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Rosa Parks aides plunge charities into legal tangle
At 84, civil rights icon Rosa Parks still signs books, speaks at schools and fights racism. Until a series of Detroit News stories, the public never knew that Parks was being exploited by her closest advisors.
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No title (id: 13432)
The Dallas Observer investigates, Al Lipscomb, a beloved community leader, long-time city council member, and civil rights icon, who has for years been supporting himself illegally off of his political connections. As director of a "minority-owned" business Lipscomb accepted bribes from Dallas's power brokers in exchange for business contracts. (May 30 - June 5, 1996)
Tags: Miller Clueless Conflict of interest Collusion Profiteering 14 pgs.
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No title (id: 10905)
"Shattered Image: Is The Body Shop Too Good to Be True?" exposed the arrogance and hypocrisy of the company widely regarded as the model, socially responsible business. The founder of the Body Shop cosmetic company, Anita Roddick, has been praised as the icon of progressive business and a feminist role model. Roddick has been featured in hundreds of newspapers and magazines and has been given dozens of awards for her supposedly progressive business practices. This investigation broke through the veil of company propaganda to tell the remarkable story of a myth built on fabrications and exaggerations and sustained by libel threats and the cult-like blindness of a public desperate for heroes. The article suggests a troubling thesis: green consumerism is baby boom agitprop propagated by and for a generation filled with illusion of its own moral destiny - and eager to make money. The misleading hype surrounding "cause related marketing" appears so broad and calculated, and has required the silent complicity of so many social activists, fair trade groups, environmentalists, and progressive business leaders as to raise doubts about the ethics of the entire movement for social responsibility. (September 1, 1994)
Tags: Entine Shattered image: is the body shop too good to be true
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No title (id: 10369)
Detroit Monthly reports on the frustrations of the Ilitch family, a prominent Detroit clan responsible for saving Detroit's icons, like its sports teams, and once extremely popular; now the family is failing in an effort to gain public support for a shopping, entertainment and stadium venture; June 1994.
Tags: MI Pasfield 9 pages
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No title (id: 7654)
Westword searches for the remnants of the Denver that Beat Generation icons Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassidy haunted in the spring of 1950, July 11 - 17, 1990.
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