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Pres. Joe—Cancel student debt!

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International International WHISTLEBLOWER REVEALS U.S. ROLE IN rendering it ineffective in enforcIN ZUMA’S CORRUPTION INQUIRY ing tax compliance.”

(GIN)—Business consultant Athol The Hain letter continued: “That Williams said he witnessed high- a multinational company such as level corruption under the presi- Bain would act as a willing and dency of Jacob Zuma—but a good knowing accomplice to corruption portion of it emanated from a U.S. by those intent on undermining the company with connections to U.S. South African state and its democpresidential hopeful Mitt Romney, racy, is outrageous. according to a new report.

“I therefore find it completely unWilliams had been a consultant with the American financial firm Bain Capital founded by chief executive Romney.

Bain & Co. took advantage of weak companies, Williams said, describing their actions as “greed run amok… Things that Bain did in South Africa, they would never do in the U.K. or the U.S.” This comes after a South African judicial commission investigating state capture and corruption concluded there had been “collusion” between Bain and Zuma to reshape entire sectors of the economy.

Bain made numerous attempts to offer Williams “large sums of money in Jacob Zuma (GIN photo) return for his silence,” according to the report.

After testifying, Williams, a former acceptable that Bain & Co. be liethics lecturer at Cape Town Uni- censed to operate commercially in versity, asked to be given state pro- the U.K. and be endorsed by your tection given to whistleblowers but government by contracting for work it was not granted. “I’m in danger with government departments and and I don’t know where it will come public sector bodies.” from,” he said. ”There’s a conscious In a statement, Bain replied: “We effort to leave me and other whistle- accept that through various lapses blowers exposed.” in leadership and governance, Bain In the U.K., Bain’s purported South Africa became an unwitting role in state corruption prompt- participant in a process that inflicted former Labor minister and an- ed serious damage on South African ti-apartheid activist Peter Hain to Revenue Service (SARS), for which attempt to block Bain & Co. from we apologize.” lucrative government contracts Bain reportedly raked in about until Bain fully cooperated with US$10.5 million from the havoc South African prosecutors and in- wreaked at SARS. The company said vestigators who are investigating it had paid back the money it made alleged corruption under former from the SARS contract. Other Bain president Zuma. clients in Africa are Nigeria, Ghana, In a letter to Prime Minister Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya, Boris Johnson, Hain called Bain’s Tanzania, Uganda, Angola, Zambia, actions “despicable,” adding that and Botswana.

South Africa “had its tax collection While admitting “serious failure” and enforcement capabilities mas- at SARS, Bain & Co. insists that this sively and systematically damaged latest report “mischaracterizes” its during the Zuma administration, work in South Africa.

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Whistleblower Williams, who worked for Bain between 1995 and 2019 as a senior partner, dismissed the narrative that “only a few bad apples” were involved in corruption but in fact “the corrupted web stretches across our society and needs bold action” to tackle it.

“The reality is that there are many important and influential people who we revere in society, who we offer awards to, who sit on boards and committees and lead grand initiatives and organizations, who are in fact enabling this capture and benefiting from it.”

He added that he would continue advocating for justice “no matter how far from home I am.” He did not say which country he had gone to.

Meanwhile, former President Zuma’s case has been pushed to May 17 pending the outcome of the ex-leader’s appeal to have the state prosecutor removed from the case.

OIL BLAST RATTLES SOUTH EAST NIGERIA, MORE THAN 100 PEOPLE ’INCINERATED’ (GIN)—In one of the deadliest explosions in years, a fire and blast shook southeastern Nigeria, Imo state, possibly the result of illegal oil refining of stolen crude or “kpofire.”

News reports described charred bodies left scattered among burnt palms, cars and vans after the weekend explosion which killed more than 100 people at an illegal depot on the border of Nigeria’s Rivers and Imo states.

The explosions are worsening air pollution in the Delta and causing respiratory problems for some residents, city officials say.

Most of the victims were workers at the illegal refinery, Timothy Obiezu of the Voice of America reported.

Energy expert Odion Omonfoman

said the high rate of poverty and deprivation in the region is the reason many locals are endangering their lives.

“If you have a fuel station in a community, that community must have electricity, must have some form of energy source for cooking,” he said. “Until you start addressing the basic needs of people…and you’d be shocked…meeting their basic needs can make them go to this extreme length.”

The Nigerian Red Cross Society was on the scene on Sunday to assess the blast, which destroyed a section of the Abbess forest.

Unemployment and poverty in the oil-producing Niger Delta has made illegal crude refining an attractive but deadly business.

The Youths and Environmental Advocacy Center said several vehicles that lined up to buy illegal fuel were burnt.

“The fire outbreak occurred at an illegal distribution site and it affected over 100 people,” Goodluck Opiah, the state commissioner for petroleum resources, said of the accident.

The border location was constructed in response to a recent crackdown in Rivers on illegal refining in an effort to reduce worsening air pollution.

“In the last month or two, there were several raids and some security agents involved were tackled,” Ledum Mitee, former president of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People, said.

At least 25 people, including some children, were killed in an explosion and fire at another illegal refinery in Rivers state in October.

In February, local authorities said they had started a crackdown on the refining of stolen crude, but with little apparent success.

Illegal refineries are common in Nigeria, where shady business operators often avoid regulations and taxes by setting up refineries in remote areas, out of sight of authorities. Environmental groups say the way to end the illegal industry is for the government to fund small refineries. This would be cheaper and simpler to run and also create jobs.

Meanwhile, Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari described the incident as a “catastrophe and a national disaster.”

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Pres. Joe—Cancel student debt!

By NAYABA ARINDE Amsterdam News Editor It should startle most that reports state that over 45 million Americans together owe over $1.7 trillion with a T in student debt.

Who holds the debt? Head-of-households juggling school debt and parenting; brand new students, and professionals and un/under-employed people who left school decades ago; people with single or multiple degrees; self-employed, and general grafters trying to live their best lives providing for themselves and families.

Excited were 20-30-40-50 and 60-something former and current students when then-presidential candidate Joe Biden was bounding around the nation promising to help wipe out student debt.

Forty-five million or so people dreamt about what they could do with that now liberated $300 or whatever monthly loan repayment they are obligated to make.

A house, a car, an adulting big purchase was now a definite possibility.

Wait.

Those were campaign promises. Nothing to do with reality it seems.

Thus, current and former students are set to descend upon the Midtown Manhattan 3rd Avenue office of Majority Leader Senator Chuck Schum-

er on Saturday, April 30, to persuade Biden to cut them some slack, fight the stereotype of a sayanything-to-win politician, and do what he said he would do.

“I’m going to make sure that everybody in this generation gets $10,000 knocked off of their student debt as we try to get out of this God-awful pandemic,” Biden professed on the campaign trail in 2020.

Representative James E. Clyburn of South Carolina, who embodies if anyone the House Democrat who walked close-to-not-winning Biden into the White House, told The New York Times, “If executive orders can free slaves and integrate the armed services, it can eliminate debt.”

There have been a series of meetings in Brooklyn with students and activists calling on President Biden to fulfill his campaign promise and go further and cancel student debt, to relieve 45 million students and former students who are still paying massive amounts for student loans.

Hence, the rally this weekend at Senator Schumer’s office.

“The December 12th Movement supports the April 30th rally of the Cancel Student Debt Coalition,” said Roger Wareham, attorney and international secretariat of the December 12th Movement.

“The burden of student debt falls See DEBT on page 32

Legal Aid keeping Albany on its toes with back-up from elected officials

By STEPHON JOHNSON Amsterdam News Staff

natory hyper-surveillance is prohibited; and provide fair discovery in delinquency proceedings.”

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18 consult with an attorney before being According to Legal Aid, this would subjected to custodial interrogation, en“reduce collateral consequences that suring that any waiver of rights under Mifollow young people into adulthood by randa is genuinely knowing, voluntary, preserving the confidentiality of juvenile and intelligent. Violation of this requiredelinquency records and providing for ment would result in suppression of the their expungement; end draconian sus- child’s statement at trial.” pension practices that feed the school Attempts to contact Hochul, New York to prison pipeline; clarify that discrimiSee LEGAL AID on page 23

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MetroBriefs Metro Briefs LAWMAKERS, FORMERLY INCARCERATED AND FAITH LEADERS RALLY IN STATE CAPITOL TO CALL FOR SENTENCING REFORM New York lawmakers, formerly incarcerated people, families, faith leaders and hundreds of New Yorkers rallied at the State Capitol, calling for the passage of three new sentencing reform bills as part of the recently launched Communities Not Cages campaign.

The campaign marks the first major sentencing reform effort since the partial repeal of the Rockefeller Drug Laws 14 years ago and is designed to address the crisis of mass incarceration, the disproportionate impact on Black and Brown communities, and a system of coerced plea deals.

Speakers called for the legislature to pass the Eliminate Mandatory Minimums Act, the Second Look Act, and the Earned Time Act to overhaul the racist and extreme sentences that have plagued the most vulnerable communities in our state since the Rockefeller drug laws and to end New York’s legacy of indiscriminate and excessive punishment.

The bills will allow greater investments in community safety and healing by eliminating mandatory minimums, allowing judges to review and reconsider excessive sentences, and supporting transformation and the return of incarcerated community members through strengthened earned time laws.

OVERDOSE CONTINUES TO RISE IN NYC AS HARM REDUCTION PROGRAMMING SCALES UP Fentanyl has driven an increase in overdose deaths in the first two quarters of 2021. The increases, which have been seen both in New York City and across the nation, follow a year in which overdose fatalities reached record numbers. To prevent overdose and support New Yorkers, the Health Department continues to invest in programming.

In the first two quarters of 2021, there were 1,233 overdose deaths in New York City, compared to 965 overdose deaths during the same period in 2020, according to a newly released Health Department report.

If these trends continue, the Health Department expects the number of overdose deaths in 2021 to exceed those in 2020, which saw the highest number of overdoses in New York City since records began in 2000. To address the overdose crisis, New York City has expanded services and launched first-of-their-kind programs.

As of April 3, staff have averted more than 230 overdoses since opening. OPCs provide wraparound services for people who use drugs, connecting them to social services, care, and treatment.

METRO BLACK BAR ASSOCIATION TO HONOR MANHATTAN DA ALVIN BRAGG The Metropolitan Black Bar Association is hosting their first in-person gala, L.E.A.P. Into Excellence: Return of the Black Bar in two years hosted by award-winning, NY1’s In Focus host and author Cheryl Willis at Pier Sixty at Chelsea Piers on May 20. Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg is being honored with the Public Servant of the Year Award.

The black-tie evening will celebrate the 2022 legal honorees including: Trailblazer of the Year, Cynthia Bookhart Adams, managing director, Legal and Compliance, Jefferies LLC; Corporate Counsel of the Year, Shannon J. Hales, managing director and general counsel, Citigroup Global Markets Inc.; Jurist of the Year, the Hon. Edwina G. Mendelssohn, deputy chief administrative judge, Office for Justice Initiatives NYS Unified Court Systems; and Private Practitioner of the Year, Tracy Richelle High, partner, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP. The 2022 gala co-chairs include: Lori Douglass, partner, Douglass Rademaker LLP; Trey Muldrow, partner, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP; and Rose Pierre Louis, COO, NYU McSilver Institute for Poverty Policy Research. Go to mbbanyc.org for more information.

NYS DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION HOSTS 2022 MY BROTHER’S KEEPER SYMPOSIUM Hundreds of students, parents, educational leaders, advocates, and experts from across the nation will come together virtually for the fifth symposium of My Brother’s Keeper, the initiative to help boys and young men of color—and all students—realize their full potential.

The two-day event will feature nationally renowned guest speakers and student and educator panels with topics including motivating students, MBK after graduation, and the importance and impact of afterschool education.

Board of Regents Chancellor Lester W. Young Jr. will speak as part of each day’s welcome session. State Education Commissioner Betty A. Rosa will deliver remarks during Thursday’s welcome session. Nationally recognized speakers will provide keynote addresses each day.

Board of Regents members expected to attend include Vice Chancellor Josephine V. Finn, Regents Christine D. Cea, Wade S. Norwood, Kathleen M. Cashin, James E. Cottrell, Elizabeth S. Hakanson, Luis O. Reyes, Frances G. Wills, and Ruth B. Turner.

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Community orgs, police on addressing distrust in Syracuse

By ARIAMA C. LONG Amsterdam News Staff, Report for America Corps Member Footage of an 8-year-old unnamed Black child in Northside, Syracuse being detained by white police officers over stealing a bag of chips went viral last week. Now that much of the hype and subsequent outrage has died down, locals in Syracuse are reflecting on the state of community policing and the underlying “distrust” that still needs to be addressed in the city.

Most advocates agreed that the relationship between community and police has been positively moving forward over the years, but there’s still room for progress.

“When the online video was first shared with me on Monday, I was concerned. I asked Chief Buckner and the SPD to review all body-worn camera footage, which is ongoing. Officers were responding to a call for a larceny that had just occurred at a nearby business. Based on what I have seen, the body camera footage demonstrates no handcuffs were used by officers at any time,” said Mayor Ben Walsh in a statement.

In a later press conference the mayor released police footage aiming to give more context to the situation. In the police videos, the child was placed in the back of a patrol car and he and his brothers were taken home to their father. They discussed the incident all together without filing any charges. “What occurred demonstrates the continuing need for the city to provide support to our children and families and to invest in alternative response options to assist our officers,” said Walsh.

Clifford Ryan runs the OG’s Against Violence non profit and violence interrupter program. He’s known in Syracuse for holding a sign advocating against violence while walking the streets. He said that the reception on the video was mixed in the community. He said the real problem is the image of a young Black child being subjected to bad treatment by a police officer resonates nationwide with communities in the current social climate.

“That interaction with that child immediately traumatized the kid and that’s what you saw in the

Contributed photo of Syracuse youth participating in the Police Athletic League (PAL) program (Solon Quinn photo)

video. You saw a kid frightened for his life because of the demeanor of the officer,” said Ryan.

He felt that the cops and the bystander who filmed the incident, Kenneth Jackson, didn’t do a great job in de-escalating the situation at all. Ryan said the majority of the officers will let kids go in the case of petty theft, especially if they have a preexisting relationship, but that still doesn’t justify a cop “manhandling” a child. He said he would have handled the situation differently as a bystander as well. Both the cops and the bystander could have been more “professional,” he said.

“From my perspective the individual that was on the scene that was doing all that cussing and foul language at the police. He could have handled that situation better as well,” said Ryan.

Ryan said during the 2020 protests for George Floyd in Syracuse, he worked hard to stop any violence or rioting against the police. He posited that calming the interaction between youth and police is pivotal in preventing any kind of trauma and violence towards cops or Black and Brown youth. “I would have made him apologize to the store owners and we would’ve nipped that in the bud without him having to go through the trauma of a police officer physically restraining him,” said Ryan.

Ryan as well as others have engaged the police in forums about community policing and holding racism dialogues with cops to get a grasp on the

Trump found in contempt of court

By HERB BOYD Special to the AmNews

Attorney General Letitia James finally got a ruling she has sought for tirelessly. On Monday, New York Supreme Court Judge Arthur Engoron found Trump in contempt of court for not turning over documents after he was ordered to comply with a subpoena from the state’s attorney general.

Trump, who had been pulling every trick in the book to avoid surrendering his personal documents, was ordered to pay $10,000 a day until he presents the demand for the requested documents.

“Today, justice prevailed,” James said in a statement. “For years, Donald Trump has tried to evade the law and stop our lawful investigation into him and his company’s financial dealings. Today’s ruling makes clear: No one is above the law.”

Judge Engoron also rejected Trump’s challenge to the subpoena for his records and testimony in

February. He ordered him to sit for a deposition and release all the documents at his disposal. According to Alina Habba, Trump’s personal attorney, an appeal will be entered to challenge the contempt ruling.

“We respectfully disagree with the court’s decision,” Habba said in a statement. “All documents responsive to the subpoena were produced to the attorney general months ago. The only issue raised by the attorney general at today’s hearing was with an affidavit submitted which copied the form mandated by the attorney general. This does not even come close to meeting the standard on a motion for contempt and, thus, we intend to appeal.”

Habba also added that a search for any relevant documents in Trump’s possession found that they were all under the control of his company, the Trump organization.

Attempts to reach the attorney general about the difference between Trump and the Trump organization were unsuccessful.

community’s history of distrust.

Syracuse was actually home to many early abolitionists, Black soldiers, local religious leaders, and civil rights advocates dating all the way back to 1823, according to the Urban League of Onondaga County, Inc. Black families migrated north for factory jobs and to take advantage of thriving community life, sports, and social organizations.

However, because of the effects of racism, redlining, poverty, and policing, the Black community has suffered setbacks over time.

Activist Lekia Hill is a Black woman in tech, app developer, and a community leader in Syracuse.

“There’s a lot of history in Syracuse that people should really know about. It’s crazy. If someone took the time to delve into what this area and this community is,” said Hill. “We were labeled number one in concentrated poverty in 2015 and the needle hasn’t moved.”

Hill has two kids; one is 22 and one is 13. She thinks the cops did the right thing bringing the child home, but criticized the way they did it. She said “yoking up” a young kid isn’t a proper process even if they know him and he has committed other minor offenses. Hill said as a Black mother of Black children she could understand reacting viscerally to seeing a Black child seemingly getting arrested, but as a leader she believes in taking a deep breath to analyze a situation.

Hill said it’s important to start empathizing and shifting the narratives for policing in impoverished Black communities. “These sound bites we have from the ’60s and throughout the ’80s are still relevant but up to a point because now this generation is different,” said Hill.

Former Syracuse Police Chief Kenton Buckner, who advocates said was pretty “progressive” in his policing policies, officially resigned fairly quickly after the viral video hit.

Jimmy Oliver, director of community engage-

ment for Syracuse Police Department, said that the chief’s untimely resignation was “unrelated” to the viral video of the child being detained.

Oliver said that Buckner was a “fantastic” leader who was an outsider and made changes in the department “for the good.”

Oliver said he’s a civilian and not a police officer in his role as community director. Oliver said historically the relationship between Syracuse police and the community has not been good, and that it will take time to see real impacts and effective change. “Could we have done things better? Absolutely on both sides,” said Oliver. “The mayor alluded to this and so did the chief. That was a good outcome. We brought the kids home to their parents. Had a conversation with parents and kids. It was a win-win.”

Oliver highlighted the implementation of the city’s Police Athletic League (PAL) program in June 2021. PAL is meant to emphasize more positive interactions with police and youth through sports, mentorship programs, and community events.

“We’ve had over 125 officers engage our youth not just from SPD but from different departments,” said Oliver. “We believe putting our kids in front of different boroughs will be beneficial to them down the road to help them begin to move from this distrust to trust. And we’re planting seeds every single day to do that.”

Oliver said that the child that was detained and his brothers were PAL soccer kids.

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

NewJerseyNews Newark Mayor Ras Baraka and Queen Latifah break ground on new affordable housing development

By CYRIL JOSH BARKER Amsterdam News Staff

Mayor Ras J. Baraka, Newark native Queen Latifah and several officials broke ground Monday on the new Rise Living affordable housing development.

The new development Rise Living is a collaboration between Life Assets Development, Gonsosa, and the BlueSugar Corporation, which was co-founded by Queen Latifah, a native of Newark. The development complements a citywide initiative to revitalize the face of Newark and provide beautiful modern housing to its residents. Officials say several properties along 19th Avenue, South 16th Street, and South 17th Street will be converted into modern housing and mixed-use spaces.

The buildings will include a fitness center,

business center, charging stations for electric vehicles, and ground floor parking spaces. Sixteen units will be classified as affordable housing, and market-rate rents are set to start at $1,800. Modern amenities will include touchless entry and free wifi in all common areas, online portals for maintenance and rent payment, washers and dryers in units, hardwood floors, green roofs in selected units, air conditioning, stainless steel appliances, and more.

