8th Annual Whitney M. Young Jr. Community Empowerment Awards Luncheon

• Urban League of Philadelphia

The Urban League of Philadelphia salutes community leaders who have provided their time, talent and resources to advancing the organization's mission of empowering African Americans to secure economic self-reliance, parity, power and civil rights.

The Whitney M. Young Jr. Community Empowerment Awards Luncheon was named after the fourth Executive Director of the National Urban League who, in 1961 brought the Urban League into the Civil Rights arena, thereby meshing the tenets of Civil Rights activism with the practices of social work.