41st ANNUAL NATIONAL BELL RINGING CEREMONY

Monday, January 19th, 2026

Liberty Bell Pavillion

5th and Market Streets

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

11:30 a.m.

Hon. Austin Davis

Lieutenant Governor, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

Susan and Harold Rosenthal

Civil Rights Activists

Gregory E. Deavens

President of Independence

(parent company of Independence Blue Cross)

Dr. Ala Stanford

The Black Doctors Covid-19 Consortium

Hon. Robert Casey/Hon. Pat Toomey

U.S. Senators, PA

Laura Wooten

Election Activist

Lee Saunders

National President, AFSCME

April Ryan

White House Correspondent for Urban Radio Networks 

Crystal Grice

Eldest Niece of C. DeLores Tucker

Ernest Evans “Chubby Checker”

1960’s Music Legend

George Monyemangene

Consul General, Embassy of South Africa, U.S.

Most Reverend Charles J. Chaput

Archbishop of Philadelphia

Ilyasah Shabazz/Malaak Shabazz

Daughters of Malcolm X and Betty Shabazz

Michael Rashid

President & CEO

AmeriHealth Mercy Family of Companies

Hon. Russyl Ali

Asst. Secretary for Civil Rights

U.S. Department of Education

James Bain

Exonerated after 35 years of Wrongful Incarceration

Hon. Lynn Toler

Judge, Syndicated Fox Television Show “Divorce Court”
Xernona Clayton

President & Founder, Trumpet Awards Foundation

Hon. Edward G Rendell

Governor, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

Cicely Tyson  

Renowned Actress       

Ossie Davis

Former Renowned Actor 

Hon. Carol Moseley Braun

Former U.S. Ambassador

Former U.S. Senator, Illinois

Hon. Martin Luther King, III

President, Southern Christian Leadership  

Hon. Walter Fauntroy    

Former U.S. Congressman     

Pres. Nat’l Black Leadership Roundtable     

                                          Tipper Gore                                            

Advocate for Families, Women and Children            

Wife of Former Vice President Al Gore

Hon. Bruce Babbitt 

Former U.S. Secretary of Interior  

Chief Justice Robert N.C. Nix, Jr. 

Former Supreme Court Judge Pennsylvania  

Hon. Colin L. Powell

Former Secretary of State

Hon. Al Gore

Former Vice President, U.S.A.

Dr. Joycelyn Elders

Former U.S. Surgeon General
 Myrlie Evers-Williams

Civil Rights Activist and Widow of slain Civil Rights Leader, Medgar Ever 

Dr. Dorothy I. Height 

President,National Council of NegroWomen, Inc.

Judge A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr.

Former U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals

Rev. Joseph Lowery

Former President, Southern Christian 

Leadership Conference

Hon. James Farmer

Former President, Congress of Racial Equality

Rev. Benjamin A. Hooks

Former Executive Director of the NAACP

Rosa Parks

Mother of the Civil Rights Movement

Hon. Samuel Pierce

Former U.S. Secretary of Housing & Urban Development