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Article: Morris Brown College recovery - An on-going process: Leaning on the Legacy of African Americans Saving an African American Institution
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- Westside Gazette
- Article date:
- January 15, 2009
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ATLANTA, GA - Morris Brown College (MBC) has just come through a month of financial challenges that could have crippled the college; instead it's beginning to look like the phoenix - rising from ashes. The amazing feat is that alumni, students, college officials and board members met these challenges without any major contribution from corporate Atlanta or a donation from any philanthropic icon. Raising more than $200,000 in seven days to restore water to the 34-acre campus and to address a few more financial emergencies, the institution is still in a struggle to alleviate the more formidable long term issues of financial stability.
MBC is facing a Feb. 17, 2009 deadline to pay the $214,000 ...