William Mayo: His Untold Story Danielle Wright the Younger Generation
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_THE ight©PELMAN ■< VOLUME XLVII NO. 6 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2003 www.spelman.edu/spotlight IN THIS ISSUE William Mayo: His Untold Story Danielle Wright the younger generation. Now, NEWS Health Editor 11 years and seven months later he remains incarcerated and Democrats are pulling out Where would you be today innocent, while many members of the race for the presi without your mentor? Many of today’s African-American dency. PAGE 2 members of the African- youth and young adult genera American college community tion remain lost and left behind. A toy company has a would not be a part of the This mentor’s name is William novel idea: Barbies for exclusive collegiate population Mayo. Muslim girls. PAGE 3 had it not been for the encour William Mayo went to aging and powerful impact of a Morehouse in the late 1980’s. M mentor. What if your mentor His dream was to go to college ARTS & LIVING was incarcerated during the where all the black leaders had critical stage of your adoles gone. Before attending Will Smith and Jada cence, which needed to create Morehouse, William attended Pinkett-Smith give birth to your, then, aspiration to attend Central State University in a new baby: the UPN sit college. Today, would you be Wilberforce, Ohio. After com All of Us. PAGE 6 instilled with the drive and receiving an Academic, ammunition to achieve your Military Scholarship, he trans goals? Would you be who you ferred to Morehouse. While he are and stand where you are was there, he got introduced to today? mentoring by his good friend, During the adolescent period the late Ennis Cosby. William of today’s college community a got involved in mentoring mentor was lost. In the year underprivileged young black 1992, when many members of men. While in college, he ded today’s African-American col icated much of his time to legiate community were being exposing the younger genera encouraged to go to college by tion to Morehouse, and setting FEATURES the, then, collegiate population, an example for them to strive '.3 one of those mentors was being for. - 1 Naughty and nice! wrongfully incarcerated. His William was scheduled to Studies show most wrongful incarceration took graduate in May of 1992. His women with tattoos feel place while he was fulfilling his PHOTO I freemayo.com sexier about their bodies. passion and mission to mentor See MAYO, page 3 William Mayo, during his trial in 1992. PAGE 4 As if you didn’t hear enough about Da Band Congresswoman Eleanor Ed Gordon hosts senatorial already, the Spotlight’s Alisha Gordon ran into Holmes Norton visits Spelman them in the club! Find out candidate forum what they had to say. Astrid Thomas PAGE 5 News Editor Lauren Smith believes he can win the seat News Reporter with a platform based on Spelman College was visited removing the tax code and by one of the most influential The Rainbow PUSH replacing it with a national con HEALTH women in Congress on Coalition hosted a Georgia US sumption tax, which are funds Thursday, Nov. 13. The Senate candidate forum on Learn to combat the expended not earned. changes winter weather Spelman alumna known as the Wednesday, Nov. 12 in King’s Albert Bartel, a deep voiced, conditions have on your “Warrior on the Hill”, the Chapel. Journalist Ed Gordon Georgian, is running to unite skin. PAGE 7 Honorable Eleanor Holmes and publisher of Atlanta of the the, “the Grand Canyon like Norton talked about her life in Daily World, Alexis Scott facil schism between the have and the ever changing Democratic itated the forum. the have nots.” According to world and her new biography, Jesse Jackson, an organizer Bartel, he wants to close this “Fire in My Soul” co-authored struggles African-Americans of the sponsored event, gap. In true political fashion PERSPECTIVES with Joan Steinau Lester. and women had in the sixties appeared after the political dis Bartel used rhyme, “We must Now in her seventh term and seventies. Lester told sto cussion to relay the current ini mend it (affirmative action), not You’ve heard everything ries about the sit-ins and strug about Jessica Lynch, after being elected as the tiatives of the coalition. The end it.” American’ was waiting for Congresswoman for the District gles that blacks and women candidates Heman Cain, Mary Mary Squires the only her to speak. What have of Columbia in 1990, Norton went through to achieve civil Squires, and A1 Bartel under Democrat on the panel, the only you heard about has continued to push the gov rights,” said Norton. went an interrogation mostly woman, and the only Caucasian Shoshanna Johnson and ernment in search of more civil Over the course of four administered by audience mem stated she was, “a simple how come