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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People used to fly their 'A man was lynched yesterday' flag to mark Black lynchings in the United States.

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Pols finally pass anti-lynching bill after over a century of failed attempts

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

law by President Joe Biden.

The Associated Press reported that the House had approved a similar bill in 2020, but it was blocked in the After over a century of trying, law- Senate. This year the House approved makers in the House and Senate final- a revised version which the Senate ly managed to make lynching a federal passed unanimously this week. hate crime this Monday by passing the “The history of lynchings in AmeriEmmett Till Antilynching Act. The bill ca runs deep and has been used as a is currently waiting to be signed into weapon of terror against Black Ameri-

Meeks leads group to Ukraine border

“Thousands upon thousands of Black Americans have been victims of lynch mobs across the country, and indifferent states rarely responded, if ever,” said Schumer in a statement. “Many of the sworn officers of these states and localities not only ignored, but often participated when these atrocities occurred.”

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WNBA star arrested in Putin’s Russia

By CYRIL JOSH BARKER Amsterdam News Staff

By KAREN JUANITA CARRILLO Special to the AmNews

“Heartbreak” is the word Queens Congressman Gregory Meeks uses to describe what he saw during a bipartisan delegation he led to the border of Poland and Ukraine. Meeks, who is the chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, made the trip to assess the needs at the border, which has received the largest influx of

Brittney Griner, the two-time Olympic champion and seven-time WNBA All Star, was arrested in Vladimir Putin’s Russia this past February. Concern is growing for Griner’s safety since she is both Black and queer in Russia, a nation in which Putin has allowed anti-Black and anti-LGBTQ+ sentiment to foster.

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See GRINER on page 23

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cans,” said New York State Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins.

She called this a gratifying step towards healing generational traumas that lynchings have inflicted on Black communities throughout the U.S. U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said that over the decades similar anti-lynching bills had been filibustered, blocked, or buried.

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RUSSIA’S EXTENSIVE MILITARY SALES BUY SILENCE ON CRITICAL U.N. VOTE (GIN)—“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.”

Those were the prophetic words of the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu, recalled now by influencers on social media pressing South Africa to cut or reduce old “friendly ties” with Russia.

But backing away from a long political and economic relationship with Moscow will not be easy. The eastern European nuclear power has already begun to call in the debt earned from years of anti-colonial and anti-apartheid support.

Writing recently on the South African news site, iol.co.za, the Embassy of the Russian Federation in South Africa extolled the “traditionally friendly ties between our countries which date back to the struggle against apartheid.” They cited visits to the USSR in the 1920-’30s by prominent ANC members, stalwarts of revolution such as Josiah Gumede, Moses Kotane and John Beaver Marks.

Similarly in Ghana, Russian President Vladimir Putin sent a personal letter to President Nana Akufo Addo congratulating him on the country’s 65th independence anniversary.

“Please accept my sincere congratulations on the occasion of the national holiday of the Republic of Ghana!” Putin addressed the Ghanaian leader. “The relations between Russia and Ghana are traditionally of a friendly nature. I am convinced that further development of a constructive bilateral dialogue and partnership meets the interests of our peoples, contributing to the peace and security on the African continent.”

Africa’s hesitation to speak out at a recent U.N. vote against Russia’s unprovoked invading and bombing of Ukraine may be linked to their Cold War ties. “A more significant factor is Russia’s huge military footprint on the continent,” writes Will Brown, senior associate at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C. More than half of African nations have military cooperation agreements with Russia—the largest exporter of arms to sub-Saharan Africa. All Ethiopia’s jetfighters were supplied by Russia while Uganda’s combined force of five Mig21s and Sukhoi30s were also Russian supplied. Fifteen of Uganda’s 20-strong fleet of combat helicopters were also Russian supplied. Sudan has 35 Russian jetfighters and 67 helicopters.

In the U.N. vote, 17 African countries refused to condemn Russia’s imperial ambitions in Ukraine. Another seven African countries refused to vote at all.

Their leaders are all authoritarian or dictatorial with little regard for human rights abuses by their security forces.

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But openly collaborating with Russia for the near future will carry significant reputational costs, warns Joseph Siegle, research director for the Africa Centre for Strategic Studies at the National Defense University in Washington. “As the human costs from Russia’s unprovoked war mount, ties with Russia will become even more problematic.”

adding that some who tried to escape with their own cars were shot at and returned to Sumy.

Many of the trapped Nigerians are graduate school students in Sumy. Premium Times of Nigeria spoke to several about how they survived multiple bombings by Russia.

“March 3 was one of the most terrifying days,” Samuel Otunla, a graduate AFRICAN STUDENTS STILL TRAPPED BY DEADLY degree student in veterinary medicine BOMBING REJECT EVACUATION TO RUSSIA recalled. “Once we got the safety warn-

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(GIN)—At least 1,700 foreign students are still trapped in the northeastern Ukrainian city of Sumy, as shelling from the Russian army continues for a tenth day. Promised humanitarian corridors have failed to materialize.

“We are really demoralized, everybody wants to go home,” Precious Ogunbayo, a 21-year-old medical student from Nigeria, told Al Jazeera. “We keep asking for help, but it’s not coming at all.”

According to one student interviewed by the Premium Times paper of Nigeria, the group was contacted by the Nigerian Embassy in Russia about a possible evacuation into Russia. But many students rejected the idea considering the sanctions on Russia which could mean “we may get trapped in the country or just simply the fact that they are the enemy in this whole story, we could end up as hostages. It was not a good idea at all.” About 400 Nigerian students are currently in Sumy, the second largest group of foreign students after Indians. Other students include citizens of Ghana, Rwanda, Turkmenistan, Jordan and Palestine.

Like many others, Ogunbayo tried to flee the city, but taxi or bus drivers charged up to $400 per person when they could still be found cruising the streets. “You would have to be lucky to find a driver that knows the way and is willing to risk his life,” Ogunbayo said,

ing and arrived in the basement, we heard one of the loudest explosions and in a few minutes, electricity went off— not just in our area but all over the city.

Water was also off. Though it was restored 17 hours later, it was an uncomfortable experience.”

A few days into the invasion, the students had seen corpses of Russian soldiers lying on the streets as they stepped out to get groceries, he said.

The only response from the Nigerian government (and other African governments as he heard) is to help students who have crossed the border to neighboring countries. But “we are 1,300 kilometers from the border so that doesn’t help us, at least not yet,” Otunla told Chiamaka Okafor, a Premium Times reporter.

Elizabeth Murimwa, in a letter from parents of African students stuck in Sumy, begged the United Nations and relevant governments to ensure their children are safely evacuated.

“They are at risk of becoming collateral damage in a war they know nothing about. Negative racist sentiments have already been displayed and the children are scared and in bunkers three quarters of the day surrounded by gunfire. The Indian government is already negotiating for its citizens hence we would like to request help from our different governments. No child should be left behind!!!

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NYPD announces rise in citywide crime

By ARIAMA C. LONG Amsterdam News Staff, Report for America Corps Member The NYPD released its updated crime stats for last month, indicating an overall citywide 58.7% rise in crime compared to the same period last year.

“The men and women of the New York City Police Department are proactively addressing the deep-rooted causes of criminal behavior,” said NYPD Commissioner Keechant L. Sewell in a statement.

“The NYPD will never relent, and the department has made far too much progress over the decades—and invested far too much in the communities it serves— to fall back by any measure. New Yorkers deserve better.”

According to NYPD stats for the month of February 2022, robbery increased by 56%, grand larceny increased by 79.2%, car theft increased by 104.7%. In a small reprieve, citywide shooting incidents decreased by 1.3%.

However, horrific crimes are still occurring this month. Guns or not.

This past Saturday, March 5, police found a 26-year-old woman and a 6-year-old girl.

Both had multiple stab wounds, and were unconscious and unresponsive in their Bronx apartment. Eyewitness News reported that the child was found dead in her bed, under the covers and stabbed in her head. The mother and daughter were identified as Gabrielle Muniz and Rozara Estevez, said the NYPD. Their stabbing deaths were determined to be “domestic in nature,” said a NYPD detective.

The suspect was Muniz’s boyfriend, 34-year-old Caleb Duberry, who was

found dead in his nearby apartment in the Bronx from an assumed suicide. A source who grew up in the same community as Duberry said that Duberry had always been “in and out of prison” and had allegedly been struggling with a drug addiction as of late.

The NYPD said they remain focused on the drivers of crime and disorder in the city. The new Neighborhood Safety Teams, meant to crack down on illegal guns, stifle gang activity, and suppress violent crime, have been deployed to aid cops patrolling streets, subways, and public housing developments.

Meanwhile, Mayor Eric Adams headed to Washington, D.C. to present his “Blueprint to End Gun Violence” to Congress on Tuesday, March 8. The small dip in gun crime would suggest that there is hope on the horizon for his tactics.

Organized criminal justice groups, such as Communities United for Police Reform, are still deeply opposed to certain aspects of Adams’ plan. In a letter they called for the halt of the Neighborhood Safety Teams, citing that it’s essentially the same plainclothes, anti-crime, street crime units as before that are “characterized by an overly aggressive mandate that proactively and aggressively target Black and Latinx communities.”

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City report outlines (medical) race gap during Omicron wave

By STEPHON JOHNSON Amsterdam News Staff A new report by the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene displays the racial inequities of medical care during the Omicron rush.

According to the report, “Black New Yorkers and residents of the least privileged census tracts faced longer delays receiving a diagnosis of COVID-19 infection, according to data from between October 1, 2020 to October 31, 2021. For 1 out of 4 Black New Yorkers and residents of the least privileged census tracts, it took 5 or more days to get diagnosed. In comparison, 1 out of 4 other New Yorkers took 4 or more days to get diagnosed.”

“Look at the framework,” said Dr. Janine Knudsen, NYC Health Department special operations medical director for the Office of the Commissioner. “We try to actually step away from blaming these disparities on individual actions, you know, on some-

one’s individual understanding of how to take precautions from COVID or whether to trust the vaccine or not, because at the end of the day, the disparities are not driven by individual people making right or wrong decisions, but by all the structural factors that really put people at a disadvantage.”

City health experts noted that the Omicron variant of the COVID-19 virus resulted in more hospitalizations in neighborhoods with a “high percentage of Black residents. The health department targeted these neighborhoods using TRIE (the Taskforce on Racial Inclusion & Equity).

Some of these areas included zip codes 10026, 10027, 10030, 10037, 10039 (Central Harlem), 10453 and 10458 (Fordham and University Heights in the Bronx), 1124 and 11235 (Coney Island) and 11412, 11423, 11432, 11433, 11434, 11435, 11436 (Jamaica and Hollis in Brooklyn).

The problems the department has/ must overcome are multi-pronged.

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AG James launches rulemaking process to combat illegal price gouging New York Attorney General Letitia James launches a rulemaking process to look into whether major corporations are using the pandemic and inflation as an excuse to unfairly raise the price of basic goods.

The first-ever price gouging rulemaking process by the Office of the Attorney General will examine and address new evidence that some of the recent price hikes by big corporations were driven by profit not increased costs. Through this process, James aims to implement new price gouging rules that will crack down on pandemic profiteering and corporate greed.

New York’s price gouging law bans companies from taking advantage of a crisis to charge excessive prices for vital and necessary goods and services. The rulemaking process will explore growing evidence that big corporations appear to have used the pandemic as an excuse to charge more for necessary goods, such as gas and oil, food, and cars. Evidence indicates that some companies are profiting by increasing costs for the people hit hardest by the pandemic.

Adams continues support for Bronx fire victims Mayor Eric Adams and the Mayor’s Fund to Advance New York City announced the continuation of meal delivery services to support those affected by the Jan. 9th apartment fire in the Bronx.

The delivery of culturally sensitive meals will continue through a partnership​ between the Mayor’s Fund and the NYS Latino Restaurant, Bar & Lounge Association (NYSLRBLA). World Central Kitchen (WCK) generously provided food service in the immediate aftermath of the fire.

After WCK shifted their focus to serving Ukrainian refugees in Europe, Bronx Borough President Vanessa Gibson arranged for temporary food delivery via The Hoodspitality Group until the partnership with the Mayor’s Fund and NYSLRBLA was established. Meal deliveries coordinated by NYSLRBLA began Saturday.

Those impacted by the fire on Jan. 9 face a variety of associated costs. The Mayor’s Fund proactively works w ​ ith the City of New York to ensure relief services, such as meals, are provided to the families as they recover and rebuild.

Locally based organizations, including the Gambian Youth Organization, are providing additional support to those in need.

New York Cares annual coat drive distributes 33,000 coats, raises over $650,000 New York Cares announces that it raised over $650,000 toward the purchase of more than 47,000 brand-new, warm winter coats and collected over 16,000 gently-used coats—distributing a total of 63,813 warm winter coats during its 33rd annual Coat Drive.

Ten thousand of the collected coats were donated directly to New York City Community Schools for distribution to students and families in need. With critical support from its community partner organizations and the generosity of corporate and individual donors, New York Cares provided warmth and dignity to some of the city’s most vulnerable populations in public schools, housing shelters, community centers, and social service agencies.

In 2021, New York Cares introduced Coat+, a new fundraising campaign focused on distributing warm winter coats with care, while also addressing food insecurity and social isolation through meal distributions. Every $25 donation provided a New Yorker with a brand new, high-quality coat and helped distribute 10 meals to the community.

NYS Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic, and Asian Legislative Caucus and Clean Slate NY Coalition hold virtual press conference With less than a month until the passage of the FY23 state budget, the NYS Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic, and Asian Legislative Caucus and the Clean Slate NY Coalition held a virtual press conference on Tuesday calling on the state legislature to include the Clean Slate Act, as is, in the state budget.

The press conference was held in advance of the Coalition’s Advocacy Day when hundreds of New Yorkers will meet with Assembly members and senators across New York State.

Speakers explained the urgency of passing the Clean Slate Act as a matter of racial and economic justice. Data shows 80% of individuals in New York City with conviction records are Black or Latino, which mirrors statewide trends.

New Yorkers with conviction records face discrimination in the job market after they complete their sentences.

New York collectively loses $2 billion in wages annually because formerly incarcerated individuals are shut out from entering the workforce, which hurts economic growth and shrinks tax revenue. Those who serve time in prison lose an average of $484,400 in earnings over their lifetime.

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Stewart-Cousins, Senate NewJerseyNews majority lead push for sexual New Jersey court hears oral arguments harassment protections in student segregation case

By ARIAMA C. LONG Amsterdam News Staff, Report for America Corps Member At the beginning of Women’s History Month, the Senate Democratic majority passed seven bills aimed at clarifying sexual harrassemnt laws in the workplace, including the Let Survivors Speak Act. This comes after former Gov. Andrew Cuomo left office due to sexual harrassment allegations from his female staff.

“It is the right of every New Yorker to be treated equally and respectfully in the workplace,” said Senate Majority Leader Andrea StewartCousins in a statement. “As lawmakers, it is our responsibility to protect sur vivors of sexual assault and harassment and ensure that all employers in New York State foster a safe and respectful work environment for their employees.”

The laws work to close loopholes, extend the statute of limitations, and ensure that sexual harassment policies are clear for all employees across the public and private sectors, said Stewart-Cousins.

The Let Sur vivors Speak Act, or bill S.738, was sponsored by Sen. Alessandra Biaggi. It reforms the dreaded Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) laws that financially penalize people who speak out about their abuse. Biaggi also sponsored the bill that establishes

a toll-free confidential hotline for workplace complaints.

“Last year, we witnessed a paradigm shift in our state’s culture— New Yorkers made it clear that workplaces that silence, stifle and abuse sur vivors of sexual harassment will no longer will be tolerated,” said Biaggi in a statement.

Biaggi said that the legislature used the outrage over Cuomo’s sexual harrassment allegations as momentum to get laws passed.

“Both of these bills will strengthen sexual harassment protections in the workplace and provide sur vivors with the opportuntiy to freely speak their truth, without fear of retaliation,” said Biaggi.

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By CYRIL JOSH BARKER Amsterdam News Staff The Mercer County Superior Court heard arguments into whether the state’s history of segregating Black and Latino students from public schools should end.

Mercer County Superior Court Judge Robert Lougy will soon decide whether the state must create and implement a school desegregation plan, hold a trial to gather more evidence, or dismiss the case entirely.

Attorneys for nine students, their parents/guardians and a coalition of civil rights, religious, and social justice organizations argued that the state’s laws, policies, and practices that deny Black and Latino students are in direct violation of the State Constitution.

“No child should ever be hurt, but that is exactly what is happening in New Jersey because of laws and policies that segregate the public school system,” said Christian Estevez, president of the Latino Action Network, a plaintiff in the case. “Relegating Black, Latino, and low-income students to a subpar education doesn’t just impact grades and test scores, it affects their job prospects, earning potential, and college outcomes.”

Known as Latino Action Network vs. the State of New Jersey, the lawsuit specifically challenges state laws that require students to attend schools in the geographic locations where they live, impacting a large number of Black and Latino students in lower-

income and isolated areas.

The lawsuit, filed in May 2018, cites national research that shows that segregation in the state is “among the worst in the country.” It goes on to say that “these segregative State laws, policies and practices also violate those students’ constitutional rights under other provisions of the New Jersey Constitution that prohibit racial segregation in public schools and guarantee all New Jersey residents the equal protection of the laws.”

In the complaint, plaintiffs argue that segregation does not only impact Black and Latino students, but white students, as well. These students face greater risks of adopting prejudicial views due to the lack of diverse interaction, creating “a two-way system of racial stereotyping, stigma, fear, and hostility that obscures individuality and denies all concerned the recognized benefits of diversity in education.”

“There’s no room in our state for policies that rob our young people, especially young Black people, of opportunities to become successful, thriving adults,” said the Rev. Charles Boyer of Salvation and Social Justice, a Black faith rooted New Jersey organization supporting the case. “We must abolish state enforced zip code barriers and all policies that undergird state sponsored segregation. It’s well past time that these draconian laws and practices finally end.”

