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...founder of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill-Inglewood (California). NAMI is a 27-year-old advocacy organization for mentally ill people and their family members. Our chapter is kind of the new kid on the block. In that capacity, I work as a facilitator with the support group, and I hear a lot of stories. We teach a 12-week course on the major brain diseases. I trained for that. So I've learned about this just through my own means, but NAMI has played a critical role in increasing my education...
...born blues "shouter" of huge girth (300 lbs.) and voice, whose long career and 200 record albums reflected black music's migration into cities in the 1930s, its influence on jazz in the '40s and its transformation into rhythm and blues in the '50s; of kidney failure; in Inglewood, Calif. Several of his biggest hits, including Chains of Love (1951), Sweet Sixteen (1952) and, most memorably, Shake, Rattle and Roll (1954), later became rock-'n'-roll classics after being bowdlerized by such white artists as Bill Haley and Elvis Presley...
DIED. Alvin Childress, 78, who became one of TV's first black stars when he played the philosophical cabby Amos in the 1951-53 video version of Amos and Andy, the 1929-54 radio institution; of pneumonia and other ailments; in Inglewood, Calif. The show succumbed to complaints that its good-natured parody perpetuated racial stereotypes, but it remained popular into the 1960s in syndication...
...bottom line is likely to be redrawn by the suits. The sex-discrimination case alone could result in a multibillion-dollar settlement, says plaintiffs' attorney Joseph Sellers. Wal-Mart's reputation as a harsh employer, along with concerns about unfair competition, has spurred communities in Chicago, Dallas and Inglewood, Calif., to block construction of new stores. The outcome of the cases, thanks to the retailer's prominence, could affect how companies all over the world treat their workers. "The point is that more people are aware," says ex-employee Adams, who now works to unionize Wal-Mart stores. "They...
DEADLOCKED. A jury in the trial of JEREMY MORSE, 25, ex--police officer in Inglewood, Calif., accused of assault after he was caught on videotape battering a handcuffed black male suspect; in Los Angeles. Prosecutors said they will press to retry Morse within 60 days...