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WWW.AMSTERDAMNEWS.COM Vol. 113 No. 34 | August 25, 2022 - August 31, 2022 ©2022 The Amsterdam News | $1.00 New York City THE NEW BLACK VIEW Home health aide Marie Dorviline (Courtesy of Cornell University/YouTube)(AfroJeff Antonie photo) (Pexels free download) Councilmember Chi Osse addresses community as they demand city council restore $215 million in school cuts. (Ariama C. Long photo) COMMUNITY DEMANDS CITY COUNCIL RESTORE SCHOOL CUTS(See story on page 16) CM Joseph, battling Black and brown youth suicide rates (See story on page 3) For one dedicated home health aide, patients become family (See story on page 30) Brooklyn rally for slavery (See‘DodemandingreparationsPres.BidenTheRightThing’storyonpage8) BANKS' BUDGET BATTLE

MILITANTS TAKE LIVES AT SOMALI HOTEL AS U.S. SPECIAL OPS DEPLOY IN SOMALIA (GIN) - Government forces say they have put down a siege at the popular Hayat Hotel in Mogadishu that began Friday and has report edly left over 20 casualties. It is the largest siege in the country since Hassan Sheikh Mohamud was elected president this May.

The founder and current chair of the Union for Peace and Development Party, President Sheikh Mohamud was previously a university professor and dean and was named in Time maga zine’s annual list of the 100 most influ ential people in the world.

NEWLY-ELECTED KENYAN LEADER ENDS VOTING BY TRIBE, ANALYSTS FORESEE (GIN) - Is the two-party system a thing of the past? Low voter turn out in the U.S. seems to reflect dis enchantment with a single choice between Democrats and Republi cans. Kenya is no different. This month, Kenyans tossed the traditional toss-up between the Luo and Kikuyu ethnic groups to choose William Samoei Ruto, a Kalenjin. His party, the United Democratic Alliance (UDA) and its allies, took the political experts by surprise when he easily won all nine governorships of Mount Kenya - once considered a sure bet for a Luo. Raila Odinga, son of a promi nent Luo figure in Kenya’s strug gle for independence, was making his fifth attempt at the presidency and was expected to sweep in the Luo region. Support from the out going president, Uhuru Kenyatta, failed to put him over the top. Meanwhile, “Ruto went to the remotest villages of Mount Kenya and talked to the lowest of market vendors,” said Peter Kagwanja who campaigned for Odinga and is head of the Africa Policy Insti tute, a think-tank in Nairobi. “He took a strong populist approach and his populism won.” Margaret Njeri Mubuu, an elder ly activist in the Kikuyu communi ty, explained that she abandoned the party for its elitism to vote for Ruto. Meeting him at a campaign stop, she asked for help thwarting plans by the National Land Com mission to evict villagers from their ancestral lands.

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“The government that you voted for is not a government breaching the law,” Ruto replied. “No one will be evicted forcefully so long as you have the ownership documents.”“(Kenyatta) ignored the region, people were just fed up,” said Justin Muturi, speaker of the National As sembly for Mount Kenya. “People resonated with Ruto’s down-toearth approach and econom ic message and concerns of the people. It has nothing to do with being Kikuyu or not anymore.”

Elected member of parliament from the UDA, Gabriel Kagombe, offered this explanation: “People no longer vote on an ethnic basis… Ruto said this non sense of people voting on a tribal basis, having no other consider ation than tribe, must come to an end,” he told the Guardian UK. “Ruto has managed to kill trib alism in this country,” Kagombe said. “It’s the dawn of a new era.” Ruto’s stump speech includ ed vows to invest in agriculture which resonated among farm ers in Mount Kenya facing higher food and fertilizer prices. Although now a wealthy man, the 55-year-old Ruto stresses his early roots as a roadside food vendor selling local chicken to passing truck drivers. He walked long distances to school shoeless, knocking his toes on rocks and leaving bloody toenails behind. But that was his past.

As an influential commenta tor, his protest poems and plays against the military junta led by former dictator Siad Barre, led to his imprisonment in the notori ous Qansah Dheere for five years in the Uponmid-1970s.release,he fled to Ethio pia where he joined the Somali National Movement (SNM) and continued writing revolutionary poems. He refused to seek asylum in the United Kingdom and re turned to his homeland to single handedly lead a march (known as the “Hadraawi Peace March”) ap pealing for peace and an end to all animosities.Oneofhis most famous poems, “Hooyo‘,” which means mother, is an ode to Somali women and their societal role. His most extensive work, an 800verse poem titled “Daba Huwan,” which translates as “cloaked in black,” chronicles the hardships endured by the millions of Somalis forced to flee their homeland and settle abroad, which he experienced when he escaped Somalia’s civil war in the 1990s.

MALI’S SHAKESPEARE PASSES AFTER A LONG ILLNESS (GIN) - Mohamed Ibrahim Wars ame, better known by his pen name, Hadrawi, has passed away in the Somaliland capital, Hargei sa, after a long illness, according to family members. He was 79. “We have lost an icon in Somali literature,” Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said. “A man whom we will remember for his role in peace-building and conflict resolution, building the mindset of many Somalis through his wisdom and poems for the bet terment and the unity of Somalis. “I console all Somali people and his family for his departure.” Called “the Shakespeare of So malia,” Warsame battled an illness for years that left him hospitalized. Born in Burao, the capital of the Toghdeer region in British Somaliland, to a nomadic cam el-herding family, Hadrawi gradu ated in literature and education at the Somali University in Mogadi shu in the early 1970s, shortly after Somalia declared independence. He grew up in the Yemeni port city of Aden where he lived with his uncle. Here he became known for his vivid imagination and sto rytelling, earning him the nick name “Hadrawi”. His work, which numbers over 200 poems, cut across political, clan, and economic classes. “Without poetry, we would not exist as a society. It can rouse thousands of people in a minute and demobilize thousands in a minute. As the stomach needs food, so the brain needs beautiful words,” Hadraawi once said.

Many admire the politician able to go from being a hustler to a millionaire with an estimated net worth of over 41 billion Kenyan shillings (US$333,899) and is ranked among the top 10 richest people in Meanwhile,Kenya.Kenyan presidentelect Ruto says that if there’s a court challenge to the election re sults, “we will engage in those” as East Africa’s most stable democ racy awaits a likely petition from losing candidate Raila Odinga.SO

Thesaid.decisions by Mr. Biden, de scribed to Washington Post report ers on the condition of anonymity, will revive an open-ended American counterterrorism operation that has amounted to a slow-burn war through three administrations. The move stands in contrast to his deci sion last year to pull American forces from Afghanistan, saying that “it is time to end the forever war.”

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The weekend attack comes as Somali forces have stepped up opera tions against al-Shabab, and as Soma lia’s President, Mohamud promised to eliminate the armed group. The alShabab leadership has also promised to topple Mohamud’s government.

The Hayat is an upscale hotel fre quented by government officials, elders, and people from the dias pora community. The director of Mogadishu’s main trauma hospital, Mohamed Abdirahman Jama, said the facility was treating at least 40 people wounded in the hotel attack and a separate mortar strike in an other area of the capital.

Earlier this week, the United States announced that its forces had killed 13 al-Shabab fighters in an air raid in the central-southern part of the country as the group was attacking Somali forces. The US has carried out several air raids on the group’s fighters in recent weeks.Last May, President Biden signed an order authorizing the military to once again deploy hundreds of Spe cial Operations forces inside Somalia — largely reversing the decision by President Donald J. Trump to with draw nearly all 700 ground troops who had been stationed there, ac cording to four officials familiar with theInmatter.addition, Mr. Biden approved a Pentagon request for standing au thority to target about a dozen sus pected leaders of Al Shabab, the Somali terrorist group that is affili ated with Al Qaeda, three of the offi cials

Rockabill and West Harlem Group Assistance announce $18M in financing for transitional shelter for families

New York Cares, in partnership with Henry Street Settlement, hosted a back-toschool event where volunteers will distribute 300 new backpacks filled with school supplies and other basic essentials to help prepare residents and students on the Lower East Side for the upcoming school year on Wednesday.

Rockabill Consulting and West Harlem Group Assistance (WHGA) today an nounced an $18M refinancing and new 30-year operating and debt service con tract with the NYC Department of Homeless Services (DHS) for West Harlem Residence, a 50-unit transitional shelter for homeless families. Located in the heart of West Harlem, West Harlem Residence is owned and operated by WHGA and has served as a family shelter for over three decades. The refinancing arranged by Rockabill will generate substantial equity proceeds for WHGA, which the nonprofit will use to fund future affordable housing and shelter development opportunities and programs. In addition, the transaction in volves the repayment of existing debt to NYC HPD and a $5 million rehabilitation.

The volunteer program is part of New York Cares’ third annual Stand with Stu dents campaign, an initiative that highlights the organization’s support of New York City students and schools during the 2022-2023 academic year. Programs supported by donations to Stand with Students include academic tutoring ses sions, school revitalization projects and book distributions.

battling Black and brown youth suicide rates

Push to vaxx kids under 5

By ARIAMA C. LONG Amsterdam News Staff, Report for America Corps Member New York State’s partnering with SOMOS Community Care, a network of diverse doctors, to encourage lower income com munities of color to vaccinate kids as the school year begins this“LikeSeptember.us,ourpatients are differ ent. Most do not speak English, and many do not trust institution al hospitals or corporate pharma cy chains––but they do trust their family doctors. That’s where we come in,” said SOMOS co-found er Dr. Ramon Tallaj, who helped launch the organization in 2015. Since the first days of the pan demic in 2020, SOMOS has worked with the state to test and vaccinate communities consid ered “tough-to-reach.” Currently, they’re pushing to vaccinate kids aged 6 months to 13 years old by opening up 21 multi-lingual pedi atrician offices. The goal is to get shots in kids’ arms by the opening of the school year on September 8.

ConRock Construction, a general contractor that specializes in undertaking ten ant-in-place renovations, will oversee the renovation work. The architect for the project is ESKW. The rehabilitation will include a new roof, new windows, new boilers and energy-efficient heat distribution system, plumbing repairs, new floor ing, elevator upgrades, common area refurbishments, updated computer lab and internet service for residents, as well as all new furniture throughout.

Volunteers distributed backpacks filled with supplies that will be useful to fam ilies and students as they return to school for the new year. All backpacks will in clude scissors, markers, pencils, glue sticks, folders, pink erasers, and other school supply items.

Queens BP Donovan Richards hosts ‘Borough Hall on Your Block’ Queens Borough President Donovan Richards Jr. kicks off the inaugural iter ation of “Borough Hall on Your Block” on Monday, in Southeast Queens. The weeklong initiative brings a litany of public programming, such as resource

Joseph,

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The 988 number specifically routes callers to the lifeline instead of having to dial 911 and possibly escalate a person’s situation with a police presence. Callers are con nected to counselors at a crisis center that are trained to de-esca late or listen to a person’s distress. The previous phone number for the lifeline was 1-800-273-8255, which remains active. Psychologist Dr. Alfiee BrelandNoble is the founder of the Af rican American Knowledge Optimizing Mindfully-Healthy Adolescents (AAKOMA) Project. Since 1999, the project has been a national study on the mental health of youth of color and has surveyed almost 3,000 young people of color ages 13 to 25. In the 2022 study of youth of color, AAKOMA found that among the Black, Native American, Latin/ Hispanic, Asian, and multiracial adolescents they surveyed, 22% engaged in self-injurious behav ior like cutting, 27% had suicidal ideation, and 18% had attempted suicide at least once.

New York Cares backpacks with school supplies at Henry Street Settlement

“We are in a season of sub stance. This administration began amid a dark time in America,” said Biden at the signing of the bill, “A once-ina-century pandemic, devas tating joblessness, clear and present threats to democra cy and the rule of law, doubts about America’s future itself. And yet we did not waver, we did not flinch, and we have not given in. Instead we’ve de livered results for the Ameri canNationalpeople.”polling from NPR and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health indicates that Black, Latino and Native American adults are the hardest hit by the latest balloon in prices for things like groceries, ed ucation, healthcare, gas, and rent, compared to white counterparts.JaredBernstein, with the White House Council of Eco nomic Advisers, said that the impact of the COVID-19 pan demic, “the collision of strong demand and strained supply,” and the impact of the Rus sian war on Ukraine have all

By ARIAMA C. LONG Amsterdam News Staff, Report for America Corps Member President Joe Biden signed into law the Inflation Reduc tion Act last week amid a 40 year high of raising prices across the country. The law, estimated at $750 billion, lowers prescription drug costs, taxes, health care costs, and energy costs as well as takes action towards fending off the climate crisis.

By ARIAMA C. LONG Amsterdam News Staff, Report for America Corps Member New York City Councilmem ber Rita Joseph has introduced a bill to address the rise of sui cide rates among Black girls and boys, and other racial ethnic groups, an “alarming” situation that’s persisted for the past two decades nationwide.

“Our pediatricians have been treating these kids since birth and our SOMOS network is mobilized to work family by family, over the next few months with hundreds of thousands of parents to make sure that they get their kids vacci nated, to continue the city’s recov ery––and make sure that the start of school is safe, healthy, and un interrupted,” Tallaj continued.

Dr. Juan Tapia Mendoza, a local doctor with SOMOS, con firmed that COVID-19 is still very much a “threat” to public health in the city, especially for vulner able communities with co-mor bidities. COVID-19, Omicron, and the latest variant of COVID, BA.5, are all circulating and infecting people, said Mendoza.

The funding will also preserve shelter capacity at a critical time in the fight against homelessness by requiring that the property be operated as a shelter, affordable housing, or supportive housing for the next 60 years.

“The introduction of 988 rep resents a major step forward in mental healthcare. As an elect ed official, I have an obligation to ensure that our communities, es pecially our young people, are aware of this invaluable resource,” said Joseph, who chairs the educa tion committee in the city council. The bill, Int. No. 610, requires the city’s Department of Educa tion (DOE) to provide informa tion on the new National Suicide Prevention Hotline, or 988, as a method of suicide prevention.

In the last decade, said Mendoza,

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The annual New York State Minority-and Women-Owned Business Enterprise Forum provides opportunities across industries to forge new professional con nections and become more competitive in an ever-changing market. This year’s forum will utilize a hybrid format with virtual sessions and in-person opportu nities, with attendees representing small businesses, prime contractors, lenders, elected officials, and members of the governor’s cabinet to discuss state contract ingTheopportunities.2022Forum will be a multi-day hybrid approach, mixing in-person events and online sessions. Programs will include panels, working sessions, and both live and virtual meetups for networking opportunities. The growing list of programs will address a wide range of topics, from accessing capital to emerging opportuni ties for MWBEs in the growing cannabis industry. Go to https://pheedloop.com/ EVETBYUWMDRMF/site/home/ for more information or to register.

“Among our Black young people, we found that they were most likely of all the young people in our study to report having a plan for suicide,” said Breland-Noble. “Any one child expressing that they don’t want to live anymore is too many kids, but when you’re seeing some of the rates in our study it is frankly quite alarming.”Joseph said that when her bill is passed, it will make sure that young people know that they have somewhere to turn to when they’re facing adversi ty. “This bill is about giving our young people information and

Hochul announces opening of registration for 12th annual MWBE Forum Gov. Kathy Hochul today announced that the 2022 Minority- and WomenOwned Business Enterprise Forum will be held October 6-7 at the Albany Capital Center. The theme for this year’s forum is “Building an Equitable Future.”

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A solid chunk of Black and Hispan ic incumbents beat back incoming challengers to their seats through out the congressional districts.

United Community Corpora tion has partnered with local or ganizations to make sure students are best prepared to return to the classrooms after summer. The Backpacks and Snacks Event was held on Thursday at The Club house in Newark. The event was sponsored by Amerigroup, Chase Bank, and Pea pack-Gladstone Bank. “As the Community Action Agency for the City of Newark, we want to provide resources and as sistance that best help the commu nity at a given time,” UCC Executive Director Craig Mainor said. “When it gets to the end of August, that means helping the youth of our community be in the best possi ble situation to succeed during the school year. We know the impor tance of excelling in the classroom and are happy to provide students with the means to do just that.”

“We’re so thankful for all of the generous donations that we re ceived,” UCC Director of Com munity Engagement Richard Greco. “Jersey Cares went above and beyond to support our cause and we can’t thank our sponsors enough for supporting us in a vari ety of capacities. It is great to see so many organizations come together to support our community.”

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Committee chair U.S. Rep Jerry Nadler beat out longtime colleague U.S. Rep Carolyn Maloney and at torney Suraj Patel to win in the newly configured 12th congressio nal district. Nadler scored 55.35% of the“Wellvotes.New York…we did it,” said Nadler via tweet. “I’m so deeply grateful for your continued sup port and trust—I promise to keep on fighting for New Yorkers in Con gress. Onwards!”

New York recently enacted the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act of New York in June. Assemblywoman ReynoldsJackson will introduce the bill at the next Assembly quorum call. Senator Turner introduced the bill on August 8.

Between January 1 and Decem ber 7, 2021, at least 19 states passed 34 laws restricting access to voting, according to the Brennan Center for Justice. More than 440 bills with provisions that restrict voting access have been introduced in 49 states in the 2021 legislative sessions. The legislators said the bill would take a stand against these unjust trends happening throughout the country targeting voting rights.

Once again, President Biden is planning to cancel the student loan debt for borrowers who earn below $125,000. That he was pre paring to make the announcement, like many of his other promises on the debt, was renewed last week. It gained traction after he signed the Inflation Reduction Act, and so a general optimism ensued. But the borrowers still wait, ever hopeful. Now it is rumored he will make that move once he’s back from va cation, according to several media outlets. Bloomberg and Reuters re ported that he would make an an nouncement on Wednesday, but neither provided details. “We’ve been talking daily about this,” Biden said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” and with no sense of irony in his voice, “and I can tell you the American people will hear within the next week or so.” Naturally, the debtors are concerned about those last two words. Over the last few months or since he took office, dealing with the student loan debt has been repeated again and again by the president, and the White House has noted that no one with a fed eral loan has paid anything since he took office, and the admin istration has already cancelled more than $30 billion in debt for nearly 2 million Americans. Since the onset of COVID-19 pan demic the loan payment has been put on hold, in fact initiated by Trump. And Biden has continued to extend the moratorium, though he has been pressured by Democrats to completely end the debt.

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Meanwhile, former Congress member Max Rose is a step closer to getting his old congressional seat if he beats out Republican Nicole Malliota kis in the 11th district this November.

United Community Corp. hosts backpack giveaway at Newark’s The Clubhouse

Again, Biden promises relief to student loan borrowers

In addition to supplies, United Community Corporation partnered with Saint James Health to provide COVID-19 vaccinations. The event was also run in part nership with CityLife Health, the Shani Baraka Women’s Resource Center, Newark Centers of Hope, the Newark Housing Authority, Ironbound Community Corpo ration, and The Learning Experi ence (TLE) Newark. Mayor Eric Adams votes in the 2022 primary. PS 81, Brooklyn. Tuesday, August 23, 2022. (Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office. photo)

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Bronx favorite U.S. Rep Jamaal Bowman in the 16th district held onto his seat with 91.51% of the votes. Likewise, the honorable U.S. Rep Hakeem Jeffries won his re election with 86.83% of the votes in the 8th district. U.S. Rep Nydia Velazquez dominated with 83.14% of the votes in the 7th district and U.S. Rep Adriano Espaillat held onto his seat with 79.92% of the votes.

“I am so grateful to have earned the support of the people of the 11th Congressional District once again,” said Rose. “If we are going to build a safe and affordable Staten Island and Brooklyn then we need to turn the page on the broken politics that brought us to this moment.” In the senate races, incumbents also took the cake. Senator Kevin Parker won his long-held seat with 45.80% of the votes, Senator Jabari Brisport won his re-election with 70.23% of the votes, Senator Cordell Cleare scored a 69.70% victory, and longtime Sen ator Robert Jackson defeated his op ponents with 57.90% of the votes. “Four years ago, I helped lead a movement that shocked the state, wiped out the IDC, and brought real, progressive change in Albany. This year the special interests poured hundreds of thousands of dollars into this race to defeat me,” said Jackson in a statement. “ But we again proved that ordinary people working together driving a cause is still the most powerful force in our political process. We showed that grassroots organizing and small do nations are not only the right way to win, but also the most effective way.”

Reynolds-Jackson, Turner introduce the ‘John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act of New Jersey’ to protect NJ voter rights

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

Assemblywoman Verlina Reyn olds-Jackson and Senator Shirley Turner are sponsoring legislation to ensure New Jersey elections remain secure and fair now and for future generations of voters. The bill, building upon the esteemed legacy of Rep. John R. Lewis and his work to expand the right to vote, would prohibit deceptive prac tices, establish a voting database, and make electronic interference a misdemeanor

One factor weighing on loan debt forgiveness is that the majority of Americans, according to a recent poll, believes such a measure would increase inflation. Of course, those who voiced this concern are mostly Republicans.Inanycase, a sizable number of Americans are not sure what to make of it, unless they are among those caught in the throes of this economic impasse, and waiting for Biden to keep his word.

The NYC Board of Elections (BOE) unofficial election results are in and here’s a comprehensive list of Con gress and State Senate winners from this year’s August Primary.

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In a neck-and-neck race in the 10th congressional district, candidate Daniel Goldman declared himself the winner with 25.72% of the votes over Assemblymember Yuh-Line Niou who had 23.71% of the votes. Things are subject to change as more absentee ballots are counted.