In response to the case, the state’s lawyers reportedly said that the plaintiffs have no proof that segregation in schools is a statewide issue.

Biden announces ban on Russian oil, gas and coal to U.S.

Bill to study disparities in MWBEs in state contracts passes committee

By HERB BOYD Special to the AmNews

By CYRIL JOSH BARKER Amsterdam News Staff

Having exhausted ever y diplomatic move and ineffective sanctions to halt the slaughter in Ukraine, President Biden took a more decisive step Tuesday with a plan to place a ban on Russian oil and gas imports to the U.S. “ To day,” Bid e n d e cla re d , “ I a m a n n ou ncing th e Un i te d State s i s t a rg et i ng the ma i n a r te r y o f Russia’s e conomy. We’re ba n n i ng a l l i mp or ts of Ru ssia n o i l a n d ga s e nerg y. That m ea n s Ru ssia n o i l w i l l no long e r b e a cce p te d i n U. S. p o r t s, and the Am e r i ca n p e o p l e w i l l deal ano th e r p ow e r f u l b l ow to Put i n’s wa r ma ch i n e.” He surm i s e d that the m ove may n o t b e i n ac c ord w ith h i s a lli e s a n d pa r tn ers in Europ e, wh o “may n o t b e i n a p o sition to j o i n u s.”

Such a ban, when applied, is sure to increase the price of gas in the countr y that is already spiking a

little over $4 a gallon. America receives about five to ten percent of its oil and refined crude from Russia, with the bulk of it coming from Mexico, Canada, and Saudi Arabia. Last fall, according to one report, more than 700,000 barrels of oil were delivered to the U.S. from Russia. A different set of numbers has been published by the U.S. Energy Information Administration, noting that Russia was the second largest net exporter of oil, sending in on average 540,000 barrels daily.

“The decision today,” Biden added, “is not without cost here at home. Putin’s war is already hurting Americans at the gas pump.

Since Putin began his militar y buildup on Ukrainian borders, just since then, the price at the gas pump in America went up 75 cents.

And with this action, it’s going to go up further. I’m going to do ever ything I can to minimize Putin’s See BIDEN on page 29

To determine whether minority and women-owned businesses (MWBEs) are chosen at a disproportionately lower rate than other businesses for government contracts, legislation sponsored by Assembly Democrats Verlina ReynoldsJackson, Sterley Stanley and Shavonda Sumter intends to mandate a disparity study of the State’s procurement process. The measure was advanced by the Assembly Community Development and Affairs Committee on Monday.

Under the bill (A-992), New Jersey’s chief diversity officer would be required to conduct a study regarding how often minority- and women-owned businesses are employed in the procurement of goods and services for state agencies.

The purpose of the study would be to determine whether there are any disparities between the availability of these businesses and how often they are chosen for state contracts.

“Minority- and women-owned busi-

nesses often encounter systemic barriers in our procurement process that put them at a disadvantage and limit their ability to win state contracts,” the Assemblymembers said in a joint statement. “We must ensure a level playing field by identifying any disparities in our process and offering potential solutions to the unique challenges these businesses face. This study will help us better understand the issue so that we may enact changes to alleviate historic discrimination and open up more opportunities for minority- and women-owned enterprises going forward.”

The chief diversity officer would then report their findings to the governor and Legislature and offer recommendations on ways to promote opportunities for these businesses to win state contracts. The officer would be permitted to submit additional subsequent reports, if necessary, that would identify the extent to which previous recommendations have been implemented and have made an impact on the process.

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Fanta Bah—from top of the class in Africa to business asset in America

By M’NIYAH LYNN Special to the AmNews Fanta Bah is an international student that currently attends Baruch College. While at LaGuardia Community College, she was among one the first students to participate in the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Fellows program. It is her curiosity and ambition that allowed her to make the most out of her experience working with Ajoy Management Enterprise, a Harlembased financial management firm.

Bah used the fundamental skills she gained at the internship to become an asset to the firm and to wherever she wants to work in the future.

Bah was placed to work at Ajoy Management Enterprise, owned by Tuesday P. Brooks, for a semester.

By doing the program, Bah fully immersed herself into new experiences.

The variety of work she did included bookkeeping, research, tax preparation and administrative duties.

“I was doing a little of everything.

I told Brooks I don’t have any experience, but I want to learn every single thing,” she said.

Bah said she valued the technical training and skills she learned.

However, equally important to her, she learned to be more confident and to be in a place where she felt like she belonged. She said she was able to solidify her career path.

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“Right now, I’m thinking about double majoring. I identified what I like to do and what I really don’t like to do,” she said. She realized she more so enjoys working with numbers rather than interacting directly with clients, even though she has experience doing that as well.

Her family is from Mali, but she was born and raised in Central Africa in the Congo. Her father sent her to the United States to pursue higher education. This inspired her to take opportunities and do well in school. “He wanted to invest in me.

That’s how I ended up in the U.S. I’ve always been among the top three of my classes while in school,” she said.

Bah came across the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses program thanks to a professor’s email.

She took a chance by applying, with this being her first ever work experience, and got accepted. She began working in September of 2021 and completed the internship in December.

“I was surprised to be selected. I have never had any prior work experience and I’ve never worked in an office,” she said.

While at LaGuardia Community College, Bah studied business administration. She graduated in December and later transferred to Baruch College in January. Now, she’s looking forward to studying finance and computer information systems (CIS).

Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses is an initiative that pledges

$500 million in aid to small Fanta Bah (Courtesy of Fanta Bah) businesses. This initiative is available to businesses across the United States. This is important because “50% of the American workforce is employed by a small business,” Goldman Sachs’ website said.

The 10,000 Small Businesses Fellows program pairs smaller businesses with historically underrepresented college students through internships. This program was launched in 2021. Students are paid for their work.

“Today’s launch is the product of many months of listening and learning from small business leaders. We’ve heard how entrepreneurs are struggling to find the talent they need, and our platform is perfectly designed to connect them with promising students,” David Solomon, chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs, said in a press release.

Ajoy Management Enterprise is a more than just a firm to help businesses. firm for “womxn-led” businesses, “The mission is to empower women, according to the website. The firm especially women of color. This provides services such as ones in ac- company was helpful for the comcounting, bookkeeping, company munity because every task is accompayroll, essential tax prep, financial plished with detailed care,” she said. management and advice. The com- “This internship helped me see that pany has been around since 2009. this is the type of company I want to Bah said that something she enjoyed work for because the work culture a lot about working for Brooks is it was aligns with my values and principles.”

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Between 1865 and 1950 more than 6,500 people were lynched, according to a report from the Equal Justice Initiative. The first attempt at banning lynching came during the post-Reconstruction Era, and was introduced in 1918 by Republican U.S. Rep. Leonidas C. Dyer from St. Louis, Missouri.

The legislation has since been introduced over 200 times but never passed. Most recently, it’s been sponsored and championed by Democrat U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush from Chicago.

Rush is set to retire in 10 months, and is a native Chicagoan just like Emmett Till. Rush considers the passage of the bill incredibly personal for his city, legacy, and the Civil Rights

THE NEW YORK AMSTERDAM NEWS Movement. “I was eight years old when my mother put the photograph of Emmett Till’s brutalized body that ran in Jet magazine on our living room coffee table, pointed to it, and said, ‘this is why I brought my boys out of Albany, Georgia,’” said Rush in a statement.

Rush named his bill after Till, who was a Black 14-year-old boy brutally murdered in what was a racially motivated lynching in Mississippi in 1955.

Till’s death and open casket funeral sparked an enormous civil rights movement.

Rush said that “modern-day lynchings like the murder of Ahmaud Arbery” make it “abundantly clear” that things haven’t changed enough.

Three vigilante white men—Travis McMichael, Gregory McMichael, and William “Roddie” Bryan—were con-

victed in a state court back in November 2021 for the senseless murder of Arbery, a Black man that was out for a run in a Georgia suburb, said CNN. The defendants were tried separately in a federal court for hate crimes this year. A spokesperson from Rush’s office added that had the bill been passed earlier, these men would’ve likely been tried for lynching.

The anti-lynching bill says that a crime can be prosecuted as a ‘lynching’ when a conspiracy to commit a hate crime results in death or serious bodily injury, meaning it doesn’t have to specifically be a hanging death.

The bill carries a maximum sentence of 30 years.

“Lynching is a longstanding and uniquely American weapon of racial terror that has for decades been used to maintain the white hierarchy,”

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refugees fleeing Ukraine.

Meeks was joined by Representatives Michael McCaul (R-TX), Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Gerald E. Connolly (D-VA), Ann Wagner (R-MO), David Cicilline (DRI), Brian Fitzpatrick, (R-PA), Susan Wild (D-PA), and Raul Ruiz (D-CA).

During the three-day trip last weekend, the delegation met with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, U.S. Poland Ambassador Mark Brzezinski, national and local and Polish officials, USAID’s Disaster Assistance Response Team, and Ukrainian civil society activists. The delegation also received briefings from the U.S. Army 82nd Airborne Division and met with U.S. service members.

This is Meek’s second trip to Eastern Europe this year. Prior to the attack, he led a congressional delegation to Ukraine in February.

Earlier this month the House voted to pass a bill, supporting the people of Ukraine, introduced by Meeks and Victoria Spartz (R-IN), who is Ukrainian-born.

The bill, H.Res 956, has several provisions including shedding light on the horrific acts committed by the Russian president Vladimir Putin regime and Russian military in Ukraine, demanding an immediate ceasefire and full withdrawal of Russian forces from sovereign Ukrainian territory and backing additional coordinated sanctions to hold Putin and Russia accountable.

“In this dark time, the United States has helped usher unprecedented amounts of assistance from the United States, Europe, our allies and partners around the world, from North America to the Indo-Pacific, to aid Ukraine in defense of its nation,” Meeks said on the House floor ahead of the vote. “I believe we must sustain that assistance for as long as Ukrainians fight for a democratic future, free from Russian oppression.

The defensive security assistance we have provided and continue to provide

Ukraine to help fend off its autocratic invader is critical.”

In an interview with the AmNews, Meeks described scenes of mostly women, older men and children streaming through the Polish border in the cold with a few of their belongings trying to escape the terror they left behind in the Ukraine. Men ages 18 to 60 and women with medical backgrounds are required to stay to support the fight and are not allowed to cross the border.

“There’s more coming and that it’s probably going to get worse before it gets better,” Meeks said. “The individuals that we’re coming across now seem to have had some friends or family members that live in Poland. It’s anticipated that those that are coming behind them have no one when they come there. We were told that at least another million are in the pipeline now and many of them don’t have family members or anything of that nature.”

The AmNews has reported about the racism that many African immigrants in the Ukraine are facing while trying to flee the country. Africans at train stations were prevented from getting onboard trains and being told they would have to walk to Poland. Meeks said finding out more about what’s being done about racism was a priority.

“The government of Poland put out

a nondiscrimination policy for individuals crossing the border,” Meeks said.

“They’re trying to get some other folks in there to prevent these others that were preventing folks from getting on the train to stop that from happening.”

During his meetings with Secretary Blinken and Ambassador Brzezinski, Meeks said they discussed getting more lethal weapons from Poland into Ukraine. Rather than American personnel, Ukraine needs ammunition to fight the Russians.

“We’ve got a bill that’s coming up, that we’ll be voting on as far as more dollars is concerned for the purchase of more weapons that we can send,” Meeks said. “It’s clear that all of this destruction is happening because of one man, one aggressor, in this deal. And that’s Vladimir Putin.”

said Rush. “Perpetrators of lynching got away with murder time and time again—in most cases, they were never even brought to trial.”

U.S. Rep. Yvette Clarke added in a statement, “We must not allow this victory to foment complacency. Our nation has sent a resounding message that its future will not reflect its contemptible past, and our communities can sleep sounder at night knowing this legislation is in place.”

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 The bipartisan congressional delegation’s trip is a sign of unity between Democrats and Republicans. Coupled with the nation’s division after the 2020 elections, the House has been in conflict on several issues including voting rights, infrastructure and federal spending. Meeks said both sides agreed Ukraine should not be a political issue and to come together as one voice.

“I was looking at the pictures and listening to what was going on both talking about the possible discrimination of Africans crossing the border, but also the horrific killing of innocent lives by the hands of evil Putin, and I couldn’t sleep at night,” he said. “As chair of this committee, I had a responsibility to go see for myself what was going on. I then went to the ranking member of the committee, Mike McCaul, and said to him, like I wanted to go to, to Poland, and I wanted it to be completely bipartisan, and I wanted to make sure that we would have no disagreements, that we have one message, and we should not be playing politics and both sides.”

As for the future, Meeks said how both parties handle the Ukraine situation could lead to more partnerships.

“I think around the war and how we fight it there’ll be some more reconciliations and working together,” he said.

“But there are other areas where it’s going to be a little harder to do that, because it’s basic.”

Meeks has plans to return to the Poland and Ukraine border once there is a ceasefire to help repair the lives of Ukrainians and assist them in getting back to their homes and their lives.

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Strivers’ Row gallery hosts Howard Cash photo show

Stacy Lynch feels compelled to give voice to the voiceless

A photography exhibit by noted photographer Howard Cash is being held at Harlem’s Strivers’ Row Gardens Gallery through March 20. In Cash’s artist statement for the exhibit, titled “Joy, Love and Celebration,” he writes: “This exhibition is designed to offset some of the constant chaos from the last couple of years. Millions of worldwide deaths resulting from COVID-19, the ugly presence of Karens and the January 6th Insurrection in Washington, D.C., accompanied by The Big Lie and the Stop the Steal Movement.

“The Doctrines of White Supremacy are deeply entrenched into America’s racial, legal, political, economic and social systems of injustice, provoking neighborhood homicides, gang violence and senseless murders centered around poverty, hate, control and fear; leaving some killings cloaked under police brutality, accompanied by white privilege inside scripted claims of self-defense. This demands a change in public policy because, ‘when you remove the root causes of poverty from a society, you also contribute to the dismantling of hate, crime and fear.’

“Today, I’m taking you away from ‘the drama’ and into the lives of these fabulous people from Africa and the African diaspora, where you’ll discover precious moments of what I call, ‘Visual Wellness,’ beautiful opportunities for healing within these

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broad spaces of mental and emotional tranquility, by simply embracing the beauty of their warm human spirit. These are wonderful people with whom I’ve had the pleasure of capturing their humanity, kindness, humor, lifestyles and fun-filled ways.

“So, sit back and relax, as you’re about to meet some delightful people from Nigeria, Libya, New York, Pittsburgh, Los Angeles, St. Helena Island, New Orleans, Houston, Chicago and Washington, D.C. as they share their loving relationships to the world—recognizing all our fates are connected.

“Celebrate your life, celebrate your family and friendships—celebrate your blessings! This exhibition is dedicated to the memory of my parents Howard Henry and Jane U. Cash.

“Blessings everyone—peace and much love!”

Howard Cash

Howard Cash exhibiting “Joy, Love and Celebration" at Harlem’s Strivers’ Row gallery (Bill Moore photos)

“I actually wanted to be an entertainment attorney slash sports,” said Stacy Lynch. “You watched the movie ‘Jerry Maguire’? Yeah. I wanted to be like that’s my calling in life. I went to law school for about 10 years. and it was a wonderful experience. But then, you know, politics, community service, public service was always a part of my life.

“I resisted it for a very long time.”

But Lynch eventually dove into what surrounded her for most of her life.

The daughter of the late local political powerhouse and former city deputy mayor Bill Lynch, Stacy is entering her first year as chief of staff under New York State Lt. Gov. Brian Benjamin after serving as the deputy director of Intergovernmental Affairs under former New York City mayor Bill de Blasio. But her life has been filled with politics and the fight for community.

Harlem-bred and Harlem born, Lynch lived in Lenox Terrace before her family made its way to Sugar Hill. She attended St. Jean High School, Hampton University (what she calls “the best HBCU in the world!”) and went to the Quinnipiac University School of Law. She was surrounded by politics growing up and didn’t realize her experiences were unique until she got older.

“Jesse Jackson would come to town, and he would be in our kitchen making pancakes or making eggs,” said Stacy. “It was a normal experience. Most of these folks came around and were like family to me.

It was only when my father became deputy mayor that I realized it was slightly different than normal.”

With one older sibling, Billy Lynch III (president of Bill Lynch Associates, LLC), Stacy said that they had a typical brother/sister relationship with fighting and making up. They both shared a love of politics. Stacy’s love came later than expected.

“In 2013 when my father passed away, that’s when I fell deeply in love with politics, ironically,” said Stacy.

Being tapped as Brian Benjamin’s chief by staff isn’t a wild card either.

Her relationship with Brian coalesced around the rumored closing of Wadleigh High School in Central Harlem. “We make sure that we’re doing the right thing here as it relates to the parents, the students, and the people in the community.

“Brian says to me like, ‘I need you to handle this for me,’” said Lynch.

“It’s important, right? So he and I worked very closely on making sure

Stacy Lynch’s life in politics seemed inevitable (Photo Courtesy of Stacy Lynch)

that that school and the administration didn’t close and that we were listening to the voices of the community. Then we provided the resources needed for the school so that the parents and the students and the teachers can develop happy, productive students. And so, you know, I think that was the beginning of our working relationship.”

Lynch, understanding the reputation of having well-known/ famous relatives, helped established “Daughters of the Movement,” which includes the daughters of Harry Belafonte, Malcolm X, Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis, Al Sharpton and the granddaughter of Percy Sutton.

“We grew up together and came together originally as a social network to support each other,” said Stacy. “We used to have monthly dinners and emphasized the importance of sisterhood.” This sisterhood has turned into a “Speaker Series” which focuses on humor and inspirational stories about their famous relatives to help bridge the past with the current movements and the “Clubhouse Series” where the daughters discuss their own lives in the world of social justice.

But just because she’s speaking to you, doesn’t mean she wants her voice known. Stacy would rather have her impact manifest in policy change and social justice. Something that she learned from her father.

“You don’t necessarily have to be the loudest person in the room to push the needle,” Stacy said her father told her. “He was super intentional about bringing people together…I think I’m very much the same and that way. And he was also a firm believer in community, community impact, and that policy should be driven by community.”

