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Expanded school initiatives take center stage (See stories on pages 26 and 27)

NYC Schools Chancellor David Banks chats with school children (Courtesy of: Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Offices)

Jumaane Williams slams Cuomo’s middle finger to New York (See story on page 6)

Banks and Adams expand gifted and talented programs. Why? (See story on page 26)

(Courtesy of: Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Offices)

Mayor Adams, Bloomberg launch Summer Boost NYC (See story on page 27)

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2 Black Americans fight Ecuador jail time

By ASAR JOHN Special to the AmNews Just three years after brothers Roja-John and Ronell Stephenson settled on a farm in Ecuador, their lives were turned upside down by a government and legal system inundated with flaws, according to their lawyer.

The brothers have called Ecuador home since 2014 after John purchased the 120-acre land in the province of Morona Santiago with the purposes of contributing to the agricultural sector and developing an ecotourism business. In March of 2017, that all changed when the brothers and John’s wife, Johanna, were arrested at the farm on charges of drug trafficking and possession of firearms.

According to Global Liberty Alliance (GLA) and the lawyer from the organization representing the Stephensons, Jason Poblete, the property was searched and they were later charged with the homicide of two members of the nearby Shuar indigenous community. The arrests for homicide occurred six days after the bodies of Gyru Tzamarenda and Klinger Wajuyata were found on the property. Following the brothers’ and Johanna’s arrest, the three went to trial in December of 2017, with just Johanna being acquitted of all charges. From the beginning, the brothers have claimed their innocence as several pieces of “exculpatory evidence” exist from the crime scene, according to GLA, which has taken on the Ste-

Brothers Roja-John and Ronell Stephenson

phensons’ case.

“From the five minutes into the initial reading of what had happened, my legal mind said something is wrong here,” said Poblete, a human rights lawyer who is also president of GLA. “We took a deeper look at the case, and we decided this is an unlawful detention and these men have been left behind.”

The brothers were sentenced in 2018 to 24 years in prison, and had the sentencing increased by 10 years and eight months, on the basis of “mitigating circumstances,” according to GLA. The organization claims that the alleged mishaps of the case include the discovery of the bodies on the property by the Shuar tribe themselves.

This, being after the original search to several pieces of the aforementioned “exculpatory evidence.”

GLA reports this evidence as faults related to the crime-scene, including

dirt found in the victim’s mouths that was not from the Stephenson property and DNA found on the victims that was not forensically tested. GLA also claims that the “alleged crime scene” was burned down by those from the Shuar tribe on the day of the arrest, and an overwhelming presence of the Shuar that caused the police to leave the area.

“There were times where [the defense] argued many reasons as to why they could not bring on evidence, depending on which stage of the proceedings you were in,” said Poblete, who mentioned the reasons range from the Ecuadorian judges giving indiscriminate or inconsistent rulings.

Poblete adds that the case was so fumbled to the point where officials could not find prosecutors to pick up the case.

“One defense lawyer told me they thought they didn’t have enough

International CONGOLESE IMMIGRANT FAMILY DISTRAUGHT OVER FATAL SHOOTING IN U.S. (GIN)—When Patrick Lyoya, a Congolese immigrant, died at the hands of a police officer in Grand Rapids, Michigan, his life was cut down by violence much like the home-grown executions Congolese have been facing in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) for years.

Close to a thousand summary executions take place in the DRC each year.

Women and children make up a large part of the victims, with a third of the killings carried out by uniformed security forces, the United Nations Mission in Congo said in an annual report on human rights violations in the DRC. In addition to the victimization by security forces, Congolese civil-

ians have been targets of killings by a coalition of Rwandan and Ugandan soldiers looking to root out the remaining perpetrators of the Rwandan genocide.

Over a five-year period, 50,000 Congolese were resettled in the United States with Grand Rapids becoming “the No. 1 place” for such immigrants.

Lynn Lawry from Harvard Medical School has studied mental health issues there. A 2010 study she conducted in the Congo found that half of all adults exhibited symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder.

Many of them came to the U.S. without any English language skills and with trauma, depression and other scars of war. They were in need of mental health services—

to bring the case—and they still brought it, trying to ram it through the process.”

The men also did not have access to a certified translator during the case, as GLA claims the Stephensons had to use a local taxi driver to translate for them. Poblete argues that the case should be looked into by the Biden administration, under the allowance of the Robert Levinson Hostage Recovery and Hostage-Taking Accountability Act. Signed into law in 2020 by former President Trump, the Levinson Act updates the nation’s law and hostage policy. Under it, the secretary of state must “transfer responsibility for such case from the Bureau of Consular Affairs of the Department of State to the Special Envoy for Hostage Affairs,” promptly, if specific conditions are met.

“We have given a lot of information to the U.S. government and we expect them to handle this case accordingly on the U.S. side, just like we expect the Ecuadorians to follow their law,” said Poblete.

Since they were incarcerated, Roja-John and Ronell have reported the conditions of the separate prisons they are in to be violent and deplorable. Ecuadorian prisons have a reputation for extreme acts of violence, just as a riot killed 20 inmates last week at El Turi prison in the city of Cuenca.

“If you look up Ecuadorian prison systems, you’re going to see some pretty gruesome stuff—men being

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services that local providers feared would not be there.

In 2014, the Lyoya family arrived in the U.S. They had escaped the regime of Joseph Kabila, son of Laurent-Desire Kabila, a brutal autocrat who became fabulously wealthy after 13 years in power. He managed to accumulate 2 billion dollars during his reign but was assassinated in 2001 by an 18-yearold boy, possibly a child soldier.

Joseph Kabila was the number two man in a weak and poorlytrained army when he came to power. The DRC—sub-Saharan Africa’s biggest country five times the size of France—was trying to put down a rebellion that involved 25 armed groups and armies from at least eight African countries.

The bloody conflict, billed as “Af-

rica’s World War,” started in 1998 and formally ended in 2003. It left more than 2 million dead and millions of others displaced.

Dorcas Lyoya, Patrick’s mother, on learning of her son’s death at the hands of a yet-unnamed officer in Grand Rapids, said during a press conference this week that she was “surprised and astonished” her son was killed in the U.S. Patrick, 26, was her “beloved” first-born son, she said amid tears, and the family believed they had come to a safe place in America.

Meanwhile, in a press conference, Dorcas Lyoya appeared with her family and national civil rights attorney Ben Crump to call for charges to be filed against the officer responsible for the fatal shooting.

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East New York community ‘anxious’ about development projects at Broadway Junction

By ARIAMA C. LONG Amsterdam News Staff, Report for America Corps Member

president. In a press conference on April 6, he reminisced on how much “the Junction” East New York Community has meant to him since Land Trust (ENY CLT) and Dishis days as a transit cop. trict 37’s Councilmember Sandy “I remember riding Nurse weighed in on two upcomthrough here seeing ing development projects that the L, the J, the A, just could dramatically change the watching a community landscape of Broadway Junction with so much opportuin Brooklyn: a commercial de- East New York Community Land Trust (ENY CLT) nity just being ignored,” velopment at the transit hub and rallied against the proposed Broadway Junction said Adams. four high-rise mixed use develop- development site by posting signs which were then Adams and former removed. (Contributed photo) ments across the street.

Councilmember History has persistently seen Rafael Espinal collabBlack and Brown communities pushed out of low-income orated on the push to develop the Junction back in 2016, areas marked for development and upzoning in the city, which led to the East New York area being rezoned. The making even the most well-intentioned plans for a large area’s four transit stations, five subway lines, six bus routes, commercial building or a high rise in the Broadway Junc- Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) access, and meeting points of tion area of East New York in Brooklyn look daunting, said six largely residential and relatively low-income neighboradvocates. hoods were viewed as not fully realized “potential.” By 2017, Firstly, Mayor Eric Adams has had his eye on the Broad- the Broadway Junction Working Group was created to study way Junction’s transit hub since he was Brooklyn borough See JUNCTION on page 28

The impacts redistricting had on New York City’s Asian, Hispanic, and Republican communities

By ARIAMA C. LONG Amsterdam News Staff, Report for America Corps Member

“That is a recipe for the system breaking down,” said Li. In 2020, amid an insane election year and a global virus outbreak, the The ripple effects of the New York state managed to complete the Census State Legislature’s redistricting decicount. Though a congressional seat sions are hitting New York City’s imwas lost, they soldiered on with the remigrants and minority groups. And, districting process which follows the as political candidates are gearing up census count. The NYS Independent for the coming primary election, ReRedistricting Commission convened publican and Democratic judges have to redraw voting lines for Assembly, continued the fight over voting lines in Senate and Congressional districts. the courts.

The point is to maintain adequate repMichael Li, redistricting expert and resentation of people in government. senior counsel with Brennan Center The commission consists of 10 bifor Justice at NYU Law, said that the state’s process for draw- partisan members who spectacularly failed in agreeing on ing voting lines isn’t “truly independent” to begin with be- one map of the state. Since the commission was created out cause it’s unofficially based on allegiances to political parties.

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Report: Two-thirds of all community water systems in the U.S. contain uranium

By STEPHON JOHNSON Amsterdam News Staff A new report from the University of Columbia Mailman School of Public Health revealed that high levels of uranium were detectable in two thirds of community water systems.

Many in Brown neighborhoods.

“We’re interested in understanding the health consequences of these chronic low-level exposures from our public drinking water systems across the U.S.,” said Annie Nigra, a postdoctoral research fellow with Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health’s Department of Environmental Health Sciences. “We want to know, first of all, are there major inequities or inequalities in public drinking water exposures across different types of populations? And two: are those exposures really associated with, you know, adverse health outcomes?

See WATER on page 28

A new report detected uranium in two-thirds of community water systems in the country.

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MetroBriefs Metro Briefs FAMILIES OF NEW YORKERS KILLED BY POLICE MEET WITH MAYOR ERIC ADAMS Last week, family members of Anthony Baez, Allan Feliz, Delrawn Small, Antonio Williams, Saheed Vassell and Shantel Davis met with Mayor Eric Adams to raise concerns about his “Neighborhood Safety Teams,” the mayor’s rebranded version of the notoriously brutal NYPD Anti-Crime Unit that was shut down by then-Commissioner Dermot Shea in 2020.

The families who attended the meeting are leaders in the movement to end police violence, some of whom have been fighting for police accountability and reform for decades.

At the meeting, the families delivered a letter calling on the mayor to roll back modified plainclothes units signed by 24 family members of New Yorkers killed by the NYPD. They also raised concerns about the new administrations’ failure to take action to hold abusive officers accountable, including those who killed Delrawn Small, Allan Feliz, Antonio Williams, Kawaski Trawick, and Eric Garner.

HUNGER FREE NYC OPENS OFFICE IN QUEENS Hunger Free New York City has opened a new Queens office to assist more New Yorkers with enrolling in federally-funded food assistance programs including the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as the Food Stamp Program, and the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC).

This effort has been undertaken in partnership with the First Baptist Church in Elmhurst, Queens.

As the hunger crisis continues in New York City, the need for federal food assistance programs is greater than ever. Hunger Free NYC’s Benefits Access team offers free SNAP application support to households in English, Spanish, Mandarin, Cantonese, and Russian, and their WIC team offers support in English and Spanish.

Both teams serve all five boroughs of New York City and assist clients through every step of the application and re-certification process. Hunger Free NYC’s Vaccine Outreach team will also assist Queens residents secure appointments for vaccines and booster shots.

VACCINE OUTREACH PROGRAM REACHES 50K NYC IMMIGRANTS NYC Health + Hospitals and the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs (MOIA) Commissioner Manuel Castro have announced that its vaccine outreach program has reached over 50,000 immigrant New Yorkers across the city.

As of April 2022, 97% of adult New Yorkers 18 and over have received at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose, but only 44% have received a booster dose. Among Latinx and Black New Yorkers, 27% and 25%, respectively, have received a booster dose. The booster dose provides important protection against the Omicron variant and its subvariant BA.2.

The targeted outreach effort was originally launched in October 2021 to reach undocumented New Yorkers who live outside of the 33 neighborhoods identified by the NYC Taskforce on Racial Inclusion and Equity as hardest hit by COVID-19.

GOV. HOCHUL ANNOUNCES NEW GUIDANCE TO EXPAND ACCESS TO LOW-COST BANK ACCOUNTS Gov. Kathy Hochul announced new guidance to expand access to low cost bank accounts for New Yorkers in recognition of National Financial Literacy Month. New DFS guidance encourages state regulated banks to offer “Bank On” certified accounts to fulfill the state’s affordable banking requirements.

Bank On accounts eliminate overdraft fees and are critical to attracting individuals from underserved communities into the banking system. These reforms are critical to help low-income New Yorkers access affordable, FDIC-insured banking options that protect and grow hard-earned savings.

According to a survey conducted by FDIC, an estimated 7.1 million U.S. households were “unbanked” in 2019, meaning that no one in the household had a checking or savings account at a bank or credit union.

Consumers in low- and middle-income communities have often been saddled with bank account fees if they overdraw their account, dip below a balance threshold, or fail to use their account regularly.

—Compiled by Cyril Josh Barker

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DHS Secretary Mayorkas on protecting Black churches and the end of Title 42

By ARIAMA C. LONG Amsterdam News Staff, Report for America Corps Member

Control and Prevention’s public health order for Title 42 terminates on May 23 and DHS will then move to the standard Title 8 for seeking asylum on a legal basis.

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) SecMayorkas said that Title 42 is not an immigraretary Alejandro Mayorkas tion policy and is applied to spoke at Al Sharpton’s Napeople encountered at the tional Action Network (NAN) border from many countries. convention. He sat down “I think what is underlythis month with the Amstering the concern with respect dam News to discuss the role to the Haitian community is homeland security plays in the situation in Haiti which Black and Brown communihas been a decades long ties in New York City. challenge,” said Mayorkas.

More widely known is “But our policies are nonDHS’ division that deals with discriminatory and Title 42 citizenship, immigration seris unpopular in many comvices, border security, and munities—and we underImmigration and Customs stand why.”

Enforcement (ICE).

Mayorkas explained that Department of Homeland Security In his speech at the NAN the public health imperaSecretary Alejandro Mayorkas at convention on April 8, Maytive in border patrol stations the NAN Conference on April 8 orkas acknowledged some (Ariama C. Long photo) in a time of COVID was deof the shortcomings of the termined by the CDC when federal agency’s emergency management that President Joe Biden took office. In the context of imhave adversely affected low-income, Black, and migration it prevented people from seeking asylum, immigrant communities. said Mayorkas. The CDC has reassessed Title 42 and “I appreciate applause but we do not deserve ap- determined that it’s no longer needed because the plause for that which we must do and that which is nation is at a different point in the pandemic than it long overdue,” said Mayorkas to the audience. May- was in 2020, said Mayorkas. orkas is also the first immigrant to serve in the role of Regardless, New York City’s large Haitian and imsecretary of Homeland Security. His parents arrived migrant population have categorically condemned with him and his sister to the U.S. as refugees after Title 42. Marc Francois of the Haitian American fleeing Cuba in 1960.

Caucus said that denying people credible fear hearMayorkas said that Homeland Security has strived ings and access to the U.S. is an abandonment of for change through access to funding and is for the basic responsibilities, which is only exacerbated by end of the controversial reign of Title 42, a “public the stark difference in how Ukrainian refugees are health policy” holdover. The Centers for Disease See DHS on page 32

Mask or not to mask?

By HERB BOYD Special to the AmNews Each time President Biden feels he’s ahead of the wicked COVID curve and ready to move on to other pressing issues, comes another troubling bump, this one from a Trump-appointed judge.

On Monday, U.S. Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle struck down the federal mask mandate for airplanes and other modes of public transportation. The masking provision on planes was the remaining policy in place as the government took steps to ease the pandemic restrictions.

Once more the Biden administration is faced with a mask or no mask proposition, and there are reports on Tuesday that the Florida judge’s ruling will be appealed. That action will largely depend on the extension of the measure by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. An appeal may push the matter to the Supreme Court and that would nullify the CDC’s authority.

“There is an opportunity now,” said Dr. Amesh Adalja, “instead of saying this is a disappointing ruling, they could say this is a good time to have a conversation about how to move forward in this pandemic risk calculation.” Dr. Adalja is a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Secu-

rity as well as an infectious disease physician. “With COVID-19,” he added, “I think we’re at a point with immunity from prior infections, vaccines, home tests and treatments that we can start to manage this the way we manage other infectious diseases.”

Seeking balance on the problem, Biden said the decision is up to Americans if they want to mask up on planes. “That’s up to them,” he said Tuesday during a visit to Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Meanwhile, those traveling with him on Air Force One are required to mask up.

Some elements of the current dilemma emerged back in February when the White House released a 100-page plan in response to the pandemic. Then, it was stated that children under 5 would be eligible for vaccination by now, a move that would have eased the concern of millions of parents, providing a degree of assurance to those who were worried about life after COVID. Interestingly, the mask mandate had been set to expire on May 3. A statement from the Justice Department said it “continues to believe that the order requiring masking in the transportation corridor is a valid exercise of the authority Congress has given C.D.C. to protect the public health. That is an important authority the department will continue to work to preserve.”

Should the appeal go to the Supreme Court, well, you can easily guess that outcome.

NewJerseyNews Newark officials launch upgrades to Pequannock Water Treatment Plant

By CYRIL JOSH BARKER Amsterdam News Staff Newark Mayor Ras J. Baraka and other local officials hoisted wrenches to launch $23 million in new upgrades for a stateof-the-art facility at the Pequannock Water Treatment Plant. The water treatment plant is located in West Milford.

When completed, the state-of-theart system will improve overall water quality and increase the plant’s processing capacity up to 60 million gallons per day. The project is financed

by New Jersey Infrastructure Bank Program low-interest loan financing, designed by Kleinfelder Inc. and constructed by Spectraserv. It will also replace obsolete equipment, valves, filter media improvements and upgrades to the backwash system.

“This is a continuation of our pledge to supply Newark residents with clean and pristine drinking water,” Baraka said. “Our investment record is clear. We put about $200 million in our water and sewer infrastructure even before we undertook the $190 million project to replace every known lead line in the city.

We are also supporting the communities outside of Newark who depend on us for clean water, continuing to invest in our young chemists, scientists, and engineers, and being best and first in class with our entire infrastructure.”

Earlier this month, Baraka testified in Washington, D.C. to the Senate Subcommittee on Fisheries, Water, and Wildlife during the Drinking Water and Wastewater Infrastructure Act: Stakeholders’ needs and experiences hearing, where he shared how the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act would help disadvantaged and environmental justice challenged communities.

He discussed how Newark became a national model for successful lead service line replacement by replacing more than 23,000 such lines in less than three years, at no cost to taxpayers.

The improvement project follows the completion of the city’s Lead Service Line Replacement Program, in which Newark replaced all of its 23,000 lead lines in less than three years, garnering praise as a “model city” for lead line replacement from Vice President Kamala Harris and environmentalists.

“We have five outdoor reservoirs that store 14 billion gallons of water,” said Kareem Adeem, director of the Department of Water and Sewer Utilities. “These new systems will help us draw and purify that water with greater speed and efficiency. This work is not only about needed maintenance, but state-of-the art improvements. It shows people all that goes on behind the scenes to make the water coming out of their tap among the best in the country.”

Dr. Augustine A. Boakye to be inaugurated as Essex County College president on May 5

By CYRIL JOSH BARKER Amsterdam News Staff Dr. Augustine A. Boakye is being inaugurated as Essex County College’s ninth president in an inaugural ceremony on May 5. The ceremony will be held at 10 a.m. in the Cleo Hill Sr. Physical Education Building on the College’s Newark campus.

Boakye was appointed interim president on July 21, 2020. He was officially appointed president by the College’s Board of Trustees effective Nov. 1, 2021.

“We look forward to a long and productive relationship with our new president, one that will certainly continue to put Students First,” stated Board of Trustees Chair Marion A. Bolden. “The inaugural ceremony shows the commitment that everyone has at Essex County College to move our proud institution into our next chapter of service to the community,” she added.

Boakye started his Essex County Col-

lege career in 2009 as an associate professor of economics. He has also served as chair of the Division of Business, and acting dean of Liberal Arts and Business. He earned his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom.

Participants in the ceremony include Essex County College President Emeritus Dr. A. Zachary Yamba, Essex County Executive Joseph N. DiVincenzo Jr., Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, and Rutgers University-Newark Chancellor Nancy Cantor. Father Edwin Leahy, headmaster at St. Benedict’s Preparatory School, in Newark, will deliver the invocation.

Other state, Essex County and local officials, and representatives from New Jersey colleges and universities are expected to attend the inauguration.

Following the inauguration, there will be a community reception at the College.

In the evening, the College will hold its Presidential Scholarship Gala at the Crystal Plaza, in Livingston, N.J.

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Kenya L. Smith: Drawing with light

By MAL’AIY 17 ALLAH Special to the AmNews It’s well known that a picture is worth a thousand words, therefore, seasoned photographers are integral to documenting the events of a community, as well as of a generation. Kenya L. Smith, 58, has been visually capturing various aspects of local Black culture for over 30 years, and stands on the shoulders of some legendary visual griots who preceded him.

The native Harlemite began picking up his father’s cameras at home as an adolescent and taking family photos. After graduating from Tuskegee University, majoring in computers, he began covering baby showers, birthday parties, family functions and weddings during the early ’90s.

“My father, Harry Smit a.k.a. A Allah, always had a camera in the house,” he recalled. “I just liked taking pictures when I was young-

er. I never went to school for this. My photography mentors used to tell me to develop my third eye.”

He soon specialized in documenting hip hop culture which was flourishing globally by the mid-’90s.

“DJ Hollywood started me out,” Kenya proudly professed, adding how he was asked to capture photos at a local event for the hip hop pioneer. Word soon spread and he began covering more events where he’d “get to know the artist or their manager,” leading to him becoming known as “Snap Man.” Along the way he was mentored by some legendary lens-men.

“Ernie Panicolli, Jamel Shabazz, Joe Gonzo—they’re the holy-trinity of hip hop photography,” he noted. “I would meet them and ask questions about photography. I’d go to the park and just shoot pictures to sharpen my eye.

Gordon Parks told me, ‘Keep shooting and be nice to people.’ Melvin Van Peebles

said, ‘Break all the rules and make it up as you go along.’”

While growing up in Harlem he developed genuine relationships with local legends like Doug E. Fresh, Kool Mo Dee and Kool DJ Red Alert, all of whom he’s photographed.

He expanded his horizons and began documenting professional musical and sporting events, as well as the onset of gentrification which was beginning to engulf Black Mecca. He’s photographed Black Arts Movement stalwarts such as Amiri Baraka, Nina Simone, Ozzie Davis and Ruby Dee. “It’s about the respect and relationship you have with people which makes them comfortable. If a person trusts you, then you can get the best part. Manners have gotten me a long way,” he notes. “I was never into the paparazzi. Photography is a conduit for me to meet people I would never have met.”

