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FEBRUARY 1, 2014 Atlanta Tribune: The Magazine 2014 Power Couples February 9, 2014 For Dr. John Silvanus Wilson Jr. and his wife, Dr. Carol Espy-Wilson, the interplay of their commitment to each other and their family and higher education provides the framework to achieve personal and professional success. John is the 11th president of Morehouse College and will be officially inaugurated in February 2014 during the school’s Founder’s Week Celebration. Carol is a professor at the University of Maryland’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the founder of OmniSpeech, a speech technology company.
FEBRUARY 9, 2014 Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Inspiring Perspectives Morehouse President: ‘You’ve Got to Have Chutzpah’ Each Sunday, the AJC brings insights MOREHOUSE MAGAZINE
20 COMMEMORATIVE INAUGURATION ISSUE 2014
from metro Atlanta’s leaders and entrepreneurs. This feature appeared on the front page of the Sunday paper.
FEBRUARY 19, 2014 The Huffington Post The World of Our Dreams The Huffington Post blog printed Wilson’s inaugural speech in its entirety just days after he was inaugurated. Before the full transcript, Wilson penned this message: “… I delivered an urgent call to action in my inaugural address, calling on the nation to commit itself to achieving the goal of making a cradle-to-power pipeline real for black men. An underinvestment has perpetuated a cradle-to-prison pipeline for black and Latino boys, who risk imprisonment during their lifetimes at alarming proportions. I believe it’s a national imperative to break this cradle-to-prison pipeline with a trajectory like the one
Morehouse provides with supports and services for the sake of our children and our nation’s future—not because it is easy but because it’s hard, because the goal will serve to organize and utilize the best of our country’s energies and skills.”
MARCH 1, 2014 Al Jazeera English Network Wilson was a television guest on Al Jazeera English, where he talked about President Obama’s My Brother’s Keeper initiative and the effect it may have on young African American males.
MARCH 2, 2014 MSNBC: Disrupt with Karen Finney Karen Finney had a live discussion with Wilson, national radio host Joe Madison and Spelman President Beverly Tatum about President Obama’s My Brother’s Keeper initiative.