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UNDERSTANDING DIVERSE NYC RACIAL JUSTICE GROUPS THAT STAND WITH PALESTINE (See story on page 4)

Mayor signs dyslexia screening in city jails bill (See story on page 3)

'Shaft' star Richard Roundtree has dies at 81 (See story on page 8)

Hundreds showed up for the “Flood Brooklyn for Palestine” demonstration held on Saturday, Oct. 21, in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. (Ariama C. Long and Tandy Lau photo)

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(GIN)—Back in 1963, the founders of the Organization of African Unity pledged to work and speak as one, forge an international consensus in support of the liberation struggle, and fight against apartheid.

Their aims were high. The achievements, less so. Last week, a one-day Cairo Summit for Peace, attended by leaders and top officials from more than a dozen countries, closed without agreement on a joint statement two weeks into a conflict that has killed thousands and visited a humanitarian catastrophe on the blockaded Gaza enclave of 2.3 million people.

Only one African leader—South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa— was in attendance.

The speeches reflected growing

anger in the region, even among those with close ties to Israel as the war sparked by a massive Hamas attack entered a third week with casualties mounting and no end in sight.

The current Israel-Hamas conflict in the Gaza strip has left the African continent deeply divided, with some countries choosing to remain silent and others openly showing solidarity with either Israel or Palestine.

Kenya, Ghana, Rwanda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo all expressed some form of support for Israel since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war.

“Kenya joins the rest of the world in solidarity with the State of Israel and unequivocally condemns terrorism and attacks on innocent civilians,” said President William Ruto, writing on Twitter, now known as X. Ghana’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs proclaimed Israel’s right to exist and defend itself while cautioning that country to exercise restraint and seek negotiation talks for both parties.

Rwanda called the Hamas attack an “act of terror,” while the Democratic Republic of Congo expressed

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support for Israel from the presidency’s Twitter account.

Ramaphosa, in contrast, expressed solidarity with the people of Palestine.

“All of us standing here pledge our solidarity for the people of Palestine,” he said at a recent meeting of the African National Congress in Johannesburg. “We stand here because we are deeply concerned about the atrocities that are unfolding in the Middle East.”

One of Palestine’s strongest African supporters is Algeria, which condemned “brutal air strikes by the Zionist (Israel) occupation forces in the Gaza Strip.” They stated they were in “full solidarity with the Palestinian people” while calling on the international community to act against “repeated criminal attacks.”

Tunisia, a member of the Arab League like Algeria, expressed “complete and unconditional support for the Palestinian people who have been under Zionist occupation for decades.” They called on the world to “stand by the Palestinians and remember the massacres carried out by the Zionist enemy.”

Countries that are more neutral in-

clude Nigeria, which, on the day of the attack, condemned the “cycle of violence and retaliation that the current escalation has assumed.”

While Uganda has not taken an official side, President Yoweri Museveni urged Israel and Palestine to strive for peace and a “two-state solution.”

“African countries take different positions based on their political and geopolitical interests,” said Louis Gitinywa, a Rwanda-based political analyst and constitutional lawyer. “This is nothing new. States have interests, they don’t have friends.”

The only African country with a strong historical attachment to Israel is Ethiopia, but at presstime, it was yet to make clear its stance on the current situation.

Buchanan Ismael, a political scientist at the University of Rwanda, pointed out that some African countries depend on Israel for military technology and weapons.

“I don’t think African states have very strong diplomatic relations with Israel,” he said. “Their ties are based on an opportunistic way of cooperation and assistance.”

Reaffirming peace in Colombia’s regional elections

By JESÚS CHUCHO GARCIA Special to the AmNews Translated by KAREN JUANITA CARRILLO Amsterdam News Staff Afro Colombians are no strangers to their nation’s half century of violence. Black and Indigenous communities have lost thousands of men, women, and children to the 52-year armed conflict between the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and the Colombian government, notes Professor Aiden Salgado.

Salgado is campaigning for a seat on the City Council of the nation’s capital, Bogotá. He is vying to become part of the council in the upcoming Oct. 29 regional elections.

Salgado is an activist who is originally from the town of Palenque de San Basilio, which is in Colombia’s Atlantic zone. Palenque is a town often referenced by members of the African diaspora in the Americas: it’s known for having preserved many African linguistic expressions, and because it has maintained African music (champeta), spiritualities, and aesthetics.

When he was young, Aiden Salgado joined the struggles against the racial discrimination and injustic-

es faced by Afro Colombians. Fully aware of the origins of the armed conflicts in his country, he recently wrote a book entitled “Who Created the Ethnic Chapter?” His text looks at Colombia’s 2016 Peace Accord and the agreements his nation signed on Nov. 24, 2016. The book suggested that a peace agreement should not have been signed in Colombia without the involvement of Afro Colombians and Indigenous peoples. In this book, Aiden notes that the conflict’s violence was felt most in Afro Colombian and Indigenous territories. He adds that though they signed the agreements, the government of former President Juan Manuel Santos did not implement them, and that in paramilitary sectors, new armed groups and drug trafficking were allowed to grow again and revitalize the violence that continues to claim lives.

The harmonization plan, which was designed to help reintegrate most of the combatants who fought against the government but then put down their weapons, has not been implemented since 2016.

nizations to pass Law 70 of Black Communities. Law 70 was created to “recognize that Black communities have been occupying lands in the rural areas along the Pacific basin rivers, in accordance with their traditional production practices...” 30 years have passed since the approval of this law...what is the current situation?

“I believe,” Salgado said, “that 30 years after the signing of this law, none of the governments prior to that of our current president, Gustavo Petro, cared about this law. Today, Petro’s government has begun to standardize this law so that it can move forward and benefit Black communities.

So, progress is being made in Afro Colombian inclusion policies.”

The Afro Colombian professor and activist is a candidate for the Bogotá City Council as part of the Fuerza Ciudadana political party. He wants people to vote for him so that he can help create a dignified city that combats the kind of racism and racial discrimination suffered by thousands of Afro Colombians who were displaced due to violence and now live in Bogotá, where they are now sufferWhat happened to Law 70 of ing daily acts of racism. “In this sense Black Communities?

I am proposing an employment In 1993, Colombia’s congress was plan not only for the displaced Black pushed by Afro Colombian orga- people, many of whom are forced to

Aiden Salgado campaign poster for Bogotá City Council (Fuerza Ciudadana photo)

wander the streets, but for Afro Colombians in general. We hope that this plan will include at least 20% of the unemployed Black population, as well as an affirmative action plan for employment with the mayor of Bogotá. We also want to initiate a radical curriculum plan to include information about Afro Colombians in the formal educational system.”

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420 on 125th: Harlem’s first legal cannabis retailer Gotham Buds opens doors

By TANDY LAU Amsterdam News Staff, Report for America Corps Member Gotham Buds opened doors—to those age 21 and older—this past Wednesday, Oct. 18, marking the first time a legal marijuana dispensary operated in Harlem. The state-licensed retailer is located on 125th Street across from the Apollo Theater.

Inside, the shelves and glass displays are lined with neatly-packaged cannabis products branded with puns like “Weed the People.” Several digital kiosks installed throughout the shop allowed detailed buying, not unlike electronics or car shopping. But instead of make and model, the terminals delineated the strengths and effects of each weed strain.

And there was a DJ spinning tracks by one of the checkouts.

Before the inaugural business day, Gotham Buds was joined by the New York State Office of Cannabis Management (OCM NY) to celebrate the shop’s opening.

“This is historic and being across the street from the Apollo is a beautiful thing,” said OCM NY executive director Chris Alexander. “It’s also a beautiful thing to have a Black business—a Black cannabis business—be the first cannabis business in Harlem.”

So what’s next for Gotham Buds after finally opening? Co-owner and communications director Malika Bellamy told the Amsterdam News that the goal is to be more than just cannabis.

“Gotham Buds to the world baby, that’s my slogan today and everyday,” she said.

“We hope to continue scaling the business. We’re looking forward to expanding, adding to our staff, creating some incredible entrepreneurship programs, community programs that benefit our youth. Just continue to be an example— other partnerships, our apparel is evolving. Because we’re a brand, we’re not just cannabis, we are truly a brand.

Committee and prioritized hiring local “We have cannabis as our core, but we residents, especially those “adversely af- have apparel, we have our music network fected by harmful cannabis-related laws.” as well, where we’re giving aspiring artOther stipulations and suggestions in- ists opportunities to showcase their art cluded diversity measures in hiring and and their work. So just expanding on that security detail, along with collabora- and continuing to bring out the best in tion with legacy Harlem institutions on the world.” the street like the Apollo Theater, 125th Business Improvement District, and the Tandy Lau is a Report for America corps Studio Museum. member and writes about public safety The Board’s involvement was recom- for the Amsterdam News. Your donation mended by the judge who tossed a law- to match our RFA grant helps keep him suit against the dispensary’s location 500 writing stories like this one; please confeet from private university Touro Col- sider making a tax-deductible gift of any lege, which provides programming for amount today by visiting https://bit.ly/ high schoolers. amnews1.

(from left to right) Gotham Buds leadership team Omar Tejada, Malika Bellamy and Gregory Gray Sr. celebrate opening. (Tandy Lau photo)

The dispensary opens following lawsuit-driven delays due to both local and statewide resistance. Gotham Buds’ leadership team noted the arduous journey, but looked forward.

“We’re here to make sure you consume more, consume more intelligently,” said co-founder Omar Tejada. “And we want to provide you options you didn’t even know you had. So Gotham is going to be here, we want to remain here.”

This past August, Manhattan Community Board 10 in Harlem lent conditional support to the opening of Gotham Buds if the dispensary provided regular quarterly updates to its Economic Development

BK Councilmember Crystal Hudson talks importance of family leave, welcomes a new baby

By ARIAMA C. LONG Amsterdam News Staff, Report for America Corps Member Brooklyn Councilmember Crystal Hudson, fresh off family leave, returned to the office this October with a profound sense of appreciation for sleep after she and her wife welcomed a newborn baby girl.

Hudson made history in 2021 as the

first out gay Black woman ever elected to the New York City Council. About three months ago, she used the state’s12-week paid family leave policy to spend bonding time with her wife, Sasha Ahuja, and daughter, Cy, at home.

“It’s definitely been stressful. It’s also really rewarding, joyful, and exciting. The sleep deprivation was something that you can never really prepare for,” said Hudson. “It’s almost unfathomable.”

She’s excited to be back at work, and at the same time, adjusting to this next chapter in her life. The first few weeks of leave were devoted to family, she said, but she eventually shifted to a hybrid schedule with her district office, assisting with projects and an asylum seeker shelter, as well as making appearances when she could.

Hudson represents District 35, covering neighborhoods like Fort Greene,

Clinton Hill, Crown Heights, Prospect Heights, and Bedford Stuyvesant. She chairs the Committee on Aging and is also co-chair of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (LGBTQ) Caucus.

A Brooklyn native, Hudson said she grew up an only child with a single parent. While on leave, she thought constantly about her mother and other single parents rising to the difficult task See LEAVE on page 27

Mayor signs dyslexia screening in city jails bill

By ARIAMA C. LONG Amsterdam News Staff, Report for America Corps Member A bill, sponsored by Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, promises the city will screen incarcerated New Yorkers in city jails for dyslexia and provide appropriate interventions and a path to literacy. It was signed into law last week.

Williams’ bill, Intro 349‑A, would require the Department of Correction (DOC), in collaboration with the Department of Education (DOE), to screen all individuals between the ages of 18-21 in custody who self-report the lack of a high school diploma or its equivalent for dyslexia and offer evidence-based interventions.

“As a student, I struggled with Tourette syndrome, which is very visible, and ADHD, which, like dyslexia, is not,” said Williams. “Both undiagnosed until high school. I, too, got into a little trouble, [and] probably still get into trouble now. Once I could put a name on it and develop a learning plan, it immensely improved my education outlook.”

Williams hopes his bill will address the many adults in the criminal justice system who struggle with undiagnosed dyslexia or difficulty with reading comprehension.

Rikers Island was not designed to truly support the needs or well-being of people on the inside, said Williams.“By screening and servicing affected people, we can provide better support for incarcerated New York-

ers, help prevent them from reentering the criminal legal system in the future, and for some of them, give them a first chance, not even a second one,” said Williams.

Similarly, Mayor Eric Adams spoke at the signing about his experience with undiagnosed dyslexia as a child in the city. “I think it had a major impact on my life trajectory,” said Adams. “We are looking at not only our students but we’re looking at those who are incarcerated, because [understanding] your learning disabilities any time in life can allow you to place yourself on the right pathway if you get the help that you need.”

DOC Commissioner Louis Molina said that the new law will help change the lives of justice-involved individuals by offering them support, and also

improve public safety across the city.

Councilmember Gale Brewer, who was at the signing, added that if the city “had done a better job” of meeting the educational service gap it may have prevented many people from going into the criminal system in the first place. “We introduced this bill, I think last term, and I’m glad we have this administration working with us to get this done,” she said.

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The terrible portent of an invasion in Gaza

By HERB BOYD Special to the AmNews Much like the attack by Hamas against Israel on October 7 and its horrendous results, the U.S. has no idea when the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) will begin their military objectives in Gaza. But the Biden administration has expressed grave concerns about the achievability of such an invasion.

Senior administration officials, including Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin III, have called for a careful consideration of the invasion, espe-

cially in view of the massive intricacy of tunnel networks under densely populated areas.

On Monday, the Pentagon dispatched Lt. Gen. James Glynn, along with other officers, to Israel to help with the imminent invasion, although the Biden administration has announced that by no means they are trying to advise Israel about how to conduct its affairs.

To this end, on Sunday, a diplomat from the Israeli Embassy denied that the U.S. was advising the Israelis to delay the ground invasion.

“The U.S. is not pressing Israel in regards to the ground operation,” the diplomat said.

An invasion is sure to trigger even more outbreaks of demonstrations in support of the Palestinians and possibly expand the war into other regions of the Arab world. Already there are mounting concerns about military engagement in northern Israel on the Lebanon border where Hezbollah combatants pose a lethal threat.

Meanwhile, the division between proponents of Israel’s defensive measures and the plight of Palestinians continues without any sign of stopping despite calls for a ceasefire.

Political groups and even members of Con-

gress are riveted by the conflict in Israel and Gaza where, amid the exchange of gunfire, trucks arrived in Gaza with relief from the humanitarian crisis.

An invasion by the IDF would probably put an immediate halt to the flow of food, water, and medical supplies so desperately needed.

The release of two more hostages by Hamas was certainly good news, but there are claims that more than 200 are still somewhere in Gaza.

The Biden administration continues to argue for the release of all the hostages before any ground invasion proceeds.

Paralegal Pathways Initiative develops the formerly-incarcerated for professional legal careers

By TANDY LAU Amsterdam News Staff, Report for America Corps Member Paralegal Pathways Initiative (PPI) is extending the arm of law into a helping hand for formerly incarcerated New Yorkers. Housed in Columbia Law School, the program fosters participants’ experience navigating the criminal legal justice system into potential careers in the law field. Applications are open until next Friday, Nov. 3.

Co-founder Devon Simmons, who immediately went back to school after leaving state prison, realized he never applied the legal experience he gained from incarceration towards his studies.

“The skillset that people probably develop most inside of jails and prisons is legal research, because everybody has to literally do some type of legal research whether to advocate for themselves or file a grievance,” he said. “So it’s a thing in which people [who] are incarcerated have to interact with in some shape, form or fashion.

Why don’t we create a training course, which will allow people to hone those skills in which they develop inside and hopefully be able to connect it to employment.”

The program runs for 12 weeks from next January to May. Currently around 19 law students are preparing the spring semester curriculum for the new crop of PPI participants. They put together the courses with input by program alumni, factoring in legal research and writing, along with necessary professional skills needed to get hired.

Lauren Aboodi, a Columbia Law School third year working on PPI, said the spring program is a collaborative process between the organizing students and formerly incarcerated participants.

“We go to class with them, we interact with them [and] it’s been formative to my law school experience personally because it’s very rare you actually get to interact with people who have really been touched by the incarceration system,” she said.

Simmons’ fellow co-founder, professor Susan

Sturm, said such experience is crucial for future lawyers who will inevitably work in a flawed criminal justice legal system.

“The law in the books does not necessarily resemble what actually happens in practice,” said Sturm. “We could call it ‘ground-truthing’ the law; that people who have been through the system are often the only ones who really understand how all of the systems that are often siloed come together and affect somebody.

“There’s also a risk of desensitization. That happens for people who work inside the system that there’s a normalization of a process that does not really think about what [this means] for the people who are actually going [through] the system. That becomes much more difficult to do when you have real people who you know are affected by things we would never want to have happen to us, or to anyone that we care about. “[Then] there are so many stereotypes about people who have experienced incarceration that are reinforced often by some of the things that people learn in a conventional legal class.

And these stereotypes really do not reflect the knowledge and the wisdom and the experiences of the people who complete their sentences in the lab and are basically ready to contribute and turn their lives around. And the preconceptions are often what stand in the way of having people be able to make those kinds of contributions.”

Too often law students become stakeholders to incarceration outside of the classroom. Sturm said such students often end up limiting their ability to connect with their clients. Working with PPI participants creates “more complexity around how people who are themselves affected by racism in mass incarceration navigate their roles as public defenders, prosecutors or other…lawyers in the criminal legal system.”

But the benefits are mutual. Aboodi said law students remain a resource for participants as they begin to apply for jobs and law school. To be clear, PPI is not a reentry See PARALEGAL on page 27

Solidarity: Understanding diverse NYC racial justice groups that stand with Palestine

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

By TANDY LAU Amsterdam News Staff, Report for America Corps Member Clear weather quickly overtook Saturday’s projected rain and the ‘Flood Brooklyn for Palestine’ rally went on as forecasted. Hundreds of diverse protesters called on Israel for a ceasefire and western powers to stop funding for the conflict on Oct. 21, one of many pro-Palestinian demonstrations throughout the world.

The rally originated along Ovington and 5th Avenues in Bay Ridge. The Brooklyn neighborhood was once primarily Italian American, but has become a safe haven since the 1970s for Arab, Palestinian, Yemeni, Egyptian, and many other Muslim-American communities. Protesters of all ages, races, and ethnicities slowly trickled in off the nearby R train and buses and from their homes and businesses

around 2 p.m. on Saturday.

They carried signs and flags—some for their own native countries and many others for Palestine. Many donned keffiyehs, or Arabic scarfs, over their heads and faces. Within Our Lifetime (WOL) Head Organizer Nerdeen Kiswani, a young Palestinian woman who was born and raised in Bay Ridge, and others got up on top of a U-Haul truck to speak to the massive crowd.

“Our community is coming here together to make it unequivocally clear that we stand with the people of Palestine and the people of Gaza,” said Kiswani.

At the end of the rally on Saturday night, after marching for several hours, 19 people were arrested for disorderly conduct and resisting arrest when asked by police to disperse.

Throughout the years of bloody conflict between the two groups, Palestinians have found allies among a myriad of other communities including Black Americans, Africans, Hispanics, Asians; and a fair amount of Jewish peoples across the diaspora, zionist (the belief in the creation of a Jewish state) or not.

Free Palestine The majority of Palestinians and PalestinianAmericans that the Amsterdam News spoke to see Israel as “colonial occupiers” set out to commit a “genocide” of their people, a frustration that the Hamas was born from. Meanwhile, many Israeli citizens, who have borne the brunt of Hamas attacks for decades, and their kin in the U.S. feel that Hamas is little more than a terrorist organization. Some believe the chants of “Free Palestine” are synonymous with anti-semitism.

“Nobody wants violence. Nobody,” said Dr. Rabab Ibrahim Abdulhadi, director and senior scholar of the Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Studies at San Francisco State University and an internationally known Palestine studies scholar. “Everyone wants to live with dignity and peace and justice. To have food and a ceiling over their heads, clean water, healthcare and for their children to go to school and return alive. Everyone wants to do that. Palestinians are not exceptionalized.

But colonized people are not even allowed

by their colonizers to dare dream of enjoying what everyone else does. This is especially true for multiple generation refugees who were displaced from their homes 75 years ago when Israel was founded in 1948.”

Abdulhadi is originally from Nablus, Palestine which was then under Jordanian rule and “Israeli military occupation,” she said. She grew up with images of the Civil Rights and the Black Power Movement in the U.S. She idolized freedom fighters like Assata Shakur and Angela Davis. After teaching at the American University in Cairo, she moved to New York City right after the 9/11 attack. She said it was frightening to live at the height of the city’s islamophobia and anti-Arab hostility. She said that Black organizers had long embraced the Palestinian movement, seeing themselves as allies in the struggle to end discrimination.

“People have become increasingly supportive of Palestine. We’ve been so supportive of Black struggles for freedom. How could we not?” said Abdulhadi. “We’re also demanding our own freedom.”

