Helen Thomas has been dubbed “the grande dame” of journalism. Helen Thomas has been called “the first woman of journalism” not only because she has been a White House correspondent …
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Alton Lemon — First Amendment Hero Award
This presentation was made on Oct. 12, 2003, at the 26th annual convention of the Freedom From Religion Foundation in Washington, D.C. The Freedom From Religion Foundation has a category …
Steve Benson – “Friend of Freedom” Award
The inspiration for the Foundation’s “Friend of Freedom” award, a statuette of liberty, came from an editorial cartoon in 2003 by Steve Benson, a Pulitzer Prize winning daily editorial cartoonist. …
Roger, Pat & Melody Cleveland
The Freedom From Religion Foundation awarded Roger, Pat and Melody Cleveland its "Emperor Has No Clothes" Award on July 4, 2003, at the Lake Hypatia Independence Day celebration. It is …
Penn & Teller
Penn & Teller, magicians and entertainers in Las Vegas, were presented with the Emperor Has No Clothes Award by Nevada freethinkers Jennifer and Clark Adams, on behalf of the Freedom …
Kenji Ornellas
The Freedom From Religion Foundation awarded 15-year-old Honolulu student Kenji Ornellas a $1,000 student activist award in 2002. Kenji was a plaintiff in a lawsuit against his school, McKinley High, …
Taslima Nasrin
Taslima Nasrin is living proof of the threat posed to women’s liberty by fundamentalist religion. The Bengali author and physician has been subject to a series of fatwas, or religious …
Julia Sweeney – “Freethought Comedienne of the Year” Award
Julia Sweeney came to Hollywood not as an actor but as an accountant. The oldest in a family of five children raised in Spokane, Washington, she put her interest in …
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Michael Newdow
Dr. Newdow won the most significant state/church victory of 2002 when a 3-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in his favor on June 26, 2002, that …
