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Adams has the Big Apple in his sights

By NAYABA ARINDE Amsterdam News Editor With this week’s latest poll declaring a 61 to 25 percent split, according to those numbers it looks like a man called Leroy, may just become New York City’s next mayor.

In under a week the mayoral election numbers should be in, and the Board of Elections’ usual hiccups notwithstanding Eric Leroy Adams will…or will not be declared mayor of Gotham.

Eric Adams, the current Brooklyn borough president, is the man who would be Big Apple’s chief executive. In a one-on-one interview with the Amsterdam News, Adams said he will hit the ground running if elected mayor, with statements like: “I control who is going to be fired or not in the police department, and I tell people that they are not going to have to wait long periods of time before we get rid of those abusive officers.”

And he said; “I made it clear that I want the comptroller to do his job.

Audit the agencies. I think the city is dysfunctional. I’m going to do everything I can to be as transparent as possible.”

And also, he said his raison d’être is: “Making sure that the city re-

mains fair, affordable and safe.”

The Curtis Sliwa mayoral campaign twice pulled out of scheduled interviews with the Amsterdam News. The election is next week, one day after Black Solidarity Day, Nov. 2, 2021.

Quietly confident, Adams declared himself mayor and the “face of the Democratic Party” when he won the primary announced in July.

The New York City Board of Elections states that there are an estimated 3.7 million registered Democrats, 566,000 Republicans and 1.08 million independents.

During their last of two oneon-one televised debates on Tuesday night, Republican rival and Guardian Angel founder Sliwa is still putting on a confident front.

Meanwhile, Adams is plowing forward. His story is cemented now, “one of six children, born in Brownsville and raised in South Jamaica by a single mom who cleaned houses,” he says going to school he carried clothes in a black bag for fear of eviction. His campaign has established his journey from “when he was beaten by police in the basement of a precinct house at 15, Eric faced a life-changing act of injustice.”

Educated in New York, Adams is a graduate of Marist College, See ADAMS on page 6

City elections roundup

By CYRIL JOSH BARKER Amsterdam News Staff (Bill Moore photo)

idents, district attorneys and city council members.

Thanks to term limits this Early voting has begun for New year’s election is set to bring York City’s 2021 General Election. some new blood to city hall, Voters throughout the city are with some politicians staying in heading to the polls to elect the place. The ongoing COVID-19 city’s next mayor, public advo- pandemic, crime, housing and cate, comptroller, borough pres- economic recovery are a few of See ELECTIONS on page 30

Open Letter to New York’s Congressional Delegation 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 International

LABOR UNREST EXPLODES AROUND for teachers have been eroded THE CONTINENT FOR SALARY HIKES by 50% due to inflation and the AND BACK PAY rise in the cost of living in Zim(GIN)—As American work- babwe. ers are demanding raises after This, according to the teachyears of stagnant wages, Af- ers’ union, has forced the marican workers are also seek- jority of teachers to live in ing salary hikes, back pay and “sub-human conditions.” other benefits in a phenomeMeanwhile, teachers are denon dubbed “Striketober.” manding an apology from the The African response, how- government following remarks ever, has been anything but by the permanent secretary of responsive. In Swaziland—re- the education ministry, Tunamed Eswatini, the home of misang Thabela, that teachAfrica’s last absolute monarA striking Eswatini worker chy—striking nurses and paramedics were met with a hail of bullets for demanding better pay at three hospitals. A spokesman for the government denied that security forces had used live ammunition or shot at strikers.

But a video obtained by The Swazi News’ Twitter account is said to show health workers and other public sector employ- ers who could not afford to ees who went to deliver a peti- travel back to their workplaces tion to parliament demanding should borrow money. better living conditions, being “When a whole profession is met with an “unprecedented reduced to this, how do we inshow of force.” spire our kids? Why reduce us Commerce Minister Man- to beggars?” said Raymond Macoba Khumalo warned work- jongwe, secretary-general of the ers—some of whom earn $70 a Progressive Teachers Union. month—that they risked losing Turning to the Democratic their jobs if protests against King Republic of Congo, hundreds of Mswati intensify. workers from the state-owned Nurses are reportedly refus- ports company stormed its ing to treat the police, accus- headquarters on Friday, breaking them of shooting colleagues ing windows, burning furniture during a pro-democracy rally on and clashing with police over Wednesday. unpaid wages.