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IMPACCT Brooklyn’s Bernell K. Grier: pushing for community empowerment

By KAREN JUANITA CARRILLO Amsterdam News Staff

Grier had been encouraged by her elementary school teacher, actress Estelle Evans, who, before starring in “To Kill a Mockingbird” (1962) Bernell K. Grier remembers her elders tell- and “The Learning Tree” (1969), was a teacher in ing her, back in 1969, that Harlem was ripe the New York City public school system. “She was for gentrification. my third-grade teacher, and she identified me as “There was a woman and there [were] also an intellectually gifted child. After that I was tested a couple of older men that used to talk to me and went through the school system in the intelabout Harlem and how the community was lectually gifted classes and then attended Bronx at risk of being taken over and not really being High School of Science and City College.” owned or operated by Blacks who lived in After two years in college, Grier switched to Harlem,” she recalled. evening school so that she “Back then, I just remem- IMPACCT Brooklyn’s Bernell K. could work during the day. She ber sitting in what used to be Grier (IMPACCT Brooklyn photo) worked at Chase Bank and called Colonial Park, now it’s joined their accelerated career called Jackie Robinson Park training program which on Bradhurst Avenue, and taught her how to run a bank just being able to talk about branch. She later worked with Harlem. There was a lot of Bank of America and other abandonment at that time: financial institutions, and landlords had abandoned joined groups like the Urban the buildings and people Bankers Coalition (now, the were without heat and hot Urban Financial Services Cowater. My job was to help alition) so that she could stay people get information on connected with other Black how to complain and get serbankers and be a part of provices in their building. grams promoting financial “One of my mentors who ran education in the community. the program I worked for said When the concept of commu‘Harlem is prime territory. It is nity reinvestment became big in an area that when you look at it, it has transpor- the banking community in the 1990s, she jumped tation hubs, every subway system runs here: you on board. As a community development officer, can get to New Jersey, you can get to Long Island, she worked closely with community-based orgait’s prime land. If we as a people in Harlem do not nizations from across New York state, and then manage to own and control what we have, even- later New Jersey and parts of Florida. “I got the tually, we’re going to see Harlem change and it opportunity to meet and to fund a lot of the leadwon’t be the Harlem that we know today as being ership of people in communities that were acpredominantly Black.’” tively working to preserve and build and enhance Grier, who is Harlem born and bred, grew up in communities across the country,” she said.“I liked the NewYork City Housing Authority’s Rangel/Co- being able to support them both with the bank’s lonial Houses. She took the lessons learned from resources as well as my time and also garnering Harlem’s gentrification and today works to ensure resources for those organizations.” that Black communities remain rooted in neighBut after 30 years in banking, Grier wanted to borhoods they have established. get back to working directly in the community.

Grier has served as the executive director of She took a job running Neighborhood Housthe community development corporation IM- ing Services of NYC, worked with the Federal PACCT Brooklyn since 2016.

Home Loan Bank of New York, and then came IMPACCT used to be called PACC (Pratt Area to IMPACCT Brooklyn.

Community Council). The group helps small “All of my experience in banking and volunteerbusinesses with their operations, owns and op- ing has prepared me for the job that I have today erates affordable housing developments, and and that is building supportive as well as incomeprovides classes and assistance to residents in targeted affordable housing,” Grier said. IMthe rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods of Fort PACCT operates a low-income housing program Greene, Clinton Hill, Bed Stuy, Crown Heights, at the Gibb Mansion building in Bed Stuy, owns and Prospect Heights. and operates thousands of units in mixed-use resBy directing IMPACCT, Grier has come idential buildings throughout Central Brooklyn, full circle. and also conducts a home ownership program.

She said her parents had the greatest influence “In our community organizing team we try our on her, raising her to be civically engaged and to be best to get residents to be civically engaged and to someone who fought for the stability of her com- organize tenant associations,” Grier said.“If you’re munity. She recalls conversations with elders who already in a building and a lot of times landlords warned her about gentrification in her historical- are trying to push people out of their buildings, we ly Black neighborhood. She also remembers the make sure that tenants know their rights. We join talks legendary figures gave at her schools while with other organizations, different legal services she was growing up––people like lawyer and busi- entities like TakeRoot Justice, Brooklyn Legal Serness leader, Percy Sutton; former New York City vices, and the Legal Aid Society to be able to have Mayor David Dinkins; and former Harlem Con- clinics, so people know their rights and they know gressmember Charlie Rangel––also swayed her to how to organize to be able to protect themselves be concerned about inequity. and their homes, and not be pushed out.”

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THE URBAN AGENDA

By David R. Jones, Esq

The Ugly Legacy of “Redlining” and Medical Debt The redlining of Black communities in the 1930s, a racist public policy carried out by the federal government and the real estate industry, resulted in countless Black families across the nation being denied the opportunity to build generational wealth through home ownership.

Here’s how it worked: the government “mapped” neighborhoods along racial, ethnic and socioeconomic lines and assigned rankings to them. Households in high rated communities could assess financial assistance and obtain favorable mortgage rates; those in low rated communities were considered high risks for loans. What followed was de facto housing discrimination and segregation in American urban centers, culminating in a generation of Black families being denied access to the very tools White Americans took advantage of to build wealth, shape communities and sustain families.

To say we’re still living with the consequences of these policies is an understatement.

Eighty years later, the impact of redlining is still evident in housing, education and medical care policies and practices. Take for example the growing problem of medical debt in our state.

A recent report by the Urban Institute found that over 740,000 New Yorkers have medical debt, with people of color having higher rates of medical debt than Whites. By analyzing a representative sampling of 2022 individual credit reports across the state, the Institute report found that the problem of medical debt was concentrated in Central New York’s poorest communities, including Black neighborhoods in the city of Syracuse.

The Institute’s findings are consistent with a series of Community Service Society of New York (CSS) reports issued over the last three years called, “Discharged Into Debt,” that examined predatory medical debt collection practices by nonprofit hospitals in the state. Between 2015 and 2020, more than 57,000 patients with medical debt were sued, primarily by hospitals in the counties of Nassua, Suffolk, Onondaga, Queens, Broome, Albany, Steuben, Onedia, Chemung, and Fulton—to name a few.

CSS’s reports on nonprofit hospitals begs the question of how patients at the five State-operated hospitals with medical debt were treated. Surprisingly, three of these state-operated hospitals were at the top or near the top of the leaderboard suing patients for medical debt. SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, Stony Brook hospital on Long Island and Roswell Park in Erie all sue very large numbers of patients for medical debt. In fact, between 2019-2023, the five state-operated hospitals collectively sued over 12,000 patients for medical debt—at a much higher rate than nearly all the nonprofit hospitals.

SUNY Upstate is a glaring example of the overlap of redlining and medical debt.

In 2019, lawyers in the State Attorney General’s Office filed 1,562 lawsuits on behalf of SUNY Upstate against hospital patients in just one year. In 2020, State Attorney General Leticia James suspended medical debt lawsuits to avoid inflicting financial harm on patients during the pandemic and economic downturn.

However, SUNY Upstate’s lawsuits resumed in 2021, and by the end of the year were occurring just as frequently as in prepandemic years, resulting in an additional 501 lawsuits.

According to a 2022 CSS analysis of SUNY Upstate, more than 50 percent of the medical debt lawsuits filed were in zip codes where residents are disproportionately people of color. Four of the five most common zip codes in which the Attorney General filed lawsuits (13204, 13205, 13207, and 13208) are places in Syracuse where most residents are people of color. In the fifth, 43 percent of residents are people of color. Most notably, 77 percent of the patients who were sued live in zip codes where the median income is under $70,000 annually, meaning they likely were eligible for hospital financial assistance and should not have been sued in the first place. Another dozen patients who were sued were incarcerated at the time.

What does this have to do with the ugly legacy of redlining? Simply put, if a map of these zip codes were created and laid over “Resident Security” maps dating back to the early period of redlining in Syracuse’s Black communities, there’s a good chance the two maps would be indistinguishable.

State-operated hospitals suing low-income patients for outstanding medical debt would have no discernible impact on the operating budgets of these five hospitals, that collectively receive more than $530 million in federal disproportionate hospital funding to support the provision of uncompensated care. That appears to be the view of Westchester Assembly Member Amy Paulin, who chairs the New York State Assembly Health Committee.

This month she introduced legislation called the “Stop SUNY Suing Act/A.8170,” which would ban the five state-operated hospitals SUNY Upstate (Syracuse), SUNY Downstate (Brooklyn), SUNY Stoney Brook (Long Island), Roswell Park (Buffalo) and Helen Hayes (Rockland County) from suing patients for medical debt.

Lawsuits for medical debt have an enormously detrimental impact on the economic security of low-income patients.

Instead of suing patients, our state-operated hospitals should do a better job of screening patients for hospital financial assistance.

For now, we call on state lawmakers to support the “Stop SUNY Suing Act.”

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

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Nationally, the two Muslim women members of Congress—U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.)—both reportedly received escalated threats after supporting the ceasefire.

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Jewish activism and support It’s important to note that the allyship Palestine found with Black and brown communities is not unique. Jewish rabbis and organizers were intricately a part of the Civil Rights Movement alongside heavy hitters in history since the 1950s. Rabbi Abraham Heschel marched hand in hand with Dr. Martin Luther King.

Jewish Americans identified with the struggle against racial injustice and persecution of Black Americans in the Jim Crow South because of their experiences with the Holocaust and antiSemitism. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and other Jewish organizations continue to fight against racism and anti-Blackness while promoting nonviolence.

When it comes to Palestine, however, several Jewish people AmNews spoke to said that they can understand the frustrations of Palestinian citizens and Palestinian Americans while absolutely denouncing Hamas and their attacks.

David Sable is the co-founder/partner of DoAble, a brand strategy company, based in New York City. He was previously the global CEO and chairman of Y&R and still serves on the board of UNICEF (United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund) and UNCF. As a business leader and social activist, he has worked to end gun violence, hunger and inequality. Sable was in Israel for the holy holiday when Hamas attacked.

“This has absolutely nothing to do with the Israel, Palestine divide. This has everything to do with terrorists. I think that’s really important for the community to understand,” said Sable.

“For sure there’s issues between Israel and Palestine, and I’m a believer in a two state solution, but this is about Hamas terrorists. Like they did in Southern Israel, the terrorists do the same in Africa. They behead them, they mutilate them, they take hostages. It’s the same people.”

Sable agrees with the legitimate concerns of Palestinians and unequivocally views Hamas terrorist attacks as counter to their cause for liberation. He identifies as a Democratic Zionist, who believes in a two-state solution and Israeli democracy.

Robin Strauss, a Jewish member of the Freedom Socialist Party, doesn’t believe that the Israeli state has a right to claim the land of Pal-

Calls for a peaceful solution

Hundreds showed up for the “Flood Brooklyn for Palestine” demonstration held on Saturday, Oct. 21, in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. (Ariama C. Long and Tandy Lau photo)

estine. She’s in support of “self determination and a full right to return” of displaced Palestinian people. She feels there should be one socialist state where Palestinians and Israelis, as well as other cultures, are treated equally.

“The American Jewry and the world Jewry community is not a monolith. They think all Jewish people should all be Zionist. Those two ideas are different,” said Strauss. “Zionism is not Judaism, it’s fascism. Just like all Palestinian people do not support Hamas.”

Rise of islamophobia and antisemitism in the city Brooklyn isn’t just home to thousands of Palestinians but also home to a significant Jewish and Orthodox community.

A father attending the rally told the AmNews that while he holds anxieties of bullying for his son who recently started grade school, he holds faith that New York City’s diverse makeup won’t let Islamophobia slide.

Another protester who identified himself as Todd P., held a sign saying “Anti-Zionism is not antisemitism” and said that while he found Hamas’ actions to be “abhorrent,” he found the Israeli response “unacceptable.” He adds that opposing the Israeli occupation is a “radical position,” one he’s familiar with as a gay man.

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On Tuesday, Oct. 24, Mayor Eric Adams remarked that the city has to be “extremely careful” as it deals with hate targeting both groups.

Adams said that disinformation in the media and on social media about the war can feed into the “hysteria” locally.

Political backlash for supporting Palestine The current climate evokes bad memories for Queens Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani, who grew up post-9/11 in a New York City Muslim family shortly after moving from Uganda. He points to other elected Democratic officials advocating for “Israel’s right to self-defense” as a root cause to the growing Islamophobia, even if they actively denounce it.

“What is so concerning to me is that many politicians think that they can, on one side of their mouth, give a message endorsing unrestrained mass murder of Palestinian civilians,” said Mamdani. “And on the other side of their mouth, say that there’s no room for Islamophobia seeking in some sense to distinguish between what they believe Muslims over there deserve versus Muslims over here.

“What these politicians do not seem to understand is that if you are someone listening to their rhetoric and you hear in their words—that Palestinian life does not deserve the same anguish, the same protection, the same dignity as any other person’s life and that life can be taken in the name of self defense, or a right to defend oneself—it means that those same principles could be applied here at home.”

While Mamdani is a regular critic of Israeli policy, he’s noticed a considerable escalation in harassment and threats directed at him and his office on the issue since openly supporting a ceasefire in Gaza. The lawmaker is specifically disturbed by a voicemail telling him he “deserved to die and all Muslims should be killed” and wishing brain cancer upon his child.

“The intent of these threats is an attempt to silence any views that speak for the universal dignity of people if that universe includes Palestinians. For me and for many others, it does,” said Mamdani.

Several electeds, faith leaders, and hundreds of protesters have called for a long-term solution to the decades of war. For some, that means an “end of Israeli occupation” or Israeli sovereignty.

For others like U.S. Rep. Jamaal Bowman, that means creating two independent states for Palestine and Israel to coexist.

“We need open discussion of the root causes of this conflict to end this violence and stop Hamas once and for all and bring us to a peaceful two-state solution,” said Bowman in a statement. “We need to acknowledge hard truths about the oppression millions of Palestinians face. The U.S. and the entire global community must stand up for all life and help work towards a peaceful two-state solution. Israeli and Palestinian civilians do not deserve to be killed due to this war.”

Across the board, people want the violence to stop.

“What’s unfolded in Israel and Gaza these last two weeks has been a tragic, devastating, and heartbreaking humanitarian crisis. I, like the rest of the world, was shaken by the terror attack in Israel that’s left scores of civilians dead, missing, or held hostage,” said Dr. W. Franklyn Richardson, senior pastor of Grace Baptist Church, chairman of the Conference of National Black Churches (CNBC), and chairman of the board of National Action Network (NAN).

Richardson said he is reminded of Dr. King’s legacy, which demands that no one turn a “blind eye or watch this conflict unfold from afar with resignation.” He prays for those killed, captured, or wounded in the conflict.

“Our duty is to advocate for a non-violence, for understanding, and for a forum in which every voice is heard,” added Richardson.

“Pointing fingers or guns has only ever begotten more division and bloodshed. Revenge is a dead end of hope. Instead, the only pathway to peace is reconciliation.”

As of Tuesday, Oct. 24, there’s growing pressure locally in the city and abroad for Hamas to return all hostages, for governments to address the humanitarian crisis for the 2.2 million people in Gaza, and for both sides to submit to a ceasefire.

Reporter’s Note: We don’t pretend to be able to encompass the magnitude of decades of conflict in a single story, but we do strive to uphold our central principles of fairness and accuracy at Amsterdam News. The deepest sympathies for loved ones lost overseas and for those whose lives are still in jeopardy.

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ANTHONY Another day. Another celebrity memoir. The Associated Press reports that Serena Williams has secured a two-book deal with the Random House Publishing Group.

Her first release from the deal will be an “intimate” memoir that will cover topics like her epic tennis career and her journey from childhood to her spot as a sports legend. Said Williams in a statement, “For so long, all I was focused on was winning, and I never sat down to look back and reflect on my life and career. I couldn’t be at a more perfect place to be able to take on such a personal intimate project, and there’s no one I would rather do it with than the team at Random House.”.......

Last year, Gov. Glenn Youngkin first recognized Oct. 17th as Missy Elliott Day in Virginia. The inaugural day included a renaming ceremony and parade in Portsmouth, Virginia to rename McLean Street as Missy Elliott Boulevard. And to celebrate the second Missy Elliott Day, the raptress announced a generous donation of $50,000 to the Portsmouth Redevelopment and Housing Authority, reports WAVY. The contribution is aimed at assisting families who are confronting the threat of eviction. Very nice move Missy!....

The “Hope in Harmony: Awards Ceremony & Fundraiser Cocktail Party” on Oct. 9 at Sony Hall at the Paramount Hotel Times Square in the Big Apple, was a memorable evening of entertainment, elegance, and inspiration. Three-time Tony Award and Grammy nominee Joshua Henry was the evening’s host. There were performances by Broadway legends such as Brian Stokes Mitchell, Norm Lewis, Adrienne Warren and Shoshana Bean.......

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‘Shaft’ star Richard Roundtree, considered the first Black action movie hero, has died at 81

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Richard Roundtree, the trailblazing actor who starred as the ultrasmooth private detective in several “Shaft” films beginning in the early 1970s, has died. He was 81.

Roundtree’s longtime manager, Patrick McMinn, said the actor had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and died at his home in Los Angeles on Tuesday. He was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1993 and underwent a double mastectomy.

“Richard’s work and career served as a turning point for African American leading men,” McMinn said. “The impact he had on the industry cannot be overstated.”

Roundtree, who was born in New Rochelle, New York, was considered as the first Black action hero and became one of the leading actors in the blaxploitation genre through his New York street smart John Shaft character in the Gordon Parks-directed film in 1971. At age 28, it was Roundtree’s first feature film appearance after starting his career as a model.

Roundtree’s “Shaft” was part of a change in how Black movies were viewed in Hollywood, which failed to consider Black actors – especially for leading roles — in projects at the time.

The blaxploitation films were primarily aimed at the African American audiences.

In the film, his character navigated the world of thugs. He regularly whipped out popular one-liners like “It’s my duty to please that booty.”

“What we were doing was a good, old Saturday afternoon shoot ’em up,” Roundtree said in a 2000 interview with The Associated Press.

Isaac Hayes’ “Shaft” theme song — which included the line “You a bad mother— (Shut your mouth)” — helped insinuate the original movie into the pop-cult consciousness. The singer, who died in 2008, said the song was “like the ‘shot heard round the world.” His single won an Academy Award for best song in 1971 and two Grammys the following year.

After the film’s success, Roundtree returned in sequels

Richard Roundtree (Lapacazo Sandoval photo)

“Shaft’s Big Score” in 1972 and “Shaft in Africa” in 1973. That same year, he played the savvy detective once again on the CBS television series “Shaft,” which lasted only seven episodes.

Roundtree reprised his role in the 2000 “Shaft” film, a revival that starred Samuel L. Jackson.

He appeared as Jackson’s uncle in the big-budget film that was aimed at the general audi-

ence. Both appeared again in the same roles in the 2019 film starring Jessie T. Usher.

Jackson called Roundtree the “prototype” and the “best to ever do it” in a social media post.

“SHAFT, as we know it is & will always be his Creation,” he said of Roundtree. “His passing leaves a deep hole not only in my heart, but I’m sure a lotta y’all’s, too.”

Through his 50-plus year career, Roundtree appeared in a number other notable films including “Earthquake,” “Man Friday” with Peter O’Toole, “Roots,” “Maniac Cop” “Se7en” and “What Men Want” starring Taraji P. Henson. He also made his mark with television roles on “Magnum P.I.,” “The Love Boat,” “Being Mary Jane” and “The Love Boat.”

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Mayor, NYPD get into the spooky spirit with haunted houses

By ARIAMA C. LONG Amsterdam News Staff, Report for America Corps Member Despite all that’s going on in the city and overseas, the city is determined to uphold the tradition of wholesome scary goodness for Halloween. Mayor Eric Adams will host its annual two-day community haunted house at Gracie Mansion, and the NYPD Technical Assistance Response Unit (TARU) opened its haunted house in Queens this month.

“I am confident that when we open ‘The People’s House,’ New Yorkers will finally believe me about the ghosts floating around here,” joked Adams. “Halloween is a great opportunity for New Yorkers to spend time in their communities, and that’s why we are inviting our city’s residents to celebrate the haunted—we mean historic— grounds of Gracie Mansion.”

The mansion, located at 88th Street and East End Avenue, is over 200 years old and has served as the New York mayor’s home since 1942. For this year’s celebration, the mansion will have trickor-treating, a corn maze, and a spooky cemetery on Saturday, October 28 and Sunday, October 29.

The event is geared towards children between six and 10 years old.

City residents can reserve up

Mayor Eric Adams visited “Terror on Totten” the NYPD’s haunted house at Fort Totten, Queens on Saturday, October 29, 2022. (Michael Appleton/ Mayoral Photography Office photos)

to four free tickets online, and there will be about 300 tickets saved specifically for families in the shelter system and seeking asylum, said Adams.

“This year, we are making sure that ‘The People’s House’ is truly open to all the people by inviting families experienc-

ing [homelessness] and seeking asylum to join our ‘Halloween at Gracie Mansion 2023’ celebration,” said Department of Social Services (DSS) Commissioner Molly Wasow Park in a statement. “We know that children experiencing homelessness endure a unique set of incred-

ibly challenging circumstances, and this event will provide them a safe space to simply be children and enjoy all the incredible Halloween activities available at this year’s celebration.”

