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Officers from Brownsville’s 73rd Precinct and community members hold vigil for NYC police and civilian shooting victims

(Daniel Goodine photo)

Shootings up, officers down as city grapples with gun violence

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

to gun violence. There have been several high-key shooting incidents, quite literally since Mayor Eric Adams took office, promptShootings across the city have ing him to roll out a major plan to gotten even more brazen this Jan- crack down on gun violence. uary as both civilians and officers A 19-year-old girl was killed as alike find themselves falling victim she worked the night shift at a fast

Bragg fights against the echo chamber of a city gone awry

By STEPHON JOHNSON Amsterdam News Staff

at the center of this message push, believes that he knows better.

Bragg has continued to push the If you weren’t from New York City, same points he made when he some media outlets would have campaigned: ending racial disyou thinking that it needs Robo- parities on treatment in court, cop. But Manhattan District Attor- reducing gun violence, fighting ney Alvin Bragg, who finds himself See BRAGG on page 6

food restaurant in East Harlem.

An 11-month-old baby was shot in the head by a gunman. Five NYPD officers have been shot, two died later, since the beginning of the month. And this Tuesday, two suspects are wanted for a shooting inside a waiting room at Jacobi

Medical Center in Morris Park.

But, according to police stats, in the last 28 days there have been 100 shooting victims and 87 shooting incidents citywide as of this Tuesday. The NYPD’s fallen heroes information showed that See VIOLENCE on page 6

Good Cause Eviction bill still alive & ‘needed’ after moratorium ends, says Salazar

By ARIAMA C. LONG Report for America Corps Member / Amsterdam News Staff The housing moratorium ended on Jan. 15, but tenant advocates in Brooklyn are still looking for passage of the statewide Good Cause Eviction bill to prevent ‘no-fault

evictions’ and establish a tenant’s right to an automatic lease renewal in some cases.

The bill was introduced by Senator Julia Salazar and Assemblymember Pamela Hunter, and garnered support from local housing advocates in 2019 and even See EVICTION on page 32

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ACTIVISTS WARN OF ‘FORTRESS Violet Matiru, a zoologist, re- book “The Big Conservation Lie,” CONSERVATION’ EVICTING searcher and executive director spoke of the problems in Africa KENYANS FROM ANCESTRAL of MCDI, a Kenyan organization that stem from a racialized system HOMELANDS that promotes environmental so- that favors Western foreigners (GIN)—Nature conservancies, lutions to natural resource chal- over Black Africans. with the stated goal of protecting lenges, addressed this issue at the “Evidence proves Indigenous wilderness and endangered wild- Oakland Institute event. people understand and manage life, have enabled the removal of “Foreign donors have a vested their environment better than tribal peoples from their ances- interest in accessing our resourc- anyone else,” asserts Survival. tral homelands in Africa to allow es for their own citizens. They are “80% of Earth’s biodiversity is in superior “western” models of not angels brought from above tribal territories and when Indigconservation to prevail, according to the activist Khoisan protestors at development site group Survival International.

Under the western model, half of all land must be kept in a natural state to protect Earth, as the National Geographic Society recently declared on its magazine pages, if a stable climate and high quality of life are to be preserved in the near future.

Survival Internation(GIN photo) al, a policy think tank, has dubbed this “fortress conservation” whereby In- to come and help us. We need to enous peoples have secure rights digenous peoples and other local understand this so we can push over their land, they achieve at populations are evicted from their back.” least equal if not better conservalands to create a park that aims to “Some 50 million acres in Africa tion results at a fraction of the cost “preserve nature.” Often, these are already controlled by these of conventional conservation proparks are then accessible to tour- conservancies and water is their grams.” ists who can afford to pay for a next target. They are working with luxurious safari, while the local Coca Cola to privatize our water COURT FREEZES PLANNED population who depends on the resources,” she maintained.

AMAZON HEADQUARTERS IN land for survival is prohibited Colonial conservation, also CAPE TOWN ON HISTORICALLY from entering their ancestral land. known as Fortress Conservation, SIGNIFICANT SITE To address these evictions, Sur- according to speakers at the we(GIN)—A massive new vival International, has launched binar, rests on the racist miscon- complex housing Amazon’s a campaign to “decolonize con- ception that Indigenous people proposed South African headservation.” cannot be trusted to look after quarters along with a hotel and Survival International was one their own land and the animals other businesses continues to of the guest speakers at a recent that live there. Its proponents view face stiff opposition from Indigwebinar hosted by the California- the original custodians of the land enous Khoisan, environmental based Oakland Institute titled “El- as a “nuisance” to be “dealt with,” and community groups despite evating Voices – How Community instead of as experts in local bio- city officials already approving Conservancies Devastate Land & diversity and key partners in con- of construction of the nine-stoLives in Northern Kenya.” servation. ry complex.

Evictions are taking place, they An opposing view was defendOpponents say the projasserted, where governments ed by the Northern Rangelands ect will ruin a historically sigand charities fence off vast areas Trust (NRT), a local membership nificant riverside site in Cape of land claiming this is necessary organization in northern and Town and harm the environfor conservation. coastal Kenya that says it is ment. The Khoisan were some “Stolen lands are called a ‘Pro- building peace and improving of the country’s first inhabittected Area’ or ‘National Park’ and livelihoods through conserva- ants and their presence in the keep out the original inhabitants, tion. Formed with support from southern tip of Africa dates sometimes using a shocking level USAID, NRT brings together back thousands of years. of violence,” a spokesperson for local pastoralist landowners and “We’re in a situation where Survival said. the government of Kenya to pro- a terrain that is so sacred to the “This is colonialism pure and mote the long-term conservation people of our country is not just simple: powerful global interests of wildlife in Kenya’s northern under threat, but being damaged are shamelessly taking land and rangelands and coastal region. and destroyed as we speak,” said resources from vulnerable people Meanwhile, Mordecai Ogada, Tauriq Jenkins, high commiswhile claiming they are doing it director of Conservation Solu- sioner of the Goringhaicona for the good of humanity,” Surviv- tions Afrika and co-author with Khoi Khoi Indigenous Traditional declared. journalist John Mbaria of the al Council, one of the groups

fighting the project.

The site lies in the confluence of two rivers which are sacred to the Khoi and San. “For us today and for the seven generations to come, this is the beginning of a liberated zone for which we will never step away from our responsibilities to our people,” Zenzile Khoisan, protesting in front of the high court, told a reporter.

Construction has already begun at the site which is occupied by a restaurant and golf course. But the case is currently stalled in an African court which has put off ruling on the group’s objections.

Property owners Liesbeek Leisure Properties Trust, or LLPT, said it did consult Indigenous groups while planning the site’s redevelopment. Company spokesperson James Tannenberger accused community leader Jenkins “of driving a misinformation campaign even as their concerns were validly dismissed by the competent authorities during the comprehensive three-year development approval process.”

Other Indigenous leaders have reportedly given their approval to the project, Tannenberger claimed.

The project includes a museum and memorial site for the community, along with low-income housing and some 5,000 jobs.

June Bam-Hutchison, a researcher with the Center for African Studies at the University of Cape Town, defended the protestors. “They’re enslaved, they’re oppressed, they’re exploited,” she said. “Their language was also taken away, their culture was taken away, their knowledge systems that sort of helped us in so many ways to build a more peaceful and healthier society, that has also been taken away.”

She said their unique cultural identity was only acknowledged by South Africa in recent decades.

“Today, they are now being recognized. That took some time.

The land question remains very much unresolved, highly disputed,” she added.

Jenkins said losing the case would set a dangerous precedent for giving up historic sites to corporate interests.

Amazon, which does not own the site but will be leasing the space once constructed, has been silent on the controversy.

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#Bronx22 community rebuilding after fire

By NAYABA ARINDE Amsterdam News Editor

“Regardless of race, zip code, or ethnicity, we are one New York. I have been an activist all my life, and those responsible, we want to hold them accountable. This is all about injustice, greed and neglect,” Sheikh Musa Drammeh told the Amsterdam News this week.

Hundreds upon hundreds of New Yorkers stood outside a Bronx mosque in the bitter cold on Friday Jan. 16, 2022, to pay respects to 17 Bronx fire victims most of whom they did not know.

“This issue has helped bring New Yorkers together in an almost unprece(Nayaba Arinde photo) dented way,” said the imam. “Any reasonable person with sanity can see how it has peeled back religious, ethnic, economic and racial layers. Those who responded to the affected families come from all walks of life— from Africa, America, Caribbean and Afro Latinos—we are one family. We coordinators have decided to nurture this togetherness for a long term reality.”

He added that they deliberately made this a

public funeral.

“In 1955, a 14-year-old young man was killed and his mother, Mamie Till Mobley, insisted that the world saw what was done to her son. She said she wanted the world to see what terrorism had been inflicted on her son, Emmett Till. I was inspired by this story, and I said this year will see what was done in the Bronx in 2022. #Bronx22.

“When the cameras fade to black, and the politicians go back to their offices, the real campaign for transformation begins. We are this as a catalyst for change. We made the funeral service public and political because we lost 17 Bronxites, and with this preventable tragedy we have to use their blood to make sure this does not happen again.”

Drammeh announced his “#Bronx22 to unify activism for transformation for the Bronx,” at the funeral.

With two children funeralized days earlier, on the following Sunday 15 hearses lined up, taking up the whole block outside the Islamic Cultural Center of the Bronx, on 166th Street. Well-coordinated teams of young men from the Gambian Youth Organization served as pallbearers, wheeling 15 child-and-adult-sized caskets to the mosque from each hearse.

Calling it an “unspeakable tragedy,” Mayor See FIRE on page 23

Comrie says no exemptions to congestion pricing, won’t benefit MTA commuters

By ARIAMA C. LONG Amsterdam News Staff, Report for America Corps Member Transit activists, and Senator Leroy Comrie, have been outspoken on making sure the funds raised through congestion pricing will be poured into the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) and other transit systems that essential workers rely on.

“Congestion pricing was designed in order to raise revenue to repair the subways and to do subway improvement so that essential riders, Black and Brown commuters, would be able to have a modern and updated system [into] the foreseeable future,” said Comrie, who currently serves as the chairman of the Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions, which gives him oversight over the MTA and Port Authority.

Congestion pricing, meaning an extra charge for cars traveling into the core of mid- to lower-Manhattan, is creeping closer to being a reality in 2023 for drivers. The congestion toll plan was initially passed in 2019, but really gained traction after 2020’s pandemic crippled the MTA, Metro North, and Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) ridership.

The plan was proposed as an alternative to putting tolls on all bridges into the city. It’s required to raise upwards of $1 billion annually and the funds will be dedicated to capital investments in transit, such as new traffic signals, elevators for accessibility, and the next generation of subway cars. There is also an element of sustainability to congestion pricing, which aims to reduce New Yorkers’ reliance on cars for travel and their carbon emissions.

Former Mayor Bill de Blasio called for expediency in implementing the congestion toll plan as well as current Mayor Eric Adams last July. “I think what the mayor, both de Blasio and Adams, appreciate is that congestion pricing solves two problems at once,” said

Daniel Pearlstein, director of policy and communications for Riders Alliance. “It helps make the streets work more efficiently so the traffic can move more effectively. The streets are clogged and this will unclog the streets. And at the same time, by raising money from people who do need to drive, we can invest in crucial upgrades in the subway system.”

Pearlstein said that studies have shown that low-income Black and Brown essential/service workers are “38 times as likely to depend on transit as to drive into Manhattan.” He said congestion pricing would pay for the faster, more reliable transit that workers need.

The 2019 plan had three exemptions: for emergency or government vehicles, for cars carrying disabled passengers, and for drivers who live inside the Manhattan congestion zone and make less than $60,000 per year. Pearlstein added that the low-income exemption is understandable because very few low-income drivers drive into the core of Manhattan since parking is so expensive and the amount of time it takes is so unpredictable.

“It’s important to make sure that the revenue is actualized and if you give exemptions to anybody, that revenue will never be realized,” said Comrie, following comments he made in a MTA committee meeting. “And the reason I’m saying no exemptions is because how do you give exemptions to one category and not the other.”

Pearlstein said that congestion pricing without exemptions would be a unilateral “fair toll” across the board for all drivers.

Ariama C. Long is a Report for America corps member and writes about culture and politics in New York City for The Amsterdam News. Your donation to match our RFA grant helps keep her writing stories like this one; please consider making a tax-deductible gift of any amount today by visiting: https://tinyurl.com/fcszwj8w

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MetroBriefs Metro Briefs REGISTRATION BEGINS FOR THE AFRICAN AMERICAN DAY PARADE The African American Day Parade, Inc. (AADP) is gearing up for registration for the 53rd annual African American Day Parade.

This year’s parade is themed “Good Health is Essential,” as AADP honors those and their contributions in the health field. This year’s parade will take place Sunday, Sept. 18 on Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard. The parade has been virtual for the past two years but AADP says it’s taking all safety precautions as well as monitoring NYC’s COVID 19 guidelines and restrictions.

The parade will honor three to four health officials as grand marshals. In addition, three leaders will be honored as marshals and an additional two will be honored as the 2022 recipients of AADP’s Theresa Freeman Community Service Award.

Contact Jasmine Robinson, administrative director, at info@africanamericandayparade.org or 347-364-0437.

MAYOR ADAMS RECEIVES FIRST PAYCHECK IN CRYPTOCURRENCY New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ first paycheck was automatically converted into cryptocurrency, as previously promised. The salary will be converted to Ethereum and Bitcoin.

Before his funds were made available, Adams’ first paycheck was automatically converted into cryptocurrency via Coinbase, a secure online platform for buying, selling, transferring, and storing digital currency.

Last November, Adams announced he would accept his first three paychecks in cryptocurrency. Due to U.S. Department of Labor regulations, New York City cannot pay employees in cryptocurrency. By using a cryptocurrency exchange, anyone paid in U.S. dollars can have funds converted into cryptocurrency before funds are deposited into their account.

GOV. HOCHUL ANNOUNCES NEW INTERSTATE TASK FORCE ON ILLEGAL GUNS Gov. Kathy Hochul held the first meeting of the new Interstate Task Force on Illegal Guns, including a partnership with Mayor Eric Adams and the NYPD. The Interstate Task Force on Illegal Guns brought together law enforcement officials from nine northeastern states to tackle the urgent issue of illegal guns, which are contributing to violence and crime in New York and across the region.

The Interstate Task Force on Illegal Guns convened again on Wednesday at the New York State Intelligence Center in East Greenbush. It is the latest joint effort to bring a unified approach from state and city leaders, including Hochul, Lt. Gov. Benjamin and Adams, to the crucial issue of public safety.

The agenda will include setting up the information-sharing consortium and crime analysis centers, as well as ways to share intelligence, tracing tools, strategies and tactics across jurisdictions while partnering with prosecutors and law enforcement agencies in each region.

IRS FREE FILE NOW AVAILABLE The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announces the availability of Free File, providing taxpayers online tax preparation products available at no charge.

Free File is available only through IRS.gov, provides people an early opportunity to file their taxes and claim the 2021 Recovery Rebate Credit, the enhanced Child Tax Credit, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and other important credits. Taxpayers can use Free File to claim the remaining amount of their Child Tax Credit and claim any advance payments of the Child Tax Credit they did not receive in 2021.

This year, there are eight products in English and two in Spanish. IRS Free File is available to any person or family who earned $73,000 or less in 2021.

New York City also offers free tax prep services to those who earned $72,000 or less in 2021. Taxes are prepared by IRS certified volunteers and can be prepared in-person or virtually. Go to https://access.nyc.gov/programs/nyc-free-tax-prep/ for more information.

—Compiled by Cyril Josh Barker

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Biden’s brinkmanship tested

By HERB BOYD Special to the AmNews All the bluster and conscientiousness over a possible civil war in America has been superseded by concern about military conflict with Russia. President Biden has answered Russian President Putin’s deployment of 100,000 troops to the Ukraine border by placing 8,500 U.S. troops on heightened alert.

On Tuesday, Biden told reporters that “We have no intention of putting American forces or NATO forces in Ukraine.” He warned Putin that he faced “serious economic consequences if he moves.”

Earlier Biden implied he was ready to counter if Russian troops made a “minor incursion” into Ukraine, a comment that raised questions about what he meant by a minor incursion, and the extent to which it might provoke a counterattack.

But he insisted on Tuesday that there wasn’t “gonna be any American forces moving into Ukraine.” If deployed, the U.S. forces will merely be placed in NATO territory.

In a move that indicated unity between the U.S. and NATO, the organization has reinforced its

eastern borders with warships and fighter jets.

It remains a troubling issue of the military advance on Ukraine borders, reminding world leaders of the annexation of Crimea in 2014. A deployment of so many troops for some military experts is more than an exercise in intimidation and a threat to keep Ukraine out of NATO. Biden’s move was made in concert with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s recommendation and in cooperation with European nations, including Denmark which is sending a frigate and F-16 warplanes, and Spain is sending fighter jets to Bulgaria, according to several news accounts.

Meanwhile, Pentagon press secretary John Kirby told the press that if NATO decides to activate a Response Force, the U.S. will contribute a range of military units. “It is a NATO call to make,” he said.

“For our part, we wanted to make sure that we were ready in case that call should come. And that means making sure that units that would contribute to it are ready as they can be…on a short notice.”

Biden is once more in brinkmanship as we wait for the next shoe to drop. Can Biden stare down Putin?

Black American overdose death rates have increased

NewJerseyNews Groups oppose new legislation allowing police to view camera footage to write reports

By CYRIL JOSH BARKER Amsterdam News Staff Civil rights groups in New Jersey are speaking out against recently passed legislation that allows police to view camera footage to write reports. The groups say legislation undermines civil rights, gives undue power to police to explain away misconduct, and weakens the utility of officer memory.

S3939/A5864 allows officers to watch body cam footage of an incident before writing their reports in the vast majority of circumstances, including most incidents that lead to arrests and criminal charges.

Organizations, including the ACLU-NJ, testified in opposition. The Newark Communities for Accountable Policing (N-CAP) is also voicing outrage. The bill was conditionally vetoed by Gov. Phil Murphy, passed again by the Legislature, and signed into law last week.

“Body-worn cameras can be an invaluable tool for accountability, but without sensible and fair policies for their use, they’re simply tools for surveillance that give police unfair advantages over the public,” said Sarah Fajardo, policy director for the ACLU-NJ. “To grapple with the injustices of excessive police power, we need to work toward eliminating unfair practices of law enforcement, not emboldening them.”

The legislation undermines a law signed by Murphy in 2020 and a directive from the Office of the Attorney General for New Jersey implemented in May 2021—one year after Derek Chauvin’s murder of George Floyd—which prohibits officers from viewing body cam footage prior to filing written reports in almost all cases.

“This bill turns the body camera from a device to protect citizens and create accountability and transparency into a device to protect the police from their own bad actions,” said Matt Dragon of the Mercer County chapter of Our Revolution. “One has to look no further than the initial police report that George Floyd had a medical issue and died to understand why this bill is flawed, and with likely fatal consequences.”

N-CAP launched a statewide network of almost two dozen social justice organizations now called NJ Communities for Accountable Policing to garner support for the Civilian Complaint Review Board bill and other important police reform bills.

“This is not angry white male Republicans,” said N-CAP’s Zayid Muhammad.

“This is Murphy and a legislature full of Democrats who did nothing of genuine substance on police reform but this offensive deed. At a time when Trump and other dangerous forces are actively undermining our very right to vote, this was outrageous.”

Over $325 million of federal funding to provide financial assistance and counseling for NJ homeowners

By CYRIL JOSH BARKER Amsterdam News Staff

Black American overdose deaths have increased, particularly with Black men. (Photo courtesy of monkeybusinessimages via iStock)

By STEPHON JOHNSON Amsterdam News Staff Several recent studies have shown that Black American overdose deaths have increased with the COVID-19 pandemic, ushering in a possible crisis as well.

The National Center for Health Statistics at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention released

a report which showed that drug overdose deaths increased between April 2020 and April 2021 (during the first 12 months of quarantine during the COVID-19 pandemic).

Overall, opioid-assisted overdose deaths increased from 56,064 to 75,673 during that period.

The number of drug overdoses See OVERDOSE on page 29

Gov. Phil Murphy and Lt. Governor Sheila Y. Oliver announced the upcoming launch of the Emergency Rescue Mortgage Assistance Program (ERMA), administered by the New Jersey Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency (NJHMFA).

The program will provide up to $35,000 in assistance to cover mortgage arrearages, delinquent property taxes, and other housing cost delinquencies for eligible homeowners negatively impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. New Jersey’s program utilizes $325.9 million of federal Homeowner Assistance Fund (HAF) money and is expected to help thousands of families get back on their feet, stabilizing New Jersey’s most atrisk communities.

