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THE W. E. B. DU BOIS MEDAL

Awarded since 2000, the Du Bois Medal is Harvard's highest honor in the field of African and Atrican American Studies. It is awarded to individuals in the U.S. and across the globe in recognition of their contributions to African American culture and the life of the mind.

Recipients have included scholars, artists, writers, journalists, philanthropists, and political figures whose work has bolstered the field of African and African American Studies.

THE H UTCHINS CENTER FOR AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN RESEARCH

Located in the heart of Harvard Square. the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research supports research on tile history and culture of people of African descent the world over and provides a forum for collaboration and the ongoing exchange of ideas. It seeks to stimulate scholarly engagement in African and Atrican American studies both at Harvard University and beyond, and to increase public awareness and understanding of this vital field of study.

The Hutchins Center comprises the W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute, the Afro-Latin American Research Institute, the Hipnop Archive & Research Institute, the Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of Af rican and African American Art, the Image of the Black Archive & Library, the History Design Studio, the Program in the Study of Race & Gender in Science & MediCine, the Du Bois Review, and Transition Magazine.

As the preeminent research center in the field, the Hutchins Center sponsors visiting fellows, art exhibitions, publications, research projects, archives, readings, conferences, and new media initiatives that respond to and excite interest in establ ished and emerging channels of inquiry in African and African American research.

THE HUTCHINS FAMILY FOUNDATION

The Hutchins Famity Foundation was established by Oebbie and Glenn Hutchins to expand research and community initiatives in public policy, educatioo, the environment and public health . Initiatives funded by the Hutchins Family Foundation encourage collaboration among leading public servants, scholars and educators to advance the publ ic good.

Hutchins Center for African & African American Research

W. E. B. DU BOIS MEDAL CEREMONY

H UTCHINS CENTER HONORS

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2nd I +00 PM

SANDERS TI-IEATRE I MEMO RI AL HALL -15 () UINCY S'I R EET I CilMBIU DC E


Kuumba Singers ......................................... . ..Lift Every Voice and Sing

Rev. Jonathan Walton ..

Henry Louis Gates, Jr ..

Glenn Hutchins ..

Wole SOyinka ... .

..Prayer

..Opening Remarks

.. Hutchins Center Introduction & Video

. ... ....... .. "Of the Training of Black Men" from The Souls of Black Folk

Deval Patrick ....... ...... ... .................................................. Regarding Valerie Jarrett

Diane Paulus ....... ....... ... ....................... ......... .... ....... ....... Regarding Tony Kushner

William Julius Wilson ........................................... <Of the Training of Black Men" from The Souls of Black Folk

Kuumba Singers .......... ................... ....... Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Tum Me Round

Bill Russel l ............ ....... ....................... .............. ................ Regarding David Stern

Martha Minow ........... ................................................ Regarding Sonia Sotomayor

Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham ... ................. ................. ."On Alexander Crummell" from The Souls of Black Folk

Glenn Hutchins .. ..Regarding John Lewis

Drew Gilpin Faust . .Regarding Steven Spielberg

lawrence D. Bobo. "A Negro Student at Harvard at the End of the 19th Century"

Rev. Jonathan Walton .. ..Benediction

Kuumba Singers .. South African National Anthem

PREVIOUS W. E. B. DU BOIS MEDALISTS

2013 Richard D. CQhen I Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham I Donald Yacovooe

200. Bob Hertler! I Hugh M. ' Srother Blue' Hi lll Charlayne Hunter-Gault I Vernon E. Jordan, Jr,

Joanne Kendall I Frank H. Pearl I Dan~1 and Joanna S. Rose I Shirley M. Tilghman

2008 Chinua Acheba I Richard Gilder I Ingrid Saunders-Jones I Donald E. NewhQuSll

Susan Newhouse I Richard l. Plepler I Tamara Robinson I Tavis Smiley

2007 Melba Pattllkl Baals I Elizabeth Ecktord I Richard Gilder I Ernest G Green

Barbara E. Johnson I Gloria Ray Karlmari<: I Carlotta Walls LaNier I Richard Musgrave Albert Murray I Terrence Roberts I JeHerson A. Thomas I Minnijean Brown Trickey

The lma Molhershed Wair I Vaughn Waters

200' Francois N·Sougan Albemagr'KIn I Ge.-ard Bissainthe I Aime Cesaire I Bernard DOOie

Rene Despestre I Moune de Rivel l Mamadou Dia I Yande Christiane Diop Marcelino Dos Santos I Manuel dos Santos Lima I Eoouard Glissant I Douglas E. Harris

Glenn Hutchins I Kenneth Ingraham I Richard Gilder I Pau lin Joachim I George Lamming Frederick A. Lucas. Jr. I Ferdinand Oyono I Marilynn S. Robnson I Assane Seck I Bach .. Toure

