PHILADELPHIA – APRIL 6: Bill Cosby, Ed.D. accepts the Marian Anderson Award April 6, 2010, at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Marian Anderson Award honors artists whose leadership on behalf of a humanitarian cause(s) or issue benefits society. Previous recipients include Maya Angelou and Norman Lear (2008), Richard Gere (2007), Sidney Poitier (2006), Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis (2005), Oprah Winfrey (2003), Danny Glover (2002), Quincy Jones (2001), Elizabeth Taylor (2000), Gregory Peck (1999), and Harry Belafonte, (1998). No Award was given in 2004 or 2009. (Photo by William Thomas Cain/Getty Images)