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Articles in Feb 27, 1995 issue of Jet

• Biracial Miss USA 1995 says she's not black or white; will use background to fight racism
• Oregon jury awards ex-campus cop $900,000 in race discrimination case
• Robin Givens evicted from posh Hilton Head, SC, home after debts reach nearly $13,000
• Dr. Lemuel W. Diggs, 95, dies; renowned leader in sickle cell research
• Samuel 'Lonnie' Simmons, 80, keyboard artist, photog dies
• First non-white South African envoy arrives in U.S. to assume post
• Ban on black male shoppers in Union Point, GA, brings charges of racism
• Joyner settles for $245,000 in lawsuit against LAPD
• Houston physician is first black to walk in space
• Educator Laura Scott Taylor, 79, dies in Brooklyn two days after being struck by city truck
• Michael Jordan turns 32 with lavish birthday party
• France's Davis Cup captain Yannick Noah remembers big help from U.S. Davis Cup captain Arthur Ashe
• Bob Nash named first black male VIP in Clinton White House
• Atty. Johnnie Cochran launches new business division at gala reception in Los Angeles
• Tupac Shakur apologizes to woman he sexually abused; is sentenced to four years in prison
• O.J. Simpson trial goes on location to crime scene and Simpson's home in Brentwood
• Southern states have highest murder rates in U.S
• Binford picked as first black director of New York Police union board
• Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Cheryl Miller head list of sports stars bound for Basketball Hall of Fame
• Halle Berry stars as first black Sheba in 'Solomon and Sheba' movie with Jimmy Smits
• University of Maryland suspends black scholarship; waits for Supreme Court decision
• Dr. W.E.B. DuBois: February 23, 1868
• National Rainbow Coalition's new public policy institute brings ministers together to rekindle social activism
• Sister Souljah tells her life story in new book, 'No Disrespect.'
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• Camille Cosby's book explores negative images of blacks in media
  by Robert E. Johnson