Music

• 2021 Honoree

Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton

• 2018 Honoree

Willie Ruff

• 2018 Honoree

Erskine Hawkins

• 2018 Honoree

Wilson Pickett

• 2017 Honoree

Cleveland Eaton II

• 2017 Honoree

Arthur Alexander

• 2016 Honoree

Martha Reeves

• 2016 Honoree

Dr. Frank Eaton Adams, Sr.

• 2015 Honoree

Percy Sledge

• 2014 Honoree

Dinah Washington

• 2014 Honoree

Henry Panion, III

• 2013 Honoree

Nat King Cole