“We are pleased to announce this new program that will alleviate COVID-19 related housing insecurity for thousands of New Jersey families,” said Murphy. “ERMA is a powerful addition to our portfolio of measures to prevent foreclosures and help New Jersey

homeowners stay in their homes.”

Foreclosures negatively impact the surrounding properties in neighborhoods and the larger community.

The assistance offers struggling families a lifeline, and can make other loss mitigation options, such as refinancing, viable.

“Working families have faced unprecedented burdens over the last two years. If you are struggling to pay your mortgage or other homeowner-associated obligations, the ERMA program can help you get back on your feet,” said Oliver, who serves as commissioner of the Department of Community Affairs and chair of the NJHMFA board. “We encourage all eligible homeowners to apply for assistance.”

ERMA will also provide free housing counseling services to help New Jersey homeowners apply for the program, guide them through all available options, and even work with loan servicers.

Homeowners can find out they’re eligible by calling 855-647-7700 to connect with a housing counselor who can guide them through the process and help them to understand their options.

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Mark Tatum’s life a series of twists and turns

By STEPHON JOHNSON Amsterdam News Staff “I’m done with this,” said Mark Tatum. “And so that’s one of the big forks in my road. And I just didn’t know what I wanted to do. I was lost, but I ended up taking some business classes, talking to some people and they steered me towards business management and marketing, which I really started enjoying.”

If you were to look at NBA Deputy Commissioner Mark Tatum’s career, you’d see nothing but forks in roads that could’ve led to an entirely different life. The reader might think that everyone has forks in the road that they must choose. Some of those don’t lead to NBA deputy commissioner and chief operating officer.

Eight years ago, and it’s been a long road. He was born in Vung Tau, Vietnam. His family moved to the States after he turned 1. Tatum was already a traveling man even if he didn’t realize it.

“My dad grew up in Kingston, Jamaica and came to the States when he was a teenager,” said Tatum pointing out that his father’s Black. “[His father] joined the Air Force, went to Vietnam, met my mother there, got married, had me and then he brought me and my mother back…”

Tatum said that his parents still live in the East Flatbush neighborhood that he was raised in and have been married for over 50 years. Here’s where the forks begin. Starting with Junior High School 227 in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn.

“They had a program to bring some of the diverse kids, Black and Brown kids, from where I was into their school and so I applied in the fifth grade. Got in and, you know, it ended up me and a couple of other classmates from P.S. 181 [in Flatbush] ended up going to 27 which was an experience in and of itself.”

His time at 227 led him on the path to one of the city’s specialized high schools. He got into Brooklyn Tech, via the specialized high schools admission test (SHSAT) and knew exactly what he wanted to do with his life…back then.

“I actually started off and thought I was going to be a doctor,” said Tatum.

“I was a pre-med student at Tech and applied to Cornell pre-med and I was pre-med all the way through my sophomore year.”

Something changed when he started taking an organic chemistry class.

The fork in the road led him to business and marketing. After graduating from Cornell, he jumped right into the fire and started working for Procter & Gamble.

Here comes another fork.

Procter & Gamble were one of the sponsors for the soccer World Cup for the first time in U.S. history. That’s when he ran into businesspeople

Black

New Yorker Mark Tatum

Tatum’s career changed many times in a good way.

(Photo courtesy of the National Basketball Association)

and marketers from other areas that would change his life.

“Now, I had always loved sports growing up,” said Tatum, noting that he participated in activities almost every day of the week as a kid. He had a eureka moment while marketing the event in New York and New Jersey.

“Wait a minute, there are people who are doing jobs in sports?” asked Tatum. “Like, there’s an actual business around this World Cup thing.”

And then I really started thinking, well, yeah, there’s a business around the NBA. There’s a business around Major League Baseball, around the NFL. But, you know, I’ve never thought of it as a business…

I wanted to be a New York Yankee growing up, but since I wasn’t going to do that, I guessed that my sports

career was over.”

His road took him to business school at Harvard where he got his degree and interned at Pepsi working on sports like Major League Soccer and NASCAR. This led to a business and marketing gig at Major League Baseball. He loved the sport and saw opportunities to market it and make it even more popular than it was in the late 1990s. However, the old-school won over the new school.

“It was just a more traditional organization,” said Tatum. “They kind of, you know, at the time said, ‘Well, this is kind of how we always do it. You know, we keep doing it this well and it’s worked so far.’”

He took another fork in the road and joined the NBA in 1999. He’s still on that road after working his

way up the chain helping the league evolve its message and its product to the masses.

The steadiness in his life, being a part of the NBA since 1999 and being married to Landit Founder and CEO Lisa Skeete Tatum, since 1995 (they have two kids), allows Tatum to never forget who he is.

“I am from New York and I am a New Yorker,” said Tatum. “And specifically Brooklyn. I am from Brooklyn. So I’m a proud, proud, proud New Yorker.

And I’ve been all over the world.

Before that, I had the good fortune and the blessing of traveling to, you know, dozens and dozens of countries and in cities around the world. There’s nothing like getting off the plane and seeing that ‘Welcome to New York’ sign knowing that I’m back home.”

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Violence Continued from page 1

27 officers died in the line of duty in 2019 and seven died in 2020.

Public outcry for safety and action has been tantamount to the loudest ricochet of a bullet as the city goes through massive police funerals and family vigils for their lost loved ones.

On Jan. 22, Adams held a roundtable with grassroots organizations and Crisis Management System (CMS) groups about how to deal with the systemic gun violence issue, focusing on healing the community and preventing more shootings. Participants at the roundtable spoke about a “bottleneck” when it comes to accessing capital and paying their violence interrupter workers on the ground.

On Jan. 25, a shocking shooting of NYPD Officer Jason Rivera happened during a domestic violence call in which the shooter, Lashawn McNeil, 47, who later died, had a .45 in his hand and a loaded assault rifle under his mattress. Officer Wilbert Mora also died later in the hospital from injuries sustained in the shooting.

McNeil’s mother, Shirley Sourzes, has been quoted saying that her son had mental health issues, an obsession with guns, and that she regrets making the 911 call that resulted in three deaths, reported the New York Post.

“We’ve made it difficult for people to say that their loved ones need help,” said Adams during Tuesday’s briefing on gun violence. “And so by having mental

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for economic justice for labor, reforming pretrial detention, avoiding mass incarceration, freeing the wrongfully convicted, combating hate crimes and declining to prosecute low-level crimes that don’t threaten public safety.

Recently, he’s been called a threat to democracy and told that more people will go to prison during his time as DA (albeit from a skewed perspective). Recently, a man named Scott Lolaido spilled red paint (taking the place of blood) outside of Bragg’s office blaming him for the recent crime surge due to his ‘woke’ policies even though he’s been in office for only one month.

Lolaido said all of it “Has to do with the f**king criminals who are let loose on the f**king streets through the revolving doors of

THE NEW YORK AMSTERDAM NEWS health professionals partner, they should be the first line of responding to somebody’s conditions where a person does not, knowingly, does not have a weapon.”

Adams released a comprehensive Blueprint to End Gun Violence, which lays out numerous policies on addressing gun violence as a public health crisis.

Major points include targeting the Iron Pipeline that’s funneling illegal weapons into the city, beefing up anti crime units to seize illegal guns and building cases against weapons traffickers, fully funding anti-violence CMS groups, reevaluating “Raise the Age” legislation that creates loopholes for younger gun carriers, and pouring resources into solving the mental health crisis.

Over the longer term, Adams also plans to grow economic opportunities, improve education and summer youth employment, and get more support from district attorneys and judges in the court system in order to tackle the root causes of gun violence.

Not everyone agrees with Adams’ tactics of more police and anti crime units, though.

Council Speaker Adrienne Adams, who spent years on the public safety committee, said in a statement that while she appreciates the mayor’s hyperfocus on the epidemic of gun violence in the city, communities have raised concerns about plainclothes units despite Adams’ promises that undercover cops will be more “identifiable.”

“Concerns have been raised in communities about the plainclothes unit’s ability to reduce violence, given its past history of initiating undue violence. This

proposal—along with others to change city and state criminal justice policies—requires further public dialogue and transparency,” said Speaker Adams.

Keli Young, VOCAL-NY’s Civil Rights Campaign Coordinator, said in a statement there is no “honest conversation” about gun violence without acknowledging the violence perpetrated by the NYPD. “We can all agree that community investments are critical to public safety, but rolling back hard-fought reforms and implementing a ‘dangerousness standard’ will drive racial disparities, mass incarceration and worsen the conditions on Rikers,” said Young. “We need our elected allies to push back on this ‘tough on crime’ approach and propose budgets that include robust investments that actually meet the needs of our communities.”

Some organizations, such as Legal Aid Society, Brooklyn and Bronx Defender Services, and others, are dead set against Adams’ plans.

“We do not support Mayor Adams’ focus on discredited punitive and surveillance-based strategies, including his call for additional rollbacks to bail and discovery reform, amendments to Raise the Age, increased use of facial recognition, and reinstatement of the NYPD’s historically racist Anti Crime Unit,” said criminal justice groups in a joint statement via Twitter.

Retired detective Marc Claxton told the Amsterdam News, “The mayor’s crime suppression strategy is an ambitious, comprehensive plan for overall public safety. While many will focus

on the reconstitution of a plainclothes enforcement unit, the most impactful elements include a collaborative city-state-federal enforcement and prosecution effort, expanded Critical Management Systems support and resources, imbedding intervention, mental health and social service providers with law enforcement, recommending legislative amendments to complement the anti-crime efforts and increased judicial appointments to clear the criminal courts case backlog.”

Claxton, the director of Black Law Enforcement Alliance, continued, “Mayor Adams has promised that the plainclothes unit will practice precision policing, focused on firearms arrests while operating within the constitutional boundaries. They are required to be readily identifiable as police officers, closely supervised and must record ALL interactions on body worn cameras. Recent gun violence, including the shooting of an 11-month-old child and the killing of two police officers has undoubtedly made implementation of the plan a high priority. Although there will be significant criticism and opposition, it appears that there is a window of opportunity to operationalize this plan with majority public support.”

justice because of woke district attorneys, bleeding heart district attorneys, like Alvin Bragg.”

Bragg wants the public to know that what he’s doing isn’t brand new.

“We’ve been doing this, you know, for years and in this office,” Bragg said. “But you [should] have the civil right to go to walk to your corner store safely. We’ve got to have that. But we can do that at the same time and support people who are coming home and returning from incarceration, provide housing, provide employment opportunities…If you supply those supports, recidivism goes down.

It’s about refining the message, being specific with it, but really always starting with no one wants to be unsafe.”

Four police officers were shot in a four-day span in the city and an 11-year-old kid was shot, which led to outcries from conservativeleaning media outlets calling out Black Lives Matter for not talking about the shootings. The mantra

of the city returning to the bad old days of the ’70s and ’80s has been a never-ending trope since Michael Bloomberg left office. It was the fear that led to the “tough-oncrime” Rudolph Giuliani era.

At the beginning of the COVID19 pandemic many New Yorkers, except for those Black, Brown and of lower-income who had to work during the height of COVID death in the city, avoided the subway.

There were stories about thousands of people leaving the city that were pushed by outlets like Fox News and others that focused on certain demographics.

But Bragg isn’t paying attention to noise. He’s refining his style, responding when necessary and getting to work.

“And so that’s what I’m focused on, you know?” said Bragg. “We’re gonna respond, we need to clarify and correct the record. But this is what we’re doing on guns. Guns are important to us. You know, there’s more hate crimes. Hate

crimes are important to us. But ultimately, we’ve got to be judged by our work. And so, we’re going to focus on the work.”

The place the crimes occurred has more to do with the outcry than the crime does, according to Bragg. He said they’re awful and shouldn’t be tolerated, but it has an effect.

Bragg said the crimes are highprofile because “we’re here in Manhattan and so people are going to always talk about it. I also think, look, people are concerned now. People are concerned about public safety, and rightfully so, given many of the sort of highprofile incidents.

“My office is vigorously prosecuting cases and hoping that the deterrent effect from those cases will yield public safety dividends,” continued Bragg. “At the same time.

We’re also looking at how to invest going forward to prevent this kind of stuff from happening again.

“We, again, can do both.”

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Out & About

NATIONAL ACTION NETWORK MEETS MTA CEO

Harlem’s National Action Network President Rev. Al Sharpton introduced MTA Chair and CEO Janno Lieber to his weekly NAN rally.

Members like activist Gwen Carr listened to Lieber, as he talked about the Second Avenue train that would connect the east and the west.

Minister Travis Boyd gave the devotional word.

(Lem Peterkin photos)

Sharpton eulogizes Attorney Colin Moore in Brooklyn

Rev. Al Sharpton told the Amsterdam News that it was very hard doing the funeral of his long time colleague, the respected lawyer and civil rights activist Colin Moore.

The civil rights attorney was perhaps best nationally known for defending the accused during the Central Park Jogger trial, but in Brooklyn and New York in general he was beloved as a proud Guyanese family man, community organizer, lecturer and social observer.

Born in Guyana, on April 24, 1941, Moore’s family said he “sadly died of natural causes at the age of 80 in New York City” on Jan. 9, 2022.

Colin Moore’s funeral was held at Crown Heights’ First Baptist Church and included a virtual viewing and memorial page.

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Nightlife

Written by David Goodson

Here are the NAACP Image Awards nominations for 2022 Not only is it one of, if not THE most acclaimed award shows of the year, it’s also generally the first major award show of the calendar year. It of course being the NAACP Image Awards. Well we have some good news and some bad news (possibly.)

First and most importantly, the show will go on.

The 53rd annual NAACP Image Awards, honoring outstanding representations and achievements from people of color in the arts from 2021, will be broadcast live on BET, Saturday, Feb. 26. Scott Mills, CEO and BET president, says, “The BET team is immensely proud to continue our partnership Entertainer of the Year Nominees Jennifer Hudson Lil Nas X Megan Thee Stallion Regina King Tiffany Haddish Outstanding Motion Picture Judas and the Black Messiah King Richard Respect The Harder They Fall The United States vs. Billie Holiday Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture Denzel Washington – The Tragedy of Macbeth Jonathan Majors – The Harder They Fall LaKeith Stanfield – Judas and the Black Messiah Mahershala Ali – Swan Song Will Smith – King Richard Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture Andra Day – The United States vs.

Billie Holiday Halle Berry – Bruised Jennifer Hudson – Respect Tessa Thompson – Passing Zendaya – Malcolm & Marie Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture Algee Smith – Judas and the Black Messiah Daniel Kaluuya – Judas and the Black Messiah Delroy Lindo – The Harder They Fall Idris Elba – The Harder They Fall LaKeith Stanfield – The Harder They Fall Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture Aunjanue Ellis – King Richard Audra McDonald – Respect Danielle Deadwyler – The Harder They Fall Dominique Fishback – Judas and the Black Messiah Regina King – The Harder They Fall Outstanding Ensemble Cast in a Motion Picture Coming 2 America Judas and the Black Messiah King Richard Respect The Harder They Fall Outstanding Documentary (Film) Attica Barbara Lee: Speaking Truth to Power My Name Is Pauli Murray Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) Tina Outstanding Documentary

with the NAACP and the annual Image Awards, underpinning our longstanding legacy of celebrating Black Excellence. It is an extraordinary privilege to provide our unparalleled platforms to recognize the vast contributions of Black creators, in a way that only BET, and NAACP can.”

Despite the challenges of the past few years, there are more than 80 competitive categories spanning film, television, streaming, music, literature and the newly minted podcast categories of Outstanding News and Information Podcast, Outstanding Lifestyle/Self-Help Podcast, Outstanding

(Television) 1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything American Masters: How It Feels to Be Free Blood Brothers: Malcolm X & Muhammad Ali High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America Insecure Documentary Outstanding Comedy Series black-ish Harlem Insecure Run the World The Upshaws Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series Anthony Anderson – black-ish Cedric the Entertainer – The Neighborhood Don Cheadle – Black Monday Elisha ‘EJ’ Williams – The Wonder Years Jay Ellis – Insecure Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series Issa Rae – Insecure Loretta Devine – Family Reunion Regina Hall – Black Monday Tracee Ellis Ross – black-ish Yvonne Orji – Insecure Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series Andre Braugher – Brooklyn Nine-Nine Deon Cole – black-ish Kenan Thompson – Saturday Night Live Kendrick Sampson – Insecure Laurence Fishburne – black-ish Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series Amanda Seales – Insecure Jenifer Lewis – black-ish Marsai Martin – black-ish Natasha Rothwell – Insecure Wanda Sykes – The Upshaws Outstanding Drama Series 9-1-1 All American Godfather of Harlem Pose Queen Sugar Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series Billy Porter – Pose Damson Idris – Snowfall Forest Whitaker – Godfather of Harlem Kofi Siriboe – Queen Sugar Sterling K. Brown – This is Us Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series Angela Bassett – 9-1-1 Dawn-Lyen Gardner – Queen

Sugar Octavia Spencer – Truth Be Told Queen Latifah – The Equalizer Rutina Wesley – Queen Sugar Outstanding Television Movie, Limited-Series or Dramatic Special Colin in Black & White Genius: Aretha Love Life Robin Roberts Presents: Mahalia The Underground Railroad Outstanding Actor in a Television Movie, Limited-Series or Dramatic Special Anthony Mackie – Solos Jaden Michael – Colin in Black & White Kevin Hart – True Story Wesley Snipes – True Story William Jackson Harper – Love Life Outstanding Actress in a Television Movie, Limited-Series or Dramatic Special Betty Gabriel – Clickbait Cynthia Erivo – Genius: Aretha Danielle Brooks – Robin Roberts Presents: Mahalia Jodie Turner-Smith – Anne Boleyn Taraji P. Henson – Annie Live!

Outstanding News/Information (Series or Special) Blood on Black Wall Street: The Legacy of the Tulsa Massacre NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt Soul of A Nation The Reidout Unsung Outstanding Talk Series Desus & Mero Hart to Heart Red Table Talk Tamron Hall The Real Outstanding Variety Show (Series or Special) A Black Lady Sketch Show BET Awards 2021 Dave Chappelle: The Closer Savage X Fenty Show Vol. 3 The Daily Show with Trevor Noah Outstanding New Artist Cynthia Erivo – Ch. 1 Vs. 1 Jimmie Allen – Bettie James Gold Edition Saweetie – Best Friend feat. Doja Cat Tems – If Orange Was A Place Zoe Wees – Girls Like Us Outstanding Male Artist Anthony Hamilton – Love Is The New Black Drake – Way 2 Sexy Givēon – Heartbreak Anniversary J. Cole – The Off-Season

Society and Culture Podcast, and Outstanding Arts and Entertainment Podcast.

“We are thrilled to recognize this year’s nominees, who have all brought dynamic, entertaining, and thought-provoking content to our attention through their incredible work in film, television, music and more,” says Image Awards Committee chairperson Karen Boykin-Towns.

We the public can have a hand in the outcome of the winners by voting at www.NAACPImageAwards.net. Voting closes on Saturday, Feb. 5.

