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‘Hellish’ conditions, violence uptick on Rikers Island

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the facility last week.

In response to the officials and advocates’ passionate outcry, Mayor Bill de Blasio signed an emergency order Rikers Island is becoming a “hellish” called the Emergency Rikers Relief “humanitarian crisis” that needs to be Plan on Tuesday, Sept. 14, to address closed, said officials who toured the the deplorable conditions in the jail. jail on Monday, following the death of De Blasio said the situation on 24-year-old Esias Johnson who died in Rikers Island “is just not acceptable

and has to change fundamentally.”

According to Commissioner of the Department of Correction (DOC) Vincent Schiraldi, some of the challenges are historic and some are because of COVID, said de Blasio.

In the past, de Blasio had already backed the Close Rikers campaign where the jail would be decommis-

sioned in favor of five smaller borough jails. To summarize, de Blasio’s executive order called for the NYPD to help operate courts so staff can shift back to Rikers, more accountability for AWOL DOC officers, emergency contracting for repairs and cleaning, and speeding up intake to reduce crowding.

See RIKERS on page 6

Addiction, overdose on the rise in the Black community

First Day jitters: Kids come back to school surrounded by COVID

By CYRIL JOSH BARKER Amsterdam News Staff

By STEPHON JOHNSON Amsterdam News Staff

lia. His death is being investigated as a possible drug overdose.

Williams is being laid to rest next TuesThe death of actor Michael K. Wil- day at a private funeral service at St. Steliams sent shockwaves through the en- phen’s Cathedral in Harrisburg, Penn. tertainment world after “The Wire” star where his mother lives. The service will was found dead in his Brooklyn apart- only be open to family and friends. ment last week with drug paraphernaSee ADDICTION on page 6

The mayor was quick to tout the reopening and state that his mission was accomplished.

Monday marked the first day of the “Kids are back. Kids are back,” said 2021-’22 school year. It also marked de Blasio to reporters on Tuesday.

The mayor pointed to the lack of posithe beginning of the fight for a remote option and a battle for New York City tive COVID rates at the end of the 2020-’21 See FIRST DAY on page 8 Mayor Bill de Blasio’s legacy.

Mayor de Blasio Loses Face on Key Climate Change Issue Urban Agenda by David R. Jones, President and CEO of the Community Service Society of New York - See page 5

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International Africa NY human rights groups to rally for Biden to end sanctions against Zimbabwe Citing President Biden’s public commitment to address long existing U.S. policies and structures that promote racism, a coalition of human rights/social justice organizations this week confirmed that a rally demanding the lifting of illegal economic sanctions against the Republic of Zimbabwe will be held Saturday, Sept. 18, 2021, at the United Nations.

Attorney and December 12th Movement International Secretariat Roger Wareham said, “The December 12th Movement organization, in collaboration with a network of other anti-racism groups, faith-based leaders and antiimperialism coalitions, will hold a street rally demanding that President Joseph Biden immediately assert leadership that results in the lifting of the economic sanctions against the nation of Zimbabwe.”

(Nayaba Arinde photo)

The rally will include activists, Zimbabwean speakers and advocates both celebrating the African nation and demanding an end to the long-standing sanctions.

Wareham said, “We will be there to celebrate Zimbabwe’s current successes in agriculture, health care, infrastructure and economic development while enduring 20 years of sanctions. AND to expose the lies and hypocrisy of the Opposition and its funding source, the United States, a country in the midst of a white supremacist campaign to deny its African American citizens their constitutional right to vote.”

The rally takes place Saturday, Sept. 18, 2021 at 11 a.m.

Eastern Time, at the United Nations, Dag Hammarskjold Plaza (1st Avenue & 47th Street), in New York City. Call 718398-1766 for more information.

International GUINEAN SOLDIERS AT THE HELM AFTER AUTOCRATIC PRESIDENT IS DETAINED (GIN)—Young military officers who ousted Guinea’s President Alpha Condé on Sept. 5 are wasting no time taking on the duties of heads of state. Meetings have been scheduled with leaders of political parties and religious groups to be followed by civil society organizations and representatives of diplomatic missions. Sessions with mining companies, banks Citizen rally and insurance companies are scheduled for Sept. 16, followed by confabs with trade unions Sept. 17.

While coups are currently frowned upon, this one might win over some of its critics. The former president, elected in 2010, was said to be drifting into authoritarianism, increasingly cracking the whip on his perceived enemies as when 400 opposition and civil society members across the country were arrested following the publication of presidential elections results in October. Four people, including three supporters of the opposition Union of Democratic Forces of Guinea, died in pre-trial detention in Conakry’s main prison.

“These people died while being held in prisons that are notorious for squalid, abusive conditions that often result in death, where the international rules of law on the treatment of detainees are ignored,” declared Fabien Offner, Amnesty International’s West Africa researcher.

Alioune Tine, an independent human rights expert for the United Nations and founder of the AfrikaJom Center think-tank, reflected on the meteoric rise and fall of the now deposed President Condé. “He was one of the politicians who worked over 40 years for democracy in Guinea,” Tine told the Reuters news agency. “Once in power, he totally destroyed it.”

“He put people in prison. He killed and he completely refused any political dialogue with the opposition.”

Condé denies accusations of human rights abuses.

Like other African leaders who rewrote constitutions to hang onto power, he said he needed more time to realize his vision of a modern Guinea.

With the president out of power, Sidya Touré, leader of the Union of Republican Forces party, returned from Paris where he fled after alleged threats from Condé and the arrest of several of his critics.

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Cellou Dalein Diallo, also of the opposition who lost to Condé in three elections tainted with irregularities, said he initially believed the Guinean president was a man who wanted to turn Guinea into a democracy.

“So I was very disappointed when I saw how he acted because it was the opposite of what I expected.”

“Alpha Condé himself created the crisis that swept him away,” he added, speaking to the Financial Times. “[He] would not have met such a tragic end” if he had not changed the constitution in order to run for a third term.

The fall of the 83year old Condé, the self-described “Mandela of Guinea,” brought shouts of “freedom” from Guineans who have (GIN photo) largely been excluded from the bonanza earned from Guinea’s rich reserves of iron ore, gold, bauxite and other minerals.

More than half of the population lives below the poverty line, with around 20% in extreme poverty.

Hunger also poses a serious threat with 230,000 children suffering from malnutrition and 25.9% of the population experiencing chronic malnutrition.

The gravity of these conditions notwithstanding, the United Nations, the U.S., the African Union, ECOWAS, and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia, among others, have directed their outrage for the coup-makers.

Jenerali Ulimwengu in The East African begs to differ. “Such is the terror that African rulers have visited on their people that the oppressed masses have had to depend on the Grim Reaper to take their rulers away before the people could overthrow the government,” he writes.

“As for the AU and Ecowas, having failed the people of Guinea when Condé rode roughshod over them, these organs should hang their heads in shame rather than try to play absent-minded arbiters.”

Meanwhile, Diallo, if elected to replace Condé, said he would ask for an audit of all mining contracts whose benefits are not visible anywhere in Guinea.

They have only enriched the ruling elite, he says.

Adds coup leader Lieutenant Colonel Mamady Doumbouya: “If you see the condition of our roads, of our hospitals, you realize that it is time for us to wake up.”

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City cracking down on basement apartments after storm deaths

MetroBriefs

By CYRIL JOSH BARKER Amsterdam News Staff

The MTA announced this week that security cameras have been installed at all 472 subway stations. Cameras were deployed Sept. 11 at the Broadway station on the G line. Thousands of cameras have now been deployed system-wide.

The initiative to expand security camera coverage was accelerated last year by Interim President of New York City Transit Sarah Feinberg, who identified a new class of cameras that could be deployed more quickly and at much lower cost than traditional cameras. As a result, 200 stations of the 472 in the system have gained security camera coverage within the past year.

The latest statistics provided by the NYPD show a decline in major felonies of 20.6% in 2021 through Aug. 31 and a 28.6% increase in arrests over the same time period. The MTA will continue to expand the placement of cameras throughout the system, with a goal of optimizing coverage of stations.

The death of 11 people living in basement apartments from floods caused by remnants of Hurricane Ida is prompting the city to take a closer look at the apartments’ safety and legality.

Earlier this month, Ida dumped a reported rate of over three inches an hour of rain. Water filled basement apartments, preventing residents from fleeing. Among the 11 people who died was a family of three that included a 50-year-old man, 48-year-old woman and 2-year-old boy.

Four out of six of the basement apartments where people died were illegal conversions. The apartments are classified as alterations of an existing building to create additional apartment units without first obtaining the proper permits or approval. This also includes illegal cellar apartments, illegal attic apartments and illegal single room occupancies (SRO).

Illegal basement apartments could potentially have a number of safety and quality-of-life issues including lack of adequate emergency exits, substandard construction, and unsafe gas and electrical systems.

The apartments are often lower in rent and occupied by undocumented immigrants and people looking for affordable

housing. The basement apartments where people died during Ida were mostly in Brooklyn and Queens.

As part of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s NYC Climate Driven Rain Response plan announced earlier this month, people living in basement apartments will be subject to special advance warning during severe weather events. Measures include cell phone alerts and even doorto-door evacuations.

Research from the mayor’s office shows that at minimum there are more than 50,000 illegal basement apartments with more than 100,000 people living in them across the city.

“We have an illegal basement problem and then we have a problem that so many people end up in illegal basements are fearful to communicate for fear they might be evicted or, worse in their mind, deported,” de Blasio said.

“It’s just an extraordinarily challenging set of circumstances.”

De Blasio said the city’s Housing Department will not be issuing fines to landlords with illegal basement apartments for the rest of the year and tenants will not be evicted.

New York Attorney General Letitia James called on the city to provide special emergency housing vouchers to residents living in unregulated basement apartments. She says the illegal See BASEMENT on page 28

Courts block vaccine mandates

By CYRIL JOSH BARKER Amsterdam News Staff This week a State Supreme Court judge and a federal judge temporarily blocked the city and state’s vaccine mandates for municipal workers and health workers.

On Tuesday, the New York Supreme Court issued a temporary restraining order against the city’s vaccine mandate for municipal workers. Unions and the Municipal Labor Committee sued the city over the mandate not addressing religious and medical exemptions.

Prior to the court’s ruling, Mayor Bill de Blasio required all city workers to either be vaccinated or submit to weekly COVID-19 testing. Public school teachers are required to get the COVID-19 vaccine.

Not getting at least one dose of the vaccine by Sept. 27 or not testing could have resulted in termination.

Several unions, including the largest public employee union DC37, have been rallying against the vaccine mandates.

The union says members should not be forced to get the shot.

“While we do believe our members should get the vaccine, we do not believe it should be a condition of employment,” said DC37 Executive Director Henry Garrido. “Clearly, the courts agree. The fight is not over, but

we are energized by this decision and ready to keep going on behalf of our members.”

According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, COVID-19 vaccine mandates are a matter of state or other applicable law. The agency cites Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which states “once an employer receives notice that an employee’s sincerely held religious belief, practice, or observance prevents them from taking the vaccine, the employer must provide a reasonable accommodation unless it would pose an undue hardship.”

“New York City’s education worker vaccine mandate, which has been embraced by the White House, goes into effect on Sept. 27,” a spokesperson from Mayor Bill de Blasio’s office said. “The court’s action today expires on Sept. 22. There is no delay in the City’s implementation of this vaccine requirement.”

In Upstate New York, a federal judge temporarily blocked the state from requiring medical workers to get the COVID-19 vaccine. Similar to the State Supreme Court’s decision, the federal court said that the state was not addressing religious exemptions.

The ruling came after Lewis County General Hospital in Lowville, N.Y. announced they would temporarily stop See COURT on page 28

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All subway stations equipped with security cameras

New York City HBCU week set for Sept. 20-25 The HBCU Hub is hosting its 3rd annual New York City HBCU week Sept. 20 through 25. Youth, families, alumni, and school administrators alike, will have the special opportunity to come together to celebrate and learn about Black colleges.

The event will be a one-stop shop for all things HBCU featuring online college access workshops, HBCU panel discussions, and a Battle of the Bands event at Restoration Plaza in Brooklyn.

Since 2016, The HBCU Hub has ensured students have pathways to learn about HBCUs and be supported as they transition to their HBCUs. The organization has awarded $14,000 in scholarships to students heading to HBCUs, as well as helped students win close to $200,000 in third party or institutional scholarships.

To register go to nychbcuweek2021.eventbrite.com. Email contact@thehbcuhub.org or go to thehbcuhub.org for more information.

PIX11 launches 4 p.m. newscast WPIX-TV (PIX11) launched a new live hour-long weekday newscast at 4 p.m. on Monday. The newscast will be anchored by Tamsen Fadal, Vanessa Freeman, and weatherman Mr. G. While the newscast will cover all the major news of the day and follow breaking news whenever it occurs, it will also reflect what’s going on in the broader community. Fadal will look closely at women’s issues, an area she’s focused on and written about often.

Freeman, a young working mother herself, will delve into critical parenting issues. In addition to presenting the weather, Mr. G will also report human interest stories from the neighborhoods of the five-borough area.

Expanding upon the “PIX11 Cares” initiative, the newscast will host a “community corner,” inviting the area’s leaders and local service organizations on air to discuss their most important concerns.

Food Bank for New York City kicks off ‘Hunger Action Month’ The Food Bank for New York City kicked off “Hunger Action Month” to raise awareness about food insecurity.

As New Yorkers continue to navigate the COVID-19 pandemic, Food Bank For New York City looks toward supporting the future and comeback of the city, and assisting those citizens, workers, and businesses most affected by the economic fallout of the pandemic. ​ The theme of the five-borough tour is “One Mission. Five Boroughs. Feed All.” Food Bank will work alongside corporate partners including iHeart Radio, Disney and Anthem, and local partners including the New York Yankees, New York Giants, New York Liberty, Lincoln Center, Elmhurst Hospital, and public schools across the city.

During Hunger Action Month, Food Bank will bring awareness of the pandemic’s impact on food insecurity in New York City, assist in revitalizing the restaurant industry, and serve the city’s populations in need. Food will be distributed Sept. 24 at Yankee Stadium and Sept. 30 at PS 57 Hubert Humphrey in Staten Island.

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Gov. Newsom defeats recall; Trumpism rebuked

By HERB BOYD Special to the AmNews Gov. Gavin Newsom of California defeated the recall and decisively rebuked Trumpism. With more than 70% of the vote tabulated, Democrat Newsom is projected to get two-thirds of the turnout, repelling a recall that was successful 18 years ago.

In fact, the tally resembles the one President Biden received when he won the state in 2020, which helped to push him over the top and to defeat Trump.

Early polls were not favorable for Newsom, but in the end the Democratic voters, who have double the number of registered Republicans in the state, showed up when it truly counted. And this was one of the basic differences from the recall mounted in 2003.

On the “No” vote for recalling him, Newsom said that was not the only thing that mattered, “I want to focus on what we said, ‘yes’ to as a state: We said yes to science, we said yes to vaccines, we said yes to ending this pandemic.”

Republican Larry Elder, the leading contender in the recall, was banking on the support from Trump and his legion of followers, but they were unable to deliver and to remove Newsom from office. The outcome may not have been a referendum of the staying power of Trumpism, since he was not that visible in supporting Elder’s campaign. But it was a setback that could have broader implications as the race for 2022 looms larger and larger.

“Let’s be gracious in defeat,” said Elder, an African American talk radio host. “We may have lost the battle, but we are going to win the war.” He veered away from earlier platform positions about voter fraud and kept his words keyed to positive developments in the future.

At the crux of the recall was the pandemic, and Newsom often spoke of the recall as a “life or death” issue, noting how Texas and Florida were experiencing a surge in the Delta variant.

Apparently, the voters in California heeded his warning, and it could be one that resonates across the land to challenge the anti-vaccine believers.

Gov. Hochul signs 9/11 laws covering benefits gap for first responders

By ARIAMA C. LONG Report for America Corps Member / Amsterdam News Staff As the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks passed this weekend, Gov. Kathy Hochul signed laws that would ensure all ‘first responders,’ or those who participated in the World Trade Center (WTC) rescue, recovery, and cleanup, can now access benefits in the retirement system who couldn’t.

The package of legislation works to ensure that members of a public retirement system across various emergency fields will essentially be backdated into the system and guaranteed benefits for their participation on 9/11.

In particular, law S.7121 adds public safety dispatchers and 911 emergency operators to the definition of first responders that played a vital and often overlooked role that fateful day 20 years ago.

“These laws will help not only first responders who were at the World Trade Center on that terrible day and those who cleaned the site for weeks afterward, but also the emergency dispatchers and communications personnel who keep us safe today,” said Hochul in a statement. “We will ensure they receive the support and benefits they deserve.”

Back in 2006, the city released scrubbed recordings of about 130 emergency calls made on September 11, 2001, reported The New York Times.

The 911 operators and fire department dispatchers could be heard on the recordings, advising frantic callers in the WTC towers to stay in the buildings,

which was standard practice for highrise fires at the time and representative of a breakdown in the city’s crisis management system, said NYT. Operators on the calls listened to people die in real-time.

Local 1549 Clerical Administrative Employees President Eddie Rodriquez said he thanks Hochul for signing the WTF first responders communications bill.

“This action sends a very important message that those who labor under very stressful and traumatic circumstances are recognized, valued and entitled to services that will allow them to do their jobs more effectively with less turnover,” said Rodriquez in a statement.

Since 2001 it’s been well documented that emergency communications operators and dispatchers experience as much posttraumatic stress (PTSD) as other more hands-on first responders, like firefighters, that were also on the frontline of 9/11 terror attacks and have been diagnosed with “9/11 related physical or mental health conditions.”

“Emergency operators and dispatchers are undoubtedly the first responders of first responders, serving at the center of emergency events, twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week,” said Suffolk AME President Daniel C. Levler in a statement.

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NewJerseyNews Advocates call for closure of youth prisons after guard charged with assault

By CYRIL JOSH BARKER Amsterdam News Staff Advocates are calling for the closure of New Jersey’s three youth prisons after an inactive correctional officer for the New Jersey Juvenile Justice Commission (JJC) was charged for allegedly using unjustified force and breaking the wrist of a male youth.

The incident took place last October at the JJC Juvenile Medium Security Facility in Bordentown, N.J. Lt. Edward Day and other correctional officers were escorting a 16-year-old juvenile from his room to another location in the facility, with his arms handcuffed behind his back, when Day allegedly grabbed the victim’s ankle from behind, pulled his leg back, and pushed him face forward onto the ground. Day then allegedly grabbed hold of the juvenile’s handcuffed wrists and twisted and broke one of them.

