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Black Girl Magic Filled Arena Stage As Cafe Mocha Radio Kicked Off Its 9th Annual Salute Her Awards
Café Mocha Radio hosts Loni Love, also of The Real, and female rap legend YoYo kicked off Café Mocha Radio’s 9th Annual Salute Her Awards.
Washington, D.C. – Café Mocha Radio hosts Loni Love, also of The Real, and female rap legend YoYo kicked off Café Mocha Radio’s 9th Annual Salute Her Awards, at Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater in D.C.
9th Annual Salute Her Awards
Guided by this year’s theme “Step Into Your Power,” the first stop of the five-city Salute Her Awards Tour presented by Toyota, Sisters from AARP, LusterPINK and American Airlines.

Yoyo and Loni Love at the Salute Her Awards
Honorees
The Washington Informer publisher Denise Rolark Barnes
FOX 5 Morning personality and WHUR afternoon host Allison Seymour
Third-generation sister owners Stacie Lee Banks and Kristie Lee of their family’s Lee’s Flower & Card Shop
Madelynn’s Bake Sale CEO Madelynn Martin, tween founder/CEO of Madelynn’s Bake Sale, and her mother Tosha Terry
Community activist and MSNBC contributor Karine Jean-Pierre
Retired Marines decorated Gunnery Sergeant Tee Marie Hanible
Former Congressional Black Caucus Executive Director Dr. Barbara Williams-Skinner
Washington Post first black woman reporter Dorothy Butler Gilliam
Café Mocha launched its annual Salute Her Awards events in 2011, with a mission to recognize dynamic women who have made contributions in their communities and breaking down barriers.
For more information, visit their website.
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