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THE NEW BLACK VIEW

‘WHOSE CHILD IS NEXT?’

CITY BEGS ‘PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE…’

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Suzette Lewin, mother of slain 12-year-old Kade Lewin (Shaun Walsh photo)

Mayor sweeps unhoused in 2-week blitz (See story on page 6)

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Al Sharpton’s NAN Convention 2022 resumes in-person

2022 Grammys brought Jon Batiste, Nas to the fore

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International International DEPORTED BLACK ASYLUM SEEKERS AT RISK IN CAMEROON (GIN)—As the U.S. prepares to welcome tens of thousands of Ukrainians fleeing war, scores of African and Caribbean refugees are being sent back to unstable and violent homelands where they face rape, torture, arbitrary arrest and other abuses. Racial bias? An African refugee thinks so. “They do not care about a Black man,” said Wilfred Tebah, a leading member of the Cameroon American Council, recounting his effort to find asylum in the U.S. “There are a lot of Cameroonians in the U.S. and some are still in detention or stuck at the border,” said Tebah. “If I am deported, I will be held in prison, tortured and even killed…I’m very scared. As a human, my life matters too.” Tebah now lives in Columbus, Ohio. He escaped from Cameroon where English-speakers are targets of persecution by the French-speaking government in what has been called “the Anglophone crisis.” Many have been killed and over a million displaced during what has become a war of secession by the English-speakers. The advocacy group Human Rights Watch (HRW) in a February report listed the dangers Cameroonians face if unable to be cleared to enter the U.S. The list includes arbitrary arrest and detention, torture, rape, extortion, confiscation of their national IDs, and abuses against their relatives. “Many also reported medical neglect and other mistreatment while in custody in the U.S.,” wrote HRW in their 149 page report titled “Deported to Harm in Cameroon.” Lauren Seibert, refugee researcher at HRW, faulted the U.S. government for sending back Cameroonians with credible asylum claims, as well as mistreating already traumatized people before and during deportation. A month ago, President Joe Biden said the U.S. would welcome 100,000 Ukrainian refugees, granting Temporary Protected

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Status (TPS) to another 30,000 already in the U.S. But while Ukrainians fleeing the war are met with emotional displays of solidarity, asylum seekers of color are left to wait in Mexico, in detention centers or back at home. Dept. of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said the agency is reviewing TPS for Cameroonians and other African nationals. TPS provides a work permit for six to 18 months. Lisa Parisio, who helped launch Catholics Against Racism in Immigration, argues the TPS program could easily help protect millions more refugees fleeing danger but has historically been underused and over-politicized. Bias against people of color can also be seen in western news reports posted to Twitter. “This isn’t Iraq or Afghanistan,” wrote CBS foreign correspondent Charlie D’Agata. “This is a relatively civilized, relatively European city.” Ukraine’s deputy chief prosecutor, David Sakvarelidze, said: “It’s very emotional for me because I see European people with blue eyes and blonde hair being killed.” Meanwhile, Korrine Sky, 26, from Zimbabwe, a student of medicine in the eastern city of Dnipro when Russia invaded Ukraine, has been raising money to help Africans in need through Black Women for Black Lives and gofundme.

KENYAN PRESIDENT REBUFFED IN BID TO REWRITE NATION’S LAWS (GIN)—While political leaders around the world jockey for comebacks, to extend their terms in office or merely to ignore a no-confidence vote, Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta was scheming to make sweeping changes to the constitution which, critics say, would have expanded his powers and created a ‘super presidency.’ But the nation’s highest court dashed his efforts, saying the president acted unlawfully when spearheading changes known as the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI). They said it should have been led by citizens—not a sitting head of state. Another element the Supreme Court deemed unconstitutional was the plan to create an extra 70 MP seats in parliament, which critics had viewed as a self-serving attempt to reward loyal politicians. The defeat comes ahead of crucial presidential elections in August where Raila Odinga, a Kenyatta ally, and William Ruto will compete. While this was a court victory for Ruto, “the real winners are ordinary Kenyans who fought from the lower courts to the Supreme Court to defend the constitution from being amended by elites without public participation,” writes Emmanuel Igunza of the BBC Nairobi. Kenyatta claimed his initiative would make politics more inclusive and help end repeated cycles of election violence. Ruto, by contrast, saw the future as a contest

between “hustlers” and “dynasties” in a “hustler nation.” Hustlers, explained Igunza, refer especially to young people who struggle to make ends meet in an economy that no longer works for them. Dynasties, on the other hand, are wealthy families seen to have dominated politics—and the economy— since independence from the U.K. in the 1960s. All the candidates and outgoing President Kenyatta are in the dynasty category. According to Forbes magazine, Kenyatta is the nation’s richest person and the 26th wealthiest in Africa in 2011 with assets of half a billion dollars. Odinga, popularly known as the father of modern democracy and Prime Minister or Baba, has a net worth of U.S. $250 million while Ruto has assets of U.S. $26 million including hotels, homes and five choppers. Ruto claims to be an outsider in solidarity with Kenya’s working class despite his current role in government, his decades as a parliamentarian and cabinet minister, and his substantial fortune. He speaks of how he went to school barefoot, got his first pair of shoes at the age of 15, and once sold chickens by a roadside. All this makes living in Kenya like an alternate reality, says Kenyan broadcast journalist Larry Madowo. In the space of one week, a rule-oflaw government has defied nearly a dozen court orders in an alarming descent toward authoritarianism, he says. Kenyatta has called the chief justice and his judges “crooks” while David Murathe, the vice chair of the president’s party, openly advocated for a dictatorship on national TV. “What this country needs now is a benevolent dictator,” Murathe told KTN News. “People have been too soft so things have gone rogue. You find places like Rwanda are very stable, Uganda is very stable,” Murathe said, citing two East African nations with notoriously limited space for dissent. Madowo warns: “What was once just despotism-lite will turn into a full-blown dictatorship if this government continues on the downward spiral that the progressive 2010 constitution was supposed to guard against.”

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Pols, family of Delrawn Small rally against police union efforts to block case By ARIAMA C. LONG Amsterdam News Staff, Report for America Corps Member

The family of Delrawn Small, a 37-yearold Black man shot by NYPD in 2016, rallied last Thursday with Public Advocate Jumaane Williams among other supporters. They learned that police union attorneys representing Officer Wayne Isaacs, who shot and killed Small, made a formal request to block the case. “The family of Delrawn Small have now waited through two mayors and four commissioners for some semblance of justice,” said Williams in a statement. “Officer Wayne Isaacs has continued to evade consequence, and now, the PBA is attempting to again prevent accountability in this case by denying the CCRB its opportunity and obligation to investigate misconduct. I urge the administration to reject this effort and help Delrawn Small (Facebook photo) Delrawn’s family find a sense of peace, years after their tragic loss.” Small was shot by Isaacs on July 4, 2016, in vocate, said the Civilian Complaint Review Board East New York, during a road-rage fueled inter- (CCRB) notified them last Monday of the police action with Isaacs. Isaacs had finished his shift union’s attempts to prevent them from moving forat the 79th Precinct and was off-duty at the time ward with discipline proceedings against Isaacs. of the shooting. Small was seen on video apDavis feels that her advocacy has gone beyond proaching Isaacs’ car, then being shot in the just standing for her brother, but it’s still different head and chest in front of his 4-month-old when it comes to her brother. She considers it a baby, teen stepdaughter and girlfriend. labor of love. “Almost feeling like there’s a duty to Isaacs provided no aid to Small, who died at the service the community. These are things Delrawn scene, and did not tell 911 that he had discharged would’ve done if he was here,” said Davis about his weapon or that he had shot someone who the last five years. She absolutely wants to continneeded immediate medical assistance, said Com- ue to pursue transparency and accountability on munities United for Police Reform (CPR). her brother’s behalf. See DELRAWN on page 23 Victoria Davis, Small’s younger sister and ad-

Tax season comes with a free prep service provided by the city By ASAR JOHN Special to the AmNews

With less than a month until Tax Day—April 18— the city is reminding New Yorkers that they can prepare their taxes for free granted their eligibility. Just recently, the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection held a press conference reminding New Yorkers of the Free Tax Prep service. The conference was held in participation with several organizations that are assisting with the service, such as the Food Bank for NYC. Free Tax Prep allows eligible New Yorkers to retain their full refund, alongside tax credits such as Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC). Those who are eligible include families with dependents who made $72,000 or under and individuals who earned $50,000 or under in 2021. “NYC Free Tax Prep offers trusted, professional service to help New Yorkers keep their full refund, keep their full refund, and claim valuable tax credits,” said the press secretary for DCWP, Carmel Agnant, in an email interview. “Refundable tax credits have been shown to reduce poverty and help families meet basic needs such as food, rent, and childcare.” New Yorkers seeking this tax assistance can find

their nearest site out of 120 located across all five boroughs. Virtual, self-help and drop-off services are available as well. This year, provisions have been introduced to NYC Free Tax Prep. According to DCWP, the changes brought in 2022 will allow money for more people when they file taxes this year. “The Child Tax Credit, Child and Dependent Care Credit, and Earned Income Tax Credit have all been expanded,” said Agnant. “Many people will now be eligible for the first time or for more money.” For example, those who file EITCs and are ages 19-24 and 65 without children can claim up to $1,502. Filers can also use incomes from 2019 or 2021 to determine which one will qualify them for a larger credit. The city also hosted outreach events and canvassed areas that are the most in need of this free service. According to DCWP, as of March 21, 97 of these efforts were completed. Agnant provided a table outlined with target areas of the city that have been a large focus of outreach campaigns. Some of these areas include several zip codes in Brooklyn and The Bronx. “The Mobile Outreach Units are providing free tax See TAXES on page 29

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MetroBriefs Metro Briefs MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM LAUNCHES FIRST-EVER MOBILE PROSTATE CANCER SCREENING UNIT Last Friday the Milton and Carroll Petrie Department of Urology at Mount Sinai hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony in Wagner Houses’ Community Plaza Ground to celebrate the launch of the Mount Sinai Robert F. Smith Mobile Prostate Cancer Screening Unit. The community-based wellness initiative, launched in partnership with the Mount Sinai Health System, was created to support prostate health in the Black community. Philanthropist Robert F. Smith, philanthropist and entertainer Steve Harvey, Cedric the Entertainer, comedian Chris Tucker, and Dr. Ash Tewari were in attendance. Made possible by a donation from Smith, founder, chairman, and CEO of Vista Equity Partners, the mobile unit brings state-of-the-art imaging equipment and specialized staff directly to the communities that need them most, offering screenings and tests. The initiative is led by Dr. Tewari, system chair, Department of Urology of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, who is a world-renowned urologist and prostate cancer surgeon. As director of the Center of Excellence for Prostate Cancer, he leads a multidisciplinary team committed to improving prostate cancer treatment, research, and education. The department sees over 100,000 patients annually and is at the forefront of urological care. (See page 8 for photos) SEN. JAMES SANDERS JR. INTRODUCES THE CANNABIS COMMUNITY REINVESTMENT ACT State Sen. James Sanders Jr. joined by representatives of the National Cannabis Party announced plans to introduce the Cannabis Community Reinvestment Act at a press conference. They also launched a grassroots campaign to build support for the legislation. Sanders said, “The War on Drugs unleashed severe damage and ruined many lives— particularly in communities of color. My bill will ensure that companies that profit the most from the legalization of cannabis will contribute part of their profits back into the communities most harmed by the War on Drugs.” The bill would require multi-state cannabis operators in the cannabis industry to create a plan to reinvest in communities disproportionately impacted by cannabis prohibition. ADAMS TO DISTRIBUTE 6.3 MILLION AT-HOME COVID-19 TESTS Mayor Adams and city health leaders today called on all members of Congress to appropriate more than $15 billion in emergency funding for COVID-19. While New York City will continue providing testing and vaccine services to New Yorkers at no cost through NYC Health + Hospitals, gridlock in Washington, D.C. has threatened the health of communities across New York and the rest of the nation. Earlier this week, Mayor Adams met with the New York City congressional delegation and urged them to push for immediate passage of the COVID-19 aid package. As the city and the nation wait for action from certain members of Congress to protect Americans’ health, New York is taking action to bolster preparedness efforts. Specifically, the NYC Test & Trace Corps will provide an additional 6.3 million free at-home tests in April to more than 2,500 community organizations, libraries, cultural institutions, houses of worship, and elected offices across the city. Test & Trace has distributed nearly 11 million at-home tests to date, with approximately 7 million tests delivered to New York City schools. Test & Trace currently maintains a stockpile of tens of millions of tests that can be rapidly distributed in the event of a surge. Any New York City-based community organization that would like to participate as an at-home test distribution partner is encouraged to sign up online by going to www.nychealthandhospitals.org. HOCHUL ANNOUNCES THE 2022 REGIONAL MWBE ONLINE OPPORTUNITIES EXPO SERIES Gov. Kathy Hochul announced that New York State will host five events as part of the 2022 Regional Minority- and Women-owned Business Enterprises (MWBEs) Online Opportunities Expo Series. The expos, which will connect MWBEs with New York agencies, expert resources, information on state projects, and tools to access state contracting opportunities, will run from April to June. The 2022 New York State Regional MWBE Online Opportunities Expo Series, sponsored by Empire State Development’s Division of Minority and Women’s Business Development, will feature panel discussions, information on regional projects, workshops on special topics and other business development resources. The expos will also include information about state-sponsored financial and technical assistance programs, including the New York State COVID-19 Pandemic Small Business Recovery Grant Program, the Bridge to Success Loan Program, and the New York State Surety Bond Assistance Program. For more information and to register, visit esd.ny.gov/2022-nysmwbe-expo-series. —Compiled by Cyril Josh Barker

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Longtime WNYC Host Jami Floyd quits, filing suit against ‘racist’ practices By ARIAMA C. LONG Amsterdam News Staff, Report for America Corps Member

violations of policies at the organization seriously. “We are reviewing Ms. Decorated Black journalFloyd’s statements today ist and attorney Jami Floyd, 57, and will fully investigate previously hosted New York them as appropriate,” Public Radio’s (NYPR) WNYC said Roussel in an email. “All Things Considered” show “We are committed to and was director of the station’s providing an inclusive Longtime WNYC Host Jami Floyd Race and Justice Unit. This Tuesand equitable workholds a press conference on day, in front of the Daniel Patrick place for our employees. resignation in front of the federal Moynihan Federal Courthouse Making New York Public courthouse on Tuesday, April 5. in Manhattan, Floyd announced radio a more welcoming (Ariama C. Long photo) that she abruptly quit due to alwork environment for leged race, age, defamation, and gender discrim- people of all backgrounds is important to us and ination in the workplace. our work. We have invested towards this goal over “Let me be clear, we are not talking about imag- the last few years and are committed to continined slights. We are talking about specific alleged ue to do so.” offensive and hostile acts that resulted, and result Roussel said that Floyd was shown four arin, an adverse environment that Black and Brown ticles found in fall of 2021 and seven exampeople are expected to simply brush off,” said ples of unattributed words and phrases before Floyd at the presser. her resignation. Roussel said that the full findA native Manhattanite, Floyd grew up a few ings of the investigation were intended to be blocks away from the courthouse and loved to presented this week, and that Floyd had “adlisten to public radio, she said. She had worked at mitted” to NYPR that the examples were unacNPR since 2015 and freelanced there since 2010. ceptable by editorial policies. However, on Monday, the New York Post reportFloyd said that she had not seen any of these ed that WNYC accused Floyd of 45 instances of articles and hadn’t had the opportunity to review plagiarism in online articles she had contributed. them when asked at the press conference. In response to the Amsterdam News’ inquiry, “For years, Black and Brown people in generNYPR’s Vice President of Communications Jenni- al, and Black women specifically have had their fer Houlihan Roussel said that NYPR takes any al- careers derailed at New York Public Radio,” said legation of discrimination, harrassment and other See FLOYD on page 23

988 Suicide Prevention Hotline expected to launch amid state concerns By M’NIYAH LYNN Special to the AmNews The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline has helped to connect individuals in crisis and in need of mental health services to trained crisis professionals to receive much-needed, lifechanging help. To make it easier for callers in crisis to reach an operator at a local crisis center, the Lifeline number, 1-800-273-8255 (1- 800-273-TALK), will transition to a 3-digit 988 number starting July 16, 2022. In addition to the new number, which is expected to enhance access for people in crisis, the Lifeline is hoping to have the ability to dispatch mobile crisis teams or specially trained responders rather than having to rely on law enforcement intervention. This also relieves emergency rooms, the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) said in a report. “Law enforcement isn’t always appropriate. We’re preventing individuals from going to jail, which may not be the appropriate setting for them to receive the care they need,” Director of National and State Policy at Vibrant Emotional Health Laura Evans said. The transition has sparked concerns about staffing. People are anticipating that the call

volume will increase because of the shorter number, which can lead to centers being overwhelmed. Another concern is a lack of funding to address centers that may be short-staffed. Evans said that mental health services have been historically underfunded and undervalued. If a center doesn’t have enough staff, this may lead to calls being unanswered. Evans mentioned that call volume surges are not uncommon. For instance, calls increased following the Logic song, “1-800-273-8255.” She said local centers are being prepared to handle the volume. The local centers typically receive funding through state, local, private and federal funding. SAMHSA increased federal resources for both network operations and local crisis call center capacity, SAMHSA said. “We have to focus on what we can do better to save individuals who are in crisis, not just because it’s the right thing to do, but because it’ll serve well in other areas when people have strong mental wellness,” Evans said. When someone calls the Lifeline, they are directed to a trained crisis worker working at a crisis center close to the area their phone number is registered in. The center has about 30 See SUICIDE on page 23

NewJerseyNews Newark wins national environmental award for improvements in water system as Baraka testifies in Washington By CYRIL JOSH BARKER Amsterdam News Staff The city of Newark and its engineering partner CDM Smith won the Water Data Prize for its Lead Line Replacement Program. The Environmental Policy Innovation Center (EPIC) awarded the prize based on Newark’s performance in “demonstrating how lead pipes across America can be replaced quickly and equitably to ensure access to safe, clean drinking water.” “We are proud to have received this national-level recognition for our efforts to eradicate lead in our city and create a safer, healthier, and stronger Newark for our residents,” said Mayor Baraka. “This victory belongs to every member of Newark’s community who collectively achieved it. It is our hope that other cities across the country will follow our model program to provide their residents with clean, safe, and reliable drinking water.” The award is given by EPIC, a non-profit aimed at helping build policies that deliver “spectacular improvements in the speed and scale of conservation and environmental progress.” The city recently completed the nation’s most ambitious and efficient lead line replacement program, pulling more than 23,000 lead service lines in less than three years. The city’s herculean task is lauded by national environmental groups as the “model city” for eliminating dangerous lead lines from its de-

livery system, and Vice President Kamala Harris echoed that sentiment in a visit to Newark several weeks ago. “Any awards or recognition we get for our lead line replacement must be shared with our residents,” said Water and Sewer Utilities Director Kareem Adeem. The Newark team and CDM Smith were the overall winners and will receive a $50,000 prize, which will be invested in other water projects. On Tuesday, 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. The mayor also 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. In addition, Adeem testified last week before the congressional subcommittee on Environment and Climate on this matter, addressing the importance of Council ordinances that enabled the city to replace lead lines without property owners’ consent, the hiring of female- and minority-owned businesses on the projects, and how the project provided apprenticeship training for residents entering the workforce.

NJDOE and Rowan University launch program to diversify teacher workforce By CYRIL JOSH BARKER Amsterdam News Staff The New Jersey Department of Education (NJDOE) today announced the launch of a partnership with Rowan University designed to increase and retain diversity in the K-12 education workforce, specifically men from disadvantaged or minority backgrounds. The new program, “Men of Color Hope Achievers,” will focus on recruiting, preparing, and placing men of color to become teachers in New Jersey. Legislation signed by Gov. Phil

Murphy directed the NJDOE to create a two-year pilot program to increase the access of disadvantaged or minority men to teaching opportunities and to provide needed high-quality teachers in underperforming schools in New Jersey, and the governor’s Fiscal Year 2022 budget provided $550,000 needed to implement the first year of the program. “The partnership between the NJDOE and Rowan University is an important initiative that will impact student learning,” said Dr. Angelica Allen-McMillan, acting See LAUNCH on page 29

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A socialist, activist and rideshare driver is also a candidate for State Senate a wife who has sickle-cell disease, which is where I started as an activist to fight on her behalf, I am the father of two little Afro-Latina girls, my family is from Haiti and I wanted to truly become a provider—to provide for my family,” said the 33-year-old candidate and resident of Flatbush. Alexis said a fresh set of eyes is needed for District 21, as he believes Senator Parker has not delivered “a vision of the future of leadership.” Alexis claimed he would not take any donations from large corporations, contrary to the incumbent opponent. Part of the sentiments driven by his campaign include the action to “return the 21st District’s State Senate seat to the people of Flatbush,” as stated on his campaign website. “Myself, my family, my neighbors, don’t have any say on the fact that housing prices have continued to increase,” said Alexis. “This is a community that has been divested of over New Yorker generations. Millennials aren’t able By ASAR JOHN to have the same pathway to develop themSpecial to the AmNews selves—to buy homes and to find the types of jobs that the older generations have.” Elections this year include the race for the While canvassing the community on the New York State Senate with primaries under campaign trail, Alexis noticed that afford90 days away. In Brooklyn’s District 21, in- able housing was the chief issue among cumbent candidate Kevin Parker is facing a the residents he spoke to. This is something new Democrat challenger: David Alexis. Alexis said he empathizes with, faced with “First and foremost, I’m a husband to his own housing insecurities in the past. Democrat candidate for NY State Senate District 21, David Alexis with his family.

