{"id":140103,"date":"2026-02-20T16:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T16:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/140103\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T16:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T16:14:08","slug":"photos-bronx-bp-gibson-hosts-black-history-month-luncheon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/140103\/","title":{"rendered":"PHOTOS: Bronx BP Gibson hosts Black History Month luncheon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bronx\u00a0Borough\u00a0President\u00a0Vanessa L. Gibson\u00a0hosted her annual Black History Month celebration at Eastwood Manor, commemorating the 100th anniversary of Black History Month in the United States under the theme, \u201c100 Years of Black Excellence: Standing in Legacy and Longevity.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The program featured live musical performances, community reflections,\u00a0and a keynote address from Public Advocate Jumaane Williams. PIX 11 News Reporter James Ford served as the Master of Ceremonies for the evening.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s honorees included Dwayne Johnson of Johnson\u2019s BBQ; Lorraine Rohlsen-Alexander of Tennis Lady Co-op City; Jacqueline Bergland, Choir Director at Celia Criz High School; Dr. Charles J. Gibbs, President of Metropolitan College of NY; Youth Honoree and Cardinal Hayes High School Student Kiwana Yates and Dr. Johnnie Goff, Founder and President of JADE Multi Family Circle Center, receiving the Aurelia Greene award.<\/p>\n<p>Photos courtesy of the Office of the Bronx Borough President<\/p>\n<p>Like this:<\/p>\n<p>Like Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"sd-link-color\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bronx\u00a0Borough\u00a0President\u00a0Vanessa L. Gibson\u00a0hosted her annual Black History Month celebration at Eastwood Manor, commemorating the 100th anniversary of Black&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140104,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[51427,98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-140103","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-bhm-100","9":"tag-brooklyn","10":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","11":"tag-brooklyn-news","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-nyc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}