Prestigious Honorees Highlighted During Annual Ceremony Celebrating Life and Promoting Awareness
February 28, 2023, Atlanta, GA – As Black Hollywood attended the NAACP Image Awards this weekend in LA, Atlanta’s Black Hollywood elite convened at The 2023 Pink Awards presented with record-breaking attendance on Saturday, February 25, 2023, at Southwest Atlanta’s Riverside EpiCenter. This year’s awards were co-hosted by “Martin” alum and celebrated actor Carl Anthony Payne II and 3x NAACP Image Award Winner and “NY Undercover Actor” Malik Yoba performed a rousing rendition of ‘Stand Up For Love,’ which brought the crowd to its feet, filled with joyful tears of both celebration and support. The immaculate ceremony paid homage to honorees, including Grammy Award-winning producer, songwriter, and recipient of this year’s Vanguard Award, Jermaine Dupri, Dallas Austin, Elisabeth Omilami, Pastor Jamal Bryant, and Ricki Fairley for their valued work and accomplishments in the community.
Several celebrities, influencers, and wellness advocates came together to celebrate the evening, including Porsha Williams-Guobadia, Trina Braxton, Orlando Jones, Chanel Nicole Scott, Lisa Wu, Alexis Skyy, Super producer Jazze Pha and Rapper and Radio Show Host Da Brat, attending her first Atlanta event since publicly announcing her pregnancy with wife Jesseca Dupart. Several additional celebrities, influencers, and wellness advocates came together to celebrate life, strength, and survival.
The Touch Black Breast Cancer Alliance officially partnered with the 2023 Pink Awards to continue driving the collaborative efforts of patients, survivors, advocates, advocacy organizations, healthcare professionals, researchers, and pharmaceutical companies to work collectively, with accountability, towards the common goal of eradicating Black Breast Cancer.
“I started hosting pink events while I was still in treatment to educate everyone about early African American detection and effective cancer prevention practices. I also wanted to encourage cancer warriors to keep their faith while fighting the greatest battle of their lives. I am truly blessed to have my community supporting me in this endeavor and being a part of the next level of The Pink Awards.” – April Love, Founder and Executive Producer of The Pink Awards.
The underlying goal of the Pink Awards was to bring breast cancer awareness to the forefront and provide counseling and support to breast cancer patients and survivors, and the 2023 Pink Awards did just that.
About April Love
April Love is an incomparable visionary who embodies vision and grace in all her endeavors. As the Founder and CEO of Ask April Love and the Vanguard Creative Group, she continues to eliminate barriers and raise the bar of progression for women in business. Her overwhelmingly successful career in the television and music industries spans over two decades and inspires the next generation of female leaders. As a 12-year breast cancer survivor herself, Love champions such causes as breast cancer prevention, female empowerment, and entrepreneurship and celebrates the amalgam of positivity at her annual “Pink in December” celebration of life and love.
