Queen Latifah to receive Harvard black culture award

Music artist and actress Queen Latifah is among the honorees being recognized by Harvard University this year for their contributions to black history and culture.

Harvard is set to award the W.E.B. Du Bois Medal to Queen Latifah and six other recipients on Oct. 22, according to the Cambridge, Massachusetts, school's Hutchins Center for African and African American Research. Other honorees include poet and educator Elizabeth Alexander, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution Lonnie Bunch III, poet Rita Dove, co-founder of Black Entertainment Television Sheila Johnson, artist Kerry James Marshall and Robert Smith, founder, chairman and chief executive of Vista Equity Partners.

The award is named after Du Bois, a scholar, writer, editor, and civil rights pioneer who became the first black student to earn a doctorate from Harvard in 1895.

cmaddenmft Yes

NewsRadio930 She's an actress for heavens sake - can't you find ppl of substance liek RealCandaceO to honor?

ABC gets caught running fake war video takes it down

Wow! ABC News is trying to pass gun range videos as combat footage from Syria

Apologize for the fake Syrian war footage that was from Knob Creek, KY 2010. It's bad enough there without having to use false images. I see you took down the video of it from your official YouTube feed. ABCApologize.

What country is she queen of? Is there a King?

is FakeNews. This video of “Syria” is actually Knob Creek, Kentucky Machine a Gun night Shoot held in April and October each year. See the tents? The crowd watching?Sickening.

I AM SO PROUD OF THIS QUEEN!(SMILE) SINCERELY SHELLIE GARY

can't magine history without last holiday ❄️

martyvidnovic Oh, yeah!👑👏🏽🌟

Black awards matter

That is crazy

Queen of what country?

Yes QUEEN! Well deserved, ,

The Queen is a man!

😅😅😅 And they wonder how Trump won

In my opinion,roll the red carpet to her highness the Queen 👑.👏👏🌹

She deserves it

Congratulations Congratulations You deserve it Love ❤️❤️❤️ 😘💖❤️ goes

I don't get it. Latifah is black so wouldn't everything she does count toward contributions to black culture ? I mean who is to say that her contributions are any more special than say, OJ's ?

Snap!

She is gorgeous!

That’s racist

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