Brainsssssss.

My ideas:

1. Feature on a black student who chose to come to the University this past fall or spring. What was the process like? Did they feel like their race affected the application process?
2. Man-on-the-street piece on how current African-American students feel or don't feel about the celebration of desegregation then and now. Does it feel "special"? Do they stand out?
3. A day-in-the-life of a black frat on campus.
4. A story on the quest to raise the percentage of African-American students: what's the University doing and how do current faculty and staff feel about the overt desire to reach out to more students? Should the process be "color-blind"?
5. What has the University done in 50 years to make the campus, post-desegregation, more welcoming to blacks? What was that change like initially and what new programs or policies have been developed in the decades since?
   
6. Features on black professors: both their jobs now, 50 years after desegregation and any remembrances they may have had around the period the University was being desegregated.
7. A profile of the Morton Theatre, the most prominent African-American vaudeville in Georgia.
   
8. A feature on the "hot spot," or what was typically known as the center of African-American life downtown.
9. A feature on the organization of the anniversary's commemorative events: who plans them every 10 years? How? What do they look for and what sort of messages do they hope to send?
10. A day-in-the-life of African-Americans living and working downtown 50 years ago: where could they go? What could they do?
11. A MOTS from University administration about their thoughts on the commemoration: what strikes them as most important then, now and going forward?
12. Contextualizing the University's struggles to raise its percentage of black students among those struggles of other SEC schools. Who's doing better than us? Who isn't? Why?