Word: riversing
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A crowd of about 60 students gathered in Sever Hall as Rev. Eugene V. Rivers III urged them to take action against the Sudanese government.
“There’s no way my main man Larry Summers could avoid a direct appeal regarding the issue in Sudan,” said Rivers, who has been painted as a challenger to the Rev. Jesse Jackson as America’s most influential black leader...
Rivers, who dropped out of Harvard in his junior year in 1983, spoke extensively about the importance of a national black movement to stop the killing in Darfur.
“Just as the Jewish community realized at a certain point that they needed to mobilize for themselves in order to challenge the Holocaust, so must black people mobilize,” Rivers responded.
Wiesel is the author of almost three dozen books. His first, Night, was published in English in 1960 and is a fictional story of a young boy suffering in a concentration camp. He has also written two memoirs, All Rivers Run to the Sea and And the Sea is Never...