Atxloolaye Wade I Hubert Walters I Dennis w. Wiley

2005 Lawrence D. Bobo I Nadine Gordimer I Marcyiiena Morgan I Toni Morrison I Wolo Soyinka

Derok Walco1t

2004 Genevieve Fabre I Michel Fabre

2003 Richard Newman

2002 K. Anthony Appiah I COfnel West

2001 Harvey V. Fineberg

2000 Sheila Biddle I Randa ll K. Burke1t I C.T.W. Curle I Ridlard Ekman I Francesca E. Farmer

Clyde C. Ferguson I Alphonse Fletcher. Jr. I Diorita C. Fletcher I Danie l M. Fo~ George W. Goethals I Peter Gomes I Les~e Skip Griffin I Ewan Guinier

Charles Jofdan Hamilton, Jr. I Robert La Bret Hal l I Alan Helmert I Jeffrey P. Howard Octavia Hudson I Nathan I. Huggins I H. Stuart Hughes I QuiflGy Jones I Martin Kilson

Sewanyana G.M. Kironde. Jr. I Jeremy R. Knowles I Harry M. Lasker, 1111 Walter J. Leonard Gerak:l Levin I Robert L. Liste!1bee, Jr. I Gary T. Marx I Genevieve McMil lan

Dominique de Menill ElVin Montgomery, Jr. I Donald E. Newhouse I Susan Newtlouse Godfred P. Otuteye I Martin Payson I Anne Peretz I Martin Peretz I Wesley E. prom

Fr8f1klin D. Raines I Wendy F. Raines I Nancy Randoph I Dan~1 Rosa I Joanna S. Rose Henry Rosovsky I Neil L. Rudensline I Ruth J. Simmons I Carl S. Sloane

Cha r~s WOW. Smith Wemer SoIiors I Eileen Soutl1em I John D. Tyson I Craig Michael Watson John W.M. WMing I Preston N. Will iams I Thomas Samuel Williamson, Jr. I Ernesl J. Wilson, III

Cheryl Yvonne Wynn

PRESENTERS

Drew Gilpin Faust Prc ;iucnL Il:uy:mJ Unr.-.:rsityand Linwln " 1'01'6'-;01" of Il isTOIY

Introducing Steven Spielberg

Glenn Hutchins Co .. FolIl\ •. lcr. S,ln:r L'\k~ p" rtn('1"S

Introducing John Lewis

Martha Minow I- lorg;1I1 Jllu '-Iden C hu i:>"-Jil alld I ~·oli-... sorof 1,,\1\'.

Harurd I ~lW S. .. h,..,ol Introducing Sonia Sotomayor

Deval Patrick '" ,,,,mOL ST:l tC of i\ las." ,(;huSL'TTS

Introducing Valerie Jarrett

Diane Paulus Arti sril: IJillx"tor. l\.J\1l:rk an l{qX.,t()lY ' I ·ht';lt~r

Ha lY;\nJ l!nil'l:ls ity Introducing Tony Kushner

Bill Russell N,ltinn,tl B:l"kclb:tll As<;(Xi~tion H all of F~ll1e

Introducing David Stem

READERS

Lawrence D. Bobo \ V,E.B. Du Ho is J' lott"S.-;o r of thc Soci31 Scim ccs 'Illd

ChClir of thc JkpClrrnlcnt ofAliit'J.n and Aliit':lnAIllCrit~1Il Snll.l ics. J "m~lrd L ni1Crsity

Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham \,it'tor S . ' lllOmas l'rofc"sor of H isto l)' ,uk.! of AIi'iean and

t\ fikHl Amcril,1II Snl\Jic::;. I-i aly ,m.l Unil'crsity

Wale Sayinka Nobel 1.,\lIfC".llC and I-Ililch ins Fellow II the I-Illt\:hins Centt'r I,-,r

Afriean "nJ Am w n :\ mt'rk,,'n 1(C:;C,lrl:h

PRAYER AN D BENEDICTION

lonathan Walton J'IlSCY i\ linisK" in i\ k nKJriaJ Churdl :l1k.! l'l llmmcr J'rolC:s.sorof

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LIFr EVERY VOICE AND SING .lames \Veldoll JohnSOll

Lift every voice and sing . t ill earth and Heaven ring,

Ring with the harmonies of liberty ;

Let our rejoicing rise, high as the listening sk ies,

Lei it resound loud as the rolling sea.

Sing a song full of the faith that the dar1<: past has taught us,

Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us;

Faci ng the ris ing sun of our new day begun ,

Let us march on till victory is won.

Stony the road we trod, bitter the chastening rod ,

Felt in the days when hope unborn had died ;

Yet with a steady baat, have not our weary feet

Come to the place for which our fathers sighed?

We have come over a way that with tears has been watered:

We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered;

Out from the gloomy past, till now we stand at last

Where the white gleam of our bright star is cast

God of our weary years, God of our silent tears,

Thou Who hast brought us thu s far on the way;

Thou Who hast by Thy might , led us into the light,

Keep us forever in the path , we pray,

Lest our feet stray from the places, our God, where we met Thee.

Lest our hearts , drunk with the wine of the world , we forget Thee ,

Shadowed beneath Thy hand, may we forever stand ,

True to our God, true to our native land.

