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The government said in a statement that search and rescue efforts are continuing at the abandoned mine, a unit of Anglo American.
The mine’s dumps and slime still “belong” to De Beers and the government’s access has been restricted by a court order, Nathi Sha bangu, a spokesman of the Dept. of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) said via SMS.
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There are no men or women in “Glory”; there is no personhood at all, only “mals” and “femals,” observes Kupersmith. “Things that are kept private are ‘persomal’ matters. By taking humans out of the equation, Bul awayo eliminates the hierarchies that their presence would impose.”
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(GIN)—A mine wall at the former De Beers di amond mine in South Africa’s Free State Province collapsed over the weekend, killing at least three people and injuring another 40. Nine houses were swept away in a flash flood, according to the Bloomberg news service.
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Narrating from the perspective of a chorus of unseen Jidadans, Bulawayo displays a mordant wit with a delightful, off-kilter edge, says Kupersmith. She has a gift for coming up with wildly specific and marvel ously irreverent turns of phrase, as when the chorus describes the way election officials at a polling station “handle us like some thing precious; we feel like some Fabergé eggs, like the testicles of great kings.”
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over the United Kingdom for almost 71 years and died aged 96 years old on Thursday, Sept. 8, some members of the Commonwealth realm are call ing on the newly installed King Charles III to address long-discussed issues of said Common wealth, including those who are determined to become independent of the Crown, and with reparations from decades—and in some cases centuries of charges of abuse and atrocities at the hands of the imperialistic colonizing British.
“Glory,” her latest book, is set in Jidada, a fictional African country that can be under stood as a sort of mash-up of Zimbabwe in the period between the 2017 military over throw of its president, Robert Mugabe, and his death two years later. The other inhabitants of Jidada are pigs and cows, goats and sheep, cats and dogs, chickens and the odd peacock.
“The tailings of the abandoned local mine burst open leading to damages to infrastruc ture, personal property and homes. The untold damages in and around the community of Charlesville in Jagersfontein are extensive and have negatively impacted the community. Some people are displaced, others lost proper ty, while others are reported injured and miss ing,” said a government spokesperson.
(GIN)—Zimbabwean novelist NoViolet Bula wayo is one of six finalists for the Booker Prize, the renowned British literary award, with a post-colonial fable resembling the home city that provides half of her pen name; the other half, NoViolet, links the Ndebele word for “with” to the name of her mother, who died when her daughter was 18 months old.
6 a.m., the government said, forcing officials to evacuate scores of residents to nearby farms.
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There is a very large and symbol-laden croc odile who recalls the real-life nicknames given to Mugabe’s human replacement, Emmer son Mnangagwa, and also to the South African prime minister P. W. Botha, a supporter of Apart heid. The fable follows the life of a nation that is seemingly trapped in a never-ending cycle.
A statement released by the Minerals Coun cil South Africa expressed shock at the col lapse of the historic Jagerstontein tailings. The Council is a mining industry employers’ organization that supports and promotes the South African mining industry.
“This is a point in my work where I have to pause and consider how I position myself in relation to the world, and what is happening; to push my art to do more, to be engaged, and to continue to be in solidarity with struggles for all kinds of freedom everywhere.”
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“If only the death of the queen could mark a new era that entails apology for colonialism and slavery, and reparations long overdue— still I won’t hold my breath,” said Ras J. Tesfa, the author of “Living Testament for Rasta.” He is one of the observers and critics refusing to be emotionally manipulated by the continuous images on mainstream media—and is instead determining that analysis should not be about
“Compensation for fatalities, compensation in terms of damage to property will be taken as a responsibility of the company that owns the slimes dam,” he said.
DeBeers operates in 35 countries and mining takes place in Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Canada and Australia. Owned by the Oppen heimer family since the 1920s, DeBeers was bought by Anglo American in 2011 for $5.1 billion, thus ending the South African family’s long reign over the often controversial diamond empire.
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Mine unions and many other commentators say South Africa, the world’s top source of plati num and a major gold producer, has an appall ing mine safety record. So far this year about 146 have died in various incidents. The mine was shut in the 1970s, according to media reports.
NoViolet Bulawayo was born Elizabeth Zan dile Tshele. She grew up in Bulawayo, a city lo cated over 300 kms southwest of Harare. When she was 18, she studied in Michigan and Texas before earning a master’s at Cornell Universi ty and being awarded the Truman Capote Fel lowship, both in creative writing.
De Beers was founded by Cecil Rhodes, the British colonialist.
The murder of George Floyd and the global protests that followed it prompted Bulawayo to reflect on the links between abuses of power across countries and societies, and on her own responsibility as a writer.
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If she wins on Oct. 17, her fable “Glory” could become the second African piece to be awarded in a row, writes Violet Kupersmith in a New York Times review.
Her most righteous and potent barbs are re served for the corrupt mals plundering their own country. In 2013, her debut novel “We Need New Names” made it to the shortlist of the Booker’s prize. The leading literary award jury closely read what it called “a bittersweet portrayal of life in a ramshackle Zimbabwean shantytown called Paradise.”
The passing of Queen Elizabeth II has not gone unremarked in Africa where local tele vision and radio stations interrupted normal broadcasting in order to relay events happen ing in the United Kingdom.
Throughout the Diaspora amidst those nation al leaders sending condolences to the Windsors
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While millions of pounds are being spent on the state funeral of Queen Elizabeth who reigned
“We also have reports that the mine has been sold to other parties, without the involve ment of the DMRE as per the court order.”
statistics, proudly announc ing the number of killings were less than half of August 2021’s count, falling from 59 to“Any27. level of violence in New York City, or anywhere, is unacceptable,” said Chief of Department Kenneth Corey. “We know that New
part of a system that is sell ing us false safety. Why? Be cause they are measuring safety by the wrong metrics.
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Stand-out events included Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie’s Back to School fair held at his district office, where union carpenters and con tractors worked to provide 150 backpacks and school kits and children received free haircuts, new sneakers, and families received fresh pro duce donated from INCA Relief NY. Union carpenters and contractors also supported Council Member Moya’s annual back-to-school block party that brought family fun and resources to Queens communities.
York City is safer today than it was when we implemented our Summer Violence Reduc tion Plan in “ThroughoutMay.these months, the NYPD carried out more of its integral work, often in concert with our law enforce ment partners, to develop
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Councilmembers Tiffa ny Cabán, Alexa Avilés and Sandy Nurse rallied with ac tivists against the NYPD’s gang database last Wednes day at Brooklyn Borough Hall. The trio are co-spon
“When you have systems of policing and prosecution and incarceration that mea sure safety by numbers of convictions, arrest lengths of sentences, things like the
August’s NYPD citywide crime stats boast drastic reduction in gun violence
New York Blood Center (NYBC) will be offering free sickle cell trait testing for the entire month of September at select blood drives in honor of National Sickle Cell Awareness Month.
Council Member Rafael Salamanca is a co-prime sponsor of the bill.
Africa Expo, USA is a conglomeration of distinguished Continen tal African businessmen and women visiting America to network with American businessmen and entrepreneurs to establish symbiotic re lationships to take advantage of vast business opportunities in Africa.
The bill, first introduced as the city conducted a rapid series of sweeps to dismantle homeless encampments, was heard by the City Council Committee on General Welfare on Monday.
Union carpenters and contractors bring supplies to students at back-to-school drives
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“I’m here today to join you in calling for the abolition of the gang database,” said Cabán. “Why? Because it is a tool in a failed toolbox as
Blaze Channel, USA, a Creative Industry Digital Monetization com pany based in New York City, is hosting the first annual Africa Expo, USA at the Marriott Marquis Times Square, Astor Ballroom on Satur day, Sept. 17 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
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Public Advocate Jumaane D. Williams today pushed for passage of his legislation declaring a first-of-its-kind ‘Homeless Bill of Rights,’ which would codify the rights of homeless individuals both outside of and within the city’s shelter system, as well as standards required to be met within shelters.
The bill, Intro 190, would require the Department of Homeless Ser vices (DHS) to produce a Homeless Bill of Rights, which would inform people experiencing homelessness about their rights and services avail able to them. In addition, DHS would be required to make this docu ment available on its website and to provide it to shelters and social services offices for distribution to people experiencing homelessness.
Donors of diverse backgrounds may also be screened for special an tigen markers to find a better match for patients in need, as sickle cell patients often require blood from donors with similar antigens during treatment. NYBC expects that nearly 3,000 donations will be tested for the sickle cell trait as a part of this initiative.
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soring Int 0360-2022, a re cently introduced bill which would not only abolish the classified list, but prevent the city from implementing future replacements.
Africa Expo, USA 2022 features an international conference “Business Opportunities in Africa” with a special panel on “Äfrican-Americans and Africa: A Symbiotic Relationship of Culture, Business and Educa tion” as well as panels on the “African Creative Industry” and “Hope for African Youth: Strategy, Funding and Monetization.”
For further information, please call Ms. Zaria Abulu, director of op erations, Africa Expo, USA at 646-220-9250. www.africaexpousa.com www.blazechannel.com.
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With the start of a new school year, the New York City & Vicini ty District Council of Carpenters participated in community events throughout the city to provide students with school supplies and otherTheyresources.partnered with local elected officials and community organiza tions on 19 events throughout the City. Union carpenters and contrac tors want to do their part to give back to children in their community and equip them with the tools needed for success in the classroom.
Summer in New York City ended on a high-note thanks to the low number of murders and shootings in August. On Sept. 6, the NYPD released last month’s citywide crime
Council member Tiffany Cabán speaks at rally (Tandy Lau photo)
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“The COVID-19 pandemic was devastating for everyone, but we know that communities of color suffered disproportionately,” said Sean M. Spiller, president of the New Jersey Education Asso ciation (NJEA). “As we continue the slow work of emerging from the pandemic, we need to ensure that students who lost the most have access to all the resources they need to recover and thrive. Mental health resources are a ne cessity for that recovery and for long-term success.”
At least 23 out of the 55 census defined neighborhoods citywide have a majority immigrant older adult population, said Hudson.
Data shows older adults rep resent New York City’s “fastest growing demographic.” Coun cilmember Crystal Hudson, The American Association of Retired Persons (AARP), and other elect eds joined forces to introduce bills that will help senior tenants age in place on Sept 7.
access to high speed internet and limited English proficiency leave many older adults disconnected from city services,” said Hudson in a committee hearing on aging. “This is especially true for im migrant communities and older adults of color who comprise a steadily growing proportion of the city’s older adult population.”
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dents increased from 7.4 to 8.8 per 1,000 Declinesstudents.areparticularly stark among school nurses and school counselors. Among all students, school counselor rates were largely stable from 2008 to 2020, but steep declines were seen among Black students, with four counselors per 1,000 students in 2008 declining to 2.6 per 1,000 by 2020, below the state average and their white peers. This is below the recommended ratio of four counselors per 1,000 students recommended by the American School Counselor Association.
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“In New Jersey, students of color are more likely to live in poverty and attend a school with harsher discipline,” said Weber. “The solution to this isn’t to cut back on their access to mental health staff, it’s to give them more access to the professionals theyTheneed.”report offers the solu tion that policymakers and lawmakers must improve staff ing levels of mental health sup port professionals to meet the needs of students.
Public school advocacy organi zation JerseyCAN appointed Paula White as executive director of Jer seyCAN. She makes history as the first African American leader of the organization.Whitebrings to the organiza tion years of diverse experiences
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Mental health resources are im portant for all students, but they are very important for students who have experienced poverty. The report notes that Black stu dents are more likely to experi ence poverty and more likely to attend a district with high sus pension rates.
Such an arrangement may add to the Democrats’ problems during the midterm elections, that Biden is determined to hold. He has promised to keep a “veto pen” poised to offset the arrival of the GOP’s dominance. At this time in the election cycle, the Republi cans appear to have the votes to take over the House, though they may not have the 60 votes needed in the Senate to pass most bills.
If no agreement is reached, the companies could lock out workers before a strike is called, thereby cast ing the blame on the workers for the shutdown that would cost the econ omy $2 billion a day. An option to settlement could occur if Congress steps in with a joint resolution ac ceptable by the companies.
On the other hand, the railroads claim the workers are using such
After delivering a speech on Monday to revive his “cancer moonshot,” a mission to end the disease, President Biden ad dressed other parts of his evercrowded political agenda, none more pressing than the Demo crats holding on to Congress as the midterm elections loom.
“We learn enough from their ex perience as patients and we don’t share enough data and knowl edge,” Biden said about cancer, a disease he is quite familiar with having lost his son, Beau, to brain cancer. “The goal is to cut cancer death rates by at least 50% …in the next 25 years.”
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icant team members to the table to avert the stoppage—Labor Secretary Marty Walsh, Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, and Tom Vilsack, secretary of ag riculture. A White House official said that a shutdown of the freight rail system is “an unacceptable outcome of our economy and the American people” and the admin istration has “made that clear em phatically and repeatedly to all parties
She added that older New Yorkers, ages 50+, generally want to age in their homes and neighborhoods rather than institutional settings.
Paula White to serve as first African American executive director of JerseyCAN
That’s his long-range “moon shot,” and more immediate is heading off a potential strike by railroad workers that could happen by Friday and deal a dev astating blow to the economy, in cluding another round of supply chainBidendelays.isbringing several signif
claims to extend longer weekends to attend concerts and sporting events. Biden has already put in place an Emergency Board to mit igate the differences and it trig gered a “cooling off” phase that ends this Friday.
Hudson, older NYers call for more age-in-place protections for seniors
Whileinvolved.”mostof the unions, in cluding IBEW and the Teamsters, have settled with the railroads, two—SMART and the Brother hood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET)—have not, and they represent half of the rail road union workers. Attendance policies and disciplinary proce dures against workers are at the core of the dispute. The union is angered that workers are being terminated when they have med ical appointments and bereave ment issues.
AARP polling also indicates that
“The pandemic has created an unprecedented crisis in stu dent mental health,” said Mark Weber, Ph.D., report author and special analyst for education policy at NJPP. “Unfortunate ly, New Jersey’s Black and His panic students have seen cuts in mental health staff in their schools over the past decade. So just when they need these resources the most, they find their access has been dimin ished. This has to be addressed immediately.”Thereport,
Despite heightened focus on mental health for students since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Black students have less access to mental health staff than they did a decade ago, according to a new report from New Jersey Policy Per spectiveDuring(NJPP).aperiod where access to mental health staff increased for New Jersey’s white and Asian students, access for Black and Hispanic/Latinx students de creased. As state policymak ers seek to tackle the student mental health crisis facing schools, they should focus on the critical question of whether there are enough mental health and support professionals.
“New Jersey’s Black Students Suffer a Decline in Access to School Mental Health Staff,” tracks the number of mental health staff such as nurses, counselors, behav ior specialists, psychologists, and social workers in schools across New Jersey compared to the number of students of dif ferent races and ethnicities en rolled in those schools. Over the study period from 2008 to 2020, the ratio of mental health staff for Black students declined from 10.3 per 1,000 students to 8.5, while the ratio for white stu
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“This desire to age in place com bined with increasing rates of poverty, social isolation, limited
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Councilmember Crystal Hudson and AARP leadership at a rally for seniors last week on Sept. 7 (Contributed photo)
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“I was just exhausted, but not sad. And I began to numb those feelings. So if you’d say to me, ‘well, how are you doing,’—well a good friend of mine’s died. It was so rou tine. By reconnecting with those who were living, I was able to get support from them.”
“Thank God I was a middle child,” said Martin, laughing. “And my oldest broth er was a bully. He was three years older than me. So he had a reputation and I just glided through school. In hindsight, I was probably a troublemaker, because I could get away with a lot of stuff.”
Come November, as New Yorkers elect their representatives for office, they will also be asked to vote on several ballot initiatives, one of which requires the city government to develop a metric that captures the “true cost of living” in the city. The proposal follows from the recommendations of the Racial Justice Commission (RJC)—an independent and diverse body of civic leaders that was formed in March 2021 to examine structural racism in NYC Charter.
The need for a metric that accurately captures economic deprivation in the city has been long overdue, especially given the woeful inadequacy of the Federal Poverty Level (FPL). The FPL, devised in the 1960s and largely unchanged since, is set at three times the estimated annual expenditure on food and adjusted for inflation and family size. For 2022, the FPL for a family of four—two adults and two children—is set at $27,750.
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And there was no SAGE Center in Harlem back then. The doors opened in 2004. Today, Martin works out of the senior center as the Harlem Community Liaison for SAGE, the oldest and largest organiza tion for aging LGBTQ+ Americans.
In addition to providing a rough estimate of the resources needed to survive, the federal poverty measure is also used to count the number of people falling below the poverty threshold. Since the federal poverty measure takes into account only pre-tax cash income in determining one’s poverty status, it fails to gauge the impact of anti-poverty programs (e.g., Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly Food Stamps), housing assistance.) and tax credits (e.g., the Earned Income Tax Credit, the Child Tax Credit).
The SAGE Center Harlem is open to all older folks, but Martin hopes the space can replicate the familial community hetereo sexual elders frequently enjoy as parents and grandparents for LGBTQ+ seniors. Ad ditionally, they often still battle with age-old stereotypes and are less open to meeting new people. And there’s the matter of losing their peers—Martin initially got into advo cacy after seeing friends die from HIV/AIDS in the ’80s. He went from the trendy blocks of Christopher Street to frequenting hospi tals, hospices and funeral homes.
Through his work, Martin began branch ing out as he got older. He’s traveling, with a cruise vacation coming up. And he’s thrilled to attend a Diana Ross concert to night. But the more extroverted Martin gets, the more he notices how reclusive other LGBTQ+ seniors are becoming in their advanced age. So he understands how important outreach at the SAGE Center Harlem is. Martin recalls recently connecting a local elder with a monkeypox appointment. He helps with case manage ment, providing information and offering referrals. At his home, he pulls out a flier for a monthly food pantry SAGE hosts. Every second Wednesday, the first hour is for reserved seniors, Martin proclaims.
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“That became my new lifestyle,” said Martin. “Buried some of my peers who were abandoned by their families. So that’s how I became more into helping people and caring about people that I didn’t have time to deal with my ego and self worth. It was about something bigger than me, more important.
“I learned how to be invisible,” he said. “It wasn’t about being my authentic self— we didn’t have terminology like that [back then]. I learned how to act so I didn’t cause attention. The way I’m sitting with my legs crossed? That was a no-no.”
Benchmarking present day needs of a family living in New York City solely against the cost of food has proved meaningless in a city where there are many other necessities needed to survive. The costs of housing, energy and medical care have outpaced the cost of food and now constitutes a much larger share of a family’s annual budget than food. Additionally, the FPL is not adjusted geographically, further underestimating the minimum level of resources needed to live in expensive cities like New York. Since the FPL is used to determine eligibility for most federal safety net programs, the result is that it leaves out millions of New Yorkers who are struggling to make ends meet but are denied city, state and federal assistance since their incomes put them above the FPL.
To address some of these glaring shortcomings of the federal measure, the Census Bureau launched the Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM) in 2011. The SPM’s need thresholds go beyond food to include expenditures on clothing, shelter and utilities, as well as other miscellaneous expenses. The SPM also adopted a more sophisticated definition of family resources, accounting for taxes, transfers, and expenses related to work, childcare, and healthcare. Finally, the SPM built in adjustments for geographic price variation and families’ housing status.
A key first step would be ensuring New Yorkers are aware of the true cost of living ballot measure this year (Nov. 8) and a robust civic engagement campaign to ensure New Yorkers vote in favor.
THE URBAN AGENDA
By David R. Jones, Esq
The first time Ty Martin stepped into the newly built Whole Foods on 125th and Malcolm X Boulevard, he thought he was in Chelsea on account for the grand as sortment of young, gay white men pres ent. Harlem certainly looks different from his childhood days. Martin, 74, grew up in the neighborhood during the ’50s and ’60s, when he was a gay young man himself.
David R. Jones, Esq., is President and CEO of the Community Service Society of New York (CSS), the leading voice on behalf of low-income New Yorkers for more than 175 years. The views expressed in this column are solely those of the writer. The Urban Agenda is available on CSS’s website: www.cssny.org.
Around the same time as SPM was launched, the City began publishing its own poverty measure, known as the NYCgov poverty rate, which is similar to the SPM at its core but has some differences, including in the treatment of housing costs. The City’s own poverty measure has been a useful metric in tracking poverty reduction efforts, including the impact of raising the minimum wage to $15 for most workers.