Day was charged with third-degree aggravated assault by the Attorney General’s Office of Public Integrity and Accountability (OPIA).

The charge is the result of an investigation by the OPIA Corruption Bureau and JJC’s Office of Investigations. If found guilty, Day faces three to five years in state prison and a $15,000 fine.

The incident and the allegations were not made public until this week. The New Jersey Institute for Social Justice (NJISJ) is condemning the abuse and renewed its call for the closure of New Jersey’s three youth prisons: Jamesburg, Hayes, and the

Juvenile Medium Security Facility.

“Violence against incarcerated youth is abhorrent and unacceptable,” stated Yannick Wood, director of the Criminal Justice Reform Program at NJISJ. “It reflects the broken condition of New Jersey’s overfunded and antiquated youth prisons, which are plagued by structural racism, emotional harm and even physical violence.”

In 2018, New Jersey ordered that Jamesburg and Hayes youth prisons be closed. To date, they remain open, along with JMSF. In August of this year, Lt. Gov. Sheila Oliver signed a bill into law that will funnel $8.4 million from youth incarceration into muchneeded and proven communitysupport systems such as restorative justice programs that rehabilitate youth instead of further harming them by incarcerating them.

This latest incident follows widely reported allegations of misconduct in adult prisons including indictments of two guards for allegedly assaulting an inmate at South Woods State Prison and charges against 10 guards at Edna Mahan Women’s Correctional Facility for assault allegations and additional allegations of sexual assault.

“These attacks against our incarcerated youth, women and men represent a prison culture of violence and impunity,” said Wood. “All these alleged attacks took place with groups of officers present, suggesting that these actions were met with some level of tolerance and protection.”

Newark parents remain concerned about COVID as school year gets underway

By CYRIL JOSH BARKER Amsterdam News Staff A week into the new school year, a poll finds that 87% of Newark parents are worried about their child contracting COVID-19.

The poll was conducted by Newark-based non-profit Project Ready and found widespread concern regarding COVID-19 and majority support for mandatory masks and vaccination in schools. Around 300 parents of school-aged children were polled.

Newark Public Schools opened for in-person learning Sept. 7. Face masks are mandatory for all students and school staff.

When asked if they intended to send their child to school if only inperson learning is available, more than a quarter of parents said they either would not or were not sure.

Public health measures in schools garnered the support from a majority of parents, including mandatory masks for all students and mandatory vaccines for teachers and eligible students.

“These numbers reflect the widespread concern among Newark parents who want their kids going to school in an environment that is safe,” said Shennell McCloud, CEO of Project Ready. “It is urgent that our leaders listen to the community and take the necessary actions to keep our schools safe.”

Nearly 70% of parents think their child’s school has done either an excellent or good job to support their child’s learning during the pandemic. Over 60% also think their child’s school has done either an excellent or good job to support their child’s social well-being during the pandemic.

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Dawnn Lewis back for THE URBAN AGENDA Broadway’s big return

By David R. Jones

By CYRIL JOSH BARKER Amsterdam News Staff Actress and singer Dawnn Lewis is best known for her role as JaleesaVinson on the NBC sitcom “A Different World.” Today, she’s back in New York City on Broadway in a major role in the musical “Tina.”

With an acting career spanning several decades, Lewis’ accolades include stage, television and film roles along with a stellar singing career.

Dawnn Lewis She’s also giving back to youth with her organization A New Day Foundation.

Born and raised in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn to Guyanese parents, Lewis began singing at age 4, dancing at 7 and acting at age 11.

“I’ve been doing what I do just about my entire life,” she said in an interview.

“My dream was to be a recording artist and get Broadway shows.”

Lewis graduated from Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School (formerly High School of Music & Art) at age 16 before heading to the University of Miami where she earned a degree in musical theater.

In 1985, Lewis was performing in the national tour of the Broadway musical “The Tap Dance Kid.” The same crew who casts the musical also cast “The Cosby Show,” which was the No. 1 sitcom at the time.

Upon hearing the series was creating a spin off starring Lisa Bonet, Lewis reached out to the casting team about auditioning but was rejected. She was later contacted by “The Cosby Show” music director Stu Gardener who heard Lewis’ demo and asked her to write the theme song for “A Different World.”

“The casting company called me and asked me if I was still interested in auditioning and I said ‘yeah,’” she said.

“The audition was on Thursday, and on Friday I was in the studio recording the theme song and a week later I was booked for the role of Jeleesa. They didn’t know they had hired the same person until my final meeting where Mr. Cosby had to give final approval.”

Lewis played the role of Jeleesa Vinson, a non-traditional college student, for five of the six seasons of “A Different World” from 1987 to 1992. The sitcom is about the lives of students at the fictional historically Black Hillman College. Lewis is credited with Cosby and Gardner for writing the show’s theme song, which was sung by

Phoebe Snow, Aretha Franklin and Boys II Men over the course of the series.

Lewis left the final season of “A Different World” to take a starring role in the ABC sitcom “Hangin’ with Mr. Cooper” with comedian Mark Curry and Holly Robinson Pete.

“As a performer, you are grateful when you get to do work where you can express yourself creatively,” Lewis said. “I’m humbled when the work actually causes an imprint on people’s motivation. The fact that [“A Different World”] has been on television around the planet everyday of every year for 37 years, it blesses my heart. I’m so humbled.”

Since her role on “A Different World,” Lewis has taken numerous television and movie roles in the film “Dreamgirls,” “Major Crimes,” “The Secret Life of the American Teenager” and soap opera “Days of Our Lives.” Some of her recent roles include voice work on Netflix’s animated “Carmen Sandiego” and as Captain Carol Freeman in the animated series “Star Trek: Lower Decks,” which garnered her two NAACP Image Award nominations.

On stage she played Addaperle in “The Wiz” with New York City Center’s Encores! and portrayed Deloris Van Cartier in “Sister Act the Musical” at the Pasadena Playhouse in 2006.

In 2019, Lewis landed the role of Tina Turner’s mother Zelma in Broadway musical “Tina.” She was living in Los Angeles at the time and wanted to move back to her native New York. Lewis auditioned for the role by video and was selected.

In the musical, Zelma leaves a young Turner to escape an abusive relationship. Lewis says Zelma’s character is personal for her as her own mother left her to escape a violent domestic situation. Lewis was also in an abusive marriage, which she left quickly.

“Zelma was living in a home full of domestic violence, and Tina and her sister observed it,” Lewis said. “It can be considered villainizing when you leave your children in order to save your life and that’s what Zelma did. My mom left us for about a year and a half so that she could get her life together in order to come back and get us. My story, like Tina, follows a lot of parallels.”

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Mayor de Blasio Loses Face on Key Climate Change Issue At least 11 New Yorkers drowned in basement apartments after the remnants of Hurricane Ida opened the heavens and flooded New York City.

In the aftermath, Mayor Bill de Blasio – in one of his worst moments of macho hubris – admitted he has no plan to address illegal basement apartments that likely number in the tens of thousands.

“We don’t have an immediate solution for this one,” he said, virtually shrugging his shoulders and raising his palms skyward.

In fact, his administration had created – and then defunded – an important program that would have helped make basement apartments safer and legal.

A robust roll-out of that program could have saved lives.

It’s an open secret that the housing affordability crisis has driven lowincome New Yorkers and working-class families to live in below grade, illegal apartments. It’s also widely known that illegal dwellings put extra money in the pockets of small landlords.

As we look toward a new city government, and plan for an inclusive recovery out of the pandemic and recession, the next mayor must tackle housing affordability in a comprehensive way prioritizing those least served by the current housing system. We must find solutions to this problem, in the name of climate justice.

Fewer financial resources mean facing climate change is even harder for New York City communities of color, which increasingly bear the brunt of extreme heat and other weather events.

City Hall has a responsibility to lead the rest of the nation by example. Not only should the upgrade/legalization program be re-funded and expanded, but let’s give consideration to the idea of moving illegal basement dwellers into empty hotels and office buildings emptied by COVID-era remote work.

Other ideas: we must implement congestion pricing to raise money for subway improvements that prevent flooding. We should also promote the benefits of electric vehicles, and find a way to put 25,000 rooftop solar arrays on schools and city government buildings to help lower their carbon footprint.

And we must be better prepared for the next storm that is certain to come.

The more attention that the media, activists and citizens pay to the housing affordability crisis, climate change and extreme weather, the harder it will be for City Hall and Albany to ignore the struggles of average, working-class citizens until it’s too late.

The mayor blamed meteorologists for his administration’s poor Hurricane Ida

preparedness, saying their forecasts “are made a mockery of in a matter of minutes.”

He added, “No one’s seen a scenario like this,” and suggested there was inadequate warning of Ida’s impending deluge.

Not true. New York City has experienced the steady march of climate change for years, and our aging infrastructure cannot keep up. That is the lesson of Hurricane Ida, Superstorm Sandy in 2012, Hurricane Irene in 2011 and Tropical Storm Floyd in 1998. And even before the frequency and velocity of storms increased, the streets of eastern Queens and some New York City Transit subways lines had a deserved reputation for routinely being awash in floodwater.

Ironically, the U.S. Environment Protection Service released a landmark study in support of racial climate justice the same day that Ida wreaked havoc on New York and New Jersey. The study found that people of color bear a disproportionate burden of the negative health and environmental impacts from flooding, severe heat and extreme weather events. Latinx individuals are 43 percent more likely to live in communities that will lose work hours because of intense heat, and Black people will suffer significantly higher mortality rates, the study said.

This report drives home a simple fact: climate change risks are not equally distributed across New York City. Black and Latinx communities in Queens, Brooklyn and the Bronx find themselves in the way of some of the worst effects.

Separately, the National Climate Assessment, published by the U.S. Global Change Research Program, “focuses on the disproportionate and unequal risks that climate change is projected to have on communities that are least able to anticipate, cope with, and recover from adverse impacts.” It notes that people “who are already vulnerable, including lower-income and other marginalized communities, have lower capacity to prepare for and cope with extreme weather and climate-related events and are expected to experience greater impacts.”

It follows that low-income households use more than twice the proportion of their total income on food, energy and household needs as high-income households — and that spending will continue to rise as climate change increases the prices of those necessities, further exacerbating the wealth gap.

Mayor de Blasio championed a $10 billion plan to protect the lower Manhattan coastline. What’s good for Manhattan should be good for the outer boroughs. We cannot ignore the poor and moderate-income families in the boroughs least prepared to deal with climate-driven changes.

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

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The plan doesn’t expressly announce the immediate closing of Rikers and transfer of all 6,076 incarcerated individuals, most of whom are comprised of Black men according to city data.

Parts of the mayor’s plan did, however, aim to enact the Less is More Act–– which focuses on rehabilitation and release as opposed to incarceration–– and speed up transfers out of Rikers into state-run facilities.

Mayor-elect Eric Adams’ office said that he is in support of helping heal Rikers now.

“Eric believes the situation at Rikers is now a full-blown crisis that must be addressed with immediate investments in personnel and resources, as well as new policies that protect inmates and officers alike—and that we cannot wait for new jails to solve this problem,” said Adams’ staff member Evan Thies.

Decarceration advocates and corrections representatives alike seemed less than impressed with the mayor’s plan, saying it was inadequate and unable to solve the uptick in violence on Rikers.

Johnson’s death followed the tragic deaths of Brandon Rodriguez on Aug. 10 and Segundo Guallpa on Aug. 30.

He was technically the tenth incarcerated person to die on Rikers while awaiting trial in the last nine months.

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Struggling with a drug addiction for years, Williams was open about his use of cocaine. In a 2017 interview, he admitted to going to Newark, N.J. to buy drugs with money he earned from his acting career and would sometimes show up on set high. Producers said they feared firing him would spiral his addiction out of control.

In April, rapper DMX (born Earl Simmons) was hospitalized for a cocaineinduced heart attack and died a week later of organ failure. DMX also had a long struggle with drugs stating in 2020 that he became addicted to cocaine at age 14.

DMX was 50 at the time of his death and Williams was 54.

According to the Gateway Foundation, between 2015 and 2016, the rate of drug overdose deaths increased by 40% among African Americans. From 2014 to 2017, death rates from synthetic opioid use increased by 818% among African Americans, which was a higher increase than for any other racial group.

While marijuana is the most commonly used substance among African Americans, according to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Ad-

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vocates, such as New York City Jails Action Coalition, Freedom Agenda, and VOCAL-NY, said that a growing jail population and correction officers missing in action have led to people being denied food, medical attention, transportation to court dates, and are being locked in showers amidst feces and left on pseudo-lockdown for hours at a time or longer.

The city jail population dropped significantly from March to April 2020, but has since gone back up. In his interview with Erroll Louis on Monday, de Blasio said he worked with Correctional Health Services during the pandemic to get about 1,600 incarcerated people out for “humane reasons” and that the COVID-19 crisis has been a “horrible, negative multiplier” of conditions in the jail.

Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, Assemblymember Jessica GonzálezRojas, Senators Jessica Ramos and Alessandra Biaggi, and U.S. Rep Jamaal Bowman, among others, surveyed the conditions of the jail up close this week.

“This morning I toured Rikers Island, where three inmates died in the past month amid understaffing and overincarceration concerns. Decarceration is the humane, responsible solution.

We’re paying nearly half-a-million dollars per year per inmate at Rikers.

That’s unacceptable,” said Congressman Jamaal Bowman via Twitter about his visit.

The politicians said they saw “urine and fecal matter strewn over the floor,”

individuals coughing up blood, and an attempted suicide on their tour, reported AmNews.

“Rikers is an emergency environment, one in which the humanity and health of everyone inside are being disregarded. I was shaken during yesterday’s tour, and I am scared for the well-being of everyone who lives or works on Rikers. Corrections staff and incarcerated people alike are in constant, imminent danger. It is a humanitarian crisis rapidly descending toward even greater disaster,” said Williams in a statement.

Williams has pushed to decarcerate as many eligible individuals as possible and improve the overall safety of incarcerated people and correction officers, said his office.

“I implore the mayor and the governor to go to Rikers today, immediately,” said Williams. “See what I saw, hear what I heard, and you will know the moral, human obligation of using every tool available to provide disaster relief.”

Officials, like U.S. Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) and Councilmember Adrienne Adams, also joined the chorus of electeds asking the mayor to deal with the immediate crisis while also closing Rikers and replacing it with borough-based jails.

“The dangerous conditions, staffing shortage, and abysmal mismanagement at Rikers Island have completely devolved into a humanitarian crisis that needs to be addressed immediately,” said Adams. “This harrow-

ing situation has been a ticking time bomb for years now.”

Freedom Agenda Co-founder Brandon J. Holmes leads a member-led project of individuals who have been on Rikers. Holmes is an avid supporter of closing Rikers and has been working towards that goal since 2016.

Holmes said that Rikers is essentially being used as a “prison” which generally has a larger population and holds people for long sentences. He said hordes of corrections officers have called in sick or not shown up in the past year. In August, he said he spent time doing voter registration for the incarcerated and saw whole rooms with at least 60 open cots where people were sleeping communally, no masks, no circulating air, sticky floors, and a bad stench.

“Our biggest demand is that people like Esias should have never been on Rikers Island in the first place. The city has the resources to make available housing to do supervised release, or to keep people like Esias off of the island and anyone sent there is at risk of serious injury or death,” said Holmes.

Holmes said the police have pushed a certain level of “propaganda” that perpetuates the need to lock people up in order for the masses to feel safer.

“Now playing into that fear mongering from the NYPD again, the majority of these charges didn’t warrant one year of the sentence, one year or less.

And the mayor is backtracking on the commitment to get all those people off

ministration, psychotherapeutic drugs are the second most used followed by cocaine and hallucinogens.

A study released this month by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) revealed that there was a 38% increase in opioid overdose deaths in Black people in four states including New York. NIDA Director Dr. Nora D. Volkow said racism is a factor in the overdose deaths.

“Systemic racism fuels the opioid crisis, just as it contributes mightily to other areas of health disparities and inequity, especially for Black people,” she said. “We must ensure that evidence-based interventions, tailored to communities, are able to cut through the economic and social factors that drive disparities in substance use and addiction, to reach all people in need of services.”

September is National Recovery Month aimed at promoting treatment and recovery practices from all forms of addiction. The death of Williams and DMX is shedding light on the increasing number of African Americans dying from drug-related circumstances.

In an interview with the AmNews, psychologist Dr. Jeffery Gardere says mental health and drugs are interdependent on one another.

“When you have mental health issues, it’s quite possible that that

drives your substance use, because the substance use becomes a self medication,” he said. “When you have a primary diagnosis of substance abuse we know over time that begins to cause mental illness, physiologically and emotionally.”

Gardere says the COVID-19 pandemic has put messages about the dangers of substance abuse on the backburner. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as of June 2020, 13% of Americans reported starting or increasing substance use as a way of coping with stress or emotions related to COVID-19. There has also been an increase in overdoses.

So, what are the first steps someone should take if they believe they have a drug addiction? Gardere says breaking the denial is a start “I work with a lot of patients who came to me for help, but not for substance abuse,” he said. “Then we realized that they have very grave substance abuse issues causing a lot of the psychological issues that they have.”

In the case of helping a family member or loved one, Gardere says a crisis or family intervention is key and letting the user know that they will receive help in addressing the addiction. He also adds that perception is important.

“You can’t look at an addiction as a

character weakness but as an actual medical disease,” Gardere said. “As we know, substance abuse begins to change a person’s brain with regard to neurotransmitters. It’s not a situation of ‘oh why don’t they just stop?’ Some people can do that but it’s really about also making a medical intervention.

Detoxing, getting them on prescription medication such as an antidepressant or antianxiety. Group and individual therapy are also important.”

Drug recovery is one of the hardest things anyone can do, according to Gardere. He says consistency is important to any method. Statistics from American Addiction Centers shows that more than 85% of individuals relapse and return to drug use within a year following treatment.

“Someone can go into a treatment program, leave, get sober and become abstinent for sometime and they have some sort of a psychological issue or some tragedy and they start self-medicating,” Gardere said. “You have to have consistent care and the support of family and friends.”

New Yorkers struggling with an addiction, or whose loved ones are struggling, can find help and by calling the state’s toll-free, 24-hour, 7-day-a-week HOPE line at 1-8778-HOPENY (1-877-846-7369), or by texting HOPENY (467369).

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Pregnant Harlem mom shot dead after baby shower

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Harlem in particular, and the city in general remain horrified after a pregnant mother and her unborn child were shot and killed after her baby shower on Sunday, Sept. 12.

