3rd Annual Hidden Heroes Awards Ceremony
The 2011 Hidden Heroes Award Ceremony was held on Sunday, November 20th 2011 at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem. 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. This year’s Hidden Heroes are Deborah Bial, President and Founder, Posse Foundation; Yusuf Burgess, Family Intervention Specialist, Green Tech High Charter School; Susan Retik, President and Co-Founder, Beyond the 11th; and The Rev. Nicholas S. Richards, President and Co-founder, The Abyssinian Fund. Mayor David Dinkins was presented with a Lifetime Achievement award at the event. Read more about the event >

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New York Premiere of Neshoba: The Price of Freedom

The theatrical premiere of Neshoba, the documentary film, was held on August 13th at Cinema Village in New York City followed by the Los Angeles premiere on September 10th. The New York event featured 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.

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