{"id":53142,"date":"2017-11-19T20:40:03","date_gmt":"2017-11-20T01:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=53142"},"modified":"2017-11-19T20:42:02","modified_gmt":"2017-11-20T01:42:02","slug":"2017-african-american-business-leaders-council-annual-award-gala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=53142","title":{"rendered":"2017 African American Business Leaders Council Annual Award Gala"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/john.delgrosso.photography\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Photos by: John DelGrosso<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"su_carousel_69f39ec8d44bb\" class=\"su-carousel su-carousel-centered su-carousel-pages-yes su-carousel-responsive-yes su-lightbox-gallery\" style=\"width:100%\" data-autoplay=\"3000\" data-speed=\"600\" data-mousewheel=\"true\" data-items=\"2\" data-scroll=\"1\"><div class=\"su-carousel-slides\"><div class=\"su-carousel-slide\"><a 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src=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/19-1-of-1-182x200.jpg\" alt=\"19 (1 of 1)\" \/><\/a><\/div><div class=\"su-carousel-slide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/20-1-of-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-13\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/20-1-of-1-182x200.jpg\" alt=\"20 (1 of 1)\" \/><\/a><\/div><div class=\"su-carousel-slide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/22-1-of-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-14\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/22-1-of-1-182x200.jpg\" alt=\"22 (1 of 1)\" \/><\/a><\/div><div class=\"su-carousel-slide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_7222a.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-15\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_7222a-182x200.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_7222a\" \/><\/a><\/div><div class=\"su-carousel-slide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_7233a.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-16\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_7233a-182x200.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_7233a\" \/><\/a><\/div><\/div><div class=\"su-carousel-nav\"><div class=\"su-carousel-direction\"><span class=\"su-carousel-prev\"><\/span><span class=\"su-carousel-next\"><\/span><\/div><div class=\"su-carousel-pagination\"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<p>The African American Business Leaders Council gala is celebrated its annual formal dinner, and award ceremony on Saturday November 18th, 2017 at the Lehigh Country Club.<\/p>\n<p>The AABLC Annual Awards Gala was an amazing evening filled with opportunities to recognize African American community leaders, raise money to support education and get charged up by a motivational presentation by <strong>Joetta Clark Diggs<\/strong> the four-time Olympian, Motivational Extraordinaire, Author, and Businesswoman. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.joettasportsandbeyond.com\/\">http:\/\/www.joettasportsandbeyond.com\/<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>2017 African American Business Leader of the Year<\/strong> Recipient was <strong>Tyrone Russell<\/strong>. The African American Business Leader of the Year Award is presented to an individual who is a community icon, has made significant contributions to the community, and has distinguished himself in the business world.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>About The African American Business Leaders Council<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The mission of the African American Business Leaders Council is to\u00a0support economic empowerment and increased participation of the African American community in business in the Lehigh Valley.<\/p>\n<p>The Vision of the African American Business Leaders Council is a\u00a0Lehigh Valley community in which the quality of life is enriched by diversity, inclusion and engagement.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lehighvalleychamber.org\/african-american-business-leaders-council.html\">http:\/\/www.lehighvalleychamber.org\/african-american-business-leaders-council.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class='adkingprobanner sidebar banner3023'><a href='http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/' target=\"_blank\" data-id='3023' data-ga='{\"campaign\":\"\",\"banner\":\"\",\"implemented\":\"universal\",\"imp_action\":\"Impression\",\"click_action\":\"Click\"}'><img src='https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/inpostblank.jpg' alt='' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class='adkingprobanner sidebar banner7036'><a href='http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com' target=\"_blank\" data-id='7036' data-ga='{\"campaign\":\"\",\"banner\":\"\",\"implemented\":\"universal\",\"imp_action\":\"Impression\",\"click_action\":\"Click\"}'><img src='https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/inpostblank.jpg' alt='' \/><\/a><\/div>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?post_type=adverts_posts&p=7036\" class=\"read-more\">Click here to read more... <\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53160,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Joetta-Clark-Diggs.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53142"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/53160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}