FITZGERALDS CASINO CELEBRATION: Don H. Barden (2nd, r), owner of Fitzgeralds Casino Hotel in Las Vegas, celebrates its fourth anniversary with his wife, Bella Marshall Barden (c), and (clockwise, from bottom, I) singing team Valerie Simpson and Nick Ashford, boxing trainer Emmanuel Stewart and soul singer Frankie Beverly. Barden is the first and only Black to own a casino in Las Vegas. He also owns Fitzgeralds casinos in Tunica, MS, Blackhawk, CO, the Majestic Star Casino in Gary, IN, as well as the recently acquired Trump Casino Hotel, now known as Majestic Star Casino II in Gary, IN.
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