Some of those include Muhammad Ali, Maya An-

gelou, Harry Belafonte and former U.S. President Bill Clinton.

As new-age technology shifted the landscape during the late 1990s, Mr. Smith put away his 35 millimeter camera and went digital, and decided to share his wealth of knowledge with future generations.

“I was teaching inner-city kids photography, at the same time I’d teach them mathematics,” he explains about his Universal Concepts Photography outfit.

“I’m all about being positive. I’m still learning. You gotta know the technology of your craft. I feel like I can inspire others.”

Over the past several decades his photos have appeared in such prestigious publications as En Vogue, The Final Call, The Source

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Magazine, and right here in the AmNews. They’ve also been exhibited in various galleries, including Harlem’s Schomburg Center and the Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz Center.

Kenya urges youths: “Be respectful,” before concluding, “If I shoot you with a weapon you’re going to die, but if I shot you with

my camera you’ll live forever. My photographs feed the mind. When I do my photography I put my Islam into them. They’re like my children. I decide who sees them and talks to them.

The word photography means ‘drawing with light.’

At the end of the day, I’m an artist. We are the griots, historians and storytellers.”

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Jumaane Williams slams Cuomo’s middle finger to New York

By NAYABA ARINDE Amsterdam News Editor “Yes, I’m still definitely running for governor,” said Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, “I think folk are just realizing there is an election in three months, there’s not been much talk on the streets.”

Williams is popping up at every New York City presser, rally, or community meeting he can muster the strength for. He’s got a lot on.

With Amani, his premature newborn making all her markers and developing nicely, India Lois Sneed, his wife who had her last dose of chemo-radiotherapy last week, and a daughter by marriage being a grand Brooklyn teen.

There’s lots of things going on in Albany. Last week’s arrest on federal financial fraud charges of Lt. Gov. Brian Benjamin for example. Current Gov. Kathy Hochul’s hesitation to talk about it. And then there’s former Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s teetering around the edges of declaring his intentions about getting in the race or not.

Williams slammed, “His ego would help him enter the race, but I just don’t know. I thought he might contemplate entering the primary, but it

is the most dangerous thing for him to enter the general election. But, he might say, ‘I don’t’ care,’ and this is his last kind of middle finger to New York, so we’ll see.”

Recently former Gov. David Paterson told the Amsterdam News that Cuomo is a “disruptor” and a “distraction.”

Yet Cuomo, who resigned last August in the midst of a sex scandal, is making moves and it would appear, observers say, he plans to run again for governor.

“My thought is this is what happens when people enable someone like Gov. Cuomo, either implicitly or explicitly. You had a bunch of people while the governor was in power who either helped him govern the way he governed or pretended like that it wasn’t happening.” People started to get courage, he said, when he began losing power, but ”even then the legislature did not move to impeach, and this is what happens when you don’t exercise the powers that you have to protect New Yorkers. And so now we have to deal with this person who we know whose ego cannot fit in the state, and has been very harmful. He’s in a position to do more damage to us.”

Williams had been a city coun-

cil member from 2009. He ran for speaker in a crowded race in 2017, then he successfully ran for public advocate in 2018. And lieutenant governor in 2019, and now he is in the 2022 gubernatorial race.

“My main focus will be figuring out how to shake up as much as I can in Albany, so we can deal with this public safety issue, we can deal with this housing issue, and we can deal with the issues that are harming and worrying New Yorkers.”

A strong supporter of the miccheck-mic-check Occupy Wall Street ‘movement’ and the Black Lives Matter collective, Williams has been a steady presence in the city.

Not radical or defiant for some, too much so for others. Whatever the status of his popularity, the Grenadian- Brooklynite, one-time Flatbush-plus city council member, and current public advocate wants to be Gotham’s next governor.

While current guv Kathy Hochul is sitting comfortably in terms of beaucoup funds, and declared elected and union leadership citywide support, Williams is standing firm whilst keeping an eye on Cuomo as he makes all the heavy tells that he wants to run for the job he resigned from last August amidst a massive

sex scandal.

Certainly Williams is open to talk about his Tourette syndrome, but he has never made it a central part of his conversations or campaign. With his buttons and backpack, he makes his activist persona clear. Vocally or physically present, assaulted, handcuffed or arrested in struggles such as Occupy Wall Street, Trayvon Martin, BLM, or supporting immigrant-rights activist Ravi Ragbir, Williams is known about the city.

He has his critics of course. Some question his positions on political issues like his call for “house party” legislation requiring parties with 40 or more attendees to let the local cop shop know; connections to real estate, or even when he said he was cautiously optimistic about the return of Bill Bratton when he returned as New York’s police commissioner. Williams countered recalling his stances against police brutality. In June 2013 for example, the city council passed his Community Safety Act, which led an inspector general to watch over the NYPD in theory. He stresses that he is an activist in political office.

With last week’s surprise resignation of then-Lt. Gov. Benjamin came in the wake of federal charges

of using campaign money for personal expenses, Williams pointed out that Benjamin pled not guilty.

When he himself ran for lieutenant governor in 2018, he got 400,000 votes downstate. Did he have any thoughts about maybe switching out of the race and going for a technically vacant position?

“Black and Brown electeds, we get a high level of scrutiny,” he replied. “My main frustration was the governor saying she had no idea, that’s kind of been her mantra. She said the same thing about Andrew Cuomo.” He touted his runningmate Anna Maria Archila as a hitthe-ground-running replacement.

“Anna-Maria would make a great lieutenant governor,” he said of the Colombian-born co-executive director for the Center of Popular Democracy, “I have a great job now as public advocate, but I am running for governor. I plan to take this all the way.”

Regarding the Benjamin dilemma, Williams said, “The governor can appoint temporarily, but they have an issue…It’s hard to get him off the ballot at this point in time, and the state senate said they are not going to take that up, so the governor is See JUMAANE on page 36

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On Wednesday, April 20, the longest running actor and comedian from “Saturday Night Live,” Kenan Thompson returns to New York City for the 11th season of his comedy competition tour series Kenan Thompson’s Ultimate Comedy Experience with a comedy showcase that will be held at the Gotham Comedy Club on West 23rd Street. The event will be hosted by the NYC 2019 Ultimate Comedy Experience winner Matt Friend. Emmy award winning TV producer Gyllian Carter, comedy writer and television producer Marc Lupis and PIX11 news correspondent Ayana Harry will be the VIP judges for this competition. Kenan joins his producing partner, Cherie Chiles-Buchanan as they search for the funniest young people in the country. The finale showcase will take place on the big stage at Caroline’s in NYC on May 15.

According to E! News, Rihanna and A$AP Rocky were spotted arriving at Grantley Adams International airport in her home country of Barbados on April 15. This was the first sighting of the expectant couple since rumors accusing the Harlem rapper of cheating on Rihanna with Fenty shoe designer, Amina Muaddi, swirled through the blogosphere on April 14, after a tweet went viral. Muaddi quickly shut down the speculation, calling the “malicious rumor” an “unfounded lie.” Soon after, fashion influencer, Louis Pisano, who sent out the tweet that caused all the commotion, posted a formal apology, that read “to all parties I involved with my actions and for my reckless tweets.”

Tongues are wagging that dean of the Friars Club, attorney Arthur Aidala will present actor Tracy Morgan with the Icon Award at the Friars Club Gala at the Ziegfeld Ballroom on May 26.

Meanwhile, according to reports the OG star was spotted at the New York Auto Show at the Jacob Javits Center on April 16. The show, which resumed for the first time since 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, runs through April 23.

Husband and wife acting team Angela Bassett and Courtney B. Vance made a big splash in the Big Apple the week of April 12. First, Vance hosted a screening of his new AMC drama, “61st Street.”

Then, on April 13, the couple hosted Jazz at Lincoln Center’s annual gala, Body + Soul: American Rises Through The Arts. In a pre-recorded video, Michelle Obama presented JALC’s Ed Bradley Award for Leadership to Darren Walker, the president of the Ford Foundation, while Spike Lee presented musician Terrence Blanchard the JALC Award for Artistic Excellence. The JALC orchestra with Wynton Marsalis provided the evening’s entertainment. Lastly, April 14, Bassett was on the red carpet for the opening night of Laurence Fishburne’s new Broadway show, “American Buffalo.”

Donating laundry cards to affected residents on Southern Blvd., Bronx Clean Rite presented the unveiling of a mural to Twin Parks North West residents whose relatives perished in a fire this past January.

Present at the event amongst locals were the artists Tats Cru, Clean Rite center management, Bronx Borough President Vanessa Gibson, and food from The Hip Hop Food Truck.

List of names included in the mural: Sera Janneh, Seydou Toureh, Haowa Mahamadou, Issatou Jabbie, Haji

Jawara, Haja Dukureh, Haji Dukureh, Mustapha Dukureh, Mariam Dukureh, Fatoumata Dukureh, Fatoumata Drammeh, Fatoumala Drammeh, Nyumaaisha Drammeh, Muhammed Drammeh, and Ousmane Konteh.

Laundry Capital/Clean Rite commissioned the mural and it was painted by the Tats Cru: Hector “Nicer” Nazario, Wilfredo “Bio” Feliciano, and Sotero “BG183” Ortiz.

On Jan. 9, at Site 4 of Twin Parks North West, a 19-story public housing building in the Bronx, a fire killed 17 resi-

dents and displaced hundreds more in the city’s worst fire disaster in 30 years.

“This mural will create awareness for the victims of the fire and add color to the neighborhood,” said Nazario. Tats Cru artists have painted murals throughout New York City since the 1980s. “But it’s not very often that we do murals like this on laundromats,” he said.

Laundry Capital owner Alex Weiss said, “We want to honor the lives that were lost in that terrible tragedy by ensuring their memory will live on forever as a permanent staple of the Bronx community.”

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Written by David Goodson

THANK YOU AND RIP STREETSWEEPER KAY SLAY For the moment this will only be understood by the true HIP HOPPER! The ones who were not only there, but also studied, critiqued and sometimes authenticated or denounced the artifacts or purported facts of documentarians of the culture. If that describes you, then the 1982 documentary film “Style Wars” is something that you’re quite familiar with. In that piece we got to meet a fledgling graffiti artist/ writer, Dezzy Dez. There were two telling segments that stood out for me pertaining to his character then and the future version of himself. One was when Dez was describing the mentor/ mentee relationship of himself and a 14-year-old writer, with the alias Trap.

“One day I came to the bench, and I seen him sitting there looking at the pieces. A writer could tell another writer. You’d go to the bench and his head would be doing this (swivel motion) as the trains go by and he’s had ink stains on his clothes.” Trap chimed in, “He used to give me outlines to practices.” “I couldn’t let him go for 5 minutes because he’d destroy the piece. He wanted to do his own thing and told him ‘just stay in the outline.’” The motivation for his generosity Dez explained with, “By the time he reaches my age (16 years old) he can be one of the best people out. If he continues to go through the years, he could be another Picasso.” In another scene Dez was the one being schooled. An older more decorated artist at the time, Kase 2, gave Dez the motivation. “They say that graffiti gonna be played out, this and that, but it’s gonna keep going on. I might get old and quit but you coming up, and younger ones are coming after you. So, it’s gonna keep going, but you gonna be a king one day.”

Dez took those life lessons that he gave and received, applied them to another discipline of hip hop and under a different moniker fulfilled his royal hip hop destiny as DJ Kay Slay. As a DJ, Slay was able to satiate all levels of the streets via turntablism or his innate ability to assemble and pair emcees of varying styles to form a cohesive piece of work as witnessed by his multiple mixtapes and proper albums with his “Streetsweepers” Vol 1 and 2, “The Champions: North meets South,” “More Than Just A DJ,” “The Big Brother,” “Hip-Hop Fortune” and “The Soul Controller.”

Last year he dropped the title “Rolling 110 Deep” which featured 110 rappers

with contributing verses ranging from pioneers (Coke La Rock, Grandmaster Caz); Hollywood (Ice-T, Omar Epps); athletes (Shaquile O’Neal, Roy Jones Jr.); elites (Loaded Lux, Cory Guns) and legends (KRS-One, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane, Ice Cube, Ghostface Killah, Black Thought).

We got the harrowing news on Sunday that the vessel Keith Grayson that shelled Dez/Kay Slay personas had met his demise. Rumors have abounded that he was stricken with COVID-19 since January, but the reported severity of his affliction often fluctuated. “Our hearts are broken by the passing of Keith Grayson, professionally known as DJ Kay Slay,” read a statement from the Grayson family. “A dominant figure in hip-hop culture with millions of fans worldwide, DJ Kay Slay will be remembered for his passion and excellence with a legacy that will transcend generations. In memory of DJ Kay Slay, our family wishes to thank all of his friends, fans and supporters for their prayers and well wishes during this difficult time. We ask that you respect our privacy as we grieve this tragic loss.” His radio home of Hot 97, where he hosted the Drama Hour, commented, “Hot 97 is shocked and saddened by the loss of our beloved DJ Kay Slay.

We cherish the many memories created through the 20-plus years he dedicated to the ‘Drama Hour.’ A cultural icon, Kay Slay was more than just a DJ; to us he was family and a vital part of what made Hot 97 the successful station it is today. Our hearts go out to his family, friends, and fans worldwide and we will always and forever celebrate the Drama King’s legacy.”

Back to regularly scheduled programming next week. Til then, enjoy the nightlife!

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District of Council of Carpenters celebrate apprentice graduates Peguero, Local 2287, in Floor Covering; Christopher Pistone, Local 1556, in Dock Builder & Timbermen; and Anthony Charls, Local 740 in Millwrights.

Joseph Geiger, executive secretarytreasurer of the New Apprentices show up and show out at the open house and exhibit (New York City District Council of Carpenters) York City District of Carpenters, said he

By STEPHON JOHNSON said Nora Vega of Local 157. “What’s highly trained workforce ready to was proud of everyone involved.

Amsterdam News Staff more, it has helped ensure that I take on small to large scale proj“In the NYC Carpenters Union, will have a stable future for myself ects across the five boroughs.” we believe that every New Yorker Last week, apprenticeship grad- and my family. I feel so lucky to be One contest at the exhibit in- should have access to the Ameriuates celebrated their corona- part of this wonderful group of ap- volved apprentices executing a can Dream and good-paying union tion at the 51st annual Apprentice prentices and I’m in awe of each of project based upon their spe- jobs that have quality benefits and Open House & Exhibit. Appren- their craftsmanship. Thank you to cialty with simply raw materials, hard-earned pensions,” stated tices expressed satisfaction with the New York City District Council tools, and a blueprint provided Geiger. “It’s our job to help create their efforts in reaching this point. of Carpenters for this opportunity.” to them. They had eight hours to those pathways for the apprentic“Joining this apprenticeship was According to the New York complete the task. es in our accredited apprenticeship one of the best decisions I have City of District Council of CarThirty-three apprentices com- program. These men and women ever made. It has equipped me penters, the union educates peted in the competition with a receive high-quality training in our with all of the necessary skills that “over 1,000 carpenter apprentic- chance to win tools as a prize. apprenticeship program and will be I need to have a successful career es and 12,000 journey-level carKodi Foust, Local 157, in Gener- the next generation of skilled union and build the high-quality infra- penters per year in the New York al Carpentry; Eric Reynolds, Local workers that will build our city’s structure that New York needs,” City training facility, producing a 257, in Interior Systems; Jordan state-of-the-art skyline. I’m proud

of each of them for their achievements and thankful for our city and state leaders for supporting union apprenticeships.”

Elected officials showed up as part of the ceremony to celebrate the apprentices’ graduations. Some of the 25 who attended included New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli, U.S. Congresswoman Grace Meng and New York State Senator Labor Chair Jessica Ramos.

“Union carpenters are building up New York City’s workforce with their impressive training programs,” stated Ramos at the event.

“Today’s competition showcased the great craftsmanship that their programs instill in their apprentices as well as the strong community that the program creates.

“As a staunch labor ally, I understand that apprenticeships and training programs are the bedrock of unionized construction.

These programs are New Yorkers’ gateway to stable, lifelong careers and help safeguard their rights both on and off the jobsite.”

32BJ pickets those they don’t believe in and endorses those they do

32BJ is keeping busy this year with strikes and political endorsements (Courtesy of: 32BJ SEIU)

By STEPHON JOHNSON Amsterdam News Staff 32BJ SEIU and their allies never stopped working over the break.

Their union continues with endorsements and threats of strikes.

Buildings service workers and essential workers across the country rallied on Park Avenue and demanded that the Real Estate Advisory Board on Labor Relations (RAB) accept a new contract for an estimated 32,000 concierges, handypersons, porters, doorpersons and superintendents. The new contract includes wage increases, no givebacks from the union and “fully employer-paid” health care.

“Health care is a cornerstone of

32BJ. It’s a strike issue,” stated Bragg.

“The building owners want us to take money out of our paycheck to pay for health care every month, whether we use it or not. We will not stand for premium sharing and we will not stand for anything that disrespects the time and work our members have given over the past two years. We’ve had to fight for every single thing we have in our union contract: paid days off, health care, workplace protection, a pension. This is no exception.”

The AmNews has chronicled the issues 32BJ SEIU affiliated essential workers have dealt with since COVID took over the country and the world. They continued to work.

In 2020, they canvassed for current

U.S. President Joe Biden. They now believe it’s time to pay up.

“This contract campaign has implications for every other contract in this union and other contracts across the city,” stated Crystalann Johnson, 32BJ bargaining committee member. “At the bargaining table, I stand up tall and proud because I know I have the power of a union behind me. Many of us have worked through several crises in this city and we are committed to the city of New York.”

Johnson isn’t the only one with issues concerning current negotiations.

“They’ve demanded that we pay into our health care,” added Stephen Yearwood, another member of 32BJ’s bargaining committee.

“What a slap in the face. This has brought the union together and made us even stronger. I want to thank all the 32BJ members who have stood with us over the past few months, participating in actions, coming to membership meetings, making phone calls.”

RAB Associate Vice President Nick Bader said that they’re working to make sure all needs are met in negotiations.

According to RAB, “Local 32BJ residential building service workers are one of the highest paid in the country. The current labor agreement, reached in 2018, provided generous wage and benefits packages for workers including average annual wage and benefit increases of over 3.32% each year—totaling over 13.28% over the contract period, far better than what most industries experienced.”

“While we have made progress over the past few weeks [with] negotiations, we still have a gap to bridge,” Bader said. “As we enter the final few days of negotiations, we are committed to meeting with the union leadership every day to achieve a fair contract for both sides by April 20th.”

Out in New Jersey, 32BJ SEIU (13,000 members in the state) is

throwing its hat back in the political ring announcing their endorsements in the city of Bayonne elections. The union’s picks?

“Sharon Ashe Nadrowski for mayor, Jodi Casais and KT ‘Kim’ Torello for Council at-Large, Julie Sanchez Lynch for Council Ward 1, George J. Vinc for Council Ward 2, and Maria Valado for Council Ward 3.”

Nardrowski was appreciative of the endorsement.

“32BJ works each and every day to fight for the working individuals and their communities,” Nardrowski stated. “Their endorsement means the world to me, and I am honored to have their support and voice in our campaign.”

Union vice president and New Jersey State Director Kevin Brown said that Nardrowski would be the best candidate to help the city navigate the storms brought on by the economy and COVID-19.

“Bayonne is currently experiencing important changes,” stated Brown. “Good municipal leaders are paramount to the growth of a community. Their decisions have a direct impact on the lives of working families in the city…

“We are looking forward to working together through the recovery and building a Bayonne for all.”

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Opinion Gun violence—a menace to society EDITORIAL

Back when heroin commanded our attention and was a menace in our society, many concerned citizens and experts would often declare that opium wasn’t grown in the community. A similar complaint is echoed nowadays about the proliferation of guns, especially high-capacity assault weapons, that they are not manufactured in our city.

Well, like the heroin, the guns have made their way into the hands of many users who probably never should have had them in the first place.

This problem is at the core of the prevalence of gun violence, and the recent Easter weekend brought the issue home to us in a tragically lethal way.

So, what’s to be done, a question like the upsurge in violence that has plagued us for years? After several days of visiting various sites and gathering information on gun violence, most of those who have been probing this public safety matter for years usually arrive at similar solutions, if they don’t just throw their hands up in utter frustration.

First, let’s consider this troubling statistic: on the average in the nation, 35,000 people are killed with guns every year— that’s nearly a hundred a day.

Grappling with a problem in which young people in America are more than 80 times more likely to die from gun homicide than their international peers is something that probably prompted Mayor Ben Walsh of

Syracuse to appoint a pastor to head his Office to Reduce Gun Violence. This was done back in January and that’s something other cities can do, along with support from the federal government.

The banning of assault weapons is certainly an ingredient to add to this recipe to reduce gun violence; as well as a requirement of serious and thorough background checks on all gun sales; curbing the access of guns from domestic abusers; and taking steps to improve and expand various community groups that have been actively involved in ending gun violence.

After all is said and somewhat done, no doubt we will still be struggling for solutions and ways to bolster public safety. Another important measure in this process is treatment of those suffering from mental illness. And with this provision we circle back to the widespread heroin addiction in which treatment helped those trapped in its usage. Stopping heroin at the border was also a decisive factor in reducing the number of addicts, just as interventions on I-95, the “iron pipeline,” would at least put some constraints on the flow of weapons into the city. Also, the gun industry should not have a broad immunity from lawsuits that is provided under federal law.

We commend the mayor of Syracuse and his appointment of the Rev. Lateef Johnson-Kinsey of the Wall of Hope Church in leading the fight to end gun violence, and he will need more than our prayers to stem this pervasive menace to society.

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Successfully prepping students for the Specialized High School Admission Test Towards an understanding of the persistent performance of students of color on the SHSAT and what parents can do to improve the success rate

By SAMUEL ADEWUMI SHSAT (Specialized High School Admission Test) results came out on the evening of Monday, April 11. We at CAS Prep are very happy with our results as we once again helped students get into Specialized High Schools (SHS). Unfortunately, the needle has not moved when it comes to the numbers of students of color who will be offered seats to the SHS this year and unfortunately, again, it probably won’t move again next year. This stagnation is due to many reasons, most having to do with the fact that most students do not have the foundation that allows them to even be ready for the rigor of SHSAT test prep, much less the actual exam.

Most schools do not have the SHS and the SHSAT on their radar, and in all honesty, it’s not their mission. Their mission has more to do with the state as-

sessments and trying to move the needle there; just visit your child’s school from February to April to witness it yourself.

That’s what their school ratings depend on, that’s how they are judged as either a failing or successful school, and that’s where the majority of educational services and funds go (primarily to lift level ones and twos into level threes). The two tracks are not the same and it’s time that parents become aware of that. For instance, your child’s 98 math average in school does not necessarily translate to an above grade level performance on state and other normed exams. Grades are earned on a teacher generated matrix of homework, quizzes, assessments, extra credit, etc. It surely doesn’t translate to the notion that they can wait till the summer of 8th grade, study for a few weeks and then expect to successfully take on the challenges of the SHSAT. The state as-

sessment track is akin to that of a tamed stable horse, the SHSAT track is akin to that of a young belligerent stallion that has never been ridden. So, year after year, children who are doing well in their schools take the skills acquired from the stable horse outside to the domain of the young stallion and get knocked off over and over and over again and we wonder why.