“While many other states are pass ing laws to restrict voting rights, New Jersey has taken steps to expand the franchise and made it more conve nient for voters to exercise their con stitutional right,” said Senator Shirley K. Turner. “We are proud to honor the legacy of Congressman John Lewis whose ‘good trouble’ helped advance voting rights in this coun try so that we can strengthen our de mocracy for everyone.”

Jersey Cares donated 80 prepacked backpacks for the event from its 2022 School Supply Drive. United Community Corporation will be providing 60 backpacks to bring the total to 140 backpacks provided to youth in the community. PeacockGladstone Bank will be donating 200 notebooks in support of the event.

Winners on the Ballot in Congress and Senate

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Bain explains “Human Justice” is a combination of human rights and human development. Equality isn’t just the unalienable, fundamental rights each human is entitled to but also the opportunity for the most marginalized groups to obtain resources to close the gap. In other words, “Human Justice” is about both surviving and thriving. And the Afrocentric approach was certainly thriving—“Human Justice” was what ini tially brought the president to his door. “Pres. Biden [came] to my office and [turned] what should have been a 20-30 minute conversation into more of an hour and a half dialogue around how this ‘Human Justice’ framework and methodology have been so instrumen tal in not only reducing—but stop ping—gun violence in New York City [and] also in other geographies around the country,” said Bain. Through his work, Bain realized those most prone to gun violence frequent ly lacked statements of purpose. So he devised his three-point “Sustainable Growth Plan,” using aspiration map ping, building bridges and content management as tools for personal trans formation. In other words, Bain helped youngsters draft goals, create networks and develop healthier mindsets. The work speaks for itself. Bain took his ideas to the Queensbridge Houses in 2016. When the cameras were off, he orches trated peace agreements and truces in the Long Island City project. Not a single shot was fired the entire following year at the nation’s largest public housing complex. Before then, he worked similar magic in Jamaica, Queens. Today, Bain’s Crisis Management system serves as a blue print for a large swath of gun violence interrupters. In 2021, he was appointed to ex-mayor Bill de Blasio’s Racial Justice Commission. And he drafted the Com munity Safety Act, which increased NYPD oversight, prevented discriminatory pro filing and curbed unlawful searches. Bain says he’s succeeded where so many failed because he and his peers can personally relate to the folks they’re helping. Some call them “credible mes sengers.” He prefers the term “real models”—pun intended. Bain hails from a prison family. And he’s come a long way from the expectations of his high school principal, who said he’d never graduate and would be incarcerated by age 21, if Bain was even alive by then. He’s certain ly surpassed such expectations. Just ask the president of the United States.

“In 2010, under the leadership of thencouncil member Jumaane D. Williams, I had the opportunity to work with him on creating a task force to address gun violence,” he said. “We were able to look at what best practices existed around the country, and also to grab some com munity stakeholders and leaders who have differing approaches to addressing not only gun violence, but also police brutality and distrust that existed in and out in communities of color.

By TANDY LAU Amsterdam News Staff, Report for America Corps Member From public housing to the White House, K. Bain’s the name for interrupt ing cycles of gun violence in New York City. This February, Pres. Joe Biden en listed Community Capacity Develop ment’s executive director to combat the leading cause of premature death throughout the United States. But the Brooklyn-born Bain was working hard in the gun violence prevention world long before he ever shook the firm grip of America’s commander-in-chief.

K. Bain meeting with Pres. Joe Biden (Contributed photo)

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K. Bain brings New York City gun violence interruption to the highest office

“What we were very skillfully able to do as co-architects of the crisis manage ment system in New York was to infuse this ‘Human Justice’ approach into the dialogue and into the solutions.”

This past Wednesday, State Sen. Cordell Cleare hosted a National Senior Citizens Day in Harlem event outside the Adam Clayton Powell Jr. State Office Building amidst her reelection campaign. She recommended elders to check their unclaimed funds with the Office of the New York State Comptroller.

Golden Years: National Senior Citizens Day and beyond in New York City

Upcoming will be events for Senior Center Month, which celebrates, well, senior cen ters. In Harlem, the ARC A. Philip Randolph Senior Center will host a music and arts expo on Sept. 30. In Washington Heights, Riverstone Senior Life Services will send off summer with a luau on Sept. 23. And the Department of Aging will recognize older adult centers on Sept. 29 at a Gracie Man sion

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If older New Yorkers missed out on festiv ities leading up to National Senior Citizens Day this past Sunday, Aug. 21, September is Senior Center Month. But NYC Depart ment of Aging Com missioner havedustry.thewhetherit’sbeenments,themajorthinkadults,”beenmatteracknowledgedsaysCortés-VázquezLorraineelderscanbenotheoccasion.“Thiscountryhasbuiltbyoldershesaid.“Weaboutalloftheincidentsandmajorinvestwhetherit’sawar,whetherbeenindustry,orithasbeentransitionofinOlderadultsalwaysbeenat the forefront of that.” They’re also the most civically-engaged. Cortés-Vázquez mentions earlier this summer, two-thirds of city voters were over the age of 50. And occasions like Nation al Senior Citizens Day and Senior Center Month help remind politicians of elderly contributions to the city.

The letter, penned to Assistant Secretary of Labor Douglas Parker, said recent inno vations should be considered in updated standards that went into effect earlier this summer. The existing safeguards, tag lines, could work in tandem with the new tech nologies.According to research by consulting firm MAC Safety, one in every 9,000 cranes will result in a workplace death. And 225,000 cranes are used around the country each day. Riggers who load the crane are at highest risk. In Hollywood fashion, the rec ommended solutions are through automa tion, robotics and computerization—the modernized anti-spin devices were found to reduce crane accidents by 63.1 percent, while increasing productivity by 30 per cent.This letter comes a week before Mayor Eric Adams’ Aug. 15 announcement of New York City Pathways to Industrial and Con struction Careers, a job development pro gram aimed at placing 2,300 low-income New Yorkers in professions where cranes are often necessary. And the construction industry needs extra hands. An estimated 650,000 additional workers are needed to meet employment demand. Tandy Lau is a Report for America corps member and writes about public safety for the Amsterdam News. Your donation to match our RFA grant helps keep him writ ing stories like this one; please consider making a tax-deductible gift today by visit ing: https://tinyurl.com/fcszwj8w

Heightened Awareness: Rep. Espaillat suggests national modernization of crane and derrick safety standards

“In 2020, there were more than 1,000 crane violations in the nation, and it is crit ical OSHA implement crane and derrick technological advancements when amend ing current safety standards,” said Rep. Espaillat in a statement. “Doing so com pliments the recent implementation of the revised certification requirements within the OSHA Cranes & Derricks in Construc tion Standard put forth by the Coalition for Crane Operator Safety (CCOS).”

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Crane lifting 7 train track near Queensboro Plaza in 2014. Credit: Ernest Ho, MTA New York City Transit

Older New Yorkers enjoying live music at Cordell Cleare’s National Senior Citizens Day event (Tandy Lau photo)

Newevent.Yorkers over the age of 65 make up 14.9% of the city’s population, according to 2021 estimates by the U.S. Census Bureau. And the “Big Apple” is making efforts to ac commodate the aging population—back in 2010, it was a founding member of the WHO’s Global Network of Age-friendly Cities. Despite New York City’s inclusion of older residents, the frenetic pace can cause issues, especially with more foot traffic. Se niors make up over 45% of the city’s pedes trian fatalities according to the Department ofButTransportation.Cortés-Vázquez wants everyone to save their pity for older New Yorkers. New York City’s famed tap water might not be a fountain of youth, but today’s elders are more active than ever.

“It is my hope that my call to the Depart ment of Labor will encourage further con versations about the overall modernization of safety standards that prioritize employ ee safety and aim to prevent accidents at these sites.”

“I didn’t even know I had money that the state was holding for me,” said Cleare. “Sometimes, it’s money you forgot about— it’s an old bank account. It might be a rel ative who passed away. And there’s money just sitting there, and they’re holding onto it until you claim it.”

By TANDY LAU Amsterdam News Staff, Report for America Corps Member Rep. Adriano Espaillat (NY-13) urged OSHA to modernize crane and derrick safety standards earlier this month. In a letter signed by five other members of Congress including Rep. Nydia Velázquez (NY-7), the representative argued the De partment of Labor’s recent, updated stan dards on the issue didn’t reflect the age of advanced technology available.

“They’re a vibrant population,” she said. “This is not your grandfather’s aging…al right, your great-grandfather’s because your grandpa’s probably spry and active.”

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Brooklyn rally for slavery reparations demanding Pres. Biden ‘Do The Right Thing’

According to the Daily Mail, Beyoncé and Jay-Z were spotted vacationing off the coast of Croatia on August 22. The superstar songstress and her billionaire husband were seen having dinner on board the upper deck of the mega yacht Faith while taking in the scenic ocean views. Mr. and Mrs. Carter were joined by their three children. Blue Ivy, and fra ternal twins Rumi and Sir.

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“They stole us from Africa. They stole the wealth that our ancestor’s labor generated and use Jim Crow laws and lynch mobs in a desperate attempt to normalize barbar ic behavior. The bottom line, however, is that Joe Biden must sign an executive order for a $50 billion down payment for rep arations compensation. It’s time.” said, Omowale Clay, a member of the December 12thOtherMovement.rallyspeakers included: Phillybased activist Pam Africa; Councilmembers Charles Barron and Chi Osse, and Decem ber 12th Movement members Viola Plum mer, Shaheed Muhammad, and Milton Jemmott - who determined that priceless is the cost of the systematic theft of Africans, the enslavement, displacement, the disrup tion of history, culture, economy, language andThepossibilities.Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2022 repara tions rally also marked the 20th anniversa ry of the first ever national reparations rally that was held in Washington, D.C.

“Citing the decisive role that the Afri can American voters played in electing Joe Biden, and the president’s verbal commit ment to do right by the Black community after his victory, many African Americans are outraged that he is ignoring the issue of slavery reparations,” stated Kamau Brown, a volunteer organizer of the repa rations rally on Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2022, held at Restoration Plaza 1368 Fulton Street in Brooklyn, N.Y. “We are sick and tired of being told to wait. Black folks have seen President Biden sign executive orders on a bunch of other issues, but has not signed one for slavery repara tions. Are our centuries of sacrifice, terror and forced labor in the cotton fields not im portant?” asked a college student organizer who wished not to be identified for fear of retribution. The reparations rally was orga nized by a national coalition of historians, regionalstudents,leaders,andactivists connected with a diverse crowd who view reparations as a necessary tool to repair the damage done. Rally organizers envision reparations as “needed to build a state-of-the-art health care system all across the United States be cause health outcomes data clearly reveals glaring health disparities.”

Facing some hostile teammates and fraught friendships, Darren is forced to contend with the challenges of being a gay person of color within the confines of a classic American institution......

All over the world on Aug. 17, 2022, cele brated was the honorable Marcus Mosiah Garvey––the Jamaican-born Pan-African ist, publisher, writer and activist. It has been 135-years since he was born in St. Anns, Ja maica. The man who inspired Black people in the diaspora to return to an “Africa for the Africans,” is respected and honored the world over. Brooklyn, New York is no different. The December 12th Movement, the human rights advocacy group stated that “In the spirit of Marcus Garvey which way forward; Resistance and Reparations––Presidential Executive Order Now––$50 bil lion downpayment for Black healthcare.”

On August 19, Grammy award-win ning Gospel songstress Tamela Mann’s newly released “Overcomer: Deluxe Edition” CD became available in stores where Gospel music is sold. The new edition of the album was first released digitally on July 22 and features both re imagined renditions of fan favorites and all-new music including newly released streaming single, “Superheroes Prayer” featuring Yolanda Adams and the new live version of “Finished.”

Former “Grey’s Anatomy” star Jesse Williams was spotted in Los Angeles on August 19th scouting a location for a new project. According to JustJared, the actor was accompanied by a group of co-workers. Meanwhile, the Tony nominee will reprise his role in “Take Me Out,” returning to Broadway for 14 weeks only. In “Take Me Out,” Wil liams portrays Darren Lemming, the star center fielder for the Empires base ball team, who comes out of the closet.

The 28th Little Miss African American Scholarship Pageant crowned 12 yearold Sarai Hicks as this year’s Queen in Los Angeles. Orville’s star actress Penny Johnson Jerald was the host, while pre senters and judges included Norman Towns, Shoniqua Shandai, Ramone Hamilton, Aaron Jennings, Ella Joyce and Brandon Ivey. The Little Miss Afri can American Pageant (LMAA) is first and foremost an educational program cleverly disguised in a pageant format whose mission is dedicated to the intel lectual success of young African Amer ican girls. Says pageant founder Lisa Ruffin, “Within each girl, is the promise of unlimited possibilities, and the pag eant is a vehicle for bringing that poten tial to the forefront.”........

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Marcus Garvey Rally D12 co-founder Viola Plummer (Afro Jeff Antoine photos) Marcus Garvey Rally attendees with Viola Plummer in white T-shirt, with Pam Africa and Nayaba Arinde - Amsterdam News Editor in centerMarcus Garvey Rally Councilmember Charles

Mary J Blige, the Queen of HipHop Soul explained best, “You can’t kill something that’s in our DNA. It’s gonna keep transitioning from gen eration to generation to generation to generation. They were trying to kill it. But you can’t kill us because we’re already in the bloodline.” For emphasis, she continues, “You can’t kill ‹SONGS IN THE KEY OF LIFE,’ ‘WHAT’S THE 411.’ You can’t kill Etta James, Sam Cooke, Aretha Franklin, Jazmine Sullivan, and SWV.” In theory she has a point, but not so fast. To be continued……til then enjoy the nightlife.

Freddie Jackson, Harlem’s own, performed on Saturday at another Harlem Week festival. NYC Mayor Eric Adams attend ed as the community honored slain officers Jason Rivera and Wilbert Mora, and the family of shooting victim Darius Lee.

(Bill Moore photos) (Bill Moore photo)

With each year that passes certain convictions become strengthened. As I entered my birthday season, as I have for the past few years, it comes through with laser vision perfect clarity, that the best decade for Soul/ R&B music was the 1970s…. BAR NONE!!!!! The musicianship and pro duction alone render that statement as fact. Experts at their instruments word in tandem to create sound beds that were layered, lush and funky all at once. Decades since have for the most part gone the route of comput erized instruments and various tech nological advances in the recording process to make the process a little easier and perhaps cost effective but diminished a key ingredient of what gave the music its depth. As powerful as those instrumentals were it’s hard to imagine that the content used to address social issues, such as pover ty, racism, and inequality or person al experiences of love that peaked or plummeted, often augmented per fectly, or surpassed the music itself. Emotional, melancholy lyrics and smooth, soulful vocals emanating from gospel, jazz, and LIFE; yeah! With all due respect to the innovators that are no longer here with us in the flesh (Marvin, Aretha, Barry, Curtis, James, Michael, Isaac, et. al.) when we get chances to honor and groove with those that are with us, we need to seize that with the swiftness. That’s what the Hulu Theatre offered in the double bill of fellow Rock and Roll Hall of Famers The mighty O’Jays with special guest, the empress of soul-Gladys Knight for the “Last Stop on the Love Train” for the former. The full festive celebration was somewhat derailed due to original group member Eddie Levert miss ing the Train due to a bout with COVID, the presence of Walter Wil liams maintained the integrity of the original songs with his velvety smooth, distinctive vocal stylings. As for Ms. Knight, the only thing to find fault with is time restriction and end less catalog. A few days after this performance, to paraphrase a great melody, I was leaving on that midnight plane; Vegas bound. Ironically, I went to check out a couple of the new torch bearers of the soul music mantle, just as a hot topic had entered the ethos. Seems like Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs is of the belief that R&B is dead, yet I was headed to see artist with lengthy res idencies. Day one was the featured act at The Zappos Theater, locat ed at Planet Hollywood for JOHN LEGEND “Love In Las Vegas.” As a multiplatinum singer, songwriter, producer, and television personality Legend has amassed a diverse and vast fanbase. He resides in rarefied company that has achieved the ulti mate plaudits the entertainment in dustry has to offer as he is one of the few that have the Grammy (12 times), Oscar, Tony, and Emmy awards. Mu sically he has managed to straddle the line of soulful yet popular tunes. He looks to repeat and expand past success with the release of his eighth studio album “LEGEND.” Set to be released by Republic Records on Sept. 19, “LEGEND” is a double album (broken up in ACT I and ACT 2) slated to take listeners on a jour ney of joy, pain, and healing, per a press release. He reveals, “Until this point, I’ve never used an aspect of my name as the title of an album. I had to earn that, to live up to it by delivering in the performance and the music. And this is me saying, I’m proud of who I am, I’m confi dent in the work I’ve done, and I’m just going to declare it.” With feature collaborations with Rick Ross, Muni Long, Jazmine Sullivan, Jada King dom, Rapsody, Ledisi, Jhene Aiko, Ty Dolla $ign and Saweetie the Vegas shows have room to be an unexpect ed surprising unique experience that further displays the diversity of R&B/ Soul music. Dates for the remaining shows available on TICKETMASTER are as follows: Fri, Oct 14 – Sat Oct 15, 2022, 8 p.m. Wed, Oct 19, 2022, 8 p.m. Fri, Oct 21 - Sat, Oct 22, 2022, 8 p.m. Wed, Oct 26, 2022, 8 p.m. Fri, Oct 28 - Sat, Oct 29, 2022, 8 p.m. The second show was the hottest act and ticket in town in “An Evening with Silk Sonic” at the Dolby Theatre. This set as well as the album is one of the strongest arguments against the thoughts of Diddy. The album is reminiscent of R&B at its zenith and assures the genre remains an impor tant force in the music industry for years to come.

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Hulu Theatre shows off Rock & Roll Hall of Famers The mighty O’Jays & Empress of Soul- Gladys Knight

As part of the 2022 Harlem Week, the 2nd annual “Alex Trebek Harlem Week Spell ing Bee”was held at the world famous Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Pic tured here are the grades K-5 winners and judges.

Gladys Knight (David Goodson photos)

O'Jays Walter Williams

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Trebek Spelling Bee at the Schomburg Center

Written by David Goodson

Community honors families

Applicants that comply with the previous application steps will re ceive a confirmation letter and will remain on file until a demand for apprentices is anticipated. Once ap prentices are needed, selected ap plicants will be notified, by mail, to attend a four-hour initial orientation. Applicants that do not arrive on time to the initial orientation will be disqualified from further consideration. At the end of orientation, ap plicants will be scheduled for an interview at a future date and will be provided with an instruction sheet and a list of original doc uments that will be re quired, if they are accepted into the program. Applicants that do not arrive on time to their scheduled in terview will be disqualified from fur ther consideration. As apprentices are requested by sig natory contractors, the top-ranking candidates will be notified to attend a final orientation. Applicants must arrive on time to the final orientation with proper documentation. All appli cants must bring originals of all verifi cation documents. Those that do not comply will be disqualified from fur ther consideration. A conditional offer of employment will be made to all at tendees of the final orientation.

For more information, see the JATC announcement on the NY State Department of Labor website: jatc-dc-nyc-august-17-2022.dol.ny.gov/news/carpenters-https://

By KAREN JUANITA CARRILLO Special to the AmNews

Applications must be obtained in person at the New York City Dis trict Council of Carpenters Training Center, 395 Hudson St. (Clarkson St. entrance), 2nd floor, New York City, NY, on the second Wednesday of each month, excluding Decem ber 14, 2022 and January 11, 2023, during the recruitment period. Ap plications will be available from 7 a.m. to 7:30 a.m. ONLY. There will be no admittance after 7:30 a.m. Only the applicant will be allowed to obtain an application. In order to receive an application, applicants must provide government-issued pictureCompletedidentification.original applications must be submitted by mail to the New York City District Council of Carpenters Training Center, 395 Hudson Street, 2nd Floor, New York City, NY 10014. All applications must be completed cor rectly and postmarked no later than five (5) business days from the date that the application was provided. Fail ure to comply will disqualify the indi vidual from further consideration.

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With back-to-school season, teachers unions help members cope

The more things change…

In New York City, the 2022-2023 school year is about to start for teachers who potentially will face another year of school budget cuts, large class sizes, staffing shortag es and––in many places––newly minted, first-year teachers. Teacher burnout among K-12 educators led to a wave of resignations at the end of the last school year. And then the city’s education budget cuts meant some schools could no longer afford some of its teaching professionals and had to get rid of extracurricular programming offerings. This year will see fledgling teach ers entering schools with students who will need extra support. The unknown quantity during this up coming school term can be anxiety causing: particularly with another new round of state-issued COVID19 guidances to combat the corona virus pandemic. Mask mandates are gone, COVID-19 testing of students will be limited, and the city is still battling a monkeypox outbreak. With all this, veteran teachers will once again be asked to help students combat learning loss, while maintaining a sane head space for themselves.

