Reverend Curry "Outstanding Citizen Award" Winner
Wednesday, March 5, 2014
(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)verend Kendrick
Curry (right), pastor
of the Pennsylvania
Avenue Baptist Church, is this year’s Wilhelmina J. Rolark Outstanding
Citizen
Award winner, which will be awarded at the 37th annual Evening with Labor on March 15. Tickets still available;
email kmckirchy@dclaborarchives.org.
A member of Faith Strategies, which supports labor and community causes, Rev.
Curry has been a supporter of workers for the long haul. He helped lead the
fight for the Large Retailer Accountability Act and then, following the mayor's
veto and the DC City Council's failure to override it, he helped champion
minimum wage and paid sick days legislation and played a key role in supporting
Giant and Safeway workers through tough contract negotiations, which included a strike
authorization
vote. He’s also served on the Nationals stadium PLA task force.