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WWW.TRIANGLE TRIBUNE.COM The Triangle ‘We’re still here’ Morris Brown College’s slow road back to accreditationBy Daja Henry, Ilaand Wilborn prominence NNPA DTU If you run into a Morris Brown College student or alumni, there’s one RIBUNE phrase that is bound to escape their lips: “We’re still here.” TTHE TRIANGLE’S CHOICE FOR THE BLACK VOICE Sharron Strickland-White, a Morris Brown alumna and former Miss Morris Brown College (1963), is one of the many Wolverines who proudly hold on to her institution’s legacy. VOLUME 20 NO. 6 WEEK OF JULY 15, 2018 $1.00 Members of the African Methodist Episcopal Church established Morris Brown College in 1888. The institution was named after one of the founders of the AME tradition, the Rev. Morris Brown, of Charleston, South Carolina. Upon receiving its charter in 1885, MBC opened its doors on Oct. 15, 1885, Russell E. Blunt East with nine teachers and 107 students enrolled. It was the first school Coast Invitational founded for black people by black people in the state of Georgia. The col- lege began right in the basement of Big Bethel AME Church, the oldest black returns to Durham congregation in the heart of Atlanta’s Sweet Auburn neighborhood just shy of downtown. At the institution’s peak, it educated as many as 2,500 stu- County Memorial dents. Stadium. However, difficult times would befall Morris Brown when, in 2003, the school lost its accreditation due to issues with money mismanagement. The institution was subsequently cut off from federal financial aid. To make matters worse, it was forced to withdraw from Atlanta University Center Consortium, a consortium of Atlanta historically black colleges, which in- Please seeMBC/2A NAACP College reaches admits out to policy in young jeopardyBy LaMont Jones DIVERSE ISSUES IN EDUCATION leaders Colleges and universities STAFF REPORTS committed to using race as BALTIMORE, Md. – The one of many considerations NAACP is hoping to mobilize in creating a diverse student the leaders of tomorrow at its body are likely to be a lot 109th National Convention more concerned about the July 14-18 in San Antonio, risks now that the White Texas. House has announced a roll- “We live in a time where back of guidelines issued by black millennials and post- the prior administration. millennials feel that their That’s the prediction of some education experts as in- voices aren’t heard, that their COURTESY opinions on issues that di- stitutions continue to react to rectly affect them don’t mat- Black children’s plight in America has been ignored, critics say. the announcement that the ter to people in positions of Trump administration is re- power,” said Tiffany Dena scinding policy guidelines is- Loftin, NAACP Youth and Col- sued under the Obama lege Division national direc- administration that were in- tor. “Our workshops and tended to help schools under- events in San Antonio will stand how to promote A letter from America’s diversity while complying bring several hundred young people together to show our with the most Supreme Court collective strength, and to ul- rulings regarding affirmative timately make lasting and im- By Ron Harris in neighborhoods bereft of ad- the signs proudly held high action. pactful change in the children forequate food assistancesources and with that read, “Family Separations “The signal that it sends to NNPA communities of black and fathers and mothers so Are Cruel.” And we thought, colleges and universities is to brown people.” Dear United States: wrought with financial and “Yes, they are.” What about us? be afraid to do what’s right in The youth and college divi- psychological instability, they Where is our march? Where is your admissions policies, or sion has been recharged in What about us? can’t provide our needs. our media coverage? we may come for you or make the last four months since We understand and applaud And because our nation has Half of us currently in foster it difficult by scrutinizing Loftin has joined the associa- your response to this adminis- lived with this reality so long, care will be homeless within you,” said Maya Wiley, senior tion. On March 24, almost tration’s malevolent separation it has become almost accepted. six months after growing too vice president for social jus- 1,000 NAACP student ac- of immigrant families from It has become quietly and un- old for the system. We are un- tice at The New School. “It tivists and leaders were their children – policies and consciously perceived as part prepared to live on our own. tells schools to be afraid of bussed to Washington, D.C., practices so un-American and of the norm, part of the land- We have