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BLACK WRITER SUES TV’S LEAR
LOS ANGELES - Norman Lear, producer of “AU In The
Family and other liberal message television shows, was sued this
wee k by a Black writer who charged Lear with racial
discrimination.
. Eric Monte accused Lear and his production company of
violating his civil rights by conspiring to prevent Black writers or
producers from marketing prime time television series. Monte, in
a $250 million suit, aUeged Lear had turned over to other writers
ideas for shows that Monte said he originated about Blacks, such
as “Good Times, “The Jeffersons” and “What’s Happening.”
He charged that Lear and his company refused to deal with
Black producers and thwarted their efforts to deal directly with
the networks.
DON KING DROPS A LI’S BOUT
NEW YORK - Promoter Don King said this week he has given
up’ plans to stage a heavyweight championship fight between
Muhammad Ali and Xinth-ranked challenger Alfio Righetti in
July and now hopes to hold it in the fall.
Ali has a contract with Madison Square Garden for a
September 20 defense against fourth-ranked Eamie Shavers, but
because of a potential legal battle between the garden and Top
Rank, Inc., which holds a separate contract with Shavers, King
believes that the fight might fall through.
MISS. SUIT FIGHTS SEX DISCRIMINATION
JACKSON, Miss The Mississippi branch of the National
Association for the Advancement of Colored People is pressing
three Federal judges for a ruling on its suit to eliminate
segregation by sex in Amite County public schools.
Amite is Mississippi’s only school district with separate public
schools for boys and girls, a system instituted when the district
was racially integrated in 1969. The N.A.A.C.P. first filed its
complaint four years ago before the United States Court of
appeals for the Fifth Circuit. It contends that segregation by sex
produces wastful duplication of educational services and
unhappiness among the students.
About 80 per cent of the county’s 2,500 public school pupils
are Black, while the majority of white children attend private
academies.
The school board defends the sex segregation as promoting
better student discipline and tidier classrooms.
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THEATRICAL
Pretty Pam Grier has
launched a three-week promo
tour for Warner Bros.’
“Greased Lightning,” the film
biography of Black stock car
racer Wendell Scott that will
premiere on July 18 in selected
cities in the East. Already, on
June 21, a sneak preview was
held in New Orleans before a
capacity audience of 1,700 and
with the film’s lead, Richard
Pryor, present, along with
Hannah Weinstein, the
producer.
Whatta they call marbles
where you played? The
questions come to mind
Tournament to be held in
Wildwood-By-The-Sea. New
Jersey, June 26-30. In Africa,
the game is called “jorrah.” In
Brazil, it’s “gude” and in Italy,
“pallina di vetro.” In the U.S.,
they are called “ringer” or
“immies,” “mibs” or simply
“marbles.”
Cal Ramsey
Gal Ramsey. “The Voice of
the Knicks” was roasted last
weekend at a well- attended
affair at the Hotel Americana.
He was honored for his work in
teaching, counseling and
community work. Money
raised will start a scholarship at
Va. Union in memory of the
late Ed Simmons who helped
so many kids get athletic
scholarships. An example of
Cal’s work was his presence (as
usual) last week to act as
emcee to launch the Rucker
M e morial--ITT Summer
Basketball League where
Harold S. Geneen, chairman of
ITT tossed up the first ball for
the 1977 season.
Alice Travis, formerly with
“A. M. New York” on
WABC-TV, will launch her new
public service TV barter show,
“For You, Black Woman” on
ABGNY on July 24 and in 36
other cities, including
Pittsburgh and Washington,
D.C., the latter city where she
also once held forth on TV.
The Beverly Hills-Hollywood
branch NAACP has been able
to get 13 behind-the- camera
jobs for Blacks on Film way s’
NBC World Premiere Movie,
“King,” the story of Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr., filming on
location in Macon, Ga.
Rastafarianism, the
47-year-old Jamaica-born sect
espousing peace and love is
suddenly getting its share of
exposure. Just last week NY
Times reporter G. Gerald
I'raser had an excellent feature
tracing the cult in Jamaica and
in Brooklyn, New York (peace
and violence) and now comes
the announcement that “Rise
Tafari,” a musical based on
Rastafarians who live in
Jamaica will be produced on
Broadway next season by
Michael Butler Associates.
Honi Cole is only replacing
Avon Long on Broadway in
“Bubbling Brown Sugar” while
the road show company plays
Baltimore which is Avon’s
hometown.
The exhibit, “Two Centuries
of Black American Art” is now
showing at The Brooklyn
Museum and will continue
through September 5. The
exhibition, made possible
through grants from the
National Ednowment for the
Humanities and Philip Morris,
Inc., has over 200 paintings,
sculptures, drawings, graphics,
drafts and decorative arts by
63 artists.
In NYC, Ms. Mary L.
Wormley, a niece of ragtime
king Scott Joplin’s second
wife, has been awarded more
than $177,000 in copywright
infringement damages in U. S.
District Court.
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Brock Peters
Warner Bros. Community
Relations Director Vincent
Tubbs and actor Brock Peters
have been elected to the board
of directors of the Black
Filmmakers Hall of Fame, Inc.,
an affilate of the Oakland
(Calif.) Museum of Art.
78-y ear-old
woman
raped
A 78-year-old Augusta
woman was raped and
sodomized last Friday night.
She told police the door bell
rang about 11 pan. She opened
the door thinking that the
screen door was fastened.
A man grabbed her arms and
forced her into a back room
where he demanded money.
When she gave $6, he struck
her in the face, then raped and
sodomized her.
Police found that a hole had
been cut in the front screen
door next to the lock, allowing
the man to open the screen.
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Police
Stories
Body found
The body of James Terrell,
60. of 302 Espinosa St., was
found slumped over in the
front seat of a 1969 Buick.
Authorities said the man had
been dead for a long time. But
they said there was no evidence
of foul play.
SSOO dog stolen
A 135 pound Malamute
Alaskan dog was stolen last
Thursday from Rt. 1 Box 82,
Horseshoe Road. The dog was
valued at SSOO and believed to
be the only one of its kind in
the Augusta area.
It was the third dognaping in
the neighborhood within the
past month.
Heat wave
Burglars stole two Breeze
Boy fans from Hyde Park
Community Center on Golden
Rod Street last Thursday.
The fans were valued at $25
each.
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Church burglarized
The Rev. J. L Stokes
reported to police that burglars
broke into Shiloh Baptist, 30
Lewis St., and took nearly
SSOO in merchandise including
a S2OO Hoover vacuum cleaner,
a S2OO microphone system, a
silver tray valued at SSO. And
two silver cups valued at $37.
Attorney’s office hit
Burglars entered the office
of Atty. John H. Ruffin at
1101 11th St. last week and
took a $ 150 adding machine, a
portable TV and a dictating , •
machine of undetermined ■ >
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Vandalism
Police answered a call last; -
Thursday morning at Davis-;-
Place, 1241 Steiner
found that two plate glass -
windows had been broken out
on the South side of the - :
building.
Davis said that a man had
said earlier that night he was:-
going to get even with him.
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