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There was a time, not long ago, when the Democrat ic Party was considered the political party of the work ing class and the Republican Party was aligned with big business and the wealthy. Yet a recent New York Times /Siena poll––for the first time ever––revealed results that indicated a reversal. The Republican Party is trending toward a multi-racial working-class coalition, while the Dem ocrats had a larger share of support among white college graduates. Many wonder what conclusions can be drawn. Do we now have an establishment pro gressive party and an antiestablishment conservative party? Making matters even more complicated are recent findings that many voters are not affiliated with either party, with polls indicating that 62% of Americans favor having a third party. All of this should make for a very interesting 2024 pres idential election! Questions abound: What will the can didates look like? What will they need to espouse to get our vote? With so many of the usual guidelines and guard rails gone, what’s the pitch? And how will it be communi cated? That has changed too. Stump speeches on the back of a railroad car are a relic of the past. Even huge, tele vised rallies have their lim itations––great for optics, but mostly “preaching to the choir” without really picking up many new converts. Twit ter and other social media platforms are the bumper stickers of today…less costly, no car needed, and having the ability to reach millions with one click of a cell phone by influencers who make adding followers into a game. And, with baby boomers, who now domi nate the po litically savvy voting popu lation, starting to decline in number, this medium of choice will become a legiti mate, powerful tool––a king orButqueen-maker.with so much change—and so much of it, of questionable positive value––there is one change that offers some real hope for the future. After years of declining numbers, union membership is now on the rise. Currently, there are many examples of workers in industries throughout the nation previously thought to be un-organizable or show ing little interest in the union movement––from Amazon to Starbucks to McDon alds––now signing-up mem bers. And the union drive comes from within. Workers talking to their fellow work ers. They know the prob lems. They see the solutions. And their co-workers listen. Talk about “influencers”! So, perhaps in this great time of change––this time of altered dictionary defi nitions and role reversals––labor unions, which have remained steadfast in what they represent, are now pre sented with a path from which they had lost their way, and a newly created vacuum they can fill. We span all the demographics, politi cal ideologies and have the communications network and skills—new and old— to make an impact. As the old adage says: “The more things change, the more they remain the same.” When ap plied to labor unions, that says it all. We have en dured the union bashers, the union busters, the un favorable court rulings and anti-labor appointees, but workers instinctively know that we’re on their side. Our task ahead is to make all Americans know it too and that the current slogan: “Union strong” is one defini tion that will never change.

Recruitment coming up for carpenters’ apprenticeships

“We have spent months, months working on the teacher shortage and making long term and short-term proposals,” Randi Weingarten, pres ident of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), told the AmNews when asked what the AFT is doing to support its members this coming school year: “The No. 1 thing that we can do, that doesn’t cost a dime, is to advocate for the respect and dignity that educators need to help kids and that is part of what we are doing in this ‘What Kids Need’ campaign that

September’s coming––and school will soon be underway.

Gregory Floyd President, Teamsters Local 237 and Vice President at-Large on the General Board of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters

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The AFT is sponsoring a “What Kids and Communities Need” campaign for the coming school year (American Federation of Teachers photo)

The Joint Apprenticeship and Training Committee (JATC) for the Carpenters of New York City and Vicinity will conduct a recruitment from Sept. 14, 2022 through August 9, 2023 for 25 Carpenter (Piledriv er/Dockbuilder) apprentices; 20 Li noleum, Resilient Tile, and Carpet Layer apprentices; 10 Cabinet Maker apprentices; and 10 Millwright ap prentices, the New York State De partment of Labor announced.

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Should a startup use a credit card instead of a loan?

“The excessive force used against Randal Worches ter by officers in Arkansas is the latest example of why we focus our reform efforts on police accountability and re storing community trust,” said“TheMorial.violent tactics used to subdue Mr. Worchester went well beyond police protocol, run counter to proper police training methods and do not appear to be warranted in any way. Incidents like this deepen the distrust between communities and the police, violating their duty to pro tect and serve. Distrust is es pecially true in underserved and over policed commu nities, like communities of color and the disability com munity. The National Urban League created its 21 Pillars proposal to promote police accountability and good po licing and to ensure states and localities have a range of strategies for responding to public safety matters, includ ing non-carceral strategies.”

The major drawback of a credit card is the extraordinarily high interest rates that accrue if the credit card balance is not paid off in full each month. The annual interest rates on credit cards are generally 10% to 18% higher than the inter est rates on a typical bank loan. Also, if any credit card minimum payment is not paid on time, the credit card company will usually charge a late fee of about $25 for every late payment.

The poverty crisis in universi ties today has reached halluci natory proportions. Fifty-eight percent of students were expe riencing food insecurity, hous ing insecurity, or homelessness, in a survey of 200,000 students at 202 different institutions of higher education in the year 2020 by Temple University’s Hope Center for College, Com munity and Justice. At the same time, approximately 40% of the professoriate in the United States is paid poverty wages, with few or no employer-fund ed benefits, despite empirical evidence that faculty incomes are factors in student outcomes.

By DONALD WILLIAMS In most circumstances, an en trepreneur should not use a credit card instead of a loan to fund a startup and its expenses because the drawbacks of using a credit card usually outweigh a credit card’s benefits.

BY DIANA C. SILVERMAN

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The major benefit of using a credit card instead of a bank loan is that a credit card makes it easy to obtain about $10,000 of credit without having to go through a cumbersome and re strictive bank loan approval process.Another benefit is that the credit card will be widely accept ed by suppliers of products and services needed by the entrepre neur. Also, the credit card will allow the entrepreneur to initial ly just make small monthly pay ments so that they have time to start generating a profit to repay the credit card.

Donald Williams is founder and CEO of Williams Accounting & Consulting, https://william sacct.com/ Cops on patrol and out of control Watching the video of Randal Worces ter getting beaten by three white police of ficers in Mulberry, Ar kansas, was like the merciless attack on Rodney King in 1991, only this time the victim was white. In our opinion it makes no difference what an individ ual’s color or race, gender or nationality is, for some one to be repeatedly kneed to the pavement, and some times have his head pressed against it, with the officers taking turns pounding and kicking him is reprehensible and requires more than the reported suspensions.

The poverty crisis in higher education

Too many cops on patrol are out of control, practical ly psychopathic when they have a suspect in custody. We know you’ve heard all the things that need to be done to curb such behavior, and the only one that may have some real consequence of preventing or at least min imizing these aggressive, brutal encounters is better measures at the very be ginning of the process—the testing. Something must be done to winnow out the bad apples, as they say. A highly developed form of psycho logical screening is neces sary because most of these beatings, excessive choke holds, and knees on the neck have deep roots of hatred, and merely need the right moment to torment. We have no credentials on this matter, only a sense of hopelessness and a wish that those in place can find a way to minimize, to recognize those who are walking time bombs just waiting for an op portunity to exert the mean ness of their spirit. We need to keep them out of uniforms and off the force.

Another drawback of a credit card is that the available funds are too limited, as most entre preneurs will need much higher available funds to start a busi ness, so the entrepreneur will still need to obtain bank loans or other types of funding. Therefore, for entrepreneurs who just need about $10,000 of cash and will be able to repay the $10,000 in a few months, the benefits of using a credit card will probably outweigh the draw back of the high interest rates. For all other entrepreneurs, however, the drawbacks of the high interest rates and limited funds will outweigh the bene fits, so financing a start up with credit cards should be avoided.

Graduate teaching assistants and educators on short-term contracts, including approx imately 75% of faculty, are in contingent positions. Impos ing poverty conditions on ed ucators and students in higher education poses a fundamental threat now that we have limited time to stop climate devastation on earth, and saving our planet depends on educating the elec torate. Poverty in academia is remediable, however; a concert ed movement of university do nations could wipe out poverty as a barrier to educating voters. The poverty-driven exodus from college teaching jobs has given rise to a copious literary genre called “Quit Lit;” none theless, it is virtually never said in academia that the impover ishment of educators and stu dents will have a direct impact on our democracy and our cli mate. It’s time to start con versations about the threat to the earth caused by poverty in higherYou’veeducation.neverfelt the lack of sustainable healthcare access on campus more acutely than when you’re hiding behind a locked door with a group of students and colleagues while New York City police officers go from room to room in search of an undergrad who posted a selfie on Instagram with a gun and a threat to the communi ty. As people tensely scrolled their phones, I thought about a student whose weekly quiz scores in my Italian class had varied widely in inverse pro portion to the work hours im posed by the low-wage jobs that the student needed in order to stay in school. As we waited for the “all clear” announcement, I thought of how, even with health insurance, an injury could devastate a low-income family whose household surviv al depended on perpetual mini mum-wage work. Not only the students who study until 3 a.m. after working lowpaying jobs all day and attending class at night, but, in fact, the vast majority of college students have professors who are, themselves, so preoccupied with food insecu rity that they run from campus to

The extra 10% to 18% of inter est and late fees are very expen sive for the entrepreneur. Having to pay the interest and late fees results in the entrepreneur not being able to use those amounts to hire employees, make invest ments, or to take a salary.

EDITORIAL Elinor R. Tatum: Publisher and Editor in Chief Kristin Fayne-Mulroy: Managing Editor Nayaba Arinde: Editor Cyril Josh Barker: Digital Editor Damaso Reyes: Investigative Editor Siobhan "Sam" Bennett: Chief Revenue Officer and Head of Advertising Wilbert A. Tatum (1984-2009): Chairman of the Board, CEO and Publisher Emeritus Alliance for AuditedMemberMedia Opinion See POVERTY CRISIS on page 27

We agree completely with the outrage expressed by sev eral civic and national lead ers, particularly Marc Morial, president and CEO of the Na tional Urban League.

A son’s first love is his mother. A mother’s last love is her first born. A daughter’s first love is her father. A father’s last love is his eldest daughter. I personal ly observed the bond between a mother––my niece––and son. They were both in the swim ming pool, he was on a float er, and she was letting go of a floater. The son is just two years old, and the mother, though 36, never learned how to swim. As she leaned against the pool, she started to lose her foot ing. She slipped by mistake and submerged underwater. The terrified expression on her twoyear-old son’s face prompted him to ask, “Momma, are you okay?”Hehad previously spoken, but never these exact words. The child attempted to swim to his mother when the mother recovered. He approached the mother sitting on the stairs and said, “Are you alright momma, just sit down.” His mother shed a tear. Though he was only two years old, he could feel that his mother was in danger. Despite his inexperience and lack of knowledge, he knew something was wrong and went to make it right.There are two passages in the Bible that relate to this and pro vide profound insight into the relationship between a child and hisProverbsmother.

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Armstrong Williams (@ARight Side) is manager / sole owner of Howard Stirk Holdings I & II Broadcast Television Sta tions and the 2016 Multicultur al Media Broadcast Owner of the year. www.armstrongwilliams.co | www.howardstirkholdings.com views and opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the author and do not rep those of York Amsterdam News. We continue to a variety of viewpoints so that we may know the opinions of others that may differ from our own.

At the end of the podcast there is a fun Black Light ning Round where my guest has to answer some truly difficult questions; like, whether mac and cheese should be a side dish or main dish, who has the best stand up - Eddie Murphy or Richard Pryor, or if you could rename the Edmund Pettus Bridge, who would you rename it after? Many of my guests are rec ognizable figures in politics, activism, journalism, and the entertainment world. Not only are they excited to test their knowledge of Black history and culture, they are also excited to sup port Black media. The work of people like Elinor Tatum, publisher of this newspa per and Byron Allen, owner of The Grio and a growing entertainment empire, are doing the work to keep Black history and current events in the news for a multitude of generations, both Black and non-Black. It is imperative that we continue to support the work of Black publications as they provide news and viewpoints not often found in mainstream media. People like Roland Martin and his “Unfiltered: Daily Digital Show” immediately come to mind. So, if you’re looking for Black culture, education, and entertainment, you can find “The Blackest Ques tions” podcast by down loading TheGrio app or listen to the show wherev er you get your podcasts. You can also watch it on YouTube if that’s more your style. Enjoy! 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” and host of “The Blackest Ques tions” podcast.

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It’s official, I have a new podcast and I guess I should tell people about it. Many of you know I be lieve in Black media and Black journalism. Case and point, one of the highlights of my professional career is being able to have a weekly column in this paper, the Amsterdam News, one of the oldest Black publica tions in the country. In addition to my work with the Amsterdam News , I also write occasional ar ticles for www.thegrio.com.

1 Timothy 2:15 “But women will be saved through childbear ing—if they continue in faith, love and holiness with propriety. These two passages in the Bible encourage us to show rev erence and respect to our moth ers. It promotes the traditional ideals of motherhood and en courages us to respect the love that our mothers, who went through the excruciating pain of childbirth, have for us by en couraging us to listen to and re spect their wisdom. No one is born a good parent; rather, they develop into one. A woman cannot be considered a mother until she gives birth to a child. Whether parents recognize it or not, their children are their teachers. They compel them to learn the ins and outs of parent ing, to stay up late and perform additional work, and to be tested under the most dire conditions.

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1:8-9: “Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction and do not forsake your moth er’s teaching. They are a garland to grace your head and a chain to adorn your neck.”

I now have a weekly pod cast at The Grio where I in terview smart Black people and ask them five questions pertaining to Black history and Black culture. We range from sports to politics to science, you name it. The idea for the podcast isn’t to embarrass anyone, or make my guest and my listeners feel less than. The purpose of the pod cast is to remind us of all of our beautiful and brilliant history that many of us were not taught in school. The intended goal of “The Blackest Questions” is to learn about Black history while having fun and learn ing a bit about our weekly guest. For example, do you know who was the first Af rican American cookbook author? Or the name of the basketball team that J. Cole played for in Africa? Or who was the first Black person elected governor and for what state did they preside over? You’ll have to tune in to find out the answers.

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Each succeeding child provides a parent with more understand ing, but the first child marks the change from being independent to having someone fully depend onThisyou. situation demonstrated just that. It also showed me that the link between the firstborn and mother is innate. As long as a parent is receptive to parent ing, they will discover that blood creates the most profound con nection. It is a connection forged by nature, not circumstance. It motivates parents to succeed for their children and their children to appreciate, respect, and love theirThroughoutparents. our life, we will encounter many people and we will engage with and learn from countless others. However, not all knowledge and insight are provided with pure intentions; there are transgressors in this world who seek to undermine our interests for their own gain. However, a parent who loves and appreciates their child will be the first and final person in whom a child will place their confidence. Every child with decent parents can rest easy knowing that every word their parents speak is intended to aid and not harm. These words are as much a helping hand as any physical act; they embody virtue.Asachild’s life progresses, they may be certain that their parents will be by their side every step of the way, imparting knowledge from their own life experiences and giving them the additional push they need to blossom into a successful adult. With each grain of wisdom they obtain, they will be able to transmit that knowl edge to future generations. Each parent, whether they realize it or not, influences future gener ations of children who will only exist because of the inspiration theyThoseprovided.who are fortunate enough to have youthful par ents can take comfort in know ing that they will be able to give their parents the chance to see them mature, an opportunity that every parent desires. Par ents can observe their children develop from newborns who cannot talk, cannot walk, and cannot logically reason into in dividuals at the apex of their lives and careers. That is un doubtedly a sight to see for any parent, and it is the culmination of a child’s efforts to thank their parents for the gift of life. I treasured every minute I spent with my parents, and I adore the sight of young parents and their newborns embarking on a long, rich, and healthy con nection that will endure the re mainder of their lives.

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“What does this mean for the develop ment of our nations, when our risk profile is becoming so severe that insurers ques tion their willingness to offer risk facilities to offset climate disasters? Put simply, we are in danger of becoming uninsurable. Our countries are struggling with debts accumulated by climate disasters.”

Caricom nations have persistently argued that any global temperature in creases above 1.5 degree Celsius could badly damage the regional lifeline tour ism industry, as coral reefs could die out rendering marine tourism in jeopardy, among other woes. The summit wrapped up at the trendy, world famous Baha Mar Resort on Thurs day with demands for compensation for infrastructural and other damage from climatic events. The summit, ironically, was held in the month when forecast ers pay strict attention to the formation of storms. The annual season starts in June and ends in November. About now some of the toughest hurricanes have formed, officials say. Meanwhile, new Grenadian Prime Minis ter Dickon Mitchell argued that the region cannot ease up on the fight to achieve cli mate justice as the Caribbean has been forced to face the brunt of some major cli matic events in recent decades.

The American Action Forum recently reported that DACA recipients contribute nearly $42 billion to the U.S.’s annual GDP and have a net positive fiscal impact of $3.4 billion an nually.That’s a huge economic con tribution. Further, the report found that more than a quar ter of DACA recipients are married, and more than onethird have children. Ninetynine percent of those children are U.S. citizens while 75,000 haveCongressmortgages.continues to “kick the can” down the road; and so it seems that the Joe Biden administration is now facing a quandary of its own making over the thousands pour ing over the border and then being shipped to New York and Washington, creating a night mare for those cities.

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By BERT WILKINSON Special to the AmNews Caribbean Community leaders met in The Bahamas more than a week ago to dis cuss ways of making the big western pol luting nations like the U.S. pay or offer concessional financing for the damage caused by climate change events, like the increasingly powerful mega storms which have been battering the region with regu lar frequency in recent years. The Caricom leaders said they wanted to refine their positions and arguments ahead of the annual COP 27 climate change world summit slated for Egypt in mid-November, and to ensure any politi cal momentum made from their presence and performance at last year’s conference in Scotland is improved upon. They argue that if there are any doubts about the effects of climate change events on Small Island Developing States (SIDS) like the many island nations in the Carib bean, an observer only needs to look at the plight of The Bahamas to determine the extent of infrastructural and other damage super hurricanes have heaped on the archi pelago off Florida in recent years.

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It’s unfortunate that Senate Democrats who managed to get the expansive $739bn “In flation Reduction Act of 2022,” were unable to add in legis lation to give Dreamers legal status—given the bipartisan support this enjoys. And so once more, the can is kicked down the road as the lives of thousands hang in the balance as they wait on the constitutional interpretation of three judges and the fake promises of U.S. lawmakers.

At the leaders summit earlier in the week, PM Davis also said that nations which are battered up by storms will find it tough to deal with multilateral financial agencies and insurance companies in the future.

Having waited ten years to get the New York State Depart ment of Labor to approve my application for labor certifica tion as a skilled immigrant, in order for me to be able to apply for a green card, I know first hand the stress and anxieties. Many DACA recipients were high schoolers when they re ceived this reprieve. Now, many have long graduated college and are contributing to the U.S. economy, paying taxes, owning homes, raising children, and being upstand ing and needed citizens. While the New York judge’s decision is heartless; what would be worse is if a threejudge panel in the 5th U.S. Cir cuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans rules that DACA is “il legal” in the fall. Regardless of the outcome, it will be appealed to the Su preme Court, which could rule by the summer of 2023, as the lives of thousands of Dream ers remain in an indetermi nate state. For current DACA recipients, they’ll likely have until the ex piration of their extension — less than two years — before they lose legal status too. And then what? It’s irrational and immoral.

“I think the issue of climate change has gone beyond that of a moral issue, but it is a justiciable issue. I think as is lands that have borne the brunt of the proven loss and damage arising from the greenhouse gasses, that we are entitled to compensation. We intend to do every thing in our collective power to ensure that our rights and our right to live a quality of life that is deserving is main tained and promoted,” he said.

Prime Minister Phillip Davis who, along with Mia Mottley of Barbados, has been leading the fight to make polluting nations and others like China pay attention to the woes of the region, reminded all and sundry at the weekend about the level of debt bur dens associated with hurricanes and the struggle to recover in their aftermath.

A decade has already passed since the creation of DACA, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. It was cre ated on June 15, 2012, by the Barack Obama administration as a temporary stop-gap pro cess to help the tens of thou sands of young immigrants who had been brought to the United States by their undoc umented parents to get an op portunity to work legally, go to college and travel. Ten years later, the dream of tens of thousands of legal permanent residents has fast turned into a nightmare, as they now watch thousands of others stream over the border or arrive on planes, boats and buses, and move on to asylum processing. Only grace, a few good judges and the courts has helped the program to survive the Donald Trump ad ministration.Butthethreats loom on. The vulnerability of DACA was once again exposed after a conserva tive New York judge recently re fused some Dreamers’ request to order the U.S. to resume ac cepting applications under the Obama-era program that saves them from deportation. This comes as DACA and its 800,000 or so recipients hang on by a thread of hope as sev eral other red states mount legal challenges to dismantle the tiny protection. It’s almost like sitting in a house with a hurricane pounding away as the roof threatens to go along with your life.

“When I did a profiling of my nation al debt, 50% or more of it is connected directly to climate change, the conse quence of climate change, because we have to borrow money for the purpose of recovery, resilience and get back to normalcy. The last hurricane we had was Dorian [2018]. Our loss in damage amounted to more than $4 billion,” Davis told the local audience that had also in cluded former American Ambassador to the United Nations Andrew Young, and former Jamaican PM PJ Patterson.

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THE NEW YORK AMSTERDAM NEWS August 25, 2022 - August 31, 2022 • 15 AS YOU PREPARE TO HEAD TO THE POLLS FOR THE MID-TERM ELECTIONS, WHAT ISSUE(S) MATTER MOST TO YOU? FOR EXAMPLE: • Are you concerned about the rising cost of living? • Is crime a top concern? • Does the impact of COVID-19 remain a concern? • Is climate change top of mind? • Are you concerned about prescription drug costs? • Are you concerned about the future of abortion rights? The New York Amsterdam News is partnering with WNYC Public Radio to amplify the voices of residents in communities throughout the New York metropolitan area. Tell us what’s on your mind ahead of the mid-term elections in the form of a 400-to-700-word first-person essay. Selected essays will be published in The New York Amsterdam News. WNYC’s Community Partnerships & Training Editor George Bodarky may also work with you to create an audio version of your essay to air on WNYC Public Radio and appear on Gothamist.com WHAT MAKES FOR A GOOD ESSAY? Please submit essays no later than Friday, August 26, 2022 to damaso.reyes@amsterdamnews.com • Get to the point quickly. Tell us what matters to you right away. • Provide examples and anecdotes to help the audience understand the impact of the issue(s) on your life. • Embrace your own personal voice. Talk it out while writing. Think about how you would say it to a friend or family member. • Use short sentences and paragraphs.

