A Salute to Blacks on Broadway honoring Broadway's The Color Purple stars Cynthia Erivo, Jennifer Hudson, Danielle Brooks— with Norm Lewis and other stellar dinner guests, Sardi's, NY, December 3, 2015. Photography by Lisa Pacino.

A Salute to Blacks on Broadway presented by Amsterdam News Educational Foundation at Sardi's, New York, December 3, 2015. Honorees included Broadway's The Color Purple stars Cynthia Erivo, Jennifer Hudson, and Danielle Brooks; Norm Lewis; Irene Gandy; and Stephen Byrd; with stellar dinner guests including Kathleen Battle, Deborah Cox, Akosua Busia, Zainab Jah, Ray Chew, Leon Robinson, Tonya Pinkins, Debra L. Lee the CEO of BET, Vinie Burrows, Voza Rivers, Marva Hicks, George Faison, Tad Schnugg, restauranteur Alexander Smalls, Alia Jones-Harvey, artist Mira Gandy, Gwendolyn Quinn, Barbara Kendrew and her guest Cranston, and many more. The evening was hosted by Elinor Tatum, the Editor in Chief of the New York Amsterdam News, and included a cocktail hour, dinner, awards presentation, the Broadway show The Color Purple, with a post-theatre Champagne Dessert with a DJ and dancing. Photography by Celebrity Photojournalist Lisa Pacino of Under The Duvet Productions, NY.

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