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NAACP says Marvin Gaye Sr. Jesse Jackson Ted Hagans
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VOLUME 14 NUMBER 3
Michael Jackson, Lionel Richie
threatened withmassive boycott
for not using enough Blacks
The forthcoming tours of singer
Michael Jackson and his brothers
and Lionel Richie are threatened
with a mass boycott and sit-ins that
can ruin their box office, accor
ding to the Rev. Al Sharpton, who
says Black promoters have been
shunned in favor of whites.
Known for his pro-Black at
titude in theatrical circles, Shar
pton, president of the National
Youth Movement, in a fiery speech
protesting the exclusion of Black
promoters from participating in
their lucrative concert tours that
can run as high as SIOO million in
the Jacksons’ case, told a group of
promoters:
“Now acts that you have nur
tured into super stardom refuse to
use you in the very markets you
have built your reputation in. We
can’t tolerate this.
“The Black consumer market
fed Jackson and Richie for years
Jesse Jackson eulogizes
Business League boss
The Rev. Jesse Jackson
eulogized noted developer
Theodore R. “Ted” Hagans II and
his son at funeral services by
referring to him as a man who rose
from the ghetto to become a win
ner.
A host of Hagan’s other
political and business companions
joined in the praise while sharing
their most previous memories of
the man whom U.S. Rep. Walter
Fauntroy credited with the “socio
economic unity in the city.”
Hagans, 58, and his son
Theodore “Buster,” 32, were
killed in a twin-engine airplane
crash near Baltimore. Hagans, a
nationally known Black leader and
Jackson ally, was piloting the
craft.
Following the remarks of Mayor
Marion Barry, Ralph Taylor,
Joseph Riley, Franklin O’Neal and
a solo by Thomas Tipton, Father
H. Albion Ferrell made mention of
the Easter season in relations to the
Hagans leaves $7 million
Washington businessman
Theodore Roosevelt Hagans, Jr.
left an estate valued at over $7
million which, after deductions of
debts and expenses, will go to his
daughter, Michele B. Hagans of
Northeast Washington, and a
friend, Barbara Gillum, of Upper
Marlboro, Md. His son, Theodore
R. Hagans, 111, killed with his
father in an April 28 plane crash,
was named also in the elder
Hagans’ will, but his share of the
estate, 40 percent, will be divided
among the two survivors.
Hagans’ will, dated July 20,
1983 and filed last Wednesday with
D.C. Superior Court’s Probate
Division, specified that 40 percent
of his residuary estate should be
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before whites ever heard of them.
You can’t get dates on them. Black
vendors can’t work as well as
others you’ve employed.”
Sharpton revealed that on Satur
day, he will be in Memphis, Tenn,
leading a protest march against
Richie, who starts his tour in
Tulsa, Okla.
“Michael Jackson beware,” he
said. “You’re next. “It’s a shame
when Richie takes out a $20,000,
full page ad in the Sunday NY
Times, yet only spends $1,500 with
the Amsterdam News for his Radio
City appearance.”
Jesse Boseman, chairman of the
promoters association, said that
after several talks with Richie's
managers, they were offered only
four engagements out of 40, which
he promptly rejected.
In a related issue, Sharpton said
he talked with celebrated fight
promoter Don King, who’s in-
death of this father and son.
But it was the Rev. Jackson who
commanded the congregation’s at
tention during a ceremony laden
with not only sadness but also an
air of acceptance, even a tinge of
humor. “Let us pray,” Jackson
said simply and bowed his head.
The church, overflowing with
members of the community,
quietly obeyed.
Rev. Jackson preached a sermon
on “The Man of Mystery and the
Father.” “We know the date of his
(Hagans) birth, but we don’t
know the circumstances surroun
ding his death,” he said. “We
know the date of his (Hagans)
death, but we don’t know the cir
cumstances surrounding his
death.”
“He was born in the slum...but
we know the slum wan not born in
him,” Jackson told several hun
dred mourners who packed St.