The NYPD announced that they are looking for 40-year-old Justin Soriano in relation to the shooting.

“Domestic violence is a national health crisis,” said Stephanie McGraw, of anti-domestic violence group W.A.R.M. (We All Really Matter).

McGraw said, “I tell a woman domestic violence is a crime. Don’t be afraid to ask for help. He murdered her because she was trying to get away from the abuse.”

Investigators say the suspect fatally shot Shanice Young, 31, once in the face and once in the head Sunday at approximately 1:15 a.m., in front of her building at 300 W. 128th St., near Frederick Douglass Boulevard.

EMS rushed the pregnant woman to Harlem Hospital, but medics couldn’t save her nor her unborn child.

Distraught friends and family members lashed out, accusing Young’s exboyfriend of stalking her.

Sources said Young, her two daughters, the father of her unborn child,

ed to intervene, which is when her ex, who was wearing a camouflage face-mask, allegedly let off his gun, striking Young once in the head as her stunned 15- and 6-yearold daughters witnessed from the car, and the shooter ran off.

“She stepped in between to break it up and got caught in the middle,” an NYPD spokesman revealed.

However, conflicting reports contend that the suspect “targeted her after [her boyfriend] got away”—as opposed to accidentally shooting her while aiming for him—based on interviews with relatives, witnesses and videos, police sources said.

Young’s family reached out to McGraw and Jackie Rowe Adams from Harlem Women SAVE, and they hosted Sunday’s vigil.

McGraw told the Amsterdam News that people in the neighborhood say that Soriano came back and destroyed the makeshift vigil.

Reportedly, Young endured “years of abuse at his hands before her death,” and her father revealed that she “had

and other relatives had just finished celebrating at her baby shower at a nearby location, for several hours, and were taking gifts from her car into her building lobby.

“I helped her put her gifts in the car and I said, ‘I’ll see you tomorrow,’” her shocked father, Thurman Young, 57, recalled. “She said, ‘This baby is coming in five days, Daddy, get ready.’ I said ‘I’ll be ready.’ That’s the last thing she said to me.”

Reports stated that an ex-boyfriend then abruptly confronted them. “[The gunman] came in chasing the boyfriend,” explained her building’s superintendent, Jose Morales, 46.

“They ran through here and out the other side and they ran downstairs.”

Once back out on the street, they tussled, and Shanice Young attempt-

three orders of protection against her ex since their split.” Her father added, “She put him out because he was cheating on her. Then [he] does this because she had another boyfriend.”

Police aren’t certain if Young was the intended target, and are reviewing surveillance footage that captured the shooting for more clues.

“She was just a beautiful person,” reflected Morales. “It’s so sad, I wish it would have never happened.”

Young moved into the building about three years ago to care for her ailing mother, who eventually passed from ovarian cancer about a year ago.

Friends said she was also taking care of her two younger siblings, as well as her own two daughters ever since.

“I am angry,” said Robert Rice, community chaplain at Harlem Hospital. “I’m outraged that we don’t have community out here.

Where’s the outrage?”

Saturday’s shooting is one of 100 that the NYPD liaison has been called to this summer 2021.

With more than 800 shootings this year alone, with 1,000 victims, these gun violence stats have doubled since 2019.

Speaking to PIX 11, Rice said, “These young people out here picking up guns, shooting each other are crying out for help.”

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Education Private school (for all) looks to fill gap left by public schools

By STEPHON JOHNSON Amsterdam News Staff Each journey begins with a single step.

This journey begins on the corner of Water and Bridge Streets in Brooklyn.

The Art of Words Community School (or TAWCS) wants to provide a different outlet for education that children might not get elsewhere, especially for children of color.

Founder and Director Dr. Lisa Scott, a former teacher who’s worked in public school with marginalized children, wants to make learning fun and teach kids how to think critically and for themselves as well. Scott’s school teaches art and literature with its content directed toward social justice and community-based learning. The combination of integrating art and literature is missing in today’s public schools where the students are majority Black and Latinx. TAWCS looks to fill that gap. Scott wants to grab those students and the parents of kids from marginalized communities who are disillusioned about education and have given up on school as a concept.

“These children of color just, you know, I could just imagine that you feel you don’t feel valued, because you’re

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school year and the success of the Summer Rising program as reasons for the city not providing parents with a remote option.

The city’s guidelines for keeping schools COVID free include a combination of ventilation, cleaning, and other actions.

“I talked to kids that hadn’t been in school in a year and a half, and they’re ready, parents ready to see their kids go someplace else for a little while, and a lot of staff, a lot of teachers really excited to have kids back,” said de Blasio. “But, so far, we’re hearing really, really good things.”

De Blasio is full speed ahead for all parties coming back. Despite cries from the New York City Council to slow things down, the mayor believes that his agenda will win in the end. But with the Delta variant of the COVID-19 virus, found in a few NewYorkers who tested positive for the virus, his actions were deemed unacceptable by New York Public Advocate Jumaane Williams and Education Committee Chairman MarkTreyger during a hearing two weeks ago.

But the city could measure its success by the numbers. According to Schools Chancellor Meisha Porter, those numbers weren’t ready yet.

“We had a ton of students showing up registering at schools yesterday, and so we don’t have a number because the number is rolling every single day, more students are registering, more students are showing up at schools, but as the

not meeting the objectives and you’re not meeting those milestones that have been set before you and so you don’t feel capable of doing that,” said Scott, while sitting in the lobby of the school. “So like what kind of future are we setting up for this vision? I said I just wanted to create a school that had a different narrative of their children.”

Scott and company have put their tuition on a sliding scale based on income, which makes it affordable to all.

“He’s afraid. He’s afraid of revealing himself, and he’s afraid of being vulnerable I think,” said Scott when speaking

about one student. “And so I think that him being uncomfortable is necessary.

A little bit. But I think for him it’s uncomfortable because he can’t let it go.” She hopes to pull that creativity out of the child soon.

She wants him to accept that he’s not alone.

“You’re awkward. We’re all awkward!” said Scott.

TAWCS is currently enrolling K-3, 6th grade and 9th grade students.

Gary Li, a kindergarten and first grade teacher who’s spent time in public and charter schools, said that everyone learns differently, which makes a teacher’s style more important.

“We’re not focusing so strongly on a curriculum that’s completely to the test,” said Li. “We’re focused on a personalized individual curriculum for each student.

And because of that, we can really focus on their interests and cater to them, and then build on those strengths and work on building connections.”

TAWCS uses the CLAP Method of educating kids. CLAP stands for Community, Literacy, Art and Projects. The school

wants to combine the best of Waldorf-inspired curriculum with STEM. “When they enter this space, they know that it’s a loving environment and their interests will be addressed and they come here for the therapeutic escape they need in order to continue to build on,” added Dr. Scott.

TAWCS sits on the corner of a gentrified DUMBO neighborhood, but don’t mistake this private school for something catering only to the new residents. This is a private institution for everyone and its barebones operation shows it. To be of the people, many entities must start with a few followers. TAWCS has more than a few and is looking to grow beyond its current location. Scott needs new people to buy into the concept. She believes they will. Especially when they see how she gets through to students.

“You know the different modalities that we use in the classroom, it’s like I want you to smell it, taste it, experience it, see if you get it,” Scott said. “Because subject matter competency is more important to me than anything else. I want you to be inspired by something—that doesn’t necessarily mean something that I would be interested in, but I want you to know something about everything.”

mayor said, as soon as we get to the point where we have full attendance taken across our system, we’ll share those numbers,” Porter said to reporters.

When the city’s numbers finally arrived, there was a dip in attendance when compared to the first days of school in 2019 and 2018, the pre-COVID years. According to the New York City Department of Education, 82.4% of eligible students attended school on Monday. In 2019, the number was 90%. In 2018, the number was 89.5%.

De Blasio said the numbers weren’t bad under the circumstances and that he expects the numbers of registrations to rise in the next few weeks.

United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew said that educators played a large part in the opening of the school year, but he wasn’t available for a full comment by press time.

Last week, when the AmNews asked the DOE about the lack of a remote option, we were directed to the city’s guidelines that included vaccinations for all education employees, consistent school maintenance and options for immunocompromised public school students, and mandatory vaccinations for anyone participating in high contact Public School Athletics League (PSAL) sports that require people being up close.

But this week, New York State Supreme Court Judge Laurence signed a temporary restraining order request brought by the Municipal Labor Committee against vaccines for all city workers, which includes DOE employees. While the city said

it would carry on in the meantime, some parents believe that a remote option would have helped a situation like this one.

Shalonda Curtis-Hackett, president of the New York State Congress of Parents and Teachers (PTA), said that denying families a remote option is a “death wish.”

“We decided to keep our children 2nd, 5th, 9th home until we get a remote option. Our decision was based on the inadequate response to parents like myself from Meisha Porter who claimed school would be safe,” said Curtis-Hackett, in an email. “Just looking at social media kids are not social distancing, masks are not being used properly and schools are overcrowded. At no fault to the schools as I believe administrators are doing the best they can with the directives, policy and facilities they have.

It’s the mayor and chancellor who are rigid and have this air of toxic positivity that it’s safe and gaslight us even though we can see with our own two eyes it is not as safe as they want us to believe.”

Community Education Council’s Presidents’ Representative Tom Sheppard is not happy with the mayor, the schools commissioner and the city.

“Is this what we have been reduced to?” asked Sheppard. “Have we been reduced to a society where a mayor and a schools chancellor can completely ignore the concerns, anxiety, and fears of parents, educators, and administrators and impose their will on all of us because they can?

“What can I do to stop this reckless behavior before one of our children

dies from this?”

Sheppard protested the school reopening by keeping his children home. Sitting with them on the steps of Tweed Courthouse in lower Manhattan with signs advocating for a remote option.

“I wanted them to understand for themselves what they are being forced back into,” said Sheppard.

Amid all of the hoopla, if one were to give the city a grade on Monday’s operations, what would it be?

“I would rate the city’s job C (Fair),” said New York Republican gubernatorial candidate Curtis Sliwa. “Unfortunately, things changed every other day. Communication did not sort that out for parents and students. And one of the biggest problems I saw was children and young adults fiddling with their masks.”

The AmNews reached out to New York Democratic mayoral candidate Eric Adams’ people for comment, but were waiting for one, that was promised, by press time.

U.S. Secretary of Education Dr. Miguel Cardona was more straightforward on social media. “ A+,” Cardona said on Twitter. He elaborated with reporters on Monday.

“Enjoy the school year,” Cardona said during his visit to P.S. 121 in the Bronx, with Porter this week. “They did it right.

And I know this is going to be an awesome year for NewYork, for everyone. And we have a special guest that wants to say, hello, Mayor. Come on over, special guest.

Tony the Tiger’s ready to kick things off.”

Brooklyn's new school TAWCS (The Art of Words Community School) held its first-ever, first day of school on Sept. 8

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VULCAN FDNY 9-11 20TH MEMORIAL BROOKLYN EVENT

By NAYABA ARINDE Amsterdam News Editor On September 11th, 2021 members of the Vulcan Society came to Bed Stuy, Brooklyn, to pay homage to the 12 members of the New York Fire Department who perished on 9.11.2001: “Honoring our Bravest––Soul 12.”

The Vulcan Society hosted the 20th year memorial event at the Quincy St. Community Garden and invited the family members of the 12 fallen firefighters. Almost three thousand people died in the 2001 attack on the World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan. Three hundred and forty-three

firefighters died, 12 were members of the Vulcan Society, the national Black firefighters’ organization.

It was a beautiful day of community, comradery, and commemoration.

Active and retired firefighters came from as far as Los Angeles, Chicago, Baltimore, Bridgeport Connecticut, Trenton, New Jersey, and of course New York. They were joined by Attorney General Letitia James and Assembly woman Stefanie Zinerman; Vulcan Society President Dellon Morgan, FDNY First Deputy Commissioner Laura Kavanaugh, Pastor James Geradeau, amongst many, many others.

The Soul 12 Fallen Fighters are: FF William Henry FF Andrew Fletcher FF Karl Joseph FF Keithroy Maynard FF Shawn Powell FF Leon Smith Jr

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Nightlife

Written by David Goodson

WIZ KID’S ESSENCE AND THE AFROBEAT EXPLOSION IN PROSPECT PARK The problem with long waits in large crowds is that you can’t control the conversations around you: you don’t mean to ear hustle but the proximity you find yourself in subjects you to the nonsense. Case in point, 45 minutes has passed, and the VIP/Press list has crawled to a complete stop. Surprised by the crowd, the dude directly in Wiz Kid front of me turns to a colleague and utters, “Wow, look at what a hit record can do!”

I ask myself, A hit record? Does he mean 1? If that is the implication that hit record is arguably, and it might be a quick dispute, THE record of the year at the most and a definitive song of the summer in the very least. Clearly, he ain’t been schooled prior to his arrival, but the boy Ayodeji Ibrahim Balogun, aka Wizzy, aka Big Wiz, aka Starboy been hot. In fact, some would say that even if the smash single “Essence” wasn’t in his arsenal the packed, packed, packed Lena Horne Bandshell at Prospect Park would only have been packed, packed!

It was a self-fulling prophecy of sorts as back in 2017 while in promotion of the then-new mixtape entitled ‘Sounds from The Other Side’ Wizkid in an interview with DJ Self on Power 105 said, “I’m very open-minded when it comes to my music, and I believe in tapping into different types of music to find inspiration but not dilute my sound.

I collaborate when I can but I’m making my music and catching my real vibes.” That formula of blending pieces of soul, hip hop, and gospel rooted in Afrobeat has led to a leaps and bounds success in terms of career advancement and has the likes of Rihanna, H.E.R, Damian Marley, Angélique Kidjo, Chris Brown, Ty Dolla Sign, Trey Songz on his resume of artists that he’s shared a creative space with. His explosion on to the scene came through his guest feature on Drake’s Afrobeatsinfused “One Dance” single, which reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and remained in that slot for 10 non-consecutive weeks, while also topping the charts in 15 differ-

ent countries, globally.

That was followed with an even bigger record, a pairing with Beyoncé, Blue Ivy and SAINt JHN called “Brown Skin Girl” which added more hardware to his collection Sunday passed as it won the Best Cinematography category in the 2021 MTV Video Music Awards. This adds to his first Grammy Award in two Soul Train Music Awards, a BET Awards, and a NAACP Image Award for the same title.

A hit, as in singular, huh? Beg to differ. That’s why every hue on the African diaspora menu, including celebrity types like Swizz Beatz, Kehlani, Winnie Harlow, Jidenna, Victor Cruz and Vic Mensa shoehorned into Prospect Park to see Wizkid deliver the goods in the NY leg of his national tour in support of the album “Made in Lagos.” The crowd rocked out under the stars to titles like “Mighty Wine,” “Soco,” “Show Me The Money,” “Ginger,” his global breakthrough track “Ojuelegba” and an interlude of the Fugees rendition of “Killing Me Softly” that flowed into “Blessed.” He found time to acknowledge and honor of the 20th anniversary of 9/11, to pay his respect to the people who lost their lives at the World Trade Center. He ended a moment of silence with, “I hope their souls rest in peace.” The night concluded with THAT song, “Essence.” While featured artist Tems, deliverer of the hook and bridge of the year was not in attendance the thousands on hand were more than willing to deliver “You don’t need no other body “You don’t need no other body “Only you fi hold my body “Only you fi hold my body “You don’t need no other body” The BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival has been delivering big time this summer but will conclude on Sept.

18th with TROMBONE SHORTY bringing this historic season to an explosive conclusion with his notorious brass funk band Orleans Avenue. The night begins with the buoyant grooves and plush harmonies of NYC’s own MICHELLE. Over and out. Holla next week. Til then, enjoy the nightlife!

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Captain Vernon Richards FF Gerald Baptiste FF Vernon Cherry FF Tarel Coleman FF Keith Glascoe FF Ronnie Henderson

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Union Matters Get vaccinated George Gresham President of 1199SEIU

President George Gresham leads 1199SEIU, the nation’s largest healthcare union representing 450,000 members in New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Maryland, Florida, and the District of Columbia.

By STEPHON JOHNSON Amsterdam News Staff

ty and work productively to move our nation forward.”

Biden’s plan also mandates that all Labor unions have showered praise federal employees receive the COVID on U.S. President Joe Biden’s COVID- vaccine. Refusing to do so would 19 action plan. result in fines of up to $14,000.

Revealed earlier this month, But Republicans have promised Biden’s action plan includes forcing to push back against the mandate. all private businesses that employ The House Freedom Caucus, which more than 100 people to require the includes Congress Members Jim whole staff get the COVID vaccine or Jordan, Louie Gohmert and Debbie have them tested at least once a week. Lesko, released a statement labeling It’s something the policy “tyranthat AFL-CIO nical.”

President Liz “The House Shuler believes Freedom Caucus should be done. opposes federal “The remask and vaccine surgence of mandates,” said COVID-19 reHouse Freedom quires swift Caucus Chairand immediman Andy Biggs. ate action, and “President Biden’s we commend invasive and unPresident Biden American vaccine for taking addimandate is anothBiden’s new plan mandates vaccines tional steps to er attempt by the help put an end for all federal employees Biden Regime to to this crisis,” expand its control stated Shuler. “Everyone should be over American’s daily lives.” vaccinated—as one step in stopping National Education Association the pandemic. Workers and unions President Becky Pringle doesn’t see should have a voice in shaping these anything unAmerican about the plan. policies. Workplace COVID-19 safety She said that she’s proud that nearly plans should also include mitigation 90% of all NEA members are fully vacmeasures like ventilation, removing cinated. infected individuals, masking and “Educators remain committed to training workers. These are necessary working together to ensure our local to prevent exposures and, in combi- schools are the safest places in the nation with vaccines, will get us out community for every student, eduof this pandemic.” cator and family,” stated Pringle. “As As part of the plan, the Centers students and educators go back to for Medicare and Medicaid Servic- school this year, we are focused on es (CMS) work in collaboration with keeping students safe, learning and the Centers for Disease Control and engaged. That is why the National Prevention (CDC) to vaccinate those Education Association strongly supwho work in health care. This in- ports President Biden’s new COVIDcludes the expansion of mandates 19 vaccinate-or-test requirements in for nursing home workers. Biden workplaces with 100 or more employalso said he would expand industri- ees and call for state vaccination real capacity to help support COVID-19 quirements for all educators.” recovery efforts including more proSome Republican governors have duction of masks. threatened the Biden administration American Public Health Associ- with lawsuits over the federal manation (APHA) Executive Director date. Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp and Georges C. Benjamin, MD, pointed Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey are among out that the increase in coronavirus those who said they’re looking into all cases can be attributed to those who the ways they can fight back. Ducey refuse to get injected. took to social media to express his “This is now a pandemic of the un- disappointment with having to take vaccinated, and it is spilling over legal action. into our children, who cannot yet “This dictatorial approach is wrong, get their shots,” said Benjamin. “The un-American and will do far more solution is to get everyone who is harm than good,” Ducey stated on eligible their vaccinations. The pres- Twitter. “How many workers will be ident’s plan can achieve that, and we displaced? How many kids kept out are here to help. We call on those who of classrooms? How many businesshave spread misinformation and dis- es fined? The vaccine is and should tractions to put aside their negativi- be a choice.”

