Word: lumumba
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...past week also saw the Harvard Black Men’s Forum elect its executive board for the 2006-2007 school year. Charles J. Hamilton III ’07 and Michael P. Anderson ’08 were elected president and vice president, respectively. Other winners were Lumumba B. Seegars ’09, brotherhood chair; Xavier DelRosario ’09, social chair; Brandon K. Arrindell ’08, treasurer; and Felix Koskey ’09, secretary...
...People outside the college community are always commenting on how positive and unique these sorts of events are,” said Nicole M. Laws ’06, president of the Association of Black Harvard Women and former co-chair of its Tribute to Black Men. Lumumba B. Seegars ’09, a BMF member and performer at the celebration, pressed the importance of such a forum in a “society focused on the objectification of women...their bodies and not their minds, actions or achievements.” The multi-generational scope of the evening?...
...King’s message. “We want to save Martin Luther King from becoming an American hero,” Rushing said, arguing that it is easy to build statues in honor of dead heroes, but much harder to carry on their dreams with real action. Lumumba B. Seegars ’09, who read an excerpt from King’s “I See the Promised Land,” said he wants to see the issues of multicultural dialogue being discussed more often than one day a year. Student speakers spoke on behalf...
...even tightened the ban, dropping the word political and adding that nobody "acting on behalf of" the U.S.--such as contract killers--could assassinate someone. The ban was issued, it will be recalled, because the CIA had been trying to bump off a lot of world leaders, from Patrice Lumumba in the Congo to Castro in Cuba, where the agency hired the Mafia to try to put botulinum toxin in Castro's soup...
...three brothers had a dream," says Fontenot, "to become professionals, buy a building and practice there together." Ford's elder brother James Britt is an attorney, and his younger brother Sekou is a doctor, but, says Fontenot, "Lumumba's ideas about who he wanted to be when he grew up changed. His goals were more related to his heart." His family expected that his future would involve aiding Muslim charities and studying the Koran. The U.S. saw his future in terrorism. Now it's with the courts. --With reporting by Hannah Beech/Shanghai, Simon Elegant/Kuala Lumpur and Polly Forster and Nathan...