So, what do we as parents and families do?

1) We trust that the standards provided to schools by the state will provide our children with all they need to be successful. Stop trusting, verify and validate! It’s time to move from just having a conversation to looking at data.

Does the data show that they have been exposed to advanced skills and strategies? Does it show they are being taught problem-solving skills in math? Does your child know how to “map” See TEST on page 28

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Letter to Mayor Eric L. Adams: Your encampment & subway sweeps are unjust, immoral, & inhumane As faith leaders, we agree that the streets and the subways are not homes. But the encampment and subway sweeps your administration is conducting are unjust, immoral, and inhumane. When you separate people from their belongings and makeshift homes on the streets, and fail to provide them with a better option, you are only shuffling people around and traumatizing them further. We unequivocally condemn these sweeps, and we call on you to provide housing to homeless New Yorkers.

If you want to help homeless New Yorkers, you have to listen to them. We’ve heard from unsheltered folks who tell us that congregate shelters are often inadequate, unsafe, and traumatic. You know as well as we do that you cannot wish away poverty, and that efforts to reduce unsheltered homelessness will fail if the only shelter options people are given are the same ones that led them to sleep on the subways or streets in the first place. Rather than simply trying to make homelessness less visible to those of us who are lucky enough to be housed, we ask you to listen to the homeless New Yorkers who tell us that what they need to get off the streets is housing.

That’s why, as faith leaders, we urge you to stop the sweeps and focus on opening safe, private, and dignified accommodations for every New Yorker living

on the streets and subways—including single-room Safe Havens, stabilization beds, and most importantly permanent housing.

The data shows that people will come inside if given a placement offer that meets their needs.

Unlike congregate shelters, where people often sleep 30 to a room, single-room Safe Haven and stabilization beds offer a sense of privacy that appeals to and helps many homeless New Yorkers. We saw the success of this approach with the temporary hotel shelters earlier in the pandemic, which offered similarly private accommodations. According to Project Renewal, which surveyed homeless individuals last year who were placed in hotels as part of the city’s COVID de-densification program, over 75% of temporary hotel shelter residents said their physical and mental health had improved, and 72% said their drug and alcohol use declined. Accidental drug overdose rates among homeless New Yorkers also declined after hotelling began.

It’s not just that private and dignified accommodations have better results—the numbers prove that homeless New Yorkers prefer them, too: only 10% of those who accepted referrals to congregate shelters during summer 2020 stayed there, See LETTER on page 33

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Free speech may destroy itself— we must act to save our republic DISCLAIMER: The views and opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the author and do not represent those of the New York Amsterdam News. We continue to publish a variety of viewpoints so that we may know the opinions of others that may differ from our own.

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Among the most enduring cornerstones of America’s prosperity is the people’s right to free, uncensored speech.

When our forefathers devised our Bill of Rights, they anticipated the chilling impact that outlawing speech would have on free and prosperous democracy.

They saw the incarceration, execution, and torture of millions who had dared to oppose their government and religious institutions in the thousand years prior.

In an age of technology, where new ideas and new ways of thinking can touch the ends of the Earth in an instant, the issue of whether a free and unfiltered dialogue can survive in our modern technological era remains open.

Unrestricted speech may be the principal marker of a free nation. After all, the marketplace of ideas is hypothesized to operate far more effectively than the rule of law on speech-related issues by eliminating the outlandish, absurd, and dangerous while elevating the rational—at least, that was the case in the past.

One of the core principles behind certain First Amendment protections is the notion that once a particular statement is made, there must be time for discourse to allow for the flourishing of ideas, otherwise known as “counter speech.” For instance, as in the traditional Oliver Wendell Holmes scenario—don’t yell fire in a crowded theater—the panic that would ensue would leave little opportunity for people to consider whether there is indeed a fire, resulting in mass hysteria and a high probability of death and injury. Nowadays, this colloquial expression is readily applicable to social media, as one can proclaim any falsehood and instantly have it received and reacted to by someone on the other side of the world, without any time for counter speech—nearly as fast as those patrons in the crowded theater.

Of course, while counter speech is an effective method to encourage free expression, it is not without its faults as those with more money or influence can effortlessly shut down opposing viewpoints. For example, social media “fact checkers” and those with deep pockets and significant influence may easily influence the dialogue. However, though these parties may often be viewed as the main offenders to free speech, free speech has a more perni-

cious and destructive adversary: rapid information transmission.

With the rapid transmission of knowledge, the winner in the marketplace of ideas becomes the first mover or the most influential; whoever speaks first or has the loudest voice wins. It is far easier to share, retweet, or like something with a few clicks than it is to make a reasoned response that can effectively paralyze the other person’s viewpoint. This is especially true when considering the reach that some individuals have online, since millions of people who are already predisposed to agreeing with speakers are also the first to see and adopt their viewpoints.

Knowing this, it becomes clear that with the rapid advancement of technology, our nation’s adversaries may use our country’s free speech ideals to propagate misinformation and heinous notions that benefit them at the cost of our democracy. In recent years, new and powerful methods of deception have been developed and utilized by our adversaries both foreign and domestic. These include doctored photographs, deepfakes, videos with special effects, and modified audio. These forms of deception are so persuasive and so challenging and timeconsuming to refute that disseminating them is akin to yelling fire in a crowded theater, as they can spread to everyone in an instant, with little time to refute their falsity. Because video, photos, and audio have often been seen as the pinnacle of evidence, embodying the unfiltered and unimpeachable truth, audiences will generally accept them at face value absent any clear abnormalities.

In many ways free speech is paradoxical in that we are afforded the right to say what we please, with that same right concomitantly empowering us to express support for speech restrictions.

In other words, someone may use their right of free speech to curtail it. Regrettably, this is no hypothesis; it is a reality that is unfolding. Numerous individuals on all ends of the political spectrum have desired to limit speech and prohibit people from expressing their views. For instance, we see people on the left wishing to criminalize misgendering—as Canada has already done—or hate speech—as the United Kingdom has already done. These views easily gain prominence in the marketplace of ideas through the ease at which people can adopt speech.

Today, adopting speech as one’s own has become more straightforward than

it used to be. Prior to the advent of the Internet, if someone authored a book, a paper, a leaflet, or any other kind of written communication, a proponent of it would have needed to take on the same role of physically disseminating that speech in order to adopt it. Nowadays, that effort is entirely passive, with the only effort being to click a button to have one’s speech entangled with the wider conversation—instantaneously breeding a monster capable of devouring any counter-speech in its path.

As a result, ideas spread faster than they can be countered, and the ability of better ideas to gain prominence in the marketplace is effectively shut down before they are written. Since so many people can rapidly adopt the same message as their own, publishing an opposing viewpoint is often met with a swift and unrelenting death by the thousands of people who have already adopted the first-mover view in the time it took to pen the opposition—often referred to as being “cancelled” or “ratioed.” Sadly, given that social media platforms foster the creation of these monsters, they too can readily shift the dialogue by blocking out opposing ideas, thereby crippling any measures of resistance.

Democracy may very easily come to an end with the click of a button. As nearly everyone has the ability to freely disseminate their thoughts across the world and have them adopted by people everywhere, it is only a matter of time before our ability to engage in public discourse is eroded and the principles upon which our society is built crumble beneath our feet as bad actors coordinate their efforts to spread harmful and reductive ideas.

There is no easy solution. Can we rely on unfettered free speech to eventually bring us to the ultimate truth? Or will the very ability to freely express ourselves on the internet enable bad actors to deceive us and steer us to our end? Whatever the solution, we have seen how swiftly the narrative can shift and how quickly harmful ideas can spread. We may never discover the answer, but the consequences are clear, and something must be done to save our republic.

Armstrong Williams (@ARightSide) is man-ager / sole owner of Howard Stirk Holdings I & II Broadcast Television Stations and the 2016 Multicultural Media Broadcast Owner of the year. www.armstrongwilliams.co | www.how-ardstirkholdings.com

We must find a way to support our unhoused population

CHRISTINA

GREER PH.D. I have been thinking a lot about our unhoused population lately. Many people look at “homeless” people on the street and then go about their day. I know there is so much as we are dealing with COVID and the daily stresses of life, but so many people are actually one paycheck or one bad illness away from losing it all and finding themselves without a home.

I have heard from friends and colleagues who do not like riding the subways because of the growing unhoused population riding the trains. We must remember that many people who choose to live on the street or ride the subways with their belongings do so because the current shelter system is unsafe for many.

We have heard horror stories about the violence and sexual harassment and assault at homeless shelters.

Others have stories of their belongings being stolen or dealing with people in the midst of mental breakdowns. It is imperative we find substantive and longstanding policy solutions to not only our unhoused population but also our shelter system.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams has decided to get “tough on homelessness” and has ordered city employees and NYPD officers to forcibly break up, break down, and remove homeless encampments. He believes they are a blight on the city and must disappear. The problem with this Rudy Giuliani-esque logic is thus—simply throwing someone’s belongings in a dumpster and moving them from their temporary home on the street does not get at the root of the homeless problem in New York City.

What are we doing about affordable housing, safe

shelter systems, job placement, mental health services, technical schools that teach a trade or skill, and legal services for those in need? The issue of homelessness did not appear during the Adams administration, but the current mayor must take a holistic approach to solving this growing crisis— and throwing someone’s belongings away and forcing them to interact with an aggressive police force is not a solution. Many individuals whose belongings were trashed did not “go away” as the mayor imagined, many just moved to a similar location, more distressed, and more in need.

It is my hope that Gary P. Jenkins, who was appointed by Mayor Eric Adams as the commissioner of the New York City Department of Social Services, which oversees both the Human Resources Administration and Department of Homeless Services, will use his 30-plus years experience and work with other agencies to help those in need.

Nikita Stewart wrote an amazing book about girl scouts living in NYC’s homeless shelters, “Troop 6000: The Girl Scout Troop that Began in a Shelter and Inspired the World.” I do hope other organizations can find ways to support and uplift people who should have a voice in the city. Homelessness should not be seen as a scarlet letter. We must continue to put pressure on our elected officials to provide the resources for our entire community.

Christina Greer, Ph.D., is an associate professor at Fordham University, the author of “Black Ethnics: Race, Immigration, and the Pursuit of the American Dream,” and the co-host of the podcast FAQ-NYC.

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Health Preparing for the new wave of COVID tests by calling 311 or visiting: www.nychealthandhospitals. org/covid-19-testingsites/ and can schedule an at-home test by calling (929) 2989400 between 9:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. seven days a week.

Kass addressed a specific area of concern for people, and an area that has been a topic of discussion is how people can have symptoms of COVID but not actually test positive for COVID. “That’s your immune system at work...before you have enough measurable virus in your system to have that positive test turn positive...fortunately, when that rapid test is still negative...it is unlikely that you’re contagious... if your rapid test is positive, you are likely infectious and you want to remove yourself from interacting with other people.” Levine and Data from the NYC Dept. of Health shows a previous decline and the current surge of new COVID-19 cases.

Kass referenced several resources for people

By HEATHER M. BUTTS, JD, director of the including COVID.gov MPH, MA Office of Intergovwhich is available for Special to the AmNews ernmental and Expeople to get informaternal Affairs (IEA) tion and also order atThe past two months have at the U.S. Departhome COVID tests. seen a new wave of COVID-19 ment of Health One of the keys for infections in New York City and and Human Sercommunities in terms across the country. While infec- vices (HHS), who of avoiding hospitals tions and deaths had been in de- also participated, and death is the vaccline infections in New York City began the convercine. The FDA has are trending upwards again and sation by acknowlapproved individuhealth officials have cautioned edging the hard als over the age of 12 the public to begin preparing work that the virwho did not receive for future surges and variants. tual audience has done and get BA.2 after being vaccinat- the mRNA vaccine to now be elRecently Manhattan Borough continue to do in order to keep ed and boosted generally have a igible for the booster 5 months President Mark Levine held a themselves, their families, and relatively short course of the ill- after their mRNA vaccine and 2 livestreamed public event with their neighbors safe. ness. They find themselves posi- months after the Johnson and Dr. Dara Kass, MD of the U.S. DeDr. Kass acknowledged her own tive on a rapid test. They have a Johnson vaccine. partment of Health and Human frustration that “we still need to sore throat, a stuffy nose, some Levine and Kass also provided Services to discuss what New do this” as she began a conversa- fatigue.” Kass also told the audi- information about therapeutics, Yorkers can do to prepare them- tion about the COVID-19 variant ence that they should get tested specifically two outpatient treatselves and what new and existing BA.2. She also discussed the dif- if they start to develop symptoms ments: monoclonal antibodies resources are available. ference between BA.2 and BA.1, and that everyone should have and oral antiviral pill packs. With The past two years have seen noting that BA.2 is more trans- rapid tests in their homes. respect to the pill packs, Kass shifting guidelines and proce- missible than BA.1. Kass spoke New Yorkers can find locations spoke about the fact that these dures and Dr. Marvin Figueroa, about the fact that “people who of where to pick up free rapid medications are taken like a

New Yorkers can call 212-COVID19 to receive free, same-day delivery of the antiviral medication Paxlovid.

Z-pack course of antibiotics, and individuals take a 5 day course of pills. There’s a decreased risk of hospitalization and death for those that test positive for COVID, and pill packs are effective within 5 days of the onset of COVID. They are best used early in the course of the disease.

New Yorkers can call 212COVID19 to receive free, sameday delivery of the antiviral medication Paxlovid. New Yorkers can also go to https://www1.nyc. gov/site/doh/covid/covid-19-symptoms-chronic-health-risks.page to request same-day delivery.

The conversation also took a look at issues around Long COVID and COVID in children.

Kass suggested that children above five should be vaccinated because this is the best protection for them. Regarding Long COVID, Kass stated that, “Long COVID is one of those diseases we will have to understand more and more. It’s going to be a new illness that we’re going to have to understand more and more… It’s going to take time.”

“Regarding where we go as a nation and what the future is for the COVID pandemic, the United Kingdom was referenced in the talk as a ‘bellwether’ for the United States. The UK has been experiencing a surge for several weeks, with the wave having a detrimental impact on the people and health system of the UK. As to whether the United States will follow the path of the UK, Levine asked Kass: “Will this be our last COVID wave?”

To which Kass stated “No.” Kass ended the session on a positive note, stating “we are not in the same moment now that we were two years ago . . . we are prepared as a city to address this pandemic with knowledge and the confidence that we are going to take care of each other and we’re going to continue to do what we’ve done in the past and we are going to stick together and I think we’re going to be okay. I really do.”

For additional resources around COVID-19 please visit www1.nyc.gov/site/coronavirus/ index.page or call 311 to learn where you can get tested and how you can receive medication.

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Caricom countries fighting to keep lifeline passport investment scheme alive

By BERT WILKINSON Special to the AmNews Caribbean Community countries which have in recent decades opted to sell local passports and citizenship certificates to foreigners in exchange for cash and investments in designated economic sectors are coming up with innovative ways to keep the program going despite efforts by the U.S. and Europe to kill it off because of security concerns.

For countries such as St. Kitts, Antigua, Dominica, St. Lucia and Grenada, the Citizenship by Investment Program (CIP) represents a lifeline innovative effort to raise funds for development projects to replace lost monies from a dead banana export industry, the blow the COVID pandemic dealt to tourism, and reduced taxes from open free trade in the bloc among other shortfalls.

So the group of Eastern Caribbean nations invited wealthy citizens to spend a minimum of US$100,000 in cash, invest in real estate or start up a business and

“...even as the subregional governments press ahead with the investment scheme, law enforcement authorities in the U.S. and Europe are urging cabinets to pressure the bloc into either severely scaling back or dismantling it all together.” employ locals in exchange for a local passport and citizenship.

For most, if not all, of the participating states, the scheme has been an overwhelming success; with Dominica, for example, announcing that it has been able to raise half a billion in cash in the past three years to spend on a number of key infrastructural projects.

But even as the subregional governments press ahead with the investment scheme, law enforcement authorities in the U.S. and Europe are urging cabinets to pressure the bloc into either severely scaling back or disman-

tling it all together, as legitimate wanted persons are slipping the due diligence system, acquiring local passports and sometimes using visa free systems to enter Europe and transit the U.S. Citizens of some of the participating countries have visa free travel to Europe, but the EU has warned that these privileges could soon be taken away if the region does not act to end the CIP and or improve their background investigative abilities.

To counter and assuage the fears of the EU in particular, Antigua, one of the countries with the oldest programs, is propos-

ing the appointment of a single program regulator to oversee the scheme and to liaise with concerned countries in the west.

Government spokesman Melford Nicholas told reporters in the past week that the region is anxious to have not only a coordinated response to security concerns, but to also have one person to whom international authorities can relate to.

“It will be a response to the issues that they have raised and it will be to demonstrate, over and above anything else, our intent to be compliant and sympathetic to issues that they may raise in terms

of their own security,” he said.

Incidentally, he was speaking around the same time that two U.S. congressmen introduced the no travel for traffickers act bill to deal with the “severe security risks of the golden passport signaling a critical step to isolate bad actors around the globe,” said representatives Burgess Owens and Steve Cohen said in their bipartisan effort.

They complain about the region’s allegedly poor background vetting processes which, they say, has allowed wanted men on the list of the International Police system (Interpol) to slip through the cracks and obtain citizenship and easy travel to Europe in particular.

Still, people like Antiguan Prime Minister Gaston Browne are fighting back, contending that the same rules are not giving those in Europe with similar programs the same tough scrutiny as they are giving the region with far fewer cases.

A severely scaled back or canceled program would devastate the region, Browne said.

DACA recipients can now apply to renew status online FELICIA PERSAUD

IMMIGRATION KORNER The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is now accepting online renewal applications for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA. That’s the Barack Obama-era policy that gives some 800,000 undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children a work permit and temporary protection from deportation.

DACA recipients can apply to renew their status every two years, a process that costs almost $500. Up until now, that paperwork had to be mailed into the agency and getting

a response could take months.

The option to file online is only available for individuals who have previously been granted DACA. Now they may file Form I-821D, Consideration of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, online.

They must also file Form I-765, Application for Employment Authorization, which is available for online filing, as well as the Form I-765 Worksheet, which is required as evidence in support of the filing for DACA. To file Form I-821D and Form I-765 online, a DACA requestor must first create a USCIS online account, which provides a convenient and secure method to submit forms, pay fees and track the status of any pending USCIS immigration request throughout the adjudication process. There

is no cost to set up an account, which offers a variety of features, including the ability to communicate with USCIS through a secure inbox and respond online to Requests for Evidence.

With the addition of online filing for Form I-821D, individuals can now file 13 USCIS forms online, which can all be found on the Forms Available to File Online page. USCIS continues to accept the latest paper versions of all forms by mail.

“The expansion of online filing is a priority for USCIS as we make our operations more efficient and effective for the agency and our stakeholders, applicants, petitioners and requestors,” said USCIS Director Ur M. Jaddou. “The option to file DACA renewal requests online is part of USCIS’ ongoing move

to minimize reliance on paper records and further transition to an electronic environment.”

During fiscal year (FY) 2021, USCIS received more than 8.8 million requests for immigration benefits and other requests, including 438,950 Form I-821D DACA requests.

Since launching online filing in 2017, the overall number of forms filed online has increased significantly. In FY 2021, approximately 1,210,700 applications, petitions and requests were filed online, a 2.3% increase from the 1,184,000 filed in FY 2020.

Note, however, that DACA is still just a temporary status with no pathway to citizenship and the only long-term solution is from Congress.

The Homeland Security Department is expected to finalize pro-

posed DACA regulations this year that the Biden administration hopes will bolster the program against court challenges. It’s unclear when those regulations will be issued.

Thirteen USCIS forms can now be submitted online, including the DACA application, the agency said. The agency also has expanded a credit card payment pilot program to cover most forms.

But USCIS still handles most applications on paper. An internal watchdog report last year found that USCIS’s reliance on paper documents limited the agency’s ability to process benefits, even after offices partially reopened amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

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The boundless imagination of Jean-Michel Basquiat

By HERB BOYD Special to the AmNews

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Back in the late ’50s the unofficial initiation into jazzdom was a recitation or scat version of “Moody’s Mood for Love,” a recording by vocalese artist King Pleasure. Memories of those days returned during a visit to the massive exhibit “Jean-Michel Basquiat: King Pleasure” now on display at RXR’s Starrett-Lehigh Building on W. 26th Street. With more than 200 paintings, sketches, sculpture, books, and ephemera—many of which have never been seen before—this is perhaps as close as we’ll get to Basquiat’s diverse and always intriguing artistic vision. “We want this to be an experiential and multidimensional of Jean-Michel’s life,” said his sister Lisane.

Basquiat, who died in 1988 at 27, was as productive as he was inventive, his art a fascinating corpus of images and graffiti, representative of his first Samo brush strokes and words on downtown walls. In his studio, he was totally immersed in these creations, most often accompanied by the music of Charlie “Bird” Parker or the vocals of King Pleasure (Clarence Beeks), especially his version of “Moody’s Mood for Love,” lyrics composed by singer Eddie Jefferson and based on a solo by saxophonist James Moody. The song, we learn, was also a favorite of Jean-Michel’s father.

This extraordinary exhibit, with its winding and twisting galleries, is constructed in such a way that you expect him to appear, to step from the wall as he paints in one of the videos. Scattered in this realistic studio are albums, books, and works in progress, one practically covering the floor. In one corner a record player with LP resting on the turntable is motionless, though his favorite music seems to follow the long line of visitors as they stand agog at the endless elements of his life, and there are even old home movies with Basquiat as a toddler, already in possession of toys and playthings that would later morph into the tools of his trade.

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with family members, including Lisane, Jeanine Heriveaux, his other sister, and stepmother Nora Fitzpatrick, all of whom were instrumental in mounting this fabulous collection. The exhibit, designed by architect Sir David Adjaye, is sectioned in a dozen or so galleries, and one of them, “Irony of Negro Policeman,” is one in which the most graphic paintings of police brutality were part of “Basquiat Defacement,” an exhibit that focused on the painter’s memorial for the slain Michael Stewart, who was choked to death by a police officer in 1983.

Here and there amid the engaging items are representational drawings and renderings of human anatomy, suggesting that when he wanted to he could depart from his preferred style, one that often blends cartoon-

ish images with macabre skulls and clenched teeth like piano keys. The family has assembled a remarkable curio of Basquiat, enough for viewers to bask in for hours, and it will take hours to absorb this expansive exhibit and the attached Palladium barroom with pictures of the artist with an array of celebrities, few with the magnetism of Andy Warhol.

Not sure how long the exhibit will stand, but let us hope the timeless quality it emits will be available for all to experience Basquiat’s brief but consequential life, and if the exhibit moves on before you can get there, pick up the RizzoliElecta book that captures and extends the sweeping, magnificent assemblage of Basquiat’s boundless imagination.