you haven’t rights for African-Americans years, Lester and Norton com bers. woman.” She creates the ideas hear more? PAGE 9 and universal human rights. posed a biography that told of A Black republican, Cain, for her political agenda from As an African-American her life, struggles and her undy believes, “we are in danger of her single parent, two children woman bom and raised in the ing spirit. Good friend not leaving our children and suburban family life. She plans District of Columbia, Norton Charlayne Hunter Gault came grandchildren with out a better to attack the election with, “a has actively participated in the up with the title of the book, start.” He also extracted the smile on her face, a song in her Civil Rights Movement and as a “Fire in My Soul”. Extensive “looming icebergs” of this heart, and a plan to [be] feminist in the Women’s research of Norton’s past and country: the tax code, recon unveiled next year.” Movement. In the book, present was done, all the way to struction of the social security, With his mind focused on Norton wrote about her experi her great-grandfather, an and a transformation of health the time allotted, Gordon ences during the Civil Rights enslaved black man. care. According to Cain, the brought the famed Jackson to Movement, bumble flies because he “I wrote about the many See NORTON, page 3 believes he can, just like Cain See SENATE, page 2 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2003 NEWS THE SPELMAN SPOTLIGHT SENATE, from page 1 Democrats pull out of DC Primary the stage. Jackson informed Nailah Timberlake approximately 100 audience Features Editor delegates. “Many are calling specifically in John Edwards. members of a recent coalition our primary a ‘Beauty Pageant’ “To help win the Senate race in victory on the elimination of On November 6th, 2003 5 because there will be no dele 1998, Edwards used 300 black Black NASCAR exclusion. He Democratic Presidential candi gate selection, but I see it as a voters as muscle, then shafted also criticized the country's cur dates pulled out of D.C.’s non blatant form of disrespect for us six years later which is rent state of affairs. binding presidential primary. those candidates to pull out,” deeply offensive,” states Citing the continuing prob The primary will take place said radio talk show host and Tenner. The event that Tenner is lems in Iraq, Jackson says, “If on January 13th, 2004 and was columnist, George Wilson. referring to is when Edwards you're in a hole, you don't need moved from its traditional spot “This has to do with the lack of took bus loads of Black voters to speed up, you need a rope.” later in the primary season to clout that D.C. voters do not down to North Carolina to help He also reeled off the facts call attention to the city’s lack possess and issues surrounding defeat anti-DC incumbent that “there are 950,000 Black of voting rights in Congress. voting rights. They don’t place Lauch Faircloth. “He also men in jail, and 600,000 in col D.C. has one non-voting dele importance on our opinion.” promised to campaign in D.C. lege.” With this Jackson prom gate in the House and no repre Many find this move offensive but he hasn’t followed through ised to resurrect the fallen sentation in the Senate. because Kerry, Gephardt, and and he hasn’t wanted any of our Morris Brown College, that had Joe Lieberman, John Lieberman all own homes in the input,” said Tenner. 3,000 students enrolled in pre Edwards, John Kerry, Dick Georgetown neighborhood. The D.C. primary will now vious years, but only has 63 as Gephardt and Wesley Clark The primary is set to make be a contest between of today. each submitted similar letters history as the first time a major Democratic front runner Freshmen Sharif Thomas, a on the same day stating that ity black jurisdiction leads off Howard Dean, civil rights business and marketing major they would be unable to attend the Presidential nominating leader A1 Sharpton, commented, “I felt that the con the primary. Each letter cited process. This vote was also Congressman Dennis Kucinich ference was informative and Rule 12.H and 10.A from the going to test the support among and former Senator Carol much needed, because we need Democratic National black voters by giving them an Mosley-Braun. more Blacks in the AUC Committee Delegates Selection early role in picking a nominee. involved in politics.” Rules as determining factors. “These primaries are not about Rule 12.H states that the delegates. It is the first test Class of 2004: We’re going to JAMAICA! Presidential candidates should of a candidate’s strengths,” take all steps possible to not states Sean Tenner, the UH-OH! I didn’t pay my $200 deposit on November 14, participate in non-binding pres Executive Director of the DC but I wanna go, too! WHAT SHOULD I DO??? idential reference events.