Work has already begun on the site at 650 Springfield Ave. in January of 2022. The groundbreaking ceremony will initiate the next phase of work on the site, leading to an eventual 76 units as well as 1,900 square feet of ground-floor space for non-profit organizations. Pre-leasing is expected to commence in July of 2022.

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Brooklyn’s martial arts scientist Soke Haisan Kaleak

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

Brooklyn native Soke Haisan Kaleak, 68, is a Black Belt Hall of Famer, who has trained under martial artist Grand Master Dr. Moses Powell, and is the founder of Kuroshikai Jitsu Karate Do. He has taught his own form of martial arts for decades to Black and Brown youth.

“Osu! Shoto! Tsuki! Warrior’s ready,” said one student as he entered the dojo at the NYPD Community Center in East New York. On one wall there’s a line of mirrors facing an arrangement of large blue mats and along the other various punching bags and equipment. Next door a dance class might be in full swing as kids run up and down the marbleish stairs. And police officers perch at the ground floor check-in desk.

Kaleak, who is addressed as ‘Soke,’ or a traditional Japanese term meaning “the head of the family or house,” is often seen at the helm of the class when he’s not casually observing his teacher-students as they practice different self defense moves, stances, katas, and karate techniques in the dojo.

Traditional karate is more than about learning to fight, said Kaleak, it’s about a system of discipline. “I’m going to teach you how to fight so you don’t have to fight. That’s what we’re doing here,” said Kaleak. “We teach our students not to look at it as a sport. It’s a way of life.”

Kaleak began his martial arts journey about 60 years ago, he said. He grew up primarily in Bed-Stuy, Park Slope and Brownsville with a single mother and is the oldest of his three siblings.

“I didn’t grow up in a house with a father so I kind of like was doing the ‘man’ thing early on. Just trying to be more stable than most 9- or 11-year-olds,” said Kaleak, “and it was in substitution of all the negative things going on in the streets at the time.”

His mother paid for karate classes under Todachi Nakamura, held at the time in a room inside of the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) center. He said he and his friends were making

fun of the class when Nakamura gave him his first lesson.

Kaleak went on to train under Dr. Powell, his first Black martial arts teacher, for 22 years.

Powell was a Harlemite boxer before he met his teacher in 1954. Powell excelled to the point of creating his own system of self-defense jiu jitsu in 1960 that he in turn taught to generations of Black martial artists, including Kaleak and actor Wesley Snipes. Powell broke color barriers as the first Black martial artist to perform at the United Nations and the 1965 World’s Fair. Powell’s system was named Sanuces Ryu, which translates to ‘simplicity and survival.’ It focused on “nerve striking, pressure points, lumber destruction, angle of attack, and joint manipulation.” Kaleak holds a 9th degree black belt in the Eye-to-Eye system of Sanuces Ryu Jiu-Jitsu, a 6th degree in the street survival art of Kumite Ryu and a 5th degree in Shotokan Karate Do. He expanded on what he learned from Powell, and in 1974 started his own martial arts system called Kuroshi-Do with other fighters. He then opened his own dojo centered around youth, called Kuroshi Kai, which existed under the Police Athletic League (PAL) afterschool programs and in community centers in many locations.

“It was really centered around the kids,” said Kaleak, who implemented a Father’s Day program for youth fighters without a biological father at home. “The disciplinary code is important, that children get code early on because that determines the way they treat each other.”

During the onslaught of the COVID-19 pandemic, Kaleak weathered a personal and financial storm. Classes that were being held at the Brooklyn Sports Club in Starrett City shuttered just as Kuroshi Kai was poised to celebrate over 10 years at the facility with a grand party. “We put thousands of dollars into the preparation of that which got virtually lost because New York City had closed down and we were not able to have any gatherings at all,” said Kaleak.

Kaleak also came down with COVID early on in 2020.

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By David R. Jones

Expansion of G&T Will Leave Out Vast Majority of Students

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straight days and my oxygen level was under 80%,” said Kaleak. “I thought I was suffering from sinuses. If it wasn’t for my students who came and got me out of the house and took me to the hospital, I’d have probably stayed there.”

Kaleak, like the rest of the world, shifted to virtual classes to stay in touch with students everyday. When lockdowns were lifted in-person classes didn’t resume at the sports club. But, said Kaleak, students adapted to “difficult” circumstances. A hybrid of Kuroshi Kai is now housed at the police community center on 127 Pennsylvania Avenue in Brooklyn under the Mayor’s Saturday Night Lights initiative, meant to encourage healthy relationships between youth and police.

“We don’t pay rent so to speak but we don’t really make a salary either,” said Kaleak.

“We kind of do it for free. We do it out of love for wanting to teach the art.”

Kaleak is now the master of martial arts sitting in his dojo who watches kids, like himself as a child with Nakamura, pass the room in the community center with trepidation or uninterest at times. The thing he looks forward to the most is seeing his passionate students become teachers and masters in their own right.

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The Adams administration recently fulfilled a campaign promise to maintain the city’s Gifted & Talented programs (G&T). According to the Mayor’s announcement, 1,000 new seats will be added to third grade G&T for the 2022-23 school year and an additional 100 seats will be added to kindergarten G&T as well.

This policy change ameliorates some concerns about the inaccessibility of G&T programs as it would establish the much-coveted programs in every district of the city; thereby, incorporating more students of color into the program than the previous iteration.

For me, the mayor’s expansion of G&T brought to mind Brown v. Board of Education (1954).

With that historic ruling, which ended de jure segregation, G&T programs became a loophole for White parents to avoid integration. Though schools were being forced to integrate across the nation, classrooms and special programs were not; so, White parents could avoid integration by enrolling their children in advanced placement courses that were closed off to children of color.

Unfortunately, not much changed in the following decades. As recently as 2018, reporting on G&T found that enrollment tightly correlated with poverty rates, with higher poverty areas having lower enrollment rates than lower poverty areas. Since there is a close relationship between economic standing and racial identification in the United States, it should come as no surprise that students of color have been heavily underrepresented in gifted programs.

This is likely why the federal government has moved away from exclusive G&T program models. The most recent notice inviting applications for the Jacob K. Javits Gifted and Talented Students Education Program encourages recipients to use the grant for accelerated learning for all students, placing particular emphasis on students deemed at-risk and low-income.

The previous NYC Administration also developed plans to bring accelerated instruction to every student in the public school system. Known as the Brilliant NYC Blueprint, this accelerated learning policy would have begun this fall and would have been accessible to every student, in line with the current federal vision for accelerated learning.

The renewed push for G&T suggests that the Adams Administration believes such programs are at least effective at raising achievement for participants. However, recognized education scholars and researchers suggest the opposite.

Two notable scholars on the subject concluded that research on G&T found no effect for gifted program enrollment on achievement except for one study that found a positive effect on math scores but not on reading scores. A 2021 study in the Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis

journal found that gifted programs across the United States provided little to no academic boost.

As such, prioritizing a selective program that serves such a small number of the students in NYC and provides little academic benefit, sends the wrong message to the vast majority of students who will not benefit from these programs.

Here are four pressing issues that the Adams Administration should prioritize to support public school students and families, as well as promote a more equitable education system: Universal SYEP – To the Mayor’s credit, one of his first actions on the job was to expand Summer Youth Employment (SYEP) by 100,000 seats. A great way to build on this victory would be re-tooling SYEP to be “universal” and more aligned with students’ career goals, as well as increasing future enrollment efforts to include undocumented students.

Spend Federal Dollars Equitably - A recent Comptroller report found that our school system has not taken full advantage of the $7 billion in pandemic relief provided from the federal government, and worse yet, the monies that were spent were not spent equitably – there was no correlation between dollars spent and low-income enrollment.

Improve Recovery Services – These services are meant to provide students with extra academic experiences to undo the academic harm of the pandemic. Yet, only 35 percent of families are expected to take advantage of such programs by the end of the year. Given the great variance in accessibility to and administration of such services from school to school, these recovery services are in dire need of reevaluation and redesign.

Enhance How Students Experience School – We need to get students excited about coming to school again while removing barriers to educational opportunity. This means taking on capital projects like renovating dilapidated school buildings, expanding socio-emotional supports by reducing the student to social worker ratio, and implementing restorative justice practices instead of policing. The Administration should also improve service coordination between city agencies and our schools. For example, students living in shelters shouldn’t have to travel to a different borough to get an education or receive services that would benefit their wellbeing.

Our city faces massive challenges to ensure students get back on track as we emerge from the pandemic. While well-intentioned, G&T expansion should not be prioritized over longterm investments that serve the vast majority of students, and will pay dividends not only for students today, but for future generations, the city’s economy and its recovering workforce.

There is no time to waste.

David R. Jones, Esq., is President and CEO of the Community Service Society of New York (CSS), the leading voice on behalf of low-income New Yorkers for more than 175 years. The views expressed in this column are solely those of the writer. The Urban Agenda is available on CSS’s website: www.cssny.org.

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We need help: Analyzing mental health and Black mass shooters

By ARIAMA C. LONG Amsterdam News Staff, Report for America Corps Member What drives a Black mass shooter?

The Amsterdam News gathered experts to discuss contributing factors, including race and mental health, that may play a role in why people commit these random acts of violence en masse and how we can help prevent more from occurring.

Experts agree that statistically and historically Black and Brown people, particularly men, carry out mass shootings at significantly lower rates than white shooters. According to Statista’s Research Department, 66 out of 126 mass shootings between 1982 and February 2022 were carried out by white shooters in the U.S. In that time frame, 21 mass shootings were committed by Black shooters, and 10 shootings were committed by Hispanic/Latinos.

This is largely a reflection of racial distribution throughout the nation’s population, said the research.

Hard and fast conclusions about race and mass shooters are hard to draw, but the numbers do clearly indicate that most mass shootings are carried out by men.

Dr. Wizdom Powell, a director of

the Health Disparities Institute and associate professor of psychiatry at UConn Health in Connecticut, studies modern racism and gender norms in Black men. Powell asserted that implicit racism can frame the way law enforcement classifies shootings.

Shootings related to gang activity or gang violence are not necessarily classified as mass shootings. She said that the classification is important because the resources deployed to address and solve the issues are different.

“When you call something gang violence, I think people’s empathy goes down to zero because they think those people are killing themselves,” said Powell. “You know, it’s their problem.

Nevermind the victims.”

Powell said that in the event of a mass shooting incident there is usually a “sympathy” conveyed for a person as a “complicated human” as opposed to a person of color who was involved in a gang shooting. “When do you get a full picture of that person? Who they were as a child, all of the traumas they experienced, their lack of resources,” said Powell.

Powell thinks there’s a conflation in general between individuals who are mentally ill and those who commit mass shootings. She said mass shootings are a massive public health crisis

with many factors contributing, with mental illness being one of many.

The city-wide manhunt for alleged 62-year-old, Black subway mass shooter Frank Robert James terrorized commuters on Tuesday, April 12, in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. On the N train, at the 36th Street subway station, James fired numerous gunshots inside of the subway car, causing serious injuries to 16 people but no deaths. He was wearing a mask and reflective jacket, threw smoke bombs, and used a Glock 17 pistol he purchased in Ohio, said police.

At the time of the attack, the cameras were out at three stations due to a technical issue, said police. For about 30 hours after the shooting he had blended in with commuters on the bus and trains. By Wednesday afternoon, thanks to James and others calling the tip line, he was taken into custody in Lower Manhattan and then to a federal court in Brooklyn.

Police said in videos he posted publicly on YouTube before the attack, James had railed against the subway system, homelessness in the city, and directed anger towards Mayor Eric Adams. He had made statements like, “What are you doing, brother?” and “What’s happening with this homeless situation?” in a video to Adams.

Prosecutors have charged James with conducting a violent, terrorist attack on a mass transportation system and he could face life in prison.

It’s still hard to understand why he chose to do what he did though.

“When there is an incident like this that occurs among men from historically resilient yet excluded populations, there’s much more of a focus on it,” said Powell. “I think [it gives] folks an opportunity to confirm some of their stereotypic biases, like if you believe that Black men are angry.”

Powell said that the emotionality or interior lives of Black men are always spoken about with an undue amount of concentrated attention on their anger. She strives to deconstruct the stereotype of the ‘angry Black male.’ She said that there is a prevailing presumption that anger is somehow bad or pathological when it’s actually a legitimate response to emotional suffering and injustice. So when an incident that fits the stereotype of the ‘angry Black male’ occurs, people hyper focus on it because it confirms their bias.

“I think there is a disproportionality in our reporting about these incidents by race,” said Powell, “we also tend to paint the picture of these shooters more sympathetically, when

the shooters are non-Hispanic white males as opposed to males from other socially marginalized groups.”

In the 1960s, said Powell, there was a shift in the way that the field of psychology and psychiatry viewed Black men and their symptomatology while civil rights protests were erupting around the country. Prior to the ’60s “middle class, white housewives” were diagnosed with schizophrenia more often, but there was a sharp uptick among Black males afterwards.

“Again, reminiscent of an earlier time where Black people’s quest for liberation was pathologized,” said Powell.

Powell said that health and science is still at the “tip of the iceberg” in identifying symptoms of depression in Black men. She said her studies have found that societal racism or experiencing racism or secondary traumas of racial reckoning is definitively at the root of Black and Brown male depression.

Dr. Joel Dvoskin is a clinical psychologist based in Tucson, Arizona who studies mass homicides as well as people with serious mental illnesses and substance use disorders. He compared mass shooters to someone who commits suicide, as in they want to give up on life as they’re living it See HELP on page 27

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Brooklyn celebrates 42nd anniversary of Zimbabwe’s independence (Photos by Omowale Clay)

The December 12th Movement in unity with the Southern African Development Community’s 3rd annual 25th of October Zimbabwe Anti-Sanctions Day, protested at the United States Mission to the United Nations (45th St. and 1st Ave. NY, NY) “against the illegal and unjust sanctions targeted at the people of Zimbabwe.”

By NAYABA ARINDE Amsterdam News Editor The December 12th Movement—the international, Brooklyn-based activist group— have been long time supporters of Zimbabwe, late President Robert Mugabe, and have advocated to have decades-long sanctions lifted against the South African nation, which managed to successfully struggle against Apartheid-style European rule.

With that foundation, on April 18, Bedford-Stuyvesant’s Sista’s Place was the location where continental Africans, African and Caribbean Americans came out to celebrate the 42nd anniversary of Zimbabwe’s independence. They gained their independence from Britain in 1976. Almost a hundred thousand Zimbabweans died fighting

for liberation against the Western and U.S.sponsored white government.

In a ‘we’ve-seen-this-movie-before’ scenario, fallout was wide-spread after Britain reneged on their own controversial decision to compensate settler Europeans for land Mugabe reclaimed for Zimbabweans. African resilience and the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front government have maintained that nation throughout the 22 years of American and European Union sanctions, and a wholesale negative mainstream media narrative.

Now, with the same European support, Emmerson Mnangagwa is the president.

Despite Zimbabwe’s sanctions-notwithstanding achievements, the D12 Movement has long pushed for the harsh economic restrictions to be revoked.

They did however, tout positive points like: Zimbabwe having one of the highest literacy rates on the continent; a stringent healthcare policy which led to a relatively low number of deaths assigned to COVID (reportedly 5,464 people). They also promoted an upcoming tour with scheduled visits to some of the world’s most magnificent sites like Great Zimbabwe stone fortresses and the Harare Provincial Heroes’ Acre, where December 12th Movement’s Field Marshall Coltrane Chimurenga was buried in 2019 and given a 21-gun salute.

It was a packed house, with information, education and food. Speakers included Kingston Ziyera from the Zimbabwe Mission to the U.N., December 12th Movement’s Omowale Clay, and Colette Pean, and Jihad from Al-Awda, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition.

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The Inauguration of the Charles B. Rangel Infrastructure Workforce Initiative

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By HERB BOYD Special to the AmNews

Charles Rangel, right, with Assemblywoman Inez Dickens behind him and Hazel Dukes to the left. In the rear behind Dukes is President Boudreau and Ken Sunshine, and Ken Knuckles shakes the hand of a sergeant. (Photo by Herb Boyd)

By HERB BOYD Special to the AmNews “The ship is in,” said former Congressman Charles B. Rangel, putting a veritable capstone on the Infrastructure Workforce Initiative named in his honor and bringing to the close an evening of celebration last Thursday at City College’s Shepard Hall. “This is the beginning of what we have to do and it’s going to be exciting.”

Much of that excitement resonated throughout the vast Great Hall as a number of notables assembled to pay tribute to Rangel’s peerless legacy with opening comments from Dr. Vincent Boudreau, president of CCNY. After praising Rangel’s long and productive leadership in Congress, President Boudreau cited that the Charles B. Rangel Center for Infrastructure and Workforce Development “will not create dead end jobs. It will be a place to prepare people for jobs, even those out of prison…and those jobs will help build the infrastructure of Harlem and the city.”

Earlier this year, at another much smaller ceremony, Rangel was welcomed on campus as statesman-in-

residence, and President Boudreau recalled that moment, noting that Rangel “talked about an educational program designed to meet the vast needs of America’s crumbling infrastructure in a way that provided training and career pathways to residents of historically underserved communities.” These actions and sentiments were echoed by Rep. Adriano Espaillat, Rangel’s successor as representative in the district. The center, he said, “would not only be for Harlem, but Harlems of the world.” Back in March, Espaillat announced $1.5 million for the Rangel Center to bolster the college’s $400,000 investment. “We still have a lot of work to do,” he added.

Among the dignitaries hailing Rangel and summoned to the podium by moderator Lloyd Williams, president and CEO of the Greater Harlem Chamber of Commerce, were such former and current elected officials as David Paterson, Inez Dickens, Cordell Cleare, Gale Brewer, Robert Jackson, Alvin Bragg, and William Thompson. Former Gov. Paterson noted that Rangel “feared no issues or persons, and has brought to the community

a whole new vision to this inaugural moment.”

Manhattan District Attorney Bragg recounted his early years when he first heard of Rangel’s achievements in the Empowerment Zone and his record on public safety; NAACP stalwart Hazel Dukes also recalled Rangel’s effective leadership, noting that he was “all about business, and getting things done.” Some of her comments were also included on a short documentary, highlighting several key events in Rangel’s illustrious career, none more celebrated than 22 terms in office as Harlem’s voice and as a founding member of the Congressional Black Caucus.

This momentous occasion will have to be included in Rangel’s long and eventful odyssey, and as he often said, “I haven’t had a bad day since,” recalling his life being spared during those perilous days in Korea when he narrowly escaped death.

Though not as robust as in the past, he remains the “Lion of Lenox Avenue,” and at the Center young students have already heard his roar, and lined up to meet him.

There was a sense of inevitability that Vice President Kamala Harris would soon test positive for COVID-19. She was recently surrounded by a circle of infected people, including her husband Doug Emhoff, her communications director, the White House secretary, and a deputy press secretary, and even though fully vaccinated with two doses of Moderna vaccine and a booster shot in October, on Tuesday she got the bad news.

Her case is considered a “breakthrough” since she had been given the shots to ward off the virus, and now she will have to be isolated until she tests negative. “She will follow CDC guidelines and the advice of her physicians,” said her press secretary, Kirsten Allen. “The vice president will return to the White House when she tests negative.”

Allen said that Harris, after consultation with her doctors, is taking the antiviral coronavirus treatment Paxlovid, which is available for emergency use for mild-to-moderately infected people 12 and older. “She has not been in close contact with the president or First Lady due to their respective recent travel schedules,” Allen added. Harris had recently returned to D.C. after a trip to California.

