Spelman College grad Lori Robinson was stunned when she returned to Atlanta on a magazine assignment to cover a brewing controversy after a woman from her alma mater accused four Morehouse men of sexually assaulting her.
It was 1996 and Robinson was in a packed court hearing when the judge asked those supporting the acuser to stand up. A few did. Then the judge asked for those with the accused men to stand. Nearly the entire gallery stood.
“I sat there wondering, ‘Where are the supporters of the accuser? Do they not believe her? Do they not want black men being condemned?” Robinson recalled.
Ted Lackland, attorney for one of the accused Morehouse College students, remembers the hearing quite differently. He said then-Spelman president Johnnetta Cole walked in with the accuser, sat with her and then testified in the bond hearing.
Morehouse, Spelman alums reflect on sometimes tense history
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