Leid Stories - Alton H. Maddox Jr., Attorney at War - 04/03/13

"The People's Attorney," for decades a legal strategist and litigator of precedent-setting criminal and civil-rights cases in New York City and in the South, discusses major developments in the explosive and still-ongoing (since 1987) Tawana Brawley case, involving the alleged kidnapping and rape of the then-15-year-old African American girl by a group of white men that included an assistant district attorney in Dutchess County, New York; the formation of the Freedom Party that will run candidates for targeted local and congressional seats; the “betrayal” of Black communities by a compromised leadership; and a battle with the Federal Communications Commission over the refusal of local radio and television stations to provide legally mandated public-affairs programming relevant to the Black community.