Celebrity supporters of Keep A Child Alive, including Annie Lennox, Paul McCartney, and Bono. We have 52 articles about past events, donations and campaigns.
looks like i ve picked the wrong night to introduce glue on eyelashes to the evening. i m definitely crying already. it is going to be a mess. that makes me feel very insignificant. let s get started on this year s show. we want to meet our first hero. in nashville, tennessee, she created a place for women who struggled on the streets. to tell her story tonight is an ambassador for the alicia keys charity, keep a child alive, please welcome to stars of hidden figures, taraji p. henson and octavia spencer. [ applause ] tonight, remember these two words, love heals. it just does. when becca stevens was 5, her
way. take bono of u 2 who launched both project red in africa and one which helps to fight poverty and prevent iblg disease or alicia keys who co-founded keep a child alive which raised millions of dollars for aids patients around the world. these are high profile reminders that the artist has always played a unique and crucial role in advancing the political and social roles of democracy because artists push the boundaries of convention because they demand to be seen and heard, because they can create substance out of nothingness and because they have a distinct interpretive capacity, artists are indispensable to activism. in the 1950s i formed a friendship with martin lawsuiut king jr. he campaigned against apartheid
tragedy here. because this is not a controversy. brain death has been the standard since the 1970s. it s not like this is some new innovation. what about the issue of family consent, because my understanding is, in new jersey, it may be the only place in america that has this. there is a right of consent that exists for a family in this position to go against the advice of the physicians to turn off life support. so it does exist in new jersey. if they were in new jersey, they could do this legally, why does it not exist elsewhere? because there is and frankly, i don t know much about the new jersey law. but when you have a situation when a child is dead, the responsibility is for the hospital and the parents to come to terms and understand that, but there is no remedy here, there is no way for the parents to say that they want to keep a
it s not like this is some new innovation. what about the issue of family consent, because my understanding is, in new jersey, it may be the only place in america that has this. there is a right of consent that exists for a family in this position to go against the advice of the physicians to turn off life support. so it does exist in new jersey. if they were in new jersey, they could do this legally, why does it not exist elsewhere? because there is and frankly, i don t know much about the new jersey law. but when you have a situation when a child is dead, the responsibility is for the hospital and the parents to come to terms and understand that, but there is no remedy here, there is no way for the parents to say that they want to keep a child alive, who is already dead? the new jersey statute by the way doesn t challenge brain death, it simply says a hospital can try to accommodate the acceptance and that s what we re