Television and film actress. Talk show host. Record label president. Queen Latifah wears all these hats and more. On Sunday, February 18, Queen Latifah will share her experiences in the music industry and her reflections on Black History Month as she delivers the 2001 Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Lecture at Wellesley College.
Tickets are free, but due to a large anticipated audience, advance reservations are required.
In December, she was part of a panel at Harvard Law School that discussed the racial profiling of hip-hop as an industry and a culture. For the past decade, she has run, with her business partner, Flavor Unit Entertainment, which includes a record label, an artist management company, and television and film production companies. In addition to her many business enterprises, Queen Latifah has established the Lancelot H. Owens Foundation, in memory of her brother, which awards scholarships to worthy and needy students. She also devotes a generous amount of her time to charities, especially those that support children and AIDS research. Harambee House and Ethos , an African American student organization, are hosting Queen Latifah's visit to Wellesley as their annual Quintessence Day lecture, a celebration of the proud legacy Black women have bestowed upon this nation and the world as a whole.