City Council resolution is last ditch effort to restore school budget cuts

The resolution is supported by Speak er Adrienne Adams, and several coun cil members like Councilmember Justin Brannan, Gale Brewer, and Education chair Rita PresidentJoseph.ofthe United Federation of Teachers Michael Mulgrew asked straight forwardly where the money for schools was and where it went. Mulgrew said the entire process and the city’s “insistence” on going through with the cuts has been “aggravating” and “troubling.”

“What’s especially painful and puzzling about this is that it’s totally unnecessary,” saidLanderLander.confirmed that the federal money can only be spent on buttressing public ed ucation and has to be spent by 2025. The “modest” flexibility from Academic Recov ery SAM funds isn’t enough, he said.

Many witnesses noted that there will be an influx of immigrant students in school this fall because of the arrival of thousands of asylum seekers and their families, which will increase enrollment in schools.

“These budget cuts come at a time when the system must meet the moment to support a thousand refugee newcomers. Right now instead of focusing on these unconscionable budget cuts we should be focused on enrolling asylum seeking children in schools that are well prepared to meet their need and that have the deep expertise and support for students learn ing English for the first time,” said Andrea Ortiz, senior manager of education policy at New York Immigration Coalition.

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By ARIAMA C. LONG, Amsterdam News Staff, Report for America Corps Member Council members gathered in a hear ing at City Hall this Monday to introduce a resolution demanding that Mayor Eric Adams and Schools Chancellor David Banks reverse the budget cuts to schools, now approved by court order, and use re maining stimulus funds to cover the net reduction of $469 million from schools. Adams and the City Council agreed to the adopted budget early in June that in cluded cuts to schools. The cuts were based on the “flawed” Fair Student Fund ing (FSF) formula and projected decreas es in schools enrollment. Two teachers and two parents resorted to filing a law suit to stop the cuts. The lawsuit went back and forth in court, and ended when the city filed an appeal and got an auto matic stay. By Aug. 10, an appellate judge ruled that schools could move forward with the 2023 budget cuts.

Comptroller Brad Lander testifies at education hearing about school budget cuts. (Ariama C. Long photo)

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On Monday, Aug 22, in an effort to cir cumvent the ruling, city council mem bers introduced a resolution to restore the cuts. At the hearing, advocates and city officials, such as Comptroller Brad Lander, testified their support in holding the mayor and chancellor accountable.

“It’s been well documented what this means to the schools themselves,” said Mulgrew in his testimony. “And the DOE is still trying to tell people it’s not a cut, it’s downsizing, and it’s because they are using the [FSF] formula, which they also admit is not correct.” Lander testified that the cuts would affect 77% of public schools, increase class sizes, cut arts programs like band, and excess needed guidance counselors and teachers. His office estimates that there’s about $4.4 billion leftover of the stimulus funds unspent and about $600 million that rolled over from last year’s school budget.

He didn’t shy away from the fiscal reality that the stimulus money will run out, that the FSF needs reform, and that there was an enrollment decline in schools. As an alternative to attempting to save the stim ulus money, Lander suggested putting the $800 million made in excess tax revenue this year into the city’s reserves instead.

A few witnesses advocated for mayoral control of the city’s public school system to“Allend.this delay and confusion makes it seem as if this is a purposeful set of many different decisions to circumvent democra cy and transparency, to not allow parents and the community to have even an eye on what’s happening, and to dismiss their values,” said Aixa Rodriguez, a teacher.

Kwame Brathwaite, Grandassa Model on stage, Apollo Theater, Harlem, ca. 1968. Courtesy the artist and Philip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles

“My father won’t be attending the exhib it,” said his son Kwame, Jr. who was there representing the family at Tuesday’s press conference. He may not be there physically but his artistic presence looms from every nook and cranny, from his own self-portrait near the entry to the far back room where three manikins symbolize the Grandassa Models, another engaging component to the group’s progressive culture and politics.

Kwame Brathwaite, Self-portrait, African Jazz-Art Society & Studios (AJASS), Harlem, ca. 1964. Courtesy the artist and Philip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles

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What immediately draws you into the “Black Is Beautiful: The Photography of Kwame Brathwaite,” the traveling exhibit now at the New-York Historical Society, is a portrait of Max Roach and Abbey Lincoln. The beaming couple were jazz royalty and Brathwaite’s camera, as it did on so many occasions, captured them in the ’60s when AJASS (African Jazz-Art Society & Studios) was a vanguard group of visionary artists spearheading the merger of music, politics, art, and revolutionary activism.

“I have been called the ‘Keeper of the Images,’” Brathwaite wrote in the preface to the book. “My task has been to document creative powers throughout the diaspora— not only in our Black artists, musicians, athletes, dancers, models and designers, but in all of us. It was my job to capture each moment of this creativity in its truest form.”

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Over the years, he accomplished this task, often in concert with his brother

The 40 large-scale color and black-andwhite photos decorating three rooms are a panorama of scenes exemplary of Brath waite’s brilliantly productive career. Each is a frozen moment that exudes beauty, integ rity, and a dynamic aspect of Black history and culture. He forged a partnership with the Aperture Foundation to launch the ex hibit, which also published a book featur ing the collection.

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Kwame Brathwaite, Grandassa Models at the Merton Simpson Gallery, New York, ca. 1967. Courtesy the artist and Philip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles

The ambitious, meticulously craft ed exhibition, which debuted on Aug. 21, 2022 and will be on view through April 9, 2023, is a revelatory experi ence, and explores the achievements and challenges of Black filmmakers in the U.S. in both independent pro duction and the studio system—in front of the camera and behind it— from cinema’s infancy in the 1890s to the early 1970s. It includes rarely seen excerpts of films, documenta ries, newsreels, and home movies, as well as historical photographs, cos tumes, props, and posters.

By SUNIL SADARANGANI Special to the AmNews It’s a mighty impressive and jawdropping stunner of an exhibition as you walk through and immerse your self into the world of “Regeneration: Black Cinema, 1898–1971.” Pride and grandeur of a glorious, near-for gotten and thriving Black cinema in the early years of American filmmak ing, pulsates through the massive 11,000-square-foot Marilyn and Jef frey Katzenberg Gallery on the fourth floor at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.

Scene from Baltimore, 2003 (Isaac Julien photo)

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The exhibition, co-curated by Doris Berger, vice president of curatorial af fairs at the Academy Museum, and Rhea L. Combs, director of curatori al affairs at the Smithsonian’s Nation al Portrait Gallery, was much-needed and extremely essential to be seen by the“Thisworld.landmark exhibition seeks to restore lost chapters of American film history as it elevates the contri butions of Black artists to present a more inclusive story,” said the Acad emy Museum’s recently appointed Director and President Jacqueline Stewart. “We are incredibly proud to present ‘Regeneration,’ an exhibition that demonstrates how the Acad emy Museum shares new scholar ship, offers a more expansive vision of American film history, and encourag es public dialogue about the past and present of film as an art form and a socialCo-curatorsforce.”

Berger and Combs said, “It has been a great honor for us to curate ‘Regeneration,’ a proj ect that challenged us to do justice to the lives and work of nearly a cen tury of Black filmmakers and the au diences they served. The legacies explored in these galleries were im portant in their own time, though too often neglected and marginal ized, they remain vital today. We hope to heighten awareness of these films and film artists and encourage an ap preciation of the many, many contri butions that African Americans have made to “Regeneration”cinema.” will also feature contemporary artworks referencing the impact of the legacy of Black film making and AR elements designed for the exhibition. The exhibition will be accompanied by a range of film screenings, including world pre mieres of films newly restored by the Academy Film Archive, an interactive microsite with supplemental con tent, a robust curriculum to engage high school students and teachers, and a fully illustrated catalog featur ing the writing of leading filmmakers, scholars and the co-curators. Along with Combs and Berger, the “Regeneration” team includes Acade my Museum’s J. Raúl Guzmán, as as sistant curator, as well as Manouchka Kelly Labouba and Emily Rauber Ro driguez, as research assistants. Mul tiple film series are organized by Bernardo Rondeau, senior director of film programs for the Academy Museum, and a future exhibition film series will be guest- programmed by Black Film Archive creator and cura tor Maya “Regeneration”Cade. comprises seven galleries dedicated to exploring the social and political situation of Black Americans at the dawn of filmmak ing; the presence and images of Black people in early cinema beginning in 1898; pioneering independent Black filmmakers such as Oscar Micheaux and so-called “race films” from the 1910s to the 1940s; Black music in American film, including “soundies” and Black musicals of the 1920s and 1940s; Black stars and film icons from the 1920s through the 1950s; and freedom movements in the 1950s and 1960s. The concluding gallery in “Regeneration” pays tribute to five Black directors active from the 1960s onward: Melvin Van Peebles, Gordon Parks, William Greaves, Madeline An derson, and Robert L. Goodwin. Ava DuVernay––filmmaker, member of the Academy Board of Governors, and “Regeneration” Ad visory Panel––summed up the im portance of this historic exhibition: “Black Cinema has always been present in American film right from the start––not as caricatures but as creators, innovators, producers, and eager audiences. It’s 2022, but for the first time we can see the grand sweep of Black cinematic history in all its richness, defiance and exuberance.”

For a more comprehensive resource and information on the “Regenera tion: Black Cinema, 1898–1971” ex hibition at the Academy Museum visit regeneration-black-cinemaemymuseum.org/en/exhibitions/cinema.org/https://www.regenerationblackandhttps://www.acad

Doris Berger - Vice President of Curatorial Affairs, Academy Museum Of Motion Pictures, Rhea Combs - Director of Curatorial Affairs at Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, and Jacqueline StewartDirector and President of the Academy Museum at Academy Museum of Motion Pictures at the opening press preview for Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898-1971 at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. (©Academy Museum Foundation photo)

Stars and Icons, Regeneration/ Black Cinema 1898-1971, Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. (Photo by Joshua White, JW Pictures/ ©Academy Museum Foundation)

Title Wall, Regeneration/ Black Cinema 1898-1971, Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. (Photo by Joshua White, JW Pictures/ © Academy Museum Foundation)

The Nicholas Brothers in a scene from Stormy Weather (1943), Fayard Nicholas, left, and Harold Nicholas, in Stormy Weather (1950). (Courtesy of Margaret Herrick Library, © Twentieth Century)

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The Black Girlhood Studies Col lection “brings together emerg ing and established scholars from North America to discuss what Black girlhood means historically and in the 21st century, and how con cepts of race, ethnicity, gender, sex uality, class, religion, and nationality inform or affect identities of Black girls beyond school or urban set tings.” Halliday does an amazing job of creating a thoughtful and well-re searched literary environment that considers Black girls in a world that ignores the deep crevices of their lives andBuyperspectives.Black“reveals what attitudes inform a contemporary Black sen sibility based in representation and consumerism. It also traces the parameters of Black symbolic power, mapping the sites where in traracial ideals of blackness, wom anhood, beauty, play, and sexuality meet and mix in consumer and popular“There’sculture.”stillso much that is not documented about Black girls’ and women’s experiences. The research is interesting because it allows me to talk to some of the most interesting people and make sense of US and Ca ribbean societies through their eyes,” says Halliday in a recent interview the online site Music Journalism Insider. Halliday’s courageous and infor mative concentrations will help shape a new understanding of un derrepresented Black women and girls. She has much to offer as a pow erful thinker and scholar. She tells MJI, “Currently, I’m really enjoying exploring research on nos talgia in Black communities, Black girls’ representation in film, and Black women’s cultural production. I’m working on several projects, one that includes listening to a lot of Millie Jackson and examining her life and career in conjunction with more con temporary ‘raunchy’ artists.” Avid readers and those interested in African American and gender studies will enjoy her books and should an ticipate the continuation of her re search well into the future.

By JORDANNAH ELIZABETH Special to the AmNews Since the 1990s, the emergence of hip hop non-fiction and historical books has been steadily growing. In 1994, Tricia Rose became one of the earliest hip hop documentarians in the book market with her sem inal book “Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America.” Since then, the explora tion of hip hop music, culture and biographies and odes to iconic art ists like Tupac Shakur, has expand ed into a viable topic in the major bookTheremarket.is,ofcourse, always work to do in exposing American and world culture to the influential contribu tions of Black hip hop artists, but 2022 is revealing an effort from the pub lishing world to push this incredible narrative and culture forward.

Aria S. Halliday publishes important books on Black women & girls

Assistant Professor in the Depart ment of Gender and Women’s Studies and African American and Africana Studies at the University of Kentucky, Aria S. Halliday Ph.D., has direct ed her astute intellect on examining and documenting the importance of Black women’s presence and contri butions in American culture. Her books “Buy Black: How Black Women Transformed U.S. Pop Culture” published by Univer sity of Illinois Press in April 2022 and “The Black Girlhood Studies Collection” published by Canadi an Scholars in 2019, are invalu able explorations of the impacts, theory and existential experienc es of Black women and girls.

A few notable hip hop books, all bi ographies and memoirs, were pub lished in the first half of 2022, and they are all continuing to lay the groundwork for an explosion in hip hop literary interest.

The interest and conversation surrounding the behavior, socio economic patterns and consumer participation of Black women and girls is long overdue. Since the 1960s, Black women have had an unde niable hand in shaping post-mod ern American popular culture. From childhood to womanhood, Black women have innovated distinct styles of hair and clothing, made mu sicians like The Jackson Five, Prince and Beyoncé household names, and continue to shape our culture as con sumers, heads of households and leaders in the Civil Rights Movement and Black Lives Matter.

“It Was All a Dream: Biggie and the World That Made Him” by journal ist Justin Tinsley was released in con junction with the year rapper Biggie Smalls would have celebrated his 50th birthday. The book includes several interviews with the people who knew Biggie best: his neighbors, friends, DJs and musical colleagues. The book takes an in-depth look at the rapper’s life beyond what was only reported in the news and media. Take a deep dive to learn about this deeply talented musician who left the world way too soon. “DJ Screw: A Life in Slow Revolu tion” comes as a follow-up to Lance Scott Walker’s “Houston Rap Tapes”, a photo book about Houston’s hip hop culture. Walker does scrupulous research in the form of a broad span of interviews with nearly everyone who knew the seminal Houston DJ, DJ Screw. Known for his unforget table style “chopped and screwed” where he collaborated with local rappers who rhymed over his beats, then proceeded to slow the songs he created down dramatically. His music created a craze in Houston in the 1990s and has put him on the map as one of the most unique DJs in hip hop

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A look at hip hop books of 2022

Award-winninghistory.journalist and hip hop music business expert, Dan Charnas teaches a course at New York University entitled “Topics In Recorded Music: J-Dilla” a defin itive look at the life and music of the late Detroit born hip hop pro duction genius, J Dilla. “Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvent ed Rhythm” journeys from Dilla’s childhood to his untimely death of a rare blood disease. He is known to be one of the most revered hip hop producers of all time, unequivocal ly defining the sound of the hip hop soul area in the 1990s and 2000s. Canadian rapper, Cadence Weapon, also known as Rollie Pemberton, published a tell-all memoir about his personal experi ence in the music industry as a hip hop critic and well-known rapper in Canada. “Bedroom Rapper: Ca dence Weapon on Hip-Hop, Re sistance, and Surviving the Music Industry” gives an intimate por trait of the life and times of the in dependent rapper and writer. “I want there to be something for every reader to take away from the book. I want it to be something that could be useful, whether it’s a guidebook for hip hop or under ground rap or Canadian music. But ultimately, the reason why I wrote the book was I realized that it was a story that had never really been told,” he told Flaunt in July 2022.

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A change of scenery, production, in your mental environment due to there being a light switch turned on in the dark room. When the switch comes on your reality changes you are growing mentally, spiritually, emotionally, and physically evolving to a higher version of oneself. The new moon in Virgo at 4 degrees is ushering in clarity, providing facts and figures to know what’s going on. Your imagination is everything and your dreams do a great job providing the vision. Apply the footwork to give the vision shape and form. What is your strategy this week to get things done as America goes into Virgo season? “A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination, and hard work.”

The final week of August exit out in Leo style: cast your talents, and skills, and attend social gatherings. Make your presence known. You are reaping a peek of your harvest as other weeks will follow suit. Con tinue to put in the work as slow and steady wins the race. Schedule time out for yourself to unwind, release and attract the things that match your frequency. August 24th-25th it’s time to get more serious about your plans and take inventory.

You are a mastermind this cycle. You know how to get information out of people without asking too many questions and then on to the next subject or mission. Information comes to you in passing during your daily routine. It’s for you to relay the message to folks that cross your path. The Divine is using you as a vessel, so speak through you and don’t hold 411 back. Spread the love and the Divine will reward you for following instructions. August 26th- 28th with the new moon in Virgo begin a new additional chapter in your life with an assignment and instruction.

The time is right for you to reap the benefits of your dedicated labor. Relationship matters in business, family, and personal situations are the center of attention. One by one you check off as this week is no time for slacking and no running around like a “chicken with no head.”

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You have got to put some skin in the game and get serious about the direction you are heading. Leaders lead by example and grow from their best teachers called experiences. August 29th -30th pick up the mic and don’t drop it until you are Thefinished.wheelsare rolling, and you are in the driver seat driving that bus, car, bike whatever it is; you are on a mission. You identified and consulted with your higher self to decide to go in a different direction. You are set, fixed, and in your zone maneuvering and grooving for ad vancement in your life. When one door closes another one opens for the opportunity to level up. A week to inspire and motivate others along the way. August 31st ends with a big bang as information about an assignment flows through in a unique way. The song “This little light of mine” is your weekly theme. Put yourself out there with a service, product, inspiration, or even words of encour agement. Residual income is flowing with an abundance tag on it after you apply yourself. The world is waiting on you and you have a message waiting to exhale. Short distance travel or stay is in your forecast. August 24th-25th a quick claim deed has your name on it. Read the details first. 866-331-5088

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August 26th-27th a redirection, revised, is in effect under this new moon in Virgo that favors your earth sign. What’s the structure of your tone and foundation this week? Where are you in your plans of moving forward in your progress? It’s time to begin organizing and checking off your list to get it done. This weekly energy is going to make you step up to the plate. A feeling of illness, tiredness and unusual mood swings of behavior present themselves to you. August 29th30th listen to your body as patience and rest are needed.

It’s showtime with all the lights. Be ready to smile as people will ask for your advice, time, and monetary support as investors propose an offer to you. The reap of your harvest will have you smiling from ear to ear. Think ing about returning a favor or contributing to assist someone on their journey. Helping God’s people is helping yourself. You never know who you are assisting as the Divine Creator puts people in position as a test. August 31st level up with a grand entrance, opening, with an extraordinary exit the old fashion way. Changes within your circumstances that you have been contemplat ing for some time. It’s time to make your move and follow your heart and where it is leading you. Physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually something inside is brewing inside to make the decision. Once you decide the universe must stand by your side and you need to be committed until the end. The journey is not instant due to the fact that you need the expe riences for your growth. August 24th-25th swift changes are already in motion. Handsome rewards are pouring in with appreciation, and admiration, for being genuinely you. Any advice you can receive from an elder will be profound. Women of influence are also involved in your affairs, and that can be anyone from your mother and great aunts, women in the family, circle, or a mentor. A romance, finances, business, family week of fulfill ing obligations. August 26th -28th your cup is full of support, growth, and financial matters are increasing. A relationship can begin be it business or personal and separation of something or Decision-making,someone.truth reveals, semi-legal matters, and documents need to be finalized. Call in that favor if needed and people are willing to help when you ask. This is a way to solve your own problems and find your solution by thinking them through. Check your voicemail, emails, and messages and catch a replay as details are within. Listen carefully and jot it down. You are on the go this cycle. August 20th-29th say what you mean and get it off your chest. How you start is how you end.

August holds important research and self-evaluation when travel ing down the “rabbit hole.” A week to start something new and choose a different path. The universe will stop you in your tracks where it feels very awkward. That awkwardness is in attendance to push you to listen, do something, and tune into yourself. The information you seek is right in front of you. August 31st make it your business for solitude, change and let whatever is holding you back go, to evolve.

Going with the flow following your inner guide while remaining true to self is advised. Follow up on any phone calls, check voicemail, mail box, and emails, and do something for “self.” Family matters and impor tant paperwork need to be addressed before moving forward with your plans. Sudden separations, endings, advancement, business matters, in vestments, and recognition of your dedication to your work. A new assign ment is assigned as a secondary reward.

“We want to alert them to the heroes in our own community at a time when we face not only the pandemic but con tinuing issues of crime and gun violence, hunger and health challenges and other problems,” she said. “We all need to know about the good works our neighbors from so many walks of life are doing for Harlem.”

