Three minutes. One giant. The speech that'll wreck your heart and rebuild your hope.
Honorable Ronald V. Dellums, winner of the San Francisco Foundation 2005 Community Leadership Awards (Robert C. Kirkwood Award) - for his decades of courage, leadership, and vision in championing peace, justice, diversity, and economic equality, both locally and globally, and for his impact in moving the AIDS pandemic and its solutions to the top of the global agenda.
Direction
Economical editing lets Dellums' oratory breathe and land.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Dellums was the first African American from Northern California in Congress and later became Oakland's mayor—this award speech came mid-political second act.
The Robert C. Kirkwood Award specifically honors Bay Area leaders who bridge grassroots organizing with institutional power—Dellums basically invented this lane.
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