Morehouse College News August 18, 2014 Dear Michael Brown, Morehouse Brother Four Morehouse Professors offer a joint statement and open letter to honor the spirit of Michael Brown and to encourage the hope and commitment of young Black men everywhere Michael Brown, Our Morehouse Brother, As we begin a new academic year at Morehouse College, we are in memory of Michael Brown. Michael, a young Black man who could easily have been enrolled in our college classes - who looked like us, who is us - was gunned down in Ferguson, Missouri two weeks before beginning his college career. The instance of violence visited on Michael is not unique in the experiences of Black men and boys, college bound or not. The killing in Ferguson signifies a gross historical reality of Black men positioned as but only bodies to be governed, exploited and exterminated within the context of The Great Experiment that is the United States. Read more at EBONY http://www.ebony.com/news-views/dear-michael-brown-morehouse-brother-987#ixzz3AmYq1T5S SANDRA M. PHOENIX Executive Director HBCU Library Alliance sphoenix@hbculibraries.org<mailto:sphoenix@hbculibraries.org> www.hbculibraries.org<http://www.hbculibraries.org/> 800-999-8558, ext. 4820 404-702-5854 Skype: sandra.phoenix1 1438 West Peachtree NW Suite 200 Atlanta,GA 30309 Toll Free: 1.800.999.8558 (LYRASIS) Fax: 404.892.7879 www.lyrasis.org<http://www.lyrasis.org/> Honor the ancestors, honor the children. Register now http://www.hbculibraries.org/html/2014meeting-form.html for the October 26-28, 2014 HBCU Library Alliance 6th Membership Meeting in Atlanta GA!