Singer-songwriter Alicia Keys has been chosen by business magazine, FAST COMPANY to join a handful of other women that make up “The League of Extraordinary Women: 60 Influencers Who Are Changing The World.”
In the July/August issue, the Keep A Child Alive co-founder is acknowledged for her philanthropic efforts towards the fight against AIDS, through the provision of medicine, clinics and contraceptives to girls and women in the countries of Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda.
Peep a snippet of her interview down below as well as the full list of women after the jump!
“I started meeting these kids who had been so isolated and alone, and not much younger than me,” says Keys, who is now 31.
“It was so deep to me. Leigh [Blake] had a very clear vision, that if we could get these kids the right antiretroviral medication, we could allow them to lead a full life,” she says. “I dedicated myself to that vision right then.”
“When I think of these crazy stories of women in certain countries who are forbidden birth control or protection of any sort,” she says, sighing, “these married women concerned that their husbands have the virus . . . it works out in the worst way for them.” But Keys does what she can to help them avoid that fate: “A year and a half ago,” she remembers, “we did these digital deaths.” [SOURCE]
Check out the FULL LIST HERE, which also includes Laila Ali, America Ferrera, Liya Kebede and Oprah Winfrey.
Alicia you are a classic soul.
Beautiful She Is:)
Props to Alicia for truly using her fame/fortune to positively affect others. She continues to promote this program …not just for a photo opp for selfish reasons or to slap her name on a foundation. So smart and articulate!
LOVE this woman!
I love Alicia Keys. Do you realize how she has helped saved the lives of many women and children in Africa and India.
She also provides a place for the children and women to get meals and plant and grow their own food. This is huge. Many millions of black people would be dead without Keep A Child Alive.
I think 10% of her income goes towards her charities. I could be wrong though….
This is wonderful and her work is amazing and meaningful.
yea Alicia has the biggest heart.
Alicia Keys is one of the biggest phonies in the entertainment industry. She came into the industry as an allegedly “pro-black” and “pro-black love” singer and has been morphed into her true nature, that being feminazi. The only reason why the caucasians are giving her so many accolades is because she’s a le$bian, and she works to push their agenda. A!DS is being spread to the darker races of the earth in their indigenous lands by the RED CROSS, and by the same so-called “medicines” that are supposed to “cure” them. Once the “d!sease” becomes an epidemic, mind-controlled programmed idiots like Alicia Keys step in to read her script of “women’s rights” through “contraception”. That is how the EUGENICS (population control) agenda gets perpetuated. It is what is known as the “Hegelian Dialectic” i.e. create the problem and the solution to the problem to achieve a desired goal. In this case, the goal is to get the women of the earth in the same mental/spiritual/moral condition as these Europeanized/Americanized women i.e. b!$exual/bi-curious wh0res jumping from partner to partner and causing confusion. When the powers that be can’t get that effect, they claim that the country/region is under a dictatorship and bomb them into the stone age i.e. what they’re doing to the middle east. To make a long story short, the point is that Alicia Keys is a pawn. Only pawns make it to the covers of caucasian magazines to get “congratulated” (publicized) for their efforts.
Aint that all celebs tho? lol
You’re an idiot and a hater! Keep up the good work Alicia!
@ AY
Wait a minute lol….how are you, OF ALL PEOPLE, gonna ask me, “Ain’t that all celebs tho?”? Aren’t you the one who harassed me and said, “You don’t know ALL CELEBRITIES JUDAH!!!”, or some nonsense like that?
@CALLIE
Why don’t you go run some errands for me or something? Make yourself useful lol.
Aww you remember me lol i was just playing along with your thinking…..
LOL! I’m sorry everybody gets mad at Judah but it’s all the truth. I don’t know whether your a man or woman but you know you’re shit. I would think a man because you go hard on black women and although I agree sometimes I don’t agree wih everything because every black woman is not caught up in the matrix. But with that said a lot are and a lot of them make comments on this site. It’s a shame because more people need to be enlightened. It’s in your face but you choose not to believe it. Simply put people like to be lied to.
Keys is a phonie and disgrace. Promoting womanhood and sleeping with someones HUSBAND at the same damn time! I’m done with her….next!
Don’t mind that selfish lezb0 tramp
A lesbian she is. That’s for sure!