Our Annual Humanitarian Award
The Living Legends Award For Service to Humanity
Every year since 2006, The Living Legends Awards for Service to Humanity has bestowed it's premier honor upon humanitarians whose life work are quietly laying the foundation for a brighter and happier tomorrow for mankind.
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Our Honorees
For over a decade The Living Legends Awards for Service to Humanity has brought awareness to a broad spectrum of social justice and humanitarian issues. We have been privileged to honor such luminaries as Nobel Laureate Leymah Gbowee, mission organization Global Vessels, Congressman John Lewis, US Senate Chaplain Barry Black, the Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project, and Dr. Johnetta Betsch Cole.
2023
Liberty & Justice For All
Maxine Waters
Activist, Civil Rights
Justin Hansford
Activist, Racial Justice
George Fatheree III
Activist, Social Justice
Edward Woods III
Activist, Democracy and Religious Liberty
2022
On the Front Lines
Jaquenette Prillman, RN
Covid-19 Nurse
Erin O’Shea, PHD
President, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Barbara Arnwine, ESQ
Attorney/Activist
2021
More Than A Meal
Minnie McNeil
Craig Rice
Montgomery County Councilman
Nate Mook
World Central Kitchen
2020
Survivor
Aalayah Eastmond
Activist
Joyce Woods
Therapist
Medspire Health
Community Medical Center
2019
Kolade Alabi
Chemist
Eton Codling
Argonomist
Juan Felipe Herrera
Poet Laureate
Deneen Brown
Journalist
Ronald Brise’
Goverment Consultant
One Nation
2018
Fight Like A Girl
Ella Smith Simmons
VP of General Conference of SDA
Kristy Childs
Commercial Sexual Exploitation Activist
Johnnetta Betsch Cole
Activist/Anthropologist Women's Studies
2017
Out From the Shadows
Leroy and Lois Peters
Kay Redfield Jamison
Richard Smallwood
2016
Born to Serve: A Life of usefulness
Calvin B. Rock
Van Brooks
Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project
2015
The Light of Change
Baldemar Velasquez
Fr. Michael Lapsley
Clementina Chery
2014
Education: Where Shall I Fly?
Wintley Phipps
Estella Pyfrom
Jennifer Bado-Aleman
Jane Elliot
Rickita Perry
2013
Women of Movement
Sunitha Krishnan
Sister Helen Prejean
Juanita Abernathy
2012
Am I My Brother's Keeper?
Barry Black
Bob Zellner
Dennis Banks
2011
Footprints On the World
John Lewis
Frazier & Virginia Mathis
Ella Jenkins
2010
Speaking Truth to Power
Leymah Gbowee
Leon Bates
Charles D. Brooks
2009
Turning The Page
Carlotta LaNier
Constance Curry
Samuel Deshay
2008
One moment In Time
Emory Tolbert
Simmie Knox
Tommie Smith
2007
How We Got Over
Juan Williams
Meade VanPutten
Lena McLin
2006
Women in Service
Curla S. Walters
Charlotte Holloman
