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Jackson, Mississippi native Bishop Dr. Jimmie R. Horton was honored as the 2025 recipient of the Davenport, Iowa NAACP Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2025 Freedom Fund Banquet held September 27, 2025, at the Rogalski Center, St. Ambrose University in Davenport. This year’s banquet theme was “A Fierce Urgency of Now.”
This award, the highest honor presented by the NAACP, recognizes the impact that an individual’s lifelong dedication, leadership, and service has made on civil rights, social justice, and the advancement of the Black community in the Quad Cities…