By LEE DANIELS Special to the AmNews

Like messengers, too, the mere pres ence of the tall, sleek metal and glass structures silently indicates they have im portant information to convey. They do; for they sketch the stories of nine men and women working in Harlem who rep resent some of the many facets of the commu nity’s response to the fearsome impact these past two years of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Community Works exhibit celebrates culture of healing

For more information about Com munity Works, visit www.harlem-is.org. More information about New Heritage Theatre Group can be found at https://

www.newheritagetheatre.orgLeeA.Danielsisajournalist and a board member of Community Works. (Courtesy photos)

The individuals in it include doctors and other health practitioners, as one would expect—but also community activists, ed ucators, writers and other artists, and lead ers of Harlem civic organizations. Those on the street-corner placards at St. Nicho las and 120th Street are: Andrea Arroyo, an artist and activist; Tau Battice, a photogra pher; Robin Bell-Stevens, the director and executive producer of Jazzmobile; Dietrice Bolden, managing director of IMPACT Rep ertory Theatre; Akemi Kochiyama, a writer and activist; Winston Majette, executive director of the Greater Harlem Chamber of Commerce; Arva Rice, president and CEO of the New York Urban League, Jackie Rowe-Adams, co-founder of Harlem Moth ers S.A.V.E. (Stop Another Violent End), which provides services to victims of vio lence and work to eliminate the illegal in ter-state transportation of guns; and the Rev. Michael A. Walrond, Jr., senior pastor of First Corinthian Baptist Church.

Barbara Horowitz explained that the “Healing” mini-exhibit on St. Nicholas, which was made possible by the city’s De partment of Transportation art program, was another way of boosting residents’ confidence in Harlem’s resilience.

The entire “Harlem is … Healing” exhib it is actually much larger—telling the sto ries of another forty-one individuals who are part of the community’s “culture of healing.” All of it can be seen now on the “Harlem is … Healing” website at www. harlem-is.org/harlem-heroesv

Like guardians, the eye-catching pop-up billboards stretch nearly halfway down the western side of the block on St. Nicholas Avenue from 120th Street.

The installation is part of the “Harlem is … Healing” exhibition, the latest project of the longstanding collaboration between Community Works and the New Heritage Theatre Group exploring the multi-faceted history of Harlem and the communities of color which surround it.

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The exhibit also underscores two ageold realities that have always characterized Harlem (and Black communities throughout the country). One is that the work of its ac tivists can be viewed through the prism of a “culture of healing” precisely because Black Americans have always been besieged by the hydra-headed virus of racism—which, in turn, has required an antidote that itself can be expressed in many different ways. Some times the healing response is expressed through the work of physicians, nurses, and other health practitioners. Sometimes by psychiatrists and psychologists. But who can deny that African Ameri cans as individuals and as a group have been healed through political and social activism, through the expression of religious faith, and through the work of artists—photographers, musicians, writers and poets, painters, danc ers and

In other words, in this moment when Harlem (and indeed the whole of humanity) is facing a multi-dimensional crisis—med ical, environmental, financial, economic, political and spiritual—the “Harlem is … Healing” exhibit reminds us that, as it always has, Harlem contains a dense network of in dividuals and institutions who are challeng ing the dynamics of its being besieged. They are working to change the status of the pres ent from a “crisis” to an “opportunity.

The exhibit is the latest of the thus far twodecades-long series of “harlem is. . ” exhibi tions on Harlem’s past and present as a Black community. In 2018, Community Works and New Heritage Theatre Group were joined by Harlem Hospital, which has its own historic collection of art going back to the New Deal era, to permanently house those previous ex hibits—on the past and present of music, the ater and dance in Harlem—in the hospital. That installation is expected to open to the public later this year—fulfilling, said Sylvia L. White, the hospital’s deputy exec utive director, their commitment to further spread “the healing power of art.”

Finally,sculptors—too?“Harlemis…Healing” underscores that Harlem is full of “exceptional people”— individuals whose achievements suggest they possess enormous reservoirs of ambi tion, intelligence, shrewdness, compassion and civic-mindedness that illuminate how in dividual interests can produce a shared pro found commitment to civic activism.

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Kwame Brathwaite, Sikolo Brathwaite wearing a headpiece designed by Carolee Prince, African Jazz-Art Society & Studios (AJASS), Harlem, ca. 1968. Courtesy the artist and Philip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles Kwame Brathwaite, Sikolo Brathwaite, African Jazz-Art Society & Studios (AJASS), Harlem, ca. 1968. Courtesy the artist and Philip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles Kwame Brathwaite, Carolee Prince wearing her own jewelry designs, African Jazz-Art Society & Studios (AJASS), Harlem, ca. 1964. Courtesy the artist and Philip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles Max Roach and Abbey Lincoln photo by Kwame Brathwaite (Herb Boyd photo)

“As the Keeper of the Images,” he conclud ed, “my goal has always been to pass that legacy on and to make sure that for genera tions to come, everyone who sees my work knows the greatness of our people.”

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Elombe Brath and others, as they created a Harlem base for artists and political activ ists to give full expression to their anti-co lonialist, anti-imperialist dreams.

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Kwame Brathwaite, Photo shoot at a public school for one of the AJASS associated modeling groups that emulated the Grandassa Models and embraced natural hairstyles. Harlem, ca. 1966. Courtesy the artist and Philip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles

Kwame Brathwaite, Marcus Garvey Day Parade, Harlem, ca. 1967. Courtesy the artist and Philip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles

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Kwame Brathwaite, Man smoking in a ballroom, Harlem, ca. 1962. Courtesy the artist and Philip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles

“We are thrilled to bring this exhibition to New York City, Kwame Brathwaite’s home town and the location of many of his most powerful images,” said Dr. Louise Mirrer, president and CEO of New York Histori cal Society. “His work is a testament to the power of a visual medium to impact the movement towards racial equity. We hope Kwame Brathwaite’s photographs inspire a deeper understanding of the Black empow erment movement and how its legacy res onates“Blacktoday.”IsBeautiful will be here until Jan uary, 2023 and then it’s on to Birmingham, Alabama,” said Kwame Jr. “The tour that began in California has gained resonance from city to city.”

And they will know and experience the greatness of the photographer and this ex hibit is but a sample from his extensive ar chives, which only a series of books can properly cover.

Charlie Parker, Charlie Parker, Bird, that Charlie Parker cat, Yard bird, the legend, the icon, icono clast, innovator, the God. They call his name in bars, on street cor ners, in barbershops, in jazz clubs, it’s unhip, uncool, even crazy to have the audacity to ask “Who is Bird?” They’ve made movies about him, they call it Birdland in Man hattan, there’ songs, Alvin Ailey choreographed a dance piece in his honor, books written, James Baldwin wrote a short story on him, they play his music from NYC to Japan and back again. Who that? Bird that Charlie Parker Cat dam he be BAD. Jean-Mi chel Basquiat created paintings in his honor. Jazz historian Phil Schaap hosted “Bird Flight” on WKCR radio, New York dedicat ed entirely to Parker’s music, still running today. Like Bird lives like Charlie Parker lives in the 10-foot-tall bronze head memo rial sculptured by Robert Graham (dedicated in 1999 in Kansas City, Missouri). Parker discovered a new musical vocabulary and sound that altered the course of music history, he practiced dam near 15 hours per day, his unique chords are called “Bird Changes.”

On August 27, The Parker Festi val hits full gear at Marcus Garvey Park (18 Mt. Morris Park West at 124th Street), 3 p.m.-7 p.m. The all-star line-up will feature the trumpeter, Academy Award-nom inated film composer and an ex citing new voice in the opera world Terence Blanchard. For his latest album “Absence,” his elec tro-acoustic quintet E-Collective joins forces with violinist David Balakrishnan’s Turtle Island Quar tet. Their performance will feature works from the Wayne Shorter tribute album. They will be joined by the legendary bassist Buster Williams, who is the subject of the JazzTimes Documentary Film of the Year, “Bass to Infinity.” Wil liams will play with his all-star quartet Something More, NIKARA presents Black Wall Street, an en semble which melds hip hop, jazz, and Afro Caribbean rhythms into an abstract sound-collage. Vuyo Sotashe, a South African jazz vo calist, is making his mark on the New York jazz scene.

On August 28, The CPJF re turns to Tompkins Square Park (144 Avenue A on 7th Street) for the 1st time since 2019 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Per formers will include; tenor saxo phonist, composer, educator and NEA Jazz Master Archie Shepp, an elder-state-jazzman, an avant garde pioneer, one of the first in that genre to infuse the roots of Africa’s cultural music. Resid ing in France for some time, this will be a rare U.S. appearance for him. He will be joined by pianist, multi-media artist Jason Moran. The 85-year-old saxophonist per formed a duo with Moran on the single “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” on their 2021 album “Let My People Go” on the saxophonist’s Archie Ball label. The duo will feature composer, singer, and visual artist Cécile McLorin Salvant. The bill also includes the Gram my-nominated Chilean tenor saxophonist Melissa Aldana, who plays with a ferocious energy; Bria Skonberg, a Canadian jazz trumpeter and bandleader; and Pasquale Grasso, a master be-bop guitarist.

From 1950 to 1954, Parker lived with his partner Chan Berg on the ground floor of the townhouse at 151 Avenue B, across from Tomp kins Square Park. All concerts are FREE. For a complete listing visit the website Charlie Parker Jazz Festival - City Parks Foundation The alto saxophonist, flut ist, and multi-reed player Pa tience Higgins is an international genre-breaking musician, who has played with royalty like Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles, Archie Shepp, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Pa quito D’Rivera, Yoko Ono, Don Byron, The Pointer Sisters, has had a five-year stint with saloon singer/entertainer singer Bobby Short at the upper echelon Café Carlyle and a five-year stint with soul man Wilson Pickett. He’s toured with the Count Basie and Duke Ellington Orchestras. With such an astounding resume, he has been eluded by the great jazz machine, no cover stories by major jazz publications, no major jazz club dates in the Big Apple. Despite the jazz establishment’s oversight, Higgins works at least five days per week, every week in Harlem. The legendary cultural ly-oriented community still fol lows the tradition of hiring jazz bands in restaurants and bars as it did during the days of the Lenox Lounge, Showman’s Café, Paris Blues and La Famila. Hig gins was the leader of the Sugar Hill Quartet, the house band for Lenox Lounge, and for the reg ular Monday night sessions at St. Nick’s Pub in Harlem. “If I’m not performing at least five days per week, it’s a bad week,” said Hig gins during a phone interview. Higgins performs weekly in Harlem; on Sunday’s with the Brandon Sanders Quartet at the Row House Restaurant (2128 Frederick Douglass Blvd.), Sunday Brunch 12 noon-4 p.m.; and later Sunday evening he plays at Swing 46 (349 West 46th Street) with the George Gee Band, 4 p.m.-12 mid night; on Tuesday’s he is with Steve Oquendo Latin Jazz Or questra, in the Bronx at Mama juana Café (3233 East Tremont Ave.; Thursdays he’s back in Harlem at Patrick’s Place (151st Street and 8th Avenue), playing with drummer Phil Young Expe rience (7 p.m.-11 p.m.); Friday’s at the same location, he leads his own band Patience Higgins Quar tet featuring pianist Paul O’Deh, bassist Nathan Garrett and drum mer Will Ferrell. And Saturday’s he gigs at Brownstone Jazz (107 Macon Street, Brooklyn) the long running parlor jazz series curated by its owner Debbie McCain (7:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m.). “I love all kinds of music, so I never limited myself to one style or genre of music,” said Higgins. “I continue to play with a variety of different bands when I am not leading my own band or on the road.” Being an adept multi-in strumentalist playing all the saxo phones, clarinet, oboe, and English horn is his advantage. His musi cianship more than likely played a role in him becoming a pit mu sician for Broadway shows like; “Bubbling Brown Sugar,” “Jelly’s Last Jam,” “Hair,” The Tony awardwinning “Sophisticated Ladies” and the award-winning “Chica go.” Reading music exceptional ly well is a must when playing the pit, no room for improvising or mistakes. “It was reed player John Purcell, who recommended me to play with the great avant garde pi anist and composer Muhal Richard Abrams, that was a real learning experience,” said Higgins. “When I came to New York in the 1980s, reedman Seldon Powell took me under his wing, and introduced me to Broadway, I subbed for him on ‘Ain’tWhenMisbehavin.’”thenative of Greenville, S. C. isn’t touring, he’s an instruc tor at the Jazz Workshop and Sat urday mornings at Jazzmobile. His advice to students, “be wellrounded, be curious about all kinds of music. Don’t limit your self to one thing.”

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The festival opens at Marcus Garvey Park on August 26 with vo calist Jazzmeia Horn’s return to SummerStage set to perform works from her first album with Her Noble Force, a 15-piece ensem ble that offers new challenges for her daring arrangements.

Praises for the master alto saxo phonist, composer and bandlead er will continue from August 25-28, as his name is shouted out during New York City’s 30th annual Charlie Parker Jazz Festival. The festival––now a four-day event––takes off on August 25, as the Jazz Foundation of America celebrates with a concert at the Hansbor ough Recreation Center (35 West 134th Street) featuring the hard hittin Elvin Jones fiery tradition drummer Winard Harper and Jeli Posse (6 p.m.-7:30 p.m.), followed by a film screening (8 p.m.- 9:40 p.m.) of “Amandla!: A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony,” a 2002 documentary film depicting the struggles of Black South Africans against the injustices of Apartheid through the use of music.

Calvin Booker On Tap & Friends will also perform. This event is co-present ed by Jazzmobile. (7 p.m.-9 p.m.). On August 26, there’s Jazz in the Garden: Parlor Entertainment fea turing the vocalist, pianist, actress, playwright Marjorie Eliot and pia nist/vocalist Rudel Drears. They will perform at the Harlem Rose Garden (6 East 129th Street), 5:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m. Since 1992 these two uptown legends have present ed a weekly Sunday jazz series at her Edgecombe apartment.

Patience Higgins (Photo courtesy of the artist)

The opening act at 2 p.m.-2:50 p.m. will be Acoustic Set with Courtney Wright Trio2 present ed by the National Jazz Museum in Harlem. Wright is a promis ing young composer and bari tone saxophonist. She leads her own jazz orchestra and quintet that perform her original compo sitions and arrangements.

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BlackIsBeautiful:ThePhotographyofKwameBrathwaite organized by Aperture, New York and Kwame S. Brathwaite.

Images: (1) Kwame Brathwaite, Sikolo Brathwaite, African Jazz-Art Society & Studios (AJASS), Harlem, ca. 1968. Courtesy the artist and Philip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles.(2) Winold Reiss, Langston Hughes (1902–1967), c. 1925. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of W. Tjark Reiss, in memory of his father, Winold Reiss.

Major support for BlackIsBeautiful:ThePhotographyofKwameBrathwaite at New-York Historical is provided by Bank of America and Agnes Gund. The exhibition and the accompanying Aperture publication are made possible, in part, with generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Photographic Arts Council Los Angeles.

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Major support for TheArtofWinoldReiss:AnImmigrantModernist is provided by the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation and the Henry Luce Foundation. This project is also supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional support provided by Adeline and Myron Hofer, Tamar Weiss, Carol Marks and Tom Wirtschaft, and other generous individuals. The exhibition’s catalogue is made possible by Furthermore: a program of the J. M. Kaplan Fund.

Exhibitions at New-York Historical are made possible by Dr. Agnes Hsu-Tang and Oscar Tang, the Saunders Trust for American History, the Evelyn & Seymour Neuman Fund, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. WNET is the media sponsor.

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Later, Dr. Cordice would hold the same position at the Queens Hospital Center, and subsequent ly was president of the Queen's Medical Society in 1983-84.

In his nearly a century of years, Dr. Cordice was present at a number of historical events.

“If I had sneezed, I wouldn’t have been around in 1960, when students all over the South start ed sitting in at lunch coun ters,” he said. “If I had sneezed, I wouldn’t have been around here in 1961, when we decided to take a ride for freedom and ended segregation in interstate travel. If I had sneezed, I wouldn’t have been here in 1963, when the black people of Birmingham, Ala., aroused the conscience of this nation, and brought into being the Civil Rights Bill. If I had sneezed, I wouldn’t have had a chance later that year, in August, to try to tell America about a dream I had.”

On Dec. 29, 2014, Dr. Cordice, the last surviving surgeon from that hospital team, died at 94 in Sioux City, Iowa, his grand daughter Jennifer Fournier said. He had moved to Iowa in Novem ber to be near family.

“I think if we had lost King that day, the whole civil rights era could have been different,” Dr. Cordice said in a Harlem Hospital promotional video in 2012. Dr. Naclerio died in 1985, Dr. Maynard in 1999.

Born John Walter Vincent Cord ice Jr. on June 16, 1919 in Aurora, North Carolina, he was the son of a physician, who worked for the U.S. Public Health Service during the flu epidemic of 1918. The family moved to Durham, N.C. when John was 6. After graduat ing early from high school he at tended New York University and its medical school. During World War II, he served as a doctor for the famed Tuske gee Airmen, a stint that inter rupted his internship at Harlem Hospital. But after the war he resumed his internship at the hospital and held a number of residences thereafter. He studied in Paris in 1955-56 and was part of a team that performed the first open-heart surgery in France. All of this was in preparation for his becoming the chief of thoracic and vascular surgery at Harlem Hospital, and he was in this capacity when Dr. King was a patient there after the stabbing. On several occasions Dr. King re flected on the incident, praising the doctors and their skills. He wrote thank you letters to them and in his last public speech before his assassination in 1968, recounted how without the doc tors many of his achievements would have never occurred.

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Aug. 21, 1831: Nat Turner, in Dismal Swamp. Va., led one of the largest slaveAug.rebellions.21,1904:The great bandleader Count Basie born in Red Bank, N.J. he died in 1984. Aug. 22, 1867: Fisk University established.

Although Dr. John Cordice, Jr. attended countless numbers of patients with heart trouble, he is most famous for being one of the three doctors at Harlem Hos pital in 1958 who operated on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. after he was stabbed by a deranged woman. For many years the credit for saving Dr. King’s life was given to Dr. Aubre de Lambert Maynard, the hospital’s chief of surgery. But historians have corrected the record and concluded that it was mainly the expertise of Dr. Cordice and Dr. Emil Naclerio, who actually performed the vital surgery.Dr.King was in Harlem at Blumstein’s store on 125th Street signing his book Stride Toward Freedom, when Izola Ware Curry stabbed him with an envelope opener that came so close to his heart that if he had sneezed the blood would have filled his lungs. He was rushed to the hospital’s emergency room and the doctors were summoned to save his life. Dr. Cordice wasn’t on duty that day and received the call while he was visiting a Brooklyn medi cal office. He was told that an im portant person had been injured. They had to use a hammer and chisel to crack King’s sternum and break three ribs in order to remove the blade.

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The archives at Harlem Hospital may have addi tional information on Dr. Cordice, or there may be items at Queen’s Hospi tal beyond what can be found online. DISCUSSION There must be more in formation about his stint in the military with the Tuskegee Airmen.

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The Marvelous Dr. John Cordice Jr.

By HERB BOYD Special to the Am News

Dr. John Cordice Jr. (NYC Health and Hospitals Corp/AP)

THE NEW YORK AMSTERDAM NEWS August 25, 2022 - August 31, 2022 • 27 a series of second and third jobs. Families of undergrads everywhere should know that an average of 40% of college facul ty members are unpaid for grading, writ ing letters of recommendation, course preparation, curriculum creation, hold ing office hours, conference travel, pro fessional development, printing papers, membership fees for academic associa tions, publications, sabbaticals, health insurance, disability insurance, longterm care insurance, unemployment in surance, parental leave, family leave, pensions, and vacation and sick days. For many faculty members, it is physi cally impossible to spend their weekends writing unremunerated letters of recom mendation for their students, like the six letters I wrote for the undergrad who had watched a beloved grandmother die of exposure in a neighborhood left with out services for months after Hurricane Sandy. When it comes to finding unpaid hours to get to know students and to write letters for them, most faculty mem bers are too busy trying to make rent. The institutional silence on academ ic poverty can mean death, as is painful ly evident in so many stories like that of Thea Hunter, who earned her doctorate in history from Columbia during some of the same years when I was there earn ing mine in Italian, although I can’t re member our paths ever crossing. With scholarship so innovative that Eric Foner sang its praises in a recent memorial in the Atlantic, Thea Hunter gave up a ten ure-track position, in part because too many people on campus discriminatorily claimed she was the janitor based solely on the color of her skin. Afterward, she endured years of poverty wages as a con tingent faculty member, and she died in 2019 with organ damage resulting from asthma and heart disease. Practical ly every contingent faculty member has forgone or delayed needed medical test ing or treatment, because “sick days” can result in courses being reassigned to sub stitutes, leaving us with zero income. The Ivies are not immune from involvement: according to the Atlantic, Thea Hunter had a series of contingent positions at my own beloved alma mater, Prince ton, before teaching at institutions in New York City. I know of no campus that is immune. In 2019, Columbia’s English Department failed to place a single PhD candidate in a tenure-track job. We need voters capable of under standing the urgency of reducing fossil fuel emissions. We need voters with ef fective language skills to spread the word. We need resilience, grit, and em pathy in the face of natural disaster.

Studying the country with the most UNESCO World Heritage Sites means gaining access to evidence that inspires life-sustaining compassion, evidence that sparks discussion and analysis, evidence that expands our conceptions of the infinite possibility of being, ev idence that shows us what we fight for if we fight to save the earth. To the people who tell people with doctorates to pursue “alternative ca reers” against their wills, I say that the need for committed college teaching is greater now than ever before. What the world needs now are educated voters. If human life on earth is an experiment we hope to save from climate change and political instability, then we must ad dress poverty as a barrier to educating the electorate.

