Bill Moyers Bill Moyers
Bill Moyers has received 35 Emmy awards, nine Peabody Awards, the National Academy of Television’s Lifetime Achievement Award, and an honorary doctor of fine arts from the American Film Institute over his 40 years in broadcast journalism. He is currently host of the weekly public television series Moyers & Company and president of the Schumann Media Center, a non-profit organization which supports independent journalism. He delivered these remarks (slightly adapted here) at the annual Legacy Awards dinner of the Brennan Center for Justice, a non-partisan public policy institute in New York City that focuses on voting rights, money in politics, equal justice, and other seminal issues of democracy.
Apr 2, 2010
Ralph Nader Ralph Nader
Ralph Nader is a consumer advocate and the author, most recently, of 
The Seventeen Solutions: Bold Ideas for Our American Future.
Apr 2, 2010
Alec Dubro Alec Dubro
Alec Dubro, veteran journalist and union activist, is the media director of the Foreign Policy in Focus project at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington.
Apr 2, 2010
Ron Walters Ron Walters
Ron Walters is the Distinguished Leadership Scholar in the Burns Academy of Leadership and professor of government and politics at the University of Maryland. His latest book, with…
Apr 2, 2010
Caleb Crain Caleb Crain
Caleb Crain is the author of the novel Necessary Errors, recently published by Penguin Books.
Apr 2, 2010
Roberta Brandes Gratz Roberta Brandes Gratz
Roberta Brandes Gratz is an award-winning journalist and urban critic whose most recent book is The Battle for Gotham: New York in the Shadow of Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs (Nation Books).
Apr 2, 2010
Rick Perlstein Rick Perlstein
Rick Perlstein is the author of Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus, winner of the 2001 Los Angeles Times Book Award for history, and Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America (2008), a New York Times bestseller picked as one of the best nonfiction books of the year by over a dozen publications. A former online columnist for The New Republic and Rolling Stone and former chief national correspondent for the Village Voice, his journalism and essays have appeared in Newsweek, The Nation, the New York Times, and many other publications. Perlstein has been called the "chronicler extraordinaire of American conservatism" by Politico and the "hypercaffeinated Herodotus of the American century" by The Nation. He lives in Chicago, where he is at work on a book on the 1970s and the rise of Ronald Reagan. He plays jazz piano on the side.
Apr 2, 2010
Johnny Temple Johnny Temple
Johnny Temple plays bass guitar in the rock bands Girls Against Boys and New Wet Kojak and is the publisher of Akashic Books (www.akashicbooks.com), based in Fort Greene, Brooklyn.
Apr 2, 2010
Courtney Love Courtney Love
Courtney Love is a singer and actress. With her band Hole, she released the multimillion-selling albums Celebrity Skin and Live Through This.
Apr 2, 2010
Mindy Pennybacker Mindy Pennybacker
Mindy Pennybacker is editor of The Green Guide , an environmental newsletter (http://thegreenguide.com).
Apr 2, 2010