Cicero apartment owners charged with race discrimination

Cicero apartment owners charged with race discrimination

CICERO -- U.S. Housing and Urban Development officials announced last weekend that the federal housing agency has charged three owners of a Cicero apartment building with race discrimination for refusing to rent to an African American woman.

HUD Secretary Andrew Cuomo said one of the building owners, Alice Calek, spoke by telephone with Samaria Wright, the prospective tenant and asked her if she were Black.

When Wright told Calek she was, Calek refused to rent an apartment to her.

The federal charges filed last week resulted from complaints made by Wright, a resident of Lyons, Ill., to the Leadership …