Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure comes to the Middle East.

Egyptian Ambassador Sameh Shoukry and Ambassador Nancy Brinker stand before a work from her extensive collection of Hungarian Art. (Photo by Joseph Allen)

Nancy Brinker’s last promise to her sister, who lost her battle with breast cancer in 1980, was that she would continue to fight against the potentially life-threatening disease. Two years later, Brinker founded Susan G. Komen for the Cure, which has raised over $1 billion in 27 years and has become the largest source of nonprofit funds devoted to the fight against breast cancer in the world.

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Chanel Iman and Egyptian Ambassador Sameh Shoukry

Location: Smithsonian National Museum of African Art

WL SPONSORED – Photos by Kyle Samperton

AFRICA LIVE(S): The National Museum of African Art celebrated its 30th anniversary with a first ever black-tie fund-raising gala with traditional dancers entertaining the super models, entertainers, arts patrons, politicos, and other guests.  Director Johnnetta B. Cole spoke eloquently of the museum’s mission to the crowd seated at tables covered in tropical flowers amid orange silk-covered walls. Grammy winning singer Angelique Kidjo got everyone on their feet and encouraged guests to share the mic with her, while actor Jeffrey Wright spoke about tracing his family’s genealogical roots. CELEBRANTS: Baroness Valerie Amos, the former leader of the British House of Lords,  Deputy Secretary of State for Africa Johnnie Carson, civil rights leader Dorothy Height, Egyptian Ambassador Sameh Shoukry, Gwendolyn Mikell, James D. Staton, and Howard Dodson.

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