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The Workaholic
Two years ago, thousands of protesters gathered at Tallahassee's Leon Civic Center to protest the death of Martin Lee Anderson, a 14-year-old who died after he was beaten, kicked and tortured during his first day at a state boot camp. The air crackled with anger and sadness at what many since then have likened to the death of Emmett Till. Led by the Rev. Jesse Jackson and the Rev. Al Sharpton, the crowd waved poster-size photos of the youth and demanded justice for the incident. And in the midst of it all was young Sidney Wright IV, marching with the protesters, armed with a camera and searching for a source. Besides finding a knowledgeable and heartfelt individual, his one concern was that the multimedia package didn't look like college material.
The 22-year-old senior at Florida A&M University with a love for SIMS - the popular virtual reality computer game - is determined to be excellent in all he does and says that Martha Stewart taught him how to fold the perfect T-shirt. Set to graduate in August and off to his first job at the ABC Network in New York, Wright's journey as a journalist began, according to his mother, in...