All protests are now banned as Police fired tear gas into the political temperatures continue building in the capital Kinshasa. to rise in this tiny kingdom.

The workers have been on strike In Zimbabwe, junior soldiers since Oct. 15. They say the govhave been sent on forced re- ernment owes the firm $207 miltraining as punishment for seek- lion, and that they have not been ing a salary increase. paid in more than three years.

This comes as President EmSchoolteachers are also on merson Mnangagwa’s adminis- strike in Congo over salaries, tration is dealing with unrest in bonus pay and the retirement army barracks where junior of- age. On Thursday, hundreds of ficers are said to be demanding children stormed the national salary hikes to levels promised. parliament to demand a resoluAlso in Zimbabwe, the Amal- tion to the strike. gamated Rural Teachers Union Turning to South Africa, the (ARTUZ) says monthly salaries largest union of metalworkers

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has accepted a 6.6% incremental wage offer from management, ending a 13-day walkout.

The National Union of Metalworkers said it would accept the increase spread over three years.

NUMSA, which has around 155,000 members, launched the strike early this month in a move that hit output at carmaker BMW and threatened more auto assembly lines.

Finally, on the occasion of World Day for Decent Work

quoted as saying.

Set in Djibouti, it details the struggles faced by Guled, played

by Omar Abdi, when he learns he has to raise funds to pay for his wife’s treatment.

His wife Nasra, played by Yasmin Warsame, is dying of kidney failure.

Ironically, as a gravedigger, Guled waits for the deaths of others in order to make the money which could mean his wife survives.

Ahmed wanted to “tell this story with dignity, tenderness and compassion—all the qualities I’ve been raised with,” the director told the Guardian newspaper.

The filmmaker was born in Somalia but moved to Finland as a teenager.

“I’m in awe.

I’m speechless.

Words cannot express my gratitude and appreciation for this type of love from the continent,” Ahmed wrote on Instagram.

A rare feature-length film in Somali, “The Gravedigger’s Wife” is also Somalia’s first entry in the Best International Feature Film category at the Oscars.

His film was 10 years in the making. Ahmed wrote it a decade ago but was determined to direct it himself and so had to learn how to be a director, the Guardian reports.

As well as winning the prestigious award, known as the Golden Stallion of Yennenga, he also received $36,000 in prize money.

The Silver Stallion went to Haitian director Gessica Geneus for her film “Freda.” And the Bronze Stallion went to the Tunisian director Leyla Bouzid for “Tale of Love and Desire.”

The prizes were handed out at Fespaco’s closing ceremony in the Burkinabe capital, Ouagadougou.

This was the 27th edition of the week-long biennial event, the continent’s biggest film festival that celebrates films largely produced in Africa by Africans.

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2021 on Oct. 7, the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) released a statement from General Secretary Sharan Burrow who said: “Governments must have one overriding priority, and that is jobs.

They need to recommit to full employment. This provides the basis for economic security and for social justice.”

SOMALI LOVE STORY SWEEPS CONTEST FOR TOP AFRICAN FILM PRIZE (GIN)—A Finish-Somali filmmaker has scooped the grand prize at the Pan-African film festival known as FESPACO in Burkina Faso. The head of the prize jury called the winning feature a courageous film.

Director Khadar Ahmed’s film, “The Gravedigger’s Wife” explores what people will do for love. It focuses on Guled, whose job it is to wait outside the hospital to bury the dead, and what he does to save his sick wife.

