Entertainment & Sports
Apr. 19, 2000
Film Director Hopes to Make a Federal Case of Racial Bias in Hollywood
African-American film director Jamaa Fanaka, who for years has quixotically battled the movie industry over its minority hiring practices and whom the Directors Guild of America punished for his allegedly "boisterous" and disruptive conduct at guild functions, within the past couple of weeks has asked the U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles to open a criminal investigation into his treatment by the guild.
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