National Congress of Black Women Bestows Five with 'Truth Award'

(TriceEdneyWire.com) - Six Black professionals were honored by the National Congress of Black Women during its Annual Brunch following the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s Annual Legislative Conference on Sunday, Sept. 23. Dr. E. Faye Williams, national chair of the organization, presented the recipients of the 2012 Truth Awards and the Good Brother Award before a packed audience of nearly 800.

Named for abolitionist and rights activist Sojourner Truth, the Truth Awards are given each year to women who display remarkable leadership in their fields. A Good Brother award is also given.

Pictured, Left to Right are: Good Brother award recipient Dr. John Hope Bryant, founder of Operation Hope, America’s first non-profit social investment banking organization; NCBW Chair Dr. Williams; and Truth Award recipients:  Veteran Black Press journalist Hazel Trice Edney, president/CEO of Trice Edney Communications and News Wire, the first Black woman owner of a national news wire; Award-winning Secret Service veteran Paula A. Reid, Special Agent in Charge of the Miami Field Office of the Secret Service; nationally-renowned psychiatrist and race-theorist Dr. Francis Cress Welsing, author of the Cress Theory on Color Confrontation and Racism; Retired Air Force Pilot Monica Smith, accepting the posthumous award for Mildred Hemmons Carter, Alabama’s first Black female pilot and the first civilian hired for the Tuskegee air project; and integrative family physician Sakilibi Mines, MD, a prolific health educator and medical director at the Institute of Multidimensional Medicine and Medical Spa.