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Legendary jazz musician Herbie Hancock learned a salsa dance step, played the dundun drum from Mali, and participated in an intertribal Indian social dance as Artist of the Year at the 23rd annual “Cultural Rhythms” show in Sanders Theater on Saturday. The day-long event, presented by the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations, is a yearly celebration of diversity at Harvard that includes two shows and a food festival. The event stars a range of Harvard’s multicultural performance groups, showcasing songs, dances, and musical instruments from around the world...
...centered video. Most recently, Hancock was featured in another music video, organized by Black Eyed Peas member Will.I.Am and supporting Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama. Last year, actor Laurence Fishburne received the Cultural Rhythms Artist of the Year award. The money raised from this year’s annual day-long celebration will benefit the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, according to publicity from the Harvard Foundation. —Staff writer Brittany M. Llewellyn can be reached at bllewell@fas.harvard.edu...
...which he saw firsthand in his frequent polar expeditions, both in the Arctic and Antarctica. To help raise awareness of the damage climate change is wreaking on the polar regions, next month Steger will be leading a team of six young adventurers on a 1,400-mile, 60-day-long dogsled expedition across Ellesmere Island, in the far Canadian Arctic. The rest of us will be able to observe Steger's journey - intended to appeal to what he calls "emerging young leaders" below the age of 30 - on the website GlobalWarming101.com. "We want to take our audience to the front...
...help people find common ground.” They are also important, Londoño said, in educating Latinas of their opportunities—“in helping them articulate their future action and strengthening everyone in their own individual pursuits.” The day-long conference, according to its Web site, was “devoted to acknowledging the achievements of Latinas at Harvard and across the nation” and addressing “the social, political, and economic issues that Latinas confront today.” As of last fall, 238 Hispanic women were enrolled...
...refused to use a computer and insisted that all court papers (some 250,000 pages) be translated in Serbian Cyrillic (Serbs use both scripts). Like Milosevic, Seselj insisted on being his own defense lawyer, and when the court attempted to assign him an attorney, he went to a 28-day-long hunger strike, until all his demands were granted...