limited education and creating diverse and therefore to attend the historic March shocking that they have come scape, like the air we breathe, no social support. About a high academically performing For Our Lives rally. to dominate the national con- until little by little it becomes quarter of the rest will be environments in college for Since then a partnership has versation. Your immediate, vis- so caustic that it kills us or homeless within two to four students.” developed with the March For ceral response to evil spurred chokes us into action. Unfor- years of leaving the system. And that, she said, creates a Our Lives organization to par- you into action. tunately for us, your children, Some of us will become part of chilling effect on diversity ef- ticipate in the Road to Change But there is another evil, a you haven’t reached that point. the 20,000 U.S. children annu- forts in the admissions Voter Registration campaign. pervasive, chronic and unre- There are 408,000 of us, ally forced into prostitution. process. Both are key ways to show lenting wickedness that we, American children, who also Another 2 million of us this “Colleges and universities and prove that youth are your children, live with every have been separated from our year will be separated from our are risk-averse,” Wiley said. aware of the problems this day. We are being shot down families and placed in the care families and placed behind “They want to protect institu- country faces, and are ener- on the nation’s streets, locked of others, like the 2,000 immi- bars and in juvenile custody. tional integrity. They care getic and enthused to make a away in juvenile facilities, poi- grant children who you took to Many of us, like Clarice, one of about their status with the lasting change. soned by dangerous drinking the streets to protect. Many of twin 14-year-old sisters in government for compliance The youth and college pro- water, threatened and ha- us languish in foster care with Montgomery County, Mary- and many other reasons. So gramming at the 109th con- rassed by neighborhood little hope of ever being united land, can’t go home because they want clarity and guid- vention will feature a series of gangs, left homeless – either with our parents or extended there is no suitable home to go ance. There’s legitimate con- informational workshops and alone from abuse or with par- families. As we watched the to. Her parents are homeless, fusion and a desire to have events all leading up to the ents that cannot afford to put huge crowds that stretched some clarity and make sound grand finale, the Juanita Jack- a roof over our heads. We live across 700 U.S. cities, we saw Please seeA LETTER/2A judgments. I hope schools son Mitchell Dinner: Welcome fight tooth and nail for diver- to Wakanda, The Royal Gala, sity as part of their mission to on July 17 at the Grand Hyatt do what’s most effective for San Antonio. students, and most effective Attendees will have the op- for our country.” portunity to meet prominent Frank Wu, a distinguished voices in advocacy today. Ac- BOOK professor at the University of tivist and Women’s March Or- California Hastings College of ganizer, Tamika Mallory, will the Law, shared Wiley’s con- moderate a Hip Hop and Civic cern. Engagement panel at the Roy “Institutions have to assess Wilkins Youth Luncheon, and Local author Shelton’s memoir risk and decide how aggres- senior director of social media sive they want to be on the for MTV/TRL, Terron Moore, one hand, and also how much will speak at the Clara Luper “It’s about rape, murder, lies, and brothers refused, and her parents or little diversity they are will- detailsBy Maria Magher hardships with deaf parents ing to accept on the other Youth and College Luncheon, innocence stolen,” Shelton said of CORRESPONDENT had no one else to help. an event dedicated to honor- her book. “It’s about the hard road “It took away my childhood. I just hand. So, some decision-mak- Silence Isn’t Golden ing youth advisers and be- to recovery that takes a lifetime to remember always working as their ers, whether it’s the provost By Mary Louise Shelton stowing the “Adviser of the achieve.” interpreter and doing things,” she or the president or the board, Year” award. Shelton’s parents met at the said. “My older brother, Charles, re- might decide that even if the The old saying goes that “Silence The Youth and College Pub- Raleigh School for the Deaf, and sented having to interpret so all the Supreme Court allows affir- is golden.” For Mary Shelton, grow- lic Mass meeting will take wanted to marry, but weren’t al- responsibility seemed to fall on me.

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