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SPRING SEMESTER 2007 COURSE STUDY:
"The Trial of Kola Boof"
Writer/Professor Derrick Bell is going to make Kola Boof the subject of a "course study" for law students at N.Y. UNIVERSITY this spring.
In a mock legal trial--students will have to hear Instructor Derrick Bell argue a fictional "libel" case in which Kola Boof sues TV GUIDE and The N.Y. POST for falsely labeling her a "sex slave" which led her to be fired from the NBC soap "Days of Our Lives".
In real life, Boof declined to bring any legal action against the press for "behind the scenes events" that led to her suffering public shame and losing her job and other lucrative offers, but Professor Bell, who is recognized as one of the nation's top legal attorneys, believes that Boof had a very strong case for "defamation" and "libel" and would like to use the Law School to demonstrate how she has been disrespected and lied on by the press all the way around).
THE CASE:
Though Boof was a ghostwriter at "Days of Our Lives" (meaning her presence was to be secret), TV GUIDE "outed" Boof's employement at the soap, which was followed by the N.Y. POST printing an interview with Boof that she never gave--the novelist kept a tape recording of the actual interview that she did give, none of which was printed by the newspaper. A huge and very derogatory FULL PAGE photograph story was printed on PAGE 3 of the Sunday edition (you see Page 3 as soon as you open the paper) where the newspaper took the head of Osama Bin Laden and superimposed it over the head of t.v. character BO BRADY as the Bin Laden cartoon stood next to HOPE BRADY--a major turn off for long time viewers of the soap who flooded NBC with telephone calls asking for the "sex slave" to be fired. Next to this photo was a very provocative shot of Kola Boof sitting behind her boss Stephen Wyman's desk with "digitally enhanced" super-cleavage and her head thrown back in a wicked laugh. In subsequent story items by the POST Boof was falsely printed as calling herself a "sex slave" and quoted as "creating" characters for the show that supposedly resembled Bin Laden (Boof was not Head Writer and therefore could not create characters for the show). BOOF's interview with the POST was totally fabricated, but went on to be published in more than 100 outlets around the world and kicked off an avalanche of gossipy stories about the author, in which her "name" was joked about, the fact that she was "raped" was joked about, the safety of she and her children was joked about, and though Kola Boof was not the one who initially revealed her involvement with Osama Bin Laden (the London Guardian threatened to out her, evidence of which remains in print in their archives), she continued to be portrayed by the media as a "golddigging" "attention-seeking" "dishonest" black woman who "DOESN'T EXIST".
*Kola Boof WILL NOT appear at anytime at N.Y. UNIVERSITY for the mock "defamation" trial--a student will be picked to play Kola.
Ms. Boof has said that she isn't a person who believes in lawsuits and feels that she would have lost precious energy that can be better applied to a myriad of other battles she is engaged in.
Kola Boof, who is a single mother, says she receives hate mail and death threats daily from Arab-Muslim groups, Anti-Abortion groups, Black men, Interracial couples, Anti-Gay groups and many others, therefore she has to remain focused and private in taking care of her two children.
Kola Boof expects to enter a publishing collaboration with her friend, publishing tycoon ZANE in 2007 among other projects.
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Derrick Bell, a long time supporter and close friend of Kola Boof's, made international headlines himself in 1992 by HARVARD LAW SCHOOL for refusing to end a two-year leave (Sit-Out) in which he protested the absence of minority women on the law faculty.
In the 1950's, Bell worked diligently as a civil rights worker for the U.S. Justice Department and later found himself drafted to the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund by none other than Thurgood Marshall.
BOOKS BY DERRICK BELL:
"Silent Covenants: Brown Vs. The Board
of Education"
"Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permenance of Racism"
"And We Are Not Saved"
"ETHICAL AMBITION: Living a Life of Meaning and Worth"
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