Norman Lear has been named the Variety’s first-ever Creative Conscience Award recipient in the field of television. The prolific producer will receive the award at Variety’s annual show…
‘s annual showrunners’ dinner, taking place Sept. 17 in Los Angeles, Calif.’s People For the American Way has stood for social justice, compassion and transparency in the way our democracy works, shining a beacon signalling how to move toward our ideals and away from our prejudices, our fears, our greed.
Lear founded People for the American Way , a progressive advocacy organization, in the early 1980s, and more than two decades later also founded Declare Yourself, a nonpartisan, nonprofit campaign aimed at encouraging young people to register to vote.
Additionally, Lear and his wife Lyn founded the Lear Family Foundation in 1997 to support a wide range of nonprofit organizations across the country.
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