Nathan Conyers
- Jr.
- Essence Communications Inc.
- Desirée Rogers
- Clarence Smith
- Essence Music Festival
- Earl G. Graves
- Nathan Conyers
- John Conyers
- Sr.
- H.J. Russell & Co.
- Conyers Riverside Ford
- Susan Taylor
- Pepsi-Cola of Washington
- Ebony
- Herman Russell
- D.C.
- Jet
- Fashion Fair Cosmetics
- Linda Johnson Rice
- wealth for life
- Johnson Publishing Co.
- Essence magazine
- John H. Johnson
- Michael Russell
- A.G. Gaston Lifetime Achievement Award
- Edward Lewis
by Derek T. Dingle
