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ATLANTA, March 11 - Famed movie producer Spike Lee and comedian/actor Tommy Davidson are a couple of the celebrities appearing in this year's Eighth Annual Mo' Better Gala, sponsored by the Greater Boston Chapter of the Morehouse College Alumni Association.

This year's event will be held from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m., March 19 at The Westin Hotel, Copley Place, and features a cash bar and lots of great give-aways. Tickets are $100, with all proceeds going toward scholarships for Morehouse students from the Boston area.

Lee, a 1979 graduate of Morehouse, will serve as host. Davidson and jazz/R&B crooner Phil Perry will perform, highlighting a night of food, music, comedy and dancing to the sounds of D.J. Steve Gousby & Company. Boston Celtics' guard Dana Barros is honorary chairman of the benefit event.

The night also includes a concert by the Morehouse College Glee Club - part of the group's annual spring tour - 7 p.m. at the Old South Church. A limited number of tickets for the concert ($15) and the gala are available at Danny's His and Hers Salon, 617-442-4343, and Turning Heads, 617-442-4949. For more ticket information call 617-576-9799.

Founded in 1867, Morehouse is the nation's only historically black, private liberal arts college for men. The College enrolls approximately 3,000 students and graduates 500 each year, conferring bachelor's degrees on more black men than any other institution in the world.

Prominent alumni include Martin Luther King Jr., Nobel Peace Prize laureate and civil rights leader; David Satcher, U.S. surgeon general and director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Samuel L. Jackson, motion picture actor and Academy Award nominee; Bill G. Nunn III, motion picture actor; Edwin C. Moses, Olympic gold medalist and financial consultant for Robinson-Humphrey Co. Inc. and Nima A. Warfield, the first African-American Rhodes Scholar from a historically black college or university.

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