Like so many infected with the virus, Harris was asymptomatic in a period when there has been an upsurge in the disease, particularly Omicron BA.2 variant. Even so, the number of cases has declined recently, according to public health officials.

How the vice president contracted the virus has not been disclosed but she has been a participant in several public gatherings, including the Easter Egg Roll event that was attended by thousands of people on the White House lawn.

The vice president is among a list of prominent elected officials who have tested positive, most notably House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Attorney General Merrick Garland, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, and Representatives Adam Schiff and Joaquin Castro.

According to a White House official, contact tracing is underway and notifications will be extended to the appropriate people.

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Union Matters More Staten Island workers want to form a union

By STEPHON JOHNSON Amsterdam News Staff With the high profile of the previous vote to collectively bargain, another Amazon warehouse on Staten Island wants its chance at history too.

Coming off a major victory for one Staten-Island based Amazon warehouse, another one wants its shot at history too.

At 526 Gulf Avenue (the location of an Amazon warehouse) on Staten Island, Amazon Labor Union President Christian Smalls, Association of Flight Attendants (AFA-CWA) President Sara Nelson, American Postal Workers Union President Mark Dimondstein and other members of the ALU’s organizing committee gathered to anAnother group of Staten Island-based Amazon workers nounce that ALU was successful (Photo courtesy of Amazon Labor Union (Twitter)) in garnering the signatures necessary for voting to occur (2,500 people). Elections at the LDJ5 location of Ama- feel aren’t conducive to getting their job done. zon’s complex began on Monday.

Some of those conditions include “unreasonLooking to follow in JFK8’s footsteps, the work- able” work scheduling that’s based on Amazon’s ers want to address working conditions that they desire to efficiently distribute products and not

the workers’ well-being.

The group at LJD5 also received public support from highprofile elected officials as well such as U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders and U.S. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

“If you’re going to do business out here in New York, you got to treat our people right,” Ocasio-Cortez said to those in attendance. “It was the first domino to fall, the first one. We’re not gonna stop until the United States of America is union made.”

“What this whole thing is about is working people standing

working people died every day because of hazardous working conditions. More than 4,764 workers were killed on the job from injuries alone. An estimated 120,000 workers died from occupational diseases. The job fatality rate was 3.4 per 100,000 workers. Musculoskeletal disorders continue to make up the largest portion (21%) of work-related injuries and illnesses, and Latino and Black workers remain at greater risk of dying on the job than all workers.

During a video news conference, AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler, joined by other leaders including Bessemer, Alabama-based Amazon warehouse workers, talked about how these work conditions decimate families of color.

“That’s tens of thousands of families losing a parent, a child, a sibling, every single year,” said Shuler. “Latino and Black workers specifically remain at greater risk of dying on the job than all workers. That is, frankly, unacceptable.”

Back on the Island, Smalls, who was fired by Amazon in the early days of the pandemic for joining a walkout in protest of work conditions, wants to unionize. let the public know that this won’t be the only rodeo in the immediate future. It’s going national as well. up,” added Sanders.

“We got emails from Walmart, we got emails Staten Island’s condition is no coincidence. from Target, Dollar General, from Apple, from According to a recent ALF-CIO’s report titled Starbucks,” touted Smalls. “We are going to take “Dream on the Job: The Toll of Neglect,” 340 over the country.”

Unions and businesses both praise the Clean Slate Act

By STEPHON JOHNSON Amsterdam News Staff Post-budget talk among legislators in Albany has hit the ground. And legislators are looking to clean the floor behind them.

The Clean Slate Act is a bill that addresses the desire to amend criminal procedural law related to the automatic sealing of certain convictions. The legislation would end the prejudice and punishment ex-convicts face after serving time, such as being denied the ability to collect public benefits or being rejected for apartments and jobs.

In a statement, the Clean Slate NY coalition (consisting of groups, advocates, and businesses) said, “We applaud the Senate Codes Committee and Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins for advancing the Clean Slate Act on the first day of session post-budget, marking immediate momentum for the bill. This historic legislation would end the perpetual punishment that over 2 million New Yorkers face due to a prior conviction. With overwhelming support across the state, now is the time to break cycles of intergenerational poverty and allow all New Yorkers to contribute to their communities. We look forward to the bill’s passage this session to bring relief to New Yorkers who have been excluded from economic opportunity, stable housing,

and higher education State Senator Zellnor Myrie (https://www.nysenate.gov photo) housing, and higher education. To for far too long.” be eligible for automatic sealing The Clean Slate Act relief, individuals must have comhas received support pleted probation, parole or postfrom different specrelease supervision, and cannot trums of the five borhave incurred any new convicoughs. JP Morgan tions or pending charges during Chase, Verizon, and the three or seven year waiting the New York State period. Sex offenses are not eligiBar Association have ble for sealing.” joined forces with Myrie said that it’s not a coinciDC37, 1199 SEIU, dence that this type of legislation has Local 338 RWDSU, made it to the State Senate. It’s someUFCW and Riverside thing that everyone can agree with.

Church and Trinity “Clean Slate has brought togethWall Street Church. er the largest coalition of supportUnder ers for a criminal justice reform bill the Clean Slate Act in New York State history: advocates (S.1553C/A.6399B), and local governments, labor unions introduced by State and corporate leaders, faith leaders Senator Zellnor and nine out of ten New Yorkers who Myrie and Assemagree people with conviction records bly Member Catashould have a fair shot at employlina Cru, “New ment and housing,” stated Myrie. “By Yorkers will be eladvancing this bill, the Senate took a igible to have conhuge step toward safer, stronger and viction records more stable communities and helpautomatically sealed 3 years from sentencing ed. These timeframes are carefully calibrated ing over 2 million New Yorkers who agree people for misdemeanors and 7 years from sentenc- to allow people with conviction records to with conviction records should have a fair shot ing for felonies, not including time incarcerat- move forward with their lives and access jobs, at employment and housing.”

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Opinion The problem with education and how can we fix it

By CLARENCE WILLIAMS JR.

It seems that the American educational system is in a perpetual state of reform.

Everyone agrees that current and past systems do not work, yet every so-called solution is another dead end. With each new sales pitch, textbook or academic initiative comes the same frustration.

Our children are failing. PISA, the Programme for International Student Assessment, states the following: “The most recent PISA results, from 2015, placed the U.S. an unimpressive 38th out of 71 countries in math and 24th in science. Among the 35 members of the Organization for Economic Coopera-

tion and Development, which sponsors the PISA initiative, the U.S. ranked 30th in math and 19th in science.”

In repairing this broken system, we seem to be very clear on the what, somewhat fuzzy on the why and clueless on the how. This system of teaching and learning was not designed to serve the diverse population, social conditions, and the multitude of learning challenges we face today. Throughout my career as an educator and educational leader, one of the questions I am often asked is: How can we build a curriculum that will satisfy the needs of such a diverse population with varying degrees of academic exposure? I believe this question is at the

Wipe out student loan debt EDITORIAL

It was good news for all Americans, especially for those still burdened with debt from student loans, that President Biden has signaled that he will use his executive authority to cancel some of the debt.

Currently, a moratorium on student loans has been in effect since the outbreak of COVID19, and the news has come that the president plans to do more than extending the moratorium, which is still short of canceling the debt entirely.

During a recent meeting with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, Biden said he has asked his aides to explore options of broad forgiveness for federal loans, and that would go beyond his campaign pledge.

Even so, there is a bit of hesitancy on such a broad relief initiative, particularly its impact on the economy in this period of rising inflation. Biden appears to have his ear cocked to some of the concerns raised by a recent government watchdog report that has revealed stark failure in the student loan forgiveness program run by the feds.

According to the GAO (Government Accountability Office) it was indicated that an increasing number of student loan borrowers who could have their loans “canceled under existing laws may miss out because of incompetence in the program.”

For Richard Cordray, chief operating officer at FSA (Federal Student Aid), an agency of the Education Department, “this is really inexcusable,” he said in an interview with Yahoo Finance. “But what’s done is done. And what we’re trying to do here is take account of it and make adjustments for it as best we can.”

Apparently, if Biden’s words ring true, the FSA has an ally in this quest, and perhaps this is the coordinated tandem we need to expand the number of student loans due to be forgiven more than 157 actually discharged of the nearly 8,000 eligible under existing laws.

Mr. President, we know your agenda is laden with pressing issues, but this is a measure that thousands are entitled to and an executive move on your part would be a significant step toward relief of anxiety for many Americans struggling to make ends meet.

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core of our educational dilemma. Now depending on where we are on the political timeline, that question could be answered differently. If we were in the Industrial Age when our current education system was modeled after factories to produce the American workforce, the answer would be simple; either you succeed or drop out and get a job. If we were living in the era prior to Brown vs Board of Education, the solution would be, deal with the resources you have under the misconception of “Separate But Equal.”

The modern era gave us No Child Left Behind. This standards-based platform held school districts accountable for their success or failure with state-wide assessments. This one-size-fits-all approach fails to address diversity and social challenges. NCLB is not a curriculum; neither is its counterpart, the Common Core Learning Standards. The Next Generation standards were supposed to right the wrongs of Common Core, however it is also a list of standards that poorly reflect diversity or pedagogical practices,

doing very little to address how teachers teach. Today, Critical Race Theory tries to approach education from a lens of diversity and awareness. Unfortunately, it has become the latest political football in the game of educational reform that is an integral part of the polarized political landscape that is America, the result, stagnation, misinformation, and unending gridlock.

Part of the problem is we still categorize education as “General Education” and everything else is a subcategory or outlier. We need to start realizing that those subcategories and outliers are our student population. What is a general student? Merriam Webster defines general as: “Belonging to the common nature of a group of like individuals, GENERIC.” Our education system is anything but generic. The New York City Department of Education breaks down the following: 13.3% of students were English Language Learners 20.8% were students with disabilities

73.0% were economically disadvantaged Race or ethnicity: 40.8% Hispanic 24.7% Black 16.5% Asian 14.8% white This breakdown doesn’t even reflect the students with unclassified social emotional needs.

If we are going to rebuild this system, we must start from the ground up and understand who we are designing it for.

This eliminates the need of forcing different groups into a curriculum that doesn’t fit or apply to them. These groups are the mainstream. It’s time we built reflective curricula and assessments for all students. Here is an example, ELA (English Language Arts) is broken down by age, grade and level, as are all major subjects.

This means that every 3rd grader, roughly 9 years old, will be learning the same thing at the same time. Here’s the problem, in a class of 25 students, no two are See FIX EDUCATION on page 29

Being sick and tired does not mean these shootings will stop

By JAMES B. EWERS JR. Ed.D. It just means you are sick and tired, nothing else. I leave my house each day with a mixture of apprehension and caution.

There isn’t a panacea you get that rids you of these senseless shootings.

Living like this is a bit unnerving to me.

We seem to be a society of shootings at times.

What happened to the good old days?

The good old days are long gone and will never return. Of course, that is my opinion, and you may think otherwise.

If you think otherwise, then good for you. I bet you are not a valid senior citizen like me. I have seen a lot and so have other senior citizens and we have a different perspective.

We know what the good old days really were.

Those days allowed us to go into the public square and not have to worry about getting hit by a stray bullet. We didn’t see men shooting one another.

Back in years gone by, Black men settled their disagreements at the worst by fighting each other. Guns weren’t used or even seen.

In my neighborhood in Winston-Salem, N.C., I never saw a gun. There were no reports or talk about guns in the neighborhood.

Those were the good old days.

People sat on their porches and

laughed and joked. They told tall tales which made you think, did that really happen? You see, we had great storytellers.

Before you think it was perfect, I will stop you and tell you that it wasn’t.

We had the police, and we had a fear of them. Yet there was not this monthly shooting of Black men by white police officers.

‘Driving While Black’ has become a sad but truthful axiom about what is happening to Black men by the police.

We are being stopped and shot by the police. Strangely and unfortunately, these traffic stops have led to our untimely deaths in too many cases.

Most recently, we have seen another Black life end at the hands of a white police officer. On April 4, 2022, Patrick Lyoya lived his last day on Earth. He was shot by a Grand Rapids, Michigan police officer.

Patrick Lyoya was a Black Congolese refugee, and the white police officer has yet to be identified.

How did Patrick Lyoya lose his life? The reports say it was a routine traffic stop.

More specifically, it was for an unregistered license plate.

It is my opinion that there is nothing routine about being stopped by the police. So, it begs the basic question of humanity, how do you lose your life over an unregistered license plate?

These types of incidents have me sick

beyond words. It is reprehensible to watch this happening in America.

Peter Lyoya, Patrick’s father said, “My heart is broken to see an officer being on top of my son and to shoot him in the back of the head, my heart is really broken.”

I just wonder at that critical moment, was the officer’s only recourse of action to shoot him in the back of the head?

The Michigan Department of Civil Rights has requested that the Department of Justice launch an investigation.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Michigan is also involved.

Vickie Levengood, spokesperson for the Michigan Department of Civil Rights said, “At some point between late 2019 or sometime in 2020, we initially reached out to both agencies hoping to discuss options for collaborative investigations or some help in investigating this pattern or practice issue.”

This term, “pattern or practice” has come about because of what is happening from a social justice perspective in Michigan.

Let us pray for the family of Patrick Lyoya. They should not have this kind of pain and suffering. Patrick Lyoya should still be living.

James B. Ewers Jr., Ed.D., is a youth advocate, consultant, author and president emeritus of the Teen Mentoring Committee (TMC) of Ohio.

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The rising cost of gas at the pump will likely change the summer plans for millions of hard working Americans. March inflation numbers are in and are now at a staggering 8.5% with the cost of everyday goods steadily rising making it harder and harder for struggling Americans to survive. This financial hardship is of course exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic as many Americans have yet to recover from the wage loss associated with shutting down the economy.

The current national average cost for a gallon of gas is over $4, up over 80 cents a gallon, which is a significant increase and is certainly not sustainable for most Americans. With the November midterm elections fast approaching, the question for the Biden administration and Democrats overall is simple one: how will their policy decisions impact the votes of everyday Americans?

Well the answer to that question is simple, without a dramatic shift in policy, Democrats can expect significant losses in the House with the possibility of losing the Senate which would effectively stall Biden’s political agenda, making him a lame duck president. It would be akin to the Obama losses in the 2014 midterms, which were catastrophic for Democrats not only at the federal level, but also at the state and local levels as Republicans, joined by a comfortable margin of swing voters, handed Republican politicians victory at every level.

Americans are tired of struggling and after two years of COVID restrictions resulting in their entire lives coming to a complete halt, people want help and they expect the president to deliver. Unfortunately, over one year into his presidency, Biden hasn’t delivered on his campaign promises and he certainly hasn’t improved the lives of the American people through his policy de-

cisions. Perhaps the only success he’s had thus far is placating his loud, progressive base. However, this will certainly backfire come the 2022 midterms because their radical agenda simply isn’t consistent with what the majority of Americans, Democrat or Republican, want. In fact his administration has completely ignored the calls to “lead from the center” or reach across the aisle, which is exactly what he ran on. To date, the Biden administration’s decision making has revealed that his entire campaign was built not on the truth of bipartisanship, but more of the same. Despite his claim that he would unite a country that was vastly divided under the Trump administration the country is arguably more divided than ever and this has all occurred on Joe Biden’s watch.

The world is in flames with Russia’s unprovoked invasion into Ukraine and as China continues to expand their global footprint economically and militarily all while we’re debating gender terms and wokeness. The new Democratic Party is bad for America and America’s strength and leadership is being undermined by progressives who believe everything should revolve around the way they see their world and their “cultural norms” that seek to dismiss thousands of years of human tradition and values.

The American people didn’t give Biden power because they wanted high gas prices, instead they hoped that the former U.S. senator and two term vice president could work across the aisle with his former Republican colleagues to get America back to work and he has failed at every turn. The president has one job and instead of sticking to it, he’s tried to accomplish everything under the sun to appease a small but obnoxious and vocal left wing minority which is why his poll numbers continue to suffer.

In fact, Biden’s approval number’s are so bad that only one other president in history has performed worse at this point in their presidency and that’s former president, Donald Trump.

The majority of American people can’t continue paying for gas to get to work at these prices but they simply just don’t have a choice which is why the politics surrounding this entire issue are so bad for the president. It seems Democrats are either blaming corporate America or Russia instead of talking about what they’ll do to make things better for everyday people.

Republicans have a case for the American people that Democrats haven’t made and that is, under their leadership, gas prices will drop, COVID restrictions will be lifted, permitting people to return back to complete normalcy. They will also lift burdensome restrictions and bureaucratic red tape that create unnecessary hurdles for entrepreneurs and new business owners who make up the bulk of new jobs in this country.

Republicans must immediately begin making their case to the American people that our unwillingness to become energy independent and our dependence on foreign oil, even if small, can have a significant impact on everyday Americans. They need to also work with oil companies on promising to pump more to increase volume, thus lowering prices. The midterms will be here before we know it and the Republicans have an advantage as the American people are now looking to them to turn things around.

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

I am still thinking about soon-to-be Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. A few weeks ago, Judge Brown Jackson was confirmed by the Senate and will soon begin as the 116th Supreme Court Justice and the first Black American woman ever on the bench.

Many witnessed the lengthy Senate confirmation hearings where Republican senators asked Judge Jackson mundane and insulting questions over the four-day period.

Their “questions” ranged from critical race theory, her personal feelings on religion, and whether she thought babies were racist.

The Texas Republican senator even used his time to read from a children’s book in an attempt at a “gotcha” moment.

Judge Brown Jackson is by far one of the most qualified justices we will see in our lifetime. Her double Harvard degrees even made Republican senators and pundits opine as to whether she was “too qualified” to understand the Black experience. Luckily, three Republican senators crossed the aisle and aided the Democrats in securing a successful vote of Judge Brown Jackson. Some of the Republicans who helped confirm Judge Brown Jackson to the federal bench over a year ago could not bring themselves to vote for her as the tenure of a Supreme Court justice is a lifetime appointment.

The framers decided to make Supreme Court justices lifetime appointees since the president would rotate over the course of two four-year terms, members of the House of Representatives would stand for reelection every two years, and U.S. senators would be eligible for reelection every

six years. Their intent was to make Supreme Court Justices the stable voice to interpret the Constitution and in our nation’s history a Black woman has never been confirmed to the bench…until Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson.

Justice Brown Jackson ascends to the bench with a groundswell of support from Democrats, and especially Black women, who see this supremely qualified woman who has had to endure criticism from individuals who could not hold a candle to her qualifications. For example, Justice Amy Coney Barrett could not remember the five freedoms listed in the First Amendment during her confirmation hearing.

She literally could not list the five basic freedoms that most law school students know and/or learn in the first week of law school.

Judge Brown Jackson personified the adage that so many Black parents have told their children for generations, “We must be twice as good to get half as much.”

Watching Judge Brown Jackson answer questions with a keen eye on the Constitution and a reserve and calm that would have impressed even Job, reminded so many people of how far we’ve come and how far we still have yet to go.

Despite what Justice Brown Jackson endured, when she begins her tenure this summer I will delight in her hard work and the hard work of so many who helped her get where she is today.

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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More calls for reparations as British royals come calling again

By BERT WILKINSON Special to the AmNews Buckingham Palace in London has once again sent the next generation of British royals on a so-called charm tour to the Caribbean but like last month’s visit involving Prince William and wife, Kate, the British are being royally reminded of their role in the brutal slave trade and the need to pay reparations.

Prince Edwards and his wife Sophie arrived in the region at the weekend on a three-nation Eastern Caribbean tour that includes St. Lucia, St. Vincent and Antigua but even before they had set foot in the sub region, reparations groups and rights committees were making it plain to them that they want to talk about reparations rather than engage in the usual royal platitudes. Grenada was originally scrubbed from the itinerary in circumstances that are still unclear but officials say it is linked to demands by the reparations committee to meet with Earl and his wife to demand compensation. Officials fear that such a moment would have embarrassed all sides.

