PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – The local branch of the NAACP is accusing a South Philadelphia hotel of discrimination for allegedly asking that the attached restaurant not schedule any hip-hop parties.
At issue is a dispute between the Holiday Inn on Packer Avenue (above) down near the South Philadelphia sports stadiums, and the former operators of the on-site restaurant.
NAACP chapter president Jerome Mondesire says the hotel’s owners in 2009 told the restaurant operators to stop holding hip-hop dances there....
A spokesman for the owners says the restaurant operators were evicted from the site for non-payment of rent after losing their liquor license and after the city had cited them for non-payment of taxes. The spokesman says the directive to stop the dances came only after one such dance ended in gunfire.
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