Comcast NBCUniversal Celebrates 10 Years of ‘Voices of the Civil Rights Movement’
Comcast NBCUniversal Celebrates 10 Years of ‘Voices of the Civil Rights Movement’
From August 2023 through August 2024, Comcast NBCUniversal is celebrating 10 years of the Voices of the Civil Rights Movement platform, the company’s signature multimedia initiative honoring the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s.
To celebrate this milestone, Comcast NBCUniversal is honoring the 200 leaders, activists, innovators, and trailblazers featured in the Voices collection, whose sacrifice and determination changed the course of American — and world — history.
10 Interviews Join the Collection
We are proud to celebrate the platform’s 10-year anniversary by debuting 10 first-person interviews, including baseball legend Henry “Hank” Aaron and Tony award-winning actress and singer Melba Moore.
Celebrating Civil Rights Heroes in Philadelphia
Together with community and civic leaders, Comcast honored former U.N. Amb. Andrew Young and fellow civil rights champions who contributed their stories to the Voices platform at a special event in Philadelphia in September 2023.
Honoring the ‘New Orleans Four’
In May 2023, we hosted a salon dinner in New Orleans to honor Leona Tate, Gail Etienne, Tessie Prevost, Dorothy Prevost, and Diedra Meredith, whose Voices interviews highlight historic school desegregation in the 1960s.
Making an Impact at NABJ
In August 2023, Comcast NBCUniversal produced a powerful panel at the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) conference, hosted by NBCU Academy, with NBC TODAY’s Sheinelle Jones, Birmingham civil rights leaders Sarah Collins Rudolph and Janice Wesley Kelsey, and Voices Executive Producer Lisa Melillo.
