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men , ucc fully. Thi t in
could c te job for t youth I¥I
programs to build up the communi-
ti .," Edmond on aid. .
D troit w th guinea pig t
I animal for the ethnic m nus that
began 1 t year I¥I they were uch
ucc I"
Another tory pawning
from the mar eting of commerci 1-
ized " oul" food i the fame of Oti
Lee' p tri .
Otis Lee started in 973 with tbe
opening of hi taurant, Mr. Fofo'
Deli cat en. Mr. Fofo's 10 ted at
the corner of Hazelwood and Second,
been the mecca of" oul" food for
17 years in Detroit.
Lee, an African-American fea­
tured delights, ucb his grand­
mother' r cipe for weet potato pie
on his menu and business took off.
ne " t
Center, 2
Southfield.
The B in Omb
Program (BOP) wet b­
li bed in 1 1 by City Om-
bud m n, rie F rrell-
Donaldson t ilitate the con-
cerns of t b in communi
ty.1t d igned to m t the
cial d and q tio .of
b in community.
cording to Mrs. F rrell­
Donald on, "When it com to
d�ing with City government
and the bureaucracy bust­
n can and d get frus­
trated by the government
pro local iden.
a ult of busi frustra tion,
and numero inquiries and re­
qu fromb in , the Of­
fice of the Ombudsman
organized the"T ing Care of
Busin " forum.
President, Jim Bernacki
will b the t peaker dur­
in the March 16 TCB forum.
In addition, the TCB brochure By CYNTHIA KAIN and
will be di tributed to busin GWEN MCKINNEY
persons who attend the forum.
The TCB brochure i . di- Paula Dean, 29, believed that hard
vid d into three ctions. The work had its reward; that the long
irst : tionadd es frequent hours as a alad bar worker at
questions d y busin Shoney's Restaurant would translate
people. Section two provid into a promotion to kitchen manager
information on 25 City depart- with better hours and more pay.
men and d tails what ervices After being pas ed over for a pro-
they provide to busine e. motion after promotion and even ee-
And finally, ction three pro- ing white workers sh had trained
vid a handy resource busi- sailed past her, it still didn't dawn on
ness direc her that the reason might be because
This f:*U&i.��4O:-! ' Bl
its efforts "I thought if 1 kept working hard,
businesses in Detroit, I would move up like the others did,"
or are considering opening a aid Dean who became a lead plan-
busin within the City limits. tiff in a 105 million cl action uit
For r ervations, interested that is expected to involve some
parties can call 224-6243. 40 000 worke . Brought by the
NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF),
the ettlement i the largest financial
award in a ra e di crimination suite.
y'
managers were African American.
As part of the ettlement,
Shoney's will irstitute steps to pro­
vide job opportunities and advance­
ment for African Americans
including posting job openings, r -
cruiting African Americans from
. schools with substantial Black enroll­
ments, establishing pecific hiring
and promotion goals for African
Americans at all levels of the com­
p�y providing trainingJllld educa-
non program to. en ure
a41.'aDII�mCD&. c -1-��IIDLJ.llII8.&t
education reimbu ement programs
and USing non-discriminatory qualifi­
cation and performance standards.
menu.
A deal with th C Corp. to 11
hi eet potato pie h ult Into
Lee exp ooi hi deli to include
mall f; tory by September, c ti
ut 200 n job by y -eoo.
Referred by Henry cClendon,
n i tant to yor Young, Lee'
longtime friend, KFC ppro hed
Lee for a peci 1 recipe pie.
Accordi ng to a recent article in the
Detroit Free P , KFC official ex­
pect d Lee's pi to ell 50 pi a
week at the t t tore, the}(FC t
Orand River and Livernoi . Instead,
2,000 to 3,000 were old weekly.
"They were shocked," aid Lee.
Going national with hi pies
would co t about 700 000 to $1 mil­
lion. Lee i curr ntly di cus ing fi-
own I'S.
the ultimate in limousm service.
Dean and other African Ameri­
cans employed by Shoney's were
victim of a company-wide policy
that kept African Americans in low-
pay, low-visibility job uch a
kitchen workers.
Our credit card rate has the
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With a low int r t rat of 12.4 % APR coupl d with no annu 1 f , it mak good
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comp titi n. For mor inform ti n r t pply, call 1-800-2 2-1300.
dvertise in
theB iness
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Directory
MORE VWIBLE and higher
paid positions went to white workers.
Only 3.7 percent of mid-level mali: 3-
ers and trainees were African Ameri­
can and a paltry 1.8 percent of the
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