V ALERIE .JARRE'rr Senior Ad"isor to the President

Valerie B. Jarrett is a senior advisor to President Barack Obama. A member of his administration since his historic inauguration in 2009, Ms. Jarrett oversees the Offices of Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs and chairs the White House Council on Women and Girls, the mission of which is to ensure that Cabinet and Cabinet-level agencies consider the impact on their pol icies on the well-being of women, girls, and families, both domestically and internationally.

Beginn ing in 2008, Ms. Jarrett served as co-chair of the Obama-Biden Presidential Transition Team. As a senior advisor to the presidential campaign, she was its highest ranking African American and female team member.

Immediately prior to joining the Obama administration, Ms. Jarrett was the chief executive officer of the Chicago real estate development company The Habitat Company. Her connections 10 Chicago are deep. Born in Shiraz, Iran, she relocated to the city with her parents when she was a young child. Her grandfather, Robert Taylor. was an activist and chair of the Chicago Housing Authority; he resigned his position wilen Ihe cily council squelched efforts Ihal would al low for racially integrated housing . Ms. Jarrett held several positions in both the public and private sector in her adopted hometown before her relocation to Washington. She was chair of the Chicago Transit Board, commissioner of Planning and Development for the city, and depuly chief of slaff for Mayor Richard M. Daley. In addition, she practiced law with two private firms.

Ms. Jarrett has served as director of a number of corporate and not-far-profit boards. Her appointments include chairman of the board of the Chicago Stock Exchange , director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, and chairman of the University of Chk:ago Medical Center Board of Trustees.

Ms. Jarrett received her BA from Stanford University in 1978 and her J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School in 1981.

DAVID STERN C01ll1lli.%ioller. National Basketball Association

Dav id Stern is the commissioner of the National Basketball Association. On February " 2014, th irty years to the day l1e took the organization's reins, David Stern will retire from his poSition, leaving behind a league that during l1is tenure expanded dramatically in bolh size and scope. Its reach extends far beyond the paint, not just into more living rooms than ever, but also into communities in the United States and around the world.

Since 1984, the league has seen the creation of seven new franchises and two new leagues (the Women's National Basketball League and the NBA Development League) and enjoyed a

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thirtyfold increase in revenues. It has offices in fourteen global markets and sixteen language-specific web destinations, with games broadcast in 215 countries and territories in forty-seven languages. Hundreds of mi!1ions of fans get their scores from mobile applications and digital assets (NBA.com, WBNA.com, NBADLeague.com) at the flip of a switch or the touch of a finger. For those who still prefer viewing the game from the comfort of their couch, NBA TV is available in more than 61 million U.S. homes.

Mr. Stern's commitment to social responsibility has been unflagging. Recognizing the potential for players to influence children in a positive way, he oversaw the launch of NBA Cares in 2005. Since then, the NBA, its teams and players have raised more than $220 million for charity, provided more than 2.5 million hours of hands-on service to communities worldwide, and created more than 810 safe living and play spaces for children and their families. NBA Cares supports a host of community outreach initiatives, including internationally recognized youthserving programs such as Basketball Without Borders (BWB), which this summer brought players to camps in Argentina, South Africa, and Portugal.

Mr. Stern is the chair emeritus of the Trustees of Columbia University and serves or has served on many boards, including Beth Israel Medical Center, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the Martin Luther King Jr. Federal Holiday Commission , the Thurgood Marshall College Fund, Jazz at lincoln Center, and the Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Mr. Stern is a graduate of Rutgers University and Columbia Law School.

STEVEN SPIELBERG Fi Inlillaker

Steven Spielberg is one oltoday's most innuential and celebrated filmmakers. In 1975, at age 28, Steven Spielberg became a household name thanks to Jaws, the first ever film to earn $100 million. He stands as the top-grossing director of all time, having helmed other blockbusters such as E. T. the Extra- Terrestrial, the Indiana Jones franchise, and Jurassic Park.

Throughout his body of work, Mr. Spielberg explores topics personal, historical, and otherworldly, placing his characters in wildly different situations where tile individual must confront the unknown.

Nominated by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for Best Director several limes, most recently to( Lincoln (based in part on Doris Keams Goodwin's Team of Rivals and with a screenplay by Tony Kushner), he took home his first two Oscars in 1993, lor Best Director and Best Picture, for Schindler's List. His third Academy Award, also lor BeSI Director, came in 1998 for Saving Private Ryan. He also received the Directors Guild of America (DGA) Award for both films. With eleven OGA Award nominations to date, for films as varied as Close Encounters of the Third Kind and The Color Purple, E. T. and Amistad, Mr. Spielberg has been honored by his peers more than any other director. In 2000, he received the DGA's Lifetime Achievement Award. His numerous other career tributes include the Irving G. Thalberg Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Hollywood Foreign Press's Cecil B. DeMille Award, the Kennedy Center Honor, and the AFI Ufe Achievement Award.

He has had tremendous success as a producer as well . In 1984 he formed the production company, Amblin Entertainment A decade tater, he partnered with Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Getten to form the original DreamWorks Studios. In its new incamation, he and Stacy Snider lead DreamWorks in partnership with The Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group.

