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Today, in addition to her work as an adjunct instructor at Northern Kentucky University, Ms. Braden is a writer, editor, and a tireless community organizer. She serves as the administrator of the Braden Center in Louisville, a non-profit center for community organizing and headquarters for the Kentucky Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, an interracial action group combating specific manifestations of racist policies and practices in Louisville, which she chairs. She is also active with the Kentucky Rainbow Coalition. She last fall returned from South Africa, where she was a delegate to the Non-Governmental Forum, which drafted a document for the United Nations Conference on Racism.
Among her many honors, in 1990, Ms. Braden was named the first recipient of the American Civil Liberties Union's Roger Baldwin Award, given for a lifetime of service to civil liberties. She is Lifetime Fellow of the Southern Regional Council, is enshrined at the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee, and was recently inducted into the Kentucky Civil Rights Hall of Fame in 1997.  In 1999, her life of exceptional service was honored when she was given an honorary degree by Northern Kentucky University. This past spring, she was honored by the Kentucky Commission of Women as one of its Women Remembered, with a portrait that hangs in the Capitol Building.  A biography of Anne Braden is scheduled to be released sometime next year.