Charm tour apart, the visit is

also being billed as one to cel- their descendants have been on while reparations commission ebrate Queen Elizabeth’s 70th the receiving end of barbaric pol- members denounced the royal year on the throne. icies from London while noting presence.

“We know that the British Crown, both as royal family and as institution, is historically documented as an active participant in the largest crimes against humanity of all time.”

“We know that the British Crown, both as royal family and as institution, is historically documented as an active participant in the largest crimes against humanity of all time,” said Antigua’s reparations commission ahead of their scheduled arrival on Monday. “Why is it so hard for you to sincerely apologize for your nation’s role in slavery, like decent human beings do when they offend? We know that acknowledging and accounting for wrongs are deeply enshrined within both British law and society,” the body said.

It contended that Africans and

that the royal family continues “to “live in splendor, pomp and wealth attained through the proceeds of the crimes. We know that the British Crown, both as a royal family and as an institution, is historically documented as an active participant in the largest crimes against humanity of all time,” it said, calling for reparations payments to be made to descendants.

In St. Vincent, a small group of about 20 protestors were able to capture local and international media attention with placards denouncing the British role in the transatlantic slave trade

“The British were responsible for the hunting down, kidnapping and transshipment of 60% of all of the Africans who were taken from the African continent. They hunted us down, they kidnapped us. They stole us. They worked us. They owe us and they must now pay us,” I Witness news quoted former reparations chair Jomo Thomas as saying.

Last month, an even higher profile visit by Prince William and Kate encountered difficult periods particularly during stops in Belize and Jamaica. In Belize, authorities had to cancel

one major event for fear of exposing the royals to strident and embarrassing protests from indigenous groups, while in Jamaica, an outburst from Prime Minister Andrew Holness caught everyone off guard during a formal ceremony.

“We are moving on,” Holness blurted out while telling the touring party that Jamaica will later this year join Guyana, Trinidad, Dominica and Barbados in ditching the Queen as its head of state and becoming a republic with its own Black or Brown president rather than William’s grandmother as head of state.

The local reparations commission had also made tough remarks about Britain and slavery and everywhere the party went, the British were attacked for compensating the owners of slaves during abolition rather than the victims who were forced to work for free in brutal conditions.

The visit came just around the time that regional leaders were meeting for their mid-year summit where reparations were discussed and where a renewed commitment was made to fight for the same.

Immigrants from South Sudan can now reapply for temporary protected status FELICIA PERSAUD

IMMIGRATION KORNER The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has now designated an extension and re-designation of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for 18 months, for immigrants from South Sudan.

The redesignation of South Sudan allows additional individuals who have been continuously residing in the United States since March 1, 2022, to obtain TPS, if otherwise eligible.

The TPS status will be open from May 3, 2022, through Nov. 3, 2023. The extension allows

only currently eligible TPS beneficiaries to retain TPS through Nov. 3, 2023, so long as they otherwise continue to meet the eligibility requirements for TPS. TPS applicants must meet all eligibility requirements and undergo security and background checks.

Individuals newly eligible for TPS under the Sudan designation must have continuously resided in the United States since March 1, 2022. This includes those who benefited from the previous TPS designation for Sudan, which required continuous residence in the United States on or before Jan. 9, 2013.

TPS applicants must meet all eligibility requirements and undergo security and background checks.

The extension of South Sudan

allows currently eligible TPS South Sudan beneficiaries to reregister and retain TPS through Nov. 3, 2023, so long as they otherwise continue to meet the TPS eligibility requirements. The redesignation of South Sudan allows additional individuals who have been continuously residing in the United States since March 1, 2022, to obtain TPS, if otherwise eligible.

You must refile your Form I-821 for TPS along with the required fees no later than November 3, 2023, to continue seeking initial TPS. If USCIS does not grant your fee waiver request, you may also refile your Form I-765, with fee, either with your Form I-821 or at a later time as long as it is within the

period that South Sudan is designated for TPS, if you choose.

An initial applicant for TPS must pay the Form I-821 filing fee and applicants age 14 or older must also pay the biometric services fee. However, if you decide to wait to request an EAD, you do not have to file the Form I-765 or pay the associated Form I-765 fee (or request a fee waiver) at the time of registration.

You may wait to seek an EAD until after USCIS has approved your TPS registration application or at any later date you decide you want to request an EAD as long as TPS for South Sudan continues. To register for TPS, you only need to file the Form I-821 with the $50 filing

fee and the biometric services fee, if applicable (or request a fee waiver).

Mail your completed Application for Temporary Protected Status (Form I-821) and Application for Employment Authorization (Form I-765), Request for Fee Waiver (Form I-912) (if applicable) and supporting documentation to USCIS, Attn: TPS South Sudan, P.O. Box 6943, Chicago, IL 60680-6943 if sending my U.S. Postal Service; and to USCIS, Attn: TPS South Sudan (Box 6943), 131 S Dearborn St. 3rd Floor, Chicago, IL 606035517 if sending by FedEx, UPS or DHL. The writer is publisher of NewsAmericasNow.com – The Black Immigrant Daily News.

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Ntozake Shange’s ‘for colored girls…’ —a cathartic classic

(Left to right): Stacey Sargeant (Lady in Blue), Amara Granderson (Lady in Orange), Okwui Okpokwasili (Lady in Green), Tendayi Kuumba (Lady in Brown), Kenita R. Miller (Lady in Red), D. Woods (Lady in Yellow), Alexandria Wailes (Lady in Purple) in “for colored girls…” (Marc J. Franklin photo)

By LINDA ARMSTRONG Special to the AmNews Ntozake Shange’s play “for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf” is a catharsis for Black women! It shares the attributes of Black women—their love, their sacrifice, their devotion, their support of family and each other, but also their feelings of being marginalized and abused. Black women get to be seen at all the points of their existence.

Through seven characters only referred to as the Lady in Red, the Lady in Yellow, the Lady in Brown, the Lady in Green, the Lady in Purple, the Lady in Blue and the Lady in Orange, we hear stories of unrequited love, betrayal, rape, seduction, indifference and murder. Black women and their self-esteem are commodities devalued by the world, especially by Black men. The depth of Shange’s voice is bottomless. Black girls and

women are connected through the ancestors and hold a bond which rejuvenates and sustains us through the worst things that can happen in life. Sitting in that audience with my 19-year-old daughter Jasmine and hearing these extraordinary actresses speak the timeless words of Shange was an emotionally overwhelming experience. Often, both my daughter and I found ourselves crying, sometimes cheering, sometimes agreeing with the resilience of our Sisters and indulging in their moments of reflection and joy. There was a moment when the entire theater burst out in sounds of affirmation and anticipation when the Lady in Green began a wellknown and beloved monologue “somebody almost walked off with all of my stuff.” That monologue is a woman sharing how her man breaking up with her almost caused her to lose herself—everything that is a part of her being and identity. And, worst of all, he

didn’t even realize it. She was tearing herself down and losing her essence and was the only one experiencing this life-altering event.

But, thank God, she came to her senses before it was too late.

I love how this production has Black women proclaiming that they love their men on purpose, they are not sorry, and they don’t need to hear the men telling them how sorry they are for hurting them, cheating on them, lying to them. They call these particular Black men out and it’s a healing feeling. Another moment that happens in this play is of course the horrific story told by the Lady in Red at the end, of Crystal who loved Bo Willie, a love that was to have a very traumatic journey and stunningly tragic end. At the end of this production I could not speak, I was overwhelmed with emotions. I could clap uncontrollably, but I wanted to shout and nothing would come. Thank God my daughter shouted, screamed,

cried and clapped loud enough for us both.

This cast of Ladies is absolutely unforgettable! Kenita R. Miller is astounding as the Lady in Red; Okwui Okpokwasili is moving as the Lady in Green; Stacey Sargeant is sizzling as the Lady in Blue; D. Woods is dynamite as the Lady in Yellow; Tendayi Kuumba is formidable as the Lady in Brown; Amara Granderson is tremendous as the Lady in Orange and Alexandria Wailes is remarkable as the Lady in Purple—signing her feelings and having other ladies speak the words. This ensemble has a connection that spills out across the footlights and into the audience. We could feel everything they conveyed, and often there were audience affirmations, anger and shock.

What was also marvelous about this production being on Broadway is how Shange’s play brought so many Black people to the Great White Way. Our beautiful

people were out in droves and the rest of the audience was a lovely mixture of races. But, everyone felt the pain, joy, uncertainty, sorrow and connection of the Black woman. Camille A. Brown’s staging of this classic show was absolutely brilliant and brought it into this century. These ladies are not in dresses, but wear comfortable dance attire. They dance in the forms of praise, hip hop and use dance as a means to express and cleanse themselves.

Brown as the choreographer and director has taken this already powerful work to a new unimagined level of power! “for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf” is playing at the Booth Theatre at 222 W 45th Street. Please, all my Sistas go and experience this production, you will feel something that will overwhelm you, inspire you and sustain you.

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By MARGRIRA Special to the AmNews The Caribbean Film Series returns to the Brooklyn Film Festival, and the official selection to open the event is “Right Near the Beach,” directed by and starring Gibrey Allen, who was also in attendance with a post-screening Q&A on April 27 at Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM).

In Allen’s “Right Near the Beach” the film focuses on a prominent Jamaican sprinter, Jeffery Jacobs, who is found brutally and mysteriously murdered. Rumors about a secret life he may have lived create a public uproar, causing obstructions to the murder investigation, and torment for Jeffery’s normally placid father, who seeks justice for his son.

“Right Near the Beach” takes a hard look at homophobia in Jamaica set against a backdrop of beautiful vistas and it does not treat the murder as a voyeuristic mystery, but rather the film challenges audiences to contemplate the agony of loss instead of debating the value of one person’s life.

The co-producer of The Caribbean Film Series and executive director of The Luminal Theater, Curtis Caesar John, says this: “What Gibrey Allen does with ‘Right Near the Beach’ is portray what in less capable hands would be a predictable ‘ripped from the headlines’

story and treats it both politically and sensitively.”

The film is preceded by Nelson Foix’s short film “Timoun Aw” (Your Kid). For audiences, tickets are currently available for purchase at BAM.org. Following the film screening, there will be a talkback featuring the film’s director Gibrey Allen moderated by writer/ editor/film curator Dessane Lopez Cassell.

Stills from “Right Near the Beach” (Courtesy photos) Now in its seventh year, the Caribbean Film arts being underserved Series is an ongoing program of in too many urban and Third Horizon, the result of the rural communities, brings merger between the Brooklyn Black films straight to the Academy of Music, The Luminal people. They provide fulTheater, Brooklyn-based Carib- ly-curated exhibitions bean Film Academy, and Miami- of diverse and complex based Third Horizon Media, an cinema and media of award-winning creative collective the Black/African diasdedicated to developing, produc- pora, allowing these arting, exhibiting, and distributing ists to present their work film and other art forms that give within our unique brand voice to stories of the Caribbean, of shared audience expeits diaspora, and other marginal- riences, presented in maized and underrepresented spaces jority-Black communities in the Global South. across the United States The Luminal Theater (2015) is a and virtually. non-profit 501(c)(3) corporation. LT For more information, is a nomadic cinema that due to the visit www.bam.org.

‘The Offer’ looks inside the legendary ‘Godfather’ film

By MARGRIRA Special to the AmNews I don’t care what my colleagues might think about the new, limited series “The Offer”—a look at the making of the historic film, “The Godfather,” but I loved it!

“The Godfather” is one of the most successful films made and it has stood the test of time because it employed a solid storytelling structure. This might raise questions about our world’s need to engage in storytelling as a species because long before films and novels, there were stories around the proverbial fire and illustrations on cave walls.

Former producer and Paramount executive Robert Evans, played in this series by Matthew Goode, is our guide in the saga of how “The Godfather” actually

got made. At the time, Evans was Paramount Pictures’ vice president, and part of his job was answering to a board of investors who were always looking for new and exciting ways to fire him. This was a period of great financial uncertainty, and the company was struggling. They emphasized the staggering difference between what Evans does and what these “titans of industry” do for work.

Evans, here, isn’t just fighting to get his movies made, the passionate man with a golden touch was fighting the good fight for all movies to get made. He was standing on his proverbial soapbox, advocating for each and every storyteller who dreamed of working in film.

Wearing his signature big, black glasses with a perpetual, warm California tan, he was like

a hungry dog with a juicy bone: “You have to feed their souls,” he says, pacing around the corporate boardroom. He tells them with assurance, tagged with a warning that America is broken. Citing that the people don’t trust big business or politics. His speech back then sounds like America now, and movies then (and now) drop the viewer into a world far away from their own. Movies entertain and provide an escape—“We’ll feed their souls until they’re fit to burst,” he promises, and movies (in general) have made good on his promise.

Charles Bluhdorn (Burn Gorham) made the decision to keep Paramount in the Gulf & Western bulging portfolio, and Evans kept his job (that day). The big picture under discussion was “The Godfather”—eventually

directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Al Pacino—which is essentially a film about American families. Available on Paramount+ limited, “The Offer” is based on Oscar-winning producer Albert S. Ruddy’s extraordinary, never-before-seen experiences of making “The Godfather.” The series stars Miles Teller as Albert S. Ruddy, Matthew Goode as Robert Evans, Juno Temple as Bettye McCartt, Giovanni Ribisi as Joe Colombo, Dan Fogler as Francis Ford Coppola, Burn Gorman as Charles Bluhdorn, Colin Hanks as Barry Lapidus and Patrick Gallo as Mario Puzo. The series begins on April 28 and runs through June 16.

Is “The Offer” going to appeal to a casual fan of the film or would it be more of an attractive offer for a cinephile scholar? Or will it fulfill the casual television viewer as

they get a peek into how movies are made?

In the role of producer Al Ruddy, Miles Teller brings great weight to a computer programmer who created the now legendary television show “Hogan’s Heroes.”

Ruddy has the right stuff for Hollywood. He wrote himself out of a dull life where he would have been chained to a 9-to-5 desk job.

Using his instincts he hires Bettye McCartt (Juno Temple) as his secretary, a big-brained woman who would have eventually run a studio if she were born in another era.

Ruddy flies to New York to pitch Charlie on his vision for “The Godfather”—the bestseller the studio purchased for a bargain.

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Ruddy is a problem solver, a real producer and he wants Mario Puzo (Patrick Gallo) to write the screenplay, but Paramount has a hard and fast rule about authors adapting their own material.

Instead, he pushes for the indieminded auteur, Francis Ford Coppola (Dan Fogler) to direct. The casting of the lead becomes another interesting chapter in this saga—tucked inside a saga—as they attempt to trim the screenplay, deal with dallies, and try to anticipate what viewers will like or not like.

The stakes are high for Ruddy, and his relationship with Evans goes up and down as they attempt to make “The Godfather” into a movie.

“The Offer” series creator and writer, Michael Tolkin (“The Player”) adds an interesting subplot that is wrapped around the Colombo crime family, and the Italian American Civil Rights League. In the center of both of them is the infamous crime figure, Joe Colombo (Giovanni Ribisi) who is against the movie but even-

tually, with Ruddy’s influence, becomes an important and powerful ally. But becoming a friend of a known mob boss comes with its own set of risks and challenges. Now, for the fans of the iconic movie “The Godfather,” there are many interesting facts shared, like how the cat that curled up on Marlon Brando’s lap wasn’t in the screenplay and how the infamous severed “horse head” found in a reluctant producers’ bed may or may not have been real.

There’s a lot of value in listening to how Coppola and Puzo discuss the screenplay and the look at how movies were made in the 1970s, which isn’t that different (sadly) today. There is a sincere nod to the magic of making movies and the highlighting of the need to want this more than anything else in your life.

But what really makes “The Offer” such a fun ride is that we get to understand what a producer does, and doesn’t do, via the experience of Al Ruddy who managed to do the impossible which was to produce a classic, ever-green film that will live—forever—“The Godfather” and I, for one, am forever grateful to him for standing strong inside the tempest and helping the storytellers share their vision.

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April 28, 2022 — May 4, 2022 The Taurus-Scorpio Eclipse energy is present. Recall last year’s Full Moon on Nov. 19, 2021, in Taurus, plus the Scorpio New Moon on Nov. 4, 2021. What took place in your life? What shifts in your body, mind, and environment took place will give you awareness of what’s in store. Connect the dots. The preview occurs before the big bang theory. Now, reflect on last year on May 11, 2021, and May 26, 2021, to fit more pieces into your puzzle. The axis of the North Node in Taurus and the South Node Scorpio at 23 degrees focuses on many areas, with the new moon in Taurus at 10 degrees shining light on it all. To name a few, LOVE of SELF, health, surrender, resources, currency, the soil of the Earth, a rebirthing process, and inherited skills from generations, Vinateria setting boundaries, management of finances, a phoenix rising from its ashes, recalling past lives, and beautifying the Earth. The Earth wants to feel your energy, so plant a seed and get acquainted with Mother Nature. Dig your hands into the dirt, and you may just feel an electromagnetic shock from Mother Nature saying hello. “Live in each season as it passes, breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of each.” Henry David Thoreau

Cappy, you have the spirit of a vanguard with the willpower of a mother lion Open the windows and allow air to flow into the home, blowing the guarding her cubs. Your environment will give you the resources needed when dust and debris away. Things are occurring fast, so clean house as unyou involve yourself. The power of self-love and doing for self first is high priorexpected family members, friends just may pop up. Travel is on the Capricorn ity. The remaining days of April find you weeding out the deadwood in your life, Cancer calendar, whether it’s running errands, traveling short distances, or Dec 22 June 22 Jan 21 July 23 while in May, you’re under new management, overseeing things playing out connecting with folks from different organizations. May will rekindle before they present themselves in the physical realm. Acknowledge the hunchthings from your past or even the present to get you in alignment with es, feelings, and things you’re in tune with as information is being sent to you for a cause. There’s the things you need to know and do. no coincidence in the universe. It is what it is! What you make of it determines the outcome.

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May is your month if you want to be incognito; the first week is Where do you think you’re going this cycle? There’s much on your plate, your best time to do so. The remainder of the month you are in high and have you eaten breakfast, lunch, or dinner due to the effort you’re demand, or something of a superstar, even a high roller. Get used to Leo making to complete tasks? Nurture yourself in May before rising and before it. Your community and support from your closest friends are backing July 24 Aquarius going to bed, and before assisting others. May can be burdensome with and pushing you to the next level. The unanticipated news will arrive Aug 23 Jan 22 family, work, and doing things differently to increase your energy while stayat a moment’s notice, whether by reading it, checking your email, or Feb 19 ing motivated. Peace, love, harmony, and boundaries are required for your hearing something. Also, observe the things you see for those swift seconds as they mental strength. Some form of remuneration is due, and this is the cycle to receive it, be it are messages in disguise. an appreciation, or an act of gratitude. Budget wisely and lay off the sweets.

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Your plans are developing just as you imagined them in your mind, You’re Jupiter’s favorite this year with Venus, Neptune, and Mars combined but with more meaning and shape. Are you baffled by your own work, coming to your rescue this weekly cycle. Give it your all and follow your dreams as the more you learn and gain, the lighter you become releasing Virgo on a grand scale. Folks are going to hear, see, and want to be involved in your unwanted energy? The body reacts and manifests to what’s on your Aug 24 Pisces Sept 23 arena. Doubling, triple up, and take action to pursue your heart’s desire and mind, so what you feed your mind is important. It sends signals down Feb 20 goals. May is nonstop and why should you stop when you’re achieving your to the food you eat, the people you attract, as well as habits and the Mar 20 goals and the ones that show up unexpectedly which is the universe’s way of things in your environment. Keep the right thoughts to produce the right results while assisting you. Be the roadrunner passing the naysayers up, and those who didn’t believe in you. attracting the right people and resources to you.

