Laverne Cox, Dr. Kortney Ryan Ziegler Present to Marc Lamont Hill at GLAAD Awards.
Dr. Marc Lamont Hill was presented with the award for Outstanding Digital Journalism Article by actress Laverne Cox and writer and filmmaker Dr. Kortney Ryan Ziegler for Hill’s Ebony.com piece “Why Aren’t We Fighting for CeCe McDonald?” at the 24th Annual GLAAD Media Awards in San Francisco on Saturday night. During his moving acceptance speech, Dr. Marc Lamont Hill led the audience in a chant to “Free CeCe.”
“No issue has been more important to me, none has been more special to me than writing about CeCe McDonald,” Dr. Hill said. “This speaks to the many, many battles we have in front of us as an LGBT community, as an ally community, as a community of people who are struggling to create a world that is more fair, more just, more democratic and ultimately just more free. We have so much work to do and I hope that the work that we all do tonight and the work that we do when we leave here will continue to make the world a little bit better and a little bit safer.”
via GLAAD.org
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