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To overcome the systemic inequities in our public assistance systems and to ensure an accurate measurement of economic need, we should favor a radical overhaul and work towards assessing the true cost of living.
Despite significant improvements to the federal poverty threshold, both SPM and NYCgov measures include the value of public assistance (both in cash and in kind) in its income measure, it is implicitly contingent on the federal poverty measure.
All this is to say that the FPL and the SPM fail to capture the true cost of living, working, and caring for a family in today’s NYC (or anywhere in the nation, really). But because the inherently flawed federal poverty measure underpins most safety net programs and policies, it undermines their reach and impact. The use of this outdated metric also serves to reinforce historic inequities along racial, gender and ethnic lines: by underestimating economic need it prevents the assistance programs from providing the appropriate level of support.
For LGBTQ+ elders, Ty Martin is SAGE’s sage in Harlem
Beyond the work, there’s something nice about giving, and getting, support. Even as a kid growing up in Harlem, Martin always knew someone had his back. Back then, it was his big brother.
SAGE Center Harlem’s Ty Martin in his home (Tandy Lau photo)
An alternative approach to measuring poverty starts with creating a more realistic picture of the cost of a decent standard of living beyond mere survival, which this year’s ballot measure proposed by the RJC seeks to set New York on a path to pursue.
Tasked with taking a close look at impediments faced by minorities and people of color in their pursuit of economic security and well-being, the RJC recommends that the City calculate a true cost of living: “The true cost of living would include essential needs such as housing, food, childcare, transportation, clothing and much more without counting public, private, or informal assistance. It would be used to inform program and policy decisions.”
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Contact the SAGE Harlem Center at 646660-8951.
were between 12 and 14 ppb. The city added that “belated results” (accurate ly) suggested a presence of Legionella bacteria.“Atthis [10 ppb] level it is safe to bathe but not to cook and not to drink. This protects consumers from the effects of long-term, chronic exposure to arse nic,” said the EPA. “It is safe to bathe but not drink or cook with the water be cause arsenic does not readily absorb into the skin, nor does it evaporate into the air from the water.”
were given daily. Most were spending money on every meal, she said, because they were afraid of the water entirely. Many residents, who are civil servants or former employees of NYCHA, def initely did not believe that the water contaminant was contained to just the NYCHA buildings in the neighborhood either.Adistrust of city government offi cials was already brewing, but it readi ly exploded on Friday, Sept. 9. “We need to know what is happening. NYCHA should pay for the testing of tenants on the spot,” said one man testifying at the community meeting held at PS 34 on Friday night. “NYCHA and the powers that be should be fined and sanctioned for keeping this a secret. The city should reimburse the tenants for food they had to buy because they could not cook.”
NYCHA residents were informed that the labs were wrong about arsenic being in the water at a community meeting held at PS 34 last Friday, Sept 9. (Ariama C. Long photos)
Theretests.were stacked boxes of pasta at the table in front of her and a conspic uous white tent set up next to them. Out on the sidewalk, all along Avenue D, were NYC water stations jerry rigged to the fire hydrants where residents oc casionally carted over jugs of water to refill.Williams said that residents weren’t able to cook or bathe properly with the two or three cases of bottled water they
It’s conclusive, according to the latest tests on Saturday, Sept. 10, that there wasn’t any “discernible amount of ar senic in the water” at New York City Housing Authority’s (NYCHA) Jacob Riis Houses in lower Manhattan. The results, however, have done very little to douse the ire and suspicions of the mostly Black and brown residents. At least 35 of them have banded together to sue the city and/or the lab company for $10 million in emotional damages, said their lawyer.
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People were understandably pissed off when informed by the city’s Chief Hous ing Officer Jessica Katz and NYCHA’s Chair and Chief Executive Officer Greg ory Russ at the community meeting that the Environmental Monitoring and Technologies labs were wrong about the arsenic and had to retract their findings.
As far as the concerns about Legionel la bacteria being in the water, Vasan in a presser this week confirmed that tests were
Vasan and Adams maintain that there are still some questions about the sample of positive Legionella itself. There aren’t currently any clinical in vestigations because there aren’t any reported cases of Legionnaires’ disease, he said.
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NYCHA Jacob Riis Houses Tenant As sociation President Daphne Williams was visibly exhausted while handing out donated food and cases of bottled water to residents in the courtyard last Thursday. She was joined by second vice president Sharon Stergis and the rest of the tenant board. Though she greeted many familiar faces with a smile, she quickly fell back into tiredness over the days of uncertainty while the city re-ran water
After being told by the city that there was “elevated levels of arsenic” in their drinking water, residents at Riis Houses dealt with the inconvenience and fear of being poisoned for eight days.
The city said that all “original water delivery points that were previously thought to test positive for arsenic have been retested and found to be nega tive.” They also tested 140 additional sites, both at the source and at the point ofIt’sdelivery.important to note that by “nega tive” the mayor’s office meant that the results that were elevated were now “well below the federal standard.” The federal arsenic standard set by the Envi ronmental Protection Agency allows for 10 ppb (or 0.010 parts per million) to be in drinking water regularly. The ini tial (now false) test levels at Riis Houses
“NYCHA residents deserve better. The
“I know the last eight days have been unbearable for the residents of Jacob Riis Houses, but, this morning, the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene reviewed the final test results for contaminants and found the water to be well within EPA drinking water quality standards,” said Adams in a “Westatement.canconfidently say the water at Riis Houses is and has been free of any discernible amount of arsenic since the initial tests were initiated in August and meets EPA standards. I would not ask the residents of Riis Houses to do any thing I wouldn’t do, which is why I have already stopped by Riis Houses and drank the water myself,” he continued.
By Monday, Sept. 12, Attorney Sanford Rubenstein announced that his law firm was filing a lawsuit on behalf of Rebec ca Perkins and at least 35 residents at Riis Houses.
Despite the video demonstration, the disbelief and distrust over the water sit uation only grew.
The news of wrong results was met with a visceral reaction of disbelief from tenants, some of whom demanded com pensation. Mayor Eric Adams was not present at the community meeting to talk to riled up residents, but he and De partment of Health and Mental Hygiene Commissioner Dr. Ashwin Vasan tweet ed a video of them in an apartment drinking glasses of water from the tap.
conflicting reports of water contamina tion at Riis Houses raise more questions that need to be answered, leaving the residents understandably concerned and outraged,” said Speaker Adrienne Adams and Councilmembers Carlina Rivera, Alexa Avilés, Gale Brewer in a joint statement. “The Council intends to conduct oversight to ensure transpar ency and clarity regarding water quality and safety for all residents of NYCHA.”
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WATER CONFUSION: NYCHA’s arsenic water ‘walkback’ meets a lawsuit
“Thepositive.bacteria that causes Legion naires’ disease in the drinkable water, in the potable water. That is not how Legi onella spreads, by ingestion of potable water. It is through aerosolized water, usually in cooling systems, ventilation systems, HVAC systems,” said Vasan. “So, this is a different water source.”
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HubSpot, a customer relation ship management platform for scaling companies, partnered with NTWRK, a North America livestream shopping platform, for an exclusive fashion drop at IN BOUND 2022 curated by Antoine Gregory, founder of Black Fashion Fair, an innovative retail and ed itorial platform and community. HubSpot is a leading customer re lation management platform that provides software and support to help manage growing companies. The platform includes marketing, sales, service, operations, and web site management. HubSpot’s focus is to accumulate growth for these companies by creating meaningful connections within their commu nity. The company has partnered with NTWRK on a series of co-col laborations this year to celebrate artists, designers and entrepre neurs who have decided to share their creativity with the rest of the world. NTWRK is not only provid ing a platform but is also allowing the artists to make art through NT WRK’s video-first commerce plat form to a broader audience while raising awareness and funding for underserved communities.
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The International Federation of Real Estate welcomes Harlem/ NYC real estate firm CEO Euge nia Foxworth to the World Board of Directors. She will serve on the FIABCI World Board of Directors from 2022 to 2025 and becomes the first Black person to be elect ed to this role. “I look forward to the FIABCI Board of Directors meeting in NYC from Septem ber 15-16, 2022,” says Foxworth.
have reflected our shared commit ment to uplift new creative talent to fans on the cutting edge of art and fashion. In our third collaboration, we’re proud to highlight diverse creators who face obstacles in busi ness development and retail expo sure, and to shine a spotlight on Antoine Gregory’s drive and com mitment to advocating for change.”
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Sheryl Lee Ralph took home the Emmy for best supporting ac tress in a comedy series during the Sept. 12, 2022 Emmys and made history as the second Black woman to win the coveted award since Jackee Harry won it in 1987 for her role as Sandra on “227,” ac cording to the Hollywood Report er. When Ralph took the stage, the “Abbott Elementary” actress sang a verse from Dianne Reeves’ “En dangered Species” as the audi ence gave her a standing ovation. Meanwhile, HBO’s “Euphoria” star Zendaya also made history, be coming the first Black woman to win lead actress in a drama and the youngest two-time winner of any Emmy in history. To make the night of “Black Girl Magic” end with a bang, Lizzo’s “Watch Out for the Big Grrrls” beat out a number of veteran competition contend ers, including “Ru Paul’s Drag Race” and Quinta Brunson won for writing for a comedy series for “AbbottPharrellElementary.”Williams announced the launch of new creative ad vocacy agency Mighty Dream on Sept. 12. The Grammy-winning producer and entrepreneur col laborated with Edelman to cofound the effort, reports AdWeek. Derived from Pharrell’s 2021 Ele phant in the Room panel, which examined the business poten tial in Norfolk and Virginia Beach, Virginia, Mighty Dream will exclu sively develop products and cre ative solutions that solve some of the societal challenges that have marginalized communities. Says Pharrell, “Mighty Dream aims to create what’s missing in creativi
HubSpot partners with NTWRK for exclusive Sept. 9 fashion drop
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“During this time there will be an investment Forum and Trade Mis sion. One of the highlights of the two-day event is the panel discus sion ‘How the Pandemic and ESG changed Global Real Estate In vestments over the last two years’ which is being held at the Univer sity
The fashion drop, in partner ship with Gregory and Black
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The exclusive collection features new designs by Antoine Man ning (founder of Homage Year) and Nicole Zizi (founder of Nicole Zizi Studio), two designers who are expanding through their com mitment to their brand, their com munities, and their customers. The products include Antoine Man ning’s signature Mini Ova bag in HubSpot’s solaris orange, Nicole Zizi’s iconic organic cotton logo hoodie with “grow better” detailing, and a custom one-of-one Nicole Zizi recycled patchwork denim jacket. All proceeds from the drop will be donated to the Brooklyn Sewing Academy, a program dedi cated to addressing systemic issues in the design industry through edu cation and training.
NTWRK and HubSpot’s third drop will take place on Sept. 9 during INBOUND, an annual event powered by HubSpot that unites thought leaders from over 161 countries across marketing, sales, customer success, and revenue op erations. The drop launches live on the NTWRK app on Sept. 9 at 1 p.m. ET. The event immediately follows the 12:15 p.m. INBOUND Spot light Stage talk with NTWRK CMO Jason Brown and Antoine Gregory. This collaboration is the latest drop in HubSpot’s and NTWRK’s innova tive brand partnership, which in cludes two prior releases with King Saladeen and Cristina Martinez.
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Fashion Fair, is designed to bring light to emerging Black designers. Amy Marino, HubSpot’s global head of brand marketing, said, “Antoine Gregory’s Black Fashion Fair is a great example of a busi ness that puts its mission at its core—and they’ve scaled while maintaining purpose. We’re in spired by Antoine’s accomplish ments and excited to partner once again with NTWRK to cocreate a one-of-a-kind collection that amplifies these talented de signers and their stories.”
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12, the Cort Theatre on Broadway in the Big Apple was officially renamed the James Earl Jones Theatre in honor of the iconic multi-award winning American actor. Following a $47 million restoration and expan sion of the building, a formal dedication ceremony will take place on 48th Street to celebrate the theater’s completion. The of ficial dedication ceremony will be open to invited guests and mem bers of the press. It will include special performances, tours of the renovated theater, and an unveiling of the new marquee.
Celebrities who attended the re naming included Brian Stokes Mitchell, Samuel L. Jackson, Phylicia Rashad, Norm Lewis, Danielle Brooks, and cast mem bers from the Tony-winning Best Musical, “A Strange Loop.”
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ET/PT on CertifiedBET.Lover Boy Drake leads this year’s nominations with an impressive 14 nods in cluding ‘Best Live Per former,’ ‘Lyricist of the Year,’ ‘Hip Hop Album of the Year,’ ‘Hip Hop Artist of the Year,’ ‘Hus tler of the Year,’ twice for ‘Sweet 16: Best Fea tured Verse,’ three for ‘Best Collaboration,’ twice for ‘Best Hip Hop Video,’ and twice for ‘Song of the Year.’ Kanye West follows with 10 nods includ ing ‘Best Live Perform er,’ ‘Hip Hop Album of the Year,’ ‘Hip Hop Artist of the Year,’ ‘Pro ducer of the Year,’ ‘Hus tler of the Year,’ ‘Best Hip Hop Video,’ ‘Best Collaboration,’ Song of the Year,’ ‘Impact Track,’ and ‘Sweet 16: Best Featured Verse.’ Kendrick Lamar’s nine nods include ‘Best Live Performer,’ ‘Lyr icist of the Year,’ ‘Hip Hop Album of the Year,’ ‘Hip Hop Artist of the Year,’ twice for ‘Impact Track.’ ‘Video Director of the Year,’ ‘Best Hip Hop Video,’ and ‘Best Collaboration.’ Future rounds out the top four with an impressive eight nods. Baby Keem, Cardi B, and J. Cole are tied, with each earning sixOthernods. notable nom inations include Doja Cat, Latto, Lil Durk, Tems, and Young Thug, each of whom received three nominations.
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Saturday, Sept. 17, 2022, Blaze Channel, USA, is hosting the first annual Africa Expo, USA at the Marriott Marquis Times Square, New York City, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Saddest part it’s our own people who did this shit. You really gone kill a nigga over jewelry?
“Our Africa Expo, USA is a conglomeration of distinguished Continental African business men and women visiting America to network with American businessmen and entrepreneurs to establish symbiotic relationships to take ad vantage of vast business opportunities in Africa,”
As Black people we gotta STOP & DO BETTER
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We are cursed as a race and culture smh Rip PNB Rock he was a super cool guy.
Sorry y’all, trying to make sense of non sense. Holla next week. Til then, enjoy the nightlife.
Now if the police killed my boy, it a be a riot right now but since it’s sum hood stuff it’s just posts & Rip tweets.
Mohammad Ali Islamic Center hosts School Supplies and Food Giveaway
The Mohammad Ali Islamic Center in Harlem partnered with Islamic Relief USA, ZEINA Inc., and NYC Comptrol ler Brad Lander’s office for a “Day of Dignity 2022” pantry distributing pro duce, fruits, school supplies, backpacks, and PPEs.
On another note, BET announced the nominees for the 17th annual BET HIP HOP AWARDS 2022 hon oring the past year in hip hop music across 17 categories, select ed by a voting academy of esteemed music in dustry insiders. Hosted by Grammy-nominat ed recording artist, actor, entrepreneur, and media personali ty Fat Joe the BET HIP HOP AWARDS 2022, will tape from the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre in Atlanta, on Friday, Sept. 30 and will premiere Tuesday, Oc tober 4, 2022, at 9 p.m.
Africa Expo USA coming to Marriott
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Benny The Butcher, City Girls, Fivio Foreign, Glorilla, Jay-Z, Megan The Stallion, Nas, and Usher received two nominations each.
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host and organizer Tony Abulu told the Amster dam News. The prolific filmmaker and produc er added the Africa Expo, USA 2022 features an “International Conference ‘Business Opportu nities in Africa,’ with special panels on ‘ÄfricanAmericans and Africa: A Symbiotic Relationship of Culture, Business and Education,’ the ‘African Creative Industry,’ and ‘Hope for African Youth: Strategy, Funding and Monetization.’” For more information contact www.africaexpousa.com
Good question posed by Nicki. WHAT’S NOT CLICKING???!!! Well, a few things come to mind. Words such as predator, wolves, beast, savage, monster and demon have ascended to the top of the food chain in terms of de sirable role models. What’s MINE is MINE and what’s YOURS is MINE, right? How about the loss of de cency and respect. So, a culture that lives by the credo that no snitching is tolerated can show and tell in detail the moves they and others make. It’s been report ed that someone actu ally posted a video of the man taking his final breaths. Make the math math!!! We not making sense out here.
Things change on the dime! At the top of the week, we were sup posed to be chattin’ up the best in hip hop, a day later we’ve reduced to making the best of a bad situation. Actually, we’ve zoomed past BAD to a place where we may be beyond reproach following the reports out of Los Angeles on Monday, Sept. 12. Like most East Coast dwell ers, it’s not unfathom able that Philadelphia native Rakim Hasheem Allen, hit one of the legendary eateries that the city is known for, in Roscoe’s Chicken And Waffles. This visit how ever would have dire consequences as Allen fell victim to a robbery that went left, result ing in a shooting. While enroute to a hospital, it was reported that the 30-year-old father of two succumbed to his injuries. Tragedies such as these are occurring on a daily basis across the nation and even if your stage name is, in this case PNB Rock, you’re not exempt. Sev eral peers took to social media and expressed their frustrations and condolences. A few of the those are listed below:
The ppl around these rappers gain so much. It’s time to start really reminding them over & over!!! At least TRY to put your foot down if you CARE! Tell them!!! You’re not loved like you think you are!!! You’re prey!!!! In a world full of predators!!!! What’s not clicking???!!!
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“We want to be clear: This bill was never about reducing the number of children enrolled in popular programs and schools. On the contrary, the law will require the city to create more seats wherever they are needed so students receive the individual ized attention they deserve. In no way will it lock children out of popular schools.”
After months of hesitation, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has signed legislation that will lower class sizes in every grade in New York City over the next six years. Teachers’ unions and their supporters are heralding her action, but opposition to the bill remains strong.
“Higher class sizes are often in schools with space constraints. Putting classroom caps will force students onto waitlists, into trailers or rezoned away from neigh borhood schools and bused to underenrolled schools with capacity. We must build more schools in these areas before we impose class caps.”
vocal in opposing the reduction of class sizes. Yiatin Chu, who serves as president of Asian Wave Alliance and is a co-found er of PLACE NYC, had created a petition urging Hochul not to sign the new law just days prior to it being passed. “Mandating class size caps will force the DOE to cut seats in programs that NYC families want: popular neighborhood schools, gifted and talented (G&T) programs, AP cours es, Specialized High Schools (SHSAT) and other in-demand middle and high schools,” Chu’s petition states.
By KAREN JUANITA CARRILLO Special to the AmNews
Labor negotiators remained in talks to prevent the strike as the AmNews went toTrainpress. engineers’ and conductors’ unions say the main sticking point is the fact that companies don’t want to accept the union’s proposal for sick time policies.Thelarger media is covering these ne gotiations because the rail strike could
In a report from 2011, the Brookings In stitution agreed that lowering class sizes is expensive for any education board. But it noted that “researchers have found pos itive effects of early and very large classsize reductions on academic achievement in school and college attendance, with the economic benefits of the program outweighing the costs.”
threaten U.S. supply chains. Other than goods for shopping, according to sta tistics from the Association of Ameri can Railroads, one-third of U.S. exports travel by rail, the railroads account for nearly 68% of freight rail mileage, and 70% of the miles traveled by Amtrak trains are on tracks owned by freight
shippers by these highly profitable Class I railroads is no more than cor porate extortion. Our Unions remain at the bargaining table and have given the rail carriers a proposal that we would be willing to submit to our members for ratification, but it is the rail carri ers that refuse to reach an acceptable agreement. In fact, it was abundant ly clear from our negotiations over the past few days that the railroads show no intentions of reaching an agreement with our Unions, but they cannot legal ly lock out our members until the end of the cooling-off period. Instead, they are locking out their customers begin ning on Monday and further harming the supply chain in an effort to provoke congressional action.”
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"The presidents of SMART Transportation Division and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen, Teamsters Rail Conference issued a statement claiming rail owners are resorting to corporate terrorism."
School fundamentals: math, reading, and writing (Karen Juanita Carrillo photo)
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Once the bill was signed, United Feder ation of Teachers (UFT) President Michael Mulgrew and Nicholas Cruz, UFT’s direc tor of community and parent outreach, sent out an email praising the new law.
