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RBG Award organizers cancel gala after backlash from Supreme Court justice’s family

  • The RBG Leadership Award ceremony planned for April 2024 has been canceled due to pushback from Ruth Bader Ginsburg's family.
  • The foundation will reconsider its mission moving forward to avoid controversy and plans to reflect on how to honor RBG in the future.
  • The foundation broadened the pool of award honorees to include men from various fields, causing controversy with Ginsburg's family.
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Foundation cancels RBG award ceremony that would have honored Musk, Murdoch after family’s outcry

The foundation that selected SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, conservative media mogul Rupert Murdoch and other honorees as recipients of an award named after Ruth Bader Ginsburg announced Monday it is canceling its award ceremony after receiving pushback from the late justice’s family.

1 month ago·Atlanta, United States
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Foundation cancels RBG award ceremony that would have honored Musk, Murdoch after family’s outcry

By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — The foundation that selected SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, conservative media mogul Rupert Murdoch and other honorees as recipients of an award named after Ruth Bader Ginsburg announced Monday it is canceling its award ceremony after receiving pushback from the late justice’s family. Julie Opperman, chair of the Opperman Foundation, said in a statement “that the last thing we intended was to offend the family and friends of…

1 month ago·Colorado Springs, United States
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Foundation cancels RBG award ceremony that would have honored Musk, Murdoch after family’s outcry

By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — The foundation that selected SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, conservative media mogul Rupert Murdoch and other honorees as recipients of an award named after Ruth Bader Ginsburg announced Monday it is canceling its award ceremony after receiving pushback from the late justice’s family. Julie Opperman, chair of the Opperman Foundation, said in a statement “that the last thing we intended was to offend the family and friends of…

1 month ago·Idaho Falls, United States
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RBG Award organizers cancel gala after backlash from Supreme Court justice’s family

The organizers behind an award named Ruth Bader Ginsburg are canceling a ceremony honoring Elon Musk and Rupert Murdoch after facing backlash from the late Supreme Court justice’s family and friends.  Julie Opperman, the chair of the Dwight D. Opperman Foundation, released a statement through a spokesperson Monday explaining the decision to recognize Musk, the…

1 month ago·Washington, United States
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RBG Award Organizers Scuttle Gala After Criticism by Late Supreme Court Justice’s Family

Organizers of an award named after late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg abruptly canceled this year’s awards gala when the liberal jurist’s family complained after learning that some of this year’s awards were to be given to non-liberal honorees. The 2024 Ruth Bader Ginsburg Leadership Award, known as the RBG Award, was set to be bestowed on right-leaning media entrepreneurs Elon Musk and Rupert Murdoch, actor Sylvester Stallone, phila…

1 month ago·New York, United States
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Foundation cancels RBG award ceremony that would have honored Musk, Murdoch after family’s outcry

(CNN) — The foundation that selected SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, conservative media mogul Rupert Murdoch and other honorees as recipients of an award named after Ruth Bader Ginsburg announced Monday it is canceling its award ceremony after receiving pushback from the late justice’s family. Julie Opperman, chair of the Opperman Foundation, said in a statement “that the last thing we intended was to offend the family and friends of RBG.” “Our purpose wa…

1 month ago·Washington, United States
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