Word: soledad
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...Harvard Black Students Association kicked off Black History Month Friday with its fourth annual Crimson & Black Banquet in Kirkland House, honoring CNN political correspondent Soledad M. O’Brien ’88. Entitled “The Good Fight: Champions and Political Change,” the banquet celebrated student public service initiatives and political efforts surrounding the campaign and inauguration of president Barack Obama. “This time we were history. This time we changed history,” said George J. J. Hayward ’11, the BSA’s political action chair...
...Soledad M. O’Brien ’88 is the host of the CNN Special Investigations Unit and anchored the July, 2008 CNN special, “Black in America.” Of Afro-Cuban descent, O’Brien is a member of both the National Association of Black Journalists and the National Association of Hispanic Journalists. Prior to her keynote address at the Black & Crimson Banquet, O’Brien spoke with The Crimson by phone about her career as a journalist and her undergraduate years at Harvard. The Harvard Crimson: How does the election...
...most environmentally responsible office buildings In addition to financial and environmental concerns by the protesters, other activist groups, such as City Life/Vida Urbana, also accused Bank of America of contributing to the steady rise in homelessness in the Boston area by evicting families who fall behind on mortgage payments. Soledad Lawrence, a tenant organizer for City Life/Vida Urbana, said that the evictions are particularly devastating to communities of color. “It’s Katrina without the water,” said Lawrence, referring to this situation. Approximately half an hour into the rally, protesters marched down Brattle...
...journals—Transition and the Du Bois Review—is undergoing reorganization, with Laurie Calhoun now overseeing both publications as director of publications.Black Alumni Weekend, which runs until Sunday, will feature notable alums such as Mayor Kenneth E. Reeves ‘72 and Soledad M. O’Brien ’88, anchorwoman on CNN’s American Morning. On Saturday, Stephanie K. Bell-Rose ’79, who is a managing director at Goldman Sachs and president of the Goldman Sachs Foundation, will be delivering the keynote address.—Staff writer...
...Spanish village, as dozens of widows polish the tombstones of their late husbands. It is a collective act of devotion, of civic pride and maybe (from what we learn later in the film) of atonement. Among the mourner-scrubwomen are two sisters, Raimunda (Penélope Cruz) and Soledad (Lola Dueñas), tending the grave of their mother Irene (Carmen Maura), dead these four years. Visiting Irene's older, failing sister Aunt Paula (Chus Lampreave), they hear the daft woman's claim that she has been cared for by Irene's ghost. This is dismissed as sweet dementia, until...