Red Carpet Event
By: Sorors Perselphone Coleman & Alice Bennett
The Arts and Letters and Social Acton Committees partnered to paint the city red and attend the movie “Marshall,” on October 20,
2017. Sorors showed their support by attending the movie at three different theaters – Regency, Orange Park and Tinseltown. The
after-movie Chat & Chew was held at Seven Bridges Restaurant featuring our very own Soror, Judge Angela Cox. A very lively,
engaging, and inspirational dialogue pursued between Judge Cox and the attendees. Soror Cox led the after-movie talk by
paralleling Thurgood Marshall’s service and support for the underprivileged and poor blacks to the social justice and service that
she and our sorority strive to provide for the communities we live in and serve. She spoke of how Thurgood Marshall used his law
degree to provide counsel and defense for those who could not afford or were denied adequate defense. Instead of defending
those who could afford his counsel, Thurgood chose to defend those who were often wrongly accused and poor. Soror Cox also
believes in giving back to her community. She believes in always presenting and delivering her best. For her, this is exhibited as
she provides training for newly appointed and elected judges in the Florida Judicial College, as she provides counsel and support to
aspiring judges, presides over criminal cases, and when she is provided the opportunity to address the youth in our community.
Soror Cox highlighted how we are often judged by past mistakes and how difficult it is for us, as a race, to overcome them.
For many young people growing up in today’s society, they don’t realize that “Racism has always been here, just not as visible.”
Young people today are beginning to see that racism is still here, even with advances in jobs, access to different opportunities,
enrollment in colleges and universities, etc. have been made.
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