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“When we [Alexis and his wife] got married in 2014 and applied for an apartment within what we could afford, that same apartment complex, we didn’t hear back until 2021,” said Alexis, who since has fathered two girls, a 5-year-old and the youngest, four. “It was just my wife and I at the time, when we applied for a one-bedroom apartment. Now we have two little ones—seven years later, that wouldn’t be enough.” Alexis’ goals for housing include passing tenant protections such as the Good Cause Eviction law, amending the state’s 421A law to curb luxury housing developments, and enforcing landlord accountability. “My goal is to make housing a human right,” he said. “People should be allowed to stay safe and secure in their homes and not be priced out.” Alexis also has a history of activism working with the New York City DSA, and from experiencing the hardship of working for rideshare services. “I was immediately exposed to a gig economy that squeezed me for every drop that I was worth,” said Alexis, who first started driving for Uber and Lyft in 2016 to support his growing family. After several local protests in cohesion with other local rideshare drivers, a utilization rate was enacted in 2018 for NYC rideshare drivers. Despite these gains, Alexis said this still was not enough for him and his fellow drivers. As a result, they pivoted from protest to producing their own rideshare app.

“In taking on Uber, Lyft, and all these other companies, we launched what is now the largest worker cooperative in the country with 6,000 members to date,” said Alexis, referencing Drivers Cooperative, founded in May 2020. The candidate’s relationship with DSA is a personal one, where he was able to benefit from the resources they provide with childcare. “Within DSA, there is a focus point on the structural components of the system,” said Alexis. “It is so important to be ruthless against these institutions because they continue to perpetuate the poverty that exists in this city, state and across the country.” Alexis made the point that he is proud to consider himself a socialist, despite the term’s occasional negative association. “If we’re talking about whether we can make health care a human right, if we can keep people safe and secure in their homes and how that’s related to these policies that are called socialist, and if fighting for these things is what it means to be a socialist, then call me a socialist.” Alexis shared his vision of a District 21 led by himself saying, “This would be a very active community that is regularly coming to meetings and town halls, where the latest decisions being made is a regular topic of discussion at bodegas, restaurants and bars and an office being a hotspot for community members,” said Alexis, who hopes for a general increase in community engagement and connection.

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CITY BEGS ‘PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE…’

‘WHOSE CHILD IS NEXT?’ By NAYABA ARINDE Amsterdam News Editor

of Kade Lewin, as he sat eating in a Saying that she is glad that Jenna is car with his aunt Jenna Ellis, and his in recovery and “made it, but I am 8-year-old niece, Kylie Thompson. devastated that my nephew didn’t “Whose child is next?” asked an exGrieving sisters Suzette Lewin and make it,” Ellis said of her 20-year-old asperated Mayor Eric Adams at Mon- Jennifer Ellis graciously granted an ex- daughter: “She’s coming on, but she day’s press conference for Kade Lewin. clusive interview with the Amsterdam is traumatized. She is blaming her“The overwhelming number of the News in their East Flatbush home. self, and I’m trying to tell her not to victims are Black and brown. We can replace the name of Kade with so many other names. Promising young people snatched away from us.” Back-to-back murders on these NYC streets are fraying the nerves of residents. The city which never sleeps is looking like a bad episode of a weekly crime drama. No sooner is one press conference over with a victim’s family asking for justice, than another one is arranged by other families, activists, the mayor’s office, and the police department. The traditional media refrain of ‘If it bleeds, it leads,’ is wearing thin. Just hours after the April 4th, Monday morning Flatbush press conference held by the family of murdered gunshot victim 12-yearold Kade Lewin, “mindless shootings” took the life of Juana Esperanza Suzette Lewin & Jennifer Ellis (Nayaba Arinde Photo) Soriano De-Perdomo, a 61-year-old innocent bystander on the Grand “I could have lost three people in blame herself, because you was just Concourse in the Bronx. Then in the my family right there in the blitz of trying to be a good citizen like you same afternoon there was a stab- a minute. I heard it on the news so always was, and going around taking bing death of Qi Ruiin Weng, 58, in many times, but I didn’t know trage- care of her cousin. It is just so sad. Six Queens. On Tuesday night, there dy was going to be at my doorstep,” bullet wounds. were four more non-fatal shootings said Jennifer Ellis, mother of Jenna “Three of the bullets went through, in the city. Ellis, who is currently in the hospital two were removed, and one is still New York City was shook last week recovering from multiple gunshots in her face so it’s going to be a while. after the Brooklyn shooting death sustained in the March 31 shooting. She’s still in pain. It will be removed

at a later date because she had two major surgeries already so they can’t do too many surgeries back to back. I still need people to still be praying, and the community to reach out.” “Who is next hah? Somebody is going to be next. But we don’t want it to be another Kade, we don’t want it to be another Jenna. It needs to be stopped,” Kade’s mom, Suzette Lewin, said. “We need them to come forward. I am numb. It’s not easy not sleeping, four nights since it happened. “I want justice for Kade. If you see something, say something, because it is going to happen again, and we don’t know if it is going to be their family.” “They don’t want their family to be next,” added Ellis. “And to the shooter, I know all these news reports, I know you know yourselves. If I don’t get justice in this world, trust me, you’re going to get it in the next because this is a praying mother, and your end is going to be worse than your beginning. You might as well come forth and give yourself in.” On Thursday night, March 31, on East 56th Street and Linden Boulevard in East Flatbush as cousins Kade and Kylie sat with aunt Jenna, eating in their car, police say another car circled the block three times, and then let off bullets that hit Kade in the head, and Jenna six times. Kylie was uninjured. A black Infiniti sedan and another car sped away from the scene after the gunfire. Police said it was probably a case of mistaken identity. No ar-

rests had been made by press time. Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell said at the Monday morning press conference, “Your NYPD is doing what it can, and knows how to do well: to deter, and prevent, and apprehend those who are responsible, but we need your help. Kade’s mother needs your help. Jenna’s mother needs your help.” Holding Kade’s white sneakers in the air, Adams told the assembled press that they could quite easily belong to Jordan, his son. “Whose child is next?” A seemingly exasperated mayor demanded to know. “When you understand the realness of this, you understand the urgency, and so when I move with the urgency and people are telling me to slow down, what the hell is wrong with you? “Whose child is next?…Too many guns on our streets. Too many people who are willing to use those guns to harm innocent people. “It’s a painful moment,” he said, speaking on Jenna and her graduation picture “going to college, two jobs.” She had been looking after her young relatives in her car bought by her Mom, “Now she sits in a hospital bed blaming herself” when in fact it was the willful violence of someone else. The entire country should listen to the narrative of this family. Immigrants coming here to this country looking for a better way of life, See CHILD on page 25

Mayor sweeps unhoused in 2-week blitz By ARIAMA C. LONG Amsterdam News Staff, Report for America Corps Member Mayor Eric Adams enacted sweeps of homeless encampments in a twoweek initiative to clean up the streets and move more homeless New Yorkers into congregate-style Safe Haven beds. A move that has angered advocates for the homeless, who are calling for permanent housing as a solution—not just shuffling people around into shelters. “We’re not throwing people off the street. Let’s be clear here,” said Adams in a presser last Wednesday. “You have a right to sleep on the street. You don’t have the right to build a miniature house. That’s the difference. And so those who are reluctant, that we’re going to continue to talk with, we’re going to do so to build that trust. Because this is about building trust.”

There are an estimated (likely underreported) 47,000 people living in the shelter system across the city in 2022, according to numbers from the Department of Homeless Services (DHS), but that doesn’t include transient people living in the street or on the subways. The latter usually ends up building homeless encampments, or the shelters people hand make for themselves out of various found materials. Sweeps of these encampments are a coordinated effort between the sanitation, social services, parks, and police departments to clean up public spaces in accordance with the Sanitation Code, said the Mayor’s Office. The first notices were put up Thursday, March 17, and the first encampment visits were Friday, March 18. The first phase had initial visits to encampments and reinspections

Staten Island, said the Mayor’s Office. All together, 239 sites were cleaned up. On Meeker Avenue in Brooklyn, city teams cleaned 10 separate locations and recovered 537 used needles in four of them. Herbert “Chino” Ernesto Alvarrez, 53, is originally from El Salvador and has been homeless for two years, he said. He set up his hand-built ‘shelter’ on the far end of a skate park behind a dugout and fencing in Tompkins Square Park in lower Manhattan. The area has historically been known to have held many encampments of outcasts, immigrants, drug users, and homeless people since the 1980s, and played a pivotal role in the 1988 riot Herbert “Chino” Ernesto Alvarrez, 53, from El Salvador, has been homeless where police tried to clear the park for two years. He’s in Tompkins Square Park. (Ariama C. Long photo) with force. across the city. The second phase teams had visited just short of 300 “Nobody in their right mind involved recanvassing and sched- sites with homeless encampments: would choose this, well I can’t speak uling of the next round of site visits. 149 in Manhattan, 53 in Brooklyn, 27 for everybody but for me it’s partly By Wednesday, March 30, the city in Queens, 22 in the Bronx, and 7 in See UNHOUSED on page 32

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ANTHONY “Well, there’s a saying when the devil ignores you, then you know you’re doing something wrong.” These were reportedly the words of Denzel Washington when he spoke to an audience at Bishop T.D. Jakes’ International Leadership Summit in Charlotte, North Carolina on April 2. Washington was referring to Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at the 94th Academy Awards ceremony on March 27. Following the incident, Washington told the crowd that he and Tyler Perry walked over toWill and prayed with the disgraced actor. Washington wouldn’t reveal what they said, but he felt the only solution was prayer. Said the twotime Oscar winner, “For the grace of God, who are we to condemn?”

Robert F. Smith, Dr. Ash Tewari and Chris Tucker in front of the mobile prostate cancer screening unit

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The pre-Grammys parties were rocking out in Las Vegas. On April 1, Black Women in Media hosted a preGrammys celebration honoring Black women in entertainment and music. The celebration was presented by TV One and hosted by Selena Hill, deputy digital editor at Black Enterprise. Held at a historic venue, guests included Tiffany Haddish, Omarion, Lori Harvey and more, and also boasted an awards ceremony with live entertainment. Tongues are wagging that on April 2, Saweetie, Chloe Bailey and Summer Walker slayed on the red carpet at the Recording Academy Honors, which were presented by The Black Music Collective. John Legend was presented with a Global Impact Award. The Oscar-winning songwriter/crooner was dapper as always in a black and white suit. Other celebs in the house included MC Lyte, Jimmy Jam, D-Nice and popular country singer Jimmy Allen, who attended with his wife, Alexis Gale Allen, who is a nurse. Following her break-up with Common back in November, Tiffany Haddish is rumored to be dating another rapper. Stallionaire Pooch was the “Girls Trip” star’s date on March 27 when she was a presenter at the Oscars. A few days later, Haddish and Pooch were spotted leaving Hollywood hotspot Craig’s together on March 31. Meanwhile, Haddish is supporting Will Smith. She told a reporter, “When I saw a Black man stand up for his wife, that meant so much to me.”

Mount Sinai Health System’s new mobile prostate cancer screening unit

Robert F. Smith (center) joins Steve Harvey, Chris Tucker and Cedric the Entertainer and members of Mount Sinai Health System to cut the ribbon of the mobile prostate cancer screening unit

Dr. Ash Tewari, chair of Urology at the Mount Sinai Health System, giving remarks at the ribbon cutting event

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By ARIAMA C. LONG Amsterdam News Staff, Report for America Corps Member The National Action Network’s (NAN) three-day annual national convention kicked off at the Sheraton Times Square in midtown Manhattan this Wednesday, April 6. The event will feature appearances from President and founder the Rev. Al Sharpton, Mayor Eric Adams, civil rights activists, elected officials, honored speakers, and a myriad of cultural leaders. “This is the first time we’ve had a national gathering since the pandemic, and we thank God that we made it through,”said Sharpton in opening remarks. Sharpton founded the NAN organization in New York City in 1991 as an homage to Dr. Martin Luther King’s civil rights work. There are now more than 110 active chapters across the country. NAN works to promote a modern civil rights agenda and equality for all backgrounds, and is widely recognized as the “go-to organization for families facing tragedy like police brutality, gang violence, gun violence, and loss of homes or businesses due to predatory lending.” “We have a double problem, Black community: we have to run from the cops and the robbers,” said Sharpton. The convention is now in its 31st year of operation. Mainstays of Black culture and leadership, such as NAACP President of the NYS Conference Hazel Dukes and civil rights powerhouse Jesse Jackson, as well as the families of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Eric Garner, and others, were in attendance. “It didn’t matter what the issue was,” said Adams. “It’s the consistency that I enjoy about NAN.” Adams said that NAN has proven leaders and thanked Sharpton for all he and his organiza-

tion have done for the Black and Brown community. “Let me tell you brother, I’m mayor because you carried me,” said Adams. The first day of events centered around important conversations on elections reforms, voter suppression, voting rights, police reform, public safety, and public pension plans. “We need change, substance. We don’t need performance activism,” said Sharpton. “We fight for people that need to be fought (Ariama Long photos) for.” Sharpton said that NAN has become an institution that backs victims because they don’t inherently have that support. NAN still holds weekly Saturday rallies in Harlem on 145th Street and Malcolm X Boulevard, and broadcasts at NAN’s House of Justice, said the website. They also hold a free Legal Night clinic once a month at the same location. The day was capped in a ballroom gala that honored award-winning gospel artist Yolanda Adams, Pittsburgh Steelers defensive coach Brian Flores, NAN Group Vice President Camille Joseph-Goldman, Equal Justice Initiative Founder Bryan Stevenson, and U.S. Rep Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield. Thursday’s Women’s Empowerment and Networking Luncheon honors former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.

NAACP's Hazel Dukes, Rev. Sharpton, Rev. Jackson and Mayor Adams (Bll Moore photos)

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Appears as if the award season has concluded this past Sunday as the entertainment industry’s arguably, second largest show, the 64th Grammy Awards, were held in Las Vegas. Going into the ceremony with 11 nominations was Jon Batiste, who took home five statues. Batiste took the prizes in best American roots performance, best American roots song with “Cry,” best score soundtrack for visual media “Soul,” best music video for “Freedom” and the heralded album of the year with “We Are.” Of his ethic that led to multiple wins, Batiste said in his acceptance speech, “I just put my head down and work on the craft everyday…It’s more than entertainment for me, it’s a spiritual practice.” Quietly grandiose things happened for the legendary CeCe Winans. She secured wins in best gospel performance/song for “Never Lost,” best gospel album and best contemporary Christian music performance/song for “Believe for It.” A big momentum swing for Winans as she and her brother gear up for an Easter Sunday Verzuz featuring BeBe and CeCe Winans VS Mary Mary.

wrights Apothecary Lab - Esperanza Spalding Best Dance/Electronic Music Album: Subconsciously - Black Coffee Best Pop Duo/Group Performance: Kiss Me More - Doja Cat feat. SZA Record of the Year: Leave the Door Open - Silk Sonic Song of the Year: Leave the Door Open - Brandon Anderson, Christopher Brody Brown, Dernst Emile II & Bruno Mars, songwriters (Silk Sonic) Best R&B Performance: Leave the Door Open - Silk Sonic (tie), Pick Up Your Feelings - Jazmine Sullivan (tie) Best R&B Song: Leave the Door Open - Brandon Anderson, Christopher Brody Brown, Dernst Emile II & Bruno Mars, songwriters (Silk Sonic) Best Traditional R&B Performance: Fight For You - H.E.R. Best Progressive R&B Album: Table For Two - Lucky Daye Best R&B Album: Heaux Tales Jazmine Sullivan Best Rap Performance: Family Ties - Baby Keem Feat. Kendrick Lamar Best Melodic Rap Performance: Hurricane - Kanye West feat. The Weeknd & Lil Baby Best Rap Song: Jail - Dwayne Abernathy Jr., Shawn Carter, Raul Cubina, Other winners of import are as fol- Michael Dean, Charles M. Njapa, lows: Sean Solymar, Brian Hugh Warner, Best Immersive Audio Album: Kanye West & Mark Williams, SongALICIA - Alicia Keys writers (Kanye West featuring Jay-Z) Best Album Notes: The Complete Best Rap Album: Call Me If You Get Louis Armstrong Columbia And RCA Lost - Tyler, The Creator Victor Studio Sessions 1946-1966 Best Music Film: Summer of Soul Ricky Riccardi, album notes writer (Louis Armstrong) A couple of noticeable tidbits: Best Compilation Soundtrack for not only was it criminal that the Visual Media: The United States Vs. Nems/WizKid anthem “Essence” Billie Holiday - Andra Day was only twice nominated, but Best Spoken Word Album: Carry it also LOST in both those catOn: Reflections for a New Genera- egories?! HOW? Lastly, winning tion from John Lewis - Don Cheadle an Oscar at the top of the week Best Global Music Album: Mother and having it bookended with a Nature - Angelique Kidjo Grammy is a very, very big deal. Best Global Music Performance: Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson of Mohabbat - Arooj Aftab the Roots looks to be embarking Best Reggae Album: Beauty in the on a journey that will educate and Silence - Soja solidify Black music as an art that Best Contemporary Blues Album: transformed world history. There 662 - Christone “Kingfish” Ingram are reports that Questlove is curBest Traditional Blues Album: I Be rently working on another docuTrying - Cedric Burnside mentary with Sly Stone as a focal Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album: point and will also serve as a coFor Jimmy, Wes And Oliver - Chris- producer alongside Mick Jagger on tian McBride Big Band a forthcoming documentary series Best Jazz Instrumental Album: Sky- about James Brown for A&E. line - Ron Carter, Jack DeJohnette & WORK!! Gonzalo Rubalcaba Over and out, holla next week. Til Best Jazz Vocal Album: Song- then, enjoy the nightlife.

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Union Matters Towards a non-violent healthcare revolution in the tradition of Dr. King George Gresham President of 1199SEIU

A thought came to me as I was watching Senator Cory Booker’s moving defense of U.S. Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson during her Senate confirmation hearing: we need that same type of forceful, emotive, righteous passion calling to transform our nation’s healthcare system. A short 26 or so months ago, COVID19 changed the world. Those days, when we didn’t know how the virus was transmitted and vaccines were not even on the horizon, were scary and deadly. New York’s healthcare workers were thrown into the center of the fight against COVID from the beginning, and on many fronts. We staffed the hospitals and nursing homes, often providing care in facilities when owners and managers would not even set foot on the premises or provide the sanitizers and other personal protective equipment needed for us to do the job safely. Homecare workers did their jobs even though it meant leaving the safety of their homes and families to take care of homebound people who could not take care of themselves because they knew that without that attention, their clients, many of whom they considered family and friends, would not survive without them. Many of these individuals lost their lives in the process. “Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends.” New York’s caregivers were rightfully called heroes, and the public banged on pots and pans every evening to show their appreciation for them and other essential workers. With the support of 1199’s “Invest in Quality Care” and “Fair Pay for Home Care Workers” campaigns, leaders in Albany finally enacted long-overdue reforms to improve nursing homes for residents and staff. (Legislative leaders passed budget resolutions calling for permanent raises for homecare workers which, by the time this column goes to print, will hopefully have made it into our final state budget). All it took was the greatest health crisis in a century. But as we look to the future, let’s not pretend that inequities in health care don’t continue to exacerbate broader economic, racial, and gender disparities. As the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. declared, “Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.” That rings just as true today as it did when he spoke it 56 years ago. Home healthcare workers, who are overwhelmingly women of color—60% immigrant—are insultingly underpaid for the

vital, difficult, and dangerous work they do. According to a City University of New York study, home healthcare workers on average made $15.93 an hour in 2020, way below the $21.77 an hour they would need to make for what is considered a living wage in this far too expensive city we call home. No surprise then, that an estimated 50% of home healthcare workers in New York State receive some form of public assistance—what folks used to call welfare. How ridiculous is that? The people who have provided lifegiving care to our friends, neighbors and family members before, during and after the pandemic, need help just to keep themselves and their families fed and a roof over their heads. I wonder how comfortable our society would be if the police officers and firefighters we rely on to risk their lives to protect our homes and communities were so poorly paid? Why is a similarly critical set of essential workers—but who are overwhelmingly women and people of color—treated in such disparate ways? In 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. went to Memphis, Tennessee, to support sanitation workers, the majority of them Black men, who went on strike to protest poor pay and dangerous working conditions. The strike was set off by the deaths of two workers who were crushed by poorly maintained, malfunctioning equipment. It was in Memphis that Dr. King made his famous “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” speech, a speech that decried the immense racial inequality and extreme economic exploitation faced by countless millions of Americans, and called for direct, non-violent action to confront these evils. The following day, on April 4, 1968, King was assassinated at Memphis’ Lorraine Motel. But his final speech had a generational impact. Maybe that’s what we need, a modernday Dr. King, a Fannie Lou Hamer, or a John Lewis to lead our nation towards a nonviolent healthcare revolution. That person could point out how the low pay has frontline caregivers leaving their jobs in droves, or how, as more Baby Boomers become elderly and dependent, experts expect there will be 83,000 fewer home attendants working in New York State than there are people who need them. If we are ever to live up to the founding ideals of our nation, we must carry on until we win the fight for quality health care and fair wages for all. We will, as Brown-Jackson pledged, “persevere.” President George Gresham leads 1199SEIU, the nation’s largest healthcare union representing 450,000 members in New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Maryland, Florida, and the District of Columbia.

