BEACON FOR LEADERS SELECTS NEW BROTHER TO HELM THE SHIPATLANTA (AP) -- Morehouse College, the only all male, historically black college in the country has selected Robert Franklin as the school's tenth president.
A Morehouse man himself, Franklin is a 1975 graduate with a master of divinity degree from Harvard Divinity School and a doctorate from the University of Chicago.
Clearly coming correct, Franklin has been director of black church studies at Emory University's Candler School of Theology and is Emory's Presidential Distinguished Professor of Social Ethics. He is also former president of the Interdenominational Theological Center in the same Atlanta University Center that includes the Morehouse campus.
He will succeed Walter E. Massey, a physicist and 1958 alumnus who became president of Morehouse in 1995.
Founded in 1867 and with an enrollment of about 2800 students, Morehouse has produced the likes of Martin Luther King Jr., Director Spike Lee, Olympian Edwin Moses, Former Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson, Historian Lerone Bennett Jr., Congressman Sanford Bishop NAACP Board Chairman Julian Bond, former U.S. Surgeon General David Satcher, Congressman Major R. Owens, Former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Louis Sullivan, actor Samuel L Jackson, and two of the brothers from this blog.
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