Queen Latifah Receives Harvard Award For Black History & Culture Contributions

Queen Latifah (Photo: DFree / Shutterstock.com)

QUEEN LATIFAH will be among the honorees recognized by HARVARD UNIVERSITY this year for  contributions to Black history and culture. She will receive the W.E.B. DU BOIS Award.

The ceremony will take place on OCTOBER 22nd at the HARVARD HUTCHINS CENTER FOR AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN RESEARCH. The award is named after DU BOIS, the first Black student to earn a doctorate from HARVARD in 1895.

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 founder, chairman and chief executive of VISTA EQUITY PARTNERS ROBERT SMITH.

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