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  • Radio salesman awarded $600,000 in racial hostility complaint (no Afros allowed)

    04/19/2005 11:51:31 AM PDT · by Born Conservative · 41 replies · 2,335+ views
    Times Leader/AP Wire ^ | 4/19/2005 | MARYCLAIRE DALE
    PHILADELPHIA - A former salesman for the Philadelphia Eagles Radio Network was awarded $614,000 in a discrimination case after being given a book that advised blacks selling to whites not to wear Afros or African-style clothing. Viacom Inc. and Infinity Broadcasting, the network's parent companies, appealed the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission ruling to a state appellate court, a lawyer for plaintiff Shawn Brooks said Tuesday. "It's been a very tough road, standing up for what you believe in," said Brooks, 34, a native of Camden, N.J., who said his family is of mixed race. Supervisors at the radio network, which...