Anthony Harmon, the UFT’s director of parent and community outreach and chair of the UFT African Heritage Committee, with U.S. Congressman Charles Rangel and UFT Vice President for Elementary Schools Karen Alford.

The UFT’s own Anne Goldman (front, center) took home this year’s Trailblazer Award for her work as the union’s first-ever vice president for non-DOE members.

Marquis Harrison, a teacher at Frederick Douglass Academy in Manhattan and a part-time UFT staffer in the union’s political action department, accepts the committee’s Mary McLeod Bethune Award.

Newly elected Queens City Councilman I. Daneek Miller (front, center), the winner of this year’s Frederick Douglass Award, with UFT leaders. A past president of Amalgamated Transportation Union Local 1056, Miller was given the award for his work as a labor and community activist.

UFT District 28 Representative Angela Artis (left) and UFT Brooklyn Special Representative Martha Lane (right), the night’s co-MCs, present Williamsburg Prep student Nia Grinage with the $1,000 Armando Blasse Scholarship Award.

Frederick Douglass Academy student Caryl English (right) receives the $1,000 Helen Doughty Scholarship Award from UFT Special Representative Zina Burton-Myrick.

Harrison (center left) and English (center right), both from Frederick Douglass Academy, show off their awards with UFT Staff Director LeRoy Barr (far right), District 5 Representative Dwayne Clark (back), Frederick Douglass Academy principal Joseph Gates (second from right) and Burton-Myrick (far left).

Members of the Frederick Douglass Academy school community celebrate with Harrison and English.

UFT staff and supporters, including SEIU 32BJ Vice President Kyle Bragg (far right), hold up awards given to them for their “Oscar-worthy” support of the committee’s dinner dance throughout its 11 years.

The night’s awardees (seated) pose with their awards and with UFT and community leaders, including the NAACP’s Hazel Dukes (standing, third from left).

Chapter leaders and staff from the Federation of Nurses/UFT celebrate with Goldman (back, third from left), who is the head of the federation as well as a UFT vice president. Her son (back, second from right), Jason Goldman, is the union’s deputy director for political action.

Miller (seated, left), Harmon (standing, second from right) and Dukes (seated, second from right) with NAACP and other community leaders.