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Ndaba Mandela explores African equality, future Grandson of Nelson Mandela calls for student empowerment through African heritage BY GENEVIEVE HUMMER Daily Staff Reporter
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TOP: Engineering sophomore Chloe Henderson and LSA sophomore Adelia Davis lead the Circle of Unity, a series of performances and speakers in honor of Martin Luther King Jr., Monday in the Diag. BOTH MIDDLE: Students participate in the Circle of Unity by standing together in the Diag for an hour on Monday. BOTTOM: Musician Joe Reilly sings in the Circle of Unity Monday on the Diag.
Ndbaba Mandela spoke to more than 500 students, faculty and community members Monday, detailing his upbringing, problems that plag ue Africa today and the work he is doing to combat them. Mandela, the grandson of the late South African President Nelson Mandela, was the keynote speaker for the 2015 William K. McInally Memorial Lecture, sponsored by the Ross School of Business and the Office of Academic Multicultural Initiatives, and held in the Blau Auditorium at the Business School. He referenced Martin Luther King, Jr. several times, beginning and ending his lecture with excerpts from King ’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech. Mandela championed progress and social equality throughout his lecture, emphasizing the struggle of the African people. “The American Dream is pervading every part of society across the world but we, as Africans, do not want the American Dream, we want the African Dream,” Mandela said. He said his experiences abroad motivated him to form his own nongovernmental organization, Africa Rising, to spread awareness about African culture and society. “We see ourselves creating a new breed of young Africans that will empower themselves to develop the continent from within, raising the pride and the confidence of young Africans,” he said. “So that when they travel, when they engage with travelers that have come to visit us, that they will talk about Africa with a certain pride and confidence.”
Africa Rising strives to educate and empower young Africans, contribute to the development of Africa and spread awareness to those outside the continent. The organization is currently working to develop a resource center in the small village where Mandela’s grandfather was raised. The center, which plans to house a library and technolog y center, is slated to educate African children so that they can compete on a global scale. Mandela said the biggest obstacle South Africa faces is its lack of quality and accessible education. “The primary barrier that we have in South Africa, and probably across the continent is skills and training,” he said. “We do not have the skills nor the information to service our people, hence we are always working with Europe, with China, etcetera, to get people with skills to come in to service our people.” Mandela branched beyond Africa’s internal struggles and acknowledged that the fight for racial and economic equality across the world is far from over. He called on students to recognize the sacrifice needed to create social change. “Some of us have to take public positions, we have to sacrifice, g uys,” he said. “That is why we talk about these leaders because they sacrificed everything, including their own families. “My grandfather Nelson Mandela sacrificed his own family to become the man that he became and he will tell you, ‘If I was put in the same position I wouldn’t change anything, I would do it again.’ ” LSA freshman Taylor Rick was drawn to Mandela’s platform, “The Power of One,” and felt a desire to learn more about Africa. “People don’t know enough about the problems in Africa so that’s why I came. I’m just not informed,” Rick said. “It has opened my eyes to what I need to do and what I need to learn.”
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‘U’ professors say Beethoven’s heartbeat influenced his music
HuffPost Live host discusses King’s vision for race relations
Research shows composer’s cardiac arrhythmia mirrors tempo, key changes
Keynote speaker encourages listening, unity in today’s society
key changes or tempo changes — and speculates these irregular rhythms may mimic the arrhythmic rhythms of Beethoven’s own heart. Whiting said the idea for the essay emerged out of interdisciplinary curiosity. “It started because of two musically-inclined doctors and a musically-inclined musicologist who wondered together whether this visceral connection to his own heartbeat might add yet another dimension to Beethoven’s music,” he said. The group studied the rhythmic patterns of several compositions of Beethoven, focusing in particular on passages that were both emotionally stimulating and rhythmically irregular. These irregularities were striking, the authors wrote. Whiting said they compared electrocardiograms, which measure electrical activity of the heart, with the music. They
