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The Four Freedoms Awards are presented each year to people whose achievements have demonstrated a commitment to those principles which President Roosevelt proclaimed in his historic speech to Congress on January 6, 1941, as essential to democracy: freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want, freedom from fear. This year, for the first time in our 39-year history, The Roosevelt Institute will center the Four Freedoms Awards on a theme of racial justice. 

freedom of speech and expression & freedom of worship awards ceremony

Wednesday, October 13, 2021 | 7:00 PM ET

Nikole Hannah-Jones
American Journalist
Freedom of Speech and Expression

U.S. Senator Raphael Warnock
United States Senator,
Senior Pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church

Freedom of Worship

INTERVIEWS MODERATED BY

Dorian Warren
Co-President, Community Change
Co-Chair, Economic Security Project

SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKERS

Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II 
President and Senior Lecturer, Repairers of the Breach, Inc. 
Co-Chair, Poor People's Campaign
A National Call for a Moral Revival Senior Pastor, Greenleaf Christian Church DOC, Goldsboro NC

Katrina vanden Heuvel
Publisher & Editorial Director
The Nation

freedom from want & freedom from fear AWARDS CEREMONY

Wednesday, October 20, 2021 | 7:00 PM ET

Deepak Bhargava
Immigrant Rights and Economic Justice Advocate
Freedom from Want

Sixta Leon Barrita
Rubiela Correa
Sonia Pérez Garcia
Maria Isabel Sierra

Worker Rights Activists
Freedom from Fear

INTERVIEWS MODERATED BY

Cristina Jimenez
Managing Director
United We Dream

SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKERS

Lorella Praeli
Co-President
Community Change and Community Change Action

Randi Weingarten
President
AFT

freedom medal AWARD CEREMONY

Wednesday, October 27, 2021 | 7:00 PM ET

Fred T. Korematsu
Civil Rights Activist and Hero
Freedom Medal
In Memoriam

Received by his daughter
Dr. Karen Korematsu
Activist

INTERVIEW MODERATED BY

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt
Board Chair
Roosevelt Institute

SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKER

George Takei
Actor