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FLORIDA SENTINEL
75 YEARS SERVING TAMPA FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 2020
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TOBA’s 40th Leadership Breakfast In Honor Of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Tampa Organization of Black Affairs (TOBA) celebrated 40 years of honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Even before the holiday became a National hol- iday, the organization honored the late civil rights icon. The 2020 event was held on January 20, 2020 at the downtown Hilton Hotel. (Photographs by Tonya Lewis and David Burgess, with assistance from Kari Knowles, TOBA Media Relations)
TOBA Board members with elected officials: seated, Hon. Orlando Gudes, Council Member, City of Tampa; Hon. Jane Castor, Mayor of the City of Tampa; Hon. Dianne Hart, House of Representative, State of Florida; Dr. Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., Keynote Speaker; Hon. Kathy Castor, Representative of the U. S. Congress; Hon. Les Miller, Chair of the Hillsborough County Board of County Commissioners; Hon. Tamara Shamburger, Board Member of Hillsbor- ough County Public Schools. Standing, Dr. Glenn Cherry, TOBA Board Member; Hon. Darryl Rouson, Senator of the State of Florida; Gary Hartfield, TOBA Board Member; Attorney Clinton Paris, TOBA Board Member; Maya Brown, 2020 TOBA Breakfast Co-Chair; Remus Bulmer, 2020 TOBA Breakfast Co-Chair; Dr. Larry Shannon, TOBA Board Member; Hon. Janet Cruz, Senator of the State of Florida; Hon. Judge Perry Little; James Ransom, TOBA Board Member.
TOBA’s Breakfast speaker, Dr. Eddie Glaude, Jr., with former State Senator Arthenia Joyner.
Henry “Shake” Washington and Carolyn Collins at the breakfast.
Tampa’s former Chief of Police Eric Ward, with Fred Hearns, Ike Tribble Award recipient.
Bob Henriquez, Property Appraiser, guest speaker, Dr. Eddie Glaude, Jr. and Atty. Sean Shaw, all of whom are Princenton Univ. graduates, reconnected at the breakfast.
From left, Yolanda Amos, Arthenia Joyner, Tonya Lewis and Donna Douglas.
William Gholston Youth Academic Athlete Scholarship present TOBA a check in the amount of $10,000 for scholarships. The scholarships were presented to students at Blake: Delani Sutherland and Ricardo Fryson; and Middleton: Lauren Matthews and Xavier Taylor.
Scholarship Award recip- ient, Lauren Matthews of Middleton High School.
Ricardo Fayson of Howard W. Blake High School, Scholarship recipi- ent.
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