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Muhammad Ali Center Honors Victim of Charlottesville Violence Heather Heyer

Heather Heyer was killed during a counter protest of a white supremecist rally in Charlottesville, Va.
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Heather Heyer was killed during a counter protest of a white supremecist rally in Charlottesville, Va.
Heather Heyer was killed during a counter protest of a white supremecist rally in Charlottesville, Va.
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Heather Heyer was killed during a counter protest of a white supremecist rally in Charlottesville, Va.

The Muhammad Ali Center in Louisville, Kentucky is honoring the woman who died during a white nationalist rally in Virginia that descended into deadly violence.

The center is posthumously giving Heather Heyer the Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Award for Social Justice.

Heyer was killed in August during demonstrations over the proposed removal of a Robert E. Lee statue in Charlottesville, Virginia. 

She was hit by a car that plowed into a crowd that had gathered to denounce the white supremacists.  

The 32-year-old Heyer was a paralegal known to stand up for causes of equality and justice.

The Ali Center says Heyer "embodied the spirit of the civil rights movement." 

Heyer’s mother, Susan Bro, will accept the award at a ceremony in Louisville on Sept. 23. Bro has saidthat, despite the grief of losing her daughter, she will work to make her daughter's life have meaning and work for the values her daughter died for - equality, fairness and justice.

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Rhonda Miller began as reporter and host for All Things Considered on WKU Public Radio in 2015. She has worked as Gulf Coast reporter for Mississippi Public Broadcasting, where she won Associated Press, Edward R. Murrow and Green Eyeshade awards for stories on dead sea turtles, health and legal issues arising from the 2010 BP oil spill and homeless veterans.
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