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“If you are just starting out in business, clothing becomes
a vehicle with which to convey an image,” says Bryant
Gumbel in the Celebrity Fashion Feature previewing summer
suits in the April issue of Penthouse magazine. Here, the
popular co-anchor of NBC’s “Today” show wears the silk
‘n’-satin look in a wool-and-silk blend suit by Daniel
Hechter.
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Henry Brigham at news conference
Henry Brigham to run
for Co. Commission
by Theresa Minor
Long-time educator, Henry
Brigham, has become the first to
test a newly restructured Rich
mond County Commission, an
nouncing his bid for commissioner
Monday during a press conference.
Recently, the Georgia
Legislature approved a measure
changing the make-up of the coun
ty panel. Instead of five, six com
missioners will oversee the county
government after the November
general elections. The com
missioners will also be elected from
districts rather than on an at-large
basis.
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The move could potentially open
the doors for two Blacks to be able
to serve on the commission—a
group which has seen only one
Black commissioner in its history,
current Augusta Mayor Edward
Mclntyre.
Brigham touched upon the
change saying he sees running for
the position as “an opportunity to
usher in a new era in county gover
nment...coming out of the horse
and-buggy days.”
He also expressed his disap
proval of the creation of a county
police force but said, “I’m willing
to give it a try. When I’m elected
Honored by college fund
Lionel Richie looks at Tuskegee with pride
NEW YORK—“lt’s the love of
the people who have known you
the longest that lifts your heart the
highest,” said Motown entertainer
Lionel Richie, who received the
1984 United Negro College Fund
Federick D. Patterson
Distinguished Award March 8 at
the Waldorf-Astoria.
Now a solo performer, Richie
began his singing career with the
Commodores, the popular rhythm
and blues band on the Motown
label. Richie and friends formed
the Commodores while students at
Tuskegee Institute, one of UNCF’s
42 member colleges.
“I look back on my years at
Tuskegee with pride, affection,
and gratitude,” said Richie. “The
education and experience I gained
there have been the foundation of
my life.”
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UNCF schools provide a quality
education for some 45,000 studen
ts each year. These colleges offer a
range of academic majors,
everything from architecture to
veterinary medicine. For many
students, predominantly black
colleges provide the academic
challenge and career guidance they
seek.
Jews, Blacks ban together on Ala, case
Though there has been much
publicity lately of the Rev. Jesse
Jackson’s apparent ethnic slur
while referring to Jewish-
Americans, the remark does not
seem to have affected a joint civil
action initiated by the American
Jewish Congress and a group of
Black attorneys in Alabama.
The brief, filed by the two
groups in the U.S. District Court
for the Northern District of
Alabama, is the result of an attem
pt by Alabama’s Auburn Univer
sity to have a Federal judge
dismissed from a school
segregation case on the grounds
that he had handled desegregation
suits as a lawyer.
The brief comes to the defense
of Federal District Court Judge
U.W. Clemon, in the case in
volving the U.S. government on
the one side and the State of
Alabama and its state university
system (which includes Auburn
University) on the other. The
Justice Department has charged
Alabama with maintaining and
perpetuating segregation in-state
When the case was assigned to
Judge Clemon, who is black,
Auburn University filed a motion
to have him disqualified. A move
which both the Black attorneys
there would’ve been a year past to
see if it will work.”
When asked by a reporter what
were his intentions for increasing
the number of minorities holding
county department head positions
Brigham said, “I will evaluate that
situation closely when I’m elec
ted.”
Brigham is presently the director
of the board of education’s Chap
ter II (ESAA) Program.
He has served as a classroom
teacher and teacher-counselor.
In addition, Brigham has served
as principal at Sand Bar Ferry,
Telfair and Terrace Manor elemen
tary schools.
March 17,1984
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As a special gift to Tuskegee, the
Commodores presented the school
with an art collection valued at
$250,000. The pieces, consisting
and AJC scored as a veiled effort
to disqualify him simply because
of racism.