His philanthropic work is far- reaching. Mr. Spielberg is chairman emeritus of the Starlight Children's Foundation, which seeks to improve the lives and health care of chronically i ll chi ldren worldwide.

Convinced 01 the urgency to record personal histories after his work on Schindler's List, Mr. Spielberg established The Righteous Persons FOlJndatlon (RPA and the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation. Today the renamed USC Shoah Foundation Institute lor Visual Hislory and Education contains more than 52,000 interviews with witnesses to the Holocaust and other genocides. The RPF also trains its locus on our own nation, through its Inter1aith youth Core and Cultural Leadership granls promoting cooperation and crosscultural understanding among ethnically and religiously d iverse groups across America.

TOl\TY KUSHNER 1)I:tywrighr ami Screenwriter

Tony Kushner is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter. He consistently explores a wide range of provocative topics in his plays, from AIDS to Ameriean racism 10 Afghanistan. He is best known for his groundbreaking two-part epic drama Angels in America: A Gay Fan/asia on National Themes. His other plays include A Bright Room Called Day: Sfavst, HomebodylKabut, the musical Caroline, or Change, for which he wrote both book and lyrics; and The Infelligent Homosexual's Guide /0 Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures.

Born in New York and raised in Lake Charles, Louisi ana, Mr. Kushner is also noted for his distinctive translations and adaptations, among them S. Y. Ansky's Yiddish drama The Dybbuk, Bertolt Brecht's antiwar classic Mother Courage and Her Children, and the libretto for the Czech composer Hans Krasa 's children's opera 8rundib8r (Iirst per10rmed by child prisoners at the coocentration camp Theresiensladt in 1942). Other works include The Art of Maurice Sendak: 1980 to the Present, in which he expounds upon the work of his longtime friend (and libretto illustrator) , and Wrestling with Zion: Progressive Jewish-American Responses to the Israeli· Palestinian Conflict , co-ediled with the journalist Alisa Solomon.

In 2003 Mr. Kushner adapted Angels in America for an HBO mlnisenes drected by Mike Nichols. Two years later, he teamed with Steven Spielberg for the first time, co-authoring with Eric Roth the screenplay lor Munich. In 2012 he joined forces again with the director, writing the screenplay lor the film Lincoln. Nominated for an Academy Award, it won the New York Film Critics Circle Award, the Boston Sociely 01 film Critics Award, and a host of other awards.

These capped a long list of career awards for Mr. Kushner: the Pulitzer Prize fOf Drama, two Tonys, an Emmy, three Obies, a Spirit of Justice Award from the Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders, a Cultural Achievement Award from The National Foundation for Jewish Culture, and a Chicago Tribune Uterary Prize for liletime achievement. In 2008, Mr. Kushner became the first recipient oltha Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award, the largest theater award in the UniTed StaTes. In 2013, Mr. Kushner received the National Medal of Arts and HIJmanities. The Oscar-winning fi lmmaker Frieda Lee Mock turned her own lens on him in the documentary film, Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner.

Mr. Kushner has a B.A. from Columbia University.

.TOI IN LEWIS Un ited Stares Representarive

John Lewis has been the U_S. representative of Georgia's Fifth Congressional District since 1986. He is only the second African American to represent Georgia in Congress since Reconstruction.

Inspired by the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Reverend Or. Martin Luther King, the sharecroppers' son from Troy, Alabama, became a student leader at Fisk University, organizing sit-ins at Nashville's segregated lunch counters. In 1961 , he participated in the Freedom Rides, which chaJlenged segregation at interstate bus terminals across the Jim Crow South.

From 1963 to 1966, Mr. Lewis was chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). At just 23, he was an architect of the March on Washington and its youngest speaker. Fifty years later, standing in front of the Lincoln Memorial at the ' Let Freedom Ring" commemoration , Mr. Lewis praised the country's advances but pointed to the disparities and discrimination that persist.

During tne Mississippi Freedom Summer of 1964, Mr. Lewis coordinated SNCC voter registration drives. The following year, on March 7, 1965, he and activist Hosea Will iams led six hundred-plus marchers across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. Their goal: to march peacefully to Montgomery and demonstrate the state's urgent need for voting rights. The nonviolent protest was met with violence and rage. An indelible image of that day, dubbed "Bloody Sunday," shocked the nation: one of a young , kneeling John Lewis, hands behind his head, being beaten by an armed, helmeted, white Alabama state trooper. This image and others like it hastened the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

In 1981 he was elected to the Atlanta City Council. Five years later, he 8f1tered the U.S. Congress and in 2012 was reelected to a fourteenth consecutive term.

Mr. Lewis holds a B.A. in religion and pllilosophy from Fisk university and is a graduate of the American Baptist Theological Seminary in Nashvil le. He has received more than fifty honorary degrees from universities including Harvard University, Howard University, and Troy State University. In 2001 , the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation granted him its first Profile in Cou rage Award for Lifetime Achievement. In 2011, President Barack Obama awarded Mr. Lewis the nation's highest civilian honor, the Medal of Freedom.

