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NEWS
Democrats are pulling out
of the race for the presi
dency. PAGE 2
A toy company has a
novel idea: Barbies for
Muslim girls. PAGE 3
ARTS & LIVING
Will Smith and Jada
Pinkett-Smith give birth to
a new baby: the UPN sit
com All of Us. PAGE 6
FEATURES
Naughty and nice!
Studies show most
women with tattoos feel
sexier about their bodies.
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William
Danielle Wright
Health Editor
Where would you be today
without your mentor? Many
members of the African-
American college community
would not be a part of the
exclusive collegiate population
had it not been for the encour
aging and powerful impact of a
mentor. What if your mentor
was incarcerated during the
critical stage of your adoles
cence, which needed to create
your, then, aspiration to attend
college. Today, would you be
instilled with the drive and
ammunition to achieve your
goals? Would you be who you
are and stand where you are
today?
During the adolescent period
of today’s college community a
mentor was lost. In the year
1992, when many members of
today’s African-American col
legiate community were being
encouraged to go to college by
the, then, collegiate population,
one of those mentors was being
wrongfully incarcerated. His
wrongful incarceration took
place while he was fulfilling his
passion and mission to mentor
Mayo: His Untold Story
the younger generation. Now,
11 years and seven months later
he remains incarcerated and
innocent, while many members
of today’s African-American
youth and young adult genera
tion remain lost and left behind.
This mentor’s name is William
Mayo.
William Mayo went to
Morehouse in the late 1980’s.
His dream was to go to college
where all the black leaders had
gone. Before attending
Morehouse, William attended
Central State University in
Wilberforce, Ohio. After
receiving an Academic,
Military Scholarship, he trans
ferred to Morehouse. While he
was there, he got introduced to
mentoring by his good friend,
the late Ennis Cosby. William
got involved in mentoring
underprivileged young black
men. While in college, he ded
icated much of his time to
exposing the younger genera
tion to Morehouse, and setting
an example for them to strive
for.
William was scheduled to
graduate in May of 1992. His
See MAYO, page 3
William Mayo, during his trial in 1992.
PHOTO | freemayo.com
Congresswoman Eleanor
Holmes Norton visits Spelman
Ed Gordon hosts senatorial
candidate forum
As if you didn’t hear
enough about Da Band
already, the Spotlight’s
Alisha Gordon ran into
them in the club! Find out
what they had to say.
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HEALTH
Learn to combat the
changes winter weather
conditions have on your
skin. PAGE 7
PERSPECTIVES
You’ve heard everything
about Jessica Lynch,
American’ was waiting for
her to speak. What have
you heard about
Shoshanna Johnson and
how come you haven’t
hear more? PAGE 9
Astrid Thomas
News Editor
Spelman College was visited
by one of the most influential
women in Congress on
Thursday, Nov. 13. The
Spelman alumna known as the
“Warrior on the Hill”, the
Honorable Eleanor Holmes
Norton talked about her life in
the ever changing Democratic
world and her new biography,
“Fire in My Soul” co-authored
with Joan Steinau Lester.
Now in her seventh term
after being elected as the
Congresswoman for the District
of Columbia in 1990, Norton
has continued to push the gov
ernment in search of more civil
rights for African-Americans
and universal human rights.
As an African-American
woman bom and raised in the
District of Columbia, Norton
has actively participated in the
Civil Rights Movement and as a
feminist in the Women’s
Movement. In the book,
Norton wrote about her experi
ences during the Civil Rights
Movement,
“I wrote about the many
struggles African-Americans
and women had in the sixties
and seventies. Lester told sto
ries about the sit-ins and strug
gles that blacks and women
went through to achieve civil
rights,” said Norton.
Over the course of four
years, Lester and Norton com
posed a biography that told of
her life, struggles and her undy
ing spirit. Good friend
Charlayne Hunter Gault came
up with the title of the book,
“Fire in My Soul”. Extensive
research of Norton’s past and
present was done, all the way to
her great-grandfather, an
enslaved black man.
See NORTON, page 3
Lauren Smith
News Reporter
The Rainbow PUSH
Coalition hosted a Georgia US
Senate candidate forum on
Wednesday, Nov. 12 in King’s
Chapel. Journalist Ed Gordon
and publisher of Atlanta of the
Daily World, Alexis Scott facil
itated the forum.
Jesse Jackson, an organizer
of the sponsored event,
appeared after the political dis
cussion to relay the current ini
tiatives of the coalition. The
candidates Heman Cain, Mary
Squires, and A1 Bartel under
went an interrogation mostly
administered by audience mem
bers.
A Black republican, Cain,
believes, “we are in danger of
not leaving our children and
grandchildren with out a better
start.” He also extracted the
“looming icebergs” of this
country: the tax code, recon
struction of the social security,
and a transformation of health
care. According to Cain, the
bumble flies because he
believes he can, just like Cain
believes he can win the seat
with a platform based on
removing the tax code and
replacing it with a national con
sumption tax, which are funds
expended not earned.
Albert Bartel, a deep voiced,
Georgian, is running to unite
the, “the Grand Canyon like
schism between the have and
the have nots.” According to
Bartel, he wants to close this
gap. In true political fashion
Bartel used rhyme, “We must
mend it (affirmative action), not
end it.”
Mary Squires the only
Democrat on the panel, the only
woman, and the only Caucasian
stated she was, “a simple
woman.” She creates the ideas
for her political agenda from
her single parent, two children
suburban family life. She plans
to attack the election with, “a
smile on her face, a song in her
heart, and a plan to [be]
unveiled next year.”
With his mind focused on
the time allotted, Gordon
brought the famed Jackson to
See SENATE, page 2
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