A Special Thanksgiving Request

Beloveds,


Please join Me in offering Gratitude to the Andrew Goodman Foundation for a Beautiful Evening Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Freedom Summer Workers, the Lives of Goodman Cheney and Schwerner (who this week received the Presidential Medal of Honor) and the many Heroes of the Civil Rights Movement past and present including Mayor David Dinkins, Clarence B. Jones, ESQ (Martin Luther King Jr.'s friend and attorney who smuggled out of jail the famous "Birmingham Letter to Clergy"), and  America's Beloved Activist, Harry Belafonte who presented the Media Award to Oscar Winner, Steve McQueen (12 Years A Slave).


There was an evening welcome by David Goodman, brother of Andrew Goodman.  Master of Ceremonies and panel discussion moderator for the evening was John Quinones( ABC News Anchor and Host of "What Would Your Do?" 


Hidden Heroes and Visionary of Freedom Summer Awards were presented by Jamilah Lemieux (Ebony Magazine) to Jeff Steinberg(Sojourn to the Past), Tony Hillery (Harlem Grown), Steve Brown (Greystone), Dave Dennis (CORE), Myrlie Evers (NAACP), and Bob Moses (SNCC) and Andrew Young (SCLC).


Present for the intergenerational panel discussion were Youth Activists including AGF Social Change Fellow Suprita Datta, AGF Vote Everywhere Ambassador Jonian Raffti, AGF Millennial Advisory Committee member Nadia Osuwu and the Executive Director of Million Hoodies, Dante Barry who spoke about the death of Michael Brown and civil rights in Ferguson, MO.


Please enjoy this remembrance of the 2014 Hidden Heroes:  http://youtu.be/m5uZqQ9mFNk

The Andrew Goodman Foundation Hidden Heroes Celebration is an important reminder of All the work still to be done so that there is Equality, Freedom and Equity and Justice For ALL People in America!  #FreedomForward


This is my Special Thanksgiving Request: Please consider making your year end contribution in support of the  important work of the Andrew Goodman Foundation.  Send your checks to:
Sylvia Golbin-Goodman
Executive Director
The Andrew Goodman Foundation  P.O. Box 394, Mahwah, NJ 07430
 www.andrewgoodman.org


Always, Rev. Melony McGant