Here’s a listing of some of the awards up for grabs:

Lil Nas X – Montero (Call Me By Your Name) Outstanding Female Artist H.E.R. – Back of My Mind Ari Lennox – Pressure Beyoncé – Be Alive Chlöe – Have Mercy Jazmine Sullivan – Heaux Tales Outstanding Gospel/Christian Album Anthems & Glory – Todd Dulaney Believe For It – CeCe Winans Jonny x Mali: Live in L.A. – Jonathan McReynolds and Mali Music Overcomer – Tamela Mann Power – Jason McGee & The Choir Outstanding Album An Evening with Silk Sonic – Silk Sonic Back of My Mind – H.E.R. Certified Lover Boy – Drake Heaux Tales – Jazmine Sullivan When It’s All Said and Done…Take Time – Givēon Outstanding Gospel/Christian Song Believe For It – CeCe Winans Help Me – Tamela Mann feat. The Fellas Hold Us Together (Hope Mix) – H.E.R. and Tauren Wells Overcome 2021 – Kirk Franklin Time for Reparations – Sounds of Blackness Outstanding Soul/R&B Song Damage – H.E.R. Be Alive – Beyoncé Have Mercy – Chlöe Leave The Door Open – Silk Sonic Pick Up Your Feelings – Jazmine Sullivan Outstanding Hip Hop/Rap Song Best Friend – Saweetie feat. Doja Cat Fye Fye – Tobe Nwigwe feat. Fat Nwigwe Industry Baby – Lil Nas X feat. Jack Harlow My Life with 21 Savage and Morray – J. Cole Way 2 Sexy – Drake Outstanding Duo, Group or Collaboration (Traditional) Anthony Hamilton feat. Jennifer Hudson – Superstar Chlöe x Halle – Georgia On My Mind Jazmine Sullivan feat. H.E.R. – Girl Like Me Leela James feat. Anthony Hamilton – Complicated (Remix) Silk Sonic – Leave the Door Open Outstanding Literary Work – Fiction Harlem Shuffle – Colson Whitehead

Libertie – Kaitlyn Greenidge Long Division – Kiese Laymon The Man Who Lived Underground – Richard Wright The Perishing – Natashia Deón Outstanding Literary Work – Nonfiction Dance Theatre of Harlem – Judy Tyrus, Paul Novosel Just As I Am – Cicely Tyson My Remarkable Journey – Katherine Johnson Renegades: Born in the USA – Barack Obama, Bruce Springsteen The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story – Nikole Hannah-Jones Outstanding Literary Work – Biography/Autobiography Just As I Am – Cicely Tyson Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement – Tarana Burke Unprotected: A Memoir – Billy Porter Until I Am Free – Keisha Blain Will – Will Smith Outstanding Literary Work – Poetry Perfect Black – Crystal Wilkinson Playlist for the Apocalypse – Rita Dove Such Color: New and Selected Poems – Tracy K. Smith The Wild Fox of Yemen – Threa Almontaser What Water Knows: Poems – Jacqueline Jones LaMon Social Media Personality of the Year Nominees @Euniquejg – Eunique Jones GIbson @KevOnStage – Kevin Fredericks @Laronhinesofficial – Laron Hines @_Lyneezy – Lanae Vanee @Terrellgrice – Terrell Grice

As for the not so good news, due to the ever-changing developments with this COVID monster, the night honoring Black excellence will continue to move forward without an in-person audience. Therefore the energy may be a little compromised. As a ripple effect covering media, including this publication, will have to wait with baited breath to see if we can work as we have over the years to give that onsite detail.

No worries, we all have to sacrifice and we’ll be back!

Over and out. Holla next week. Til then, enjoy the nightlife.

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Union Matters State Senate looks to freeze unemployment insurance, increase unemployment benefits

By STEPHON JOHNSON Amsterdam News Staff New York State’s Senate Democratic Majority moved forward with legislation that would freeze increases in unemployment insurance taxes across New York State for 2022 and 2023 fiscal year and increase the maximum unemployment benefit for workers who lost their jobs “through no fault of their own.”

This bill (S.6791A) is sponsored by the chair of the Committee on Commerce, Economic Development and Small Business, Senator Anna Kaplan. S.6791A, the 2022 and 2023 fiscal year, statutory employer contribution rates would be determined by a size of index column “headed at 2.5% but less than 3%” respective to negative or positive account percentage

“unless the actual size of the index fund column would result in a lower overall rate,” reads the bill.

New York State Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins said that the majority needed to agree on this to help businesses recover from the pandemic and lift up those in need of a boot.

“This pandemic has created many unforeseen fiscal challenges, but this legislation takes action to give businesses across New York State time to get back on their feet, as well as still support workers across New York State who lost their jobs,” stated Stewart-Cousins.

Another part of S.6791A, unemployment maximum insurance would be 40% of the average weekly wage until the first Monday of this October when it increases to 42% per week.

Stop denying farmworkers overtime pay!

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A business’s viability must not depend on the legally allowed exploitation of people which had originally been based on the color of their skin. That is morally indefensible.

This is why New York needs to correct the glaring injustice in New York’s agriculture industry where farmworkers are denied overtime pay after 40 hours.

Unlike most workers in the Empire State—and the rest of the country—New York’s farmworkers are currently denied overtime pay by New York law until they’ve worked 60 hours a week. This is a relic of Jim Crow-era labor laws that have historically treated farmworkers—the backbone of New York’s agriculture industry—as second-class workers. But with the proper action, that could soon change.

As directed by the historic Farm Laborers Fair Labor Practices Act (which in 2019 for the first time gave the state’s farmworkers the right to organize into unions) the New York Department of Labor has convened a wage board to hold hearings and consider changing the state’s regulations to reduce the 60-hour overtime threshold for farmworkers. The wage board needs to recognize that farmworkers—who have proven to be truly essential workers during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic—deserve overtime after 40 hours, which has been long established for almost every other worker in this country.

Just like all businesses, farms have financial concerns. But the industry cannot use these concerns to justify laws rooted in the darkest point of our history to exploit pre-

dominantly Black, Brown and immigrant workers. There is virtually no evidence to support industry claims that the difference between success or failure at New York’s farms depends upon the unjust 60hour overtime pay threshold.

Even some in the agriculture business agree, including David Breeden from Sheldrake Vineyards in the Finger Lakes region. “You know what’s expensive for the coal industry, not having child labor, but we got past that,” Breeden said during one of the hearings.

Cleary, the farm industry will survive paying its workers fair overtime. The data in the nation’s largest farm state, California, shows that their 40-hour overtime pay threshold has not corresponded with any negative impacts or shocks to the California farm economy or labor market. Farms in Washington state, where 40-hour overtime has also been implemented, are continuing to thrive.

Last year, the RWDSU helped farmworkers at Pindar Vineyard on Long Island become the first to win union membership. These essential working men and women are predominantly full-time New Yorkers. They have families here that they care for and they have family back home whom they also support. They want a better future for their children and work to provide a safe home for them. They take pride in their work, and they want and deserve dignity at work.

This dignity can only be fully realized when these workers—whom New Yorkers depend upon every day—are treated fairly and enjoy the same rights as all other working New Yorkers. The wage board must implement a 40-hour overtime threshold for New York’s farmworkers, recognizing their contributions, and moving toward correcting the injustices they’ve suffered for decades.

Elected officials hope that this bill will lessen the burden on employers and those unemployed simultaneously.

“The fiscal burdens caused by the COVID-19 pandemic have left lasting economic scars around the nation and in our state,” said New York State Senator Robert Jackson in a statement. “As many working-class constituents struggled, so have many employers. Senator Kaplan’s common-sense legislation will go a long way in supporting the vitality of many of the small business communities in my district. As legislators elected to serve all New Yorkers, we must also help employers in our state’s path to economic recovery.”

Union leaders and businesses were partners in this legislation. Entities that often sat on opposite sides of the table were on the same side here.

Mario Cilento, president of the New York State AFL-CIO, said that COVID-19 has made it even more important to help those in need.

“Far too many New Yorkers continue to struggle financially after losing employment due to the pandemic. That hardship is more challenging given inflation and other cost increases, combined with the fact the federal unemployment relief expired in September of last year…That is why this bill is so critical. It will clear the way for the state’s maximum weekly unemployment benefit to catch-up to the scheduled increase level for 2022, providing much needed relief to unemployed workers trying to figure out how to make ends meet.”

The same reasoning was used to describe why businesses need it as well.

“The Business Council supports this proposal to provide needed relief from increased payroll taxes on New York employers, many of whom continue to deal with ongoing COVID impacts in the workplace,” said Heather C. Briccetti, Esq. president and CEO of The Business Council of New York State. “This is an important first step.”

NYSUT & 32BJ roll out endorsements

By STEPHON JOHNSON Amsterdam News Staff As election season rolls around, unions are endorsing candidates.

The New York State United Teachers (NYSUT) made a few in bulk.

This week, NYSUT officials endorsed U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer, New York State Gov. Kathy Hochul, New York Lt. Gov. Brian Benjamin, New York State Attorney General Letitia James and New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli for re-election.

NYSUT hadn’t endorsed a gubernatorial candidate since 2006 but decided to hop back in for the state’s first woman governor.

“Gov. Hochul has met the challenges we face head-on from day one of her administration, proving she has what it takes to lead New York through the pandemic and to new heights,” Pallotta stated. “Her commitment to listening to the needs of our members signals a new day in Albany, and we look forward to working alongside her to ensure we build on our high-quality public education, higher education and health care systems in the next four years.” He also said that she and Benjamin make a “formidable” ticket.

James has already received the endorsement of the National Organization for Women of New York (NOW) and The Collective PAC, a political action committee focused on increasing Black political engagement.

NYSUT picked DiNapoli because, ac-

cording to Pallotta, the state comptroller has been a longtime supporter of organized labor and his bonafides have been established in state politics.

“Tom’s dedication to financial stewardship is unmatched,” Pallotta said. “In particular, Tom has been a stalwart protector of retirement security for public employees his entire career. There is no better champion of the idea that public employees deserve a secure and fair retirement.”

NYSUT wasn’t the only union to endorse DiNapoli. 32BJ officials would announce their endorsement for him as part of his state comptroller re-election campaign.

32BJ President Kyle Bragg called DiNapoli “champion” for New York State residents.

“In his tenure as New York State comptroller, Thomas DiNapoli has consistently used the powers of his office to defend workers’ rights, better secure their futures and deliver resources for all New Yorkers,” said Bragg in a statement. “Growing up in a union household, DiNapoli has long understood the importance of putting first the needs of workers and their families and supporting worker struggles to improve their conditions, through his support of workers in strikes and fights against unfair labor practices, overseeing record growth in the pension fund for public service workers, and documenting the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on services and industries vital to New Yorkers, such as health, transportation and education.”

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The end of the eviction moratorium is preparing many Black New Yorkers to fight a pre-pandemic issue

By ASAR JOHN Special to the AmNews With the end of the eviction moratorium on Jan. 15 came the beginning of many New Yorkers’ fears about what will happen next in a city already plagued with housing insecurities.

Although eviction is a concern for New Yorkers of all kinds, many Black New Yorkers feel that being Black and facing eviction worries and housing insecurities adds to the experience. Bronx-born activist Fannie Lou Diane is one of those Black New Yorkers who is familiar with this sentiment. Diane was evicted and homeless prior to the pandemic after she faced eviction in 2019.

“I’m very aware of the statistics in terms of housing inequity; that long history of ‘The Bronx is burning,’ redlining, and how that kind of reflects when you go into the court system,” said Diane, who works with the housing advocacy group, Neighbors Together. “For me as an educated Black woman who knew her rights and was taken advantage of by a white male landlord and seeing

the court system being racist and sexist, I understand they are following the tradition and historical aspects of how they look at Black people and Blackness.”

Diane’s awareness of statistics on housing inequity in her home borough certainly holds true, as the Bronx includes zip codes with the highest eviction filing rates in the city. According to the NYU Furman Center’s data on eviction filings, seven of the top 10 zip codes with the highest eviction filings in the city, are located in the Bronx. The area with the “highest third” eviction rate, the 10453 zip code in the Bronx, had a Black population of 39.8% in 2019.

Not far behind 10453 in filing rates is the 10039 zip code in Manhattan, where the filing rate in 2019 stood at 20.2%. The 10039 zip code roughly covers areas and community districts within Harlem, Inwood and Washington Heights. Inwood resident Dorca Reynoso has seen the reflection of this data on her neighborhood and the building she has called home for 25 years.

“My community is being destroyed, I’ve seen my neighbors

having to move out because of rent increases,” said Reynoso, who considers rent increases simply as evictions. “Some have actually had to leave the building because of 100% increases and another tenant just reached out to me a few days ago because the landlord told her there would be another 50% increase.”

While Reynoso says her sales representative job for Verizon pays her decently, she did face court proceedings for eviction prior to the pandemic. Her son who lives with her, faced personal health issues that progressed during the pandemic and she fell further behind in rent. Luckily, she was able to secure a lawyer with the help of the New York City DSA, and plans on lawyering up again as she expects her landlord, Israel David, to take her to court once more.

“The lawyer that’s assisting me, Ellery Ireland, who has been nothing short of amazing—both ends are a lifesaver,” said Reynoso, who also works with the Met Council on Housing, a tenants’ rights organization.

As housing court is expected to return with the end of the mor-

atorium, advocacy groups that fight for tenants’ rights are gearing up to support Black New Yorkers. Equality for Flatbush is one of these groups and is a Blackled grassroots organization focused on the predominantly Black neighborhoods of Flatbush and East Flatbush in Brooklyn.

“We have and will have what we call landlord accountability,” said the founder and director of Equality for Flatbush, Imani Henry. “The piece of it is exactly that—what do the landlords owe these tenants?”

Henry says that landlord accountability can be considered anything from ensuring cleanliness to making necessary repairs in buildings.

“We’ve had instances where tenants say the pandemic has been used as an excuse to not clean the building,” said Henry. “Here we are with a public health emergency and the trash is just piling up in the front lobby.”

“What the pandemic has shown is the racial and economic violence against low to middle income people of color,” said Henry. “You can be a Harvard graduate and still

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Opinion Welcome to #Bronx2022

By SHEIKH MUSA DRAMMEH Special to the AmNews lifestylelifespan247@gmail.com

ity on Jan. 9, 2022 was the most horrific loss of lives We know these deadly fires do not happen in a in our city since the Happy Land Social Club fire on vacuum, they are part of the overall neglect of the March 25, 1990. safety and quality of life of Bronxites, who are overNew Yorkers from all walks of life and backgrounds whelmingly tenants of out-of-borough absentee invesTuesday, Jan. 25, 2022, Bronx, New York, I would came together as a family to provide every necessity tors. Bronx is a renters’ county with less than one-third like to express our profound gratitude to New Yorkers, the victims needed immediately, as well as pledged of its residents being owner occupants. particularly Bronxites for the overwhelming show of in providing services the survivors would need in the Against the backdrop of this injustice and neglect, support and solidarity during one of the worst Bronx long term. The responses were so overwhelming that we have launched the #BRONX2022 as a unifying tragedies in decades. The Twin Park West fire calam- they have transformed the most painful experience platform for Bronx transformation activism demandinto one of the most beautifully trium- ing a real and permanent change. All Bronxites, Bronx phant humanitarian neighborliness. The stakeholders and friends of the Bronx are encourAfricans, muslims and Bronxites in gener- aged to use this hashtag to help amply our cries for al are extremely grateful of this neighborly change. The Bronx status quo isn’t inevitable and is Pandemic mandates, a pandemonium of violence, Russian gesture and have committed to nurturing therefore changeable. Below are two baby steps that troops on the move, rampant voter suppression, Oath Keepers and it further. would lead to the desired change in the long run.

Proud Boys still at large, a persistence of inflation, the supply chain With that being said, we must also be Please participate in them to add your input: of goods stalled, widespread mental illness and homelessness, and realistic about the conditions that result1. Thank you all so very much for your commitment we are sure you have concerns you can add to this misery index. ed in the Bronx being the victims of these to join the #BRONX2022 campaign. We’ve been inunSome of these issues are so deep and systemic that no amount deadly fire tragedies. Every deadly fire trag- dated with requests to take part in this Bronx Transof rhetoric will make them disappear. That is certain- edy in the city in the last half a century has formative Campaign (BTC) literally from the moment ly true of gun violence, and we have two recommen- occurred in the Bronx. Asides from being it was announced during the funeral services of the dations on this problem that have been put forth from home to these deadly preventable fires, Twin Park fire tragedy. Elected officials, clergy, comgeneration to generation.

Bronx is universally known to be the ‘first munity leaders, educators and even landlords have First of all, something of a radical nature has to be done in all things bad, and last in all things good’ been reaching out wanting to be a part of it. As promon the state and federal level to intercept, if not eradi- county. As a result, every family with finan- ised when it was announced, we will never, ever accept cate, the flow of weapons, especially highly lethal as- cial means has left the county or has a plan the current conditions and move on from the fire tragsault weapons. We were appalled by the arsenal at the to do so as quickly as feasible, which re- edy weeks later to business as usual. The days of the disposal of 47-year-old Lashawn McNeil, including an sulted in the current brain and resource Bronx’s status quo for being ‘first in all things bad and AR-15 and Glock 45, which he used in killing police officers Jason drainage. This was the reason why we had last in all things good’ will soon be behind us.

Rivera and Wilbert Mora. A good number of the guns that arrive previously partnered with Dr. Erica Tobia, Our county is a “renters’ county” whose landlords in the city, according to sources familiar with the flow, make executive superintendent of Bronx schools, are mostly from out of the county privileged families, their way along the so-called “Iron Pipeline,” that I-95 corridor to launch the Lifestyle Lifespan campaign who are living luxury lifestyles in some of the safest between southeast and northern U.S. two years ago.

See #BRONX22 on page 25 According to one report, more than 6,000 illegal guns were seized by the NYPD last year, the bulk of them traveling along the corridor. If you know the trail, you would think the states and the federal government would hatch a plan to intercept the flow.

Of course, we know that would require a serious commitment that at this time does not exist.

By DR. ALETHEA TAYLOR vices to incarcerated and formerly incarceratWhat the feds and the municipalities can do without too much ed women in New York State. The non-profit political haggling is empower a few of the community groups who When Lisa* was first incarcerated at Bed- supports women and their children during have been steadfast in their dedication to halt the violence and ford Hills Correctional Facility, her 5-year- a mother’s incarceration and helps families ensure safe streets. It was particularly heartwarming to see Iesha old daughter was afraid to come visit her. get back on their feet upon release. Women Sekou, the founder and chief executive officer of Street Corner Re- Struggling to convince her that the visita- who receive support from Hour Children are sources, still on the beat. Her group and a few others need the funds tion area was nothing like the scary prisons a staggering five times less likely to return and means necessary to make their objectives more substantial and she saw on TV, Lisa grew afraid, too—afraid to prison. Hour Children’s historical recidiaccomplished. that without visits, she would lose her rela- vism rate for participants in their communiThere are no easy solutions to these problems, but it’s good to hear tionship with her daughter. That’s when Hour ty-based programs is less than 5%, compared Mayor Adams step up to the plate and propose plans to offset the Children stepped in. The Hour Children ad- with state-wide rates for women of 29% within scourge of violence, particularly the officers whose lives were lost, vocates sent Lisa’s family brochures with pic- three years of release. deaths that must have had personal impact on a man who once tures of the visitation area, so Lisa’s daughter While incarcerated, Lisa’s gratitude for wore the uniform. could know what to expect. Finally, after sev- Hour Children as a recipient of its services As always, we welcome you to join this conversation, and even eral weeks of waiting, Lisa’s daughter came motivated her. She soon began working for more to the point, find a way in which you can help put an end to to visit—and kept coming for the duration of the organization from within Bedford Hills, these problems that are as universal as they are personal.

Lisa’s sentence. both in the parenting center and the chilOver the years she served at Bedford Hills, dren’s center. Lisa facilitated groups with Hour Children’s involvement in the lives of other incarcerated women on a wide range of Lisa and her daughter only grew. Once old topics, including how to better communicate enough to visit on her own, Hour Children with their children. She wanted to share the even sent transportation for Lisa’s daughter knowledge, support, and advice that the Hour to travel to and from her home in Pennsyl- Children advocates had given her with others, vania to the prison in upstate New York. Lisa in hopes that it might help them as it helped says that to this day, over 15 years later, her her. “I experienced true care,” Lisa explained. daughter still keeps in touch with the advo- “The Hour Children employees didn’t treat cates that helped her visit her mom. me any differently because I was incarcerat“I wouldn’t have the relationship with my ed,” she continued. “We were—are—a family.” daughter that I have now if it weren’t for Hour After 15 years, Lisa was released from prison Children,” Lisa said. “They arranged every- in June of 2021. In New York City, 52% of forthing for us, and it made all the difference.” merly incarcerated people are released to a Hour Children is a leading provider of serSee TAYLOR on page 25

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Weaponized drones are here.

It’s time for the U.S. to act.

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The recent attack on Abu Dhabi, which was carried out by drones equipped with explosives, signifies a dramatic shift in Iran’s strategic offensive strategy. We have reached the apex of the overall drone strategy, which our adversaries have been focused on since Desert Storm in 1991. With drone technology sufficiently advanced to carry weapons and explosives, drones are now capable of deployment on both land and sea throughout the world.

The last time the United States successfully employed a large mechanized armored force was during Operation Desert Storm in 1991. However, despite this, we have gained relatively little knowledge since that campaign against Saddam Hussein. In the aftermath of that tragic conflict, every nation on the planet learned an important lesson, and our adversaries began to alter their strategies as a result: instead of engaging a military force’s most powerful strengths on just any battlefield, a military should instead seek out the vulnerabilities of their enemies and exploit them with both weapons and tactics that their adversaries are incapable of defending against. It has become clear that the advanced capabilities of drones, our failure in Afghanistan, and the military and political disaster in Iraq are all examples of how our adversaries’ tactics and strategy are evolving while the United States remains stuck in the Cold War’s postWorld War II organization, purchases, and methodologies. Our opponents have gained valuable experience from each battle; on the other hand, we have refused to confront the reasons why we seem to be incapable of winning national wars and, more importantly, why we lack the strategy and capacity to prevent wars in the first place.