A wave of university donations could stamp out poverty in academia. Univer sity donors could give their names to endowment funds to provide meal plans and housing for low-income students. University donors could also create named endowments to fund salaries and benefits packages for contingent facul ty. College giving could eliminate pov erty as an obstacle to educating voters who determine climate policies—poli cies that are our only hope of prevent ing catastrophic floods and fires. What world are we leaving to our students? We all have a planet to save. Andiamo!

Diana C. Silverman holds a doctor ate in Italian from Columbia Universi ty and teaches college Italian courses in New York City.

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As experts told AmNews , such a course of action could put your child and you in more danger, not less. Dr. Traci Conti, chair of the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh and University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, told the AmNews that “there is no guarantee that if you expose somebody to COVID that they’re going to live through that exposure and so any time somebody’s exposed to COVID un vaccinated [it] increases the risk of death and while we know that children aren’t dying in as frequent numbers as our adult population there is still death in children from COVID, so why would we risk an ill ness that could cause somebody to die when there’s a vaccine that can specifi cally prevent serious illness and death.”

According to Dr. Wilbur Lam, pro fessor, division of hematology/oncol ogy, Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine, in an interview with AmNews “there are people who are still at risk of having really severe consequences of COVID19 and those are people who are im munocompromised . . . meaning some people who are on chemo for cancer or people who are on medications that are meant to modulate their their immune system for example, people with with lupus or certain types of ar thritis, those are patients who are all at risk patients with chronic illnesses like diabetes . . . people with chronic kidney disease, so even if you yourself want to just get it over with there are probably many in your household or many family members or people close to you that fit that demographic so you don’t want to put them at risk.”

Resources for parentsCOVIDaroundbest practices can be found at: mentalhealth/stress-coping/https://www.cdc.gov/parental-resources/index.htmlInformationaboutthenewNYCCOVID-19TreatmentHotlinelinkcanbefoundat:https://on.nyc.gov/3dl5YuTCOVID-19testingandvaccinationresourcescanresourcescanalsobeaccessedontheAmNewsCOVID-19page:www.amsterdamnews.com/covid/

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A tweet falsely states that Covid parties as a good idea

By HEATHER M. BUTTS, JD, MPH, MA Special to the AmNews

Claim: Exposing your child to COVID-19 to get it over with or gain immunity is an effective way for them to avoid illness later.

Factcheck: False. Vaccines, mask-wearing, and testing are still the best methods to avoid becoming sick or getting others around you ill. The consequences of getting COVID, even for children, can be severe. As of Aug. 3, 2022, 1,180 children under the age of 18 in the United States have died of COVID. Additionally, immunocompromised family members may be put in danger if COVID is in the household.

Conti continued, stating “We have seen children die from COVID. We’ve also seen children be hospitalized with serious illnesses from COVID and COVID is a new virus and so what we don’t know is what those children, what those adults who get COVID now will look like in years to come. We already have seen adults with long-COV ID symptoms from confusion to re spiratory illnesses. Those same things can happen in chil dren. While we can see what is happen ing today, we don’t know what those longer-term effects in our children are going to be from contracting that COVID virus.”

According to Dr. Anna Wolak, medical di rector of King Edward Medical Centre in a tweet on her twitter page, “The [false] ‘omi cron is mild’ narrative is so pervasive, I’m now hearing stories of parents of kids who are covid+ deliberately not isolating siblings from them, in the hopes that they get in fected so they’ll be ‘done w/ it.’ Sort of like a chicken pox party. This is NOT a good idea.”

Voluntary exposure of children to COVID-19: high risks, no gain

The relatively low number of COVID deaths among children has led some parents to wonder if exposing their child to COVID voluntarily is the best way to ensure they get the disease quickly in order to gain immunity and be safeguard ed from future waves of the disease.

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According to the White House, the Biden-Harris administra tion has delivered nearly 1 mil lion doses of Jynneos vaccine to jurisdictions—the world’s most extensive Jynneos MPV vaccine

Curts has been teaching for seven years now; she saw other teachers leave the pro fession because of the stresses of the pan demic and the consequent attacks teaching professionals have faced since then.

The CDC also released a “robust set of resources and tools to help jurisdictions train providers and healthcare pro fessionals on how to administer the vaccine Administrationintradermally.”officials said in less than ten days follow ing FDA’s EUA on intradermal administration, some of the country’s largest counties have transitioned completely to in tradermal administration of the Jynneos vaccine for eligible adults, including Los Angeles County, California, and Fulton County, Georgia.

“The number of additional doses made available to a ju risdiction will be based on the size and nature of the event and the ability to reach attend ees at highest risk for MPV,” administration officials said. we have launched.”

The AFT’s “What Kids and Communi ties Need” campaign is the union’s backto-school effort for 2022: the union wants to push the Democrat Party “to recapture the debate around education” by focus ing on “classroom initiatives, educator supports, and school-based enrichment programs that help kids and communi ties succeed in the long term.”

The Biden-Harris adminis tration announced it would in crease America’s supply of monkeypox vaccine by making an additional 1.8 million doses of Bavarian Nordic’s Jynneos vaccine available for ordering beginning Monday, Aug. 22. According to a White House Fact Sheet, the Department of Health and Human Services has set aside 50,000 doses of vac cine from the Strategic National Stockpile, which enables health departments that host largescale events to request an addi tion to their existing allocations and“Sincesupply.the first case was con firmed in the United States, the Administration has led a wholeof-government response to make tests, vaccines, and treatments more widely available to com munities across the country and has worked with the LGBTQI+ community to provide informa tion and resources directly to communities most at risk of con tracting the virus,” Administra tion officials stated. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released data from 43 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico, which revealed that African Amer icans comprise 26% of monkey pox cases compared to 12% of the population.TheCDC also noted that His panic people accounted for 28% of cases while comprising 19% of the Additionally,population.CDC officials reported that areas with high numbers of cases that did not submit case reports are more racially and ethnically diverse. “As such, the reported data may understate disparities,” CDC officials noted. “More over, the share of cases among Black people has risen in recent weeks, suggesting widening dis parities for this group.”

Health and Human Services will also launch a pilot program to provide additional vaccine allocations to state and local health departments in jurisdic tions hosting large events that attract gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men in the coming weeks and months. The pilot program sets aside 50,000 doses from the Strategic National Stockpile that jurisdic tions can request to order on top of their existing vaccine alloca tions and supply.

Most kids returning to school this year struggled to learn during the pandem ic––especially in the spring of 2020, when school buildings initially shut down and thousands were forced to resort to virtu al“Theinstruction.kidsthat I’m having here for Al gebra 2,” Dallas, Texas-based Algebra teacher Rosie Curts told the AmNews , “are the kids who were in Algebra 1 during the year that we were virtual and of course that means that their learn ing was probably not as good as it would have been in person. There’s a lot more to read––we need to review and catch up on a little bit more Algebra 1 concepts.”

“Here’s a perfect example,” Weingar

ten continued: “In New York City lower ing class size would be a way of helping teachers help kids and shoulder the re sponsibilities that we have in a much more effective way. But you know as well as I do the problems in the debate about class size in New York. You have a piece of legisla tion [A10498, a bill to shrink class sizes] sit ting right on Gov. Hochuls’ desk that she should sign because New York City’s class sizes are the highest around the state. And, you know, the mayor has fought against it: the mayor sought to have budget cuts this year when the American Rescue Plan law was about dealing with all of these exigen cies. You don’t have budget cuts as the issue anywhere else in the country, but you have budget cuts as the issue in New York City.” Budget cuts. Staff shortages. A decrease of program offerings for students. Each of these is going to be a major hurdle for schools to deal with this academic year. And through it all, organizations like the New York State Union of Teachers (NYSUT) are predicting that the state will face an ev er-decreasing number of teachers for years to come; the NYSUT says it expects some 87,314 teaching professionals to retire from education within the next five years.

The increased availability of vaccine doses has enabled more jurisdictions to offer second doses to eligible individuals.

Colorized transmission electron micrograph of monkeypox virus particles (green) cultivated and purified from cell culture (NIAID photo)

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Weingarten added: “We need to actual ly raise salaries, we need better conditions, we need to increase community schools. And what the union itself is doing is we’re fighting for teachers to be able to teach honest history; we have a legal defense that is helping people if the management of a school system tries to ban books or cir cumscribe the curriculum. We’ve said that if somebody is acting in the best interest of children, we’re going to try to help them.”

“The action means that each vial of vaccine can be used for up to five doses since the ap propriate dose for intradermal administration is 0.1mL versus 0.5mL required per dose admin istered subcutaneously,” ad ministration officials remarked.

“Our members, they’re used to shoulder ing more and more responsibilities,” Wein garten confessed. “The real issue becomes when will respect start and getting teachers what they need to help kids start?

The Jynneos vaccine is admin istered in two doses, four weeks apart, for maximum protection, White House officials offered. They said the Biden-Harris administration has also signifi cantly increased the availability and convenience of orthopoxvi rus tests, expanding the capac ity of tests from 6,000 tests per week to Further,80,000.the Administration has taken a number of steps to make TPOXX, a treatment for MPV, more accessible to pre scribe, and today’s announce ments build on those actions.

“What Kids and Communities Need” plans on awarding $1.5 million in grants to parents and teachers for community en gagement; it wants commonsense policies to address the teacher shortage; an increase in the number of community schools over the next five years; and to encourage kids to read more and improve their reading skills through its “Reading Opens the World” one million book giveaway campaign.

By STACY M. BROWN NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent

Recently,program.theFood and Drug Administration (FDA) an nounced the Emergency Use Au thorization (EUA) of the Jynneos vaccine to be administered in tradermally in individuals 18 years of age and older deter mined to be at high risk of MPV without compromising the level of immune response achieved or the safety of the vaccine.

But Curts says she remains focused: “Mainly I think the thing that keeps me in [education] is feeling like, you know, the future of our students and of our pro fession and of public education/public service is something that I really, really want to fight for. “I know I’m probably sounding like I’m just a commercial ad for the union––they didn’t tell me to say this, but I feel like being involved with the union is what helps me keep my energy up and my at titude up because it’s important to know that, like, when you’re frustrated with what’s happened in the district, that you have some avenue through which you can work to change it. “As long as I feel like I can maybe some day change the system that is frustrating me so much, then that makes it worth it to stick around and keep going.”

As monkeypox hits the African American community hard, Biden administration increases vaccine supply

For one dedicated home health aide, patients become family

By CHANDRA WILSON Special to the AmNews

*Yanick, an aging woman living in Brooklyn was feeling down. Having to deal with multiple chronic health conditions under standably took a toll on her some days. Her home health aide of five years, Marie Dorviline, could tell that Yanick was not herself. That’s when a creative idea popped into her mind—something she was sure would lift Yanick’s spirits. In a recent conversation, Yanick mentioned that she used to love to dance. That was all Marie needed to hear—she immediately sprang into action. With accompaniment from YouTube, soon Yanick and Marie were dancing and laugh ing in the living room. The phone rang. Yanick’s daughter, who had been concerned about her mother being in low spirits, heard a feisty voice that she wasn’t expecting. “You don’t need to call,” mother told daughter. “I’m happy now.” Moments like this may seem small to some, but they can mean the world to patients like Yanick. Marie, a home health aide with the New York nonprofit VNS Health is one of the thousands of dedicated home health aides in the city. According to a recent study published in the journal In novation in Aging, an astounding 34% of New Yorkers have received services from a paid home care worker. Home health aides like Marie assist their clients with per sonal care services, such as dress ing, bathing, meal preparation and other activities of daily living. They also provide companion ship. Everyday tasks like these, that many of us take for granted, often become much harder to do as people age. Home health aides like Marie become not only a life line to keep loved ones healthy, but in many cases can feel like a member of the family. Marie is one of a kind, and fills many roles, from friend, to advocate, to play ing a key role on the health team that helps keep Yanick healthy. Marie has accompanied Yanick to countless doctor’s appoint ments (where she takes metic ulous notes), practiced physical therapy “homework” with her, made sure that Yanick takes her medication, and prepared hun dreds of heart-healthy and dia beticPerhapsmeals. the most impres sive aspect of their home health aide/patient relationship is Ma rie’s ability to read Yanick’s facial expressions and mannerisms to the point where she knows exact ly what she’s thinking. “I help her speak up,” Marie said, recalling a time she saw Yanick hold her hand on her head. Marie knew some thing was wrong and she knew she had to help Yanick advocate for herself. “I encourage her to speak up about how she is feeling.”

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Recognizing the indispensable role of home health aides, one of Yanick’s doctors at Weill Cornell, Madeline Sterling, alongside ex perts from the ILR School at Cor nell University and Cornell Tech, recently embarked on multidis ciplinary research program with the goal of heightening the value of homecare workers. The Cor nell team has published sever al papers designed to enlighten public policymakers on the per ceived value of home health aides, and this summer they put one of their ideas into action right here in New York. Among several notable highlights of their findings there is the fact that nearly 75% of par ticipants described home health workers as “very important.” The support system home health aides provide for their patients is unmatched. However, as reward ing as the work can be, it is not without its challenges. Many pa tients, especially seniors, may be resistant to getting help––wheth er it’s pride or they are simply frus trated by their situation. So, when Marie was asked what it takes to be a home health aide, it’s no sur prise that Marie said patience. “If you do not have patience, this job is not for you.” For Marie, the urge to help others is what motivates her to do this job. She has been called a “superhero in scrubs” because of her tireless work ethic. When the pandemic hit, adding complexi ty to her day-to-day activities, she never wavered from her purpose. Even when her family and friends urged her to stay home, Marie felt a duty to help Yanick. “I had to be there for her, because if I did not, then who would?”

To learn more about VNS Health and personal care services, care/personal-care/https://www.vnshealth.org/home-visit

As experts and the public in creasingly recognize the incalcu lable value of home health aides, there is a growing consensus that they be embraced as an essential part of any health care team. Ma rie’s journey and the passion she demonstrates daily as she cares for and lifts up clients like Yanick, shows the vital role she plays— and offers a proven blueprint for the powerful work home health aides can accomplish.

*For confidentiality, first name only used

Dedicated home health aide Marie Dorviline (Courtesy of Cornell University/YouTube)

“I don’t think it’s rocket science to conclude that people who have lower incomes or less savings are more exposed to high inflation and that’s one reason price pressures are President Biden’s absolute top do mestic priority,” said Bernstein. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, at the signing of the bill, said getting the reduction law passed was nothing short of historic. “We persisted and persisted and persist ed and never gave up,” said Schumer. “The Inflation Reduction Act will lower the skyrocketing price of lifesaving prescription drugs, cut energy costs and make healthcare more af fordable and accessible. This legis lation represents a bold step toward tackling climate change and saving our planet, consistent with Dem ocrats’ promise to address the cli mate crisis with the fierce urgency of now,” said U.S. Rep Hakeem Jef fries in a statement. Jeffries criticized House Republi cans for not voting for the bill. Here’s what’s in the law and how it will benefit Black and brown Americans.Highpriced prescription drugs in the U.S. contribute to racial and ethnic health inequities, said the White House. Among adults 65 and older, Black Medicare beneficiaries were roughly 1.5 times as likely as White beneficiaries to have trouble affording medications, and about 2 times as likely to not fill needed pre scriptions due to cost. The law works to put caps on outof-pocket costs in Medicare for seniors and allows Medicare to ne gotiate the price of high-cost drugs to negate the effects of inflation. It also continues the Affordable Care Act premium tax credits, which should give uninsured Black Ameri cans access to free or low-cost health insurance.

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The American Sustainable Busi ness Network (ASBN), an organi zation committed to a sustainable economy, applauded the Biden ad ministration for the law because of its climate provisions.

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“This is a historic moment for our nation and a bold leap for ward for business and the econo my,” said David Levine, president and co-founder of ASBN in a state ment. “The ASBN thanks President Biden and the U.S. Congress for ad dressing climate with the urgency it deserves. As we prioritize publicprivate partnerships, ASBN looks forward to working with leaders at all levels of government to bring the promise of the Inflation Reduc tion Act to Bernsteinfruition.”addedthat clean energy is pivotal to addressing climate costs within Black communities because many can’t afford to insulate them selves from discrimination and pol lution.Lastly, the reduction law has a 15% minimum tax on large corporations and a 1% tax on stock buybacks, and it reserves about $200 $to %300 bil lion towards paying down the U.S.’ budget deficit.

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THE NEW YORK AMSTERDAM NEWS August 25, 2022 - August 31, 2022 • 31 and job fairs, youth events, a town hall and much more, to communities across Southeast Queens—directly connecting area families with not only the govern ment services they need, but the indi vidualized attention they deserve from Richards and his staff. Richards first announced the Borough Hall on Your Block initiative during his 2022 State of the Borough address on June 3, a critical aspect of the transfor mative vision for Queens he articulated thatOnmorning.Wednesday, Richards hosted the Queens Youth & Young Adult Festival at Cabbell Park in Cambria Heights, a resource fair for NYCHA residents in South Jamaica and an emergency pre paredness giveaway in Springfield Gar dens. Co-sponsored by City Council Member Nantasha Williams, activities included a basketball clinic courtesy of nonprofit organization WhosHouse Ballers, live entertainment, children’s games, free food, a backpack distribu tion and additional giveaways. there has been a resurgence of highly infectious diseases previously thought to be rare or wiped out. Added to the watchlist is paralytic polio and mon keypox, but also malaria, dengue fever, Zika virus, and of course COVID, heMendozasaid. said that since the last recorded case of polio was back in the 1970s, even one case now is considered an outbreak that par ents should be wary of. The good news is that most children with a primary care provider or pediatri cian have been vaccinated for free against polio, starting at 6 months of age. A child receives several doses by the time they’re 4 years old, and the status can be checked if Asneeded.farasmonkeypox goes, that is also a potential concern for parents and students because technically anyone can be infected, not just the targeted LGBTQ+ community, said Mendoza. “I have a 9-month-old baby,” said Mendoza, “I get home. I hug him, I kiss him, I cuddle him. That child, being less than a year old, he can get infect ed without ever having set foot outside hisMonkeypoxhome.” can be transmitted through very close and intimate contact, cough, oral and respirato ry secretions, and by sharing inti mate items like clothing or towels, saidTheMendoza.NewYork Post reported that the first case of monkeypox has been found in a young person, under 18 years old, as of this past weekend. The youth lives outside of theHowever,city. there are treatment vac cines and testing available for mon keypox for eligible patients.

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Next, the law takes on climate change and clean energy. It strives to make more affordable energy ef ficient electric appliances, creates tax incentives for efficient heat ing and cooling, and provides more clean energy jobs in solar. The law has a Protect Public Health clause, which recognizes that climate change disproportionately impacts low-income communities and com munities of color. Because of that it funds programs to reduce air pollu tion among other things in disad vantaged communities.

The symptoms of depression most often presented as kids “being tired and having low energy.”

Justina Schlund, senior director of Content and Field Learning at Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) in Chicago, said that emotional and mental wellness heavily influences students’ ability to learn and their healthy development, and through out the pandemic there was a dis proportionate impact on children ofDr.color.Michael Lindsey, the dean and Paulette Goddard professor of Social Work at NYU Silver School of Social Work, studies child and adolescent mental health. He also helped create the report “Ring the Alarm: The Crisis of Black Youth Suicide in America.”

Lindsey said that the COVID19 crisis in high poverty-impacted communities has led to “enduring struggles,” such as loss of life, dis ruption of quality of life, job dis placement, and a disconnection of kids and adolescents from schools. Even though it’s two years removed from the initial pandemic, students are still adjusting or falling behind engendering a battle with depres sion, anxiety, and trauma, he said. In the AAKOMA study, depres sion was most severe among Native American, Latino/Hispanic, and Black youth while anxiety was high est among Latino/Hispanic youth.

For anxiety, a feeling of being wor ried or nervous was universal, but each group showed slightly differ ent signs as well. Black youth were more likely to struggle with deci sion-making and worry about bad things happening as a result of anxi ety, while Asian American Pacific Is lander (AAPI) and Native American youth tended to be avoidant of wor rying situations, said the study.

“When you think about how our young people of color, that fatigue that you’re seeing that’s showing up in class––they’re putting their head on the desk and slumping down in chairs––that’s not neces sarily seen as a child with depres sion,” said Breland-Noble. “That might be perceived as a child who’s lazy and disinterested.”

