John Legend, Chance the Rapper, and Lonnie Ali, Widow of Muhammad Ali, Were Honored at the Annual Gordon Parks Gala

Gordon Parks, the photographer, filmmaker, author, and civil rights activist, was one of the 20th century’s most consequential artists and narrators of the American experience, specifically regarding race and poverty. He established the foundation with his friend and collaborator at Life magazine, longtime editor Philip B. Kunhardt Jr. And in 2007, a year after Parks’s death at age 93, the foundation held its first gala, a relatively modest affair, in Midtown. Since 2017, awards and…