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Awards
Each year, MMTC confers the Everett C. Parker Award on a distinguished citizen who has rendered the most distinguished service, over many years, to diversity and inclusion in the media and telecom industries. The Parker Award is named after Dr. Everett Parker, who in 1955 founded the modern media reform movement as the founding Director of the Office of Communication of the United Church of Christ. Dr. Parker's pioneering work in challenging the FCC licensee qualifications of segregationist southern television stations formed the basis for the FCC's present-day civil rights jurisprudence. Dr. Parker remains active in the civil rights movement, serving in many capacities, including that of Treasurer and a Director of MMTC. The Parker Award is MMTC's highest honor.
MMTC inducts several leading communications practicioners, advocates and scholars into its Hall of Fame each year. The Hall of Fame inductees have rendered exceptional contributions over many years to diversity and inclusion in the media and telecom industries.
MMTC confers an annual Distinguished Pro Bono Service Award to a law or engineering firm that has provided extraordinary service to the cause of diversity and inclusion in the media and telecommunications industries.
On occassion, MMTC confers the Extraordinary Service award on members of its staff, or volunteers who have far exceeded the call of duty in the service of the civil rights cause.
Recipients of the Everett C. Parker Award
Everett Parker 1995
Larry Irving 1996
Rev. Jesse L. Jackson 1997
Richard Wiley 1998
Charles Ferris 1999
Cathy Hughes 2000
Sandra Dorsey-Rice 2002
Kenneth Cox 2003
Dennis Swanson 2004
Thomas S. Murphy 2005
Daniel B. Burke 2005
Ragan A. Henry 2006
Phylis Eagle-Oldson 2007
Inductees to the MMTC Hall of Fame
1998
Thomas Castro
Ragan A. Henry
Cathy Hughes
Andrew Jackson
Robert Johnson
Dr. Everett Parker
Herbert P. Wilkins, Sr.
1999
P. Raul Alarcon Sr.
John Conyers
Julia L. Johnson
Thomas J. Johnson (posthumously)
Maceo Sloan
J. Clay Smith
Hon. Percy E. Sutton
2000
Dorothy Brunson
Henry Geller
Hon. William Gray
David Honig
Mel Karmazin
L. Lowry Mays
Earle K. Moore
Sol Trujillo
2001
Benjamin L. Hooks
William E. Kennard
John E. Oxendine
2002
Leo Hindery
Andrew Schwartzman
Gloria Tristani
2003
Alfred Liggins
Henry Rivera
Esteban Torres
Eddie Wong
2004
Angela Cambell
Phylis Eagle-Oldson
Willie Gary
Erwin Krasnow
Marc Morial
Jeffrey Smulyan
Edward Young
2005
Priscilla Hill-Ardoin
Johnny L. Cochran (posthumously)
Marie Johns
Alex Nogales
Lawrence Roberts
Linda Eckard Vilardo
2006
Leonard Baynes
Moctesuma Esparza
Bill Stephney
2007
Amador Bustos
Paula Madison
Nancy Victory
Recipients of the Distinguished Pro Bono Service Award
2004
Shea & Gardner
2005
Hogan & Hartson, L.L.P.
2006
Leventhal Senter & Lerman, PLLC
2007
Zuckerman Spaeder LLP
Extraordinary Service Award
2001
Vincent Pepper
2004
Nicolaine Lazarre
2005
Fatima Fofana
2006
Ari Fitzgerald
Lawrence Roberts
2007
Kiri Davis
Excellence in Financial Services Award
2007
Wells Fargo Foothill
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