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John Brown Day celebration slated May 14

LAKE PLACID — John Brown Lives! will celebrate John Brown Day and this year’s distinguished Spirit of John Brown Freedom awardees on Saturday, May 14.

The celebration is scheduled for 3-5 p.m. at the John Brown Farm State Historic Site in Lake Placid.

The John Brown Freedom award is given annually by the freedom education and human rights project John Brown Lives! to recognize individuals and organizations whose work invokes the passion and conviction of the 19th-century abolitionist, who dedicated his life to the cause of liberation and full human equality.

The 2022 awardees are Karen (Ren) Davidson Seward, creator of the Memorial Field for Black Lives, Tiffany Rea-Fisher, choreographer and artistic director of EMERGE125 dance company, and artist and activist Tom Morello.

As part of the celebration, Theresa “Bear” Fox will perform traditional Mohawk songs, and MaryNell Morgan and Paul Murray will sing a freedom song adapted by Freedom Riders from Harry Belafonte’s “Calypso Freedom.”

In prior years, JBL! presented the award to actor and activist Danny Glover; Jen Krester, for her dedication to young climate justice activists; award-winning poet Martín Espada; artist and historian Nell Painter; and former Station Manager at North Country Public Radio Ellen Rocco.

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