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Black Ministers Call for Hershey Boycott.

By David DeKok, The Patriot-News, Harrisburg, Pa. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Apr. 16--A group of African-American ministers is calling for a boycott of Hershey Entertainment & Resorts Co. and Hershey Foods Corp., beginning May 6, unless more minority contractors are hired for the $223 million expansion project at Harrisburg International Airport.

To make their point, a group of local, state and national black church leaders posed Tuesday with Hershey's chocolate bars around a trash can in front of Harrisburg City Government Center and threw the

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