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Cecilia C. Ekperi ’09, a leader of Harvard’s black community remembered by friends for her outgoing personality, died last Thursday after she fell ill during a basketball game...
...Ekperi was playing basketball at the National Cathedral School in Washington D.C. with three other friends. After taking a shot and landing on her feet, she sat down on the ground, and then proceeded to lay prone on the floor. The three friends, including Patrick Jean Baptiste ’09, thought that Ekperi was playing a joke and was pretending to be hurt. The two other friends were not Harvard students...
Macey also added that she and others will plan a memorial service for Ekperi when students return to campus in the fall...
...Ekperi, who was of Nigerian descent, is survived by her parents and an older sister, Macey said...
...Ekperi was also a member of BlackCAST, and served as sound technician for the group’s April performance of "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf/For Black Boys Who Have Considered Homicide When the Streets Were Too Much," at the Loeb Experimental Theater...