She has performed as a featured player in "Gospel at Colonus", "Ain't Misbehavin'", “Crowns”, as Caroline in "Caroline or Change" and as the Lady in "Blues in the Night” for which she was nominated for a St. Louis, Anita has been a featured player with the St. With New Hope for the World Ministries, Anita has been blessed to be a featured missionary vocalist in Entebbe, Uganda and Buenos Aires, Argentina. Kennedy and New Hope Community Church, which also featured national gospel artist Vickie Winans and New York’s own Melanie Daniels. Anita was a featured vocalist on the 2014 “Reach Week in New York City” live recording for New Hope for the World Ministries recorded in Harlem, New York under the auspices of Rev. She is a background vocalist on Cissy Houston's 1996 Grammy award winning "Face to Face" album which won the Grammy Award for Best Traditional Gospel Album of 1996, as well as her "He Leadeth Me" album which won the Grammy award in the same category in 1997.Īs a gospel BGV, Anita has performed with Shirley Caesar, the late Albertina Walker, Dorothy Norwood and Tramaine Hawkins. His national tour featured the artist Joe, and Erykah Badu with whom Anita was blessed to perform and tour. Anita has toured and performed as a background vocalist for recording artist Chico DeBarge on his “Long Time, No See” album which was released in 1997. She recorded as a background vocalist for Bette Midler on her acclaimed song "From a Distance" which won the Grammy Award for Song of the Year in 1991 as a background vocalist for Patti Austin on "I Can Move this Mountain" and Mariah Carey on "Anytime You Need a Friend". She has recorded and performed as a background vocalist for several artists in the music industry. She is a graduate of the American Music and Dramatic Academy in New York and has performed extensively nationally and internationally in theater productions, concerts and workshops. Louis, Missouri who returned home after living in New York City for twelve years. Louis Community Service Award.Anita Jackson is a native of St. He and his wife, Thelma, have received the Jane and Whitney Harris St. He was recognized as the 2012 Black Engineer of the Year (BEYA) and the 2015 St. In addition to his business success, Steward has won several awards. He has two children and two grandchildren. The entrepreneur has been married for over 44 years. What is more, the billionaire is also the author of two books - Doing Business by The Good Book, published in 2004, and Leadership by the Good Book, published in 2020. Steward is also the founder of Kingdom Capital, a values-driven private investment firm with a focus on early-stage companies with technology-based health and medical solutions. The WWT specializes in cloud capabilities, data center, and virtualization, security, mobility, and networking technologies along with voice, video, and collaboration solutions. On its website, WWT notes that it has more than 7,000 employees and generates more than $13 billion in annual revenue. The company provides services for both the American government and private organizations. with more than 20 locations across the world. Today, the firm is one of the largest Black-owned IT providers in the U.S. He founded IT provider World Wide Technology (WWT) with a shoestring budget, and with seven employees. The entrepreneur left FedEx in 1984 and launched an IT firm in 1990. I asked myself, Is this what I want out of life?.” The award, he said in an interview “was a defining moment. Steward was so diligent and hardworking, earning him the best salesman at Federal Express. He subsequently moved to Federal Express where he worked for five years.
While with the company, he worked as a sales representative. He then moved to Missouri Pacific Railroad Company in 1975 and exited the firm in 1979. Between 19, he worked as a production manager at Wagner Electric. Growing up, Steward sometimes went without a paycheck, according to a report by Forbes, adding that he “once watched his car get repossessed from the office parking lot.” Today he is the majority owner of an almost $12 billion (sales) company, with customers that include Citi, Verizon and the federal government.īefore 1990 where he established his own firm, Steward worked for a number of companies including Wagner Electric, Missouri Pacific Railroad Company, and Federal Express.