Former Mayor Bill de Blasio and his then wife Chirlane McCray, began the tradition of the haunted

Mayor Bill de Blasio and First Lady Chirlane McCray hosted the Gracie Mansion Halloween on Friday, October 27, 2017.

house at Gracie Mansion in 2014.

The couple famously dressed up in various matching costumes.

The mansion’s decorations and festivities are sponsored by Affinity, Molina Healthcare, Target, Warner Bros. Discovery, and Empire BlueCross BlueShield, said the city. Support for the event is also provided by BLICK art materials, Chobani, Fresh Direct, John and Margo Catsimatidis Foundation, Liberty Coca-Cola Beverages, Nickelodeon, New York City Department of Citywide Administrative Services (DCAS), Scholastic Inc., 7th Heaven Inc., Sofia & Grace Cookie Company, Utz, Vadilal Quick Treat, Violife, The Vita Coco Company, and the Wildlife Conservation Society.

Meanwhile, the NYPD TARU’s annual free community haunted house in Fort Totten Park on the Willets Point peninsula, nicknamed the “Terror on Totten,” is open for the remainder of October from 4 p.m. to 11p.m.

The haunted house was created

by NYPD inspector Frank DiGiacomo while at Precinct 78.

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Union Matters UAW’s confrontational leader makes gains in strike talks, but some wonder: Has he reached too far?

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer WAYNE, Mich.

(AP) — Throughout its 5-week-old strikes against Detroit’s automakers, the United Auto Workers union has cast an emphatically combative stance, reflecting the style of its pugnacious leader, Shawn Fain.

Armed with a list of what even Fain has called “audacious” pay and benefit demands, the UAW leader has embodied the exasperation of workers who say they’ve struggled for years while the automakers made billions.

Yet as the strikes have dragged on, analysts and even some workers have raised a pivotal question: Does Fain have an endgame to bring the strikes to a close?

People with personal ties to Fain say his approach reflects the straightforward manner he developed as he rose through the union’s ranks. Others, though, say they worry that Fain set such high expectations for the pay and benefits he can extract from the companies that he risks incurring a personal setback if an eventual deal disappoints union members. A weak settlement could also make it difficult for Fain to expand UAW membership to non-union rivals such as Tesla and Toyota USA. “He’s gotten far more from the companies than anyone, in particular the companies, may have expected,” said Harley Shaiken, a professor emeritus specializing in labor at the University of California, Berkeley. “But now is the critical point where you pull the package together. If it isn’t now, when will it be?”

What began with 7,000 workers at one factory each of Ford, General Motors and Jeep maker Stellantis has grown to 34,000 at six plants and 38 parts warehouses. The companies say they’ve sweetened pay offers and made numerous concessions. GM even agreed to bring its new electric vehicle battery factories into the national UAW contract, essentially guarantee-

United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain, center left, stands for pictures with the Rev. Jesse Jackson, bottom center, after a rally for striking workers at UAW Local 551, on Oct. 7, 2023, in Chicago. Throughout its 5-week-old strikes against Detroit’s automakers, the United Auto Workers union has cast an emphatically combative stance, reflecting the style of Fain, its pugnacious leader. (John J. Kim /Chicago Tribune via AP, File photo)

ing that workers of the future will belong to the union.

Three auto officials, who asked that they not be identified so they could speak candidly, say they’re unsure whether Fain has a plan to end the strikes or whether he’ll cling to demands that the companies say would be so costly as to jeopardize their ability to invest in the future.

Fain, who in March narrowly won the UAW’s first-ever direct election of a president, had campaigned on promises to end cooperation with the automakers, essentially declaring war on them. He has complained that the companies have failed to restore concessions the union members made before and during the 2008-2009 Great Recession, when the industry was teetering.

Some auto executives have accused Fain of showmanship and of failing to negotiate seriously. Yet his strategy so far has largely succeeded. The companies have offered to raise pay increases from single digits to

23% over four years, restore cost-of-living pay and end lower tiers of wages.

Yet obstacles remain. The UAW has demanded 36% general raises; defined-benefit pensions for workers hired after 2007; and pension increases for retirees.

On the picket lines, some wonder just how long Fain will keep them out.

“If they can’t come to terms, what happens then?” asked Dawn Krunzel, a team leader at Stellantis’ Jeep complex in Toledo, Ohio, one of the first plants to walk out.

All that Fain is seeking, Krunzel said, is for workers to be made whole for concessions that saved the companies when they were in financial danger.

“I’m hoping Fain is smart enough to say, ‘Enough is enough,’” she said. “You never get everything you want.”

Doc Killian, who works at a Ford plant near Detroit, said Fain should hold out as long

as necessary to secure bigger raises, unionization of battery plants and increased pensions.

In contrast to his predecessors, Fain has insulted CEOs and revealed company pay offers in live video appearances. He has frequently likened the UAW’s fight to a battle between the beleaguered working class and billionaires.

Disputing the auto officials’ argument, Fain said the companies can afford to pay more.

“We have plans,” he said. “We have strategies and tactics to keep winning at the table.”

With roots in small-town Indiana, Fain, 54, was known as a straight-arrow young man who respected teachers and coaches at Taylor High School near Kokomo. Paul Nicodemus, a childhood friend, said Fain derived his values from his father, who was Kokomo’s police chief, and his mother, a nurse.

Nicodemus doesn’t recall Fain as being outspoken about economic inequities—probably, he

said, because there wasn’t much inequality in Kokomo. Nearly everyone’s parents worked at either Chrysler or General Motors’ Delco factories.

“Shawn was the type that loved to make people laugh,” Nicodemus said. “To know he’s in a spot now that this is not a laughing matter and he’s having to put his foot down—in my eyes, he’s doing a phenomenal job.”

After high school, Fain became an electrician at a Chrysler castings plant in Kokomo and joined the UAW. As he rose to local shop chairman, he warned against becoming too chummy with automakers. In 2007, he opposed the union leadership’s push for a contract that created lower tiers of wages for new workers. Still, the deal was ratified.

Bill Parker, who chaired the union’s national negotiating committee at Chrysler, said Fain joined him to oppose the deal. Fain later took a job with the union’s national staff in Detroit, still pushing to be more aggressive with the automakers.

When a federal embezzlement and bribery investigation rocked the union starting in 2017, it opened the door to Fain’s campaign for higher office. In a settlement to avoid a federal takeover, the union agreed to let members decide if they wanted direct elections of leaders. They did, and Fain defeated an incumbent.

“What you see, is what he is,” Parker said.

Parker, whom Fain tapped to be an assistant, says he’s sure Fain has a plan to end the strikes. He just doesn’t know what it is.

Brian Rothenberg, a former union spokesman, said all union presidents struggle over when to take a company offer to members to end a strike.

“There comes a point,” Rothenberg said, “where the members really push if they feel a need for resolution. In the end, this is an employment contract, and the endgame will be a contract.”

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Opinion Mayor Adams must be held accountable on Rikers

Rats deserting a sinking ship may not be the best metaphor for the coterie of Trump supporters now pleading guilty to interference in the 2020 Georgia election, but if you have a better one, let us know.

It seems that each day a former Trumpite, who stood by him in his attempt to overturn the victory of President Biden, is having second thoughts and copping whatever pleas possible to reduce their involvement in the fraudulent scheme.

On Tuesday, Jenna Ellis, who claimed she was part of the “elite strike force team” of attorneys involved in unfounded claims of election fraud, pleaded guilty to one count of aiding and abetting false statements and writings.

“If I knew then what I know now, I would have declined to represent Donald Trump in these post-election challenges,” a tearful Ellis told the judge. She was joined by two other noted lawyers, Kenneth Chesebro and Sidney Powell, also leaving the fold.

Ellis was sentenced to five years of probation and 100 hours of community service, and was ordered to pay $5,000 in restitution and compose a letter of apology to Georgia citizens.

Is this a harbinger—a sign that even more of those once loyal to Trump’s claims will cop pleas and abandon the former president?

We are not sure if Fani Willis, the DA of Fulton County, who obtained indictments for 19 defendants in the summer on racketeering and other charges, is cheering these latest desertions, but you can hear our roar of approval for these latest developments.

Now it remains to be seen if these Trump turncoats will live up to what several have said about testifying against their leader. Such testimony should go a long way toward getting the main instigator and king rat.

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In November 2021, Eric Adams won the race to become mayor of the richest city in the United States.

He had pledged to help set New York on a recovery course from the economic devastation of COVID-19 and from the longstanding racial and socioeconomic inequalities that the pandemic deepened.

It’s been two years since Adams campaigned for mayor; a year and half since he took office, and just about a year and half since he began straying from the principles he ran on.

I grew up in Jamaica, Queens—a neighborhood that has long been failed by every level of government.

While I deeply value voting, especially as someone who was stripped of my right to do so while incarcerated and on parole until 2018, I have a healthy skepticism about politics. Even so, when Adams was elected, I was ready to give him a chance. I saw myself and some of my experience reflected in him. We’re both men of color. Like me, he spent his youth in poor and disenfranchised communities in southeast Queens—communities cited in the Seven Neighborhoods study for the high number of residents sent to New York State prisons.

Given those stats, it's maybe not surprising that both of us experienced incarceration as young people—like me, Adams was detained at the now-closed Spofford Detention Center in the Bronx at the age 15. When he visited the old Spofford site on the campaign trail, he said, “We’re going to continue to tear down Elinor R. Tatum: Publisher the Spoffords symboland Editor in Chief ically throughout our entire city and give our Kristin Fayne-Mulroy: Managing Editor young people the opporCyril Josh Barker: Digital Editor tunities they deserve.” I Damaso Reyes: Investigative Editor really hoped he meant it.

Siobhan "Sam" Bennett: That wasn’t the only Chief Revenue Officer and Head of Advertising commitment Adams Wilbert A. Tatum (1984-2009): made to positive change.

Chairman of the Board, CEO and Publisher Emeritus Although he served as a

police captain, he vowed to hold the NYPD accountable for their actions because he knew firsthand as a Black man and an insider how messed up the culture of policing has become.

He promised to invest in communities that need help the most, and talked about going “upstream” to address the root causes of social issues.

And most importantly for me, he said that he understood the threat that Rikers poses to incarcerated people, guards, and our communities, and that he was com-

have suffered through that experience along with a loved one detained there.

I can only imagine the way it lands with people living through the hell of Rikers now. That includes more than 1,300 young adults ages 18–25; thousands of people battling mental illness, addiction, and homelessness; and people who are at Rikers not because they are a worse person than anyone else, but because they can’t pay their bail.

Mayor Adams is also questioning the plan to close Rikers now, saying that he expects the jail population to increase instead of shrink. With the return to broken windows policing, his massive cuts to social services, and his frequent fearmongering, he’s worked hard to make his prediction come true.

Instead, he should be working with the City Council and affected communities to get back on track with the next steps to close Rikers, as laid out in the Campaign to Close Rikers’s Countdown to Closing Rikers policy brief.

The communities that Adams pledged to help are left to wonder: Does he actually believe that we should be investing in meeting people’s needs instead of punishing them for their struggles? Does he think we need to rein in abusive policing, or does he think everyone the cops decide to stop—overwhelmingly Black, Brown, and poor people—are bad people? Does he want law enforcement to finally be accountable to the people of this city, or does he want to cater to police and corrections unions while they terrorize our communities? I believe his actions have shown the answer, and it’s not the one our city needs.

Back in the day, a good friend of mine and I used to call each other Dirty Politicians whenever we knew the other was lying or scheming on something. Eric Adams tried to sell voters on the idea that he was different—more authentically committed to New York City’s long-neglected communities because he came from them. That seems more and more like a lie he spun to grab some power for himself and his corrupt cronies. But I’m here to tell him that he only gets to fool us once.

“The communities that Adams pledged to help are left to wonder: ...Does he think we need to rein in abusive policing, or does he think everyone the cops decide to stop—overwhelmingly Black, Brown, and poor people—are bad people?”

mitted to following through on the plan to close it. He even said he wanted to sink the Boat, a hellish floating jail in the Bronx that most New Yorkers don’t even know exists, but I’ve had the unfortunate experience of being caged in.

In his victory night speech, Adams said, “This campaign was for the person cleaning bathrooms and the dishwasher in the kitchen who feels they are already at the end of their journey. It was for those who feel they were there but forgotten, and they are also those who make the city operate every day. They may right now be at Rikers Island, sitting in a cell or in a precinct sitting in the holding cells. I am speaking to them tonight.”

About 20 months later, I do feel like Eric Adams is speaking to me, but it’s not a message of encouragement. When he tells reporters that you’re a bad person if you’re on Rikers, those words feel personal, and I see how it affects other people, like the memEdwin Santana is a community organizer bers of our organization, Freedom Agenda, who have been incarcerated at Rikers, or with the Freedom Agenda.

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Jews and Arabs have been violently disputing over Middle East territory including Judea and Samaria for more than a century under the Ottoman Empire, the British mandate, in the Arab-Israeli War of 1948, 1956 Suez Crisis, 1967 Six-Day War, Yom Kippur War, the First and Second Intifadas,and the current grisly war between Hamas and Israel. The conclusion of one conflict is simply an intermission before a new conflict is born over irreconcilable religious convictions and territorial claims.

According to Nahum Goldmann in his book “The Jewish Paradox,” Israel’s first Prime Minister David Ben Gurion explained the dynamics that have found expression in chronic upheavals in Palestine as follows: “If I were an Arab leader, I would never sign an agreement with Israel. It is normal; we have taken their country. It is true, God promised it to us, but how could that interest them? Our God is not theirs. There has been antiSemitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They see but one thing: we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that?”

There is an escape from the dilemma voiced by Ben Gurion. But it requires a revolution in understanding.

First, every national boundary in history has been drawn by the sword.

Justice or morality are helpless spectators. Might makes right. The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must. Borders change intermittently through war or the threat of war. Examine the Earth under a microscope. There are no national borders to be seen except those that have emerged from the barrel of a gun.

No border is sacred. All borders

are artificial. They are presumptively honored to diminish the likelihood of conflict, but the presumption is dishonored whenever the aggressor believes the potential benefits of conquest or annexation exceed the risk of international ostracism or losing a war.

If Jews and Arabs are ever to cease fighting over Palestine, both must renounce the counterfactual, counter-historical conviction that God or God’s prophet gave one or the other territory for them to exclusively occupy and rule. To make God the final arbiter of all national boundary disputes is to regress the species into a Hobbesian state of nature earmarked by a war of all against all and by lives that are poor, brutish, nasty, and short. Every individual could proclaim a right to rule the word conferred through surreptitious communications from God and begin slaughtering opponents accordingly.

Second, there are no chosen people or master races who command a superior position in the human hierarchy. There are no good guys versus bad guys. There are only bad guys equally eager and willing to kill and slaughter at the first opportunity. Thus do the oppressed effortlessly segue to become oppressors when the option arises. The DNA of the species is the same irrespective of race, religion, ethnicity, nationality, gender, or otherwise. The DNA dictates that hormonal gratifications, not the cerebral faculties, will inform the human narrative—including a lust for power, money, sex, celebrity, creature comforts, and self-righteousness.

In sum, no tribe or group is superior to any other. They all occupy the same level of human depravity or sordidness.

With consensus on these two philosophical starting points, there is a pathway to stable peace in the territory demarcated by Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza. Israel and the Palestinian Authority each appoint an arbitrator to demarcate the boundaries of Israel and a Palestinian state. The two will then jointly choose a third arbitrator to prevent deadlock. The Palestinian Authority must agree in advance on a constitution for a Palestinian state that prohibits armed forces (as in Costa Rica), and the use or threat of force in international relations (as in Article 9 of Japan’s Constitution). Moreover, the United States should be authorized to intervene militarily in the Palestinian state if its constitutional order came under attack.

Redrawing boundaries may displace hundreds of thousands, but it is a cure superior to the disease. Greece and Turkey exchanged 1.6 million nationals after World War I in 1923 to diminish the likelihood of renewed conflict.

Ditto for Pakistan and India in 1947 following British partition. Twelve million Germans were expelled from European countries after the defeat of Hitler in World War II. These ideas are orders of magnitude outside of mainstream thinking.

But the latter has brought nothing but war and misery to the Middle East for two centuries. To stick with mainstream thinking is to guarantee an unending succession of IsraeliPalestinian conflicts.

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

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As 2023 comes to a close and the final quarter of the year is upon us, there is still time to try new things and do something on your bucket list. I don’t think it’s too ambitious to make a list of 23 things we want to do in the remainder of the year. Why not? Whether it’s checking out a new neighborhood, reading a new book or magazine, calling an old friend or making time to get to know someone new, or trying a new cuisine, you still have time to make the most of the last several weeks of 2023.

My new goal for the rest of the year was to make time to check out Fat Fowl, a new-age Caribbean spot located in the City Point Mall in the Dekalb Market in Downtown Brooklyn.

I’m always excited to try new food. I always joke, “If it runs, swims, or flies, I will try it!” Luckily for me, founder and executive chef Shorne Benjamin has created a menu that has something for everyone.

Can you believe this chef has created an oxtail grilled cheese? Yes, you heard that right. As someone who absolutely loves oxtails and the comfort food of grilled cheese, this is the merger of two amazing things that go together. The menu has everything from an organic lavender rotisserie chicken to vegan jerk tamarind mushrooms, sweet plantains to charred broccoli, and black fried rice and a curry shrimp burger.

I love supporting local restaurants where you can meet the chef and hear more about their story and their journey into the culinary world.

After leaving the finance world, Chef Shorne (@ Chefshorne on IG) attended culinary school and learned classical French techniques.

Using technical skills, new recipes, and passion he learned from his grandmother, he’s created a new style of Caribbean cuisine with a nod and reverence to his native St Lucia.

In addition to trying new foods and new restaurants in the final weeks of 2023, I plan to explore new neighborhoods, read a few more novels, and visit some museums before the end of the year.

I’ll be starting with the Henry Taylor exhibit at the Whitney Museum and the Barkley Hendricks Collection at the Frick.

What will be your adventure for the rest of the year? As these past few years have shown us, life can be fleeting and we must savor the people, sights, sounds, and tastes that surround us. It doesn’t have to be something major—it can be something that takes you out of your normal routine just a little. If you do find time to try something new, start with a visit to Fat Fowl at Dekalb Market (455 Albee Square, Brooklyn, NY 11201).

Christina Greer, Ph.D., is an associate professor at Fordham University; author of “Black Ethnics: Race, Immigration, and the Pursuit of the American Dream”; co-host of the podcast FAQ-NYC and host of the Blackest Questions podcast at TheGrio; and a 2023–24 Moynihan Public Scholars Fellow at CCNY.

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Second round of reparations letters to Europe coming

BY BERT WILKINSON Special to the AmNews Caribbean Community (Caricom) governments are preparing to formally send a second set of letters demanding that European nations that participated in and benefited from the trans-Atlantic slave trade be prepared to pay trillions of dollars to help the region repair the damage from slavery and native genocide.

A draft document that governments are pursuing will soon be finalized and sent to Barbadian Prime Minister Mottley for signature in her role as the focal point head of government on this issue.

The region is upping the pressure on Britain, France, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, and Denmark to own up for their role in the slave trade, even as researchers are zooming in on the previously unreported role of four other nations that were also beneficiaries.

“We are not for now prepared to name these four new nations, but our researchers have come up with information that will take the nations we are targeting to 10 in all,” said David Comissiong, Barbados’s ambassador to the 15-nation Caricom group.

Back in 2016, Caricom sent demand letters to the main players like Britain, Spain,

“Back in 2016, Caricom had sent demand letters to the main players like Britain, Spain, and the Dutch. Comissiong says all six of those replied but were ‘non-committal’ in response to Caricom’s request for a formal meeting between regional and European leaders.” and the Dutch. Comissiong said all six of those replied but were “non-committal” in response to Caricom’s request for a formal meeting between regional and European leaders.

“This time, our primary target is again governments, as they had orchestrated and approved and facilitated the slave trade,” Comissiong told the AmNews this week.

“We acknowledge that private institutions like banks, insurance companies, and universities also benefited, but our target here and now is the governments.”

The best approach for now, he said, is to again have a summit meeting between the leaders, even as Caricom has begun to liaise and collaborate with the African Union in

the fight for reparations and reparatory justice, but it is unclear whether the Europeans will agree.

The move to again formally reach out to Europe comes in the wake of formal apologies for slavery from both Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte and Dutch King Willem-Alexander in December of last year and early July, respectively. Others, like Britain’s King Charles, have resisted doing so, although King Charles had described Britain’s role in the slave trade as one of the darkest chapters in its history. Rutte had also said that the door is now open for talks about the way forward.

Meanwhile, in recent weeks, Caribbean researchers have come up with actual fig-

ures owed to the region and descendants of slavery. The calculations were compiled by the Brattle Group of American economists and consultants with help from Caribbean attorneys, historians, politicians, and history students.