Luke’s Episcopal Church, in a
Black neighborhood near down-
left to his son, 40 percent should
go to his daughter, and 20 percent
would be left to a friend, Barbara
Gillum of Upper Marlboro, Md.
In addition, Gillum was named as
recipient of residential property in
Bali Way, Fl. which Hagans
owned. His former wife, Delores
Hagans of Northeast Washington,
was left a cash amount of $50,000.
In his will, Hagans specified
that, should any of the beneficiaries
predecease him, the allocations
should be divided in shared
corresponding to those he in
dicated to go to the survivors.
Theodore Hagans 111, killed in the
suburban Maryland plane crash
with his father, would have been
an equal partner with his sister
volved in the Jackson tour. He said
he questioned why the tour will
pass up such major cities as New
York, Chicago, Houston, Detroit
and Washington, D.C.
In many of these towns local
radio stations have indicated they
will stop playing Jackson records
as a protest.
Sharpton said later talks with
Joe and Kathryn Jackson, parents
of the world famed singers, have
indicated they were sympathetic
and promised to attempt to rectify
the situation.
At first when the tour was an
nounced, King was pictured as the
main man in the promotion, but
since then attempts have been
made to downgrade his role.
First Michael hired his own
manager, then two whites were
hired to coordinate the tour and
finally the Jackson Brothers
retained their own manager. “Too
town Washington.
“We know he was a victim of
discrimination and like all brothers
and sisters, for him life was a
struggle,” said Jackson, who just
hours earlier won the city’s
democratic primary.
There is a birthdate and a death
date on a tomb stone, but between
those is a mystery Jackson said in
an apparent attempt to explain the
mystery in life that is ever present
and to dispel fears.
“A lot of us act like life is certain
and death is uncertain” Jackson
added. “The fact is “life is uncer
tain, death is certain.”
Rev. Jackson also alluded to the
Easter Season, also, pointing out
that God gave his only son “to get
our attention and give us a chance
of redemption.” A parallel was
drawn between Mr. Hagans and
his only living son.
Kevin Walker, the nephew of
Mr. Hagans, whose mother Mary
McDonald is Theodore Hagans’
Michele, less the amounts specified
for his former wife, inheritance
taxes, debts and the 20 percent
allocated to Ms. Gillum.
Ted Hagans, president of the
National Business League at the
time of his death, was well known
throughout the city. A native
Washingtonian, Hagans amassed
his fortune as a shrewd and prac
tical businessman. In addition to
real estate in Florida, Hagans
owned housing developments in
various sections of the District.
Among his assets were the Park
Monroe Apartments on 16th St.,
NW., valued at close to $2 million.
In an estate petition filed last
Wednesday by the executors of his
estate, Hagans’ estate included
$2,401,000 in real estate,
May 19.1984
many cooks in the kitchen,” said
one observer.
Latest reports have the senior
Jacksons and King sharing in 15
percent of the net profits.
According to a current story in
the May 10 issue of Rolling Stones
magazine, Michael is calling the
shots in the tour. It also implied
that he harbored a growing
dissatisfaction with King, who’s
put more money into the pockets
of fighters than any promoter in
the boxing game since men laced
on gloves.
“It’s a doggone insult to King,”
said Sharpton, “for Marlon
Jackson (one of the brothers) to
lavesaid they Hired whiles because
they ‘were looking for someone
with integrity, experience and
imagination and a knowledge of
both Black and white audiences.’
“King is a man of money. He
put $5 million each into Muham-
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Jesse Jackson
sister said only, “All I know is they
were great people; you saw it there,
money can buy all of this.
“It was a beautiful ceremony” a
passerby said. “Yes, but he was a
beautiful person. He served us all
so well” said the elderly woman,
known as the Mother of Shaw.
“He particularly served us well,
especially the senior citizens. He
was a major contributor to the
restoration of the Shaw Area,”
continued Ellene Epps Brown.
Theodore Hagans II is survived
by a daughter, Michelle Hagans.