“It is a beautiful film that tells a story with humanity,” Mauritanian film director Abderrahmane Sissako is

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Protestors rally to support Brooklyn Nets’ Kyrie Irving

By AUTODIDACT 17 Special to the AmNews and NAYABA ARINDE Amsterdam News Editor It’s rare when multi-millionaire athletes take a stand based on principle, which then threatens the fame and fortune they’ve worked so hard for. Similar to athletes John Carlos, Tommie Smith and Colin Kaepernick and each of their silent protests during popular sporting events, the Brooklyn Nets star point guard, Kyrie Irving, 29, is taking a personal stance which is making news worldwide.

Irving is one of a few high-profile sportsmen refusing to accept the COVID-19 vaccine mandate, and it’s already costing him his position on one of the NBA’s super-teams, and also jeopardizing his $186 million contract and his future with them. Not saying if he is for or against the vaccine per se, Irving said he wanted to be the “voice for the voiceless,” for those made to take the vaccine or lose their jobs.

On Sunday Oct. 24, at the Nets’ seasonhome opener against the Charlotte Hornets, hundreds of protestors and fans voiced support for Irving outside Barclays Center.

During an Instagram Live video earlier this

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month, Irving said “nobody should be forced to do anything with their bodies.”

New York City’s ordinance mandates people over 12 years old have at least one vaccination shot to enter sporting arenas, however, it doesn’t apply to players from visiting teams.

Irving hasn’t been vaccinated and says he understands the consequences.

“The financial consequences, I know I do not want to even do that,” Irving said last week. “I am going to just continue to stay in shape, be ready to play, be ready to rock out with my teammates and just be part of this whole thing. This is not a political thing; this is See KYRIE on page 29

Early voting is underway

By ARIAMA C. LONG Report for America Corps Member, Amsterdam News Staff Early voting kicked off this weekend as mayoral candidates Eric Adams and Curtis Sliwa, a plethora of city council candidates, all five borough president candidates, and other city office hopefuls brace for upcoming Election Day. With four days completed, 55,106 is the unofficial tally of New Yorkers who cast their ballots so far, said the Board of Elections via Twitter.

The boroughs with the most votes cast so far are Manhattan—16,690 votes, and Brooklyn—13,831 votes.

The BOE also confirmed that the dreaded process of ranked choice voting (RCV) is only used in primary and special elections and will not be making a guest appearance for the general election this Tuesday.

According to polls, Adams still had a “commanding lead” over Sliwa going into last night’s debates on ABC NY-7. It’s generally assumed that June’s primary winners, meaning Adams and others, will win in November as well. The exception being a few swing districts in Brooklyn’s city council races, such as Councilmember Justin Brannan who’s running for reelection in District 43, and the Staten Island Borough President race where Democrat Mark Murphy is looking to make a dent in Republican territory.

In addition to electing leaders, there are five important ballot questions on this year’s ballot that also shouldn’t be ignored: th​​e state’s redistricting process which determines voting lines and representation, the right to clean air and a healthy envi-

ronment, same-day voter registration, the option to vote by mail without providing an excuse, and jurisdiction of the New York City Civil Court.

These questions on the ballot would lead to amendments to the New York State Constitution, and potentially reform the city’s elections, something the BOE has been heavily criticized for not doing enough of this year.

The Communications Workers of America, which represents BOE workers, said that the current structure of the BOE contributes to an “unacceptable lack of accountability at the top level of the agency.”

That structural issues in the agency, working conditions for employees, underfunding, and understaffing at the BOE need to be addressed, even if it takes a constitutional amendment.

As ever, polls will be open through Sunday, Oct. 31 with Election Day looming next week on Tuesday, Nov. 2.

Voters may also cast a vote by absentee ballot, as long as it is postmarked no later than Nov. 2. Voters can also drop off completed absentee ballots at any early voting or Election Day poll site. An assigned early voting location is probably different from your regular Election Day poll site. To find your early voting and Election Day polling places, go to findmypollsite.vote.nyc/.

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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VP Kamala Harris serving as keynote speaker at NAN’s 30th anniversary celebration U.S.Vice President Kamala Harris will deliver the keynote address at Rev. Al Sharpton and the National Action Network’s (NAN) “Celebration Above All” event commemorating 30 years of activism by the organization.