For example, Britain’s tab to 14 Caribbean nations is tallied at $24 trillion, while Spain’s is $17 trillion, Portugal—specifically to Brazil—would have to come to $20 trillion, and the Netherlands’ tab is $5 trillion, $3 trillion of which should go to Caricom member nation Suriname and $50 billion to neighboring Guyana, which was also a Dutch colony for an extended period.

The recommendation from the researchers is that the money be paid over a 10to 20-year period by a mutually binding agreement.

As the draft demand letter is being finalized for signature and presentation to European nations, regional activists and leaders are preparing to head to Ghana in mid-November for a three-day collaborative meeting about slavery and reparations.

Back in February, the African Union had approved a resolution mandating its secretariat to collaborate and liaise with Caricom on reparations and slavery, Commissiong said. Several other meetings have been held between Caricom and the EU in the past year.

It’s time for refugee status, TPS for Palestinian refugees FELICIA PERSAUD

IMMIGRATION KORNER Hundreds of thousands of innocent Palestinians have now been made homeless as Israel unleashes war on Gaza, a tiny (139-square-mile) country that was home to more than 2 million people.

The response is the Israeli government’s response to the October 7 attack by Hamas militants that claimed 1,300 Israeli lives, injured 3,400, and left 150 hostages.

But so far, nearly 2,000 Palestinians, including nearly 500 children and nine journalists, are dead, and another 7,000, including more than 1,500 children and 900 women, are injured.

The United Nations’ Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said the number of displaced people in the Gaza Strip could top 1 million.

Where are these newly displaced people to go? What is needed now is for the U.S. government to offer refugee Status Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to law-abiding,

innocent Palestinians, much like they have done for so many others caught in war, including Ukrainians, Syrians, Afghans, Yemenis, Somalians, and others.

It is what the U.S. refugee and TPS rules were created for. “Refugee status,” according to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), “is a form of protection that may be granted to people who meet the definition of refugee and who are of special humanitarian concern to the United States.

Refugees are generally people outside of their country who are unable or unwilling to return home because they fear serious harm.”

The U.S. has done this for Ukraine, so why not Palestinians? It is time for the administration to recognize the validity of Palestinian passports as proof of citizenship or nationality of that country rather than continue to see holders of those passports as stateless.

It is unfortunate that in 2023, Palestinians are still considered the largest stateless community in the world and that statelessness has dominated and shaped the lives of four generations of Palestinian refugees since their exodus in 1948.

As of 2022, 40 percent of the nearly 5.9

million registered Palestinian refugees live in Jordan; 10 percent in Syria, although approximately one-fifth of these are believed to have fled to other countries since the start of the Syrian civil war; and 8 percent in Lebanon, according to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). Where will the 2023 group being forced out again

by Israel go?

The U.S. Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP) accepts referrals for refugees determined to be particularly vulnerable and in need of the protection provided by third-country resettlement. The program provides a pathway for resettlement to the United States under the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). INA defines a refugee as an individual who has experienced past persecution or has a well-founded fear of persecution on account of their race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion.

This should also be open to Palestinian civilians who have zero to do with the killing of Israeli citizens.

TPS can also be provided to those Palestinians in the U.S. without legal status,

when “conditions that temporarily prevent the country’s nationals from returning safely, or in certain circumstances, where the country is unable to handle the return of its nationals adequately.”

Palestinians also deserve U.S. refugee status and TPS. It’s the least America can do, instead of continuing to turn a blind eye, while largely telling the world with its actions that it’s okay to help some but not others.

The non-governmental organization International Service for Human Rights (ISHR) has condemned all crimes under international law committed by both Israel and Palestinian armed groups, saying targeted and indiscriminate attacks against civilians can never be justified.

ISHR called for the International Criminal Court (ICC) to accelerate its investigation into serious crimes committed by all parties in Palestine and Israel.

The Biden administration should support the same call, and much like it has done for Ukrainians, provide refugee relief and TPS now to Palestinians.

The writer is publisher of NewsAmericasNow.com, the Black Immigrant Daily News.

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Health FDA thinking about ban on hair-straightening chemicals; stylists say Black women have moved on

By KENYA HUNTER AP Health Writer ATLANTA (AP)—The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is considering a ban on certain hairstraightening chemicals that have been used by Black women for years and that research shows may increase the risk of uterine cancer.

But Black hair stylists say such products—specifically the ones being looked at by the FDA, which contain formaldehyde and formaldehyde-releasing chemicals— have fallen out of favor, especially among younger generations.

“Relaxers have taken an extreme decline...as we became more knowledgeable about the effects of the relaxer on your hair and what it can do to your hair,” said Kayleigh Butler, a hair stylist in Atlanta who remembers getting relaxers when she was 5 years old. “I think people just wanted to move away from that and live a healthier lifestyle.” she added.

The FDA is in the first steps of the process; the notice of a possible rule was recently added to its regulatory agenda. The agency aims to publish an advance notice of proposed rulemaking by April 2024, but items can stay on the agenda for years.

The possible rule would apply to both salon-grade and at-home products, FDA spokesperson Courtney Rhodes said.

Jasmine Garcia, who owns Jasmine Nicole Xclusives Hair Salon in Atlanta, estimated that fewer than 5% of her clients—who are Black women—want relaxers. She told the Associated Press that a client texted her after learning about the potential ban, saying: “Of all the things the FDA needs to look into, why relaxers right now?”

Earlier this year, U.S. Reps.

Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts and Shontel Brown of Ohio asked the FDA to investigate chemical hair straighteners, pointing to a study published in 2022 by the National Institutes of Health that linked straighteners to an increased risk of uterine cancer.

Pressley said in an October 6 statement that the FDA’s possible action

Kayleigh Butler, hair stylist, at her studio in Atlanta on Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023.

“Relaxers have taken an extreme decline…as we became more knowledgeable about the effects of the relaxer on your hair and what it can do to your hair,” says Butler (AP Photo/Kenya Hunter)

is “a win for public health—especially the health of Black women.

Regardless of how we wear our hair, we should be allowed to show up in the world without putting our health at risk.”

The FDA posted a video Wednesday on social media, reminding people that no action has been taken yet and that the agency plans to work with and encourage the cosmetics industry to develop alternative straightening products.

In a study from Boston University published this month in the journal Environmental Research, researchers followed nearly 45,000 Black women for up to 22

years, the majority of them moderate or heavy users of relaxers.

Among postmenopausal women, those who used relaxers most often had a greater than 50% increased risk of uterine cancer compared to those who never or seldom used them.

Black people have the highest rates of death from cancer, according to data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The risks for Black women could shift with better regulation of chemical hair straighteners, said Dr. Kimberly Bertrand, an author of the Boston University study. She added that FDA action would be a step in the right direc-

tion, but that it shouldn’t focus solely on formaldehyde.

“I think consideration of endocrine disrupters like phthalates and parabens would be important, and heavy metals, too,” she said. “Getting rid of formaldehyde in these products certainly is a good thing, but...I don’t know that it renders those products completely safe.”

Dr. Yolanda Lenzy, a dermatologist and licensed cosmetologist who co-authored the Boston University study, also said there’s still some pressure for Black women to have straight hair, especially in conservative professions like law.

There is some type of law ban-

ning discrimination over hairstyles in 24 states, but Black people have still run into issues, like in Texas, where a high school student was suspended because of his locs.

“I just know so many Black women who’ve made the choices about how they show up in the world based on codes at work, on rules at work, that...their hair has to be presentable,” Lenzy said.

“What does that really mean?”

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New York City Center presents “Pal Joey” Nov. 1-5

By LINDA ARMSTRONG Special to the AmNews For 80 years, New York City Center, located at 131 W. 55th Street, has held a strong position in the arts community. This is definitely the destination where theater lovers can go to see classic productions reimagined, not only with a new focus, but with a Black focus. New York City Center is always at the forefront of taking classic plays and musicals and bringing them into the 21st century. So, it’s no surprise that starting next week, from Nov. 1-5 for seven performances only, the performing arts center will present “Pal Joey,” an adaptation of the classic Rodgers and Hart musical “My Pal Joey” with a new twist— a mostly Black cast of amazing talent. While it is based on the original book by John O’Hara, it is also influenced by the updated text written by Richard LaGravenese and Daniel “Koa” Beaty. It also features Savion Glover wearing three hats: as a co-director with Tony Goldwyn; as choreographer; and as a dance ensemble member. Wow, can you believe it?! The cast will be extremely impressive and will feature names we know and love including Loretta Devine, Brooks Ashmanskas, Jeb Brown, Aisha Jackson, Elizabeth Stanley, and Ephraim Sykes. Sykes will play the lead role of Joey Evans, but the storyline now involves a Black jazz singer in the Chicago nightclub circuit who refuses to compromise on his craft.

Ensemble members, along with Glover, will include Mary Antonini, Krystina M. Burton, Taylor Marie Daniel, Marshall L. Davis Jr., Dormeshia, Leandra Ellis-Gaston, Jarvis B. Manning Jr., Jodeci Milhouse, NaTonia Monet, Brittany Nicole Parks, Rory Shirley, and Allysa Shorte.

“My Pal Joey” is a musical with which so many of us are familiar, and it is marvelous to know that the Rodgers and Hart songs that make this musical unforgettable will be there including “Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered,” “Do It the Hard Way,” “I Could Write a Book,” “That Terrific Rainbow”, “I Wish I Were in Love Again,” “Falling In Love With Love,” “My Heart Stood Still,” “The Lady Is a Tramp,” and “This Funny World.”

The production is holding an opening night fundraising gala on November 1 and that ticket will include dinner and dancing at the Ziegfeld Ballroom. All seven performances will assist City Center in its very important mission to give theater patrons access to world-class performing arts—and if you have ever been to any production at City Center, then you know that is exactly what you get EVERY TIME! City Center productions are lifetime memories!

To purchase tickets for any of the performances, visit NYCityCenter.org or call 212-581-1212.

Actor Ephraim Sykes, who will play Joey Evans in “Pal Joey” at New York City Center (Noa Grayevsky)

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By ZITA ALLEN Special to the AmNews According to the American Ballet Theatre’s (ABT’s) African American Principal Calvin Royal III, anyone attending ABT’s production of Alonzo King’s “Single Eye,” which is featured on the program dubbed “21st Century Works: King, Ratmansky, and Bond,” on October 27–29 at the Koch Theater, is in for a magnificent treat.

What critics have described as King’s visually stunning ballet is set to music by jazz artist and composer Jason Moran, with sets and costumes by Robert Rosenwasser and lighting by Jim French. “Single Eye” had its world premiere on March 16, 2022, at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa, California, danced by Isabella Boylston, Thomas Forster, Calvin Royal III, Skylar Brandt, and Cory Stearns.

This season, it shares the bill with Alexei Ratmansky’s critically acclaimed production of Sergei Prokofiev’s “On the Dnipro,” which transports audiences to the banks of the mighty Ukranian river and into the life of a young soldier; and the world premiere of a Gemma Bond’s pas de deux “Depuis le Jour,” danced by Hee Seo and Joo Won Ahn. Bond’s ballet is set to the Act III aria from Louise by Gustave Charpentier. In fact, Royal and Devon Teuscher performed its World Premiere in 2012, at the International Competition for the Erik Bruhn Prize.

New York audiences now have the opportunity to view the work by the critically acclaimed African American choreographer danced by, among others, the only African American principal the ABT has promoted since ballerina Misty Copeland became the first Black woman to break a major ballet glass ceiling in 2015. True, a small number of Black males have previously performed principal roles with the ABT (namely Desmond Richardson, Keith Lee, and Ronald Perry), yet these milestones have been so few and far between that they are always worth noting (and supporting).

While Royal has held that position for a few years now, the excitement of his presence on stage at the Metropolitan Opera House never grows old for the audiences or the critics who shower his performances with superlatives in response to his impressive technical facility and electrifying stage presence. A tremendous thoughtfulness also comes across, whether he’s dancing or speaking about his roles.

The upcoming production of King’s “Single Eye” promises not to disappoint if the excitement evident during recent interviews with both dancer and choreographer are any indication.

Royal sang King’s praises, saying, “Work-

A scene from “Single Eye” (Marty Sohl photos)

Calvin Royal III in “Single Eye”

ing with Alonzo King on ‘Single Eye’ is kind of a dream come true.” Describing King’s work as being as much about the mastery of classical ballet’s demanding technique as about infusing each movement with poignant and powerful moments and messages, Royal said, “Working with Alonzo allowed me to stretch myself physically, artistically, and mentally.”

Royal added, “You know, sometimes, when you’re doing the classics, it’s tombé, pas de bourré, pirouette, but with Alonzo, it’s about turning that into something that’s more interesting to watch and to do.”

The movement even has an air of unpredictability, because King encourages the dancers to exercise a touch of innovation:

“Sometimes a lift will happen, sometimes it will happen with a different timing, or different intention. That’s what keeps his work alive.”

As King talked about his work, it was clear that there is a connection between the art and its impact on the world. How could it be otherwise for a man whose father was president of the Albany Movement, the 1960s Civil Rights Coalition in Georgia, and who welcomed Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. into his home?

For Alonzo King, dance is also about a life of service: “When you go to see someone on stage, you want the artist to inspire you into living a richer, fuller, more committed life,” he said. “Dance training cannot be separate from life training. Everything that

comes into our lives is training. The qualities we admire in great dancing are the same qualities we admire in human beings: honesty, courage, fearlessness, generosity, wisdom, depth, compassion, and humanity.”

Clearly, King sees those qualities in Royal’s dancing: “In Calvin, there is a vulnerability and an openness [that] is one of the most beautiful examples of real power. Humility is a very powerful thing.”

In fact, that spirit makes Royal so perfect for “Single Eye,” which King said highlights the “quiet union of mind, body and spirit.”

Dismissing those who dismiss the heightened consciousness of being “woke,” King insisted that is not a pejorative term but a goal that all strive should to achieve. After all, “We all have to reach enlightenment... and we want a joy that never goes stale. In this world, we can help by working on ourselves. If you want love, you have to cultivate love within yourself.”

“Single Eye,” King said, “urges us to concentrate on an evolutionary process that leads to oneness, as oneness is a single eye.”

Asked if he thought the audience would get the message of this new work, King quoted a phrase from the Talmud, the sacred compilations of ancient rabbinic debates on the teaching of the Torah: “We don’t see things as they are. We see things as we are.”

Everyone will have a different take on “Single Eye.” “Some people will see beautiful bodies. Some will be drunk on the music. Some will see the message.” Either way, the man who has referred to his dances as “thought structures or treatises” said, “It’s all good.”

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Black men’s stories: Books from Rich Paul and Stacy Spikes

By JORDANNAH ELIZABETH Special to the Amnews

to the belief that being an outsider can be a source of unique power, a fresh perspective, and a different way of thinking.

Spikes defied all expectations, challenged the status quo, and created a path that was uniquely his.

Many Black men in the world live lives where they are voiceless, provoked, tormented, and harrassed throughout their childhood, into their most potent years, and beyond. It is important that we read and listen to their stories, and surround them with support while they traverse a discriminative world.

“Black Founder: The Hidden Power of Being an Outsider” by Stacy Spikes and “Lucky Me: A Memoir of Changing the Odds” by Rich Paul with Jesse Washington and a foreword by Lebron James reveal the extraordinary journeys of individuals who have defied the odds and rewritten their destinies, intertwined with the common threads of determination, tenacity, and the profound belief that the path to success is often marked by luck, but is always built on hard work and an unyielding spirit. These are stories that challenge and remind us that the journey from being an outsider to a trailblazer is a testament to the power of human resilience and ambition.

“Lucky Me: A Memoir of Changing the Odds” by Rich Paul with Jesse Washington and foreword by Lebron James The widely known story of Rich Paul’s serendipitous meeting with LeBron James at an airport, which led to a transformative partnership in the world of sports, is only the tip of the iceberg. “Lucky Me” offers an in-depth, enlightening look into Paul’s life, revealing the formative experiences that molded him into the individual he is today.

This memoir uncovers the many life lessons that Paul absorbed at his father’s corner store, a hub of frenetic activity in his neighborhood. It was in this setting that he honed his street smarts and built his initial enterprise. Despite his dreams of becoming a star athlete, it was the streets where he found his footing, creating a successful but precarious business. The narrative image of a tech entrepreneur. This initial wood Reporter’s 30 Under 30, are a testa- does not sugarcoat the challenges he en“Black Founder: The Hidden Power of feeling of not fitting in became the cata- ment to his ambition and relentless pursuit countered but rather highlights the gritty Being an Outsider” by Stacy Spikes lyst for his extraordinary journey, marking of success. The core of “Black Founder” lies determination that enabled him to overSpikes’s narrative begins with the recog- the birth of a true maverick. His experi- in Spike’s transformation from an outsid- come obstacles and seize opportunities. It nition of his outsider status, the realization ences, from his early days as a film studio er in the film industry to a trailblazing CEO is a testament to the power of perseverance, that he didn’t conform to the traditional gopher to being named one of the Holly- and tech founder. His story is a testament resourcefulness, and self-belief.

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Rebirth of A New Nation: It’s the final Lunar Eclipse, on October 28 in Taurus, at 5 degrees of the north/south nodes of Taurus and Scorpio of the eclipse axis transit that began on November 19, 2021.

Breathe easy and move forward on your agenda. The moon is conjunct with Jupiter yet opposes Mars, Mercury and the Sun which brings an aggressive approach to doing things on impulse and profound transformation. Patience is required; ignore the distractions. Preserve your energy in things that “satisfy your soul” like Bob Marley mentions in his songs. “The end of something is better than its beginning. Patience is better than pride.” —Ecclesiastes 7:8

Proverbs 29:18 “Where there is no vision, the people perish.” Keep

Ecclesiastes 3:1-5: “To everything there is a season, A time for every purpose under heaven: A time to be born, And a time to die; A time to pluck what is planted; A time to kill, And a time to heal; Dec 22 June 22 and make it a dream come true. As October is ending, reflect on what A time to break down, And a time to build up; A time to weep, And Jan 21 July 23 occurred in your life. The experience you encounter prepares you for a time to laugh, A time to mourn, And a time to dance; A time to the journey ahead. From October 28 around 7:44 a.m. until 11 a.m. on cast away stones, And a time to gather stones; A time to embrace, October 30, as you enter the month of November take time out to build on the vision And a time to refrain from embracing.” From October 24 around 4:33 a.m. until to see it manifest into reality. “Whatever your mind can conceive and believe it can 5:45 a.m. on October 26 this is your season to make use of your talent. No one is achieve.” Napoleon Hill stopping you.

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Matthew 7:7-11: “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; Revelations 22:13-15: “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First knock, and the door will be opened to you.” Ask the universe for the things and the Last, The Beginning and the End.” As you allow certain you need and want. When you ask, you do your part and allow the inforthings in your life to end to take on a new form in your life, the feelAquarius mation to come to you. The way of “how” it is going to arrive is not your ing and relief are like the Alpha and Omega. Now you can push forLeo Jan 22 July 24 concern. You apply the footwork that correlates with what you ask for. ward with your agenda as you have been working delicately to see Feb 19 Aug 23 From October 30 around 11 a.m. until November 1 around 5 p.m., keep its physical form. From October 26 around 6:02 a.m. until 7 a.m. working on you and the daily tasks you need to get done. Every day is a on October 28, wow what a creation to manifest that began in the new day to build on the foundation of our past, present, and future self. mind and ends with a product or service. Make use of your mind as you do everything else.

Proverbs 65: 9: “You visit the earth and water it, you greatly enrich it; the river of God is full of water; you provide the people with grain, for so Luke 6:48: “He is like a man building a house, who dug deep and you have prepared it.” Immerse yourself in water, listen to water, bathe laid the foundation on the rock. And when a flood arose, the stream Pisces in water, and get connected in water just as you were in your mother’s broke against that house and could not shake it, because it had Feb 20 womb.

Listen to the sounds of the voice mother nature is bestowing been well built.” The foundation of your journey is this question: Virgo Mar 20 Aug 24 upon you. From October 24 around 4:33 a.m. until 5:45 a.m. on October why do you do what you do? From October 28 around 7:44 a.m.

Sept 23 26, all the clues you need are right in front of you. Open your eyes to see until 11 a.m. on October 30, as you add on to what you are building, and to receive and believe in miracles. You are a miracle. the more you are equipped to live with purpose and assist others on their journey.

Colossians 3:23-24: “Whatever ye do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters, since you know that you will James 1:17: “Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down receive an inheritance.” When you believe in the kind of work you do, you from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shiftgive it your all. The work you do starts from within and reflects the outing shadows.” Change assists to further one’s growth whether you are Aries Libra Mar 21 side, which in return gains rewards. From October 26 around 6:02 a.m. until in a comfortable or uncomfortable position. You can feel that change is Apr 21 Sept 24 7 a.m. on October 28, continue to apply focus and effort to reach higher near, and when its ready decisions are made. From October 30 around Oct 23 heights of life, and watch the universal door open more. Some people can 11 a.m. until November 1 around 5 p.m., once the decision is made you no longer travel with you when you elevate. New folks are waiting as you continue to grow. just accept a new direction for your life, guiding you to a new destination and new alliance.

