Smokey Robinson, Ken Sunshine Set for Lifetime Achievement Awards

Neglect Halloween, Rev. Al Sharpton has different plans this night.

The founder and president of the Nationwide Motion Community is internet hosting a starry seventieth party tonight in Century Metropolis, however relatively than have the main target be on his milestone birthday, Sharpton and his workforce have zeroed in on honorees (Smokey Robinson and Ken Sunshine) and a trigger (urging extra individuals to get out and vote in Tuesday’s election).

Held on the Fairmont Century Plaza, the occasion will see lifetime achievement awards doled out to Robinson, a music legend who was the founder and frontman of the pioneering Motown vocal group the Miracles, and Sunshine, a veteran public relations government, strategist and political activist. Sunshine, who had a stint in politics early in his profession, based Ken Sunshine Consultants earlier than teaming with Shawn Sachs to launch the agency Sunshine Sachs, now referred to as Sunshine Sachs Morgan & Lylis.

Each shall be in attendance together with a roster of boldfaced names like Magic and Cookie Johnson, Robert F. Smith, Anthony Anderson, Cedric the Entertainer, Fabian Núñez, Antonio Villaraigosa, Sylvia Rhone and others. The fundraiser will serve to help NAN’s non-partisan Get Out the Vote marketing campaign, which seeks to activate the org’s greater than 100 chapters on the significance of exhibiting up for the elections.

“I’m honored to affix a bunch of private associates, who’ve lengthy supported NAN, as we mark my seventieth birthday this month,” Sharpton mentioned. “After a robust exhibiting on the Triumph Awards in New York Metropolis final week, I do know this occasion will assist future NAN’s work to tell Black voters throughout the nation what’s in danger after they keep residence and what’s potential after they prove on the polls. I particularly wish to thank Magic Johnson and Robert F. Smith for placing this occasion collectively, as they’ve labored with us for many years on increasing enterprise alternatives for Black and brown People.”

As Sharpton talked about, the L.A. occasion follows an identical bash on the East Coast the place Gladys Knight, Robert De Niro, Wynton Marsalis and Carolyn “Cookie” Mason had been honored. In New York, Sharpton, whose precise birthday fell on Oct. 3, additionally mentioned the impression of the Triumph Awards from the rostrum.