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Black College Reunion participant says Daytona Beach, Fla., hotel was hostile to Black guests DAYTONA BEACH, FLA A year after receiving scads of negative publicity resulting from a racial discrimination settlement, the Adams Mark Hotel in Daytona Beach, Fla., faces new accusations of racial bias from a participant in the citys annual Black College Reunion. A lawsuit filed in federal court last month by a promoter of the event is the third such action against the hotel chains Daytona Beach location in the last two years. Black College Reunion or BCR, is an annual weekend of festivities that attracts more than 100,000 Black youths to Daytona Beach each spring.

The event has been broadcast on Black Entertainment Television in recent years and has been a popular venue for nationally known hip-hop music performers including Snoop Dogg and Eminem. But BCR has been making headlines for accusations of racism by Black students against hotels and other Daytona Beach businesses.

In a lawsuit filed just days before this years BCR took place from March 30-April 1, Thomas T.C Copeland of Jacksonville, Fla., asked for an unspecified amount for damages from HBE Corp. of St.

Louis, the Adams Mark pany. The lawsuit claims the Adams Mark at Daytona Beach discriminated in 1999 against Black patrons by creating a special set of house rules applicable only to them.

The rules included a requirement that hotel guests in town for BCR be at least 21 years old. According to the lawsuit, hotel officials used insulting, stereotypical language admonishing the BCR attendees that illegal activity was prohibited.

The lawsuit alleges that Adams Mark displayed hostility toward Black guests and that Copeland, who was responsible for the modations for record executives and performers, lost business with panies and musical artists because of the treatment. He was hurt financially, Copelands lawyer, Rodney Gregory, told Black Issues.

He suffered lost dollars. Copeland did not return several telephone calls ment.

Fred Kummer III, executive vice president of HBE Corp., the hotels pany, vehemently denied the accusations. Kummer, whose father founded HBE in 1960 and began the hotel division in 1973, said the policies and procedures in place that weekend two years ago applied to all hotel patrons.

We did not institute the rules based upon ethnicity or color or any other criteria, Kummer said. Sharon Harvey Davis, a spokeswoman for Adams Mark, told Black Issues that Copelands lawsuit is merely an attempt to sway public opinion and piggyback on the attention created by an earlier lawsuit against the chain.

Mr. Copelands allegations are simply an attempt to recoup his purported financial losses as a BCR music promoter, she said.

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