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There has been a lot of talk over the last few months about vaccination. The pros and alleged cons of taking the vaccine are all over social media and news broadcasts. New York City is pulling out all the stops to encourage residents to get vaccinated—including requiring proof of vaccination for indoor dining and offering financial incentives. Despite these incentives, only 61% of New York residents have been vaccinated.

Back when I was in school, 61% was a D: barely passing. We are barely passing this fight. With the Delta variant on the rise, we have an extremely small window to get a handle on COVID-19 before things get back to 2020 levels. My friends, I say this with all of my heart— it’s’ time to get vaccinated.

I don’t know how fighting a deadly virus got to be so political. Maybe it is because the world has not faced anything like COVID-19 in our lifetimes; an unseen, deadly killer that can quickly be passed from person to person. Maybe it was the inaction of the Trump administration, and the continued inaction of state leaders in Florida and Texas. What I do know is that the window for defeating this virus in the near future, and the even more contagious Delta variant, is rapidly closing. This is why federal, state, and local governments, as well as some of our nation’s largest corporations are requiring their employees to get vaccinated.

I received my first dose of the vaccine on January 20, 2021. I was among the first in my family to get vaccinated, but I wasn’t the first. My daughter Siana, an 1199 member, received her first dose before me, and let me tell you that I couldn’t have been more thrilled.

As the proud father of three healthcare workers, and the proud Pop-Pop of four grandchildren, it is critical to me that we defeat this pandemic. My oldest grandson, Jayce, just started Pre-K. He was so excited to start, and even took his time to show me his new sneakers, backpack, and lunchbox. He was so cute and reminded me so much of his dad, my only son Rakim, on his first day of school.

Jayce’s first day photos look different than Rakim’s, as Jayce’s outfit also included a tiny mask to help protect him from COVID-19. At four years old, Jayce is too young to get vaccinated, as are his baby sister and baby cousin. I know many of you are in the same boat with little ones whose smiles and sweet voices melt your heart. If you’re anything like

me, you’d literally do anything for them.

If you haven’t already, I’m begging you to add getting vaccinated to that list of things you to do protect them.

Now, I’m not going to sit here and tell you that getting vaccinated is a cure-all, because it’s not. But the vaccines offer us the best defense available against this deadly plague of a virus, and a path forward back to some semblance of normalcy. Statistics show that the fully vaccinated get less sick, and fewer of the vaccinated who do catch it die from it than the unvaccinated. Read almost any news story about the COVID waves now washing over several southern states and one fact immediately stands out: doctors say the vast majority of people now dying from COVID are unvaccinated.

I keep wondering how these people must feel, to be lying in a hospital bed, fighting for each breath. I’ve even heard reports of COVID patients asking for the vaccine as they lay dying, only to be told that it’s too late.

It doesn’t have to be this way. We can still fight this thing to protect ourselves, loved ones, our neighbors, and our communities.

Our 1199 members have been on the frontlines of this pandemic from the beginning. It is safe to say each of us know someone who had COVID. Far too many of us have watched this horrible virus take a life or felt the unimaginable pain of being unable to be in the hospital room as a loved one fought for her or his life.

And COVID is still killing, ironically now much more in those states where governors and residents have rejected vaccines and mask wearing requirements.

Viruses don’t care about politics.

We cannot forget those terrifying first months of 2020 when there was no vaccine. Back then we didn’t know how COVID killed, and health officials could only speculate how it was transmitted from person to person. Let’s not forget a time when treatments were uncertain, and we were told unless we could not breathe, not to come to a hospital emergency room.

We must never forget the refrigerated trailers parked outside hospitals to collect the dead. These trailers have reappeared in some southern states and are being used for the same purpose.

Get vaccinated, like me, because it’s the right thing to do for yourself, your family, your community, your city.

Get vaccinated because it is the right thing to do. Lives depend on it.

Unions approve of Biden’s COVID-19 action plan

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Activists call for the return of Black cemetery to church

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Rikers Continued from page 6

Rikers and find alternatives for them simply because the Activists called Friday for the NYPD commissioner spoke return of a Black cemetery to a up and doesn’t want to face Maryland church decades after that backlash,” said Holmes. it was erased by development.

In tandem, former acting The Rev. William J. Barber II president of Correction Offiand Rev. Liz Theoharis, co-chairs cers Benevolent Association of the Poor People’s Campaign, (COBA) Elias Husamudeen Rev. William J. Barber helping spoke by Zoom to participants lead the fight to restore the agreed that the mayor’s plan at the rally, which organizers Moses African Cemetery was “not a plan at all” but for said included descendants of very different reasons. those buried at the Moses Afri- tiffs argue that selling the parcel He is not in favor of closing can Cemetery and members of that was used as a burial ground Rikers at all or reducing offithe Macedonia Baptist Church. without court approval violates cers, because he sees the sitThe church plans to restore the state law. uation as a “real estate land cemetery and build a monuLast week, a Montgomgrab” that will not solve the ment and museum on the site. ery County judge temporarily underlying social and mental The Bethesda African Ceme- blocked the $51 million sale of issues that cause violent contery Coalition sued Montgomery land that includes the Westwood ditions or violent incarceratCounty’s Housing Opportunities Tower Apartments, WTOP-FM ed people.

Commission last month claim- reported.

A recent letter from the ing that part of the cemetery is “Many of the individuals Nunez federal monitor, Steve beneath the parking lot of the buried at Moses African CemeJ. Martin, testified to the “unWestwood Tower Apartments, tery were freed slaves or people reasonably high” levels of vinews outlets report. The hous- who had worked on one or more olence this summer at Rikers ing agency owns the proper- of the four plantations in the throughout the jail complex, ty and apartment building and River Road area of Montgomery reported The New York Times. uses the rental income to cover County prior to the Civil War,” Husamudeen theorized costs of the agency.

Montgomery County Judge that because low-level ofAn estimated 500 bodies of en- Karla Smith wrote in her order. fenders, such as turnstile slaved people or relatives of the The temporary restraint forjumpers or weed smokers, enslaved rest at the cemetery, bids the sale until a Sept.

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September 16, 2021 - September 22, 2021 • 11 people left are likely there for much more violent or deadly offenses. This is why there’s been more violence on Rikers recently, said Husamudeen.

“The issue is not the zip code or where a jail is located, the issue is whether or not the jail is safe regardless of where its located,” said Husamudeen. “Part of today’s crisis is rather than address the issue of safety, they were more focused on closing the jails.”

Husamudeen said that it was completely unfair to expect overworked corrections officers, on their third or fourth shift at times, to perform to the best of their abilities. He said he didn’t think anything proposed in the relief plan can address the ongoing staffing problems and the uptick in violence, especially if that meant punishing “AWOL” officers.

“These are things that have been brewing for a while. The union and others have been trying to get the mayor’s attention for a while concerning this,” said Husamudeen.

“To the politicians who took the tour, it’s wonderful they expressed some interest, but the reality is most of them

have known about this long before.”

In Tuesday’s morning briefing, de Blasio said that the city is taking steps to relieve pressure on the situation. He received pushback that the closing was not part of the announced plan.

“It is part of the plan I just announced, and there’s a right way to do it, and I think there could be a wrong way to do it too. I want to do it the right way,” said de Blasio.

“We’ve got hundreds and hundreds of folks who are incarcerated, who don’t need to be based on this new law that if signed could immediately relieve some of the pressure, but we need that law signed and implemented immediately,” he said about the Less Is More Act. Ariama C. Long is a Report for America corps member and writes about culture and politics in New York City for the Amsterdam News. Your donation to match our RFA grant helps keep her writing stories like this one; please consider making a tax-deductible gift of any amount today by visiting: https://tinyurl.com/fcszwj8w

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Opinion Has COVID-19 and injustice made America divided and mean-spirited?

By JAMES B. EWERS JR. Ed.D.

square.

However, is the tide turning? Are we getting mad I believe in the humanity of Americans. We look and upset with each other? out for each other and want what is best for one According to a recent CNN poll 74% of Amerianother. cans are angry. That is not good news and is an We want peace in the land. Confusion is not a indicator of where we are these days according to trait that we want to see practiced in the public some pundits.

Did this ill-tempered wind that is blowing across the United States of America just happen?

My opinion is no.

Like rain, it started with clouds. It was the cloud of hate that happened in Charlottesville Virginia. It was the cloud of false allegations about election fraud and the cloud of mistreating We are enthralled by the news that Gov. Newsom was able to beat back the recall that was basically people because you have power.

While some will vehemently disagree, mounted by GOP conservatives and Trumpeters.

That victory is so desperately needed to withstand it began with the former president of the United States. the GOP assaults on the Democratic fronts, none Early in his quest for the top more consequential than the pandemic surge, the restrictive voting measures, and the renewed job, he made outrageous comments about people. He dethreat of right wing protesters gathering for a Sept. meaned them and verbally 18th rally.

On Tuesday, Democratic senators introduced a new ver- abused them. Black and Brown sion of an expansive election reform bill to counter the people were his targets.

As president, he became record-number of voting restrictions that have passed in GOP-led states, which they say make it harder for minori- worse.

During his unhinged and lieties and low-income Americans to cast a ballot.

And Secretary of State Antony Blinken withstood a bar- filled presidency, he empowrage of criticism on the withdrawal from Afghanistan, tell- ered racists in this country.

Before him, racists and hate ing the lawmakers, “We inherited a deadline. We did not inherit a plan,” placing much of the blame on former Pres- groups were not as visible. They ident Donald Trump’s deal with the Taliban to withdraw stayed in the closet, not wanting U.S. troops by May 1, a fact Trump boasted about just ear- to be readily identified.

The fabric and moral underlier this summer.

A ray of optimism was witnessed the other day when pinning of America would not President Biden met with Senators Manchin of West Vir- allow them to have a stronghold ginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, both crucial in get- in our beloved community.

The floodgates of meanness ting Biden’s nearly $4 trillion infrastructure bill approved.

These are just a sample of the pressing agenda items that and contempt opened when he have to be addressed as we move deeper into the Septem- was elected.

Groups like the Proud Boys ber days.

Lawmakers are back at their desks in Congress, Dr. Fauci were not household names. continues to be concerned about the massive gathering of Now they are. We are surrounded by overt acts of bad behavior. fans at sporting events, and Dreamers wait to see how the Racism is clearly out for all to infrastructure debate impacts their status in the nation. witness. The color of one’s skin Let us hope that the results in California are an omen, a harbinger that more good times are in the wind. We have sometimes determines your fate. had enough bad luck and setbacks of late, and we have our No and not available are responses fingers crossed, our hopes high as autumn sweeps the land. that we are hearing way too often.

When stopped by the police, as people of color, we don’t know the outcome. Life and death hang in the balance.

Politics have turned ugly. Laws have become weapons. Some states are using them to cause upheaval and mistrust.

The coronavirus is deadly in all forms.

Health experts have clarified and amplified this message on a daily basis.

Yet, we have people in our nation who refuse to take the vaccine.

They are so obstinate in their views that the fear of death does not move

The days dwindle down to a precious few EDITORIAL

them.

But wait. They only fear it if it hits their doorstep. If it happens down the street or in another city, it does not matter to them.

That attitude is cold, insensitive, and incomprehensible, at least to me.

President Joe Biden wants to mandate vaccines for certain groups. Most all federal workers and those with governmental contracts must be vaccinated. Of course, there is pushback on this new directive.

Parts of America are in a nightmare where they believe science does not matter and that doctors do not count.

What can be done to stop this train of turmoil?

Some of our citizens just don’t get it.

As we have pushed past Labor Day going to the fall, will we survive this detour of indifference?

Parts of America are in a nightmare where they believe science does not matter and that doctors do not count.

What can be done to stop this train of turmoil?

Some of our citizens just don’t get it.

As we have pushed past Labor Day going to the fall, will we survive this detour of indifference?

Schools and colleges are struggling to reopen.

Different states have different policies about mask wearing. Protests have been held outside of schools. Verbal attacks have occurred at school board meetings.

Keeping children safe should be the overarching goal. Those who don’t want their children to wear masks are emotional without the facts.

So, we must find some solutions to these pressing problems.

Let’s start by treating each other with dignity and respect.

Dr. James B. Ewers Jr., is a youth advocate, consultant, author and president emeritus of the Teen Mentoring Committee (TMC) of Ohio.

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Who is Khorasan or ISIS-K Terence Blanchard is coming to town 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.

The August 26th attacks on American forces ARMSTRONG in Kabul and the WILLIAMS recent designation of a “new” terrorist cell in Afghanistan, are all propaganda pumped into the U.S. system to sow confusion and focus our attention on a new boogeyman: ISIS-K. Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, particularly the Quds Force, led by General Qassem Sulaymani until his death, signed a cooperation agreement with the Taliban several years ago. For years, Iran has served as a safe haven for ISIS and al-Qaeda militants injured in Iraq and Syria. After being defeated in Iraq and Syria, Iran provided these two forces with safe passage, medical care, retraining, new weapons and equipment, and logistical support to these soldiers. Moving overland from Syria, across Iraq, and into Iran, they had the ability to heal, reequip, and retrain while avoiding air and drone assaults. For at least two years, fighters from these two groups stealthily slipped into Afghanistan from Iran. They blended into the nearby rural communities this time, learned from the 09/11/01 experience, stayed to themselves, paid for food and assistance from the locals, and kept their profile low. Once inside Afghanistan, they were supported and protected by the Taliban. Because of this, the Taliban, Iran, ISIS, al-Qaeda, and a slew of other terrorist organizations like ISIS-K, caused the U.S. to focus on the inconsequential at the cost of the critical.

The following was yesterday’s headline: “Islamic State-Khorasan (IS-K) killed at least 13 U.S. troops and perhaps over 90 Afghans in a twin suicide bombing and gun attack yesterday outside of Kabul Airport.” The events of that day caused yesterday to be the bloodiest day for the U.S. military since 2011. For a week, U.S. intelligence had warned of such an assault, even expressly advising Americans to avoid the site of the first bombing, Abbey Gate, as it expected more attacks to follow.

This leads us to ask the following important questions: What was the U.S. intelligence’s first impression of this group? How were the bombs which killed the 13 U.S. troops brought undetected to the gate area? Who was the first person to coin the phrase “ISIS-K”—is it the Taliban?

This “new group”—IS-K—got picked up by U.S. news outlets and the U.S. intelligence system, and in less than 24 hours, the U.S. intelligence system and new media have been following this group like a cat chasing a laser pointer light. Meanwhile, the Taliban, Iran, ISIS, and al-Qaeda get some breathing room as the U.S. system exhausts itself trying to figure out who is in command of IS-K. For decades, our adversaries have effectively employed this strategy of deception. Since Hezbollah first arose, the Iranians have been masters of deception and media warfare, and they have mystified the U.S. Since 2004.

The many “splinter” organizations that formed inside Iraq, initially under the banner of Popular Mobilization Units (PMUs), have multiplied and confused the U.S. system. Former terrorist organization leaders Zarqawi and Usama bin Laden fought for years, first as AQ in Iraq, then as IS “Da’esh,” then as ISIS in Iraq, and so on.

Make no mistake, the Taliban is well aware of who accompanied them to Kabul: the Haqqani

terrorist network, a varsity first-string terrorist organization known for escorting Usama bin Laden to safety many years ago to give him safe haven and engaging in numerous bombings across the Middle East. Until recently, the heads of the Haqqani terrorist network were locked up in Guantanamo Bay, however, their faces appeared on television just the other day—free and ready to wreak havoc.

The Haqqanis have observed, killed, learnt, adjusted, and discovered places to operate outside of the teeth of the U.S. military and intelligence systems throughout the last 20 years, so they understand the U.S., our weaknesses, and our predictable manner of fighting war. We, on the other hand, have learnt nothing and remain predictable in our attempt to persuade our adversaries to attack us in a way where we are most effective, rather than tearing us apart with a thousand-cut approach.

The U.S. was taught a severe lesson on Aug. 21. Doing nothing and asking the Taliban for assistance and protection as we leave Afghanistan will prove to be one of the most irresponsibly foolish and deadly moves made in the last 20 years. The Biden White House appears dejected, anxious, and desperate to halt the political bleeding. The tourniquet is under Taliban control. As long as we allow them, they will bleed us to death and rub our faces in it.

Both the U.S. and the Taliban denounced the assault and pledged to hold IS-K accountable. According to a Wall Street Journal story, the Taliban and IS-K have had a long-standing feud, and the airport bombs “raise the possibility of a lengthier, bloodier battle” between them.

This isn’t brand-new information or news. It’s an earned media repeat of the falsehood told in the post-bomb briefing yesterday, which the U.S. system devoured like a largemouth bass swallowing bait on a lure. When we leave Afghanistan and the Taliban retake power, the country’s complicated history will exacerbate the dispute about who is who inside Afghanistan.

Separately, the representatives of Taliban and Panjshiri resistance commander, Ahmad Massoud, met in Parwan and agreed not to attack each other until a second round of “higher level” negotiations had taken place. Now, the graveyard of empires begins a new cycle of power transfers and wars, and renewed problems for U.S. intelligence and the media to identify new flags, name changes, and historic friction spots on the region’s map.

The Sasanian Empire makes its debut. That ought to keep the Americans occupied for a while.

They will have a cool flag, though. No one seems to be commenting on the fact that the briefing was given by an Arab who spoke Arabic rather than Dari. Why is that so? This result will go down in history as one of the most infamous U.S. blunders.

The Haqqanis must be marveling at their good fortune. To say that they were successful would be an understatement; they walked away with billions of dollars in war loot and the opportunity to control many innocent civilians through their brutal political and war tactics.We just left everything for them; they didn’t even have to fight us to get it.

Armstrong Williams (@ARightSide) is the owner and manager of Howard Stirk Holdings I & II Broadcast Television Stations and the 2016 Multicultural Media Broadcast Owner of the Year. He is the author of “Reawakening Virtues.”