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Nightlife Spike Lee to receive Lifetime Achievement Mary J brings ‘Real Award at 2022 DGA

Written by David Goodson

Love’ to the screen

(Solwazi Afi Olusola photo)

By MAL’AKIY 17 ALLAH Special to the AmNews The Directors Guild of America announced that they’ll be bestowing legendary filmmaker Spike Lee with its highest honor, the Lifetime Achievement Award for Distinguished Achievement in Motion Picture Direction, at their 2022 awards next month. This distinction makes him the first Black director, and 36th overall director, to receive this prestigious award in the guild’s 86year history. DGA president Lesli Linka Glatter announced the news on Jan. 19.

“Icon. Trailblazer. Visionary. Spike Lee has changed the face of cinema, and there is no single word that encapsulates his significance to the craft of directing,” Linka Glatter’s statement read. “From his groundbreaking ‘Do the Right Thing,’ ‘BlacKkKlansman, and everything inbetween—to his signature ‘double dolly’ shot, Spike is an innovator on so many levels. His bold and passionate storytelling over the past three decades has masterfully entertained, as it held a stark mirror to our society and culture.”

This award recognizes extraordinary efforts in the art of cinema. Back in 2002, Lee received a DGA honor for “distinguished contributions to our nation’s culture in support of filmmaking.” In 2019 he received a DGA award nomination in the Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Theatrical Feature Film category for his critically acclaimed “BlacKkKlansman” project, which broadcast on FBO; and received the same award again in 2021 for the variety/talk/news/sports specials category for “American Utopia.”

Spike and his “40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks” movie company initially broke through with 1986’s “She’s Gotta Have It,” and have since then directed cultural classics like “School Daze” (1988), “Do the Right Thing” (1989), “Mo’ Better Blues” (1990), “Jungle Fever” (1991), “Malcolm X” (1992), “Crooklyn” (1994), “Inside

Man” (2006), and “Chi-Raq” (2015).

They’ve also produced informative documentaries: “4 Little Girls” (1997), “A Huey P. Newton Story” (2001), “When The Levees Broke” (2006).

In recent years Lee’s been creating projects which stream on Netflix “Da 5 Bloods” (2020), the series “She’s Gotta Have It,” the film version of “Rodney King,” and the Stefon Bristol sci-fi film “See You Yesterday.”

Last summer he directed and produced a four-part documentary essay titled “NYC EPICENTERS 9/11→2021½” which streamed on HBO Max. Throughout the 1990s, he produced several memorable television commercials featuring his alter ego, Mars Blackman and fellow Brooklynite, and NBA great, Michael Jordan. Lee’s also known for bringing to visual life the music tracks of such renowned artists as Branford Marsalis, Anita Baker, Michael Jackson, Miles Davis, Prince, Tracy Chapman, and Public Enemy.

Lee is a five-time Oscar nominee and earned an Honorary Oscar in 2015 for his “lifetime achievement and contributions to the state of motion picture arts and sciences.”

In 2019, he won his first Academy Award in the Best Adapted Screenplay category, for BlacKKKlansman.

Over the past few years, he’s served as a tenured professor of film and artistic director at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, where he’s mentally nourishing young, aspiring movie directors and producers.

“While he is no stranger to huge commercial success, he is also the beating heart of independent film,” Glatter concluded. “Even as countless filmmakers call Spike their mentor and inspiration, he continues to devote his time to teaching future generations how to make their mark. We are thrilled to present Spike with the DGA’s highest honor.”

The 74th DGA Awards ceremony will be held in Los Angeles on Saturday, March 12, 2022.

When Fat Joe introduced the phrase “Yesterday’s price is NOT today’s price,” to the lexicon of pop culture, let’s be clear of its definition. NO, it’s not a fond remembrance of an economy that was a little more affordable. Instead, it speaks to a person that has outperformed rapidly their contractual obligations, and the bag (compensation) has gone up significantly and permanently.

If that phrase were to take human form, without question it would be personified

by Mary J. Blige.

On the heels of receiving an Outstanding Actress award at the NAACP Image Awards comes word that the decorated actress is officially set to executive produce a film based on her classic single, “Real Love.”

According to Entertainment Weekly, the project is a comingof-age drama entitled “Real Love,” a film inspired by her introductory smash hit. Per the press release for the film, the story centers on Kendra, “a studious teen who sets off on her own for the first time to attend college in upstate New York.

But when she meets her film class partner Ben, her plans are thrown for a loop.

Despite disapproving parents, financial hardships, and competition to become top students, Kendra and Ben fall for one another and ‘ultimately learn the meaning of real love.’” Aside from executive producing the film, Mary will also include additional music from her extensive catalog.

“I wrote ‘Real Love’ based on my real-

life experiences and my fans connected to it in a deeply personal way,” the R&B songstress said of the film in a statement.

“It’s exciting to now use this song and my music to create a new story by way of film, continuing to build on a pillar of the foundation of my production company, Blue Butterfly. My passions for acting and music now include developing diverse stories with music as the backdrop.”

If that wasn’t enough, rumors persist that a tour is imminent after the release of her new album “Hello Gorgeous” AND the showstealing segment as part of the Superbowl Bowl LVI half-time performance. While nothing official has been announced, some major spot dates are etched in stone. One of the first of these occurs the weekend of March 12 and 13 as Mary is slated to headline the 15th annual Jazz in the Gardens in the City of Miami Gardens. After a twoyear cancellation of the event, an exuberant fan expressed to Nightlife, “Not only are we excited for the return of Jazz in the Gardens, but we are also honored to host Mary J. Blige once again in the great City of Miami Gardens.” This fan, who happens to be the mayor of Miami Gardens, Rodney Harris continued, “Mary J is an outstanding artist who consistently delivers a soulful and entertaining performance for her audience.” As to not just wax poetic of the headliner, Harris added, “This is from top to bottom a stel-

lar lineup that is diverse enough to please a wide range of grown folk music palates. We have one of the best in rap, Miami Gardens’ own Rick Ross, T Pain, another Florida native, and The Roots for hip hop; empowering women representation with H.E.R and S.W.V; and one of the all-time great groups, the Isley Brothers.”

He concluded, “Aside from the music we’re offering a great cultural experience. Jazz in the Gardens also showcases an eclectic mix of goods, especially the food. Local and national vendors will be on hand to offer the best cuisine from Jamaica, Cuba, the Bahamas and the Caribbean diaspora as a whole.”

“We are honored to partner with Mayor Harris and the City of Miami Gardens on the 15th anniversary of Jazz in the Gardens,” said Brittany Flores, president of Live Nation Florida.

“The event is a staple here in South Florida and we are beyond excited to help continue the tradition and usher in the next chapter of this amazing event.”

The full Jazz in the Gardens lineup is Mary J. Blige, H.E.R, Rick Ross, The Isley Brothers, SWV, The Roots with special guest T-Pain, Stokely, Johnathan McReynolds, Mike Phillips and Mark Allen Felton, with local performers still to be announced. Syndicated radio host and comedian Rickey Smiley will return as the host.

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

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Union Matters MLB players union starts campaign to fund $1 million for workers affected by lockout

By STEPHON JOHNSON Amsterdam News Staff

voted unanimously not to accept MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred dence of bargaining, it did nothing the owners’ new contract by the be- said that there are issues on both to show it.” All for Manfred to walk ginning of this month. It will shorten sides, but he put much of the onus in front of the cameras Thursday The Major League Baseball Play- baseball’s normal 162-game season. on the players. and talk about the pace as a matter ers Association (MLBPA) is looking The league has lost at least two “We hope that the lockout will of “mutual responsibility.” out for the little guy. series in the season and won’t be jumpstart the negotiations and During a recent news conferThe players’ union has launched made up. It could take a few months get us to an agreement that will ence, Manfred said, “In the histoa $1 million fund to assist workry of baseball, the ers who have been affected by the only person who lockout that has left them shut out has made a labor of work. agreement with“There are a lot of people who out a dispute, and make our game great. Many aren’t I did four of them, seen or heard, but they are vital was me.” Manfred to the entertainment experience ignored that MLB of our games,” stated MLBPA Exwas on the brink ecutive Leaders free-agent pitchof a labor work er Andrew Miller and recently stoppage in 2002. acquired New York Mets pitcher In a recent stateMax Scherzer last week. “Unforment, MLBPA tunately, they will also be among leaders called out those affected by the owner-imthe owners stating MLBPA looks out to help workers affected by owners’ lockout. posed lockout and the cancellathat this is simply a (Image courtesy of Major League Baseball) tion of games. Through this fund, negotiating tactic we want to let them know that they designed to break have our support.” before they reach a deal. Players and allow the season to start on time,” the players’ union.

On Dec. 2, MLB franchise owners owners could continue work as a he said. “The result of that jump“From the beginning of these neimplemented a players’ lock- new collective bargaining agree- start? The league waited 43 days gotiations, Players’ objectives have out, banning all baseball activi- ment is being worked out, but the to return to the negotiating table been consistent—to promote comties. Opening Day has already been commissioner and owners decid- with a response to the last propos- petition, provide fair compensation canceled from its original date of ed that wasn’t going to be the case. al from the players. If MLB had an for young Players, and to uphold March 31 after MLBPA members In a letter to fans in February, interest in establishing a regular ca- the integrity of our market system,”

the statement read. “Against the backdrop of growing revenues and record profits, we are seeking nothing more than a fair agreement.

“What Rob Manfred characterized as a ‘defensive lockout’ is, in fact, the culmination of a decadeslong attempt by owners to break our Player fraternity.”

MLBPA Executive Director Tony Clark stated that the people who work concessions and hospitality jobs around stadiums need to be thanked not only verbally, but financially.

“This fund is intended to support workers who are most affected by the MLB-imposed lockout but whose livelihoods have been disregarded by the owners in their efforts to pressure Players into accepting an unfair deal,” Clark said.

The players’ union has a friend in AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler.

“Whether you’re a worker on the baseball field, or a worker behind the scenes, we all deserve respect and dignity on the job,” said Shuler in a statement.

“The labor movement will do everything in our power to support these and all workers.”

Local 79 officials attempt to look out for immigrants and Black workers

By STEPHON JOHNSON Amsterdam News Staff

force in New York. It will also close “Excluded No More will level ly” fired by demolition company the gap between union and non- the playing field for responsi- Alba (a company with a history of union contractors, enabling un- ble contractors who support exploitative practices according to On Monday, Laborers’ Local 79 documented workers to file for their workers, regardless of im- a judge from the National Labor officials announced their support unemployment benefits, organize migration status, by paying into Relations Board). They also called for Excluded No More, a piece of more freely on the job, and con- workers’ compensation, unem- out ECD NY and New Line Strucstate legislation that sets up a pro- tribute more to our state’s econo- ployment and payroll taxes.” tures, which are places with similar gram to provide unemployment my and recovery after COVID.” With no workers available to histories. Elected officials such as benefits to undocumented immigrant workers.

The state needs $3 billion to replenish the fund that made its way through the government last year, according to a study by the Immigrant Research Initiative.

New York State Gov. Kathy Hochul is proposing $2 billion in the state budget for lawmakers to allocate where they choose. Some elected officials believe that money should go to the Excluded Workers Fund. Others think it should go to the Emergency Rental Assistance Program (or ERAP).

We know what side Mike Prohaska stands for.

“We’re proud to offer our support for the Excluded No More Laborers’ Local 79 officials have spent a lot of time fighting on behalf of all workers of color and legislation. Our message to Gov. the undocumented. (Photo courtesy of Laborers’ Local 79) Hochul and the state legislature is: let’s get it done,” said ProhasLaborer’s Local 79 are skilled comment, Prohaska directed the New York State Sen. Jessica Ramos ka, business manager of Laborers’ tradespeople who worked in con- AmNews to a story in amNewYork and Manhattan Borough President Local 79, in an emailed statement. struction around the five bor- about a recent protest regarding Mark Levine attended.

“This commonsense bill will not oughs. Prohaska said that policies exploitative working conditions at Local 79 has other things on their only empower immigrant work- like this one will only help the Chelsea Terminal Warehouse (in plate as well. ers who make up the lion’s share of union, the workers and anyone Manhattan’s West Chelsea) after Laborers continued to take their the nonunion construction work- connected to Local 79. demolition workers were “illegal- vision and desires to City Hall. The

union teamed up with the Mason Tenders’ District Council of Greater New York and 100 Black Construction Workers on a campaign named #BuildOne45 to explain why the New York City Council should approve of a rezoning of the One45 development site, a proposed set of 365-foot towers on the corner of Lenox Avenue between West 144th and West 145th streets.

“When we #BuildOne45, we will empower Black construction workers, Black businesses, and Black households, while boosting public safety and our economy,” stated Barrie Smith, president of 100 Black Construction Workers, and an executive board member of Laborers’ Local 79. “That’s our message to elected officials and to our brothers and sisters in Harlem about why they should support this project. One45 will create good-paying union construction jobs, more affordable housing options for longtime Harlem residents, more space for Black-owned businesses, the city’s first green energy district, a nationally significant Civil Rights Museum, and new space for the National Action Network (NAN).

“Our campaign to #BuildOne45 is a campaign to build a better, fairer, and stronger future for Harlem and for our city.”

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Opinion Our joy is not enough to mitigate the pain

EDITORIAL

Black Americans are well acquainted with miser y and joy, and last week sent another example. On Monday, the Senate joined the House in passage of the Emmett Till Bill, making lynching a federal crime.

But a jur y in L ouisville, Kentucky found ex-police officer Brett Hankison not guilty on all three counts of wanton endangerment in the first degree.

The shooting incident that left 26-year-old Breonna Taylor dead occurred on March 13, 2020, when three plainclothes officers—Jonathan Mattingly, Myles Cosgrove and Hankison—arrived at Taylor ’s apartment under the pretext of investigating drug dealing operations.

Taylor was in bed with her boyfriend Kenneth Walker who was alarmed by the forced entr y, and thinking an intrusion was in progress fired a warning at Mattingly in the leg. Subsequently, the officers unleashed a barrage of 32 shots. Taylor, in the back of Walker, was hit by six bullets.

Later, Walker was charged with assault and attempted murder but the charges were dismissed. Meanwhile, in the summer of 2020 Hankison was fired for recklessly shooting through the window and door of Taylor ’s apartment.

On Sept. 15, the city of L ouisville agreed to pay Taylor ’s family $12 million and to reform police practices. There was a general feeling in the community that Hankison wouldn’t be convicted, and to date none of the officers have been charged in Taylor ’s death. It was determined that Cosgrove fired the shots that killed Taylor.

Attorney Benjamin Crump, who represents the Taylor family, said the acquittal was “further evidence of lack of police accountability. The fact that Brett Hankison was not even charged for Breonna Taylor ’s killing and only faced charges for the wanton endangerment of her white neighbors was a slap in the face of Breonna and her family.”

And in our opinion another gross miscarriage of justice, which has become a sort of mantra when white officers gun down Black unarmed citizens.

It has taken more than a generation to get at least a semblance of justice for a teenager from Chicago who was brutally killed in Mississippi in 1955, and it may take just as long for Taylor to get hers, if ever.

Like some of the lyrics from our Black National anthem, our rejoicing has risen high as the listening skies but we have also come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered, and that latter perpetually outweighs the former.

Celebrating revolutionary African women: from Nzinga Mbandi to the rebels of the Americas

By JESÚS CHUCHO GARCIA, Translated by KAREN JUANITA CARRILLO Slave trafficking and slaver y, practiced

by Westerners in Africa and the Americas, was decreed by the United Nations in 2001 as a crime against humanity.

During the 17th and 18th centur y periods of this shameful process, brave women of Kongo-Ndongo origin opposed the slave trade in what is now the Republic of Angola. One of them was the warrior Nzinga Mbandi, who managed to create the kingdom of Matamba. Mbandi set a standard that was followed by the legendar y Kimpa Vita in the early 18th centur y; Kimpa Vita was later burned alive by the Portuguese—in complicity with the Roman Catholic Church—for having led insurrections against African enslavement in the former empire of Kongo Dia Ntotela.

The fighting spirit of these two Africans became a moral example to the many women subjected to cruel enslavement in the Americas and the Caribbean; it pushed them to rise up against the slave system.

I n Ja m a i c a, Na n n y , o f A s h a n t i o r i g i n , l e d a n a r my a g a i n s t B r i t i s h s l av e r y .

I n Ha i t i , w e h av e t h e v o d ú n p r i e s t e s s, C e c i l e Fa t t i m e, w h o s p a r k e d a re b e l l i o n a g a i n s t t h e F re n c h a t t h e e n d o f t h e 1 8 t h c e n t u r y . I n t h e U n i t e d S t a t e s, t h e re b e l Ha r r i e t Tu b m a n , a t t h e b e ginning of the 19th century, develo p e d a n e x t ra o rd i n a r y n e t w o r k t o f re e t h e e n s l av e d , t ra n s p o r t i n g t h e m c l a n d e s t i n e l y t o C a n a d a w h e re s l av e r y h a d been abolished in 1833. This network

w a s c a l l e d t h e U n d e r g ro u n d R a i l ro a d , i t w a s n e i t h e r a t ra i n n o r a s u b w ay b u t ra t h e r a n i n t e l l i g e n t s y s t e m o f ro u t e s a n d s a f e h o u s e s u s e d t o f re e e n s l av e d p e o p l e f ro m d i f f e re n t s t a t e s o f t h e U. S. It w a s b a s e d o n a k n o w l e d g e o f g e o g ra p h y , a s w e l l a s t h e t o p o g ra p hy a n d n a m e s o f p l a c e s.

In Venezuela, there were self-liberated African women—women we call: cimarronas—who suffered the same fate as African men. Such were the cases for Manucha Algarín who established the Cumbe de Ocoyta rebel settlement alongside her husband, Guillermo Rivas in 1768 and Josefina Sánchez who was part of the formation of the Cumbe de Taguaza, both of which are currently in the city of Acevedo in the state of Miranda : they were clear examples of the rebel leadership of female Afrodescendants.

