While legal battles mount around Harvey Weinstein, the former Hollywood hitmaker who has been accused of sexual misconduct by at least 47 women, various establishments are determining how to strip him of the honorifics and awards he was given in the past, while collaborators determine how best to break away from the tainted Weinstein Company.
The ousted mogul has already been booted from the Motion Picture Academy and the Producers Guild of America. Meanwhile, French President Emmanuel Macron personally announced that he is figuring out the next steps to take away Weinstein’s Legion of Honor award. Now, Harvard University is announcing that it will revoke the Du Bois medal he was awarded in 2014, according to Variety. Their decision was made mere hours after Channing Tatum announced that his upcoming film, an adaptation of a novel that deals with themes of sexual abuse, would no longer be produced by the Weinstein Company.The Harvard award is named after W.E.B. Du Bois and given to figures who have contributed significantly to African and African-American culture; honorees in 2014, Weinstein’s year, included Oprah Winfrey and Harry Belafonte. On Tuesday night, the Executive Committee of the Hutchins Center for African and African American…
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