In today’s episode of Black excellence, we have a queen! Queen Latifah will receive Harvard University’s W.E.B. Du Bois Medal.
Named after W.E.B. Du Bois, Latifah and six other recipients will receive the medal on Oct. 22, according to the Cambridge, Massachusetts, school’s Hutchins Center for African and African American Research.
The other inductees 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.
Past winners include Maya Angelou, Muhammad Ali, LL Cool J, Dave Chappelle, Colin Kaepernick, and more.
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