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For the black men who were there, it was also a moment of profound psychological vindication. In the most heated political and policy debates of recent years, black men have seen themselves cast, sometimes openly, sometimes with a wink and a nod, as the welfare freeloader, the affirmative-action hire...
Few would deny the minister's point that the black man could use a redefinition; some might suggest a resurrection. The successful defense of a black male celebrity by a black male lawyer in Los Angeles, cheered as it was by many African Americans, was an exception to a bleak...
To many African Americans, on the other hand, these indications of progress are undermined by the facts that about a third of black families live below the poverty line; that 1 in 3 black males in his 20s is in jail, on probation or on parole; that a black lower...
The minimum sentence would be probation, he said.
Divine Brown, alias Estella Marie Thompson, alias the Hollywood hooker caught in flagrante delicto with Hugh Grant, pleaded no contest to lewd conduct in Hollywood Municipal Court and got six months in jail and a $1,350 fine. Thompson was sent to jail for violating a previous probation. Grant, whose...