Th e moral c ont r ibut io n s o f Manucha Algar ín, Jos efina Sánchez , Que en Guio mar (w h o reb elle d again st en slavement al ongside King Miguel in t he Ven ezuela n mou ntain s o f Bur ía in t he mid 1500s) a s w el l as t he passive resist an ce of th e enslave d Mar ía D o lo res (w ife o f Jos é L e ona rdo Chir in o who to o k par t in th e 1795 u pr ising again st slaver y in Sa nta A na de Co ro, Ven ezuela), w ere not in vain, b e caus e t he y remain e d as referenc es of st r uggle an d p rove d t hat th e chains, th e rap es an d t he racis m w e fa c e d w ere not bar r iers again st our aspirations to fre e do m.

The official, racist, and sexist histor y only notes that white men have struggled for liberation.

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AmNews Reader Writes: The importance of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s locs Dear Editor : Since the announcement of her nomination, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson has been heralded for the prestige her Ivy League background has afforded her, including ser ving in her current role on the D.C. federal appellate court. Reformers emphasized the importance of her record as a public defender and anyone who saw this a moment worthy of celebration, acknowledged the historical significance of her nomination. But few have isolated her perfectly coiled, yet noticeably different style of hair.

Beyond representation, having a judge ser ve on the nation’s highest court with locs legitimizes Black hair in one of its truest forms.

Largely influenced by Rastarian culture, locs were the style of choice in various iterations of afrocentric expression in Black American culture. Images of bohemian rappers in the early ’90s strike

the earliest of memories, and then those of neo-soul artists like Bilal, Lalah Hathaway, and India Arie a decade later. Nowadays all the rappers below the Mason Dixon line seem to have Skittle-colored ones. Jackson’s may be Sisterlocks, but when she arrived at her choice, she joined all of us in our dismissal of the standardization of straight hair. It may be spiritual for some and more aesthetical for others, but having locked hair is a political decision for ever yone, repudiating one of the many ways Black bodies are held hostage by the law.

Ever y trip to the airport is made into a scene as TSA guards render it necessar y to pat the puffy parts atop my head and then my dangling cowrie shells, as they wait to see if anything will detonate. As of right now, only 12 states have laws prohibiting hair discrimination in schools and workplaces. In 2020, a federal appeals court ruled that banning See HAIR on page 27

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Preventing a world war: what is in the United States’ playbook?

DISCLAIMER: The views and opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the author and do not represent those of the New York Amsterdam News. We continue to publish a variety of viewpoints so that we may know the opinions of others that may differ from our own.

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Many vital and strategically related events are going all but unnoticed or unmentioned by the mainstream media while we Americans and the rest of the world watch the unfolding events in Ukraine.

If we step back and view events impartially from a broad perspective and reflect, what would we know and what would we see?

Without a doubt, Ukraine’s resistance and geographic challenges have surprised Putin and his planners. It is widely understood that after first contact with the enemy, the massive planning sessions, PowerPoint presentations, predictions, and forecasts on what the enemy would do must be changed to adapt. Once the firing starts, only war’s brutality is capable of this slap in the face of reality. Putin, on the other hand, is nimble on the battlefield, and his command structure and capacity to adapt are far superior to those of the West, which wages limited wars by committees from the safety of bureaucratic cubicles and think tanks thousands of miles away. Russia is adapting.

The mobilization of reserves and soldiers from throughout Russia is an important event that demonstrates intent. How long will the conflict in Ukraine last? As long as it takes Putin to destabilize the country and seize everything. After only nine days of fighting, it’s becoming clearer what Putin plans to accomplish; the balance shifts in Putin’s favor after the Russian army enters and destroys Kyiv.

When the power goes out, the internet goes down, and all contact with the outside world is lost or seriously hampered, Ukraine and its people will be left in the dark. Putin’s will to conquer won’t be found on Facebook, TikTok, or iMessage.

At this point, media commentators and a parade of government “experts” who declare Putin is insane, out of control, must be stopped, and so on are just like a candle in the wind. Putin is a KGB intelligence officer at his core, one who is extremely capable.

He isn’t insane or out of his mind; he’s calculated and astute, always thinking on what he sees and making adjustments on the field as a result. He is surrounded by specialists that are mature and have a great deal of experience; he and his system are driven by timely intelligence from reliable sources. He is familiar with the United States, our government bureaucracy, and our systemic flaws; more importantly, he has had 50 years to observe how our current president and team would likely make choices, and he understands how to exploit weakness-

es and avoid falling victim to our strengths. His knowledge and influence in Europe are equally impressive.

History is also important. We can look to Muscovy, the original name for the area that is now known as Moscow. After destroying Kyiv in 1240, a Mongol-Tatar force built a colony in the wetlands of north Rus lands. Moscow absorbed and created the Kyiv Rus legacy through centuries of misinformation and active measures; this ruse has been passed down across generations. History shows us that, for a long time, Russians have been killing Ukrainians.

In a recent conversation with Charles S. Faddis, the former chief of the CIA’s Weapons of Mass Destruction Terrorism Unit, I was told that war is messy and can often quickly spiral out of control. Not the weapons themselves, but the lack of communication between the warring nations tends to be one of the deadliest components of war. Soldiers and civilians do not want to die, but things spiral out of control when those in charge fail to engage in meaningful dialogue with their adversaries.

Faddis was able to shed some much-needed light onto the complexities of war.

When asked as to whether there were any similarities between what led up to the former world wars and this current conflict, Faddis stated, “Without question…[in the former world wars] nobody sat down and said ‘Hey, here’s my plan I think we should fight this war and get a whole bunch of people killed’; it got out of control really fast—and conflicts do that. So, we need to manage this…when you’re talking about force and national security, it is no time for emotion, boast, chest thumping, and all of this nonsense. You’ve got to get really clear eyed, very sober, very rational, and be very careful.”

The world looks to be set up to witness land combat in a way that the contemporary West has never seen before. A conquering and annexation conflict. When it comes to a man like Putin, there isn’t much that can stop him. Our optics continue to be used in the United States and Western Europe to assess impact and risk.

We continue to be profoundly inadequate at assessing impact and risk from the perspective of our opponents. Yet rather than truly understanding how Putin perceives the risk vs. benefit and consequences equation, we base our actions and judgements on how we would behave or respond.

We appear to have learnt nothing from the previous 20 years of abysmal military failure.

With another world war looming, we must utilize our knowledge and interconnectivity to make sensible and wise decisions in the coming months to prevent a catastrophe.

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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Sometimes you have to leave NYC to love it CHRISTINA GREER PH.D. I recently left New York City for a few days and was reminded that sometimes we have to leave the place we love for a short spell in order to remember how much we love it. For those of us who live in cities, we can get bogged down with commuting, the constant barrage of people, the noise, and the never-ending movement.

Sometimes, it is imperative we leave for a short time to remember why we have chosen to live in expensive cities––sometimes literally on top of one another.

I recognize everyone may not be able to hop on a flight and escape the city. Some folks may not have the time or resources to jump on a train and head out of town. However, I find that sometimes just spending the day in a different part of my own city makes me feel lightyears away. I realized it’s been months since I took a ferry ride to Staten Island and back. I didn’t even get off the boat, but feeling the saltwater in my face and being on the water helped my blood pressure immensely. It was far from a Caribbean cruise, but for those of us who like to be on the open water, that short time on a “boat” made me temporarily forget about the hustle and bustle of Brooklyn and Manhattan.

Traveling during COVID has filled some of my friends and family with significant anxiety and they are not comfortable being on an airplane, train, subway, bus, or

even an Uber. If that is the case, I would suggest scheduling long walks to explore different parts of your own neighborhood.

These past two years have been a lot, for all of us. We are living in the midst of a global pandemic, we must remind ourselves of that constantly. We are doing our best. We are surviving. We are trying to be conscious about thriving. But the fact remains, we are in the midst of a global public health crisis, and we are continuing to work, learn, laugh, grieve, and stay healthy.

To quote my students, “Issa a lot!”

It is my sincere hope that wherever you are and however you have been managing and/or coping through this pandemic, you will find time for a respite. Whether you hop on a plane and dust off your passport, jump on a train or bus and travel to a nearby state, or stroll through a different part of your city, I hope you discover a new place to reinvigorate you and unlock a new sense of wonder and excitement during this surreal time. We can explore within our comfort levels and within our respective budgets. Let us not lose our sense of wonder and excitement and exploration.

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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Caribbean Update

Caricom zeroes in on troubled Haiti

By BERT WILKINSON Special to the AmNews

Made up mostly of English speaking former British colonies, the 15nation Caribbean Community has occasionally taken flak from critics for not being active enough in engaging and assisting Haiti, its most populous and poorest member nation.

Caricom defenders have countered these allegations, contending that decades of political instability, the sometimes negative influence of western nations in daily affairs and a string of unfortunate natural disasters have all worked against a consistent system of engagement with Haiti, the last nation to join the bloc back in 2002. Haiti, which speaks French and French Creole, and Suriname which speaks Dutch, are the only non-English speakers in the regional integration movement.

Caribbean leaders who met for two days at their mid-year summit in Belize last week appear to have had extensive discussions on things Haitian during the summit. Prime Minister Ariel Henry and other top officials attended the first inperson conference held since the early 2020 COVID-19 outbreak. The

family members appeared to have agreed on a way forward, especially so because Prime Minister Henry asked for and received pledges and commitments for assistance in a number of areas.

For example, when Haitian President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated at his home by suspected Colombian mercenaries in early July of last year, then regional bloc chair and Antiguan Prime Minister Gaston Browne had complained bitterly about Haiti’s absence from important Caricom meetings. He had argued back then that their absence had stymied efforts for more fruitful engagement with the island nation of 11 million. He had then called for a more constituent attendance rate for Haiti.

In the communique issued at the end of last week’s meeting, leaders reported that Henry complained that “democracy is in decline, institutions are dysfunctional and collapsing,” adding that “he spoke of the need to restore democracy and the constitutional framework through elections, to address insecurity, and to lay the foundation for future development.”

The result is that the delegation sought and obtained agreement

from Caricom to establish a special team to interface with Haitian counterparts as well as the international community. There was no word on the make-up of their team or when it would commence work but the leaders say they are in a state of alarm over the country’s ongoing humanitarian crisis and mounting insecurity.

PM Henry also asked and received pledges from member nations to assist the island as a third party honest broker in facilitating dialogue with non-regional actors, help in addressing insecurity, strengthening democracy, preparing for and staging elections, training of police and other key personnel and guidance into the assassination of President Moïse.

Officials said that Henry’s presentation to Caricom was certainly not the first in bringing leaders up to date on the situation back home, but was among the most extensive as he addressed most of the pressing issues including perennial struggles to organize peaceful elections and in maintaining security from increasingly powerful and well-funded street and district gangs.

Apart from the instability stem-

ming from Moïse’s assassination, the island has had problems sourcing COVID-19 vaccines resulting in it having the lowest inoculation rate in the bloc. As authorities were battling with Moïse’s murder, a storm killed hundreds of locals and an earthquake did likewise within weeks of each other.

Late last year, Haitian gangs abducted nearly two dozen American missionaries, demanding million dollar ransom payments. This had occurred in the midst of the investigation of the assassination, recovery efforts from the natural disasters and infection rates from the coronavirus pandemic. Officials say the abductions and associated issues simply added to the stress and pressure on authorities to function properly.

“Heads of government stressed the importance of ensuring good governance and respect for the rule of law and human rights as set out in the Caricom charter of civil society and underlined the importance of including civil society in the process of dialogue. Heads also commended Guyana for its commitment to provide rice to Haiti in view of the ongoing humanitarian crisis,” the communique stated.

U.S. Court of Appeals hands a victory to some immigrants FELICIA PERSAUD

IMMIGRATION KORNER Given the world’s focus on the war in Ukraine, the discrimination against Black refugees there and the ramifications on the world’s economy, a court ruling on March 4th that gave some immigrants a victory went largely unnoticed.

On March 4, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled that immigrants cannot be deported to torture or persecution. In the highprofile case, Huisha-Huisha, filed by Nancy Gimena Huisha-Huisha and The American Civil Liberties Union, Texas Civil Rights Project, RAICES, Center for Gender & Refugee Studies, Oxfam, ACLU of Texas, and ACLU of the District of Columbia against U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, last September, the court ruled that the federal government cannot deport people to countries

where they would face violence, persecution and torture.

The exact decision was the government “cannot expel aliens to countries where their ‘life or freedom would be threatened’ on account of their ‘race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion’ or where they will likely face torture.”

Unfortunately, it was not a strike down of Title 42 which Donald Trump instituted and the Joe Biden administration has kept firmly in place and enforced.

But it is nevertheless significant, as Huisha-Huisha now provides a bulwark against the federal government’s efforts to illegally deport immigrants, especially to countries such as Haiti that are experiencing conflict, turmoil, upheaval or environmental cataclysm.

The Court also noted that immigrants “have already been forced to walk the plank into those places, the record is replete with stomach-churning evidence of death, torture, and rape.”

Attorney Lee Gelernt, deputy director of the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project, who argued the appeal said: “This is an enormous victory. We have

argued from the beginning that the Title 42 policy is illegal and inhumane, and every court to address the issue has agreed. The court’s ruling leaves no doubt that this brutal policy has resulted in serious harm to families seeking asylum and must be terminated.”

Tami Goodlette, director of litigation at the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services (RAICES), said that the “decision is a win for immigrants and confirms what we have been fighting for: that the expulsion of immigrants under Title 42 is inhumane, immoral, and illegal and it must end.”

In commenting on the ruling, Lawyers for Civil Rights executive director, Ivan Espinoza-Madrigal, noted that while the decision did not strike down Title 42, it “creates legal and procedural safeguards to protect immigrants.”

“Moving forward, immigrants cannot be deported without an assessment of whether they will be safe,” he added.

“It’s shameful that it took a court ruling against the Biden administration to enforce this basic right. The federal government must stop deporting immigrants to dangerous places. Immigrants cannot be

deported to persecution and torture.”

International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP), Litigation Staff Attorney Kathryn Austin added that “the Biden administration now must fulfill its pledge to restore a just and humane immigration system by fully revoking the Title 42 policy and other illegal barriers to asylum.”

It is now left to be seen whether the Biden administration, which has embraced this Trump executive power implemented program, will follow the court order while keeping Title 42 firmly in place, or roll it back as the pandemic lessens.

After all, the administration shamelessly appealed the lower court decision last year that had said Title 42 was likely illegal and should not be applied to exclude families from seeking asylum in the U.S. Biden’s critics are growing daily as he tries to prove he is not an open border president, while punishing his own base that got him elected, and scapegoating immigrants. The hypocrisy is nauseating.

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

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3 new Black books to explore: nonfiction, memoir and poetry

By JORDANNAH ELIZABETH Special to the AmNews Three prominent Black writers have new books emerging this year. The trailblazing music editor and journalist Danyel Smith has written a memoir entitled, “Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop,” poet and Miles Davis biographer Quincy Troupe has released a comprehensive collection of his poetry, “Duende: Poems, 1966 - Now,” and the New York Times best-selling author Resmaa Menakem has written a new book that explores the January 6th Insurrection entitled, “The Quaking of America: An Embodied Guide to Navigating Our Nation’s Upheaval and Racial Reckoning.”

The books are, of course, diverse.

But the thread that ties them together is each book’s ability to bring big ideas and topics (history of pop music, a large volume of poetry, and the tragedy of the insurrection) into coherence, and more importantly into a story.

These three authors are experts in their field and are all deserving of their successful careers as published writers.

These books are recommended for

been writing this history for more than five years. But as a music fan, and then as an essayist, editor (Vibe, Billboard), and podcast host (Black Girl Songbook), she has been living this history since she was a latchkey kid listening to “Midnight Train to Georgia” on the family stereo. —Penguin Random House

readers who hope to connect more deeply with Black voices and unique perspectives on poetry, politics and arts and culture.

and at the same time sees something over your shoulder that others don’t see yet, maybe a distant storm gathering over the waters, something we’re going to need to rise up and face soon “Duende: Poems, 1966-Now” by enough. —Penguin Random House Quincy Troupe Troupe is a generous and gregari“Shine Bright: A Very Personal ous poet in this giant offering that in- History of Black Women in Pop” by cludes many new poems, as well as Danyel Smith a selection chosen from across his A weaving of biography, criticism, eleven previously published volumes. and memoir, “Shine Bright” is Danyel What’s remarkable is the constancy, Smith’s intimate history of Black the energy, and how he’s always look- women’s music as the foundationing right at you in the here and now, al story of American pop. Smith has

“The Quaking of America: An Embodied Guide to Navigating Our Nation’s Upheaval and Racial Reckoning” by Resmaa Menakem Through the coordinated repetition of lies, anti-democratic elements in American society are working to incite mass radicalization, widespread chaos, and a collective trauma response in tens of millions of American bodies. Currently, most of us are utterly unprepared for this potential mayhem. This book can help prepare us—and possibly prevent further destruction. In “The Quaking of America,” therapist and trauma specialist Resmaa Menakem takes readers through somatic processes addressing the growing threat of white-supremacist political violence.

—Central Recovery Press

‘Arden’ not your usual bill of theatrical fare

By LINDA ARMSTRONG Special to the AmNews

and co-director of the production), able at first, but slowly your defensCarrie Mae Weems, Nia Witherspoon es may go down and you may start to (another co-director) and Jack Fuller buy into participating.