Amazon workers unite, Amazon the company fights By STEPHON JOHNSON Amsterdam News Staff

the company is best for our employees,” read the company’s public statement. “We’re evaluating our options, including Celebrate good times...for the time being. filing objections based on the inapproWorkers at Amazon’s JFK8 fulfillment priate and undue influence by the NLRB center on Staten Island declared victory that we and others (including the Nationafter winning the vote (2,654 YES and 2,131 al Retail Federation and U.S. Chamber of NO) to form a union and organize. Sparked Commerce) witnessed in this election.” by working conditions some workers allegedly dealt with during the COVID-19 global pandemic, Staten Island workers were energized and the energy has paid off. Although the AmNews has attempted to contact the now globally renowned lead organizer and Amazon Labor Union President Chris Smalls several times, all attempts have been unsuccessful. But Smalls told reporters that the victory could be attributed to “… the way we organized. The way I spent every single day talking to workers, rain or shine.” Amazon’s JFK8 workers declare He’s already called for Amazon offivictory with a majority vote cials to get to the bargaining table. favoring unionization (Courtesy of @ Managers at the JFK8 warehouse fired amazonlabor via Twitter) Smalls back in 2020. Smalls, and others, believe that this was retaliation for speaking The worker vote on Staten Island is not out against Amazon not pausing opera- the only issue that the online retail giant tion when workers caught COVID-19 and must deal with. A recent report by The Ineither weren’t told or ignored and ordered tercept claims that a new Amazon worker to keep working. Through the use of new app might ban certain words. According social media outlets like TikTok and older to the leaked documents, some of those media outlets like Twitter and Facebook words include “union,” “pay raise,” “diand Instagram, Smalls led the effort to or- versity,” “injustice,” “living wage” and ganize, even going the fundraising route to “restrooms.” The latter could potentially help fund the organization process. be attributed to stories of Amazon workers The Amazon Labor Union is indepen- urinating in bottles while working long shifts. dent of any other union in the city, state Amazon spokeswoman Barbara Agrait or country. They aren’t aligned with a said that everyone should pump the breaks union like the Retail Wholesale and De- on the app’s potential banning tactics. partment Store Workers Union, which “Our teams are always thinking about new was dealt a blow in Bessemer, Alabama ways to help employees engage with each where they lost a second union vote. other,” said Agrait. “This particular program Up north, however, New York City Public has not been approved yet and may change Advocate Jumaane Williams stated that he significantly or even never launch at all. If it was proud of the workers for winning the war does launch at some point down the road, while dealing with setbacks along the way. there are no plans for many of the words “In the face of the aggressive, expensive, you’re calling out to be screened. The only union-busting effort that Amazon has en- kinds of words that may be screened are gaged in, I’m inspired by the workers who ones that are offensive or harassing, which refused to be intimidated,” said Williams. is intended to protect our team.” “Who continued to organize, to vote, to The push to organize saw some setbacks demand what they deserve. I’m honored during the run up to this point. Last Noto have spoken with them, stood with vember, workers withdrew their petition them, and today, to celebrate with them.” to unionize less than a few weeks before And the victory has pushed other Amazon a hearing where they would present how employees to do the same. Smalls said, on many workers were interested in unionizTwitter, “Since we WON @amazonlabor has ing. They reportedly did not have the numbeen contacted by workers in over 50 build- bers at the time. But no more. ing Nationwide not including the several On Friday, Amazon workers will hold buildings overseas and counting!! #ALU.” a press conference on Staten Island Not the result that Amazon officials to speak on how they conquered the were hoping for. online retail giant. For a man that an “We’re disappointed with the outcome Amazon lawyer called “not smart” or of the election in Staten Island because we “articulate,” Smalls has successfully believe having a direct relationship with articulated his vision on a major scale.

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Opinion Equity talk is good, action would be better

Sometime before the week is out it is expected that Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson will be confirmed as the first African American woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court. The certainty of that was underscored the other day when Sens. Mitt Romney and Lisa Murkowski announced they would vote favorably for Judge Jackson, joining an earlier indication of support from Sen. Susan Collins. Even if they balk on their promise and the vote p r o c e e d s a l o n g p a r t i s a n l i n e s , Ju d g e Ja c k s o n w o u l d still be confirmed because the decisive vote would be cast by Vice President Kamala Harr is. As we go to press the senators are presenting their views on the candidate after the Senate Judiciar y Panel tied on its vote 11 to 11, and Senate Majority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer discharged her nomination from the committee and placed the proceedings in a full Senate vote. Hence, our celebration here is presumptive but no less an acclimation of her as highly quali f i e d t o r e p l a c e J u s t i c e S t e p h e n B r e y e r, a s u p e r b jurist for whom she was a clerk. This monumental moment comes in the wake of the passing of the Emmett Till Bill and for mer P r e s i d e n t B a r a c k O b a m a’s a p p e a r a n c e a t t h e W h i t e H o u s e t o b o l s t e r P r e s i d e n t B i d e n’s p l a n to improve the Affordable Care Act. All of the clamor now in process in the Senate is no more than GOP members speaking in the tongues of men with no love and is but merely a resounding gong and a clanging cymbal of futili t y, t o p a r a p h r a s e a b i b l i c a l q u o t e . I n s h o r t , t h e y are without love, and therefore have nothing, and certainly no words or actions that can usurp J u d g e J a c k s o n’s a s c e n d a n c e t o J u s t i c e J a c k s o n . Let us be among the first to cheer her arrival in SCOTUS with the understanding that she will continue her remarkable record of jurisprudence, making all of us proud, all Americans proud, that we finally have someone there whose presence and decisions we believe will be in accord with those of us who are truth seekers and fair-minded in our opinions.

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Still, all the recent pronouncements are promising. But it will be up to the communities most impacted to ensure this is not another case of Lucy holding the football for Charlie Brown before pulling it away. It’s okay to feel hopeful. But after so many years of unfulfilled promises, it’s also prudent to be skeptical and desirous of holding our elected leaders’ feet to the fire. A change in party leadership controlling Congress, for instance, can change priorities quickly. It would be helpful for the federal government to quickly develop specific guidance to the states and localities about exactly what is expected when it comes to meeting equity goals. Having local leaders tr y to guess with no advance guidance can result in confusion, years of delays, and lost opportunities. And if the feds don’t do it, the states need to come up with their own checklist of equity issues that need to be part of all projects. It could be helpful to create a public equity dashboard that can show whether the goals are being met and the impacts projects have on communities of color and low-income neighborhoods. But for any of this to work, the government needs to first build trust with the communities that rightfully have long felt they have been ignored, or actively harmed, by policies that have led to dangerous education, work, and health inequities. That means making sure the communities play a big role in the projects that will impact them. That also means involving them from the start to solicit their input and hear their concerns. It is no longer okay for the government to just dictate what a project will be and where it will go with little community input. We’ve seen the old ways fail when a proposal by Amazon to build a second headquarters in Long Island City died because of strong community opposition. It’s clear we are at a time when our leaders recognize the need to talk about equity. But it’s up to us as a community to ensure that it doesn’t end there—to ensure that talk is followed by action. This is a pivotal time, one that will have consequences—either good or bad—for generations to come. It’s up to all of us to meet the challenge.

For years, people from communities of color have advocated for equity policies at both the federal and state levels, only to be left disappointed and disillusioned that their governments were not working for them. My father, Arthur O. Eve, a former longtime state Assembly member from Buffalo, who ser ved as deputy speaker, helped create the legislative Black, Hispanic, Puerto Rican and Asian Caucus, and was a longtime prison reform advocate, fought for equity issues his entire career. But while there has been progress over the decades since my dad began ser ving, it has been undeniably slow. But for once, there is hope, that equity is an issue whose time has finally come. From President Biden and U.S. Transportation Secretar y Pete Buttigieg to Governor Hochul, equity is now a key part of the conversation. Whether it’s how to spend billions of dollars in infrastructure money, establishing the state’s cannabis industr y, or where to put casinos, the impacts on traditionally underser ved communities should play a big role. When it comes to infrastructure, that means not just making improvements moving for ward, but addressing past wrongs that divided communities decades ago. Governor Hochul has proposed ways to undo the damage done when the Cross Bronx Expressway, Route 81 in Syracuse, the Inner Loop in Rochester, and the Kensington Expressway in our hometown of Buffalo were all constructed. She is also pushing an Interborough Express between Brooklyn and Queens, a project that would provide long-needed mass transit ser vice to communities where 71% of residents are people of color and 33% are below 1.5 times the federal poverty line. The legalization of marijuana also offers the opportunity to help address the damage done by the state’s draconian Rockefellerera drug laws. Assembly Majority Leader Cr ystal Peoples-Stokes was among those in the legislature who fought admirably and successfully to ensure the benefits of legalized marijuana would reach those who were hurt most, many of them people of color. The state in recent years has increased the percentage of Minority- and/or Women-owned Business Enterprises that receive contracts, with a goal of more than Eric Eve is founder and CEO of Ichor Strat30%. But MWBE requirements alone are not egies. He has worked for decades in both the enough. We’re still fighting over crumbs as public and private sectors, crafting public the threshold levels are so low. policy and community engagement strategy.

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We should worry about April is what month? America’s clergy retiring CHRISTINA GREER PH.D. from the pulpit 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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At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic we saw the “great resignation”— people quitting their jobs in droves, for a host of reasons. The pandemic touched each of us, directly or indirectly, in incomprehensible ways. Now its impact is reverberating in our religious communities, which are experiencing an alarming number of pastor resignations at a time when the need for spiritual guidance and counseling is ever important. Polling data collected by Barna Group, a California research firm that studies faith and culture, show that 38% of Protestant senior pastors have considered leaving the ministry in the past year. According to the same study, among pastors under age 45 an even higher percentage considered leaving—46 percent, which is unprecedented. As more pastors and rabbis step down, it could create a void that encourages many young Americans to look to social media personalities, celebrities, entertainers and others for guidance. When young people fall to the cults of personality, can we wonder why we see a resulting increase in violence, bullying and other bad behavior, disrespect for others, out of wedlock births, single motherhood and men incapable of making commitment? Much of our music, movies, and television reality shows promote a culture without a moral compass that is influencing youths. What does it say when many Americans, especially young people, do not pray often? We need our clergy to guide and counsel families who are seeking the best way to raise children in a society that doesn’t promote morality or ethical behavior. To some extent, American society seems to be okay with just “making it up”—rules don’t exist, and social norms change often. Since the late 1960s, when many Americans were very religious, Gallup has found major social changes. Now our pastors are considering retirement for a number of reasons, not limited to “exhaustion, low pay, and lack

of appreciation,” the survey found. Evidently, our society is impacting preachers because what happens in the world affects the church, when it should be the other way around. The way that we conduct ourselves in church—with warmth, kindness, humility and love for one another—should be the way we act out in the world, but this seems to have diminished in recent times, especially with our polarized politics. No wonder some pastors feel demoralized. When I was growing up, the church drew mothers, fathers, children and other relatives; our day of worship was an extended family affair. There’s an old saying that “a family that prays together stays together.” That proved to be true, I think, and our church leaders were some of the most respected members of the community. I have witnessed changes over the years as generations began to step away from church and respect for family and old values waned. There is some cause for hope, however: APew Research Center report found many teens attend church with their parents or other family members, though they are less likely to consider religion to be “very important.” We should not forget that God is a guiding force in our lives. The clergy to whom we look for guidance aren’t perfect; they’re human, too. Yet they still dedicate themselves to our spiritual growth and maturity, and we should value that. If people don’t appreciate today’s pastors and the stress of their positions, how can we solve this? I personally don’t have the answer. I was taught that people who turn away from God must face a reckoning. Perhaps in our society we need to face reckoning before people return to church and respect preachers. With so much anger and hostility, our nation is in trouble—and with falling membership, so is the church. When the pulpits are empty and the church doors close, what will we do when the children of America’s future don’t know where to turn? Armstrong Williams (@ARightSide) is the owner and manager of Howard Stirk Holdings I & II Broadcast Television Stations and the 2016 Multicultural Media Broadcast Owner of the Year. He is the author of “Reawakening Virtues.” Follow on Twitter: @arightside

I was curious as to what is celebrated in the month of April. Most people know February is Black History Month, March is Women’s History Month, and June is the month when we celebrate LGBTQ Pride. I decided to do a little research about what is celebrated in April and boy oh boy there is quite a bit to celebrate. Did you know just some of the causes and interests celebrated in April include everything from: African American Women’s Fitness Month, Alcohol Awareness Month, Black Women’s History Month, Financial Literacy Month, Month of the Military Child, National Arab American Heritage Month, National Autism Awareness Month, National Cancer Control Month, National Child Abuse Awareness Month, National Donate Life Awareness Month, National Fair Housing Month, National Minority Health Month, National Month of Hope, National Parkinson’s Awareness Month, National Poetry Month, National Volunteer Month, Sexual Assault Awareness Month, Sexually Transmitted Infections Awareness Month, and Stress Awareness Month…to name just a few. There are even some obscure observances in the month of April that should not be overlooked. They range from: Fresh Florida Tomato Month, Irritable Bowel Syndrome Awareness Month, Keep America Beautiful Month, Lawn and Garden Month, Mathematics Awareness Month, National Canine Fitness Month, National Cannabis Awareness Month, National Car Care Month, National Fresh Celery Month, National

Humor Month, National Internship Awareness Month, National Pecan Month, National Safe Digging Month, National Soft Pretzel Month, National Straw Hat Month, National Welding Month, and Pets are Wonderful Month. This isn’t even a full list, but if you are looking for something to celebrate in the month of April, you’ve got plenty to keep you busy. It is so important for us to stay connected to others and continue to build community, especially after the past two years. As we are consistently encouraged to “move beyond COVID” we must remember that the past two years have been exhausting and draining for many. So many people do not feel like their full selves and are looking for something, anything, to help them feel like they are a part of something larger than themselves. Hopefully these causes, serious and fun, will help you get started. I, for one, did not know April was Black Women’s History Month. I usually just combine February and March and make my own Black Women’s celebrations during Black History and Women’s History Months. I am glad to know I can now extend my celebration and appreciation of Black women officially into the month of April. I also plan to celebrate National Minority Health Month and encourage all my friends and family to schedule their annual check-ups and mammograms. And just for fun, I do plan on eating my fair share of soft pretzels and treating myself to a new straw hat for summer! I may even write a poem or two. What do you plan on celebrating?

"If you are looking for something to celebrate in the month of April, you’ve got plenty to keep you busy. It is so important for us to stay connected to others and continue to build community, especially after the past two years."

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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Internal division could scuttle Afro woman’s run for top Commonwealth position By BERT WILKINSON Special to the AmNews

ity commission. She had also served as well as a parliamentary under secreBaroness Patricia Scotland, the tary of state at the foreign office first woman elected to head the in the United Kingdom but has 53-nation Commonwealth group run afoul of her own British peers of nations, is up for reelection later and colleagues including Prime this year, but an embarrassing rift Minister Boris Johnson for allegin the 15-nation Caricom group- edly running the London-based ing could deny her and the region secretariat with “irregular finanthe chance to serve a second five- cial procedures.” Her own British year term, as has been the case for government had even suspended predecessors from other regions. Until last weekend, the Caribbean bloc had rallied solidly behind Scotland as its candidate. Heads of government at their mid-year summit in Belize in March, had voted unanimously to support the candidacy of Scotland, but that is until the Jamaican government dropped the diplomatic bombshell by withdrawing support for Scotland and adding Foreign Minister Kamina Johnson Smith to the mix. Jamaica had initially supported Scotland, born funding to the organization until in the tiny Eastern Caribbean the issue was sorted out. nation of Dominica but raised in But as campaigning for the top England. Scotland, 66, had held position of former British colseveral senior positions in Eng- onies heats up, Caribbean govland, including being appointed ernments are facing the very as the first Black queens counsel, real prospect of Scotland being millennium commissioner and shown the door by its own unwas a member of the racial equal- forced error as not only Jamaica

is prepping to field its own candidate but reports indicate that others in Asia, the Pacific and Africa are shaping up to do likewise. This could spell trouble for Scotland. At the 2015 elections, Guyana-born, Antiguan diplomat Sir Ronald Sanders withdrew after the first round of voting because of weak support, clearing the way for her election as the first woman.

“Those who are hounding Baroness Scotland out of office have now skillfully engineered a plan to divide Caricom and to stain the performance of the region. We must not fall prey to these Machiavellian tactics. Despite the pledges of support, there is some level of naivety for Jamaica to believe that the success of its candidature will be assured,” CMC news agency reported.

“Those who are hounding Baroness Scotland out of office have now skillfully engineered a plan to divide Caricom and to stain the performance of the region. We must not fall prey to these Machiavellian tactics.” Former Caricom Chair and Antiguan Prime Minister Gaston Browne is upset that Jamaica has allowed itself to be persuaded to get rid of Scotland. He is the first leader to speak out and bash Jamaica as others hint that Jamaica is allowing itself to be used by more powerful nations.

“To the contrary, it would only serve as a gateway for a non-Caricom secretary general to succeed. Jamaica should not fall for this mirage, by exposing one of its finest daughters to this Machiavellian trap.” International media reports have also indicated that Kenyan

President Uhuru Kanyatta has put forward the name of his defense minister, Monica Juma, to contest the race. A divided Caricom could make it easy for Scotland to be sent packing. Leaders like PM Browne say they are upset because nearly every previous secretary general was allowed to serve their two terms. The exception was former Guyana foreign minister Shridath Ramphal who had clocked three consecutive terms from 1975. Elections could be in October when the grouping holds its leaders summit in Africa. Making a case for his candidate, Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness says that Johnson-Smith is eminently qualified and should be supported. “Her qualifications for the post of secretary-general, including her high moral character, diplomatic and political acumen, proven competence, and commitment to the work of the Commonwealth, make her an excellent candidate. She will bring a wealth of experience to the position, and is committed to international public service, with special regard for sustainable development, gender and the interests of small states.”

Will the end of Title 42 see a surge in migration? FELICIA PERSAUD

IMMIGRATION KORNER On May 23, the Biden administration will end the controversial Title 42 that was implemented by Donald Trump, who in March 2020 put the rule into law by executive power, to quickly expel migrants at the border due to health concerns related to the coronavirus pandemic. After over a year of keeping it in place, the administration has caved to pressure from largely Ukrainians, and is removing the order. The official announcement came Friday, April 1, April Fools’ Day, in an order from the Centers for Disease Con-

trol and Prevention. But it was no April Fool’s joke. The spread of COVID-19 by migrants apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico border has “ceased to be a serious danger to the public health,” CDC Director Rochelle Walensky wrote, in announcing the removal. The announcement came after a March 12th CDC announcement that it was dropping Title 42 for unaccompanied children only but not adults. So why the sudden about-face now, especially as a new strain of COVID-19 has emerged? The answer lies in the fact that more Ukrainians, not Africans and Haitians, are now reaching the U.S.’s southern border and seeking asylum there.

Under Title 42, most are now being forced away, but now in this about-face move, the Biden administration is clearing the path for them. However, it also cannot discriminate and now has to also welcome every other immigrant applying for asylum at the U.S.’ southern border—including Africans and Haitians. This means a likely surge in attempts to enter the U.S. from the problematic border, and a surge in asylum applications from all immigrants, whether they are coming from Ukraine, Haiti, Cameroon, or Central America as Guerline Jozef, the executive director of the Haitian Bridge Alliance put it. May is still over a month away but it also means the start of the

summer months that could likely attract a surge as big as the ones we saw last summer as the Rio Grande’s levels drop. There have already been high numbers of apprehensions at the border, even during the pandemic, despite Title 42. Now with the lifting of it, smugglers and cartels in Central America will likely tell migrants the border is open and take their money to get them here by any means necessary, despite what the U.S. says. So how will this impact the people who have been living in the U.S. for years without legal status and the thousands more caught up in backlogs that are forcing many to be in limbo? I am sympathetic to the plight of

refugees, but it is unfair for them to be able to apply for legal status ahead of someone who has been living in the U.S. for a decade, paying taxes and contributing to the economy of this country, yet has no path to any legal status. Asylum should be requested at a U.S. embassy and consulate outside of the U.S., not at the U.S. border. That should be the focus with Title 42 ending, so the nightmare of a new southern border surge does not permanently annihilate the path to legal status for the millions who desperately need it within the United States. The writer is publisher of NewsAmericasNow.com – The Black Immigrant Daily News.

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‘Paradise Square’—what Bway’s best musicals are made of!