Give them something to talk about and circulate the cosmic energy you’re giving off.

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Physically and mentally, you’re evolving, and your plans are finally Peace Aries! What’s on your agenda? Do you have a compass, or are you alcoming together. This week says to push the envelope, along with the lowing your heart to guide you where you need to be? Yes, the alignment in the paperwork to make it official. It’s more than just living in the munLibra universe is on a mission to initiate new avenues to explore. One is an experidane world. The object is to be an observer of how things are playing Sept 24 Aries Oct 23 ence that brings new focus to your perception of life. There’s always more to life out rather than be the puppet of the show. A twist of fate, destiny with Mar 21 Apr 21 to learn, it’s like your current environment is learning a new language or dance. an epiphany is likely to fly through your subconscious mind like lightThose a-ha moments. Take notes this month as synchronicity will play a role in ning bolts. Yes, you’re going through a metamorphosis. your life, especially during the last week of May.

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This week is likely to be a doozy with déjà vu moments from out of Uranus in Taurus transited back on May 15, 2018, and your world may have the blue. When the scenario plays out into the light, take note as you’re been shaken up like never before. You’re the leader, teacher, counselor, distribualready aware. It’s a familiar feeling. The universe works with people, Scorpio tor, reforming a structure, etc. and upgrading the basic traditions by uplifting the like people playing tic tac toe, keeping score. Emotionally, you’ll probOct 24 Taurus Nov 22 community first. Once that occurs you then move to the next level, elevating and ably cry yourself a river, releasing energy that’s been holding on to Apr 22 vibrating higher into a greater position. This eclipse ushers in a new chapter in you, and you hold on to it. Once you do, you’ll feel great. This can also May 21 your life to leverage more internally. It’s a cycle where you move forward feeling a be the victory of finally completing projects or learning new skills. sense of destiny, or that fate plays a role. You are where you need to be.

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This is likely to be a very productive, lucrative week that happens How are you feeling lately? May is a trigger month of realization for the effort briskly due to your efforts made in the past. Changes within the home made and the response to your top priority.What are your priorities? Reflection is a and workplace and learning new ways to approach a situation will Sagitarius process that promotes the mind, body, and spirit to recall and rectify improvements enhance this cycle. This is a week to rekindle the spark that changNov 23 Dec 21 moving forward on your journey. You’re developing a plan and leaving behind an es your appearance and tuck money away. Change doesn’t last long, inheritance, a legacy of some kind to pass down to the next generation on a new it just aids in the shift of the people, the position, and the things alcourse. Continue to build on the vision, and you’ll see results by next month. ready in place. Ride the waves this month as you sail adventurously to new ground.

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Janelle Monáe brings ‘Memory Librarian’ to BAM (All photos by Astrid Stawiarz: Getty Images for Brooklyn Academy of Music)

Coco Killingsworth, BAM vice president of creative social impact, speaks onstage during Janelle Monáe in conversation at BAM. Janelle Monáe speaks onstage at Brooklyn Academy of Music, copresented

by BAM, Greenlight Bookstore and The Lit. Bar on April 18, 2022 in New York City.

(L-R) Danny Lore, Kyle Dargan, Janelle Monáe and Sheree Renée Thomas speak onstage during Janelle Monáe in conversation.

Danny Lore, Kyle Dargan, Janelle Monáe and Sheree Renée Thomas speak onstage during Janelle Monáe in conversation at BAM.

Groundbreaking musician, actor, fashion icon, and futurist Janelle Monáe was joined by literary collaborators Danny Lore and Sheree Renée Thomas for a conversation moderated by ALOK to celebrate the launch of “The Memory Librarian” at BAM’s Howard Gilman Opera House. A sexy, soulful, and dissident collection of short fiction, “The Memory Librarian” brings to the page the rebellious and Afrofuturistic world of Monáe’s critically acclaimed album “Dirty Computer.” The stories in “The Memory Librarian” explore

the lives of those living in an increasingly surveillance-hungry, totalitarian order, striving to see and hold onto their “dirtiness” without being tracked down and cleaned. Filled with the artistic innovation and brave themes for which Monáe is known, this anthology sees current battles about gender identity, political violence, and sexuality as matters of space, time, love, and the power of memory. “Janelle Monáe in Conversation” was presented by BAM, Greenlight Bookstore, and The Lit. Bar as part of the Unbound literary series.

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Whip up a bountiful weekend brunch Fresh air, warm sun and delicious foods make brunch a favorite weekend event. Set the stage (and the table) for an inviting experience with recipes that cover all the bases from snacks and desserts to a mouthwatering main course.

Tide the appetite of your guests with Spiced Grass-Fed Lamb Over Hummus served with toasted flatbread or tortilla chips before dishing out Overnight Apple Cinnamon French Toast Casserole for a simple centerpiece. Just as those delectable dishes are vanishing, pull Brown Sugar Pound Cake out of the oven and pair with sweetened whipped cream and fresh fruit for a sweet finishing touch.

Visit Culinary.net to find more ways to broaden your brunch menu.

Wake up to a wonderful brunch Perfect for any brunch occasion is a delicious dish that can be made a day in advance, simplifying your morning prep before guests arrive with growling stomachs.

Prepared the day before and chilled overnight, this Overnight Apple Cinnamon French Toast Casserole is ready to bake to perfection in the morning with a gooey interior and crisp exterior filled with mouthwatering flavor.

Drizzle with glaze then dish out to loved ones for a delicious way to make brunch easy.

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A fresh, flavorful brunch bite Brunch is a perfect opportunity to entertain friends and family with delicious recipes that will delight their taste buds. For example, this smooth hummus is paired with tender New Zealand grass-fed lamb loin chops and fresh toppings for flavor in every bite.

Ready in less than 30 minutes, this Spiced Grass-Fed Lamb Over Hummus recipe is made using Atkins Ranch

lamb, which is available at your local Whole Foods Market and hails from New Zealand where the animals are grass-fed 365 days a year and allowed to roam and graze freely over lush green hills and pastures.

The result is a lean, finely textured, flavorful meat that tastes just as nature intended.

Visit beefandlambnz.com for more recipes, cooking tips and information.

Spiced Grass-Fed Lamb Over Hummus Overnight Apple Cinnamon French Toast Casserole Servings: 12 Nonstick cooking spray 1 package (20 ounces) French bread, cubed, divided 1 can (20 ounces) apple pie filling 9 eggs 1 cup half-and-half 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon 1 cup powdered sugar, plus additional (optional) 2 tablespoons milk, plus additional (optional)

in bottom of dish. Pour apple filling over bread.

Top with remaining cubed French bread. Set aside.

In medium bowl, whisk eggs, half-and-half and cinnamon. Pour evenly over bread.

Cover with aluminum foil and chill overnight.

Heat oven to 325°F. Remove foil and bake 50-60 minutes.

Let cool 10-15 minutes.

In small bowl, whisk Spray 8-by-8-inch glass powdered sugar and milk. baking dish with nonstick Add additional, if needed, cooking spray. until pourable glaze is In baking dish, add 10 reached. Drizzle over casounces cubed French bread serole before serving.

Prep time: 15 minutes Cook time: 5 minutes Servings: 4-6 Lamb: 4 Atkins Ranch grass-fed lamb loin chops 1 teaspoon cumin powder ¼ teaspoon salt 1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil

1 small tomato, diced 2 tablespoons roasted pine nuts (or 2 tablespoons pomegranate seeds) parsley, chopped lemon wedges toasted flatbread or tortilla chips

To make lamb: Remove lamb from bone, dice meat Hummus: into small cubes and transfer 1 can (15 ounces) chick- to medium bowl. peas 3 cloves garlic, chopped Add cumin powder and ¼ cup tahini salt. Toss to coat. Marinate 3 tablespoons fresh while preparing hummus. lemon juice To make hummus: Drain ½ teaspoon salt chickpeas, reserving 1 table½ teaspoon cumin spoon liquid. Rinse chick½ teaspoon paprika peas under running water 3 tablespoons olive oil then drain.

In bowl of food processor, For serving: pulse chickpeas, chickpea 1 Persian cucumber, liquid and garlic until chicksmall diced peas and garlic are chopped.

Add tahini, lemon juice, salt, cumin, paprika and olive oil. Mix until smooth paste forms. Taste and adjust by adding more salt, lemon juice or olive oil, as desired.

Transfer hummus to large platter and spread it out.

In large skillet, heat extravirgin olive oil over high heat until hot. Add lamb and cook 30 seconds without moving.

Turn lamb over and cook 30-60 seconds, repeating until all sides are browned.

Remove from pan and let rest 5 minutes.

To serve, place cucumbers and tomatoes in well of hummus then top with lamb, pine nuts and parsley.

Top with squeeze of lemon juice and serve with flatbread or tortilla chips.

Satisfy cake cravings with a brunch-worthy dessert Whether your brunch feast consists of bacon and eggs, pancakes and waffles or a combination of favorites, you can cap it off with a sweet treat for the perfect ending.

After all, no celebration is complete without dessert.

Once the table is cleared of the main courses, dish

out decadent bites of this Brown Sugar Pound Cake baked with high-quality ingredients like C&H Sugars to end the meal on a sweet note. Top with whipped cream and your crowd’s favorite fruits like strawberries and blueberries or serve the toppings separately for a customizable treat.

Visit chsugar.com for more brunch recipe ideas.

Brown Sugar Pound Cake Prep time: 20 minutes Cook time: 1 hour Servings: 8 1¾ cups all-purpose flour, plus additional for coating pan, divided 1 cup packed C&H Light Brown Sugar 1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened 4 eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla extract ½ teaspoon baking powder ¼ teaspoon salt sweetened whipped cream, for topping (optional) fresh fruit, such as strawberries and blueberries,

for topping (optional) Preheat oven to 350° F. Grease and flour 9-by-5by-3-inch loaf pan. In large bowl, beat sugar and butter until fluffy. Beat in eggs one at a time. Add vanilla.

In separate bowl, combine 1 3/4 cups flour, baking powder and salt. Gradually add to sugar mixture. Pour batter into pan.

Bake 1 hour, or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Remove from pan and turn out on rack to cool completely.

Top with sweetened whipped cream and fresh fruit, if desired.

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NEAL AT BETTY CARTER’S, STRICKLAND’S WILDEST DREAM

On April 30, to close out Jazz Appreciation Month, jazz singer, producer, director and AUDELCO award winner Rome Neal is heading up another first as he becomes the first jazz artist to open at the Betty Carter Auditorium of the Arts housed in the Major R. Owens Health & Wellness Community Center (1561 Bedford Avenue), Crown Heights, Brooklyn.

Neal will be joined by an allstar cast featuring saxophonist Patience Higgins, pianist Andre Chez Lewis, bassist Yoshi Waki and drummer Phil Young. Join Neal as he strolls through some Monk tunes and well-traveled standards with his own unique interpretation.

The new community center named after the longtime U.S. Representative Major Owens, is a state-of-the-art recreation facility and swimming pool with a mural dedicated to Brooklyn's own twotime Olympic medalist swimmer Lia Neal (Rome’s daughter).

Eric Woodlin, director of community engagement, noted the late musician’s family gave them the rights to use the legendary singer’s name. “As the center progresses, we look forward to engaging more Black theater groups and live music performances,” said Woodlin. “We are happy to have Rome as our first jazz performer to inaugurate our Betty Carter Auditorium.”

Neal’s performance culminates on the last day of the Central Brooklyn Jazz Consortium’s 23rd annual Jazz Festival.

For tickets visit the website https://www.eventbrite.com/.../ the-rome-neal-quintet...

The saxophonist/reed player, composer and producer Marcus Strickland has come a long way since arriving in New York City (23 years ago) attending the New School with his twin brother drummer E.J. and earning a reputation as a young gun while becoming a first call saxophonist. He received a call from iconic drummer Roy Haynes to join his Fountain of Youth Ensemble where he did a five-year stint. “I played with everyone I ever dreamed of playing with,” says Strickland.

The concept for his band Twi- label Strick Muzik (launched Life was a result of him touring in 2006); “Of Song” (2009) on with Haynes playing bebop and Criss Cross Records; “Brotherworking out rhythms and beats hood” (2002) and “At Last” (2001) on his laptop. “I came up with on Fresh Sound Records.

Twi-Life, the two sounded like Strickland and Twi-Life forthfusion coming out of jazz but coming release, “The Universe’s when I got moving it crystallized Wildest Dream” raises awareness into its own thing,” explained about the miracle of planet Earth Strickland. “In this group I can combined with Pan African beats be all that I am. This is a genre- and other genres of Black less group we play all music, music. “I figure if there’s any Black American music.” The message that can recruit group is a creative cross-sec- more earthlings to acknowltion between jazz, Pan African edge, comprehend and take rhythms, Afro Cuban Afro-pop, action towards global warmR&B and hip hop as Marcus Strickland (Petra Richterova photo) inspired by the J Dilla aesthetic of intricacy, “drunk drumming” and tonal nuance.

On Strickland’s “Nihil Novi” (Blue Note 2016), he was perfecting his hip hop inspired production, blurring the genres with some assistance from eclectic producer, songwriter and bassist Meshell Ndegeocello. “In the process, something big happened: I was no longer concerned about what is or isn’t jazz,” he says. “I got rid of those barriers and started on this path.” On his last album, “People of the Sun” (Blue Note/ Revive Music 2018), Strickland blazes down a trail (that had been buzzing in his head since growing up in Miami) with his zealous Twi-Life on a cultural music mission following the African diaspora from present to past in an effort to understand the com- ing and sustainability, it is the replexity of Black identity. The alization that we may be the only album includes the haunting planet that harbors life, that we track “On My Mind” featuring are probably the universe’s wildvocalist Bilal, Pharoahe Monch est dream,” stated Strickland. and Greg Tate spoken word with The music is a result of the saxdeep vibrations coming from ophonist being isolated during Strickland’s bass clarinet. the COVID-19 pandemic. “There This will be the saxophon- were no Ubers and no gigs for me ist’s tenth release as a leader to rush to so while on Instagram following: “People of the I was introduced to some farmSun” (2018), “Nihil Novi” (2016) on ers. The conversations led me to Blue Note Records; “Triumph of do my own research and eventhe Heavy, Vol. 1 & 2” (2011), “Id- tually realized Earth offers us iosyncrasies” (2009), “Open the epitome of love,” explained Reel Deck” (2007), and “Twi- Strickland. “This environment Life” (2006) on his own music thing is very deep and needs to

be supported and the capitalists and colonialists should be exposed.” During the 2020 lockdown Strickland (producer) and drummer Charles Haynes (coproducer) were shaping the concept and sound for this album.

The lyrics and titles swing in a spiritual existence giving praise to Mother Earth and our exis-

rating dialogue on “Infinity.”

Following his last two albums, Strickland is independent again and is funding “Universe’s Wildest Dream” through Kickstarter.

“Kickstarter makes the audience and fans active participants in this record-making process from the ground level. Contributing to Kickstarter is a direct link to the (Image by Langz Raphael)

tence in this cosmic universe.

“I wanted the project to look like it sounds including the explicit artwork by Langz Raphael which makes the project all inclusive, music and art together.”

The graphic design was done by Strickland.

The album’s music is coming from an Afro-Futuristic dimension of sound. A movement first acknowledged by the musician, composer, poet and cosmic philosopher Sun Ra. “We want to go into the future, not the past,” says Strickland. “We are here to move forward and make things better. The record is about the MACRO and how special we are on the planet.” His longtime abled Twi-Life members (since 2013) include; Mitch Henry on keys, piano and organ; bassist Kyle Miles; drummer Charles Haynes and Strickland on soprano, alto, tenor saxes and bass clarinet. Guests include; guitarist and vocals, Lionel Loueke, vocalist Christie Dashell (on “Matter”) and Ras Stimulant with invigo-

artist,” said Strickland during a recent phone interview. “The model for the music industry has changed, they have taken away our physical commerce but these digital platforms have given us more power. Independent musicians are winning Grammys, where there is void there is opportunity.” This fundraiser supports the vinyl pressing and publicity campaign.

Release date set for August 2022.

From my seat this album will be mentioned in the same sentence as the groundbreaking albums of Pharoah Sanders’ “The Creator Has a Master Plan,” Donald Byrd’s “New Perspectives,” or Miles Davis’ “Jack Johnson.” “We can do so much together piece by piece to save the planet,” says Strickland. “It sounds naïve but we are a powerful force when united in the same cause, the same struggle.”

To be a part of this most important project visit kickstarter.com/ projects/marcusstrickland/theuniverses-wildest-dream.

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By HERB BOYD Special to the AmNews If by chance and good fortune you have heard one of the most popular versions of Duke Ellington’s “Take the A Train,” then you undoubtedly were enthralled by the voice of Betty Roche, and her marvelous interpretation of this classic.

But giving voice to an Ellington favorite is but one aspect of Roche’s remarkable singing career that was most evident in her jazz and blues recordings. She was born Mary Elizabeth Roach or Roche, depending on the source, on Jan. 9, 1918, in Wilmington, Delaware and raised by her grandparents in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Like Ella Fitzgerald, she zoomed onto the musical genre as a teenager after

winning a contest at the Apollo Theater’s Amateur Show in 1939.

Two years later she was a featured vocalist with the Savoy Sultans.

With this group she made her debut recording just before the ensemble disbanded. That song was entitled “At’s in There,” with no indication who At was.

In 1943, she was in front of the Ellington orchestra, having replaced Ivie Anderson. A year later she appeared in “Reveille with Beverly” in a film with Count Basie and Frank Sinatra, in which she performed a version of “Take the A Train” but because of the AFM recording ban it did not make it to disc, a ban that disrupted her career and many others.

She met a similar fate when she sang Ellington’s performance of “Black, Brown and Beige” at Carnegie Hall, delivering the blues

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segment of the composition, and by the time the ban was lifted she was no longer with the orchestra.

Her reputation with Duke’s band made her available for several other notable leaders, including tenor saxophone immortal Lester Young and trumpeter Hot Lips Page in the mid-’40s.

She was often on the bandstand at Minton’s Playhouse in Harlem with such musical giants as Thelonious Monk and drummer Kenny Clarke. In 1944, Roche was again with a topflight band, joining Earl Hines and his group, where she also recorded.

It is not clear why she took a seven-year hiatus from performing before rejoining the Ellington’s band in 1951, whereupon she recorded an extended version of “Take the

A Train.” Three years later she left the band and embarked on a rather erratic odyssey, though she continued recording for Bethlehem and the Prestige labels. She settled in San Diego, Calif., working only occasionally in clubs with various groups. It was during this period she had a role in the recording of “The Complete Porgy and Bess.”

Roche was a formidable stylist whether in an uptempo bebop tune or in a more soulful blues number.

As one reporter noted, quoting Ellington, Roche “had a soul inflection in a bop state of intrigue and every word was understandable despite the sophisticated hip and jive connotations.”

Her discography was reflective of a singer seemingly only half interested in promoting her career, including “Take the A Train” on the Bethlehem label in 1956; “Singin’ & Swingin’” for Prestige in 1960; and “Lightly and Politely” for Prestige in 1961.

There were numerous occasions when her appearances were not reported and she was often in the company on tuneful journeys with such leaders as Clark Terry and pianist Charles Brown.

On Feb. 16, 1999, Roche died in Pleasantville, New Jersey at 81, and was survived by several grandchildren.

ACTIVITIES FIND OUT MORE We are still in pursuit of information about Roche, especially her early years and how she became a vocalist.

DISCUSSION After making such a considerable splash on the music scene, we wonder why she took a long hiatus.

