Word: reeveses
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For six years, Smith College Professor Eric Reeves has fought non-stop to draw the world’s attention towards atrocities committed by Sudan’s rulers. Even while undergoing chemotherapy for leukemia at Boston’s Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Reeves fielded calls from reporters on...
As a Renaissance literature expert, Reeves might be an improbable figure to lead a broad-based human rights advocacy movement. And in recent months, Reeves has found even more unlikely allies in his quest: the three members of Harvard’s Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (CCSR).
“That was a huge statement,” Reeves says. “In Khartoum, it went off like a bomb....The first company to leave will put enormous pressure on all the others.”
Meanwhile, Reeves is receiving encouraging signs on another front.
Granting marriage licenses to same-sex couples “fulfilled our mission to fight for freedom for all,” said Councillor Kenneth E. Reeves ’72 before the ceremony. Reeves said the fact that Cambridge was the first city in the nation to offer those...