Peter Greene, a retired English teach
One public school parent has been
But State Sen. John Liu who sponsored the bill—and chairs the Senate Com mittee on NYC Education—said, “New York City school kids have been denied a sound basic education for too long. This legislation forces the Department of Ed ucation to at long last develop a 5-year plan to bring class sizes down to levels originally established by the DOE itself instead of merely paying lip service to the problem. Moreover, the City is receiving $1.6 billion more state funding annually toward this purpose, and must stop with nonsensical rhetoric claiming ‘unfunded mandate’ and just get stuff done! Thanks to Governor Hochul, NYC school kids will now get what they are entitled to.”
But opponents claim school funding issues are precisely what will determine how this new law is received. They have long charged that lowering class sizes won’t be easy: it will cost hundreds of millions of dol lars for the construction of more building fa cilities for more classes and will necessitate the hiring of more teaching professionals (at a time when fewer people are choosing to enter the profession and the number of cur rent teachers retiring remains high).
Rail workers could go on strike as soon as this Friday, Sept. 16.
railroads.Thepresidents of SMART Transporta tion Division and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen, Teamsters Rail Conference issued a statement claiming rail owners are re sorting to corporate terrorism: “This completely unnecessary attack on rail
Freight rail workers may go on strike
The Biden White House is making contingency plans in case there is a disruption to vital supplies that could threaten the nation’s economy.
er, wrote in his blog “Curmudgucation” about studies that show that smaller class sizes mean more attention to the individ ual needs of students—and allow teachers the opportunity to spend more produc tive one-on-one time with young learn ers. Those who are against smaller class sizes, Greene says, don’t really have a valid argument: “Ask parents. Would you rather have your child in a class of fifteen or thir ty-five? Then find me even a dozen par ents who pick the larger class. Heck, even people in the ‘Gosh, there’s no hard evi dence that smaller is better’ crowd admit that they still prefer smaller for their own children. Meanwhile, every teacher will tell the same story that I will tell you about my years in the classroom—with fewer students, I could give each student more personal attention. Not only that, but as an English teacher, fewer students meant that I could do more writing assignments as well as provide richer feedback be cause I was only grading 150 essays over the weekend instead of 300.”
Under new bill, NYC will lower class sizes
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“The city has more state and federal ed ucation aid than ever before,” the email reads, “and coming out of this pandem ic, our students’ needs have never been greater. Thanks to this legislation, the class size gap between New York City public schools and schools in the rest of the state will finally close. The impact on our school system will be tremendous.
Contract negotiations stalled during the pandemic for some 115,000 U.S. freight railroad workers. Workers are planning a national strike as a way to forward their negotiations with rail owners about stagnant wages, heavy workloads, unsafe conditions, and strict attendance policies.
State lawmakers had overwhelmingly ap proved the class size reduction bill in June and teachers’ organizations clamored all summer for Hochul to make a decision on it. When she finally signed the bill into law on Thursday, Sept. 8, it was presented with one minor change: the phasing in of class size requirements will take place by Sep tember 2028, instead of by 2027 as initially proposed. So each year, from 2023 through 2028, New York City will have to reduce class sizes in at least 20% of its schools.
On August 31, 2022, the FDA amended the emergency use authorizations for the Mod erna and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines to allow “bivalent formulations” of their COVID-19 vaccines. In a press release, FDA Commis sioner Robert M. Califf, M.D. stated that “[t] he COVID-19 vaccines, including boosters, continue to save countless lives and prevent the most serious outcomes (hospitalization and death) of COVID-19…As we head into
The approval of the Pfizer-BioNTech vac cine in 2020 ushered in a hope for stemming the endless tide of death and illness wrought by COVID-19. While the importance of the original vaccines is undeniable, variants con tinue to prolong the pandemic. From pre ventative measures such as mask wearing, physical distancing, and hand washing to COVID-19 treatments such as Paxlovid, nu merous measures have been instituted over time to lessen the tragic toll of COVID-19. In the continuing COVID fight, the latest tool to be developed to turn the tide of the pandem ic are the Omicron specific boosters from Moderna and Pfizer-BioNtech.
with the current monovalent booster that’s available with the current vaccines that are available for our primary series, that cases are decreasing, that hospitalizations are also decreasing.” Easterling went on to state that “during this Omicron wave…we have seen higher rates of infection and reinfection but we did not see a high rate of hospitalization similar to previous waves and I think there are a number of reasons why that may be the case but we certainly know that vaccines have remained effective keeping folks out of the hospital and keeping folks from severe ill ness.” The theory is that the booster shots will continue to protect people from seri ous illness and death, and also strengthen the memory of the immune system, thus potentially leading to an ability for the body to recognize variants long-term. While the original vaccines and boosters still provide strong protection, scientists believe that the new boosters designed to target Omicron will be even better at providing protection from infection, hospitalization and death from the evolving COVID-19 virus.
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According to the FDA, for the Moderna COVID-19, those 18 years and older are el igible for the bivalent booster at least two months after their primary vaccination com pletion or most recent booster. For the Pfiz er-BioNTech booster, the eligibility age is 12.
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fall and begin to spend more time indoors, we strongly encourage anyone who is eligible to consider receiving a booster dose with a bivalent COVID-19 vaccine to provide better protection against currently circulating vari ants.” This approval was quickly followed by CDC approval on September 1, 2022.
These and other resources can also be ac cessed on the AmNews COVID-19 page: https://amsterdamnews.com/covid/
While the approval of the boosters is not without questions, it is also important to remember that this process is similar to the flu vaccine process where the flu vaccine is reformulated each year without new addi tional human clinical trials.
By HEATHER M. BUTTS, JD, MPH, MA Special to the AmNews
For those interested in getting the newest booster, New York, like many other states, will rely on a network of pharmacies, health care practitioners, and clinics for distribu tion as opposed to the mass vaccination sites
seen earlier in the pandemic. As for wheth er people should wait until they become el igible for the new booster or can get access, Easterling encouraged individuals to con tinue to get their primary series and cur rent booster. According to Easterling, once final procedures are in place at the state level “we’ll have updated revised boosters…avail able for New Yorkers.”
Updates on the booster can be found at the CDC’s website page entitled “Stay Up to Date with COVID-19 Vaccines Including Boosters”: ncov/vaccines/booster-shot.htmlwww.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019. For more information regarding vaccines and boost ers in New York City, please go to gov/site/doh/covid/covid-19-vaccines.page.www1.nyc.
In an interview with the AmNews, Dr. Torian Easterling, the first deputy commis sioner and chief equity officer for the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, stated that “we’re seeing right now
New COVID-19 boosters targeting Omicron subvariants approved by FDA and CDC
The data submitted by the booster manu facturers is mainly from animal data and Eu ropean studies. Human clinical trials in the United States are expected to occur later this year and will be necessary for full approv al of the vaccines. While clinical trials are not necessary for an emergency use autho rization if the manufacturers have not sig nificantly changed the manner in which the vaccine is made, there are concerns regard ing public acceptance of such a process.
According to experts at MD Anderson “[u] ntil now, COVID-19 booster shots have been monovalent or univalent. That means they only contained one version of the mRNA se quence for the SARS-CoV-2 virus’ spike pro tein—the one that came from the original strain which emerged in late 2019 in Wuhan, China.” The boosters that were recently ap proved are considered to be bivalent vac cines, meaning they will protect people both from the original COVID-19 strain and the current Ba.4 and Ba.5 Omicron subvariants.
In a letter addressed to the Honorable Ale jandro N. Mayorkas, the department’s secre tary, they wrote that the flooding is “the worst seen in Pakistan in over a decade, claiming the lives of more than 1100 peoples. Bridges, agri cultural lands, and countless homes have also been destroyed, causing over 33 million people to be displaced or otherwise impacted.”
Particularly important is active ly modeling, and not just discussing, these principles. Which makes the ex ample of Dr. King so important.
The new tolls will destroy thousands of jobs held by immigrants and people of color in New York. FHVs will have no choice but to pass along the tolls to riders (up to $23!), inevitably reducing ridership
These same enduring principles can help us to overcome darkness in our era. We can shine an educational light that can help to bring healing to our troubled world. Teaching Dr. King’s principles will empower the coming generation to create a better future for us all.
There are no panaceas. But the most im portant action we can take is to commit ourselves to inculcate social and civic re
After three years and a pandemic, New York finally got to look at the MTA’s Envi ronmental Assessment (EA) for its dar ling—the Central Business District (CBD) Tolling Plan—and spent the next two weeks trying to decipher the nearly 900page report and its thousand page plus appendices. Sadly, despite the length, the MTA did the bare minimum to assess the impacted areas. Insultingly, moreover, they settled upon a tolling plan that is little more than a greenwashed extortion scheme on our communities of color. Rather than a congestion toll, they should have called it the “Black and Brown Toll,” and I can’t stress how awful this really is, nor my op position, hard enough.
Today’s young people desperately need to hear this unifying message.
Ambassador Andrew Young is the former mayor of Atlanta and U.S. Am bassador to the United Nations. Dr. Mat thew Daniels is the founder of Good of All (www.mlkcurriculum.org)
We were pleased to learn that NY Rep. Yvette D. Clarke has been equally concerned about water conditions, whether here or abroad. Last summer she introduced the Safe School Drinking Water Act, legislation to protect chil dren from the harmful impacts of lead con tamination in drinking water in schools. Lately, we learn that she has taken on anoth er water crisis, this one a devastating one far from our shores in Pakistan.
We made reference to the global impact of the water crisis without citing particu lar instances of such a problem, and we are thankful that the ever vigilant Rep. Clarke has brought the issue in Pakistan to our atten tion—and we certainly hope that the leaders at the Department of Homeland Security ex press the same sense of urgency.
Also reported is an outbreak of waterborne diseases at relief camps established by the government, and that must give the issue ad ditional resonance for Rep. Clarke given her concern for lead poisoning in water.
Dr. King was more than visionary. He was also an activist and organizer. He did not leave the hard work of doing to others but acted to change the world. He also pursued his passion for justice with a commitment to nonviolence that inspired millions.
But too many students have not been equipped for responsible citizenship, let alone effective leadership. So we have a rel ative dearth of leaders who can call our soci ety to a higher standard like Dr. King.
Global implications of the water crisis
Dr. King eloquently appealed to our better natures. His message transcended our dif ferences. But he also lived his principles, which gave his words special power.
I don’t hate congestion pricing conceptu ally. New York is horrifically congested and polluted by commuters. Our public transit system is aging, unsafe, and communities of color are under served by it. Charging auto commuters could easily fix both prob lems, if done right. So you would expect the MTA, studying this idea since it was approved in 2019, would pres ent a nuanced EA that examines the econom ic and edtheimpactsenvironmentalofthisissueoncity’smostaffectcommunities,and
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our age and advance his principles. These scholarships will go to students who, like Dr. King, dream of being ambassadors of non-violence and making not just the nation but the world a better place.
At a dark moment in the struggle against injustice and violence in an earlier era, Dr. King declared: “I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.”
By AMBASSADOR ANDREW YOUNG
The task of teaching those unifying, non-violent principles to a new genera tion is urgent and lies on the shoulders of the current generation which has time and again gravitated toward collective wisdom and come up with solutions that transcend politics and violence.
To that end, the Andrew Young Founda tion is collaborating with Good of All to launch a scholarship program for students determined to follow in Dr. King’s foot steps. We hope to teach the coming gener ation how to take up the great challenges of
By BERTHA LEWIS
and thus driver pay. Our drivers, as well as our outer borough commuters of color, have families to feed and are integral to their neighborhood economies. When our jobs and disposable income vanish, what will happen to the communities we sup port? Devastation, plain and simple.
Bertha Lewis is a community organizer and the Founder and President of The Black Institute (TBI), which states that it shapes intellectual discourse and impacts public policy uniquely from a Black and people of color perspective in the United States and throughout the Diaspora.
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Many of you are certainly aware of the record amount of rainfall in Pakistan and the nearby region resulting from the summer’s monsoon season. Rep. Clarke and several of her colleagues in the House of Representa tives, notably Sheila Jackson Lee, are urging the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to grant Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to Pakistanis currently living in the U.S.
tailor their scenarios with that in mind. I was disappointed, but unsurprised, when the MTA’s brain trust delivered an EA that barely accounts for our commu nities. We, people of color, are New York’s unsung, underpaid heros; we keep this city running for a pittance. Some of us have to drive to work because we don’t have access to public transit and for some of us, driving is our work. Yet the MTA has decided that we, more so than the wealthy white subur banites driving SUVs to New York because “public transit is for poor people and mi norities,” should be their piggy bank. We can barely afford to live in the city already! Especially damaging is the levy on forhire vehicle drivers (FHVs), over 90% of whom are people and immigrants of color. Under every scenario, FHVs are excessive ly charged; in many cases being subject to an unlimited number of tolls! Moreover, these would be on top of surcharges we already have to pay on FHV trips, which were implemented in 2019 at the behest of the MTA to do the exact same thing the CBDTP is supposed to! What happened to that money, which we paid during the global pandemic on the few rides we did get? How is it fair, or equal, to DOUBLE tax FHVs as opposed to taxis, or the com muters and commercial delivery trucks that are actually causing the congestion and pollution problems?
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The MTA made us a sacrificial lamb to avoid going after the actual problem: white commuters in the metropolitan area. The city and the big companies have a vested interest in defeating any attempt to make these commuters pay, sure, but the MTA didn’t even try to do the right thing. They instead did a bare-bones analysis, covered it with a lot of fluff and glitter in a report designed to keep us from discovering that fact, and are now trying to rush the public hearings so our voices are not heard. Well I did read it and I, along with The Black In stitute, condemn the MTA for this halfbaked, racist plan that will kill thousands of our jobs and disrupt our communities. We demand the EA be retracted, the en vironment properly restudied, and a new plan that will address the real problem: the white commuters with their gas-guz zlers. Otherwise, don’t insult us by calling this plan a “congestion pricing toll.” Call it what it is—a Black and brown toll.
In last week’s editorial we raised questions about the water crisis in the nation, particularly the precarious situ ation at that time in Jackson, Mississip pi as well as in our drinking water here in a NYCHA housing unit. Thankfully, both have been for the moment reme died but not to the point of completely assuring residents in either place.
Just call it the Black and brown toll
sponsibility in our young, thereby equipping them for a future of service and leadership.
Our nation’s most challenging internal struggle—and finest victory—was eradi cating the legacy of slavery and segrega tion. The principles that guided the nation through that critical time, so powerfully articulated by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., offer a guiding light for today.
Shining an educational light in the darkness
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Take this issue into careful con sideration. How are votes gained for political candidates? They gain support from voters by giving hope to individuals. Yet, if there is no issue, then there cannot be any hope for a future without it. So, after they have fixed a problem that they initially caused, our elected of ficials have almost no trouble pro moting their accomplishments on television and online while having almost no trouble concealing what they’ve done wrong. Because pain and suffering have become part and parcel of our daily lives, few people notice how the government wrongs them daily.
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In so many ways, librarians are often the unsung heroes of a community. They help unlock children’s imagina tions and they are a wealth of knowledge for people look ing to advance themselves or merely explore a topic of inter est. And most importantly, for many, they are the first people to introduce the love of read ing to so many young people.
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The government needs only one idea to guide them: the more issues, the more solutions.
about race, gender and sex uality, American history, and so much more. The Brook lyn Public Library has even taken the bold step to make, for a limited time, a free eCard to any person aged 13 to 21 across the United States. This generous coun terattack to the rising tide of conservative closed poli tics will allow young people free access to 500,000 digital books, including many cen sored books.
Should we be thankful to the gov ernment if, in the future, it provides us with things like health care subsi dies and tax credits, as penance for the harm they caused? Not in my opinion. When the government is the source of a problem, it should not be praised for finding solutions to the problem. It is inevitable that these problems are the result of hasty decision-making, which in turn re sults in poor policy. The situation is made even worse by the fact that the only place individuals can turn for assistance is the government.
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If you know a young person interested in applying to re ceive a free eCard, encour age them to go to Brooklyn Library’s Books Unbanned website at portandourwouldAsbrarybeAndgenerationtocountrypublicthisnot,publichaveacrosstinuesitemoneyapply.library.orgbooksunbanned@bklynlearnorg/books-unbannedwww.bklynlibrary.tomoreortheycanemailtoinquireandYoucanalsodonateonceonthewebtohelpthelibrarycontheirsupportforteensthecountry.Hopefullyourreadersfondmemoriesoftheirlibrarygrowingup.Ifhopefullyyouwillusetimetohelpsupportlibrariesacrossthesotheycancontinueprovideservicesforanewofyoungpeople.ifyouhavenotdoneso,suretosignupforalicardthisSeptember.mychildhoodlibrarianalwayssay,“Booksarefriends.”Indeed,theyare,alibrarycardisapasstomanynewworlds.
Christina Greer, Ph.D., is an associate professor at Ford ham University, the author of “Black Ethnics: Race, Im migration, and the Pursuit of the American Dream,” and the co-host of the podcast FAQ-NYC and host of The Blackest Questions podcast.
Government: The issue maker, the issue solver
doubled. And to add insult to injury, the pandemic claimed the lives of at least one parent or primary caregiver for more than 200,000 children.
As a direct result of this, we are al ready observing children who are significantly less sociable as well as significantly more depressed and overweight. It does not take a genius to understand how the life of a child could be negatively impacted by these catastrophic effects.
The issues which government create to force the people into reli ance on government assistance has resulted in a myriad of issues, chief among which are the pervasiveness of poverty, the growth of criminal activity, and the severe lack of em ployment opportunities for young erThepeople.fact that many of these issues have simple solutions is the aspect of this scenario that’s the most frus trating. In the case of children going to school, for example, it was known from the very beginning what the consequences of exposing them to COVID-19 would be, as well as the effects of locking children up in their rooms for two years without provid ing them with any opportunity for social interaction.
It is true that children can be car riers of the COVID-19 virus even if they are not sick; however, research suggests that the lockdowns and other restrictions that we were sub jected to did little, if anything, to impede the virus’s ability to spread. You need only look as far as Florida
I recently found out that September is National Li brary Card Sign Up Month. There seems to be a month to celebrate almost anything, but signing up for a library card is definitely worth the recognition and celebration.
Recently, with the nonsen sical debates over Critical Race Theory and right-wing legislators banning books in schools and libraries across the country, supporting our library systems and diligent librarians is more important thanTheever.New York Public Li brary (NYPL) system has an extensive network of branch es and it is relatively easy to sign up for a library card. They state, “NYPL library cards are available free for anyone who lives, works, at tends school, or pays proper ty taxes in New York State.” If someone is interested in ap plying for a library card they must complete and sign an application form and return it to a Circulation Desk at any NYPL location. In order to process your application you must also bring with you a New York State ID or other approved documen tation from the list on their website at www.nypl.org/li brarycard.Asstates across the country have begun banning books in schools, public libraries have become a beacon for those interested in learning
During the course of the COVID19 pandemic, we were witnesses to a myriad of problems that had been created by the government and that will have long-lasting effects on future generations of children and adolescents. They closed business es, which led to a number of bank ruptcies, and terminated employees because they refused to obtain the COVID-19 vaccination, both of which drove people into poverty and increased the rate of unemployment (which at one point reached almost 15%). And perhaps most important ly, they drove students away from the enriching experiences that are scientifically necessary for their de velopment into successful and socia ble young people who will effectively lead our Recentsociety.studies demonstrate how students in the United States have been significantly impacted by the closure of schools. For instance, the number of children who attempt ed suicide rose by 51%. In addition to that, the number of children who are classified as obese has nearly
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to see a state that broke the mold and did the polar opposite of what every other state did. They made it possible for their children to go to school, allowing them to devel op socially as well as intellectually. As a result, their current COVID19 rates are comparable to those of the general population. It is now abundantly clear that the potential dangers are relatively insignificant when weighed against the dangers posed to the growth and develop ment of our children.
Corruption is an ongoing issue within the government that is one of the contributing factors to the decline of both our communities and our nation. As Americans, we are no longer unified; instead, we are divided by partisan politics, which are made worse by the ef forts of the government to increase its control over us. Unfortunately, as long as there is civilization, there will be those who seek to rule.
What has the government done for you lately?
