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By Matt Rocheleau, Boston.com Staff Babson MIT Bentley Northeastern Two grandsons of the late Nelson Mandela are scheduled to visit Brandeis University Berklee Simmons tonight to deliver the keynote address of the school’s third annual social justice festival, Boston College Suffolk 'DEIS Impact. Boston University Tufts Brandeis UMass Boston Brandeis officials said that while the campus was closed Wednesday due to a Emerson Wellesley snowstorm, the speech and other festival activities were still scheduled to happen from Harvard 7:30 to 9 p.m. in the Levin Ballroom of the Usdan Student Center Recent blog posts Mandela’s grandsons, Kweku Mandela-Amuah and Ndaba Mandela, plan to discuss the Q&A with Tony Matelli, artist behind Wellesley College's formation of their foundation, Africa Rising, and their efforts to promote a positive scantily-clad sleepwalking statue image of Africa and to instill a sense of pride and purpose in young Africans across the Clashes between Israeli forces, students at Palestinian globe, campus officials said. university sparks concern at Brandeis Group trying to save BU men's wrestling program seeks New Balance boycott The keynote speech, "Africa Rising: The Mandela legacy and the next generation of Group says MIT should double amount of graduate student African leadership," was organized in collaboration with the Ruth First Lecture Series housing it plans to build sponsored by the African and Afro-American Studies Department, officials said. Vans footwear company launches four-year scholarship at Berklee College of Music Last year's keynote speakers at the festival, actress Eliza Dushku and her mother, Judy,

also plan to attend today’s talk, officials said. ADVERTISEMENT

Judy Dushku is the founder of THRIVE-Gulu, an organization that addresses post- conflict concerns in Uganda, including child soldiers, sex slavery, officials said. Get Updates Matt Rocheleau can be reached at [email protected]. Looking for more coverage of area colleges and universities? Go to our Your Campus pages. My Yahoo RSS Feed

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