The event is also serving as a celebration for Sharpton’s 67th birthday. The celebration set for Nov. 1 at Carnegie Hall will honor NAACP New York State Conference President Hazel Dukes, creator and executive producer of “Saturday Night Live” Lorne Michael and ViacomCBS Executive Vice President, Global Head of Inclusion, Public Affairs, Kids and Family Entertainment Brands Marva Smalls.

Sharpton and Vice President Harris have worked closely on multiple initiatives important to the Biden administration like the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, the Voting Rights Act, and legislation that aims for equality for Americans.

MoCADA reopens with ‘Inside Out,’ Dennis Osadebe’s post-pop Afro-surrealist pandemic experience Solo artistic presentation “Inside Out” by Nigerian multidisciplinary artist Dennis Osadebe is on display at Brooklyn’s Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA). The participatory experience consists of a virtual exhibition and “Playful Rebellion,” an interactive game developed by the artist.

The pieces were created in response to the following questions the artist sought answers to: “Does the armor that we wear shield us from public harm or protect us in private spaces?” “Do we recognize ourselves in the performance of those identities?” “Where do we take shelter?” “Are we strangers at home?” and “What resides in this living testimony teetering between two pandemics, structural racism and COVID-19?”

Lagos-based Osadebe’s vibrant post-pop style is centered around the idea of reimagining Africa through the use of positive, provocative, and progressive imagery and narratives, forging a dialogue where tradition meets invention and innovation. By juxtaposing elements of the past alongside the present, while utilizing his Nigerian heritage as a starting point, Osadebe places Africa in the context of the future and its limitless possibilities.

“Inside Out” will be on display through Feb. 13, 2022.

AG James calls on de Blasio to delay water and tax lien sale as homeowners recover New York Attorney General Letitia James sent a letter to New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio calling on the City of New York to postpone its water and tax lien sale—which could force many New Yorkers out of their homes because of an unpaid water or tax debt—until the COVID19 pandemic is over, or at least until federal funds allocated already to prevent foreclosures have been dispersed.

Though federal funding for homeowners to avoid foreclosure is impending, the City of New York plans to move forward with the water and tax lien sale in December. As the city works to quickly remove New Yorkers from their homes, this program will offer hundreds of millions of dollars in homeowner relief in New York and will save the homes of thousands of New Yorkers.

Attorney General James requests that the city hold the sale until the COVID-19 pandemic has passed, or at least until federal funds allocated already to prevent foreclosures have been distributed.

Assembly member Taylor demands answers for capital improvement repairs/mismanagement at Harlem’s Esplanade Gardens Harlem Assembly member Al Taylor stood alongside community leaders, local organizations and Esplanade Gardens, Inc. shareholders to speak out against the improper management of capital improvement repairs at Esplanade that has forced residents to live in deplorable, life-threatening conditions for over a year.

Taylor’s office has been looking into resident concerns for months, conducting wellness calls and apartment visits to see the damages and living conditions firsthand. Due to the overwhelming number of complaints, last week Taylor held two town halls to better assess the magnitude of the situation.

Several local leaders attended including Rep. Adriano Espaillat (NY13), Community Board 10 District Manager Shatic Mitchell, as well as organizations like WE ACT for Environmental Justice. At the town halls residents shared countless horrific stories of flooding, ceilings falling in, toilets left in living rooms for months, extreme dust, shoddy electrical work, gaping holes, and asbestos abatement concerns.

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Long Islanders demand Jay Jacobs’ resignation, Walton popularity soars

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

Advocates want lawmakers to reform NJ’s criminal legal system

Long Islanders banded together at Nassau Democratic Headquarters, calling to fire State Democratic Party Chair Jay Jacobs after his disparaging and “racist” remarks towards endorsing candidate India Walton in the Buffalo mayoral race last Thursday, Oct 21.

Jacobs, who’s based in Nassau County, compared Walton, a socialist Black woman candidate, to former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke when asked why he wouldn’t endorse her for Buffalo mayor against incumbent Mayor Byron Brown.