For more info, visit www. kingpleasure.basquiat.com.

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By CHARMAINE PATRICIA WARREN Special to the AmNews Bring on spring with dance performances all over New York! Topping the calendar is Nigerian-born Mufutau Yusuf in the New York City and world premiere of the evening-length work, “Òwe” at the Irish Arts Center, April 21-24. With “…Òwe—“proverb” in the Yoruba language—Yusuf seeks to decode his personal identity through the lens of the ancestral, in an evocative confluence of personal, ritual, and digital archives. And through a charged amalgam of traditional and contemporary movement, with music and soundscape, video projection, sculptural set elements, and text, the stage teems with symbolic and literal representations of traditions and histories foundational to, and blurred within, Yusuf ’s sense of identity,” according to the release. For more information visit www.irishartscenter.org Mufutau Yusuf (Davide Belotti photos)

April 14, 20 & 29—At the ISSUE Project Room, Artistsin-Residence Dion TYGAPAW McKenzie, Sydney Spann and Tatyana Tenenbaum will present new works. McKenzie will present the first part of “Devil Woman (Obeah Woman),” an opera in three parts (April 14); “Spann, Cow, Cow, Cow, Rabbit, Recalcitrance, Bunny, Dog, Dog, Dog,” a performance-activated sound installation (April 20); and Tenenbaum’s “For Selma,” a solo for voice, movement, microphone, memory, and textile (April 29). For more information visit www.issueprojectroom.org April 14-May 1—La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival, curated by Nicky Paraiso, returns for the 17th edition featuring new works by nine dance artists/ companies including Tiffany Mills Company, Johnnie Cruise Mercer, Gerald Casel Dance and many more. For more information visit www.lamama.org April 19-May 1—Celebrating its 75th anniversary, the Limón Dance Company returns to The Joyce Theater with two programs of classic and premier works. Program A: Doris Humphrey’s “Air for the G String” (1928), Limón’s “Psalm” (1967) and “Chaconne” (1942), and Olivier Tarpaga’s “Only One Will Rise” (2022). Program B: Limón’s “Waldstein Sonata” (1971/1975) completed by Dr. Daniel Lewis, Limón’s “Danzas Mexicanas” (1939/2022) and Raúl Tamez’s “Migrant Mother” (2022). For more information visit www.joyce.org April 21-22—The dance series E-Moves at Harlem Stage returns in-person with performances by Dormeshia, Sydnie Mosely, Du’Bois A’Keen, Vinson Fraley, and Leslie Cuyjet. For more information visit www.harlemstage.org

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For more information visit www.danspaceproject.org April 28-30—Rashaun Mitchell + Silas Riener will present RETROFIT: a new age, a four-hour performance installation at Danspace Project.

For more information www.danspaceproject.org April 29-30—Crossroads, curated by Pioneers Go East Collective’s Gian Marco Lo Forte Riccardo, Anabella Lenzu, and Philip Treviño offers two evenings of performances featuring emerging artists Nattie Trogdon + Hollis Bartlett and Same As Sister (April 29), Angela Schöpke Gonzalez, Jenny Pommiss, and Aya Soatome (April 30), and films by BAIRA, Anabella Lenzu, and Pioneers Go East Collective. For more information visit www.pioneersgoeast.org April-May 1—The WestFest Dance Festival returns and will feature works by ZCO/DANCEPROJECT, Graham 2, The Bang Group, Capoeira Luanda lead by Mestre Jelon Vieira, The Echos of Africa Dance Collective, BOiNK! Dance & Film, The DynamitExperience, Rachel Lieblein-Jurbala, The Jamal Jackson Dance Company and more. For more information visit www.westfestdance.com

BAMkids on Saturday, April 23 for a full day of fun

By MARGRIRA Special to the AmNews My favorite price to pay for anything is “free” and you can tap into that low, low price of “free” for you and your family and join BAMkids on Saturday, April 23, for a full day of fun outdoor and indoor performances, interactive activities, and showcases of local talent celebrating the spirit of spring and themes related to environmental advocacy and care.

This free event is presented in collaboration with Downtown Brooklyn Partnership BAMkids SpringFest and celebrates the spirit of the season and themes related to environmental advocacy and care. Highlights include a program of springtime ragas from Indian classical musicians that melodically evoke joy and renewal; a kick-off concert from Grammy-nominated children’s musician Uncle Jumbo; mural-making with visual artist

Ebony Bolt; and a closing concert Bhawmik Group featuring Mitali where Flaco Navaja serves up old Bhawmik (vocals), Dibyarschool South Bronx salsa. BAM- ka Chatterjee (tabla), Anish kids SpringFest is co-curated by the BAMkids Parent Advisory Circle.

In the Fishman Space, Indian classical musicians offer a program of springtime ragas that melodically evoke joy and renewal. Performances include sitar with Abhik Mukherjee; bansuri, sitar, and tabla with Jay Gandhi, Abhik Mukherjee, Sameer Gupta; and the Mitali

Dharam (harmonium), Ariaki arty on tanpura and vocals.

Dandawate performing Kathak Drop by the Hillman Studio for dance, and Shankhadip Chakrab- interactive activities such as creating zines with Annaliese Rozos, and Madhubani, Warli, and Rangoli coloring with Anju GuptaModak. Add your colorful spin to the Earth and Family Interactive Mural with designer Ebony Bolt.

Learn the power of plants with herbalist Laura Ruocco and connect with “The Joy Meister,” Joel Jeske on the Stutz Terrace.

Please visit www.bam.org/bamkids-springfest-2022 to view the full schedule of events taking place on Saturday, April 23, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. at the Plaza at 300 Ashland & BAM Fisher: Fishman Space, Hillman Studio, and Stutz Gardens.

Remember this is a free event but you are advised to RSVP (RSVP here BAM.org). Please take note that all visitors ages 5+ and staff are required to show proof of full COVID-19 vaccination.

To learn more about safety protocol, visit BAM’s safety protocol page.

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tion. Widely considered the world’s finest antiquarian book fair, this year’s NYIABF is thrilled to showcase nearly 200 exhibitors from around the world, continuing

its legacy of being a highly international event. Exhibitors will present a vast treasure trove of items: rare books, maps, illuminated manuscripts, incunabula, fine

bindings, illustrations, historical documents, rare prints, print ephemera, and more. For more information and for tickets, visit w ​​ ww.nyantiquarianbookfair.com.

Ailey, Alvin. (1931–1989) & de Lavallade, Carmen. (b. 1931) [Rapport, Will]. Blues Suite - Signed Photograph. Original ca.

1960 Will Rapport photograph of the dancers in performance in “Blues Suite” (sometimes also titled “Roots of the Blues”) which launched the Ailey company in 1958 and is often documented as the choreographer’s first masterpiece.

Signed Swedish reissue of the jazz drummer’s 1960 album, “We Insist!” inscribed on the back “For Ken, Max 11/26/80” and also signed at a later date by singer Abbey Lincoln, whose signature is dated 1983. Jazz drummer Max Roach and singer Oscar Brown began work on the “Freedom Now Suite” in early 1960, intending to perform it in 1963 on the 50th anniversary of Emancipation. A recording was released in December of 1960 under the title “We Insist!” The work was consciously and explicitly political, with movements spanning slavery, emancipation, the Civil Rights Movement, and African independence movements. The photograph on the cover evokes the lunch counter sit-ins that were a regular feature of civil rights protests.

“Humanity” Cast-Iron Tobacco Box. An English tobacco box bearing the kneeling captive iconography of the abolitionist movement, dating to the mid-19th century.

Ira Aldridge. African tragedian. Member of the order of Art and Science conferred by his Majesty King William 4th of Prussia and holder of the medal of Leopold and the White Cross etc. A rare, inscribed portrait of the famous actor. Dated Berlin 1861, it is inscribed to “Madame Arline Bach with the best wishes of Ira Aldridge.” Born in New York City, Ira Aldridge (1807-1867) attended the African Free School and opted for a career on the stage rather than the clergy, as his father preferred. While he got his start in the Brown’s Theatre (known as the African Theatre), New York, his prospects were brighter in England and he emigrated in 1824.

Aldridge’s debut came the next year in a production of “The Revolt of Suriname” in which he played the enslaved prince Oroonoko.

Other roles followed quickly, such as “The Ethiopian,” “The Libertine Defeated,” and “The Negro’s Curse,” which was written for him. For the next seven years he performed under the stage name the “African Roscius.” Importantly, his first performance as Othello was in 1826, making him the first actor of African descent to perform the role.

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By GODDESS KYA

April 21, 2022 — April 27, 2022 Everything is in and out of the circle of life, which takes shape and gives meaning to enhance a concept of what already exists. The process of growth itself is one to examine and study, as you would see your life in a reflection taking the same shape and form. This cycle week is about receiving your blessings and expressing your gratitude to the Divine Creator while continuing your journey. The universe works in the way of camouflage, cloaked beside you, and is the source of your inner knowing of things you know without proof which aids as an advantage in the physical Vinateria realm. You’re living proof, picking up the facts and figures to make use of this world. “I am living proof that uncertainty is vastly underrated and oftentimes a blessing in disguise.” Tony Shalhoob

You may have to tie up loose ends by operating your foundation on a shoeWho or what seems to be stirring your pot, is the topic for you string without overkilling your investments now. Use your discernment as this cycle. You like to stir other people’s pot, yet when it’s come to folks stirring yours, things get twisted like the game Twister. How Capricorn others are patiently waiting to connect. You’re better off working in silence Cancer than maneuvering with people who drain your energy like freeloaders. many chefs can there be in your kitchen cooking, and telling you Dec 22 June 22 Jan 21 July 23 Folks will come to you with their agenda involving your skills and yet haven’t what to put in your food? Also, can you be a team player in the checked with you. It’s a damn shame! Don’t agree with anything not in aligngame of Twister? Can you bend here and there to land on the right ment with your agenda. This is where the 5 W’s come in handy as to how you’re working on colors? Go easy this week as the things you seek are right in front of you. You’re your development. Surround yourself with people heading on the same accord by elevating holding yourself back. higher. Begone, Pookie & Ray Ray! Your time is extremely valuable, Cappy.

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You are the helper this week as well as handling business affairs The irony of your current circumstances may baffle you at times, especialand seeking counsel for yourself. This month and week are slowed ly in a time of change. Opportunities come by the dozens, like buses running down intentionally to get you to see, feel, sense, taste, and hear Leo like clockwork, and birds chirping in the morning. Physically, mentally, and with your senses involved. Once you see it, the light is turned on July 24 Aquarius spiritually, there’s a golden streak of opportunities if you’re willing to fly away for you to work your magic like never before. What are the feaAug 23 Jan 22 from the mother’s nest. Comfortability is cool until you’re aware of your potures, and amenities that are being offered to accommodate the Feb 19 tential, gifts, skills, talents, and artistry. Once you’re aware you’ll begin to see services you need to enjoy the fruits of your labor? This cycle commit then make how people see you. Live from the heart and follow your passions. The yellow and white pave- the necessary adjustments to see the effects. ments on the road are the separation of boundaries between lanes. Know your boundaries.

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Matters of the heart and mind are having their own meeting.

This is a week of putting in the work and allowing this cycle to pay off Where’s your heart leading you to do, go, or stop at a moment’s handsomely, like looking in the mirror. Don’t you just love yourself? This notice? That’s your intuition guiding you to where you need to Virgo is just the beginning of blessings, as the end results begin to manifest just be without a doubt in your mind. This big bang theory of yours Aug 24 Pisces Sept 23 before Jupiter fully makes its transit into Aries in December. Take note of must be tested, and you’re the perfect tester to test and see how Feb 20 the information of what occurred in your life and continue to build. Apply it works. Make the call, and schedule a roundtable discussion for Mar 20 the footwork and leave those people who want to ride your coattails alone. another round of information to spread the word. Folks like to sample before Brush that dust off your shoulders. You have a major task to complete by December. they buy or commit.

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Aries Libra If there’s been something on your heart to do, then do it. This is the week to put Mar 21 Sept 24 Apr 21 Oct 23 yourself out there with all your imperfection as no one is perfect. The sun is shining on you granting access as you walk by faith. Self-motivation has a drive that leads you when you acknowledge it. Do the unthinkable with the ideas you have in mind. and the truth

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What do you say or what are the thoughts on your mind before quenching your thirst? With Mercury and Uranus in your signs, your intellectual prowess may be going bananas with astronomical concepts, and your intellectual property is in high demand. However, they must pay for your services just like buying a cup of coffee or tea to start the day.

When the air blows, it’s to assist in directing the heat to cool off things for a second. Once the sun comes out, it’s generously shining all its glory. Are you ready to be noticed, or be put on notice?

Scorpio This cycle is on you and the people reaching out to help you as Oct 24 Nov 22 you’ve been there for them. When people show up for you it’s an indication of how important you are to them. Lift your chin up!

You have a chance to lead with a great cause and do it well.

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Consciously you’re in awe of how things are playing out. That’s right, take note and penetrate a word of caution in your daily affairs. When Mars goes retrograde in Gemini this upcoming October 30, 2022, review and revise your Gemini past behaviors, health or legal matters, and replay conversations for the purMay 22 Sagitarius June 21 pose of jogging your memory. You may find yourself picking up the piece Nov 23 Dec 21 to fit the puzzle and forming new ideas for further projects. No would’ve, should’ve, could’ve! Address the issues at hand and take accountability. This is the little engine that could, so use your brainpower and muscles to move mountains. being turned

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Things can go a bit haywire this cycle with things not being confirmed. The process can be a bit lengthy, as a wait-and-see game.

The jokes are on you this time testing the waters for you hoping you catch your own drift. A dose of your own medicine, actions, and words is on you. Allow things to naturally play out without force or manipulation to see what’s in store. Be kind to yourself, you seek will reveal itself in due time.

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Destiny plays a role in this cycle, one where you must dig deeper to find within you the depths of your soul. Only you know what’s in store for you. You can feel, see, dream it, and if you look in the mirror, it’s you in the flesh. There’s nothing for you to do but just apply yourself. You’re equipped with the knowledge that makes people either listen, take notes or skip school due to the heat on. It’s time to revamp how you operate now.

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Portland, Oregon There’s plenty of good music, great food, and wine in Portland. The Hotel The last couple of Mother’s Day cele- DeLuxe in downtown is a smart choice brations may have been muted because for a salute to mom. Wow her with the of COVID. That’s all the more reason to elegant Afternoon Tea at Gracie’s. You go for it this year. Treat your mother to can’t go wrong with custom-blend teas, a solo getaway, join her on a jaunt, or tea sandwiches, pastries and sweet moms can decide to dash off with their treats and a wine pairing menu. Find BFFs for a bit of TLC. solace in the city’s many public gardens.

Whatever you decide, here are a few ideas for a memorable Mother’s Day escape.

Beaver Creek, Colorado With skiers gone, the Park Hyatt Beaver Bonaire Estate, Marisule,Gros Islet, St. Creek is a quiet getaway in the ColoraLucia do mountains. Imagine the mountain Show mom how much you care by backdrop during sunset cocktails and a pampering her with the Calabash Cove wood burning fire pit and s’mores. Let Resort & Spa’s Unconditional All-Inclu- her catch her breath at Exhale spa, be it sive package that includes meals, bev- group workout classes or any number of erages, room service, premium drinks, treatments. a stocked in room bar with full size bottles and over 20 wines from the wine Miramar Beach, Florida list by the bottle. Spoil her with “me You’re sure to put a smile on mom’s face time” at Ti Spa. Paddle board, kayak, or as she checks into Hotel Effie Sandestin chill with yoga, or set off on a nature and is greeted with a cool towel and a hike. Enjoy the Asian inspired cuisine handcrafted cocktail and a warm homeat Windsong restaurant and the popu- made cook. After a yummy Mother’s lar C-bar overlooking the infinity pool. Day Brunch at Ovide, let her rejuvenate at Spa Lilliana. All treatments include a Asbury Park, New Jersey mimosa, a rose, and a gift. Conclude a The Asbury Hotel is steps from sand and perfect celebration with a sunset stroll sea. Consider the Mother’s Day Escape on the beach. Head up to the Ara Roofpackage. Mom gets a small bottle of cham- top Pool and Lounge, stargaze and reflect. pagne and a relaxation kit, with face, eye, and foot masks. This Mother’s Day weekend Philadelphia, Pennsylvania can include bowling next door at Asbury In the heart of Philly’s downtown culLanes, where you can listen to live music tural district is the Logan Hotel. Treat and eat heartily at The Diner. The board- mom to some spa time at The Underwalk and beach await you, as does shop- ground Spa & Wellness. All month long ping for antiques, vintage clothes and more. take advantage of the package that in-

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rides. Put high on the list too, a visit to the Highlands Spa. She’ll be talking forever about the Journey Through the Forest treatment, designed to release stress and tension while stimulating Lake Tahoe, California the immune system. The onsite resTahoe isn’t just for skiing. For Moth- taurant Manzanita is hosting a Mother’s Day the place to be is the Ritz-Carl- er’s Day brunch, with highlights like a ton. Think hiking and hot air balloon Fisherman’s Catch raw bar.

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By RENEE MINUS WHITE Fashion & Beauty Editor

All you could see at the Not My Eyes’ benefit fashion show and luncheon, recently held at VFW Hall in Valley Stream, N.Y., were beautiful people, some of whom couldn’t see at all! It was legally blind model Annalee Smith’s first event, and the affair was a soldout, tremendous success!

A graduate of Long Island University, Annalee Smith’s goal is to showcase the number of visually impaired people in the modeling industry and highlight the need for their inclusion. The Not My Eyes fashion show benefitted the Foundation Fighting Blindness and its efforts to defeat retinitis pigmentosa, an inherited and degenerative disease of the retina. This show featured all visually impaired participants.

The mission of the Foundation Fighting Blindness (www.fightingblindness.org) is to fund research for the prevention, treatment and cures for the entire spectrum of retinal degenerative diseases, including retinitis pigmentosa and more. “I wanted to bring light to the world, that people who are visually impaired or blind are capable of achieving many things in life,” said Smith.

Her love for fashion began as a child. She was born in Barbados, and when she was 9 years old, her family

moved to the U.S. Though diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa at the age of 13, she never lost sight of her love for fashion and dream to become a full-figure model. “I loved to dress up and be the focus of the camera. It’s my passion,” she smiled.

Smith won the 2021 Miss Kurvacious competition, and currently represents the local clothing store. They showed several sportswear pieces in the show, featuring 16 models.

Overall, looks were elegant. An escort accompanied most models, while others simply walked the runway with their canes.

In addition to Kurvacious’ offerings, there were selections of day and eveningwear from plus-size retailer Ashley Stewart. Well-made fashions by Black-owned designer labels including Thick Girls Fly, Robert Knight and Legendary LLC were in the show. As each of the sophisticated models appeared, the audience applauded and screamed their names.

They strutted up and down the runway in smartly styled looks to the beat of the music.

Heels were high. Skirts flared and jumpsuits flowed gracefully. Carmen Hatchett and Tiffani Scott were the fashion commentators, singer Tapeunga Hatchett’s acapella rendition of “Rise Up” was exDesigns by Ashley Stewart for Not My Eyes fashion show (All photos ceptional, and

by Renee Minus White/A Time To Style) Angel Bordo also provided a comedy set as part of the day’s affair.

“The pathway to modeling is extremely challenging for the visually impaired,” acknowledged Smith.

“It’s almost 20 years since partially blind model Amanda Swaffor was a finalist on Tyra Banks’ ‘America’s Next Top Model.’ Blind people buy clothes, too,” stated Smith.

For blind models, there are many steps to consider. Having a plan for the visually impaired fashion show is key. The models must wear clothes that help to avoid tripping.

For models with low vision, sufficient lighting is important. It’s also essential to have a runway that is accommodating to visuLegally blind model Annallee Smith ally impaired models.

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WILL CALHOUN AT SISTA’S PLACE, J3 OPUS 1 The drummer, composer, cultural historian activist, Will Calhoun personifies stage originality; a new arrangement, a nuance of African rhythms, an added instrument from the Motherland along with his exuberance to consistently take audiences on his personal journeys of unchartered sounds.

On April 23, the Will Calhoun OF Ensemble will bring another perspective of this music to Sista’s Place (456 Nostrand Avenue, Brooklyn). Part of the Central Brooklyn Jazz Festival. Two sets at 9 p.m. and 10:30 p.m.

The OF Ensemble will include bassist Rachiim Ausar-Sahu, sax and flute Jay Rodriguez, pianist Hector Martingon, trumpeter J.S. Williams, and Calhoun on drums and percussion. This is the drummer’s first gig as a leader since the pandemic. “Like Randy Weston I was born in Brooklyn and introduced to Sista’s Place by bassist Reggie Workman,” said Calhoun.

“I felt it was time to have my own show at Sista’s.”

Calhoun is dedicating his performance to the memory of his good friend of more than 35 years the bassist Charnett Moffett, who transitioned on April 12, and his native-born Brooklynite pianist and composer Randy Weston: “He was my mentor, who discussed with me the significance of Africa’s music and its culture,” stated Calhoun. “Randy kept the language in his music on and off the stage.”

Calhoun’s love for the music inspired him to research various drumming techniques and indigenous percussive instruments in Mali, Senegal and Morocco where he was able to venture into the hills to study with the elders. The Moroccan musician Hassan Hakmoun, who specializes in Gnawa music and spent time (performing and recording) in New York City was the first person to invite Calhoun to Africa where he played in the Gnawa Festival.

One musician he was most honored to meet was Senegalese drummer, composer Doudou Ndiaye Rose, who was the recognized modern master of Senegal’s traditional drum, the sabar. It was Max Roach who first brought Rose to Calhoun’s attention. During the African Fête Festival in 2007, he

than Butler, among others. Jamie, who will be attending Berklee College of Music in the fall, calls the drums her number one instrument as she effortlessly plays bass and guitar. Her varied influences include percussionist Sheila E., Stevie Wonder, Kora ColemanDunham, P.J. Morton and Kendrick Lamar. “It’s important for me to be able to play different genres of music so I can remain versatile,” explains Jamie.

Jaden, who originally began collaborating with the other 2 J’s on social media, cites bassist Derrick Hodge as a mentor. His favorites include Robert Glasper, Moonchild, and Snarky Puppy. He has already recorded and toured with Gospel stars Israel Houghton and Fred Hammond and is the music director for student ministries at T.D. Jakes’ The Potter’s House. “I play the drums, bass guitar, piano, guitar, cello, tenor trombone, bass trombone, and I’ve just started Will Calhoun (Photo courtesy of Gretsch Drums) messing with trumpet and accormet the master drummer in Sene- six are originals; their big sound dion,” said Jaden. “I have many gal and had an opportunity to visit of a quintet or septet stems from influences for these instruments his home. Calhoun noted their them being multi-instrumen- that keep me going and inspire meeting and the conversations talists. Jamie is adamant about me to do better!” The first time the that followed were enlightening not being categoand always inspiring. “Anytime he rized or placed in a performed in New York City I was box and her broththere, Hunter College, Symphony er strongly agrees.