“Arden: But, Not Without You!” play- (co-music director). The cast enThe cast shares stories of their ing at The Flea at 20 Thomas Street, is deavors to speak truth to the ugly lives and then turns to the audience a very unusual theatrical experience, things that have happened to dif- members and asks them questions which attempts to create a space where ferent ethnic groups; they call the about themselves—their hopes, their cast members and audience can look at the negativity of the world and try to find a way that we can all come together. The production depends a great deal upon the audience interacting with the cast members, as scenarios are brought up and audience members are asked what they would do. There is a feeling of trying to learn lessons on human behavior from our wise elders, a feeling of us needing to acknowledge the wrongs done to many of us, but also learning Diana Oh and Jack Fuller in “Arden But, Not Without You” (Hunter Canning photo) to forgive them, so that we can come together and find common ground events out and then try to create a dreams, and how they are feeling at and peace. spiritual approach. The audience is that present moment. There’s someThe piece includes material from invited to go into a place of serenity thing intriguing about being in a Okwui Okpokwasili. The seven cast as you hum with the cast, who alter- theater that is presenting an unconmembers include Peter Born, Sharae nate between humming and singing. ventional work and suddenly, as an Moultrie, Diana Oh (co-music di- This is not a theatrical experience audience member, being in the spotrector), Niegel Smith (who is also one might expect. In some ways it light. But the atmosphere was one of the artistic director of “The Flea” may make you feel a bit uncomfort- compassion and humor, which was

interesting. While all the cast had different roles at times, it was Diana Oh who led the way, often singing and encouraging the audience. Her voice is incredible. She has a gift that thrills the listener and makes you want to hear more. A large part of this production involved improvisation, and Oh handled it with energy, humor and grace, and was able to relax audience members to the point of getting them to engage with her and answer questions. Smith often participated and had fun with what was happening under his supervision; Jack Fuller has a magnificently stunning voice; and the production has marvelous music by an all-female band that includes Serena Ebony Miller on bass, Bernice “Boom Boom” Brooks on percussion and Viva DeConcini on guitar.

The production will end March 13. I don’t know what you expect when you go to the theater, but if you are open to the unexpected you may want to consider this production. Just be warned it is not the usual bill of fare. Visit theflea.org/shows/arden/ for more info.

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‘The Batman’—even darker than ‘Dark Knight’ and even better!

(L-R) Jeffrey Wright as Lt. James Gordon And Robert Pattinson as Batman (Jonathan Olley/™ & © DC Comics photo)

(L-R) Zoë Kravitz as Selina Kyle and Robert Pattinson as Batman (Jonathan Olley/™ & © DC Comics photo)

By LAPACAZO SANDOVAL Special to the AmNews The headline promises something huge, that the new “The Batman” is even darker and therefore deeper than “The Dark Knight,” which is a big claim. The level of gravitas that’s needed for this franchise keeps raising the bar for entire creative teams.

“This is a powder keg and Riddler’s the match.” Director Matt Reeves reaches for the powder keg with both hands, leaning into the elements that bring fans to their feet.

The running time of “The Batman” is 176 minutes, but it flies by so quickly you can’t feel the dismantling occurring as the very nature of superheroes (from the past) is being examined.

Remember, we’ve had decades of white, spandex-wearing heroes that have shaped our cultural landscape.

Reeves is fearless, stripping the genre of its supernatural elements and thereby introducing a much more interesting, and significantly more complex version of this “classic” hero.

I’m sure you know the controversial thought that evil is the other side of good and that the line between the two is surprisingly thin. Here we see a Batman that’s a few, precious inches away from being viewed as a villain.

Remember, these types of films are usually defined by the villain and “The Batman” actually brings up the very subject by putting the question on a platter: What if the good guys aren’t really the good guys? A huge question that rings beyond a film. What if the

person you believed to be your protector is actually making the situation worse, and more dangerous?

Actor Robert Pattinson (“Twilight”) delivers and builds, beautifully, on the character’s tortured psychology, so well that we actually begin to have an understanding of why he brutalizes petty criminals in those dark alleyways and subways platforms.

Able to go toe-to-toe is actor Paul Dano, as the Riddler, who arrives from the murky villain archetype who’s focused on exposing the white-collar schemers who are sitting at the highest levels of power. It’s interesting that both hero and villain are vigilantes, one choosing to cooperate with law enforcement and others, drilling in on the systemic corruption that undermines our faith across the board in Gotham City, and in the real world.

It’s rather terrifying with the recent events unfolding between Ukraine and Russia, because “The Batman” taps into the frustrations and fears of our current (and terrifying) political climate. The director intelligently blends those key elements that create the classic gangster film with deeply thought-out commentary that highlights the challenges facing the modern world.

Is “The Batman” ambitious? Yes, but the screenwriters packed this world with many of the characters known from the franchise including—the Penguin (Colin Farrell), Catwoman (Zoë Kravitz), loyal butler Alfred (Andy Serkis) and the Batmobile that engages in an epic car chase with Reeves producing an excitement that

Robert Pattinson as Batman in Warner Bros. Pictures’ action adventure “The Batman,” a Warner Bros. Pictures release. (Jonathan Olley/™ & © DC Comics photo)

makes the film’s length acceptable.

Reeves, from the very start, breaks away from the expected stylistic images associated with the genre. A gifted visual storyteller, he expertly establishes a tone that is uniquely his own.

Making his mark, the Riddler’s first victim sets the tone for why he does what he does—demanding in a bloodred command scrawled across his first victim, Gotham’s crooked mayor (Rupert Penry-Jones)—“NO MORE LIES.” The body count grows, one gross murder after another done by the avenger, a sincerely twisted demented sicko whom everyone should be terrfied to be around.

I would never want to offer any spoilers, but I would suggest that you pay close attention to the long “vein” of corruption that runs through Gotham.

One that includes (cough, cough) tracing back to the Wayne family.

When we meet this Bruce Wayne, he’s been defending Gotham for two years. We know about him through media clips and we are made to understand that the city is plagued by a major narcotics epidemic, because of a lethal street drug, “drops,” and the city is facing a level of disorder that’s oppressive.

“The Batman” is a beautiful film to watch, thank you production designer James Chinlund. And we all know that “Gotham” is modeled on New York City, and this city (like NYC?) is rotten from top-to-bottom.

Gotham’s midtown looks and feels like Times Square and is illuminated by even more digital screens and more

buildings. Batman watches his city, sometimes from an upper floor, halfbuilt skyscraper, and his Batcycle.

Bringing Batman into the realm of being human, it’s clear that he’s not an alien or a god, so no supernatural powers. He is, however, a man with a billion-dollar fortune and an ability to build products that others can’t get their hands on.

Our Batman isn’t happy, he’s sullen and not necessarily fearless but it seems like he doesn’t care if he dies or if he lives. That’s top surface stuff and the actor goes deeper, morphing into intriguing with clear signs that he is weighed down by some massive emotional trauma. A modern hero for our times. A hero in pain, a man whose deeply troubled past informs every relationship, including tackling a psychopath that has labeled Bruce Wayne one of his targets.

The Riddler is a scary dude who’s determined to clean up the government. He’s convinced that a lot of Gotham’s top-ranking officials, and a cat burglar/cocktail waitress Selina Kyle (Kravitz)—are somehow mixed up with Falcone, and the Riddler has appointed himself the answer to purging the system of such evil doers.

Reeves lays out how intertwined city government is with organized crime, making “The Batman” an interesting crime drama and marking it a detective story. Does the Riddler win? No spoiler alerts here but with evil and good being so close, the question looms large.

“The Batman” will not disappoint and yes, it can hold a candle to Nolan’s trilogy.

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Harlem gallery home to 2nd edition of Fire & Soul exhibit

By ASAR JOHN Special to the AmNews

Uptown will welcome its latest art exhibit, Fire & Soul 2022: “We’re Still Harlem” at the Heath Gallery on Saturday, March 12. The exhibit is sponsored by ArtCrawl Harlem, an organization dedicated to promoting arts/culture and education in the local community.

The exhibit is the second edition of Fire & Soul as the first edition was held in December of 2020. Co-curated

by Saundra Heath, Heath Gallery director and coowner, and Fable Jones Studios, “We’re Still Harlem” will feature the works of 10 artists in various forms, ranging from paintings to mixed media art. “‘Fire and Soul 2022: We’re Still Harlem’ is really talking about "Steadfast" by Jonte’ Drew (Photo courtesy of Harlem as a model for any the artist) urban community of primarily Black and Brown people,” looking at the contemplative side said Heath, who further explained of who we are—what happens in that despite the political and eco- the quiet spaces that allow people nomic turmoil experienced during to gather themselves, to regroup; to the pandemic, the “fire and soul” reconsider; converse and connect.” of the community still exists. “We “We’re Still Harlem” will open at are still holding on to those things 2 p.m. on Saturday and wraps up that make us unique and also able April 2. Heath Gallery is located to navigate these circumstances at 24 West 120th Street in Harlem, because of certain things we look open Tuesday to Saturday. For more to, and that’s what you’ll see re- information about the gallery and flected in the work.” the exhibit, visit artcrawlharlem.org Heath said she and Fable Jones Studios conducted an open call for the artists and viewed their artwork and art bios to determine whether these factors would reflect the portrayal of the exhibit.

While the Heath Gallery strives to portray diversity and inclusion in all of its exhibits, Heath describes “We’re Still Here” as a “continuum” of the gallery’s typical presentations.

“We are always looking to make sure that we are speaking to the Harlem community first, and making sure that the community has in Heath Gallery, a space where they are welcome,” said Heath.

Heath explained that while the image of “fire and soul” may sound like something extravagant and striking, the idea of this exhibit is to portray something that is quite the opposite.

"Rose 1" sculpture by Bianca Allen “In this exhibit, we are (Megan Maloy photo)

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March 10, 2022 — March 16, 2022 This cycle week is about having a game plan in place to magically transform all your transactions during the transits of the stars. Mars and Venus, traveling about two and a half degrees apart, Vinateria open a dialogue of communications to solve situations, or connect with other groups for building. Self-awareness is self-discipline guiding you to realign your perceptions and perspectives on life equipped with tools needed to advance you to the next level. It’s a cycle where you may find yourself in a pickle in some situations, or there will be the option to rise to the occasion, and let the divine powers do their part. Utilize caution this week as people will try you. Tune into the frequency of the weather as it is conveying a message. Listen closely and carefully.

Capricorn

Unstoppable is the theme for you this cycle, to begin a new direction in your life. Make headlines and live your best life by doing things in your best interest. March is a month for you to apply the footwork and pressure while doing the behind-the-scenes work. Review all documents as structuring and organizing is part of the agenda to stay on top of your affairs. Trust the process and everything will unfold right before your very eyes. Go for the ride.

Dec 22 – Jan 21

Put some prep in your steps and plans for this week as if the out-of-the-blue suddenly appears. It’s no biggie for you, due to you knowing that the unexpected brings joy and valuable lessons with great results. Attend to any responsibilities and commitments this month, and as a reminder, schedule time for self-care. Pamper yourself as work and family are pulling you in many directions, yet also control the narrative. Use a bit of continuing this week to build your castle. You have healing vibes written all over your face. Use the energy right as karma will play a role.

Cancer

Once you start the process or plant a seed, you have to fill in the details of what nutrients are needed to see growth during the nurturing process. This is the fun building stage of the process; a hands-on approach to your work is needed. The reason is that things may not go the way you want them initially. But actually, it goes the way it needs to for clarity. A change in your behavior will lead you to question yourself as to how you feel and why you feel such a way. Your inner self is conveying a message to you, so listen closely and carefully. Water and Air don’t always mix well, so be in tune with what’s in between to find the right answers you seek.

June 22–July 23

Aquarius

Jan 22 – Feb 19

Leo

You’re in the spotlight networking with others to bridge the gap as you dynamically rise to your best self. Equally so, you have a get-up-and-go attitude to get it accomplished this week. The vibes are right with the will to carry out your mission as you see your own personal growth and the returns on what you personally invested late last year, or four years ago. Give it your best shot traveling to faroff places as this is indicated for this cycle. Traveling can be in your mind or may also be on your bucket list. Spend less as being thrifty comes in handy for catching great deals.

July 24 – Aug 23

This cycle may find you in the spotlight, constantly on the move, handling your business as well as branding and promoting yourself. Broadcasting in some shape or form this week is indicated also. People keep your name rolling off their tongue where some of it may be good or indifferent. That’s nothing to you; if people are taking note you’re doing good, as you’re expanding yourself to new levels. Your reputation and character are key this month, so position yourself as the Goddess/God within you and step into your highest version of yourself. You’re the boss because Jupiter is on your side.

Clear your mind and clear the air by taking a stroll through nature or a journey, just walking, running, or even exercising to shake those personal scenarios playing in your mind. Instead, address the situation at hand by bringing more simplicity into your equation. It is a great week to journal, write, record your dreams, and delve into some research. Traveling near a body of water, pond, lake, or vacation on the beach is lovely and ideal to rejuvenate your body, mind, soul.

A change of circumstances in your affairs is brewing up this week as to what decision you’re going Mar 21 – Apr 21 to make. Heed the wake-up call before the shakeup occurs to get things in order and be in compliance with what you need to do.

Listen to your intuition and seek counsel for a different perspective. Your approach is what matters as the changes occurring now are in all aspects of your relationships. They’re tugging on your emotions as things come to end as you travel down a new path. Pay attention to the signs and details.

Finances are either increasing or decreasing, depending on what you need to pay out now and what’s forthcoming. Check and review your cabinets of what you need to restock. Also, review your paperwork and contracts, including handling semi-legal matters. Do cross your t’s and dot’s your i’s and make your n’s be n’s, also your m’s be m’s as money is spelled with an M. Take a page out of your own book, mind your own business, and remember the golden rule. Otherwise, it’s a week to showcase yourself, as you’ll be quite popular this week.

This cycle suggests you’re the boss, supervisor, CEO, or founder, connecting with all sorts of ethnicity and culture. Romance, travels, finance, career, and other cycles are there in balance and order as you thrive in harmony to assist in the flow of your schedule. Your wish is what the universe commands, so make it a grandiose one. You have the right attitude and approach to receive the best results now. Apply yourself and reap the rewards. A pregnancy cycle or a symbolic giving of birth to new concepts is in the forecast.

The universe places people, things, into certain phases of your life, either to assist or pull yourself up as well. You’re a vessel to inspire, motivate, and encourage others while sharing a message, a story or even a simple conversation that can change the direction of a person’s life. Your water is boiling at the right temperature to get the job done—just don’t allow it to boil over. When that occurs, put people on notice that you’re applying pressure to yourself and others as to what’s needed to move them. Hug yourself or someone else.

Pisces

Feb 20 – Mar 20

Aries

Taurus

Apr 22 – May 21

Gemini

What’s on your mind, Gemini? Envision the reality as to the outcome you desire and feel it in your heart with much feeling attached to it to make it manifest.

Now get to work and watch your seed grow. Speak love, life into your vision as you go about your day. Focus goes where energy flows. Go with the ebbs and flow of life as things magically come into sight dropping pieces of the puzzle along the way to gather. Open the dialogue with the spiritual realm.

May 22 – June 21

Virgo

Aug 24 – Sep 23

Libra

Sept 24 – Oct 23

Scorpio

Oct 24 – Nov 22

Sagittarius

It’s a prominent week to meet people in high places or land a new high-level client. A show and tell, as well as a full display of your skill sets, shows the kind of week that’s on display. Make it a point to engage in outreach within your local community and help spread the word, socially and otherwise through media. Word of mouth is still popular, while the internet expedites it and makes it go viral.

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Luxury boutique hotels in Jamaica

By SHERYL NANCE-NASH Special to the AmNews

When you think Jamaica, mega, all-inclusive resorts probably come to mind.

But the island is home to some pretty awesome, unique boutique hotels too.

Good things come in small packages.

So if you usually go large, consider doing something different next time.

You’ll have no regrets with these boutique hotels. Take your pick, there is no wrong choice.

meets the sea, luxurious, and home to a music studio, A-list celebs such as Drake, Rihanna, Alicia Keys, Beyoncé and Jay-Z have stayed there. With three private villas, four deluxe jungle cabins and 12 recently launched Rumba Rooms, each with more than 40 pieces of art, you’ll feel like royalty too. Another recent addition is the infinity pool with a panoramic view of flora, fauna and the ocean. You’ll only want to get out when you’re waterlogged and the lounger is all but calling you. Not a pool fan? No worries, relax on

six all-inclusive luxury villas, so privacy is a premium. Each villa has IG-worthy views, private pools, butler, maid service, full kitchen and chef. You can get nanny service 24/7. There is elderly care for seniors. Here there’s no pressure. Do as little or as much as you like. You can arrange dive tours, deep sea-fishing, glass-bottom boat cruises and more. Make your way down the stairs that lead to a private, spacious gazebo, with hammock, and comfy chairs and tables. The view of the ocean extends as far as the eye can

for cooling off between hot steam and sauna rooms. Treat yourself to a massage and yoga classes in overwater bungalows. Once revitalized, there are activities from golf, kayaking to snorkeling. Wind down your day listening to the calypso band before dinner. What’s your mood? Go for a private dinner for two on the beach or Italian seafood overlooking the sea at Delmare. Finish the night at Lester’s with cocktails made from a vast selection of Caribbean rums Rockhouse You know what they say about location.

Rockhouse has that covered. It’s perched high atop the cliffs of Negril’s West End. The 40-room (villas and thatch roofed huts) boutique hotel is a site to behold.

Each room is built with timber, stone and thatch, ideal because of the surrounding

Jamaica’s Kanopi House is located in the hillsides of Port Antonio, Jamaica (Photos courtesy of Kanopi House)

Kanopi House For a total escape, check into Kanopi House in San San for a stay in an ecofriendly luxury treehouse snug-as-a-bug in a jungle of 100-foot Banyans. The view from the secluded hillside that overlooks the Blue Lagoon is one you’ll never forget.

Make your way around the property via stairs and more stairs, winding bamboo and pathways with ginger-lilies and an array of flora and fauna. It’s downright dreamy, just like your treehouse, think luxury, comfort. The bed is the kind you never want to get out of. Lounge at the lagoon, take a tour of the lagoon, kayak, or let the concierge know you’d like to have a boat take you to nearby Monkey Island for a picnic on the beach. The Living Room is an open-air restaurant, bar, chill out spot. Often on Saturday evenings there is live music.

Even after you’ve finished your meal of authentic Jamaican dishes like coconut curry chicken, ginger scallion fish, ackee, green banana and callaloo, you’ll find reasons to linger, and it’s not just the library. The views of the Caribbean Sea from on high are sensational, especially at evening over a candlelight meal.

