The Brotherhood Crusade Pioneer Awards Ceremony 2011 Honors Attorney General Kamala Harris ~

Attorney General Kamala Harris
You want to talk about an outstanding  Pioneer? On January 3, 2011, Kamala D. Harris was sworn in as the 32nd Attorney General.
Last evening, the Brotherhood Crusade honored Attorney General Kamala Harris at the Brotherhood Crusade
Annual Award Ceremony at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, in Beverly Hills, CA.
The Brotherhood Crusade (originally known as the Black Congress), founded in 1968, by the late Walter Bremond, and institutionalized by Danny Bakewell Sr., and we must add Berry Gordy, who's been there from the beginning - hats off to you gentlemen!

Founded in South Los Angeles, with the seed money ($15,000.00) that was gathered, the facts are the
 Brotherhood Crusade has mainly been
"Focusing on building and sustaining an institution that raises funds and resources from in the community and distributes the funds directly back into the community."

For the past 42 years the 5O1c(3) organization has had made a tremendous impact on thousands of youths who have be involved in the various programs, such as Soccer Program For Youth (free for ages 6-18, uniforms, equipment and healthy snacks provided) and G.R.Y.D. Program (Gang Reduction & Youth Development) at no cost. Keep in mind this is for the community, and they rely on contributions for those who wish to start doing something to make a difference, okay? Now, back to what I was saying...

Mr. Bremond, and Danny Bakewell, secured every stepping stone, every building block and took pride in the organization and through their resources made the foundation expand and grow. Charisse Bremond-Weaver is now at the helms of the organization and running it beautifully. She has a team that backs her 100% and though they all have different titles and duties, they all work together as a conscious team to make this world a better place, starting with their community, and that is truly a beautiful thing!

Charisse Bremond-Weaver - President

Re-cap of the evening:
Reverend Carolyn Tyler Guidry opened up the evening with a beautiful heartfelt, thoughtful prayer. Then the two MCs - Chris Shauble of KTLAs Co- Anchor of the Morning News, along with Pat Prescott of 94.7 the Wave, kept us all thourally engaged the entire evening!  Danny Bakewell so eloquently saluted those who dedicated worked tirelessly to enhance the quality of life for African Americans, mentioning Berry Gordy and his better half  - who looks fit and fabulous -
 Mr. George Beubian(Posthumous), Ms. Bertha Bremond, Mr. Cliff McClain, Mr. R.J. "Dave" Davidson, Mr. Karl Key Hemima, Dr. George McKenna, III,  Bishop H. Hartford Brookins, Ms. Lillian Mobley(Posthumous)What a lovely surprise to see Wendy Raquel  Robinson's Amazing Grace Conservatory danced through the aisles, and took the stage - they ROCKED IT!
Those Young, Gifted and Black children could sing and dance!

Will Downing got up on that stage and had women and men standing up and rocking to his mellifluous voice! Will Downing sang "I Go Crazy",  Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On?", Angela Bofill's " I Try". Pick up Will's cds "After Tonight" and "God is Amazing" - you will be glad you did!
Ginger Campbell of Snap Productions, you've done it again! You are an amazing woman and Snap Productions did the darn thing! Pamela Johnson - great job!

There is more to come regarding this fabulous event!...Smooches, Carla