Space or Hostos College, and he Well, it’s very difwas always incredible,” said Cal- ficult to be placed houn during a phone interview. in a box when you His repertoire will include a mix are writing and of tunes by Thelonious Monk, producing the maJackie McLean and Mongo Santa- jority of the tunes maría (who he recognizes as one of and playing multithe great percussionists of the 20th ple instruments on century), a few originals, music of each cut. On this the African ancestors, the inser- debut outing J3 tion of speeches by both Dr. Martin are defying genre Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X and structure bridging the introduction of a few indige- the influences of nous percussion instruments. pop, jazz, hip hop, For reservations call 718-348- and gospel.

1766 or visit the website sistasJustin considers the piano as his teen trio joined forces live was in place.org. main instrument while also play- 2020 at the NAMM (National Assoing bass, guitar (which he says he ciation of Music Merchants) conEvery year publicists send out picked up during the pandemic), vention in Anaheim, California, press releases on their latest art- harpejji and the talk box. “The pi- where an instant friendship was ists. Most are filled with fluff and anists that have influenced me the sparked. With their recent release, accolades of great proportion. most are Bob James, Herbie Han- they are making efforts to meet However, this time the debut art- cock, Chick Corea, George Duke, more in person although some of ists J3 on their new release “Opus Oscar Peterson, Cory Henry, their practices remain virtual.

1” (Shanachie Entertainment) are Art Tatum,” says Justin. “I am a “Opus 1” pays homage to the hitting all the right notes. The trio straight-ahead jazz guy but I love King of Pop Michael Jackson and consists of Justin-Lee Schultz (age mixing it all up and that’s what innovative jazz pianist Chick Corea 15), his sister Jamie-Leigh Schul- J3 is all about.” In 2020, Justin’s and Grammy award winning labeltz (age 18) (both born in South recording debut on Shanachie, mate keyboardist Jeff Lorber.

Africa, now residing in Los An- “Gruv Kid,” landed at #1 on iTunes “Chick Corea was one of the artgeles), and Jaden Baker (age 16) Jazz and featured such stellar ists whose music was constantliving in Dallas, Texas. guests as Bob James, Pieces of a ly played at our house. The main J3 delivers 11 tracks of which Dream, Gerald Albright and Jona- challenge of doing ‘Got A Match?’

for this album was putting everything together on the spot. It was tough but everything came together nicely at the end,” explains Jamie. J3’s rendition of Corea’s “Got a Match?” (first recorded in 1986 on the album “The Chick Corea Elektric Band”) is an exciting voyage with Justin playing a mean piano, sister Jamie holding down the drums and Jaden hittin’ bass. Jaden says, “Chick touched so many hearts through his music and by being the person that he was.” Justin admitted he is totally obsessed with Michael Jackson.

The album opens with M.J.’s “Don’t Stop Til You get Enough”—J3’s interpretation boosts Justin’s soft piano riffs and his guitar ramp, Jaden’s melodic bass, and subtle but swingin’ drums from Jamie.

My favorite is “Vibe Cleanse,” a fresh soul hip hop strut reminiscent of the rap group Digable Planets. Justin playing piano, Fender Rhodes and keyboards, with Brandon Rose kicking the rap with positive vibes, “What they going to say when we all live in peace.” Jaden’s electric bass was right in the grove with Jamie playing the hip undertones. The track was composed and arranged by Justin and his father Julius Schultz (a guitarist and Justin’s main music influence), and lyrics by Brandon Rose. “Opus 1” ends with an M.J. medley of “Remember the Time,” “Love Never Felt Like This,” “Don’t Stop Til You Get Enough” and “PYT.” The tunes are jumping, a little electric R&B soul with addition of the talk box.

No parking on the dance floor on this one, get up. Jaden composed, produced and arranged “Look to the Sky” and “Justice” while Justin and his father collaborated on most of the others, except for Justin’s “Junebug.”

Jazz is spontaneous, it moves and grooves. “Opus 1” is all that—a joyful compilation of music from J3, a young teenage group exploring the music and themselves at the same time. They are playing, composing and writing the innocence of jazz. It’s a rollercoaster ride digging a life that most of us forgot but this jazz story jumping genres inserting multiple instruments and laughing all the way to the gig and back is well worth listening to dancing to and just remember the time. It’s more than jazz, it’s teens making jazzy mischief. Great music for the times we are in, dig.

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Christopher Paul Moore could speak authoritatively on a wide spectrum of African American history and culture, and if you were lucky enough to pull him from his many activities at the Schomburg Center you had an incomparable resource at your beck and call.

I consider myself one of the fortunate to receive his guidance and expertise in the completion of several books and a number of articles. My last contact with him was several years ago and we had planned to work on a project together. If that objective is to be completed it will be missing Chris’s ongoing living counsel since he died on March 13 in Brooklyn, according to his wife Kim Yancey Moore, from complications of COVID and pneumonia. He was 70.

Besides his vast knowledge, what I miss most about him was the congenial and caring demeanor, no matter the nature of your request or the challenges he faced.

All he wanted to do once you presented your problem or issue was what could be done to solve it, what materials you needed to accomplish that mission. Chris loomed in my thoughts recently as I worked on a historical document for the Greater Harlem Chamber of Commerce, a project that resembled the tribute publication he, Howard Dodson and Roberta Yancy edited on “The New York Black 100 in 1998.” Each of them deserved to be among these illustrious notables.

When I commended Chris on the publication he demurred, explaining it was a team effort that included the recommendations from a countless number of people who re-

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sponded to a questionnaire. Even so, that list had to be parsed and pared down, and that’s where I believe Chris was an essential member. His skillful editorial insight was certainly at play in his book “Fighting for America: Black Soldiers—The Unsung Heroes of World War II” (One World, Ballantine Books, New York, 2005). His peerless research disclosed a considerable amount of information about the untold heroism of African American soldiers, and even when they were cited it was often accompanied by disdain as revealed in a letter from PFC. Hoyt Fuller, later to become a formidable writer and editor. Fuller’s company the 371st Infantry then stationed in Italy had just won nine of twelve Division citations but when the regiment was commended by the lieutenant colonel in charge of the celebration, he wondered why the Black soldiers could not attain a similar excellence on venereal disease. “Even now I’m not sure exactly why I’m writing to you,” Fuller mused, “except that I’ve got to tell someone about some of the things that go on here, and are forever used to our disadvantage.”

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And these are stories that Chris felt compelled to relate, and this is just a sample of the expansiveness of this endeavor. He was a thoughtful and thorough researcher, who rarely left a stone unturned in his pursuit of a full understanding of an issue or topic. Much of Chris’s early years can be found in the Epilogue of his book, but thanks to Sam Roberts of The New York Times, we learn that Chris was born Jan. 20, 1952, in Suffern, N.Y. In the Epilogue he recounts both sides of his family—a mother Norma (DeFreese) was descended from the Ramapough Lenape Council of Native Americans, and his father Willard a farmer from Alabama.

Chris was a graduate of Northeastern University in 1974 where he earned a degree of fine arts in theater and journalism. One of his first jobs was as the news editor for the National Black Network that serviced a number of Blackoriented radio stations. He also moonlighted as an actor, appearing on “As the World Turns” on television and in Off Broadway productions, such as “A Soldier’s

Play.” During an interview with Dr. Roscoe Brown Jr. on his television show, Chris spoke at length about how he came to write the book about Black soldiers, mainly as a result as he said of “lucky research” and being directed to a trove of letters compiled by Lawrence Reddick from Black soldiers during World War II, many of which were housed at the Schomburg.

His years at the Schomburg were beneficial in several ways and he was an indispensable benefit for the Schomburg, often spearheading and curating various exhibitions, including, “Lest We Forget: The Triumph Over Slavery” (2001); “The Buffalo Soldiers: The African American Soldier in the U.S. Army,” (2004), which was launched a year before his book “Fighting for America” was published.

He possessed a boundless expertise on the Dutch, Native Americans, and Africans in New York, and was often summoned to discuss this history on radio, television, and the internet. Among his many affiliations was his membership on the Landmarks Commission for two decades, where he was instrumental in preserving a variety of properties and, even before he was appointed, wrote the reports designating several landmarks, including the Mother A.M.E. Zion Church and the Abyssinian Baptist Church, both in Harlem.

And we would be remiss not to include his tireless devotion to the African Burial Ground and its place on the historical timeline.

In 1990, he married Kim Yancey, an actress, and they had two children, Terrence and Matthew.

ACTIVITIES FIND OUT MORE Encyclopedia.com offers a splendid profile of his life and legacy, which to a great degree is replicated by Sam Roberts’ obituary in the Times.

DISCUSSION I wish there was time and the information that would give us a better sense of his early years.

PLACE IN CONTEXT Emblematic of the baby boomers, Chris came of age in post-World War II, and lived to make his mark as a chronicler of New York’s history.

THIS WEEK IN BLACK HISTORY Apr. 18, 1977: Author Alex Haley is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for “Roots.”

Apr. 19, 1837: An institute that became Cheyney University is founded in Pennsylvania.

Apr. 20, 1853: Harriett Tubman inaugurates the Underground Railroad.

tortured, beheaded and killed in large numbers,” said Poblete.

“That’s where they have American citizens right now—locked up in a system where they’re not safe.”

Poblete mentioned the brothers being African American as a large factor in their arrest and imprisonment in Ecuador.

“They’ve been accused of a horrible crime that they did not commit, they happen to be Black and more importantly, they are American people who happen to be successful people,” said Poblete. “They went down there, succeeded and did something good. People see that and get envious and choose to take advantage of that.”

In November of last year, Ronell came down with what the prison thought was a severe stomach bug. He eventually collapsed, fainted, and was rushed to the hospital where he received a diagnosis of colon cancer. According to Poblete, Ronell’s cancer has progressed to Stage 4 and needs better treatment immediately.

“The doctors in Ecuador keep telling him ‘You need to go to America to get treatment, ’ and ironically, to their home state of Maryland to go to the cancer centers that are some of the best in the world,” said Poblete.

Robert Stephenson, the father of the brothers, said Ronell’s cancer rapidly progressed because he caught COVID and tuberculosis, causing chemotherapy treatment to be interrupted. He believes Ecuador should pay for all treatment costs.

“So far they have not stepped up to do it, so in order to save my son’s life we are doing it now,” said Stephenson.

In an attempt to reach the Hostage Affairs Office about its attention to the case, a State Department spokesperson replied via email, “We are aware that U.S. citizens Ronell and Roja Stephenson are incarcerated in Ecuador on charges of murder. We take seriously our responsibility to assist U.S. citizens abroad, and are providing all appropriate consular services.”

The spokesperson claimed the brothers have received welfare checks since their 2017 arrest and that the office follows up with the brothers’ requests from authorities in Ecuador and will monitor the case appeal and provide “all necessary consular services.”

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Robert Stephenson, however, is not satisfied with this response. He claimed there was no regard to Ronell’s health when he was diagnosed with cancer in November, because the office was not even aware that he was admitted to a hospital for treatment.

“A day later I called them and they told me Ronell never went to the hospital and there is no proof he is in any hospital in the town,” said Stephenson, who mentioned that Hostage Affairs continued to make these claims for a day or two. “That’s how useful they were.”

GLA and local advocates in the U.S. have attempted to reach other government officials about the Stephenson brothers’ case. In addition to Hostage Affairs, Poblete has reached several agencies and politicians from the Ecuadorian embassy in D.C. to Maryland Senator Ben Cardin for some form of support. As of now, little has been accomplished to assist the brothers from a government standpoint.

“In these cases it’s not easy to get any government to move on something like this,” said Poblete. “The Hostage Affairs office has been cooperative but they’re not acting with the haste that we need to solve this problem.”

Poblete said the Ecuadorian ambassador, Ivonne A-Baki, has offered to assist but believes she is limited to what she can do unless the U.S. and Ecuador convene to discuss the matter.

Imam Alfred Mohammed is the councilman for the 4th ward in Linden, N.J. and a human rights advocate based in Harlem, who learned about the case from an interview he saw with the Stephenson brothers. Mohammed has called on the office of local Congressman Gregory Meeks, who according to Mohammed, has given consideration to the case. Mohammed believes it is important to bring attention because the brothers are Black Americans abroad.

“I’m very interested in the rights and responsibilities of Africans in the diaspora, and particularly Latin America where our people are treated differently,” said Mohammed. “It’s all xenophobic and about white supremacy, given with sexuality or fear of the Black male.”

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访问 nyc.gov/housingconnect 在线申请。如要获取本广告及书面申请表的简体中文版，请将您的回邮信封寄送至：POP Management-Bishop Valero Senior Residence 191 Joralemon Street 8th Floor, Brooklyn, NY, 11201. 信封背面请用英语注明“CHINESE”。必须在以下日期之前在线提交申请或邮寄书面申请 2022 年 6 月 15 日

Русский

Чтобы подать заявление через интернет, зайдите на сайт: nyc.gov/housingconnect. Для получения данного объявления и заявления на русском языке отправьте конверт с обратным адресом по адресу POP Management-Bishop Valero Senior Residence 191 Joralemon Street 8th Floor, Brooklyn, NY, 11201. На задней стороне конверта напишите слово “RUSSIAN” на английском языке. Заявки должны быть поданы онлайн или отправлены по почте (согласно дате на почтовом штемпеле) не позднее 15 июня 2022 г.

한국어

nyc.gov/housingconnect 에서 온라인으로 신청하십시오. 이 광고문과 신청서에 대한 한국어 번역본을 받아보시려면 반송용 봉투를 RESS]으로 보내주십시오. 봉투 뒷면에 “KOREAN” 이라고 영어로 적어주십시오. 2022년 6월 15일까지 온라인 신청서를 제출하거나 소인이 찍힌 신청서를 보내야 합니다.

Kreyòl Ayisyien Aplike sou entènèt sou sitwèb nyc.gov/housingconnect. Pou resevwa yon tradiksyon anons sa a nan lang Kreyòl Ayisyen ak aplikasyon an sou papye, voye anvlòp ki gen adrès pou retounen li nan: POP Management-Bishop Valero Senior Residence 191 Joralemon Street 8th Floor, Brooklyn, NY, 11201. Nan dèyè anvlòp la, ekri mo “HATIAN CREOLE” an Anglè. Ou dwe remèt aplikasyon yo sou entènèt oswa ou dwe tenbre yo anvan dat 15 jen 2022. ‫العربية‬

‫إرسال طلب عبر اإلنترنت على‬nyc.gov/housingconnect :‫ أرسل مظروفًا بالعنوان إلى‬، ‫ لتلقي ترجمة باللغة العربية لهذا اإلعالن والتطبيق المطبوع‬.191 Joralemon Street Brooklyn NY 11201 ‫ اكتب‬، ‫ على ظهر المظروف‬.] " ‫باللغة اإلنجليزية كلمة‬ARABIC[ ‫ يجب تقديم الطلبات عبر اإلنترنت أو عن طريق ختم بريدي قبل‬. "15 2022 ‫يونيو‬

Polskie

Aby złożyć wniosek online, przejdź na stronę nyc.gov/housingconnect. Aby uzyskać polskie tłumaczenie tego powiadomienia oraz wniosek w wersji wydrukowanej, wyślij kopertę z własnym adresem: POP Management-Bishop Valero Senior Residence 191 Joralemon Street 8th Floor, Brooklyn, NY, 11201. Wpisz słowo „POLISH” w j. angielskim na odwrocie koperty. Wnioski muszą posiadać stempel pocztowy lub zostać przesłane online nie później niż 15 czerwca 2022

Français

Pour déposer votre demande en ligne, rendez-vous sur le site nyc.gov/housingconnect. Pour recevoir une traduction en français de cet avis ainsi qu’un dossier de demande papier, envoyez une enveloppe libellée à votre nom et votre adresse à l’adresse suivante : POP Management-Bishop Valero Senior Residence 191 Joralemon Street 8th Floor, Brooklyn, NY, 11201. Inscrivez le mot « FRENCH » au dos de l’enveloppe. Les demandes doivent être envoyées par la poste ou soumises en ligne au plus tard le 15 juin 2022 , le cachet de la poste faisant foi. অনলাইনন আনেদন করনে, অনুগ্রহ কনর nyc.gov/housingconnect এ যান। এই বেজ্ঞবির বা​াংলা অনুোদ এেং আনেদনটি ছাপাননাভানে পপনে এই টিকানায় একটি স্ব-সম্বাধিত খাম পািান: POP

বা​াংলা

Management-Bishop Valero Senior Residence 191 Joralemon Street 8th Floor, Brooklyn, NY, 11201। খানের বপছনন “BENGALI” শব্দটি ইংনরজিনে বলখুন। অ্যাধিম্েশনগুধল অ্বশযই 15 জু ন, 2022

এর েনযে প াস্টমােক করনে হনে বা অ্নলাইম্ন জমা ধিম্ত হম্ব। ‫اردو‬ ‫ اپنے ذاتی پتے کا حامل ایک‬،‫ پر جائیں۔ اس نوٹس کا اردو زبان میں ترجمہ اور پرنٹ شدہ درخواست موصول کرنے کے لیے‬nyc.gov/housingconnect ‫ برا ِہ کرم‬،‫آن الئن اپالئی کرنے کے لیے‬ ‫" انگریزی میں تحریر‬URDU" ‫ پر بھیجیں۔ لفافے کی پشت پر لفظ‬POP Management-Bishop Valero Senior Residence 191 Joralemon Street 8th Floor, Brooklyn, NY, 11201 :‫لفافہ‬ ‫سے زیادہ تاخیر سے آن الئن جمع نہ کرایا جانا الزم ہے۔‬15 2022 ‫کریں۔ درخواستوں کے لیے پوسٹ مارک کردہ ہونا یا جون‬

Governor Kathy Hochul • Mayor Eric Adams • HPD Commissioner Adolfo Carrión Jr

26 • April 21, 2022 - April 27, 2022

THE NEW YORK AMSTERDAM NEWS

Education Banks and Adams expand gifted and talented programs. Why?

By STEPHON JOHNSON Amsterdam News Staff

seen repeatedly that stand-alone G&T programs lead to racial segregation. Elementary school students In a complete reversal from what benefit from learning alongside the previous administration wanted, peers with different backgrounds, New York City Mayor Eric Adams and abilities, and interests. Let’s be Schools Chancellor David Banks anclear: that’s one of the core virtues nounced last week that they would of public education.” expand the gifted and talented proThe AmNews also reached out grams in city public schools. to the activist organization Teens The mayor and chancellor said they Take Charge. In an email, the group will add 100 kindergarten seats and reiterated its stance against any1,000 third-grade seats, which, acthing that separates students, in cording to the city, would expand their eyes, arbitrarily. entry points to all districts. The city “…We’ve advocated in the past said that this would expand and against the SHSAT exam as it was update the admission process, and created with racist intent and has the program would serve all five bora racially discriminatory impact on oughs. the demographics of the students Applications will be open to New admitted to these schools,” part of Adams/Banks reverse course and add MORE gifted and talented seats. (Photo courtesy of Michael Appleton/ Yorkers on May 31. the email read.

Mayoral Photography Offices) Banks said that, unlike the former The last four years in City Hall mayor’s desires, New Yorkers wanted more of During last week’s announcement, Adams mayed by today’s announcement regarding produced a different song. Previous mayor Bill what was already there. He told the AmNews said that these actions were about securing G&T programming. We are appalled that the de Blasio and former schools chancellor Richthat parents around the five boroughs spoke to city school children’s centers the right way.

NYCDOE came to the conclusion of main- ard Carranza worked to rid public schools off him and said they wanted more gifted and tal“For the first time, there will be a gifted and taining programming that separates nd seg- the gifted and talented program and Specialented programs. talented program in every school district in regates our youngest children, often across ized High School Admissions Test (SHSAT).

“So, the reason we did it was because we New York City,” said Adams to reporters. “We racial and socioeconomic lines, despite nuBanks talked to the AmNews about the were hearing steadily from parents and fam- are extremely pleased about this purchase merous reports, community engagement SHSATs and what it means to the public school ilies that this is something that they wanted, over and over again, and I cannot tell you how sessions, and research that cited the detri- system. He said that the testing is not a sign of say whatever you want to say philosophically important this day is. For far too long, we had mentaleffects G&T programs create for NYC intelligence, and it won’t make a person’s colabout it,” Banks said. “The parents were saying districts in our city that did not have gifted and students and the school system as a whole.” lege application look better because they went that they want it and there was no…cry from talented programs. We are giving every child New York Public Advocate Jumaane Wil- to one. He said the brouhaha over the exams folks to say get rid of it and so we see this chan- in every zip code the chance that has been liams wasn’t quick to praise the move. He and the schools connected to it (Bronx Scicellorship and this administration, as being denied too often. I heard this over and over wasn’t ambivalent either. He spent most of his ence, Brooklyn Tech and Stuyvesant) are the responsive to parents and channels. …I did again on the campaign trail, and that denial academic life in “gifted” classes but doesn’t noise and not the signal. not know until I got here that 120,000 families ends today.” want others to share that experience of isola“So somebody says that ‘what are the fights have left the DOE in the last five years. That’s This didn’t sit right with many. A spokes- tion and shame. that you want to have,’ right?” said Banks. “And important context, right? person from the organization New York App“As someone who benefited from those are not fights we’re looking to have. We “So many folks have voted with their feet to leseed, which pushes for equity of resources the gifted and talented program in its original want to create newer opportunities and lookleave the system,” Banks continued. “And I did for public schools, said that they weren’t fond construction, I know the value of accelerat- ing at a different set of criteria for stuff.” not want to be the guy that’s sitting here with of the recent news. ed and enriched education,” stated Williams.

To further emphasize the departure from my own philosophical beliefs about special“New York Appleseed, along with many “Adding more seats, more access, more op- the de Blasio administration, Adams met with ized schools or gifted and talented or what- other organizations that advocate for equi- portunity is an improvement that will extend former New York City mayor Michael Bloomever while I really should be in service to the table learning opportunities for all NYC stu- these benefits to more students. At the same berg this week to announce a program called families of the communities and what it is that dents, particularly our most marginalized time, it is also an expansion of a program that Summer Boost NYC, whose goal is to give students, is incredibly disappointed and dis- is inherently inequitable. Even when I was en- public and charter school students a chance they’re looking for.” rolled, the gifted and talented program had to catch up academically due to the COVIDdeep inequities, which have only become 19 pandemic. more pronounced in the decades since.”

