelphia's Hip-Hop Summit National Town Hall Meeting On Community Empowerment which aired on CN8, The Comcast Network in August * Been recognized by NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on and invited to ring the opening market bell in honor of HSAN's 5th anniversary on June 14. 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. Board of Directors Co-Chairman: Russell Simmons Co-Chairman: Dr. Benjamin Chavis Lyor Cohen, Warner Music Group; Sean "Diddy" Combs, Bad Boy Entertainment; Damon Dash, Dash Music Group; Jermaine Dupri, Virgin Records; Kevin Liles, Warner Music Group; Mike Concepcion, Grand Jury Records; Dr. Manning Marable, Columbia University; Kedar Massenberg, Kedar Entertainment; Kwesi Mfume, Mfume Group; Hilary Rosen, former President of the Recording Industry Association of America; Rich Slomovitz, Rush Communications; and Steve Stoute, Translation Marketing. For more event information, or to purchase tickets or tables, please call Valeisha Butterfield at 212.997.3014. For more information on the local summits and the Hip-Hop Summit Action Network efforts, go to www.hsan.org. |
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