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Will the AME Church Let Tom Joyner Buy Morris Brown College?

With fresh green in his pocket ($56.1 million from the sale of Reach Media to Radio One), nationally syndicated morning-drive radio jock Tom Joyner wants to buy Atlanta’s Morris Brown College. During an on-air interview last week with the president of the African Methodist Episcopal Church Council of Bishops, Vashti Murphy McKenzie, Joyner offered to buy the school which is affiliated with the AME church. Weakened by decades of bad debt, Morris Brown lost its accreditation last year. Joyner says it’s his second time making the bid to buy the school. He believes his investment can turn the school around.