Serena Martin-Liguori, who’s with the Long Island Social Justice Action Network, called Jacobs’ comments grossly “out of touch” and that the Democratic Party on Long Island is changing as a whole because of the Black Lives Matter movement and young, engaged voters.

“It just doesn’t make any sense as to why he thinks India Walton doesn’t deserve the endorsement of the Democratic Party. She is a hardworking mom, nurse, woman of color, and she’s representing the working class,” said Martin-Liguori. “The strange and bizarre comparison to David Duke, literally boggles my mind.”

The network, and others like U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and state committee member Nobles Crawford, have demanded Jacobs’ resignation. The network said the statements Jacobs made against a clearly diverse progressive candidate demonstrate a “lack of understanding of structural and institutional racism.” Martin-Liguori said it’s “problematic” at best

that former Gov. Andrew Cuomo was the one who recommended that Jacobs be state party chair to begin with.

Martin-Liguori said it’s time old Dems start embracing change, especially since there are such wide-ranging socioeconomic disparities between communities that are primarily Black and Brown, like Hempstead, and ones that aren’t, like Garden City, on Long Island.

Meanwhile, Buffalo native Walton has already secured the June primary for mayor and has received more endorsements. She’s gotten backing from Majority Leader and Senator Chuck Schumer, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, Council member Rasheed Wyatt, Erie County Legislator April Baskin, NYS Sen. Sean Ryan, and Assembly member Jon Rivera, since Jacobs’ remarks sparked controversy.

Jacobs did release a “tepid apology,’’ reported City and State.

“Initially, I was disappointed. But also, I’ve not always said the right thing at the right time so I extend a lot of grace to Mr. Jacobs,” said Walton in response to Jacobs via Twitter. “I think he could’ve found a better example to use.”

Walton said she sees what Jacobs said as a “huge mistake” on his part, but had they had an opportunity to know one another, it is one he probably would not have made.

Ariama C. Long is a Report for America Corps member and writes about culture and politics in New York City for the AmsterdamNews. 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

Commemorating Black Solidarity Day, Nov. 1st

By ASSEMBLYMAN CHARLES BARRON In the 1960s, when we shouted, ‘Black Power!’ we did the ‘Black,’ but we didn’t get the ‘Power.’ We did get the Black by wearing natural hairstyles and afros; abandoning European names and changing our names to African names; calling ourselves African or Black; creating our own holidays (Kwanzaa and Black History Month); demanding Black history be taught on college campuses; wearing dashikis and adopting African culture; demanding and getting more Black political representation in the electoral arena and much more.

But we didn’t get the Power!

Power is the ability to control the political and economic destiny of our Black communities. Power is the ability to control the land, means of production, cultural and social institutions that govern our Black communities. That means the police, the hospitals, the schools, the businesses etc.

We didn’t gain that power in the 1960s, and we don’t have that power today!

Historically, Black leadership has presented various positions to define what constitutes “real” Black power.

On May 29, 1966, during a commence-

ment address to the graduates at Howard University, the great Harlem Congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr. presented this from his speech to the students as a definition of Black power, “Our life must be purposed to implement human rights: The right to be secure in one’s person from the excessive abuses of the state and its law enforcement officials.

The right to freedom of choice of a job to feed one’s family.

The right to freedom of mobility of residence.

The right to the finest education [the] social order can provide.

And, most importantly, the right to share fully the governing councils of the state as equal members of the body politic.

To demand these God-given rights is to seek Black power, what I call audacious power, the power to build Black institutions of splendid achievement.”

That was Adam, as he was affectionately called!

In 1967, Kwame Ture (formerly known as Stokely Carmichael) and Charles V. Hamilton in their book “Black Power: See BSD on page 31

By CYRIL JOSH BARKER Amsterdam News Staff A new report from New Jersey Policy Perspective (NJPP) found police spending in New Jersey outpaces investments in health and human services. The Garden State ranks as the worst state in the nation when it comes to racial disparities in its prison population.

Black residents are incarcerated at a rate of 12.5 times that of whites.

