If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again, was the message Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed delivered to an audience at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies annual anniversary gala dinner in Washington, D.C.
Reed was honored Tuesday with the Joint Center’s 2012 Louis E. Martin Great American Award.
The Louis E. Martin Great American Award, named after the legendary journalist and presidential adviser and founder of the Joint Center, honors an individual who has promoted racial harmony while championing policies that have made a difference in American society. Previous award recipients included the late civil rights activist Dorothy I. Height, the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr., former Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, and the Rep. James E. Clyburn (D-S.C.).
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