PHOTO: Eva Longoria Parker Receives Freedom Award
10/07/2010
Desperate Housewives star Eva Longoria Parker received a Legacy Award from the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tenn. last night. The actress was honored for her philanthropy and her advocacy for rights for Latinos. She posted the above photo from the dinner on her Twitter account.
When accepting her award, Longoria Parker drew parallels between African-American slavery and the plight of day workers today. ‘I’m doing a documentary now,’ she said, according to WREG, a local Memphis news station. ‘Children as young as eight are in the fields picking cotton, picking fruits and vegetables and allowed to [do] this and it’s modern day slavery.’