Philippians 4:6-7: “Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your reHebrews 11:1: “Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, quests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all underthe conviction of things not seen.” The vision of the process is standing, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.” not always shown. Therefore, you continue to work through faith Taurus Apr 22 Change is part of evolution in you and throughout all living, breathdaily, taking steps before you can walk, run, skip, hop, and march Scorpio May 21 Oct 24 ing aspects of God-like form in life. The process is not hidden and to the sound of your beat. From October 24 around 4:33 a.m. until Nov 22 through trust, faith from within one can become the God-like form.

5:45 a.m. on October 26, things will pay off handsomely all due to From October 28 around 7:44 a.m. until 11 a.m. on October 30, create the world you your focus and staying true to yourself and the quest you are on. envision and the people that are for you will appear for the lesson and the experi- Life is limitless in the things you can attain and build. Invest in what has been ences to assist in their rebirth of themselves. installed in you.

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Broadway’s Norm Lewis talks BTU, upcoming inaugural gala

By LINDA ARMSTRONG Special to the AmNews During the COVID lockdown, and impelled by the murder of George Floyd, Black professionals on Broadway— including actors, directors, musicians, writers, technicians, producers, and stage management—decided that it was time to take a stand for Black people to have opportunities in all phases of the industry, from onstage to behind-the-scenes work. Out of these conditions, three years ago, the non-profit Black Theatre United (BTU) was born. The organization put out a call to action and started mentorship and paid internship programs for Black students. The organization came up with “The New Deal,” an agreement with theater owners, producers and unions, setting down rules for making sure that Black theater workers have access to a range of opportunities, including company management, public relations, and jobs connected to Broadway shows. The founding members of BTU include Lisa Dawn Cave, Carin Ford, Vanessa Williams, Audra McDonald, LaChanze, Billy Porter, Capathia Jenkins, Kenny Leon, Michael McElroy, Wendell Pierce, Anna Deavere Smith, Allyson Tucker, Tamara Tunie, Schele Williams, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Darius de Haas, NaTasha Yvette Williams, Lillias White, and

Norm Lewis. Lewis recently spoke with the AmNews about the work that BTU has done to create more opportunities for Black students, and talked about the BTU inaugural gala happening Monday, October 30 at the Ziegfeld Ballroom at 141 W. 54th Street.

The principles of BTU’s New Deal are equity, diversity, inclusion, accessibility and belonging, Lewis explained the purpose of this incredibly important document. “The conversation started during the pandemic and we were all home online. The New Deal is talking about accountability. We created a mentor, mentee situation where people in school could learn from different aspects of the industry. People didn’t know they could be administrators, someone in public relations. A couple of our mentees did so well they were offered jobs in public relations.

The students are doing casting as well. BTU also works with regional theaters as well to give opportunities to Black students. Since BTU started, 20-30 students have come through and benefited from the mentorship programs,” Lewis said.

When asked why people should support BTU, Lewis said, “Now that we’re back into our lives and people have other things to think about, we don’t want the momentum for BTU to stop. We have relationships with corporations and we’re trying to build more. Ernst & Young is one of our major

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benefactors. We want to make people understand that we keep a presence in this industry. Equity, inclusion, and diversity is something that is just needed. We’re here saying it’s important how people are treated. There are opportunities as well in many different facets of this industry and a lot of people don’t know about these. We want to make sure that we stand strong.

Support[ing] this organization through our gala is vital to our continuing our mission to look out for Blacks in this industry. We’re calling ourselves the NAACP of Theater.”

The theme of the gala will be “A Salute to Broadway Legends: Past, Present and Future.” Performers will include Vanessa Williams, Norm Lewis, Andra McDonald, LaChanze, and Billy Porter. The evening will honor Kandi Burruss, Common, LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Samuel L. Jackson, Robyn Coles, Dr. N. Anthony Coles and Dr. Indira Etwaroo. Presenters for the event will include Andrea Burns, Nicholas Christopher, Lorna Courtney, Wilson Cruz, Seth Rudetsky, and Josh Groban. The honorary co-chairs for this gala include Earvin “Magic” Johnson, Cookie Johnson, Al Roker, Deborah Roberts, Blair Underwood, Congresswoman Ayanna Presley, Tommi A. Vincent and Troy Vincent Sr. For info about the gala and to purchase tickets, visit www.BlackTheatreUnited.com.

Norm Lewis, founding member of Black Theatre United (Peter Hurley photo)

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By MAGRIRA Special to the AmNews` In a celebration of cultural richness and cinematic brilliance, the African Diaspora International Film Festival (ADIFF) is gearing up to mark its 31st anniversary, taking place from November 24 through December 10, 2023. This grand event promises an exquisite cinematic feast with 85 narrative and documentary films hailing from 33 countries. The festival will unfold across five prestigious venues in Manhattan, transforming the city into a hub of global storytelling and creative expression.

ADIFF NYC 2023 has a diverse selection of films, ranging from captivating comedies and compelling dramas to thought-provoking documentaries. The lineup includes cinematic gems that have played at Berlinale, Cannes, TIFF, Locarno Film Festival, FESPACO, Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival, and Durban International Film Festival. Additionally, ADIFF proudly features works by both independent American and international filmmakers, ensuring a vibrant and inclusive cinematic experience.

A groundbreaking addition to this year’s

festivities is the Mini Virtual Festival, a special segment that will showcase a curated selection of films accessible to audiences nationwide. This innovative approach opens the doors to cinematic exploration for viewers from all corners of the United States.

The opening night film, “Hope of Escape”

by Amy Gerber (USA), sets the stage for ADIFF 2023 with its powerful historical narrative. This docudrama recounts the incredible journey of an enslaved mother and daughter striving to escape from bondage before being sold and separated forever.

The film boasts a star-studded cast of historic figures, including abolitionist Julia Williams, orator Henry Highland Garnet, and renowned abolitionists William Lloyd Garrison and Lewis Tappan.

The festival’s centerpiece offering, “The Survival of Kindness” by Rolf de Heer (Australia), promises a mesmerizing experience.

This wordless parable, which premiered at Berlinale 2023, follows BlackWoman’s journey through a plague-ravaged wilderness in search of those who left her to die. The film introduces first-time actress Mwajemi Hussein, described by Variety as “riveting.”

“Shantaye’s World” by Guillaume Rico and

Mathurine Emmanuel (St. Lucia) takes the audience on a captivating historical journey.

This drama chronicles the compelling life of a young girl from St. Lucia finding herself in war-torn England. Director Mathurine Emmanuel will be present for the Gala screening, adding depth to the festival experience.

The festival will culminate with the closing night film, “Nome” by Sana Na N’Hada (Guinea-Bissau). This Cannes Film Festival selection skillfully combines astute political commentary with breathtaking cinematography, immersing viewers in Guinea-Bissau’s turbulent socio-political landscape.

The film explores the interplay between individual struggles and political decisions, creating a visually arresting and thoughtprovoking cinematic masterpiece.

ADIFF 2023 pays homage to the rich legacy of South African cinema by showcasing 14 films that traverse different eras, providing a unique glimpse into the country’s cinematic evolution. From the Apartheid era to contemporary cinema, this selection paints a vivid picture of South Africa’s complex history.

Egyptian cinema takes center stage with four films, celebrating the talent of women

both in front of and behind the camera.

The carefully curated program delves into the depth and range of these productions, offering viewers an immersive experience that concludes with a Q&A session with director Nadia Fares.

Independent filmmakers shine brightly in this year’s lineup. “Goodbye Julia” by Mohamed Kordofani (Cannes 2023) explores the story of Mona, a retired northern Sudanese singer attempting to make amends for covering up a murder. “Move When the Spirit Says Move: The Legacy of Dorothy Foreman Cotton” by Deborah C. Hoard and Ry Ferro pays tribute to Dorothy Foreman Cotton, a key player in the Civil Rights Movement. “In Search of Bengali Harlem” by Aladdin Ullah and Vivek Renjen Bald takes audiences on a transformative journey, uncovering the complex histories of South Asians and Muslims in the United States. “Music Pictures: New Orleans” by Ben Chace offers backstage access into the lives and craft of four New Orleans music legends.

For festival updates and to explore the diverse world of global cinema, visit http:// www.NYADIFF.org.

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Books on Black empowerment & reform

By JORDANNAH ELIZABETH Special to the AmNews What could our community need more than constant and continual evaluations and conversations about education reform and empowerment in the Black community? We know Black writers and thinkers have the grace, platforms, and capacity to share their knowledge and intelligence on cultural issues more than in the past. Bettina L. Love’s “Punished for Dreaming” takes a searing look at the often overlooked consequences of education reform policies, which have disproportionately harmed Black children, and offers a roadmap for healing and transformation. Love’s narrative is a stark reminder that the promise of quality education and equal opportunity remains elusive for many Black youth, trapped within a system that pathologizes and penalizes them. Meanwhile, Luke Lawal’s “Rich Black Poor Black” is a forward-looking work that offers a blueprint for financial empowerment and success within Black communities. These two authors, each in their own unique way, provide insights into the complex issues facing Black Americans today, from the classroom to the boardroom, ultimately advocating for a brighter, more equitable future.

cuts under the guise of reform. This not only failed to address the systemic issues facing these schools but also allowed private interests to infiltrate the education system.

Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal by Bettina L. Love (St. Martin’s Press) “Punished for Dreaming” by Dr. Bettina L. Love is a powerful and thought-provoking book that takes a critical look at the impact of educational policies on Black children in America. Dr. Love’s argument is clear and compelling: the era of Reagan’s presiden-

cy marked the beginning of what she calls the “War on Black Children,” a deeply unsettling period characterized by pathologizing and punishing of Black children, often in concert with the broader War on Drugs.

The book delves into the transformation of educational policies during this time, illustrating how schools were increasingly subjected to policing, closures, and funding

Rich Black Poor Black: Empowering Black Communities: Breaking Barriers and Building Bridges by Luke Lawal Jr. (Luke Lawal Ip, LLC) “Rich Black Poor Black” is an empowering and informative work that blends personal narratives with financial guidance.

It not only highlights the power of personal choices but also presents a comprehensive approach to building and maintaining wealth. The book’s accessibility and motivational tone make it a valuable resource for anyone seeking to improve their financial well-being and contribute to the empowerment of marginalized communities. The book merges the critical intersection of Black culture and wealth creation in the contemporary world. Lawal emphasizes that, while Black culture is rich in history, tradition, family, music and art, financial prosperity is increasingly essential today. “Rich Black Poor Black” offers a groundbreaking perspective on creating, sustaining, and passing down wealth through various financial vehicles, including real estate, entrepreneurship, and even cryptocurrency.

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Ravi Coltrane at Vanguard, Sista’s Place, Donaldson at 97 The Ravi Coltrane Quintet, with trumpeter Jonathan Finlayson, pianist Luis Perdomo, bassist Robert Hurst, and drummer Mark Whitfield, Jr., will take a stand at the storied Village Vanguard (178 7th Avenue South) on October 24-29. Two sets each night at 8 p.m. and 10 p.m.

It’s difficult to believe Coltrane’s career spans more than 20 years—it seems like just yesterday, he was forging ahead as a youngster at the early Iridium jazz club, then on 65th Street. At that gig, he led a band that included drummer Jeff “Tain” Watts. He remains on a continuous voyage to move the music from straight-ahead to the outer limits of jazz—boundless skies.

His tenor sax exerts a warm tone with deep moans and bright sounds filled with exciting improvisational journeys. Like his father, he is proficient on soprano saxophone, taking blues rhythms to fascinating riffs or moving ballads.

In late October 1961, John Coltrane led his quintet’s residency at the Village Vanguard, where they recorded the nowlegendary album “Coltrane ‘Live’ at the Village Vanguard” (Impulse Records, 1962) that featured his main quartet of pianist McCoy Tyner, drummer Elvin Jones, and bassists Reggie Workman (this was his last recording with the group, being replaced by Jimmy Garrison, who debuted on this album), with guest Eric Dolphy on bass clarinet.

It has to be a special moment to play on the same stage with such revered musicians, especially when one of them was your father, which also applies to Whitfield, whose father is the famous guitarist Mark Whitfield.

For reservations, visit the website villagevanguard.com or call 212-255-4037.

The Alan Palmer Band, led by pianist and composer Alan Jay Palmer, will take audiences on an exciting expedition of jazz interpretation on October 28 at Sista’s Place (456 Nostrand Avenue) for two shows only.

The native of Washington, D.C., attended the University of Hartford’s Hartt School (now known as the Jackie McLean Institute of Jazz), where he studied piano with Jackie Byard and South African pianist Hotep Galeta. As a student, he was mentored by saxophonist and composer Jackie

McLean. He also became McLean’s assistant in music history and jazz education. He taught McLean’s most popular course, “The Original Man and Music.” While he was still a senior, his mentor invited Palmer to join his quintet, leading Palmer to touring the world and recording his debut album with McLean, “Rhythm of the Earth.”

He has since come into his own as a leader of the Bad Alan Palmer (BAP) Trio and the New Soil big band. If you have yet to encounter his piano mastery, now is the time.

“Alan is a very talented composer. His piano style is fresh, yet you can hear his heroes Monk, Bud, and Ellington whispering in his ear,” said McLean.

For more information, call 718-398-1766.

Iconic saxophonist Lou—Popa Lou, Sweet Lou—Donaldson, who put the funk and blues in the alto saxophone with standards like “Alligator Boogaloo,” will celebrate his 97th birthday at Dizzy’s jazz club (60th Street and Broadway) on October 30 at 7 p.m.

NEA Jazz Master Donaldson has been spicing the jazz mix since the 1950s, through his formative years. After his honorable discharge from the U.S. Navy, he returned home to Greensboro, N.C., where he resumed playing local night clubs while attending North Carolina A&T State University.

As a saxophonist during the bebop era, like many, he was influenced by the great Charlie Parker.

Upon his arrival in New York, he began working with such beboppers as Milt Jackson and Thelonious Monk.

From the very beginning, Donaldson was an influencer on the jazz scene with his sweet tone, infused with sho’nuff blues, soul, straight-ahead jazz, with tinges of his bebop era; “no hip hop or Kenny G tunes.” He refers to his sound as the “soul sax.”

While Donaldson has retired his alto sax, we can rely on him to offer some Papa Lou words of wisdom and maybe sing a few bars of “Whiskey Woman.” He will enjoy his celebration, sitting close to the stage as his spirited soul ignites the playing of organist Akiko Tsuruga, vocalist Champian Fulton, and surprise special guests as they salute him on his milestone 97th birthday (which is on November 1).

The band for the evening will include drummer Fukushi Tainaka, guitarist Peter Bernstein, and alto saxophonist Nick Hepton, plus a host of special guests.

For reservations and more info, visit jazz.org.

“It’s difficult to believe Coltrane’s career spans more than 20 years—it seems like just yesterday, he was forging ahead as a youngster at the early Iridium jazz club, then on 65th Street.”

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Scatman Crothers, a versatile actor and musician

By HERB BOYD Special to the AmNews Few African American performers were as ubiquitous as Scatman Crothers. Some proof of this assertion can be found in the number of his films and television appearances. He is credited for some 55 film or video titles, and 86 television titles. Add to this count his number of awards and you have a man who was as busy as he was versatile.

Born Benjamin Sherman Crothers on May 23, 1910, in Terre Haute, Indiana, he began his musical career as a teenager, having taught himself to play the guitar and drums.

As a member of a band that performed in speakeasies, he perfected his style against a backdrop of noise and buzz. In the 1930s, he formed his own band and began performing throughout the Midwest, as well as frequently appearing on radio in Dayton, Ohio. It was during these weekly engagements that the station manager decided the budding star needed a catchier name, and suggested “Scatman,” given his proficiency at scat singing. Now the Scatman, he married Helen Sullivan in 1937, and by the 1940s they were living in California.

From his home base in Los Angeles, Scatman began extensive travel with performances in Las Vegas to as far away as the Apollo Theater in Harlem. He also embarked on a long list of recordings, including Capitol releases of singles such as “I’d Rather Be a Hummingbird,” “Blue-Eyed Sally,” and “Television Blues.” There was also his “Rock 'N' Roll With ‘Scat Man’ Crothers” for the High Fidelity label. When Bob Hope began his USO Tours, Scatman was usually aboard with his comedy and musical skits.

He was often a guest performer in a number of bands and orchestras, most memorably with the great guitarist Slim Gaillard, who probably had some fascinating duets between them. Scatman was also part of an ensemble that recorded “Freedom Sing” and in 1955, “The Death of Emmett Till,” released the same year the Chicago boy was brutally killed in Mississippi.

His film appearances began in the early 1950s and included 1953’s “Meet Me at the Fair.” An abbreviat-

ACTIVITIES FIND OUT MORE Several major dailies ran lengthy obituaries, and encyclopedias of Black Hollywood summarize his career.

DISCUSSION Wish we could have found more information about his family and his early years.

PLACE IN CONTEXT His life spanned nearly all of the 20th century and he made an indelible mark on the screen and television.

Scatman with Redd Foxx on Publicity Photo: Sanford & Son

ed list of his films includes roles in the musical “Hello, Dolly!” and “The Great White Hope.” His voice can be heard as Scat Cat in the animated film “The Aristocats” in 1970. He appeared in four films with Jack Nicholson: “The King of Marvin Gardens” (1972), “The Fortune” (1975), “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” (1975), and “The Shining” (1980).

In the animated film “Coonskin,” he played the part of a fable-telling convict, a train porter in “Silver Streak,” a liveryman in “The Shootist,” Mingo in “Roots” (1977), Tinker the piano player in Neil Simon’s “The Cheap Detective” (1978), a ringmaster in “Bronco Billy” (1980), a baseball coach in “Zapped!” (1982), and angels in “Two of a Kind” (1983) and “Twilight Zone: The Movie” (1983).

When he wasn’t requested for films, producers sought him out for a variety of television stints, most notably on “Dixie Showboat,” a

television show broadcast from L.A. making him the first Black person to appear regularly on a show from that city. There were also numerous assignments where his voice was requested, none more unforgettable as Meadowlark Lemon in the Harlem Globetrotters cartoon series and as the title character in “Hong Kong Phooey.”

For an extended period, he was Louie the garbage man on “Chico and the Man.” During an appearance on “Sanford and Son,” Scatman demonstrated his prowess on guitar, accompanying Redd Foxx as he sang “All of Me.” In 1966, in a special recording of an adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s “The New Alice in Wonderland,” he was the Cheshire Cat’s voice, replacing Sammy Davis, Jr.’s role in the original animated version.

There were a slew of guest shots on television “Alfred Hitchcock Presents" in 1958, “Dragnet” in

1967, “Bewitched” in 1971, “Adam12” in 1972 (as “George Strothers”), “Kojak” and “Ironside” in 1973, “Kolchak: The Night Stalker” in 1974 and “Sanford and Son” in 1975. In the 1980s, he provided the voice of the Autobot Jazz on the television series “The Transformers.” He was the star in three short-lived 1980s television series: “One of the Boys” (1982), “Casablanca” (1983), and “Morningstar/Eveningstar” (1986).

Among his awards is Best Supporting Actor in “The Shining” by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Films. He was also the recipient of an NAACP Image Award in 1981. A star in his name adorns the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and he was inducted posthumously into the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame in 1987. Scatman was 76 when he died in 1986, and he is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles.

THIS WEEK IN BLACK HISTORY Oct. 23, 1958: Author and academic Michael Eric Dyson was born in Detroit, MI. Oct. 24, 1948: Kweisi Mfume, former president of the NAACP, was born in Baltimore.

Oct. 25, 1983: Six days after Prime Minister Maurice Bishop was executed in Grenada, the U.S. and its allies invaded the island.

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Education 70 Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation Campus Centers nationwide teach students to “dismantle toxic racial hierarchies”

By JOSEPH WILLIAMS Think of the phrase “racial healing,” and students sharing plates of tandoori or tikka masala in a college dorm room probably don’t come to mind. Perhaps as unlikely: Repairing centuries of trauma involving cadets at a once-segregated Southern military academy or a circle of people discussing their great-grandparents’ birthplaces.

Yet those scenarios, others like them, and the conversations about them are happening at Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation (TRHT) Campus Centers, a network of facilitators and programs designed to help undo harmful stereotypes, rewrite damaging narratives, and train people to dismantle toxic racial hierarchies at the grassroots level.

Sponsored in part by the American Association of Colleges & Universities (AAC&U), TRHT Campus Centers host a broad range of programs, workshops, and “healing circles” that tackle racism and the disparities that stem from it, said Dr. Tia Brown McNair, AAC&U vice president for diversity, equity, and student success equity and inclusion and TRHT Campus Centers executive director.