“Together with a group of partners, we’re When asked for a response to the public ad- committing $50 million to help charter schools Dated: Tuesday, April 19th 2022 vocate’s statement, Banks said “…they’re enti- create or expand summer school programs tled to their own opinion. But this mayor and that will provide a coverage of an average of this chancellor spoke to folks. I used to be a part five weeks of additional instruction in math DEMOCRACY PREP NEW YORK SCHOOL of gifted and talented myself. …You have people and English,” said Bloomberg at a Monday MEETING OF BOARD OF TRUSTEES who weigh in on all sides. of the issue. But I’ve news conference. “All charter schools servbeen particularly paying attention to the folks ing students in grades K through 12 are eligiwho are currently parents in the system right ble to receive funding for the program, which now, and what they have been asking for, and will target students who are most in need of Pursuant to Section 104 Public Notice of the Open Meetings Law, and pursuant to that’s what I was responding to.” extra help. Schools can apply for funding startExecutive Order 202.1, this notice is to inform the public that the board of trustees of New York State Comptroller Brad Lander ing today through the website, summerboostDemocracy Prep New York School will hold a remote meeting by teleconference on: echoed Williams’ sentiments. nyc.org.”

“Segregating learning environments for elAdams followed Bloomberg’s announceth April 26 , 2022 at 8:00 am., local time, + 1 646 558 8656, ementary students, based on a teacher’s or ment with three simple sentences.

Meeting ID: 872 1204 8191, Password: 746010. test’s assessment of how smart they are, is not “Welcome back. Welcome back. Welcome sound education policy,” stated Lander. We’ve back.”

PUBLIC NOTICE

THE NEW YORK AMSTERDAM NEWS

April 21, 2022 - April 27, 2022 • 27

Mayor Adams, Bloomberg launch Summer Boost NYC

Mayor Eric Adams joined former Mayor Michael Bloomberg in announcing a $50 million philanthropic initiative aimed at supporting public charter schools this summer as they struggle to keep kids from falling behind because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Adams and Bloomberg were chummy about the “good old times” as they spoke about the education program at yesterday’s conference in City Hall. “The Summer Boost in New York City is so needed,” said Adams at the conference. “This massive investment that this administration is receiving for those children in charter schools is going to help children and families all over this city, and is going to make our schools work for everyone.”

The program is called ‘Summer Boost NYC’ and is to serve about 25,000 kindergarten through eighth grade students, particularly students of color from low-income families. Summer Boost will provide funding for about five weeks of instruction in math and English for schools that apply at summerboostnyc.org.

Additional funders include Ken Griffin, Stan Druckenmiller, the Carson Family Charitable Trust, Robin Hood, Gray Foundation, and the Wilentz Foundation, said Bloomberg.

“After two years of school closures and inadequate remote instruction, students across the United States have fallen behind, sometimes as much as a whole year,” said Bloomberg at the conference. “And the harm has fallen heaviest on the children who were too far behind, especially low-income Black and Latino students. Without urgent help, many of them will fall further behind, which could have devastating effects on their chances for graduating high school, and going to college, or beginning a career.

5That would be a disaster for

them but also for our city and our country.”

Adams has already taken steps to expand the city’s summer school program called Summer Rising and the summer youth employment program (SYEP).

SYEP is supposed to support 100,000 job opportunities for youth ages 14 to 24 as part of the strategy to battle gun violence and spikes in crime usually seen during hotter months in the city.

“During the summer month, crime increases,” said Adams. “Our goal is to place our children in safe spaces so that we can bring down the violence, bring children into safe environments so that they can continue to grow and learn and prosper during the summer months.”

Adams has also recently announced the expansion of the controversial Gifted and Talented programs across the city, which his predecessor former Mayor Bill de Blasio had moved to phase out because of “debates over the unequal and discriminatory treatment” of Black and Brown students, reported CNN. Bloomberg said that private sector and philanthropic groups have a duty to step in and do what they can to help with educating the city’s youth.

During his 12 years as mayor however, Bloomberg was often criticized for leaving a legacy of ‘stop and frisk’ that affected about 5 million people, most of which were “young Black and Latino men from some of the city’s roughest neighborhoods” who mostly hadn’t committed a crime, reported NPR. ‘Stop and frisk’ was ruled unconstitutional just as Bloomberg left office in 2013, said NPR. Summer Boost aims to hyperfocus on students of color from low-income families.

The Mayor’s Office provided a study from McKinsey & Company that found that the pandemic widened preexisting inequitable gaps in education. The study said that students in majority Black and Brown schools ended the year

with six months of “unfinished learning” in math, high schoolers have become more likely to drop out of school and less likely to go on to higher education, and more broadly, more than 35% of parents are very or extremely concerned about their children’s mental health.

“Starting out behind instead of starting out ahead, is something we have to move away from,” said Adams. “We know if we expand opportunities at the earliest possible age, we can set out our kids on the right path to success.”

Adams said he believes in all year school, and that children need to have structured education throughout the entire year to catch up and to exceed.

Howard Wolfson runs the education program at Bloomberg Philanthropies and was the deputy mayor of governmental affairs under Bloomberg. He designed the summer school programs. Wolfson said that the curriculum will be “a rigorous program of academics” in math and English with social and emotional learning and recess.

“Some charter schools will probably choose to use their own curricula,” said Wolfson. “Some of the larger networks have already been running programs like this, and probably have a sense of how they’d want to do it. We’re going to let them do that. But some schools who have never had the money to do this will likely use the model curricula that we’ll be providing. And so it’ll be a mix.”

Adams said he plans to continue reaching out to the city’s former mayors, including de Blasio, and learn what he can from them.

Ariama C. Long is a Report for America corps member and writes about culture and politics in New York City for The Amsterdam News. Your donation to match our RFA grant helps keep her writing stories like this one; please consider making a tax-deductible gift of any amount today by visiting: https://tinyurl.com/fcszwj8w

50 Nevins Street Apartments 50 NEWLY CONSTRUCTED UNITS AT 50 Nevins Street, Brooklyn, New York 11217 BOERUM HILL

Amenities: 24-hour attended lobby, on-site building superintendent, exercise room, multi-purpose room, community room, computer lab, bike parking,* on-site laundry room*, tenant storage rooms, and on-site social services for low income or formerly homeless households with special needs. (*additional fees apply).

Transit: Trains: C, F, G, N, Q; Buses: B103, B37, B62 and B65 No application fee • No broker’s fee • Smoke-free building • More information: https://nyhousingsearch.gov/ This building is being constructed through the Supportive Housing Loan Program of the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development. Supportive housing is permanent, affordable housing with on-site support services to serve the needs of the most vulnerable New Yorkers, including the formerly homeless and disabled. Sixty percent of units in supportive housing are set aside for low income or formerly homeless individuals or families with special needs, who are referred by city agencies. The remaining 40% of units in the building are made available to the public through lottery. The units listed in this notice are only those made available to the general public.

Who Should Apply?

Individuals or households who meet the income and household size requirements listed in the table below may apply. Qualified applicants will be required to meet additional selection criteria.

Applicants who live in New York City receive a general preference for apartments.

• A percentage of units is set aside for applicants with disabilities: ° Mobility (5%) ° Vision/Hearing (2%).

• Preference for a percentage of units goes to: ° Residents of Community Board 2 (50%) ° Municipal employees (5%)

AVAILABLE UNITS AND INCOME REQUIREMENTS Monthly Rent1

Unit Size Studio

2 Bedroom

3 Bedroom

60% AREA MEDIAN INCOME (AMI)

By ARIAMA C. LONG Amsterdam News Staff, Report for America Corps Member

Affordable Housing for Rent

Units Available

$947

41

$1,421

7

$1,632

2

Household Size2

Annual Household Income3

1 person 2 people 2 people 3 people 4 people 5 people 3 people 4 people 5 people 6 people 7 people

$35,418 - $50,160 $35,418 - $57,300 $53,178 - $57,300 $53,178 - $64,440 $53,178 - $71,580 $53,178 - $77,340 $61,509 - $64,440 $61,509 - $71,580 $61,509 - $77,340 $61,509 - $83,040 $61,509 - $88,800

Minimum – Maximum

Tenant is responsible for electricity and electric stove for cooking.

Household size includes everyone who will live with you, including parents and children. Subject to occupancy criteria.

Household earnings includes salary, hourly wages, tips, Social Security, child support, and other income. Income guidelines subject to change.

4 Minimum income listed may not apply to applicants with Section 8 or other qualifying rental subsidies. Asset limits also apply.

1 2 3

How Do You Apply?

Apply online or through mail. To apply online, please go to https://housingconnect.nyc.gov/PublicWeb/.

To request an application by mail, send a self-addressed envelope to: 50 Nevins Street Apartments C/O Spring Leasing and Management, LLC, 77 Cuttermill Road, Great Neck, NY 11021. Only send one application per development. Do not submit duplicate applications. Do not apply online and also send in a paper application. Applicants who submit more than one application may be disqualified.

When is the Deadline?

Applications must be postmarked or submitted online no later than MAY 20, 2022. Late applications will not be considered.

What Happens After You Submit an Application?

After the deadline, applications are selected for review through a lottery process. If yours is selected and you appear to qualify, you will be invited to an interview to continue the process of determining your eligibility. Interviews are usually scheduled from 2 to 10 months after the application deadline.

You will be asked to bring documents that verify your household size, identity of members of your household, and your household income.

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简体中文 Русский

한국어

Kreyòl Ayisyien ‫العربية‬

Presente una solicitud en línea en https://housingconnect.nyc.gov/PublicWeb/. Para recibir una traducción de español de este anuncio y la solicitud impresa, envíe un sobre con la dirección a: 50 Nevins Street Apartments C/O Spring Leasing and Management, LLC, 77 Cuttermill Road, Great Neck, NY 11021. En el reverso del sobre, escriba en inglés la palabra “SPANISH.” Las solicitudes se deben enviar en línea o con sello postal antes de 20 de Mayo 2022. 访问 https://housingconnect.nyc.gov/PublicWeb/ 在线申请。如要获取本广告及书面申请表的简体中文版，请将您的回邮信封寄送至：50 Nevins Street Apartments C/O Spring Leasing and Management, LLC, 77 Cuttermill Road, Great Neck, NY 11021. 信封背 面请用英语注明“CHINESE”。必须在以下日期之前在线提交申请或邮寄书面申请 2022年5月20日 Чтобы подать заявление через интернет, зайдите на сайт: https://housingconnect.nyc.gov/PublicWeb/. Для получения данного объявления и заявления на русском языке отправьте конверт с обратным адресом по адресу 50 Nevins Street Apartments C/O Spring Leasing and Management, LLC, 77 Cuttermill Road, Great Neck, NY 11021. На задней стороне конверта напишите слово “RUSSIAN” на английском языке. Заявки должны быть поданы онлайн или отправлены по почте (согласно дате на почтовом штемпеле) не позднее 20 май 2022. https://housingconnect.nyc.gov/PublicWeb/ 에서 온라인으로 신청하십시오. 이 광고문과 신청서에 대한 한국어 번역본을 받아보시려면 반송용 봉투를 50 Nevins Street Apartments C/O Spring Leasing and Management, LLC, 77 Cuttermill Road, Great Neck, NY 11021으로 보내주십시오. 봉투 뒷면에 “KOREAN” 이라고 영어로 적어주십시오. 2022 년5월20일 까지 온라인 신청서를 제출하거나 소인이 찍힌 신청서를 보내야 합니다.

Aplike sou entènèt sou sitwèb https://housingconnect.nyc.gov/PublicWeb/. Pou resevwa yon tradiksyon anons sa a nan lang Kreyòl Ayisyen ak

aplikasyon an sou papye, voye anvlòp ki gen adrès pou retounen li nan: 50 Nevins Street Apartments C/O Spring Leasing and Management, LLC, 77 Cuttermill Road, Great Neck, NY 11021. Nan dèyè anvlòp la, ekri mo “HATIAN CREOLE” an Anglè. Ou dwe remèt aplikasyon yo sou entènèt oswa ou dwe tenbre yo anvan dat me 20, 2022.

‫ تقدم بطلب عن طريق اﻹنترنت على الموقع اﻹلكتروني‬https://housingconnect.nyc.gov/PublicWeb/. ‫ أرسل‬،‫للحصول على ترجمة باللغة العربية لهذا اﻹعﻼن ولنموذج الطلب الورقي‬

50: ‫ مظروف يحمل اسمك وعنوانك إلى‬Nevins Street Apartments C/O Spring Leasing and Management, LLC, 77 Cuttermill Road, Great Neck, NY 11021. ‫ اكتب باللغة اﻹنجليزية كلمة‬،‫" على الجهة الخلفية للمظروف‬ARABIC". 20 ‫يجب إرسال نماذج الطلبات عن طريق اﻹنترنت أو ختمها بختم البريد قبل‬2022 ،‫ مايو‬.

Governor Kathy Hochul • Mayor Eric Adams • HPD Commissioner Adolfo Carrión Jr. HCR Commissioner RuthAnne Visnauskas

28 • April 21, 2022 - April 27, 2022

Junction

Continued from page 3

what the Junction needed to thrive: basically jobs for locals, a cleaner facility with better amenities, and an engaged public space.

Adams intends to place a commercial building at the Junction, or 2440 Fulton Street, which will host 1,100 employees of the Department of Social Services and have new retail space along Fulton Street, Herkimer Street, and Van Sinderen Avenue. The building will be developed by the Leser Group and designed by Marvel Architects. It builds on work the Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) began in 2017 and is a part of the Mayor’s CARE strategy to revitalize the city.

Nurse was eventually elected after a long stretch of turnover when Espinal left office in 2020.

Former Councilmember Darma Diaz was voted in to replace him, but lost her reelection to Nurse in 2021.

Nurse said about the “inherited” project that big real estate and other top city officials have had plans for Broadway Junction for a while. She said that in some

Water Continued from page 3

“In order to do that the first thing, what we have to do is create this nationwide database of estimating drinking water exposures across the U.S. and then we can start looking at inequities and exposure and whether these exposures are associated with disease,” continued Nigra.

The report was co-authored

by Filippo Ravalli, Kathrin Schilling, Yuanzhi Yu, and Ana Navas-Acien, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health; Benjamin Bostick and

Test Continued from page 12

words and phrases into the appropriate operation accurately and consistently? What reading comprehension strategies are being employed that will allow students to access vocabulary dense readings, sometimes written in “old English” or poetry? Outside of data, are there pathways for

THE NEW YORK AMSTERDAM NEWS ways the office building is a test to also been facing looming pressee how future projects might go sure in the forms of harassment, down. “We absolutely have reser- neglect, dramatic rent increasvations about the current propos- es, and substandard housing al—which we’ve expressed—about because of the amount of “unthe height and uses proposed,” regulated housing stock in our said Nurse in response to Amster- district and the lack of code endam News’ inquiry. forcement by the city.”

“As we build it, they will come, She added that affordable but they coming cannot be dis- housing development through placement,” said Adams about the 2016 rezoning in East New questions of potential displace- York isn’t nearly where the city ment of Black and Brown resi- thought it would be, even with dents. “There are far too many the rezoning’s Mandatory Inclupeople who have been here for so sionary Housing mandates. Many long and really wanted to have an of the commitments from the reopportunity to watch the growth zoning “either weren’t clearly of this community.” communicated or are still unfulAdams maintains that the office filled,” said Nurse. space will feature local businessAccording to the city’s Equitaes and bring much needed city ble Development Data tracker, services closer to people who the East New York community, need them most while shorten- in Community Board 5 where the ing commutes.

Broadway Junction falls, is made “We don’t think our job is to up of an almost 98% non-white sell this project in any way,” said population with about half of Nurse. “It is not my job to build those people living with incomes trust around the current pro- 200% below the federal poverty posal, or to lie to my community rate, and severely rent burdened that displacement won’t happen. households. Because of these Displacement has been happen- factors, places like East New York ing for a while, and homeown- and nearby Cypress Hills are ers have been facing speculative neighborhoods among the highpressure even with a Cease and est at risk for displacement.

Desist Zone in most of CB5.”

“The histor y before that was Nurse said that tenants have that we were told we were shit,”

said Boris Santos of ENY CLT. “We were redlined. We weren’t given the investments that we needed; city, state, federal government were part of our sad tale and narrative. Of course a lot of us are anxious. A lot of us are ner vous about what’s to come. Panicked even.”

Santos said admittedly the mayor’s plans for an administrative building at the Junction is “less threatening ” than Totem Group’s proposed four high rise towers.

Totem Group filed to build one 18-story senior housing development and three 24-story residential and commercial towers between Fulton Street, East New York Avenue, and Williams Place.

The Brooklyn Paper reported that Totem Group’s plans called for the “demolishing and ‘demapping’” of the block of Herkimer Street between Van Sinderen and East New York avenues to make way for the development.

“We are starting to see the fruits of our advocacy and hard work to create new jobs and opportunity for East New York. This public-private partnership between the city and the Leser Group is a major step in the right direction, and we commend Mayor Adams

for prioritizing progress for the Junction,” said Totem Brooklyn’s Bill Wilkins, who is director of economic development and housing, in a press release.

Further comment from Totem Brooklyn about the high-rise plans couldn’t be obtained by post time.

In the conference, Adams promised to develop affordable housing and “go after those who harass tenants and displace them.”

“I think there is widespread agreement that we need extremely strong tenant protections,” said Nurse, “ironclad and legally binding agreements around land use issues, and of course income targeted, deeply and permanently affordable housing, preferably in nonprofit or community control. These issues will be the first thing on my mind in any conversation I have with stakeholders.”

Steven Chillru, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University; and Anirban Basu, University of London.

According to the report, “Approximately 90% of U.S. residents rely on public drinking water systems, with most residents relying specifically on community water systems that serve the same population yearround. The researchers evaluated six-year EPA review records for antimony, arsenic, barium, beryllium, cadmium, chromium, mercury, selenium, thallium, and uranium to determine if average concentrations exceeded the maximum contaminant levels set by the EPA which

regulates levels for six classes of contaminants. This included approximately 13 million records from 139,000 public water systems serving 290 million people annually.”

This isn’t the first rodeo that Brown and Black people have had with what is now known as “environmental racism.”

“Our research group tends to focus on chronic disease like cardiovascular disease. For many of these metals, we know for example, arsenic, uranium, we know that they can be toxic to the cardiovascular and kidney systems.”

Similar issues played a significant role in Black and Brown

Americans and Indigenous people having a higher number of COVID deaths.

APM Research Lab, a nonpartisan research group, reported recently that 399 Black have died per 1,000 of COVID and Hispanics died at a 259 per 1,000 rate.

So while the report focused on Hispanics. This group of Americans tended to live in neighborhoods not too far from or within Black neighborhoods.

According to the report, “2.1 percent of community water systems reported average uranium concentrations from 2000 to 2011 in exceedance of the EPA maximum contamination levels,

and uranium was frequently detected during compliance monitoring (63% of the time).”

“One of the ways that we tried to look at this potential disparity is by using these previous categorizations of counties and one of those groups is a semi urban, Hispanic group,” said Nigra. “And we found that regardless of whether a water system uses groundwater or surface water, regardless of the state the system is located in and regardless of the size of the system, semi-urban Hispanic counties had higher concentrations of uranium and other bottles compared to all other types of water systems. “

tutoring or support outside of the classroom environment?

What if your child actually gets all that is being taught and is ahead, what are the opportunities for acceleration?

2) If you want your child to go to a SHS, for most, waiting until the summer of 8th grade and taking your child to a prep center the summer of 8th grade is almost too late even if your child attends a Gifted and Talented middle

school, or a top-rated private school. Ideally that process needs be started the summer of 6th grade.

3) If we want to collectively move the needle, we need to create cohorts of students and families who are dedicated to that mission and help fund that process for them. Starting the summer of 6th grade or earlier is key. To be clear, I am not advocating test prep in the 6th grade, I’m advocat-

ing putting students on an educational track that will allow them to tame that stallion in two years, ride that stable horse at their leisure, and move into whatever high school they end up in with the skills to successfully navigate that process.

I’ve worked with enough students to understand the brilliance contained in our community. Our children are enough. We just need to put them on the proper track based on our goals for them.

Samuel Adewumi is the founder of CAS Prep which has been responsible for sending students to the SHS each year of its existence.

Even more importantly, CAS Prep has helped change the trajectory of the educational progress of hundreds of students in a positive way. Adewumi believes in the multiple genius of all of our children and believes in the responsibility of parents, schools, and support organizations like his to help unlock that brilliance.

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of a desire to reform the process in 2014 this was basically the first time they’d had the opportunity to go through a census and redistricting. o Li said that it’s really a historical “gentleman’s - agreement” in New York where the Senate will be Republican and the Assembly would be Demo- cratic. For the first time, the Assembly, Senate and g Congress were all majority Democrat.

- “Democrats have the aptitude to gerrymander but they haven’t had all of New York and so I think there was at that point a high likelihood that the - commission would not get its job done. People dig in and wear their partisan hats. The process would . deadlock and that kicks it to the legislature,” said Li. n Since Republicans and Democrats on the commission couldn’t agree, everything was turned over to the state legislature to make final decisions on a rushed deadline in January 2022. Immigrant - communities in the city were especially concerned t about the lack of public input. y The Asian American Bar Association of New - York (AABANY) were among the most vocal in p demanding a public hearing before the state legislature voted on redistricting maps that will affect people’s voting rights for the next decade. / Liz OuYang, coordinator of the redistricting task force at AABANY, said that they were definitely outraged by the lack of community input. She said that since the state and congress handle different issues it’s hard to compare the gains and losses on the part of communities.

The final maps divided Hispanic/Latino and Asian neighborhoods previously in Congressional District 7 under U.S. Rep. Nydia Velázquez. But the state senate maps created a new district in primarily Asian communities in Bensonhurst and Sunset Park and a mostly Hispanic district in Queens.

There was also a majority Asian state assembly district created in Queens.

“We would have preferred that Manhattan Chinatown remain with Sunset Park in Nydia Velázquez’s district because they share more in common economically, regarding language access, and just socioeconomic data. However there were some gains in the state senate and assembly district,” said OuYang.

Congressional District 11 now covers Brooklyn’s Sunset Park and very “liberal” Park Slope as well as the usually Republican-leaning neighborhoods in Staten Island. The seat is currently held by Republican U.S. Rep. Nicole Malliotakis. “They were trying to get rid of the only Republican seat in New York City,” said Li, “and they had to move some of the districts around. I think that’s what it is, and creating more opportunity for minority groups would have interfered with the political gerrymandering and protecting white incumbents.”

In Congressional District 10, Manhattan’s Upper West Side was lumped in with Brooklyn’s Orthodox Jewish population in Boro Park. This protects the incumbent U.S. Rep. Jerry Nadler, said Li. City Councilmember Alexa Avilés in District 38, overlapping with part of the new congressional 11 district, has been pretty outspoken on the impacts the redrawn voting lines will have on her constituents. “The communities of Sunset Park, the Lower East Side and Bushwick that make up the core of today’s #NY07 are culturally and historically connected. The creation of this district in the 1990s was

THE NEW YORK AMSTERDAM NEWS April 21, 2022 - April 27, 2022 • 29 a Voting Rights Act win that advanced Latino representation,” tweeted Aviles.

Aviles, several councilmembers, and more than 60 residents also signed a letter to Senate Speaker Second Avenue Subway Phase 2 Carl Heastie and Majority Leader Andrea StewartPoor Richard’s Playground Section 4(f) Evaluation Cousins, urging them not to split up their communities.