Mr. Lewis is the author of three books: the graphic memoir trilogy MARCH, cowritten with Andrew Aydin and illustrated by Nate POINel1 (2013), Across That Bridge: Life Lessons and a Vision for Change (201 2) and Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement (1998) , written with Michael D'Orso.

SONIA SOTOMAYOR Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States

Sonia Sotomayor became an associate justice of Ina Supreme Court of the United States on August 8, 2009. Her appointment was historic: she is the first Hispanic justice to serve on the court, and its third female justice. In nominating her 10 the seat, President Barack Obama cited her distinguished career, but also her li fe story. Justice Sotomayor herself speaks frequent ly of her upbringing, aware of her position to influence and inspire children Irying to succeed in the face of adversity.

Justice Sotomayor's career inspirations were somewhat unconventional : the girl detective Nancy Drew and the TV lawyer Perry Mason . Born in the Bronx in 1954 to Puerto Rican parents, she became fluent in English only after her father passed away when she was nine years old. Once widowed, her motner worked six days a week to support ner two cnildren. Bolstered tremendously by her educationminded mother, Justice Sotomayor graduated as valedictorian of her high school class and earned a scholarship to Princeton University.

She was part of only the fourth class at Princeton to admit women. Justice Sotomayor was one of countless students who benefited from affirmative action and ran with the once-unattainable opportunities the program opened up to them. In 1976 she graduated summa cum laude with a BA in history. She accumulated other honors as well : election to Phi Beta Kappa and Princeton's highest undergraduate distinction, the M. Taylor Pyne Honor Prize, in recognition of her unmatched scholarship and leadership.

She earned her J.D. in 1979 from Yale Law School, where she served as editor of tile Yale Law Journal and co-chaired the Latin American and Native Am8fican Students Association. Upon graduation, she served for five years as an assistant district attorney in the New York County District Attorney's Office before joining the private firm of Pavia & Harcourt.

In 1992 Justice Sotomayor was appointed by President George H.W. Bush to the U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York , the youngest, the first Hispanic, and the first Puerto Rican woman to hold the position of federa l court judge . In 1995, she "saved baseball ,~ in Barack Obama's words, when her ruling effectively halted the Major League Baseball strike of 1991-1995. With a new president came a new appointment, and in 1998, President Bill Cl jnton appointed her to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, a position she would hold until 2009, when President Obama nominated her to fill the seat of the retiring Associate Justice David Souter.

Justice Sotomayor published her memoir, My Beloved World, at the beginning of this year.

STEVEN SPIELBERG Fi Inlillaker

Steven Spielberg is one oltoday's most innuential and celebrated filmmakers. In 1975, at age 28, Steven Spielberg became a household name thanks to Jaws, the first ever film to earn $100 million. He stands as the top-grossing director of all time, having helmed other blockbusters such as E. T. the Extra- Terrestrial, the Indiana Jones franchise, and Jurassic Park.

Throughout his body of work, Mr. Spielberg explores topics personal, historical, and otherworldly, placing his characters in wildly different situations where tile individual must confront the unknown.

Nominated by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for Best Director several limes, most recently to( Lincoln (based in part on Doris Keams Goodwin's Team of Rivals and with a screenplay by Tony Kushner), he took home his first two Oscars in 1993, lor Best Director and Best Picture, for Schindler's List. His third Academy Award, also lor BeSI Director, came in 1998 for Saving Private Ryan. He also received the Directors Guild of America (DGA) Award for both films. With eleven OGA Award nominations to date, for films as varied as Close Encounters of the Third Kind and The Color Purple, E. T. and Amistad, Mr. Spielberg has been honored by his peers more than any other director. In 2000, he received the DGA's Lifetime Achievement Award. His numerous other career tributes include the Irving G. Thalberg Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Hollywood Foreign Press's Cecil B. DeMille Award, the Kennedy Center Honor, and the AFI Ufe Achievement Award.

He has had tremendous success as a producer as well . In 1984 he formed the production company, Amblin Entertainment A decade tater, he partnered with Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Getten to form the original DreamWorks Studios. In its new incamation, he and Stacy Snider lead DreamWorks in partnership with The Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group.

His philanthropic work is far- reaching. Mr. Spielberg is chairman emeritus of the Starlight Children's Foundation, which seeks to improve the lives and health care of chronically i ll chi ldren worldwide.

Convinced 01 the urgency to record personal histories after his work on Schindler's List, Mr. Spielberg established The Righteous Persons FOlJndatlon (RPA and the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation. Today the renamed USC Shoah Foundation Institute lor Visual Hislory and Education contains more than 52,000 interviews with witnesses to the Holocaust and other genocides. The RPF also trains its locus on our own nation, through its Inter1aith youth Core and Cultural Leadership granls promoting cooperation and crosscultural understanding among ethnically and religiously d iverse groups across America.

TOl\TY KUSHNER 1)I:tywrighr ami Screenwriter

Tony Kushner is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter. He consistently explores a wide range of provocative topics in his plays, from AIDS to Ameriean racism 10 Afghanistan. He is best known for his groundbreaking two-part epic drama Angels in America: A Gay Fan/asia on National Themes. His other plays include A Bright Room Called Day: Sfavst, HomebodylKabut, the musical Caroline, or Change, for which he wrote both book and lyrics; and The Infelligent Homosexual's Guide /0 Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures.

