Six luminaries to receive Du Bois Medal
Harvard University announced today that it will award the W.E.B. Du Bois Medal, its highest honor in the field of African and African-American studies, to six leaders across government, the arts, and athletics during a ceremony on Oct. 2. The honorees are Valerie Jarrett, senior adviser to the president of the United States; Tony Kushner, playwright; Rep. John Lewis, U.S. congressman; Justice Sonia Sotomayor, associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States; Steven Spielberg, director; and David Stern, commissioner of the National Basketball Association. The medal ceremony will also mark the launch of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, in recognition of a generous gift of more than $15 million from the Hutchins Family Foundation, which was endowed by Glenn Hutchins ’77, J.D. ’83, M.B.A. ’83. Hutchins is co-founder of Silver Lake, one of the world’s largest firms investing in technology companies. Since 2000, the Du Bois Medal...