“It’s necessary work, because the false belief in a hierarchy of human values still exists within our country and within our systems and our structures and our policies and our practices,” McNair said. “So as long as that still exists, there is a need for us to continue to do the work.”

Adapted from a five-point framework the W.K. Kellogg Foundation developed in 2016 with civic leaders and academics, the program aims to establish a basis for lasting change that pivots from conflict and division toward healing through facilitated dialogue, workshops, and exercises.

The program is based on five main concepts—narrative change, separation, economy, racial healing, and law. Campus groups discuss everything from generational trauma to economic disparities and mass incarceration, according to the foundation’s web page. Setting aside blame and castigation, participants are encouraged to share personal ex-

periences, embrace history, and practice empathy through “deep listening,” with an eye on achievable, real-world goals.

“The TRHT effort is not about blaming one identity group as being the reason as to why another group is experiencing harm,” McNair said. “TRHT is about focusing and helping. It’s about healing and listening to one another, and engaging in deep listening and empathy, and understanding our interconnectedness and our common humanity.”

McNair added that, “Yes, our (social) systems and our structures are flawed, but it is only together that we can actually do this work” of racial healing and societal progress.

According to the Kellogg Foundation, at the heart of TRHT is “community-led collaboration that is cross-racial, intergenerational, and cross-sector.” Open, honest conversations, the website says, are the best way to “gain an understanding of the predominant factors and conditions that are blocking (racial) progress.”

Although the Kellogg Foundation initially deployed the TRHT framework to civic leaders from Buffalo to Los Angeles, the AAC&U signed on as a partner in 2017 after hearing that campus conversations about racial conflict had taken a disturbing, us-vs.-them turn.

Seeing an opportunity amid the crisis, McNair and an AAC&U team, along with facilitator Dr. Gail Christopher, helped design a college-level version of the TRHT framework.

It was an important decision: For most students, post-secondary education is a transitional period in life when they are often more open to new ideas and perspectives.

With grant money from the Newman’s Own Foundation, the AAC&U put out requests for proposals to create TRHT Campus Centers on colleges across the country. Although there was funding for just 10 grants, McNair said more than 100 schools applied.

“Our goal at AAC&U is to ultimately partner with 150 higher education institutions to serve as host sites for TRHT Campus Centers at their institutions and within their communities,” she said. “We

Effort to foster racial healing flourishes on college campuses (Illustration by Ribbet Stock/Liz Courquet-Lesaulnier)

have an annual TRHT Summer Institute, which has served hundreds and hundreds of institutions [that] are interested in learning more about the TRHT framework, and the methodology. And we now have 70 host institutions serving as partners with us.”

While the framework is largely the same from one school to the next, those campus dialogues and outcomes are unique to the communities where they occur.

At Rutgers University, broader campus discussions began after three students involved in TRHT work—one white, one Muslim, and one Hindu—shared impromptu meals in their dorm rooms, sampling each other’s traditional foods.

The Citadel, a military acade-

my in South Carolina, is rewriting its history to include stories of enslaved people working at the school, as well as the attendance of cadets recruited from overseas, including Cuba and China.

At the University of Maryland-Baltimore campus, TRHT meetings include prompts that encourage participants to explore family ancestry, promoting empathy and shared experiences.

At a time when entire states have all but banned colleges from teaching about race and history, expanding TRHT Campus Centers seems like an effort that’s flying against the prevailing political winds, but McNair said she believes lasting change starts at the grassroots level.

“I believe in the possibility of change, and I believe in the goodness of people and the goodness of our communities,” she said. “I’m not naïve, and I’m not going to say that I think this is going to be the one thing” that permanently eradicates racial hierarchies.

Still, “I do know that we have to try, and I do know that any progress we make is progress that should be valued and appreciated, because this is a long journey,” McNair said. “And I’m committed to that journey.”

This story was produced in partnership with the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and originally published by Word in Black. It has been lightly edited for AmNews style.

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of raising children alone.

Legislatively, she’s been inspired.

“I was already a huge proponent of universal childcare and (related) things, but it’s different once you’ve lived the experience. And so now I’m just like ‘everybody should just get a year,’” joked Hudson.

The joke aside, she said she does believe that paid family leave could stand to be increased to possibly six months, especially for new parents.

She’s also proud of the work the City Council has done to address citywide childcare issues and pay disparities for early childhood educators. “For a city council that is majority women, I think now we have more mothers than we’ve ever had. That’s the priority you see

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program. Applicants need to be a year removed from being released to qualify.

“Your first year at home you don’t have the availability to be effective as a paralegal or somebody that’s reliable in this space and the worst thing we want to do is set people up for failure,” said Simmons.

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when you have a body that looks the way that our body does,” said Hudson.

Hudson said she didn’t desire to be pregnant herself but has been family planning with her wife for some time.

Her wife delivered her daughter at NYU under the care of their family obstetrician-gynecologist (obgyn), a Black queer woman who runs an all-female practice.

She thinks that for many “LGBTQIA+ identified couples,” the choice to have children is very deliberate and intentional, so it’s about commitment more than anything. The evolution of maternal leave to parental leave allows for more diverse families to make that commitment, she said.

“For the City Council specifically, we have parental leave, and it extends to all parents, whether you’re adopting, fostering, birthing, or not birthing,” said Hudson. “It’s just parental leave for every-

one and it’s the most inclusive that it could be.”

Hudson said she has received some backlash from the community for taking the time off, but overwhelmingly, the feedback has been positive and congratulatory.

opens doors in the highly-competitive legal field to a population often struggling to find basic employment. Prior to enrollment, Kevin Campfield said he stocked shelves overnight for CVS Pharmacy and only after a connection landed him the job.

“I did 13 years in prison, from the age of 18 to 31 [and] I studied law the whole time I was incarcerated,” he said. “I said this was something I wanted to do once I got out because it’s what I know.”

Campfield went through PPI and start-

ed applying to law firms, ultimately landing several offers. He now balances his time working as a paralegal, attending Columbia University, and runs the National Paralegal Center, his own legal support services company.

After completing his degree in general studies, Campfield has aspirations of enrolling in the law school. As for why Campfield isn’t doing pre-law, he mentioned the fewer credits needed to finish. The faster he graduates, the more quickly he starts

Councilmember Crystal Hudson (right) with her wife, Sasha (left), and newborn baby girl, Cy (Photo contributed by Councilmember Hudson)

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“The 13 years I’ve been in prison was enough pre-law for me,” Campfield added, chuckling.

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POLSKI POLSKI (Polish) (Polish)

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‫التكلفة‬ ‫التكلفة‬ ‫ميسور‬ ‫ميسور‬ ‫السكن‬ ‫السكن‬ ‫يتوفر‬ ‫يتوفر‬

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आवेदन िरने िी अंततम ततथि: 18 मई, 2023

ऑनलाइन सबमिट करने के मलए या, यदि िेल द्वारा भेजा जाता है, तो सिय सीिा से बाि िें पोस्टिाकक ककया जाना चादहए। यदि आप एक से

अधिक आवेिन जिा करते हैं तो आपको अयोग्य घोषित ककया जा सकता है।

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से

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30 • October 26, 2023 - November 1, 2023

THE NEW YORK AMSTERDAM NEWS

Religion & Spirituality Largest Hindu temple outside India in the modern era opens in New Jersey

By LUIS ANDRES HENAO and DEEPA BHARATH Associated Press ROBBINSVILLE, N.J. (AP)—If stones could talk, sing, and tell stories, Yogi Trivedi believes the marble and limestone that adorn the spires, pillars, and archways of a Hindu temple in central New Jersey would compose a paean to the divine.

The tales these stones tell are of seva (selfless service) and bhakti (devotion), which form the core of the Swaminarayan sect, a branch of Hinduism, said Trivedi, a scholar of Hinduism at Columbia University.

It took a combined total of about 4.7 million hours of work by artisans and volunteers to hand-carve about 2 million cubic feet of stone for the temple. The four varieties of marble from Italy and limestone from Bulgaria traveled first to India and then over 8,000 miles across the world to New Jersey.

They were then fitted together like a giant jigsaw to create what is now touted as the largest Hindu temple outside India to be built in the modern era, standing on a 126-acre tract. It will open to the public on Monday.

The largest temple complex in the world is the Ankgor Wat, originally constructed in the 12th century in Krong Siem Reap, Cambodia, and dedicated to the Hindu god Vishnu by King Suryavarman II. It is now described as a Hindu-Buddhist temple, and is one of 1,199 UNESCO World Heritage sites.

The Robbinsville temple is one of many built by the Bochasanwasi Shri Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha (BAPS), a worldwide religious and civic organization within the Swaminarayan sect.

“Service and devotion are the two basic elements that form the subtle foundation of how a temple so majestic gets built here in central New Jersey,” said Trivedi, who studies and follows the Swaminarayan faith tradition.

This temple will be the third Akshardham or “abode of the divine” the organization has built after two others in New Delhi and Gujarat, where BAPS is headquartered. The former is the largest Hindu temple complex in the world. The sect, which will celebrate its 50th year in North America next year, oversees more than 1,200 temples and 3,850 centers around the world.

The sun sets at BAPS Swaminarayan Akshardham in Robbinsville, N.J., largest Hindu temple outside India in the modern era. The temple was partly built using marble from Italy and limestone from Bulgaria, hand-carved by artisans in India, and shipped to New Jersey (AP Photo/Luis Andres Henao photo)

The New Jersey Akshardham, which has been in the works for about 12 years, came under scrutiny and criticism after a 2021 civil lawsuit alleging forced labor, meager wages, and grim working conditions.

Of the 19 plaintiffs, 12 have now retracted their allegations and the lawsuit is on hold pending an investigation “with which BAPS continues to cooperate fully,” Trivedi said.

The complaint alleges that those exploited were Dalits or members of the former “untouchable” caste in India. Caste is an ancient system of social hierarchy based on one’s birth that is tied to concepts of purity and social status.

The case continues to raise questions among activists fighting caste discrimination and those advocating for workers’ rights, and about the blurred lines between uncompensated work and the concept of selfless service, which followers of the faith say constitutes their core belief.

Trivedi said these allegations weighed heavily on community members because

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their faith has always taught them “to see the divine in all and love and serve them as manifestations of the divine.” He said Pramukh Swami Maharaj, the sect’s fifth spiritual successor, who envisioned such a temple campus in the United States, was a progressive guru who cared deeply about social equality.

“Caste and class do not divide us,” Trivedi said.

The temple project brought forth volunteerism and service, which chip away people’s egos and prime them to learn, like the sculptor’s chisel, he said.

“In that learning, one becomes a better person within and that is the end goal of seva,” Trivedi said. “It’s not just to give to the community or build these (ornate structures), but to better oneself.”

He said the temple would not have been possible without the service of thousands of volunteers, many of whom took time off school and work to serve in different capacities. This might be the first Hindu temple

where women were involved in the actual construction, under the artisans’’ supervision, he added.

This week, families from across the country have been streaming into the temple campus to get a sneak peek. Devotees bowed to each other and to monks in saffron robes. As the sun set, two men in white robes performed a ceremony in front of the 49-foot-tall statue of the Bhagwan Nilkanth Varni, who later became known as Bhagwan Swaminarayan, founder of the sect, who ushered in a moral and spiritual renaissance in western India.

Other worshippers prostrated on the floor, pressing their foreheads to the ground in reverence. As night fell, Nikita Patel meditated and lit an incense stick before the deity.

“All religions, all communities are welcome here and here, they will feel the peace,” she said.

Avani Patel was visiting from Atlanta with her husband and their two children, ages 11 and 15. She knelt inside the temple and marveled at the ornate ceiling, her hands folded in prayer.

“It’s jaw-dropping, mind blowing,” she said. “You can see divinity radiating through it all.”

Patel said she and her husband, Pritesh, were among the volunteers who gave their time to create the complex, and she is proud to be a part of an organization that would build such a resource to pass on these values to posterity.

Trivedi said he does not view the temple “just as a Hindu place of worship.”

“It’s not even just Indian or Indian American,” he said, adding that the temple stands for universal values that can be found in every religious text and in the hearts and minds of great thinkers and leaders of every era.

“What we’ve tried to do is express these universal values in a way that relates to all visitors.”

— Bharath reported from Los Angeles. __ Associated Press religion coverage receives support through the AP’s collaboration with the Conversation US, with funding from the Lilly Endowment Inc. The AP is solely responsible for this content.

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SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF NEW YORK HSBC BANK USA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR DEUTSCHE ALT-A SECURITIES INC. MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST, MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 2005-3, V. ROBERT A. DEL VENTO, ET. AL. NOTICE OF SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to a Final Judgment of Foreclosure dated May 09, 2023, and entered in the Office of the Clerk of the County of New York, wherein HSBC BANK USA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR DEUTSCHE ALT-A SECURITIES INC. MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST, MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 2005-3 is the Plaintiff and ROBERT A. DEL VENTO, ET AL. are the Defendant(s). I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the PORTICO OF THE NEW YORK COUNTY COURTHOUSE, 60 CENTRE STREET, NEW YORK, NY 10007, on November 08, 2023 at 2:15PM, premises known as 335 EAST 51ST STREET, APARTMENT 9D, NEW YORK, NY 10022: Block 1344, Lot 1074: THE CONDOMINIUM UNIT (HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AS THE "UNIT") KNOWN AS UNIT NO, 9D IN THE BUILDING (HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AS THE "BUILDING") KNOWN AS THE SENATE EAST CONDOMINIUM AND BY THE STREET NUMBER 335 EAST 51ST, BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN, CITY. COUNTY AND STATE OF NEW YORK Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 850055/2019. Mark McKew, Esq. - Referee. Robertson, Anschutz, Schneid, Crane & Partners, PLLC, 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 310, Westbury, New York 11590, Attorneys for Plaintiff. All foreclosure sales will be conducted in accordance with Covid-19 guidelines including, but not limited to, social distancing and mask wearing. *LOCATION OF SALE SUBJECT TO CHANGE DAY OF IN ACCORDANCE WITH COURT/CLERK DIRECTIVES. Supreme Court - New York County - Hilton Resorts Corp., Pltf. v. Jean B. Dubois and Marie H. Dubois, Defts. Index # 850087/2021. The foregoing supplemental summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an Order of the Honorable FRANCIS KAHN, III, Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, County of New York, dated the 27th day of September 2023 and duly entered the 28th day of September 2023 in the office of the Clerk of the County of New York, State of New York. Cruser, Mitchell, Novitz, Sanchez, Gaston, & Zimet LLP, Attys. for Pltf., 341 Conklin Street, Farmingdale, NY, 5165868513.

TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANTS: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the Complaint is not served with this Summons, to serve a notice of appearance, on the Plaintiff's attorney, within twenty (20) days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within thirty (30) days after completion of service where service is made in any other manner than by personal delivery within the State) In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT THE OBJECT of the above captioned action is for the foreclosure of: An undivided 10,000/16,783,800 tenants in common interest in Phase 2 of HNY Club Suites located at 1335 Avenue of the Americas NY, NY. Section: 4 Block: 1006 Lot: 1303. Mortgage bearing the date of April 4, 2015, executed by Jean B. Dubois and Marie H. Dubois to Hilton Resorts Corporation, a Delaware Corporation, to secure the sum of $71,257.12, and interest and recorded in the Office of the Clerk of New York County on September 25, 2015 in CRFN: 2015000342332. The relief sought in the within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the Mortgaged Premises as described above to satisfy the debt secured by the Mortgage described above. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. Notice is hereby given that license number 1357210 for liquor has been applied for by the undersigned to permit the sale of beer, wine and liquor at retail in a restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 425 Park F&B LLC and JG Midtown LLC located at 425 Park Avenue, New York in New York County for on-premises consumption. 425 Park F&B LLC and JG Midtown LLC, 425 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10022.

Notice is hereby given that license number 1370691 for liquor has been applied for by the undersigned to permit the sale of beer and wine at retail in a theater under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at The Duke on 42nd Street located at 229 West 42nd Street, New York in New York County for on-premises consumption. The New 42nd Street Inc. at 229 W 42nd Street, New York, NY 10036.

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SUMMONS Index No. 850268/2023 STATE OF NEW YORK SUPREME COURT – COUNTY OF NEW YORK U.S. BANK NA, AS TRUSTEE, FOR THE CHASE MORTGAGE FINANCE CORPORATION MULTICLASS MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006-S1 Plaintiff, -vs- THE HEIRS AT LARGE OF BALKRISHENA KAUL, deceased, and all persons who are spouses, widows, grantees, mortgagees, lienors, heirs, devisees, distributees, successors in interest of such of them as may be dead, and their husbands and wives, heirs, devisees, distributees and successors of interest of all of whom and whose names and places are unknown to Plaintiff; SARITA KAUL A/K/A SARITKA S. KAUL; PRASHANT KAUL; AKASH KAUL; ASHEESH KAUL; BOARD OF MANAGERS OF 555W23 CONDOMINIUM; JOHN DOE, individual who refused to provide their name; JANE DOE, individual who refused to provide their name; Defendants. Mortgaged Premises: 555 West 23rd Street, Unit S12L, New York, NY 10011 TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANT(S): YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in the above entitled action and to serve a copy of your Answer on the plaintiff’s attorney within twenty (20) days of the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service, or within thirty (30) days after service of the same is complete where service is made in any manner other than by personal delivery within the State. The United States of America, if designated as a defendant in this action, may answer or appear within sixty (60) days of service hereof. Your failure to appear or answer will result in a judgment against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. In the event that a deficiency balance remains from the sale proceeds, a judgment may be entered against you, unless the Defendant obtained a bankruptcy discharge and such other or further relief as may be just and equitable. NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer to the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property. Sending payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. NEW YORK County is designated as the place of trial. The basis of venue is the location of the mortgaged premises. Dated: April 5, 2023 Mark K. Broyles, Esq. FEIN SUCH & CRANE, LLP Attorneys for Plaintiff Office and P.O. Address 28 East Main Street, Suite 1800 Rochester, New York 14614 Telephone No. (585) 232-7400 Block: 695 Lot: 1602 NATURE AND OBJECT OF ACTION The object of the above action is to foreclose a mortgage held by the Plaintiff recorded in the County of NEW YORK, State of New York as more particularly described in the Complaint herein. TO THE DEFENDANT, the plaintiff makes no personal claim against you in this action. To the above named defendants: The foregoing summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an order of HON. FRANCIS A. KAHN, III Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, dated September 27, 2023 and filed along with the supporting papers in the NEW YORK County Clerk’s Office. This is an action to foreclose a Mortgage. Parcel 1 ALL that certain plot, piece or parcel of land together with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the County, City and State of New York Parcel 2 ALL that certain plot, piece or parcel of land together with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the County, City and State of New York Parcel 3 ALL that certain plot, piece or parcel of land together with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the County, City and State of New York Parcel 4 ALL that certain plot, piece or parcel of land together with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the County, City and State of New York Mortgaged Premises: 555 West 23rd Street, Unit S12L, New York, NY 10011 Tax Map/Parcel ID No.: Block: 695 Lot: 1602 of the Borough of Manhattan, NY 10011 78130

Notice of Qualification of BRIDGETON 396 BROADWAY F&B MANAGEMENT LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/06/23. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 08/17/23. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co. (CSC), 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: c/o CSC, 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, 820 N. French St., 4th Fl., Wilmington, DE 19801. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Qualification of 570 WASHINGTON STREET LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/06/23. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 10/04/23. Princ. office of LLC: 40 W. 57th St., 29th Fl., NY, NY 10019. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901.

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101 LEGAL NOTICES NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT NEW YORK COUNTY JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, Plaintiff against NERA PROPERTY HOLDING LLC, et al Defendant(s) Attorney for Plaintiff(s) Parker Ibrahim & Berg LLP, 5 Penn Plaza, Suite 2371, New York, NY 10001. Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered June 3, 2022, and Amended on June 30, 2022 I will sell at public auction to the highest bidder at Room 130 at the Supreme Court, New York County, 60 Centre Street, New York, New York on November 15, 2023 at 2:15 PM. Premises known as 531 West 162nd Street, New York, NY 10032.

Block 2122 Lot 13. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Manhattan, County of New York, City and State of New York. Approximate Amount of Judgment is $829,409.72 plus interest, fees, and costs.

Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index No 850232/2018. The foreclosure sale will be conducted in accordance with 1st Judicial District's Covid-19 Policies and foreclosure auction rules. The Referee shall enforce any rules in place regarding facial coverings and social distancing. Referee will only accept a certified bank check made payable to the referee. Elaine Shay, Esq., Referee File # 850232/2018

NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF NEW YORK FREEDOM MORTGAGE CORPORATION, Plaintiff AGAINST FARHAD M. BOUKANI, ET AL., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly entered December 19, 2022, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the New York County Courthouse in Room 130, located at 60 Centre Street, New York, NY on November 22, 2023 at 2:15PM, premises known as 467 WEST CENTRAL PARK, UNIT NO. 1D, NEW YORK, NY 10025. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Manhattan, County, City and State of New York, Block 1842, Lot 1003. Approximate amount of judgment $332,718.76 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index #850053/2019. The aforementioned auction will be conducted in accordance with the NEW YORK County COVID-19 mitigation protocols and as such all persons must comply with social distancing, wearing masks and screening practices in effect at the time of this foreclosure sale.