Public Notification of temporary construction impacts for the Second “We are a coalition of leaders who represent Avenue Subway project at the entrance to Poor Richard’s Playground communities in Sunset Park, the Lower East Side, at Second Avenue and 108th Street. The Federal Transit Administration and North Brooklyn. We are writing to urge the Legislature to not divide communities that have (FTA) and Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) have reviewed been united in the same Congressional District these temporary impacts in accordance with applicable regulations at for 30 years–and keep these three neighborhoods 23 CFR Part 774 and anticipate that there would be a de minimis impact within the same district,” said the letter. on the playground. They are seeking public input on this conclusion.

The letter stated that the majority-minority district was joined by decades of important cultural Description of the Proposed Second Avenue Subway Phase 2 ties, and it was imperative to keep the communiMTA will be constructing Phase 2 of the Second Avenue Subway, which will ties together. Especially, since there’s been a rise in extend the subway from the current 96th Street Station at Second Avenue anti-Asian hate and discrimination against immigrant communities, said the letter. to a new station at 125th Street at Park and Lexington Avenues. There will Steven Romalewski is the director of The City be new subway stations on Second Avenue at 106th Street and 116th Street University of New York (CUNY’s) Mapping Serand on 125th Street at Park and Lexington Avenues. The new 125th Street vice and Center for Urban Research. He leads the Station will have connections to the Lexington Avenue 4/5/6 line. FTA and Redistricting & You online map that tracks redisMTA prepared an environmental assessment (EA) for the project in July tricting stakeholders and analyzes proposed dis2018, which is available on MTA’s website at http://web.mta.info/capital/ trict maps in New York.

Romalewski pushed back on concerns of politsas_docs/ea_phase2.htm. The EA provides more information about the project. ical gerrymandering in Congressional District 11.

Impact of Project to a Section 4(f) Resource He said that an important change to note in the new district configuration is that the number Construction activities for the new subway will require use of a small area of of people who voted for now-President Biden in sidewalk in front of the entrance to Poor Richard’s Playground on Second Avenue 2020 were far fewer in the old district and there are at 108th Street. This sidewalk area is part of the park. Section 4(f) of the U.S. many more of them in the new district.

Department of Transportation Act of 1966 states that FTA may not approve the “In 2020, President Trump won that district with use of a “publicly owned land of a public park, recreation area, or wildlife and 55% of the vote,” said Romalewski. “All other things being equal, if the new district lines had been in waterfowl refuge of national, State, or local significance, or land of an historic site effect during the 2020 presidential vote, Trump of national, State, or local significance” unless the following conditions apply: would have lost that district by almost the same • There is no feasible and prudent avoidance alternative and the action margin.” includes all possible planning to minimize harm to the property; or Romalewski said, based on CUNY’s analysis of voter patterns, that in the Brooklyn part of the dis• The use of the property, including any measure(s) to minimize harm (such trict the number of Biden voters went up to about as any avoidance, minimization, mitigation, or enhancement measures) 80% while votes for Trump were cut in half. will have a de minimis impact on the property.

Requests for comment from Malliotakis and former Democrat U.S. Rep. Max Rose, who is runDuring subway construction, existing utilities that are beneath the sidewalk ning for his old post and had lost to Malliotakis in at the Second Avenue entrance to Poor Richard’s Playground must be 2020, were not returned by post time. reconstructed. This work would take approximately five months. The park In the beginning of April the Brooklyn Eagle reentrance would remain open during construction, except for short, temporary ported that State Appellate Division Judge Stephen closures when needed. The park’s Third Avenue entrance would remain open.

Lindley declined to delay the primary elections because of the state’s redistricting maps. This comes Section 4(f) de minimis Impact Determination in Accordance with after Republican State Supreme Court Judge 23 CFR 774.3(b) Patrick McAllister ordered that the “Democrat controlled” maps should be redrawn and are “unMTA intends to seek a Section 4(f) de minimis impact determination constitutional.” from FTA as defined in the Section 4(f) regulations (23 CFR 774) for As of now, a scheduled appeals court panel has the use of the small area at the Second Avenue entrance of Poor Richard’s another hearing on April 20, but could eventually Playground. A de minimis impact is one that will not adversely affect the end in the state’s highest court as both parties offer park’s recreational features or activities. Construction impacts will be up new legislative maps, said the Brooklyn Eagle.

“However the courts rule, what is important to temporary and will occur outside the playground. Access to the playground us is that communities of interest we identified will still be available during construction. The small construction area in the remain as whole as possible in any political subdisidewalk will be restored to its existing condition at the end of construction. visions that they draw,” said Ouyang.

Prior to making a final determination regarding Section 4(f), the regulations “The reality is that no map would make anyone require that an opportunity for public review and comment must be happy,” said Li.

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Religion & Spirituality Public Advocate Jumaane Williams presents first Ramadan Iftar Dinner (Bill Moore photos)

Public Advocate Jumaane Williams presented the first Ramadan Iftar Dinner at the former Mayor David N. Dinkins Building at 1 Center Street for members of Muslim communities.

Deputy Public Advocate Kashif Hassain welcomed attendees and they listened to a reflection on Ramadan by Imam Hasan Akbar of East Flastbush Masjid. After the panel on Mental Health & Trauma, keynote speaker Public Advocate for the City of New York Jumaane Williams presented awards to members in the community. The Iftar dinner was held by BHALO members who are in charge of community groups, masjids, and community centers.

Harlem legend, DJ Kay Slay succumbs to COVID

By MAL’AKIY 17 ALLAH Special to the AmNews Boisterous hip hop legend and radio personality, DJ Kay Slay, 55, became an ancestor Sunday after enduring “a 4-month battle with COVID-19,” his family revealed.

He was known for bringing the raw street edge to commercial radio with his own unique brand of radio show format which captivated his audience’s attention.

He forged his own lane which several other DJs often imitated.

He was named Keith Grayson after being born at Harlem Hospital on August 14, 1966, and grew up in East Harlem. As a teen he dabbled in various aspects of the hip hop culture, including bboying and aerosol art where he tagged “Spade 429” as his initial

nom de plume, prior to changing it to “Dez.” He was featured in the cult classic graffiti documentary “Style Wars.”

As the late-’80s rolled in he had begun DJ-ing, hosting local block parties and community events, as well as producing popular mixtapes which featured his unique and raunchy style of marketing urban music, earning him the nickname of “The Drama King” He even featured neighborhood street legend ‘Alpo’ talking from prison on several of his mixtapes.

By the middle of the following decade his entrepreneurial success led to his featured “Drama Hour” on Hot 97.1 FM, which lasted over two decades, prior to him becoming ill. Just as he had done on his mixtapes, he often

incited conflicts amongst rival artists/crews. He often threatened on-air that he would “Slap your favorite DJ.” Back then, he boasted: “The game was boring until I came ‘round.”

He reigned on radio for the next two and-a-half decades, and influenced countless DJs which succeeded him. He also provided a platform for many talented, yet undiscovered, talents. Plus, he’s responsible for discovering one of the most gifted lyricists in recent times, Papoose.

He established Straight Stuntin’ Magazine which documented hip hop culture’s stories and street edge.

As of press time, information regarding memorial services has not yet been made public.

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being welcomed during the Russian invasion. Francois said that Syrians, Afghans, Haitians, and Central and South Americans get put in a “colorist” and “classist” box as refugees by the media regardless of Temporary Protected Status (TPS).

“Ukrainians are receiving preferential treatment. They’re getting access to judges, getting credible fear hearings, and treated humanely as the refugees that they are,” said Francois, “whereas Black and Brown refugees are not.”

Brooklyn Democratic Party Chair and Assemblymember Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn said that Hai-

THE NEW YORK AMSTERDAM NEWS tian families in Brooklyn have been dignity,” said MOIA. “So we applaud torn apart by “racist, anti-immigrant President Biden for making the decision Title 42 policies” that coincided with to restore our asylum system. As the city a period of mass instability in Haiti, of immigrants, the Mayor’s Office of Imafter its president’s assasination and migrant Affairs will continue to advoan earthquake, when people needed cate for the humanity and dignity of all asylum the most. immigrants who call NYC home.”

The Mayor’s Office of Immigrant AfLesser known, the DHS lent a hand fairs (MOIA) called Title 42 a “Trump- with vaccination efforts locally in New era policy” that has “disproportionately York City and provided grant funding impacted Black, Indigenous, LGBTQ+ to secure places of worship and comand other vulnerable migrants, often munity-based organizations, especialsending people back to persecution, ly as there’s been a stark rise in hate torture, or worse.” MOIA said that crimes against Asian and Jewish comasylum is a form of legal immigration munities in the city and a mass tarand a right recognized by both U.S. and geting of HBCUs and Black churches international law. nationally.

“Everyone has the right to seek In 2021, the DHS said they provided asylum, no matter what country they about $180 million in grants through come from. ALL asylum seekers de- the Nonprofit Security Grant Program serve to be welcomed and treated with to support physical security for church-

es and houses of worship to help protect themselves from hate crimes, a chunk of which went to New York City.

“And in that regard last year, we declared domestic violence extremism to be a national priority area,” said Mayorkas, “and so the threat of white supremacy, the threat of other ideologies of hate in terms of their connectivity to violence is something that we are equipping law enforcement in better addressing.”

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has been a big supporter of increasing funding to the nonprofit security grant program. “Protecting our religious spaces, like our Black churches, as well as synagogues, mosques, and more demands help at the federal level,” said Schumer.

Schumer said he has worked to secure increases in funding for the pro-

gram continuously, including doubling the national pot of funds in 2021 and $250 million for the program this year.

He said he’s currently pushing for $360 million.

“With this funding, New York has fortified more and more places of worship and congregation, but the fact remains that there is unease across the city where we worship and pray,” said Schumer.

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compared to 35% who had stabilization beds. Another set of data from 2020 found that 75% of those offered stabilization beds stayed there, while data gathered by DHS between May 5, 2020 and April 4, 2021 found that while 30% of individuals offered transport to congregate shelters accepted placement there, 65% accepted placement at a stabilization bed, and 84% of those who accepted placement at a Safe Haven stayed there. All of the data we have makes clear Sincerely, Annmarie Aquino, parishioner, Church of the Good Shepherd Rev. Emily Arnold, hospital chaplain Rev. Laura Bachmann, pastor, Gates Presbyterian Church Rev. John Backe, Metropolitan Synod, Evangelical Lutheran Church of America Dennice Barr, president, Fruit Belt Advisory Council Chaplain Carter Baxter, Mount Sinai Health System John Benfatti, director, Riverdale Yonkers Society for Ethical Culture Brenda Berkman, chair, NYC Presbytery Justice Ministries Committee Ivan Braun, Northwest Bronx Community & Clergy Rev. Peter Cook, executive director, New York State Council of Churches Rev. Mickey Correa, pastor, Christ Church Washington Heights Kiana Davis, social action/social justice manager, B’nai Jeshurun Sister Carol DeAngelo, director of Office of Peace, Justice, and Integrity of Creation, Sisters of Charity of New York Simona DeFeo, Interfaith Assembly on Homelessness Anne Marie Del Campo, JPIC Good Shepherd Church Kay Dundorf, board member, Riverdale Yonkers Society for Ethical Culture Deirdre Fisher-Kemp, minister, New Light Baptist Church Rev. Dr. Robert Foltz-Morrison, executive presbyter, Presbytery of New York City Rev. Dr. Mary Foulke, rector, St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, Harlem Minister Carl Garrison, minister of Homeless Out-

that providing options that offer privacy is a successful way to encourage homeless New Yorkers to come inside. Meanwhile, just five individuals in 239 encampments have accepted placement.

Everybody deserves privacy, safety, and dignity. We urge you to recognize the worth of our unhoused neighbors, and help them to get back on their feet, not keep them on their knees. Please stop the sweeps, and start prioritizing getting folks housed.

reach, Manhattan Church of Christ Mr. Jerrold Goodman, board member, Riverdale Yonkers Society for Ethical Culture Rabbi Lauren Grabelle Herrmann, SAJ-Judaism That Stands for All Rabbi Lisa Grant, Hebrew Union College Marc Greenberg, executive director, Interfaith Assembly on Homelessness and Housing Peter Gudaitis, board of directors, Emergency Shelter Network Rev. Martin Hauser, pastor, Grace & St. Paul’s Church Rev. Melissa Hinnen, pastor, Park Slope United Methodist Church Rev. David Jolly, pastor, Trinity United Methodist Rev. K. Karpen, senior minister, Church of St. Paul and St. Andrew Sister Lamiya Khandaker, project manager, Majlis Ash-Shura: Islamic Leadership Council of New York Rev. Charles King, CEO, Housing Works, Inc. Sister Honora Kinney, Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet Reverend, Deacon, Chaplain Gloria Lavine, The Reformed Church of Princess Bay/Community Advocate Rev. Dorlimar Lebron, lead pastor/associate director, First Spanish Methodist Church/The Peoples Church Jone Lewis, leader, Riverdale-Yonkers Society for Ethical Culture The Rev. Dr. Jacqueline Lewis, senior minister, Middle Collegiate Church Rev. Lea Matthews, associate pastor, St. Paul & St. Andrew Marianne Montero Director John Mudd, ex-

ecutive director, Midtown South Community Council Roshi Daiken Nelson, founder & guiding teacher, Pamsula Zen Center Pastor Heidi Neumark, Trinity Lutheran Church of Manhattan/Iglesia Luterana Trinidad Minister Chibueze Okorie, minister of Evangelism, Church of Gethsemane Rabbi Shuli Passow, director of community engagement, B’nai Jeshurun Rev. Nigel Pearce, pastor, Grace Congregational Church of Harlem Rev. Dr. Victoria Jeanne Rollins, founder, director, co-chair, Rise Again Ministries, Episcopal Diocese of New York HFI Rev. David Rommereim, Lutheran pastor, Northridge Lutheran (ELCA) Dr. Nori Rost, clergy leader, New York Society for Ethical Culture Rev. Juan Carlos Ruiz, pastor, Good Shepherd Lutheran Church Rev. Charles Ryu, lead pastor, Morningside United Methodist Church Rev. Matthew Schaeffer, pastor, Bay Ridge United Methodist Church Rev. Francis Skelly, parish priest, Our Lady of Perpetual Help Frances Stiles, member, service and advocacy team, Mountain Rise of United Church of Christ Rev. Martha Stone, chair, Commission on Ecumenical & Interfaith Relations, UCC NY Conference Anne Stribling, Saint Michael’s Episcopal Church The Rev. Timothy Weisman, pastor, Holy Trinity Lutheran Church Rev. Jeff Wells, lead pastor, The Church of the Village

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Important Notice: (FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH ANY OF THE FOLLOWING WILL RESULT IN DISQUALIFICATION) *All individuals on the application must be age 55 or older at the time of the lottery. ** Monthly rental charges are subject to change without notice. In some cases, rent surcharges may be applicable. *** Household members must be residing together and meet the household composition requirements at the time of application and at the time of apartment availability. Any applicant who does not meet the proper family composition will automatically be disqualified. An applicant whose name is selected in the lottery cannot be included in the family composition of any other applicant who is selected in the same lottery. **** Applicants must be financially responsible. Based on the total household income for the prior calendar year, less $1,000 for each personal and dependent exception, and less $20,000 (or actual earnings if less) for each secondary wage earner. Applicants must meet household income and family composition eligibility criteria at the time of application and at the time of apartment availability. A credit check will be conducted at the time of apartment availability for which an additional fee approved by HCR will be required.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION All rent charges are subject to change without notice at the time of apartment availability. A $100 non-refundable application fee will be required at the completion of the lottery. Waiting list will be established by a limited lottery. There will be a limit of 175 studio apartment and 30 one-bedroom apartment applicants drawn for the Lottery. ONLY APPLICANTS WHO ARE DRAWN WILL BE NOTIFIED. ONLY ONE REQUEST PER APPLICANT MAY BE SUBMITTED FOR EACH LOTTERY. DUPLICATE APPLICATIONS RECEIVED FOR THE SAME LOTTERY WIL BE DEEMED INELIGIBLE. HOW TO APPLY: ONLINE You can apply to the lottery online through www.elect-us.net/jameslenox Applying is fast, easy. Upon completion of your online application, you will receive a confirmation and lottery number. All applicants will be able to attend the virtual lottery and will receive an email with a link that will include the time and date of lottery. Lottery will be conducted by a 3rd party certified election company and witnessed by HCR and the housing company.

DEADLINE: Applications must be completed by: May 31, 2022 YOU CANNOT APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE JAMES LENOX HOUSE OFFICE EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITY SUPERVISED BY NYS HOMES & COMMUNITY RENEWAL To complete an application, go to www.elect-us.net/jameslenox

Governor Kathy Hochul Commissioner RuthAnne Visnauskas, New York State Homes & Community Renewal

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Meanwhile, Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins is the interim lieutenant governor.

It sure can be messy up there in Albany. Is he sure he wants to go up there?

“It is,” he replied, “that’s why I think it is important to have someone who has not been a part of Albany muscle memory. So, even if you got rid of the head like Gov. Cuomo, if you don’t decide that you are going to shake up the muscle memory—you are going to get what you have always gotten.

And former lieutenant governor, now Gov. Kathy Hochul, has been a part of that muscle memory. When I ran in 2018, she literally said that there weren’t any issues that she had with the then governor—and that’s before the scandal rocked. That says to me that either you are not paying attention, or you are making a decision not

THE NEW YORK AMSTERDAM NEWS to say anything so you can better your political career. You need somebody who is going to be different from that running the state if we are going to get where we need to go.”

Williams noted, “We lost tens of thousands of people in New York. The one thing we can do in their honor, is not go back to that. As you can see from the budget, when we asked for a billion to be put in the budget for victims of gun violence prevention/victims services, this governor decided to put a billion dollars in place for a billionaire who owns the Buffalo Bills and hired a firm who hired her husband. This is the dynamic of where priorities are.”

It’s “helpful to us” that folk are starting to wake up to the fact that they’ll be voting in the next three months, as his “campaign is starting to hit a nice stride,” Williams said, so while he’ll be journeying up to the farest regions of upstate, he said that must also “shore up downstate where I’m from: New York City. “I’m very excited about the support we have got in the last few elections. I hope we can get it again and do even better.”

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It is a sensitive issue, he said, “Cause we don’t take money that other folk take. The people who funded Kathy Hochul’s campaign, funded Cuomo’s campaign. They are the people who benefit from people who are struggling to pay their rent, people who are facing foreclosure, people who benefit from the high rents. Our political support is stronger than I thought it would be right now…we were severely outspent in 2018, and we still came within earshot of winning that election—47%. And we expect to have a good race again.”

The election is on June 28, 2022.

“I’m a Democrat,” said the man is also running in the Working Families Party line. “But Democrats do a terrible job talking about public safety, speaking about taxes. We do really well addressing those issues. Democrats…I belong to that party, but we’ve been better at telling people who’re not to vote for—giving them a boogie man who not to vote for as opposed to giving them a vision to vote for.

“When we get our vision in front of whomever it is, we say the same thing, and we understand that people want to be in a safe community. They want to be able to afford where they live, afford their health care, and they want their children to do better.

And our job is to get the barriers out of the way to do that. That message sells all over.”

Not whining, but pointing out a reality he sees, Williams added, “No matter what I do the goalposts get moved. I was told I had to choose between being an elected and being an activist. I said I don’t. The best elected officials are activists.

We have shown that we can move New York City.

We have passed a record number of pieces of legislation, policy and funding programs. We were told the message would never work—we got 47% of the vote. We won citywide…The type of politics we want to do worries the status quo, and it should, because the status quo does not work for the people who are listening,” he told this journalist while speaking to this reporter on “Back to Basics” on InceptionFM.com.

Mayor Adams met with Cuomo at least twice recently, does his support worry you, and if you don’t do you need

it? “I’ve known Eric for years…we’ve worked on a lot of issues including gun violence.” There are differences, but he said he is focusing on finding spaces where there is agreement because the city needs it “in trying to combat this gun violence so it doesn’t get to where we were before.”

But, he said, “We also don’t want to make the mistakes of the past like the over policing, and the over incarceration. That did not solve the problem, and actually caused additional problems. Anyone running for governor would love the mayor’s endorsement, but I don’t know what he is going to do. I think our campaign is based on what we usually have, which is not a lot of institutional support, we don’t usually have a whole lot of money, but we do get the voters out, so so we are going to tailor our message to New Yorkers right now who are suffering as opposed to billionaires who have made $88 billion more during the pandemic. The voters who are struggling right now to pay their rent, to pay their mortgage right now, to pay the health bills, to pay for their medicine, trying to figure out how to get the children to school, and educate them, dealing with fears of getting on the subway, and gun violence.”

With regards to last week’s NYC shooting on the subway, Williams said, “I can’t imagine the people who’ve been shot, also the people who are in that subway…there’s trauma going on, people don’t understand how much that trauma continues to spread. People are concerned, and they should be. This is the third surge we will have of police this year.

The first surge under the last administration—we said you know, just adding police—while we need our law enforcement partners, if you don’t do anything else, it’s not going to solve the problem. We said that the second time, we’re saying that the third time.

“We have new units on the street, and people are still being shot. There is such a broader response that is needed, and that’s what I’m looking for in our leadership. Congress has to do something to stop these guns coming on our streets. Our police officers are getting record numbers or guns off the street right now, the arrests they’re making—we’ve got to figure out why it’s not going through the court system.

“We have a 10-point plan for public safety, on how to address this gun violence in a real way, the same way we helped get 2018 and 2019 the safest we’ve ever been. If you’re a victim of crime—data means nothing, but there is a way to get to this.”

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The Colgate Women’s Games set for this Sunday on Randall’s Island

By JARED MCCALLISTER Special to the AmNews T h e C o l g a t e W o m e n ’s Games Finals are being held this Sunday, April 24, at 11 a.m., at New Yo r k C i t y ’s i c o n i c I c a h n Stadium on R a n d a l l ’s Island. It will be an aweinspiring experience as 2 5 0 o f t h e n a t i o n ’s m o s t talented young female track and field athletes from the Northeast region compete for trophies and educational scholarships provided by the ColgatePalmolive Company.

The event marks the 4th season and first outdoor series for C WG, the nation’s longest-running track and field series for girls and women. At the end of this season’s competition, nearly 5,000 scholarships will have been awarded to Colgate Women’s Games finalists.

The Finals will include a special musical performance of the new Colgate Women’s Games anthem, “Believe” by Grammy-nominated singer, poet and author Tarriona

(Lem Peterkin photos)

“ Tank” Ball, and her critically acclaimed band Tank and the Bangas, in celebration of the thousands of C WG participants and alumna who aspire to achieve their personal best.

The longtime mission of the Games remains the same: to continue creating pathways for girls and young women to pursue their educational goals and achieve their personal and athletic potential.

