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Article: Black Education Network Files Discrimination Suit Against AT&T Comcast.
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- PR Newswire
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- March 6, 2003
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LOS ANGELES -- LOS ANGELES, March 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Black Education Network (BEN), a Harlem-based company that is developing programming networks representing the views and perspectives of the African American community, has filed suit in a Colorado federal court against AT&T Broadband, Comcast Corporation, and Daniels & Associates alleging civil rights violations, fraud, and misrepresentation. The law firm of Masry & Vititoe of Westlake, California, is representing BEN in the lawsuit.
According to BEN President Michele Clark Jenkins, "Beginning in 2000, we tried to purchase cable systems from AT&T and were not only invited into two bids, but made it into the ...