PLACE IN CONTEXT She was born during World War I and when the flu epidemic ravaged the nation and the globe and lived to almost make it into the 21st century..

THIS WEEK IN BLACK HISTORY April 25, 1917: Renowned singer Ella Fitzgerald was born in Newport News, Va. She died June 15, 1996, in Beverly Hills, Calif.

April 25, 1923: Blues legend guitarist Albert King was born in Indianola, Miss. He died in Memphis on Dec. 21, 1992.

April 27, 1968: Dr. Vincent Porter became the first African American certified in plastic surgery.

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State Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins and Assembly Leader Carl Heastie were unsuccessful.

Famously, the Black teenage boys that were labeled the Central Park Five and then the Exonerated Five were interrogated by cops for hours and held in custody until they got a confession out of them.

Bailey and Joyner also introduced Family Court Delinquency Discovery Reform (S4554/A4952) which would “provide rights in criminal proceedings that were put in place with the enactment of CPL Article 245.”

CPL Article 245 addresses the discovery process during court procedures.

Dawne Mitchell, attorney-in-charge of the juvenile rights practice at The Legal Aid Society, hopes Hochul and company hear their cries despite the current noise around City Hall.

“Our clients continue to suffer from decades of deeply flawed practices in both the juvenile legal and child welfare systems that forever shape the lives of Black and Latinx children and families,” stated Mitchell. “This package of legislation reinvests in children and families, and ushers in key overdue reforms. The Legal Aid Society calls on Governor Hochul, Senate Majority Leader Stewart-Cousins, and Speaker Heastie to enact these measures immedi-

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The Legal Aid Society wasn’t the only group that wanted Albany to know that they weren’t standing on the virtual sidelines either.

The New York County Defenders Services along with Legal Aid, The Bronx Defenders, The Queens Defenders, The Brooklyn Defender Services and the Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem have pushed legislators to pass the gaggle of criminal reforms before session ends in June.

Some of these legislations include the Treatment Not Jail Act introduced by New York State Senator Jessica Ramos and State Assembly Member Phara Souffrant Forrest, and co-sponsored by Senators Cordell Cleare, Jabari Brisport, Michael Gianaris and Alessandra Biaggi. The legal groups are also advocating for the Clean Slate Act that addresses the sealing of records once someone has served their time.

In a statement the NYC Defenders said that these bills should be Albany’s priority.

“In the remaining weeks of the legislative session, lawmakers must prioritize and pass bills that will address root causes of criminal legal system involvement—reforms that decarcerate jails and prisons and create safer communities,” read their statement.

“The heavy hand of law enforcement has never solved the many issues facing neighborhoods we serve; it has only exacerbated them by fueling mass incarceration. It’s time Albany advances measures that center investment and prevention.”

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Education Black girls disproportionately punished by the educational system

By M’NIYAH LYNN Special to the AmNews Black students are disproportionately reprimanded in the education system. This is primarily seen in elementary, middle school and high school students (K-12), according to a 2018 report by the United States Government Accountability Office. Although Black boys are included in the overrepresented group of students being punished, research reflects that Black girls are punished and criminalized at an alarming rate that is higher than non-Black girls for school, including suspensions and expulsions.

In 2017-2018, “Black girls were the only group across all races/ethnicities for girls where a disparity was observed. Black girls received inschool suspensions (11.2%) and out-of-school suspensions (13.3%) at rates almost two times their share of total student enrollment (7.4%),” the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights said in a report from 2021.

Racial and gender stereotypes contribute to the mistreatment that Black girls receive. Some of this is rooted in the idea that adults, such as teachers, view Black girls as being “less innocent” and “more adult-like” than their white counterparts. This may lead to adults thinking

that Black girls don’t need as much protection or nurturing, Erin Killeen said in “The Increased Criminalization of African American Girls.”

“Such comments demonstrate that stereotypes of Black girls, interpreted as ‘loud,’ are imbued with adult-like aspirations, and perceived, in turn, as a threat,” Rebecca Epstein, Jamila J. Blake and Thalia González said in a report published by the Georgetown Law Center on Poverty and Inequality.

Jamelia Harris, a Robert Curvin Postdoctoral Fellow at the Joseph C. Cornwall Center at Rutgers University-Newark, works with The Concrete Rose Project. This is a high school after-school research inquiry group.

In this group, Harris gets the girls to discern the potential root causes behind the patterns of disproportionality facing them and Black girls in high school generally.

Harris explores the role of intersectional violence and education in the lives of Black girls in urban communities. For instance, she had done and analyzed a lot of research concentrated on the treatment of Black girls in the education system and on ways in which racial and gender stereotyping have contributed to the punishment of Black girls.

Harris said that Black girls get written up for things such as talking back, having an at-

titude, inappropriate dress and emotional expression. These are some of the reasons that girls from The Concrete Rose Project have said they experienced discipline.

Another reason why Black girls may be targeted is due to a cultural mismatch between educators and Black girl students. The high school that the girls from The Concrete Rose Project attended had a majority Black and Latinx population, but most of the teachers were white. A lack of understanding or familiarity of Black girls by the white teachers caused these girls to feel they were being perceived as ghetto or inferior.

“Black girls were being punished for behaviors that in many ways if a white girl demonstrated them, would be celebrated as qualities of leadership like defending their points of view,” Harris said.

She added that the high school the girls from the research group went to had one of the highest rates of suspension for Black girls in the state of California at about 19%.

However, Black girls in New York City are experiencing something similar.

“Outside of NYC, schools were 6.1 times more likely to suspend Black female students than their white peers, and in NYC the school district was 8.6 times more likely to suspend Black female students than their white female peers,” an article by Tiffany Lankes from the Education Trust-New York, a research and advocacy group, said.

More awareness of what Black girls are experiencing in schools is growing. Harris said that Black girls are the growing population in the juvenile justice system. “There is a pattern of criminalization which doesn’t receive as much visibility as it does when it’s happening to Black boys and men,” Harris said.

Not only does the treatment of Black girls affect the likelihood that they could end up in jail, but it has other serious consequences.

Black girls may end up having economic instability, mental health issues, compromised academic success and become afraid to speak their minds. The silence is to prevent contradicting those in positions of power.

“We see that many of the ways that Black girls are culturally socialized to navigate the realities of white supremacist heteropatriarchy society are condemned in schools through discipline policies,” Harris said.

To help minimize or eliminate the punishment that Black girls receive, educators can work on building better relationships to improve the learning environment. Harris said that she has a consulting agency where she partners with educators and school districts across the country to address their biases. She engages them in self-reflection about positionality and suggests opportunities they can take advantage of to uplift and spotlight Black girls.

“I encourage educators to prioritize relationships and compassion over punishment,” she said.

Global G.L.O.W. and The Bronx Academy of Letters—helping Black girls be seen

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The risks impacting girls don’t receive enough attention from society, such as policy makers and researchers, according to a study by the African American Policy Forum (AAPF) and the Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies. The Urban Assembly Bronx Academy of Letters offers middle and high school girls the opportunity to get support and mentorship through G.L.O.W. Club, the school’s after school program in partnership with Global Girls Leading Our World (G.L.O.W.). The club, which is both girl-informed and girlled, helps turn girls from students to advocates for themselves and their communities.

The Bronx Academy of Letters’ G.L.O.W. Club uses curriculum to educate girls of color about their history and factors that could be affecting them on a day-to-day basis. During Black History Month, the girls learned Empathy Across America, a curriculum that allowed girls to explore their shared history.

“Essentially, we brought those tough conversations up and built empathy and solidarity at the same time,” Global G.L.O.W.’s

Program Manager Binta Freeman said. She designs the curriculum.

Through the program, girls at The Bronx Academy of Letters, ages 11 to 18, also cover mental health strategies, self-discovery and community service, to name a few points. “One of the things that we do focus on is community engagement and making sure that we make the Bronx better, not worse,” Frances Herrera, teacher and overseer of the program, said.

To turn girls into advocates, Herrera said she tries to present the girls with impactful opportunities. She introduces the girls to role models, such as businesswomen who have their own establishments and involves them in efforts to volunteer.

“We introduced the idea of advocacy by starting with the self. Understanding yourself, increasing self-awareness and knowing your boundaries helps you navigate yourself and voice if those boundaries are crossed. This will naturally trickle down into the community,” Freeman said.

Girls of color face and confront risks like their male counterparts. According to "Black Girls Matter" by Kimberlé Crenshaw, “Despite evidence that they, too, face barriers See G.L.O.W. on page 29

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Brooklyn borough president appoints task force to tackle maternal health and mortality

By M’NIYAH LYNN Special to the AmNews

Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso has added initial members to his Maternal Health Task Force as part of his commitment to address the maternal mortality and morbidity disparities. In the first phase of the taskforce, the members will help lay the foundation for strategizing around Reynoso’s maternal health agenda and expanding the taskforce, a press release from Reynoso’s website said.

From 2001 to 2018, Black birthing people in New York City were 9.4 times more likely to die from childbirth complications than white birthing people, according to a press release from the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. In addition to this, in 2019, Black birthing people experienced infant mortality at a rate of 3.3 times higher than their counterparts.

In NYC, Brooklyn was the borough with the most pregnancy-associated and pregnancy-related deaths in 2017, according to data in an April 2021 report from the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.

The Maternal Health Task Force is co-chaired by NYC Health + Hospitals Chief Women’s Health Service Officer Dr. Wendy Wilcox and Woodhull Director of Midwifery Services Helena Grant. Other members of the task force include Dr. Zahirah McNatt, Ngozi N. Moses, Christina Sparrock and the Hon. Una S.T. Clarke.

These members provide a multidisciplinary approach to tackling the complex issue of addressing maternal mortality and morbidity. According to the press release from the Brooklyn borough president’s website, the members collectively have expertise and knowledge in areas that can be cru5cial to improving the care

of birthing persons.

“The initial members of our Maternal Health Task Force bring decades of expertise in maternal healthcare, wraparound services, community engagement, advocacy, and other spaces that are needed to holistically approach the crisis of maternal mortality disparities seen in our communities,” Reynoso said in the release.

Reynoso is planning to allot a substantial portion of his FY23 capital funding to chosen Brooklyn public hospitals, which would be used to help upgrade birthing facilities.

This includes upgrades to technology and improving infection control.

Reynoso also plans to support outpatient services that address issues faced by people of color. Combined with the work of the taskforce, the work in maternal health can be developed further.

“I look forward to helping co-create new energy that gets activated around what we can do to empower birthing people, families, and communities to live their best lives through increased education, care, understanding, and resources,” Grant said in the press release.

Racism and historical disinvestment have played a big role in inequalities between Black and white birthing people. Some of these factors range from stressors related to racism to Black birthing people having less access to care.

For example, where one lives affects the neighborhood they live in which may have an impact on what they have access to.

These effects, segregation and racism, can be felt at different levels of someone’s pregnancy.

“Even when controlling for socioeconomic and educational status, Black birthing people are still more likely to suffer from severe morbidity and mortality than those of other races and ethnicities,” the Brown Undergraduate

Journal of Public Health published in Fall 2021.

Dr. McNatt said that if a Black birthing person is experiencing racism, this can have an overall effect on both the person themselves and those helping them. For instance, these birthing people may feel they aren’t able to speak up or that they are experiencing discrimination by clinicians.

A common misconception and stereotype is that Black women have more kids. Stereotypes like this have permeated throughout history and have contributed to how Black birthing persons are viewed. “That is a dramatic stereotype that has been infused into media and into the minds of those that might have to help people deliver their babies. The stereotypes about Black birthing persons are part of what influences whether or not they have good experiences when they’re pregnant,” McNatt said.

The effects and barriers mentioned earlier also affect Black women having higher rates of preventable diseases and chronic health conditions. More Black women show signs of preeclampsia, a condition involving hypertension, earlier in pregnancy than white women, the National Partnership for Women & Families said in a report.

Currently, New York City has ways that they have tried to address the birthing persons disparity.

There is a Citywide Doula Inititative that provides free doulas to people in neighborhoods severely impacted by the pandemic. Another program is Healthy Start Brooklyn which provides support programs and classes to new or expecting parents.

“We see not just in the U.S., but across the globe, that maternal mortality rates tell us about another person. However, they also tell us about the health and priorities of a society,” McNatt said.

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

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

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Health Factcheck: COVID-19 vaccines do not cause COVID-19 variants the world have yet to receive a single dose of vaccine. Only 8.1% of Fact Check: False. COVID-19 vaccines do not cause variants of the virus that causes COVID-19 and in fact, can people in low-inhelp prevent deaths from the disease and prevent new variants from forming. come countries have received at

By HEATHER M. BUTTS, JD, has more opportunities to change.” by additional variants including least one dose whereas almost MPH, MA When asked if the COVID-19 vac- Delta and Omicron. As observed by 60–80% of people are fully vaccinatSpecial to the AmNews cine cause variants Dr. Panagis Gal- authors of the article “Mitigating ed in developed countries.” iatsatos, MD, MHS, an assistant COVID-19 in the face of emerging These numbers underline the disIn late 2020 the Alpha vari- professor at Johns Hopkins School virus variants, breakthrough in- parity in vaccine equity between ant (B.1.1.7) appeared first in the of Medicine and physician in the fections and vaccine hesitancy,” wealthy and low-income countries.

United Kingdom, and then world- Division of Clinical Care Medicine “Being an RNA virus, the COVID- Lack of access to the vaccine, not the wide. It became the dominant said, “It is a myth.” According to Gal- 19 virus is continuing to `mutate, vaccine itself, is one of the contribvariant in the United States, and in- iatsatos, “[E]verytime a virus comes resulting in the emergence of new uting factors to the emergence of troduced the world to the first of in us, when it leaves, it’s a little bit variants with high transmissibili- variants. As researchers Haque and several COVID-19 variants of con- different…one of the things that ty, such as the recently discovered Pant state: “If the virus is not concern. While B.1.1.7 was not the first has allowed this virus to become a Omicron variant.” tained in other countries, the risk COVID-19 variant, it served to en- pandemic is the ability to catch our Worldwide inequities, and get- of the emergence of a more serious hance the myth that COVID-19 vac- immune systems off guard.” Galiat- ting the vaccine to those in need, variant threatens places with high cines had a relationship with the satos referenced Ebola as an exam- have been in constant and persis- and low vaccination rates alike… formation of COVID-19 variants. ple of a virus that kills individuals tent struggle. Far from viewing the The only way to end this pandemic According to the CDC, “[n]ew vari- too quickly to become pandemic vaccines as a vector for variants, the is to get enough people vaccinated ants of a virus happen because the in the same way as COVID-19. “If authors see the vaccines as a need, so we can reduce the speed of new virus that causes COVID-19 con- anything, the vaccine makes sure and a need that many worldwide variants emerging and spreading.” stantly changes through a natu- that…its impact on the healthcare lack. “We often fail to consider that As for how individuals can saferal ongoing process of mutation system is massively attenuated.” the COVID-19 still is a pandem- guard themselves from the dangers (change). As the virus spreads, it The Alpha variant was followed ic and billions of people around of COVID and future variants of

Claim: COVID-19 vaccines create variants of the virus that causes COVID-19, Sars CoV-2.

COVID-19, Galiatsatos has a threestep strategy to follow: “Don’t catch [COVID]…[I’m still a] mask advocate. Because even though we have a vaccine to keep you from dying, I can’t promise [getting COVID] won’t have any…effects like long-COVID, so don’t catch it is strategy number 1. Strategy number 2 is, contain it.

So if you do happen to catch it, we have the rapid test, you test positive, you stay home, you’re not out there spreading it around. You’re doing your role. The last part is controlling it…making sure that we can keep it in this mild-to-moderate form… vaccinations and medications… keep it from being life-threatening.”

For additional resources around COVID-19 please visit www1.nyc. gov/site/coronavirus/index.page or call 311. New Yorkers can find locations of where to pick up free rapid tests by calling 311 or by visiting: www.nychealthandhospitals. org/COVID-19-testing-sites/ and can schedule an at-home test by calling 929-298-9400 between 9:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m., seven days a week.

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because of psychological pain and a loss of hope.

“Now if you add to that someone who’s given up hope, feels despair, and add rage to that, then you have someone who wants to end their life literally and figuratively with a bang,” said Dvoskin. “I’m not going to be insignificant this day.”

Dvoskin didn’t want to speculate as to why historically Black men haven’t committed mass shootings when they “have as much right to despair as white men and they have as much right to anger as white men.” But he posits that the more people who are hopeless and suicidal about their circumstances the more the chances that a small percentage of them will “take others with them when they go.”

Dvoskin also theorized that gun ownership or access to guns among white male shooters versus Black shooters may be a contributing factor in mass shootings. In fact, Slate reported that during the Trump administration gun ownership went up among all demographic groups, but especially rose among Black gun owners.

“There’s some common themes in people who commit mass shootings,” said Dvoskin. “They are often angry, often depressed, they often feel insignificant, and have grievances. But there are a lot of people who have those and don’t shoot anybody.”

Dvoskin said that the myth of mental illness being connected to mass shootings was perpetrated by gun profiteers. He said the notion that mass shootings have to do with serious mental illness is wrong, incorrect and scapegoating of the worse kind. “But what is true is that people who commit mass shootings often are in crisis,” said Dvoskin.

Like Dvoskin, Powell said that there are plenty of Black men that transmute suffering into positive action regardless of how they’re feeling about race and clearly don’t commit mass shootings. “So there’s evidence of course of our capacity to ‘bounce back’ from these experiences,” said Powell. “It is important for us to recognize that over time, that bounce back also comes at significant mental health costs for Black males.”

Powell said that the larger social forces help understand the linkages between mass shootings, mental health and outcomes in Black males.

But the series of events in a person’s life and access to care is what deter-

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Affordable Housing for Rent

The Bishop Rene Valero Senior Residence 35 NEWLY CONSTRUCTED UNITS AT 23-11 31st Road, Queens, NY, 11106 ASTORIA Amenities: card operated laundry* , on-site senior center, on-site social services. (*additional fees apply) Transit: Trains: L, N, W Buses: Q69 No fee to apply • No broker’s fee • Smoke-free building • More information: https://housingconnect.nyc.gov The construction of this building is being financed through the Senior Affordable Rental Apartments program (SARA) and the Low Income Housing Tax Credit program of the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development Who Should Apply?

Individuals or households that have at least one household member who is 62 years of age or older and who meet the income and household size requirements listed below.

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mines if a person pulls the trigger or not. She said what is clear is the need for mental health services in Black communities, indigenous communities, and Brown communities; a need that is even more pronounced in overlapping homeless communities.

“We would be missing a critical moment,”said Powell, “for us to look at the systems that we have set up and ask ourselves, are we serving every person who has a mental health need well, and if we’re not, what are we going to do about it?”

Dr. Michael Broder is a former chief psychologist in the Philadelphia Police Department now in private practice. He looks at police departments’ stress management training programs at all levels.

He considers the subway mass shooter to be an example of a “failed criminal justice system” that didn’t give him adequate resources when he was released.

Broder doesn’t think there are “sane” rational motivations for anyone to commit mass shootings, regardless of their living situation. “It’s just as bad if you’re shot by someone with mental health issues as you are if you’re shot by someone ‘healthy,’” said Broder.

From a police perspective, he said law enforcement have to make “split decisions” in a dangerous line of work. That, however, is not an excuse to profile unhoused Black men in subways, said Broder.

“It couldn’t be a profile because Black people, white people, people of every color or ethnicity commit crimes. Son of Sam was a Jewish white male. Ted Bundy was a supposedly good looking college educated, smart guy, and then you have monsters and everything in between,” said Broder regarding racial profiling.

