About · Dakar Foundation · Los Angeles
A privately owned organization in the Los Angeles area with operations in Central and Northern California. Urban marketing, advertising, event planning, content delivery and business-development solutions, with foundations for the performing arts, diversity marketing and interactive programs across the public and private sectors.
Founder
Kevin Clark
A content aggregator for more than two decades, with a career spanning media literacy, content delivery and the curatorial science of museum-exhibit production. Executive producer on the PBS documentary For Love of Liberty, and writer of Victory by Valor — a social-media timeline of American heroes who played on the playing fields and fought on the battlefields.
With historian Anthony Powell and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar he assembled a 2,000-piece Buffalo Soldiers exhibit, displayed at the Schomburg Center in Harlem.
Track record · as told by Kevin Clark
- 01Producer of For Love of Liberty (PBS) — winner of the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Documentary, 2011.
- 02Raised $4 million for the film.[verify]
- 03Wrote the For Love of Liberty curriculum and distributed it to 3,000 classrooms (grades 10–16) and 24 U.S. Army battalions for morale and retention.[verify]
- 04Created a U.S. Army × General Motors cross-promotional event at CAA, contracting Hall of Famer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
- 05Manager of Anthony Powell's Portraits in Black — one of the world's largest African American military collections.
- 06Developed an Ethnic Studies curriculum on the timeline of the Buffalo Soldiers developed by the National Park Service.
- 07Developed H.E.R.O. workshops for service-disabled veterans and wounded warriors, adopted by the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Los Angeles chapter.[verify]
- 08Livestreamed Veterans Day screenings and Q&A for LAUSD, Compton and Los Angeles community colleges.
Source · Dakar Foundation proposal, November 2024 · Kevin Clark, 7 Sep 2026 · [verify] = not yet confirmed against an outside source
Photo: U.S. Army ceremony, supplied by Kevin Clark
Speaker’s bureau
Brig. Gen. Arnold Gordon-Bray (Ret.)
Chief of the training division at Joint Special Operations Command, Fort Bragg, in 1990; commander of the 1st Battalion, 508th Airborne Combat Team in Vicenza, Italy, in 1996; graduate of the Air War College (M.A., military strategic studies, 1999) and the Naval War College (M.A., operations management and supervision, 2001).
Commanded the 2nd Brigade of the 82nd Airborne Division — the “Falcon Brigade” — in the early months of the Iraq War in 2003; second Iraq tour 2006–07 as principal advisor to the Iraqi Ground Force Commander; deputy commanding general, U.S. Army Cadet Command, 2007; deputy director of operations, U.S. Africa Command, 2011. Retired November 2012 and founded ANGB Consulting in Fayetteville, North Carolina, in January 2013.
Source · Dakar Foundation proposal, November 2024
Inspired by HOMAGE
HOMAGE is Dakar’s repository of facts and stories of the armed forces from the first U.S. militias to today’s modern military, and the speaker bureau of Hall of Fame athletes, celebrities and national influencers that Victory by Valor grew out of. Kevin Clark’s HOMAGE cards — a sports photograph, a service portrait and a rank — are the visual grammar of this site.
Campaign at a glance
Film, museum and speaker bureaus.
Victory by Valor is an integrated strategy that delivers the historical contributions of African Americans in service to national strategic markets, activated through military observance days and connected to local outreach programs. It showcases the cross-connection between sports and pop culture — civilian heroes who had a little-known second life in the military — through social media and student assembly screenings, with a panel that challenges students to define a hero and find the hero within, and a lesson plan for educators built on the For Love of Liberty curriculum.
Source · Dakar Foundation proposal, November 2024
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