It’s romance 101. There are no crowds, with just eight treehouses, it’s you and yours, and an energetic, friendly staff.

the private beach or take a kayak out. If billiards are your thing, grab a cocktail from the Bushbar and show off your skills at the outside pool table. You can blame an off game on Mother Nature’s distracting beauty. There’s nothing cookie cutter here. Take, for example, the four-bedroom Panorama Villa, it was once the vacation getaway of Audrey Hepburn.

At Geejam, the vibe is sophisticated, hip, but comfortably chill. The food is fab. Breakfast is so sumptuous you won’t need lunch. Fill up on ackee and saltfish, plantains, callaloo, green banana, yams and Johnny cake. Dinner is romantic from the open-air Bushbar, overlooking the ocean. Jerk-marinated lamb chops with mashed potatoes and garden veggies with champagne or a wicked rum punch is highly recommended. The service is high touch, impeccable, the staff warm. Chances are you’ll meet Steve Beaver, co-owner and music industry veteran. He freely mingles with all his guests. Don’t be surprised if he pulls up a chair and chats. On departure day you’ll feel like you’ve been visiting a friend. Expect to feel cranky when it’s time to head home.

see. At night the biggest noise is the cicadas’ concert. The food is scrumptious. For lunch, think red snapper in callaloo sauce, roast pumpkin and salad with mango dressing. The service is first class, with real silver cutlery, china, and antiques, but with that down home Jamaican ease.

Exterior of Kanopi House

Eclipse at Half Moon Half Moon in Montego Bay is one of Jamaica’s legendary luxury properties spread over 400 acres of grounds that were once a sugar plantation. Last year Half Moon unveiled its latest addition, Eclipse at Half Moon, is a resort within a resort. When you enter the enormous open-air lobby of Eclipse and glimpse the glistening Caribbean Sea, it’s just wow. This is paradise.

Eclipse, designed by resort architects Hart Howerton, exudes luxury. It has 57 rooms and suites, two restaurants, three bars, a market café, Fern Tree Spa, infinity-edge swimming pool, and the private beachfront with a swimming cove.

Choose among three types of accommodations, all outrageously spacious. A Bluefields Bay Villas big bonus is the covered outdoor space, There’s something to be said for being a patio to dine, as well as the ability to in a world of your own. You can do that chill in a lounger looking at the sea. at Bluefields Bay Villas in Bluefields on Relax. The 68,000 square-foot Fern Tree Geejam Jamaica’s stunning south coast. They Spa is over-the-top. Pamper yourself.

Geejam Hotel is the “it” spot in Port are perched along the hilly coast and Enjoy the whirlpool, and the Fern Tree Antonio. Secluded, where the rainforest overlook the ocean. There are a mere Falls, which has three separate pools

fossilized rock and jungle landscape. The buzz is about the new Ocean View suites, featuring king beds, a separate daybed, lounge area, and a huge balcony, perfect for watching the sunset with a glass of champagne in hand of course. How would you like to start your day? A swim in the Caribbean Sea, a class in the Yoga Pavilion where you can meditate and take in ocean views? The spa at Rockhouse has a mission, “to help you unwind by any means necessary.” Who will argue about that? One of the signature treatments is the Blue Mountain coffee scrub in the tropical garden. When you’re ready for action, snorkel, or go to nearby mineral baths or zipline. You know you’re someplace special. Word is that in the ’70s Bob Marley, the Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan hung out on the cliffs here. The Rockhouse restaurant puts its own spin on traditional Caribbean cuisine. Here it’s about local ingredients, including hyper local from the property’s own garden.

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Building a beautiful beef stew

By KELLY TORRES Special to the AmNews

Within the Caribbean diaspora, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and Cuba have many cuisine similarities, but it would take a person of those respective descents to discern their subtle culinary differences. Puerto Ricans share their love for sofrito, achiote, and adobo, and cannot make most specialty dishes without it. Dominicans add a unique Dominican oregano to nearly every saucy dish. This oregano is dried and finely ground, and has a more pronounced and pungent flavor than its Italian counterpart. Cubans have

(Kelly Torres photo)

is larger on the East Coast than in the Rocky Mountain region, and the proximity of these islands to the East Coast makes 100% sense as to why there aren’t many Caribbean ingredients available here. However, I did not foresee that I would not have access to a simple herb called culantro, also known as recao, when I moved out West. Luckily, the herb is similar to cilantro, so I simply use more of it whenever I make a fresh batch of sofrito.

One dish I love to make during the colder months is beef stew. While there are European variations of beef stew like France’s boeuf bourguignon and Germany’s goulash, Caribbean Hispanic countries do not include the use of red wine or paprika. Instead, these

countries build upon a cooking base known as the aforementioned sofrito, a puree of vegetables like green bell peppers, onions, garlic, tomatoes and cilantro. Sofrito is widely manufactured and, as a result, available at nearly all supermarkets. Here I am offering my recipe for beef stew which is a winter staple at my home and has a mostly Puerto Rican influence in cooking style. A side of white rice is the traditional side dish served with this beef stew, but it can also be enjoyed alone as a soup with crusty bread. This recipe is great for freezing in portioned freezersafe containers. Simply transfer it from the freezer to the fridge the day or night before you plan to enjoy it, and reheat it on a stovetop or a microwave.

All of the ingredients are easily found at any supermarket.

A wonderful meal awaits you.

Beef Stew Recipe

By KELLY TORRES Special to the AmNews

Ingredients:

an affection for including a side of black beans and white rice on almost every dinner table; cumin being the flavor backbone responsible for the sauce’s dark color created by the black beans themselves and in which they are stewed. Yet, even with these country’s distinguishing touches of how their food is served and prepared, one cannot ignore that there are more commonalities than differences.

When I moved to Colorado, I noticed the lack of diversity when it came to Latin Caribbean foods. There are plenty of Mexican markets in Colorado offering multiple species of chile peppers, not to mention the wide availability

of ingredients one would need to throw a huge Mexican fiesta. Such is not the case for foods coming from the Caribbean islands. Thankfully, my own Puerto Rican heritage afforded me the knowledge to be creative in sourcing closely related ingredients needed to make up for the inaccessibility. As a native New Yorker who grew up in Harlem then later lived in Brooklyn (and held a job in Manhattan for most of my life), I have tasted a wide variety of cooking styles of rice, beans, root vegetables, stews, meats, and plenty of fried things. The Caribbean Hispanic population

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3 lbs of beef top sirloin, cut into 1-inch chunks 1/2 cup sofrito (homemade or store-bought) 1 packet of sazon spice mix 1 tbsp adobo spice mix 5 cloves of garlic, mashed in mortar and pestle 1/3 cup canola oil 1 tsp granulated sugar 8 - 12 cups chicken stock 2 tbsp tomato paste 3 Russet potatoes, medium dice 1 red bell pepper, julienned 1 green bell pepper, julienned 1 small yellow onion, julienned Cilantro, as garnish Salt and pepper, to taste

Instructions: 1. Place beef chunks in a large bowl. Add sofrito, sazon spice mix, adobo, and garlic. Mix thoroughly and let marinate for 30 minutes at room temperature.

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4. Add chicken stock. When it comes to a boil, reduce heat and simmer uncovered for approximately 40 minutes, skim2. In a large stockpot, heat ming the surface occasionally. canola oil on medium high heat until it shimmers. Add 5. Add potatoes. Stir sugar and let it brown, ap- thoroughly. Simmer for proximately 30 seconds. Add another 25 minutes. beef chunks. Season lightly with salt and pepper. Saute 6. Lastly, add the julienned until browned on all sides. vegetables and serve alone or with a side of white rice.

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STATEN ISLAND JAZZ FESTIVAL, WOMEN’S JAZZ FESTIVAL On March 12, the Staten Island JAZZ Festival returns after a two-year absence resulting from the COVID19 pandemic. While not known as a happening scene, the Universal Temple of the Arts has annually presented some of the best jazz in the city, now celebrating its 33rd year.

This year’s JAZZ festival will feature an assorted canvas of jazz hues from the bold edge of Nikara Presents Black Wall Street; the ignited fire of Winard Harper & Jeli Posse; straightahead with Canadian trumpeter and vocalist Bria Skonberg; melodic beats of the African diaspora The Leopoldo F. Fleming Afro Caribbean Ensemble (longtime percussionist for Nina Simone); some stride piano from pianist/composer Danny Mixon & Antoinette Montague sings fiery blues; Dal Segno Trio with trumpeter Michael Morreale and the soul jazz master saxophonist Houston Person and leader/drummer Darrell Smith; and The Universal Temple of the Arts Jazz Ensemble led by Dr. Darrell Smith with vocalist Jeannine Otis, saxophonist Sylvester Scott and rounded out with local jazz talent. Hosted

by WBGO radio host Sheila Anderson. The festival will take place at the St. George Theatre at 35 Hyatt Street, in Staten Island from 5 p.m. - 9 p.m.

The JAZZ festival under the auspices of the Universal Temple of the Arts (UTA), a non-profit organization providing cultural programs to Staten Islanders for more than 50 years, will celebrate the life of Sajda Musawwir Ladner, the former executive artistic director and founder of the Staten Island JAZZ Festival, who transitioned in 2021.

Under Ladner’s three-decade leadership, the JAZZ Festival featured the Afrofuturism pioneer bandleader, composer Sun Ra Arkestra, NEA Jazz Masters: Reggie Workman, Barry Harris, Randy Weston and Kenny Barron as well as Staten Island’s own talented musicians. Ladner, who grew up in Harlem before moving to Staten Island, believed that audiences of all ages should experience jazz in all its glory and presented educational workshops and forums taught by prominent scholars, visual artists, dancers and poets. Many of these artistic programs taught to Staten Island students began in 1967 when the artist Maurice Phillips founded The Universal Temple of the Arts with founding members Andrea Phillips, Sajda Musawwir Ladner, Sheila Rohan (Dance Theater of Harlem dancer), artist and musician Edward Ladner and Asheber Hicks. These early programs

and a love for the music led to Ladner’s founding of the JAZZ festival. “Maurice and my parents along with the founding members wanted to ensure Black people of Staten Island an opportunity to become actively involved in the creative arts and related educational programs,” said Ar- L-R: Melba Joyce (Photo courtesy of the artist), Sajda Musawwir Ladner (Willie Chu/Wink Photography) tistic Executive Director I.A Rashida Ladner-Seward. Seward. “I worked with the organization the veteran elder-states-woman is 93 Similar to the Black arts programs of for the last 15 years and have intimate years of age, living in California; pianist the 1960s by Amiri Baraka in Newark knowledge of its direction. I am look- and vocalist Dorothy Donegan, a protéand Harlem’s Jazzmobile founded by ing to see us grow to a higher level and gé of Art Tatum and was known for her Dr. Billy Taylor. continue the legacy of my mother.” flamboyant style, playing stride piano For more information or tickets visit and boogie woogie; trumpeter Cora The art of Romare Bearden has been the website utasi.org or info@uta.org Bryant and vocalist Carrie Smith. used to promote seven Staten Island General admission tickets are $35.

Joyce is a self-taught vocalist learnJAZZ Festivals, thanks to the late Naning a lot from her father Melvin nette Rohan-Bearden, who was a After relocating to Harlem from Moore, who was a jazz singer (insupporter of the organization and sis- California, the vocalist Melba Joyce ducted into the Oklahoma Jazz Hall ter-in-law of Romare Bearden. was looking for a worthwhile project of Fame). “I inherited my father’s In addition to her work with UTA, that would propel the community’s style,” said Joyce. During her six-deLadner worked extensively with interest. “New York City and Harlem cade career, she has toured 60 counyoung people as a cultural enrich- had everything but I noticed there tries including a stint with the Count ment specialist. She was on the staff were no jazz festivals that highlighted Basie Orchestra, she says performof Doing Art Together at the Metro- the talent of Black women jazz singers ing with a band of 19 men could be politan Museum of Art from 1995- and musicians,” noted Joyce. “In 1992 inconvenient at times. Her daughter 2006 and was a longtime art educator I presented my idea to the chief of the Carmen Bradford is currently the vowith the Staten Island Museum.

Schomburg Center for Culture in Black calist for the Count Basie Orchestra Ladner was a fashion/costume de- Research, Howard Dodson. He liked under its director Scotty Barnhart. signer and owned a boutique, Saadia my idea and the Schomburg became “My most memorable gig was sitting Fine Art Fashions. She created cos- home to the Women’s Jazz Festival. We in with Louis Armstrong: after hearing I tumes for such dance companies became partners with the Center and was a singer, he invited me to the stage. as the Alvin Ailey American Dance they have supported us all these years.” He liked me so much I sang for the Theater Repertory and The Nanette In its 30-year span the festival has second set,” she recalled with laughBearden Contemporary Dance The- become the shining beacon in cele- ter. “He later asked me to go on the atre, where she served as resident cos- brating Black women in jazz. For this road with him but at the time I had a tume designer and wardrobe mistress Women’s History Month the festival nine-month old and twin boys. People from 1977-1996. In her multifaceted will continue its inspiring tradition of thought I was crazy not to accept his career, she was a professional dancer, presenting an array of performances offer but I couldn’t leave my babies.” specializing in jazz improvisation. As from established to emerging artists, After living for years in Harlem, a member of the On the Rock Dance who combine straight ahead jazz with a few months ago she moved back Theater, UTA’s resident dance com- the ancestral soul of the African dias- to California where she is currently pany, she served as a mentor and in- pora from March 7, 8, 14 and 21. working on a CD. She is deciding if structor to younger dance students.

On March 14, clap your hands pat your it will be released on her six-year inThe organization has stayed true feet or feel the tears roll down your cheek dependent label Barachah Records. to its mission of providing free af- at the sweet bold sounds of vocalists Since returning to California she has terschool programs offering com- Renée Neufville and Laurin Talese, is it jazz connected with her good friend and munity workshops, dance and straight up soul or just good Black music. fellow jazz vocalist Barbara Morriinstrumental instructions, visual The Women’s Jazz Festival comes to a son, who founded the Barbara Morarts and sewing at various schools finale on March 21 with a “Salute to Black rison Performing Arts Center in and churches. Prior to COVID-19 Women Composers” featuring bassist/ South Los Angeles. Joyce will be inpandemic, UTA had an arts and composer and band leader Endea Owens. volved in instructing young students education residency at the local “We have some great singers this year in vocal and jazz history classes. public schools. In 1990 UTA pur- and over the years the talent of these “My idea for the festival was to keep chased a building (425 Jersey Street) exceptional young women has escalat- jazz singing alive while introducing which is in need of renovation that ed to unexpected heights,” explained Black female jazz musicians,” said they are currently discussing with Joyce during a recent phone interview Joyce. “Now, it has become an instituarchitects. They are cautiously re- from her home in California. During tion; I am so grateful to the Schomburg turning to schools with the ongo- the early years of the festival Joyce invit- Center for keeping it going and suping regulations set by the CDC. ed her fellow jazz musicians to perform porting me during these 30 years.”

“I am glad to have worked with my such as alto saxophonist and vocalist All concerts will be held at Schommom to help keep the tradition of UTA Elvira “Vi” Redd, who performed with burg 515 Lenox Avenue. For more inforand her legacy alive,” stated Ladner- Count Basie and Rahsaan Roland Kirk, mation and tickets visit jazzmobile.org

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On March 22, the indomitable Dorothy Burnham turns 107 years young

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bados. She attended Girls’ High School before matriculating at Brooklyn College

Women’s History Month Dorothy Burnham would be hardpressed to find a more representative role model for the celebration than Dorothy Burnham.

Along with her exceptional longevity— she will turn 107 on March 22—her vita is stocked with achievements, particularly as a civil and human rights activist, an educator, and a companion of the highly esteemed Louis Burnham.

Ordinarily this column is devoted to where she majored in biolothose who have gone on to gy. “When I graduated it was glory, but there are times— the Depression, so there were and I’ve been reminded of no jobs,” she said. this point by my colleague It was during this period Joseph Washington, who has when the Scottsboro Boys been unstinting in his efforts case was a headline story that to honor Ms. Burnham—that she became involved in the there are a few we need to fight for justice. Meanwhile, salute before they make their her future husband, Louis, transition. And I certainly was a dedicated member agree with Mr. Washington, of several political formaand let me illuminate again tions including the Southher many years with us. Con- ern Negro Youth Congress sider: she has lived to witness (SNYC), which eventuated the administrations of every in the couple’s move to Birpresident since Woodrow mingham, Alabama in 1941.

Wilson in 1913, four major For nearly a decade they world wars, momentous oc- were prominent activists in casions in Black history, and the movement, in close assotwo pandemics. ciation with James and Esther In an autobiographical Jackson, she told the Histordraft, shared with me by Mr. yMakers Digital Archive, as Washington, Dorothy wrote they struggled to initiate that she was born in Brook- equal pay for workers, to inlyn to Aletha Dowridge and tegrate public transportation Frederick Challenor, both im- systems and public institumigrants from Bar- tions as well as numerous sit-ins. When the SNYC’s

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office closed, she returned to Brooklyn and worked as a laboratory technician in New

York City area hospitals. By this time she had a degree in microbiology and later joined the faculty at Hostos Community College and also taught biology, bioethics, and health sciences in the adult education program at Empire State University, in the CUNY system. Despite this workload, she found time to be actively involved in the New York State Teachers Union.

None of these important endeavors interfered with her research and writing, including her membership on the board of “Freedomways” journal, where her articles often appeared in publication. “Children of the Slave Community in the U.S.,” was one such essay she penned in 1979 in a salute to the International Year of the Child. All the hardships the children endured they man-

aged to survive, she wrote, “and most importantly of all, they were able to maintain the bonds of friendship and community which helped the children to survive and develop.”

At no point should we lose sight of Dorothy as the mother of four children— Claudia, Margaret, Linda and Charles—all of whom have made their mark, following successfully in the legacies left by their parents.