The drone attack in Abu Dhabi serves as a perfect example of this phenomenon. It seems unlikely at this juncture that the United States Navy has the capability to track drones, especially small ones that fly at low altitude. Tracking drones across land or water would necessitate the presence of a U.S. unit on land or at sea. However, while certain commercial marine radars may be able to identify the drones, United States Navy ships are not equipped with small, high-frequency “boat” radars, which may detect the drones.

Since Sept. 11, 2001, the United States Navy and Central Intelligence Agency have historically overlooked capabilities—both

our own and those of our adversaries—at the low end of the technological spectrum; this is one of the major problems with the way we developed our defense systems.

Consider the attack on the USS Cole, which took place Oct. 12, 2000, in Yemen harbor.

Three individuals in a small fiberglass boat launched a two-minute attack that sank a $1 billion state-of-the-art guided missile warship and killed 17 soldiers. A billiondollar asset was brought back to the United States repair port like a fish on a boat deck, lying on the back of a big barge. The repair conducted on the boat took months to complete, and the amount of money expended for towing the barge out and back was likely unimaginably high. For weeks, images of one of our most advanced missile boats being destroyed by three jihadis in a single-engine fishing boat appeared in every Middle Eastern newspaper.

It is my understanding that land-based drones were utilized in the attack on Abu Dhabi, most likely from the trunk of a vehicle or van. The geography of the area is the most difficult problem in understanding how the drone assault was carried out; boat launches are undoubtedly a possibility, but I am not familiar with the United Arab Emirates’ marine security screening processes.

Due to the United States’ failure to be capable in drone tracking, it is worth mentioning an ominous, yet completely realistic fact that pertains to our nation’s capital: some bad actors could float up the Potomac River, stop for gas in Old Town Alexandria, then depart at night, launch their drones in the pitch black of the Potomac River on a moonless night, and cause havoc in Washington, D.C. This is an unavoidable consequence of now readily available capability drones; someone can simply strap a 5-pound high explosive charge on a drone and have the potential to cause significant damage in the nation’s capital. It would be practically a “name your target” affair. Law enforcement would be searching for hours to figure out where and what was causing the attack, yet in the end, it is possible that the watercraft will have traveled deep into the Chesapeake Bay, past Oregon Inlet, and into the Atlantic before sunrise.

In essence, we are unprepared because we have insufficient or nonexistent knowledge about the plans and intentions of our opponents, and both our military and law enforcement must invest in new technology and systems to track new and emerging threats.

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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CHRISTINA GREER PH.D. I have been reading the news incessantly these days. As always, I am concerned about where we are going as a city and a nation. I always tell people, if you want to know me, I’m pretty basic, I love cities and Black people. As our newly elected leaders get settled into their respective roles, I am always observing whether their actions will benefit Black people in New York City.

I am particularly interested in Alvin Bragg as he settles into his new role as Manhattan’s district attorney. A son of Harlem, Bragg won a very crowded primary on the promise of rethinking how we punish Blacks and Latinos in New York City. Bragg’s resume is quite prestigious, however, his degrees from Harvard University could not shield him from the realities of being a Black man in America. Bragg won in large part because he fully understood and articulated to voters how communities could be afraid of both the cops and the robbers.

Bragg finds himself in a new position which looks like he is trying to turn around the Titanic in a bathtub. His now infamous memo to his team made its way into the press and a collective pearl-clutching commenced from casual observers and many who did not read the document. Bragg outlined the types of crimes his office would prosecute and those they would not.

The first item outlined was, “Success and promotion will no longer be tied to conviction rates.” Amen! We cannot have a criminal justice system where promotion is based on locking up

poor people from marginalized communities.

People from our communities are not scalps to be collected in order to get promoted.

What Bragg outlined during the campaign season and has consistently reiterated is a more holistic approach to crime and prosecution. Why are we locking up people and sending them to Rikers for jumping a turnstile? I understand we can’t have rampant fare evaders; however, I hardly think we should possibly ruin someone’s life for a crime of poverty. Many of the offenses that prosecutors have historically viewed as criminal have been in many ways crimes of people who lack financial resources and act out of desperation. They are also crimes that wealthier New Yorkers have been able to pay and make go away.

As we all know, crime, or the perception of crime, is of great concern to all communities, no matter how wealthy or underfunded. I do not envy Bragg because what he is attempting is a culture shift. After all, he is the first African American to hold this role and has become the proxy for whether NYC is a safe city or not. What I would implore is a level of patience as we allow Bragg to reconceptualize a long overdue analysis of how we view crime, criminality, and our communities.

Christina Greer, Ph.D., is an Associate professor at Fordham University, the author of “Black Ethnics: Race, Immigration, and the Pursuit of the American Dream,” and the co-host of the podcast FAQ-NYC.

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Governing party sweeps all seats in Barbados; opposition in disarray

By BERT WILKINSON Special to the AmNews One of the oldest and most respected political parties in the Caribbean Community appears to be in disarray in the aftermath of a crushing electoral defeat that saw the governing Barbados Labor Party (BLP) again winning all 30 parliamentary seats in general elections held last week.

The crushing blow to the Democratic Labor Party (DLP) means that the island nation of just over 300,000 people will again be forced to function without a single elected legislator functioning as an opposition voice in parliament.

The defeat forced the immediate resignation of party leader Verla DePeiza and instead of the party moving quickly to replace her, a special session to elect a new leader has now been astonishingly postponed to April.

The win by Prime Minister Mia Mottley and her party means that it is only the second time in living memory that a governing party in the 15-nation

bloc has won all the seats in a general election. In Grenada, Prime Minister Keith Mitchell has done so three times in the past 20 years and could repeat again because of an abysmally weak opposition. Elections there are due by mid-next year but Mitchell has been giving strong hints that he is likely to seek a new mandate later this year. Mottley called the polls 18 months ahead of schedule saying the country was disunited.

The cabinet in the fellow Eastern Caribbean sub grouping member nation of Antigua, where fresh elections are also due, has asked the elections commission to intensify voter registration and put systems in place for a possible snap poll as the current habit of taking advantage of unprepared opposition parties gains momentum.

In last week’s polls in Barbados, Mottley surprised election pundits and critics alike by sweeping all 30 seats amid predictions that she would have dropped up to seven to the DLP. The DLP will now have to depend on picking up a few seats in the non-elected

senate or upper house when appointments are made in the coming days.

DLP strategist Hartley Henry Monday blasted the DLP for delaying the appointment of a new leader to help in rebuilding and reorganizing at a time when it appears to be in tatters.

“The whole question of differing the question of leadership to April of this year is madness and anyone who is remotely connected will tell you this is the moment you must seize. You cannot allow the party to go into paralysis between now and April and don’t exist. You need to solve the issue of leadership now and the constitution does not provide for you to solve the issue of leadership because it does not provide for you to elect a political leader. In 2022 the constitution must be clear,” the Today newspaper quoted him as saying.

He complained that the DLP had placed a large number of newcomers in constituencies, pitting them against seasoned and well-known cabinet ministers and other high officials representing the governing party. He felt most did not have

a chance.

“Only one party showed up. We have to come to terms with that reality. The DLP was all over the place. What we are seeing here is a vote of confidence for a government and the leadership of a government and a repudiation of the opposition,” he said on a television panel as results came in.

The elections were called in late December, less than a month after Mottley had led the nation to a flawless transition from a mere independent nation to a republic with its own native head of state instead of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth, ensuring that Barbados joined Guyana, Trinidad and Dominica as republics.

The PM had taken some political flak for the transition without a referendum, as she simply used the parliamentary majority to do so. This led to criticisms about her autocratic style and her alleged refusal to listen to wise counsel. She is expected to name a new cabinet by Tuesday amid fears among some disgruntled ministers that they may fall off the cabinet wagon in the new scheme of things.

Black immigrants could double by 2060, but will they?

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IMMIGRATION KORNER The latest data from Pew Research Center’s analysis of 2019 U.S. Census Bureau data, makes a bold prediction about Black immigrants in the U.S. According to the study, roughly 4.6 million, or one-in-ten, Black people in the U.S. were born in a different country as of 2019, up from 3% in 1980. But the shocking forecast by the Census is that by 2060, that number could increase to 9.5 million, or more than double the current level.

Further, the Black immigrant population is also projected to outpace the U.S.-born Black population in growth. While both groups are increasing in number, the foreign-born population is projected to grow by

90% between 2020 and 2060, while the U.S.-born population is expected to grow 29% over the same time span.

Think about both facts for a second.

Then listen. Can you hear the sound of fear rising in the right-wing ranks at the Blackening of America? It’s terrifying for the Trumpetos of the world and their oaf-like followers.

It is so frightening that the GOP and their supporters are working overtime to tamp down on what they see as the taking over of “their country.”

Why do you think their leaders across the country are working so hard to take away the voting rights of Black voters? Why do you think their leaders in D.C. refused to vote for the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2021 and blocked the Act from advancing when the Senate took a procedural vote on whether to open debate on the legislation?

It is fear that is driving this new attempt at Jim Crowism. It is fear of the growing Black population in Ameri-

ca, fueled by Black immigrants from Africa, the Caribbean and Central and South America. It is fear of losing control of “their country.”

It is why they strive so hard to tamp down on immigration to the U.S. and to use the hot button issue to inflame their base. To prevent the 2060 prediction from becoming a reality. It is why they tried so hard to not count immigrants and ensure they scared off the undocumented from counting in the 2020 census.

This fear is manifesting across the country as race hate. Recently in New York, Liz Edelkind, who migrated here from the Dominican Republic, and her husband and son, were verbally abused by a white Long Island couple on a New York Long Island Railroad train.

Edelkind was traveling on the train with her husband, 10-year-old son and two others, when the couple— later identified as Justin Likerman of Ronkonkoma, and Kristin Digesaro of Huntington, threw a beer at the

family and screamed: “Look straight!

Don’t f***ing look at me! I’m going to get arrested tonight!’ ‘I know it’s not worth it, but these f***ing foreigners are taking over my f***ing country!”

The two have since been arrested and are facing charges of aggravated harassment as a hate crime and child endangerment. Additionally, the pair were fired from their positions at Empire Toyota of Huntington after the dealership was made aware of the incident.

This was a good ending to an ugly situation, but it is fear manifesting as hate as the fact that Black immigrants are helping Black America become a force to be reckoned with, and many want to ensure they are put back in their “place” or “go back where they come from.”

Neither is going to happen, so “oaf keepers,” prepare for the beautiful darkening of America and 2060.

The writer is publisher of NewsAmericasNow.

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André Leon Talley: A life well-lived

By RENEE MINUS WHITE Fashion & Beauty Editor André Leon Talley, a fashion legend, died at the age of 73 on Jan. 18, 2022, at a White Plains hospital due to complications with COVID. He held positions as Vogue’s editor-at-large and creative director; worked at Andy Warhol’s Interview Magazine and at Women’s Wear Daily; and judged on Tyra Banks’ TV Show “America’s Next Top Model.”

My first introduction to André Leon Talley was back in the late 1970s, when Black designers reigned on Fashion’s 7th Avenue, but André was at the top of the fashion industry here in the U.S. and abroad. At fashion shows worldwide, he sat in the front row. He knew all the designers, models, manufacturers and VIPs of the industry. At the beginning of my fashion editor’s position, representing the N.Y. Amsterdam News, I was astonished by André Leon Talley’s commanding presence in the room. He strutted in busily, head held high, towering over many in his 6-foot-6 inch tall stature.

A smart dresser, his clothes were often vintage and well put-together. Whether it was a suit or caftan, he looked elegant. Once, I asked the editor sitting next to me. “Who’s that?” “Oh, that’s André Leon Talley, an editor-at-large at Vogue magazine,” was the immediate reply. I observed him closely, heading towards his front row seat where he often sat next to Vogue’s Anna Wintour and close to

AmNews Editor Nayaba Arinde with Mr. Talley, ca. 2013. (Margot Jordan photos)

other influential fashion VIPs including Ebony magazine publisher Mrs. Johnson, Susan Taylor of Essence, June Weir of Women’s Wear Daily or Bernadine Morris of The New York Times. He knew everyone in fashion and they knew him.

He was always extremely helpful, gracious, kind and about his business. A celebrity, André was always on the lookout for the best dressed, the new subject or face in tnewhe crowd. His opinions about fashion and politics were strong, along with his support for the LGBTQIA community. “The ’70s era was a fabulous time in fashion, especially for designers like Willi Smith, Patrick Kelly, Stephen Burrows, Scott Barrie. Models like Naomi Sims, Pat Cleaveland, Beth Ann Hardison, Beverly Johnson, Billie Blaire, and Spoonbread’s Norma Jean Darden reigned [on] the fashion run-

ways, from New York to Paris, London and Italy.” Reflecting back, I remember it was Audrey Smaltz of The Ground Crew who introduced me to André. While I was in Paris, France in the early ’80s, he opened doors for me at designer houses and fashion shows.

André was born in Georgetown, Washington, D.C. to Alma and William Carroll Talley, in 1948. His parents moved to Durham, North Carolina, where his grandmother, Bennie Francis Davis, raised him while his parents worked in the nation’s capital. In his 2003 memoir, “A.T.L.: A Memoir,” he talked about the two women who influenced his career, his grandmother Bennie Francis Davis and Diana Vreeland.

Mr. Talley held a master’s degree from Brown University and studied to be a French teacher, before being hired by

Diana Vreeland as her assistant at the Metropolitan Museum’s Costume Institute in New York. In his 2020 memoir, “The Chiffon Trenches,” published by Ballantine, he wrote of how Ms. Vreeland, a high priestess in fashion, recognized Talley’s tremendous talent at a young age. Vreeland introduced him to all the right people, and asked him to stay in New York one Christmas holiday. Vreeland felt New York held something special for him. Yes, there was drama with Anna Wintour later; however, the recent tabloids reported, they settled their dispute.

André never brought any of his personal troubles to work. He was a fashion idol.

Whenever you saw him, he gave you a soft smile and everyone knew the show was on.

According to the AP, “Designer Dianne Von Furstenberg praised Talley on Instagram, writing: ‘No one saw the world in a more glamorous way than you did…no one was grander and more soulful than you were.’”

I spotted André once, as he slipped in the side door of The Abyssinian Baptist Church, and he knelt down and bowed his head while the Reverend Calvin Butts was giving a sermon. I was seated on the balcony. During another interview, he confessed that one of his proudest fashion moments was the Vogue assignment to shoot a cover and interview former First Lady Michelle Obama.

His genius, flair and excellence will be missed.

Master of style, Vogue editor André Leon Talley dies at 73

By JORDANNAH ELIZABETH Special to the AmNews

He began his professional journey at Crow South who entered the upper echVogue Magazine as the fashion news di- elon of Paris fashion and beyond. Talley rector in 1983, and rose to the role of the could style a shoot with a pristine eye It is with great sadness that we first Black creative director of the pub- for elegance and imagination. He was report Black style icon and fashion lication in 1988, then editor-at-large a mentor to Naomi Campell and styled editor at Vogue Magazine, André Leon Michelle Obama when Talley has died at 73 years old. she served as First Talley’s encyclopedic knowledge of Lady of the United fabrics, designers, the breadth of the States. But with all fashion industry ecosphere, and every of his many accomnuance and detail of the work that goes plishments, Talley was into fashion editorial presentation and rooted in the Black publishing made him an undeniable church community visionary. He defied the exclusive, ulin Harlem. tra-whiteness of the couture fashion “Mr. Talley was industry with his unapologetically boisa fixture at the Abterous voice and dramatic clothing, ofyssinian Baptist tentimes wearing an array of long, Church in Harlem, billowing capes, a visual extension of where, according to his outgoing personality. the church’s pastor, Beginning his career in 1974 as the Rev. Dr. Calvin Diana Vreeland’s apprentice at the O. Butts III, he arAndré Leon Talley (Jonathan Becker/PRNewsfoto/ Metropolitan Museum of Art, Talley rived with celebriTAA Public Relations photo) displayed his incredible work ethic, ties like Mariah Carey landing positions at Interview Mag- from 1998 to 2013. But his titles could and Tamron Hall but was known for azine, Women’s Wear Daily, W Maga- not define the history he was making his serious faith,” writes The New zine, Ebony and The New York Times. as a Black man who grew up in the Jim York Times. “With all his celebrity and

globe-trotting, he came in the best of times and he showed up in the worst of times,” Rev. Butts tells The Times, “He showed up to worship. He supported the church, he gave generously, and his friends loved him.”

Talley never forgot where he came from and never shied away from the reality of his Blackness and homosexuality. He knew he was an outlier in an industry that was not made for him to excel. But he handled his differences with incredible humor. “When I was 14, my uncle asked what I wanted to be, and I said a fashion editor. He began screaming, ‘Scandal! Scandal! Scandal!’ My grandmother just looked at me.”

He is said to be the first journalist to write about LaQuan Smith and other designers of color, using his platform to expand the reach and opportunities for Black creatives in the industry.

There will never be anyone like him again, but it is important to always remember that he had a hand in changing the world and how we see it.

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By NADINE MATTHEWS Special to the AmNews Noted historian and Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. embarked in January on his eighth season of hosting “Finding Your Roots,” a series that sits down with notable names and takes them on voyages back in time.

These aren’t just any voyages back in time though. Gates uses genealogists and DNA experts to find and examine historical records, and analyze genes to uncover whatever secrets they hold about the families of the guests. “Finding Your Roots” gives guests not just the names of their ancestors but in most cases, stories that bring the ancestors to life.

This season, the personal histories examined include Terry Crews, Regina King, Brittany Packnett Cunningham, Tony Danza, Kathryn Hahn, Anita Hill, Nathan Lane, John Leguizamo, Damon Lindelof, Mario Lopez, Leslie Odom Jr., the late André Leon Talley, Pamela Adlon, Erin Burnett, Amy Carlson, Melissa Villaseñor and Lena Waithe.

Season eight kicked off by sitting down with producer, writer, and director Lee Daniels, known for “The Butler,” “Empire,” and “Our Kind of People.”

With Gates’ help he uncovered the reasons behind some of the mysterious silences surrounding his forebears he had always noticed in childhood that no one ever had the courage to address. “The silence stops with me,” Daniels declared after finding out the scandalous details surrounding the mystery.

Rebecca Hall is an actress (“Resurrection”) and director (“Passing”) who was

Brittany Packnett Cunningham (Courtesy of Reginald Cunningham of Pure Black Photography)

always told there was a great likelihood that there were Black people somewhere in her bloodline but had no proof. It was this assertion that led her to direct the film adaptation of the Harlem Renaissance classic, “Passing” (starring Andre Holland, Ruth Negga, Tessa Thompson) last year. Some things that Hall learns confirm what she always believed, and other revelations show that as many lies as truths may have been passed down in the family lore.

“Law and Order: SVU” actor Raul Esparza and world-renowned chef David Chang were guests on episode two. In their cases, their families fled their homelands for political reasons, Cuba and North Korea, respectively.

Esparza found out that his grandparents were in fact, not the first people in his family to come to America; his great-

“Finding Your Roots” host Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (Courtesy of McGee Media)

great-grandmother had also left Cuba for America, several generations prior to his grandparents’ arrival, fleeing Castro.

“It’s exciting. It’s making me imagine a whole life I wasn’t aware was even happening back then,” stated Esparza, upon finding out.

Chang also had great curiosity about his ancestors’ homeland which he had never set foot upon and also found out that prior generations of his family had been to the United States. Chang’s greatgrandfather had come to the U.S. as a teacher around the turn of the century, something it seems Chang’s own parents were unaware of. “I don’t have any words,” stated Chang, “I mean I have goosebumps!”

Distinguished law professor Anita Hill, who became famous in 1991 for accusing then U.S. Supreme Court Justice

nominee Clarence Thomas of sexual harrassment, is one of the guests on episode three. Also on episode three is Brittany Packnett Cunningham, a Black Lives Matter activist, member of President Obama’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing, and cofounder of Campaign Zero, a non-profit that aims to eliminate police violence.

Packnett Cunningham came to “Finding Your Roots” with a definite family mystery that she wanted solved: the enigma of her paternal grandfather. “I literally have only heard one sentence uttered about him…I just want to know who he is,” she told Gates at the beginning of the program. Using DNA from Packnett Cunningham and her mother, they set about trying to solve the mystery. Not only did they find out her grandfather’s name, they found a photo of him, causing Packnett Cunningham to tear up when she saw it. She also learned her paternal great great grandfather fought in the Civil War after having been freed in 1864. “I’m angry they had to fight for a freedom that belonged to them and I’m incredibly proud to know that I come from people who run toward the fight,” she stated.