In spite of the many billions of dollars that the government has in its coffers and the outsized in fluence it has over our nation and the world, it appears that the ma jority of us scratch our heads when this question is posed to us. There is no doubt that we have access to a variety of government programs in addition to police, fire, and other emergency services. However, if one takes a step back and looks at the broader picture, it would appear that the majority of these government programs are in place to solve a problem that the govern ment created Governmentitself.thrives when it maintains its power, and it is pre cisely its desire for greater power and enormous riches that makes it possible for them to place the pop ulace in situations that force them to plead with the government for help when they are in need.
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Nearby Jamaica, mean while, missed its chance to switch to a republic in time for its 60th indepen dence anniversary last month because of out standing legislative work to make the transition. Authorities say the par liamentary work, which might also include a ref
beginning with the pas sage of the Farm Workforce Modernization Act, which is pending in the Senate after having already passed the House. This measure will provide farmers with a stable reliable workforce by creating a path to citi zenship for undocument ed agricultural workers and reforming the seasonal farmworker visa program.
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More nations to switch to republics; activists shed no tears for Queen
The irony is what many advocates like me have said for decades now—the same Americans who are against
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There are two vastly dif ferent immigration crises playing out currently in the United States. On the one hand there are the Repub licans who say too many immigrants are coming over the border and they need to be sent back or bussed out, and on the other, there are the farmers who say there is a major labor shortage, and they need immigrant laborers.
NewsAmericasNow.com –The Black Immigrant Daily News.
As with the visit of her grandson, Prince Wil liam, and granddaughterin-law Kate to the region earlier this year amid strident calls for apolo gies and reparations, the death last week of longserving British mon arch Queen Elizabeth has evoked mixed emotions in the Caribbean, with more calls for justice for the genocidal slave trade and plans by some coun tries to become republics in the near future.
Prime Minister Andrew Holness has already told London that the time has come to make the move during the visit of William and Kate earlier this year. Those which still allow a British monarch to rule as their head of state include Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Belize, Grenada, Jamaica, St Kitts-Nevis, Saint Lucia and St Vincent and the
The result is the current labor shortage which has been exacerbated by the pandemic and is now re sulting in higher food prices by more than 10% from last year or empty store shelves for some consumers, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.So,while Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is beaming as he buses immigrants out to other cities to score polit ical points, farmers in his own state are hurting and can’t fill jobs.
should be considered. I think that we’ve made progress. It’s going to happen. It’s just a matter of time,” he said.
erendum, could be com pleted next year.
both governments say would be “the full circle” of true independence.
The bill also imposes ad ditional crime-related in admissibility grounds on
immigration and against immigrants coming over the border, do not want the jobs many immigrants are willing to take.
ricultural labor during the two-year period prior to March 8, 2021; (2) on that date was inadmissible, de portable, or under a grant of deferred enforced de parture or temporary pro tected status; and (3) has been continuously present in the United States from that date until receiving CAW status. DHS may also grant dependent status to the spouse or children of the migrant. It also autho rizes the Department of Agriculture to provide var ious assistance, including funding for insuring loans and grants for new farm worker housing.
The irony of America’s immigration crisis
to be now experiencing the highest 12-month in crease in food prices since May 1979, according to the consumer price index. A 2022 Texas A&M Universi ty study commissioned by the American Business Co alition, a bipartisan group of 1,200 business leaders who advocate for immi gration reform, found that having more migrant and H-2A workers was related to lower inflation, higher average wages and lower unemployment.Thestudyalso found that “more denied petitions for naturalizations are associ ated with larger consumer prices and higher inflation.”
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“I will have a referen dum and the Bahamian people will have to say to me, yes. The only chal lenge with us moving to a republic is that I can’t, as much as I would wish to do it, I cannot do it with out your consent,” Prime Minister Phillip Davis told reporters at the weekend.
Antigua in the Eastern Caribbean is also plan ning to vote on the issue in the next prime minis terial term, as regional member states line up to become republics along side Guyana, Trinidad, Dominica and Barba dos—the last to do so just last November. Elections in Antigua are due early next“Thatyear. ambition re mains, and early in our next term we should be in a position to put a consti
It also would establish a certified agricultural worker (CAW) status and change the H-2A tempo rary worker program.
As Caribbean lead ers prepare to travel to London for the late mon arch’s funeral next week, regional activists are re minding Caribbean cit izens not to mourn for a queen who had represent ed a country which had not only colonized many
This can easily be re solved for the good of all
An indication of the mood of the region, Baha mian Social Services Min ister Obie Wilchcombe says the fight for repara tions for the slave trade must be maintained and the issue will be a major agenda item when The Bahamas hosts the midyear leaders conference early next year.
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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) would be allowed to grant CAW status to an applying alien who: (1) performed at least 1,035 hours of ag
CAW applicants and makes some other grounds inap plicable, but an immigrant with a pending application may not be detained or re moved by DHS and shall be authorized for employ ment until DHS makes a final decision on the ap plication.Thismakes it a great so lution, but of course it’s still lagging in the Senate as Republicans prefer to play politics with immi gration rather than find rational solutions. As such, we all are now paying the price literally!
“Looktrade.at how old she was when she died. She was kept alive that long because of the plunder of countries like ours. It was that plunder that allowed them to live the lives of luxury that they did. Their history is one of tyranny,” said Khafra Kambon, the head of Trinidad’s eman cipation committee and Black Power activist.
tutional question to the people of Antigua and Barbuda to determine whether or not we should transition from the mon arch as our head of state, King Charles, or whether we should have our own president as a local An tiguan and Barbudan,” PM Gaston Browne said on a weekend radio pro gram. “Becoming a re public doesn’t mean that this represents any form of disrespect to the mon archy. It’s just about com pleting that circle of independence to ensure we are truly a sovereign nation,” he added
nations in the region but had also helped to fund the brutal and genocidal slave
The Bahamian and Anti guan governments at the weekend both said they would soon organize refer endums to allow locals to determine whether those nations should dump King Charles as their head of state, choose a local as president, and become re publics, completing what
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“When you think about it, many [Caribbe an people] contributed. Many were a part of and were defending the Union Jack and they gave their lives. Many have lived in the UK since and still have not been given the recog nition they deserve,” the minister said, swiping at British authorities. The Bahamas will celebrate 50 years as an independent nation next July.
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NAYABA ARINDE Amsterdam News Editor “Cure violence is the solution,” A.T. Mitchell, CEO and founder of Man Up! Inc. told the Amsterdam News. “They can replace guns with jobs in these streets, and that would cut down the violence immediately.” dents, activists and elected to process. With the disturbing all-night, every night letting off of fireworks already having set the city on edge, there is con fusion about whether it was a gunshot dation, and other anti-violence advo cates held a press conference with anti-violence advocates on Wednes day, July 1, outside of Brooklyn Bor ough Hall on the recently unveiled mural on “Black Lives Matter Bou levard,” to demand a “comprehen sive crisis response by the New York lice murdered George Floyd demand to “defund the police,” and cut the NYPD budget by one billion dollars––retired cop, BP Adams alongside advocates urged “the NYPD to sustain its commit ment to responsible policing and look into how rapidly they are responding to See ERIC on page 6Police, others look for excuses as shootings rise By
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JOHNSON Amsterdam News Staff In a 24-hour span on June 28, 2019, there were five shooting incidents with seven victims. On the same day this year, during the same time period, there were eight shooting incidents with 11 victims. At this time on June 28, 2019, there were 355 shooting incidents with 406 victims. As of June 28, 2020, there were 511 shooting incidents with 616 vic tims. This past Saturday, 47-year-old Charles Hernandez ––armed with Last week produced a 127% increase in shootings (when compared to the same time period last year). There were 125 reported shootings in the last three weeks of June, which is double com pared to the same time period last year. Seventy-four people were wounded in 55 separate shooting incidents in all of New York City just on Saturday. One of those shootings left a 7-year-old girl with injuries. So what can this be attributed to? According to New York Police Depart ment Police Chief Terence Monahan, it’s several things. Many of these things involve policies directed by New York THE NEW BLACK WWW.AMSTERDAMNEWS.COMVIEWVol. 111 No. 27 | July 2, 2020 - July 8, 2020 ©2020 The Amsterdam News | $1.00 New York City
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JOHNSONAmsterdam News Staff In a 24-hour span on June 28, 2019,
BARKERAmsterdam News Staff As COVID-19 cases make a sharprise in states south of the Mason-Dixie line, New York is taking several measures to make sure the samething doesn’t happen here.After being the epicenterCOVID-19 As New York City moves throughPhase 2 of recovering from COVID-19, the city is preparing for Phase 3,which is set to begin on July 6. Thenext phase includes the opening ofpersonal care services and restaurants operating withdining. Borough President EricAdams calls out perceived police slowdown on 911 calls“Theycan replace guns with jobs in thesestreets, and that would cut down theviolenceimmediately.” standing––it is a lot for victims, resi fusionhavingnightdents,activistsandelectedtoprocess.Withthedisturbingall-night,everylettingoffoffireworksalreadysetthecityonedge,thereisconaboutwhetheritwasagunshot With six shootings in Brooklyn inone hour, one hitting an 11-year-oldboy in his leg, Brooklyn Borough Pres.sivelevard,”muraloughday,anti-violencecatesdation,EricAdams,LaytheGunsDownFounandotheranti-violenceadvoheldapressconferencewithadvocatesonWednesJuly1,outsideofBrooklynBorHallontherecentlyunveiledon“BlackLivesMatterBoutodemanda“comprehencrisisresponsebytheNewYork City Police Department and City Hallas Brooklyn has experienced a majoruptick in shootings in recent weeks.”Acknowledging the passage of the citybudget––which adhered to the post-police murdered George Floyd demand to“defund the police,” and cut the NYPDbudget by one billion dollars––retiredcop, BP Adams alongside advocatesurged“the NYPD to sustain its commitment to responsible policing and lookinto how rapidly they are responding toSee ERIC on page 6
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THE NEW BLACK WWW.AMSTERDAMNEWS.COMVIEWVol. 111 No. 26 | June 25, 2020 July 1, 2020 Primary election sees big wins forprogressives, problems at the pollsBy CYRIL JOSH BARKERAmsterdam News Staff Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, New
On a sunny, early June afternoon, New York City CouncilMember Inez Barron, New YorkState Assembly Member Charles create an agency that wouldhave more power than the Civilian Complaint Review Board. Anagency that would have a biggereffect on policing in the city. Review Board, an independent prosecutor and a separateinvestigative body. The elected board would consist of 21 State Senate votes in favor of repealing 50-aBy CYRIL JOSH BARKERAmsterdam News Staff The New York State Senate and Assembly have repealedCivil Rights Law 50-a, gettingone step closer to making iteasier to access police disciplinary records. The state law,on the books since the 1970s, is often used to shield police misconduct and police disciplinary processes from public view.The Senate voted 40-22 and the Assembly voted 101-43 for therepeal of the law. Law 50-a hasgarnered recent interest afterthe police killing of Black, unarmed George Floyd in Minneapolis at the hands of a white police officer who put his kneeon Floyd’s neck. The officer involved, Derek Chauvin, had areported 16 complaints againsthim prior to Floyd’s death.During the 2014 police killingcase of Eric Garner, 50-a playeda major role in shielding themisconduct record of the officer Serious Criminal Justice Reform Efforts Must Include Records ExpungementUrban Agenda by David R. Jones, President and CEO of the Community Service Society of New York See CCRB on page 27 See 50-A on page 29 See ORTA on page 29 DEFUND THE POLICE!THE NEW BLACK WWW.AMSTERDAMNEWS.COMVIEW Vol. 111 No. 27 July 2, 2020 - July 8, 2020 ©2020 The Amsterdam News $1.00 New York City NYPD TANTRUM NY takes steps to keep COVID out By CYRIL JOSH BARKER Amsterdam News Staff As COVID-19 cases make a sharp rise in states south of the MasonDixie line, New York is taking sever al measures to make sure the same thing doesn’t happen here. After being the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic for months, New York is now one of the states with As New York City moves through Phase 2 of recovering from COVID19, the city is preparing for Phase 3, which is set to begin on July 6. The next phase includes the opening of personal care services and restau rants operating with some indoor dining. However, state and city of ficials are scaling back on letting people eat inside of restaurants. Viral videos have popped up on crowds in some Borough President Eric Adams calls out perceived police slowdown on 911 calls
AmNewsreceived reports of polling locations peredopeninglate,brokenmachines,ill-tempollworkersandevencandidates’ ballots did not receive them in the mail.One disturbing error was that manyvoters could not vote in Tuesday’s primary election for the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate. Ballots forthe race were not given to voters atseveral polling places. While Sen. JoeBiden is currently the presumed Democratic Party nominee after all of theother candidates dropped out, a federal judge had allowed the names ofthe 11 other former candidates to beon the ballot. A lawsuit was filed byformer candidate Andrew Yang andSen. Bernie Sanders supporters.One example of the error camefrom the Bronx where voters at P.S.85 Great Expectations polling sitewere not given the two sheets to votefor the Democratic presidential candidate. One voter asked NYC:WE'RE BACK Group)RockwellforAndrews(Emily AmNews awarded technology grant fromKnight FoundationBy CYRIL JOSH BARKERAmsterdam News Staff The New York Amsterdam News wasone of 24 newsrooms recently awarded a grant from the John S. and James L.Knight Foundation technology initiative to strengthen digital publishing solutions in newsrooms.After a competitive application process, the first cohort of 24 newsroomswas selected to receive $20,000 in grantsfor publishing NYC enters Phase 2By CYRIL JOSH BARKERAmsterdam News Staff Gates are rolled up, outdoor tablesare set and “closed” signs are flippedas New York City enters Phase 2 of theCOVID-19 recovery, which permits restaurants to serve customers outdoors, andtheopeningofbeautyandbarbershopsin-storeretail. Phase 2, which began on Monday,also opens playgrounds, offices, real masksoftothepacity.churchesestateservices,carsalesandrentals,andtoholdservicewith25%caWhileNewYorkersareenjoyingreopenings,theyarealsoadjustingnewregulationstopreventthespreadCOVID-19,includingmandatoryfaceandsocialdistancing. See PHASE 2 on page 6 Keep updatedFollow us on social media www.facebook.com/NYAmsterdamNewswww.instagram.com/nyamnewstwitter.com/NYAmNews & Check our website www.amsterdamnews.com THE PANDEMIC HAS SHOWN THAT SUPPORTERS LIKE YOU UNDERSTAND THE IMPORTANCE OF LOCAL NEWS AS A SOURCE OF RELIABLE INFORMATION. YOUR DONATION TO THE BLACKLIGHT INVESTIGATIVE UNIT, VIA THE LOCAL MEDIA FOUNDATION, WILL DIRECTLY SUPPORT THIS JOURNALISM. SCAN the QR Code to donate. Or TEXT “blacklight” to (202) /blacklight-donate/https://amsterdamnews.com858-1233 The Local Media Foundation/New York Amsterdam News Blacklight Project will shine a light on the problems plaguing our communities and highlight solutions. Donations to the Local Media Foundation for this project are tax-deductible to the extent of the law. No goods or services are provided in exchange for contributions. Please consult a tax advisor for details. The program is administered by Local Media Foundation, tax ID #36-4427750, a Section 501(c)(3) charitable trust affiliated with the Local Media Association.
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Dan Treglia, an expert contributor to COVID Collaborative, told the AmNews that CDC data released in May showed that “8,730 children in New York City have lost a parent or anoth er co-residing caregiver to COVID-19. This is a rate of 511 per 100,000 people. In other words,
The number of affected children in York City is staggering, and is even more impact ful when a face is put to each number. Joshua, Zachary, and Madison are the children left behind after their father Trevor Fletcher, an MTA worker, died on April 11, 2020 from COVID-19. “I knew it was a possibility that he might never come back from the hospital,” said 16-year-old Joshua Fletcher in an inter view with the AmNews at his home.
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one of every 196 children has lost a co-residing caregiver to COVID-19. This is a significant ly higher rate than we’ve seen for the United States overall, with wider disparities between Black and Hispanic children and white chil dren than we see in the country as a whole.”
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Even more disheartening is that 153,148 of these bereaved children are between ages 0-13 years and 40,584 of them are Black and 78,400 are Hispanic.
As terrifying and heartbreaking as the COVID-19 pandemic was for adults, for some children the past two years have been even more challenging. Reports show over one million persons in the U.S. died from the virus, but there is a subset of persons who continue to be affected by those deaths. These are the children who lost a parent or direct caregiver to COVID-19. According to data tabulated by COVID Collaborative, 217,364 children nationally have lost a care giver to COVID-19, nearly 300 per 100,000 Americans. The data show that 108,738 chil dren lost a primary caregiver, with 17,102 of them losing their sole caregiver.
His younger brother Zachary, 13, shared that, “We became more sensitive. And, like, we felt lonely in the house too, like our family would never be, like, fine again.” The Fletch er children spoke about family vacations being different and missing simple things like the hot dogs their father used to make. Their mother, Veronica Fletcher, recalled that “shortly after I told them that their Papa had passed, they immediately went into more desperate mode about the things that
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The Fletcher Family (L to R Joshua, Madison, Veronica and Zachary) lost father and husband Joseph to COVID-19 (Terrence C. Jennings Photo)
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Bob Wankel with the Hon. Eric Adams
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James Earl Jones Theatre dedication ceremony honors legendary actor
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On Monday, Sept. 12, The Shubert Or ganization, Inc. (Shubert) officially ded icated and revealed the newly renamed James Earl Jones Theatre (138 West 48th St.), formerly the Cort Theatre, in honor of the iconic multi-award-winning American actor. The dedication ceremony follows a $47 million restoration and expansion of theThebuilding.ceremony welcomed VIP guests in cluding NYC Mayor Eric Adams, Samuel L. Jackson, LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Courtney B. Vance, Debbie Allen, Lee Dan iels, Phylicia Rashad, Kenny Leon, Shubert Organization President Robert Wankel, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Norm Lewis, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Tamara Tunie, Woodie King Jr. and more, and featured special performances by Stokes Mitch ell and Lewis, along with remarks from Wankel and Adams as well as a first look reveal of the new marquee.
The James Earl Jones Theatre (Bill Moore photos)
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James Earl Jones and Leslie Uggams in a scene from “On Golden Pond” (Joan Marcus photo)
traditionally change names of our Broadway theaters, even though we’re asked to do it a great many times, but we made that decision after Blacks Lives Matter started and we decided we should name the the ater after a BIPOC person. We made that decision in 2020 and we’re following through now with the com pletion of the construction, formerly the Cort Theatre and now the James Earl Jones Theatre, and I have to tell you it’s spectacular! The theater will reopen in Octo ber. Theater is life chang ing and we want every young person to come to the theater. We tell stories better than anybody. Mil lions of people experience theWhentheater.”itcomes to a spec tacular career, not many people can compare to James Earl Jones, who has always represented his
icant. Very few people have reached the status of EGOT.” Naming the theater after Jones is essentially giving him immortality. Sharing what he wants the pro ductions that play there to experience, Wankel ex plained, “I hope they will enjoy the new environ ment the theater will have, but most importantly they will be proud to play in the theater named after James Earl Jones, one of the great American actors.” The first show that will open the theatre is “Ohio State Mur ders” starring Audra Mc Donald with direction by KennyRecallingLeon. Jones’ reac tion to this honor Wankel shared, “Mr. Jones was absolutely delighted. It’s a very significant honor, there are very few Broad way people who have the aters named after them. Many were named after
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This honor is being be stowed on Jones by the Shubert Organization. “To witness a theater named in my honor is at once mo mentous and humbling,” said Jones. “It serves as a joyful reminder of the many long days and nights spent treading the boards with amazing peers who were at my side as we worked to show the hu manity of all, often at great odds. It is my wish that it also serves as a beacon of hope to the countless contemporary talent now forging new paths in the ater and beyond that all is possible.”Irecently had the op portunity to speak with Robert E. Wankel, chair person and CEO of The Shubert Organization.
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The newly named James Earl Jones Theatre following its $47 million renovation (T. Whitney Cox photo)
lots of different things. I think it’s a very significant honor and one that he is very appreciative of.”
On Monday, Sept. 12, James Earl Jones received an honor that very few Black actors ever have: the Cort Theatre, locat ed at 138 W. 48th Street, which has undergone a $47 million renovation and expansion, is now renamed the James Earl Jones Theatre. Jones is a household name for his distinctive voice and per formances in both theater and film. His career began in 1957, and over 60 years later he has been in 21 Broadway shows.
