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...controversial chairman of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, angered black leaders last summer when he gently chided President Reagan for catering too much to minorities. Now, in a speech delivered to an Akron business group, he has accused Democratic Presidential Candidate Jesse Jackson, former National Urban League President Vernon Jordan and N.A.A.C.P. Executive Director Benjamin Hooks of encouraging blacks to vote for the losing party, thus leading them into a "political Jonestown." "No more Kool-Aid," said Pendleton, who is black, referring to the cyanide-laced drink that killed the Rev. Jim Jones' followers in 1978. "We want...
...This means an awful lot to me," the Mt. Vernon, Ohio native said yesterday. "We have a very close team, and to be singled out with this vote of confidence is very special...
...Quincy House resident was captain of his Mt. Vernon High School football team, set school marks for tackles in a game (30) a season (202) and career (over 400), ran track and wrestled...
...setting is a 1944 Louisiana army base where Master Sergeant Vernon Waters, leader of an all Black company, is murdered one dark night outside of the camp. The white base commander seeks to quiet a potentially explosive situation, quickly blaming the shooting on the local Klu Klux Klan. But his efforts are undone when the Army sends a Negro military attorney, a polished, Howard University-trained officer, to investigate. Instead of accepting two seemingly culpable white officers as scapegoats, Captain Richard Davenport pushes on with his search. And with integrity and tenacity, he uncovers the true, frightening nature...
Until Saturday, Wilkinson was certainly not even close to the center of attention; in fact, he wasn't even a proven entity. Although he won a varsity letter last year, the Mount Vernon, Ohio native saw significant action in only two games...