Hill also wanted to find out who her grandparents were; in her case, on her mother’s side. They found out her grandparents were landowners, through the Homestead Act of 1862, an extraordinary feat for Black people. Stated Hill, “They did what it took, which had to be so very difficult, so this makes me feel so proud. They existed and grabbed this part of citizenship as a right.”

Rock and Roll pioneer Ronnie Spector dies at 78

By JORDANNAH ELIZABETH Special to the AmNews The unapologetically sultry rock and roll singer of The Ronettes has died at 78 years old.

Spector was an incredible influence to countless bands and rock artists such as The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, who opened for her early in their careers, along with great admiration from Madonna, Aretha Franklin and Amy Winehouse who fashioned her signature beehive hairstyle after Spector’s iconic style.

The Ronettes’ 1963 classic hit, “Be My Baby” changed the landscape of rock and roll and transformed the presence, look and feel of Black female frontwomen for decades to come.

Spector, who was African American, Irish and Cherokee, grew up in Spanish Harlem in New York City, and rev-

just as much as the mainstream rockers who could not get enough of her bad girl image and sensual voice over the famous music producer, Phil Spector’s unique production style called “The Wall of Sound,” which offered an echoing larger than life sound that helped make Ronnie and the Ronettes musical icons. The Ronettes released a number of Top 40 hit songs following “Be My Baby” including three 1964 songs “(The Best Part of) Breakin’ Up,” “Do I Love You?” and “Walking in the Rain.” The year 1965 ushered in the songs, “Born to Be Together” and “Is This What I Get for Loving You?” which made the top 100 charts.

The Ronettes broke up in 1967 and Ronnie Spector in 1966 Ronnie Spector married Phil Spector, (Public domain; https://commons. enduring years of traumatic abuse wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ronnie_ from the producer, but continued to Spector_1966.jpg) revive her music career in the early olutionized the New York punk scene 1970s, with recordings with The Bea-

tles, George Harrison and the reforming of the Ronettes in 1973 with new members (Chip Fields Hurd and Diane Linton).

Spector never truly picked up traction the way she did in the 1960s, but continued to make music through the 2000s singing backup for the punk band, The Misfits in 2004 and releasing albums in 2006, 2016 and a single called “Love Power” in 2017 as Ronnie Spector and The Ronettes.

The history is all there and just waiting to be explored as this oneof-a-kind Black woman music trailblazer can be sighted as one of the most important rock musicians of all time. She was cool, funny and gave the rock world more gifts and inspiration than one can describe.

She will be deeply missed and will never be forgotten as a creator, a bright light in a male-dominated industry and a true survivor.

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Maurice Hines doc on STARZ is a must-see!

Stills from “Maurice Hines: Bring Them Back!”

Maurice teaching at the Debbie Allen Dance Academy, 2017

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By LINDA ARMSTRONG Special to the AmNews I knew of Maurice Hines as a tap dancing legend, Broadway performer, movie performer, and singer, but I never knew of him as a gay Black man who was a father, a brother, a son and a friend to so many people. I never knew of the honesty, bravery, activism that this man stands for. But after seeing the documentary “Maurice Hines: Bring Them Back!” I now realize so many more dimensions to this marvelous entertainer.

The documentary will have its broadcast premiere on STARZ in February for Black History Month, with a limited run from Feb. 2-8 at the IFC Center (www.ifccenter.com/films/mauricehines-bring-them-back/) and is currently available on Vimeo on Demand at https://vimeo. com/ondemand/mauricehines/428617973.

The film has incredible interviews of Maurice and his late brother Gregory throughout their lives. There is marvelous video footage of their performances together and separately in movies and Broadway shows. Stunning commentary about Maurice as both a performer and a person come from some of his dear friends including Chita Rivera, Mercedes Ellington, Debbie Allen, Charles RandolphWright, Joe Johnson Jr., his nephew Zachary, and his proteges John and Leo Manzani, plus others who are dear in his life.

This documentary contains original black and white photos of the Hines brothers from childhood to adolescence to adulthood, and contains performance footage from “The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson” of Hines, Hines & Dad, when they performed an act with Maurice Hines Sr.; “Sesame Street”; “Eubie!”; “Sophisticated Ladies”; “Balletap USA”; “The Cotton Club” movie; “Tappin’ Thru Life”—Maurice’s Broadway show about his life; “Hot Feet”; “Jelly’s Last Jam”—which finally earned Gregory a Tony Award; Maurice—who at age 75 is still performing and was at 54 Below in New York; and there were numerous videos of Maurice Hines being a guest dance teacher at the Debbie Allen Dance School and The Bushnell Dance School,

along with a few others dance schools.

The documentary shows Maurice Hines to be a candid, vibrant, loving person who prefers his privacy. He is someone who has always been in the limelight since childhood and misses his parents and brother Gregory, his partner for so long. He has bouts of great sadness, but is also blessed with family and friends and a daughter who loves him a great deal.

The documentary ends with his friends throwing him a surprise party for his 75th birthday.

It is absolutely heartwarming to witness the love at that gathering. These were family and friends, fellow thespians that had been on this journey with him for years. He is laughing, hugging, kissing and loving everyone at the party and one person comments, “This shows how much you are loved.” How appropriate that

sentiment was and how much do we all need to hear that at times in our lives.

Watch this documentary and get to know the Hines family. “Maurice Hines: Bring Them Back!” has already won the Grand Jury Awards at DOC NYC and the American Black Film Festival, and is executive produced by Debbie Allen and Charles Randolph-Wright. It’s a beautiful thing when our elders get to tell their stories completely and get acknowledged as being important, not just to their friends and families, but to our culture as a whole.

Thank you Maurice Hines, for all that you and your brother meant to our people all these decades, and that you continue to mean! You are a phenomenal man.

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p F Preparation is the key to riding the wave to success now. Be resourceful if you want to receive the resources you need to advance your affairs. There are programs, d Vinateria trainings, assistance, mentors, and jobs within your communities. In January, you were fine-tuning your craft, skills, profession: researching and discovering things w about yourself but on a spiritual plane. February is about planning to execute your goals and objectives for the purpose of advancement. Fate or destiny will play o a role, be it spiritual, emotional, physical, or financial. Let go of what’s holding you back and be free to live in peace; however, fight for what you believe. This is a cycle of healing and defining the things we value. Home is essential, where love, unity, and building a foundation start.

Get ready for an adventure to explore your world in a different area within your work, partDec 22 – Jan 21 nerships, your love life and relationships, and being the God/Goddess and captain of your ship. Dive into the depths of your gold mine and go deeper within yourself to find your treasure. Once you receive the treasure, then will it into existence. There’s no limit to what you can do. The world is your oyster now.

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Aquarius

Apply the right amount of pressure to your agenda this week and work in silence comJan 22 – Feb 19 pleting your projects. As you transit this week, put your best foot forward and say what you mean, and mean what you say. There’s no time to waste. It’s about the planning. It’s about crossing all T’s and dotting all I’s. Choose the best investment that coincides with your vision.

Pisces

The universe operates in mysterious ways to relate messages to its people. You’ll be used as a vessel to spread the word. Sit in silence from time to time and discover what the universe is conveying to you. Patience is required, and pay attention to the details, the signs, the feelings you’re drawn to, and places you are drawn to as well. What do you value the most?

Ask yourself, is it time to redirect the things you value most?

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This transit cycle for the remainder of the month is about learning to control your emotions in the best way. Listen to your intuition and follow your heart. This week, you may feel you’re on a soul mission to accomplish along your journey. Spiritually, you’re receiving the downloads or messages to carry it out on the physical plane. Semi legal matters and partnerships, along with an ending, or releasing, and soulful partnership, plays a role this transit week. Follow your gut and your own agenda.

Mar 21 – Apr 21

Planning for the future is the key this week.

Taurus You’re about to be rewarded for the action Apr 22 – May 21 you’re currently putting into play. The choices you make will lead you straight to the right resources. Continue to follow up, on the follow-up, to receive the results you want. How you deliver your message will be the key to unlocking the door to your success.

But check in with yourself first.

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What’s your plan for the next 3, 6, or 9 months?

Create a blueprint of what you envision for the rest of this year. Do the research to find out how to maneuver ahead with your plan. And, if you don’t know, or are unsure, ask your friends, neighbors, and people who’ve done the work for further advice and understanding.

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You are on a soul mission bringing a force together for a higher mission and purpose to be a resource both nationally and internationally.

This is your year to manifest everything you’ve put on your vision board.

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Sundance 2022: Is there enough diversity of color?

By LAPACAZO SANDOVAL Special to the AmNews

This film is the first collaborative feature by Anisia Uzeyman and slam poet Saul Williams that hacks In a last-minute decision to keep the conventions of moviemaking to people safe, the 2022 Sundance give us this musical science fiction Film Festival has gone virtual—to hybrid set in Rwanda about a trantake a deep dive and to learn more, scending connection between an inhit the website. https://festival.sun- tersex runaway, Neptune (played by dance.org/ both Cheryl Isheja and Elvis Ngabo Since Sundance had to pivot and “Bobo”), and a grieving coltan miner return to a virtual festival this year, (Bertrand Ninteretse “Kaya Free”). in theory, the festival is more accessible than ever. Moreover, the “Aftershock” selection includes feature films, Directed by Tonya Lewis Lee documentaries, shorts, and exper- (Spike Lee’s wife) and Paula Eiselt. imental programs.

Following the deaths of their partTo be frank, the 2022 Sundance ners due to preventable childbirth festival feels light on African Amer- complications and medical negliican storytelling and storytellers. gence, two bereaved fathers galvaHere are a few more highlights nize activists, birth-workers, and that caught our eye. physicians to reckon with one of the most pressing yet unspoken Ameri“ᎤᏕᏲᏅ ( (pronounced oo-de-yo- can crises of our time—the U.S. maNUH) (What They’ve Been Taught)” ternal health crisis.

Directed by Brit Hensel with Keli Gonzales.

“Master” Exploring expressions of reciprocDirected by Mariama Diallo. ity in the Cherokee world, brought Three women strive to find their to life through a story told by an place at an elite New England unielder and first language speaker, versity. As the insidious specter of Hensel is the first woman who is a racism haunts the campus in incitizen of Cherokee Nation to direct creasingly supernatural fashion, an official selection at the festi- each fights to survive in this space val. Watch the trailer: https://bit. of privilege. ly/3GF77qH Starring Regina Hall, Zoe Renee, Talia Ryder, Talia Balsam, Amber “Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul” Gray.

“Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul”

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Written and directed by Adamma Ebo, and produced by Adanne Ebo, Daniel Kaluuya, Rowan Riley, Amandla Crichlow, Jesse Burgum, Matthew Cooper.

As the proud first lady of a Southern Baptist megachurch, Trinitie Childs carries immense responsibility on her shoulders. Starring Regina Hall and Sterling K. Brown.

“Emergency” Directed by Carey Williams.

Straight-A college student Kunle and his laid-back best friend, Sean, are about to have the most epic night of their lives. Determined to be the first Black students to complete their school’s frat party legendary tour, the friends strap in for their ultimate assignment.

“Neptune Frost” “Mija” Directed by Saul Williams and By director/producer/director of Anisia Uzeyman. Executive pro- photography Isabel Castro. duced by Lin-Manuel Miranda, and This documentary tugged on the produced by Ezra Miller and Ste- heartstrings and is a clear labor of phen Hendel. love by Isabel Castro. And, I am sure

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that you are aware that large sections of Harlem are now populated by hard-working immigrants from Mexico. The shift in the new immigrants uptown piqued my interest, and once I watched the wonderfully crafted “Mija,” I knew that I wanted to know more.

“Mija” focuses on Doris Muñoz, an ambitious, young music manager whose undocumented family depends on her ability to launch pop stars. When she loses her best client, Doris hustles to discover new talent and finds Jacks—another daughter of immigrants for whom “making it” isn’t just a dream: it’s a necessity.

Isabel Castro is a four-time Emmy-nominated, Mexican American filmmaker who combines a practice in journalism and art to tell stories about immigration, civil rights, and identity. She splits her time between Mexico City and Los Angeles.

Castro directed, produced, and filmed the Emmy-nominated, award-winning documentary short “USA v. Scott” (Tribeca 2020, The New Yorker), Emmy-nominated “Darlin” (Tribeca 2019, NYT OpDocs), and the Emmy-nominated Netflix docu-series “Pandemic.”

Her debut project “Crossing Over” (Univision/Participant Media) won a 2015 GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Documentary. Interviews about her work on “Crossing Over” were nominated for two additional GLAAD awards. She’s worked on dozens of stories as a producer, cinematographer and multimedia journalist for The New York Times, as an Edward R. Murrow-award winning producer at The Marshall Project, on two seasons of the Emmy-award winning series “VICE” on HBO, and as an Emmy-nominated producer covering civil rights and policy at VICE News Tonight on HBO.

“Mija” is her feature-length debut.

“Mija” has received support from the Sundance Institute, Impact Partners, Cinereach, the SFFILM Catapult Documentary Fellowship, Points North Institute / CNN Films, Fork Films, Chicken & E! Pictures, Firelight Media, and NBCU Academy & NBC News Studios Original Voices. Castro is an artist-in-residence at Concordia Studio, and was named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film” and DOC NYC’s “40 Under 40”, both in 2021.

Here is what Isabel Castro had to share about making the documentary “Mija” which will screen at the Sundance Film Festival, 2022.

AMSTERDAM NEWS: How did this project originate?

ISABEL CASTRO: I spent years covering immigration for media outlets, including The New York Times and The Marshall Project. While I’m proud of that work, I also found myself frustrated by the limitations of those formats. I was longing to convey the incredibly complex dynamics of immigrant families and all the emotions they navigate, including guilt, resentment, and anger. So I turned to filmmaking.

AMN: What interested you in making “Mija”?

IC: I was particularly interested in telling this kind of story from the perspective of young protagonists.

As a teenager, I felt like there was a shortage of stories about what it meant to come of age as an immigrant or as a child of immigrants in the United States. I wanted to tell the kind of story I craved myself, as a Mexican immigrant when I was figuring out my identity, family, and community.

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Jim Harrison, the pioneer jazz promoter, jazz publisher, advocate and mentor to musicians and many others in the jazz community, died January 19, at St. John’s Hospital in Queens, New York. He was 88.

His daughter-in-law Rene Harrison confirmed his death and stated heart complications as the cause.

During his esteemed six-decade career Harrison received many awards some of which included: in 2019, he was awarded with Jazzmobile’s Jazzy Award; that same year he was honored as a Jazz Hero by the Jazz Journalists Association. In 2018 Harrison had a choice client list with jazz vocalist Antoinette Montague, pianist Lisle Atkinson and Jazzmobile.

During an interview with the Amsterdam News he laughed, “Over the years I had an extensive client list but at 86 years old, I have cut back the fastpaced life for something a little more manageable.”

Harrison’s dedication to presenting and promoting jazz in a swift and professional manner became a staple for many jazz greats. In some instances, his contacts helped advance some careers while he was the personal promoter for Art Blakely, Betty Carter, Jackie McLean, Charles Tolliver, Billy Taylor, Barry Harris, Frank Foster, Mary Lou Williams, Jimmy Heath, Hank Mobley, Irene Reid, Chris Anderson, Frank Foster, Houston Person & Etta Jones. He is featured in Maxine Gordon’s biography “Sophisticated Giant: The Life and Legacy of Dexter Gordon” (University of California Press, 2018).

As an effective promoter during the 1950s and ’60s, Harrison got the word out with flyers and posters. He handed out flyers to people on the street and used selected locations for drop-offs such as Showman’s Café, Lenox Lounge, lobbies of The Lenox Terrace, restaurants, Penn Station and Grand Central Station.

“Jim Harrison: the heart, mind, body & soul of our music. Jazz. He brought to Sistas’ Place in the latter part of his life his presence. We were rewarded, we were recognized, by Jim. Speak his name; jazz lives,” said Viola Plummer, Sista’s Place, owner.

James Thomas Harrison Jr. was born Sept. 11, 1932, in Queens, New York.

His father was James Harrison Sr. and his mother Emma Mitchell Harrison was a hospitality consultant.

After graduating from City College in 1956, he joined the U.S. Army and was honorably discharged in 1958. He

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then went into the retail business as a salesman. Listening to the music of Count Basie, Miles Davis and Charlie Parker gave him the bug to get actively involved in jazz.

In 1961, Harrison started a fan club for saxophonist Jackie McLean.

He promoted McLean in non-traditional jazz settings where a cabaret card was not needed, he promoted a McLean concert at Judson Hall (originally across the street from Carnegie Hall). That was the same year he met “Fannie” Henderson; they married shortly after and enjoyed 44 years of bliss before her transition in 2006.

After leaving his Queens retail job, in 1962, it was apparent promotion was his entrée into the jazz world. He quickly moved to Harlem to become a full-time jazz promoter.

He went on to promote McLean’s concert at Town Hall in 1963 and continued working with him until 1965.

McLean connected Harrison with the management at Slug’s jazz club, where he was the promoter from 1965-1972.

He also promoted concerts for trumpeter Lee Morgan in Staten Island and the Bronx before the trumpeter was fatally shot at Slugs in 1972.

“Jim was a real stalwart fan, promoter and supporter of the musicians, the music and culture,” noted saxophon-

ist and composer Rene McLean. “He used his own resources to promote many events long before there were any kind of grants or support from the establishment. His contributions will forever be remembered.”

He was trombonist Benny Powell’s promotion man in 1963. Harrison stated during an interview for the Amsterdam News, “I wanted to get a full-time job but Benny said, ‘We need you out here.’” For Powell’s Ben G Enterprises, Harrison did concert productions at Club Ruby in Queens. “Jim has done a lot for musicians,” said Powell. “He’s the greatest underground publicist I’ve ever met.

He would go out at night and put-up posters. If you stood still long enough, he would put a poster on your back.

He was very effective.”

The pianist, composer, and educator Dr. Billy Taylor co-founded Jazzmobile in 1965, to bring live jazz to the city’s five boroughs. He hired Harrison, who was a consultant to Jazzmobile for 55 years. He only retired two years ago.

“Fortunately, when I joined the Jazzmobile team, I was able to work with Jim and see firsthand how much the musicians respected him and the incredible impact he had on them,” stated Robin Bell-Stevens, direc-

tor, Jazzmobile, Inc. “After a life welll lived, I know my dear friend is restings in peace and joy—with Fannie!”

Maxine Gordon and Hattie Gossett’s Ms. Management hired Harrison, ands he was the promoter of record forr then popular jazz clubs Boomer’s andI Sweet Basil’s (1976-1981). He becamen a publisher (1979-1982) with his jazzD publication Spotlight News that in-o cluded listings, reviews and features.g “Black writers weren’t getting pub-g lished in Down Beat Magazine [the jazz magazine of record at the time],”F said Harrison. “After reading a con-b cert review by the New York Times and other dailies it was the great review by John Sanders, jazz writer for the Am-a sterdam News, that made it clear wew needed Black writers to have a voicew in jazz, our music, so I started ‘Jazzn Spotlight News.’ The paper starteda with 12 pages and before it closede boasted 144 pages and 60 Black freelance writers. The closest resem-b blance to Spotlight News is today’s Hot House and All About Jazz.” p Harrison ran an ad in the paperw thanking his wife Fannie for her sup-l port; paraphrased, it read:“ThankR you Fannie Harrison for allowing mei to blow the rent money, food moneym and everything to allow me to becomep a jazz promoter.” She worked at theP door for his many jazz events ande helped type up the flyers. l “I met Jim around 1996 after Ip began emceeing the Jazzmobile,H Grant’s tomb concerts. He was thec heart and soul of the jazz commu-g nity. A humble man and a generousa man who shared his knowledge ofa the business to us young folk comingK along,” stated Sheila Anderson, WB-t GO-FM radio host. “However, thet love and commitment Jim showedU to his wife and family impressed meW the most.” s Harrison stopped publishing theL paper when he joined Barry HarrisV and Larry Ridley at the Jazz Cultur-s al Theater (1982-1987). He promot-a ed the Barry Harris Ensemble andp worked with Ridley at Rutgers Univer-s sity in New Brunswick, N.J. promot-c ing concerts. “Jim has been like a big brother to me,” said Ridley during anp interview. “I can’t think of anyone thatw has been more dedicated to jazz who’sR not a musician.”

R Jim Harrison was a jazz promot-l er extraordinaire. He should have in-s structed a course in “The art of jazzt promotion: its history and signif-M icance.” Even technology with itsS email, social media and iphonesr didn’t depreciate the importancea of Harrison’s job or discourage mu-g sicians who sought out his cruciali promotion savvy. I will miss our con-a versations, his encouragement, hism words of wisdom, and those birth-m day and Christmas cards every year.u

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“It’s been a very interesting life and delightful journey,” said Harrison, during an interview.