Though Blacks make up 13% of New Jersey’s population, they make up over 60%t of the state’s total prison population. The report also shows that the state has the 10th highest Latinx to white racial disparity in the nation.

To address racial disparities in the state’s prisons, Salvation and Social Justice (SandSJ) is calling on lawmakers to reimagine New Jersey’s Criminal Legal System.

“New Jersey’s statistics on race disparities in prisons are unjust and immoral. A whole government approach must be implemented to right these wrongs,” said Rev. Dr. Charles Boyer, co-founder and executive director of SandSJ. The organization wants lawmakers to decriminalize low-level, nonviolent offenses, advance and invest in community response teams and other harm reduction policies and programs, and rein in police power and expand community-driven public safety solutions.

Earlier this month, SandSJ launched a new campaign to remove law enforcement from the response to behavioral health crises, including substance use and overdose. The campaign, Make the Right C.A.L.L.

(Community Alternatives Leading to Liberation), seeks to address New Jersey’s overinvestment in policing through funding for community-centered solutions like education, housing, health care, and harm reduction.

As part of the launch, SandSJ also released Make the Right Call, a new report detailing the findings of its community visioning process, including personal accounts from New Jersey community members about their own experiences with policing, substance use, and mental health and policy recommendations to improve emergency response.

“We know, all too well, what underinvestment in communities looks like,” said Solomon Middleton-Williams, director of programs at Newark Community Street Team. “As we’ve seen around the country and in our own work in Newark, communityled responses work. They also play an important role in addressing trauma and leading communities on a path of healing.”

Substance use and overdose now rank among the leading causes of death across the state of New Jersey and nationwide. But despite public health implications, advocates say the state has historically criminalized these issues—particularly in Black communities.

“It is long overdue for every facet of government to prioritize policies that will remedy these stark disparities,” Boyer said. “And those remedies include policies that will address underlying systemic issues that give rise to our racialized criminal legal system.

We must radically reimagine criminal justice in our state and do so without delay.”

Haitian and Black New Jerseyans demand protection for Black immigrants during Biden visit

By CYRIL JOSH BARKER Amsterdam News Staff Haitian and Black community leaders and supporters held a protest and rally outside of the Newark ICE Field Office to demand President Joe Biden’s administration stop deportations, especially of Haitian migrants and Black asylum seekers.

Biden visited New Jersey on Monday to break ground on the new Portal North Bridge promoting his Build Back Better agenda. He also visited two classrooms at East End Elementary School in North Plainfield,

NJ and later gave remarks at the New Jersey Transit Meadowlands Maintenance Complex.

Community leaders are calling on Biden and the New Jersey congressional delegation to support and protect Haitian and Black immigrants.

Their demands include the ending of all deportations, revoking the Trumpera Title 42 clause and a clear path to citizenship.

“Throughout my years here, it has been very clear to me that my fellow compatriot Haitians do not have the same opportunity [that I did] to See NJ NEWS on page 34

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Anthony Thomas: Lending a helping hand to communities

By CYRIL JOSH BARKER Amsterdam News Staff

Anthony Thomas is the executive director of Show Up, Turn Out, a notfor-profit organization dedicated to non-partisan, non-political engagement around issues important to the community. The goal of the organization is to increase turnout in local elections, particularly African American voter turnout.

With the 2021 general election for city offices in full swing, Thomas has been working tirelessly to get people active in early voting, which began last Saturday.

In an interview with the AmNews, he said voters are concerned about what’s impacting their dayto-day life.

“I think people are interested in quality of life issues,” Thomas said. “I think people are thinking about, ‘How do I get a government that works for me?’ People are also wondering, ‘Why bother to engage?’ At Show Up, Turn Out we want to bring people the issues they told us they cared about.”

Originally from the Midwest, growing up in Michigan and Chicago, Thomas has a BA in History from the University of Missouri and a MPA in Public Administration and Leadership from New York University.

Thomas began working in politics in Missouri managing campaigns and served as the chief of staff of the Missouri Democratic Party. He moved to New York while doing political work around the country and decided to make the Big Apple home.