On September 27th the Metropolitan Opera will have the opening night of Terence Blanchard’s new opera, “Fire Shut Up in My Bones.” The Met Opera was founded in 1880 and when the curtains rise on that Monday night, Blanchard will make history becoming the first Black director to create a mainstage Met production performed at this prestigious and historic institution. Let that sink in.

Blanchard has adapted New York Times journalist Charles Blow’s memoir into an experience that transcends race and class.

When I recently sat down and spoke to Blanchard, I was curious to know how he felt about making history, opening the door for Black performers and composers, representing his beloved New Orleans, and paying homage to all of the teachers and musicians who have influenced him throughout his career.

Many readers may know Blanchard because of his trumpet skills and his impressive catalog.

Others may be familiar with Blanchard as a composer for motion picture films and his close work with director Spike Lee on soundtracks and original scores as wide ranging as “Jungle Fever,” “Mo’ Better Blues,” “Malcolm X,” “Crooklyn,” “Clockers,” “Inside Man,” “Bamboozled,” “Get on the Bus,” “Four Little Girls,” “Red Tails,” “BlacKkKlansman,” “Da Five Bloods,” to name just a few.

What struck me throughout my conversation with Blanchard was his recognition of all of the teachers he has had throughout his career who helped him think not only about musical construction and innovation, but also the importance of mentorship and dedication to

CHRISTINA

GREER PH.D. one’s craft. Blanchard as a trumpeter, a pianist, or a composer, has mastered all three lanes.

My excitement for “Fire Shut Up in My Bones” stems from my excitement for the world to see a stage full of African American opera singers performing songs written by an African American, based on a memoir written by an African American. History is being made at one of America’s most prestigious cultural institutions and in traditional Blanchard fashion, the Oscar-nominated composer is focused on the work and the final product. He is excited for the audience to be able to experience what he’s seen in rehearsals these past few months, especially the dedication of the performers and the incredible choreography by the brilliant Camille A. Brown.

I asked Blanchard if he ever sleeps, as I listened to his new album “Absence” (Blue Note records). He explained that his work ethic stems from his parents and seeing his father work two jobs in addition to making time to write and perform music. I am thrilled for this performance and all of the doors it will open for so many in the future.

For those interested in a night at the opera, go to www.metopera.org. Tickets start at $37, and the show runs on select nights from Sept. 27 to Oct. 23.

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

Bahamas holds elections amid COVID concerns

By BERT WILKINSON Special to the AmNews Nearly 200,000 people are registered to vote in general elections in The Bahamas on Thursday but the major concern among the citizenry appears not to be which of the two main parties will run the country for the next five years but whether the archipelago just south of Florida could deal with any new COVID-19 spikes accruing from breaches in social distancing rules and election campaigning.

Officials said that if the administration of advanced voting was anything to go by on Sunday, the country’s health system could come under even greater pressure than it is at the moment, as thousands lined up closely behind each other even while officials appealed to voters to follow the rules, at times without success.

As campaigning intensified at the weekend, the chair of the Public Hospitals Authority complained that the state hospitals system is already burdened down with pandemic patients as he appealed for common sense to prevail. Taking their cue from Dr. Julian Rolle, local media teams reported serious breaches of social distancing rules, noting that hundreds were huddled together closely

as they stood in lines for up to three Minnis were to lose to the Progressive struction left by superstorms Dorian hours to cast their ballots on Sunday. Labor Party (PLP) as it is heading into and Irma in the past three years.

Of those vying for seats in the 39member assembly, 55 are multimillionaires including PM Minnis. He has a net worth of US$38M. Opposition leader and prime ministerial hopeful Phillip Davis says he is only worth just over $4 million. Davis is an attorney. Tourism Minister Dionisio D’Aguilar says he is good also for $38 million.

Both the 15-nation Caribbean Community and the Washingtonbased Organization of American “Our doctors and nurses are worn Thursday with 35 at the 39 seats won States (OAS) have sent observer misout with the unrelenting pressure at the 2017 contest. Minnis called the sions to monitor the elections. Early being caused by COVID-19. Present- elections nearly a year ahead of the on Monday, authorities green lightly, about five to 10 percent of our staff constitutional deadline, fearing that ed the ability of persons in COVID is quarantined due to exposure to the the economic situation in the tour- quarantine to vote but they must virus. Some staff members have had ist paradise was declining too rapid- return home immediately after castmultiple quarantines and the number ly to wait until next year. The effects ing ballots. How these persons will of staff unable to perform their duties of the national lockdown during the be monitored is unclear but Nationdue to quarantine has now reached height of the pandemic in the past al Infectious Diseases boss Dr. Nikthe point where it’s becoming diffi- year and others confined to specific kiah Forbes says this is a recipe for cult to staff our facilities properly. The areas also motivated the FNM to seek increased infection rates.

“If that scenario happens with persystem is overburdened and facing a renewed mandate. unprecedented stress and cannot For its part, the PLP has been rail- sons in the same space, there will be continue for much longer,” he said as ing about corruption in The Bahamas a potential for COVID transmission. last-minute campaigning intensified and what it says is Minnis’ inept han- So, that could be safely done, for exacross the country. dling of the pandemic and the econo- ample, if it were online or some other Meanwhile, it would be a major po- my. The FNM counters that pandemic remote forum, but the practiced reclitical embarrassment for the govern- apart, economic fortunes have also ommendation is that persons who are ing Free National Movement (FNM) taken a beating thanks largely to the positive should be in isolation,” she if the party of Prime Minister Hubert ravages, the trail of death and de- told reporters.

“Local media teams reported serious breaches of social distancing rules, noting that hundreds were huddled together closely as they stood in lines for up to three hours to cast their ballots on Sunday.”

20 years after 9/11, will 8 million undocumented immigrants finally get a green card?

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IMMIGRATION KORNER It’s been two decades already since hundreds of immigrants, including from the Caribbean, Africa, Asia and Latin America, died in the 9/11 terror attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. To date, an estimated 67 undocumented immigrants, mainly from Mexico and Central America, remain missing.

Many worked as waiters, cooks, or delivery workers in New York City.

The documentary “Seen But Not Heard” recently spotlighted four women who lost loved ones on Sept.

11th and how they struggled to support their families as they tried to convince authorities that their husbands and boyfriends existed. Some were able to access the compensa-

tion fund, but others were not.

Among the lost is Fernando Jiménez Molinar, 21, of Oaxaca, Mexico.

He failed to return from his job delivering pizzas two blocks from the collapsed Twin Towers on Sept. 11, according to Axios and the Latino immigrant advocacy group, Asociación Tepeyac. He is among the missing workers not included in the official toll of those who died when the Twin Towers collapsed, since authorities still can’t prove he existed.

On the 20th anniversary of the terror attacks, Democrats were late last week trying to convince Elizabeth MacDonough, an American lawyer, the parliamentarian of the United States Senate since 2012 and a non-partisan referee, that their plan to provide permanent legal status for 8 million immigrants complies with the arcane rules that govern what can be included in the $3.5 trillion social spending bill they hope to pass as soon as this month.

There are sharp limits on what can

be included in such measures, but Democrats are using the budget reconciliation process to prevent the GOP from filibustering their measure in the Senate.

Should it pass the muster, it would mean a green card for Dreamers, temporary protected status holders, agricultural and other essential workers who have been living in limbo within the U.S. for years.

Many are hopeful, pointing back to 2005 when a plan to address a backlog of visas was included in a reconciliation bill.

GOP staffers have also pitched MacDonough, insisting that the Democratic plan doesn’t meet the requirements laid out for what can get included in the budget bill.

It’s unclear which way MacDonough will lean. If she rules against immigration reform, the provision could be stripped out of the bill unless Democrats can muster 60 votes, meaning the support of at least 10 GOP senators, to keep it in the bill.

Of course, this is completely because of the nonsensical ideals being clung to primarily by Sen. Joe Manchin as it relates to filibuster.

But if there is any real remorse about the lives lost on 9/11, and MacDonough and the GOP sincerely want to pay tribute, this is the moment.

In honor of the hundreds of immigrants whose lives were lost on 9/11, let’s pass this measure and give a new lease on life to those still in service daily across this great land. The millions of undocumented immigrants living in this country in limbo deserve a green card now. Do it in the name of the immigrants lost on 9/11. Do it, because 20 years later, those living in this country deserve to come out of the shadow and we need to know who they are officially. Do it in the name of all who sacrificed their lives on that faithful day. #NeverForget.

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Broadway is back with ‘Pass Over’ Namir Smallwood and Jon Michael Hill

Jon Michael Hill in “Pass Over” on Broadway

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By LINDA ARMSTRONG Special to the AmNews “Pass Over” hits a couple of milestones: Not only is it the first Broadway production to be staged since the pandemic’s shutdown, it is one of seven plays created

by Black writers to be staged this season.

Black female playwright Antoinette Chinonye Nwandu’s Broadway debut will set her in the annals of theater history. This scorching, visceral drama demonstrates her empathy for the plight of Black men in the United States of America. Nwandu has a sense of their feeling targeted by the police, and their sense of hopelessness and redundancy in their everyday lives. This feeling of being powerless and being made to feel inadequate for just being who you are—a human being with the basic needs of shelter, food, feeling safe and seen—and what

happens to Black men when those basic needs are taken away. Nwandu bravely and thoroughly covers the issue of the brotherhood that Black men feel for one another and how they will continuously use the “N” word in everyday speech, but use it with a meaning of affection, dedication and friendship. She also recognizes the constant state of fear and trauma that Black men, who have known friends and family killed by the police, experience on a daily basis.

Nwandu gives the audience a captivating story of true friendship and two men in pain, the pain of personal family loss caused by police brutality; the pain of feeling trapped and unable to simply leave a ghetto street corner, instead feeling that there is no recourse but to stay and endure racist police harassment.

Their crime is being Black and alive, and that is not something they can or want

to change—nor should they have to.

Nwandu stunningly gives us two men, Moses and Kitch, who live on a ghetto street corner and every day talk trash about what they would want to happen in their lives. They dream of a Promised Land, but also concede that it is not meant for Black men.

Setting the scene in the future and the past, as far back as 1440, Nwandu allows her two characters to talk about all the cruelties that Black people have suffered, like being slaves on the plantation to living and dying in ghettos, murdered by police on a regular basis. Murders that happen so often, to so many of their friends and family, that they recall each person’s name and feel the sadness of each murder. Moses’ character refers to Moses in the Bible who led the Jews out of Egypt, but this modern-day Moses realizes very acutely that he does not have

the ability to lead anyone anywhere; he can’t even help himself. Moses and Kitch exemplify the indomitable spirit of the Black man. Although their lives are repetitive and depressing, they still try to dream. They still try to hope and share the things they would want in the Promised Land. They also find a way to share humorous exchanges, despite the desperation of their situation. There is a lot of profanity exchanged, but it’s real talk.

As they talk of their deeply rooted feelings of despair and degradation, especially at the hands of white police officers, it is not surprising that when a white man comes on their corner they are leery. This man, who called himself Master, appears to be lost and is carrying a basket of food for his ill mother (a wolf in sheep’s clothing). He comes across as not meaning to cause See PASS OVER on page 19

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Amazon Studios’ ‘Cinderella’—a new twist on a very white classic fairytale

By LAPACAZO SANDOVAL Special to the AmNews

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Amazon Studios’ new film, “Cinderella,” is the latest retelling of the Charles Perrault classic and, this time, screenwriter and director Kay Cannon gives the old classic a new spin. In this over-the-top unreality, characters break into song with all the prowess of a Broadway musical number as easily as most of us take a breath.

Despite this post-feminist environment, Cinderella is still waiting for her “prince” and crying over not being invited to the fancy party.

Cannon has many inspired, creative moments and her redesign works.

Ella (Camila Cabello) is living the sad, tiring life of a servant after the death of her father. This sad situation leaves her with the duties of caring for her cruel stepmother (his second wife) Vivian (Idina Menzel).

To make Ella’s life even more of a challenge, she has obnoxious stepsisters Malvolia (Maddie Baillio) and Narissa (Charlotte Spencer) breathing down her neck.

Little Ella dreams of breaking out of her dismal, sad home in the basement and stepping boldly into a churning, whirling world, showing the world her fashion designs.

But the world isn’t ready for an independent, creative, career-minded woman, so Ella tucks her dream of being a fashion designer deep inside her heart, just singing and venting her burning desires.

Now to the handsome prince, Prince Robert (Nicholas Galitzine), who is stuck in a life of ritual with his stuffy father King Rowen (Pierce Brosnan), and his very kind mother, Queen Beatrice (Minnie Driver). Parents will be parents, and they are demanding that he find a suitable bride before he takes the throne. Let’s be real, the Prince isn’t feeling it, and he would rather kick it with his friends than sit on the throne. His über intelligent sister, Princess Gwen (Tallulah Greive) is better equipped to lead a successful kingdom, but she’s dealing with unabashed male chauvinism. The prince says yes to the grand ball with invitations sent to the entire kingdom, giving him a wide selection to find his perfect match. But even before the party, he meets Ella, his

true love, first discovering her at the announcement ceremony and then later, in disguise, bumping into her at the marketplace, buying an evening gown from her.

Before you think this version of “Cinderella” is without a fairy godmother, think again, Ms. Ella has the fabulous fairy godmother Fab G (Billy Porter) who is more than happy to work the magic and worth through the drama of her life.

Kudos to Cannon who brings forth our heroine’s internal and external motivations. This helps drive the story forward and paints a modern sheen on the antiquated classic.

In this modern retelling, Ella and the prince (theoretically) can start their life together while both attain their respective career ambitions. The issues sur-

rounding class and wealth disparity are very much still a part of the story, with a rousing musical number (“Dream Girl”) that explores the issues. It’s a showstopper that casts a new light on an old character.

Some might argue the movie’s pacing is inconsistent and that character development is weak, but you have to remember, we all know these characters from the hundreds of retellings. It’s not that deep. Evil isn’t that complicated. Plus, it’s super easy to relate to Ella’s desire to fight for her peace and move into loving life.

The musical numbers are crafted like music videos, with quick, sharp cuts that keep that bubbly feeling.

The wardrobe is lush and Ella’s magical ball gown is stunning and made for a future princess.

All in all, most of the casting is perfect but it’s Porter that steals the show.

This gifted soul just does not disappoint when the spotlight is turned towards him. He’s vivacious. He’s vibrant.

He’s exactly the supernatural help that I would wish to have. Plus, Porter has the “it” factor and his undeniable charisma sparkles like Broadway’s light.

Esperanza Spalding to release new album, ‘Songwrights Apothecary Lab’

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ferent effect on the album’s listeners and pose the quesIt has been announced that tion, “What do you musical virtuoso Esperanneed a song for?” za Spalding will release a new They have released album. The 13-track collection a song “Formweof new music, “Songwrights la 10” which repApothecary Lab” is due out resents “grieving Sept. 24 via her label, Concord. the consequences The new album is unique in of, becoming more that it is an album suited after alert to, and disthe discipline of music thersolving one’s own apy. “Described as half songromantic-entitlewriting workshop, half guided ment tendencies.” research practice, The SongPitchfork rewrights Apothecary Lab brings ports, “The first musicians and practitioners of half of ‘Songwrights different disciplines, such as Apothecary Lab’ music therapy, neuroscience, was recorded in Black American music, Sufism, Oregon, featuring and South Indian Carnatic contributions from music, together in the spirit of Wayne Shorter, radical healing,” Vogue writes. interweave their practices in order to Phoelix, Raphael Saadiq, Justin Tyson, The exploratory nature of this album find new ways to enact growth and spir- Ganavya Doraiswamy, and Corey King. has allowed Spalding to create a collec- itual expansion for herself and others. The second half was captured during a tive network of musicians and artists to The songs are designed to create a dif- 10-day period of live sets in New York

back in June. Those recordings feature drummer Francisco Mela, pianist Leo Genovese, guitarist Matthew Stevens, and saxophonist Aaron Burnett.”

Spalding has been a consistent staple in the jazz and contemporary music world, offering nothing but intelligent high-concept and high quality music. With this music, she has been able to combine neuroscience, music therapy, psychology, and ethnomusicology to engage music lovers in ways and practices that they may never be exposed to otherwise. Listeners will be able to engage, interact and learn from the music.

“It grew out of a few years of just reading, learning, and reckoning with how much trauma was going unaddressed in my life, in my community, and in my family,” Spalding told Vogue. “I was reflecting on so many slow-burning crises and acute crises that I [believe] erupted because we didn’t have a paradigm for responding to trauma and the woundings of the psyche and the spirit.”

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Micki Grant, theater and TV legend, passes at 92

By LINDA ARMSTRONG Special to the AmNews

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including jazz, blues, gospel, calypso and soul music.

It was devastating She was always news to hear that acquick to point out tress, composer, lyricist, that this musical playwright and musician was the baby of both Micki Grant had tranher and the late Vinsitioned on Saturday, nette Carroll, who Aug. 21 at Mount Sinai directed the origiMorningside Hospital, nal production in at the age of 92. I feel so 1972. The New York blessed to have gotten to City Center producinterview Grant about tion was directed by her groundbreaking muSavion Glover. The sical, “Don’t Bother Me, 1972 musical was I Can’t Cope,” in 2018. nominated for four (An interview that ran Tony Awards—best in the AmNews on July musical, best origi19, 2018 and was subnal score, best book sequently followed up and best direction. by my review of a speIt won a Grammy cial presentation of this for best musical theMicki Grant (center) pictured with Jasmine Armstrong and Linda production done as part ater album, estabArmstrong at the 2018 Encores! Off-Broadway production of of Encores! Off-Center lishing Grant as the “Don’t Bother Me, I Can’t Cope” series at New York City first female composCenter for one weekend only July the test of time, when it was brought er to win in that category. Grant won 25-29.) During the performance, the back in 2018. a Drama Desk Award for Outstandaudience—many of whom had expeThe points of the musical were still ing Performance and Most Promisrienced her musical when it was first relevant as it looked at many aspects ing Lyricist, the Obie Award for Music presented in 1972—went wild, sing- affecting Black life including living in and Lyrics, along with an Outer Criting and dancing to the 23 songs that the ghetto, tenements, slumlords, the ics Circle Award for Best Musical. were included. Grant was the first Black Power movement, feminism Talking about the musical in our woman to write the book, music and and student protests. Grant managed 2018 interview, Grant humbly stated, lyrics for a Broadway musical and it to bring all of these topics to the fore- “When you do right, you do right for was a musical that proved to stand front using a variety of musical genres posterity…I think it’s a privilege to ac-

knowledge from where I come.” Grant had other Broadway musicals to her credit. She worked with Carroll on “Your Arms Too Short to Box With God,” writing some of the songs to Carroll’s book. She also wrote songs for the musical “Working.” All total she was involved in 17 theatrical productions, including “It’s So Nice to Be Civilized,” J.E. Frankin’s “Prodigal Sister,” “Eubie!” and “Sweet & Hot: The Songs of Harold Arlen.”

