Roanoke Times
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DATE: FRIDAY, June 11, 1993 TAG: 9306110128
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The Martin County, Fla., clerk's office received a divorce petition Thursday from Reynolds, whose filing said his marriage had been "irretrievably broken," Court Clerk Marsha Stiller said.
The popular television and movie stars had been married five years in April. They have an adopted son, Quinton, who will be 5 in August.
Anderson, who this week signed a contract to appear in the NBC-TV series "Nurses," had recently returned to Florida but was headed back west Thursday, said her spokesman, Mickey Freeman.
Reynolds' divorce petition called for "equitable distribution of all property" but gave no details.
A number of black celebrities, including entertainer Bill Cosby, have expressed support for Gov. Douglas Wilder's proposal to build a slave museum in Virginia.
"Everyone I've spoken to is very much interested," Wilder said. "The more I talk with people, the more realistic it becomes."
The steering committee may include Cicely Tyson, who portrayed a slave in the television series "Roots," federal Judge Leon Higginbotham Jr. and "Ebony" magazine publisher John Johnson, Wilder said.
People also are offering Wilder their private collections of artifacts, from slave bracelets to manuscripts and lists documenting slave sales, he said. "People have been holding on to them, zealously guarding them, because they didn't want them to be dissipated," Wilder said Wednesday. "If they know that this is of national proportions, they would gladly donate these items."
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