The university charged that the
judge had been an attorney in a
statewide desegregation case. It
also claimed that Judge Clemon
might show bias because his
children were potential members
of a class of Black school children
who would be affected by the out
come of the case.
The university also asserted that
Judge Clemon had once had a
relationship with a former senator
whose law firm was representing
one of the parties in the case.
Auburn noted that the former
senator had supported Judge
demon’s nomination to the
federal bench, and that Clemon
had made a contribution to the
politician’s campaign fund. The
university pointed out that since
Judge Clemon might be called
upon to rule, on the law firm’s
petition for attorney’s fees, there
was “the possibility of the ap
pearance of personal bias.”
Judge Clemon denied the
university’s disqualifica
tion motion.
In their amicus brief, the
American Jewish Congress and the
National Bar Association were
Paine sued for $ million
A man shot in the back in a
February incident at a Paine
College fraternity house has filed a
$1.5 million suit in a Richmond
County court against the college.
Gregory Huff Buford was at
tending a dance at the house when
he went up the staircase toward a
bathroom and met Dennis Wilcox,
according to the suit filed Monday
in Superior Court.
Less than 75 percent Advertising
Lionel Richie (left) and The Commodores
mainly of African sculpture and
furniture, were obtained during
the band’s travels through Nigeria,
Upper Volta, Ghana, and Mali.
sharply critical of the Auburn
argument that a judge who had
represented plaintiffs in past
school desegregation cases “is
inherently biased and cannot judge
impartially in any school
desegregation case.”
The brief said that Auburn, in
its affidavit, “has not even claimed
to support a conclusion that a per
sonal bias exists.” It characterized
the facts in the university’s af
fidavit as “garbled” and called the
document “a prolix and confusing
series of assertions” whose only
revelation was the fact that Judge
Clemon was an attorney for plain
tiffs in a statewide desegregation
case. The joint amicus then cited a
series of past cases where motions
to disqualify a judge soley on the
basis of race, religion or sex had
been denied.
“Were it to be held that the
vague generalities of Auburn’s af
fidavit were sufficient to require
disqualification under Section
144,” the amicus brief declared,
“it would pave the way for any
party to disqualify a black judge
simply Because of his blackness, or
any minority judge simply because
of his minority status.”
Section 144 provides for
disqualification of a judge for per-
Wilcox, identified as a college
employee, “without provocation”
pulled a .357 Magnum on Buford,
spun him around and started mar
ching him down the stairs, the suit
said.
Before Buford reached the bot
tom of the stairs, Wilcox fired the
weapon, the suit said. He then
dragged Buford out the front door
and left him on the porch, the suit
“I am proud to be an alumnus
of Tuskegee,” Lionel Richie con
tinued, “and I am truly over
whelmed by this honor.”
sonal bias or where evidence is
strong and specific enough to
“convince a reasonable person
that the judge is personally
biased.”
“The affidavit filed here by
Auburn falls far short of these
requirements,” the amicus
declared. It added that “as a mat
ter of bedrock law, a judge’s color,
sex or religion does not constitute a
bias in favor of that color (black or
white), sex or religion.”
AJCongress and the National
Bar Association have asked the
U.S. District Court to rule that
Judge Clemon should continue to
preside in the case. “A judge’s in
terest in politics prior to his ap
pointment should not be thought
to create an appearance of im
propriety simply because others
with whom he was associated in
the political process act as counsel
in his court,” the amicus brief
said.
The brief was filed on behalf ot
the two organizations by six well
known attorneys: Marvin E.
Frankel of New York, a former
Federal judge; Fred D. Gray,
Tuskegee, Alabama; Robert J.
Lipshutz, Atlanta; and Joseph M.
Hassett, David S. Tatel and Daniel
S. Cohen of Washington, D.C.
said.
The college is being charged with
negligence for its employee’s acts,
according to the suit.
Buford is seeking $1 million
general damages and $500,000
punitive damages, Buford’s attor
neys, Oscar H. Allen and Thomas
W. Tucker, wrote in the suit.
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