Harrison is survived by his sons Kevin and Gregory Harrison, Dr. James E. Chambers III, Michael Chambers, Kenneth Chambers, and daughter Denise Chambers Robinson; over 22 grandchildren, 13 great grandchildren, and two greatgreat grandchildren.

Harrison will be cremated on Feb. 4. A memorial for him will be announced at a later date.

Tulivu Donna-Cumberbatch, a song stylist and bandleader, who mesmerized audiences with pieces of gospel harmony for over three decades, died at home in Brooklyn surrounded by her family on January 17.

Tulivu-Donna Cumberbatch in 2013 No cause of death was given (Manfred Werner (Tsui) (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tulivu-Donna_Cumberbatch_Quartet_-_INNtöne_Jazzfestival_2013_13. by her daughter Ayone Kone. jpg), „Tulivu-Donna Cumberbatch Quartet - INNtöne Jazzfestival 2013 13“, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode) Cumberbatch was a complete song stylist whose ballads In her native homeland of Brook- as one of the greatest animated televi- greatly missed. warmed hearts. She infused a whole lyn, her name was a household sion series of all time). She recorded a Cumberbatch is also survived by her lotta spirit swinging with the Harlem word, having performed regularly jazz version of the noir song “Lullaby” son Atiba-Henry; son-in-law in-law Renaissance Orchestra. Her voic- at the jazz club Sista’s Place. “Tulivu for the Japanese composer, arranger Boubacar Kone; and two grandsons. ing added another dimension of har- was a songbird at Sistas’ Place since and record producer Yuki Kajiura for A memorial for Cumberbatch will monic classical swing during her 1998,” said the club’s owner Viola her solo album “Fiction.” be held sometime in July 2022; more performances fronting The Brooklyn Plummer. “She wrote a song for us, Cumberbatch worked exten- details will follow.

Philharmonic Orchestra. She was an ‘Daughters of the Nile.’ Reminding sively with trumpeter exceptional vocalist, who was great- us of our regality, our homeland, Hannibal Loukumbe ly underrated while receiving multi- and our music. Beautiful Tulivu, as the featured vocalple accolades from around the world. her spirit and music in song will ist in two of his symHer last CD, “Seasoned Elegance” always be at Sistas’ Place because phonies “Children of covered her eclectic repertoire of we are daughters of the Nile, as she the Fire” and “Flames gospel inspiration, blues spirits, jazz was.” Her loyal fan base followed of South Africa,” and and Latin rhythms. Her previous CDs her to such venues as the Williams- “Love Poems to God” February 10-13 all self-produced on the independent burg Music Center, Nuyorician Café, with dancer/cho& 17-20, 2022 Ki-Ki Records label include “Daugh- Lenox Lounge and Bill’s Place in reographer Dianne featuring ters of the Dust” (1999), “Lullabies in Harlem. During the late 1990s when McIntyre and her enthe Key of Life- For the Child in All of St. Nick’s Pub was the place to be for semble. In 2019 she Jazzmeia Horn Us” (1997) and “Harmony” (1990). celebrities and all-star jam sessions, performed “A Suite for The Baylor Project While she had her own distinguished Cumberbatch was there jamming Malcolm: The ResurDaniel J. Watts style, she revealed voicings of Abbey with pianist Donald Smith. The leg- rection Tone Poems” Warren Wolf Lincoln, Dinah Washington and Sarah endary pianist and composer Randy composed by RachiVaughan. Mostly known for singing, Weston noted, “She has beautiful im Ausar-Sahuat. She Jimmy Greene she was an exceptional pianist, who phrasing and the spirit of our an- has performed with Alexis Morrast at times did a splendid job of accom- cestors in her sound past, present a variety of musiMike Mosby panying herself. A few years ago, she and future.” cians such as John started her own Youtube channel Tulivu-Donna Lynn Cumberbatch Hicks, Diedre Murray, called TULIVU JAZZ. was born on July 28, 1950, in Brook- Lonnie Plaxico, OnaTo explore her various creative vocal lyn, New York. Her father Harold Cum- je-Alan Gumbs, Andy paths Cumberbatch regularly worked berbatch, the baritone saxophonist, Bey, Cecil Payne, and with The Baritone Saxophones, The named her Donna Lynn after Miles Romero Lubambo. She Ray Abrams Big Band, The Brooklyn Davis’ composition “Donna Lee.” Her toured Europe, West Repertory Ensemble, and her own African name “Tulivu” translates from Africa, Austria, Russia long standing Magnificent Trio, who Swahili to “beautiful.” As a youngster, and the Caribbean. she performed with just prior to her Cumberbatch was a member of the “As we know, music transition. They included drummer church choir and later a member of is a healing force,” said Mark Johnson, bassist Rachiim Ausar- the prestigious All-City High School Cumberbatch during Sahu and pianist Rod Williams (who Chorus. She studied at Lehman Col- an interview. “I believe replaced Donald Smith some years lege before venturing out to start her musicians are God’s ago). “Tulivu was the first artist I began solo career. special messengers of gigging with on my arrival to New York She earned a reputation for her healing and I strive to in 1984,” stated Williams. “She was an work with the Japanese compos- be one of those mesadventurous singer, she looked at the er and arranger Yoko Kanno on the sengers.” Her warm, music differently regardless of how album ”Song to Fly” and on her caring spirit, compasTickets start at $25. many times we played it and allowed soundtracks for the animated televi- sion and thoughtful hudsonhall.org (518) 822-1438 us to explore different concepts.” sion series “Cowboy Bebop” (hailed words for others will be

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Jules Bledsoe, an outstanding and versatile baritone

By HERB BOYD Special to the AmNews

Being the same age and performing a similar repertoire of music as Paul Robeson was not the most propitious time of life for Jules Bledsoe. Despite these disadvantages, he managed to carve out a niche and produce a marvelous corpus of folk and classical vocals.

Born Julius Lorenzo Cobb Bledsoe on July 14, 1898, to Henry and Jessie Cobb Bledsoe in Waco, Texas, he didn’t get a chance to truly experience nurturing from both parents who separated a year after his birth. With his mother, Jules went to live with her family and later attended the Central Texas Academy from 1905 to 1914. He excelled as a student and was honored as the valedictorian of his class. At Bishop College he earned his B.A. in 1918. His next academic stint was at Virginia Union College from 1918 to 1919, where he was a member of the ROTC (Reserved Officers’ Training Corps).

From 1920 to 1924, Jules studied medicine at Columbia University, at the same time, and even earlier, he devoted a considerable amount of time to his musical passion, studying under such esteemed mentors as Claude Warford, Luigi Parisotti, and Lazar Samoiloff. On April 20, 1924, under the sponsorship of the noted impresario Sol Hurok, he made his professional singing debut at Aeolian Hall in New York City.

Two years later, he appeared as Tizan in Frank Harling’s opera “Deep River.” In 1927, he was the first to perform as Joe in Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II’s “Show Boat,” preceding Robeson and William Warfield.

Several years before

Robeson was singularly identified with the musical and the song “Ol’ Man River” he popularized the song.

Further demonstrating his versatility, Jules sang the role of Amonasro from Verdi’s “Aida” for the Chicago Opera’s production. He was unable to secure permission to create a musical setting for Eugene

O’Neill’s, “The Emperor Jones,” which had already been contracted to Louis Gruenberg and that lead role was given to the white baritone Lawrence Tibbett, who originated the role in 1933 and

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performed in blackface.

James Weldon Johnson, the great author and statesman, had said that only two singers could possibly fulfill that obligation—Paul Robeson or Jules Bledsoe. A year later in Amsterdam, Jules delivered his version of the haunted Black man on an island where he ruled with brutal authority. He

would feature that role in several other European cities and in New York City. His recording of the song was occasionally played on NPR musical theater program, “A Night on

the Town.” Jules’s voice, with his riveting enunciation and splendid diction, is captured on a recording of vintage spirituals, including “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot.” An October 1925 concert at the Town Hall in New York City, featured a number of spirituals by Jules.

In 1927, Jules shared the stage with Rose McClendon, Abbie Mitchell, and Frank Wilson in Paul Green’s “In Abraham’s Bosom” which went on to earn Green a Pulitzer Prize. Interestingly, to continue the Robeson-Bledsoe relationship, in 1928 Robeson stepped in and replaced Bledsoe as Crown in the production of “Porgy.”

One of his outstanding roles was in the title character of Mussorgsky’s “Boris Godunov.” Between 1929 and 1930, he appeared in three musical films “Shorts—Old Man Trouble,” “On the Levee,” and “Dear Old Southland.” In the early ’40s, he worked in Hollywood with credited and uncredited roles, most memorable is the part of Kalu in “Drums of the Congo.”

Jules died in Hollywood on July 24 and is buried in Greenwood Cemetery, a city-owned cemetery in Waco. His papers, as well as sheet music, photographs, letters, and other memorabilia are housed in the Texas Collection at Baylor University. A recreation facility in Waco is jointly named the Bledsoe-Miller Community Center, in honor of Jules and Doris Miller.

ACTIVITIES FIND OUT MORE The archives collection under his name at Baylor University in Waco has a full complement of Bledsoe memorabilia.

DISCUSSION There is certainly a lot more to do with the relationship and perhaps competition between him and Paul Robeson.

PLACE IN CONTEXT Born at the end of the 19th century, Bledsoe only lived to about half of the next century but made a lasting impression on the world of classical music.

THIS WEEK IN BLACK HISTORY Jan. 24, 1993: Famed jurist Thurgood Marshall dies in Bethesda, Md. He was 84.

Jan. 24, 1874: Extraordinary historian and archivist Arturo Schomburg is born in Puerto Rico. He died in 1938.

Jan, 24, 1962: Jackie Robinson, baseball immortal, was inducted into the Hall of Fame.

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Eric Adams was among the electeds who attended the janazah (funeral), as were Bronx Borough President Vanessa Gibson, Attorney General Letitia James, Public Advocate Jumaane Williams and Lt. Gov. Brian Benjamin.

Distraught and grieving, the city was shook when billowing black smoke from a high-rise fire took 17 lives, nine of them children, the youngest being Ousmane Konteh, a 2-year-old boy, and the oldest being Haji Dukary, a 49-year-old man.

Gambia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported that 11 Gambians, including six children, were killed.

Last week the Imam Souleimane Konaté stated, “That is where the majority of the victims were from; there were also people from Mali, Senegal, and Guinea.”

On Sunday, Jan. 9, 200 firefighters put out the fire and rescued residents at 333 East 181st Street also known as Twin Parks North West. The New York City Fire Department (FDNY) reported that a space heater in a third-floor apartment ignited a fire, which sent choking smoke through all floors of the 19-story, 120 unit building.

It has become known as New York’s deadliest fire in three decades, since the 1990 Bronx Happy Land blaze which killed 87 people.

Early reports seemed to apportion blame on the third floor residents who did not close the self-closing door as they fled the fire engulfing their apartment.

THE NEW YORK AMSTERDAM NEWS Fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro was to port, the duo suggested federal legislalater conjecture that the door “malfunc- tion would have federal funds to install tioned.” The day after the deadly fire he self-closing doors in federally funded also said, “Certain buildings can be built multifamily buildings; install subsidized under different standards.” He said of sprinklers in said buildings; invite focused Twin Parks North West, “It was potentially federal authority in similar fire investigabuilt outside the New York City Fire Code.” tions; and demand that space heaters “No one will ever blame the residents,” have automatic shut-off components.

Drammeh assured, “it was the malfuncAt a press conference on Tuesday, tion door that did not close. The father Jan. 25, Torres said, “Simple things like did what anyone would do to rescue his self-closing doors can prevent largefamily. It is the neglect and greedy inves- scale causal consequences from a fire. tors to blame. It is not the tenant’s fault. Therefore, we will propose a law reThe door should have functioned how it quiring all federal-funded home dewas supposed to.” velopments, such as Twin Parks North Residents had complained about heat West, to have self-closing doors, and and the non-functioning self-closing landowners will inspect the self-closdoors. The Department of Housing Pres- ing doors on a regular basis. And must ervation and Development had cited the be certified under an oath.”

Fordham building for over two dozen vioFrom the very first day of the mornlations including vermin infestations and ing fire, the city saw a massive outnon-operational elevators. pouring of emotion, donations, and As billion dollar lawsuits are already communication. Over a million dolbeing filed by affected residents, the lars was raised, food, clothes, toiletbuilding’s history is being reviewed. ries and toys were given in abundance.

Built in 1972 by the state Urban Devel- The story was front-page and headline opment Corporation, the present Empire news for several consecutive days.

State Development Corporation, the “The response from every facet of sobuilding was sold in 2019 by Camme- ciety from the government agencies in by’s International Group to Bronx Park the Bronx, and transformed it into one Phase III Preservation LLC, a consortium of the most triumphant experiences of investors including: Belveron Partners, for the community because of the reLIHC Investment Group, and Camber sponse,” said Drammeh. “The pain and Property Group. suffering of all parties involved have had This week hoping to “help advance a their needs—immediate or what will culture of safety in housing,” Rep. Ritchie be—addressed in the best ways posTorres and Sen. Chuck Schumer pro- sible. Every issue raised has been adposed a four-point plan to address issues dressed immediately to satisfaction.” exposed by the horrendous Bronx fire.

Protective of their privacy, and recent Saying they expected bipartisan sup- trauma, when asked how survivors are

January 27, 2022 - February 2, 2022 • 23 doing, Drammeh replied, “We are managing now, we are grateful. Most of them are in local hotels. There are those who went back, because the fire was an isolated problem. It was the door that was left wide open and the smoke is what killed all the people who died. Some families are so traumatized that they don’t want to go back. The city said they don’t have to go back.”

The activist said that the nature of African families should be taken into account.

“We often live with extended family members, which requires more space, and that might require extra time to address.

We still have families still in the hospital, 8 or 10 people with various conditions.

Bronx Works is also helping those affected.”

Asked if the mental health needs of the Bronx fire families are being taken into consideration, Drammeh said, “1000 percent. Mental health and trauma experts have pledged long term help with mental health issues. The families are doing well because the city realized the magnitude of the situation, and provided all conceivable services. They identified their needs, and said they would be taken care of long term.”

He added, “This is New York, so of course some people will complain, but every requested service has been met or is being worked on. My job here is not just to represent the community, but to get all the resources that they need. We don’t want professional complainers and opportunists to affect the services rendered to us. We say our government from top to bottom came through, right on time.”

Invitation to Prequalify and to Bid Rehabilitation and Flood Mitigation of the New York Aquarium, Brooklyn, NY: Turner Construction Company, an EEO Employer, is currently soliciting bids for the Rehabilitation and Flood Mitigation of the New York Aquarium from subcontractors and vendors for the following bid packages: BP #057– Existing Conditions Scan to BIM Services (Bid, Payment & Performance Bond Required) BP #053 – Security/Fire Watch Services (Bid, Payment & Performance Bond Required) BP #058 – Temporary Sanitary Facilities (Bid, Payment & Performance Bond Required) BP #047 – Tile Flooring (Bid, Payment & Performance Bond Required) BP #049 – Mirrors & Glazing (Bid, Payment & Performance Bond Required) Only bids responsive to the entire scope of work will be considered and, to be successful, bidders must be prequalified by Turner. Certified M/WBE and Small Business (13 CFR part 121) companies are encouraged to submit.

In order to receive the bid packages, potential bidders either (1) must initiate the prequalification process by submitting a Subcontractor/Vendor Prequalification Statement to Turner, or (2) must be prequalified based on a prior submission to Turner. (Note: Prior prequalification submissions that remain current will be considered as previously submitted or may be updated at this time.) All bidders must be prequalified by the bid deadline: March 7th, 2022 and initial submission of a prequalification statement not later than March 7th, 2022 is strongly encouraged. All bidders must have an acceptable EMR, and will be subject to government regulations such as 44 CFR and Federal Executive Order 11246.

Successful bidders will be required to use LCP Tracker compliance verification software. Note that while this is a New York City prevailing wage project, union affiliation is not required for BP #057, #053, #058, #0447 or #049.

A Webcast about the above Bid Package/s will be held on February 11, 2022. Attendance is optional for all; the Webcast is designed to assist potential M/WBE subcontractors/vendors.

Link: Please join this meeting from your computer, tablet or smartphone.

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To obtain further information about contracting opportunities and/or the prequalification package and bid solicitation package/s, please contact Dolores Wooden, lspangel@tcco.com 646-842-1659.

The date for the virtual public opening at the Turner Construction Company office located at 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York, is March 8th, 2022 9 AM Link: Please join this opening meeting from your computer, tablet or smartphone.

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Education Justices to hear challenge to race in college admissions

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press The conservative-dominated Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a challenge to the consideration of race in college admissions, adding affirmative action to major cases on abortion, guns, religion and COVID19 already on the agenda.

The court said it will take up lawsuits claiming that Harvard University, a private institution, and the University of North Carolina, a state school, discriminate against Asian American applicants. A decision

against the schools could mean the end of affirmative action in college admissions.

Lower courts rejected the challenges, citing more than 40 years of high court rulings that allow colleges and universities to consider race in admissions decisions. But the colleges and universities must do so in a narrowly tailored way to promote diversity.

The court’s most recent pronouncement was in 2016, in a 4-3 decision upholding the admissions program at the University of Texas against a challenge brought by a

Delta Sigma Theta Sorority National President Cheryl A. Hickmon dies

AmNews Staff Reports Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. National President Cheryl A. Hickmon has died. Sorority officials announced Hickmon passed away on Jan. 20 after a recent illness.

In a Facebook post, the sorority said, “She is remembered not only for her role as a leader but for being a colleague, friend, and most of all, sister.”

A native of Hartford, Conn., Hickmon was a member of Delta Sigma Theta since 1982 being initiated through the Alpha Xi Chapter at South Carolina State University in Orangeburg, SC. “The entire sisterhood of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated mourns the loss of President Hickmon,” the sorority said in a statement. “During this difficult time, we ask that you respect her family’s privacy and keep them in

your prayers.”

Hickmon was employed at Montefiore’s Institute for Reproductive Medicine and Health in Hartsdale, N.Y. She supervised the In Vitro Fertilization Laboratories for Andrology and Endocrinology.

A licensed clinical laboratory technologist, Hickmon worked in the Reproductive Medical Laboratory for more than 30 years, specializing in Andrology and Endocrinology.

Along with her dedicated membership and leadership in Delta Sigma Theta, Hickmon was also a member of the NAACP, NCNW, National Brotherhood of Skiers, and St. Monica’s Episcopal Church.

Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. was founded at Howard University in 1913. The organization has more than 350,000 members and 1,000 chapters worldwide.

white woman. But the composition of the court has changed since then, with the addition of three conservative justices who were appointed by then-President Donald Trump.

Two members of that four-justice majority are gone from the court: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died in 2020, and Justice Anthony Kennedy retired in 2018.

The three dissenters in the case, Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, remain on the court. Roberts, a moderating influence on some issues, has been a steadfast vote to limit the use of race in public programs, once writing, “It is a sordid business, this divvying us up by race.”

The court already has heard arguments in cases that could expand gun rights and religious rights and also roll back abortion rights in a direct challenge to the Roe v. Wade ruling from 1973.

Earlier this month, the justices weighed in for the first time on President Joe Biden’s vaccine policies, halting a rule requiring a vaccine or testing at large businesses while allowing a vaccine mandate for most of the nation’s health care workers.

The affirmative action case probably will be argued in the fall. Both suits were filed by Students for Fair Admissions, a Virginia-based group run by Edward Blum. He has worked for years to rid college admissions of racial considerations, and the court’s new lineup breathed new life into his project.

The group is calling on the court to overturn its 2003 ruling in Grutter v.

Bollinger, which upheld the University of Michigan’s law school admissions program.

The Biden administration had urged the justices to stay away from the issue, writing in the Harvard case that the challenges “cannot justify that extraordinary step” of overruling the 2003 decision.

Harvard President Lawrence Bacow said that the Ivy League institution does not discriminate and vowed to continue defending its admissions plan. “Considering race as one factor among many in admissions decisions produces a more diverse student body which strengthens the learning environment for all,” Bacow said in a statement.

Blum voiced hope that the high court will order an end to taking account of race in college admissions.

“Harvard and the University of North Carolina have racially gerrymandered their freshman classes in order to achieve prescribed racial quotas,” Blum said in a statement.

