The 20th annual UFT African Heritage Committee’s awards dinner on Feb. 2 at Antun’s of Queens Village was bigger than ever, befitting its landmark anniversary. The event, which started in 2004 with 50 attendees, brought together 200 people this year. The theme was the Harlem Renaissance. “We’ve always done an African-American empowerment theme, and this year we wanted to dress up and have a good time,” said Wendy Walker-Wilson, the committee chair. Elaine Haynesworth Neville, the chapter leader at PS 279 in Brooklyn, received the committee’s Mary McLeod Bethune Award. “Mary McLeod Bethune has been an idol of mine since I was a young girl,” she said. The Trailblazer Award went to UFT Political Director Vanecia Wilson, and the Frederick Douglass Award for Civil and Human Rights was bestowed upon Assemblyman Khaleel Anderson. The committee presented two high school seniors with scholarships and laptops.