Michelle Obama, Poor People’s Campaign among Freedom Award honorees
Former First Lady Michelle Obama visited with St. Jude patients during a trip to Memphis in 2014. (The Daily Memphian file)
The event will also include special recognition of the teenager who recorded the last moments of George Floyd in Minneapolis in 2020.
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