Born in New York and raised in Lake Charles, Louisi ana, Mr. Kushner is also noted for his distinctive translations and adaptations, among them S. Y. Ansky's Yiddish drama The Dybbuk, Bertolt Brecht's antiwar classic Mother Courage and Her Children, and the libretto for the Czech composer Hans Krasa 's children's opera 8rundib8r (Iirst per10rmed by child prisoners at the coocentration camp Theresiensladt in 1942). Other works include The Art of Maurice Sendak: 1980 to the Present, in which he expounds upon the work of his longtime friend (and libretto illustrator) , and Wrestling with Zion: Progressive Jewish-American Responses to the Israeli· Palestinian Conflict , co-ediled with the journalist Alisa Solomon.

In 2003 Mr. Kushner adapted Angels in America for an HBO mlnisenes drected by Mike Nichols. Two years later, he teamed with Steven Spielberg for the first time, co-authoring with Eric Roth the screenplay lor Munich. In 2012 he joined forces again with the director, writing the screenplay lor the film Lincoln. Nominated for an Academy Award, it won the New York Film Critics Circle Award, the Boston Sociely 01 film Critics Award, and a host of other awards.

These capped a long list of career awards for Mr. Kushner: the Pulitzer Prize fOf Drama, two Tonys, an Emmy, three Obies, a Spirit of Justice Award from the Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders, a Cultural Achievement Award from The National Foundation for Jewish Culture, and a Chicago Tribune Uterary Prize for liletime achievement. In 2008, Mr. Kushner became the first recipient oltha Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award, the largest theater award in the UniTed StaTes. In 2013, Mr. Kushner received the National Medal of Arts and HIJmanities. The Oscar-winning fi lmmaker Frieda Lee Mock turned her own lens on him in the documentary film, Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner.

Mr. Kushner has a B.A. from Columbia University.

V ALERIE .JARRE'rr Senior Ad"isor to the President

Valerie B. Jarrett is a senior advisor to President Barack Obama. A member of his administration since his historic inauguration in 2009, Ms. Jarrett oversees the Offices of Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs and chairs the White House Council on Women and Girls, the mission of which is to ensure that Cabinet and Cabinet-level agencies consider the impact on their pol icies on the well-being of women, girls, and families, both domestically and internationally.

Beginn ing in 2008, Ms. Jarrett served as co-chair of the Obama-Biden Presidential Transition Team. As a senior advisor to the presidential campaign, she was its highest ranking African American and female team member.

Immediately prior to joining the Obama administration, Ms. Jarrett was the chief executive officer of the Chicago real estate development company The Habitat Company. Her connections 10 Chicago are deep. Born in Shiraz, Iran, she relocated to the city with her parents when she was a young child. Her grandfather, Robert Taylor. was an activist and chair of the Chicago Housing Authority; he resigned his position wilen Ihe cily council squelched efforts Ihal would al low for racially integrated housing . Ms. Jarrett held several positions in both the public and private sector in her adopted hometown before her relocation to Washington. She was chair of the Chicago Transit Board, commissioner of Planning and Development for the city, and depuly chief of slaff for Mayor Richard M. Daley. In addition, she practiced law with two private firms.

Ms. Jarrett has served as director of a number of corporate and not-far-profit boards. Her appointments include chairman of the board of the Chicago Stock Exchange , director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, and chairman of the University of Chk:ago Medical Center Board of Trustees.

Ms. Jarrett received her BA from Stanford University in 1978 and her J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School in 1981.

DAVID STERN C01ll1lli.%ioller. National Basketball Association

Dav id Stern is the commissioner of the National Basketball Association. On February " 2014, th irty years to the day l1e took the organization's reins, David Stern will retire from his poSition, leaving behind a league that during l1is tenure expanded dramatically in bolh size and scope. Its reach extends far beyond the paint, not just into more living rooms than ever, but also into communities in the United States and around the world.

Since 1984, the league has seen the creation of seven new franchises and two new leagues (the Women's National Basketball League and the NBA Development League) and enjoyed a

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thirtyfold increase in revenues. It has offices in fourteen global markets and sixteen language-specific web destinations, with games broadcast in 215 countries and territories in forty-seven languages. Hundreds of mi!1ions of fans get their scores from mobile applications and digital assets (NBA.com, WBNA.com, NBADLeague.com) at the flip of a switch or the touch of a finger. For those who still prefer viewing the game from the comfort of their couch, NBA TV is available in more than 61 million U.S. homes.

Mr. Stern's commitment to social responsibility has been unflagging. Recognizing the potential for players to influence children in a positive way, he oversaw the launch of NBA Cares in 2005. Since then, the NBA, its teams and players have raised more than $220 million for charity, provided more than 2.5 million hours of hands-on service to communities worldwide, and created more than 810 safe living and play spaces for children and their families. NBA Cares supports a host of community outreach initiatives, including internationally recognized youthserving programs such as Basketball Without Borders (BWB), which this summer brought players to camps in Argentina, South Africa, and Portugal.

