After a two-year break due to COVID-19, the Legal Defense Fund's annual awards gala is returning, honoring truth-tellers and justice fighters.
LDF presented Stevie Wonder with the inaugural Icon Award at the 34th National Equal Justice Awards Dinner on Tuesday at Lincoln Center in New York City. Former President of the LDF and Director of Counsel LDF, founded by Thurgood Marshall, the first Black Supreme Court justice, has fought for decades for Black people across the country, especially in Brown v. Board of Education.
The annual awards ceremony serves as a call to action to support the organization's work, especially in an era when civil rights are being threatened, from freedom of expression to privacy and physical autonomy.Here are five memorable moments from this year's "Truth is Power" ceremony:
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