While that is a mouthful, Wankel said it was neces sary. “The theater is 110
When asked, why James Earl Jones? Wankel re plied, “Why not James Earl Jones? He’s one of the greatest American actors and he’s actually done 14 shows in Shubert The atres. He’s been one of our great stars. It’s very fitting to have a theater named after a gentleman of his stature.”TheShubert Organiza tion was inspired to do this after the 2020 Black Lives Matter movement. Consid ering how the renaming is a step in the Broadway com munity’s showing that it is about inclusion, Wankel ex plained, “I think the renam ing in itself should make that statement. We don’t
B’way’s Cort Theatre renamed for James Earl Jones!
The theater underwent a $47 million restoration and expansion, it was originally designed in the style of an 18th century French palace by theater architect Thomas Lamb to house productions by the ater impresario John Cort. Now it has been renovat ed by Kostow Greenwood Architects and has a re furbished interior and ex terior, a modern annex, lounges, new restrooms, rehearsal spaces and of fices for staff, a dress ing room tower in the annex, expanding stage and upgrading the rig ging system to accom modate more technically demanding productions.
Recalling Jones’ reaction to hearing that the the ater would be named in his honor Wankel said, “I think, as James said, having played the Cort Theatre and then having the theater named after him 60 years later, shows that if you work hard you can get places. And I think that James has certainly proven that. He’s had such an extraordi nary career, very extraordi nary. Hopefully the identity makes a statement that all people are important. And certainly, James Earl Jones, his contribution to the en tertainment world is signif
years old. The world has changed, the people have changed. The theater needed upgraded rest rooms, we have an eleva tor so that all of the levels will be serviced for people with disabilities, the rig ging system modernized because today’s technol ogy is very different. But the theater just needs room, they were built tight back in the day and the world has changed. In order for the theater to be open another 100 years we had to make big renovations. We restored the original Cort The atre to its original beauty and people will appreci ate that. There’s a 5-story annex, with the public space with restrooms and dressing rooms. This will keep the theater going for [another] 100 years. We had the opportunity to acquire a piece of proper ty next to the theater that gave us the ability to have this annex. We’re honored to be naming the theater after Mr. Jones and we’re glad we had the opportu nity to restore the theater. When you see it you will see it really is quite mag nificent!”
community with digni ty and honor and has re ceived many accolades, including the Nation al Medal of the Arts, Ken nedy Center Honors and a 2017 Lifetime Achieve ment Award. He is also an EGOT—Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony winner.
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On Amsterdam Avenue, start ing at 145th Street, there are three new establishments and one on Frederick Douglass Blvd.
All City Legends (Margrira photos)
Something amazing is happen ing in Harlem and I can only hope that this wave of positive change continues.COVID-19 was an unexpected pause in the lives of millions and for some, it was a devastating ex perience. For others, it was that needed suspension of time and responsibility that only some thing this huge could accomplish, which was a reset.
In my Harlem neighborhood, when I finally poked my head out, I discovered many businesses had closed. But to my surprise, in their place, were new establishments being run by women of color.
the presence of Black woman hood in this large-scale water color and gouache piece where the central figure is shown with a weary smile, yet enveloped by the photographs of Black an
shop in her own backyard. This family-friendly spot also offers an authentic specialty bakery and their small batch artisanal gelat eria is made fresh, daily, using the finest ingredients available. Just six months old (Jan. 29, 2022) this spot is quickly gaining the sup port of the community; besides being delicious the vibe is uplift ing and Harlem friendly, get me? “This is a family space,” says Avril Lekic, “and we want everyone to feel welcome when they walk into our doors.”
pastries from Colson Patisserie, and gourmet bagels from Blour Bagel by Catherine Yoo. It’s a very small space but the vibe is pure despite the crack addicts loiter ing in front of the store. Owned and operated by an African Amer ican couple, who’ve been togeth er since they were in their early teens, their space also offers unique gifts from local artists of color.
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All City Legends 2854 Frederick Douglass Blvd. sensorywriter,Legendsnating,yearsgamewomenyearslovedJakeehttps://allcitylegends.com/about-2-646-669-7148Thisgraffitispotisownedby(Jakee&Crown)whohasgraffitisinceshewas12old.Therearenotmanyholdingitdowninthebutshe’sknownand“afterofthinkingandprocrastionNov.28,2020,AllCitywasborn.”Foragraffitiwalkingintothisspaceisoverload,likewhenyou
“Freedom’s Dream Book, 2022” by Jamal Cyrus
Armory Show 2022 brought out the magic
Trenton Doyle Hancock’s “Mound #1, The Color Crop Experience (2018)” (Karen Juanita Carrillo photos)
María Magdalena CamposPons had “Secrets of the Magno lia Trees Deb Luminosity, 2022” exhibited by Gallery Wendi Norris. The piece is mixed media and features a middleaged Black woman wrapped in a quilt-like jacket that is filled with archival photographic prints. Campos-Pons centers
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dreamed about––as a way to control your future.
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“Secrets of the Magnolia Trees Deb Luminosity, 2022” by María Magdalena
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A few noted pieces on view were:
derful “Freedom’s Dream Book, 2022” on display, a piece made of denim, cotton thread, and cotton batting that reflects on the old tradition of playing the numbers––or making bets based on the numbers you’ve
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This year’s Armory Show brought out art galleries from around the world to showcase their artists at the Javits Center from Sept. 9-11.
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The oma, shop 1707 Amsterdam Ave - www. theomahome.com/646-360-4918Thisbrandnewcoffee and gift shop features coffee from Coun ter Culture along with assorted
1705 Amsterdam Ave 646-418-7893 - Appointment Only Dolled provides lash exten sion services and also offers cer tified lash classes and is owned by Vevica (@lashbarbieee) who has been a licensed cosmetologist for 4 years, specializing in individual lash extensions and training.
In Harlem, women are doing it for themselves
were a kid and you strolled inside a toy store. It’s packed with a fullcolor assortment of spray paint, caps, markers, inks, canvases, books, graffiti/art supplies, pins, and collectibles. Plus, they offer the largest assortment of art by some of the biggest names in graf fiti, and they specialize in custom stickers, decal printing and they make pins. To keep the culture alive, if a store owner is looking for a talented artist to make their vision come alive. They make custom items.
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Trenton Doyle Hancock’s “Mound #1, The Color Crop Experi ence (2018)” exhibited by the James Cohan gallery is a massive display of a mythological-type figure made of metal, fiberglass, and rug which kids and even adults were drawn to. Viewers could enter the figure through a tent-flap and experience an animated video inside.
Circumstances are changing in your life for the betterment of your growth and mental development. Progress is being made and you can feel, sense, hear, taste, and see the efforts you put in. Although tough times and pressure are applied, what you will gain as you complete the homework assignment is worth the process. Keep pushing through and follow up as you may feel like you are walking on a tightrope. Sept. 20th-21st, change occurs when you change and decide on what you want to do.
Rebirth of A New Nation: There is a difference between an interest and a commitment. When you have an interest, something sparks your mind for you to go see about it. Either you like it or not. But interest doesn’t always keep your attention; if it did, you would remain committed. When you are committed, you are determined to see it all, the ugly and beautiful, through the process until the end. Finances, careers, education, relationships, be it personal or business, are taking a turn. Some things are being discarded, removed for good out of your life for you to move on. It’s time to fill your heart with joy and do what makes you happy. Rewards are solely being bestowed upon humanity in ways you never thought or saw before. Christmas in September. New and old obligations are being resolved, released to move forward in your process. Open your heart to change and receive your blessing. You’ve carried the weight of others on your back long enough. Rewards are being paid off and healing is occurring throughout many families of the world. We are the beneficiary of our ancestors. Stay in ascension mode.
What was a slow process grew legs to start walking and talking on its way to you. Even when we feel there is no one there to help, there is always someone by your side. As you look around from where you started you have a whole lot of people, resources, courses, and projects you created. You connected and built an empire for you and now it’s time to level up. The things you didn’t see coming are vastly approaching you. Any semi-legal matters are resolved either before or after the Mercury retrograde phase. Partnership is a theme as well.
Mentally your memory has been jogged and certain scenes of your life are replaying for a reason. In the memories that are on rewind, pay at tention to the details and what occurred as there is a message for you. Open your eyes and get out of your feelings and out of your way to un derstand. Sudden diagnoses can occur, do not be in a rush, and ask for a second and even a third opinion. Financial gain, losses, and separa tion of a loved one or a situation are changing. Sept. 18th-19th, it’s time to move in a different direction.
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Money, recognition, personal and business relationships are ad vancing in your life. Keep making an imprint, an impact on people’s lives, reaching out to the minds and hearts of people. The spotlight is on you. How you exploit the light is to choose where you direct the energy or crowds. We all have a role, position in this world and you are exploring yours to its fullest. Make your mark on this world.
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You love to help others and guide them to a prosperous life by edu cating, inspiring and motivating people. Your dreams and goals are in reach as you also fulfill many things in your life from where you start ed—and now look at you. You are a walking angel, a spiritual being de livering the messages to the people this particular week, or some forms of messages are being related to you. A cycle to cut your losses by now and receive your achievement for doing such a great job. Sept. 20th-21st, strike while the iron is hot. Even if it isn’t, you make it hot.
Something you have to do is nudging you to make it happen no matter how you feel. It must be done. Ask and it shall be given. The universe is making sure you snap out of the funk and handle your business in a different way. Sit with yourself and talk it out to straight en out a situation. When you do the right thing, great deeds come to you. When you change your perspective, you receive clarity and are able to focus. With Mars in Gemini, the script is being rewritten. Sept. 15th-17th, make a choice.
When you have something to say, say it like back in the day in the oldfashioned way. Information flows through you like water running, even when there is no leak in the faucets. The skills, tools, resources are at your fingertips. How are you utilizing them to advance yourself or assist yourself in your due diligence? A major break is approaching, mentally, emotionally, spiritually; which way are you going to go? Do not run nor hide. This is the change of direction on the rise. Sept. 15th-17th, make a move.
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Leadership and expansion is key. A cycle to create a new master plan from what you did years ago, or things put on the back burner that are now ready for use. Take the lead on new innovative ideas and write them down. A week to see growth in your social status while also assisting or being a service within your community. The 15th-17th are awesome days to push yourself to accomplish a task and make a com mitment to stick to Fame,something.fortune,
Allow bygones to be bygones as transformation occurs from friends, neigh bors, colleagues, and associates. The time has come, you part your ways and make your peace as you are at the finish line. Relocating, rearranging the home, changing your appearance, tidying up unfinished business, and ob ligations are featured. Big mama come to collect with no strings attached. Metaphorically, your life is slowly yet surely changing. Closure is near. Sept. 18th-19th, visit a body or water, drink water and a nice long bath will help.
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One of the most spiritual awakening quests this month has changed your perspective on life and how you live your life. Some form of realiza tion and revelation occurs to set you on a different path and to operate in a different way. Traveling is key for the transformation to take place, whether it’s spiritual or physical. You know it’s happening because you can feel, sense it, just as a phoenix rises from its ashes. Sept. 20th-21st, let it burn away and move accordingly to your plans.
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publicity have your name written all over them for something coming true as some things end. A time to discard, release, drop any bad habit to make the best decision for the progress forward. Reorganize your schedule and include those little time-out breaks to regroup. Keep your mind clear and read through any contracts pre sented to you, and also seek counsel if needed. It’s best to wait before signing any new lease, contract or taking on new obligations. Wait until after Mercu ry retrograde. Sept. 18th-19th, a new seed is being planted.
September is potentially a month of your projects, ideas, plans coming into the reality of manifestation of a service or product. Business op portunities, advancement, prior obligations, and things that were post poned are being addressed and resolved. This is a rebirth cycle, to come alive while implementing your knowledge within the community on a social aspect. The pressure is on. It’s up to you to persevere staying true, committed to yourself and the path you are on. By the end of Septem ber choose the best decision and direction for you plus family.
A catalogue featuring essays, in terviews and photos accompanies the exhibit and is available at the Met Store. For more information visit www.metmuseum.org.
The exhibition opens with a display of 12 mon umental masterpieces by Edgefield’s best-known artist, David Drake— known as Dave—who signed, dated, and in scribed verses on many of his jars, even though literacy among enslaved people was criminalized at the time. The vessels bear witness to the joys, traumas, and lived experi ence of enslavement that echoed the prose of abolitionists such as Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs. These pieces testify to the lived experiences and material knowledge of the enslaved people in the However,area. “Hear Me Now” is cen tered on the artwork “Why Born Enslaved!” by the French sculptor Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux. Created in 1868, 20 years after emancipation was achieved in the French Atlan tic, the sculpture made its debut in Paris against the backdrop of Eu ropean colonialism, imperialism and the recent end of slavery in the United States. The Carpeaux bust of a Black woman whose bare arms and torso are bound with rope (not shown) is well known to Western
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On Saturday, Dec. 3, The Met will host a public program titled “Learning from Edgefield,” fea turing discussions with a range of expert participants including historians, artists, and museum leaders to explore best practices around working with descendant communities and important Af rican American cultural heri tage sites, including Edgefield, and how museums collect, dis play, and interpret objects by en slaved makers. Thelma and AC Hudgins make educational pro grams possible.
exquisite busts of a Black man and woman in the center of the exhibit, and a Black woman dis played across from them wearing gold earrings. A photo of Louise King in 1864 by directorMarinaals,”bytationdisplay,gardingcomplextories,selsThesebothofandtoinmarksmakers,theicanfrom1876)PotteauJacques-Philippe(French,1807-wasstriking.“AsthefirstexhibitionTheMet’sAmerWingtohighlightworkofenslavedthisprojectapivotalmomentthemuseum’seffortstellamoreinclusiveexpansivestoryartisticexpression,pastandpresent.remarkableveshelptelluntoldhiswhilealsoraisingquestionsrethecollecting,andinterpreofobjectsmadeenslavedindividusaidMaxHollein,KellenFrenchofTheMet.Inthedecadesbefore
the Civil War, a successful alkaline-glazed stoneware industry developed in Old Edgefield district, a clay-rich area in the westernmost part of South Carolina. From the begin ning, enslaved African Americans were involved with all aspects of this labor-intensive industry. The stoneware they made—durable, impervious, utilitarian vessels
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of varying sizes and forms es sential for food preparation and storage—supported the area’s ex panding population and was inex tricably linked to the demands of a lucrative plantation economy.
audiences. There were many ver sions produced during and after his lifetime. The subject’s resisting pose and defiant expression tells a
Photos from the Met’s “Hear Me Now” exhibit (Renee Minus White/A Time To Style photos)
story. I thought, “She could be me.” She resembled some family mem bers. The other sculptures that were extremely relatable were the
‘Hear Me Now’ on view at the Met
An educational program spon sored by Thelma and AC Hudgins also accompanies the exhibit. It is organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
While on the express bus riding down 5th Avenue to attend the Met’s press event, it was a joy to gaze at the huge poster advertising the recently opened land mark exhibition, “Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Car olina,” hanging in front of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. You must see these extraordinary sculptures, elegant and somehow so modern, created by skilled African American artists in the 19th-century American South. There are approxi mately 50 ceramic objects from this district, a center of stoneware produc tion in the decades before the Civil War, along with some sketches and photos hanging on the walls. It’s amazing, and a wonderful exhibit for the family.
Photos of Wilson’s historic birth home, including a photo of his mother and him as a young son. The historic house contains a very small 1950s style kitchen, and three floors with several African wall hangings and artistic portraits of the famous playwright. (Jeanette Toomer photos)
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August Wilson Home: A historic revival in Pittsburgh
Just a few weeks ago celebrities, directors, writers and theater pa trons gathered in Pittsburgh to witness the celebratory open ing of August Wilson’s boyhood home in the Hill district. Wilson is a Tony and two-time Pulitzer Prize winning playwright who set all of his dramas in this predominantly BlackBeginningcommunity.in1984 with “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” Wilson’s riveting conflicts and vibrant characters left Broadway’s audi ences in awe and ready to experi ence a new way of creative vitality and poetic storytelling. The pro lific Wilson, who died in 2005, left his mark on the storied avenue with celebrated dramas that re flected the lives of African Amer icans in every decade of the 20th century. Among them were two Pulitzer Prize winning dramas, “Fences” (1985), and “The Piano Lesson” (1987). In all he wrote, nine celebrated Broadway plays including “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone” and “King Hedley II.”
Brooks, and begins previews Sept. 19 at the Ethel Barrymore Theater, 243 W. 47th St. For more info, visit www.august wilsonhouse.org.
This coming theater season, one of his titular dramas, “The Piano Lesson” comes to Broadway star ring Samuel L. Jackson, John David Washington and Danielle
Today, many people are famil iar with the movie adaptation of “Fences,” starring Denzel Wash ington, and the recent awardwinning adaptation of “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” directed by George C. Wolfe and starring the late Chadwick Boseman. Wil son’s legacy has clearly reached beyond the Broadway stage. On Broadway Kenny Leon directed a revival of “Fences.” And over the years and across the country local theaters have mounted revivals of “Fences,” “The Piano Lesson” and recently “Jitney” in their local pro fessional theaters. In the backyard of his historic home is an outdoor theater where they also produce Wilson’s works.
Wilson’s home is now a histor ic landmark in what once was a poor, predominantly Black neigh borhood in which he found inspi ration for his characters and the setting for all of his works. It sits on the hill in what now looks like a newly gentrified community with renovated tenements lining the street. His home is like many turnof-the-century three story tene ments where he, his mother, Daisy Wilson and his five siblings lived.
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Easy ways to stretch your gro cery budget, like using versatile ingredients, can make the check out experience a little less impact ful on your household's finances. Consider the benefits of mush
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On Sept. 23, the native son Lenny White & Friends will debut at the Smithsonian-affiliate Flush ing Town Hall, at 8 p.m. The per formance will feature White’s original compositions. He will be joined by Tom Guarna (guitar), Quinton Zoto (guitar), Richie Goods (bass), and Vince Evans (piano and synthesizers). “When I lived in Queens and we were play ing music it had a relevance. It’s great to come back and play, I’m honored to have the opportunity,” said White. “I have known these cats for sometime playing togeth er over the years. I am going to play my electric music. When you have made music for 50 years, that’s a lot of music from where it came from to where it is now and the future of what it can be!”
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White’s electric music for the evening will no doubt jump genres from jazz to funk. “Fusion is not a respectable term, Miles wasn’t playing fusion he was play ing his version of rock and roll, so it was jazz rock,” explained White during our phone interview. “From Miles and Chick I learned how to be myself and play outside of my comfort zone, they both gave me challenges.” Today, he is sharing his knowledge as part of the Music Adjunct Faculty at NYU Steinhardt.LennyWhite returns home to Queens, Flushing Town Hall—it’s going to be a real celebration. As he says, he likes all kinds of music, he is a musician not a jazz musician. With that statement one can imag ine the concert will be out of the box, that’s the only way White plays. The performance will also be live streamed online on YouTube for $10. For more information or to purchase tickets, visit: Northernwhite.www.flushingtownhall.org/lenny-https://TownHallislocatedat137-35Blvd.Flushing,N.Y.
The pianist and composer Omar Sosa has toured the world with rave reviews and while living in Spain, he has graced Gotham’s jazz stages on many occasions but this will be his premier engage ment at Dizzy’s Jazz Club (60th Street Columbus Circle) Sept. 16-18. Two sets each night at 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.
Lenny White (Michael Weintrob photo)
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On Sept. 16 and 17, music con tinues with The Jazz Gallery Fel lowship Commission presenting Dezron Douglas “The Not Too Suite.” As the 2022 recipient of the Fellowship, the bassist, composer and educator Douglas will debut his commissioned work.
albums, he has worked with out standing saxophonists such as Pharoah Sanders and David Murray and pianists George Cables Eric Reed and Mulgrew Miller. His 2020 duo album “Force Majeure” (International Anthem
Records), during the height of the pandemic recorded at home with harpist Brandee Younger was one of the best albums of the year. His most current album was released earlier this year “Meditations on Faith,” a collection of spirited solo improvisations.Douglasisalways expanding the boundaries of this music so we can only expect something new, fresh and exhilarating from his upcoming appearance at The JazzForGallery.tickets visit the website jazz gallery.org. The Jazz Gallery is lo cated at 1160 Broadway in New York City.
