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...Reparations Coordinating Committee, which includes attorney Johnnie Cochran, did not specify what damages it was seeking, according to Ogletree...
...notion was a beguiling one--professional photographs of their adorable Debraysha--but Phenom and De-Shawto Cochran felt the need to magnify the saleswoman's small print. "How much will it cost me?" Phenom interjected hopefully. "Eight dollars, just $8," said the rep, a tad more slowly. "Oh, I don't have $8 right now," Phenom replied flatly. The woman finally retreated as the Cochrans pushed their cart toward the produce aisle...
Phenom, 26, was not giving the rep the brush-off. She did not have $8. She had $6--a neatly folded $5 bill and a one--tucked inside her jeans pocket. That was the Cochran family's nest...
...were frequently taking home $500 or more a week, more than they had ever earned in their lives. "Life was good. We could get anything we wanted." That's when they bought their first Christmas tree, an artificial one that would be fresh each year. Three weeks ago, the Cochran Christmas was more like Ash Wednesday. De-Shawto and Phenom had no cash for the kids' presents. (The shelter helped out there: people donated gifts from the residents' wish lists.) But they did succumb to the kids' begging and pulled the six-foot faux evergreen tree out of storage...
...Cochran, now an assistant professor in the Dance Department of Mills College in Oakland, California, is a natural teacher, with contagious enthusiasm...