The Supreme Court has weighed in

on college admissions several times over more than 40 years. The current dispute harks back to its first big affirmative action case in 1978, when Justice Lewis Powell set out the rationale for taking account of race even as the court barred the use of racial quotas in admissions.

In the Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, Powell approvingly cited Harvard as “an illuminating example” of a college that takes “race into account in achieving the educational diversity valued by the First Amendment.”

Twenty-five years later, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor likewise invoked the Harvard plan in her opinion in the Michigan law school case.

Now the Harvard program is under fire from opponents of race-based affirmative action.

Students for Fair Admissions claims that Harvard imposes a “racial penalty” on Asian American applicants by systematically scoring them lower in some categories than other applicants and awarding “massive preferences” to Black and Hispanic applicants.

Harvard flatly denies that it discriminates against Asian American applicants and says its consideration of race is limited, pointing out that lower courts agreed with the university.

In 2020, the federal appeals court in Boston ruled that Harvard looked at race in a limited way in line with Supreme Court precedents.

Harvard’s freshman class is roughly one-quarter Asian American, 16% Black and 13% Hispanic, Harvard says on its website. “If Harvard were to abandon race-conscious admissions, African American and Hispanic representation would decline by nearly half,” the school told the court in urging it to stay out of the case.

The Trump administration had backed Blum’s case against Harvard and filed its own lawsuit alleging discrimination against Asian American and white people at Yale University.

The Biden administration dropped the Yale suit.

North Carolina’s flagship public university prevailed in a federal district court in October. U.S. District Judge Loretta Biggs ruled that the school’s program was intended to produce a diverse student body and had shown the benefits of doing so.

The court accepted the North Carolina case for review even though it has not been heard by a federal appeals court. Blum filed a Supreme Court appeal with the hope that it would be bundled with the Harvard case so that the justices could rule on public and private colleges at the same time.

THE NEW YORK AMSTERDAM NEWS January 27, 2022 - February 2, 2022 • 25 nity organizers and Bronxites ers. There are other quality ty@gmail.com Stephen Ritz of #GreenBronxto effectuate this needed Bronx of life issues to be debated Machine. I will spend 2022 transformation. We would and if you have one, please 2.

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shelter, and Lisa would have likely joined those ranks. Instead, Lisa went to Astoria House, one of five Queensbased Hour Children communal residences.

“They helped so much when I was on the inside, and that didn’t stop when I got to the outside,” Lisa said. “Without them, I would’ve had nowhere to go.”

Six months later, Lisa is embarking on a new part of her journey. She is starting

not one, but two jobs: one with The Fortune Society, and the second with Hour Children working with recently released women living in Hour community housing. In these roles, Lisa will be using many of the skills that she honed while working for Hour Children during her incarceration and at Hour Children’s employment services program, Hour Working Women Program (HWWP). She will oversee tasks such as requisitioning, supply budget management, and move-in and out logistics, but is most excited

to be using her people skills to mediate and resolve conflicts, help women reach out to city entities for assistance, and offer parenting support and advice. Each day will be different, and Lisa feels committed to helping as many women turn their lives around as she can. “Hour Children advocates were friends and mentors to me,” explained Lisa, “and now I can take what I learned from them and be that mentor for other women.”

The vast majority of women in New York State’s prisons and jails will come

home one day. When these women have a supportive place to go when they are released, a place that provides services that strengthens and challenges them to succeed, then they can— and will—be able to change their lives for the better, and for the betterment of their family. They can become fully employed and contributing members of the workforce and their community.

Re-arrest is much less likely to happen when we journey with the women and help them utilize their gifts and talents and encourage

them to develop new skills to be successful. In this way, together, we break the cycle, create new opportunities and foster healing, one family at a time. *name has been changed

Dr. Alethea Taylor is the executive director of Hour Children, a leading provider of services to incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women in New York State. She is a member of The Independent Commission on New York City Criminal Justice and Incarceration Reform.

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Health Street health mobile units offer services to over 100,000 NYers The NYC Test & Trace Corps announced today that its Street Health Outreach & Wellness (SHOW) mobile units have offered services to over 100,000 unique New Yorkers, with a focus on people experiencing homelessness. To date, those services include 50,000 COVID tests, 23,000 social worker engagements, 10,000 medical consultations, and over 5,000 vaccinations.

“The Street Health Outreach and Wellness teams have brought vital health and social services to New Yorkers who were previously without access,” said Dr. Ted Long, executive director of the NYC Test & Trace Corps and senior vice president of Ambulatory Care and Population Health at NYC Health + Hospitals. “SHOW has now provided over a hundred thousand New Yorkers with COVID-19 resources as well as medical and behavioral health care, and broadened our reach to homeless New Yorkers living on the street. The program is an example of an innovative effort that began under COVID-19 that has grown into a grassroots approach to providing street medicine that will continue to offer critical primary and behavioral health care to our most vulnerable New Yorkers far after the pandemic has ended.”

“SHOW offers a gateway to the healthcare system for New Yorkers who may have otherwise not found a way in, providing referrals to social and mental health services, primary care, and lifesaving COVID-19 testing and vaccinations,” said Dr. Amanda K. Johnson, director of Take Care at the NYC Test & Trace Corps and assistant vice president of Ambulatory Care and Population Health at NYC Health + Hospitals.

“As evidenced by the number of repeat patients the program has recently seen, we endeavor to provide a consistent, reliable presence and establish ongoing relationships. The many patients we’ve treated and relationships we’ve forged speaks to the compassionate work of our staff, who hit the streets mile after mile to make sure all New Yorkers receive the care they need.”

The SHOW program deploys a fleet of six mobile health units across New York City to meet people historically disconnected from a continuum of care where they are, engage them, and invite them in for care without appointments or other barriers. In addition to offering vaccinations and no-cost COVID-19 and flu testing, patients are assessed for other needed care, including physical and

mental health screenings and harm reduction services.

Since the program began, over 50,000 tests have been administered and nearly 5,000 New Yorkers have been vaccinated. Social workers have engaged over 23,000 people, providing consultation and referrals to housing, mental health and substance use disorder counseling, financial benefits, employment and connection to clinical care services, including the Primary Care Safety Net Clinic at NYC Health + Hospitals / Bellevue, a program designed to care for New Yorkers experiencing homelessness with medical comorbidities and/ or behavioral health needs.

SHOW has facilitated over 10,000 medical consultations with specialists, RNs and paramedics, including wound care and routine wellness checks, and provided over 5,000 additional New Yorkers with medical and hygienic resources, including Hepatitis A vaccinations, Narcan kits, hygiene bags, socks and meal packages.

“Partnering with NYC Health + Hospitals to reach 100,000 unique patients is a tremendous milestone, and further validation of the success of this visionary program,” said Anthony Capone,

president of DocGo. “DocGo is committed to bringing care to patients where and when they need it most. We hope additional municipalities follow New York City’s lead, and deploy similar initiatives to ensure their most vulnerable populations are receiving these vital healthcare services.”

SHOW’s six street outreach teams, stationed with each mobile unit, include clinical staff, a paramedic and social worker who are able to walk nearby streets, subways and parks to bring resources to people where they are, including those who are disabled or otherwise not be able to reach our mobile locations.

Ninety percent of people this group of on-the-ground professionals engages are New Yorkers experiencing homelessness.

In addition, in November 2021, about a quarter of SHOW patients had previously been tested or received a consultation through SHOW. SHOW mobile units are deployed to high-need areas in New York City Tuesday through Saturday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. For the most up-to-date information about mobile site locations and scheduling, please visit the Street Health Outreach & Wellness Mobile Units website.

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not be able to afford rent in BedStuy or people won’t let you. Then on top of the pandemic, landlords are sort of holding tenants to the fire, as if we all of a sudden have extra money around when we have lost our jobs.”

Prior to the pandemic and the subsequent eviction moratorium, the zip codes within Flatbush and East Flatbush had some of the highest eviction rates in Brooklyn.

The 11226, 11203, and 11210 zip codes had rates of 2.46%, 2.38% and 2.03% respectively.

Dorca Reynoso says it is clear that eviction disproportionately affects Black people and Black

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women in particular.

“Even if you don’t look at these statistics, all you have to do is go into a train station and what are you going to see—mainly Black people in these train stations unhoused,” said Reynoso. “Many people think we’re in this situation because we want to be; because we’re lazy and we don’t care.”

In 2020, Eviction Lab sampled more than 1,000 counties across the country for a study focused on understanding racial and gender disparities. The study found that while Black people composed almost 20% of adult renters, they accounted for 32.7% of eviction filings in court.

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By NAIMA OYO Special to the AmNews “I believe that organizing and education are the most powerful weapons in the war to break the cycle of poverty in any community, but especially in the low-income communities where I live and work.”

––Kali N’doye Hajja Kali Marcia Fonville N’doye was born in Brooklyn, New York on Sept. 3, 1953, to Lillian Audrey May and Hubert David Fonville. She was the sixth born of seven children. Her parents, both children of the American South, migrated north from North Carolina seeking a better life. They met, married in Brooklyn, New York and raised their family in Coney Island.

Her life-long love and commitment to family and community started early in life, which allowed her to transcend her humble beginnings in one of the poorest communities in Brooklyn. Her mother “Grandma Billie” was a source of wisdom and deep matriarchal strength.

Marcia Fonville escaped Coney Island on the “Oba Train” at the tender age of fifteen, and reclaimed her African identity by taking the name Kali Oyo. Fired up by the vision of revolution and the promise of a liberated African people, Obaba, Kali and Naaja Oyo together laid the foundation of the Oyo family as a model for Pan-African nation building. Knowing economic power is critical to nation building, they were artist-entrepreneurs and sold their creations as

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vendors across the nation. During this time Kali was a master jeweler, she loved to share that she created earrings for Nina Simone and all of Nana Dinizulu’s jewelry. As a master market woman, Kali spent many hours working in Greenwich Village at The Merchants of Oyo (aka The Village Store) with her mother in-law, Fatima Mary York.

Kali had a birthday tradition of returning to Coney Island to spend her birthday in reflection of her personal journey and the collective journey towards Pan African liberation. She would start at the water and walk the streets of her youth looking for familiar faces.

The Oyo family grew over the years and is known as one of the foundational families of Pan African Brooklyn. These families built institutions and a community that promoted love of Africa and its people—both on the continent and in the diaspora—for over 40 years.

Working in collaboration with the East Family, the Dinizulu Family, and the Ishangi Family these committed individuals came together and created a new African-centered world. This birthed a powerful generation raised knowing and loving Africa, its culture, history and armed with the knowledge that the key to our liberation as a people lies in each other. UBUNTU Haaja Kali Ndoye was exposed to the Islamic faith during the Civil Rights Movement. She used her faith in the creator as another tool in her toolbox to wake up the African American community and break the chains of mental slavery. Her faith informed her organizing with the African Islamic Mission and she used it as a guiding principle to leave the world better than she found it.

During a trip to Senegal in December 1996, Kali met and fell in love with Mbaye N’doye. Their love evolved into a rich extended family life with the N’doye clan, furthering and deepening Kali’s love of Africa. Kali loved

inviting people to come and experience Africa. Everyone was welcome to stay at their home in Yoff and experience the Senegalese tradition of “terenga”…even if she had just met you. She is a respected and loved elder of the Yoff Lyon community in both Senegal and metropolitan New York.

Professionally, Kali was a beloved community organizer, urban planner, housing development specialist, and international activist for women’s rights and economic empowerment. She began her career in community organizing in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, the same community where she was born almost 70 years ago.

Kali’s love and respect for her community and family fueled her passion and inspired her to keep pushing community residents and community-based organizations to reach their full potential. She traveled the world, organizing, participating in international conferences, seminars, and peer learning to stay abreast of current trends in community development. She even presented at several U.N. Women’s Conferences. Her travelstudy has taken her around the world: to Durban, Johannesburg and Cape Town in South Africa, Malawi, Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia, Ghana, Senegal, Gambia, Nigeria, India, Thailand, Hong Kong, China, Haiti, the Bahamas, and most recently

Israel and Palestine.

Kali was motivated by the belief that an organized community of families in support of each other is a formula that can be used to encourage low-income communities to recreate themselves in a balanced, healthy mode. “A balanced community is one where government, private-sector business, nonprofits and human capital interact in the best interest of the community, in a shared vision.

A decent, safe vibrant community can be achieved when the residents are organized to see such a vision as achievable. Currently, many low-income urban communities lack cohesiveness, which makes it difficult if not impossible to achieve a healthy balanced community.”

Kali’s never ending passion project was her work in the international arena with the Concerned Cultural Women’s Collective (CCWC), a grassroots organization of women working with women at home and abroad. CCWC coordinates educational and cultural family-centered programs, financial literacy workshops, and training programs both in Africa and the USA. The battle cry from the South African women’s resistance movement to apartheid, “You have touched a woman.

You have struck a rock. You have dislodged a boulder. You will be crushed,” was one of her favorite quotes on the power of women!

Kali Marcia Fonville Oyo Muhammadu N’doye will continue her work, she has joined the ranks of our esteemed ancestors and will always walk alongside us and guide our steps. She has raised powerful daughters and sons trusted to carry on and realize the vision of a LIBERATED AFRICAN PEOPLE! She leaves this work in the hands of all those who passed through 1390 Bedford Avenue, especially the children she helped to raise…Nilaja, Dara (d.), Ife (d.), Kaaba, Odiya, Buddah “Earl,” Yemaya, Tondo, Mazi, Enilolobo “Malika,” Naima, Nzingah, Jamila, Yasmine, Ibn “Happy,” Yaji, Agaja, Adashima, Afifiya, Asadallah, Ahmadu, Kotoko, Afalalu, Yaka, and Saduda, Jirkita.

She also leaves behind her husband Mbaye Nodye, her sister Anna “Olubumni” Fonville, two brothers Carl Fonville and Hubert Fonville Jr., countless nieces, nephews, grandchildren, in-laws, extended family in US and Senegal and her soul brother number one Steven Flax and his family!

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“…We do know that unemployment rates are usually higher for African Americans and therefore that results in not only more financial hardship, but family and specifically emotional hardship, which puts them at risk for possibly more substance abuse.”

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in 2020 (92,000) showed a 30% increase from the previous year, according to the CDC. The CDC also showed that between June 2020 and June 2021, drug overdose deaths increased by over 18%, which is just below the center’s prediction of over 20%, but an increase, nonetheless.

New York State recorded 2,572 deaths in June 2020 compared to 2,844 deaths in June 2021. An over 10% increase. The CDC couldn’t collect any more data due to the state’s underreporting of said data.

But the recent surge in drug overdose deaths have hit Black men the hardest according to a new report by the Pew

January 27, 2022 - February 2, 2022 • 29 Steven Woolf from Virginia Commonwealth University and Heidi Schoomaker of Eastern Virginia Medical School showed that overdose deaths increased among Black people between the ages of 55 to 64 in big cities.

The COVID-19 pandemic has lifted the rock to show the probessential workers gigs, the pan- lems of a capitalist system. demic put them at risk of death.

Gardere also believes that In some cases if Black America’s race problem plays Americans weren’t work- a role. ing service jobs, they weren’t “We see the increase in suiworking at all. cide rates may speak to health It’s a concept that Princeton disparities with regard to how University economists Angus people of color are treated, Deaton and Anne Case have and of course, how COVIDchronicled in their New York 19 has disproportionately afTimes bestseller “Deaths of De- fected older people, people spair and the Future of Capital- with premorbid conditions ism.” The book details how the and people of color like Black flaws in capitalism hurt Ameri- and Brown people who are ca’s working class the most. also intersect with those parA November 2019 study by ticular groups.”

Research Center.

According to Pew, as recently as 2015, Black men were less likely than white, American Indian or Alaska native men to die from drug overdoses. Between 2015 and 2020, the rate among Black men increased by 213% (from 17.3 per 1,000 to 54.1 per 1,000). During the same period drug overdoses among Black women increased 144%, which is higher than any other group of women.

Dr. Jeff Gardere, a clinical psychologist and professor at

the Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine, stated, “…We do know that unemployment rates are usually higher for African Americans and therefore that results in not only more financial hardship, but family and specifically emotional hardship, which puts them at risk for possibly more substance abuse.”

The Economic Policy Institute noted in April 2020 that job losses have hit Black people especially hard, and for those who are working service jobs,

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THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK BY THE GRACE OF GOD FREE AND INDEPENDENT TO: Attorney General of the State of New York; Gilbert Seldes; Estate of Timothy Seldes To Manuel Rosario, whose whereabouts is unknown, if living, and if he died subsequent to the decedent herein, to his heirs at law, next of kin, distributees, legatees, executors, administrators, assignees and successors in interest whose names and places of residence are unknown and cannot, after diligent inquiry, be ascertained by the petitioner herein; And to the heirs at law, next of kin and distributees of Brian A. Murray, deceased, if living, and if any of them be dead, to their heirs at law, next of kin, distributees, legatees, executors, administrators, assignees and successors in interest whose names and places of residence are unknown and cannot, after diligent inquiry, be ascertained by the petitioner herein; A petition and an account having been duly filed by Elisabeth Seldes Annacone, who is domiciled at 20333 Lander Drive, Woodland Hills, California 91364; YOU ARE HEREBY CITED TO SHOW CAUSE, before the Surrogate's Court, New York County, at the Court House, 31 Chambers Street, New York, New York, on the 10th day of March, 2022 at 9:30 o'clock in the forenoon, why the account of Elisabeth Seldes Annacone, a summary of which h been served herewith, as Executor of the Estate of Marian Seldes should not be judicially settled; and

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Why Martha J. Wilson should not be appointed as trustee of the Martha J. Wilson Trust under Article FIFTH; Why the claim of the Authors League of America, Inc. should not be denied; Why the claim of Katharine Andres should not be denied; Why each of the $10,000 general bequest to Manuel Rosario under Article THIRD D.5 of the Will and the $2,500 general bequest to Brian Murray under Article THIRD D.7 of the Will should not be deposited with the New York State Commissioner of Finance; Why Elisabeth Seldes Annacone, as executor, should not be released and discharged of and from any and all further liability or accountability whatsoever with respect to any and all matters embraced in her final account of proceedings as executor of the Estate of Marian Seldes; and Why the Court should not grant such other and further relief as to the Court seems just and proper.

To all Parties: No in-person appearance shall be made at the return date. If you wish to object to this matter, you may do so in writing in accordance with the annexed New York County Surrogate's Court Notice to Cited Parties.

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Community Voices Heard housing advocacy group rallies for the passing of Good Cause Eviction law. (Contributed photo)

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more support since the pandemic in 2020. The legislation is meant to prevent tenants from outrageous rent hikes or being evicted without cause.

The pandemic fueled the drive to pass the bill before the moratorium ended to help stabilize the city’s, and by extension the state’s, housing crisis. According to a post from the National Low Income Housing Coalition, last year’s $2.2 billion for the Emergency Rental Assistance Program (ERAP) went to an estimated 591,000 households in New York behind on rent, with 75% being households of color. Not many renters, however, received aid.

Salazar said that communities throughout New York face an unprecedented and multi-pronged housing crisis now that the eviction moratorium has ended.

“There already was a crisis of housing instability, excessive rents, and arbitrary evictions prior to the COVID-19 public health emergency,” said Salazar. “Now as we enter the third year of the pandemic, the housing crisis has deepened.”

Community Voices Heard Executive Director Juanita O. Lewis said she was for passing the bill as opposed to extending the ‘bandaid’ moratorium. Lewis spent most of the weeks leading up to the end of the moratorium prepping residents and getting them to file for emergency rental assistance.

She said unfortunately plenty of people were still nervous because there wasn’t a guarantee in place, especially for privately owned, small buildings.

“The situation was that you wouldn’t be evicted if you filled out the application and things were in process, but because of the way everything had rolled out from the summer until now, there were still hundreds of thousands of applications going through the process,” said Lewis about the weekend the moratorium ended. “People were placed in limbo.”

New York State had received over $2.6 billion in federal emergency

rental assistance, said the mayor’s office. In the state’s recent budget proposal, Gov. Kathy Hochul pledged $2 billion in additional funding for pandemic relief, which she indicated should go to the Emergency Rental Assistance Program (ERAP), the Landlord Rental Assistance Program (LRAP), and other rental assistance programs, like the Community Housing Improvement Program.

Lewis said that budgeting for more money to ERAP is specifically for pandemic relief and that alone will not protect tenants. She posits that Good Cause will go beyond the COVID crisis and help tenants that need repairs in smaller buildings and protections from rent increases.

Salazar called the bill a “common-sense” and “balanced” effort to provide significant protections for tenants throughout the state by clearly prohibiting unjustified evictions. She added that the bill will also provide protections for small property-owners.