Roberta Ashkin, Esq., Referee Gross Polowy, LLC 1775 Wehrle Drive Williamsville, NY 14221 18-003391 77790

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NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT - COUNTY OF NEW YORK HILTON RESORTS CORPORATION, Plaintiff -against- AYODELE ANIMASHAUN, ABISOLA AYOANIMASHAUN, et al Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale dated June 27, 2023 and entered on June 29, 2023, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction in Room 130 of the New York County Courthouse, 60 Centre Street New York, NY on November 22, 2023 at 2:15 p.m. premises situate, lying and being in the Borough of Manhattan, County of New York, City and State of New York, being an undivided ownership interest as tenant-in-common with other owners in the Timeshare Unit in the building located at 1335 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY; known as The NYH Condominium. Together with an appurtenant undivided 3.1810% common interest percentage. This a foreclosure on ownership interest in a timeshare unit, a studio penthouse on a floating use basis every year, in accordance with and subject to declarations. Declaration of Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions dated October 27, 2003 and November 3, 2003 as CFRN # 2003000442513 as recorded in the Office of the City Register, County, City and State of New York. The Timeshare Unit is also designated as Block 1006 and Lot 1302. Said premises known as 1335 AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS, NEW YORK, NY. Approximate amount of lien $86,295.18 plus interest & costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment and Terms of Sale. Index Number 850110/2020. SCOTT H. SILLER, ESQ., Referee, DRUCKMAN LAW GROUP PLLC Attorney(s) for Plaintiff, 242 Drexel Avenue, Westbury, NY 11590 Notice is hereby given that a license number 1369367 for restaurant wine has been applied for by the undersigned to sell beer, cider and wine at the retail in a Restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 11 Sushi Kai Inc. 11 Barrow St, New York, NY 10014 for on premises consumption.

MTA REAL ESTATE (MTA RE) Request for Proposals BW102023: Lease of one retail unit at 2 Broadway, New York, New York. For info on this RFP, please go to https://new.mta. info/agency/real-estate/ SUMMONS IN TAX LIEN FORECLOSURE–SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, COUNTY OF NEW YORK – NYCTL 2021A TRUST AND THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON AS COLLATERAL AGENT AND CUSTODIAN FOR THE NYCTL 2021-A TRUST, Plaintiffs, against TAHIR, et. al., Defendants. Index No. 158819/2022.

To the above named Defendants –YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the complaint in this action within twenty days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service or within thirty days after service is completed if the summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York. In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint. Plaintiffs designate New York County as the place of trial. Venue is based upon the county in which the property a lien upon which is being foreclosed is situated. The foregoing summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an order of the Hon. Francis A. Kahn III, J.S.C., dated October 11, 2023. The object of this action is to foreclose a New York City Tax Lien covering the premises located at Block 1010 Lot 1637 on the Tax Map of New York County and is also known 157 West 57th Street, Unit 46B, New York, New York.

Dated: October 18, 2023 BRONSTER LLP, Attorney for Plaintiffs, NYCTL 2021-A TRUST AND THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON AS COLLATERAL AGENT AND CUSTODIAN FOR THE NYCTL 2021-A TRUST, By: Josef F. Abt, Esq. 156 West 56th Street, New York, NY 10019 (347) 246-4776

SUPREME COURT - COUNTY OF NEW YORK AVANT CAPITAL 52 EAST 64TH STREET LLC, Plaintiff -against- 52 EAST 64TH STREET LLC., et al Defendant(s). Pursuant to the Consent Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale dated June 16, 2023 and entered on June 20, 2023, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction in Room 130 of the New York County Courthouse, 60 Centre Street New York, NY on November 22, 2023 at 2:15 p.m. premises situate, lying and being in the Borough of Manhattan, County of New York, City and State of New York; known and designated as Block 1378 Lot 41. Said premises known as 52 EAST 64TH STREET, NEW YORK, NY. Approximate amount of lien $17,978,720.88 plus interest & costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment and Terms of Sale.

Index Number 850134/2020.

SCOTT SILLER, ESQ., Referee KRISS & FEUERSTEIN LLP Attorney(s) for Plaintiff 360 Lexington Avenue, Suite 1200, New York, NY 10017 Notice is hereby given that a License number 1346097 for liquor, wine, beer and cider has been applied for by the undersigned to sell liquor, wine, beer and cider at retail in a restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 600 West 218th Street, New York, NY 10034 for on premise consumption. Inwood Farms, LLC. Notice is hereby given that license number 1360806 for liquor has been applied for by the undersigned to permit the sale of beer, wine and liquor at retail in a Bar/Tavern under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 750 Eighth LH LLC and Distilled LLC located at 750 Eighth Avenue, New York in New York County for on-premises consumption. 750 Eighth LH LLC and Distilled LLC, 750 Eighth Avenue, New York, NY 10036.

Notice is hereby given that license number 1359342 for liquor has been applied for by the undersigned to permit the sale of beer, wine and liquor at retail in a Movie Theater and Restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at LOOK Dine-In Cinemas located at 657 West 57th Street, New York in New York County for on-premises consumption. LOOK Cinemas V LLC, 657 West 57th Street, New York, NY 10019.

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Supplemental Summons and Notice of Object of Action Supreme Court Of The State Of New York County Of New York Action to Foreclose a Mortgage Index #: 850197/2022 Mortgage Assets Management, LLC Plaintiff, vs Bonnie Wiener As Heir To The Estate Of Linda Orlin, Unknown Heirs Of Linda Orlin If Living, And If He/She Be Dead, Any And All Persons Unknown To Plaintiff, Claiming, Or Who May Claim To Have An Interest In, Or General Or Specific Lien Upon The Real Property Described In This Action; Such Unknown Persons Being Herein Generally Described And Intended To Be Included In Wife, Widow, Husband, Widower, Heirs At Law, Next Of Kin, Descendants, Executors, Administrators, Devisees, Legatees, Creditors, Trustees, Committees, Lienors, And Assignees Of Such Deceased, Any And All Persons Deriving Interest In Or Lien Upon, Or Title To Said Real Property By, Through Or Under Them, Or Either Of Them, And Their Respective Wives, Widows, Husbands, Widowers, Heirs At Law, Next Of Kin, Descendants, Executors, Administrators, Devisees, Legatees, Creditors, Trustees, Committees, Lienors, And Assigns, All Of Whom And Whose Names, Except As Stated, Are Unknown To Plaintiff, United States Of America Acting Through The Secretary Of Housing And Urban Development, United States Of America Acting Through The IRS, People Of The State Of New York, The Board Of Managers Of 220 East 60th Street Condominium, City Register Of The City Of New York, County Of New York “John Doe #1” Through “John Doe #12,” The Last Twelve Names Being Fictitious And Unknown To Plaintiff, The Persons Or Parties Intended Being The Tenants, Occupants, Persons Or Corporations, If Any, Having Or Claiming An Interest In Or Lien Upon The Subject Property Described In The Complaint, Defendant(s). Mortgaged Premises: 220 East 60th Street Unit 5M New York, NY 10022 To the Above named Defendant: You are hereby summoned to answer the Complaint in this action, and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the Complaint is not served with this Supplemental Summons, to serve a notice of appearance, on the Plaintiff(s) attorney(s) within twenty days after the service of this Supplemental Summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within 30 days after the service is complete if this Supplemental Summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York). In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. The Attorney for Plaintiff has an office for business in the County of Erie. Trial to be held in the County of New York. The basis of the venue designated above is the location of the Mortgaged Premises. TO Unknown Heirs of Linda Orlin Defendant In this Action. The foregoing Supplemental Summons is served upon you by publication, pursuant to an order of HON. Francis A Kahn of the Supreme Court Of The State Of New York, dated the Twenty-Eighth day of September, 2023 and filed with the Complaint in the Office of the Clerk of the County of New York, in the City of New York. The object of this action is to foreclose a mortgage upon the premises described below, dated November 21, 2008, executed by Linda Orlin (who died on October 31, 2019, a resident of the county of New York, State of New York) to secure the sum of $625,500.00. The Mortgage was recorded at CRFN 2008000487819 in the City Register of the City of New York, New York County on December 26, 2008. The mortgage was subsequently assigned by an assignment executed November 14, 2012 and recorded on November 27, 2012, in the City Register of the City of New York, New York County at CRFN 2012000464586. The mortgage was subsequently assigned by an assignment executed August 8, 2022 and recorded on August 26, 2022, in the City Register of the City of New York, New York County at CRFN 2022000335785; The property in question is described as follows: 220 East 60th Street Unit 5M, New York, NY 10022 NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property.

Sending a payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. DATED: October 9, 2023 Gross Polowy LLC Attorney(s) For Plaintiff(s) 1775 Wehrle Drive, Suite 100 Williamsville, NY 14221 The law firm of Gross Polowy, LLC and the attorneys whom it employs are debt collectors who are attempting to collect a debt. Any information obtained by them will be used for that purpose. 78222 Notice is hereby given that license number 1360255 for liquor has been applied for by the undersigned to permit the sale of beer, wine and liquor at retail in a Hotel under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at the Courtyard New York Manhattan-Times Square located at 307 West 37th Street, New York in New York County for on-premises consumption.

365 Management Company LLC and West 37th Street Hotel LLC, 307 West 37th Street, New York, NY 10018.

Notice of Formation of CPG STEVENSON B4 GP LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/06/23. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. Purpose: Real estate investment/development.

Notice is hereby given that license number 1356328 for liquor has been applied for by the undersigned to permit the sale of beer, wine and liquor at retail in a Hotel under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at the Hampton Inn/Home2 Suites located at 150 West 48th Street, New York in New York County for on-premises consumption.

Haley Point OpCo, LLC and 365 Management Company, LLC, 150 West 48th Street, New York, NY 10036.

NOTICE OF FORMATION of limited liability company (LLC).

Name: MEKBROS, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/19/2023. Office location: New York Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and address SSNY shall mail a copy of process is 39 W. 14th Street, New York, NY 10011. Purpose: any lawful purpose.

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NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT - COUNTY OF NEW YORK HILTON RESORTS CORPORATION, Plaintiff -against- JOHN M. DAGNON, PATRICIA DAGNON, et al Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale dated January 27, 2023 and entered on January 29, 2023, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction in Room 130 of the New York County Courthouse, 60 Centre Street New York, NY on November 22, 2023 at 2:15 p.m. premises situate, lying and being in the Borough of Manhattan, County of New York, City and State of New York, being an undivided ownership interest as tenantin-common with other owners in the Timeshare Unit in the building located at 1335 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY; known as The NYH Condominium. Together with an appurtenant undivided 1.4182% common interest percentage. This a foreclosure on ownership interest in a timeshare unit HU2, a studio penthouse on a floating use basis every year, in accordance with and subject to declarations. Declaration of Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions dated October 27, 2003 and November 3, 2003 as CFRN # 2003000442513 as recorded in the Office of the City Register, County, City and State of New York. The Timeshare Unit is also designated as Block 1006 and Lot 1303. Said premises known as 1335 AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS, UNIT HU2, NEW YORK, NY. Approximate amount of lien $72,457.30 plus interest & costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment and Terms of Sale. Index Number 850033/2017. SCOTT H. SILLER, ESQ., Referee, DRUCKMAN LAW GROUP PLLC, Attorney(s) for Plaintiff, 242 Drexel Avenue, Westbury, NY 11590 NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT - COUNTY OF NEW YORK HNY CLUB SUITES OWNERS ASSOCIATION INC., BY AND THROUGH ITS BOARD OF DIRECTORS, Plaintiff -against- ELIZABETH FERRER, et al Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale dated June 27, 2023 and entered on July 3, 2023, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction in Room 130 of the New York County Courthouse, 60 Centre Street New York, NY on November 29, 2023 at 2:15 p.m. premises being an undivided ownership interest as tenant-in-common with other owners in the Timeshare Unit in the building located at 1335 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY; known as The NYH Condominium. Together with an appurtenant undivided 0.0381% in common interest percentage. This a foreclosure on ownership interest in a timeshare unit, a studio penthouse on a floating use basis every year, in accordance with and subject to declarations.

Declaration of Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions dated October 27, 2003 and November 3, 2003 as CFRN # 2003000442513 as recorded in the Office of the City Register, County, City and State of New York. The Timeshare Unit is also designated as Block 1006 and Lot 1302. Said premises known as 1335 AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS, NEW YORK, NY. Approximate amount of lien $19,155.50 plus interest & costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment and Terms of Sale. Index Number 850084/2019. ELAINE SHAY, ESQ., Referee. DRUCKMAN LAW GROUP PLLC, Attorney(s) for Plaintiff, 242 Drexel Avenue, Westbury, NY 11590 HIDDEN BRIDGES NYC, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 09/05/2023. Office: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served & shall mail to: 515 E 88th St, Apt 3H, NY, NY 10128.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qualification of 1S REO OPPORTUNITY 1, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/02/23. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 01/09/19. Princ. office of LLC: 370 Highland Ave., Ste. 200, Piedmont, CA 94611. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State of the State of DE, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: Is to own real estate in the State.

Notice of formation of Limited Liability Company (“LLC”).

Name: Albany State Street GP LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of the State of New York (“SSNY”) on October 17, 2023.

N.Y. office location: New York County. The SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to Albany State Street GP LLC, c/o CSC, 80 State Street, Albany, New York 12207-2543. Purpose/character of LLC is to engage in any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Qualification of KDS MANAGEMENT LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/06/23. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 03/21/23. Princ. office of LLC: Unit 15-138, 575 Fifth Ave., NY, NY 10017. NYS fictitious name: KEROGEN DIGITAL MANAGEMENT LLC. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co. (CSC), 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: c/o CSC, 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St. - Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Qualification of 4160 MAIN STREET OWNER LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/06/23. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 09/05/23.

Princ. office of LLC: 520 Madison Ave., Ste. 3501, NY, NY 10022. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 122072543, regd. agent upon whom and at which process may be served. DE addr. of LLC: 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Real estate investment.

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Read 108, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 09/01/2023.

Office: NEW YORK County.

SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy to: 86 Jane Street, New York, NY 10014.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qualification of JAIN GLOBAL LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/11/23. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 07/03/23. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 510 Madison Ave., NY, NY 10022. DE addr. of LLC: Corporation Service Co., 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, State of DE, Dept. of State, John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Brooklyn Bread Apparel, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 11/30/2022. Office: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served & shall mail to: 1740 Broadway Ave., Fl. 15, NY, NY 10019. Purpose: Any lawful act.

Notice is hereby given that license number 1356621 for liquor has been applied for by the undersigned to permit the sale of beer, wine and liquor at retail in a Hotel under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at the Hilton New York Fashion District located at 152 W. 26th Street, New York in New York County for on-premises consumption. Fashion 26th Street LLC; Interstate Management Company, LLC and 152 W. 26th Street Rest, LLC, 152 W. 26th Street, New York, NY 10001.

Notice of Qualification of HABYT PROPERTIES US LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/12/23. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 05/17/23. Princ. office of LLC: 335 Madison Ave., Ste. 6F-2, NY, NY 10017.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: 850 New Burton Rd., Ste. 201, Dover, DE 19904.

Cert. of Form. filed with Jeffrey W. Bullock, Secy. of State of the State of DE, Dover Office, 401 Federal St., Ste. 3, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

ELEVATE CONSTRUCTION GROUP LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 10/02/23. Office: New York County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, c/o Joel Kipnis, 137 Duane Street, #2E, New York, NY 10013. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Notice of formation of Rodney Cobcobo LLC. Art. of Org. filed w/Secy. Of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/3/23. Office location: New York County. SSNY designated as agent for service of process.

SSNY shall mail process to 123 E.102nd St., Apt. 6E, New York, NY 10029. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

CHART INDUSTRIES II, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 09/14/23. Office: New York County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, c/o Hyman & Gilbert, Esqs., 1843 Palmer Avenue, Larchmont, NY 10538.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

The Paull Group LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 08/21/2023. Office: NY County.

SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served & shall mail copy to: 301 E. 81st St., NY, NY 10028. R/A: U.S. Corp.

Agents, Inc., 7014 13th Ave. #202, Bklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of S3 MOSTLY TRUE FILMS LLC Auth. filed with SSNY on 09/21/2023. Office location: New York. LLC formed in TX on 06/08/2022.

SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: P.O. Box 20156, 527 Hudson Street, New York NY 10014. Arts. of Org. filed with TX SOS. P.O. Box 13697, Austin, TX 78711-3697. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qualification of PLATINUM PLUS AUTO GLASS LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/08/23. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 09/22/22. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co. (CSC), 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: c/o CSC, 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808.

Cert. of Form. filed with Jeffrey W. Bullock, Secy. of State, Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., #4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Qualification of JANDS 1 LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/12/23. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 09/11/23.

Princ. office of LLC: 100 Mamaroneck Ave., Mamaroneck, NY 10543. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. office. DE addr. of LLC: Corporation Service Co., 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808.

Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Qualification of CHAPTER 33, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/14/23. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 08/10/23.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., #4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of GRIFFITH SUTTON TOWER 38A LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/10/23. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to Steven J. Sedereas, Esq., c/o Mandelbaum Barrett PC, 570 Lexington Ave., 21st Fl., NY, NY 10022. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Dream Concept Multiservices, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 05/30/2023. Office: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served & shall mail to: The Limited Liability Company, 228 Park Ave. S #34823, NY, NY, 10003. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Trueveteran Consulting LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 05/19/2023. Office: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served & shall mail copy to: 425 Williams Drive 1231, Marietta, GA 30066. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

HOLISTIC AFFAIRS LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 08/29/2023. Office: Bronx County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served & shall mail to: 828 E. 149 St., Apt. 405, Bronx, NY 10455. Purpose: Any lawful act.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF New York ADR LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/27/23.

Office location: NEW YORK County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to Fensterstock, P.C., 200 Vesey Street, 24th Fl., NY, NY 10281. Principal business address of the LLC is 200 Vesey Street, 24th Fl., NY, NY 10281.

Purpose(s): any lawful act or activity.

TNTSERVICE23 LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 08/09/2023. Office: NY County.

SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy to: 156 West 141 St, Apt 3G, NY, NY, 10030.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of AD XXIII Consulting LLC. Arts of Org Filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/16/23. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy of process against LLC to 160 Riverside Blvd, Apt 22A, NY, NY 10069, R/A: US Corp Agents, Inc. 7014 13th Ave, #202, BL, NY 11228. Purpose: Any lawful act.

ROMchip LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 05/24/2023.

Office: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served & shall mail to: 769 Broadway #1102, NY, NY, 10003. Purpose: Any lawful act.

Andrea Sullivan, LCSW PLLC Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 06/06/2023. Office: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served & shall mail to: 315 W 57th St., Ste. 203, NY, NY 10019. Purpose: Any lawful act.

Stone Way Trucking LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 05/10/2023. Office: NY County.

SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served & shall mail to: 30 Broad St., 14th Floor, New York, NY 10004. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice is hereby given that license number 1359070 for liquor has been applied for by the undersigned to permit the sale of beer, wine and liquor at retail in a hotel under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at the Tempo by Hilton Times Square located at 1568 Broadway, New York in New York County for on-premises consumption.

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LIU’s Roc Nation School, Chase to offer financial health course

Students attending a lecture at LIU’s Roc Nation School. (Roc Nation School photo)

By KAREN JUANITA CARRILLO Amsterdam News Staff Students attending the Roc Nation School of Music, Sports & Entertainment at Long Island University now have the chance to enroll in a financial health course, designed to teach them how to keep the money they make after they start their careers in the entertainment industry.

Well-paying jobs in music, sports business and sports management can on average pay anywhere between $44,000 and $140,000, reports the All Business Schools blog.

But earning income and keeping it are two different things. Roc Nation School’s new financial health class is designed to show students the world of finance in a way that makes them understand how

money works in their own lives.

The three-credit, 16-week course called “Game-Changing Finance,” taught in partnership with JPMorgan Chase, teaches the foundational elements of finances at a personal level: students learn money management, how credit works, how to save for and buy a home, and how to identify financial scams.

Roc Nation School was created with the backing of rapper-entrepreneur, Jay-Z, and his Roc Nation entertainment company in partnership with Long Island University. The school gives students the opportunity to learn about artist and athlete management, one of the businesses Jay-Z has made his fortune in. This is a business that not everyone has the opportunity to break into. But the Roc Nation School is trying to widen the scope

for future players in the market: It gives 25% of its incoming freshmen class Roc Nation Hope Scholarships which allow students to attend the school tuition free and graduate without any debt.

“We really have this goal of creating the most innovative and practical education in entertainment,” said Tressa Cunningham, dean of the Roc Nation School. “I think the entertainment industry is notoriously hard to break into, and so what better way to set students up for success than to give them the skills that they need to thrive and develop right into the entertainment industry.”

