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expectedly) show up once they learn o f the "w e
accept anyone" m entality o f this new university.
A young African Am erican actor, choreogra­
pher and dancer. Short is making a nam e for
himself. His previous film credits include roles in
"W ar o f the W orlds" and "Y ou Got Served." His
television credits include roles on ER. Judging
Amy and T h ai’s So Raven.
He has taken acting roles w ith pop superstars
such as Britney Spears. Ashanti and Brandy.
An Evening of Stars Salute
Aretha headlines
college fund
special
The United N egroC ollegeF und
will present A retha Franklin, the
undisputed “Q ueen o f Soul," its
prestigious Award o f Excellence
during the taping o f ‘An Evening
o f S tars' television special next
month.
Franklin will be the first female
artist to receive the award. Previ­
ous honorees have been Lou Rawls,
Q uincy Jones and Stevie W onder.
The three-hour concert tribute will
air nationw ide in late January.
Franklin will receive the honor
for her longstanding and generous A reth a Franklin
support o f the U N C F’s m ission to
provide deserving students with philanthropy on behalf o f num er-
access to higher education, as well ous other causes.
as for her w ell-know n activism and
A m u sic in d u s try le g e n d ,
Fran k I i n has con tri buted her
fame, talent and money to
num erous other causes and
organizations,including the
Dance T heatre o f Harlem,
the NAACP, sickle cell ane­
m ia research and drunk
driving aw areness and pre­
vention.
"U N C F is d elig h ted to
sh o w A re th a F ra n k lin
som e o f the R -E -S -P-E -C -
T that she has show n us
for so m any y ears," said
M ichael L. L om ax, p resi­
dent and C E O o f U N CF.
"A s an artist, an en te r­
tain er, and a citiz en , her
ca reer has estab lish ed a
sta n d a rd o f e x c e lle n c e
ex e m p lifie s the e d u ­
c a tio n a l d is tin c tio n to
w hich o u r m em ber co lleg e s are
d ed icated and to w hich they hold
th e ir stu d en ts."
As one o f the most revered art­
ists in the music industry, Franklin
has earned 17 G ram m y awards, 17
No. I R&B singles, a Presidential
Medal o f Freedom, a Kennedy Cen
ter Honor, a National Medal of Arts,
and was the first woman to be in­
ducted into the Rock anil Roll Hall
o f Fame.
H er long list o f hits includes
"C h a in o l F o o ls," "Y o u M ake Me
Feel (L ike a N atural W om an),"
“T h in k ," “ Baby I Love Y ou,"
"T he H ouse T hat Jack B u ilt,"an d
o f co u rse "R e sp e c t" her m ost
fam ous hit song, w hich becam e a
sy m b o l o f both fem in in e and
black pride in the 1960s.
F ra n k lin ’s last stu d io album .
S o D am n H appy, w as released to
critical acclaim in 2005. Her debut
release on her very own A retha
R ecords, "A W om an Falling Out
o f L o v e," isc u rre n tly being rea d ­
ied fo ra January 2007 release date.
Rap Superstar Adopts World Cause
Jay-Z promotes
‘Water for Life’
campaign
upon that, if the inform ation was
out and young people knew that
these problem s exist w hile we're
having Poland Springs at Cipriani
and things like that, that we'll get
involved," said the 36-year-old rap­
(AP) - Jay-Z boycotted premium per. referring to the high-class res­
cham pagne Cristal at hisclubs after taurant chain.
the brand's ow ner made some re­
Jay-Z, whose real name is Shawn
m arks he didn't like. Now the rap Carter, said he had been looking for
superstar has a new favorite drink: a way to help people, and when he
water.
visited Africa on tour he w as struck
Jay-Z , president o f D ef Jam at how many o f the world's poor
Records, team ed up with the United lacked such a basic necessity.
N ations and MTV last week to get
"As I started looking around
children involved in the fight against and looking at ways that I could
the w orldwide w ater crisis. He ci ted become helpful, it started at the first
statistics that 1.1 billion people live thing - water, som ething as simple
w ithout clean drinking w ater and as water," he said at a news confer­
2.6 billion lack proper sanitation.
ence at U.N. headquarters. "It took
"I figure that once I stum bled very little, very little to see these
Jay-Z
num bers."
MTV film crews will follow the
rapperon his worldwide tour, which
begins S ep t.9. "The Diary o f Jay-Z:
W ater for Life" will feature first-
person accounts o f m eetings with
people around the world who lack
water, MTV President Christina
Norman said.
Jay-Z said he wants to build
I .(KM)"play pumps" in Africa by the
time the tour is over. T he device
features a rudim entary merry-go-
round that pum ps w ater from a wel I
into a storage tank as it spins.
U.N. S ecretary-G eneral Kofi
A nnan rec alle d how P resident
Kennedy once rem arked that any­
one who could solve the world's
water problems would get two Nobel
Prizes - on»; for peace and one for
science.
"Together, we may yet inspire a
young view er to take up President
K ennedy's challenge, and claim
both those Nobel Prizes," Annan
said.
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