At center, Kevin Dennis (with cap), Matt Bogart, Joaquina Kalukango, Chilina Kennedy, Nathaniel Stampley and Ensemble in “Paradise Square” (Kevin Berne photo)

By LINDA ARMSTRONG Special to the AmNews “Paradise Square” is what Broadway’s best musicals are made of— it’s a theatrical masterpiece! The new musical playing at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on West 47th Street, shares a piece of our history from 1863, New York during the Civil War. In a story that takes you full circle, the audience is introduced to the Five Points area of lower Manhattan, the first slum, where Irish immigrants and formerly enslaved Black Americans not only lived together, but loved each other, as shared by lead character and narrator Nelly O’Brien. At the time, freed Blacks were struggling as much as the Irish immigrants who came to this country for a better life in America. Paradise Square was the local saloon and hang-out, where people came to socialize, sing, dance and relax. “Paradise Square” is the story of this community of freed Black and Irish immigrants who lived in relative harmony until President Abraham Lincoln called for the first draft and drafted Irish immigrants only to

fight in the Civil War. Once the draft was imposed this led to the Irish— who were already locked out of jobs because Blacks worked for cheaper wages—feeling outraged and taken advantage of, leading to the Draft Riots of 1863. There is something very captivating about watching a story unfold that is part of history; to add splendid, moving songs and dancing to it is just a win-win situation. The cast and creative team take their time walking the audience through the feelings and raw emotions felt by people on both sides and that makes this a human story not to be missed. There are multiple show-stopping numbers from the opening song “Paradise Square” to “Heaven Save Our Home” to “Let It Burn.” Throughout this musical the exceptional cast sent chills running through the audience with the power of their vocal delivery, the electric, heart-pounding dancing and the variety of emotions they shared. This cast is splendid on all levels! Joaquina Kalukango is brilliant as Nelly O’Brien, the owner of Paradise

Square saloon and the wife of Willie O’Brien, an Irish army captain with the fighting 69th, the first all-Irish Army regimen. Kalukango has a glorious, tender and touching voice and completely takes the audience along on the highs, lows and betrayals that occurred during this time in history. Chilina Kennedy is fantastic as Annie Lewis, Nelly’s sister-in-law and wife of Reverend Samuel Jacob Lewis, stunningly played by African American Nathaniel Stampley. Sidney DuPont is stirring as Washington Henry, a runaway slave being transported through the Underground Railroad. He sings with such power and his dancing is superb! A.J. Shively makes his mark as Owen Duignan, the nephew of Annie and an immigrant coming to find the American Dream. Shively has a wonderful singing voice and can dance with such style and flair. Kevin Dennis is tremendous as “Lucky” Mike Quinlan, an Irish immigrant tired of the mistreatment his people are receiving. Matt Bogart is incredible as Willie O’Brien, the husband of Nelly. Their passion is so engaging. John Dossett is splendid as the

corrupt politician Frederic Tiggens, who wants to destroy Nelly and the following she has by the Irish immigrants. Jacob Fishel is marvelous as Milton Moore. Gabrielle McClinton is remarkable as Angelina Baker, the escaped slave and girlfriend of Washington Henry. So many aspects of this new musical that just scream SUCCESS! Firstly, it takes us back to a time when people in the Five Points slums looked at each other as just people. There was a mixing of the races, like freed Blacks with Irish. Secondly, look at how art imitates life. When you look at the creative team of this musical, there is also an extraordinary mix of African American and white originality and creativity. The painstakingly detailed book is by African American Christina Anderson, with Craig Lucas and Larry Kirwan. Kirwan is also responsible for conceiving the musical and additional music. African Americans Nathan Tysen and Masi Asare created the lyrics and Jason Howland created the music along with doing music supervision, music direction and orchestration. Choreography

legend Bill T. Jones birthed tremendous dance numbers with two Black associate choreographers–– Gelan Lambert and Chloe Davis, and Irish & Hammerstep choreography is by Garrett Coleman and Jason Oremus. Costume design is by the one-and-only, African American Toni-Leslie James. Cohesive, monumental direction is the work of Moises Kaufman. I have seen many musicals over the decades that I have been covering theater and everyone knows that when a show-stopping number is being performed you let the performer finish, but I tell you this, when Kalukango is singing “Let It Burn,” especially near the end of the song, I dare you to try and stay seated and quiet. You will be like me and so many others who jumped to our feet, applauded and started screaming. She sang that song with such power, determination and conviction and she held notes longer than you would think humanly possible. “Paradise Square” has to be in your theatrical plans. Visit www.paradisesquaremusical.com for more info.

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Gertrudis Rivalta exhibits images of Afro-Cuban life

Cimarrona, 2022 by Gertrudis Rivalta

Renglones by Gertrudis Rivalta

By KAREN JUANITA CARRILLO Special to the AmNews

Cheerleaders, 2009 by Gertrudis Rivalta

The works of multidisciplinary artist Gertrudis Rivalta are on exhibit for this, her first solo art show in New York City. Five large canvas paintings and seven smaller dioramas are showcased as part of “Selected Pages,” an art show curated by University of Connecticut Professor Jacqueline Loss. The exhibit is on view at the Thomas Nickles Project gallery (47 Orchard St., Manhattan) until April 24. The works on display are meditations on Afro Cuban life, from past to present, and demonstrate Rivalta’s interpretations of the extent to which Black Cubans have been incorporated into the local social fabric. “To me we are living an illusion. We are not really free,” Rivalta explained in a recent interview. “I see Black people here, Black people in Cuba—

Tiempos. Tres by Gertrudis Rivalta

we don’t have power. And when I say power, I mean presence. Power is to have presence. Other people don’t see us, they only see us from the same angle: we are never the intellectuals, the scientists. Instead, we are the dancers, we are the musicians, we do less consequential jobs. “I don’t want that illusion, I want our reality—I want this, our reality, to be true.” In works such as “Cheerleaders, 2009” Rivalta depicts one of the many busts of the Cuban national hero, José Martí, which remain dotted in towns and cities throughout the island nation. On this canvas, the Martí bust is encircled by young, mostly white Cuban admirers who offer flowers to the famed independence hero. But Rivalta places the overbearing image of a muscular, virile Black woman in the foreground of the painting—it nearly obscures the adoration of Martí in the back. The very name of Rivalta’s “Cimarrona, 2022” painting evokes the formidable image of self-liberated descendants of Africans in the Americas. A cimarrona was specifically a female who had freed herself from enslavement—think Harriet Tubman, Jamaica’s Queen Nanny of the Windward Maroons, or Haiti’s Cecile Fattime—Rivalta draws the image of this militant figure with sequins and paints her as a coquettish, sweet, bright, rainbow color-infused Black woman, a cimarrona, who is free and inspiring. Rivalta likes to juxtapose language and imagery so that they sometimes work together but at other times contrast to tell the viewer different messages. “You know, we are surrounded by images and even when we have images in our heads, we have to describe the image when we want to talk about it,” said Rivalta. The seven dioramas in her show focus on Black people living their everyday lives amidst the images and words that surround them. “I

didn’t want to only show our Cuban reality by only working with images, there are all those layers and, I wanted to talk about the way we talk about reality, because it’s made of layers and layers and layers of conversations. “Sometimes coquita—you know this main character in the dioramas—she’s thinking, she’s not talking, but you can see what she’s saying. That is very important because what exists only in the mind of a person, now you have access to see that or to read that or to understand that. And that’s very important because many of us from Cuba, we couldn’t talk. The conversation about Afrodescendant people was not an open conversation; it was not an open issue. Most of the time, all of us, we were talking behind the scenes. All we could do was just present images: it was acting. So when you come to read my dioramas, at the same time all [of what you are seeing] is an act: it’s a scene, a theater. All of those layers where you have one thing in the background, but it can sometimes move to the front and you know there is an angle on another side—it all becomes a game. It’s a game with the language, it’s a game with the images and it’s a game with the positioning of the language and the images.” Rivalta’s “Selected Pages” exhibit is an attempt to spotlight the depths of Afro Cuban lives and the impact the Black community has had on Cuba. “Racism persists in Cuba. I mean institutionally you can think that it was eliminated, but it wasn’t. It remains among the people because of our colonialist past. And that is some of what is behind my dioramas,” Rivalta added. “There is more in them, because there are some symbols that you can find there and if people know Cuban history, they can understand those symbols. But I made the dioramas as works for people to return to. You’re not finished when you see them only once: I want you to return to read them for as many times as you need to read and understand them.”

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2022 Grammys brought Jon Batiste, Nas to the fore By JORDANNAH ELIZABETH Special to the AmNews The 2022 Grammys, which aired earlier this week, was centered around enjoyable entertainment as the last few years have been filled with criticisms from Black artists. It was not that the Black artists who have been continuously snubbed or categorized in a limited way did not continue to exercise their disdain and independence. Prominent hip hop artists such as J. Cole, who was nominated for four awards, Best Rap Album (“The OffSeason”), Best Melodic Rap Performance (“Pride Is the Devil”), Best Rap Performance (“My Life”), and Best Rap Song (“My Life”), did not attend the awards show. He also did not win in any of the categories. Best Rap Album winner Tyler the Creator for his 2021 album, “Call Me If You Get Lost” was also not in attendance. Kanye West did not attend the ceremony, not by his own will or desire, but because he was banned from performing or sharing his presence this year due to the heated public

battle between him and his ex-wife, Kim Kardashian. West was set to perform this year but did not enjoy the honor. Nonetheless, he grabbed two awards: Best Melodic Rap Performance for “Hurricane” featuring The Weeknd and Lil Baby and Best Rap Song for “Jail” featuring Jay-Z. These wins gave him a total of 24 Grammy wins amongst 75 nominations over the span of his career. The young hip hop artist, Baby Keem received his first Grammy award for Best Rap Performance for “Family Ties” featuring Kendrick Lamar. Doja Cat walked away with Best Pop Duo/Group Performance for “Kiss Me More” with SZA making her the only woman rapper to receive an award. Among the performances, Nas offered a powerful and satisfying performance of a collection of his songs. He was regal, poised and flowed effortlessly over a live band giving him an incredible backdrop to accompany his iconic music. Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak opened the show with a fun and exciting performance. But the biggest winner of the

Recording artist, bandleader, musical director and film composer Jon Batiste took home five Grammy awards, including Album of the Year. (Photo by Francis Specker/CBS via Getty Images)

night was by far Jon Batiste. The recording artist, bandleader, musical director and film composer took home five Grammy awards including Album of the Year for his latest musical effort “We Are.” Batiste also performed a beautiful song called “Freedom” and showed the

world, as he always has, how gifted and deserving he was of stealing the night with his flurry of wins. This year’s Grammys was not the most revolutionary night for Black artists, but there was a tone of enjoyment and respect during the ceremony. Black artists have

been excelling at their craft since the roots of American Black music emerged into the fore, becoming unavoidable for white gatekeepers to ignore. And this year, there was a level of class and dignity which acutely contrasted with the goings on at this year’s Oscar awards.

Rasheedah Phillips presents ‘Time Zone Protocols’ conference at the New School By JORDANNAH ELIZABETH Special to the AmNews It has been announced that the groundbreaking event series Prime Meridian Unconference will take place at The New School from April 15-18. The force-of-nature community activist, lawyer and author Rasheedah Phillips, who is also the co-founder of Black Quantum Futurism, has developed the exhibition “Time Zone Protocols” through their research for their 2020-2022 Vera List Center Fellowship project to accompany the explorations of the conference. Prime Meridian Unconference will examine the “Protocol Proceedings” which were developed at the International Prime Meridian Conference (IPMC) of 1884 to establish universal time standards for navigation, railroad timetables, etc. “They trace the creation of written and unwritten political and social agreements, protocols, and rules that underlie Westernized time constructs,” states the event’s press release. “Phillips’ Time Zone Protocols aims to illuminate the impacts that oppressive time protocols and policies have on marginalized Black communities in the

U.S., and how they help to catalyze and perpetuate systems of oppression that deny Black communities access to and agency over the temporal domains of the past and present while proposing protocols for new, equitable futures.”

who will participate in panels, interactive talks, workshops and performances to discover and present new ways of “understanding our relationship to space-time, utilizing specific Black social, geographical, and cultural frameworks that seek to unmap

LaFleur, V. Mitch McEwen, Katherine McKittrick, Danielle M. Purifoy, Ingrid Raphaël, Thomas Stanley, Ujijji Davis Williams, and Celeste Winston will all present at this interesting gathering of minds. Many do not believe or under-

away and quietly explored at universities or labs, but Phillip’s Time Zone Protocol exhibition at the Prime Meridian Unconference will work to tear down these walls and give people the access to learn more about Black people, time and quantum physics. It is encouraged that Black people educate themselves on topics and ways of looking at the world that have been largely left unexplored in day-to-day life. This conference is a wonderful opportunity to expand our knowledge and search for the truth of the deep history and struggles of Black life. “The Unconference will produce alternative principles, protocols, or values that relate to the possibilities of reshaping, remapping, or dismantling and creating new time zones or protocols of time to be more equitable and less oppressive to Black people and communities, enabling them to survive, thrive, and access their futures and pasts, and more expansive, healthier presents.”

This three-day conference has attracted a wide breadth of specialists including several physics scholars, musicians, artists, African American studies professors, and others

Black temporalities from the Greenwich Mean timeline.” Camae Ayewa (Moor Mother), Asia Dorsey, Walter Greason, Joy Tabernacle-KMT, Kendra Krueger, Ingrid

stand that modern Black and African American people are as interested or For the conference’s full schedule adept in regard to the convergence and more information, visit: www. of physics, science, geography and veralistcenter.org/events/prime-metime. Black science is usually tucked ridian-unconference

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April 7, 2022 — April 13, 2022 When you apply yourself to complete something or build an empire, there’s no stopping. Short breaks, light nutritious meals to replenish the body, and exercise help to release tension in the body. When one is equipped with knowledge of self, it assists you in your mental development, social environment, and spiritual growth. Life is full of experiences for you to gain wisdom and insight on your journey to prepare you for life lessons. Surrender and allow the inside power to direct you and detach from emotional habits that deprived you from moving forward. You can be a force to be Vinateria reckoned with once you believe all you need is you and your faith with serenity. “You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.” Maya Angelou

What makes a cake taste delicious? Is it the ingredients, or the When the wind blows, and blows your hat off your head, as you amount of pressure you apply stirring the mixture to create a fine chase after it, it’s like the ideas in your mind slipping away from you. Keep a pocket notebook to jot down information, phrases, Capricorn texture? Consistency is the drive that excites your inner passion to Cancer see results. Take notice of the details provided to you without overand developments for your new creation. This is a time to stop Dec 22 June 22 Jan 21 July 23 looking the process of discarding, instead usher in a new profound shifting and wavering on your gifts and continue to build. Leave development with ease and harmony. Kick around the caboose as the frustration at the door and instead make a move on a new brief things will come to pass. Patience is key. physical workout plan.

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Fascinating discussions offer you more insight, adding a new technique to your repertoire of recalling early childhood exAquarius periences and beliefs. This is a phenomenal cycle to express your feelings in partnerships, and the things you do creativeJan 22 Feb 19 ly. Grab a metaphysical book of your choice to read and just know that what you say everyone may not understand. They will catch on later.

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Sudden action occurring within your profession is likely to take a different path for the better. This is part of the building blocks to keep striving and walking beyond the rainbow. It’s those sweet and bitter moments, taking time out to count your blessings, be thankful for your journey, and the faith to keep walking through. Keep abreast of upcoming events during this lively week.

You may feel the adrenaline rush of thriving to do something you’ve been dreaming and envisioning. Shoot your best shot like you’re playing basketball on the court, or like the best quarterAries back strategically playing to score. It’s on you to elevate yourself Mar 21 Apr 21 to the next step. Think in terms of investing in you. Are you investing 100% or about 89%? Aries, remember the word pioneer is to be the first to break records along your path and generations. After all, Aries is the first of the zodiac signs.

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Finding out the truth requires you to just set back as things unravel. An epiphany of future scenes, conversations, upcoming events, and the most remarkable one is where you meet your higher self in Taurus some shape or form. Give praise and thanks to the Divine Creator Apr 22 for allowing you to strive for greatness while taking a leap of faith. May 21 Look for unanticipated finances, deals, and something extra special from your spouse, mate, or significant someone.

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It’s time to play the tape, review the video, recorded to drive you down the memory lane of your process, appreciating every step of the way. As you replay the tape, emotions may spark from Leo within, standing as a witness and a walking testimony to encourJuly 24 age others on the way. There are no mistakes in life. Only life lesAug 23 sons to gain and prepare you for the next assignment. Open the dialogue and give yourself a hug as your bond becomes stronger and stronger from within.

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Are you planning a family trip or a personal vacation to restore balance, relaxation, and rejuvenation? After the vacation, it’s time to prepare and complete the next upcoming project. Take advanVirgo tage of the process to gather all the facts, details, and editing of your Aug 24 Sept 23 work before the debut. Fulfill any family, be they prior and past obligations, before leaving home. Think of educating yourself on investing in real estate, stocks, and bonds, to reserve for future generational wealth.

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This week is a cycle to develop your craft and give life and meaning where people can fill in the gap by the information you provide. You have to get better at being you and appreciate the person you see in the mirror. You’re on a soul mission, and there’s an Sept 24 Oct 23 inner force with direction navigating you in your darkest hour. First, surrender the outdated programs that once worked, then walk with faith to allow the divine universe to guide you. It’s gone be alright.

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The bosses of the bosses play a role this week, be it those who wear suits or white coats. A decision needs to be made, or simply allow nature to run its course. Your time is tied up this productive Scorpio week working on projects and filling in the missing blanks. You’re Oct 24 making power moves to elevate yourself with the tools and skillsets Nov 22 that can build your foundation. Allow bygones be bygones to catch the next train or flight moving upwards and onward. All aboard.

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This cycle themes are finance, romance, family, profession, as well as self-care on the frontlines. It’s a time for settling old debts This week there may be an unanticipated shift in areas of health, or unresolved issues that surface this week. Remain calm as there home, work, and community services. Health challenges may surGemini are two sides to every story; then there’s the middle one which face. Do follow up on doctors’ visits and take notes of the informaMay 22 Sagitarius tion given whether it’s critical or for your own awareness. Pack to June 21 changes the perspective of your outcome. You can now see results Nov 23 in your appearance, dietary regimen, and commitments you made relocate or rearrange the home and discard any unwanted items. InDec 21 back in the third week of January. Review all documents before signing on the corporate a health plan that helps circulate the blood in your body. dotted line. The organization is the key also when disputing facts and figures This would include relaxation techniques such as yoga, jogging, hula hooping, with reliable dates. jumping jacks, push-ups, cardio or jumping rope.

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On Thursday, March 31, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture opened its spring exhibition “Been Seen,” an exploration of the work of Austin Hansen and the Black gaze in photography. Harlem-based photojournalist, studio photographer and documentarian, Austin Hansen (1910-1996) ran a photo studio on West 135th Street that doubled as a gallery and exhibition space. Hansen began photographing in nightclubs, freelanced for the Amsterdam News, trained as a combat/war photographer in the Navy, and continued to document community life in Harlem until his death in 1996. Hansen’s work captured the Black community at its most candid. In addition to documenting everyday life— funerals and weddings, street scenes with mothers and children, Harlem architecture and social spots—Hansen captured images of notable political leaders (Marcus Garvey and Martin Luther King Jr.), scholars and authors (Lawrence D. Riddick and Langston Hughes), and entertainers (Eartha Kitt

and Josephine Baker), as well as others. Following a donation from Hansen in 1986, the Schomburg Center now holds a collection of 500,000 portraits of African American families, clergy, political leaders, entertainers, writers, and community members taken by the photographer. The Austin Hansen Collection also includes correspondence, original photographs, news clippings, programs for special events held at many historic Harlem churches, and other social events in Harlem and elsewhere. The exhibition places the work of Austin Hansen in conversation with seven luminary contemporary photographers: Dario Calmese, Cheriss May, Flo Ngala, Ricky Day, Gerald Peart, Mark Clennon, and Lola Flash. Their practices explore identity, Black experiences, visual culture, and portraiture. The exhibition will run until Winter 2023 in the Latimer Gallery at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. For more info, visit www.schomburgcenter.org.

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By EILEEN BARETT Special to the AmNews Chef Marcus Samuelson often describes Streetbird as his love letter to hot spicy chicken. What began in Harlem has made its way across the country to Las Vegas, across the Caribbean to the Bahamas, and now has crossed the Harlem River to the Bronx when,

last month, Chef Marcus Samuelson opened the iconic Streetbird stall at Yankee Stadium. The blistering cold and wintery mix of rain and snow was no match for the excitement of the day. Not only was this the return of Streetbird to NYC (the first location was planted in Harlem on 116th Street on Frederick Douglass Boulevard), it was the home opener for

waffles. Together they unveiled a chicken and waffles trophy filled with his famous Hot Honey Fried Chicken. The backstory? The Streetbird team had a grand vision of a waffle trophy. They (Eileen Barett photos) weren’t sure how they were going to execute it and put it in the MLS Cup Champions, the New the hands of our team to bring it York City Football Club. Chef Sam- to life. Over 40 hours and hunuelson is a lifelong soccer fan and dreds of waffles later, the Chickhappens to be the chief culinary en and Waffle trophy was born! coach of the Club, so this was a Chef Marcus could be seen big day for him and his team. holding up the waffle trophy To commemorate, he enlist- with the gusto and pride of a ed the expertise of Jo-Ann Barett, soccer champion. He says, “As a our lead cake designer at Aromas New Yorker and a lifelong sports Boutique Bakery, to build a repli- fan, it’s a dream come true to ca of the MLS Cup trophy made of bring Streetbird to Yankee Sta-

dium, a legendary home to two of my favorite teams.” At the stadium, fans can enjoy favorites such as The Hot Bird Sandwich with Spicy Chica Shake, slaw, and house-made pickles as well as PK Chili Cheese fries, a mix of french fries and sweet potato fries topped with chicken chili, jalapeños, and crispy onions. Also on the menu is the Big Fly Chicken and Waffles as well as other ball game favorites like extra long hot dogs and chicken fingers. Next time you’re at Yankee Stadium rooting for the home team, make your way to section 112 along the first base line to get a taste of Harlem in the Bronx!

