"Hollywood in Black and White" with film maker and alumnus Shelton "Spike" Lee '79 When: Tuesday, February 1, 2005 8:00 p.m.   Where: Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel (on the campus of Morehouse College)   Who: Spike Lee, Dr. Herbert L. Eichelberger, associate professor of film, Clark Atlanta University, and Dr. Beverly Guy Sheftall, director, Women's Research and Resource Center, Spelman College Moderated by: Christopher Farley, Time Magazine **This special symposium will center around the challenges and opportunities facing African Americans in the entertainment industry. A retrospective of Lee's films and his role in launching and enhancing the careers of such acclaimed actors as Denzel Washington, Laurence Fishburne, Wesley Snipes, Samuel L. Jackson, Halle Berry, Regina Taylor, Tishsa Campbell, among others, will be discussed.

Ranked three times as the number one college in the nation for educating African American students by Black Enterprise magazine, and recognized by The Wall Street Journal as one of the top feeder schools for the 15 most prominent graduate and professional schools in the country, Morehouse College is the nation’s largest, private liberal arts college for men. Founded in 1867, the College enrolls approximately 3,000 students. Morehouse is one of only two Historically Black Colleges or Universities to produce three Rhodes Scholars.

Prominent alumni include Martin Luther King Jr., Nobel Peace Prize laureate and civil rights leader; Dr. David Satcher, former U.S. Surgeon General and director of the National Center for Primary Care at the Morehouse School of Medicine; Sheldon “Spike” Lee, filmmaker and president of 40 Acres & A Mule Productions; Maynard H. Jackson, founder of Jackson Securities and the first African-American mayor of Atlanta; and Nima A. Warfield, the first African-American Rhodes Scholar from an Historically Black College or University.

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