FFRF awarded Sarah $1,000 from a fund endowed by an octogenarian member who wishes to remain anonymous. By Sarah Barrios Nicholls State University has a long-standing history of subjecting its …
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Stuart Watson – Freethought in the Media awardee
FFRF Co-President Annie Laurie Gaylor introduced Stuart Watson, a longtime investigative reporter in North Carolina, during FFRF’s mini-convention in Raleigh, N.C.: We got to know Stuart because he called us …
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2016 National Convention
The 2016 Freedom From Religion 39th Annual National Convention took place on October 7-9 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. …
Holly Baer – First Yip Harburg Youth Activist Award
Holly Baer is the first recipient of FFRF’s $1,000 Yip Harburg Youth Activist Award, generously endowed by the Yip Harburg Foundation and FFRF members Ernie and Margie Harburg, the children …
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Douglas Marshall
Douglas Marshall will receive a Freethinker of the Year Award as the plaintiff in FFRF’s recent federal court victory, forcing the town of Warren, Mich., to let him put up …
Taslima Nasrin
Taslima Nasrin received FFRF’s Emperor Has No Clothes Award at our 2015 National Convention. She has been living under a death fatwa for blasphemy by Bangladesh imams since 1993. She …
Ernie Chambers
Senator Ernie Chambers, the longest serving state senator in Nebraska, will receive the Emperor Has No Clothes Award. He challenged his legislature’s payment to ministers to open sessions in Marsh …
Steven Hewett
Steven Hewett will be honored with FFRF’s Atheist in Foxhole Award. The former police officer and Afghanistan war veteran returned home with a Combat Action Badge and Bronze Star, only …
Thomas Sheedy – Richard and Beverly Hermsen Student Activist Award
Thomas Sheedy, 17, will receive FFRF’s Richard and Beverly Hermsen Student Activist Award of $5,000. Thomas is a senior at Ward Meville High School, East Setauket, N.Y. He is founder …
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