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 was 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://www.imdb.com/title/tt0427309/
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