The “Game-Changing Finance” class is designed to meet students at the level they’re at in terms of their own financial health journey, as they begin to launch their careers in the entertainment industry.

JPMorgan Chase is partnering with Roc Nation to teach this class.

The bank is providing a $350,000 financial investment in the program, while also conducting workshops and bringing community bank managers to join the class at least once a week to talk about finances.

Instead of using bank jargon, bank managers provide students with real life examples of how to manage their money, discuss practical skills like learning the difference between a want and a need, and look at ways to manage credit wisely, said Nichol King, the executive director of community banking at JPMorgan Chase.

“Growing up,” she said, “for a lot of college students and particularly students from communities of color, finances are not something that’s spoken about at the dinner table.

So this class is just really breaking the myths and the fears and having

those candid conversations on how to manage your money.

“We’ve got a deep bench and a lot of internal expertise,” King added.

JPMorgan Chase brings wealth management advisors in to join the class and teach investor education basics like the definition of a stock and how bonds function. The class also features celebrities the students can relate to, including former New York Giants’ wide receiver Victor Cruz, who come in and talk about their financial journeys and the lessons they’ve learned in money management. “We believe that by providing content that’s relevant to them, that allows them to identify with sports figures and people that look like them, that their education is going to be rooted. They’re going to be able to take that knowledge and really carry it on with them, beyond college.”

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Las Vegas Aces repeat as WNBA Champions

By LOIS ELFMAN Special to the AmNews

Jackie Young (left, going up against the Liberty’s Sabrina Ionescu) stepped up in Game 4 of the WNBA Finals to help the Las Vegas Aces defeat the New York Liberty 70-69 and win the league title (Brandon Todd/New York Liberty photo)

With floor general Chelsea Gray and post player Kiah Stokes sidelined with injuries, the Las Vegas Aces looked to its bench to step up in game four of the WNBA Finals. Short-handed and playing at Barclays Center before a sold-out crowd, the Aces were undaunted at being dealt a less than ideal hand. High pressure experience and championship mettle proved the winning card, and the Aces defeated the New York Liberty 70–69 to claim their second WNBA Championship.

A’ja Wilson was named MVP. “We have some professional fighters,” Aces player Alysha Clark told ESPN reporter Holly Rowe. “To weather the storm and everything we went through, to show up every single day, to be in this moment right now and to share this together, it speaks volumes about us.”

Much was made of the professionalism and readiness of the Aces’ bench.

“They were ready when their names were called,” said Wilson. Of note is Sydney

Colson, who played almost 15 minutes and handled a lopsided defensive assignment, amassing five fouls so the team’s starters could stay out of foul trouble.

The championship game marked several milestones. It was the most-watched

Finals game four in WNBA history. The win made the Aces the first WNBA team to win back-to-back titles since the Los Angeles Sparks in 2001-02. Although Aces player Candace Parker missed much of the season due to injury, she did etch her

own piece of history as the first player to win WNBA titles with three different teams—Los Angeles Sparks (2016), Chicago Sky (2022) and the Aces (2023).

Four Liberty players scored in double figures—Betnijah Laney, Breanna Stewart (who had a double-double), Sabrina Ionescu (playing injured) and Courtney Vandersloot. Although Jonquel Jones had just six points, she contributed 11 rebounds.

While the loss was bitterly disappointing, it is worth noting that the Liberty’s win in game three was the first Finals game won by the Liberty since 1999 when Teresa Weatherspoon’s half-court shot at the buzzer forced a game three (the WNBA Finals became best-offive in 2005). Also, in victory, Aces coach Becky Hammon expressed her gratitude to the Liberty for taking a chance on her at the start of her professional playing career.

“I’m forever indebted to New York; there’s zero doubt about that,” Hammon said to Rowe. “New York gave me my first opportunity, and I am not standing out here without the New York Liberty.”

New York Liberty head into the off-season with questions about who will return in 2024 The New York Liberty are optimistic that forward Jonquel Jones will return to the team next season (Brandon Todd/New York Liberty photo)

By LOIS ELFMAN Special to the AmNews In the aftermath of the New York Liberty’s disappointing loss to the Las Vegas Aces in the WNBA Finals, much was made about the incredible 2023 season the Liberty had and how there is much to build on for the future. However, it’s not clear exactly what the team will look like in 2024.

While Betnijah Laney, Courtney Vandersloot, and Sabrina Ionescu are definite, the team’s superstars—Breanna Stewart and Jonquel Jones—are question marks.

“It’s unfortunate because we were so close and I know we wanted it so bad, and I know that we were and are more than capable of winning a championship, so it adds fuel to the fire,” said Laney. “We can take this as a learning experience. We will be in this position again.”

Thirty-six hours after the final buzzer sounded, the Liberty players, Coach Sandy Brondello and general manager Jonathan Kolb met with the press for exit interviews.

“This is something we’re looking to carry into the future,” said Kolb. “Stewie [Breanna Stewart] will 100% be cored (core players are locked into a team). She will not be an unrestricted free agent.”

With only one core player per team, Kolb cannot also core Jones, although he did say, “For us, [she’s] a player we definitely want to retain, and we’ll continue those talks into the off-season,” he said. Jones indicated she was leaning towards returning to the Liberty. “It’s been an amazing season. I love my teammates. Just have to go from there,” said Jones.

In terms of potential roster changes, Kolb and Brondello noted that the Liberty want to shore up the backcourt reserve players. Vandersloot said for the first time in her professional career, she doesn’t expect to play overseas in the off-season in order to rest her body. One potential guard who is available is Vandersloot’s wife, Allie Quigley, who sat out this season but made it clear she’s not retired.

“We all came here with one goal in mind and that’s still out there for us,” Vandersloot said. “Allie and I are constantly having those conversations.”

Ionescu is pumped for the future. “When you set lofty goals, sometimes not achieving them feels like failure, but this season wasn’t a failure,” she said. “What we’ve been able to accomplish here in such a short amount of time with this entire city backing us…is a success.”

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The Jets and Giants meet up coming off of encouraging wins

By JAIME C. HARRIS AmNews Sports Editor

(R) Giants quarterback Tyrod Taylor will look to get the better of linebacker (L) Quincy Williams and the Jets’ defense when they face each other this Sunday at MetLife Stadium. (R: Giants.com photo, L: Jets.com photo)

The Jets and Giants will play each other this Sunday at MetLife Stadium, their shared home field, for the second time in a little over three months. They met there on August 26 in a preseason game won by the Jets 32-24.

That contest is meaningless now and seems far removed from the two teams’ current circumstances.

Neither expected to be gasping for air heading into Week 8 of the NFL schedule.

The 3-3 Jets are floating on a life preserver after a shockingly impressive 20-14 victory over the Philadelphia Eagles at MetLife two Sundays ago. The 6-1 Eagles are arguably the best squad in the league, aligned with the 6-1 Kansas City Chiefs as the only one-loss teams out of 32.

The Jets are third in the AFC East behind the 5-2 Miami Dolphins and 4-3 Buffalo Bills. They are coming off of their bye-week, so they have had ample time to rest, recover, and prepare for the Giants.

“There’s a lot of excitement over beating Philadelphia,” said Jets head coach Robert Saleh earlier this week. “It was a great atmosphere—everyone was pretty charged after the game, but you don’t approach any game differently than you do any other game. Obviously, the Giants—it’s another championship opportunity. And the… whole mindset of ‘go to bed better than you woke up’—you’re always attacking things like it’s a championship moment.”

Conversely, the 2-5 Giants are last in the NFC East but have built momentum after a hard-

fought 14-9 road loss to the Bills on October 15 and a grind-it-out win last Sunday against the 3-4 Washington Commanders at home.

Still, the Giants have not proven to be consistently competent on both sides of the ball.

In fact, collectively at times, they have looked like the worst team in the NFL. But they have shown improvement over the past two weeks, notably with Tyrod Taylor at quarterback in the absence of QB1 Daniel Jones, who is recovering from a neck injury suffered in a Week 5 31-16 defeat to the Dolphins in Miami.

As of yesterday, Jones had not been medically cleared to play. It is no coincidence that the Giants’ progress has coincided with the return of Saquon Barkley. The Giants’ best offensive player missed Weeks 3, 4, and 5 after sustaining a high right ankle sprain versus the Arizona Cardinals on September 17 in Week 2.

“As you go through the week, it’s important to know who your guy is going to be at really any position,” said Giants head coach Brian Daboll regarding Jones’s

status. “You have strategy and backup plans if that’s not the case. Certainly, it’s an important position. Each week we go into it, it’s ideal when you know who your quarterback is versus who it’s not.”

All-Pro left tackle Andrew Thomas has played in just one game: the season opening 40-0 loss against the Dallas Cowboys on September 10, shut down with a hamstring injury. The Giants are hopeful that he’ll be ready to go this Sunday after missing six straight.

Marcus Semien and Texas Rangers advance to World Series

By MALIK WRIGHT, MLBbro Special to the AmNews Marcus Semien and the Texas Rangers are no longer “little bro” after putting an end to the reign of dominance of Dusty Baker and the Houston Astros with an 11-4 road win in Game 7 of the American League Championship Series on Monday night.

The series victory earned the Rangers their first American League pennant since 2011.

“Fans have been waiting for this moment for 12 years and I cannot wait to be a part of it,” Semien told reporters in the Rangers’ clubhouse as his teammates doused each other in a champagne celebration.

For Semien and the Rangers, the series was personal, facing their fellow state of Texas and AL West rival. It is only fitting that the team's captain and leader

(R) Marcus Semien and Texas Rangers defeated Houston Astros in ALCS move on to the World Series (MLB.com photo)

was able to record the last out to bring a World Series baseball back to Arlington, Texas. In an unlikely outcome, the road team won every game.

At the plate in Game 7, Semien was just 1-for-5 with a walk and a run scored, but on defense, turned a critical double play with

the Astros’ left fielder Michael Brantley up in the bottom of the first inning to preserve the Rangers’ 3-1 lead.

Third base coach Tony Beasley, who has been with the Rangers since 2015, put his impact on the game. Javier was a priority. The Rangers swiped three bags on the

managing Houston or any other team is speculative.

After dropping to 0-8 in winnertake-all games and falling short in the mission to lead the Astros to a second straight World Series title, conventional thinking is the 74-year-old Baker, who is seventh overall in MLB history with 2, 183 wins, will retire. His contract with Houston is up and with 55 years of Major League Baseball under his belt, Baker should not waste his time on joining any team that is not on the brink of winning a title.

Outfielder Michael Brantley also suited up in an Astros uninight, their most in a game this form for probably the last time.

He was 0-for-5 in Game 7 and postseason.

Game 1 of the World Series will finished the playoffs with just a take place at the Rangers stadium, .179 batting average.

A shoulder injury dating back to GlobeLife Field, tomorrow night.

As for what’s next for the Astros’ last year caused Brantley to miss a future Hall of Fame manag- majority of this season, appearing er Dusty Baker, as of yesterday in only 15 games before the start (Wednesday), reports of his future of the playoffs.

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Tyson Fury and Francis Ngannou to square off in a heavyweight clash Heavyweight boxing champion (L)Tyson Fury and MMA fighter (R) Francis Ngannou will face each other Saturday in Saudi Arabia (Mikey Williams/ Top Rank via Getty Images)

By DERREL JOHNSON Special to the AmNews

media in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia earlier this week ahead of the fight, which takes place Saturday on ESPN+ pay-per-view, with a WBC and lineal heavyweight boxing start time of 1 p.m. ET. world champion Tyson Fury will battle “I didn’t try to replicate what Fury would former UFC heavyweight world champion do,” Ngannou said when asked about his Francis Ngannou in one of the most highly preparation. “I’m not going in there to anticipated boxer versus mixed martial arts play Fury’s game. I’m going there to play athlete matches since Floyd Mayweather my own game. So, my training was based defeated former UFC double-champion, on me, how I can fight, and that’s what me Conor McGregor. and my coaches worked on. It went well.

Both Fury and Ngannou spoke to the Tough, but it went well."

The 37-year-old Ngannou, who is from Cameroon and now resides in Nigeria, has a 17-3 record in MMA fights which may not translate into being able to defeat a seasoned boxer on the level of Fury.

“I'm aware of my lack of experience in boxing, but I am a man of challenges, and I’ve overcome a lot of challenges.”

Fury, 35, from Manchester, England, discussed his willingness to trade blows in the center of ring.

“I can stand and trade with anybody,”

he said. “I stood and traded with Wilder. I traded with Wladimir [Klitschko], and I’ll stand and trade with this little [expletive]” The 6-foot-9-inch Fury will carry a 33-0-1 boxing mark into the match up with 6-foot4-inch Ngannou.

“I might give him a slick, master boxing performance, not let the ugly man touch me once,” Fury bragged. “That would be unbelievable, wouldn’t it? I might start dancing, tripling the jab like Apollo Creed, move around, just stick and move.”

Fury addressed his impending unification fight against unified world heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk. The meeting has been formally agreed upon but no date has yet to be announced.

“I’m not thinking about [the Oleksandr Usyk fight],” Fury said. “I got this big sausage to deal with, and once I grill him up nice and good, then we’ll move on to the next one.”

Tomorrow night on DAZN, Amanda Serrano defends her WBA, IBF, and WBO women’s featherweight championships against Danila Ramos in Orlando, Florida.

Highly touted Irishman Callum Walsh will take on Ismael Villarreal at the Theater at Madison Square Garden on Thursday, November 9.

UFC heavyweight champion Jon Jones makes his Madison Square Garden debut against former two-time UFC champion Stipe Miocic at UFC 295 on Saturday, November 11.

Boxer Mona Ward looks to dominate the Team Combat League Boxer Mona Ward is looking to pave a path to success in the Team Combat League competing for the Atlanta Attack (Photo courtesy of Team Combat League)

By LOIS ELFMAN Special to the AmNews Boxer Mona Ward is preparing for a new season of Team Combat League ( TCL) action. The bantamweight fighter is part of the Atlanta Attack. TCL teams are a unique combination of male and female boxers. Each match contains 18 three-minute rounds and teams compete across six weight categories. Each round is scored individually with additional points added for knockouts and knockdowns.

Ward, 26, said once she discovered boxing at age 12 at a local rec center down the street from her home, she’d found her passion. She has seven sisters and brothers, and growing up she was often the protector. Also, from a very young age, she enjoyed working out with a punching bag in her aunt’s home. So, without knowing it she was in training for boxing.

“It actually fits me and my personality,” Ward said. “I believe boxing was a gift that was given to me. Once I started getting involved more and more, I started to learn.” Even losses have provided her insight into the sport.

Ward appreciates female boxers like

Claressa Shields, a two-time Olympic gold medalist and professional champion, who provide both inspiration and insights into boxing. Shields even gave information about her pregame meals.

“I gained a lot of confidence watching her,” Ward said. “She’s not afraid.”

The next TCL season starts in the spring and will last for four months.

When that gets going, Ward, who had considerable success as an amateur boxer, will have weekly fights. “Once I started with TCL, I loved it,” said Ward.

“We’re working side by side with each other, going hard. If anyone is slacking, we push each other.”

Before next season, she will try to schedule other professional fights that will move her toward her goal of becoming a bantamweight champion. “I have a pro fight in January 2024. I’m hoping to have something before that,” said Ward, who tells her three children that their mother is a professional boxer. Before she turned pro, she worked as a security officer and a hairstylist.

“I’m trying to be the bantamweight champion of the world,” she said. “I really want to be the first one from St. Louis to do so. I have to continue to work hard in order to do that.”

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Sports Knicks open against Celtics aspiring to take another step forward

By JAIME C. HARRIS AmNews Sports Editor Progress is often slow and methodical. However, for the Knicks, it was non-existent for seven years, viscerally and tangibly.

After making it to the Eastern Conference semifinals in the 2012-13 campaign, the franchise played seven seasons without another playoff appearance and nine before making it back to the Eastern Conference semifinals last season.

Expectations for what the Knicks will be and how far they can ascend should be relatively high but reserved as they began their 2023-24 regular season schedule last night at Madison Square Garden hosting the Boston Celtics, the slight favorite over the Milwaukee Bucks, among the sports gaming community to win the title.

The Knicks were 47-35, and the No. 5 seed in the East last season, but may now face a more formi-

Knicks starting shooting guard Quentin Grimes is a key component to the Knicks building on last season’s Eastern Conference semifinals playoff appearance (Bill Moore photo)

dable path to the same or better regular season and postseason results. The enhancements to several teams in the conference, including the Bucks’ addition of Damian Lillard, the Celtics acquisitions of former Knick Kristaps Porzingis and Jrue Holiday, and the Cleveland Cavaliers’ pick-

up of less heralded yet solid rotation pieces Max Strus and Georges Niang, strengthening already imposing teams.

The Knicks?

Their major augmentation is guard Donte DiVincenzo, who on the surface is a safety net if the Knicks ultimately trade guard

Immanuel Quickley during the season. The fourth-year guard, who was the NBA’s runner-up last season for the Sixth Man of the Year award, and the team failed to reach an agreement for an extension on his rookie-scale contract by Monday’s 6 p.m. deadline.

Therefore, Quickley will become

an unrestricted free-agent at the end of this season.

He was a critically important piece to the Knicks’ success last season, averaging 14.9 points on 44.8% shooting, including 37% on 3-point attempts in 28.9 minutes.

He also started 21 games, filling in for injured teammates.

The Knicks must see measurable growth from fifth-year guard/forward RJ Barrett in his offensive efficiency: He shot just 43.4% overall and 31% from behind the 3-point line. He wasn't much better on the defensive end, where he has regressed over the past two seasons.

Starting shooting guard Quentin Grimes also has to elevate his impact on a consistent basis.

Now in his third year, the 23-yearold Grimes, who played 71 games a season ago, starting 66, has displayed the capacity to be a high-level two-way backcourt performer but must become more assertive to help the Knicks avert stagnation.

The Brooklyn Nets aim to build a cohesive playoff unit

By DERREL JOHNSON Special to the AmNews Brooklyn Nets head coach Jacque Vaughn has a very different task than he had a year ago. With the big names gone and many new faces that can make contributions. He has the challenge of building a cohesive team that will contend for a playoff spot in the 2023-2024 NBA season. Vaughn and the Nets began last night at home at the Barclays Center hosting the Cleveland Cavaliers in the regular season debut for both teams.

The Nets have sufficient talent on the roster, led by potential AllStar forward Mikal Bridges and three-time All-Star, point-forward Ben Simmons. The 27-yearold Bridges, who came to the Nets last February from the Phoenix Suns in the Kevin Durant trade, averaged 28.8 points per game in March, solidifying his status as the centerpiece of the team.

As far as the 6-foot-10-inch Sim-

mons, at this point, Ben Simmons it seems overly op- hopes to have timistic to expect a resurgent him to reemerge season and as the player who he as the was borderline top Nets opened 15 in the NBA from the regular 2019-2021.

Still, season in the two-time NBA Brooklyn All Defensive First last night Team selection (Wednesday) (2020, 2021) is only against the 27, and remains a Cleveland versatile defender, Cavaliers (Bill as well as solid re- Moore photo) bounder and facilitator. Simmons’ weaknesses until proven otherwise are his health (previous back, foot and knee injuries) and perimeter for 40 or more in four games shot. He has also battled mental last season, including three health challenges. Getting the straight in the first week of Febmaximum out of Simmons may ruary. For the third-year guard, be the key to the Nets season. his ability to contribute on the Another wild card for the team defensive end of the floor will is guard 6-foot-3-inch guard determine the amount of playCam Thomas, who exploded ing time he will see.

Bridges, Simmons, Spencer Dinwiddie, and Nic Claxton all appear certain as starters, based on preseason lineups.

Dorian Finney-Smith appears to be the most likely fifth starter because of his defensive prowess, with Thomas being a better offensive option.

Lonnie Walker IV was acquired

by Brooklyn over the summer as a free-agent signing and led the team with 22 points in 25 minutes in the final preseason game, a win over the Miami Heat. Walker, who played for the Los Angeles Lakers a season ago, averaged 11.7 points per game on 44.8% from the field (36.5 % from three) with a season-high of 28.

Brooklyn also acquired point guard and former NBA Draft lottery pick Dennis Smith Jr over the summer, who averaged 8.8 points and 4.8 assists a season ago. Smith Jr did suffer an ankle injury during a preseason game and his availability is uncertain to start the season.

Rookie Noah Clowney, who turned 19 over the summer and averaged 9.8 points and 7.9 rebounds as a freshman for Alabama, grabbed 8 rebounds against the Lakers in the preseason and may get some consistent minutes off the bench.

Rookie Dariq Whitehead, a 6-foot-7-inch swingman who had foot surgery in May, has resumed on-court activities.

Brooklyn will play their next four games on the road starting with facing their former star point guard Kyrie Irving and the Dallas Mavericks tomorrow, followed by the Charlotte Hornets on Monday, the Miami Heat next Wednesday, and the Chicago Bulls next Friday.

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