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Benjamin Crump has represented the families and victims of some of the most prominent civil rights cases in the country from the shooting of Trayvon Martin to the murder of George Floyd.
Those cases, and his strategy of bringing those stories to the media, have resulted in death threats, which he takes seriously, he tells senior contributor Ted Koppel in an interview for
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“I never take the death threats for granted. When we get them, we report them to the FBI,” Crump tells Koppel.
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NOTED BUILDER AND ENTREPRENEUR CHARLES QUARLES LENDS NAME TO WATTS AREA BUSINESS INCUBATOR
By Sentinel News Service
Published April 29, 2021
Starlett Quarles , Bedford Group’s Marketing Director and Charles Quarles, President of The Bedford Group (Photo by B. Rene)
“Preparing for Post-Pandemic Progress” (SOUTH LOS ANGELES-CA) Charles Quarles, President of The Bedford Group of Companies, a leading Los Angeles real estate development firm, has lent his family name to the Quarles Business Opportunity Center (QBOC), a business incubator focused on assisting minority entrepreneurs in the communities of: Watts, Willowbrook, Compton, Carson, and South Los Angeles.
An Entrepreneur Educational Center, Inc. (EECI) project, QBOC will be home to EECI’s free Miracle’s Entrepreneur Programs (MEP) designed for beginning or struggling businessmen and women in need of a business plan that will, according to EECI officials “prepare them for postpandemic progress”. During the Grand O