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CRAIG HAYNES, MELVIS SANTA, ROB CROCKER

Pianist, composer, vocalist and producer Melvis Santa (Olivia Garzón photo)

As part of its regular Thursday series, the Jazz Foundation of America will present a tribute to Billie “Lady Day” Holiday at the National Jazz Museum in Harlem (58 West 129th St.) April 7, 2 p.m. - 3 p.m. Performing will be one of the busiest drummers on the scene, Craig Holiday Haynes & Friends. His group will include vocalist Marva King, pianist Terry Burrus, and bassist Jennifer Vincent. As the pandemic eased a bit and travel opened up, Haynes began performing quite often in Germany. He also has regular gigs in Las Vegas. During those healthy pre-COVID days the drummer could be seen at Harlem’s historic Cotton Club as a member of the Cotton Club Orchestra and Cotton Club All-Stars. Haynes can jump and swing and play the blues if need be which for Lady Day will be the case. Admission is free, suggested donation; RSVP at jmih.org or call 212-348-8300. Haynes will also be playing the following evening, April 8, at Brownstone Jazz/Sankofa Aban, in Brooklyn at 107 Macon St., at 7 p.m. Visit website sankofaaaban.com. The pianist, composer, vocalist and producer Melvis Santa is creatively adding to the Afro Cuban movement set forth by her Cuban ancestors, who brought an assortment of colorful rhythms and melodic beats to the sounds of New York City. On April 7, Santa performs “Celebrating 105 years of Mongo Santamaria” at

the National Jazz Museum in Harlem (58 West 129th St.), 7 p.m. The native Cuban percussionist and bandleader came to New York in 1950 shortly after bandleader Machito and singer Graciela (made her debut at the Apollo Theater the same night Billie Holiday was performing) and Celia Cruz, arrived in the Big City in the 1960s, where she became one of the most popular Latin artists of the 20th century and was anointed the Queen of Salsa. Ramon “Mongo” Santamaria Rodriguez was a member of the Fania All-Stars and is best known for his Latin interpretation of Herbie Hancock’s “Watermelon Man.” He enjoyed a long stint with vibraphonist Cal Tjader recording on at least eight of his albums. He was a pioneer of the Latin Boogaloo and Salsa movements that jumped off in the Bronx. In his later years he recorded for Concord Jazz and Chesky Records. The 2018 GRAMMY nominee along with her young but established ensemble will include vocals, batá, piano and artistic director Melvis Santa, congas, percussion Rafael Monteagudo, percussion Dylan Blandchard, piano Osmany Paredes, bassist Rashaan Carter, drummer EJ Strickland, and flautist Colette Michaan. “For me, Mongo Santamaria is a source of great inspiration and a prime example of creative musicianship, perseverance and self-realization. He knew closely Candido Camero, who I have the honor to meet and perform for. Also Francisco Aguabella, Armando Peraza and Chano Pozo, his idol. All experts on the sacred language of drumming in their own distinctive way. Chano and Mongo were born and made a career first in Havana (just like me),” said Santa. “They worked at Tropicana. So did I, a few generations after.

Today in New York, I can see their path being continued by my mentor master percussionist Roman Diaz and virtuoso Pedrito Martinez—both from Havana, as well. Hence, there is this strong sense of respect for cultural lineage and tradition in my work that brings me to our shared roots. Mongo also loved to support young musicians (Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea) and female artists. Actually, he recorded with two of my favorite Afro Cuban singers, La Lupe and Merceditas Valdes.” Santa brings her own interpretation of the Afro Cuban sound transformed into her own time and space. For tickets and information, visit website jazzmuseuminharlem.org. Many of his fans national and international know him as Radio Rob, their knowledgeable on-air host on the 24hour jazz station WBGO-FM. In New York City jazz clubs and at his many hostin`g gigs around town he is Rob Crocker, the native New Yorker of Brooklyn. He graduated from Boys High School (called the High) which at the time was one of the top high schools in the city boosting such graduates as jazz greats Randy Weston, Max Roach and Dewey Redman. He was also a musician whose career took a turn towards broadcasting when injuries, sustained in the Vietnam War, cut short his future as a performer. Born in 1945, Crocker is a jazz radio host, programmer and producer whose broadcasting career spans five decades and stretches across three continents. He did two tours of Vietnam (in the central highlands with both the 25th Infantry Division and with the 155th Assault Helicopter Company). After returning to New

York, Crocker took to the New York City jazz scene hanging out at clubs like The Village Vanguard and Slugs. He bonded with the popular jazz radio DJ and writer Ed Williams who (along with pianist and DJ Billy Taylor, the first black on-air radio personality at WNEW ), both encouraged him to consider a career in radio. He started his broadcasting career as a programmer in Europe; he co-hosted the Holland based show “Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands,” by Radio Free America. After returning to the U.S., Crocker became entrenched in radio as a producer, news reporter and hosted jazz programs for the Pacifica Network’s WBAI. New York area listeners are sure to recognize his familiar voice as having hosted shows on every NYC Jazz station from 1970 until the present and even KISS FM (Crocker introduced the pop audience to jazz in the late 1980s). He was also instrumental in bringing back the captivating beat of Brazilian music to New York during the ’70’s. He has also written lyrics for a number of CDs for the Brazilian artist Tania Maria. In the early 1990s, Rob relocated to Tokyo where he worked as a disc jockey in the Tokyo market. Crocker has the singular distinction of being the longest-running jazz disc jockey in the history of New York City radio. In 2020, the mid-Manhattan branch of the NAACP awarded its Roy Wilkins Award to him, citing this “singular distinction.” Aside from FM Radio, Crocker also produces jazz CDs, including “Alto Memories” (that featured jazz greats Sonny Fortune, Gary Bartz, Kenny Barron, Buster Williams and Jack DeJohnette); “UK Underground” from Japanese alto saxophonist Malta; the 1st & 2nd CDs from Japan’s premier jazz vocalist and trumpeter Toku (whom Crocker discovered in Tokyo); “Philly Sounds” (with Randy Brecker, Jay Hoggard, Joe Ford, Uri Caine, Buster Williams, Nabaté Isles and Grady Tate) and “Dread Rooster,” Babi Floyd’s reggae CD featuring Keith Richards on guitar. When it comes to Crocker’s studio style of producing CDs, trumpeter Randy Brecker (of The Brecker Brothers), says “in the studio with the musicians, Rob is…well, he’s one of us” and “when he directs…the results are so much better!” As a New York City based jazz programmer over the decades, he has designed musical concepts for such cultural organizations as The Burgess Collection of Fine Art, The National Museum of Sports, The Brooklyn Museum and Roy DeCarava: Light Break exhibition at the David Zwirner gallery in 2009. Grammy Award winning Bassist Ron Carter praises both Crocker’s mood-inducing announcer’s voice and what he does with it. “He brings in the listener in a way that makes it seem you’re right there with him.”

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Author John Oliver Killens—as prolific as he was profound By HERB BOYD Special to the AmNews

Morris Brown College in Atlanta, and Howard University. He was attending the Robert When I was notified by the H. Terrell Law Black Writers Conference that I John Oliver Killens (Courtesy of the New Georgia School in was among the honorees at this Encyclopedia) D.C. when he year’s ceremony, I was as excitchanged his ed as I was surprised. That stunambitions and ning announcement became enrolled at Coeven more astounding that the lumbia Uniaward I was to receive was named versity to study for the great author and activist creative writing. John Oliver Killens. In effect, the During these moment brought me full circle pursuits he exback to 1986 when as a reportperienced stints er for the Amsterdam News I covin the military, ered the inaugural event of the worked at the conference founded by Killens. National Labor I had just returned to New York Relations Board, City and Harlem in 1985 and and married learned that my girlfriend, Elza, Grace Jones. His was working with Killens on a tenure in serbook project and this was the vice from 1942 conduit that brought me closer to 1945, obviousto a writer I deeply admired for ly provided him his books, most significantly for with some of the me, “And Then We Heard the background that Thunder” (1962). I didn’t get a resonates so rechance to interview him at that alistically in his first Black writers conference at novel about the Medgar Evers College, and a year trials and triblater he was no longer with us, ulations of Afpassing on to glory in 1987. Upon rican American learning of the award, I began a he undertook nearly every lit- soldiers in the South Pacific. search through my archives to erary genre and political format At the very start of his literfind the obit I wrote of his passing within his boundless bailiwick. ary journey with “Youngblood” and found a clipped version of it Beyond my own memories of (1954), John, through the book’s tucked in the pages of “Young- John and what bits of info he dis- protagonist Joe Youngblood, deblood,” his remarkable novel of tilled in his writings, there is his clared his credo that marked his life in the South and emerging collection housed at the Library social and political path. “How do Civil Rights Movement. of Congress and the biography you live in a white man’s world? All of this sent me on another published in the New Georgia Do you live on your knees—do one of my reveries that my most Encyclopedia. He was born on you live with your shoulders bent ardent readers are aware of, and Jan. 14, 1916, in Macon, Georgia and your hat in your hand? Or do back to a conversation I had with to Charles Myles Killens Sr. and you live like a man is supposed Dr. John Henrik Clarke, one of Willie Lee Coleman, both of whom to live—with your head straight many we shared. One thing that were well-read and, along with his up?” When asked about his arcontinues to resonate from those grandparents, instilled him with a tistic outlook, he often stated, sessions was the information he sense of African American history “There is no such thing as art for delivered that he and John Oliver and achievements. John graduat- art’s sake. All art is propaganda, had worked to complete the coned from Ballard Normal School in although there is much propastitution or bylaws of Malcolm X’s Macon in 1933; it was one of the ganda that is not art.” Organization of Afro-American few secondary schools for Blacks True to his belief, John’s essays, Unity. “We did it on my kitchen in Georgia. Subsequently, he did short stories, reviews, lectures, table,” Clarke said. graduate work at Edward Waters and classroom teaching were That moment was exemplary of College in Jacksonville, Fla. with never without venues to exKillens’ expansive an aim to become a lawyer, a press comquest that continued at

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mitment to Black culture and maintaining his political integrity. This desire emanated most consequentially as a founder of the Harlem Writers Guild and as the spiritual father of Black Arts Movement of the 1960. And certainly found traction when he was at the forefront of the Black Writers Conference in Brooklyn at Medgar Evers College that has been dutifully continued and expanded by Dr. Brenda Greene. To list his books is to review a generation of literary and cultural events, including “Sippi” (1967); “Slaves” (1969); “The Cotillion” (1971); “The Great Black Russian: A Novel on the Life and Times of Alexander Pushkin” (1989), published posthumously, and several nonfiction books, such as “Great Gittin’ Up Morning: A Biography of Denmark Vesey” (1972). Interestingly, John’s name was also used as the screenwriter in place of the blacklisted writer Abraham Polonsky in “Odds Against Tomorrow,” a film starring Harry Belafonte, though it was widely presumed that Killens could have done this himself. John’s honors are almost as extensive as his bibliography. He was the vice president of the Black Academy of Arts and Letters, won a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in 1980 and the Distinguished Writer Award from the Middle Atlantic Writers Association in 1984. The New Georgia Encyclopedia observed that “The Before Columbus Foundation, which sponsors the American Book Awards, cited Killens for lifetime achievement in 1985. He is also a member of the Georgia Hall of Fame. Killens died on October 27, 1987. His novel ‘The Minister Primarily’ (2021), a satirical exploration of race in America, was discovered and published more than three decades after his death.”

ACTIVITIES FIND OUT MORE Again we suggest that John’s life and legacy is best preserved at the Library of Congress and at the New Georgia Encyclopedia

DISCUSSION More needs to be said about how he was designated to be the writer substituted for the blacklisted writer for “Odds Against Tomorrow.” PLACE IN CONTEXT John’s life is a veritable tableau of the literary and political developments from post-World War I to the Civil Rights Movement.

THIS WEEK IN BLACK HISTORY April 4, 1968: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tenn. April 5, 1947: Jackie Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers becoming the first Black man to play in Major League Baseball. April 6, 1909: Matthew Henson is the first African American (and possibly the first American) to reach the North Pole.

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“I seek accountability. I’m a city employee just like Isaacs,” said Davis about getting Isaacs fired. “He’s being held at a higher standard than I am and we report to the same people. He definitely doesn’t deserve to take any taxpayer’s money, especially not mine. He can not get a dollar of my money towards his salary.” New York State Supreme Court Judge Verna L. Saunders dismissed Isaacs’ lawsuit from March 2021 that asked to block his discipline trial, said CPR. Isaacs’ lawyer essentially tried to file a lawsuit again, this time going directly to NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell and asking that the CCRB be blocked entirely.

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seconds to answer a call, otherwise, the call gets rerouted to a center in the national call backup network. The network is made up of over 180 centers nationwide. If necessary, the centers will do interventions or follow-ups. Mental health is linked to suicide, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). The New York State Office of Mental Health’s (OMH) goal is to promote mental health services with a “particular focus on providing hope and recovery for adults with serious mental illness and children with emotional disturbances,” OMH’s Director of Public Information James Plastiras said.

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Floyd in her presser. Floyd, who was accompanied by her lawyers, heavily criticized her former employers for lacking diversity and not hiring full-time Black reporters, that “bullies remain comfortably employed” at the station and that her complaints went unheeded, and that there were instances of sexual harassment that she had brought to managment’s attention. To clarify, Floyd doesn’t mean that there are no Black and Brown staffers, administrators, contract, freelance or ‘per diem’ reporters at WNYC. Floyd said that she’s been agitating about the lack of hiring full time Black reporters in the newsroom since 2020. She said that diverse candidates are interviewed but never hired. Floyd’s spokesperson Mike Paul compared it to the Rooney Rule in the NFL that stipulates that at least one person of color must be interviewed but succeeds in keeping women and minorities from being hired as coaches. Floyd, under advisement of her lawyers, declined to describe specific events that she intends to detail in her coming lawsuit. She said that she wants “change” and is not seeking monetary compensation at this time.

THE NEW YORK AMSTERDAM NEWS “The CCRB maintains that Officer Wayne the CCRB’s disciplinary proceedings in a letter. Isaacs committed misconduct when he shot “The PBA request—made behind closed and killed Delrawn Small,” said a spokesper- doors—is equivalent to trying to broker a son for the CCRB. backroom deal to prevent the disciplinary “We believe the evidence is clear and will process from moving forward. As elected argue the case to Commissioner Sewell and officials who have been working for a safer the Trial Commissioner when our Adminis- and fairer city, we are concerned by this trative Prosecution Unit takes Officer Isaacs news,” said officials in the letter. “The twento trial. Mr. Small’s family has waited nearly ty-six elected officials signed on to this letter 6 years to see Officer Isaacs held account- urge you to allow the CCRB to do its job and able for his fatal misconduct and the CCRB is continue with the disciplinary proceeding committed to moving forward with this case.” against Mr. Isaacs. We respectfully request Admittedly, there has been a delay in that you reject the PBA’s latest attempt to scheduling a trial date because of internal thwart fairness.” litigation and evidence gathering, which has Davis said that Mayor Eric Adams has “ununfortunately added to the family’s frustra- officially” spoken with her recently. tions, said CCRB. She believes that real conversations beElected officials urged Mayor Eric Adams tween on the ground organizations, youth, and Sewell to reject Isaacs’ request to block and police are key to solving the gun violence

April 7, 2022 - April 13, 2022 • 23 crisis. “I think that it’s definitely implied that when we’re speaking about gun violence, gun laws, and policies, that we’re definitely speaking about Black and Brown youth and we have to be very honest about that and say that,” said Davis. Davis is also excited that the community has supported her through this journey and is unveiling a street naming in the name of her brother.

Similar to the Lifeline, states are expecting more calls following the transition because mental health has been gaining more attention recently. Plastiras said the onset of the pandemic has impacted the rise in mental health awareness and people experiencing mental health crises. “The fear, uncertainty, economic difficulties, traumatic loss of loved ones and social isolation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has led to an increase in anxiety and depression for many Americans,” he said. For New York to address the anticipated increase in call volume, Gov. Kathy Hochul’s Executive Budget proposes $35M in new resources for 2022-2023 and $60M next year for the expansion of call center capacity, Plastiras said. “These funds build on existing $17M in OMH federal grants underway in 2021-22 for start-up resources and support linkages to New York’s com-

and Mental Hygiene report. Suicide is one of the leading causes of death in the United States. In 2020, about 12 million adults thought about committing suicide and 1.2 million attempted suicide, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data said. The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline was initially launched by SAMHSA and Vibrant Emotional Health in 2005. After the transition, individuals will still be directed to the Lifeline if they dial the original number, for 24/7, free and confidential support. They can text 988 for help as well. “It’s hard to remember the original number. It’s virtually impossible if you are in a crisis,” Evans said.

She lamented that she has lost friends to the stressful practices of the workplace, including her dear friend and fellow WNYC host Richard Hake. Hake was broadcasting from home when he accidentally died at the start of the pandemic in 2020. On a separate note, Floyd said she plans to write a book dedicated to her personal hero, civil rights attorney and former associate Justice of the Supreme Court Thurgood Marshall. She’s leaving the rest to her lawyers and moving on, she said. Roussel maintained that the station had made significant investments to create a newsroom that better reflects a diverse city. She said that over the last 18 months, the newsroom has hired a number of highly qualified people of color, and that diversity has grown by 10% in that span of time. Roussel added that newsroom leadership is 60% people of color and that they had recently promoted Floyd, among five other Black reporters, to higher positions. 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

munity-based crisis system,” he said. Suicide is one of the leading causes of death in the United States. In 2020, about 12 million adults thought about committing suicide and 1.2 million attempted suicide, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data said. New York has seen an increase in the number of calls made to the Lifeline from 2019 to 2020, according to data from the Suicide and Prevention Lifeline’s website said. Although data suggests that call volume from New York increased to the Lifeline, the number of suicide deaths in New York City remained stable in 2020 compared to prior years, according to provisional data from a New York City Department of Health

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Education What do looser school mask and vaccine requirements mean for Black teachers and students? By STEPHON JOHNSON Amsterdam News Staff and MAYA POTTIGER Word in Black

According to scientists, the best way to protect yourself against the novel coronavirus is to get fully vaccinated—initial doses along with a booster shot. All FDA-approved COVID-19 vaccines have been proven to be both safe and effective, and they highly reduce your risk of contracting, spreading, and being hospitalized from COVID-19. For more information, visit the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and talk with your doctor to get professional medical advice. As COVID-19 hospitalizations and infections continue to decline, school districts around the country are loosening mask requirements. Georgia, on March 25, went so far as to formally ban masks in public schools. But what does that mean for Black teachers and Black students, who have much lower vaccination rates than their peers? “It remains to be seen,” says Dr. Hugh Mighty, dean of Howard University’s College of Medicine. “The real question is, as we lift the mask mandates, what does that mean to children in general—and certainly to Black children—if we’re not also pushing vaccines and getting vaccine rates up?” Mighty says. “Obviously, anyone who’s not vaccinated carries a higher risk of becoming infected.” Fortunately, what’s been true in the adult world hasn’t panned out in children, Mighty says. While we have seen a large discrepancy between how the virus impacts adults, the same hasn’t been true for children. Part of it is that children don’t have chronic or underlying health conditions, Mighty explains. But there are worries that a new variant of COVID-19 could send Americans scrambling back inside. In New York City, Mayor Eric Adams planned on ending the mask mandates for kids under the age of 5, but changed his tune when he and New York City Health Commissioner Ashwin Vasan announced that those between 2 and 4 years old will continue to mask up in pre-K and daycare. While right-leaning publications like the New York Post have called for an end to this particular mandate and parents have rallied demanding an end to the policy, Adams has proven time and again in his first year to march to the beat of his own drum. Also, COVID cases have risen (slightly) of late. Last week, the city’s health department reported that 7-day positivity rates were up 2.67% from 2.26% the week before.

