TV & VIDEO - July 29, 1987

Bolstered by a $50,000 Ford Foundation grant and the national news attention of a multimillion-dollar discrimination trial, the Beverly Hills-Hollywood chapter of the National Assn. for the Advancement of Colored People said that it would begin full-time monitoring of the entertainment industry’s employment practices of black technicians and other employees. NAACP chapter president Willis Edwards announced the plan outside the courtroom where three ABC employees are suing the network for $3.5 million for alleged discrimination. The jury was deliberating on the case at press time.