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...human parade passing through his home, Harlem's Hotel Theresa, which his father managed. In its day, the Theresa served as a Mecca for famous black entertainers, sports heroes and, of course, politicians. Brown was on hair-mussing terms with the likes of Adam Clayton Powell Jr., Percy Sutton and the young David Dinkins...
...close and personal impression of her during the '92 campaign, when it was possible to share a van and chat. She would blurt out things like "For goodness' sake, you can't be a lawyer if you don't represent banks," which worked in its way for Willie Sutton but is not wife-of-candidate speak. Airbrushed later, that remark contained the seeds of all that would come after, a desire to have things both ways--the need, shared by many of us of a certain age and upbringing, to do well but be seen as doing good...
...were so high that white officers suspected cheating and made them take the tests again. Still, only five out of the first 13 trainees survived the rigorous course and the corrosive racism of some white flight instructors. Former Detroit Mayor Coleman Young and prominent New York City businessman Percy Sutton were among the 992 African Americans who eventually passed through Tuskegee--only to discover that they were still second-class citizens in the eyes of the military. The Tuskegee units were continually passed over for combat assignments. According to Charles ("Chief") Anderson, who headed the group of African-American civilian...
...Bennett is allied with C. DeLores Tucker, head of the National Political Congress of Black Women. After a woman working at radio station WBLS in New York complained last year about the lyrics of one rap song, management established a committee to screen the playlist. For station head Pierre Sutton, who is black, it's simply a matter of "not in my house you don't.'' Says Sutton: "Artists have the right to say what they want to, and we have the right to decide with regard to the playing of same.'' When 1993 statistics showed that violent crime...
...Hospital, once TV's top-rated soap and currently a slightly faded No. 3, writers seem to be aiming for morbid, publicity-conscious social relevance. Last week ABC held a press conference to announce the launch of a new G.H. plot line revolving around dyslexic heartthrob Stone Cates (Michael Sutton). Stone, a former street kid who dates likable Port Charles teen Robin Scorpio (Kimberly McCullough), has just discovered that he is HIV positive. His illness will progress in what network press material describes as "real time" and will "not be rushed for the sake of accommodation." In other words...