2 Live Crew Reschedules O.C. Show

The rap group 2 Live Crew, which canceled an appearance at the Celebrity Theatre last month in the midst of national controversy over the group’s allegedly obscene recordings, has announced it will play the theater after all, on Nov. 9.

Already there are small swarms of community protest as some residents are again urging the city to ban the show.

Members of an Anaheim group calling itself the American Civil Responsibilities Union asked the City Council on Aug. 14 to ban the rappers.

“Reasonable community standards are to be expected,” said Howard Garber, a member of the protest group. “Conservative Orange County is not going to put up with this apathy and indifference by the Anaheim City Council.”

The protest group had urged the council to ban 2 Live Crew last month, but before the council took action, the rappers cut short their California tour, explaining that leader Luther Campbell’s doctor had ordered him to rest.

Before the cancellation, the council had taken a low-key approach, hoping that with low ticket sales and little publicity the concert would fade away.

“There are other ways to do it without running around screaming,” Mayor Fred Hunter said. “For us to even pass a resolution banning the 2 Live Crew isn’t right.”

Earlier this year, a 2 Live Crew album called “As Nasty as They Wanna Be” was ruled obscene by a federal judge in Florida. However, the rappers have not been found to violate California obscenity laws.

Garber said that if the Celebrity show takes place, his group will protest outside the theater.

According to the Celebrity box office, about 900 of 2,500 tickets to the concert scheduled for last month had been sold and will be honored in November.

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One of every four births in the United States in 1988 was to an unwed mother, the federal government said. Although black women have the highest rate of children born out of wedlock, the rate has been rising fastest among white women.

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