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Articles in August 19, 1996 issue of Jet

• Daughter of famed quadriplegic Celestine Tate Harrington gets married
  by Margena A. Christian
• Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee sue NY construction company and architect for $1 million
• Dr. Audrey F. Manley serves as acting U.S. Surgeon General
• Marcus Garvey: August 17, 1887
• Johnnie L. Cochran Jr. takes case of black teen killed by dump truck on her way to mall
• UPN president raps critics 'obsession' with network's black-oriented shows
• Nixon, Johnson ink TLC as first client for new management company
• New testing standards help to detect prostate cancer in black men earlier than more accurately
• Martin Lawrence detained at airport for carrying gun
• Racism deteriorates health of blacks: study
• Number of home loans made to minorities rises
• Louisiana mechanic files civil rights complaint over mock lynching by co-workers
• North Carolina teen graduates without missing a day of school in 13 years
  by Katara A. Washington
• Panel says widow of Reggie Lewis can sue doctor of late husband
• President Clinton reaches accord with TV executives on children's programming
• 1996 Ad
• Harold Ford Jr. of Tennessee wins Democratic nomination to succeed his father in Congress
• Funeral held in Atlanta for Olympics bomb victim Alice Hawthorne
• Party chairmen endorse mayors' fair election code
• SC mother, 19, arrested; admits she abandoned son in NY toy store
• U.S. Congresswoman Barbara-Rose Collins says she was misquoted in Detroit newspaper about hating whites
• Pennsylvania Supreme Court Chief Justice Robert Nix Jr. retires
• Dennis Rodman stays with the Chicago Bulls; signs one-year deal worth $9 million