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Notice of formation of 130 WEST 131st STREET., LLC. Arts of Org. filed with the Sec'y of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/26/2022. Office location: NY County. SSNY has been de signated as an agent upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail a copy to: 130 W. 131st St., Ste. 1, NY, NY 10027. Purpo se: To engage in any la wful act or activity FrenchCocco LLC Arts of Org. filed with Sec'y of State (SSNY) on 06/21/22. Office: New York County. SSNY de signated as agent of LLC for process & shall mail copy to: 35 W 90th St, 5K, NY, NY 10024. Purpose: Any lawful M/WBE Supplier Opportunity RethinkEd is bidding on RFP#23-009 for the New York State DOE. We are look ing for possible M/WBE suppliers to provide profes sional development for Special Education, SEL, Mental Health and MTSS If you are interested in this opportunity, contact us with your qualifications at rfp@rethinked.com

NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF NEW YORK, NYCTL 201 8A TRUST, THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON AS COLLATERAL AGENT CUSTODIAN FOR THE NYCTL 2018-A TRUST, Plaintiff, vs WINNIE YEE, ET AL., Defen dant(s). Pursuant to a Judg ment of Foreclosure and Sa le dated on January 5, 20 22 and du ly entered on January 10, 2022, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the on the portico of the New York County Courthouse, 60 Centre Street, New York, NY on September 7, 2022 at 2:15 p.m., premises known as 630 1st Avenue, Unit 6A, New York, NY All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and im provements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Manhattan, County of New York, City and State of New York, Block 968 and Lot 1036. Approximate amount of judgment is $40,865.59 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 152994/2019. COVI D-19 safe ty protocols will be followed at the foreclosure sale Robe rta Ashkin, Esq., Referee Bronster, LLP, 156 West 56th Street, Suite 902, New York, New York 1001 9, Attorneys for Plaintiff FILE NO 2018-3842/A CITA

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Notice of formation of EN GAGE CONSULTING SERVICES LLC. Arts of Org. filed with the Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/14 /22. Office lo cation: NY County. SSNY has been designated as an agent upon whom process against it may be served The address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process a gainst the LLC served upon him/her is: Chialing Yang, 243 W. 21st St., Apt 4D, New York, NY 10011. Purpose: to engage in an y lawful act or activity with in the purposes for which limited liability companies may be organized pursuant to Limited Liability Company Law provided that the limited liability comp any is not formed to eng ag e in any act or activity requiring th e consent or approval of any state official, department, board, agency, or other body without such consent or approval first be ing obtained.

Notice of Qualification of EVERGREEN RESIDENTIAL MANAGEMENT, LLC Appl for Auth filed with Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/21/22. Office lo cation: NY Coun ty LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 10/11/21. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upo n whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corp oration Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543 DE ad dr of LLC: 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert of Form filed with Jeffrey W. Bullock, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity

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Notice of Formation of 170 JAVA HOLDER, LLC Arts of Org. filed with Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/05/22. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: 60 East 42nd St., Ste. 1300, NY, NY 10165. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Alban y, NY 12207-2543

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SUPREME COURT - COUNTY OF NEW YORK NYCTL 1998-2 TRUST AND THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON, AS COLLATERAL AGENT AND CUSTODIAN, Plaintiffs -against- HJ OWNERS, LLC, et al Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered herein on March 21, 2022, I, the unde rsigned Refe ree will se ll at public auction at the New York County Courthouse located on the portico at 60 Centre Street, New York on September 7, 2022 at 2:15 p.m. premises situate, lying and be ing in the Borough of Manhattan, City and Coun ty of New York, State of New York, and de signated as Block 0723 Lot 1064 on the New York County Tax Assessment Map and being further known on such tax roles as 263 9th Avenue, Stor age Unit 14, New York, NY 10004 All bidders must wear a face mask/shield at all times and so cial distancing must be observed by all bidders at all times. Bidders who do not comply with the face mask and/or th e so cial distancing mandat e will be removed from the auction. Said premises kn own as 263 9TH AVENUE, STORAGE UNIT 14, NEW YORK, NY Approximate amount of lien $4,411.66 plus interest & costs. Premises will be so ld subject to provisions of filed Judgment and Terms of Sale Index Number 158905/2020 GEORGIA PAPAZIS, ESQ., Referee Phillips Lytle LLP Attorney(s) for Plaintiffs 28 East Main Street, Suite 1400, Rochester, NY 14614

TION THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK TO: Un known Distributees Attorney General of the State of New Yo rk Richard A. Nurse Unknown Distributee s of Norma A. Nurse Unknown Distributees of Ronald A. Nurse to Richard A. Nurse, whose whereabouts are unknown, if living, and if they died subsequent to the deced ent herein, to their heirs at law, next of kin, distributees, legatees, executors, administrators, as signees and successors in interest whose names and places of residence are un known; to the he irs at law, next of kin and distributees of Norma A. Nurse and Ronald A. Nurse, if living and if any of th em be dead, to their heirs at law, next of kin, distributees, legatees, executors, admin istrators, assignees and succe ssors in interest whose names and places of resi dence are unknown and cann ot, after diligent inquiry, be as certained by the petitioner herein; and to all other heirs at law, ne xt of kin and distributee s of Joyce J. Nurse, a/k/a Joyce Nurse, the decedent herein, if living an d if any of them be dead, to their heirs at law, ne xt of kin, distributee s, le gatees, executors, administrators, assignees and successors in inte rest whose names and places of residence are unknown and cannot after diligent in quiry, be ascertained by the petitioner herein; being the persons interested as creditors, legatees, devisees, beneficiaries, distributees, or otherwise in the estate of Joyce J. Nurse, a/k/a Joyce Nurse, deceased, who at th e time of her death was a resident of 61 Hamilton Pl, New York, New York 10031; A petition havin g been duly filed by the Public Ad ministrator of the County of New York, who maintains an office at 31 Chambers Street, Room 311, New York, New York 10007. YOU ARE HEREBY CITED TO SHOW CAUSE before the New York County Surrogates Court at 31 Chambe rs Street, New York, New York, on October 13th 2022 at 9:30 A.M., in room 503, why the fo llowing relief stated in the ac count of proceedings, a copy of the summary statement thereof being attach ed hereto, of the Public Administrator of the Coun ty of New York as admin istrator of the g oods, chattels and credits of said deceased, should not be granted: (i) th at her account be judicially settled; (ii) that a hearing be held to determine the identity of decedents distributees at which time proof pursuant to SCPA §2225 may be presented, or in the al ternative, that th e balance of the funds in this estate be depo sited with the Commissioner of Finance of the City of New York for the benefit of the decedents unknown distributee s; (iii) that the Surrogate approve th e reasonable amoun t of co mpensation as reported in Sche dules C and C-1 of the account of proceedings to the attorney fo r th e petitioner for lega l services rendered to the petitio ner herein; (iv) that the persons above ment ioned and all necessary and proper persons be cited to show cause why such relief should not be granted; (v) that an order be granted pursuant to SCPA §3 07 where required or di rected; and (vi) for such other and further relief as the Court may deem ju st and proper Hon. Rita Mella Surrogate Dated, Attested and Sealed August 17th, 2022 (Seal) Diana Sanabria Chief Clerk Schram Graber & Opell P.C. Counsel to the Public Administrator, New York County 11 Park Place, Suite 1008 New York, New York 10007 (212) 896-3310 Note: This citation is served upon you as required by law. You are not required to appear If you fail to appear it w ill be assumed that you do no t obje ct to the relief requested. You have the right to have an attorney-at-law appe ar for you and you or your attorney may req uest a copy of the full account from the petitioner or petitioners attorney

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YONOTICEUARE DANGER OF LOSNG YOUR HOME IF YOU DO NOT RESPOND TO THIS SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE MORTGAGE COMPANY WHO FILED THIS FORECLOSURE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU AND FILNG THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT, A DEFAULT JUDGMENT MAY BE ENTERED AND YOU CAN LOSE HOME SPEAK TO AN ATTORNEY OR GO TO THE COURT WHERE YOUR CASE IS PENDING FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ON HOW TO ANSWER TIE SUMMONS AND PROTECT PROPERTY A PAYMENT TO YOUR MORTGAGE COMPANY NOT STOP THIS FORECLOSURE RESPOND SERVING A COPY OF THE AN ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTCOMPANY) FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE

Notice of Formation of JMB JUSTCOME SUIT LLC Arts of Org. filed with Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/05/22. Office lo cation: NY Coun ty Prin c. office of LLC: c/o United American Land, LLC, 73 Spring St., 6th Fl., NY, NY 10012. SSNY desig nated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr of its princ. office Purpo se: Any lawful activity

TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: The foregoing Summons is served upo n you by publication pursuant to an Order of th e Hon. Francis A. Ka hn III, a Justice of the Supreme Court, New York County, entered May 4, 2022 and Order entered August 4, 2022 and filed with the co mplaint and other papers in the New York County Clerks Office NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT THE OBJECT of the above captioned action is to foreclose a Mortgage and to secure $222,000.00 and interest, recorded in the New York County Office of the City Register on November 12, 2008 in CRFN 2008000437802 covering premises known as 443 West 151st Street Unit 5A, New York, NY 100 31 a/k/a Block 2066, Lo t 1016. The relief sought in the with in action is a final judgment direct ing the sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt secured by the Mortgage described above. Plaintiff designates New York County as the place of trial. Venue is based upon the County in which the mortgaged premises is situated.

Plaintiff designates New York County as the place of the trial. Venue is based upon the County in which the mortgaged premises is situated.

DaCOURTted:March 17, 2022 Frank M. Cassara, Esq. Senior Associate Attorney LOGS LEGAL GROUP LL P F/K/A SHAPIRO, DICARO & BARAK, LLC Attorneys for Plaintiff 175 Mile Crossing Boulevard Rochester, New York 14624 (585) 247-9000 Fax: (585 ) 247-7380 Our File No 19-084158 #99685

NOTICE OF FORMATION of NYCNCC SUB-CDE 17, LLC (the “LLC”) filed with the Secretary of State of the State of New York (“SSNY”) on 05/16/2022. Office loca tion: New York County. The princi pa l business address of the LLC is: One Liberty Plaza, New York, New York 100 06 SSNY has be en designated as the agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail service of process to c/o New York City Economic Development Corporation, One Liberty Plaza, New York, New York 10006, Attention: Gener al Counsel Purpose: any lawful purpose.

THE OBJECT of the above captioned action is to foreclose a Mortgage to secure $40,700.00 and interest, recorded in the New York County office of the City Register on May 3, 1989, at Reel 1569 of Mortgages, page 205 covering premises known as 151 East 20th Street, Unit 4C, New York, NY 10003 a/k/a Block 876, Lot 1118. The relief sought in the within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt secured by the Mortgage described above.

NOTICE OF FORMATION of NYCNCC SUB-CDE 16, LLC (the “LLC”) filed with the Secretary of State of the State of New York (“SSNY”) on 05/16/2022. Office loca tion: New York County. The princi pa l business address of the LLC is: One Liberty Plaza, New York, New York 100 06 SSNY has be en designated as the agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail service of process to c/o New York City Economic Development Corporation, One Liberty Plaza, New York, New York 10006, Attention: Gener al Counsel Purpose: any lawful purpose.

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PROPERTY ADDRESS: 443 West 151st Street Unit 5A, New York, NY 1003 1 TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the comp la int in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or a notice of appearan ce on the attorneys for the Plaintiff within thirty (30) da ys after the service of this summons, exclusive of th e day of service. The United States of America, if designated as a defendant in this action, may appear with in sixty (60) days of service hereof. In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief de manded in the complaint.

Notice of formation of KOB NYC LLC Arts of Org filed with Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/8/22. Office lo cation: NY County. SSNY de signated as agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy of process against LLC to: 1-3 Eldridge St., NY, NY 10002, Purpose: any lawful act.

NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF NEW YORK HSBC Bank USA, N.A., Plaintiff AGAINST Pedro D. A. Alvarez Arenas, if living and if dead, the re spective heirs at law, next of kin, distributees, executors administrators, truste es, devisees, legat ee s, assignors, lienors, creditors and succes sors in interest and generally all persons having or claiming under, by or through said de fendant who may be de ceased, purchase, inheritance lien, or otherwise or an y right, title or interest in and to the premises; et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure an d Sale duly dated March 15, 2022 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Portico of the New York County Courthouse, 60 Centre St, New Yo rk, NY 10007 on September 14, 2022 at 2:15PM, premises known as 15 William Street, New York, NY 1000 5. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situ ate, lying an d being in the Borough of Manha ttan, Coun ty, City and State of New York, Block: 25 Lot: 1503. Approximate amount of judgment $79 2,245.73 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Inde x# 810049/2012. The auction will be conducted pursuant to the COVI D-19 Policies Concerning Public Auctions of Foreclosed Property established by the First Judicial District Ma rk McKew, Esq., Referee LOGS Legal Group LLP f/k/a Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, LLC Attorney(s) for the Plaintiff 175 Mile Crossing Boulevard Roch ester, New York 14624 (877) 4 30-4792 Dated: April 22, 2022 71800

Notice of Formation of GOLD SKY STRATEGIES LLC Arts of Org. filed with Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/09/22. Office lo cation: NY Coun ty Prin c. office of LLC: 355 S. End Ave., Apt. 28L, NY, NY 10280. SSNY desig nated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Al bany, NY 12207-2543. Purpo se: Marketing services

Notice of Formation of JAGUAR HOLDINGS 1 LLC Arts of Org. file d with Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/23/21. Office lo cation: NY Coun ty SSNY de signated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 347 5th Ave., Ste. 30 0, NY, NY 10016. Purpose: Any lawfulNoactivitytice of Formation of JAGUAR HOLDINGS 2 LLC Arts of Org. file d with Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/23/21. Office lo cation: NY Coun ty SSNY de signated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 347 5th Ave., Ste. 30 0, NY, NY 10016. Purpose: Any lawful Noactivitytice

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JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association,Plaintiff, -againstWinston Dzose a/k/a Winston K. Dzose, if he be living or dead, his spouse, heirs, de visees, distribu tees and succes sors in interest, all of whom and hose names and places of residence are unknown to Plaintiff; The Board of Managers of Hamilton Heights Condominium Homeowners Associatio n; Citizens Bank, N.A.; City of New York Environmental Control Board; City of New York Parking Violations Bureau; City of New York Transit Adjudication Bureau, State of New York, and JOHN DOE, said name being fictitious , it being the inte ntion of Plaintiff to designate any and all occupants of premises being foreclosed herein, and any parties, corporations or entities, if an y, having or claiming an in terest or lien upon the mortgage d premises, Defendants.

YOUNOTICEARE DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME IF YOU DO NOT RESPOND TO THIS SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE MORTGAGE COMPANY WHO FILED THIS FORECLOSURE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU AND FILLING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT, A DEFAULT JUDGMENT MAY BE ENTERED AND YOU CAN LOSE YOUR SPEAKHOME.TOAN ATTORNEY OR GO TO THE COURT WHERE YOUR CASE IS PENDING FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ON HOW TO ANSWER THE SUMMONS AND PROTECT YOUR SENDINGPROPERTY.APAYMENT TO YOUR MORTGAGE COMPANY WILL NOT STOP THIS FORECLOSURE ACTION. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE

Dated:COURT.October 4, 2021 Frank M. Cassara, Esq. Senior Associate Attorney LOGS LEGAL GROUP LLP F/K/A SHAPIRO, DICARO & BARAK, LLC Attorneys for Plaintiff 175 Mile Crossing Boulevard Rochester, New York

34 • August 25, 2022 - August 31, 2022 THE NEW YORK AMSTERDAM NEWS 101 LEGAL NOTICES 101 LEGAL NOTICES 101 LEGAL NOTICES 101 LEGAL 10NOTICES 1 LEGAL NOTICES 101 LEGAL NOTICES Acct #: 173 SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF NEW YORK SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS AND NOTICE Index No. 850168/2020 Date Filed: 8/9/2022 KeyBank, NA, s/b/m Goldome, Plaintiff, -againstKings County Public Administrator, as the Limited Administrator of the Estate of Mary Searcy a/k/a Mary L. Sear cy a/k/a Mary Rittenhouse a/k/a Mary S. Rittenhouse; Dolores Thompson; Albert Thompson; Vivian Davis; Tommie Benn; Marquita Benn, Charles Benn, if he be living or dead, his spouse, heirs, devisees, distributees and successors in interest, all of whom and whose names and places of residence are unknown to Plaintiff; Jermaine Benn; Micaela Benn; Tion Benn, if be he living or dead, his spouse, heirs, devisees, distributees and successors in interest, all of whom and whose names and places of residence are unknown to plaintiff; Mark bolden, if he be living or dead, his spouse, heirs, devisees, distributees and successors in interest, all of whom and whose names and places of residence are unknown to Plaintiff; Nachon Shebaniah Benn; Ltan Hale, Mildred Benn; Roslyn McCain; Leah D. Hudnall; Truenetta Jackson; Gwendolyn Daughtery a/k/a Gwendolyn Daugherty, if she be living or dead, her spouse, heirs, devisees, distributees and successors in interest, all of whom and whose names and places of residence are unknown to Plaintiff; Johnny Benn; Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company; The Board of Manager of the Gramercy Park Condominium Homeowners Association; State of New York; City of New York Environmental Control Board; City of New York Parking Violations Bureau; City of New York Transit Adjudication Bureau, and JOHN DOE, said name being fictitious, it being the intention of Plaintiff to designate any and all occupants of premises being foreclosed herein, and any parties, corporations or entities, if any, having or claiming an interest or lien upon the mortgaged premises, Defendants.

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Notice of formation of REASSURE FUNDING LLC Arts of Org. filed with the SSNY on 07/14/22. Office : NY Coun ty SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail copy to: Thomson Ollunga LLP, 41 Madison Ave., 31st Fl., NY, NY 10010. Purpose: Merchant cash advance.

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TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: The foregoing Summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an Order of the Hon. Francis Kahn, III, a Justice of the Supreme Court, New York County entered August 2, 2022 and filed with the complaint and other papers in the New York County Clerks Office.NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT

TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or a notice of appearance on the attorneys for the Plaintiff within thirty (30) days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service. The United States of America, if designated as a defendant in this action, may appear within sixty (60) days of service hereof. In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint.

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of Formation of JAGUAR HOLDINGS 3 LLC Arts of Org. file d with Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/23/21. Office lo cation: NY Coun ty SSNY de signated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 347 5th Ave., Ste. 30 0, NY, NY 10016. Purpose: Any lawful activity

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Purpose: any la wful activity AMNEWS CORPORATION 2340 FREDERICK DOUGLAS BLVD NEW YORK NY ORDER(212)932−740010027CONFIRMATION Salesperson: Not Applicable Printed at Acct #: 664 Ad #: 3174 JOHANNA LOVECCHINO Start: 09/01/2022 APT 2B Times Ord: 169 EAST 91ST STREET STD 1.00 X NEW YORK NY 10128 Total Rate:Class:STD101BL Contact: Ad Descrpt: Phone: (516)972−3464 Given by: Fax#: P.O. #: Email: Created: Agency: Last Changed: PUB ZONE EDT TP RUN DATES AN A 97 S 09/01,08,15,22,29AUTHORIZATION10/06 Under this agreement rates are subject to change event of a cancellation before schedule completion, rate charged will be based upon the rate for the _____________________________________ _____________________________________ Name (print or type) Name (signature) Notice of Formation of JL Design Studio LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/29/2022. Office location: NY County.

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NEW YORK County is designated as the place of trial. The basis of venue is the location of the premised encumbered by the mortgage to be foreclosed herein.

The State encourages you to become informed about your options in foreclosure. In addition to seeking assistance from an attorney or legal aid office, there are government agencies, and non-profit organizations that you may contact for information about possible options, including trying to work with your lender during this process. To locate an entity near you, you may call the toll-free help line maintained by New York State Department of Financial Services at 1-877-BANK-NYS (1-877-226-5697) or visit the Departments website at WWW.BANKING.STATE.NY.US. RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS YOU ARE NOT REQUIRED TO LEAVE YOUR HOME AT THIS TIME. You have the right to stay in your home during the foreclosure process. You are not required to leave your home unless and until your property is sold at auction pursuant to a judgment of foreclosure and sale. Regardless of whether you choose to remain in your home, YOU ARE REQUIRED TO TAKE CARE OF YOUR PROPERTY and pay your taxes in accordance with state and local law.

NOTICE: YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME. If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose home.. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case Is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property. Sendi ng a payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. McCabe, Weisberg & Conway, LLC, Attorneys for Plaintiff, 145 Huguenot Street, Suite 210, New Rochelle, NY 10801. 914-636-8900. 914-636-8901 facsimile. HELP FOR HOMEOWNERS IN FORECLOSURE New York State requires that we send you this notice about the foreclosure process. Please read it carefully. SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT. You are in danger of losing your home. If you fail to respond to the Summons and Complaint in this foreclosure action, you may lose your home. Please read the Summons and Complaint carefully. You should immediately contact an attorney or your local legal aid office to obtain advice on how to protect yourself. SOURCES OF INFORMATION AND ASSISTANCE

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Biden’s long deliberations have led to grumbling among federal loan servicers, who had been instructed to hold back billing statements while Biden weighed a decision.Industry groups had complained that the delayed decision left them with just days to notify borrowers, retrain custom er service workers and update websites and digital payment systems, said Scott Buchanan, executive director of the Stu dent Loan Servicing Alliance. It increases the risk that some borrowers will inad vertently be told they need to make pay ments, he said. “At this late stage I think that’s the risk we’re running,” he said. “You can’t just turn on a dime with 35 million borrowers who all have different loan types and statuses.”

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Biden is also extending a pause on fed eral student loan payments for what he called the “final time” through the end of 2022. He was set to deliver remarks Wednesday afternoon at the White House to unveil his proposal to the public. If his plan survives legal challenges that are almost certain to come, it could offer a windfall to a swath of the nation in the run-up to this fall’s midterm elections. More than 43 million people have federal student debt, with an average balance of $37,667, according to federal data. Nearly a third of borrowers owe less than $10,000, and about half owe less than $20,000. The White House estimates that Biden’s an nouncement would erase the federal stu dent debt of about 20 million people.