Mr. Stern is the chair emeritus of the Trustees of Columbia University and serves or has served on many boards, including Beth Israel Medical Center, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the Martin Luther King Jr. Federal Holiday Commission , the Thurgood Marshall College Fund, Jazz at lincoln Center, and the Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Mr. Stern is a graduate of Rutgers University and Columbia Law School.

PRESENTERS

Drew Gilpin Faust Prc ;iucnL Il:uy:mJ Unr.-.:rsityand Linwln " 1'01'6'-;01" of Il isTOIY

Introducing Steven Spielberg

Glenn Hutchins Co .. FolIl\ •. lcr. S,ln:r L'\k~ p" rtn('1"S

Introducing John Lewis

Martha Minow I- lorg;1I1 Jllu '-Iden C hu i:>"-Jil alld I ~·oli-... sorof 1,,\1\'.

Harurd I ~lW S. .. h,..,ol Introducing Sonia Sotomayor

Deval Patrick '" ,,,,mOL ST:l tC of i\ las." ,(;huSL'TTS

Introducing Valerie Jarrett

Diane Paulus Arti sril: IJillx"tor. l\.J\1l:rk an l{qX.,t()lY ' I ·ht';lt~r

Ha lY;\nJ l!nil'l:ls ity Introducing Tony Kushner

Bill Russell N,ltinn,tl B:l"kclb:tll As<;(Xi~tion H all of F~ll1e

Introducing David Stem

READERS

Lawrence D. Bobo \ V,E.B. Du Ho is J' lott"S.-;o r of thc Soci31 Scim ccs 'Illd

ChClir of thc JkpClrrnlcnt ofAliit'J.n and Aliit':lnAIllCrit~1Il Snll.l ics. J "m~lrd L ni1Crsity

Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham \,it'tor S . ' lllOmas l'rofc"sor of H isto l)' ,uk.! of AIi'iean and

t\ fikHl Amcril,1II Snl\Jic::;. I-i aly ,m.l Unil'crsity

Wale Sayinka Nobel 1.,\lIfC".llC and I-Ililch ins Fellow II the I-Illt\:hins Centt'r I,-,r

Afriean "nJ Am w n :\ mt'rk,,'n 1(C:;C,lrl:h

PRAYER AN D BENEDICTION

lonathan Walton J'IlSCY i\ linisK" in i\ k nKJriaJ Churdl :l1k.! l'l llmmcr J'rolC:s.sorof

Clnisti'lIl i\1()ral~. H :llY;\rd L" nil 'r JSi ry

LIFr EVERY VOICE AND SING .lames \Veldoll JohnSOll

Lift every voice and sing . t ill earth and Heaven ring,

Ring with the harmonies of liberty ;

Let our rejoicing rise, high as the listening sk ies,

Lei it resound loud as the rolling sea.

Sing a song full of the faith that the dar1<: past has taught us,

Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us;

Faci ng the ris ing sun of our new day begun ,

Let us march on till victory is won.

Stony the road we trod, bitter the chastening rod ,

Felt in the days when hope unborn had died ;

Yet with a steady baat, have not our weary feet

Come to the place for which our fathers sighed?

We have come over a way that with tears has been watered:

We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered;

Out from the gloomy past, till now we stand at last

Where the white gleam of our bright star is cast

God of our weary years, God of our silent tears,

Thou Who hast brought us thu s far on the way;

Thou Who hast by Thy might , led us into the light,

Keep us forever in the path , we pray,

Lest our feet stray from the places, our God, where we met Thee.

Lest our hearts , drunk with the wine of the world , we forget Thee ,

Shadowed beneath Thy hand, may we forever stand ,

True to our God, true to our native land.


Kuumba Singers ......................................... . ..Lift Every Voice and Sing

Rev. Jonathan Walton ..

Henry Louis Gates, Jr ..

Glenn Hutchins ..

Wole SOyinka ... .

..Prayer

..Opening Remarks

.. Hutchins Center Introduction & Video

. ... ....... .. "Of the Training of Black Men" from The Souls of Black Folk

Deval Patrick ....... ...... ... .................................................. Regarding Valerie Jarrett

Diane Paulus ....... ....... ... ....................... ......... .... ....... ....... Regarding Tony Kushner

William Julius Wilson ........................................... <Of the Training of Black Men" from The Souls of Black Folk

Kuumba Singers .......... ................... ....... Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Tum Me Round

Bill Russel l ............ ....... ....................... .............. ................ Regarding David Stern

Martha Minow ........... ................................................ Regarding Sonia Sotomayor

Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham ... ................. ................. ."On Alexander Crummell" from The Souls of Black Folk

Glenn Hutchins .. ..Regarding John Lewis

Drew Gilpin Faust . .Regarding Steven Spielberg

lawrence D. Bobo. "A Negro Student at Harvard at the End of the 19th Century"