He was featured on pianist Vijay Iyer’s “Far From Over” (ECM 2017) and in 2021 released “Echo location,” a collaboration with electronic musician Submerged (DJ). He has collaborated with Roy Haynes (his father), Vernon Reid, Meshell Ndegeocello, and EdRudolphBlackwell.like
For reservations visit the website jazz.org. or call 212-259-9595.
he went on to become an original member of another groundbreak ing jazz rock group Return to For ever led by Chick Corea (1973-76). White was a co-founding member the 1980s Queens-based funk group The Jamaica Boys with gui tarist Spaceman Patterson, bass ist Marcus Miller and keyboardist Bernard Wright with singer Dinky Bingham.Tourswith these pioneering jazz groups as well as with his own bands have taken him to major concert halls throughout the U.S. and the world but there was one venue he missed—Flushing Town Hall (his hometown venue).
Drummer and composer Lenny White, part of the younger gener ation of Queens natives, now car ries the torch from his peers from the ole’ hood—a host of jazz leg ends who resided in Queens such as Roy Haynes, Louis Armstrong, Lena Horne, Dizzy Gillespie, Chick Corea and Ella Fitzgerald. White, a three-time Grammy winning drummer, composer and educator, started his music career in Queens; he wasn’t a transplant, he was born and raised in Jamaica, Queens.
Douglas’ bass playing repre sents what was, the now and the coming future. His sound may in clude anything from tradition al hard bop to the extended jazz shores and his favorite sounds of Philly, R&B soul. For this Commis sion debut Douglas will be joined by pianist Glenn Zaleski, trumpet er Akili Bradley, tenor saxophonist Chris Lewis, drummer Jonathan Blake (2022 JJA Award Drummer of the Year) and vocalist Sachal Vasandani.Douglasis a protégé of inven tive saxophonist Jackie McLean. Having performed on over 100
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“I am so happy to be coming into Dizzy’s. With this new band I get to play with old friends, who I haven’t played with in 20 years,” said Sosa. “This band is more free, we have room to interact with more conversation and that’s what jazz is all about. For the show we will play many of my original compositions.”Sosa’smusichas always been a source of ancestral relevance. He traces the diaspora from Africa to his native home of Cuba to Brazil and Central America to Ecuador’s African-descent communities. His music is rooted in the spiritualness of Santeria but is entrenched in groove and soul.
The Jazz Gallery, that small jazz club where big sounds are made by daring musicians, those icon oclasts, who keep the music inter esting and stimulating. On Sept. 15, the trumpeter, cornetist and com poser Graham Haynes, and Adam Rudolph, percussionist and com poser will perform one night only two sets at 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.
Sosa’s most recent album is a collaboration with Seckou Keita recorded in the midst of the pan demic entitled “SUBA” (OTA Records 2021), which means “sun rise” in Keita’s native language Mandinka. The two musicians met at the Fattoria Musica, in Ger many and completed the album in 10 days with the help of Venezue
Haynes is a cre ative source in both the traditional sounds of jazz and in the world of avant garde. He is best known for his many collaborative years with flutist Yusef Lateef. He has record ed with Sam Rivers, Omar Sosa, and Wadada Leo Smith. Together Haynes & Rudolph will bring out colorful rhythms, textures and melodies that will cross and com bine a variety of genres.
White, a self-taught drummer, began his career playing in Queens and the Manhattan jazz scene. He played regularly with saxophonist Jackie McLean in the late 1960s. His reputation as a young cre ative drummer landed him with Miles Davis on his recording of “Bitches Brew” (Columbia 1970);
Haynes is an inventive force constantly seeking new musi cal terrain. He discovered drum ‘n’ bass, a fusion of drum ‘n’ bass beats while working with DJ Sub merged. Haynes has studied Afri can, Arabic and South Asian Music that he incorporates into his music with traditional jazz rhythms.
lan percussionist Gustavo Ovalles, cellist Jaques Morelenbaum and flutist Dramane Dembele. “The concept of the album is peace, hope and unity. In this moment we are living when everything is falling apart little by little,” shared
Sosa. “We try to give hope through our music and tell people that we can be together.”
For his debut appearance Sosa will introduce his new Quarteto Americanos, featuring Bay area artists drummer Josh Jones; on saxophones, flute and percussion Peter Apfelbaum; and bassist Er nesto Mazar Kindelan.
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Jazz in the park
Jazzmeia Horn and her band performed at Summerstage/Jazzmobile’s Charlie Parker Jazz Festival at Marcus Garvey Park in Harlem. Well-known trumpeter/composer jazzman Terence Blanchard also performed to a 1,000-plus audience at Marcus Garvey Park during the Charlie Parker Jazz Fest on Sunday.
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It’s hard to imagine Butler ever having writer’s block and depres sion, but they led to medication, which only exacerbated her prob lems. Even so, she managed to forge ahead with teaching and was later inducted into the Chicago State University’s International Black Writers Hall of Fame. She died out side of her home in Lake Forest Park on February 24, 2006 at 58. It was reported that she had suffered a stroke, and another account said she had fallen and hit her head.
A Baby Boomer prod uct, her career was sparked by the Black Power Movement and she lived to see dramatic changes in American life.
Sept. 12, 1977: Steve Biko, a stalwart in the fight against Apartheid in South Africa, died while in police custody.
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She garnered her first Hugo Award in 1984 with “Speech Sounds,” a short story, and a year later won the Hugo Award with “Bloodchild,” as well as the Locus Award, and the Science Fiction Chronicle Award for the Best Novelette. Her next endeav ors were far more adventurous and resulted from her travels in the Amazon rainforest and the Andes Mountains. “Dawn,” “Adult Rites” and “Imago” were her cre ations from the experience and
She was born on June 22, 1947 in Pasadena, California and raised by a widowed mother and grand mother in a very religious house hold. An extremely shy child, she spent hours in the library read ing, mostly fantasy books and science fiction. These readings stimulated her desire to create her stories and she began writing as a teenager. During the Black Power era, she was a student at a community college and later enrolled in the Clarion Work shop where the focus was on sci ence fiction. In the late 1970s she became reasonably successful as a writer, earning enough money to devote full-time to her craft. At first it was her short stories that commanded attention and soon she was the recipient of various awards, at the same time teaching in writer’s workshops. Meanwhile her writing flourished, much of it completed on the same Reming ton typewriter her mother bought her when she was 10 years old.
When it comes to Black female writers in science fiction, Octa via E. Butler is singularly unique and incomparable. During her extraordinarily productive career she was a multiple recipient of the Hugo and Nebula awards, given to only the most accomplished authors in the sci-fi genre, and as a further testament to her talent, she was the first science-fiction writer to receive a MacArthur genius fellowship.
Over the years she had main tained a relationship with the Huntington Library and be queathed her papers and manu scripts, photographs, and other memorabilia to the library. The collection totaled nearly ten thousand pieces in 386 boxes, along with a sundry other personal items, all of which was made avail able to scholars and researchers.
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Sept. 12, 1992: Dr. Mae Jemison was the first African American female in space.
arrived in the late ’80s and named the “Xenogenesis” trilogy. Her fame was solidified in the early ’90s with the publication of “Par able of the Sower” and “Parable of the Talents,” and subsequently paving the way to the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, a prize of $295,000.Allthenews wasn’t good, and in 1999 her mother died and Butler moved to Lake Forest Park, Washington. More awards were soothing and she continued the series of “Parable” books. How
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Not much is available about her personal life and apparently she was never married and had no children.
It should be noted that in the early days before becoming deeply absorbed in sci-fi, she was a voracious reader of comic books. This was disclosed during a panel discussion at MIT in 1998 with Samuel R. Delany, another esteemed sci-fi writer. They ex changed views on various topics and both later shared their love for comic strips and books. “When I was a kid,” Butler began, “I lived on comics. My mother actually went into my room one night or one day when I wasn’t home and ripped all my comic books in half. A familiar experience, I suspect, for anybody growing up when I was because they were supposed to rot your mind. When I was read ing comics, comics had a lot more language, a lot more words, and a lot more story. It wasn’t just Jack Kirbyesque people swatting other people and standing with their legs four feet apart. And gradually, it became just that, so that there were fewer and fewer and fewer words, less and less story, and a lot more people beating each other up or wiping each other out.
On one occasion she was watch ing a movie called “Devil Girl from Mars” (1954) and decid ed she could write a better story. She gained inspiration from the Black Power Movement and she later parlayed the spirited activ ism she experienced into novels that defied being subservient. Her first attempts at writing a novel took fire and in the late ’70s came a string of fairly successful books, including “Patternmaster,” “Mind of My Mind,” and “Survivor.” With the publication of “Kindred” her reputation was firmly established. “Wild Seed” followed in 1980 and “Clay’s Ark” in 1984.
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ever, the process became too stressful and she shifted to writ ing something lighter and thus began “Fledgling,” her last book, a vampire novel.
Octavia Butler, the premiere Black female sci-fi writer
Sept. 12. 1913: Olym pic great Jesse Owens was born in Cleveland. He died in 1980.
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Several anthologies on Black female writers have profiles on Butler, and there’s a wealth of mate rial online, particularly as it relates to sci-fi.
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our city in previous years, we eroded the things that allowed us to become one of the safest big cities in America and that’s quality of life.”
called the database useless and said the time, money and energy would be better spent towards quality education, health and well-being. Plus, she’s not a fan of lists.
At Brooklyn Borough Hall, the activists were operating with a home court advan tage. Current Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso penned a bill attempt ing to abolish the gang database last year while he was still a council member. This past Tuesday, the NYPD promoted Oleg Chernyavsky, a proponent of the gang da tabase, to chief of staff.
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JerseyCAN has served as a state leader pushing to improve high quality school options and better education outcomes for all New Jersey students. For nearly a decade, the organization has been led by Janellen Duffy and Patricia Morgan, who first launched and then grew JerseyCAN’s brand and mission throughout the state, cultivating relationships with key elected officials to best serve the education needs ofThefamilies.announcement follows a planned transition in leadership that began over the summer. Both Duffy and Morgan will stay on in a consulting capacity through the transition to support White with her policy priorities and the parent and teach er fellowships.
This news comes as a welcome after July’s crime numbers skyrocketed in almost every category. But there’s still room for improvement. Every other
“It is not an accident that the gang database is 99% non-white,” said The Legal Aid Society’s supervising attorney Anthony Posada. “It is by design that a prosecutor relied on that label to re quest higher bill so that somebody can be sent to Rikers Island to languish and be treated in that dehumanizing system. It is also not a coincidence that you do not need to commit a crime to be en
Sickle cell disease, an inherited red cell disorder that is most common among Afri
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to organize against police abuse, and support parents [whose] kids were murdered by police, that’s when the sur veillance intensified.”
can Americans, impacts about 10,000 New Yorkers. Sickle cell disease patients rely on blood transfusions to stay healthy, often needing them every few weeks and requir ing very closely matched blood products because their bodies make antibodies di rected towards transfused red blood cells.
“It's operated without due process, due diligence, or transparency,” said Public Advocate Jumaane Williams over email. “The gang database is a black box built on racial profiling that creates lifelong and serious consequences. It does not fundamentally enhance public safety, and it has no place in our fight to end gun violence and keep our city safe.”
“Quality of life is not a trade off,” he said. “Public safety and justice, they are the prerequisite to our prosperity. We must be safe as a city. What we did in
as a former public school teacher, founder of a New Jersey public charter school, leader of previous New Jersey advocacy organiza tions, and a statewide policy expert who served as chief turnaround officer at the NJ Department of Education.
major crime was up compared to August 2021 except rape, which matched last year’s exact count. There were 449 more robberies and 322 more burglaries. Some communities are taking mat ters into their own hands. In Greenwich Village, a block association is paying armed security guards to protect busi nesses. Burglaries more than doubled this year in the precinct, although the neighborhood is completely untouched by gun violence, according to Comp Stat. In Ozone Park, a volunteer street patrol organization formed to deter hate crimes received $90,000 in state funding. State Assemblywoman Jenifer Rajkumar handed the Cityline Ozone Park Civilian Patrol the check earlier thisCreditedweek. for the decrease in shoot ings and murders by the NYPD are larger
Shootings were down by 30.3% last month compared to August 2021. The Bronx, southern Queens and northern Brooklyn saw the largest improvement in decreases in gun violence. Accord ing to the NYPD, last month marked the fourth-lowest number of shootings in any August since CompStat was intro duced in the mid-90s.
long-term investigations focused on those few New Yorkers willing to pick up guns and use them.”
“I don’t really know what the fasci nation is in our country with lists,” she said. “Everytime we make lists, they’re definitely for nefarious purpos es—they’re to isolate people, they’re to stigmatize people, they’re to imprison people, they’re to keep them down.
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tered into the gang database.”
“They didn’t give a sh— about us if we were out there fighting each other, killing each other. But when we began
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In 2019, ex-Police Commissioner Dermot Shea admitted 99% of the data base was composed of Black and brown New Yorkers while he was still serving as NYPD Chief of Detectives.
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According to Posada, he’s seen over 500 people submit public records requests to find out if they’re labeled as ganginvolved. He says every single one was denied. El Grito de Sunset Park co-found er Dennis Flores says he was placed on a gang database in the ’90s due to his affil iation, not to organized crime, but with grassroots advocacy groups.
“We began to get active in social jus tice, in protesting against police brutal ity,” he said. “And because of that, we began to get surveilled by the police. Our lives were turned upside down. There wasn’t surveillance by the police prior to us becoming active in social jus tice. It was because we got involved. It was because of the activism that then we became a threat.
police presences, summer programs… and illegal ATV seizures. When recent ly asked about how tougher enforce ment could lead to mass incarceration for people of color, Mayor Eric Adams doubled down, even arguing a correla tion between fare evasion and gun vio lence during his time as a police officer.
“So we need to make sure we get rid of all these arbitrary lists that ensures our oppression. And the gang database is definitely one of those things.”
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“Like so many parents throughout the state, my own children had diverse inter ests, aptitudes and needs and I fought hard for them to be fully served in the public ed ucation system,” said White. “I have always seen myself as an advocate for children— first my own and those in thousands of families across the state.”
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On Sept. 6, the City Council voted to pass Resolution 283-A, sponsored by Speaker Adrienne Adams, which demands Mayor Adams and Banks immediately reverse the DOE’s $469 million re ductions to school budgets. The resolution clarifies that the DOE “removed nearly three times more from school budgets than was in dicated in the city budget.”
The spokesperson for the De partment of Education (DOE) said so far the rollout for back to school has been smooth com pared to other years.
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supporting the whole child from the day they enter our schools to the day they graduate.”
Part of such a reimagination in volves the hiring of roughly 850 NYPD school safety agents. Crit ics grade the Department of Ed ucation’s move an F, saying more officers on campus ad versely againstprofilingfurthertheaing,itnonprofgrassrootsgychiefpresidentseniorBandele,color.studentsaffectofMonifaviceandstrateofficerofMomsRissayssuchmoveopensdoorforracialBlack
DEMOCRACY PREP NEW YORK SCHOOL MEETING OF BOARD OF TRUSTEES PUBLIC NOTICE Dated: Monday, September 12th 2022 Pursuant to Section 104 Public Notice of the Open Meetings Law, and pursuant to Executive Order 202.1, this notice is to inform the public that the board of trustees of Democracy Prep New York School will hold a remote meeting by teleconference on: September 20th, 2022 at 8:00 am., local time, + 1 646 558 8656, Meeting LINK: Meetinghttps://democracyprep.zoom.us/j/6878464443ID:87212048191,Password:746010 See SCHOOL SAFETY on page 29 See CARDI B on page 29
Education Chancellor Banks, Cardi B kick off back to school week
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Cardi B, aka Belcalis Marlenis Almánzar, is a Manhattan and Bronx native who attended I.S 232 as a youth. She was joined by Banks, Principal Desiree Resto, and Community Capacity De velopment Executive Director K. Bain. She announced that she’d be donating $100,000 to the school for additional programming.
school.“It’snot a budget battle,” said Adams at a presser. “The way the system of government oper ates is that the mayor presents our budget. The Council uses all of their staff to review the budget, and then they vote on the budget. This is a historical moment that the Council is fighting against a budget that they approved. We are going to make sure that every child and every school receives the resources that they need.”
NYC Schools Chancellor David Banks kicked off the semester last week by announcing a compre hensive plan to “reimagine school
Cardi B. “But to be popular [I had to make] a lot of bad decisions.”
“When a parent kisses their child goodbye in the morning, they trust that their child will be both emotionally and physically safe at school,” he said. “This ad ministration is prioritizing the re imagining of our commitment to
NYC Schools Chancellor David Banks with a school safety officer (Ariama Long photo)
Back to school is in full swing this week, as Schools Chancellor David Banks and famed rapper Cardi B pay a surprise visit to I.S 232 Middle School in the Bronx this Tuesday.
She spoke to an exuberant au ditorium of students from various grade levels about the hazards of gang culture and fighting, taking school seriously, and how her grades and decisions early on somewhat impeded her career. She said when it came to trying to get into a performing arts high school they wouldn’t even let her audition. The rapper also took questions from and photos with the clearly surprised and eager kids.“Even though in the back of my head I used to hear my mother say, ‘you better become some body, take school seriously,’ I still wanted to be one of those girls because I was very popular,” said
Meanwhile, the excitement of students flooding the halls again hasn’t overshadowed the weekslong legal battle between the city, DOE, parents, and teachers over school budget cuts. Though Adams staunchly refused to call it a “budget battle” when asked about the topic on the first day of
“Children thrive in schools that have really great systems of care,” she said. “Whether there’s an abundance of school nurses, guid ance counselors or social work ers—trauma informed adults, those are the types of things that make schools very healthy and safe for children. It’s just a really
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The city said this school year it’s tackling the prevalence of dyslex ia and literacy in schools, adding more than a thousand new Gifted & Talented Programs in school districts, putting $100 into schol arship accounts for kindergarten ers citywide, continuing Meatless Mondays and plant-based Fri days, and hiring more school safety agents and social workers.
Schools Chancellor David Banks and rapper Cardi B pay a surprise visit to 232 Middle in Bronx. (Ariama C. Long photo)
culture and student safety.”
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“I’m hoping, you know, some times bad decisions happen after school, so I’m hoping we could have amazing after school activ ities, like tutoring or something fun like a music program,” said Cardi B.
students like her daughter.
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On Sept. 9, Gov. Kathy Hochul signed the class size bill, much to the chagrin of Mayor Adams who’s been drilling down about the cost. The class size bill requires city schools, Banks, and unions for teachers and prin cipals to phase in smaller classes over the next five years, starting in the fall of 2023.
Advocates, however, were motivated by the news. Leonie Haimson, executive director of Class Size Matters, said, “Thank you, Governor Hochul, for listening to the research showing that class size matters, especially for kids who need help the most, and for heeding the pleas of parents and teachers that it’s time to provide true equity to our students who have long suf fered from the largest class sizes in the state.”
wrong direction that we see our schools going in to become militarized, because we know it increases anxiety, and it makes it a very toxic place to learn.”
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Beyond the controversial addition of school safety agents, the plan will also enlist community-based organizations with proven backgrounds in youth support and violence disruption to participate in a new initiative called Project Pivot. Rough ly 110 social workers will be redeployed closer to schools. And 1,300 issues with school alarms, locks and PA systems were identified by the Division of School Facil ities during the summer and are currently beingBandeleaddressed.saysthe best solutions for stu dent safety are in resources like more psy chologists and counselors. And retaining teachers. She wants to ask the proponents of more school safety officers a simple question:“Lookat the safest communities in the country, do they have the most police?” said Bandele. “People start blinking. The safest communities in New York City? Do you see police on every corner? And then you ask them, so what is in that communi ty that keeps it safe? They’re not inundated with armed police officers.”
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“You’re called school safety agents, but you’re not giving the school safety,” said Jolie S., a high school junior from Brook lyn. “You’re a school cop. You’re policing us, you’re surveilling us. You’re watching our every move. At times, it does feel like jail.”
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“This resolution focuses attention on how DOE implements its $37 billion budget, with its actions increasingly occurring outside of public accountability and transparency,” said Speaker Adams in a statement. “These unaccountable actions must cease to truly support our students and school communi ties, and DOE must reverse them. The answer to declining enrollment cannot be simply for DOE to take money from schools.”
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“They block us out from everything, and they also say that we are the next genera tion,” she said. “But at the same time, you’re not listening to the next generation, how are you supposed to help us and help us grow? The chancellor’s announcement just aggravated me because he said that school police keep us safe. At the same time, look at Uvalde, the school police didn’t do any thing, stood there and [waited] for backup.”