effects were the top reason for Black adults not wanting to get vaccinated. And when it came to why parents aren’t vaccinating their children, the top reasons were the cost of the vaccine, the parent or guardian typically doesn’t vaccinate their children, and believing other people have a higher need. The COVID-19 vaccine is free to everyone, and health insurance is not required. Aside from the hesitancy, Mighty says there hasn’t been as much of a push toward getting younger populations vaccinated. “Statistically, that young group has been the ones who have been less affected in terms of percentages,” Mighty says. “Especially when you get down to the [under] 12—into that 7,8, 9,10 age group—fewer of them have been reported as dying from this or having any serious effects from that. So the risks and benefits, if you’re weighing as a parent, might be different.” In a surprising twist, the 7-day highest positivity rates in New York, when divided by neighborhood, are in places where there aren’t as many Black people. Greenpoint, Brooklyn has a 7.1% 7-day positivity rate. In Black kids are the least vaccinated among other Americans. How will looser mask Chelsea, Manhattan, that number stands restrictions affect them? (Courtesy of: Dids/Pexels) at 7.7%. The 7-day positivity rate in Central Harlem (South)/Morningside/West Harlem “But I want to encourage everyone to get we were testing and because we were following is 3.58%. In East Flatbush (North)/East Flatvaccinated, boosted,” said Adams to report- people, we were able to literally say, hey, there’s bush (South) the number stands at 1.34%. ers last week. “And something that probably something changing. If you’re not tracking that, However, Black New Yorkers overall are the many of you are going to ask about, but we you don’t have the information in real time.” least vaccinated with 65% receiving one dose want to encourage people, if you’re in a setTo get a sense of how Black children’s vaccina- (Hispanic/Latinos are at 82% while New York’s ting where you’re not comfortable, like some tion rates compare to their peers, Word In Black Asian/NHPI population at 99%). Only 67% of of you are doing right here in this room, to identified five states that break down vaccina- White New Yorkers have received at least one wear your mask. If you don’t know the vacci- tion status by both age and race/ethnicity: Con- dose of the vaccination. nation status of people who are in the room, necticut, Iowa, Minnesota, West Virginia, and wear your mask. We’re seeing a slight uptick the District of Columbia. The age groups were What happens now? and we want to be prepared, not panic.” 5 to 11, 12 to 15, and 16 and older. “As we know, in the past, cases and hospiThe analysis found that all other races/ethWith masks coming off, what should we talizations have risen in this vulnerable age nicities were at least twice as likely to be vacci- expect to see in the classrooms for the rest group with wider community spread usu- nated than their Black peers. In the 5 to 11 age of the school year? Mighty says it’s not a ally lagging a couple of weeks behind,” said group, an average of 14% of Black students were matter of hesitancy, but of understandVasan on Twitter. “So we want to use every vaccinated, compared to 40% of Asian and 45% ing the risk and prevalence of the virus in tool we have to slow that growth. of white students. In the 12 to 15 group, an av- your area. The best thing to do is look at the erage of 34% of Black students are vaccinated, numbers in your area to be better informed Black kids have significantly lower vacci- compared to 66% of white and 70% of Hispan- of your risk, and then make a decision. nation rates—but the real number is hard ic students. And for those 16 and older, an av“The virus hasn’t changed. It is still there. to track erage of 27% of Black students are vaccinated, It will still infect you,” Mighty says. “When compared to 63% of white and 83% of Hispan- you remove the mask, you’re still going to While the Centers for Disease Control and ic students. incur a risk.” state health departments all keep rigorous “You’re in a group that is driven, certainThere isn’t a one-size-fits-all answer. data on infections, hospitalizations, and vac- ly, by parental considerations,” Mighty says. Though the percentage of kids who are secinations, there are key pieces of data missing. “One thing you will find is that if there is a lower verely affected is and always has been lower For one, only a handful of states offer break- group of parents who are vaccinated, it is less than adults, we should still expect to see an downs of vaccination status by both age and likely that their kids are going to be vaccinated.” uptick in those infected, Mighty says. And race/ethnicity. This is a key metric that would if you aren’t vaccinated, your risk is higher. help the federal and state governments address Lingering vaccine hesitancy is leading to “As our kids are the least vaccinated perpandemic inequalities. lower vaccination rates centages across the board, then they’re Without in-depth tracking, “It’s difficult for going to be the most at risk,” Mighty says. us to say whether a strategy is working or not On top of barriers to even accessing the vac“Because this is endemic, this is never working,” Mighty says. He cited the shift from cine from coast to coast, there has been a lot of going to be a zero risk,” Mighty says. “The the Delta to Omicron variant as a way that de- vaccine hesitancy among Black Americans. A virus isn’t going to pack his bags and tailed tracking showed a new pattern. “Because Census Bureau survey found that possible side go home.”

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that’s good support right there, but sometimes the volume of calls is overwhelming, it’s too much. It’s going to take time.” Eight-year-old Kylie was uninjured, but is very traumatized, she said. As for Jenna now, her mom noted, “She’s awake and she knows what happened. The first two days she was unresponsive, and I didn’t let her know, but she saw it on the news, and she’s blaming herself, and as I said don’t blame yourself, because those two children were her companions, and she takes them everywhere and does everything for them…but the real tragedy comes later when you’re not seeing Kade, you’re not seeing Jenna. Well, you see Jenna, you hear Jenna, but Jenna is not the same again. Jenna is not going to take you to the mall again. Jenna is not going to take you to the movies. Kade is not there anymore. It’s not the same.” After meeting with President Joseph Biden in D.C. again this past weekend, speaking on CBS News “Face The Nation” on Sunday Mayor Adams told Margaret Brennan, “We talked about the flow of guns to our inner cities. A few days ago, I was in Chicago with Mayor Lightfoot, who took several thousands of guns off her streets last year. And here in New York, we’re doing the same…We have to stop the flow of guns, but we must also do the job of getting the guns off the streets that’s there now. And my anti-gun unit, they’re doing that.” Critics point out that with Adams’ push to bring out a revamped, re-engaged, re-imagined street team under the anti-gun unit moniker, plus tough-leaning gun laws, gun

crime is pushing up towards a 40% increase since 2020. Shootings in the city are up by 14% since last year. The mayor berated the critics of what he called, “good, proper law enforcement with the proper proactive things to keep guns out of the hands of young people,” adding that the issue is: “We have a small number of gun dealers that are just skating the law. We’re dealing with a problem with ghost guns…we need to put money into the ATF so they can do the proper information shar-

ing so we can identify the flow of guns in inner cities.” In the meantime, Adams declared, “My officers are stepping up with quality-of-life issues and we are zeroing in on dangerous gangs and zeroing in on those who are trigger pullers and carrying guns.” Recently the mayor has gotten some heat with his focus on going after dice games, turnstile jumpers, removing homeless encampments, etc. He continuously defends his policies, and did so on the Sunday talk show bringing up his: “history of fighting against heavy-handed and abusive policing. You can have the justice that we deserve with the safety we need. Here’s what we’re talking about when we say quality of life…jumping the turnstiles… open drug use, injecting yourself with heroin in our parks in front of our children. Loud noise, just being disorderly… you don’t have to use police to remove the encampments in our city like we’re doing. We’re doing a combination of social services, giving people the dignity they deserve. That is what we’re talking about, clean-

ing our streets and making sure that we don’t have a state of disorder.” “Poverty creates crime,” said East New York Council Member Charles Barron. “Unemployment creates crime. Mental health issues. Drug addiction. And then we have to deal with the police. “The best way to address crime is to eradicate poverty in the richest city in the world.” Former Assembly and City Council Member Inez Barron said more resources to address poverty and youth disenfranchisement are what is needed, as well as the support of community organizations who have boots-on-the-ground. “We need increased funding for our crisis management teams,” she said. “They don’t have weapons, but they have heart, and a love for our community. They want to expand what they are doing. They work 8-hour shifts. But they want more support from the city, because these eruptions don’t happen within 8-hour periods. When they are adequately funded they are able to get the results that show they are successful.”

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not for someone to take their life…This is their block, their community.” Moved by the palpable emotion, Adams turned and apologized to the grieving sisters and their surrounding family members. “We’re so sorry. Words cannot take away what you are going through. But you are representative of the best that this city, and country has to offer, and your children represented that.” Pausing intermittently, seemingly as he gathered his thoughts, Adams continued, “Six bullets in that baby girl. We are asking people to help us. I will personally contribute. We want contributions to go to lisadozierfuneralservice.com to raise money that’s needed.” A tearful Suzette Lewin implored the community to help find the shooters who killed her boy. “I’m asking for justice for Kade,” she said. “All I’m asking, please come forward… please, please, somebody say something. I’m asking for justice for Kade. Please.” “If you see something, say something,” the crowd chanted alongside Jennifer Ellis, as she grasped a photo of her beaming daughter Jenna, who is currently recovering from six gunshot wounds including some to her face and stomach. “Instead of coming out with the phone and recording and videoing, and taking pictures—call the police…we just don’t know who is next. We just don’t want there to be a next Kade. Please. Community leaders, community people, let us get together.” Ellis implored, “I just want the neighborhoods to know that this violence, this gun action, it must be stopped…it is way too much of our people are being targeted and way too much innocent people are being killed. My nephew, he’s gone, never to return in this world…my daughter, laid up in the hospital blaming herself. Why should she blame herself? “We just don’t want it to be a next Kade. We don’t want it to be another Jenna.” Praising A. T. Mitchell and other crisis management teams who had helped 5this family thus far, Adams

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asked the press to respect the families’ privacy and took no questions. Noting that a bullet went through his mother’s car door close to the Flatbush location last summer, a passionate Public Advocate Jumaane Williams said during the press conference, “I know we’re going to be here in another couple of days dealing with another family.” Williams, the former City Council member and current gubernatorial candidate, opined, “Usually when they talk about gun violence in this country they are talking about mass shootings, but the gun violence here looks like this family… Black people are dying by guns every single day…The trauma of Jenna doesn’t just go away, the trauma of the 8-year-old who was in the car, just doesn’t go away. That trauma begets trauma, begets trauma if it is not addressed in our community.” Solutions? Williams said, “There has to be consequences and accountability. I want us to focus on preventing it happening in the first place. There are two budgets going up. One being negotiated in the state right now, one coming up in the city in June. Those budgets should be flush with more money than we can ask for, to address this violence in a very, very real, concrete way…because if it’s not—we’re all just talking rhetoric. “Anybody with any power— federal, city, state—we should all be focused on this. This is a pandemic of gun violence that we have been dealing with in our community. Please.” Last week’s Amsterdam News front page ‘Stop the Bloodshed’ article reported on the rally held in support of the recovering 3-year-old girl who was shot in the shoulder outside a day care center in Brownsville, Brooklyn; plus a Coney Island 7-year-old injured by a stray bullet; and the 11-month-old Bronx girl hit by a stray bullet in January. Sitting in the family living room on East 59th Street, the Amsterdam News asked the Lewin/Ellis sisters about support coming from their family in Jamaica. Ellis said, “They are calling, and they are very supportive. People are praying from all over the world,

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Health Factcheck: People who have been infected with COVID-19 have a natural immunity to the disease and do not need to get vaccinated By HEATHER M. BUTTS, JD, MPH, MA Special to the AmNews According to Johns Hopkins, studies show that “natural immunity to the coronavirus weakens (wanes) over time, and does so faster than immunity provided by COVID-19 vaccination.” Natural immunity differs from vaccine-induced immunity, which is described as ‘what we get by being fully vaccinated with an approved or authorized COVID-19 vaccine.” According to the CDC, while both individuals who have been infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus and those who have been vaccinated, have “at least 6 months” of low risk of infection, it becomes unclear after that what level of protection unvaccinated individuals have after that timeframe. Another CDC report shows that previously infected Americans were 5x more likely to later have a positive COVID-19 test than those who were vaccinated. Dr. David Vlahov, PhD, RN, FAAN, professor of nursing and epidemiology-microbial diseases at Yale University, told the AmNews in an interview that “[w] hile COVID-19 infection results in developing protection from subsequent infections, the antibody response wanes after several months allowing for reinfection and especially with circulation of new strains, persons may experience new or breakthrough infections.” The CDC recommendation for people to get vaccinated even if they have had a previous COVID-19 infection is supported by a group of researchers in the article “Reduced Risk of Reinfection with SARS-CoV-2 After COVID-19 Vaccination - Kentucky, May-June 2021.” They looked at COVID-19 reinfection in Kentucky from May-June 2021 and found that “Kentucky residents who were not vaccinated had 2.34 times the odds of reinfection compared with those who were fully vaccinated.” According to the study team, “[t]hese findings suggest that among persons with previous [COVID-19] infection, full vaccination provides additional protection against reinfection. To reduce their risk of infection, all eligible persons should be offered vaccination, even if they have been previously infected.” A question those who are vaccine hesitant sometimes have is whether individuals should wait to get the COVID vaccine to see if natural immunity will eventually be shown

Claim: People who have been infected with COVID-19 have a natural immunity to the disease and do not need to get vaccinated

Fact Check: False. While being infected with COVID-19 does provide some protection from subsequently developing COVID-19, that protection can wane over time. Vaccination is the best way to protect yourself if and when immunity from infection lessens. to be more robust than getting vaccinated. This is not supported by current research. Among the reasons cited by both Johns Hopkins and the CDC: COVID19 is a dangerous disease that can lead to long term and dangerous outcomes, hospitalization and death. Additionally, while an individual may have a mild case of COVID, they can spread the disease to someone else who may have a more severe reaction to the virus and disease. For the reasons above, the CDC recommends and Johns Hopkins Medicine agrees that all eligible people get vaccinated with any of the three FDA-approved or authorized COVID-19 vaccines, including those who have already had COVID-19. The notion that individuals who are infected with COVID-19 will be as protected from the disease as those who are vaccinated, is a false theory that can lead to individuals who could be protected from the disease contracting it. This is particularly true of Black Americans. According to the authors of the article “Strategies That Promote Equity in COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake for Black Communities: a Review,” co-authored by Dr. David Vlahov, “Black communities have had a high burden of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, and death, yet rates of COVID-19 vaccine uptake among Blacks

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lag behind other demographic groups. This has been due in part to vaccine hesitancy and multi-level issues around access to COVID-19 vaccines.” The authors go on to state that “misinformation plays a significant role in perpetuating vaccine hesitancy within Black communities, and it must be addressed to increase widespread vaccine uptake.” Regarding whether people have as strong of an immunity to COVID-19 after they have had the disease compared to those who have been vaccinated, Dr. Vlahov of Yale stated that “the body develops antibodies as a response to infection and this protection lasts for variable amounts of time. While some infections like measles last for years or even a lifetime, others like COVID-19 start to wane after a matter of months. The difference depends on how an infection triggers the immune system. For this reason, vaccines including boost-

ers have been prescribed to beef up more sustained antibody protection against serious outcomes of infection.” Further, according to Dr. Vlahov “what we know is that vaccines originally developed for one strain have tended to provide a level of protection when new variants have been encountered. The amount of protection appears to be somewhat less than the original strain, but evidence suggests that there remains good protection. Those with a full series of [the vaccine have] been shown to provide better protection than the unvaccinated.” The best data we have indicates that while contracting COVID-19 does offer some protection from reinfection, it is not as strong as the protection you receive from being vaccinated and boosted. And getting COVID-19 in and of itself contains levels of risk of death and hospitalization that being vaccinated does not.

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Religion & Spirituality Nancy Lane, a corporate maven, passes at 88 national Union of Students. In 1975 she completed the Program for Management Development at Harvard Business School. It was at the Westinghouse Broadcasting Company that she began her odyssey in the corporate world and then worked as a project manager for the National Urban League, where her ingenuity led to the creation of the Black Executive Exchange Program. And this was just the beginning of a long productive connection with major businesses and instiNancy Lane, courtesy of HistoryMakers tutions through the early ’70s, including Chase Manhattan Bank, By HERB BOYD New York Off-Track Betting, and the Special to the AmNews administration department at Johnson & Johnson Products. In 1976, a Being a vice president and serv- year after Harvard, she was named ing on corporate boards made Nancy vice president of human resourcLane an indispensable mover and es and administration at Johnson & shaker. And these appointments were Johnson, the first woman to hold this as diversified as their physical loca- position. And she quickly moved up tions, but mainly in New York City. the ladder at the company becoming Residents of Harlem remember her vice president of government affairs, leadership at the Studio Museum which she held until her retirement in where, as in other places, her dedica- 2000. tion and insight were highly regarded. Besides the time she spent in the Lane died on March 28 in New York corporate realm, Lane was also on the City. She was 88. board of governors at Rutgers UniverShe was born on Sept. 3, 1933, in sity, and on the National Board of DiBoston to Samuel Madden Lane and rectors for the NAACP. And there was Gladys (Pitkin) Lane, both of whom a stint as the lead NGO representawere successful professionals—her tive at the U.N. In 1987, she received father employed at American Airlines the Distinguished Alumni Award from and her mother for the Common- Boston University, the highest honor wealth of Massachusetts. In an inter- bestowed upon an alumnus. She also view with HistoryMakers in 2016, Lane completed a year-long graduate prosaid her journey in higher education gram in art history. was at Boston University where in 1962 While she left no immediate survishe earned a B.S. degree in public rela- vors, a number of artists were recipitions and journalism. Later at the Uni- ents of her guidance and support, and versity of Pittsburgh Graduate School many of them exhibited at the Studio of Public and International Affairs she Museum during her stay there, such received a M.P.A. degree. It should be as Lorna Simpson, Carrie Mae Weems, noted that while she was an under- Sam Gilliam and Elizabeth Catlett. graduate she attended the Universi- She was there when plans began to ty of Oslo in Norway and spent time in replace the museum’s building with Austria as a representative of the Inter- a more expansive site on 125th Street.

Bronx Borough President Vanessa Gibson accepted the Trailblazer Award for Women’s History Month at Fellowship Covenant Church last Sunday. Georgia U.S. Senator Rev. Raphael Warnock served as the keynote speaker

