Anjanette Young Receives Ida’s Legacy Award for Her Selfless Courage
Anjanette Young Receives Ida’s Legacy Award for Her Selfless Courage (Chicago, IL) — The definition of courage is the mental or moral strength to venture, persevere and withstand danger, fear or difficulty.
Social worker Anjanette Young exhibited the definition of courage when she allowed CBS 2 Chicago to show bodycam footage of her standing naked at home surrounded by a dozen Chicago police officers while executing a wrongful raid. At that moment the Near West Side resident’s life was changed forever. She had two choices, let the world see the dehumanizing and callous way Chicago police treated her to prevent it from ever happening to another woman or sue the city and quietly take the money. Young chose the former.
The wrongful raid on Young’s home took place in 2019. At the time, Chicago police were conducting about 1,380 residential search warrants a year, according to the Chicago Inspector General’s office. After obtaining the video, releasing it and the public’s outcry for reform, the number of residential warrants dropped to 183 in 2022.
The decision by Young to put the public’s need to know above her own privacy is why the Ida B. Wells Legacy Committee is presenting her with the Ida’s Legacy award at its Legacy & Libations event Thursday, Aug. 24, 2023, at Truth Italian Restaurant, 56 East Pershing Road, 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. Other recipients are 2016 Democratic Presidential Nominee Hillary Clinton, Rev. Robbie Craig, former interim executive director of the Community Renewal Society for outstanding investigative reporting by the Chicago Reporter; Faye Wattleton, the first African American and youngest president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America; and Dorothy Leavell, long time publisher of the Chicago and Gary Crusader newspapers. These women embody one or more of the attributes of Ida B. Wells as activist, crusader, disrupter, feminist, journalist and strategist.
In the past, this award was given during the political action committee’s spring luncheon, which has not taken place since 2019, due to challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The featured speaker during this year’s summer fundraiser will be acclaimed Northwestern University professor Mary Pattillo. The Bronzeville resident will explore the future of the Black Middle Class. Tickets for Legacy & Libations are $75 and $50 for young professionals under 30.
Anjanette Young Receives Ida’s Legacy Award for Her Selfless Courage
🙌🏾 Peace
It was beyond brave of you to share your story. The trauma that you and so many others have suffered is not fair and justice may never be served to all, but because you spoke up against CPD this matter will not continue to happen as it has. Thank you Sis. May God heal your trauma and put a stop to this madness. Cops please learn to honor the badge by protecting and serving your communities!