An Evening With The HistoryMakers: Tenth Anniversary Gala is an hour-long, live-to-tape program that celebrates The HistoryMakers’ first decade of groundbreaking work. The evening, themed "COMMIT: Telling America’s Stories…Celebrating Our Future." In attendance were over 150 HistoryMakers from across the country including The Honorable Eric Holder; 98-year-old civil rights pioneer Amelia Boynton Robinson; Little Rock Nine members Ernie Green and Carlotta Walls LaNier; founder of the Trumpet Awards Xernona Clayton; and “The Jazz Lady” Geraldine de Haas. This historic program, co-produced by The HistoryMakers Executive Director, Julieanna Richardson and Tony Award-winning producer and choreographer, George Faison, features performances by Dionne Warwick, Nikki Giovanni and Melba Moore as well as appearances by Denyce Graves, Reverend Al Sharpton, Gwen Ifill, Cathy Hughes, Roland Martin, and Susan Taylor.

Taped on November 20, 2010 at The Art Institute of Chicago’s Rubloff Auditorium, An Evening With The HistoryMakers documents the story of the archive from beginning to present-day. With the use of performances, speeches and archival video and photos, An Evening With The HistoryMakers recounts the organization’s history as only it knows how. Featured celebrities of past An Evening With… programs like Nikki Giovanni, Denyce Graves, Cathy Hughes, Gwen Ifill and Dionne Warwick share their experiences with The HistoryMakers while supporters Roland Martin, Melba Moore, Reverend Al Sharpton, Kephra Burns and Susan Taylor talk about the importance of the archive.

This program was produced by The HistoryMakers, a 501(c)(3) Illinois, not-for-profit corporation. The HistoryMakers, the nation’s largest African American video oral history archive, is committed to the development of a unique online archive of 5,000 first-person narratives of African Americans, both well-known and unsung. When completed, the archive will represent the largest one of its kind in the world.

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