Rihanna honoured for charitable work

Rihanna may not have won at this year’s Grammy Awards, but she’s winning with the Ivy League.

The singer has been named 2017 Harvard University Humanitarian of the Year. She’ll head to the campus in Boston on Tuesday to accept the Peter J. Gomes Humanitarian Award. The announcement cited Rihanna’s charitable work including helping to build a breast cancer screening and treatment centre in Barbados, where the singer is from.