Broder said racial profiling is an “injustice to a lot of innocent people” and doesn’t help prevent crimes. He does, however, agree with Mayor Eric Adams that the answer to preventing subway crime is more transit police patrols and stationing cops at more stations.

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Tenants responsible for electric and electric stove.

2 Household size includes everyone who will live with you, including parents and children. NYCHA will consider two person households for studio apartments upon request.

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

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

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How Do You Apply?

Apply online or through mail. To apply online, please go to https://housingconnect.nyc.gov To request an application by mail, send a self-addressed envelope to: POP Management-Bishop Valero Senior Residence 191 Joralemon Street 8th Floor, Brooklyn, NY, 11201. Only send one application per development. Do not submit duplicate applications. Do not apply online and also send in a paper application. Applicants who submit more than one application may be disqualified.

When is the Deadline?

Applications must be postmarked or submitted online no later than June 15th, 2022. Late applications will not be considered.

What Happens After You Submit an Application?

After the deadline, applications are selected for review through a lottery process. If yours is selected and you appear to qualify, you will be invited to an appointment of eligibility to continue the process of determining your eligibility. Appointments are usually scheduled from 2 to 10 months after the application deadline. You will be asked to bring documents that verify your household size, identity of members of your household, and your household income.

Español

Presente una solicitud en línea en nyc.gov/housingconnect. Para recibir una traducción de español de este anuncio y la solicitud impresa, envíe un sobre con la dirección a: POP Management-Bishop Valero Senior Residence 191 Joralemon Street 8th Floor, Brooklyn, NY, 11201. En el reverso del sobre, escriba en inglés la palabra “SPANISH.” Las solicitudes se deben enviar en línea o con sello postal antes 15 de junio de 2022.

简体中文

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Русский

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한국어

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Polskie

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

Français

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

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Religion & Spirituality Harlem sends DJ Kay Slay home

(Mal'akiy 17 Allah photos)

By MAL’AKIY 17 ALLAH Special to the AmNews The hip hop community commemorated the legacy of one of its most recognizable figures in recent times with a home-going tribute at Harlem’s Apollo Theater this past Sunday morning.

Mixtape legend and Hot 97 on-air personality, DJ Kay Slay, 55, transitioned on April 17 from COVID-19 related complications. Approaching the Apollo Theater, Kay Slay’s voice was heard blaring out of the speakers of several vendors’ sound systems along 125th Street

as a line of fans and supporters filed outside awaiting entrance.

Inside, many paid homage.

Although several hundred people came out, some figured that a lot more would’ve come out to pay their respects to a local legend who gave back so much to the Harlem and hip hop communities.

Recording artist Busta Rhymes traced their friendship back 28 years, then detailed how they bonded: “I really respect a man that represented what it was to be a strong man.

As his younger brother, he was contributing to me being raised properly. All the talking with Slay was one

thing, but unless you were able to show and prove, it’s just talk.”

He also elaborated on how they'd get into heated debates, yet never lost respect for each other, before adding: “I’m grateful that I was part of every Slay album, countless mixtapes, and I was able to establish a genuine brotherhood with that man. Hip hop has an obligation to this man.”

Slay’s innovative “Rollin’ 50 Deep,” and “Rolling 110 Deep” mixtapes featured dozens of gifted artists and are a prime example of hip hop’s unifying force which it was initially intended for.

“I owe this man a lot,” Kay Slay’s protégé, Papoose, admitted after detailing some of the casualties he and his family endured while growing up in Brooklyn. “He was known as the ‘Drama King,’ but ironically what a lot of people don’t know, Slay was the reason for a lot of beef getting squashed. He became the voice of reason.”

He revealed some personal moments between them, noting his sense of humor, as well as his social guidance, before sharing a heartwrenching confession: “On January 4th he said ‘Pap, I might not make it.’”

Also mentioning how he implored

his mentor to continue fighting.

“This a brother that would make your problem his own.” He added. “We gotta cherish our every moment with our loved ones. Don’t take them for granted. Life is too short. I will do everything in my power to carry on your legacy.”

Papoose noted how Slay introduced him to his wife, who spoke next.

“He made sure that Remy Ma became known,” the Bronx MC gleamed. “We had this sister/ brother, love/hate relationship. He was really my friend. He changed a lot of people’s lives. We never know when it’s gonna be our last days.

So when you have somebody that you love and care about and that you feel if they wasn’t here that you would be hurt, tell them that now. Spend time with them. Go see them. Even if it’s out of the way.”

Chuck Chillout, Kid Capri, and Ma$e were among the hip hop luminaries who came out to pay their respects.

Upon the memorial services concluding, Kay Slay’s casket was carried out of the Apollo’s backstage door, then placed on an allwhite carriage on 126th Street.

Moments later, two white horses drew the carriage west-bound one block, around the corner down to 125th Street, and headed to his native East Harlem ‘hood.

Native Harlemite, Sensei Marvin Gatling joins ancestors

By MAL’AKIY 17 ALLAH Special to the AmNews

The Harlem and martial arts communities were deeply saddened upon learning that a well-known fixture in Harlem for several decades had transitioned on to the ancestral realm recently. A local memorial was conducted last month commemorating the legacy of Sensei Marvin Gatling, who returned to the essence on January 31.

Born October 28, 1945, he attended Dewitt Clinton High School in the Bronx prior to joining the U.S. Marines in 1967 and enduring the casualties of war in Vietnam during two tours of duty while a part of their special squad, the elite fighting force known as the Green Berets.

They carried out many daring attacks, as well as rescue missions overseas.

Upon returning to Harlem several years later he continued practicing JiuJitsu, eventually earning a 10th degree

Black Belt, and was well known for sharing his technique with others so that they could acquire self-discipline and also properly protect themselves in spontaneous battles.

The military veteran could often be seen along Harlem’s 125th Street rocking his camouflage fatigues and green beret, which he proudly adorned daily. He was very approachable and sociable, often sharing his wealth of knowledge regarding the martial sciences with those who showed sincere interests, including members of the New York Police Department.

“My apparatus will enhance whatever you’re doing,” says Grandmaster Gatling, a.k.a. Harlem’s Iron Man, in his training video. “It’s about a Black way. I’m not trying to be Chinese, Korean, all the rest of them. I respect them because they preserved it, but they don’t show you what they need to show you.”

As an innovator, sometime during the mid-1990s, he devised his train-

ing device, simply known as “The Toy” a.k.a. “The Resistix,” originally named “The Life Preservation System.” It consists of two short cylindrical pieces of plexi-glass placed side-by-side, with an industrial-strength rubber-band wrapped several times around each end. Practitioners then would pull the pieces apart while the rubber-bands serve as resistance, and conduct isometric exercises which would develop certain external, as well as internal, muscles in the arms and upper-body.

“The harder you train, the stronger you become,” he notes. “It opens up your chakras and meridians. Technique alone is not good enough, you also need strength.”

One of his other loves was photography, and he was always seen with his camera, regularly capturing the pulse in Harlem’s streets. He photographed many popular activists, celebrities and scholars who ventured along Central Harlem’s streets.

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alike but we expect them to conform to the same material, the same level of accountability and the same assessments. Maybe this was more effective in a homogeneous society, (and I even question that) but in today’s classroom, student needs are more complex and diverse.

We need a curriculum that is designed to be guided by learning rather than teaching, for example a curriculum on animals should include the following: regional, vocabulary, language, culture, reading comprehension and student experience to name a few. This is all student perspective based. Basically we are understanding that this topic will mean different things to different students with multiple correct answers. We must teach with students, not to students. What the students bring to the classroom is an integral part of the learning process.

You cannot build a curriculum, unit, or lesson plan without knowing who you’re writing it for. Some may still ask, how can we create a lesson for every type of student? You don’t have to. The lesson plan should be created to have opened avenues to fit the needs of all students We live in a capitalist society; there is no doubt that this level of reform would increase the education budget exponentially, but so does infrastructure, war, space exploration and government debt. Educationdata.org states: “The nation puts 11.6% of public funding toward education, well below the international standard 15%.” However, the lack of priority does not fall solely on the government. Marketwatch. com stated that Americans spent $100 billion annually on sports alone.

We have a great deal of work to do if we want to address our education problem with authenticity and earnestness. Keep in mind this article is not for teachers; it’s for policy makers that affect teaching, and a reminder that we must include teachers and students in the decisionmaking process, and just maybe we can start to have conversations on the how in education.

Clarence Williams Jr. is a retired assistant superintendent in the New York City public school system. He holds a doctorate in educational leadership, a master’s in education administration, a masters in multicultural education. He has a k-12 license in special education and educational leadership, has worked as an educator and leader in the public school system for over 30 years and is an adjunct professor.

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Also, not only may girls of color experience some of the same challenges that affect the life chances of boys of color, but they face unique challenges, “Black Girls Matter: Pushed Out, Overpoliced, and Underprotected,” the study released by the AAPF and the Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies, said.

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THE NEW NEW YORK YORK AMSTERDAM AMSTERDAM NEWS NEWS THE Back in December 2020, Schumer, then is the fact that Black women are hit hardCongressman-elect, Jamaal Bowman, est by the national student loan crisis.

Mondaire Jones, Ritchie Torres, and local The American Association of University Continued students held a presser calling on Biden Women said, “Americans now hold over Continuedfrom frompage page36 “to cancel student loan debt; nearly 2.4 $1.7 trillion in outstanding student loan disproportionately on working class, poor million New Yorkers owe $89.5 billion in debt. The skyrocketing cost of college has students of color. Particularly on Black federal student loans. Canceling student forced more students to borrow money to women. President Biden can address this loan debt will relieve a huge burden on obtain a degree. Women take on greater historic inequality by issuing an execu- NY’s young people, particularly people of debt than men to start, but when women tive order canceling student debt. This is color and families; student debt accounts graduate, loan payments collide with the the simplest and most equitable solution for substantial percentage of racial wealth gender pay gap. The compounding effect and avoids the smoke and mirrors of the gap.” puts a tight squeeze on women’s budgets.” partial and gradual programs the presiSchumer, Senators Elizabeth Warren Black women, they add, are subjected dent and other elected officials have put and Raphael Warnock, Representatives to the highest level of student debt, calcuforward. We contrast the government’s Ayanna Pressley and Ilhan Omar, and lating an undergraduate bill of $41,466, stalling and hesitancy in addressing the House Majority Whip James E. Clyburn and a graduate school number as high as student debt with the urgency it continues recently released a statement on an ex- $75,085, a year post graduation. to display in funneling billions of dollars of tension of the federal student loan pay“Education and debt go hand in hand,” aid to Ukraine to address a situation which ment pause: said the United States Census Bureau. the U.S. has provoked. We will be at Sen“Last week, we led nearly 100 mem- “Non-Hispanic Black adults were particator Schumer’s office on Saturday to urge bers of Congress in urging the president ularly likely to have student debt… him to support our campaign and deliver to extend the pause on student loan pay“In 2017, for example, rates for some our message to the president.” ments. Today, President Biden heeded non-Hispanic Black groups were twice as “I am paying back my $11,000 student our calls and delivered critical relief to mil- large as for non-Hispanic white adults and loan at $300 a month,” 2021 college gradu- lions of Americans. Since the start of the Black adults were more likely than white ate Osato told the Amsterdam News. “I am Biden-Harris administration, no Amer- adults at every educational attainment happy that I have a job and I was able to ican has had to pay a dime on their fed- level to have student loans.” move back home. So it is tough, but with erally-held student debt, and more than The Amsterdam News contacted payments being suspended for now it 700,000 borrowers have had over $16 bil- Biden’s press team to ask for comment on helps, but the burden is still there. One of lion in student debt canceled. While the the issue. the reasons me and my friends voted for extension is welcome, a looming restart of Kelly S. Leon, U.S. Department of EdBiden was because he said he would cut student loan payments in September un- ucation press secretary, said the govstudent loans. They bail out everyone else, derscores the importance of swift execu- ernment is “continuing to assess what what about students or former students?” tive action on meaningful student debt administrative actions can be taken to Meanwhile, Schumer is among other cancellation. We continue to implore the offer relief.” so-titled progressives such as Elizabeth president to use his clear legal authoriAt a White House briefing on Monday Warren and Bernie Sanders pushing ty to cancel student debt, which will help Jen Psaki said, “I don’t have anything to Biden to use his executive power to cancel narrow the racial wealth gap, boost our preview for you in terms of any authority $50,000 in student debt for all those carry- economic recovery, and demonstrate that and how—or how it would work. What I ing the bill. this government is fighting for the people.” would tell you is that not a single person in They disagree with House Speaker U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand stated, this country has paid a dime on student, Nancy Pelosi’s assessment that it is not “Student debt is a huge burden on New federal student loans since the president within the president’s power to do so.

Yorkers, which is why I have worked on took office. And what we have said is that For his part, during his presidential legislation that would offer economic he would make a decision about any cancampaigning Biden said he would offer relief to thousands of New York borrow- cellation of student debt before the con$10,000 in federal student loan forgive- ers. Without debt relief, students and grad- clusion of that pause on student loans, but ness. That hasn’t happened though. In- uates will continue facing additional and I don’t have anything to preview for you at stead, he pledged he would expand unnecessary financial strains that hold this point in time.” portions of the current loan forgiveness both our statewide and national econoAsked if the White House views this “as programs. my down. As we emerge from the pan- a racial equity issue?”

The Amsterdam News reached out demic, it is essential that Congress take Psaki replied, “Well, again, I think the to Schumer to get a response about the bold action to help New Yorkers find their president views student loan relief, debt scheduled rally, but his office sent state- footing and thrive.” relief as something that impacts—yes, it is ments referring to his support for student With two thirds of loans being held by a racial equity issue, but it is also an issue loan relief. women in America, another angle here that impacts many individuals—young people, middle-aged people, of all races. It is something that he has, he has played, it has been a vital priMITCHEL HOUSES ority to the president, 1485 FRONT ST, EAST MEADOW, NY which again is why BEGINNING MAY 9, 2022 AND ENDING MAY 25, 2022... not a single person Preliminary applications will be available to re-establish a waiting list for... has played—paid a **** 1 (ONE) BEDROOM APARTMENTS **** penny, a dime, a dime ... at Mitchel Houses, a HUD Subsidized Development. Qualifications for the development are based on or a penny in student HUD 4350.3 guidelines. loans since he took When they become available, applications WILL NOT be given out in person at the Rental Office. Persons interested in obtaining an application may call our office only during business hours May 9, 2022 thru May 25, 2022 at office.”

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and income-driven repayment (IDR) forgiveness by addressing historical failures in the administration of the federal student loan programs.”

Federal Student Aid (FSA) estimates that these changes “will result in immediate debt cancellation for at least 40,000 borrowers under the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Program.” They added, “Several thousand borrowers with older loans will also receive forgiveness through IDR. More than 3.6 million borrowers will also receive at least three years of additional credit toward IDR forgiveness.”

“Student loans were never meant to be a life sentence, but it’s certainly felt that way for borrowers locked out of debt relief they’re eligible for,” said U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona.

“Today [April 19, 2022], the Department of Education will begin to remedy years of administrative failures that effectively denied the promise of loan forgiveness to certain borrowers enrolled in IDR plans.

These actions once again demonstrate the Biden-Harris administration’s commitment to delivering meaningful debt relief and ensuring federal student loan programs are administered fairly and effectively.”

These actions, they determine, are part of the Department’s “commitment to address historical failures in the administration of the federal student loan program and support student loan borrowers through the pandemic. They also help address the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on borrowers with lower incomes and high debt loads.”

Their statement continues that the steps will “help restore the promise of IDR plans by ensuring that borrowers have an affordable and effective path out of debt.

“Beyond the immediate corrective actions announced today that will provide relief to borrowers harmed in the past, FSA will take action to ensure that borrowers receive these benefits in the future.”

Not enough to stop the call for overall relief it appears, however.

Bed Stuy Brooklyn’s Assemblywoman Stefani L. Zinerman said, “There are so many talented and educated New Yorkers drowning in a sea of debt for the very education meant to empower and enable them. American education must evolve so that anyone who wants to improve themselves can without the burden of student loans. I am witnessing the fight to stay afloat for so many individuals in my district—a struggle I know well. People of African descent and those from marginalized communities need educational reparations to repair the historic wrongs. We must prioritize higher education to compete on a global stage and contribute to the economic evolution of our society as potential homeowners and business owners. It is imperative for our collective survival as a nation for President Biden to bail out students the way we bailed out banks.”

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Despite expectations of greatness, the Nets are swept off to elimination

By VINCENT DAVIS Special to the AmNews There was a rush of enthusiastic and hopeful Nets fans on Monday evening that filled the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, there to see their team face the Boston Celtics down 3-0 in their opening round Eastern Conference semifinal matchup.

The night ended in disappointment as the Nets were swept in four games by Celtics, the series ending with a 116-112 loss, eliminating them from the playoffs. Entering this season the Nets and the Los Angeles Lakers were the favorites to make it to the finals representing the Eastern and Western Conference respectively.

The Lakers didn’t qualify for the playoffs, finishing 33-49 and 11th in the West.

The Nets, who led the East for much of the early part of the season, went 44-38 to end the regular season and wound up as the 7th seed. It put them in the Play-In Tournament having to earn their way into the first round of the playoffs.

defeating the rising Celtics in a series. Boston was bigger, stronger, longer and more athletic under first-year head coach Ime Udoka. You could make the case they were the best team in the NBA since the beginning of Januar y and it showed in their domination of the Nets. One year has made a difference as last May the Celtics lost to the Nets 4-1 in the first round of the playoffs.

The Celtics’ next-level physical defense blanketed Nets superstars Kevin Durant and Kyrie Ir ving, and didn’t allow the role players to make the needed contributions for the Nets to successfully close out games. And with All-Star forward Ben Simmons, who was acquired by the Nets in a package that sent former Brooklyn guard James Harden to the Philadelphia 76ers, unable to play due to lingering issues with a herniated disk in his After the Nets were swept 4-0 by the Boston Celtics in the opening round back, the Nets didn’t have the of the NBA playoffs, Kyrie Irving and Kevin Durant came up short again bodies to counter the Celtics’ in their goal of helping the Nets win a championship (Bill Moore photo) talent and depth, especially their spectacular young duo Mired in dysfunction and a the season, the Nets proved of Jayson Tatum and Jaylen lack of continuity throughout they weren’t up to the task of Brown. Simmons did not play a

single game this season either for the Sixers or the Nets.

“I know so many people wanted to see us fail at this juncture. Pick us as contenders and have so much to say at this point,” said Nets guard Kyrie Irving after Monday’s loss. Irving, who can opt out of his contract with the Nets this summer, has been heavily criticized by many fans and members of the media for the team’s failures due to him missing most of the season because of his refusal to be vaccinated. He didn’t play his first home game until March 27 after parts of New York City’s COVID-19 restrictions were rolled back.

But Durant said the reason for the series defeat is simple. ”A lot of stuff that may factor into why we lose, but they were just a better team,” he explained after scoring 39 points in his last game of the season.

Now the Nets’ key members, team owner Joe Tsai, general manager Sean Marks, Nash, Durant, Ir ving and Simmons will have a long off-season to deal with what went wrong and come back on the same page.

The Bucks and Celtics are on course for an epic Eastern Conference series

By JAIME C. HARRIS AmNews Sports Editor

Jayson Tatum wasn’t a certified superstar prior to his sensational performance in the No. 2 Celtics 4-0 series sweep of the No. 7 Brooklyn Nets in their opening round Eastern Conference playoff series ; there is little doubt today that he is one of the NBA’s best players.

The 24-year-old Tatum averaged 29.5 points and 7.3 assists while guarding with the intensity and execution of an elite special forces operative in aiding in the disruption of the Nets’ offensive attack.

