Harry and Meghan win same award won by Muhammad Ali and Rihanna

O prince harry and your wife, Meghan Marklewill receive the NAACP civil rights organization’s highest honor for distinguished public service, the organization revealed on Thursday.

The couple, who created the Archewell charitable foundation after stepping down from royal duties and moving to the Los Angeles area, will receive the prestigious “President’s Award” in a live stream of the 53rd NAACP Image Awards this Saturday (26). , according to the group. NAACP stands for National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

Past winners include Jesse Jackson, Condoleezza Rice, Muhammad Ali and Colin Powell, among other important African-American figures in US history. Recent winners include sports and entertainment personalities such as LeBron James, Rihanna and Shawn “Jay Z” Carter.

Archewell and the NAACP have also teamed up to create a new civil rights award whose inaugural winner is Dr. Safiya Noble, a professor at the University of California, known for studies of how digital technologies intersect with culture, race and gender.

“We are proud to support the work of the NAACP and also to partner with the organization on the newly created NAACP-Archewell Digital Civil Rights Award,” Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, said in a statement.

Source: CNN Brasil

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