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Stateonof Tuesday, NY (SSNY) on FOR of of State NY (SSNY) on by with loc: NY Pursuant to of resolution adopted the Town The Town of meeting January nization were filed the 07/28/21. location: on NY (SSNY) 2/22/21 NY of-NY (SSNY) Secy.Board, ofOffice State of Office NY Secy. (SSNY) 08/04/21. Office State of NY (SSNY) State of NYOffice (SSNY) on of State of on NY (SSNY) on York County. SSNY desigignated as agent of with the RULES AND State ofLLC on onformed 03/01/22. (SSNY) on 02/28/22. Office AUTHOR Office location: NY Office location: LLC in DE on location: 11/09/20. 12/10/20. County. Division Babylon, Commissioner of General Services, of Purchasing, 16th at 6:30pm. The meeting willtheon Hand delivered sealed bidsLLC for Project described below will beNY (SSNY) Secretary of State of New 12/21/20. Office location: NY NY County. SSNY designatfice location NY County. onNY 08/05/21. Office location: NY County. 07/02/21. Office location: 1 2 /0 5 /1 7 . O ffic e lo c a tio n : nated as agent of the LLC againstOffice it upon whom 03/30/22. location: NY County. LLC formed in location: NY County. LLC process Contact: County. County. 11/02/2020. designated asContracts formed in location: SSNY is Princ. desigwill County. receive sealed SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF BRONX byDelaware of the Section,LLC Office ofproposals the Agencyfor: bereceived held in atSSNY 1representatives East 104th Street County. LLC formed in (SSNY) on 10/27/2020. York as agent of LLC upon ed SSNY has been designated NY County. formed (DE) on LLC formed in NY REGULATIONS NY County. Princ. office of upon whom process against be served and shall mail may County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 05/14/21. formed in Delaware (DE) on RULES AND agent ofContracting LLC upon whom pro- FloorDelaware (DE) on 11/04/77. 12/01/20. nated of as agent upon whom Officer, Ground Bid Window 55 on Water Street, 4thChief Floor New York, NY 10029. Office whom against as upon whom office LLC: 30 Hudson Kentucky 08/04/21. SSNY designated (KY) L L agent C 3Location: 2to: 3 5The G rLLC, a New n dprocess C York o n(DE) iDelaware t CION m a yprocess b e(DE) s e12/23/21. r von e d11/10/20. . SitPrinc. Smay N Y office Phone: (212)620−0938 347 E. process Delaware on 01/26/22. Princ. the office of LLC: c/o of: LLC: BIDW. 18G2 Fargo New York, 10041 until 11:00 on the date indicated below when cess against itupon may beAM SSNY office of LLC: 125 against LLC may Princ. process Princ. office of LLC: c/o Arthis agreement rates subject REGULATIONS County. has desWells Bank, Plaintiff be served. SSNY shall mail against it, SSNY may be served and 72nd Fl., NA, NY, NY Under as agent ofNY LLC whom designated as agent ofNO. Yards, c o u r s e 1 A A , B rNY obeen n x10022. , are NY shall mail copy of process to CANCELLATIONS must be SSNY designated as agent of Investment Group, LLC, 3 125 W. 55th St., NY, NY 53 ST, PHB, NY, bids will be publicly opened and read in Bid Room, same address REQUEST FOR FOR ARCHITECTURAL, served. SSNY 55th upon be shall mail proSt., NY, NY PROPOSALS 10019. 10001. served. SSNY shall mail gent Ventures LLC, 551 5th Fax#: as agent upon whom ignated to c/o Cohen & Coprocess shall mail a copy of any proSSNY designated as LLC process against it may be whom process 10468. SSNY designated as whom process t h e NY L L C , of 5 10019. W ea e h aSSNY w k e n made in writing by 12 Noon LLC upon Park Ave., 36th777 Fl., event NY, designated as Purpose: any lawful act. I, ISAIAH MESSADOService TIMOENGINEERING DESIGN, BID PHASE SERVICES, CONSTRUCTION cess to Corporation designated as agent of to: The LLC, SSNY process cancellation before schedul On: proJanuaryagainst 14, 2020 it may be served. Ave., NY, NY 10176. SSNY process against it may be hen, LLP, 767 Third Ave., cess against the LLC served agent of LLC upon whom proserved. SSNY shall mail rdam News agent of LLC upon w hom Street, Unit 3B, New York, AGAINST against it may be served. 10016. SSNY as agent of LLC upon whom proCANCELLATIONS must be made Co., Monday. THY JOHNSON whose adADMINISTRATION ANDtoINSPECTION SERVICES FOR LLCandupon Third Ave 80 State St., OF Albany, NY , 175 whom process Ste 2503, NY,designated NY Email: 180 BRIDGES REHABILITATION EAST 169 designated as agent of PurLLC The Post adserved. 31st Fl., NY, NY 10017. upon is be C/O the LLC: Tyece cess against may bewhom cess c/o shallSTREET mail process against itOffice may be mail process SSNY shall agent itofrequired LLC upon process against it process may be NY 10014. in writing by 12 Noon Monday. charged will based upon the tora d re s stoisPurpose: 4 1 9Michael W e s t METRO-NORTH 1Gold2 9 th SSNY OVER RAILROAD SHORELINE STABILIZATION ROAD SSNY ELEVATION OF 12207. against 10017. Any lawful it may be served. Address to rate Notice of Qualification ofSSNY BCP The forwarding of an order upon whom process against itshall dress to which pose: Any lawful activity. Smith, 143 W 140 the served. shall mail prosmith, Sills Cummis & Gross KY addr. of LLC: 1387 E. x 7.5” the cess against it may be served. SSNY mail pros e r v e d . S S N Y sthe h aLLC, llStreet, m9 a ilW. 57th St., 43rd P u r p o s e : A n y l a w f u l Agency: Lawson Ho-Shing a/k/a209 Lawson H. Ho-Shing;Audrey Ho-Shing Contract Nos. HBX1670, HBX1215 and HBX180 Street, Manhattan NY 10027 activity. SSNY be shall mail process to maintained in DE: OrCAPTREE ROAD OPPORTUNITIES SPECIAL isThe construed as an acceptmay be served. SSNY shall shall York, mail aPhilip copy10030. of Michaeany Purpro-10019. DE addr. New NY to Corporation Service New Circle Rd., Ste. 135, cess 101 Park Ave.,N.Y.C 28thP.I.N. Fl., 84118BXBR272 Fl., NY, NY served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Serprocess J. purpose. forwarding of an order is con- P.C., a/k/a Audrey Scarlett-Ho-Shing; et al., Defendant(s) proclaim my Free National Service St. cess Wilmington de c/o Corporation ange80 FUND IItolawful GPthe LP Appl. for ance of mail process to the at 80ls against cess pose: Any activity. State St.,toAlbany, NY NY 10178. addr. KY 40505. Cert.Co. of Co., of c/o LLC at the addr. vice Co. (CSC), State St., −−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−− Notice of formation of LLC Viento , c /o N owith rto nSecy. RLLC oLLC: s eofserved F u ll- Corporation Serstrued as all an advertising acceptance rules of all ad- NY, Na m ebid asubmitted s I S ADE I A of H T Rof I - Lexington, until am on for THURSDAY, 1,of2018 at the theoffice. Town (CSC), 19801. Cert 80 State St., ofits Formation filed Notice of Formation 11E78 Auth. filed State Each must be accompanied by a 10:00 certified check 2%Albany, of the of FEBRUARY the princ. office of the LLC. and conditions under which vice Co., princ. DE addr. of Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE upon him/her is 36 West 47th 12207-2543. Purpose: Any Form. LLC: Corporation Service filed with Secy. LLC Arts. of Org. filed Media bright US LLP, 1301 Ave. 251 of Little Falls Dr., vertising rules and conditions under REALTY FORCE JOHNSON accordHall, 200 East Sunrise Highway, Lindenhurst, New York, 11757 at amount of the proposal, or alternatively, a bid bond not less than 10% of the NY with 12207-2543. DE addr. of DE Div. of Corps, 401 LLC Cert. of ConPursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated NY (SSNY) on 11/06/19. of TP DE addr. LLC: Cogency LLC: Corporation PUB Service CSC, 251 Street, W03, New York, advertising space space is sold is by sold Co., 251 Little Falls Dr., State, P.O. Box 1150, Frank- lawful activity. N o t ithe c e Secy. oZONE fofFaddr. o aof t (SSNY) i EDT oLLC: n o c/o f AMNEWS with ofr m NY tNotice h e ARUN m e rformation iCORPORATION c DATES a sWilmington, , N Y , One NNY Y DE 19808. Cert. which advertising amount offiled therules proposal, payable toof the Comptroller ofCSC, the City251 of New York. ing to the and usage which time they will be publicly opened and read in the Division of _____________________________________ of of c/o Little Falls St., Suite 4, Dover, LLC: Federal version with Secy. May 11, 2017 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public location: NY County. Office Global New Burton ofAny Form. filed with Secy. of Co., 251 Little Falls Dr., Inc., 850 Little Falls Dr., 10036. Purpose: The principal busiDE 19808. Cert. fort, KY 40602-1150. PurthetheNEW PikMyBrain, LLC Arts. of Wilmington, on 03/26/2021 NY office loca10019. lawful by NEWYORK YORKAMSTERAMSTERDAM Wilmington, of such ISAIAH TRIFORCE AN A 97 S 01/07,14 Purchasing office. and Only Management Group Dr., DE Wilmington, DE 19808. 19901. Purpose: Any State of NY (SSNY) on auction at the Bronx County Courthouse, 851 Grand ConLP formed in Cayman Islands THE NYCDOT DIVISION OF BRIDGES IS SEEKING QUALIFIED BIDDERS/ Rd., Ste. 201, Dover, DE State of DE, State, Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed ness address of the LLC is 36 Dept. ofBLVD Form. filed with DE Secy. pose: Electrical contracting Notice of Qualification of HVS Name DAM NEWS. Publication Org. NY filedCounty. with Secy. of State tion SSNY has type) activity. 2340 FREDERICK DOUGLAS (print or NEWS. Publication is madeis and of JOHNSON. LLC of Org. filed with Cert. of Lawful Form. filed with THIS Secy. XLII Purpose. 12/01/20, 11 and course, Room 600, Bronx, NewSecy. York on January 27, 2020 at CONTRACTORS THEJohn ABOVE REFERENCED CONTRACT. on Princ. of- Corps., (C.I.) Div. of John of Form. filed filed with of Secy. of State ofArts. DE,02/06/19. 19904. Cert. with ofon Form. filed LLC Appl. for Auth. West 47th Street, W03, New State, Div. converting of FOR Corps., sub-contracting work, made and chargedtoaccording of NY (SSNY) 12/27/17. designated as an agent been −−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−− charged according the terms of of One (1) original and ten (10) copies of both technical and cost the Secy. of NY (SSNY) on PROCUREMENT IS SUBJECT TO PARTICIPATION GOALS FOR of State, Div. of Corps., John with EAST 78TH STREET CO. to and 2:00PM, premises known 1312 Needham Avenue, Bronx, fice of 401 LP: 650 Madison Ave., Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal State, Carvel State Office John G. Townsend Bldg., with DE Secy. ofNY State, Div. YORK NY 10027 Secy. of be State of as NY York, NY 10036. Purpose: G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Fedall (MBEs) activities andWOMEN purposto the terms of this card. Office location: County. upon whom process against it NEW this card. proposals. TheAND/OR Technical and CostNY Proposals shall in seperate MINORITY OWNED LLC. BUSINESS ENTERPRISES 06/08/2021 NY office location G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Fed11E78 REALTY Office 10469. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the NY, NY 10022. Duration of St., #4, Dover, DE 19901. Bldg., 820 N.Office French may St., 8th Federal Ste. 4,N Dover, DE of Corps., John G. Townsend AUTHOR 08/17/21. any lawful act or essealed related thereto.and eral St., Dover, 19901. (WBEs) NOTICE OF DE SALE O TIC E O FSSNY FOactivity. Rhas M ATIO N be designated served and shall mail SSNY asSt., agent OWNED BUSINESS ENTERPRISES AS REQUIRED SECTION containers may be hand(SSNY) delivered on or mailed to the aboveof Notice of formation NY County. been St., Dover, BYDE 19901. Rates and regulations sub(212)932−7400 location: NY lawful County. Princ. eral buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being is Perpetual. SSNY LP3P Fl., Wilmington, DE 19801. 19901. Purpose: Any lawful Purpose: Any lawful activity. Bldg., 401 Federal St., Dover, of location: NY County. LLC Purpose: Any activity. Associates, LLC.desigArts copy ofupon any process against a of LLC whom process 6-129 (Local Law 1 of 2013) OF THE NEW YORK CITY ADMINISTRATIVE address. Proposals will not be accepted after 10:00 am on the Rates and regulations subject to office LLC Arts. of Org. ScratchFoto designated as an agent upon Purpose: Any lawful activity. Purpose: Any lawful activity. activity. of LLC: c/o Friedman in the Borough and County of Bronx, City and State of NY, ject to change without notice. nated as agent of LP upon DE 19901. Purpose: Any in Delaware (DE) Do on the CODE (Target/COURT Goal for M/WBE can be seen in the B of the Bid SUPREME COUNO rgprocess filed wagainst ith Secy. of LLC it ism ay C/Obethe LLC: of against served. Kennedy Lewis Ac- formed date ofSchedule bid opening. NOBook EXCEPTIONS WILL BE GRANTED. change without notice. No agree- Notice filed with the Secy ofApproximate State of . whom it may of1 of Qualification of 3 Azimut Management 770 LexBlock: 4711 Lot: 75. amount judgment whom may No agreements as to position lawful activity. 04/19/21. SSNY designated Subject to APPRENTICESHIP 2).Co., This Contract is alsoNotice TYNumber OF BRONX, CITIBANK, United States t aserved t e process of N Y against (shall S S Nmail Yitof ) are oQualification na SSNY shall mail Corporation process to S of the formation of Cielo Under this agreement rates subject cess Fund III GP LLC Auth. not remove any pages; all proposals are to be submitted intact. For ments as to position or regulations, York (SSNY) on costs. New be and TIMES SQUARE LEASENotice of ACington Ave., NY, NY 10065. $705,125.24 plus interest and Premises will be sold served. SSNY shall mail be or regulations, other than PROGRAM and the NYC Comptrollers Labor Law 220 prevailing wages 107 ADOPTION as agent of LLC upon whom ORDER CONFIRMATION N.A., Plaintiff, vs. for ESTATE Agents, Inc. 7014 13 Av- 11/17/2017. Office location. the LLC , 1025 Fifth Ave., Disaster Operations/LoAzul filed w/ SSNY Off. inThe subject information call 7/29/21. (631) 957-3025. Town reserves the right toFormation reject 6/24/2020. NY Office locaother those copy any process against Notice of of of FENotice of Qualification of of BET CELECOM HOLDINGS, LLC HOLD LLC asAppl. Auth. SSNY designated asNagent of toagainst provisions filed Judgment Index# 380685-13. process to the Partnership at requirements described inA the Solicitation Materials. thosethan printed onprinted this. on this. process it may be event of a cancellation before schedul O F E L L A B R O W / K / A enue, Suite 202, Brooklyn, NY County. SSNY designatA p t . 3 E F S o u t h , N Y , N Y gistics Cert of FormLLC. filedArts w/ Only anyCo. andConsultants all proposals. tion: New York County. SSNY HER AGENCY LLC Arts. of THEORY LLC Appl. for Auth. Appl. for Auth. filed with Sethe LLC is C/O the LLC: 595 filed with Secy.whom of State of NY NY the princ. office of the LP. upon process LLC cash or certified funds payable to the Referee will be acNotice of formation of Grits Single woman looking to build SSNY shall mail pro- NY AND WOMEN BUSINESS ENTERPRISES E LMINORITY L A Mon AOWNED E07/29/21. BRO WN , E T OWNED 11228. Purpose: Any law-of State ed agent whom pro10028. lawful of Org filed with Secy. of served. Til forbid forbid orders 7/1/21. SSNY desig. SSDE has to designated agent filedas Secy. of State filed with Secy. ofbe NY upon cy. of State on ra Til orders charged charged for for rate (SSNY) Street, Brooklyn, NYof NY (SSNY) Office Name and addr. of each genagainst itwillmay be full served. cepted asCorporation aOrg. deposit inwith the amount of ten Purpose: percent of Any the purEntertainment LLC Arts of cBaltic family by adoption. Any her rate charged will based upon the cess Service (M/WBE) be afforded opportunityState to submitof bids NY and the(SSNY) City ofbeNew AL., Defendant(s). ful activity. e s s m a y b e s e rv e d a n d activity. on Proposal documents may examined and obtained at the Town Hall rate earned. Increases or aswillagt. of LLC ensure whom that process NY (SSNY) on on 02/15/22. Office 02/14/22. Office location: whom process against it 02/14/22. upon(CSC), Not Printed at NY 12/ earned. Increases or decreases in location: Purpose: Any lawful NYnotifies County. LLC eral partner are available SSNY shall mail process to chase price.of80 OrgApplicable filed with(SSNY) the Secy of 11217. ethnicity welcome, expenses York hereby all bidders that it7/29/20. affirmatively anyNY Salesperson: Co. State St.,4:30 Alshall mail copy of process Office location: Purchasing Department between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and Office location: NY County. location: NY County. LLC County. LLC formed in decreases in space take the be served & shall mail may may be served. SSNY desigspace take the rate of a new ad- formed Delaware (DE) thecontract LLCinentered at theintoaddr. oftoon its from SSNY. C.I. addr. of470LP: State of NY (SSNY) on NY activity. paid. Please call (347) pursuant this advertisement will be awarded to the bany, NY 12207-2543. DE Persuant to a Judgment of a g a in s t L L C to : U S C o rp −−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−− County. SSNY designated as Notice of formation of 560 p.m. daily except Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays, on and after Princ. office of LLC: 33 2nd formed in Delaware (DE) on Delaware (DE) on 01/26/22. process to c/o Universal Regrate of a new advertisement. as agent upon whom nated vertisement. 07/27/21. Princ. office of LLC: lowest office. responsible bidder without discrimination on the basis of race, color, princ. Purpose: Any c/o Maples Corporate SerOffice location: NY County. or my attorney: (800) 5228 Frank D. Lombardi, Esq., Referee addr. of LLC: c/o CSC, 251 N o t i c e o f F o r m a t i o n o f F osex, rc loactivity. s u reManagement a n d S a lenational d u ly origin, Inc., 7014 13th Ave., whom process agent NECK10/13/21. RD designated LLC SSNY Arts. Agents Ave., Apt. 10003. has designated Princ. office of LLC: 125 W. TUESDAY, JANUARY 9, 2018. documents may alsoNY, bebeNYLITTLE Inc., 26 Proposal istered process against it 4C, may sexual orientation, age upon orAgents, place of residence. c/o Rudin Co., lawful SSNY vices Limited, PO Box 309, 582-3678 Ad #:NY, 1938 Dr., Wilmington, The New York AMSTERNotice of formation of St., Ripka T a k aof mfiled i c h i been Bas e athe u t ySecy. Rofo oLLC m upon filed on June 01, 2017 #202, BK, NY 11228. Prinand may SSNY designated agent whom 55th NY 10019. of of ddirected o wbe n l served oto a the d eE. drequirements aGreenbush, t tshall h e Tmail o w n Acct oLittle f B a bFalls yand l o#: nshall ’ s w370 email b s i proces t e a t as agent Prospective bidder's is alsoCarville of Ln, served Inc., 345 Park Ave.,attention NY, and NY The NEWS New York AMSTERDAM as Org. an Arts. agentofwith upon whom proHouse, Grand CayUgland _____________________________________ DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed DAM reserves the Arts LLC Arts. of Org. filed Shapiro, Dicaro & Barak, LLC LLC. Org. filed with an O rder A ppointing S uccipal business address: 300 LLC upon whom process process against it may be SSNY designated as agent of of process against LLC copy schedule "B" in the proposal concerning M/WBE participation in the contract. NY (SSNY) on 07/14/2021 www.townofbabylon.com. NY 12061. Add.Blocks, maintained against the LLC served upon SSNY designated as NEWS reserves the right to censor, 10154. cess against it may be served Notice of Qualification of man, C.I., KY1-1104. Cert. of Notice of Qualification of Cement LLC App. for with Secy. against of the State of DE,be NY right to censor, reject, alter or with the Secy. of NY (SSNY) Attorney(s) for Plaintiff N Y D e p t . o f S t a t e o n The schedule of proposed M/WBE participation is to be submitted by the it may served. cessor Referee dated Noserved. SSNY shall mail proLLC upon whom process E. 74th St., #10A, NY, NY to 220 E 60th St, #3k, NY, NY office location NY County. in DE: Universal Registered is C/O the LLC: 88Dover, Greenwich of LLC upon whom proreject, alter or revise all advertise- agent and shall mail a copy of any Name (print or type) 1711 RETAIL, LLC Appl. for filed with Registrar of LP APOLLO DEFINED RETURN Authority filed with Secretary 401 Federal St., DE apparent28, low bidder within sevenun(7) calendar daysInc., after the date of opening revise all advertisements in on 06/14/2021 NYagainst office loca175 MileApt Crossing Boulevard 10/3/17. Office location: SSNY mail tohas cess to c/o NY Corporation Serit may 12/31/2 be served. vember 2017, I,may the 10022. R/A: VB&T Certified SSNY been designated MORRISON & TENEBAUM Start: Agents, 300 Creek View Street, 714, shall New York,process against it goal be process against the LLC to 8010021. ments in accordance with its rules cess Auth. filed with Secy. of State Partnerships C.I.,SSNY 133 shall Elgin MANAGEMENT, L.P. Appl. of State of NY (SSNY) onbe funded of bids. The M/WBE for this project is 24 %. 19901. Purpose: Any lawful SPECIAL NOTE: These projects shall in part through tion NY County. SSNY has Rochester, New York 14624 Samantha Lord Feher at the vice Co. (CSC), State St., mail process to C ounty. Princ. bus. addr.: accordance with its rules govdersigned Referee will Secy. sell of SERVICES any lawful act.CayPublic Accountants, PLLC, agent upon whomPolite pro- Purpose: Rd, Ste.1/27/2022. 209, Newark, DE inNY 10006. Purpose: Any law- as SSNY shall mail proC/Oan the LLC Angela governing the acceptance of adver- served. NY on with 11/23/20. of for (SSNY) Auth. filed LLC formed DE Ave., 110 Box Grand activity. princ. office of the The Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE 123, c/o Corporation Service Co. 87 WALKER STREET Times 2 been designated as an agent Ord: the W New State Governor’s Office of Storm Recovery - LLC. (877)430-4792 283 Decatur St., Brooklyn, erning the acceptance of a t Non-compliance p State utoblocation: l iGoldfarb c a cNY tNY i o& n7 day a tsubmittal t h e on 57 St,&Ste NY, 250 the requirement, theYork stipulations of1632, Schedule against it St. may2G be served cess 19711. Name add. of auth. ful activity. Fleece 231 w. 149th NY, NY ofuwith (SSNY) on 1/26/2022. Office location: Office County. tising and accepts no liability for its cess C.I. KY1-9000. Purman, regd. agent of the company off LLC: CSC,whom 251& process VIAGRA CIALIS! 60 80 pills (CSC), State St., Albany, against it Disaster Recovery and Federal Funds through Com m unity N Y shall 1 1 2Purpose: 3mail 3 . Saddr. eaccopy . Documeno S ta tec/o upon "B" orAttn: submittal of bids in which any of theofficer prices forinlump sumwhere or unitany items are advertising and accepts no Bronx County Courthouse, NY 1017. Purpose: lawful and of any DE Cert of NEW Partner-in-charge 03/30/22. location: New York County. SSNY de- ofYORK 10003 formed in Office Delaware (DE) NY LLC pose: Any lawful activity. failure to insert an advertisement for LLP, NY 10013 STD 1.00 X 10. Notice Formation of2019 ETERNY 12207-2543. DE addr. of upon whom and at which 100 pills for $150. for $99. significantly unbalanced to the potential offiled: the Department mayGrants. be cause may be served and shall mail Development Block A project funded by and conceived dtary. e sproig n a te d aLittle g ethe n t Falls oLLC f L Dr., L is C Wilmington, Notice of Form ation of 44 act. Room 600, 851 Grand Con- detriment liability for its failure to insert against process Dated: November 18, #98015 Form DE Sec. of State, Rudin matters, 560designatLexingCounty. LP formed in sig.of As agent of LLC upon 11/17/20. SSNY on any cause. Credit for errors in adver- of . cess against the company DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed LLC: c/o CSC, 251 Little Falls for a determination of non-responsiveness and the rejection the bid. NIS FINE CHEMICALS USA FREE shipping. Money back STD a copy of any process against through the NY Rising Community Reconstruction program of upon whom process against EAST 75TH STREET, LLC course, Bronx, NY on Januan advertisement for any the LLC: 620 W 42nd St C/O Notice of Formation of SIGDiv. of Corp, John G. Total 10.0 Delaware (DE) on 01/26/22. whom process against it may Ave., 6th of Fl.,LLC NY, upon NY Notice of formation of Jess LLC Arts. of ed as agent tisements allowed only for first in- ton can be served is Samantha with Secy. of State, Div. of Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Org. filed with Formation of BRG WESTguaranteed! 1-855-579-8907 the LLC is C/O thewith LLC: 175 the Governor’s Office offor StormNATURE Recovery.SPProposers m ustof Apt it may be served and shall of Org. filed Secy. arySolicitation 29, 2018 atof 2:00 p.m., documents ONLY) willserved. be available 21A, New York, NY Arts. cause. Credit for errors in 5, LLC Arts. Bldg., POArts. Box Townsend Duration ofagainst LP is(Specifications be SSNY shall mail 10022. DE addr. LLC: Corprocess itPerpetual. may whom sertion. LordofFeher, 33 2nd Apt. Corps., G. of Townsend Cert. ofSecy. 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Major areas of study include Health Sciences, STEM, Business and Technolog ndards) balling. an Cori Bush Twitter. a 73-unit building including Arts. Consistent with the diversity of Queens, 56 percent of LaGuardia students are born outside of the United Stat release in 1994. Naturally, that was not New ev- York style Public sheltersAdvocate with safeand haven b his Ukrainians So, do people overlook that WNBA designed college for thestudents. Sixty-nine percent live in Queens; the rest come from Brooklyn and be gu- half 8areunits first-generation mobility impaired at minorities349 studentslocated are ethnic (88 percent), 58 percent are women, and 31 percent are over the age has two adult eryone’s experience the or stabilization like the APARTMENTS mb. He However, playerschildren must play overseas to makeandbernatorial candidate beds, Jumaane Wil- all LaGuardia 1002-22 44th Street, students are Hispanic, making the college a Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI). 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He thatfor homeless. a viable option for homeless E.Flatbush beautifully refurb units designed for the nder a reasons reputation connecting sports to oner” and hopped on the bandwag- visit 4www.laguardia.edu. 1 Bd $1,800/monthly. 1 Bdrm mobility impaired located at living on the street is connectHelen Strom is the superviindividuals many politics, “Yes.” on stating, “You maybecause not know & it’s The 1017-27 English Department at LaGuardia Community College ground is seekingFl highly motivated and innovative candidates Refurb Studio 44th Street, tenure-track positions at the Lecturer or Lecturer (Doctoral Schedule) level. ed to to his the mom’s “I death a sor benefits and homeless have news had because…There’s bad experiencesa $1,550 Util/included. 2 Bdrm Brooklyn, N.Y. 11219. vided thinkand people haveofno idea that 50% not headline Refurb $1,700 Monthly. Webster Terrace deep feeling shame for go notoverseas advocacy for the the offSafetyBLACK Net with violence or theft. 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The Mets open the MLB season with optimism and uncertainty By JAIME C. HARRIS AmNews Sports Editor The justifiably cynical Mets fan had a “here we go again” moment with the news that the star pitcher Jacob de Grom would begin the 2022 season shelved due to inflammation in his right (throwing) shoulder. The 33-year-old will miss his scheduled Opening Day start this afternoon against the Washington Nationals on the road. The Mets announced last Friday that there is no definitive time for de Grom’s return and that he would not throw for up to four weeks. “He’s disappointed. We’re disappointed. Everybody is sharing in the disappointment right now. Nobody’s immune to that,” said Mets General Manager Billy Eppler from the team’s spring training site in Jupiter, Florida. Mets manager Buck Showalter took an optimistic view of de Grom’s setback. “Sure, we were hoping that it was a two-