No rational basketball fan was uncertain of the Milwaukee Bucks’ Giannis Antetokounmpo’s standing after his historically great play in last year’s finals versus the Phoenix Suns placed him among the game’s legends. The 27-yearold two-time league MVP added a finals MVP to his gleaming resume in carrying the Bucks to a 4-2 series win, equaling Bob

Petit (1958) as the only players to ever score 50 points in a championship close out game.

Antetokounmpo’s remarkable stat line in Game 6 was 50 points, 14 rebounds and five blocks.

Now he and Tatum are set for what could be an epic Eastern Conference semifinals series.

The No. 3 seed Bucks were up 3-1 versus the No. 6 seed Chicago Bulls when they met last night in Milwaukee with the Bucks looking to end the series and prepare for a much more difficult challenge of facing the formidable Celtics. With the Bulls All-Star guard Zach Levine out last night due to being placed in the league’s COVID19 health and safety protocols, the Bucks were favorably positioned to send the Bulls on a long break.

Heading into the game, Antetokounmpo had carried over his regular season MVP-caliber play, in which he averaged 29.9 points (second in the NBA) 11.6 rebounds and 5.8 assists per game, by posting numbers

NBA Superstars Giannis Antetokounmpo of the Milwaukee Bucks and Jayson Tatum of the Boston Celtics will lead their teams into what could be a classic Eastern Conference semifinals battle (Bill Moore photo)

of 27.5, 14.5 and 1.8 blocks in four games against the Bulls.

In the other Eastern Conference series, the No. 4 Philadelphia 76ers are up 3-2 over the No. 5 seed Toronto Raptors with Game 6 in Toronto tonight. The No. 1 seed Miami Heat eliminated the No. 8 seed Atlanta Hawks 4-1 with a 97-94 victory at home on Tuesday. In the West, the No. 3 seed Golden State Warriors held a 3-1 advantage over the No. 6 seed Denver Nuggets and sought to knock them out of the playoffs last night at home.

The top seed Phoenix Suns lead the No. 8 seed New Orleans Pelicans 3-2 in their gripping best-of-seven series as they will meet in Game 6 tonight in New Orleans. Game 6 of the No. 4 seed Dallas Mavericks and No. 5 seed Utah Jazz pairing is tonight in Utah with the Mavericks leading 3-2. The No. 2 seed Memphis Grizzlies had their hands full with the Minnesota Timberwolves. They are up 3-2 with Game 6 tomorrow in Minnesota.

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Figure Skating in Harlem marks 25 years

By LOIS ELFMAN Special to the AmNews One of the honorees at Monday evening’s Figure Skating in Harlem (FSH) gala was Bernice DeAbreu, who is regarded as the “Godmother of FSH.” About 30 years ago, DeAbreu asked Sharon Cohen to take a few girls in an after-school program in East Harlem skating.

After several years of doing the work informally, Cohen joined with members of the Harlem community to launch FSH, an organization that serves girls ages six to 18 with skating, educational support, mentoring and self-esteem building.

“Bernice [FSH’s dean of students] has been the heart and soul and deep roots of this organization,” said Cohen. “We’re letting everybody know how important she has been.”

This year’s event marked the launch of a new initiative for the organization’s alumnae ages 18–30. It began this past Saturday when about 80 alumnae gathered for their first-ever official reunion. Two tables at Monday’s gala were filled with alumnae. A couple of months

Atoy Wilson (center, back row) with other former skaters, FSH girls and Sharon Cohen (Lois Elfman photo)

ago photographer and program alumna Flo Ngala photographed 25 of the alumnae for something FSH is calling the Gems Project.

A behind-the-scenes video was shown at the gala.

“I couldn’t feel more proud to see where they are today and

how they look back on the impact of the organization. It shows that with a positive intention the kids blossom,” said Cohen.

One of the alumnae is Daria Forde, who participated in FSH from age 6–13 and then went off to boarding school. She studied

computer science at Barnard College and is now a product manager for Groupon. “FSH allowed me to know I could really do anything,” said Forde, whose goal is to build a computer science curriculum for current FSH participants.

This year ’s graduating seniors were introduced to the audience, and a few current participants were on hand to do a spoken word performance. Among them was 10th grader Mahlah Abudu, who is in her sixth year with FSH. “Something that’s kept me in the program is the sisterhood and all the staff that motivates you,” Abudu said. “We have classes on public speaking.

I’m confident in myself and my abilities.”

In addit io n to D eAbreu, t he ho n o re es w ere co s metics in d ust r y in n ovato r Esi Egglesto n B race y, venture cap it alist L o r in e Pen dleto n , W ho o p i G o ldb erg, Valer ie Simp s o n an d Nat han Chen .

Memb ers o f t he U.S. O lympic figure skat ing team w ere o n han d as w ere fo r mer skaters who’ve b e en supp o r t ive over t hes e 25 years : Atoy Wils o n ( t he first Afr ican Amer ican skater to w in a U.S. t it le) , Tai Babilonia, JoJo Starbuck, Paul W ylie an d Timo t hy G o eb el.

“Everybody comes together for the girls and there’s a sense of common community,” said Cohen.

Brooklyn native takes on the acting role of college hoopster

By LOIS ELFMAN Special to the AmNews B e f ore landi ng th e ro le o f Jo rdan Malo n e, a n a mb iti ou s sho oting gu a rd o n a nati onal champi o n s h i p co lle g e tea m, B ro oklyn nati ve Enaji te E s e g ine’s k n owle dg e o f basketball p r i ma r i ly ca m e fro m watching i t o n T V w it h h er fat he r. Bu t h e r a cti ng ta le nts and ath le ti c ab i li ti e s that came from volle yball and tra ck he lp e d h e r la n d a ro l e o n t h e ne w T V s e r i e s “ L o ng, Slow E x hale,” cur rently air ing o n Sp e ctr u m o n D e ma n d . “ I was watch i ng, bu t i n ter ms of ter minolog y, I didn’t k n ow t he diffe re nt p lays u nt i l I g ot o n s e t a n d w e w o rke d w i t h Cynthia Co o p e r,” sai d E s e gine of the i nte n s e t w o w e e k b o ot ca mp that the p r i n c ipal acto rs p o r trayi ng p layers w e nt th rou g h w i t h th e fou r- tim e WN BA Cha mpi o n and Hall of Fa m e r.

Es e gi ne said s h e wa s su r-

p r i s e d t hat he r aud i t i o n for “ L o ng, Sl ow E x ha l e” d i d n o t c o nt a i n a ny ba ske tba l l . “ I to l d t he show c reato r, ‘ I t hi n k I kn ow how to d r i b b l e,’” she sa i d . “ Fun ny e n oug h, g e tt i ng i nto b o o t ca mp w i t h Cy nt hia, I f oun d out I wa s dr ibbling the ball w ro ng.”

Co o p e r wa s pa t i e nt a n d un d e rsto o d t hat m o st o f t he a c to rs ha d m i n i ma l ba ske tba l l e xp e r i e n c e. “ We ha d f our to f i ve hours a day o f t ra i n i ng. We w oul d have to ma ke lay up s, d o sho o t i ng drills a n d l ea r n how to d r i b b l e a ba s-

Actress Enajite Esegine stars as shooting guard Jordan Malone on the series “Long, Slow Exhale,” airing on Spectrum on Demand (Photo courtesy of Spectrum)

ketball while r u nn ing up an d dow n t he cour t,” E s e gin e said .

A l mo st e ver y epis o de in clud es ga me act io n , du r ing which t he ac tress es playe d aga inst actual c ol l e g e basketba l l p layers.

W h ile t he act io n s e q uen ces w ere tou gh, Es e gin e appre ciate d t he opp or tun it y to ask t he players q u est io n s ab out ga me day emotions an d preparatio n , which sh e brought to h er character.

Sh e als o stud ie d ga me act io n an d player inter v iews on YouTub e.

Th e s how is s et at fictional Colton

St ate Un iversit y, which after w in n ing t he nat io nal champ io n s hip b e gan to en counter s er ious issues when o n e o f t he team’s st ar p layers accuses the associate head coach of s exual assault. There is als o a murder myster y, an d s e cret s are re veale d each ep is o de. “ I ho p e p e o ple are s e eing t he subj e ct s b eing brought to light, such as s exual abus e, co ming out as LGBTQ an d subst an ce abus e,” said Es e gin e, who is als o a wr iter and hop es to create meaningful co ntent t hat w ill impact how t he Black co mmun it y is p erceive d in t he me d ia.

In ad dit io n to ho p ing t hat t he s er ies g et s a s eas o n t w o, Es e gin e ho p es to che ck out a New Yo rk L ib er t y game t his summer an d me et Michaela O nyenw ere as t he y are b o t h o f Nig er ian her it ag e. “ There w ere s o many w o men I was able to look to and take from,” said Es e gin e. “S e eing t heir basketball j ourn e y.”

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Hoops star works toward serving athletes in a new capacity

By LOIS ELFMAN Special to the AmNews As a standout guard for the Arkansas State Red W o l v e s , S t a r r Ta y l o r w a s unrelenting on the hardwood, but that was only part of her stor y. She complete d h e r b a c h e l o r ’s d e g r e e i n exercise science in three years and in her final playi n g y e a r e a r n e d a m a s t e r ’s degree in sport administration. During that time, s h e a n d h e r o l d e r b r o t h e r, Blaise, a football standout at Arkansas State, founded their own non-profit, Power of 1 or 2, based on the idea that even one or two people can make a positive impact on the lives of others. “ Yo u d o n ’ t h a v e t o d o some grand gesture to make a d i f f e r e n c e i n s o m e o n e ’s life. One small act can have a p o s i t i v e d o m i n o e f f e c t ,” said Ta y l o r.

Currently, they are in the midst of their scholarship program in which they give $1,000 scholarships—dorm room,

Former Arkansas State standout Starr Taylor is still sports-minded (Arkansas State Athletics photo)

undergraduate and graduate scholarships—with recipients announced in May. They’re also doing their annual project prom program, getting girls prom d r e s s e s . L a t e r t h i s y e a r, there will be Thanksgiving and Christmas events.

To d a y , Ta y l o r i s a t B a y l o r U n i v e r s i t y , w h e r e h e r p a re n t s m e t a s s t u d e n t- a t h l e t e s , doing an accelerated doctor of physical therapy program that she will complete this c o m i n g D e c e m b e r. F o r h e r, i t ’s l i k e a h o m e c o m i n g . S h e and her brother were born i n Te x a s , a n d a l t h o u g h s h e grew up in several cities as h e r f a t h e r, T r o o p e r Ta y l o r, a college football coach (now a t D u k e ) , m o v e d f o r d i f f e re n t j o b s , s h e s e e s Te x a s a s home.

“I always credit my mom [ D r. E v i Ta y l o r, a c l i n i c a l assistant professor at the U N C S c h o o l o f S o c i a l Wo r k ] because she did an amazing job at making sure that we a l w a y s f e l t a s e n s e o f h o m e ,” s a i d Ta y l o r. “ We a l w a y s

gave back to our community, and that brought us a s e n s e o f c o m m u n i t y w h e re v e r w e w e r e l i v i n g .”

Spor ts were also a dr iving force in their lives. It helped Starr and Blaise readily make friends in a new place as well as allowing them to meet and connect with a diverse range o f p e o p l e . To d a y , b o t h are forging their futures in sports. Blaise is an adv a n c e s c o u t f o r t h e Te n nessee Titans, who hopes to become either a general manager or an athletic dir e c t o r.

“Physical therapy is one of the fields in health care that practices a holistic app r o a c h ,” s a i d Ta y l o r, w h o is already a NASM certified p e r s o n a l t r a i n e r. “ B e i n g a former athlete, I can relate to other athletes, especially collegiate athletes.

My ultimate goal is to be a sports physical therapist for a Division I or II sports program or a professional s p o r t s t e a m .”

A Mets miracle could foreshadow a magical season

By JAIME C. HARRIS AmNews Sports Editor

T h e l a t e Ne w Yo r k Ya n k e e s Ha l l o f Fa m e r Yo g i B e r ra i s attributed with coining the f a m o u s s p o r t s a x i o m, “ It a i n ’ t ov e r t i l i t ’s ov e r.” W h i l e B e r ra a c t u a l l y n e v e r s a i d t h a t , f i c t i o n i s o f t e n m o re i n d e l i b l e t h a n f a c t . T h e Me t s e m b o d i e d t h e p h ra s e w i t h a n u n s c r i p t e d , re a l l i v e n i n t h inning comeback against the S t . L o u i s Ca rd i n a l s t o s t a r t t h e w e e k t h a t m ay h av e f o re shadowed what could be a magical season.

T h e f ra n c h i s e’s 1 9 6 9 Wo r l d Series team is affectionatel y k n o w n a s t h e Mi ra c l e Me t s for their unlikely and unexpected run to a champio n s h i p. T h e c u r re n t t e a m is optimistic they can also e n d t h i s s e a s o n c e l e b ra t i n g a t i t l e. Mo n d ay ’s w i n w a s a n experience that can galvanize a ball club and build a m i n d s e t o f t o u g h n e s s a n d re s i l i e n c e. D o w n 2 - 0 b e g i n n i n g t h e t o p o f n i n t h, t h e Me t s

s u b s e q u e nt l y s c o re d f i v e u n e a r n e d r u n s. “ T h e s e a re g a m e s that you can kind o f re a c h b a c k f o r a n d re m e m b e r w hy y o u d o a l l t h i s,” s a i d Me t s m a n a g e r B u c k S h o w a l t e r.

The inning was h i g h l i g h t e d by a two-run single inf i e l d by p i n c h h i t t e r D o m i n i c S m i t h, w h o steamed down the first base line and d ov e h e a d f i r s t i n t o the bag to closely b e a t t h e t h ro w , a n d a t w o - r u n h o m e r by c e n t e r f i e l d e r B ra n d o n Ni m m o. Me t s p i t c h e r Ma x S c h e rzer (3-0, 1.80 ERA , 3 3 s t r i k e o u t s ) t h re w seven shutout innings and struck out 10 concluding the s t ro n g s h o w i n g w i t h a no-decision. “ Ev e r y b o d y ’s g o t a h a n d i n t h i s,” s a i d

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S c h e r z e r, a n e i g h t- t i m e A l l -St a r a n d t h re e - t i m e Cy Yo u n g aw a rd w i n n e r w h o m t h e Me t s s i g n e d t o a re c o rd -s e t t i n g t h re e - y e a r, $ 1 3 0 m i l l i o n f re e - a g e n t c o n t ra c t in Nov e m b e r. “ Ev e r y b o d y ’s g o t a h a n d in doing something for the t e a m.”

T h e Me t s f o l l o w e d u p that thrilling win with a 3 - 0 v i c t o r y o n Tu e s d ay n i g h t l e d by s t a r t e r C h r i s Bassett who is now 3-1 in f o u r s t a r t s. It ke p t t h e Me t s a t t h e t o p o f t h e Na t i o n a l E a s t w i t h a re c o rd o f 1 4 - 5 , t h e b e s t i n Ma j o r L e a g u e Baseball heading into the final game last night o f t h e i r t h re e - g a m e ro a d s e r i e s w i t h t h e Ca rd i n a l s.

T h e Me t s w i l l re t u r n t o C i t i Fi e l d t o m o r ro w t o b e g i n a t h re e - g a m e s e r i e s versus the Philadelphia P h i l l i e s a n d t h e n p l ay f o u r a t h o m e a g a i n s t t h e re i g n i n g N L E a s t a n d Wo r l d S e r i e s c h a m p i o n At l a n t a B rav e s.

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Sports The restructured Giants must hit on impact players in the NFL Draft

By JAIME C. HARRIS AmNews Sports Editor

coach. Daboll was the Bills’ offensive coIt would be a puzzling deordinator from velopment if the Giants did 2018-2021. not select an offensive lineThe duo is man with one of their two first ostensibly round picks in tonight’s NFL going all in on Draft, taking place at Caesars Daniel Jones Forum in Paradise, Nevada, next season, situated within the Las Vegas who has had metropolitan area. North Caran uninspiring olina State’s Ikem Ekwonu, three-year run Alabama’s Evan Neal and Misas the Giants sissippi State’s Charles Cross starting quarare the three tackles who are terback after expected to go within the top being selected 10 picks. The Giants hold the No. 6 overall in North Carolina State’s offensive tackle Ikem Ekwonu would help strengthen a Giants No. 5 and No. 7 spots in the the 2019 draft. draft and are set up to address offensive line that has struggled in recent seasons (North Carolina State Athletics photo) In 37 games as a glaring and persistent weaka starter, Jones ness. franchise’s GM in January after serving as has thrown for 8,398 yards with a 62.8% Following a 4-13 campaign, the Giants the Bills assistant general manager from completion rate. He has 45 touchdowns, underwent a restructuring. They have a 2017-2021. Schoen, in conjunction with 29 interceptions and 36 fumbles, 20 of new general manager and head coach, Giants owners John Mara and Steve Tisch, which were lost for turnovers, the most both hired from the Buffalo Bills. The then decided on 47-year-old Brian Daboll by any player in the league over the past 42-year-old Joe Schoen was named the to replace the fired Joe Judge as head three seasons.

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The Jets can fill several holes with high draft picks

By VINCENT DAVIS Special to the AmNews

The NFL Draft kicks off tonight from Caesars Forum AM NEWS in Paradise, Nevada, a city in the Las Vegas metropoli04/14/22 tan area. The three-day event will see teams systematically choose the best eligible college players.

Last season, the Jets, with the No. 2 overall pick, selected Zach Wilson with the belief the BYU product would AM NEWS become their long-term franchise quarterback. Only 21 04/21/22 when he was drafted, Wilson, Alabama tackle Evan Neal may be the Jets’ selection with the No. 4 overall pick to help protect who turned 22 during trainquarterback Zach Wilson (University of Alabama Athletics photo) ing camp last August, struggled in his rookie season, playing in 13 and 38th picks in the second round. De- 117. Unless they make a trade, the Jets games—he missed four due to injury— spite Wilson’s tough year, Jets general will end their draft in the fifth round with Wilson was 3-10, completed just 55.6% of manager Joe Douglas still has faith in his the 146th and 163rd picks. Reports have his pass attempts for 2,334 yards, had 11 developing QB and will look to strength- the Jets possibly being one of the teams interceptions to only 9 touchdowns. The en other areas of need. interested in San Francisco 49ers reAMwide NEWS Jets finished 4-13.

“It’s about adding as many difference ceiver Deebo Samuel, who has demand04/28/22 As a result, their consolation will be makers as you can to the roster, and ed a trade and is seeking a lucrative deal a total of nine picks overall, four in the making sure they fit within the culture similar to some of the contracts signed by top 40. In addition to the 4th and 10th and the scheme,” said Douglas earlier this other top wide receivers this off-season. picks in the first round, they have the 35th week. Douglas also has picks 69, 111 and “We’ve been consistent since we’ve

“I don’t make excuses with everybody, starting with me,” said Daboll early this month regarding Jones’ penchant for giving away the ball, “and I think you’ve got to really go back and dive into the cause of the turnovers.”

Jones’ adversity in part can be attributed to the Giants’ offensive line being one of the worst in football during his tenure.

Schoen and Daboll will soon make a consequential decision to either pick up Jones’ fifth-year option for 2023 at $21.3 million or weigh beginning anew at the position with someone else after next season.

Therefore, surrounding Jones with the talent necessary for them to carry out a comprehensive evaluation of his abilities is a priority for Schoen and Daboll.

An edge rusher and cornerback should also be high on the Giants’ list of positions of needs. Oregon pass rush specialist Kayvon Thibodeaux, Florida State’s defensive lineman Jermaine Johnson II and LSU cornerback Derek Stingley Jr. are prospects the Giants are likely strongly considering taking with the seventh pick.

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