Film actor Richard Gere became Humanitarian Prize laureate named Marian Anderson. Awards he received the evening November 12, 2007 at a solemn ceremony at the concert hall Philadelphia “Kimmel-tsentra.” The cash portion of the prize is 100 thousand dollars, said agency Associated Press.
The prize named Marian Anderson noted charitable efforts Gil: support for the independence of Tibet, basis Fund “Healing the Divide”, opekayuschego AIDS, and support for humanitarian organizations through its fund The Gere Foundation.
Marian Anderson, whose name is a premium, the famous black opera singer, urozhenka Philadelphia, Manson in 1930, the trend for the United States, and in the home for many years stalkivavshayasya racial discrimination. In 1955, Anderson became the first black soloist Metropoliten-Opera.
Previous Prize winners were named Marian Anderson, actor Sidney Poitier, Elizabeth Taylor, Gregory Peck, Danny Glover, Oprah Winfrey TV, singer Harry Belafonte and composer Quincy Jones.
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