Proponents say cancellation will narrow the racial wealth gap—Black students are more likely to borrow federal student loans and at higher amounts than others. Four years after earning bachelor’s degrees, Black borrowers owe an average of nearly $25,000 more than their white peers, ac cording to a Brookings Institution study.

Current students would only be eli gible for relief if their loans originated before July 1, 2022. Biden is also propos ing capping the amount that borrowers must pay monthly on undergraduate loans at 5% of their earnings, down from 10% previously. The Education De partment is to post a proposed rule to that effect, which would also cover the unpaid monthly interest for borrowers who remain current with their month ly payments—even when the payments are $0 because their incomes are low.

A survey of 18- to 29-year-olds con ducted by the Harvard Institute of Pol itics in March found that 59% of those polled favored debt cancellation of some sort—whether for all borrowers or those most in need—although stu dent loans did not rank high among issues that most concerned people in that age Republicansgroup. responded swiftly to Biden’s decision on student debt relief Wednesday, calling out the administra tion for “selling out working families” to appease the progressive wing of the party.

The White House emphasized that no one in the top 5% of incomes would see any loan relief. The continuation of the coronavirus pandemic-era payment freeze comes just days before millions of Americans were set to find out when their next student loan bills will be due. This is the closest the ad ministration has come to hitting the end of the payment freeze extension, with the current pause set to end Aug. 31. Details of the plan have been kept closely guarded as Biden weighed his options. The administration said Wednesday the Education Department will release information in the coming weeks for eligible borrowers to sign up for debt relief. Cancellation for some would be automatic, if the department has access to their income information, but others would need to fill out a form.

Biden has faced pressure from liberals to provide broader relief to hard-hit borrow ers, and from moderates and Republicans questioning the fairness of any widespread forgiveness. The delay in Biden’s decision only heightened the anticipation for what his own aides acknowledge represented a vexing set of political and policy choic es. The people spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss Biden’s intended an nouncement ahead of time.

The Justice Department released a legal opinion on Wednesday concluding that the Higher Education Relief Opportuni ties for Students Act gives the Education secretary the “authority to reduce or elim inate the obligation to repay the principal balance of federal student loan debt.” The legal opinion also concluded that the debit could be applied on a “class-wide” basis in response to the coronavirus pandemic.

“The positive impacts of this move will be felt by families across the country, par ticularly in minority communities, and is the single most effective action that the President can take on his own to help working families and the economy,” said Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Wednesday in a joint statement with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. Tweeted Rep. Pramila Jayapal, the chair of the House Progressive Caucus: “This will bring real relief to 43 million people and is a MASSIVE step in the right direction.”

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The action drew praise from a wide spectrum of Democrats, but appeared unlikely to completely appease any of the factions that have been jostling for influence as Biden weighs how much to cancel and for whom.

The Biden administration plan would also raise the income floor for repayments, meaning no one earning below 225% of the federal poverty level would need to make monthly payments.

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Biden narrowed his campaign prom ise in recent months by embracing the income limit as soaring inflation took a political toll and as he aimed to head off political attacks that the cancellation would benefit those with higher takehome pay. But Democrats, from mem bers of congressional leadership to those facing tough reelection bids this Novem ber, have pushed the administration to go as broadly as possible on debt relief, seeing it in part as a galvanizing issue, particularly for Black and young voters this fall.

Still, some conservative groups were con sidering potential legal challenges. During the 2020 presidential cam paign, Biden was initially skeptical of student loan debt cancellation as he faced off against more progressive can didates for the Democratic nomina tion. Sens. Warren (D-Mass.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) had proposed cancella tions of $50,000 or more. As he tried to shore up support among younger voters and prepare for a general election battle against Pres ident Donald Trump, Biden unveiled his initial proposal for debt cancella tion of $10,000 per borrower, with no mention of an income cap.

Borrowers who earn less than $125,000 a year, or families earning less than $250,000, would be eligible for the $10,000 loan for giveness, Biden announced in a tweet. For recipients of Pell Grants, which are re served for undergraduates with the most significant financial need, the federal gov ernment would cancel up to an additional $10,000 in federal loan debt.

“Today’s announcement is an insult to every American who played by the rules and worked hard to responsibly pay off their own debt,” Sen. John Bar rasso, chair of the Senate Republican Conference, said in a statement. Repub lican Leader Mitch McConnell called the move a “slap in the face,” for working American“Presidentfamilies.Biden’s inflation is crush ing working families, and his answer is to give away even more government money to elites with higher salaries,” McConnell said. “Democrats are literal ly using working Americans’ money to try to buy themselves some enthusiasm from their political base.”

WASHINGTON (AP)—President Joe Biden on Wednesday announced his long-awaited plan to deliver on a cam paign promise to provide $10,000 in stu dent debt cancellation for millions of Americans—and up to $10,000 more for those with the greatest financial need— along with new measures to lower the burden of repayment for their remain ing federal student debt.

The OnlyGiants?once,with a 11-5 mark in 2016. In a nutshell, loyal fans of the two New York NFL franchise’s have had a miserably long stretch of futility. The playoff drought for both teams is likely to extend one more season. While both teams have the potential to improve on their disappointing 2021 cam paigns, their obvious weaknesses and areas of uncertainty, coupled with the competi tion simply being better, will be obstacles to finishing over .500, meaning posting a record of at least 9-8 to be a contender for a postseason bid. The lowest playoff seed in the NFC last season was the Philadelphia Eagles at 9-8 and in the AFC the Steelers at 9-7-1. In juries are already a factor. The Giants will be without rookie defensive end Kayvon Thibodeaux for three to four weeks after he suffered a sprained MCL in his right knee in Sunday’s 25-22 preseason victory over the Cincinnati Bengals at MetLife Stadium. The Giants selected Thibodeaux fifth overall in April’sUnfortunately,draft. promising rookie line backer Darrian Beavers won’t be back, as he is out for the season with a torn ACL in his left knee, also encountered in Sunday’s game. Earlier this month, during the Giants Fan Fest scrimmage on August 6, Marcus McKethan tore an ACL in his right knee. The offensive lineman was expected to add depth to the improving unit but will now spend the season on the reserve/injured listTherehabbing.Jetsalso experienced a major loss on the offensive line when 2020 first round pick (No. 11) Mekhi Becton fractured his right kneecap on Aug. 8 during practice, shelving him for this season. Last season, a knee injury in Week 1 led to Becton sitting out the remaining 16 games. When he returns to the field, Becton will have played just 15 games in three seasons as a pro, having appeared in 14 games ––13 starts––as a rookie. The Jets signed veteran Duane Brown to fill the gap left by Becton’s absence.

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By LOIS ELFMAN Special to the AmNews One might have expected that the de fending WNBA Champion Chicago Sky would make quick work of the New York Liberty. The Sky, after all, had the second best regular season record in the league. But the Liberty went to the Windy City ready to play and scored New York’s first playoff game win since 2015. The Sky didn’t take too kindly to being rocked on home court and replied with not only a win, but also the biggest margin of victory in a WNBA play offSo,game.itcame down to a fateful game three, played on the Liberty’s home court, the first-ever Liberty playoff game at Barclays Center. It was a packed house and stars, in cluding Billie Jean King, were on hand. In the end, the veteran experience of the Sky proved too much for the Liberty, and Chica go advanced with a 90–72 win. While Chicago led through most of the game, New York kept it close until the fourth quarter when the Sky went on a 16–0 run. The Sky’s Candace Parker had almost a triple double with 14 points, 13 rebounds and eight assists. In addition to Parker, five other Sky players scored in double figures. For the Liberty, the top scorer was Bet nijah Laney with 15 points, impressive for a player who returned to action just before the playoffs. Natasha Howard had a double-double with 14 points and 11 re bounds. Marine Johannes started and had three 3-pointers in the first quarter, but did not score after that. In a heartfelt move, the New York and Chicago players embraced at the end of the game, and Parker praised the Liberty.Thisis a Liberty team with huge poten tial. If the key players—Laney, Howard, Jo hannes, Sabrina Ionescu, Rebecca Allen, Michaela Onyenwere and Han Xu—return, the team could be a strong presence. Head coach Sandy Brondello is what this team needed.Television viewership of the first round was up 39% over last year’s first and second rounds. The semi-final round of the WNBA playoffs begin on Sunday. The four-time WNBA Champion Seattle Storm take on the league leading Las Vegas Aces, in hot pursuit of its first WNBA title. The Sky take on either the Dallas Wings or the Connecticut Sun.

The start of the NFL regular season is just two weeks away. The Los Angeles Chargers will host the Buffalo Bills on Thursday, Sept. 8, in the league’s opening game. The Jets and Giants will begin Week 1 on Sunday, Sept. 11. The Jets will host dynamic quarterback Lamar Jackson and the Baltimore Ravens at MetLife Stadium and the Giants will travel to Tennessee to take on the Titans.

The Jets’ franchise quarterback hope ful Zach Wilson, taken No. 2 overall in last year’s draft, will open his second season on the sideline recovering from a bone bruise and torn meniscus in his right knee. It is a non-contact injury that occurred in the first quarter of the Jets’ first preseason game on Aug. 12, a 24-21 win against the Eagles on the road.

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New York Liberty season ends with playoff loss to the Chicago Sky

The Jets haven’t made the playoffs since making it to the AFC Championship Game in 2010, falling to the Pittsburgh Steelers. They have only reached 10 or more wins one time over the past 11 seasons, going 10-6 in 2015.

The Jets and Giants have an uphill climb to prosperity

Combined, the Jets and the Giants won just eight out of 34 games last season. Both were 4-13 and finished last in their respec tive divisions, the Jets in the AFC East and the Giants in the NFC East. The last time either one of them made the playoffs was in the 2016 season, the Giants losing to the Green Bay Packers in a wildcard game.

Jets second-year offensive lineman Alijah Vera-Tucker will be called upon to help anchor the unit with the loss of tackle Mekhi Becton to a season ending injury. (Credit: NewYorkJets.com)

SPORTS Michaela Onyenwere (Credit: Gary Dineen/NBAE via Getty Images)

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38 • August 25, 2022 - August 31, 2022 THE NEW YORK AMSTERDAM NEWS Real Basketball Players of Harlem inducts a new HOF class

Kyrie Irving-Rod Strickland League honors the late Dave Edwards

The Real Harlem Basketball Players inducted seventeen members into its 2022 Hall of Fame class last Saturday including Boston Celtics great Thomas Ernest “Satch” Sanders (Bill Moore photos)

"Harlem's rich basketball history is a major part of basketball's history, it's legacy."Rounding out this year's inductees, seventeen in total were, Lloyd Adams, Rodney Butler, Brenda Caldwell, David Diase, Franklin Edwards, Anthony Greer, Herman Harrell, Billy Meggett, Santos Negron, Sam Stith, Tom Stith and Frank "Shake and Bake" Streety, brought onto the stage by his long time friend Pee Wee Kirkland, one of the most revered figures in the history of New York basketball.

The Kyrie Irving-Rod Strickland Summer Basketball League conclud ed its 25th season this past Sunday. Championship day was highlighted by the honoring of the late Dave Edwards, a New York City point guard standout in the early 1990s who passed away from COVID-19 in March of 2020. The first annual Dave Edwards Coach of the Year Award was presented to Melvin Santiago of the Elite Funda mentals program. “Dave was a kind and caring person, and a great coach for the youth in our community,” said LaMarre Dyson, who co-founded the League and has been its director from its inception. “He is missed but we will honor him every year with this award. Rest in peace coach.” The 5’10” Edwards starred at Andrew Jackson High School in Queens before playing his freshman collegiate season for the legendary coach John Thompson at Georgetown, where his teammates included future NBA Hall of Famers Alonzo Mourning and Diikembe Mutombo. Thompson passed away in August of 2020. Edwards subsequently transferred to Texas A&M, where he was one of the best college guards in the nation from 1991 to 1994. He averaged 13.5 points, 7.1 assists and 4.9 rebounds, and was named all-SWC three times. As a senior, Edwards led the Southwest Conference in assists at 8.8 per game. Five teams took home gold trophies as champions of their respective di visions including the Gauchos in 8u, the Gauchos girls in 10u, Harlem USA boys in 12u, KS All-Stars 12u and the Crusaders in 14u.

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"Dave was a kind and caring person, and a great coach for the youth in our community."

The decision was made earlier this year by the Real Harlem Basketball Players or ganization to induct New York basketball great Thomas Ernest "Satch" Sanders into their Hall of Fame last weekend at the Salem United Methodist Church. This proved timely given his contributions to the Boston Celtics dynasty led by the great Bill Russell, who passed away last month at the age of 88. Brought onto the church's stage at West 127th and Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard by Harlem Chamber of Commerce chairman Lloyd Williams, Sanders, 83, an eight time National Basketball Association (NBA) champi on who played power forward alongside Russell with the Celtics in the 1960s, was one of several honorees from New York City’s basketball community re ceiving tributes on Saturday afternoon. Playing 13 seasons in the NBA, Sanders spent his entire career with the Celtics, but New York City was where he was born and learned the game as a student-athlete at tending Seward Park High School and New York University. He was drafted with the eighth pick in 1960 and went on to have his No. 16 retired by the Celtics. Also inducted were Harlem Globetrot ters icon Bobby Hunter, DeWitt Clinton and Marquette Univeristy great Butch Lee, playground legend Earl “The Goat” Manigault and St. John’s coaching great Lou"WeCarneseca.honorand celebrate those out standing players and contributors who've made a name for themselves and who've left an impressionable mark in the minds and memories of the Harlem basketball community," said Gary Barnes, a RHBP organizer and board member.

“I have always had—even during my professional career— some involvement in coaching and also an interest in working with young people,” said Carter, a former world-ranked heptath lete and accomplished coach. “When I was still a professional athlete training at the Universi ty of California, Santa Barbara, I took myself over to a local Boys and Girls Club and started vol unteering. I eventually became the program director there. [This position] is the opportu nity to be involved in helping to form the minds and ways of thinking for young people and set them off on a good path.”

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“They really need to buy into the idea that that they have to put the work in at home, and then we have two and a half weeks to be ready to play,” Mansur said. “It’s super exciting and everybody is very Redshirthappy.”seniors, middle blocker Sarah Pierre and outside hitter Zyare Abdul-Ra him, are excited to show their strengths. Pierre is the team captain and a leader. Mansur expects her to take charge in the middle and guide the team to success on and off the court. On the court, Mansur expects Abdul-Rahim to be the person every team is trying to stop but can’t.

Carter likes the idea of work ing with young student-ath letes and helping them translate sports into life experiences and lessons. “Helping them be able to use their athletic experienc es to see how that can trans late to working on a paper for school, having your first job and being a responsible individual,” she said. “I often just try to help them realize how great they are.”

“I really do think we have a team to win it all this year in the CAA and to build to compete further next year,” said Mansur.

“At the beginning, this is a young team, but we’re going to peak at the right time. I believe this team has every position of we need to be on a successful level.”

Hofstra’s redshirt seniors are ready to lead (Hofstra Athletics photos)

Young Hofstra volleyball team poised to make an impact SPORTS

By LOIS ELFMAN Special to the AmNews Hofstra University volleyball kicks off its season tomorrow with a match against Niagara. Head coach Emily Mansur said she thinks this will be a pretty special team. “We have a great group of girls,” she said. “They’re super young, but we have some special talent on the court this year, so are very excit ed to start the season.” Mansur said the young team will need a bit of time to get to where they need to be, but once they settle in, they’ll make the Pride proud. Unfortunately, the vol leyball team doesn’t have the budget to have the players on campus during the summer, which many of their oppo nents do. Instead, some players arrived the second week of July, rented a house off campus, worked summer camps and trained on their own. “We are very thankful that they do this because if they don’t want to do this we can’t ask them,” said Mansur. The team’s international players from France, Italy, Spain, Turkey, Cyprus, Brazil and Canada could not come until July 30. A couple played on their national teams this summer. The players arrived in good condition and ready, but it still takes time to build rhythm as a team.

Getting acquainted with Poly Prep’s coaches has been smooth, describing them as a great group of people. Carter said everyone, both in athletics and throughout the school, are very welcoming. It was good to get introduced during the summer when things were less hectic. As of this week there are orientation and de partment meetings. There was a national search for the position of athletic director with applications from around the country. It was clear that Carter, who was inducted into the Kansas Sports Hall of Fame in 2020, has the leadership abilities to oversee the athletic program and the un derstanding that student-athletes also focus on their academics. She appreciates that school adminis tration has a vision for a wonder ful, inclusive school. There are some exciting new things for this school year. “We just finished putting in the new baseball field, which has soccer and lacrosse fields on it as well,” said Carter. “We’re still in the process of finishing our new girls’ soccer field.”

Kym Carter is the new athletic director at Poly Prep (Photo courtesy of Poly Prep Country Day School)

By LOIS ELFMAN Special to the AmNews School will soon be underway and fall sports—soccer, girls’ volley ball, football, girls’ tennis and cross country—are gearing up. Studentathletes at Poly Prep Country Day School in Brooklyn, which has a full slate of competitive sports, are now under the thoughtful guid ance of Olympian Kym Carter, who began as athletic director on July 1. Since then, she has met with at least 27 head coaches.

Olympian Kym Carter named athletic director at Poly Prep

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Strickland looks to rebuild a program that hasn’t made the NCAA tournament since 2018 after reaching the field in 2011, 2012 and 2013. Since that time, the LIU athletic program has undergone significant chang es. Effective beginning in the 2019-20 school year, the LIU Brooklyn Blackbirds and the LIU Post Pioneers (DII) athletic programs merged and renamed the LIU Sharks led by university president Kimber ly R. Cline and Director of Athletics Dr. Wil liam E. Martinov Jr. With the 56-year-old Strickland in tow, they hope to evolve into a local power house competing in the Division I North east Conference. LIU plays its home games in Brooklyn at both the Steinberg Wellness Center and the Barclays Center. “There are guys who went into the transfer portal and looked for different opportunities, the guys who stayed are going to work hard and compete,“ said Strickland. “We have to re cruit and add new pieces, and I’m looking forward to getting these guys together in one building and seeing what we have.”

“The modern New York player knows what New York is, and all the pressure that comes with it,” he reasoned. “It’s about raising the bar and bringing the program back to the days when Charles Jones played when they were really good. Playing well and doing great in NY means something, you’re on the big stage. Just being able to perform and develop in your hometown means something, and it makes the journey that much more special.”

Some say you can never go home. Rod Strickland’s legendary basketball career began in the Bronx back as a youth in the 1970s. Now the epilogue of his bas ketball journey has brought him back to New York as the head coach for Long Island University.“Itfeelsgood,” said Strickland during a tele phone interview this past weekend. “I have a lot of friends, and family relationships. Being in Brooklyn with their basketball history, Pearl Washington was my idol. The Nets are right down the street. New York is where ev erything is and I’m happy to be home.”

“Playing well and accountability, so that’s the first goal, to get a group of young men to come together for one goal.” Strickland has finally come home.

NYC point guard legend Rod Strickland looks to revive LIU basketball

Former NBA standout and Bronx native Rod Strickland, pictured at his summer league championship day this past Sunday, is the new head basketball coach for Long Island University (Bill Moore photo)

Can Strickland’s past success as a player, assistant and G League executive translate as a head coach? He already has a blueprint for success. How Strickland implements it remains to be seen. “You can’t get to the milestones or the wins without a culture,” he maintained.

Pressure? No problem asserted Strick land, the godfather of Brooklyn Nets AllStar Kyrie Irving. As one of the NBA’s best point guards of his era, Strickland scored 14, 463 points and dished out 7, 987 as sists, which is 13th all-time in NBA history.

You have to be tough to play and coach in New York, as the local media can be harsh in covering its sports teams. Strickland knows the landscape, as he’s been in the public eye since being a high school star at Truman in the Bronx in the early ’80s and then becom ing a first round pick (19th overall) of the Knicks in 1988 after a stellar college career leading DePaul University to three straight NCAA Tournament appearances.

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“I never put pressure on myself,” he said. “I have always been even keel. Pressure to me is like a narrative, I just feel like I have to go in, develop, create a culture, and get guys to compete.”

Reconstructing a program isn’t going to be easy, but if anyone can do it, it’s Strick land. He’s been in the trenches before with rebuilding teams, including the Knicks early in his NBA playing career––which spanned 17 seasons––under then head coach Rick Pitino, who is currently the head coach of the Iona College men’s team. In Strickland’s rookie season of 1988-89, the Knicks secured their second straight post season appearance after missing the play offs the previous five seasons. On the college level, Strickland was the director of basketball operations for John Calipari at the University of Memphis, was a member of Calipari’s staff at Kentucky, and assistant coach at the University of South Florida. Most recently, he was in strumental in growing the NBA G League Ignite in his role as program director and left the Ignite to take the job at LIU. Over the past two NBA Drafts four Ignite players have been selected in the first round. With so many opportunities for top local high school talent at major colleges, the G League and Overtime Elite, which signs players to pro contracts as young as 16, Strickland’s charge is to keep a few at home and offer them a high quality experience at LIU. The pressing question is what are the upsides to playing at home?

“There’s always a certain amount of forti tude that comes with New York,” he noted. “I’ve been a part of basketball in so many dif ferent areas. Coaching is another challenge, another journey, and another opportunity.”

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