Although many people knew Grant for her musical work, an entirely different audience knew her for her television work, which began in 1965 with her role as Peggy Nolan on “Another World.” She was also seen on “Guiding Light,” “Edge of Night,” and “All My Children.”

Born Minnie Louise Perkins on June 30, 1929 in Chicago, her parents were Oscar and Gussie Perkins. Her father was a barber and self-taught pianist, her mother was a saleswoman for Stanley Home Products. She got into theater and music at the age of 8 and started out in community productions. She also started piano and double-bass lessons. She was writing music at 14, acting in community theater at 18 and attended the Chicago School of Music and started at the University of Illinois. She performed in a musical revue, “Fly Blackbird,” See GRANT on page 21

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REBIRTH OF A NEW NATION: ON THE CUSP OF VIRGO-LIBRA, WE CAN CHANGE THE SEASON, AND WITH THE NORTH NODE IN GEMINI, SOUTH NODE IN SAGITTARIUS CHANGING TO 4 DEGREES IN MERCURY RETROGRADE’S SHADOW, EXPECT A SHAKE, QUIVER, OR TREMORS WITHIN THE EARTH IN ALL FOUR DIRECTIONS. WHAT, WHEN, WHERE, AND HOW WILL BE THE QUESTIONS SOME WILL ASK, AND SOME ANSWERS WILL BE I DON’T KNOW. IF MOTHER NATURE PUT IN PLAIN SIGHT THE UNSEEN, WE WOULDN’T UNDERSTAND OR EVEN ACCEPT THE TRUTH OF THE REALITY OF LIFE. AT THE PRESENT MOMENT, WALK THE UNKNOWN, AND FAITH WILL GUIDE YOU TO YOUR DESTINY ONCE YOU INVEST IN WHAT YOU SOLELY BELIEVE. THE DIVINE CREATOR WILL SHOW AND DIRECT YOUR STEPS ON YOUR JOURNEY. WHAT GOD’S PLAN FOR YOU IS FOR YOU. “FOR WE WALK BY FAITH, NOT BY SIGHT.” 2 CORINTHIANS 5:7.

This is a week to unwind from the hustle and bustle of life after handling your business in the prior weeks. Now, it’s time for you to retreat, reflect, increase your research by reading a good book or listening to audio. This cycle brings a need to go unnoticed, to be laid back while information and others seek your advice or company. A sudden meeting may occur regarding partnerships of a personal nature. Keep your journal handy to record data, for the divine is also bringing forth your creative ideas to incorporate in your affairs.

Capricorn

Underneath the mask you wear in the spotlight, there’s an undergoing change within your attitude, your outlook, and the choices you make in life. Plus, your inner self is waking you up praying to the God within you. When you look in the mirror, are you happy with yourself? If the answer is yes, great. Make the change that makes you happy, and your inner self will show up for you. This week adapt to a different beat, to your rhythm since it may not be working any longer due to what used to work.

Aquarius

Now that you’re into the rhythm of your career, the finances are flowing. You’re positioning yourself differently, which will bring you more satisfaction in your spiritual growth to assist others.

Always work on your program and don’t allow yourself to work on other people’s programs at this time. Understand, you know what you know, and everyone has a unique talent and gift to bring to the table. Any traveling will likely be for work, the family, and transformation, giving you a profound meaning of self.

Dec 22 – Jan 21

All eyes are on you, perhaps glued, holding on to your every word. The limelight is calling you as people want you to be a guest on their social media platform or your own. Publishing, writing, traveling, speaking at events, whether it’s online or in-person, are also in the forecast. Don’t mind those who bring confrontation or old news. Just remember, the theme this month is to let it go or walk away, and silence can be your best answer as well. Keep boosting by feeding and surrounding yourself with good people and great vibes, feeling light as a feather.

Jan 22 – Feb 19

Pisces

What you value the most is likely to be the theme this week as a powerful transformation occurs within your workspace, home, and business affairs. Take time out to organize your finances, documents, bookcase, shelves, or closets for those moments when you need to locate something. You’ll have no problems if you do. Labeling your file cabinet will also prove beneficial. As this cycle may be up in the air at the moment, go with the ebbs and flow of life, taking note of the information to use later next week.

Feb 20 – Mar 20

Aries

Major changes are occurring in your business, home, and personal matters regarding relocation, your home, or sale of the property.

Also, finalize any investments. When opportunities present themselves to you, review the details as you may find yourself stuck in the middle of receiving the shorthand of the stick offered this week. Take time to review the paperwork. You may brainstorm a project that can change the course of your business and redirect how you handle your affairs. Finally, you may want to take a risk this week on something you believe.

Mar 21 – Apr 21

Taurus

Despite the changes occurring with your self-development, you know the benefits Apr 22 – May 21 will outweigh the transformational changes slowly approaching with each increment. The metamorphosis will shed old thoughts and ways of doing things while practicing and learning new information that can aid in the process. Keep the dialogue of communications open as you may want to revisit what was comfortable for you. It’s like you’re rebirthing yourself and redirecting your steps in a new direction.

Gemini

Building a new foundation and setting the tone is priority number one this week to accomplish. New rules, ideas, alliances, and questioning the information that comes to you. It’s like you already see the logistics and outcome in your mind. Draw or stretch the blueprint of your plan to ensure no details are missing. An awkward meeting of the minds regarding a conversation with someone can bring light to an idea you have in mind and clarify a situation.

May 22 – June 21

Cancer

June 22–July 23

Leo

July 24 – Aug 23

Virgo

Speak it into existence and be attentive, all the while pouring love into yourself and your family. New changes to family circumstances may arise this week regarding a new home, a work situation, and sudden group meetings. A meeting of your true self is directing you on a different path, adding more brightness to your light to keep shining while building a new foundation. Set the tone this month by how you start, which is how you finish, and the energy on relationships or circumstances is what it will be.

Aug 24 – Sep 23

Libra

Gone with the wind is the catch for you while money is needed and flowing through your hands like air. Right now, this month is about patience and getting yourself together for the things you want out of life. Change is necessary to understand the imperfections within our character to build more strength and willpower to commit to self. Ask yourself, what if an opportunity presents itself to you? Will you be ready!

Sept 24 – Oct 23

Work may be pulling on you more, with drastic changes occurring within the home, business, and perhaps other obligations to attend to before you make your debut. It’s time to clean house and release all that energy tied up in your hair from relationships. It may also be daily affairs and activities that weigh you down. Changing hairstyle, appearance, rearranging the home, and investing while handling your business is more pronounced. It’s time to be you, stand your ground, and be comfortable with the occurring changes.

Scorpio

Oct 24 – Nov 22

Sagittarius

Some form of separation is on the rise, requiring perseverance through this tug of war energy. Your strength, tenacity, and willpower will be tested to the max with a slight delay. But it’s nothing you can’t handle. We all know that the universe tests our faith in mysterious ways to overcome situations that transition into the next stage. This week feels more like a metamorphosis where the transformation of the caterpillar turning into a butterfly occurs.

Nov 23 – Dec 21

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any problems and the conversations between the three are very funny.

Moses does not trust him at all. Kitch is hungry and when Master offers them his food, Kitch agrees and amusingly sits down to eat. (Nwandu skillfully mixes a great deal of humor throughout this script.) You see the stereotypical white guy talking properly and the Black men speaking in slang and using the “N” word. Eventually Moses lets his guard drop as well, to an extent. Master questions Kitch about his repeated use of the “N” word and asks why he uses it. Moses tells him, “It belongs to us.” At that moment Master gives a response that shocked the audience.

When this stranger leaves, Moses and Kitch try to figure out how they can survive and consider speaking proper English, like the white guy. Suddenly a very racist white police officer, labelled Ossifer, comes and proceeds to do what they have been dreading: he degrades them, invasively frisks them and makes them say that they are stupid, lazy and thugs. Moments like this in this production touched the audience so deeply.

You could feel the rage seething inside.

If you didn’t understand these men’s fears before, you saw it firsthand at that moment. Whether you were willing to accept or not was up to each person.

Nwandu’s characters are so vivid to

watch, and the cast of this production was absolutely superb! Jon Michael Hill as Moses and Namir Smallwood as Kitch are riveting to watch. They embody the characters with such clarity, passion, distinction and empathy that you are drawn to them. They allow you to feel every emotion that these two men experience! Excellently done.

BRAVO. Hill also originated the role of Moses at the Steppenwolf Theatre and Lincoln Center, prior to coming to Broadway. Smallwood does very well as the comic relief and has a marvelous versatility in his performance. Gabriel Ebert is incredible in his dual roles as Master and Ossifer. He truly gets one’s blood boiling as his evil character Ossifer (did someone say Lucifer?), who treats these two protagonists so cruelly.

This production marks an incredibly impressive directorial debut for Danya Taymor. The way she skillfully handles Nwandu’s dynamic script and orchestrates the actors’ performances is phenomenal. “Pass Over” is 85 minutes of your life, that you will remember for a lifetime. It is playing at the August Wilson Theatre on West 52nd Street. For tickets go to www.passoverbroadway.com. “Pass Over” is produced by Nwandu, Blair Underwood, Matt Ross, Jujamcyn Theaters, Lincoln Center Theater, Concord Theatricals, Renee Montgomery, Madeleine Foster Bersin, Imagine Equal Entertainment, and Austin & Maral Moldow.

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By KYSHA HARRIS Food Editor, @SCHOPnyc This past Sunday, Harlem came out to see and be seen, play, eat, dance, shoot the dozens, and just be in community at the Thrillist Block Party in the square of the Adam Clayton Powell Jr. State Office Building on 125th Street. This was the first of the Thrillist Block Party series, presented by DoorDash and sponsored by Coca-Cola, Corona Refresca, and Clorox.

After showing vaccination cards, more than 3,000 New Yorkers and Harlemites entered the fun through the arches at 126th Street, off of Adam Clayton Powell Jr Blvd. Once inside, guests were welcomed by the smells of Harlem foods loved by many—67 Orange, Harlem Seafood Soul, Little Hot Dog Wagon, LoLo’s Seafood Shack, Mama’s One Sauce by Vy Higgenssen, Maryam’s Yum Yum, Sugar Hill Creamery, and, of course, Sylvia’s.

Now, this was no ordinary block party.

Producer Tren’ness Woods-Black does not play when it comes to her love of Harlem. The day had to be tight and right.

The festivities kicked off with an introduction by Harlem’s own author, radio and TV personality, Ms. Bevy Smith

who made us feel right at home (because we were). There were some words from Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, Thrillist Chief Content Officer Meghan Kirsch, NYC Hospitality Alliance Executive Director Andrew Rigie, and Harlem Park to Park Executive Director Nikoa Evans-Hendricks.

Then it was time to eat and patronize the businesses. Shrimp po’ boys, lobster and waffles, crab cake sandwiches, vegan ice cream and more were on hand. The lines might have been a little long at some but The Rakiem Walker Project and Sundae Sermon featuring DJ Stormin’ Norman kept the crowd moving and the spirits high.

We were partying with a purpose on Sunday as Thrillist partnered with Tren’ness Woods-Black and Harlem Park to Park to select Harlem businesses to be featured in the Shop Harlem Made incubator program, receiving micro-grants and pro-bono services. Congratulations to 67 Orange, Karl Franz Williams; Egunsi Foods, Yemisi Awosan; Lee Lee’s Bakery, Alvin Smalls; The Little Hot Dog Wagon, Dawn Demry; Mama’s

One Sauce, Vy Higginson; Make My Cake Coffee & Bakeshop, Aliyyah Baylor; Safari Restaurant; Sugar Hill Creamery, Nick & Petrushka Larsen; and Ginjan Juice Ibrahima and Mohammed Diallo.

The day rolled on with a Black Greek fraternity and sorority unity stroll, a gospel open mic, roller-skating, pop-up performances and empowering remarks

by Until Freedom co-founder and activist, Tamika Mallory. The culmination was a Harlem parade vogue ballroom exhibition with House of Miyake Mugler.

I left feeling alive and so happy to be of and for this community.

Happy eating and thanks for reading.

Kysha Harris is a food writer and editor, culinary producer, consultant and owner of SCHOP!, a personalized food service in NYC for over 18 years. She is the new Food Editor at www.TheSpruceEats.com.

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Phil Schaap, jazz encyclopedic historian and broadcaster, dies at 70

Phil Schaap whose encyclopedic knowledge of jazz history with sidebar insight into musicians and their music led him to become a remarkable broadcaster, historian, archivist, educator and record producer, earning him six Grammy Awards in various categories died Sept. 7, at a hospital in Manhattan. He was 70.

His partner of 17 years, Susan Shaffer, said the cause was cancer, which had been a four-year struggle.

In the spring of this year Schaap was the recipient of the 2021 National Endowment for the Arts A.B. Spellman NEA Jazz Masters Fellowship for Jazz Advocacy, presented to “an individual who has made major contributions to the appreciation, knowledge and advancement of the American art form.”

As a record reissue producer, he won six Grammy Awards. Three of the awards were for liner notes for multi-CD sets released in the 1990s: “Bird: The Complete Charlie Parker on Verve,” “The Complete Billie Holiday on Verve, 1945-1959” and “Miles Davis & Gil Evans: The Complete Columbia Studio Recordings.” He shared the best historical album Grammy as a producer on the Holiday and Davis-Evans recordings, as well as on “Louis Armstrong: The Complete Hot Five & Hot Seven Recordings” (2000).

As a student at Columbia University Schaap worked at the college’s radio station WKCR-FM, in 1970. He managed to transform the little station into one of the most celebrated stations in jazz. After his graduation in 1974 he remained at the station for over 50 years. His two longest-running shows, “Bird Flight” (dedicated to the music of alto saxophonist and composer Charlie Parker) and “Traditions in Swing,” emerged in 1981. Some

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about segregation in 1962. Her Broadway debut in 1963 came in Langston Hughes’ production of “Tambourines to Glory.” In 1964 she performed in the play “The Cradle Will Rock,” set in the Great Depression. 1965 ushered her into television soap operas, as mentioned earlier. In 1967 Carroll started Urban Arts Corps and used it as a vehicle to promote Black and Puerto Rican performers. In 1970 it was where “Don’t Bother Me, I Can’t Cope” was first produced.

Grant turned her talents to Irwin Shaw’s “Bury the Dead” and created music and lyrics. She also worked on a children’s show—“Croesus and the Witch.” She also wrote lyrics for “Jacques Brel Blues,” and “Don’t Underestimate a Nut,” a musical about

said Schaap’s (Photo courtesy of Jazz at Lincoln Center) daily morning show offered too many details, describing Parker’s lunch at a recording session on a hot Tuesday. It was Schaap’s enthusiasm and pleasant compulsiveness with L to R: Max Roach, Daryl Roach, and Phil Schaap Parker.

He had an incredible memory, total recall. He would fill in gaps for musicians, who couldn’t remember details of certain gigs or recording sessions. When musicians made fun of his crazy memory, he laughed along understanding he had a very unique gift.

“There isn’t anyone in the country who knows more about this music than he [does],” Max Roach told The New York Times in 2001. “He knows more about us than we know about ourselves.”

He helped to establish the station’s signature additions such as music marathons that dedicated 24 hours or more to a single musician, as well as live performances and musician interviews (an accumulation of 3,000 or more).

Phil Schaap (Frank Stewart photo) Schaap played music from his own extensive record collection and and highest sense of the word,” Lloyd played whatever he wanted. He made said. “He loved all of humanity and his on impromptu playlist on a daily made an invaluable contribution— basis. Aside from WKCR, he also hosted the archive of his broadcasts alone is jazz programs on WNYC and WBGO in a priceless treasure, which I hope will Newark, N.J. continue to be in daily rotation for the Saxophonist and fellow NEA Jazz benefit of the universe.”

Master Charles Lloyd found Schaap’s Schaap was a jazz activist whose combroadcasts in the early ’90s and was mitment led him to managing The impressed with his perceptiveness. Countsmen, featuring veteran mem“Phil was an educator in the purest bers of Count Basie’s Orchestra, along

with musicians from other big bands. He was able to get many of them work at the West End Bar near Columbia’s campus where he programmed live music. David Remnick wrote in a 2008 profile for The New Yorker, “Older musicians, such as Jo Jones, Sonny Greer, Sammy Price, Russell Procope, and Earle Warren, who had known Schaap as an eccentric teenager now welcomed him as a meal ticket.” In addition, he was a curator at Jazz at Lincoln Center, where he created the educational program Swing University; taught at Columbia, Princeton and Juilliard; and was an audio restoration specialist. And for fun he enjoyed swing-dancing.

Philip van Noorden Schaap was born in Queens on April 8, 1951. He was raised in the Hollis community, an only child, he was raised by jazz-loving parents. His father was Walter Schaap, an early jazz historian and discographer. His mother, Marjorie, worked as a librarian and was a classically trained pianist.

Backstage with his mother at Randall’s Island Jazz Festival in August 1956, he met Basie’s long-time drummer, Jo Jones, who on occasion would babysit for him. By age six he was collecting records and having listening conversations with Jones.

As an adolescent on his own accord, he introduced himself to such artists as Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus and Dizzy Gillespie. During that period there were a host of famous jazz musicians living in Hollis, Queens. During the 1966 New York transit strike, Schaap hitchhiked from Queens to Manhattan with his neighbor, Count Basie.

According to Shaffer, Schaap’s collection will be given to Vanderbilt University for educational, research and exhibition purposes, in partnership with the National Museum of African American Music in Nashville. His radio programs and interviews are archived online at philschaapjazz.com, where Shaffer says she hopes they will run “forever.”

Schaap was survived by his partner, Susan Shaffer.

George Washington Carver. In the 1990s she took on the role of a Delany sister opposite Lizan Mitchell, in “Having Our Say” and toured for two years in the United States and South Africa. A performance which earned her a Helen Hayes Award.

Grant also directed productions including “Two Ha Ha’s and a Homeboy” at Crossroads Theater Company.

She was a member of The Dramatists Guild from 1972 and serve on its Council from 1999. Grant, throughout her incredible life received many honors: an NAACP Image Award; the National Black Theatre Festival’s Living Legend Award; the Sidney Poitier Lifelong Achievement Award and the 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Dramatist Guild of America.