Councilmember Kristin Richardson-Jor dan and Charles Barron, known for their incredible outspokenness, called the entire budgeting situation “political theater” in a letter. The letter says that the city coun cil body collectively failed, along with the mayor, to take necessary action on the cuts before the budget was approved.
With the Uvalde shooting serving as a key concern for student safety nation wide, Bandele also mentions police inac tion during the tragedy is a reason for fewer cops in schools, not more.
That’s not the only contentious law in ed ucation.
The youngster, who serves as a youth leader with the Urban Youth Collabora tive and Make the Road NY, says students of color like herself are often overlooked in conversations about school safety.
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UnFOILed: Gwen Carr continues to seek justice for son Eric Garner
tapes. We are reviewing the judge’s interim order and will respond ac cordingly.”Thisisn’t the first time Carr en countered bureaucratic roadblocks when requesting public records on Garner’s death. Civil Rights Law 50-a initially concealed per sonal records of police, firefight ers and correctional officers during such requests. But Panteleo’s histo ry of allegations were leaked by a whistleblower in 2017 and the law was ultimately repealed in 2020 by Andrew Cuomo with the help of Carr’s co-petitioner, Communities United for Police Reform. This past July marked the eighth anniversary of Garner’s death in Staten Island. It remains one of the most high-profile, national in stances of police brutality in recent memory. Back in 2014, a viral video of the killing showed Pantaleo put
“It’s been eight long years, al though it seems like yesterday to me because I’m still fighting—because I’m trying to get clarity and closure on my son’s murder,” she said. “And we want all the cops fired [that were] involved in my son’s death."
Shaw joined the ancestors on Wednesday, Sept. 7, succumbing to pneumonia. He was 82.
the death penalty, would he hold to that position if his wife was the victim of rape and murder. Du kakis said he would not, and the question ignited a firestorm of re action. During his 1991 coverage of the First Gulf War, he secured shel ter under a desk while reporting on missiles flying past his window. “Clearly I’ve never been there, but this feels like we’re in the center of hell,” he stated.
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paper from the police department and from the CCRB,” said Carr’s lawyer Gideon Oliver. “And every other record that relates to the police department’s killing of Eric Garner and related investigations and dis cipline. We’ve been litigating these Freedom of Information Law re quests for years now.
Shaw was born May 22, 1940 in Chicago, Illinois. His father was a railroad employee and house painter, and his mother a house keeper. He attended the Universi ty of Illinois at Chicago from 1963 to 1968. As a U.S. Marine, he served two stints—one in Hawaii and an other in Cherry Point Air Station in N.C., where he was a special ist in the “Message Center.” There
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His death was confirmed by CNN and was unrelated to COVID-19. He leaves behind his wife, Linda, and two “Berniechildren.wasaCNN original and was our Washington anchor when we launched on June 1st, 1980,” said Chris Light, CNN chair and CEO. And for the next 20 years that
of Deputy Commissioner of Trials Rosemarie Maldonado. According to Danny Kim of the Justice Com mittee, no one else lost their job over Garner’s death. Next to Carr, allies held signs demanding the firings of officer Justin D’Amico and NYPD Lt. Christopher Bannon.
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On Wednesday, Judge Erika Ed wards kicked the can down the road, with the next court date on Nov. 17. Carr hopes the day will serve as one step closer to peace.
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was Shaw’s seat, his commanding voice and full afro reporting the latest news, especially from abroad or covering presidential elections. Most viewers became familiar with his incisive live reportage on the First Gulf War from Baghdad in 1991. “Even after he left CNN, Bernie remained a close member of our CNN family providing our viewers with context about histor ic events as recently as last year,” Light continued. “The condolenc es of all of us at CNN go out to his wife Linda and his children.”
of the first big stories he covered at CNN was the assassina tion attempt on President Ronald Reagan, working in concert with Daniel Schorr. Together they gave the new station added ballast and credibility.Shawgained further recognition when while moderating a presi dential debate in 1988, he asked Democratic candidate Michael Dukakis, a known opponent of
The lawsuit stems from a Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) request filed by Carr, the Justice Committee and Communities United for Police Reform in August 2019. They sought public access to the police records to identify those culpable in Garner’s death and subsequent investiga tions. But when the request was met, the NYPD’s response was full of re dactions and omissions. The police department argues the redactions are to protect the privacy of officers and“Todaywitnesses.wasan interim victory in this struggle to get every scrap of
From 1992 to 2001, he co-an chored CNN’s “Inside Politics,” which was his last position at the station before retirement. Even so, there were numerous appear ances with Judy Woodruff and ErinBesidesBurnett.his NABJ honor, Shaw was the recipient of a bevy of awards, including the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism in 1994; the Paul White Award, Radio Television Digital News Association in 1996;
ting Garner in a banned chokehold while the 42-year-old man repeated ly said “I can’t breathe” before dying.
“The NYPD has been fully trans parent in its response to this FOIL request in accordance with the law,” said a New York City Law Depart ment spokesman in a statement. “It has disclosed over 36,000 pages of records and 340 videos and audio
In Gwen Carr’s search for closure, a case remains open. The mother of Eric Garner spent last Wednes day morning attending oral ar guments for a legal battle over redacted information in the police records relevant to her son’s 2014 death at the hands of ex-NYPD of ficer Daniel Pantaleo.
he increased his passion for print media, amassing a sizable collec tion of clippings and traveling to the nation’s capital. Along the way he cultivated a relationship with WalterBeforeCronkite.joining CNN, Shaw was a reporter and anchor for WNUS in 1964, Westinghouse Broadcasting, CBS News, and ABC News where he was Latin Correspondent and bureau chief before becoming the Capitol Hill’s senior correspon dent.One
“And although we don’t yet have a final decision from the court, what happens today is a positive step toward shaking loose for records on top of the 10s of 1000s of pages of re cords that we’ve already managed to get from the police department and from the CCRB.”
he was inducted as a laureate of the Lincoln Academy of Illinois and awarded the Order of Lin coln (the state’s highest honor) by the governor of Illinois in the area ofUponcommunication.departure from CNN, he said: “My best time has been simply being here, helping to do what attracts you, our viewers, your demand to be informed in stantly with knowledgeable con text and insight. And to you around the world and across our great land here in the United States, more than your praise I have valued your criticism and your suggestions. Scrutiny can be instructive,” he told viewers. “Harder than entering this busi ness, is leaving it, and leaving CNN, especially after 20 years here. But you know, some roses are so fragrant. And as a garden er, I want to grow and smell them more—when I’m not writing.”
Bernard Shaw, CNN’s first anchor, is dead at 82
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As we waited to be inducted into the National Association Black Journalists Hall of Fame in 2014, there was an exchange of pleas antries and congratulations, and then we both fell into silence. It appeared to me that Bernard Shaw was not one for small talk, his words resonated on the airwaves, particularly on CNN where he was the network’s first chief anchor.
“The DOJ failed us, everyone failed us—that’s why I’m still out here today,” said Carr after the ar guments. “One commissioner did fire Pantaleo, that was a step in the right direction. But we must go fur ther. We have to get those other of ficersPantaleofired.”was fired in 2019 by then-Police Commissioner James O’Neill under the recommendation
Zachary Fletcher lost his father to COVID-19. “We became more sensitive. And, like, we felt lonely in the house too, like our family would never be, like, fine again.”
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a framework in place for the help to find them. Veronica Fletcher remarked that school officials would say “let us know what we can do,” but reaching out for help is just another task on the list of things to do.
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Low student engagement directly im pacts academic performance and com pounds the struggles of kids who lost a caregiver to COVID-19. Issues like grief, survivor’s guilt and possibly caring for other siblings after losing a parent nega tively impact academic progress.
Sisters Yasmin, 10, and Aslin, 15, lost their father, Warren Bates, to COVID-19 on March 22, 2020––a mere eight days after he was admitted to the hospital. Aslin says, “It was rough. I couldn’t, like, focus as much at school.” Their mother, Ingrid Cardona, shared that: “It started affecting her aca demically. She was an honor student at that time. Honor Society, assistant prin cipal’s award, and her academics de clined, like really bad, to the point where she was actually struggling, and almost did not pass middle school.”
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Grief-induced anxiety is another residu al effect that bereaved children of COVID19 children in New York City are battling with. Both Madison and Yasmin, the youngest children of two affected fami lies, are dealing with anxiety. Madison’s mother, Veronica Fletcher, shared that Madison has broken into hysterics when she leaves the house for simple grocery shopping. The fear of losing her mother is real. Veronica makes an effort to spend individual time with Madison, and also encourages journaling and supports her using her art as a form of therapy.
The Fletcher and Bates children have re ceived therapy but not through city servic es. The Fletcher children get support from Diane Nathaniel, a certified grief counsel or who is their church sister, and the Bates access private therapy sessions through Life Works, which Ingrid’s employment-based health insurance covers along with a copay.
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Madison Fletcher lost her father to COVID-19. (Terrence C. Jennings Photos)
Montefiore created a portal that allowed MDs, RNs and social workers to make refer rals and the team combed through records at Montefiore and did chart reviews to de termine if deceased patients had children. Then the social work team reached out to the families to assess, which was a time consuming and labor-intensive process as it wasn’t done with automation.
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Community based organizations have received external funding to create pro grams specifically to support bereaved families. Montefiore Medical Center cre ated the COVID-19 Family Resilience Program which provides personalized as sessments, referrals to resources, and fi nancial support to New York City and lower Hudson Valley families who have lost a loved one to COVID-19.
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Some families took issue with the prepa rations made for public school reopening in Fall of 2021. Public school counselor and certified grief counselor, Diane Nathan iel, told the AmNews, “They said they were going to fund all this money for social emo tional learning and mental health. But that did not happen. And it didn’t happen, be cause I guess it’s two-fold. You didn’t have enough therapists to do it.”
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Sumer went on to say that in-School Crisis Teams trained by Dr. David Schon feld of the National Center for School Crisis and Bereavement are available to facilitate guided conversations with stu dents experiencing grief.
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Ingrid Cardona, mother to 10-year-old Yasmin, shared that: “If any little thing like a cough, or I would come home from work and say I’m not feeling well, I can automati cally see her demeanor change. You can see the face of fear and I’m like, everything is alright. And then she would cry and say: ‘I don’t want you to die Mommy. I don’t want you to die next, Mommy.’”
Suzan Sumer, associate press secretary for New York City Department Of Educa tion, said in a statement to the AmNews that “every one of our schools is a caring, sup portive environment where our students can connect with one another, communi cate with a caring adult, and access the re sources they need to heal. It’s our priority to provide our schools with the resourc es needed, such as School Crisis Teams, ensuring that every school has access to a mental health professional, such as a school social worker, to meet students where they are, centering their well-being through difficult times and beyond.”
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they knew their father did. So Ziggy [Zach ary] said, how are we going to pay the bills? What’s going to happen? How are we going to live? Because they know that their father was the only one who went to work. They knew that we had one income.”
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New York Life has also launched the Grief-Sensitive Schools Initiative which aims to better equip educators and other school personnel to support grieving stu dents, and supports Tuesday’s Children which builds the capacity of youth-serving community providers to support children in the U.S. who have lost a parent or prima ry caregiver in the pandemic.
Dr. Jaynes openly admits that, “We’re using COVID as a wedge issue, to get in to get better resources to schools, mental health, broadly for bereavement more specifically, and then COVID. We know that COVID is going to come and go but what isn’t going to come and go is the impact of the death of a Forparent.”moreinformation about COVID re lated resources in NYC including mental health and housing assistance visit: nyc.gov/site/acs/about/covidhelp.pagewww1.
week’s hearing. He said that AARP had put forth their comprehensive blueprint about older adult legislation in January and start ed collaborating with Hudson after the city budget was passed in June.
seniors account for the city’s largest volun teer and voting bloc.
Kevin Jones, associate state director of ad vocacy for AARP New York, testified at last
for them, like home-delivered meals pro grams or older adult day clubs. Some of the “gaps” in services for seniors center around programming, transportation, and population growth, said Department for the Aging (DFTA) Commissioner Lor raine Cortés-Vázquez.
Hudson’s legislative package is made up of three bills aimed at letting seniors age in place in the city comfortably and in creases awareness about city programs
Jones said that many seniors built these New York neighborhoods, rais ing kids, opening small businesses and buying homes. They think the city is the best place to age because of its walkabil ity and proximity to services. “You can
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ACCOUNTING PROCEEDING FILE NO 2018-3842/A CITA TION THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK TO: Un known Distributees Attorney General of the State of New York Richard A. Nurse Unknown Distributees 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 decedent 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 unknown; to the heirs at law, next of kin and distributees of Norma A. Nurse and Ronald A. Nurse, if living and if any of them be dead, to their heirs at law, next of kin, distributees, legatees, executors, administrators, assignees and successors in interest whose names and places of resi dence are unknown and cannot, after diligent inquiry, be as certained by the petitioner herein; and to all other heirs at law, next of kin and distributees of Joyce J. Nurse, a/k/a Joyce Nurse, the decedent herein, if living and if any of them be dead, to their heirs at law, next of kin, distributees, legatees, executors, administrators, assignees and successors in interest whose names and places of residence are unknown and cannot after diligent inquiry, 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 the time of her death was a resident of 61 Hamilton Pl, New York, New York 10031; A petition having 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 Chambers Street, New York, New York, on October 13th 2022 at 9:30 A.M., in room 503, why the following relief stated in the ac count of proceedings, a copy of the summary statement thereof being attached hereto, of the Public Administrator of the County of New York as administrator of the goods, chattels and credits of said deceased, should not be granted: (i) that 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 the balance of the funds in this estate be deposited with the Commissioner of Finance of the City of New York for the benefit of the decedents unknown distributees; (iii) that the Surrogate approve the reasonable amount of compensation as reported in Schedules C and C-1 of the account of proceedings to the attorney for the petitioner for legal services rendered to the petitioner 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 §307 where required or di rected; and (vi) for such other and further relief as the Court may deem just 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 not object to the relief requested. You have the right to have an attorney-at-law appear 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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Queen Elizabeth embodied a profound, sincere commitment to her duties, ob served Harvard Professor Maya Jasanoff. “She was a fixture of stability, and her death in already turbulent times will send ripples of sadness around the world.”
“History is a rough teacher,” stated activ ist Maisha Ongoza on her Facebook page. “She was more than just a ceremonial figure. Nothing happened without her blessings. All the genocidal pushback from England on countries fighting for independence was condoned by her. Including South Africa Aparthied, the Nigerian Biafra war, the Kenyan Mau Mau Revolution, India’s fight for independence, Ireland’s fight for sover eignty and many other geopolitical use of force by England. Nothing happened with out her knowledge and blessings.”
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Painfully ironic perhaps, given Britain’s support of the South African Apartheid regime, amid the strait-laced protocols of the position, the Queen enjoyed one rare privilege—a relationship on a first name basis with late President Nelson Mandela.
The exchanges between these two worldrenown figures were warm, recalls this statement of the Mandela Foundation.
Others showed little sympathy for the fallen empire and demanded amends for co lonial-era crimes. Dr. Anya had the sharpest criticism of the queen. The Nigerian-born professor wrote, “If anyone expects me to ex press anything but disdain for the monarch who supervised a government that spon sored the genocide that massacred and dis placed half my family and the consequences of which those alive today are still trying to overcome, you can keep wishing upon a star.”
The Mandela Foundation “joins the mul titude around the world in saying +hamba kahle+ (go in peace) to the Queen.”
Last week Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos felt the need to try and publicly chastise Nigeri an-born Carnegie Mellon Professor Uju Anya over a tweet where she refused to empathize over the passing of a queen she said reigned over the massacre of Igbo civilians in Nigeria.
very tragic period in this country and Africa’s history,” said no holds-barred South African activist Julius Sello Malema. The founder and head of the Economic Freedom Fight ers party said he would not be mourning but addressing Britain’s colonial past under Queen Elizabeth II’s reign.
As Britain has benefitted for centuries from the evil trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, Malema added that the British gave the nod to Cecil John Rhodes in Zimbabwe.
Meanwhile, across the world, many na tions have been paying tribute to the 96-year-old monarch. President Joseph Biden described her as “a stateswoman of unmatched dignity and constancy who deepened the bedrock alliance between the United Kingdom and the United States.”
“They spoke frequently on the phone, calling each other by their respective first names as a sign of mutual respect and af fection,” said the statement, issued the day after the British monarch died.
romanticizing the legacy of exploitation, and oppression, with deliberate misrepre sentation or a lie.
As Barbados did just last November, other countries in the Commonwealth realm are se riously considering removing the British mon archy as head of state. England is fully aware too that in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, nationalism is always an undercurrent.
Gopal said she found herself appreciat ing the circumstances in which Elizabeth passed—good medical care, in a secure shelter in a place she loved. But how many British retirees would have the same ease ful passing this winter? She answered her own question. “I think many will be in in secure housing, without heat, potentially without food, and certainly without access to good medical care.”
But we should not romanticize her era, Jasanoff cautioned. “For the queen was also an image: the face of a nation that, during the course of her reign, witnessed the dis solution of nearly the entire British Empire into some 50 independent states and sig nificantly reduced global influence.”
“I think, as Maya just suggested, much of that order has not changed.”
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“In the years following his release from prison, he cultivated a close bond with the Queen,” the text said. “He re ceived her in South Africa and visited her in England, not shying away from exploring Buckingham Palace.”
“For the Edo people in diaspora and those back home, the passing of the Queen in the year where the largest number of arti facts looted from Benin Kingdom during the British invasion of 1897 is repatriated is significant,” said cultural activist Richard Iy asere a.k.a. DaddyRich. “We do not pretend to mourn her passing, neither do we rejoice over her demise. Indeed, for over eight decades, there have been calls for the return of artifacts looted by the British, it was only in 2022 that the largest amount of the artifact looted was formally returned back to Benin. It is signifi cant that the deceased Queen never made an official statement regarding the return of the artifact nor did she comment on the unprec edented brutality and injustice of the actions of the British soldiers during the invasion of Benin Kingdom in 1897. However, what is cer tain is that her death in the same year that the largest number of artifacts was returned back to Nigeria, and to the Benin Monarch who holds the artifacts in trust for the Edo people is significant, and this is no coincidence.”
While some observers quoting the ‘Stock holm syndrome’ effect, discussed this past week that economics, neo-colonial politics, and familiarity to an all-be-it historically ex ploitative system of power and governance keeps some nations loyal to a monarchy and a nation whose self-interest threatens their own—there are millions in the Common wealth who want to cut the tether and figure out independence in their own way and time.
He also gave the Queen the nickname “Motlalepula”—“come with the rain”—after a state visit in 1995, when Elizabeth arrived with torrential rain, “the like of which had not been seen for a long time.” It became a song by the world renowned artist Hugh Masekela.
Queen Elizabeth II with South African President Nelson Mandela (GIN photo)
“I guess it depends what you think a good job of being queen is,” opined Birmingham
“I do wonder whether we actually live in a deeply different world,” she continued. “We live in a world where formally the Brit ish crown is no longer an imperial crown, but Elizabeth II was, in a sense, obsessed with the Commonwealth, made sure that Charles III would also be head of the Commonwealth.
However, mutually polite or not, chances are her successor son Charles will find himself immediately navigating a host of the 14 Com monwealth nations seriously contemplating releasing themselves from the grip Britain has held over them for centuries/decades.
“In responses from our readers, they have said they are not lowering flags outside of their establishments, and they will not be watching the memorial services,” writer and author Debert Cook told the Amsterdam News. The U.S.-based, living and work ing Ghana publisher of African American Golfer’s Digest added, “Instead, they cite the ill monetary gains of her country from stolen African jewels and relics to natural resources, slavery, and other atrocities.”
Despite the 24-hours news cycle show ing current British pomp and circum stance, the calls for recompense have once again come to the surface.
In an email sent to the Pittsburgh PostGazette Dr. Anya said that she and siblings were survivors of British genocide in Nigeria. “From 1967-1970, more than 3 million civil ians were massacred when the Igbo people of Nigeria tried to form the independent nation of Biafra…Those slaughtered includ ed members of my family. I was born in the immediate aftermath of this genocide.
