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1st Annual Hidden Heroes Award Ceremony
The 1st Annual Hidden Heroes Awards ceremony took place on Sunday, November 22, 2009 at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem. Hundreds of people turned out to honor and celebrate the remarkable work of the 2009 award winners.
The Hidden Heroes Award is presented each year to as many as five individuals whose work exemplifies the Foundation’s origins and mission: promoting human dignity, civil rights and social justice through actions characterized by great personal initiative, selflessness, fearlessness, compassion, imagination, and achievement. The 2009 winners are: Frances Beinecke, President, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC); Toni Maloney, Chairperson, Business Council for Peace (BPeace); Gwenn Levine, Founder, Paterson Youth Photography Project, (PYPP) and Tashi Dolma, Founder, Tibetan Home of Hope.
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Preview Screening of Neshoba at Columbia University
On November 23, 2008, hundreds attended the preview screening of Neshoba at the Columbia University, Graduate School of Journalism. Neshoba producer-directors, Micki Dickoff and Tony Pagano spoke about the making of the film. The brothers of Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Michael Schwerner also spoke at the event, which raised funds for the Andrew Goodman Foundation.
Neshoba, co-directed by Micki Dickoff and Tony Pagano, powerfully relates the story of a town divided about the meaning of justice, 40 years after the murders of civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner. The documentary relates a story of pain, justice and healing through interviews with the families of the victims, black and white Neshoba County citizens and first time interviews with the unrepentant Klansman who was finally found guilty in 2005 for the murders.
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