Queen Latifah to Be Honored With<br />Harvard’s W.E.B. Du Bois Medal.<br />Harvard University recently<br />named Queen Latifah as one<br />of seven recipients of the<br />W.E.B. Du Bois Medal.<br />She will receive the medal on Oct. 22 alongside<br />others such as philanthropist Sheila Johnson, artist<br />Kerry James Marshall and poet Rita Dove.<br />The medal is named in commemoration of<br />Du Bois’s feat as the first black student to graduate<br />with a doctorate degree from Harvard in 1895. .<br />Receiving the medal is considered<br />one of Harvard’s highest honors.<br />According to Harvard, the medal is awarded to<br />individuals who contribute to African and African<br />American culture and the “life of the mind.”.<br />Recipients have included scholars, artists,<br />writers, journalists, philanthropists, and public<br />servants whose work has bolstered the field of<br />African and African American studies, via Harvard University .<br />Other well-known past recipients of the medal include<br />Quincy Jones, Colin Kaepernick and Oprah Winfrey.