"We do not mourn the death of Elizabeth, because to us her death is a reminder of a
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“Britain, under the leadership of the royal family, took over control of this territory that would become South Africa in 1795 from Bat avian control, and took permanent control of the territory in 1806.” The current Member of Parliament continued, “From that moment onwards, native people of this land have never known peace, nor have they ever enjoyed the fruits of the riches of this land, which were and still are utilized for the enrichment of the Brit ish royal family and those who look like them.”
“The Queen’s passing should represent the end of the African Oppression Era,” said Ogugua Iwelu, the African cultural architect with the Afromonic Group. “Africans global ly must unite.”
From the British atrocities in Kenya, Ni geria, Zimbabwe, Jamaica and all over the Continent and the Caribbean; from being accused of meddling in the affairs of king doms; and removal of resources, stolen jewels and historic artifacts; the brutal treat ment in Kenya where the Brits held a report ed over 100,000 Kenyans during the Mau Mau rebellion; to the under-reported histo ry with the Maroon revolts in Jamaica; not to mention the Raj in India, and the dispute over Hong Kong with China, Britain has so much to unpack in terms of explanations and the call for reparations, and redress.
City University Professor Kehinde Andrews of British African Caribbean heritage. “So, if a good job of being queen is to represent white supremacy and to represent that link to colonialism, then, yeah, I think she’s done a very good job.”
Britain “lost an empire, and [has] not yet found a role,” commented American states man Dean Acheson. The deep and pain ful traumas and confusions that the loss of empire produced helped many years later to produce Brexit, and enduring and danger ous British fantasies about playing the role of a great power on the world stage.
As if that was not sufficient Malema noted, “It was the British royal family that benefited from the brutal mutilation of people of Kenya whose valiant resistance to British colonial ism invited vile responses from Britain.” He added, “In Kenya, Britain built concentra tion camps and suppressed with such in humane brutality the Mau Mau rebellion, killing Dedan Kimathi on February 18, 1957, while Elizabeth was already Queen.”
“Let us remember,” added Universi ty of Cambridge professor Priya Gopal, “that when she became queen at Treetops [Hotel] in Kenya, Britain had just com menced a brutal, vicious insurgency that carried on for several years. In recent years, we have had Kenyans who were tortured by the British raise lawsuits, successfully in some cases, around the vicious violence of the British state at that point.
Becky Hammon was not happy with her team’s play. “Happy that we won,” Hammon said. “It’s better than losing, but there’s a lot of things that we can doThebetter.”Aces brought that better in game two, prevailing 85–71. Wilson, Gray and Kelsey Plum all scored over 20 points.
Gleyber Torres’ three-run double in the top of the tenth inning on Tuesday helped power the Yankees to a 7-4 win over the Boston Red Sox (MLB.com)
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“These are statement games in a way and when you are playing a good team like Connecticut, you have to really lock in at all costs. It was good to have a game underneath our belt,” said Wilson. Despite the win, Aces coach
This is the dawn of a new era in the WNBA. Viewership is up. The first two rounds of the playoffs had the most TV viewers for playoffs in 20 years. Game one of the Finals between the Las Vegas Aces and the Connecticut Sun was shown on ABC, making it the most viewed game one in five years.
“It’s about time I joined the party,” said Plum. “My teammates are putting me in a situation where I’m comfortable and I’m just getting to my spot and taking what the defense gives me,” said Wilson, who added that the role of the Aces is to dominate the paint.
WNBA awards continue to be an nounced. Aces guard Jackie Young, the top pick in the 2019 WNBA Draft, was named Most Improved Player. The New York Liberty’s Sabrina Ionescu finished second in the vote. Aces forward A’ja Wilson earned her second Most Valu able Player honor in three years, nar rowly edging out the Seattle Storm’s Breanna Stewart. She previously won inThe2020.finals continue with game three tonight, and the Aces are looking to close it out and win the team’s first championship. “It’s going to take every bit of everybody,” said Gray. “We’ve been a good road team this year, so we might as well just go ahead and try to win on the road.”
Aces take 2–0 lead over the Sun in the WNBA Finals
WNBA commissioner Cathy Engel bert held a press conference prior to game one. She thanked ESPN for the expanded coverage of the playoffs and finals. “Thinking about what is really driving all this, it’s the players, and so improving the player experience and compensation has been a main prior ity for the league since I joined,” said Engelbert.Gameone of the finals was close, with the Aces prevailing 67–64. A’ja Wilson and Chelsea Gray were the high scorers for the Aces, combining for 45 points. The Sun had three players in double figures—Alyssa Thomas, Jonquel Jones and Natisha Hiedeman.
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The Mets will host the Pittsburgh Pirates at Citi Field for a four-game series begin ning tonight and then will play the Brewers for three games in Milwaukee next Monday through Wednesday.
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The Yankees will next face the Milwaukee Brewers for three-games on the road beginning tomorrow and then will play the Pittsburgh Pi
The Tampa Bay Rays made a run at the Yan kees for first place in the National League East but the Bombers dug in and with a 7-6 win over the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park on Tuesday increased their lead to six games in theAfterdivision.facing the Red Sox again last night to conclude their short two-game series, the Yankees, who were 86-56 going into the game, had 19 games remaining on their reg ular season schedule. Aaron Judge hit his 56th and 57th home runs of the season on Tuesday and now trails Roger Maris by four to tie the franchise’s all-time record. Maris hit 61 in 1961.
The Mets’ lead in the National League East has been tenuous for the past month and they were only a half game ahead of the second place Atlanta Braves when they took on the Chicago Cubs last night (Wednesday) at Citi Field in Queens. The Mets lost 5-2 on Monday and 4-1 on Tues day to the Cubs, who at 60-82 were 22 games below .500 before yesterday’s series finale. The Mets were 89-54 and had the third best record in all of baseball. Unfor tunately for them, the Braves, the defend ing World Series champions, were 88-54 and held the fourth best mark in Major League
With the score even at 4-4, Yankees shortstop Gleyber Torres had a key three-run double in the top of 10th and closer Clay Holmes held off the Red Sox, who came back with two runs in the bottom of the frame. “They came here to see a good game and to see a show,” said Judge of the Red Sox fans witnessing his power display. “Both teams I think put on a good show for them.”
rates in the Bronx for two next Tuesday and Wednesday. Afterwards, they will meet up with the Red Sox again next Thursday, Sept. 22, through Sunday, Sept. 25.
The Las Vegas Aces’ Chelsea Gray has been unstoppable, helping her team take a 2-0 lead in the WNBA Finals over the Connecticut Sun (WNBA photo)
Yankees pick up the pace while the Mets fight off Atlanta
“FinishingBaseball.offa good season is really chal lenging,” maintained Mets manager Buck Showalter after Tuesday’s defeat. “Because you see the finish line. You’re trying to get there and kind of sometimes get away from the things that got you there.”
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The Alcaraz-Ruud match was played in front of a sold-out crowd at Arthur Ashe Stadium, which was sold out through out this year’s tournament, the first time that has happened in the structure’s 25year history. A record total of 776,120 fans attended matches during the two-week
Carlos Alcaraz closes out the US Open winning the men’s title
main draw, and overall, including the US Open Fan Week, the number of people that passed through the gates was 888, 044.
woman to ever win the tournament.
He was the first American man to make it a grand slam final since Andy Roddick at Wimbledon in 2009. An American man hasn’t advanced to the US Open finals since Roddick in 2006.
“I gave everything I had the last two weeks. Honestly, I came here and wanted to win the US Open. I feel like I let you guys down. This one really hurts. This one really, really hurts.”
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“For sure this tournament was chal lenging,” she said in an interview on the court after defeating the 28-yearold Jabeur. “It’s New York, it’s so loud, it’s crazy, so many temptations in the city…I’m so proud that I could handle it Swiatekmentally.”took home a winner’s check for $2.6 million. Jabeur received $1.3 million as the runner-up. She is the only native African and Arab woman to reach the US Open finals. “Definitely I’m not someone that’s going to give up,” she said. “I am sure I will be back in the final again.”Thewomen’s doubles final was won by Barbora Krejcikova and Katerina Sin iakova, both from Czech Republic, who defeated Americans Cathy McNally and Taylor Townsend 3-6,7-5, 6-1.
Spain’s Carlos Alcaraz, only 19, is the new No. 1 ranked men’s player in the world after winning the US Open title on Sunday at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Queens. Al caraz defeated 23-year-old Casper Ruud of Norway in four sets 6-4, 2-6, 7-6 (1), 6-3. He is the youngest world No. 1 in the history of the ATP (Association of Tennis Professionals) rankings. Ruud, the runner up in this year’s French Open, moved up to No. 2 in the rankings.
The 21-year-old Swiatek is also the first woman to win two grand slam sin gles titles in the same year since An gelique Kerber in 2016. Swiatek made her professional debut in 2016. She is a three-time major singles champion, having previously won the 2020 and 2022 French Open.
Spain’s Carlos Alcaraz, only 19, won the men’s singles title at the US Open and is now the new No. 1 ranked male player in the world; American Frances Tiafoe lost to Alcaraz in the semifinals (Margot Jordan photos)
Women’s world No. 1 Iga Swiatek won her third grand slam singles title with a 6-2, 7-6 (5) victory over Iga Swiatek at the US Open (Margot Jordan photo)
Swiatek wins women’s title at record-breaking US Open
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By the end of the women’s draw, Iga Swiatek from Poland, the No. 1 ranked female player in the world, solidified her standing with a 6-2, 7-6 (5) victory over world No. 5 ranked Ons Jabeur of Tunisia, to capture her first win at the US Open and becoming the first Polish
“This is something I’ve dreamt of since I was a kid,” said Alcaraz. “To be No. 1 in the world, to be a champion.”
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A total of 776,120 fans packed the stands in the various stadiums at the complex, surpassing the previous high of 737, 872 set in 2019. There were many emotional moments. Serena Williams, the GOAT (greatest of all time) of wom en’s tennis, played her last competitive match, losing in the third round to Ajla Tomljanovi in a three-set thriller—7-5, 6-7 (4), 6-1—as the passionate crowd that filled Arthur Ashe Stadium show ered the 23-time grand slam singles champion with adulation.
Alcaraz defeated No. 22 Frances Tiafoe, a native of Hyattsville, Maryland, on Friday night, 6-3, 6-1, 6-7 (5), 6-3 to advance to the final. Ruud defeated 27th ranked Rus sian Karen Khachanov, 7-6, 6-2, 5-7, 6-2 in the semifinals. Tiafoe bested Rafael Nadal, the all-time leader in men’s grand slam titles (22) on his way to the semifinals.
“I gave everything I had,” said an emo tional Tiafoe after falling to Alcaraz, with former First Lady Michelle Obama watching from the stands.
The 2022 US Open ended this past weekend at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, Queens, having set the record for the most fans to attend the event in its history.
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“As a Black woman in sports medicine…when it came to work ing with NFL players, world cham pions, NBA players and other Olympians, it would make it a lot easier for me to be respected in that space if I competed in anoth er Olympic Games and compet ed in another sport,” said Adigun.
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Adigun, who utilizes an integrat ed approach to sports medicine, made her return to the Winter Olympics this past February, join ing the Nigerian team as medical staff. When the team’s lone athlete, a cross-country skier, was tem porarily quarantined, she carried the flag in the Opening Ceremo ny. She’s also been instrumental in training bobsled and skeleton coaches and plays a role in ath lete“We’redevelopment.ontheroad to Milano/ Cortina 2026,” she said. “Doing whatever I can to help the next generation of athletes believe in the possibilities.”
league and her sister was play ing. Her parents, who both grew up in Queens, had no idea what field hockey was, but were totally supportive. Midway through high school, she realized she could have the opportunity to play at the collegiate level.
When LeGuillow originally joined the SAAC, she was the di versity, equity and wellness coor dinator on the executive board. A field hockey teammate serving as president encouraged her to run for president, and she was elect ed the following year. Playing well
pecially with the athletes I work with, I treat in order to help in crease their quality of life, but also increase their athletic poten tial—identifying their weakness es, strengths and imbalances, teaching them how to fire certain muscles that will protect them from injuries, and identifying ways that they can get rid of cur rent lingering issues.”
History-making Olympian focuses on athlete wellness and performance
Hofstra senior Sydney LeGuillow (Hofstra Athletics photos)
“I’ve been on a mission to revolu tionize sports medicine for years.
Growing up, Sydney LeGuillow, a senior forward with the Hofs tra University field hockey team, participated in an organization called YLYM (Young Ladies Young Men), that fostered leadership de velopment. It contributed greatly to her confidence, mindfulness and ability to have constructive conversations. Today, LeGuillow is not only a leader on the field hockey team, but also president of Hofstra’s Student-Athlete Advi sory Committee (SAAC).
“I spend a significant amount of time getting to the root of what their issues are,” she continued.
and being an effective team leader are“Weimportant.havegreat players on our team,” LeGuillow said. “I really want to go to the CAA Champion ship and make a name in our con ference. Our team doesn’t have a history of doing that, so the main focus is doing everything I can to get us there. That’s the big goal.”
“I treat both as a chiropractor but mostly as a biomechanist. … Es
“College is when I started taking more opportunities to lead with activism. BLM was definitely a catalyst,” said LeGuillow, who is a CAA (Colonial Athletic As sociation) commissioner’s aca demic honor roll member and NFHCA Division I national aca demic squad member. She has a double major in political science and global studies and a minor in economics and international af fairs. This past summer she had an internship with the Institute for Workforce Advancement.
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Former track and bobsled athlete Dr. Seun Adigun now helps athletes at Extra Wellness Center (Taylor Hayden photo)
She added, “There are now four winter sports federations that are growing in the country of Nigeria and looking to compete athletes at international levels and to qualify for the AdigunOlympics.”hadcoached at her alma mater, University of Houston, and earned bachelor’s, master’s and doctorate degrees before taking up bobsled. She felt an expanded ath letic resume would give her addi tional credibility.
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“It’s going to take several years to really understand the magnitude of what was done, but for now I still live in a state of complete grateful ness that my teammates and I were able to do something that really shook the world and created such a feel good story,” said Adigun, who also competed in the 100meter hurdles at the 2012 Olym pics, making her the only African person to compete at both the Summer and Winter Games.
Sydney LeGuillow makes an impact beyond Hofstra field hockey
LeGuillow, who grew up in Vir ginia Beach, Va., started playing field hockey at around age six be cause someone was starting a
“My high school team was pretty good and a lot of people older than me played on my club team and went on to play Division I,” she said. “I thought if I play along side these people I might have a shotBeingmyself.”atop student—LeGuil low also earned the Hofstra Pride Community Service Award— while competing in a fall sport has been challenging and reward ing. “I’ve always valued education so much, and I really do enjoy school and going to classes. I see field hockey, being outside and being around my teammates as a release. I feel this is good for my health and my spirit. I use it as an outlet,” she said.
Although more than four years have passed since Dr. Seun Adigun made history at the 2018 Olympic Winter Games, she still hasn’t fully processed the magnitude of what she and her Nigerian teammates accomplished as the first Afri can competitors in the bobsled. Adigun, a chiropractor and bio mechanist, now works to optimize the performance of other athletes at her Extra Wellness Center prac tice in Houston, Texas.
The New York Jets losing on opening day? Not so shocking.TheJets’ 24-9 defeat to the Baltimore Ravens at MetLife Stadium on Sunday was their fourth consecutive season open ing loss. It is 0-2 for Jets
“From dropped passes to being loose with the football to missed kicks, this is a game, in my opinion, that we ab
“And that’s something I’ve been
fenders but nimbly eluded them and lunged into the end zone for the go-ahead score. The Giants’ defense held the Titans and they came away with an inspiring 21-20
Flacco was 37-59 for 307 yards and threw one TD, a 3-yard pass to tight end Tyler Conklin with a minute left in the game. He averaged just 5.2 yards per attempt.
The former Buffalo Bills’ offen sive coordinator and the Giants’ current OC, Mike Kafka, dialed up a short underhand toss from Jones to a resurgent Saquon Bar kley. The running back appeared to be stopped by three Titans de
The Jets went into halftime down just 10-3 as the defense was solid and the Ravens’ offense inconsistent over the first 30 minutes. But on the Jets’ first offensive drive of the second half they went three and out and never were able to threaten the Ravens. They only man aged 83 yards on the ground on 17 car ries in the game. Second-year back Micheal Carter had 60 yards and rookie Breece Hall 23 on six attempts.
The Jets will face the Cleveland Browns this Sunday on the road. The Browns are 1-1 after a 26-24 win over the Carolina Panthers.
The Green Bay Packers’ four-time NFL MVP Aaron Rodgers being sacked four times and losing in Week 1 to the Minnesota Vikings is shocking. So is former Jet and current Seattle Se ahawks QB Geno Smith having his name chant ed by tens of thousands of football fans as he led his team to a 17-16 victo ry over the Denver Bron cos on Monday night.
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Robert Saleh Joe Flacco
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With the Giants trailing 13-0 at halftime versus the Tennes see Titans on the road on Sunday, they came within one point of a tie on a one-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Daniel Jones to tight end Daniel Myarick with 1:06 remaining in the game. Down 20-19, Daboll decided to go for two instead of the much safer extra-point kick to even the score and play for overtime.
head coach Robert Saleh since he was hired by the franchise. And they haven’t won a home opener since 2015.
Jets head coach Robert Saleh and quarterback Joe Flacco, filling in for injured starter Zach Wilson, took a 24-9 season-opening loss to the Baltimore Ravens on Sunday (Bill Moore Photos)
Daring Daboll and the Giants earn uplifting Week 1 victory
battling in the last few years with rehabbing and injuries. That’s been my mindset. No matter what, win, loss, tie,” he continued, “I just want to come here with the same mindset and just keep en joying the process and come to work every single day. We had a great week of practice and no
matter what the result was going to be, we can’t let that alter what happens this week. So we’ve got to keep grinding and keep lean ing on each other.”
After battling injuries and inad equate offensive line over the past two seasons, Barkley looked every bit like the player that came out of Penn State and had a sensational 2018 season that earned him NFL Rookie of the Year honors. Against the Titans, Barkley rushed for 164 yards on 18 carries and had six re ceptions for 30 yards.
Brian Daboll seized the moment. It was an opportuni ty for the Giants’ first-year head coach to put his imprint on the team and further establish a cul ture of fearlessness and trust.
The Jets’ season-opening loss highlights rebuilding challenges
Giants rookie head coach Brian Daboll led his team to a seasoningopening 21-20 road win over the Tennessee Titans (Giants.com photo)
Daboll’s daring deservedly earned him a game ball from his team as it was a strong message
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His absence highlighted one of the urgent areas of the Jets’ rebuilding plan. Wilson struggled last season in his rookie year and Flacco is near the end of his playing career. On the other hand, the Ravens’ 25-year-old QB Lamar Jack son is one of the best players in the NFL. The 2019 league MVP, who is seeking a new contract from the Ravens exceed ing $200 million, passed for 213 yards and threw three touchdowns.
solutely lost,” said Saleh.
“We just never turned the corner and got going off of some of those plays that we did have,” added Flacco.
There is shocking and not so shocking.
With Jets second-year quarterback Zack Wilson recovering from meniscus surgery after suffering an injury to his knee in pre season, 37-year-old Joe Flacco, who led the Ravens to a win in Super Bowl XLVII to end the 2012 season, was his replacement. Wilson is expected to return by Week 4.
“It’s just one game, to be honest. That’s how I look at it,” said Bar kley. “Obviously, at the end of the day, I’m excited to get the win. Per sonally, just got to keep coming in. Something that just keeps tickling me that Coach [Daboll] says, ‘Just enjoy the process.’
“Goingvictory.forthe win. We’re going to be aggressive. That’s what we want to do. That’s the mindset I want the players to have,” said Daboll after the Giants went 1-0 to open the 2022 campaign. “I thought that was the right de cision. You’re an inch away or whatever it was. I trust Saquon [Barkley].“Igrabbed a couple of defensive players,” Daboll recounted, “and busted their tails out there. I went up to some of the offensive guys that weren’t out there too and I said, ‘Hey, we got the ball, wher ever it was.’ I said, ‘If we score, I’m going for two, you guys good with that?’ And they said, ‘F-yeah.’”
he sent to an organization and fanbase that has bitterly endured losing for the better part of the past decade. Another memo was transmitted by Barkley. He let the football world know that he is still one of the elite athletes alive and when healthy is as good as there is at his position in the NFL.
The Giants host the 0-1 Caroli na Panthers at MetLife Stadium on Sunday (1p.m.) in their home opener.