Muncie Times, Muncie, Delaware County, 16 May 1996 — Page 25

The Muncie Times, May 16,1996, Page 25

PBS to air Jackson biography PBS plans to air “The Pilgrimage of Jesse Jackson,” a television primer to a biography on Jackson due to hit bookstores in June. The book, written by Marshall Frady, will be published by Random House. The television show traced Jackson’s development as a civil rights leader, community activist and presidential candidate through excerpts from interviews with his supporters and critics. The show will air in May. Circuit City Electronics faces class action suit The Circuit City electronic retailing chian is now facing a class action lawsuit alleging discrimination at the company’s headquarters. The lawsuit was originally filed by black employees concerning specific promotional opportunities but was recently expanded to include all African American employees who have worked at the company’s headquarters since Aril 1992. According to the plaintiff’s attorney, Washington, D.C.based, Philip Bostwick, Circuit City’s senior management fostered a climate where racial discrimination was condoned and its junior management applied non-uniform procedures in determining transfers and promotions. African Americans make up 23 percent of all employees at the company’s headquarters, but only three percent of its managerial ranks.

Blacks less likely to receive modern treatment A recent study by the Duke University Medical Centre Cardiology department reveals that African American patients with coronary disease are less likely to be treated with the latest techniques, such as balloon angioplasty or artery bypass surgery, than white patients. Independent studies have found that blacks, on the average, are treated with these techniques at about half the rate whites are. One reason for this is a lack of sophisticated quipment in city-area hospitals. Another is the reluctance of African American patients to press their insurance carriers to pay for these expensive procedures. These differences in care manifest themselves in very real terms — lives saved. The Duke study found that five years after treatment, 8 out of 10 whites were still alive as compared to 7 out of 10 African Americans.

Beverley Perkins-Edwards, M.D. Internal Medicine

Dr. Perkins-Edwards

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Antioch Missionary Baptist Church Muncie, Indiana June 9, 1996 • 4:00 PM Theme: '"Equipping God's People for Mission" Ephesians 4:1-16 Guests: Reverend Willie F. Love Choir & Congregation Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church Marion, Indiana