Though the musical that put Grant on the map was called, “Don’t Bother Me, I Can’t Cope,” she dem-

incision was so clean.’ This was the kind of piece that was trying to enlighten people. It wasn’t putting a fist in anybody’s face. Even though the piece is part of history, it is filled with history. That’s what I wanted to do. I wanted to tell our story. I talked about Daniel Hale Williams, who performed open-heart surgery on a kitchen table because he couldn’t work in a hospital. This musical was written to give recognition of things that are ignored.” Grant’s life will always be recognized as an exemplary example to those in and out of the arts.

Grant is survived by her cousins Daryl Walker, Kimberly EberhardtCasteline and nieces and nephews.

onstrated her love and dedication to the plight of her people. Capturing the purpose of the musical in our 2018 interview, Grant shared, “With all of this, we have survived because we do cope, we find some way. With all the things that we’ve had to overcome, we’re still walking with our heads high. When you feel down you tell yourself you can’t cope, but in the end you do. The last line is ‘you gotta cope, I gotta cope, all God’s children gotta cope,’ and that’s essentially the message. The song tells a story, too—you got to cope. At the end of the show when I was in it, a couple of us come down the aisle and take the hands of the audience, and everyone is holding hands with each other and it was such a thrill. I used to get letters when I was part of the production. I’ll never forget this line from a white person’s letter. She said, ‘You made me bleed, but your

An RSVP-only memorial service will be held at The Riverside Church at 91 Claremont Avenue, on Monday, Oct. 11, 2021, at 7 p.m.

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By HERB BOYD Special to the AmNews Over the last week or so, the nation has paused to remember and reflect on that horrific day on September 11, 2001, now commonly known as 9/11. On that date, nearly 3,000 people perished in the three attacks from terrorists with the Twin Towers in lower Manhattan as the place where most of the people died.

On this the twentieth commemoration of that moment, a tragedy that I have written about each year since it occurred, it is still fresh in my memory as though it just happened. I had just returned from attending the World Conference Against Racism (WCAR) in Durban, South Africa.

I was among 400 delegates from America on a mission to charge the United States with a crime against humanity in the Atlantic Slave trade and to demand an apology and reparations.

Ordinarily, I don’t watch television early in the morning but since I had been gone for more than a week, I cut it on to catch up with the news, particularly information on this Election Day. Suddenly, the room was aglow with images of one of the World Trade Center towers belch-

ing out smoke. There was no sound and so I believed it was footage from a film.

When I heard that a plane had crashed into the building, and a possible terrorist attack was underway, I grabbed my camera and tape recorder and headed downtown.

A livery got me down to 59th Street and wasn’t allowed to proceed any further. I had to

lapse, interviewed firemen, and people who had escaped from the towers. One elderly man told me he had just come down some sixty floors.

His face and body were covered with white ash which contrasted with the black soot on the firemen on February 26, 1993 when the WTC was attacked. I was in the building when an explosion rocked the building.

Margaret Elaine Mattic When someone screamed cyanide, and smoke began billowing from the ceiling, there was a mad dash to get out of the building.

Unlike 9/11 only six people were killed then, when a truck bomb was detonated in the parking facility below the North Tower.

It was about a week later that I learned that one of my former students, Margaret Mattic, was among those killed in the continue my journey on foot, towers. I was informed by the all the while talking on my mother of one of my daughcell phone with Don Rojas ters who, like Margaret, was a from Baltimore, who told me theater major. I only vaguely that the Pentagon was under recalled her since those days attack too. I was complete- at Wayne State University in ly exhausted when I reached Detroit were so long ago. But Chambers Street where a I was reminded of her experiblockade prevented me get- ences at the school, particuting any closer to the towers. larly her performances under I was there when the second the tutelage of the late Earl plane blasted into the other D.A. Smith. “She was a tretower. mendous actress and aspired For the next four or five to Broadway,” her classmate hours I documented the burn- told me. All of this ing towers, watched them col- was

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“The love of performing stuck with Ms. Mattic, a surprise since she seemed so quiet. She studied theater at Wayne State University. After college, more productions followed, mostly in Community Theater, often in plays like “Sty of the Blind Pig,” the 1971 work by Phillip Hayes Dean about a Black family in Chicago. Eventually, Ms. Mattic wound up in Manhattan to pursue acting. She usually took temporary jobs, typically as a receptionist, so she could go to auditions.

“Recently, she talked to friends about producing and starring in a one-woman play she had written, called ‘The Vision,’ about how the gift of prophecy changed several generations of a family. At 51, she also wanted the comfort of a permanent job, so she became a customer service representative for General Telecom in the World Trade Center. ‘Every employer she ever worked for always loved her voice,’ recalled her sister, Jean Neal, 56. ‘It was so soothing and gentle and soft.’”

And so Classroom has revolved full circle taking me back to another classroom and a treasured student.

Several sites, including Legacy.org have tributes to Margaret, though it’s from her friend and associates in the theater that her remarkable life is documented.

DISCUSSION Still learning about her ambitions in theater and trying to recall the performances and classroom experiences I had with her.

PLACE IN CONTEXT Margaret was in her early fifties when she was killed and 9/11 is a date that memorializes her and nearly 3,000 others.

THIS WEEK IN BLACK HISTORY Sept. 13, 1881: New Yorker Lewis Latimer invented and patented the electric lamp with a carbon filament.

Sept. 15, 1830: The National Negro Convention was launched in Philadelphia.

Sept. 16, 1934: NBA great Elgin Baylor was born in Washington, D.C.

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Health COVID-19 Safety: How to prepare your kids for back-to-school

By DENA VANG Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, families and schools have worked tirelessly to create safe learning environments for students while also providing services such as school meals, extended daycare, extracurricular activities, and social services. With the 2021– 2022 school year upon us, schools are continuing to adjust policies and practices with the same goal in mind—limiting the transmission of COVID-19.

“It’s a critical moment for us to slow the spread,” said Dr. Cameron Webb, senior policy advisor for equity on the White House COVID-19 Response Team. “This is the season of back-toschool and back-to-work, and we have to make sure that as folks are going back into communities, back into spaces, [they are protected].”

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently changed its masking recommendations due to the growing concern of the Delta variant, which has been shown to be more transmissible than other strains of the virus. The CDC recommends that all students in kindergarten through 12th

grade wear a mask in school, regardless of their vaccination status.

“There are a number of schools that have been struggling with the decision of whether or not to have masking remain optional versus requiring universal masking of vaccinated and unvaccinated children,” said Dr. Michele Benoit-Wilson, obstetrics and gynecology specialist in Raleigh, North Carolina.

“If we’re all in agreement that keeping our children in school is critical to both their education and their mental health, I think it then follows that we need to keep them as safe as possible.”

Experts are suggesting the following to keep your children safe as they return to school.

Find time to talk about the pandemic ––The pandemic has impacted us, including children, mentally and emotionally. Finding time to talk about how your child is feeling and about school procedures and policies will help them set expectations and ease some of the anxiety. The National Association of School Psychologists suggests letting your children’s questions guide you. Answer their questions truthfully, but don’t offer unneces-

sary details or facts. Don’t avoid giving them the information that experts indicate as crucial to your children’s well-being. Children always feel empowered if they can control some aspects of their life. A sense of control reduces fear.

Wear a mask correctly and consistently––Find a mask that is made for children to ensure a proper fit. Check to be sure the mask fits snugly over the nose and mouth and under the chin and that there are no gaps around the sides.

The CDC is asking parents to remind their children that masks should be worn at all times except for certain settings or activities such as eating or drinking. Masks should be used in all classroom and non-classroom settings, including hallways, school offices, restrooms, gyms, and auditoriums.

Get your child vaccinated if they are eligible––Children ages 12 to 15 are currently eligible for a COVID-19 vaccine.

These vaccines have been used under the most intensive safety monitoring in U.S. history. The Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine is now available for everyone ages 12 years and older. In the clinical trial for children 12 through 15 years

old, no safety concerns were identified with that vaccine. The clinical trial also showed that the vaccine was 100% effective for preventing COVID-19 with symptoms in children 12 through 15 years old.

“We know that universal masking works, but the leading way to end this epidemic is vaccination, and the reality is that many parents cannot get their children vaccinated simply because they are too young,” said Dr. Benoit-Wilson. “If we want to prioritize the health of children, if we want to prioritize the health of families, it’s critically important for us as a community, as a nation, to embrace whatever we know has been proven scientifically to reduce the infection rate; that is, number one, vaccinating, and number two, masking. The reality is that some people cannot get vaccinated, and so it’s important for the people around them to be vaccinated and for all of us to wear our masks indoors.”

To find a vaccine site, search vaccines. gov, text your ZIP code to 438829, or call 1-800-232-0233 to find locations near you.

For back-to-school toolkits and resources, visit the We Can Do This website at wecandothis.hhs.gov/.

YOU ALWAYS KEEP THEM SAFE. WITH VACCINES, THEY’LL BE EVEN SAFER. CHILDREN AGES 12-17 CAN NOW BE VACCINATED AGAINST COVID-19.

Get your child vaccinated for a safe return to school. Children who have been vaccinated against COVID-19 are less likely to get and spread COVID-19.

LET’S KEEP OUR CHILDREN SAFE AND OUR SCHOOLS COVID-FREE. For more information about COVID-19 vaccines and where to get one, visit nyc.gov/covidvaccine.

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Religion & Spirituality Reflecting on Tupac Shakur’s Black Panther legacy 25 years later

By AUTODIDACT 17 Special to the AmNews

Tupac Shakur

Monday marks the 25th anniversary of hip hop icon Tupac Shakur joining the ancestors after having been shot four times in Las Vegas Sept. 7, 1996 following a scuffle with Orlando “Baby Lane” Anderson at the MGM Grand a couple hours earlier. Coming of age as a Black Panther played a significant role in his development, as he was nurtured under the guidance of some progressive activists who propagated their self-determining ideologies. As he matured into adulthood, he also infused many of those elements into his music.

“I had a deep love and respect for Tupac, he was a revolutionary,” reflected Assemblyman Charles Barron, who soldiered with fellow Panther Afeni during the early-1980s. “He had a deep and profound love for his people and a deep sensitivity for the oppression and pain they were going through, and it reflected in his music.”

Born June 16, 1971 in East Harlem, he initially was named Lesane Parish Crooks. A year later his mother, Afeni Shakur, renamed him after the 16thcentury Incan anti-colonialist rebel who overthrew the Spanish conquistadors from Vilcabamba, Peru. He spent his formative years in Harlem, residing at 1838 Seventh Ave. Afeni was a prominent Panther activist, conducting clothing and food drives throughout the metropolitan area, and usually brought him and his younger sister, Sekyiwa, along.

He also noted the positive influences Panthers Mutulu Shakur, Geronimo Ji-Jaga Pratt and Jamal Joseph made in providing social stability for young Tupac to become “the rose that grew from concrete.”

“Tupac was raised in an activist family. Afeni took him to rallies, to visit political prisoners, and when she was a paralegal in the South Bronx, he witnessed this,” Jamal Joseph recalled. “If he was still with us, I feel things would be different. Not only with hip hop becoming the econom-

ic force it became, but also as a grassroots liberating force.”

In 1984 Tupac acted in an Apollo Theater production of “A Raisin In The Sun” while enrolled at the acclaimed acting troupe, The 127th Street Repertory Ensemble. In 1986 his family relocated to Baltimore. He unapol-

ogetically incorporated messages of Black awareness and empowerment into his art.

“Tupac was on track to becoming an outstanding Panther cub, having both parents as Panthers definitely contributed to making that so,” noted Afeni’s Panther comrade, Tarik Haskins. “Also of importance was the hostile experiences the intelligence community subjected him to which inspired him to thoroughly embark on the academic journey and to craft his behavior in a way that the senior Panthers required the cubs to do.”

In 1995 Barron visited Tupac at upstate New York’s Clinton Correctional Facility, where Pac revealed, Barron said, “plans to unite the youths: ‘When I come out I’m going to get these young people together. I can’t tell them to stop selling drugs, due to the code, but I can tell them to respect their communities,’” recalling Pac’s wisdom.

Barron added, “He had a deep respect for the code, and that came out of him being a Panther baby, and Thug Life was a part of that. He’s had a profound impact on this generation, as well as those to come.”

Jamal Joseph stated, “He had that real love for the people.

In the BPP we’re taught to have an undying love for the people. Love them, serve them—mind, body and spirit.

That’s the kind of household Tupac was raised in. To have that love for the community and be guided by that spirit.”

Tarik concluded: “Tupac is loved and very much missed. I think he would’ve been an inspiring leader in the movement. By him being a star already, that would’ve put him in position. He could’ve been one of those persons they call ‘the messiah,’ once he tallied up his experiences.”

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sky, a spokesperson for the city’s Department of Buildings (DOB), said basement apartments are not necessarily dangerous to residents. The DOB has received over 3,100 self-reported notifications of storm-damaged properties in communities across the five boroughs.

“Following the tragic flooding associated with Ida, our focus in the flood-stricken areas of the city has been focused on assisting New Yorkers, and making sure that storm-damaged buildings are structurally stable and safe to occupy,” Rudansky said. “In the interest of protecting our fellow New Yorkers, DOB and our partners at HPD have been conducting safety inspections at these properties to check for structural damage and other immediately perilous collapse conditions.”

Rudansky added that the DOB has not been issuing violations or associated fines related to safety inspections. If inspectors find any storm damage, they notify the property owners of the condition, and provide guidance on repairs and how to remediate any hazardous conditions.

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orders when a building is posing a life safety threat to occupants, not because it is illegal.

“For their own safety and the safety of their family, New Yorkers should seek out safe and legal apartments to call home,” Rudansky said. “Before they sign a lease, New Yorkers should verify if the building they are interested in can be legally occupied as presented by the owner.”

National Homeowner-Landlord Association Executive Director Philip D’Erasmo told the AmNews that the city is targeting landlords with fines and violations. The majority of basement apartments are owned by small landlords with private homes and D’Erasmo says some landlords have been fined hundreds of thousands of dollars.

“One city agency will come to you and say, ‘Oh, can you place this guy, he’s homeless. Can you place them in your basement,’ and they’ll put them there, they’ll pay you for them and then while they’re paying you, another city agency will come in and fine you 10 times what the first agency pays you,” D’Erasmo said. “Probably say that 75% of all buildings have some illegal apartment in the basement.”

fused to comply with the state’s vaccine mandate for healthcare workers. The temporary halt on Continued from page 3 deliveries will start on Sept. 25.

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County General Hospital,” Chief Executive Gerald Cayer said at a news conference. “It is my hope that the (state) Department of Health will work with us in pausing the service rather than closing the maternity department.”

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apartments are a result of the ongoing housing crisis in the city and the desperation to find an affordable place to live.

“To prevent these problems in the future, we must also ensure that basement units are safe for human occupancy and regularly inspected,” James said. “Overcoming the twin threats of climate change and a housing crisis will not be simple, but we must ensure measures are in place to protect our neighbors and prevent a future catastrophe.”

Public Advocate Jumaane Williams said direct federal resources are needed for infrastructure to protect people in their homes.

“Basement units are a critical component of meeting the need for housing stock in our city, but it is just as critical that government acts quickly to legalize, regulate, and protect these units and the countless tenants who call them home, including with proper warnings in times of crisis,” he said.

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2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The show is set to reopen Oct. 8.

Along with her entertainment career, Lewis is the founder and president of A New Day Foundation. The organization offers programming for and financial support for underserved youth around the world. A

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Jackie Rowe Adams, co-founder of Harlem Mothers S.A.V.E, an organization which works with gun violence victims, stated: “Somebody knows where this young man is. Let’s get him off the street. This is important. It’s not about snitching.”

While saying that many gunmen come from traumatized homes themselves, McGraw said that empathizing with Young’s children and

New Day Foundation also provides mentoring for teens. This year the foundation gave out seven scholarships and computers to 13 high school seniors.

In June, Lewis was inducted into the Women Songwriters Hall of Fame along with Valerie Simpson, Roberta Flack and Naomi Judd.

She invited students from the Renaissance High School for Musical Theater and the Arts in the Bronx

to attend the event at a table sponsored by her foundation.

“There’s a lot going on and I hope people enjoy ‘Tina,’ ‘Star Trek: Lower Decks’ and support the A New Day Foundation.

I’m just so thrilled to be back,” Lewis said.

Lewis is currently working on an upcoming TV pilot for Fox and is in talks with ABC for a series she created.

family more than fearing the shooter is an issue.

“I tell the brothers to eradicate domestic violence you have to step up to the plate and speak out against it.”

McGraw said she understands the plight of women caught in the violence.

“Black and Brown victims still have this stigma, this shame. But it is not shame, it is a crime. I got out and I can help them get out.

When I was trying to leave, that’s when it is dangerous. That’s when they see they are losing their power. Now, all my strength

is helping other women gain theirs. I have helped more than 50 other women who told me, ‘Stephanie, I got out because of you.’ I came in to my purpose to help women see their greatness within themselves and get out and build.”

The funeral for Shanice Young will be at Canaan Baptist Church on Thursday, Sept. 23, with viewing from 4-6 p.m., and the funeral service at 6 p.m.

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Yankees remaining schedule brings hope for a playoff spot T h e N e w Yo r k Ya n kees, struggling to gain and maintain ground in the playoff race the past few weeks, matched their s e a s o n h i g h o n Tu e s day night, hitting five home runs in a 7-2 win over the Baltimore Orioles to increase their record to 81-64 before last n i g h t ’s game versus the Orio l e s . T h e Ya n k e e s , To r o n t o B l u e Ja y s ( 8 1 - 6 4 ) and Boston Red Sox (82-65) were all tied for second place in the American League East b e h i n d t h e Ta m p a B a y Rays (90-55).

A a r o n Ju d g e s e t o f f t h e B r o n x B o m b e r s’ home run barrage in t h e f i r s t i n n i n g , h i tting a two-run shot that was followed by b l a s t s f r o m G i a n c a rl o S t a n t o n , L u k e Vo i t , Joey Gallo and DJ LeMa h i e u . T h e Ju d g e a n d

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Yankees first baseman Luke Voit and his teammates were in a three-way tie for the two AL wildcard spots as of last night’s game versus the Baltimore Orioles

Gallo homers were the 34th of the season for e a c h p l a y e r.

Stanton and Vo i t h i t b a c k- t o back homers in the third inning, p u t t i n g t h e Ya n kees up 5-0.

S t a n t o n ’s w a s a two-run home r u n w h i l e Vo i t ’s came with the bases empty.

“Jumping up top early is always good,” noted Stanton.

