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...asking to more fully fund the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, we asked people to write holiday cards to Secretary of the Treasury John Snow asking to cancel debt in developing countries, and we collected donations for Cambridge Cares about AIDS. Two Harvard students (Okechukwu W. Iweala ’06 and Leah H. Pillsbury ’07) performed stirring spoken word pieces, which rounded out the call-and-response tone of the evening...
...This is a song for the homeless,” sang Okechukwu Iweala ’06 to kick off the events at Kirkland’s Junior Common Room last Friday night. An audience of roughly 75 members of the Harvard community gathered to hear the sound of ten unique spoken word and rap artists perform at the “HipHOP” fundraiser...
...some stage, someone will believe in you and give you a go." That is a powerful mantra for the 21st century. Perhaps we could all be heroes if we practiced it. Veronica Daly Derryinver, Ireland I appreciated TIME's recognizing Nigeria's first female Finance Minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, as a hero for her efforts to fix the country's chaotic finances and clean up corruption. But many Nigerians would also love to see tribute paid to people like Gani Fawehinmi, Nigeria's most renowned human-rights lawyer and campaigner. Or the late Afro-beat band leader, saxophonist and political...
...Leverett House, John L. Beshears ’04, Emily S. Caplan ’04, Matthew R. Ciardiello ’04, Christopher T. Conlon ’04, Uzodinma C. Iweala ’04 and Emily Louise Nielson...
...Spoken Word Society member Okechukwu W. Iweala ’06 had performed a sprawling spoken word piece, and a pair of sibling Harvard graduates now working as independent journalists for Democracy Now! encouraged the onlooking students to persist in their activist efforts...