Rev. Jonathan Walton .. ..Benediction

Kuumba Singers .. South African National Anthem

PREVIOUS W. E. B. DU BOIS MEDALISTS

2013 Richard D. CQhen I Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham I Donald Yacovooe

200. Bob Hertler! I Hugh M. ' Srother Blue' Hi lll Charlayne Hunter-Gault I Vernon E. Jordan, Jr,

Joanne Kendall I Frank H. Pearl I Dan~1 and Joanna S. Rose I Shirley M. Tilghman

2008 Chinua Acheba I Richard Gilder I Ingrid Saunders-Jones I Donald E. NewhQuSll

Susan Newhouse I Richard l. Plepler I Tamara Robinson I Tavis Smiley

2007 Melba Pattllkl Baals I Elizabeth Ecktord I Richard Gilder I Ernest G Green

Barbara E. Johnson I Gloria Ray Karlmari<: I Carlotta Walls LaNier I Richard Musgrave Albert Murray I Terrence Roberts I JeHerson A. Thomas I Minnijean Brown Trickey

The lma Molhershed Wair I Vaughn Waters

200' Francois N·Sougan Albemagr'KIn I Ge.-ard Bissainthe I Aime Cesaire I Bernard DOOie

Rene Despestre I Moune de Rivel l Mamadou Dia I Yande Christiane Diop Marcelino Dos Santos I Manuel dos Santos Lima I Eoouard Glissant I Douglas E. Harris

Glenn Hutchins I Kenneth Ingraham I Richard Gilder I Pau lin Joachim I George Lamming Frederick A. Lucas. Jr. I Ferdinand Oyono I Marilynn S. Robnson I Assane Seck I Bach .. Toure

Atxloolaye Wade I Hubert Walters I Dennis w. Wiley

2005 Lawrence D. Bobo I Nadine Gordimer I Marcyiiena Morgan I Toni Morrison I Wolo Soyinka

Derok Walco1t

2004 Genevieve Fabre I Michel Fabre

2003 Richard Newman

2002 K. Anthony Appiah I COfnel West

2001 Harvey V. Fineberg

2000 Sheila Biddle I Randa ll K. Burke1t I C.T.W. Curle I Ridlard Ekman I Francesca E. Farmer

Clyde C. Ferguson I Alphonse Fletcher. Jr. I Diorita C. Fletcher I Danie l M. Fo~ George W. Goethals I Peter Gomes I Les~e Skip Griffin I Ewan Guinier

Charles Jofdan Hamilton, Jr. I Robert La Bret Hal l I Alan Helmert I Jeffrey P. Howard Octavia Hudson I Nathan I. Huggins I H. Stuart Hughes I QuiflGy Jones I Martin Kilson

Sewanyana G.M. Kironde. Jr. I Jeremy R. Knowles I Harry M. Lasker, 1111 Walter J. Leonard Gerak:l Levin I Robert L. Liste!1bee, Jr. I Gary T. Marx I Genevieve McMil lan

Dominique de Menill ElVin Montgomery, Jr. I Donald E. Newhouse I Susan Newtlouse Godfred P. Otuteye I Martin Payson I Anne Peretz I Martin Peretz I Wesley E. prom

Fr8f1klin D. Raines I Wendy F. Raines I Nancy Randoph I Dan~1 Rosa I Joanna S. Rose Henry Rosovsky I Neil L. Rudensline I Ruth J. Simmons I Carl S. Sloane

Cha r~s WOW. Smith Wemer SoIiors I Eileen Soutl1em I John D. Tyson I Craig Michael Watson John W.M. WMing I Preston N. Will iams I Thomas Samuel Williamson, Jr. I Ernesl J. Wilson, III

Cheryl Yvonne Wynn

THE W. E. B. DU BOIS MEDAL

Awarded since 2000, the Du Bois Medal is Harvard's highest honor in the field of African and Atrican American Studies. It is awarded to individuals in the U.S. and across the globe in recognition of their contributions to African American culture and the life of the mind.

Recipients have included scholars, artists, writers, journalists, philanthropists, and political figures whose work has bolstered the field of African and African American Studies.

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Located in the heart of Harvard Square. the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research supports research on tile history and culture of people of African descent the world over and provides a forum for collaboration and the ongoing exchange of ideas. It seeks to stimulate scholarly engagement in African and Atrican American studies both at Harvard University and beyond, and to increase public awareness and understanding of this vital field of study.

The Hutchins Center comprises the W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute, the Afro-Latin American Research Institute, the Hipnop Archive & Research Institute, the Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of Af rican and African American Art, the Image of the Black Archive & Library, the History Design Studio, the Program in the Study of Race & Gender in Science & MediCine, the Du Bois Review, and Transition Magazine.

As the preeminent research center in the field, the Hutchins Center sponsors visiting fellows, art exhibitions, publications, research projects, archives, readings, conferences, and new media initiatives that respond to and excite interest in establ ished and emerging channels of inquiry in African and African American research.

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The Hutchins Famity Foundation was established by Oebbie and Glenn Hutchins to expand research and community initiatives in public policy, educatioo, the environment and public health . Initiatives funded by the Hutchins Family Foundation encourage collaboration among leading public servants, scholars and educators to advance the publ ic good.

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