“I and many of my colleagues view passing Good Cause as a top priority and are actively engaged in discussions to make this happen as soon as possible,” said Salazar.

Attorney General Letitia James also reminded residents to know their existing rights and protections under state laws. For example, landlords may not charge late fees for rent that was due from March 20, 2020 through June 24, 2021 and can’t get free money in an eviction proceeding.

James said in a statement, “Although our state’s eviction moratorium may have ended, the guidance we are issuing today highlights the various measures that are still in place for New Yorkers to prevent eviction and stay in their homes. My office remains committed to protecting New Yorkers, and we will continue to do everything we can to ensure the safety and wellbeing of New York residents.”

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Danielle Patterson shows you can go home again

By LOIS ELFMAN Special to the AmNews

has put some bumps in the road for college basketball.

Several St. John’s games B ro okly n nati ve have been canceled or Da nielle Patters o n , a postponed, but Patterson g ra du ate of Th e Ma r y is staying focused. “You L ou is Acade my, wa s a have to stay really flexible, h ig h ly re cr u ite d p ro sand you have to take care p e ct coming ou t o f of your body,” she said. h ig h s cho ol. A McPatterson has already D o na ld’s All -Am e r icompleted her bachelor’s ca n, she de c i d e d to degree, so she is pursuattend Unive rsi t y o f ing a master’s in sports No t re Dam e, w i n n i ng administration.

She’s a n N C A A title i n h e r also able to share with fre sh man yea r. D eher teammates what it is sp i te a re turn tr i p to like to play for a Nationth e Final Fou r h e r al Championship. This is s o p h omore yea r, s h e Brooklyn native Danielle Patterson is lighting things up for St. John’s (St. John’s Athletics photo) wonderful preparation d e c id e d to tra n s f e r for coaching, the career to Ind iana Un i ve rsi t y, bu t o p te d tunity presented itself, I knew what I It’s a thrill to look at the stands at to which she aspires. ou t of playing i n Febr u a r y 2 0 2 1 . wanted for my last two years.

Carnesecca Arena and see people “The biggest thing I’ve learned now With two years of eligibility re“I’d been away in Indiana for four who’ve watched since she started being a fifth year is you have to do maining, Patterson wanted to find a years,” she added. “I wanted to finish playing hoops. “They can be in the what makes you happy and where program where she could flourish, so it closer to home, where my family stands whenever they want, cheer- you feel you can be the most confishe decided to return home to New can come see me. The opportuni- ing me on,” she said. “It’s a full circle dent as a player,” Patterson said. “At York City and is now playing for St. ty was there where I knew I would moment. I kind of get to write my the end of the day you are the person John’s University. “St. John’s feels be able to come in and have a big own ending.” that is going to go through all that very familiar to me,” she said. “They impact.”

With players and coaches vacci- being a student-athlete is. You have obviously have followed me basicalNow settled in, Patterson has been nated, the season started with such to do what benefits you the most ly my whole career. When the oppor- playing some of her best basketball. a flourish, but the Omicron variant when all is said and done.”

After naming a new GM, the Giants’ next coaching hire will be substantial

By JAIME C. HARRIS AmNews Sports Editor

“Throughout our search, Joe impressed us with his ability to communicate a progressive and comprehensive vision for our team. His philosophy and collaborative approach to building a roster and coaching staff align with

out among all the prospects vetted and interviewed. “Joe is the kind of exceptional leader we sought to oversee our football operations,” conveyed Giants chairman Steve Tisch. “We will do whatever it takes to support Joe’s

Joe as our general manager.”

Mara added, “Steve and I were both impressed with Last Friday the Giants anall nine candidates…We just nounced that they had hired felt like Joe was the right fit at 42-year-old Joe Schoen as the right time for us.” So next their new general manager, is hiring the team’s new head replacing 70-year-old Dave coach. Brooklyn native and Getttleman, former Miami Dolphins head who retired coach Brian Flores would be after four seaa prudent choice. He led the sons on the Dolphins for three seasons and job.

Schoen went 19-14 the last two before had previousshockingly being fired by the ly served as franchise’s principal owner the assistant Stephen Ross on Jan. 10. general manThe 40-year-old Flores has ager of the proven to possess the necesBuffalo Bills sities—the aforementioned since 2017 leadership skills, experience and before and intelligence—to help that a longresurrect a team that hasn’t time member made the playoffs since of the Miami 2016. He saw firsthand as a Dolphins scout and assistant with the front office New England Patriots from staff, includ2008 to 2018 how a winning ing holding team should be constructed the position and sustained. assistant diYet the name that has rector of colsurfaced in media reports lege scouting. prominently as perhaps “We are the Giants’ top aspirant is pleased and After hiring Joe Schoen as their new GM, the Giants’ next head coach will 46-year-old Brian Dabol, the be tasked with rejuvenating the team’s gifted running back Saquon Barkley proud to name offensive coordinator for the Joe as our gen- (Bill Moore photo) Bills since 2018. Dabol was eral managalso a Patriots assistant from er,” said Giants president what we were looking for in a vision and strategic plan for 2001 to 2006. Schoen and John Mara in a statement re- general manager.” success. We are excited to Dabol helped lift the Bills leased by the organization.

Schoen evidently stood begin this next chapter with into a playoff team in no

small measure resulting from the rise of quarterback Josh Allen. Ironically, there was a plurality of Giants fans that called for them to draft Allen with the No. 2 overall pick in the 2018 NFL Draft.

Instead, the Giants selected Bronx-born running back Saquon Barkley and the Bills took Allen at No. 7. Barkley had a historically great first year, in which he was named the Offensive Rookie of the Year and rushed for 1,003 yards behind an unstable offensive line in 2019. But he has been plagued by injuries over the past two seasons, including missing 14 games in the 2020 campaign after tearing an ACL in Week 2.

Meanwhile, Allen has developed into a franchise altering quarterback, a superstar at the most important position in the sport.

Whoever Mara, Tisch and Schoen entrust as the next man up on the sideline, he will be tasked with reviving Barkley into one of the league’s most dangerous weapons, rebuilding an alarmingly broken offensive line and determining if QB Daniel Jones is the longterm answer under center and if not, securing a Super Bowl caliber signal caller.

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A daunting schedule could undo the Knicks’ playoff ambitions

By JAIME C. HARRIS AmNews Sports Editor

Knicks head coach Tom Thibodeau has often articulated his belief in staying in the moment and not looking beyond the next game. It’s a sound philosophy but one that is challenging to consistently practice, particularly when the schedule is as daunting on paper as what lies ahead for Knicks.

They began a three-game road trip on Monday with a 95-93 loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers to drop to 23-25, 11th in the Eastern Conference before playing the Heat in Miami last night (Wednesday).

The Knicks starting center Mitchell

The Knicks began a three-game road trip on Monday versus the Cleveland Cavaliers without starting center Mitchell Robinson, who sat out with sprained left ankle (Still photo courtesy of YouTube)

Robinson sat out against the Cavs with a sprained left ankle, which occured on Sunday at Madison Square Garden in a 110-102 win over the Los Angeles Clippers.

The Cavs’ victor y against the Knicks improved their record to 29-19, fifth in the East, and they were just 1.5 games behind the Heat, who were 30-17 and atop of the conference standings before hosting the Knicks. Tomorrow, the Knicks will challenge the defending NBA champion Milwaukee Bucks, who were 30-19, fourth in the conference, and just one game below the Heat prior to facing the Cavaliers on the road last night.

So this week’s test against three of the top five teams in the East may be less difficult than what awaits the Knicks the next two weeks. They return to the Garden for games against the Sacramento Kings and ascending Memphis Grizzlies next Monday and Wednesday respectively, then embark on a eight-day, five-game road trip versus Western Conference opponents that could put them in a deficit in the race for a playoff spot from which they may

not recover.

The Knicks will open up against the Los Angeles Lakers Feb. 5, then in succession play the Utah Jazz (Feb. 7), Denver Nuggets (Feb. 8), Golden State Warriors (Feb. 10) and close with the Portland Trailblazers Feb. 12. Following the defeat to the Cavaliers, Thibodeau stressed the Knicks have to adapt to what the schedule makers and circumstances have produced, and the potential fatigue that arises over the course of the long 82-game regular season grind.

“Look, back-to-backs are part of this league,” he said in reference to his team having to play this past Sunday and Monday. “And that’s why your conditioning is so important. And you want to be in great shape. You gotta prepare for ever ything. There’s gonna be stretches where the schedule is in your favor, other times when it’s not,” Thibodeau messaged.

“When the ball goes up you gotta be ready to go. And so some nights the other team is more rested than you are but that’s no excuse. You gotta find a way to get it done.”

Joe Harris’ impending return will be a key addition for the Nets

By VINCENT DAVIS Special to the AmNews

With Kevin Durant sidelined indefinitely with a sprained medial collateral ligament in his left knee, suffered Jan. 15 in a 120-105 win over the New O r l e a n s P e l i c a n s, t h e B r o o klyn Nets could use additional dependable shooters and a veteran presence. Joe Harris, their 6-foot-6 guard/small forward, would be more than welcomed to fill that role.

But his expected return has been delayed due to issues in his recovery from surgery on his left ankle. Harris hasn’t p l a y e d s i n c e N o v. 1 4 a n d h a d s u r g e r y o n N o v. 2 9 . T h e 3 0 - y e a r- o l d 3 -p o i n t m a rk s m a n was averaging 11.3 points per game in 14 games played this season and was making 46.6% of his three pointers. The initial time period given for his recovery was four to eight weeks. The Nets have not stated when he will be ready to rejoin the lineup. The Nets were 29-17, third in the Eastern Conference before facing the Los Angeles Lakers in Brooklyn on Tu e s d ay .

“I’m reluctant to talk about it b e c a u s e I ’ m n o t a d o c t o r, s o I don’t want to say the wrong

t h i n g ,” s a i d N e t s h e a d c o a c h St e v e Na s h o n Su n d ay a f t e rn o o n a f t e r h i s t e a m ’s 1 3 6 - 1 2 5 road loss to the Minnesota Timber wolves, the most points the Nets have allowed t h i s s e a s o n . “ B u t h e ’s h a d some flare-ups, little setb a c k s h e r e a n d t h e r e . B u t h e ’s continuing to stay positive and work on his rehab and t r y t o o v e r c o m e i t .” N a s h a n d the Nets’ primar y decision makers believe that Harris, o n e o f t h e t e a m ’s m o r e d u rable players since joining them in 2016, is progressing but not ready to return to full contact practices. “ H e ’s g e t t i n g o n t h e c o u r t a little bit and continuing to work through the rehab, b u t h e ’s n o t r e a d y f o r h i s h i g h - i n t e n s i t y s t u f f y e t ,” Nash noted.

After hosting the Denver Nuggets at the Barclays C e nt e r l a s t n i g ht ( We d n e s day) the Nets will begin a nine-day, five-game road trip beginning Saturday versus the G olden State War r iors. The y will also play the Phoenix S u n s n e x t Tu e s d ay , t h e S a cra m e nt o Ki n g s n e xt We d n e sday, the Utah Jazz on Fr iday and end with the Nuggets on Sunday, Feb. 6.

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Olympic medalist Gabby Thomas readies for the Millrose 60-meters

By LOIS ELFMAN Special to the AmNews

Gabby Thomas will run the 60-meter dash at Millrose Games

(Photo courtesy of OLIPOP)

Gabby Thomas came onto the global stage at last summer’s Olympic Games in Tokyo, winning a bronze medal in the 200 meters and silver as a member of the 4x100 relay team. This Saturday, she’ll be running the 60-meter dash at Millrose Games.

Thomas has competed at Millrose before, running the 400 meters in 2019.

“I ran my first 400 meters ever,” said Thomas, who acknowledged that she didn’t run a great race.

“But I’m excited to come back, and I’m excited to run Millrose because I’m itching to get competing and to start indoor. I think it will be a really great meet for me because I’m doing the 60-meter dash and I’m looking to improve on my 100-meter race this season.

“I didn’t get a lot of opportunities to race last season in the 100,” she added. “This will be a good opportunity for me to kind

of perfect a lot of things I’ve been working on this fall and do it against some really elite competition.”

Thomas knows Millrose Games has always been a great atmosphere for track and field and the athletes are treated like rockstars.

The energy from the fans is tremendous.

“Ever yone in there loves track and field; even the athletes are all ver y excited and feeling ready to run because it’s one of the earlier meets,” Thomas said. “We’re all excited to get out there and get our spikes on.”

It’s been a time of new experiences for Thomas, who has enjoyed a variety of opportunities following her Olympic successes. She said it was a bit of a challenge coming off the high of the Olympic season, which went from the Olympic trials in June to one post-Olympic track meet, so she took some time off to reset.

“Then I came back after about six or seven weeks and I knew what I wanted

to work on,” she said. “I knew exactly what I was capable of and I knew some things I wanted to tune up, mainly my 100meter race—working on a

couple of things, like my start. That’s why this 60meter dash is going to be such a perfect opportunity for me to see where I’m at, see what I’ve accom-

plished in the fall training season and see what’s working and what’s not working and adjust accordingly for the rest of the season.”

Olympian Tara Davis to start her season at Millrose Games

By LOIS ELFMAN Special to the AmNews

(Photo courtesy of Texas Athletics)

L a st year wa s inc re dible for lo ng jump e r Ta ra Dav is. She f u lf i l l e d a life lo ng d ream of comp e ting at t he O ly mp i c Games, g rad u ate d f rom the Un i ve rsit y of Te x a s at Au stin and g o t e ngag e d to Pa ra ly mp ia n Hu nte r Wo o d ha ll. O n Satu rday, s he’s j o i ning an illustr i ou s f i el d of O lymp ia n s at Millros e Games.

It w ill b e he r f i rst track m e e t si n ce To kyo, he r first m e e t a s a p ro fessional a n d th e sta r t o f h er push towa rd th e 2 0 2 4 O lympics.

“I’m so excited,” said Davis. “They mentioned they don’t usually do the long jump, but they wanted to do it this year.”

Davis is eagerly anticipating her first time at Millrose Games. She has previously

Long jumper Tara Davis

competed at The Armory’s New Balance Track & Field Center, so she knows about the avid spectators. “You can feel their energy,” she said.

Woodhall will be competing in the men’s 400 meters, and Davis is grateful they get to share the experience. “His training has been going so well, so

I think he’s really excited to see where he’s at,” said Davis.

Now training in Fayetteville, Arkansas, Davis admits it wasn’t easy to get back into training after the Olympics. “I felt a little lost after it because I’ve already achieved my main goal in life, to make the Olympic team,” Davis said. “Coming

off a crazy high…my mind felt like, ‘OK, you’re done.

Nothing else.’ But that’s not the case.

“With the training group I have and the determination that they have and my goals I’ve set for myself—I want to be a World Champion—that has been my main push so far,” she added. “I had to change my mind-

set. Now that there’s not an Olympic team to make, I’m not a collegiate athlete anymore. Now I have track and field professional athlete goals to look forward to, so I’m setting goals and reality marks for myself, and it’s all coming back together.”

It is the start of the next phase of Davis’ life and she’s psyched that it’s at Millrose Games. When she watched Millrose Games on T V in high school, she talked to her father about running hurdles—she still runs the 60- and 100-meter hurdles—at Millrose. Although she’ll be doing a field not track event, it’s absolutely another dream realized.

“When I think of track meets, I think about the experience,” said Davis.

“It’s not just about racing.

You want the entire experience—the crowd, the officials, the warmup. Those things make a track meet the track meet that it is.

You want to go back for more.”

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Sports A coin toss and field goal send the Chiefs and Bengals to the AFC Championship

By VINCENT DAVIS Special to the AmNews

“That’s a kicker’s dream,” said McPherson, “to have the game on your shoulLast Saturders.” Overall McPherson day’s opening AFC was 4-4 on field goals, indivisional round playcluding a long of 54 yards. off game between “We’re here to make some the Cincinnati Bennoise, and teams are going gals and the Tennesto have to pay attention to see Titans began a us,” Bengals second-year weekend of incredible quarterback Joe Burrow emgames. The outcome phatically stated. Burrow was of each of the four impressive in completing in NFL postseason 28 of his 37 matchups were decidpasses for 348 yards and ed on the final play. one interception. He enThe Bengals, the dured endless pressure from AFC’s No. 4 seed, the Titans defense and was Quarterback Pat Mahomes and the Kansas Chiefs will be knocked off the sacked nine times. top seeded Titans seeking their third straight appearance in the Super Bowl when While the Bengals-Titans they host the Cincinnati Bengals in the AFC Championship by 19-16 on the game was low scoring, the road on a field goal Game on Sunday (Still photo courtesy of YouTube) Chiefs-Buffalo Bills pairing as time expired to was an offensive slugfest, advance to the AFC ChampiThey will be taking on the Kansas with the Chiefs landing the final blow. onship Game on Sunday. With City Chiefs, who are returning to the They defeated the Bills 42-36 in overthe score tied at 16, rookie Evan conference final for a fourth straight time in what was an epic playoff battle.

McPherson kicked a 52-yarder ad- time. The Chiefs are also the first team The teams combined for 25 points in vancing the Bengals to the confer- to ever host four consecutive con- the last 2 minutes of regulation with ence championship game for the ference championship games. The the lead exchanging three times. The first time since 1988. winner moves on to the Super Bowl.

Chiefs’ Harrison Butker’s 48-yard field

goal at the end of regulation sent the game into overtime.

The Chiefs won the coin toss and their sensational quarterback Patrick Mahomes led them on a eight-play, 75-yard drive capped off by an eightyard touchdown pass to Travis Kelce to end the game and send them to a meeting with the Bengals this Sunday (3:00 p.m.). Mahomes threw for 378 yards, connecting on 33 of his 44 passes and three touchdowns. He also ran for a team-high 69.

Bills QB Josh Allen was just as spectacular, going 27-37 for 329 yards with 68 on the ground. Buffalo’s most glaring fault was calling the wrong side of the coin before it was tossed to determine which team would get the ball to start overtime. NFL rules state that if a team scores a touchdown on the opening possession in overtime, it ends the game.

“All you can do is play the rules the way the rules are explained, and that’s what we did,” said Mahomes.

This will be the second meeting this season between the Bengals and Chiefs. The Bengals had a narrow 34-31 win in Cincinnati on Jan. 2.

The Rams and 49ers pull off upsets to advance to the NFC title game

By JAIME C. HARRIS Amsterdam News Sports Editor Seedings in the NFL playoffs this season have been of little importance.

There are no No. 1 seeds remaining of the four teams still in the tournament and only a single No. 2 (the Kansas City Chiefs). In the National Football Conference, two upsets last weekend in the divisional round set the stage for familiar foes strapping on their helmets for the opportunity to play in the Super Bowl.

On Saturday, the No. 6 San Francisco 49ers went into Green Bay where temperatures were in the low teens and vanquished Aaron Rodgers and the top seeded Packers 13-10 on a 45-yard field goal by Robbie Gould as time ended in regulation. A day later in Florida, where the weather was much warmer, quarterback Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the NFC’s No. 2 seed, fell short of engineering an improbable comeback and were defeated by the No. 4 seed Los Angleles Rams 30-27 as Matt Gay guided a 30-yard field goal through the uprights as the final second ticked off the scoreboard.

“Always tough to lose at the end of the year,” said Brady, a seven-time Super Bowl champion who led the Bucs to the title last season. “One team, one

year, it’s never the same after AM NEWS that. It doesn’t feel good to 01/06/22 lose any one of those games.

I’ve lost at every one of those stages. It all sucks to lose in the end.”

AM NEWS After trail01/13/22 ing 27-3 with a little over seven minutes to go in the third quarter, the Buccaneers made a furi- Jalen Ramsey, the Los Angeles Rams’ three-time Firstthe NFC ous comeback team All-Pro cornerback, will play a pivotal role inAM NEWS championship game against the San Francisco 49ers on and tied the 01/20/22 Sunday (Wikipedia photo) game at 27 on a 9-yard rush by running back Leonard Fournette with outstanding.” A Rams win over the 49ers 42 seconds left in the fourth. But the at home on Sunday (6:30 p.m. kickRams were able to move into field goal off ) will afford them the luxury of also range on two passes from their quarter- playing the Super Bowl at their home back Mathew Stafford to wide receiver two weekends later as it will be held at Cooper Kupp totaling 64 yards. gleaming SoFi Stadium in AM Inglewood, NEWS “We knew it wasn’t going to be easy,” California.

01/27/22 said Stafford. “I mean, we sure let ‘em But first things first. The 49ers have back in the game with a bunch of mis- beaten their NFC West division rival six takes on offense. Our defense played straight times and handed Rodgers, ar-

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