FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

FREE TAX HELP OFFERED BY MOREHOUSE

ATLANTA, March 24 - Morehouse College is offering local residents free help filling out their 1998 federal and state income tax forms.

Officials from Ernst & Young LLP and the Internal Revenue Service, instructors from the Morehouse business and economics department and upperclassmen from Morehouse majoring in one of the business or economics disciplines will be on hand from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., March 27 at Conley Hills Elementary School, 2580 Delowe Drive in East Point. The service will be offered again, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., April 3 on the Morehouse College campus.

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.

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