Spike Lee, Sherrilyn Ifill, And Xernona Clayton Drop Gems As They Accept The National Civil Rights Freedom Award
The National Civil Rights Museum rolled out the red carpet for the 33rd Annual Freedom Awards at downtown Memphis’ on Oct. 17. The evening runneth over with Black pride, Black joy, and most notably, Black excellence, particularly as the tribute relates to its host, the incomparable MC Lyte, Memphis Grizzlies’ Jaren Jackson, its 2024 honorees: Xernona Clayton, Sherrilyn Ifill, and Spike Lee, and entertainment: Debra Cox, Brothers And Sisters dance troupe, and Gary Goin, and the Freedom Award house band. This elite bunch understands that freedom comes at a cost, and it is their actions—in service of civil rights—that warrant such...
33rd annual Freedom Awards at Civil Rights Museum
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Thursday was the biggest night of the year at the National Civil Rights Museum, for the annual Freedom Award ceremony. This year, the museum honored three people with the Freedom Award: civil and human rights activist and broadcasting executive Xernona Clayton; Sherrilyn Ifill, the president and director-counsel emeritus of the NAACP; and […]
A civil rights icon’s childhood home in New Orleans will not be a museum after opposition from her descendants
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — After Candice Henderson-Chandler moved to New Orleans and bought her first house in 2021, she learned it had played a key role in the city’s civil rights history and was the childhood home of a prominent activist, Oretha Castle Haley. Henderson-Chandler, who is Black, soon founded a nonprofit and planned to convert part of the property into a museum to celebrate this history.
Local NAACP will honor civil rights pioneers of the 1940s through the 1970s
The Oak Ridge-Anderson County Branch of the NAACP invites the public to a celebration and recognition event Oct. 13 honoring the pioneers of civil rights in Oak Ridge. The event will include exhibits of historical artifacts and stories from the 1940s, '50s, '60s and '70s. A panel discussion will run from 3 to 4:30 p.m. in the meeting room of the Midtown Community Center/Oak Ridge History Museum, 102 Robertsville Road (previously known as the Wildcat Den). ...