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More Than Two Weeks Later, Harvard Pulls Plug on Harvey Weinstein African-American Honor, But What About the Money Trail?

More Than Two Weeks Later, Harvard Pulls Plug on Harvey Weinstein African-American Honor, But What About the Money Trail?

CAMBRIDGE — Days after a New Boston Post exposé documented in detail Harvard University's 2014 awarding of its W.E.B. Du Bois medal to embattled Hollywood film producer Harvey Weinstein, the elite Ivy League institution has elected to rescind the honor — but will the school's affiliated nonprofit theater act similarly with Weinstein's financial largesse? Weinstein, the subject of an explosive October 5 New York Times report alleging a lengthy history of sexual abuse and subsequent efforts to co

CAMBRIDGE — Days after a New Boston Post exposé documented in detail Harvard University's 2014 awarding of its W.E.B. Du Bois medal to embattled Hollywood film producer Harvey Weinstein, the elite Ivy League institution has elected to rescind the honor — but will the school's affiliated nonprofit theater act similarly with Weinstein's financial largesse? Weinstein, the subject of an explosive October 5 New York Times report alleging a lengthy history of sexual abuse and subsequent efforts to co…