concluded that Beethoven’s own Hill said the U.S. is also cardiac arrhythmia, a condition missing a sense of unity and that causes the heart to beat with is inhibited by a lack of conan irregular rhythm, may have versation surrounding issues influenced some of the rhythms. important to others, but not Beethoven has been linked necessarily a priority to ourwith a host of other health selves. For example, Hill said BY MAYA SHANKAR problems as well, such as liver BY LEA GIOTTO people may be more concerned Daily Staff Reporter disease, kidney disease and deafDaily Staff Reporter with educational reform comness. pared to prison reform, since Fans of Ludwig van Beethoven His deafness, the authors Kicking off the Martin the former is an issue potenmay find his compositions heartwrote in the essay, could have Luther King Jr. Symposium, tially more relevant to them. felt, but their sentiments may be also contributed to a heightened Marc Lamont Hill, host of Though King would not more accurate than they realize. sense of awareness of his own HuffPost Live and BET News, have argued for unanimity or An essay published in Perspecheartbeat. delivered a keynote lecture for everyone to work togethtives in Biology and Medicine by “If you were to sit in silence for to a full Hill Auditorium on er, Hill said King would have Musicology Prof. Steven M. Whita while, you would become more Monday morning. wanted everyone to take the ing; Dr. Joel Howell, professor of aware of your heartbeat,” HowHill spoke on King’s life first step of listening to one history of medicine and Dr. Zachell said. “Beethoven’s world was and legacy in the context of another. ary D. Goldberger, cardiologist silent.” current social conditions in To fully understand King’s at the University of Washington One of the passages studied, the United States. desire for listening, Hill said, School of Medicine, suggests that “Cavatina,” is a movement in “Today, January 2015, pres- Americans must reconstruct Beethoven’s music may have been Beethoven’s String Quartet in ents a particularly interest- conceptions of history. influenced by his own heartbeat. B-flat Major, Opus 130. It is the ing and compelling moment “We remember King as the The essay examines the slow movement in the quartet to think through: Dr. Martin father of democracy and modunusual rhythms found in some and has been long recognized ashttp://sudokusyndication.com/sudoku/generator/print/ Luther King’s life and legacy ern democracy, the patriarch Sudoku Syndication of Beethoven’s most famous exhibiting overwhelming emoat a moment when his life of the Civil Rights Movement, compositions — such as sudden tional force. In the passage, the and legacy has been hijacked the leader of empowered lower strings throb slow repeatby all sides, at a time where struggle … But the truth is ing notes, while the first violin is he has been transformed or Dr. King dies an enemy of rhythmically unhinged from the reduced into a sort of revo- the state. April 4th, 1968, lower voices. lutionary or multicultural People Magazine denies Dr. “The passage is almost too action figure,” Hill said. 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But this is our reality as speech covered points that It could also be referring to the we enter this moment. What relate closely to the recent pressure felt on the heart that is would King say about this?” controversial deaths of Black associated with cardiac arrhythHill said King’s idea of rad- citizens, such as Trayvon mia. ical listening, a practice Hill Martin, Eric Garner and “We talk about music being sees as absent from a cur- Tamir Rice. heartfelt, and it is interesting rent age defined by “preoc“We’ve been reenacting the because in some cases, music cupation with the self,” could same ritual of Black people might be literally heartfelt,” “usher in a new possibility of being killed for being young, Howell said. “Music might literjustice.” Black and outside,” he said. ally reflect how your heart feels. “The legacy of King would “Instead of talking about drivYour heart beats continuously say we need to listen to more ing while Black all the time, your entire life. 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sense of unity at the community level. “To create a community that includes all of us, we need values of inclusion,” he said. “That means restorative justice must trump contributive justice. Justice doesn’t mean punishment.” To conclude his lecture, Hill emphasized that for change to occur, citizens must make a plan and follow through by taking action. “Dr. King said we must have an analysis, but we can’t succumb to, as Dr. King put it, the paralysis of analysis … What does that look like? It means we must act bravely. No one modeled brave action more than Martin King,” he said. The crowd gave Hill a standing ovation at the conclusion of his speech. In an e-mail interview with The Michigan Daily, Public Policy junior Julie Sarne said Hill’s lecture inspired students to move beyond the classroom and take action. “As students at the University of Michigan, we learn about sweeping societal injustices in the past and present — yet so often, we stop there. Dr. Hill delivered a call to action, an imperative for us to ‘act bravely,’ ” Sarne said. “After all, Dr. King’s legacy demonstrates that ‘to act bravely is to work in the service of justice.’ ” Rackham student Courtney McCluney, president of the Students of Color of Rackham, also wrote in an e-mail interview that Hill’s call to action resonated with her. “Instead of glamorizing the positive messages of Dr. King’s life, (Hill) encouraged us to realize that to take action means that not everyone will agree with you, that you have to sometimes go against the norm, and that you must become a radical listener for change to occur.”