Word: homelessness
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...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...
...started in 1990 by a handful of Harvard professors who sought to “solve the problem of homelessness structurally,” Chou says, because while so many programs focus strictly on fighting homelessness with shelters, programs to help people in danger of becoming homeless in the first place are few and far between...
...aims to prevent homelessness by providing aid in the form of generous loans to “people in tough financial circumstances, with no access to loans from banks, and [who] have bad credit history,” says Chou. In addition to offering loans worth one or two months’ rent to people in danger of eviction, according to Chou, HOP also aids those already homeless to get back on their feet by “provid[ing] money to people in homeless shelters for help with housing...
...Okechukwu, whose reflections on modern social issues were reminiscent of contemporary rappers Kanye West and Nas. With his powerful vocalizations and rhythmic rocking, Oke took a strong stab at the state of today’s society when he asked, “This is a song for the homeless, but do y’all cats really take notice...
After Terry’s performance, an unassuming young male by the name of Michael A. Gould-Wartofsky ’07 took the stage to deliver what he referred to as a “narrative poem [that] tells of the devastation of a homeless mother and her child, a living poetry that’s allowed to die on the steps of a church in the cold of winter...