FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

JESSE JACKSON PALM SUNDAY SERMON TO
HELP LAUNCH SPIRITUAL AWARENESS WEEK 1999 AT MOREHOUSE

ATLANTA, March 17 - The incomparable the Rev. Jesse Jackson will deliver the sermon during Palm Sunday Services at Morehouse College, 11 a.m., March 28 at the Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel. Jackson's sermon will be one of many activities at the College during Spiritual Awareness Week, March 27 - April 4. This year's theme is "The Ethics of Leadership - Mentors, Mentees and Mentoring."

Among the week's scheduled activities are a concert featuring John P. Kee and the New Life Community Choir and the National College Gospel Choir - a 300-voice group of students from across the nation - as well as a cameo appearance by Bobby Jones. There will also be speeches by Jackson, Rev. Calvin O Butts, pastor of Abyssinian Baptist Church in New York and a 1971 graduate of Morehouse, and Dr. Lawrence Carter, dean of the MLK Chapel at Morehouse.

Here is a complete schedule of events:

March 27
National College Gospel Choir Concert; 7 p.m., Morehouse College's MLK Chapel (Tickets are $5 for students, $10 in advance and $15 at the door for all others)

March 28
Catholic mass; 10 a.m., Atlanta University Center's Lyke House Worship service; 11 a.m., MLK Chapel Catholic mass; 6 p.m., Lyke House

March 29
Lecture; 11 a.m., MLK Chapel Library (featuring Marc Ellis, Baylor University) Student Visions in Islam; 7 p.m., Morehouse College's Henderson Lounge in Merrill Hall

March 30
Worship service; 11 a.m., MLK Chapel (featuring George David Miller, Lewis University)

March 31
Mid-week service; 7 p.m., Morehouse College's Sale Hall

April 1
Worship service; 11 a.m., MLK Chapel (featuring Rev. Charles G. Adams, Hartford Memorial Baptist Church)
Trans Denominational Assembly; 12:30 p.m., Morehouse College's Kilgore Center (featuring Butts, Carter and Bill Howard)

April 2
Islamic Night; 7 p.m., African American Hall of Fame (featuring Iman Plemon El-Amin)

April 4
Worship service; 11 a.m., MLK Chapel (featuring Rev. Kenneth Samuels, Victory Baptist Church)

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; Howard Thurman, internationally known theologian and author; Otis Moss Jr., chairman of the Morehouse College board of trustees and pastor of Olivet Institutional Baptist Church; Samuel Dubois Cook, former president of Dillard University and former member of the National Council on Humanities; and Nima A. Warfield, first African-American Rhodes Scholar from a historically black college and university.