In 1960, following the sudden death of her husband who died as he was delivering a speech during Negro History Month, she became both breadwinner and homemaker, without ever quitting her role as a champion for equal rights. In a tribute to her on her 75th birthday in 1990, she was hailed by dignitaries from the world over, and many of them agreed with her children that Dorothy’s most “remarkable quality is her refusal to permit the customary boundaries to limit her experience of life.”

The tribute to her included an expansive note of appreciation from her children, now safely secure in their professions: “…You chose not only to travel in the second half of [your] life but also to embark on a new creative endeavor.”

As a painter, they cited that she “sought to capture the stark and richly vivid images of her travels” as well as the ordinary life that vibrated around her in the Fort Greene section of Brooklyn. On that occasion, the eminent author and a product herself of a notable family, Louise Patterson, observed of Dorothy, “You give us the fortitude to follow.” And we are sure that on March 22 we will hear once more a chorus of celebration for a long life well lived.

ACTIVITIES FIND OUT MORE Those interested in her biography should spend time with her children and then contact any number of the remaining freedom fighters with memories of her.

DISCUSSION No mention was made of her affiliation with the Communist Party but that should be an inevitable association given their shared commitment to equal rights and justice.

PLACE IN CONTEXT She is still with us so her context continues to grow, becoming more expansive with each year.

THIS WEEK IN BLACK HISTORY March 6, 1857: The Dred Scott decision by the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Black Americans had no rights as citizens.

March 9 or 10, 1913: Harriet Tubman, one of the most formidable abolitionists, died in Auburn, New York.

March 11, 1789: Benjamin Banneker began helping in drafting the layout of Washington, D.C.

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Students get jumpstart on path to success at 15th Disney Dreamers Academy

By CYRIL JOSH BARKER Amsterdam News Staff The Walt Disney World Resort welcomed 100 teens selected to participate in the 2022 Disney Dreamers Academy (DDA) last week for four days of inspiration and empowerment from Thursday through Sunday.

The Academy marks its 15th year of helping youth from around the nation. More than 1,400 students have been through the program.

This year’s group traveled from 25 states for the all-expenses-paid trip to Disney World. They were selected from thousands of applicants nationwide. New York State had the highest representation with 10 students from the Empire State participating in DDA with four from the five boroughs.

Students at the event had interests in medical, engineering and entertainment careers. Several of them already run their own businesses or community organizations.

Four-time Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, actress and television executive producer Kelly Rowland was among the well-known celebrities participating. Rowland was the program’s celebrity ambassador and served as a mentor and advocate.

Speaking to the media at Disney’s Magic Kingdom theme park on Friday, Rowland said that while she hoped to inspire the students, seeing them inspired her as well.

“To watch all these big brilliant young minds come out here and have a focus and a goal, I’m honored to be among such incredible energy and share space with them,” Rowland said. “It’s one big thing to have a dream and to watch it unfold as you’re on this journey of finding and follow-

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Russian state TV released a photograph of Griner on March 8—International Women’s Day—which showed Griner’s booking photo: she was holding a placard while in custody in the aftermath of her February arrest at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo International Airport. Griner was taken into custody after flying into Moscow from New York. During a search of her hand luggage, “the presence of vapes with specifically smelling liquid” were found, the Russian Federal Customs Service said in a statement: “an expert determined that the liquid was cannabis oil (hash oil), which is a narcotic substance.”

Griner faces a punishment of between 5 to 10 years in prison. She has already been detained for 3 weeks now and her exact location remains unknown.

(Cyril Josh Barker photo)

ing your dream is truly a blessing.”

Six students in this year’s class were from the Tri-State area: Abibat Akinyele from the Bronx; Justin Alvarez from Manhattan; Darius Brown from Newark, N.J.; Alexis Halm from East Orange, N.J.; Michael Taggart from Jamaica, Queens; and Darcie Wu from Manhattan.

Disney Dreamers Academy Executive Champion Tracey Powell, who also works as Disney signature experiences vice president and Disney Dreamers Academy executive champion, said the Dreamers Academy allows Tri-State teens to explore their options for the future.

“For those students from the New York area, we really want them to enjoy the weekend and take in all of the opportunities, to be able to get to know people in the program and see that there’s options for them at the Walt Disney Resort to be able to actually have a career,” Powell said.

Entertainment reporter Kelly Carter spoke to the students during the

event and hosted panel discussions.

She said the Dreamers Academy encourages teens to take what they’ve learned back to their peers.

“I’m really hoping that they take something and put some good out in the world,” Carter said. “That’s really what it’s all about. Finding connections with people and networking, figuring out how to navigate the world outside of high school, college and their professional journey. I just want to see people come back and share their own stories the way that some of the alumni come and inspire the kids.”

Speakers for this year’s Dreamers Academy included Mikki Taylor; Essence CEO Caroline Wanga; motivational speaker Lisa Nichols; retired NBA player, Quentin “Que” Richardson; Bruce W. Smith and Ralph Farquhar, Disney+ executive producers and directors of “Proud Family”; Demi Singleton, who recently starred in the film “King Richard” playing the role of Serena Williams; and recording artist

Griner’s wife, Cherracist history against Black elle, posted a statement people and under Putin the on Instagram calling for LGBTQIA community has support to bring Brittney been under constant attack. home: “Thank you to evGriner could face unspeakeryone who has reached able deprivations in Putin’s out to me regarding my Russia as he wages a deswife’s safe return from perate war in Ukraine.

Russia. Your prayers and “The critical and urgent support are greatly apissue that I was able to raise preciated. I love my wife with the president was the wholeheartedly, so this Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee illegal arrest and detaining message comes during of Britney Griner,” Rep. Lee one of the weakest moments of my life.” noted in a March 8 statement on TwitThe basketball star’s agent, Lindsay ter. She said she “raised the need for her Kagawa Colas, has said that she is in to be immediately released and for her contact with WNBA and NBA legal rep- to receive the help of the United States to resentatives, and that they are working demand and facilitate that release. to aid Griner.

“It is clear that Putin chooses to use Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, who represents American citizens as pawns and has deGriner’s hometown of Houston, Texas, is tained many other Americans on false calling for the U.S. to bring Brittney Griner charges. He is now waging a vile, evil, imhome. Russia has a noted violent and moral, and vicious war of terrorism; and

Mali Music.

Cheryl McKissack, president & CEO of McKissack & McKissack, the oldest minority- & woman-owned design and construction services firm in the nation, was also one of the speakers at this year’s Dreamers Academy. Attending the event for the first time, McKissack said she spoke with several teens about her work.

“The fact that I can teach them about construction in New York City, I think, has been very helpful to them and I’m just going to tell the world about these amazing young kids of color.”

Alumni Dreamers from previous classes also attended the event to offer their help and advice to attendees. Princeton Parker, who was a Disney Dreamer in 2011, was one of the hosts for the Dreamers Academy.

He’s been involved with the program for 11 years.

“This program has absolutely changed my life,” Parker said. “I’m excited that it’s still going strong, that 100 more Dreamers get to experience what I did.”

Abibat Akinyele Yusifu, 15, from Mott Haven in the Bronx was selected to participate in this year’s Dreamers Academy. She hopes to be a CEO and wants to fuse her passion for technology with business.

“It’s great to see so many motivated kids around me just like me,” she said. “I never knew you could combine multiple interests into one. I was torn between technology and business, but the fact that it can be put together is perfect. I want to bring inspiration back to the community.”

The teens arrived at the Walt Disney World Resort Thursday, where they participated in a parade at Disney’s See DREAMERS on page 32

now maybe choosing to use the celebrity status of Griner to threaten the West and threaten the United States. Brittney Griner is a professional athlete at the top of her game who plays professionally in Russia and the United States. Frankly, Putin is a war criminal and should not be holding anyone. Griner should be released now along with other detained Americans.

The United States government working with Congress should demand their release, and Putin should be tried as a war criminal! Enough is enough!”

Griner plays for the WNBA’s Phoenix Mercury where she earns a base salary of $227,900 annually. Like other WNBA players, she spends her offseason playing abroad where she can earn a higher income. Griner has played in the Euroleague since 2015, she is a member of the Russian UMMC Ekaterinburg team and has earned over $1 million per season for the last seven years.

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Education Student loans? What student loans? Biden ignores plight in SOTU

By STEPHON JOHNSON Amsterdam News Staff In last week’s State of the Union address, U.S. President Joe Biden outlined his agenda for the next two years of his term. None of them mentioned student loans.

White House officials have repeatedly told the media that they would pass a student loan forgiveness bill since the president can’t do it on his own. But with canceling student loans being a major promise in his campaign, some have felt betrayed.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said that Biden missed an opportunity during his state of the union and the speech left a lot to be desired.

“There are some things that were left unsaid that we are really going to have to work on as a party, in order to really speak to constituencies that have historically supported the president, whose turnout we need, whose support we need right now and in the coming years, that perhaps haven’t heard their issues spoken to in the way that they wanted to hear it,” she said in an interview with Rachel Maddow. She

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also called the expectation of Democratic success at the polls in the midterms “delusional” if they don’t come through on the promises they made.

Alan Collinge, founder of StudentLoanJustice.org, said that the president gave Americans false hope.

“President Biden has brazenly and blatantly gone back on his word,” said Collinge. “The federal lending system has catastrophically failed, but the president apparently wants to pretend for the next three years that it has not. This is a huge mistake on all levels.”

Joe Hughes, 40, was blunt with his thoughts.

“I’m trying to think of something that isn’t just a string of curse words,” Hughes said before collecting himself. “You know what’s just as infuriating? The fact that he never mentioned was, as near as I could tell, barely even a story. So many people, rightfully, brought up his (absurd) call to give police forces even more money, but the complete absence of any mention of student loan forgiveness, a tent pole of the campaign, felt like it was largely met with indifference.

“It’s depressing.”

According to the U.S. Government Accountability Office, a report sent to congressional committees found that almost half of all Americans could default on their loans and that the U.S. Department of Education might have the wrong addresses and locations (outdated ones), which makes it harder to find those who need to pay student loans.

Collectively, Americans have student loans upwards of $1.7 trillion.

Biden campaigned on providing at least $10,000 in student loan forgiveness for those who still owe payments. The report mentions that the U.S. Department of Education has worked on ways to inform, provide and assist those in debt who need a repayment plan or those who also have auto debt.

In December, Biden extended Student Loan Repayment for another 90 days after there was an uproar over making people pay for them after the financial pause COVID-19 put on their lives.

This issue wasn’t addressed despite the president’s consistent push to get the economy going again and desire to make college more affordable.

Two organizations have laid out reports showing that student loans remain an important issue with Americans.

According to a survey provided

by The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, a Black American think tank, late February, “While 73% of Black Americans agree with forgiving up to $50,000 of student loan debt, slightly more—76%—agree with forgiving all student loan debt.”

“The results of our poll paint a clear picture: the economy may be rebounding, but most Black Americans have yet to feel any actual signs of improvement,” stated Jessica Fulton, vice president, Policy, Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies. “As Black Americans continue to

serve as a lifeline for the economic well-being of our nation—especially during the COVID-19 pandemic— it is crucial that they are centered in our recovery.”

The same study revealed that 21% of Black Americans approve of the job the Republicans are doing.

But the issue has as much to do with Albany and local cities within the state as it does nationally. The Education Trust-New York conducted a poll of their own and found out how much student loans play into education and/or considering where to go for an education.

Seventy percent of responses said that New York State and New York City could do more to help students succeed in higher education.

“The cost of college and rising student loan debt are key concerns for young people in New York City, particularly among Black and Latinx respondents and those from working and middle class backgrounds, who were most likely to say that cost was a key factor in their decision not to attend college (61% of Black respondents, 62% of Latinx respondents, 52% of working class respondents, and 66% of middle class respondents),” read part of the study.

“Well-designed postsecondary pathways allow students to optimize the myriad of resources available to them,” stated Kurt M. Thiede, manager of the New York State Association for College Admissions Counseling’s Student Success Project. “The responses to this poll strongly support current efforts that assist students by providing planning tools and the ability to use them effectively. State leaders need to commit to additional human resources to ensure that all New York students receive the guidance necessary to build and implement their plans for future success.”

REACH NY’s survey had a confidence interval of +/-4.9% and all interviews were conducted via phone.

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“I think that the approach that we took in trying to understand why we were seeing such a worst hospitalization rate among Black New Yorkers forces us to ask the question about what are the many different factors that are contributing to this disparity?” said Knudsen. “Because there is not just one factor that’s easily fixable or that you can pinpoint. We decided to frame it as a cascade showing that there are factors that are more downstream, like the way any disparities in the healthcare system—access to care, access to testing. But then we also really had to shine the light on all the upstream factors and histories of structural racism that put Black people at higher risk of chronic disease that put them in positions where they have less access to health care in general, less access to jobs they can work remotely, so they’re, you know, going out into the community getting exposed.”

The areas targeted by TRIE have several other health issues that go unchecked leading to a higher risk of immunocompromised New Yorkers, including those with diabetes. According to the America’s Health Rankings annual report with the United Health Foundation, 15.1% of adult Black New Yorkers were told by a health professional that they have diabetes. Much of this has to do with food deserts leading to consumption of processed foods. According to the management

consulting firm McKinsey & Company, in 2020 there were more convenience stores than grocery stores, restaurants and farmers markets in Black neighborhoods.

In a study published by Health Affairs, a peer-reviewed website, Black patients were two and a half times more likely to have at least one negative descriptive term used in the electronic records of Black vs. white patients. At a medical center in Chicago, Black patients’ records were more likely to contain the words, “not compliant,” “refused” and “not adherent.” This study was conducted between January 2019 and October 2020.

Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed that Black Americans are 22 percent less likely than white Americans to receive monoclonal antibody treatment for COVID-19. Monoclonal antibodies are created in labs designed to fight infections once presented inside the body.

How did the city fight some of these issues locally?

Knudsen said that the health department was “really focused on making sure there’s good access, particularly in Black and Brown communities.

“Just one example, around vaccines,” Knudsen said. “You know, we’ve engaged in more than a year of our historic vaccination campaign where we’ve really focused on working with community partners to get town halls and other community engagement events to help the community feel like they can trust the vaccine and they know where to get it.”

As a part of the effort, the health depart-

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Study shows racial gap in medical care during Omicron wave.

Courtesy of: NYC Dept. of Health and Mental Hygiene

ment introduced the Coalition to End Racism in Clinical Algorithms (CERCA), which aims to end racial adjustments in clinical algorithms that are used by healthcare providers in making medical decisions. The process, according to the CERCA, perpetuates the biology of people based on race alone.

Their efforts to combat this issue have been a relative success. In July 2021 the number of fully vaccinated adults in TRIE and TRIE zip codes was 18.9% and 64.4% respectively. By December, those numbers hit 90.5% and 95.2%. “…At the start of the middle of the vaccine campaign in July, only 14 out of the 74 zip codes in those (TRIE) neighborhoods had reached our vaccine targets, which was to have 70% of the population

vaccinated,” said Knudsen. “And now it’s February 2022, 73 out of the 74 zip codes have reached that target. So, it just goes to show how important it is to do that trust building and community partnerships to make sure people have access to information and access to the vaccine.”

When the AmNews asked if the city was moving too fast getting back to “normal,” we were directed to the colorcoded COVID-19 Alert Level Guidance established on the city’s website. Despite recent reports of a new, more transmissible version of the original Omicron variant (known as BA.2), and cases found in nearly half of all states in the country but circulating at a low level, the COVID-19 risk on the city’s website is coded green meaning “Low.”

You may be eligible for COVID-19 Treatment People who have tested positive for COVID-19 may be able to receive outpatient treatment to help symptoms and avoid hospitalization. Treatment works best if you begin it soon after you start feeling symptoms, so get tested right away.

Monoclonal antibody treatment is a one-time IV or injection to help fight COVID-19 while your immune system produces its own antibodies.

Oral antiviral pills are taken for five days and helps stop the virus and keeps it from replicating, which reduces the amount of virus in your body. There are currently two authorized pills - paxlovid and molunpiravir.

Both monoclonal antibody and oral antiviral treatments can reduce your risk of becoming sick from COVID-19 and avoid hospitalization.

COVID-19 treatments are not a substitute for vaccination. COVID-19 vaccination and booster shots remain the best protection against getting severely sick due to COVID-19.

If you have COVID-19 symptoms, or if you have tested positive, talk to your doctor, or call 212-COVID19 (212-268-4319).

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Health Factcheck: COVID-19 vaccine drive is not like the Tuskegee Study Claim: The Tuskegee Study is proof that the government’s drive to vaccinate people of color is part of a conspiracy against them.

Factcheck: False. While the Tuskegee Study and studies like it are horrible examples of medical racism and discrimination in this country, the effort to vaccinate all Americans, including Black Americans, is not part of a government conspiracy against people of color.

By HEATHER M. BUTTS, JD, MPH, MA Special to the AmNews Since COVID-19 vaccines were first developed and distributed, anti-vaccine activists have attempted to capitalize on the institutional mistrust some Black Americans have for the medical system by invoking the legacy of the Tuskegee Study. Their goal appears to be to link what happened decades ago under very different circumstances to the drive to get all Americans, including Americans of color, vaccinated to protect them against COVID-19.

The false theory that the effort to vaccinate all Americans, including Black Americans, is part of a government drive or conspiracy against people of color to vaccinate them is refuted by the facts.

Far from being a vaccine being forced on the Black community, early in the pandemic white Americans were seen going into communities of

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color to obtain the vaccine when it was not easily available where they lived. Federal and state governments also made a concerted effort to ensure the availability of the vaccine for all Americans.

If anything the COVID-19 vaccine rollout has had equity and access issues, as has been discussed in a previous AmNews article, which means that far from the vaccines being pushed on communities of color, many in our communities have found it challenging to access the vaccines.

With respect to the actual numbers, vaccination rates among whites are higher in NYC than Black New Yorkers. Additionally, numerous studies have demonstrated that not only are COVID-19 vaccines safe but that they are far safer than contracting COVID-19.

