Family Fights 'Ridiculous' Benefit Denial
It was Taneka Talley's greatest wish to see her son head off to college. It was why she took extra shifts at work and set her sights on promotions.
A store withholds benefits for son of employee who was fatally stabbed. But she was stabbed to death in the Fairfield, Calif., Dollar Tree where she worked in March 2006, by a white man who reportedly attacked her simply because she was black.
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While reading this story at first I thought It just happened. Two years. Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act, and had it passes in less time. This is atrocious. The Dollar Tree is just that, trying to buy a young woman's life for a few dollars. My heart goes out .