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San Bernardino Black Culture Foundation

San Bernardino Black Culture Foundation, your community foundation bridging the gap between cultures and Generations. Come join us to make San Bernardino an all American city again.

The Black Culture Annual Black Rose Awards event celebrates outstanding individuals as well as corporations in our communities.

We are excited to have Platinum Sponsors such as SoCal Gas Company, San Bernardino Community Hospital, and Cal State CSUSB.

With the partnership of our sponsors and the community the 2023 Black Rose Awards event will be a success.

The Black Culture Foundation, Inc., will like to present the 2023 Black Rose recipients:

Dr. Juanita H. Scott Black Rose Humanitarian of the Year

Rose Mayes, Executive Director Fair Housing Council of Riverside County

Black Rose Winners

Gloria Macias Harrison – San Bernardino Community College District Board of Trustees, Emeritus President Crafton Hills College, and Founder of El Chicano

Deborah Robertson – Mayor of Rialto, Founder of the Women’s Conference

Linda Wright, President/CEO of nonprofit Organization and Chamber of Commerce

Black Rose Corporate (Founder’s) Award

San Bernadino Community Hospital Administration and Staff

Dr. Margaret Hill Black Rose Youth Inspiration Awards

Female Student – TBD Male Student – TBD

The Annual Black Rose, Humanitarian, and Community Service Banquet recognizes communities unsung heroes rather that be an individual or an organization that have gone above and beyond normal community volunteer and civil services.

THE 2019 HONOREES ARE:

Humanitarian of the Year: Lucretia Dowdy

Commitment to Community Service – Sean Hardge

Jim King Community Award (2019) – David Okowko

Jim King Community Award (2014) – Women United

Black Rose – Keishia Handy

Black Rose – Rob Mason

Black Rose – Pastor Gerald Thompson

Black Rose – Angel Castro

San Bernardino Black Culture Foundation is honoring several unsung heroes for their volunteer efforts. The individuals below did not seek recognition; friends, co-workers, family

members or neighbors recommended them. A formal recognition will take place at theNational Orange Show Events Center, 689 South E Street San Bernardino, CA 92408 on Friday, September 13, 2019.

2019 Black Rose Event Tickets

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2019 Black Rose SOUVENIR BOOK & ADVERTISING SUBMISSION FORM

Jim King, a member of the San Bernardino Black Culture Foundation, Inc., twenty-eight years ago brought forth to the San Bernardino Black Culture Foundation the idea to host an annual event to recognize our unsung heroes. Unanimously, the San Bernardino Black Culture Foundation embraced the project…And has been recognizing unsung heroes since.

San Bernardino Black Culture Foundation is honoring several unsung heroes for their volunteer efforts. The individuals below did not seek recognition; friends, co-workers, family

members or neighbors recommended them. A formal recognition will take place at the San Bernardino Doubletree Hotel on Hospitality Lane on Friday, September 14, 2018. These unsung heroes are:

Humanitarian of the Year – Chehab & Bricia Elawar

Community Service – Rev. Reginald Woods

Black Rose – Richard Goldson

Black Rose – Jonathan Buffong

Black Rose – Ezekiel Adeleke

San Bernardino Black Culture Foundation will like to congratulate 2018 Humanitarian, Community Service and Black Rose Awards recipients.

2018 Senior King and Queen

San Bernardino Black Culture Foundation welcome 2018 Senior King and Queen Celestine & Don Griggs. Scholarship Awards recipients Jalen Stevenson and Jaylan Neal with R Corey Davis and former Senior Kings & Queens attending the Reception.

Scholarship Awards recipients

Jalen Stevenson, 17 , student, Cajon H S, 4.85 GPA in the Complete Honors/International Baccalaureate Program. Mr Stevenson intends to enroll at UCLA, to continue his progress toward graduate degree(s) in Clinical Psychology.

Jaylan Neal, 17, student, Cajon H S, 4.3 GPA, in the International Baccalaureate Program. Ms Neal intends to enroll at U C Riverside, in the Biomedical Sciences Program , enroute to complete medical school, as a Pediatrician.

Rosalind Belser – SBHS – 4.26 GPA Jayla Griffin – Cajon High School – 3.92 GPA

San Bernardino Black Culture Foundation new President

Arlington Rodgers Jr.

Your donations makes a difference in supporting our community youth education.

2016 Scholarship Awards Winners

Abraham Asari, Jasmine Alexander, Alexander Mattison, and Raelicio Morris

Miss Black San Bernardino 2015

Desiree McKenzie

Miss Black San Bernardino Scholarship Pageant

2020 Senior King and Queen

2019 Senior King and Queen

2019 Black Rose Event Tickets