The ‘Sisters and the Bro’
President Johnnetta Cole assembles new Bennett College team
By Allison Foreman
GREENSBORO, N.C.
Dr. Tatia Granger remembers the moment like it was yesterday. It was June 6, 2002. The special assistant to the vice president for financial services was sitting at her desk at Duke University when the phone rang.
“When I picked up the phone, this voice on the other end said, ‘Dr. Granger, this is Johnnetta Cole calling from Atlanta.’ “
“I almost dropped the phone,” Granger says.
This was not just Dr. Johnnetta Cole, Bennett College’s newly appointed president, calling. This was Johnnetta Cole, former president of Spelman College. This was Johnnetta Cole, anthropologist and nationally known educator.
