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By Erisha Lipford
Reporter
One Last Reminder...
Thanksgiving holiday begins for students and faculty Nov. 25
at noon. Residence Halls close Nov. 25 at 5 p.m. and reopen
Nov. 29 at noon. Classes resume Nov. 30 at 8 a.m. The Fall
Honors Convocation has been rescheduled for Nov. 17 in the
chapel. Refund checks will be disbursed Nov. 20 and Dec.
11. Requests for the issue date Nov. 20 had to be made
through the business office by Nov. 11 at 5 p.m. Requests for
the issue date Dec. 11 have to be made by Nov. 20 at 5 p.m.
Yearbook Staff Needed
Are you creative, committed, and full of interesting ideas? If
your answer is yes, the 1998-99 Belle Yearbook needs your
ideas and input The Belle Yearbook needs an editor-in-chief
and other positions to be filled. An interest meeting will be
Nov. 19 at 6 p.m. in the Student Union (upper level) Room F.
For more information contact Wanda Davis at 370-8646.
Ebony Vibes Trivia Question #i
The rap group Deadly Venom has four members: J-Boo, N-
Tyce, Champ MC, and Finesse. What is N-Tyce’s real name
and what college or university did she attend for her under
graduate degree? What is the name of the group that Finesse
belonged to prior to Deadly Venom and the name of their hit
single? To submit the answers and to receive the prize please
contact Dee Campbell in Shell Hall B (television studio).
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ON THIS DA Y IN NOVEMBER
Complied By
Erisha Lipford
Reporter
•5,1968 Shiriey Chisfiolm
is the first African-American
female elected to the U.S.
Congress along with eight
African-American males, making
that the largest number of
African-American representa
tives to serve in Congress since
the 44th Congress of 1875-1877.
• 7,1950 Alexa Canady is
bom in Lansing, Mich. When
she was 30, she became the first
African-American woman
neurosurgeon in the United
States.
• 9,1923 Dorothy
Dandridge is bom in Cleve
land. She was the first Afirican-
American actress to earn an
Academy Award nomination for
her performance in the movie
Carmen Jones.
BY NAIMA Q. BARBOUR
News Editor
Bestselling author Rosalyn
McMillan goes "one better" than
her sister Terry with this sexy
follow-up to her debut novel
"Knowing."
"One Better," (400 pp.
Warner Books $6 JO paperback)
is an unforgettable story of two
generations of headstrong,
independent and successful
African-American women who
come face to face with the
challenge of a lifetime. The
challenge of finding true
happiness.
In this sexy tale, the women
struggle to find love, accep
tance, happiness and sexual
fulfillment in a society that
expects them to fail.
Antoinette "Spice"
Witherspoon is the owner of
Southem Spice, an elegant and
world renowned restaurant in
greater Detroit.
After the sudden death of her
husband, David, Spice's love life
becomes a mess. Then Otis,
David's brother, professes his
love for Spice but she doesn't
feel right about dating him.
While searching to find her
tme happiness, Spice meets
Golden Westbrook, a civil rights
activist and preacher who seems
to be what she's been searching
for. At first Spice is a little
standoffish around Golden
because of the age difference.
Golden is ten years her junior.
Once Golden offers Spice his
love and commitment she is
hooked. Stella isn't the only one
who got her groove back.
After years of hard work,
Spice's eldest daughter. Mink,
becomes one of the first African-
American commercial pilots.
But even with her success as a
pilot she still seeks more. In her
quest for more she neglects her
loving husband, Dwight, and
young daughter, Azure, and
starts an affair with an egoma
niac co-pilot, almost destroying
herself and her family.
Spice's brilliant youngest
daughter. Sterling, craves for her
mother's love and attracts it with
rebellion. Trapped by a danger
ous love affair with a two timing
drug dealer and the endless high
of drags, she finds herself sliding
into an ultimate low, where only
a miracle can save her. Her
craving for her mother's love
becomes irritating at times.
Meanwhile Carmen, Spice's
best friend, is straggling with her
alcohol addiction. After being
released from rehab, she begins
to find peace within herself. She
finally comes to terms with the
death of her young son and her
family's history of alcohol
abuse.
While Spice's relationship
with Golden blossoms into holy
matrimony, Mink and her
husband patch things up and
Sterling is forced to make the
most important decision of her
life.
In the end. Carmen and Spice
come to grips with the secret that
has held their friendship together
for more than 26 years.
From the devastating secrets
of Spice's past to the struggle of
finding true happiness "One
Better" is definitely a must read.
McMillan gives the charac
ters real voices. "One Better’’ is
one of the best books I have read
in a long time. It was easy
reading from cover to cover.
The ending will leave you in
tears so keep a box of tissues
near.
•11,1979 The Bethune
Museum and Archives is
established in Washington, D.C.
The museum is housed in the
Mary McLeod Bethune Council
House and is to serve as a
depository and center for
African-American women’s
history.
•12,1941 Mary Cardwell
Dawson and Lillian
Evanti establish the National
Negro Opera Company in
Pittsburgh, Pa., to provide more
opportunities for African-
Americans to sing and study
opera.
•13,1949 Caryn Johnson
is bom in New York City. She
became a multi-talented come
dian and actress and is known
today as Whoopi Goldberg.
Goldberg won an academy
award for best supporting actress
in the movie "Ghost."
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