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© Sean Lassiter Photography

© Sean Lassiter Photography

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Radcliffe Bailey

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Swizz Beatz, Peter Kunhardt Jr.

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Common, Devin Allen, Thelma Golden, Kehinde Wiley

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Leon Bridges, Mavis Staples, DJ Black Thought

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Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr., Stephen Colbert

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Usher, Sherry Bronfman

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Sherry Bronfman, Swizz Beatz

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Alexander Soros, Usher

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Jon Batiste, Stephen Colbert

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Martin Scorsese, Peter Kunhardt Jr.

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Fab 5 Freddy, Tony Shafrazi

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Lauren Casarona, Dorothee Grant, Rachelle di Stasio

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Radcliffe Bailey, Leslie Parks, Laini Madhubuti

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Kyra Peters, Chelsea Brito, Miriam LaFort

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Congressman John Lewis, NY Attorney General Eric Schneiderman

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Chelsea Clinton, Marc Mezvinsky

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Teddy Kunhardt, Chance Morrison

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Sean Lassiter, Ajak Deng, Carl Nelson

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Swizz Beatz, Harry Belafonte

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Genevieve Young

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Amanda Maddox, Gurion Kastenburg, Karen Marks, Rich Pagano, Howard Greenberg III, Gabrielle Greenberg

Photograph by Patrick McMullan

Leonard A. Lauder, Constance Spahn

Photograph by Patrick McMullan

Kehinde Wiley, Radcliffe Bailey

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Usher, Jon Batiste, Swizz Beatz, Common

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Wanda Brown, Motanya Gladden

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Jason Zwamch, George Kunhardt

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DJ Runa, Swizz Beatz, Peter Kunhardt Jr., Jabbar McCloud

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Abraham Serouya, Carol Sabbagh

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Craig Fletcher, Kehinde Wiley, Naeem Delbridge

Photograph by Patrick McMullan

Sean Lassiter, John Stephens, Devin Allen, Julio Mejia, Taki Felipa

Photograph by Patrick McMullan

Caroline Hirsh, Andrew Fox, Diana Revson

Photograph by Patrick McMullan

Savannah Engel, Kristian Laliberte, Danielle Snyder

Photograph by Patrick McMullan

Darren Walker, Thelma Golden, Leoanrd A. Lauder, Judy Glickman Lauder

Photograph by Patrick McMullan

Myles Golden, Rebecca Arthur

Photograph by Patrick McMullan

Neal Batra, Alexander Soros, Sophie Longford, Justin Etzin

Photograph by Patrick McMullan

Congressman John Lewis, Marc Weinstein, Michael Collins

Photograph by Patrick McMullan

Congressman John Lewis, Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Photograph by Patrick McMullan

Taki Felipa, Devin Allen, Amanda Smith

Photograph by Patrick McMullan

Jon Batiste, Peter Kunhardt Jr., Congressman John Lewis, Usher

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Marisa Cardinale, Michal Raz-Russo, Peter Kunhardt Jr., Kehinde Wiley, Chelsea Clinton

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YesJulz, Maxwell Osborne, Chelsea Clinton

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Jon Batiste, Peter Kunhardt Jr., Congressman John Lewis, Devin Allen, Usher, Swizz Beatz

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Usher, Jon Batiste, Swizz Beatz, Common

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Stephen Colbert

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Usher, Tony Shafrazi

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Usher

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Swizz Beatz

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Common, Congressman John Lewis

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Chelsea Clinton

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Arlenis Sosa

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Mavis Staples, Martin Scorsese

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Naviyd Ely Raymond, Usher

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Mavis Staples

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Vlada Roslyakova

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Sherry Bronfman

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Mavis Staples, Congressman John Lewis

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Malaak Shabazz

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Kathleen Cleaver

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Leon Bridges

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Peter Kunhardt Jr.

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Alexander Soros

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Alexander Soros

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Stephen Colbert, Patrick McMullan

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Vlada Roslyakova, Olesya Senchenko, Inna Pilipenko, Alina Baikova, Sophie Longford

Photo by Owen Hoffmann/PMC

Jon Batiste, Suleika Jaouad

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Sherry Bronfman, DJ Black Thought, Swizz Beatz

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Canis Chow, Dao-Yi Chow

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Henry Louis Gates Jr., Peter Kunhardt Jr.

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Gayle Samuels, Mario Sprouse

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Common

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Common

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Swizz Beatz

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Peter Kunhardt Jr. Mavis Staples, Congressman John Lewis, Alexander Soros

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Jon Batiste

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Congressman John Lewis

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Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

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Peter Kunhardt Jr., Harriet Dedman, Trevor Brown

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Radcliffe Bailey, Leslie Parks

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Radcliffe Bailey, Leslie Parks, Peter Kunhardt Jr., Mavis Staples, Congressman John Lewis, Alexander Soros

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Shirley Massey, Walter Massey

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Congressman John Lewis, Usher

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Peter Kunhardt Jr., Suzanne Kunhardt, Peter Kunhardt

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Kathryn Chenault, Kenneth Chenault

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Sarah Arison

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Peter Kunhardt Jr., Common, Alexander Soros, Congressman John Lewis, Congressman Keith Ellison

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Common, Congressman John Lewis, Harry Belafonte, Pamela Frank

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Congressman Keith Ellison

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Common, Devin Allen, Thelma Golden, Kehinde Wiley

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Meghan Horstmann, Danielle Snyder, Timo Weiland, Dee Dee Sides, Lara Glaister, Mariah Strongin

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Performance

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Performance

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Kathryn Chenault, Kenneth Chenault

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Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr., Kathryn Chenault, Kenneth Chenault

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Valerie Jarrett

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Radcliffe Bailey, Leslie Parks, Robin Hickman, Peter Kunhardt Jr., Mavis Staples, Congressman John Lewis, Alexander Soros

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2017 Gordon Parks Scholarship Recipients

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Vikki Tobak, Kathleen Cleaver, Alina Willis, Stacy Stickels

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Valerie Jarrett, Eric Schneiderman, Barbara Bowman, Ronald Perelman, Peter Kunhardt Jr.

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The Gordon Parks Foundation 11th Anniversary Awards Dinner and Auction was held on Tuesday, June 6th at Cipriani 42nd Street. We honored Jon Batiste, The Honorable John Lewis, Alexander Soros, and Mavis Staples. The Patron of the Arts Award went to Kathryn and Kenneth Chenault. Musical Performance by Common. The evening was co-chaired by Leonard Lauder and Judy Glickman Lauder, Alicia Keys and Kasseem Dean, Karl Lagerfeld, Usher IV and Grace Raymond, and Janelle Monáe.