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Movie: "The Great Debater"
The upcoming movie 'The Great Debaters', which is in> post-production now, stars Denzel Washington as> Melvin B. Tolson, who led the historically black> Wiley College Debate Team to challenge the Harvard> Debate Team for the national championship. Prof.> Tolson is a member of Omega Psi Phi, a member of> Beta Chapter (Lincoln Univ. PA) when Langston Hughes> was there in the '20s. He was the managing editor of> The Oracle, the fraternity's organ in the late '30s> and was a graduate scholarship winner also. Tolson,> a modernist poet, later became the Poet Laureate of> Liberia.> >http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1809870043/video/4873440/>
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