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DETROIT - ew Yor
oviemaker Spike Lee may n
have done the ri thing en
e did not attend th AACP'
80th Annu I Convention
recently held in Detroit.
"You ould think that he
ould 0 up ·th . movie
out and everything," . d 15-
year 0 dJoeUen Murchinson.
urchinson also lives i Ne
Yor nd id th t she
slightly dis ppointed th t 0
many of the big name stars e
b e to come to the conven­
tion.
"It's . d of coi ·dental that
everyo e didn't sho up," Mur­
chinson id. It ms .
Alo of the youth rereallyex­
peering to see them."
Jim Williams, NAACP' Na­
tion Director of Public Rela­
tio id- e belie t t the
public over II w s under­
standing about the mi ing
celebrities.
ere' aI ys a 99 percent
ch n (ofmlSh ps). We're just
u t anybody e ."
Lee" w e Iy r c,
produced, directed and arred
in "Do The Right Thing" and
ctor Danny Glover from
"Lethal Weapon 2" were
reported not being ble to
. "make the conventio because of
cheduling conflicts.
Severe weather haulted
televi on host nd ctre
Opr h Winfrey's appe ranee,
before crowd of more th D
5.000 people, grounding her
Oight in Chicago.
Effort re made to speak
to Winfrey via telephone. She
reportedly left the airport he d­
ing home, but he could not be
re ched by telep one.
Husb d d wife team Tim
nd Daphne Reid, ho
produced d diiecte«t the
c ncelled televi ion s ow
"Fr D 's Place," were be to
make their cheduled
or hop, "BI c in the En er­
t inment Industry," also 004
in for Winfrey. .
This faU the Reids . return
to te . ion with
called Snoo .• ,
e cr d �eceptive to
e Reids, bu seemed confused
t the other tars were
there too.
,
"There was a common
�ond," says U. Governor Lawr nee
Do glas Wilder of Virginia,
speaking of his college experi­
ence. "We all knew who ere
and where we need d to go, and
what we needed to do to get there."
Wilder, the nation's highest -rank­
ing Black elected state official,
attributes that world-b ating
attitude to the inspiring role
models he found at Virginia Union
unl�versity, one of America's Blac
col eges. .
In an atmosphere of high
intellectual quality, young Douglas
Wild r discovered what h call
"th high possibility of th
individual." And following in a
tradition that has produc d
outstanding scholars, profes­
sionals' and public s rvants, h
went on to a brillant care r as an
attorney, state s nator and civic
a tivist. Is it any wonder that,
though they enroll only 20 of
Black colleg stud nts, Black col­
leses produce 40 0 of Black colleg�
graduates?
When you're considering
colleges, do sn't i make sense to
consid r the ones that educated
achi vers like Lawrence Douglas
Wilder? Attending one could lead
, to a great future.
America' Bla College
Are Yo Sm rt Enough To Go?