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Shooting victim Henry Brigham Ex-Augusta r H Blacks urged sues Paine for to run for to travel y —d $1.5 million Co. Commission to Israel . iy Page 1 Page 1 Page 3 11 Page *• VOLUME 18 NUMBER 47 \ / < / ' , '■ ! F 0 CO > / 1 * / ; / . wM wi i ✓ - .Jjjl » €> I 9 i a “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. « I BBIH vA I 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. ®l|£ Augusta Aeius-Hcutciu 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.” ♦4 ■ ■ 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 Kj lOarir? x 7 /Tfc| ■ • / ■ “i / 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. 30C