
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
One Nation

Kolade Alabi
Chemist

Eton Codling
Argonomist

Juan Felipe Herrera
Poet Laureate

Deneen Brown
Journalist

Ronald Brise’
Goverment Consultant
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