“A little relief, even though you have to keep your foot on the gas the whole game.

It’s much better playing with a lead than tr ying to catch up.”

Yanke es ma nag er A aron B o one view s th e race for the playoffs as par t of the j oy of th e sp or t. “ Th is is th e fu n

time of t he year. This is where you want to b e, chasing O cto b er bas eball,” he said. “ It ’s g o o d to g et th is first o n e here, esp e cially a fter the y to o k t w o out o f t hre e from u s at our p lace.”

Tu e s d a y ’s g a m e b e g a n a t h r e e g a m e s e r i e s f o r t h e Ya n k s i n Baltimore. They return to the Bronx tomorrow to play six g a m e s a t Ya n k e e S t a d i u m . T h e Cleveland Indians roll in first, visiting until Sunday, followed b y t h e Te x a s R a n g e r s M o n d a y , Tu e s d a y a n d We d n e s d a y .

B o t h C l e v e l a n d a n d Te x a s a r e b e l o w . 5 0 0 t e a m s . B u t t h e Ya n kees cannot take any opponent for granted. Case in point, losing two crucial games in a three-game series to the Orioles at home at the beginning of this month. Another good sign was the return of star ter Gerrit Cole from a tight left hamstring. Cole was removed f r o m a g a m e v e r s u s t h e To ronto Raptors on Sept. 7 and hadn’t pitched again until Tu e s d a y . H e ( 1 5 - 7 ) l e a d s t h e American League in wins and was second in strikeouts in all of baseball with 224 after posting seven in five innings against Baltimore.

Resilient Mets fight to stay in the playoff chase The Mets are admirably battling to stay in the National League playoff race. The last time they made the playoffs was the 2016 season. The Mets stared down their New York City rivals this past weekend and didn’t flinch, winning two out of three games against the Yankees at Citi Field, including Sunday’s dramatic 7-6 rubber match.

Mets shortstop Francisco Lindor put his imprint on the latest contentious encounter by clipping three home runs in the series finale, taunting the Yankees by mimicking a whistle after his second blast of the game in the bottom of the sixth that put the Mets up 6-4. Lindor punctuated his gesture by shouting at Gleyber Torres, his counterpart at shortstop, “keep on whistling,” and also directed words at Yankees pitcher Wandy Peralta, off of whom he hit the homer.

The four-time All-Star selection, achieved as a member of the Cleveland Indians, was expressing his sentiments, as well as those of some in the Mets’ dugout, who determined the Yankees—Peralta in particular— had figured out what pitches Saturday’s starter Tijuan Walker would be delivering and then signaled to

batters by whistling. kees manager Aaron Boone Walker gave up five described the emotional reearned runs in six inactions of the players. Like nings in the 8-7 Mets the Mets, Boone’s team is loss. in an intense hunt for the The next night, playoffs. benches cleared followPutting the Subway Series ing Yankees outfieldbehind them, the Mets were er Giancarlo Stanton’s shut out at home 7-0 by two-run shot in the sevthe St. Louis Cardinals on enth to even the score at Monday. They were 72-73, 6-6. As Stanton slowly 5.5 games behind the first passed second base, he place Atlanta Braves and turned around and ver4.5 below the Philadelphia bally gave Lindor the Phillies in the NL East title business. Lindor and when play began on TuesMets second baseman day.

Javier Baez, childhood The Mets were in a better friends from Puerto position for the second Rico, then motioned to wildcard spot. The 92-53 Stanton to come back Los Angeles Dodgers were for some action, seema comfortable 16.5 games ingly physical. ahead of the pack for the “I can’t accuse them first bid but the Mets trailed of whistling for the by just 3.5 for the other. signs because I’m not When they ended their 100% [certain],” said three-game series with Lindor after the game. the Cardinals last night “But I know what I (Wednesday), the Mets Mets shortstop Francisco Lindor and his teammates heard, and I felt like only had 15 regular season are still battling to end the franchise’s five-year there was something games remaining. They playoff absence out of the ordinary open a three-game series going on.” tomorrow at Citi Field Lindor gave the Mets a 4-2 advan- game, then smashed his third in the versus the Phillies then will play the tage with a three-run homer in the eighth for the Mets’ decisive seventh Red Sox two games in Boston next bottom of the second, his first of the run. “Boys will be boys,” is how Yan- Tuesday and Wednesday.

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The Liberty show improvement as the regular season comes to a close (Bill Moore photo)

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Despite four players scoring in double figures—Betnijah Laney, Natasha Howard, Sami Whitcomb and Sabrina Ionescu—and what c o a c h Wa l t H o p k i n s described as definite improvements, the N e w Yo r k L i b e r t y s u f fered a heartbreaking one-point loss to the Dallas Wings, 77–76 on Saturday. With the win, the Wings secured the seventh playoff berth.

With just one spot in the WNBA playoffs rem a i n i n g , t h e L i b e r t y ’s chances of securing it are growing less likely.

“Losing is a chall e n g e ,” said Hopkins. “This group has played well enough, I think, in a few of these games that they could have won. One of the things we talk about after ward, we’ve talked it out the last f e w n ig ht s t o o, i s t hat ever yone is fr ustrated, everyone wants to

Betnijah Laney and the Liberty wrap up the WNBA regular season tomorrow at the Barclays Center hosting the Washington Mystics

w i n . I t ’s v e r y c l e a r how badly this group wants to win.

“The important part is seeing the long-game, and t h a t ’s a r e a l l y c h a l lenging thing to do i n t h e s e m o m e n t s ,” he added. “Something we talk about a lot is seeing the big picture and understanding. … The message is to stay together and stay the course.

I t ’s about progress and n o t p e r f e c t i o n .”

Although clearly disappointed after the loss, the players concurred with Hopkins’ sentiments. Laney emphasized that it is important for the players to stay together and keep w o r k i n g t o i m p r o v e . “ We ’ v e b e e n a b l e to see progress even though we’re not getting the res u l t s t h a t w e w a n t ,” s a i d L a n e y . “ We continue taking

steps in the right direction.

Ma k i ng su re t hat w e’ re a c c e p ting the positives and trying to fix the negatives. “ We ’ v e h a d p r o g r e s s , s o i f we keep that going into these [last two] games and we tweak those things that have been holding us back and we really focus in and make that adjustment so that we’re not having the same things over and over again, I think that the progress in the details that we’ve been making…will hopefully show up and give us the results that w e w a n t ,” s h e a d d e d .

The problem is the regul a r s e a s o n w ra p s u p t o m o rrow. If the Liberty don’t make the playoffs, the players will scatter to the wind, most of them heading overseas. By the time the team reconvenes for training camp next spring, the roster may be quite different and that means starting all ove r aga i n . S o, ma nag e m e nt needs to put together a team of players and coaches primed t o w i n r ig ht f ro m t h e ju mp.

The Liberty wrap up the regular season tomorrow on their home court at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn tomorrow p l ay i ng t h e Wa s h i ng t o n My stics for the eighth playoff spot.

Seton Hall volleyball on seven-match winning streak

By LOIS ELFMAN Special to the AmNews

S e t o n Ha l l U n i v e r s i t y v o l l e y b a l l c o a c h A l l i s o n Ya e g e r s a i d she was optimistic heading into this season. She feels this is an u p - a n d - c o m i n g p ro g r a m , a n d t h e c u r re n t p l a y e r s a re a s t e l l a r combination of talented, kindh e a r t e d a n d c o m p e t i t i v e. “ Fi n a l l y , a l l t h e p u z z l e p i e c e s t h a t w e n e e d a re s t a r t i n g t o c o m e t o g e t h e r,” s a i d Ya e g e r.

“This is truly a very unique and s p e c i a l g r o u p.”

L a s t w e e k e n d , S e t o n Ha l l p l a y e d i n t h e B i g A p p l e To u rnament at Columbia Universit y a n d e m e r g e d v i c t o r i o u s. T h e Pirates defeated Iona College, St. Francis College and Columbia to grow its winning streak t o s e v e n m a t c h e s. T h e s e s u ccesses came despite the youth a n d re l a t i v e i n e x p e r i e n c e o f t h e p l a y e r s a s w e l l a s t h re e s t a r t e r s o u t w i t h i n j u r i e s. I n a d d i t i o n t o h e a l t h p r e c a u t i o n s, t h e s c h e d ule has been designed to keep t r av e l a t a m i n i m u m .

Ne x t w e e k e n d , S e t o n Ha l l heads to Florida for the UNF I n v i t a t i o n a l . Ya e g e r i s h o p e f u l t h a t t h e i n j u re d s t a r t e r s w i l l

be healed in time for Big East conference play, which begins o n S e p t e m b e r 2 4 . T h e c o m m i tment of the players and coaching staff was seen in how they reacted to opening the season

with. This team is ver y openm i n d e d a n d t h e y ’ re g o o d w i t h c h a n g e. I f I n e e d t o s w i t c h a l i n e - u p u p, t h e y ’ re g o o d w i t h i t .

We w a n t t o w i n .”

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Senior middle blocker Madison Frusha provides veteran leadership

w i t h t h r e e l o s s e s. T h e y w a t c h e d a lot of film and made strategic c h a n g e s. “ We ’ r e j u m p i n g o v e r a l o t o f hurdles that I didn’t plan on j u m p i n g o v e r,” s a i d Ya e g e r.

“This team is the team to do it

s i n g l e p o i n t l i k e i t ’s t h e c h a m pionship point of the Big East To u r n a m e n t , n o t e d Ya e g e r. T h a t enthusiasm fuels the young team. Given that ever y stud e n t- a t h l e t e w h o p l a y e d d u r i n g 2020-21 gets an additional year

o f e l i g i b i l i t y , Ya e g e r i s l o o k i n g f o r w a rd t o a b r i g h t f u t u re w i t h t h e s e p l a y e r s.

Du e to t he pan demic, w o m en’s vo lle yball was playe d last spr ing, rat her t han in fall 2020.

Typically, vo lle y ball teams us e the spr ing to d e velo p n ew skills an d address issues t hat aro s e dur ing t he fall s eas o n .

Yae g er said play ing t his past spring did not disr upt p layer pro g ress, an d s he’s glad t he p layers d idn ’ t miss an ent ire year.

“I knew that l a s t y e a r ’s f re s h men would be my starters this fall, s o t o h av e t h a t m i n i -s e a s o n … g av e t h e m m o re experience on the court for t h i s s e a s o n t h a t re a l l y m a t t e r s,” Ya e g e r s a i d . “ Ev e r y t h i n g w a s very chaotic and pushed, but I d o f e e l w e l e a r n e d a l o t f ro m t h e spring to be the team we want to b e t h i s f a l l .”

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Medvedev and Raducanu break through for titles at the US Open (US Open photos)

Daniil Medvedev and Emma Raducanu captured the 2021 men’s and women’s US Open titles respectively

By JAIME C. HARRIS AmNews Sports Editor Daniil Medvedev and Emma Raducanu became first time Grand Slam winners by capturing the men’s and women’s titles respectively at the 2021 US Open last weekend. The 25-year-old, No. 2 seed Medvedev defeated No. 1 seed Novak Djokovic, 6-4, 6-4, 6-4 on Sunday at Arthur Ashe Stadium to deny Djokovic a men’s record 21st Grand Slam championship and the calendar slam. Djokovic previously won this year’s Australian Open, French Open and Wimbledon.

Raducanu, 18, who entered the tournament ranked 150th in the world, became the first qualifier in the Open (professional) era, which began in 1968, to reach a Grand Slam final in besting 19-year-old sensation Leylah Fernandez, 6-4, 6-3 at Arthur Ashe Stadium on Saturday. Raducanu, from Great Britain, and Fernandez, a native of Montreal, Canada, who was 73rd in the world rankings at the outset of the Open, became the first teenagers to meet in a Grand Slam final since Serena Williams and Martina Hingis matched up at the 1999 US Open.

Medvedev, from Russia’s capital city Moscow, was aggressive from the beginning in facing Djokovic and effectively carried out his game plan throughout the three setter.

“For the confidence and for my future career, knowing that I beat somebody who was 27-0,” he said of his victory over Djokovic, “in a year in Grand Slams, I lost to him in Australia, he was going for huge history, and knowing that I managed to stop him, it definitely makes it sweeter and brings me confidence for what is to come on hard courts so far, but let’s see about other surfaces.”

Djokovic was indeed impressed

with his opponent. “He came out very determined on the court,” said the 34-year-old from Serbia. “You could feel that he was just at the highest of his abilities in every shot.

He had a lot of clarity what he needs to do tactically. He has executed it perfectly.”

Similarly, Raducanu was efficient and at times dominant, spanning the entire event. “You say, ‘I want to win a Grand Slam.’ But to have the belief I did, and actually executing, winning a Grand Slam,” said Raducanu of her vision of winning a title.

“I can’t believe it.”

Injuries already shaping the projected outcome of the NFL season The NFL injury rate was significantly more pronounced last season than it had been in recent years. According to nflfastR, a website which describes it as “a set of functions to efficiently scrape NFL play-by-play data,” the league saw a roughly 14% rise in injuries in 2020 from the previous decade as noted in an article published by Sportico last January.

Some of the more notable injuries were Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott sustaining a compound fracture and dislocation of his right ankle against the Giants in Week 5. Giants running back Saquon Barkley tearing the ACL in his right knee in Week 2. And Cincinnati Bengals rookie QB Joe Burrow, the No. 1 overall pick in the 2020 draft, tearing the ACL and MCL in his left knee. All three returned to start Week 1 of this season. The Philadelphia Eagles were the team with the highest number of player

games missed due to injuries and COVID-19 in 2020 with 128.1.

Even before this regular season began, several teams saw their Super Bowl aspirations become substantially less attainable due to players being lost for the season.

Perhaps none more so than the Baltimore Ravens. Last Thursday in a span of minutes, Ravens defensive back Marcus Peters and running back Gus Edwards, a product of Tottenville High School on Staten Island and Rutgers University, suffered torn ACLs that ended their seaBaltimore Ravens running back Gus sons. Both are key members Edwards, who played high school football of a Ravens club that had the for Tottenville on Staten Island, is out requisite talent to be a strong for the season after tearing an ACL in championship contender. practice last Thursday The team had already lost second-year running back J.K. Dobbins, who had a promising game versus the Washington Football rookie campaign, for the year to a Team in addition to running back Justorn ACL on Aug. 28 in a preseason tice Hill, who will also be sidelined (Baltimore Ravens photo)

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for the entire season after injuring an Achilles tendon on Sept. 2.

“I think you mourn for a day, and we fight today,” said Raven head coach John Harbaugh one day after Peters and Edwards went down.

“We got a really good team, a lot of great players. We can move forward. The train is moving fast.” The Ravens began their 2021 regular season with a 33-27 overtime loss to the Las Vega Raiders on the road on Monday.

The Jets are also among the teams hit hard. Left tackle Mekhi Becton is expected to be out at least six weeks after dislocating his right kneecap on Sunday in the Jets 19-14 defeat to the Carolina Panthers. Even before Sunday, the Jets were placed in a deficit when defensive end Carl Lawson, who was being counted on to provide a major impact after signing with them in March as a free-agent for three-years and $45 million, ruptured an Achilles during a joint practice with the Green Bay Packers on Aug. 19.

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Sports The Giants face Washington in Week 2 after a loss to the Broncos The Giants’ 2021 re gula r s ea s on op e ne r lo o ke d si m i la r to ma ny of th e i r ga m e s i n 2 0 2 0 .

A c ost ly fumb le by qu a r te rba ck Daniel Jones, poor execution and m ent al m ista ke s ma rke d t he i r 2 7 - 1 3 loss to th e D e nve r Bro nc o s at Me tL ife Sta d i u m th i s pa st Su n day.The y w i ll n ow o p e n t he NFL We ek 2 s che dule against the Wa s h ing ton Fo o tba ll Tea m o n th e road. Wash i ng to n lo st t he i r s ea s on op e ne r at h o m e 2 0 -1 6 to th e L os A ng e les Cha rg e rs.

The Giants entered the game versus the Broncos having closed their preseason schedule with a poor performance against the New England Patriots. Looks weren’t deceiving and it portended a listless showing to begin the regular season as the Broncos exploited holes in the Giants’ defense on all three levels. The offense, which had the second lowest points per game average in the league last season at 17.5, continued a disturbing trend of low output.

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drive with the Giants down 20-7.

On the day he was 22-37 for 267 yards and one touchdown.

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“How I’m feeling? I’m feeling pretty good,” said Barkley to the media on Tuesday. “It felt good to get out there on Sunday. Obviously, a short week. Just trying to get my body back and get ready for Thursday night.

“I mean, I haven’t gotten tackled in a whole year or played in a football game in a whole year,” he continued. “Obviously, I didn’t play the full game…but there’s always Giants rookie linebacker Azeez going to be some soreness. DefOjulari recorded his first NFL sack initely a quick turnaround this on Sunday in a 27-13 loss to the week, but that’s why I’ve got to be Denver Broncos at MetLife Stadium a pro and get my body ready and take care of my body.” the third-year QB has 30 fumbles, In also speaking with the press 18 of which have been recovered on Tuesday, Giants head coach by the opposition. He coughed up Joe Judge said he has to get his the ball in the Red Zone on Sunday entire team ready with three AM only NEWS 01274 in the third quarter on a crucial days in-between games. “All AM NEWS 08/26/21 07/01/21 0 7 74470 22784

right, so we spent yesterday obviously cleaning up the tape from Week 1,” said Judge, who is 6-11 since taking over the reins of the team in Januar y of 2020 after former head coach Pat Shurmur was fired after only two seasons.

Shurmur got a measure of revenge on Sunday as the offensive coordinator for the Broncos. “ B e f o re w e l e f t y e s t e rd ay ,” e l a b o ra t e d Ju d g e, “ w e i n t ro d u c e d t h e Wa s h i n g t o n Fo o t b a l l Te a m t o o u r p l ay e r s t o m a k e s u re t h e y h a d a b r i e f g l i m p s e i n t e r m s o f b i g p i c t u re o f w h o t h e y a re. T h e p l ay e r s s p e n t l a s t n i g h t l o o k i n g t h ro u g h t h e s c o u t i n g re p o r t a n d s o m e o f t h e p re l i m inary cutups we had made for t h e m a n d t h e n c a m e i n t o d ay .

“In talking about the NFC East, it’s a unique division. I think these are different types of division games. Every division wants to talk about having passion and who you play. I think it’s important to recognize the history of all the teams in this division, the physicality, the passion, the fan bases. These things all play a part in terms of how we have to prepare for this game and understand the environ01354 ment we’re walking into.”

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