Usher, Janelle Monae, Swizz Beatz Attend Gordon Parks Foundation Awards Dinner [Photos]

Liya Kebede, Swizz Beatz, Janelle Monae

This week, the 2015 Gordon Parks Foundation Awards Dinner And Auction held at Cipriani Wall Street in NYC. The purpose of the event was to honor artists, musicians, filmmakers, designers, and patrons of the arts to help fundraise for The Gordon Parks Foundation scholarships and programming.

Usher

Celebrity guests included Usher Raymond (who was honored), Swizz Beatz (who is a co-chair), Robert De Niro and his wife Grace Hightower, Janelle Monae, model Liya Kebede, Hill Harper, Soledad O’Brian and others.

Hill Harper

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