or three-day thing. I know Jake was. It’s a little more time, obviously,” he said. “I look at it as now, thinking about how much stronger Jake is going to be over the long haul of the season now.” Eppler also looked at what could be a worrisome situation through a positive prism. “I think the good news here, there is nothing structurally wrong here, as far as the rotator cuff or anything like that is concerned,” conveyed the firstyear GM. “We are dealing with a bone issue and when you are dealing with bone, they calcify. The healing characteristics will take [care] of themselves, so I think that’s a positive that we walk away with.” A f our-t i m e A l l -St a r and t w o -t i m e Cy Young Award After missing most of last season with a right elbow injury, Mets ace w i n n e r i n 2 0 1 8 a n d 2019, Jacob de Grom will begin this season unable to pitch as he deals with d e G ro m wa s d o m i na nt last shoulder inflammation (Photo courtesy of Wikipedia (All-Pro Reels s ea s o n unt i l b e i ng shut dow n Photography) (50389894478) (cropped), CC BY-SA 2.0) i n ea rly July a s a re su l t of a n e l b ow i n jur y . Ni ck name d star ts th e D eLa nd, Fl or ida g oing 7-2 w ith a 1.08 ER A . “ The d e G ro m i nato r,” in 15 native wa s nearly u nh ittab l e, After signing future Hall of

Fame righty Max Scherzer to a three-year, $130 million dollar deal last November and then trading for Oakland A’s righty ace Chris Bassit last month, the Mets were set to have one of the best rotations in baseball. Now with de Grom’s status uncertain, it could be another season of what if for a team that is seeking its first playoff appearance since losing the wildcard game to the San Francisco Giants in 2016. The Mets were 77-85 last season, third in the National League East, finishing 11.5 games behind the eventual World Series champion Atlanta Braves. They begin this season playing their first seven games on the road, starting with four in Washington (today through Sunday) before a three-game series versus the Phillies in Philadelphia next Monday through Wednesday. The Mets home opener at Citi Field will be next Friday when they host the Arizona Diamondbacks to begin a three-game set.

The Yankees approach Opening Day with an all-or-nothing mindset By VINCENT DAVIS Special to the AmNews For Yankees fans, the franchise’s ownership and front office executives, it’s all or nothing. They expect to contend for and win the World Series. There are no moral victories. Losing is intolerable. The Yankees are scheduled to begin their new quest for another championship today in the Bronx, weather permitting. Rain may delay Opening Day at Yankee Stadium and the team’s meeting with their arch rivals, the Boston Red Sox. With a one-day break tomorrow, the three-game series resumes on Saturday and ends on Sunday. The Yanks will then host the Toronto Blue Jays for a fourgame series Monday through Thursday. They have been a wild-card team four out of the past five seasons, including going 92-70 last year, losing to the Red Sox in the American League Wild Card Game 6-2 at Fenway Park. The Yankees haven’t won a World Series championship

Yankees All-Star outfielder Aaron Judge will begin this season seeking a long-term deal from the team (MLB.com photo)

since defeating the Philadelphia Phillies in six games in 2009. A 13-year drought. They’ll need another big season from outfielder Aaron Judge to accomplish that goal. But he may not be a Yankee beyond this season. The three-time AllStar, who will turn 30 on April 26, will become a freeagent at the end of this season if he doesn’t sign a long-term deal with the team. There have been multiple media reports that the Yankees offered Judge a $30 million per year deal for up to seven years earlier this week. The Yankees won’t look much different than they

did last season because the roster hasn’t significantly changed. But despite the Yankees’ lack of a blockbuster deal this off season, their manager Aaron Boone, in his fifth season leading the team, is somewhat content with his current group of players. “I think we’re a better team right now than we were at any point last year,” said Boone on Sunday. “I would say a more complete team. But it’s April 3rd so that’s great and all, but we have to do it.” Former Yankees catcher Gary Sanchez, who was a target of the fans’ frustration for his inconsistent bat and poor defense, was traded last month along with infielder Gio Urshela to the Minnesota Twins for third baseman Josh Donaldson and shortstop Isiah Kiner-Falefa. Clint Frazier, Corey Kluber and Luke Voit are also gone. Out field er B rett Gard n er, 38, who’s b e en a Yanke e since t he y s ele cte d him in t he 2005 Maj o r L eague Bas eball draft, wasn ’ t re-sig n e d an d remain s a fre e ag ent.

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Destanni strikes, South Carolina wins the national title By LOIS ELFMAN Special to the AmNews The NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Championship was never in doubt. The University of South Carolina dominated this season from start to finish. The extraordinary Aliyah Boston garnered every possible postseason honor, including Most Outstanding Player at the Final Four, but the unexpected star of the championship game was senior guard Destanni Henderson, whose 26 points made her the first player in history to achieve a career high in the title game. “I felt like my Aliyah Boston and the Gamecocks dominated at the Final Four (Gamecocks photo) teammates put me in a good position to score the basketball,” said perimeter, and I just let it fly.” icut. While Connecticut holds Henderson, who is expected This is the second NCAA Title a record 11 National Champito declare for the upcoming for head coach Dawn Staley’s onships, this was the first apWNBA Draft. “I found open career. The Gamecocks previ- pearance in the championship gaps and when they collapsed ously won in 2017. The star of game since 2016. After a season in the paint, Aliyah or whoev- that team, A’ja Wilson was in the beset with injuries—including er it was that was passing the stands to witness the 64-49 vic- the team’s star Paige Bueckers ball just found me out on the tory over University of Connect- missing 19 games—the Huskies’

presence in the final was testament to the enduring power of the program. “Obviously when you play in a game like this and you don’t win, it’s just incredibly difficult,” said UConn head coach Geno Auriemma. “I’m proud

of our guys just to get here, just to be in this situation. Tonight we just didn’t have enough. They were just too good for us.” Although as a point guard Staley was always the coach on the floor, she hesitated to become a college coach because she didn’t want to be responsible for 18- to 22-year-olds. When she finally decided to do it, she discovered that she loved it. “I’m living my passion,” Staley told ESPN after the win. Boston has drawn attention since her freshman season, and this year she lived up to all the hype. She received the Wade Trophy and was named a WBCA NCAA Division I Coaches’ All American. “I’ve been around a lot of great basketball players who have been dominant, and I saw it in her and I would not allow her to be anything less than that,” said Staley. “From a basketball standpoint, I think I’m the perfect coach for her because I recognize what her gifts are and how to walk into that.”

Tiger Woods returns to The Masters cautiously confident By JAIME C. HARRIS AmNews Sports Editor Speculation as to whether Tiger Woods would play at The Masters golf tournament, which begins today at the Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia, became a confirmed story as the 46-year-old five-time Masters champion announced on Tuesday that he would be back on the venerable course competing for his 16th win at a major. Woods trails only Jack Nicklaus in major (The Masters, PGA Championship, U.S. Open and the British Open) victories. Nicklaus’ 18 are the most ever. It is a surprising and remarkable occurrence given that Woods was involved in a near fatal single car accident outside

of Los Angeles on Feb. 23 of last year. Woods suffered open fractures to both the upper and lower parts of his fibula and tibia in his right leg, and at the time faced possible amputation of the limb. A little over one year later, he will be stalking the greens of Augusta National. “As of right now I feel like I am going to play, as of right now,” said Woods at a press conference at the course on Tuesday. “My recovery has been good. I’ve been very excited about how I’ve recovered each and every day. That’s been the challenge. That’s why I

After a horrific single-car accident near Los Angeles in February of 2021, Tiger Woods has remarkably returned to top-level competition, as he will tee-off at The Masters today (Photo courtesy of Wikipedia (Peetlesnumber1, Tiger Woods 2018 US Open 26, CC BY-SA 4.0))

came up here and tested it out for 27 holes.” Woods, who shocked the sports world by winning the Masters in 2019, his first championship at a major since capturing the U.S. Open in 2008, underwent four back surgeries between 2014 and 2017 that left his career in doubt. “I can hit it just fine. I don’t have any qualms about what I can do physically from a golf standpoint,” said Woods ahead of his

highly anticipated 10:34 a.m. teetime today. “It’s now walking is the hard part. “This is normally not an easy walk to begin with. Now given the conditions my leg is in, it gets a little more difficult. And you know…72 holes is a long road. It’s going to be a tough challenge and a challenge I’m up for.” Woods, who won his first Masters title in 1997, is noted for his mental approach to the game and a high pain tolerance level having battled through numerous physical obstacles. “The fact that I was able to get myself here at this point was a success and now that I am playing,” he said, “everything is focused on getting in that position on the back nine on Sunday with a chance like I did a few years ago.”

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Seton Hall has spectacular run in the WNIT By LOIS ELFMAN Special to the AmNews While not earning a spot in the NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Tournament was disappointing to the players of Seton Hall University, that quickly turned around when they won game after game in the WNIT, making it to the finals of that tournament, where the Pirates succumbed to a South Dakota State team playing before a home crowd. “You’re home some of the games, so your fans get behind it and it electrified us,” said Seton Hall coach Anthony Bozzella. “In the semi-finals, we went to Middle Tennessee, which hasn’t lost all year at home and has over 5,000 fans at the game screaming and yelling at you, and you win that game. “Of course, our goal is the NCAA Tournament, but this

year the players got tournament experience,” he continued. “The fans are now really excited for next year. … The greatest gift of being so successful in the WNIT tournament is our players are super motivated. So, when we play next year against Connecticut and we get some big crowds, our kids are so not fazed anymore.” The WNIT provided an incredible showcase for Seton Hall junior guard Lauren Park-Lane, who time and again

Andra Espinoza-Hunter ended her college career with a great run in the WNIT (Seton Hall Athletics photo)

proved she should score over players nearly a foot taller than her. Bozzella described her as the heart and soul of the program. “She does so many things to embody the program,” said Bozzella. “She’s tremendous with the fans and the media. She always gives a great effort in practice. Continually gets better. There’s not a kid who’s more competitive than she is. She enjoys playing basketball and she enjoys it at Seton Hall. Our growth and success coincided with her

Women’s hoops embrace March Madness By LOIS ELFMAN Special to the AmNews

After the viral videos and outrage over the gender inequities at the 2021 NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Tournament, which were followed by an external review by the law firm of Kaplan Hecker & Fink LLP, the NCAA offered women’s basketball a few new things, the most notable of which was the ability to use the term, “March Madness.” While people have been referring to Dawn Staley earned Coach of the Year honors (South Carolina Athletics photo) the NCAA Women’s Tournament with that expres- of their season. coverage than ever for the sion since it launched in 1982, This season was owned by women’s game as well as posithe fact is it could not be used the University of South Caro- tive marketing. The documenofficially or displayed in any lina, which remained the top tary “The Queen of Basketball” manner. That changed this year ranked team in the nation from won an Academy Award. As stuand the signage was everywhere. week one to the title game on dent-athletes began to explore According to several coaches, Sunday evening. Dawn Staley their ability to monetize their players were genuinely excited was named the 2022 NCAA Di- name, image and likeness, some by this. As we mark the 50th an- vision I National Coach of the female ballers nabbed top enniversary of Title IX gender in- Year, and junior Aliyah Boston dorsements. equality is still very real, but at owned pretty much every Player Although it may seem silly, least the players felt validation of the Year honor. nothing spoke more to me as they reached the crescendo There was more television about rising interest in the

women’s game than the coverage of the Final Four on ESPN2. While the games ran on ESPN with the regular commentar y team, two icons of the game, Sue Bird and Diana Taurasi, delivered historical gems and their hilarious yet still respectful take on the games. To me, that honored the rich histor y of women’s basketball while also giving diehard fans something different and off-

growth and success.” Seton Hall defeated Columbia University in the quarterfinals, which Bozzella sees as the start of an exciting New York/New Jersey rivalr y. “We brought our band, our dance team and our cheerleaders,” he said. “I enjoyed that game as much as any game I’ve ever coached. This was a great experience.” The Pirates return four starters next year. Only guard/forward Andra Espinoza-Hunter, who has made an impact on the program, is graduating. WBCA did their final poll, and Seton Hall ranked 35th in the country. Bozzella told his players to continue working out, but he also wants them to enjoy the rest of the semester as college students. They earned it. “We beat three teams in a row basically at the buzzer,” he said. “It was incredible.”

beat to enjoy. A reflection on this season would not be complete without a mention of the growing social justice activism of studentathletes. Columbia University’s women’s basketball team had a season-long campaign directed at allyship and supporting Black women for which ever y member of the team signed on. The Big East Conference celebrated Black History Month by partnering with the Black Fives Foundation, a non-profit organization that seeks to research, preserve, showcase, teach and honor the pre-NBA history of African Americans in basketball. This week, the NBA unveiled the Kareem AbdulJabbar Trophy for the league’s annual Social Justice Champion Award. There has indeed been progress, but so much still to do. We can celebrate this moment, but just like top athletes do, it’s back to work as soon as possible.

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Sports For the Nets, there is still hope in the face of adversity By VINCENT DAVIS Special to the AmNews

game and perhaps the entire playoffs if the Nets adWith just two games remaining on vance. their regular season schedule, match“I feel like our ups at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn season was deversus the Cleveland Cavaliers tomorrailed by my row night and the Indiana Pacers on injury,” said Nets’ Sunday afternoon, the Nets’ focus will all-star Kevin soon be on the Play-In Tournament Durant, speakand their yet-to-be determined oping retrospectiveponent. They were 40-38 and the No. ly after Monday’s 10 seed in the Eastern Conference practice. before facing the Houston Rockets at “I’m not looking home on Tuesday. The Nets then had at it like we’re just a short rest before playing the Knicks not a good baslast night at Madison Square Garden. ketball team. It’s Their season hasn’t been what they like there wasn’t expected. The Nets were the betting faa lot of continuity vorites to win the NBA title to start the with me and Kyrie season and were 23-10 and leading out of the lineup. the East on Dec. 31. But injuries, abThat’s just what Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving will have to carry the Nets in their upcoming sences and conflict caused their fall. it is. When we’re Play-In Tournament matchup as three-time All-Star forward Ben Simmons Kevin Durant suffered an MCL sprain all on the floor toremains unavailable (Bill Moore photos) on Jan. 15, a still unvaccinated Kyrie gether, I like what Irving couldn’t play games in New we got.” York City until last month due to COVID-19 ruary for three-time All-Star Ben Simmons. On the floor together, the pair combined for restrictions, and an unhappy James Harden Simmons has yet to suit up for the Nets 86 points on Saturday night against the Atwas traded to the Philadelphia 76ers in Feb- and due to a back injury will miss the Play-In lanta Hawks on the road. Durant dropped a

career high 55 points including a career best eight three-pointers. Irving added 31 in the Nets’ 122-115 loss. The Cavaliers were the 7-seed, the Hawks the 8-seed and the Charlotte Hornets the 9-seed when Tuesday’s NBA schedule began. The 7-10 seeds will all take part in the Play-In battling for the two remaining playoffs spots. The 1-6 seeds at the end of the regular season are guaranteed trips to the postseason. “Whoever we play, we play. I don’t care who we play,” said Durant. “I don’t care that we’re in the Play-In. Just tip the ball up, see what happens. That’s all you can control. It’s too stressful thinking about trying to dodge a team, just play the game. We’ll see what happens.” On Tuesday, Irving said the Nets’ current situation of just fighting to make the playoffs is unfamiliar to him. “I’ve never been in a situation like this where late in the season all these games matter,” he reflected. “Usually you’re just trying to fine-tune your game, work on details, get some rest. But I’ve been playing 40 minutes…I think about my first three years in Cleveland we were not winning as many games towards the end of the season, there still wasn’t as much pressure.”

The Knicks’ season approaches the end with changes ahead By JAIME C. HARRIS AmNews Sports Editor

a sustained contender and have been at a retically the Knicks’ best players. But they disadvantage at the point guard position for have demonstrably shown they cannot lift much of the season. the Knicks to the upper echelon of the league. The Knicks faced the So this summer, team president Leon Brooklyn Nets at MadRose must build above Randle and Barrett, ison Square Garden or view them as assets to acquire a franlast night (Wedneschise anchor or two. Trading Barrett may be day) and now have difficult given he is a homegrown favorite only two more regular among Knicks fans and will turn just 22 in season games remainJune. But he will be eligible for a maximum ing—tomorrow versus rookie extension this summer worth up to the Wizards in Wash$181 million over five years. ington and the finale For context and comparison, last August, Sunday at MSG. They Randle, now 27, inked a four-year, $117 milwere 35-44 going into lion extension with the Knicks coming off of a their matchup with All NBA Second Team selection. If players the the Nets, tied with the caliber of the Utah Jazz’s Donovan Mitchell Wizards at No. 12 in and the New Orleans Pelicans’ Zion Williamthe Eastern Conferson are available, as has been periodically ruence. mored this season, then it will be incumbent Knicks head coach Tom Thibodeau and the franchise’s front After a 41-31 finish office will have to recalibrate the team’s course this summer upon Rose and the Knicks’ primary decision as a No. 4 seed in the after a difficult season (Bill Moore photo) makers to expend the requisite resources to East a season ago, the get them. AM NEWS Knicks have taken a significant step back. So the off-season will be consequential. Back in December 2020, right after Giannis While there has been development of the Running it back with essentially the same Antetokounmpo signed a $228 04/07/22 million max core young players, the Knicks’ issue has crew will likely yield similar non-playoff re- extension with the Milwaukee Bucks, Knicks been at the top of the roster. They lack the sults. So hard decisions must be made. Right head coach Tom Thibodeau said, “I think it’s transformative talent that is necessary to be now, Julius Randle and RJ Barrett are theo- critical” that a team with championship as-

pirations has a superstar. He then expounded on the various means by which they are attained and the urgency of being aggressive. “When you look at what’s going on in the league, things can change very quickly,” Thibodeau mused. “You work every day with your player development, try to improve through the draft, you have free agency and you have trades. I think you have to be very aggressive in each area. Sitting back and waiting sometimes is not a good thing.” Last summer, the Knicks’ signings of guards Evan Fournier (four-years, $78 million) and Kemba Walker (two-years, $17.8 ) weren’t disastrous but had no tangible positive impact. The focus this offseason will be on the Knicks’ front office and their charge of recalibrating the team’s course.

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