Category Archive for : ‘CIVIC RIGHTS FIGURE’

Huffingtonpost.com/Andres Jauregui
10/6/14

The New York civil rights attorney representing the families of NYPD abuse victims, EricGarner, has been accused of rape.  Investigators are looking for an object that the attorneyallegedly used to penetrate a woman after Rev. Al Sharpton’s 60th birthday party lastWednesday.  The accuser is a female executive who works at Sharpton’s National ActionNetwork. 
(New York)

Newsday

The Rev. James L. Bevel, a 71 iconic civil-rights figure, was convicted of incest yesterdayafter a jury concluded that he had sex with his teenage daughter 15 years ago. Bevel, a toplieutenant to Martin Luther King Jr. who helped organize the 1965 march on Selma and later theMillion Man March, faces up to 20 years in prison at sentencing. Bevel’s daughter testified thatshe was repeatedly molested beginning when she was 6, culminating in an act of sexual intercoursein 1993 or 1994 that formed the basis of the incest charge.

(Virginia)