$1,100,000 in cash and certificates
of deposits, $1 million in stock and
$2 million in real estate investmen
ts. The remainder of his estate,
comprising $7,210,000, was in
mortgage receivables, securities
and personal effects. Over
$500,000 in District and inheritan
ce taxes, SIO,OOO in funeral costs
and other debt were deducted from
the total assessed value of Hagans’
estate.
In his will, Hagans named his
deceased son, daughter Michele
and Arthur L. Content, attorney
and personal representative, as
executors of the will. Michele
Hagans, Content and personal
reoresentative Charles I. Bryant of
Washington filed the estate petition
last week.
Less than 75 percent Advertising
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Michael Jackson
mad Ali and Joe Frazier’s bank ac
counts, something no white man
had ever dope.
“Is Marlon questioning King’s
integrity and saying he’s shady so
that is why they had to hire two
whites to coordinate their tours?
This shows me that he has a white
is right mentality.’
Marvin Gaye Sr.
has brain tutnor
LOS ANGELES The
preacher father of slain soul singer
Marvin Gaye is suffering from a
potentially fatal brain tumor but is
mentally competent to stand trial
on charges he shot his son to
death, a psychiatrist testified
Wednesday.
Physicians that diagnosed Mar
vin Gay Sr., 71, said he has a brain
tumor the “size of a walnut” that
a defense attorney said may have
caused the behavior leading to the
April 1 shooting during a heated
argument at the family home.
“Mr. Gaye is competent to
stand trial,” Dr. Ronald Mark
man, a court appointed
psychiatrist, said in a written
report.
“He is fully oriented, alert,
aware of the nature of the
proceedings and is open to
suggestion and direction,” the
doctor said.
nold Gold said further diagnosis of
the tumor was needed, Superior
the tumor was needed. Superior
Court Judge Michael Pirosh
delayed his ruling on Gay’s com
petency until May 16.
Gold said the exact size and
nature —whether benign or can
cerous—-of the tumor is unknown.
But the attorney said it is “ab
solutely necessary” that the tumor
be removed or it could render Gaye
blind within months and perhaps
even kill him.
Gold said a decision on surgery
would be made within a week.
CP anticipates annexation
of white neighborhoods
by Theresa Minor
The Augusta Chapter of the
NAACP has charged that in an at
tempt to “make sure whites out
number Blacks on the registered
voter roll’’ the Augusta City
Council will soon begin annexing
small white communities into the
city limits.
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Lionel Richie
Sharpton says that once whites
control a tour they bring in their
relatives and friends for the lion’s
share of promoting tours and
relegate Blacks to “a bone.”
“If I have to use my body to
break up this evil conspiracy, then
I will,” he said, from Amsterdam News
He said outside of court it was
“certainly possible” the tumor af
fected Gaye’s behavior the day of
the shooting and indicated he may
use that as a defense strategy.
In his report, Markman said,
“When I first spoke to Mr. Gaye,
he was confused and somewhat
disoriented...he was unaware as to
the basis for his detention but did
state that he had shot his son.
“During the second interview
Gaye was less perplexed and quite
responsive to my questions. He
understood he was in custody for
the death of his son but was un
clear as to the specific charges...he
was alert, cooperative and demon
strated adequate intellectual fun
ction.”
Marvin Gaye whose hits in
cluded “Heard It Through The
Grapevine” and “What’s Going
On,” was shot to death in the
family home after an argument
with his father.
The coroner’s office reported
Tuesday that Gaye had used
cocaine several hours before his
death but was not under the in
fluence of the drug when he died.
“A small amount of cocaine
residue was found in the blood,
but no other drugs were detected,”
said Bill Gold, a coroner’s
spokesman.
Gaye, 44 may have snorted
cocaine “four to eight hours prior
to his death, which means the in
fluence factor wouldn’t be there”
at the time of his slaying, he said.
Chaplain Otis A. Smith,
president of the local NAACP,
levelled the allegations following a
news conference earlier in the
week, during which he intimated
that the Richmond County Board
of Elections rejected a request to
use the local NAACP office as a
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