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“Can we sort of do a video version of an AIDS quilt?” That was the idea playwright Matthew López had when he reached out to actor friends and acquaintances to see if they would read passages from a pivotal monologue from his epic, two-part play The Inheritance, about gay life …

A track off her 2007 albumSongs of Mass Destruction, “Sing” was inspired by Annie Lennox’s first meeting with South African activistZackie Achmat at Nelson Mandela’s 46664 HIV/AIDS campaign in 2003. HIV positive himself, Achmat co-founded the Treatment Action Campaign, an organization that fights for AIDS treatment access and prevention. “We …