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Robyn Rihanna Fenty — Havard's 2017 Humanitarian of The Year


     The Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations named the global musical artist and philanthropist, Robyn "Rihanna" Fenty, The 2017 Humanitarian of The Year. Receiving the 'Peter J. Gomes Humanitarian Award' Rihanna goes down in history with other big respected names like Martin Luther King Jr. and Lionel Richie who has also garnered the award; yet, Rihanna is the first and only female artist to be awarded this award. Rihanna was very deserving of this award, as she continuously uses her celebrity to raise awareness on serious issues around the world.

     Back in 2012, Rihanna founded the Clara Lionel Foundation in honor of her grandparents, which is a nonprofit organization, to help impoverished communities across the global fight against injustice and inequality with education and healthcare. The CLF has held an annual Diamond Ball which is a charity fundraisers, in 2014 and 2015 the ball raised over +$2 million.  The founder of the Clara Lionel Foundation has improved cancer treatment and diagnoses, by setting up an state-of-the-art oncology and nuclear medicine center at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in her native country Barbados. Within the Clara Lionel Foundation she has made a Scholarship Program for students who wished to attend college in the United States that were from Carribean countries. In 2012, Rihanna was apart of MAC cosmetics Viva Glam campaign, which benefits women, men, and children that have been affected by HIV/AIDS and eventually raised $50 million dollars from proceeds of the lipstick. In the past year, Rihanna was named the Global Education Ambassador for Global Partnership for Education(GPE) as well as Global Citizen; as she teamed up with them to amplify their efforts to ensure that +250 million children across 60 developing countries receive a quality education.

Here are all of the charities she has contributed to as well:

  • Alzheimer's Association
  • Bear Necessities Pediatric Cancer Foundation
  • Believe Foundation
  • BID 2 BEAT AIDS
  • City of Hope 
  • Clara Lionel Foundation
  • Designers Against AIDS
  • DKMS
  • DoSomething.org
  • Entertainment Industry Foundation
  • Feeding America
  • GRAMMY Foundation
  • Kids Wish Network
  • Live Earth
  • Los Angeles Police Memorial Foundation
  • Mission Australia
  • MusiCares
  • Raising Malawi
  • Red Cross
  • Shriners Hospital for Children
  • Stand Up To Cancer
  • The Black Eyed Peas Foundation
  • UNICEF

    Needless to say, Rihanna was perfect to be this year's recipient of the Harvard Foundation Humanitarian of The Year award. Rihanna has countlessly used her celebrity to help improve the lives of others as much as she can and this was an amazing way to thank her for all that she has done. Congratulations Rihanna —Such a great way to end Black History Month.— f u
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