Finally, Black Americans who are not vaccinated are dying of COVID at higher rates than their white counterparts. Black New Yorkers make up just

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22% of the population in New York City, as of Feb. 27, 2022, but they accounted for 29% of the city’s COVID deaths. According to NYC Health’s report “Racial Inequities in COVID-19 Hospitalizations During the Omicron Wave in NYC,” the COVID19 hospitalization rate was over two times greater among Black New Yorkers than among whites during the Omicron wave in December 2021 and January 2022.

The report makes a direct link between lower vaccination levels among Black New Yorkers and increased levels of hospitalizations. “COVID-19 vaccines play a central role in preventing infection and particularly in preventing serious illness.

We observed delays in primary series vaccination among Black New Yorkers and lower rates of booster doses among eligible Black New Yorkers by winter 2021 when the Omicron surge began.”

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Harlem celebrates the birthday of native legend Bob McCullough

Friends, family and local elected officials came together this past Saturday at Melba’s Restaurant in Harlem to celebrate the 81st birthday of Harlem legend Bob McCullough (Bill Moore photos)

By VINCENT DAVIS Special to the AmNews Over the past two years, living under COVID-19 mandates, attending virtual services for those who have passed away, the words “we’ve got to meet under much better circumstances” have been regularly expressed.

So we are fortunate to be able to once again hold celebrations in-person. This past Saturday was one of those special occasions. Friends, family and local elected officials were among the many that came together at Melba’s Restaurant on 114th

and Frederick Douglass Boulevard for the 81st birthday gathering of Robert McCullough. Known affectionately as Bob, McCullough has been a longtime legend in Harlem.

McCullough and sons, Bob Jr., Malik and Marvin, greeted guests that attended to pay their respect, fellowship, partake in the delicious food, and sing Stevie Wonder’s version of “Happy Birthday.” Among them were newly elected Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine, State Senator Cordell Cleare, NYS Assemblyman Al Taylor, and Jackie Rowe Adams, founder of

Harlem Mothers-SAVE. Laughter ensued after McCullough was asked “how old are you this year?” After he replied “81, 81,” someone let out: “didn’t he celebrate his 81st birthday a few years ago?”

From his days as an All-American basketball player at HBCU Benedict College in South Carolina, a fixture at the famed Rucker Pro Tournament going up against some of the best NBA and street basketball greats ever, to being inducted into the New York City Basketball Hallof-Fame, McCullough’s on-the-court resume is sterling.

But he is also in the Harlem Hall-ofFame for not just basketball, but his work as a community leader, educator and youth advocate. A founder of the Each One, Teach One program, today McCullough continues his work as a commissioner of several basketball leagues and tournaments, including the Urban Assembly Tournament, currently taking place on Saturday’s at Global Commerce High in Harlem.

He is also in the planning stages of the March Madness High School Basketball Tournament, which will be held at the end of this month.

New Balance Nationals returns to The Armory in Washington Heights

By JAIME C. HARRIS AmNews Sports Editor One of the country’s signature scholastic sporting events will take place at the New Balance Track & Field Center at The Armory in Washington Heights this Friday through Sunday when the New Balance Nationals Indoor returns to New York after a two year interruption due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Since 1999, the NBNI has provided a glimpse of future Olympians during their high school years in track & field. Over the upcoming three-day competition 68 championship events, 51 Rising Stars events and 14 events featuring freshman competitors will be staged.

Some of the top high school athletes scheduled to display their talents in running, throwing and jumping events include the sensational Shawnti Jackson.

The 16-year-old from Raleigh, North Carolina, broke the all-time 60-meter high school national record at the Millrose Games held at The Armory this past

January, clocking 7.18 to finish third in medalist in the 400-meter hurdles at the runner to go under four minutes inthe women’s professional field. The time 2005 World Championships and bronze doors in the mile, achieved earlier this established a new age group world record medal winner in the event at the 2008 Bei- year, will take on his peers in the 800meters as well as compete with his Newbury Park Athletic Club (Newbury Park, California) in the 4 x 1 mile relay.

They will seek to become the first high schoolers to run under 17 minutes.

Lumberton, New Jersey’s Greg Foster of the Lawrenceville School, the No. 1 ranked scholastic long jumper in the nation, will look to earn the title in his specialty. Foster is no stranger to The Armory having competed there in previous meets. In addition to the long jump, he ranks in the top 10 nationally in the triple jump and sprint hurdles.

Stanford University commit Roisin Willis of Stevens Point, Wisconsin, the naHigh school sprinting sensation Shawnti Jackson will be one of the many tional record holder in the girls 800-meters stellar scholastic student-athletes competing at the New Balance Nationals (2:00.06 clocking), and class of 2022 standIndoor meet at The Armory in Washington Heights this Friday through Sunday out Tarik Robinson-O’Hagan of Woon(John Nepolitan photo) socket, Rhode Island, who will be heading and national junior class mark. jing Summer Olympics. She will run in both to the University of Mississippi for his colJackson’s coach is her father and track the 60-meter and 200-meters at the NBNI. lege years, will bring their immense talents great Bershawn “Batman” Jackson, a gold Colin Sahlman, only the fourth prep to New York as two of the NBNI headliners.

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Queens native Destiny Howell shining at Howard

By LOIS ELFMAN Special to the AmNews

Although Howell grew up playing hoops against the boys in the park at a rec This week will detercenter, she didn’t take it semine whether Howard riously until she was 13, University womwhich is when she started en’s basketball will playing organized basketbe heading to the Big ball. From then on, her life Dance, the NCAA Direvolved around basketball. vision I Women’s BasShe worked on her game— ketball Tournament. modeling it after Kevin The Bison have played Durant—and trying to play well all season, amasswith other top players in ing a 17–9 record overAAU. As for WNBA players, all and 11–3 in MEAC she watched Skylar Digginsaction, but the ticket Smith closely and admires will be punched at her toughness. this week’s confer“I feel like I’ve brought ence tournament.

New York City basketball to The Bison entered the Howard with the type of swag MEAC Tournament and confidence I play with. in essentially a threeAll the real hoopers in New way tie for first place York have this type of oomph in the conference, to their game, and I feel I and the intention is to brought that with me when emerge victorious.

I made a decision to come to One of the key Howard,” Howell said. players for Howard A sports management is sophomore guard Destiny Howell, points per game. cation has improved as the season major and psychology minor, Howell who grew up in Queens and Long “We’re going to keep trying to build progressed as well as each player’s in- wants to play professionally after gradIsland, and is a graduate of St. Francis from what we’re already doing,” said dividual game. “We’re learning each uating from Howard. Following a pro Prep. She was recently named All-ME- Howell. “As a collective, we’re going to other’s hot spots, knowing how to play career, she hopes to become a coach.

AC Second Team in recognition of her prepare as much as we can to go out off each other. I feel like we’re play- That’s the future, but for now it’s all about outstanding season in which she led there and give it our all.” ing at a pace now where we’re playing prevailing in the MEAC. “My whole focus the Bison in scoring, averaging 12.6 Howell said the team’s communi- Howard basketball,” she said. is on that MEAC Tournament,” she said.

Destiny Howell was named All-MEAC Second Team (Howard Athletics photo)

Madness March has already taken hold in conference tournaments

By JAIME C. HARRIS AmNews Sports Editor The Big East (men’s basketball) Tournament began yesterday (Wednesday) at Madison Square Garden with an automatic bid to the NCAA field of 68 awarded to the winner. But there are several teams in the conference that are assured a trip to what’s commonly referred to as the Big Dance.

The tournament’s No. 1 seed Providence, No. 2 Villanova and No. 3 UConn lead a contingent of the conference’s nationally ranked teams that are assured spots. Creighton, Seton Hall, Marquette and Rutgers are also likely to receive bids. Two traditional Big East powers, St. John’s and Georgetown, will have to win the tournament championship, which will be held on Saturday, to get an invite. St. John’s was 16-14 and 8-11 in conference play before their opening round game versus DePaul last night.

Georgetown has had a historically poor season and their coach, former Knicks great

Patrick Ewing, has been maligned for a 6-24 overall record and going winless in the conference at 0-19 heading into last night’s game against Seton Hall.

There have been calls from a large segment of Georgetown supporters for his firing but a little over a week ago he was backed by the university’s athletics director.

Former Knicks great Patrick Ewing took his Georgetown Hoyas (0-19 in conference games this season) into their Big East Tournament matchup with “In this evSeton Hall last night at Madison Square Garden (AlexanderJonesi (https:// er-evolving commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Patrick_Ewing_2021.jpg), „Patrick Ewing landscape of 2021“, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/legalcode)) college athletics we are committed to Coach Ewing, es for him to put us back on the may alter Reed’s stance. and we are working with him path to success for next year,” Wagner reached the Northto evaluate every aspect of the maintained Lee Reed. Howev- east Conference championmen’s basketball program and er, pressure from boosters and ship on Tuesday but Bryant to make the necessary chang- other well connected alumni ran away with the title, de-

feating the Seahawks 70-43 behind senior Peter Kiss’ 34 points. Kiss is a New York City native who began his high school career at Monsignor Scanlan in the Bronx. The game was marred by a fight in the stands between fans late in the game that caused a 30 minute stoppage.

The MAAC tournament kicked off on Tuesday in Atlantic City with 25-6 Iona as the top seed. The Gaels were 17-2 in regular season conference games. The College of Charleston’s John Meeks had a season-high 31 points on Sunday to knock Hofstra out of the Colonial Athletic Association tournament quarterfinals 92-76.

It was a disappointing loss for the Pride who came into the CAA tournament third in the conference standings. Hofstra bested Charleston 89-84 on Feb. 28.

Fordham ((15-15, 8-10), the No. 8 seed going into the Atlantic 10 Tournament, will take on No. 9 seed George Mason (1415, 7-9) today at 12 p.m. at the Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C.

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History-making speed skater Erin Jackson readies for World Cup action

By LOIS ELFMAN Special to the AmNews

Jackson. “That was pretty much the whole thing that’s With a victory in been motivating the 500 meters at me since I got on the Olympic Winter the ice is trying to Games in Beijing, Erin figure it out and Jackson became the trying to get better first Black woman to at it because it win individual gold at doesn’t feel like the a Winter Olympics, the skating I’ve grown first Black woman to up doing. I’ve been win a medal in speed trying to get comskating, and the first fortable on the ice.”

American woman While Jackson to win the 500 since may still be strivBonnie Blair in 1994. ing for that comHer spectacular victory fort zone, she has is all the more impresfound excellence sive because Jackson and will continue switched from inline to train, compete skating to the ice less and improve. She than five years ago. hopes her gold The time since the medal will enGames has been busy, courage girls and Speed skater Erin Jackson made history at the Olympic Winter Games in Beijing, China, becoming the first Black but Jackson has also boys of color to woman to win an individual gold medal (Photo courtesy of U.S. Speedskating) been training for comnot set limits on petition. “I still feel like themselves.

I haven’t had a minute to really breathe life-long athlete, Jackson saw some of her ida. “School has always been a priority.”

“I hope to do a lot of outreach and let and relax quite yet, but it’s not a big prob- inline training mates switch to speed skatAfter graduating, she decided to give people see the possibilities,” said Jacklem because we’ve still got another race ing on ice in their late teens, but she felt it speed skating a try, and she earned a son, who will be working with Edge to go in the season,” said Jackson, who was something she was interested in doing. spot on the 2018 U.S. Olympic team after Outdoors, an organization with the is currently in the Netherlands for the “I really enjoyed inline skating and that only four months of training on ice. Fol- mission to encourage more women of World Cup Final. was where I wanted to be,” said Jackson, lowing those Games, Jackson decided color to engage in snow sports, on simJackson, 29, moved to Salt Lake City who continued to train in inline and roller she would give her all to the sport. ilar outreach in speed skating. “I want for training in 2018. A Florida native and derby while attending University of Flor“It was a good challenge for me,” said people to be inspired.”

Sylvia Hoffman plans for her next Olympic chapter

By LOIS ELFMAN Special to the AmNews After a series of celebratory appearances following her Olympic bronze medal in the two-man bobsled, it was back to work for Sylvia Hoffman. At the Olympic Winter Games in Beijing, she was the brakeman to Elana Meyers Taylor’s pilot/driver, but in early March she began her transition to the pilot’s seat at a training camp.

Hoffman played college basketball and then turned to weightlifting. In 2018, Sylvia Hoffman (l) and Elana Meyers Taylor (r) celebrate their Olympic success at the NYSE she appeared on season two of “The (Photo courtesy of NYSE/2022 Olympic Games © Getty Images) Next Olympic Hopeful” where she garnered the she was invited to team trials me, it was a matter of con- team, we started doing trainattention of USA Bobsled where she set a new push tinuing my progression and ing camps,” said Hoffman, who coaches, who tested her push- standard. That put her on staying number one and also trained with Meyers Taylor in ing capabilities. From there, the national and World Cup staying healthy.”

Switzerland before heading she was invited to a rookie teams her first season.

Incredibly, Hoffman and to China. “Once they said we camp in Lake Placid, which “I’ve been fortunate to be Meyers Taylor had only raced were racing together, we hanwas the start of her bobsled the number one brakeman together once this season dled business from there.” career. After winning the na- for the last three and a half before the Olympics. “When Two women of color togethtional push championship years,” said Hoffman. “For they announced the Olympic er on the bobsled means a lot

to Hoffman. “Both of us are very experienced athletes, but the difference is she’s a very experienced Olympian,” said Hoffman. “It was a matter of… doing what I needed to do to make sure I’m prepared and… also trusting her judgment. …

We took care of business.”

They set the start record en route to their bronze medal, which is all the more incredible because Meyers Taylor spent the start of the Games in quarantine after a positive COVID test. Hoffman said they both remained calm and collected through the challenges.

“It’s a blessing,” said Hoffman. “Once we crossed the finish line of doing all four heats and not letting up—all gas, no brakes—we got it done.”

For Hoffman, this is just the beginning. Her sights are set on becoming the pilot as well as inspiring further diversity. “More people of color entering and being successful in winter sports is very important,” said Hoffman, who will eventually be recruiting brakemen. “Every sport is for anyone that wants to do it.”

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Sports The Nets and 76ers finally meet since the Harden for Simmons trade

By VINCENT DAVIS Special to the AmNews

a “little flare-up.” The 25-year-old No. 1 overall pick in 2016 hasn’t played in an NBA game since last When the Nets and Philadelphia June when the 76ers were elimi76ers made an NBA trade deadnated in the Eastern Conference line deal that sent Nets guard semifinals by the Atlanta Hawks.

James Harden to the Sixers for forSimmons felt he was made the ward Ben Simmons with other scapegoat by his former head pieces involved, one of the first quescoach Doc Rivers and fans, and tions basketball fans asked was “when last summer demanded a trade. do the two teams face each other?”

Harden, 32, who forced a trade Tonight is the answer. The Nets will from the Houston Rockets to the be in Philadelphia tonight to take on Nets in January of 2021, wanted out the 76ers in the first meeting between of Brooklyn a year later. On Monday, them since the trade. The Nets, who he played his fifth game with the played the Charlotte Hornets on the 76ers, a 121-106 win against the road on Tuesday, fell to under .500 Chicago Bulls to improve the Sixers’ (32-33) with a tough 126-120 loss in record to 40-24, second best in the Boston on Sunday versus the Celtics.

East. Embiid led the way with 43 While Harden has played at the points and 14 rebounds. level of a league MVP—which he The Nets were the No. 9 seed won in 2018—alongside this seain the conference as of Tuesday. son’s leading most valuable player Philly was 5-0 since acquiring candidate, 76ers center Joel Embiid, Harden going into last night’s Simmons has yet to suit up for the The Nets and 76ers will meet tonight for the first time since last month’s trade in (Wednesday) game hosting the which Brooklyn dealt guard James Harden to Philadelphia for forward Ben Simmons Nets, working on his conditionPhoenix Suns. He was averag(Bill Moore photos) ing and mental wellness. Harden is ing 24.6 points, 12.4 assists and ready to take the floor against former 7.4 rebounds as a Sixer. He also teammates Kevin Durant and Kyrie ly stated date. head coach Steve Nash before Sunday’s tied Reggie Miller for third on the Irving; Simmons is gradually preparing “He’s just doing some light shooting, game. Nash revealed that Simmons has NBA’s all-time three-pointers made for his Nets debut at a yet-to-be public- and just physical therapy,” said Nets had a back issue that he described as list with 2,560.

The Knicks try to find wins and confidence on the road

By JAIME C. HARRIS AmNews Sports Editor

Philadelphia 76ers on March 2 followed by an abjectly deflating 30-foot, 3-point buzzer It has been a dispiriting 2022 for the beater by the Phoenix Suns’ Knicks. They went into Dallas last night Cam Johnson last Friday to end (Wednesday) to play the Mavericks with the night stunned and on the a record of 27-38, 11 games under .500 wrong side of a 115-114 score. and an excruciating 10-19 in 29 games The finish marked the Knicks’ since the turn of the new year. On Jan. seventh straight loss. So it was 1 the Knicks were 17-19 with optimistic uplifting for them to come back visions of being a playoff team. At that on Sunday and impressively time there were still 45 games remain- dominate the Los Angeles Cliping on their schedule. pers by 116-93 and 24 hours Head coach Tom Thibodeau’s later demonstrate admirable squad was sitting in the 10th spot in resilience in erasing a 20-point the Eastern Conference but only one late second quarter deficit to game behind the then 8th seed Wash- run the Sacramento Kings out ington Wizards, just two below the of Golden 1 Center, their home 7th seed Charlotte Hornets and trailarena, in the game’s final 24 01024 AM NEWS AM NEWS ing the 6th seed Philadelphia 76ers by minutes to take a confidence AM NEWS 03/03/22 a close three. But February was 01/06/22 the boosting 131-115 victory.

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“Julius got going and it was pretty terrific what he did,” said Thibodeau.

“When he plays with that type of intensity, it lifts everyone. He was attacking the basket, he was shooting the 3, he was making hustle plays. It was a great all-around game from him in so many different ways.”

“Sacramento plays [at] a really high pace,” Randle evaluated, “and we had to get our transition in order and get stops and get our rhythm. Once we got stops, offense came a lot easier.”

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