“The mission of the Colgate Women’s Games is now more important than ever,” said Paula S. Davis, chief communications officer at Colgate-Palmolive. “As we navigate through the ongoing pandemic, Colgate-Palmolive is proud that Colgate Women’s Games is once again back on track. The competition provides a fulfilling experience for our communities and empowers the next generation through educational scholarships, all of which helps fulfill our purpose to reimagine a healthier future for all.”

Admission is free! To The New York Stock E x- Meet Director Cher yl Tous- order tickets online go to: www. change will recognize Col- saint and two-time O lympian, eventbrite.com/e/the-47thgate Women’s Games’ legac y Ajeé Wilson, ring the closing colgate-womens-games-fion April 22 by having sever- bell to promote the Finals on nals-tickets-305181344617 or al C WG participants, alumna April 24 and to raise aware- visit www.colgatewomand O lympians, including ness of the Games. ensgames.com.

Priscilla Frederick Loomis is jumping into the future

By LOIS ELFMAN Special to the AmNews Olympic high jumper Prisc i l l a F re d e r i c k L o o m i s h a s h u n g u p h e r l av e n d e r w i g .

That style statement landed worldwide attention and the f ro n t p a g e o f T h e Ne w Yo r k Ti m e s a f t e r t h e O p e n i n g C e remony of the 2016 Olympic Ga m e s i n R i o. Now , L o o m i s i s f o c u s i n g o n s e t t i n g n e w p e rs o n a l b e s t s i n l i f e a n d c a re e r.

A l t h o u g h s h e i s d i s a p p o i n ted that she did not qualify for the 2020 Olympics—held a year after its original date d u e t o t h e p a n d e m i c—s h e ha s a s e n s e o f s at i s f a c t i o n f o r a l l s h e a c c o m p l i s h e d i n t ra c k and field.

“Right now, I am doing a lot of things and wearing a l o t o f h a t s. It ’s a c o m p l e t e l y d i f f e re n t b o o k ; I c a n ’ t e v e n s a y c h a p t e r,” s a i d L o o m i s, a g ra d u a t e o f St . Jo h n ’s U n i v e r s i t y . He r f u l l - t i m e j o b i s field marketing manager for

D a rc o Sp i r i t s, a n a l c o h o l b ra n d m a n agement company.

L o o m i s w o r k s t o w a rd g e t t i n g b a r s a n d re s t a u ra n t s t o c a r r y t h e l i q u o r a n d c re a t e s d i f f e re n t a c t i v a t i o n s (e v e n t s ) .

One to always stay busy, Loomis has done a bit of onc a m e ra a c t i n g a n d m o t i v a t i o n a l s p e a ki n g , a n d s h e’s s t i l l considering going to stunt school. She also started her own n o n -p ro f i t , t h e P r i s cilla E. F re d e r i c k Fo u n d a t i o n , t o b e supportive of singlep a re n t households and c o m m u n i t i e s, give scholarships a n d d o ra n d o m a c t s o f k i n d n e s s. “ B e i n g the positive change the world needs to s e e,” s a i d L o o m i s.

Olympic high jumper Priscilla Frederick Loomis is excited to explore new territory (Priscilla Frederick Loomis photo)

L o o mis’ effo r t toward qualifying fo r last year ’s O lymp ics was st ymie d when sh e co nt racte d COVI D -19. O n ce sh e was healt hy enough to resume training and comp eting, s he d id, bu t she could n o t me et t he qual ifying st an dard a nd Ant igua, t he c ou nt r y s he repres ente d, did n o t s el e ct her as it s desig nate d at hl ete. She made h er ret irement official. “ I did e ver ything I s et out to do,” s he said.

“I feel good and I’m very happy physically where I am.

I t ’s me being me and enjoy-

i n g l i f e ,” s a i d L o o m i s , w h o is eating a less strict diet and not pounding her body.

Loomis is still working out a n d l o o k s f o r w a r d t o e x p l o ring new sports, like surfing and boxing, in the coming months.

S h e a n d h u s b a n d Ke n L o o m i s, a h i s t o r y t e a c h e r a n d f o o t b a l l c o a c h, a re c o n tinuing their podcast, In Our P r i m e, w h e re t h e y i n t e r v i e w people about life journeys a n d l e s s o n s. “ We a re c u r re ntl y f i l m i n g s e a s o n t w o,” s h e s a i d . “ It ’s d e f i n i t e l y b e e n a challenge because he and I a re b o t h s o b u s y , b u t w e’ re h av i n g a g o o d t i m e.”

Loomis sees herself as h av i n g b e e n a n u n d e rd o g a n d a h u s t l e r, a n d s h e i s n o t s t o p p i n g . Sh e ha s n ’ t g i v e n u p w i g s, b u t t h e l av e n d e r o n e i s now a cherished memento of h e r a t h l e t i c l i f e. “ It ’s a c o n f i d e n c e b o o s t e r,” s h e s a i d .

“S e t t i n g y o u r s e l f a p a r t i s n ’ t t a b o o a n y m o re.”

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Wendy Hilliard Gymnastics Foundation celebrates 25th anniversary

By LOIS ELFMAN Special to the AmNews

O kafo r. “ I d idn ’ t ca re ab out t he end p o int.

I The mo o d wa s f e sti ve fel t whate ver is a n d t h e backfli p s w e re a h ead o f me, I’ ll p l ent if ul as th e We n dy b e prepare d fo r.

Hi l liard Gym na sti cs W hat Wen dy has Foundation ( W HG F ) don e is create a c el eb rate d its 2 5 th a npath fo r yout h to n i versar y w ith a n i n wal k, to march p ers on celeb rati o n for t h, to w o rk, ti t l e d “ Flipping Fo rfe el co n fident ward .” The e ve n i ng ’s a nd fin d t hem h onore e s, Je n é E lz i e s el ves.” a n d Em e ka O ka f o r, ha d Hilliard is a ve r y p e rs onal co n n e cfor mer rhyt hti ons to the f ou n da mic g ymnast ti on. a nd memb er o f E lzie, re cipient of the th e U SA GymSp i r it o f Sp or t Awa rd , nast ics Hall o f is ch ie f g row th o f f iFa me. Early in c er for Athle te s Fi rst h er coaching Pa r tners and a f o r m e r ca re er s he saw g y m na st. “ I’ m i n cre da lack o f g ymHonorees Jené Elzie and Emeka Okafor pose with Wendy Hilliard and the Wendy Hilliard ib ly passionate ab ou t Gymnastics Foundation gymnasts at the organization’s 25th anniversary celebration (Photo nast ic o p p o r tuyoung p e ople, you ng courtesy of Julieta Okot & Bin Lin) nities fo r urban g y m na sts, s o to m e th e you th, which w o rk that Wen dy ha s b e en O ka f o r, N C A A Cha mpion fou ndation’s rhyth mic g ym - inspire d h er to laun ch t he doing for the last 25 years has a n d f o r m e r N BA p layer, re- na stic s pro gra m, w h en sh e WH G F. To day, it s er ves girls b e e n tr u ly in cre d i ble,” s he ceive d the Champions Award. wa s a memb er of th e nation - a nd b oys ag es 3 to 17 at t he sa i d. “ It ’s really g reat wh e n He ha s b e e n a l o ng -t i m e su p- al tea m.

Ha rl em A r mor y. In addit io n the young g ymnasts can come p o r te r o f t he W H G F, having “ Th e l ong er I march e d my to g ymna stic s an d tumbling, a n d share thei r ta le nts w i t h sig n i f i ca nt ly a ssi ste d A l ex is path, th e strong er I g ot, th e th e you ng g ymnast s learn e ver yone.”

Pa ig e, n ow hea d c oa ch o f th e more c onfident I g ot,” sa id ab ou t time manag ement, re-

sp o n sibilit y, teamw o rk, leadership and good health. Quite a few o f t he par t icipant s have co mp ete d nat io nally an d internat io nally.

At hletes an d coaches w ere amo ng t he atten d e es, in cluding fen cer Peter Westbro o k, whos e foundation has traine d many young fen cers in t he New Yo rk area. O n e o f his fo r mer student s, 2012 O lympian Nzingha Pres co d , has n ow laun che d her ow n program, t he Pres co d In st itute for Spor t, Teamwork and Educat io n (PI STE) an d t he PI STE Fen cing Acad emy. “ It st ar te d as Fen cing in t he Park, which was a summer pro gram in B ro o k lyn , an d w e’ve sin ce grow n it to b e more programs,” said Prescod.

“We have s cho o l pro grams an d w e als o do co mmun it y e vent s.”

B efo re int ro ducing s o me o f t he g ymnast s, Hilliard ad dress e d t he aud ien ce. “W hat w e do here is really, really sp e cial,” s he said. “ It ’s n o t just ab out teaching g ym nast ics. … We want to s et a le gac y.”

Pioneering winter Olympian pens motivational adventure

By LOIS ELFMAN Special to the AmNews Si nc e making h i sto r y at th e 2 0 18 O lympic Wi nte r Ga me s a s t h e first A f r i ca n a n d f i rst Bla ck w oman to co mp e te in t h e sp or t o f ske le ton , Si m id ele Adeagb o’s li f e ha s had on e e xciti ng a d ve nture after another. She was chos en fo r t h e O bama Fou n dati o n L eaders : A fr ica P ro g ra m a n d sp e nt a s e m e ste r at Ya le Un ive rsit y as a Wo rld Fe llow .

Now she has au th o re d a ch i ld re n’s b o ok, “Sle ig h, Sle ig h, Sl eigh A ll Day ” w i th i llu strati ons by Pe tra Pa li skova. “ Th is is an e xte n si o n o f th e b roade r b o dy o f w o rk that I’ m able to do a n d th e b roa der mission that I feel I’m ser ving as an athle te, wh i ch i s ab ou t inspir ing th e n e xt g e n e ration ,” said Ad eagb o, who represents Niger ia in internati onal comp e ti ti o n . “ Fo r me, it ’s really imp o r ta nt to th i n k ab ou t w hat t y p e s o f le ss o n s I’ m pa ssing o n to th e n ext g e n eration.”

The book follows the stor y of Damilola, a young Nigerian girl, who sees snow out her window and wants to go sledding. She is scared, but after encouragement from her mother she gives it a tr y. Although she tumbles down the hill on her first tr y, she goes back up the hill and tries again.

Throug hout t he p ro c ess, Da m i l o la p ro p e l s he rs el f by re c i t i ng he r ow n ma nt ra that re m i n d s he r t hat he r d estiny is in her hands. That couragei n d uc i ng ma nt ra wa s bas e d o n Nig e r ia n Yo r uba cul tu re.

Ca l l e d a n “o r i ki ,” i t i s a for m o f p ra i s e p o e t r y t hat each f a m i ly us e s to te l l sto r ies of t he i r a n c e sto rs a n d i n spire f uture d e st i ny . “ The c e nt ra l cha ra c ter g ets i n t he ga m e,” sa i d Adeagb o. “She d o e s n o t st ay on th e si d e l i n e s e ve n t houg h sh e i s f ea r f ul , she’s un sure. Th e w ho l e m e ssag e o f t he b o ok is to t r y s o m e t hi ng n e w , overc o m e f ea rs a n d o b st a cl es, tr y n e w t hi ng s a n d g e t to you r e n d g oa l .

“ L o oking at it from a b road er diversit y and incl u sion pro c ess, it do es s end a messag e that th ere is no spa c e that a Bla ck girl , Bla ck cha racters can’t be in,” she added. “ Th e w inter w onderla nd is ju st as mu ch for Damil ola a s it is for a nyb o dy. That ver y mu ch mir rors my j ou rne y a s a n O lympia n.”

The book is available worldw ide. Adeagb o is cur rently on a b o ok tou r in th e U.S. Th is past s eas on, Adeagb o c om p ete d in th e monob ob, w h ich ma de its O lympic debu t in B eij ing. A l th ou gh sh e w on an internationa l ra c e, sh e did not q u al ify for th e Ga mes.

Undau nte d, h er w ork toward g ender e q u al it y at th e O lym pic s c ontinu es.

“A l s o, th inking h ol istical ly ab ou t th e ways in w h ich ath l etes from emerging nations ca n b e su pp or te d in a de ep er way,” sa id Adeagb o. “A s an ath l ete, I’m l o oking for ways in w h ich I ca n c ontinu e to grow a nd de vel op. We’l l s e e w hat ’s on th e h or izon.”

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MLB celebrates the 75th anniversary of Jackie Robinson’s debut

By VINCENT DAVIS Special to the AmNews Last Friday, Major League Baseball celebrated the great Jackie Robinson, the first Black player to play in the major leagues. The day commemorated the 75th anniversary of Robinson taking the field for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking the color barrier.

Before April 15th, 1947, it was white players only playing and coaching professional baseball. And although Robinson was a Dodger, he wasn’t initially accepted by every member of his team, and at times, suffered, as every Black man at that time did, through the degradation and inhumanity of segregation.

Members of the Players Alliance, a not-for-profit or-

Jackie Robinson and his son David at the 1963 March on Washington (Wikipedia photo)

ganization started by active and retired professional baseball players, donated their game day salaries in recognition of the Robinson anniversary.

Aaron Hicks (New York Yankees), Lorenzo Cain (Milwaukee Brewers), Jason Heyward (Chicago Cubs), Mike Moustakas (Cincinnati Reds), and David Price (Los Angeles Dodgers) are some of the players who provided monetary donations.

It will help the charity launch new programs across the country to benefit urban youth, and advance their opportunities in the sport.

“Players sacrifice their pay because they believe that diversity is an asset that should be actively pursued,” said Curtis Granderson, a former player with the New York Mets, now board chairman of the Alliance.

“Our supporters reflect every racial, religious and professional

level found in the sport, and they are committed to upholding Jackie’s legacy by breaking today’s barriers.”

MLB started the annual Jackie Robinson Day in 2004.

Every April 15, each player and coach on every team wears the number 42, Robinson’s number as a member of the Dodgers.

This year also commemorates the 25th anniversary of MLB’s retirement of the No. 42. No player shall wear it again.

Born on Jan. 31, 1919, in Cairo, Georgia, Robinson was raised in the Los Angeles area city of Pasadena. He first attended Pasadena Junior College then UCLA where he became a four-sport star in baseball, basketball, football and track and field. He was UCLA’s first athlete to letter in four varsity sports. Prior to signing with the Dodgers, Robinson played in the Negro Leagues with the Kansas City Monarchs. He was also a commissioned second lieutenant in the segregated United States Army.

As a major league player, Robinson won MLB’s inaugural Rookie of the Year Award in 1947, National League batting champion and MVP in 1949, World Series champion in

1955, six-time All-Star and the first Black player inducted into baseball’s Hall of Fame in 1962.

After retiring at the age of 37 in 1957, Robinson was very influential and contributed his time, money and other resources to the civil rights movement.

He was the first Black television analyst in baseball and the first Black vice president of a major American corporation, Chock full o’Nuts. Robinson was one of the founders of the Freedom National Bank, an African American-owned financial institution based in Harlem, New York.

Living in Stamford, Connecticut, Robinson died of a heart attack on Oct. 24, 1972, at the age of 53. He was posthumously awarded the Congressional Gold Medal and Presidential Medal of Freedom in recognition of his achievements on and off the field.

Correction: In a story published last week in the AmNews written by Vincent Davis on the Each One Teach One Winter Invitational, the correct name of the school at which the basketball event was held is The Urban Assembly School for Global Commerce.

As in decades past, today’s stars pave the path to an NBA title

By JAIME C. HARRIS AmNews Sports Editor In the NBA, stars rule. It is impossible to win a title without one and in most instances more than one. That is an immutable fact. The Boston Celtics’ and Los Angeles Lakers’ dynasties spanning multiple generations had numerous Hall of Famers. The Detroit Pistons went to three straight finals from the 1987 through 1989 seasons and won back-to-back championships with Isaiah Thomas, Joe Dumars and Dennis Rodman.

Micheal Jordan’s Bulls had three players—him, Scottie Pippen and Dennis Rodman voted among the 75 greatest players of all time, a group honored at this past February’s All-Star Game. The San Antonio Spurs’ five titles were led

by David Robinson, Tim Duncan, Kawhi Leonard, Tony Parker and

Manu Ginobili, all either inducted or future Hall of Fame inductees.

The Miami Heat boasted LeBron James, Dwayne Wade, Ray Allen and Chris Bosh. Last season, two-time NBA MVP Giannis Antetokounmpo, a transformational talent, substantially aided by three-time All-Star forward Khris Middleton and three-time NBA All-Defensive selection Jrue Holiday captured the crown.

We’ll see the same this season.

Whether it is the Phoenix Suns, a Bucks repeat, the Golden State Warriors, Brooklyn Nets or another eventual champion, they will be led by a Hall of Fame player or players to be. Certified franchise players such as Miami Heat forward Jimmy Butler, Philadelphia 76ers center Joel Embiid and the Memphis Grizzlies’ dynamic 22-year-old point guard Ja Morant have proven they pos-

sess the physical gifts to pull their teams deep into the playoffs.

As they further etch their status as superstars, other young lions are emerging, notably the New Orleans Pelicans’ 24-yearold forward Brandon Ingram, the Warriors’ electric 22-yearold guard Jordan Poole, and the Minnesota Timberwolves’ 6-foot-4, 225-pound, 20-yearold force of nature Anthony Edwards.

They reflect the NBA’s abundance of gifted players 25 and under, a list that includes the Dallas Mavericks’ Luka Doncic, the Boston Celtics’ tandem of Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown, the Atlanta Hawks’ Trae Young, and the 76ers’ Tyrese Maxey, whose teams are all participating in this year’s postseason, who will help maintain and grow the global appeal of the game well into the next decade.

Philadelphia 76ers center Joel Embiid, one of three finalists for this season’s NBA MVP award, is eyeing an even bigger prize as he pursues a league title (Bill Moore photo)

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Sports The Nets’ Kyrie Irving ups the stakes in his battle with Celtics fans

By VINCENT DAVIS Special to the AmNews

Harsh taunts loudly filled TD Garden, home of the Boston Celtics, during Game 1 of the Celtics’ first round playoff series versus the Brooklyn Nets on Sunday. Most of the expletives were directed at former Celtic and current Nets guard Kyrie Irving, who has been a regular target of Celtics fans.

Their dislike for Irving goes back to the way he departed the team in the summer of 2019 after professing his love for the city and the franchise. In October of 2018 during the preseason, Irving told Celtic fans, “If you guys will have me back, I plan on re-signing here next year,” but then inked a four-year, $141 million deal with the Nets as a free-agent in June of 2019.

“I hope we could move past

Nets guard Kyrie Irving reacted to Boston Celtics fans’ harsh taunting of him by flashing his middle finger at them in the Nets 115-114 loss on Sunday in Game 1 of their opening round Eastern Conference playoff matchup (Bill Moore photo)

my Boston era and reflect on some of the highlights I left at TD Garden that they can replay.

Move forward,” said Irving. But Celtics fans haven’t embraced that mindset. And they continued to let him know how they feel throughout Game 1. Irving responded by flashing his middle fingers at the crowd and rubbing his eyes to communicate he sees them as crybabies.

He did this in the process of torching arguably the NBA’s best defense led by guard Marcus Smart, who on Monday was named the NBA Defensive Player of the Year, for 39 points on 12-22 shooting, including going 6-10 on 3-pointers. Irving, who turned 30 in March, a seasoned ball player from the metropolitan area, expects to be heckled. “ The same energy they have for me, I’m gonna have the same energy for them,” he explained after a crushing 115114 result on a layup by Celtics

All-Star guard/for ward Jayson Tatum on a defensive breakdown by the Nets as time expired.

“It’s not every fan,” Irving noted.

“There’s only but so much you can take as a competitor.” This has been a common point of view among NBA players for the past several seasons. Many, including the Lakers’ Russell Westbrook—while a member of the Oklahoma City Thunder—and LeBron James have had intense verbal tangles with fans crossing the line of acceptable behavior.

“We’re the ones expected to be docile and be humble, take a humble approach,” continued Irving. “F--- that! It’s the playoffs.

This is what it is.” On Tuesday the league fined Irving $50,000 for his gestures as announced by Byron Spruell, the NBA’s president of league operations.

Officials and league security will be more aware of the fans’ verbal abuse of players as the series moves forward. Spectators could be subject to ejection from both TD Garden and the Barclays Center when the series moves to Brooklyn for Games 3 and 4 on Saturday and Monday. Game 3 was last night (Wednesday) in Boston.

Durant and Irving need offensive support for the Nets to get past the Celtics

By JAIME C. HARRIS AmNews Sports Editor Game 1 of the Nets’ opening round Eastern Conference playoff series on Sunday against the Boston Celtics on the road was the Kyrie Irving show, and not because the Nets guard unabashedly peppered the foulmouthed TD Garden crowd with a double middle finger retort, garnering widespread national attention.

The former Celtics guard also shaped the series narrative by giving the NBA’s regular season league leading defense the business, torching them for 39 points in a 115-114 Game 1 Nets’ loss. Irving shot 12-22 overall and 6-10 on 3-point attempts, disregarding his former teammate Marcus Smart’s lofty status as one of the game’s best stoppers.

Affirming his standing, Smart was named the NBA Defensive Player of the Year on Monday.

But the previous day, he and the rest of the Celtics, who held opponents to a league low 104.5 points per game this season, had no answers for Irving. However, they did limit the damage Kevin Durant, one of the best scorers in the history of basketball, and other Nets potentially could inflict.

Employing multiple defenders, the Celtics used physical and multi-level schematics to

stifle the league’s fourth leading scorer during the regular season (29.9) and 21st all-time (25, 526) and rapidly climbing.

Durant had just 23 points and was an uncharacteristic 9-24 after shooting 51.8% from the field this season and 49.8 for his career. “They did a good job of forcing me away then helping in the paint. I just got to be more fundamental in my moves,” he said afterwards.

The Celtics won’t hold down Durant. They are acutely aware he will put his offensive stamp on the series and Irving will be a persistent problem. So Celtics first-year head coach Ime Udoka, who has done a masterful job leading the team to a No. 2 seed in the East, and his staff, will seek to create a design that will minimize the contributions of the so-called others, the No. 7 seed Nets’ capable secondary players.

One member of that group, guard Seth Curry, was the

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team’s third leading scorer during the regular season at 14.9 points per game. The younger brother of Golden State Warriors star Stephen Curry, universally considered the greatest shooter ever, Seth is a historically efficient marksman in his own right.

01154 He is tied with injured Nets guard Joe Harris NE for the third highest 3-point field goalAM per04/07/ 0 7 centage in the NBA all-time at 43.9%, trail74470 22784 ing only Warriors head coach Steve Kerr (45.4) and North Carolina Tar Heels head coach Hubert Davis (44.1).

Yet versus the Celtics in Game 1, Curry generated just nine points and was 1-4 on threes. Reserve guard Goran Dragic and second-unit center Nic Claxton were un01164 expectedly the Nets’ third and fourth leadAM NE ing point producers in Game 1 with 14 04/14/ 0 7 and 13 respectively.

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