2nd Annual Hidden Heroes Awards Ceremony on December 5th, 2010
The 2nd Annual Hidden Heroes Awards ceremony will take place on Sunday, December 5 at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem. Full details will be available in September. Please join our e-news list if you would like the event invitation sent to you.

The four winners of this year’s Hidden Heroes Awards will be honored at the event. The Awards are presented each year to individuals whose work exemplifies the Foundation’s origins and mission of promoting human dignity, civil rights and social justice through actions characterized by great personal initiative, selflessness, fearlessness, compassion, imagination, and achievement. The 2010 winners are: John Hope Bryant, Founder, Chairman and CEO, Operation HOPE; Jennifer Papa, Founder, City Green; Barbara Pasternack, TheatreworksUSA; Catherine Shimony & Joan Shifrin, Co-Founders, Global Goods Partners.

Learn more about the 2010 Hidden Heroes Award winners >

New York Premiere of Neshoba: The Price of Freedom on August 13th

The theatrical premiere of Neshoba, the documentary film, will be held on August 13th at Cinema Village in New York City followed by the Los Angeles premiere on September 10th. The New York event will feature a Q&A panel with the filmmakers and family members of the three American heroes at the center of the fateful events of the 1964 Freedom Summer.

Neshoba tells the true story behind the “Mississippi Burning” murders, when a mob of Klansmen murdered civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner who were registering African-American voters during Freedom Summer. The film takes an unflinching look at ordinary citizens of the small Mississippi county of Neshoba, struggling to find peace with their town’s violent, racist past. Award-winning filmmakers Micki Dickoff and Tony Pagano began shooting on the 40th anniversary of the killings and their film provides an unprecedented view into the event and aftermath that changed the course of the civil rights movement in America.

For details about the upcoming screenings and to view trailers, visit First Run Features >