As founder of The Uptown Table, Thomas partners with clients ranging from large workforce development organizations to labor unions, to economic justice and organizing nonprofits. He builds systems and operationalizes campaigns to procure funding or increase public engagement for clients.

In addition, Thomas advises leadership teams on investments, manages external consulting teams and helps create internal processes to increase impact on campaigns, enhance affiliate engagement, and influence legislative bodies.

“I’m a Pan-Africanist,” he said. “If I’m not creating access or building bridges or leveraging larger equity for a collective I don’t feel like I’m doing what I’m supposed to do in this world.”

Previously, Thomas served as the senior director for strategic planning at the Consortium for Worker Education which is the largest workforce education organization in New York City.

Prior to that he served as the political & legislative director for the New York City Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO helping unions and affiliates build power.

Thomas has worked as a consultant for multiple progressive candidates and legAnthony Thomas

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THE URBAN AGENDA

By David R. Jones

Open Letter to New York’s Congressional Delegation Dear Member of Congress: The Community Service Society, one of New York’s and the nation’s leading nonprofit organizations dedicated to economic equity and equality, is writing to urge you and your fellow Democrats to ensure that the forthcoming agreement on the “Build Back Better” economic recovery legislation extends the expanded Child Tax Credit (CTC) and retains the U.S. House of Representatives’ funding proposal for affordable and public housing investments.

Additionally, we urge you to continue to make other meaningful investments that provide a pathway to economic security for vulnerable families that go beyond the recovery package and help bolster the Affordable Care Act and assist individuals struggling with student loan debt as the debate on cancellation and loan forgiveness continues.

Permanently expanding the CTC is vitally important in lifting children out of poverty and providing greater equity in the tax code to children living in very low-income households. Prior to the American Rescue Act, 27 million children – roughly half of Black, Latino, and rural children – were excluded from receiving the full CTC because their families’ incomes were too low.

Black

New Yorker islative initiatives. He has directed political and legislative programs in the labor movement in New York and Chicago, managed citywide campaigns in New York and San Francisco, and city, state and federal races around the country.

While he has no aspirations to run for public office himself, Thomas believes there are lots of ways to create change and have an impact on the world. In addition to his work with organizations, Thomas is an adjunct professor at SUNY Empire State College, a board member of Community Voices Heard Power, and on the advisory committee of Forward Majority helping to create equity in state legislative chambers around the country.

“I find that for me, there’s a lot of output-centric work, but I’m only really into impact-centric work in spaces I chose to play in,” he said. “There’s only so many summers left each of us will have on this earth. I view it a luxury to be able to do this kind of work on behalf of different communities.”

The American Rescue Act put into law that children in low-income families, including those without earnings, should get the same CTC as children in families with higher incomes. This important and long-overdue change is projected to reduce child poverty by 40 percent, with the highest reductions in the poverty rates of Black and Latino children. Additionally, extending the credits full refundability multiplies the total anti-poverty impact by almost eight times, lifting an estimated 4.1 million children out of poverty.

Housing investments in the House’s BBB package are also essential. As prospective resources for affordable housing assistance in the final package are reportedly being reduced to accommodate Democrats’ need to lower their topline spending number, Congress and the Biden Administration must commit to supporting vulnerable families by including robust investments that promote housing affordability here in New York and around the country.

Scaling back or eliminating investments in public housing, rental assistance, and affordable housing production will significantly reduce the impact of other investments provided in the economic recovery package -- from childcare to eldercare. The House’s proposal includes voucher investments that would help about 1.7 million Americans secure affordable, safe, and stable housing. And the public housing appropriation would be a lifeline for the New York City Housing Authority.

Beyond the CTC and housing investments, there are other critical economic security investments that we urge the delegation to support before the 117th Congress adjourns

in December. The country faces a $1.7 trillion student loan debt crisis, the second largest form of consumer debt next to mortgages.

In response, we urge Congress to create and provide a dedicated federal funding stream to support Consumer Assistance Programs (CAPs) to student loan borrowers.

Supporting these programs would provide meaningful assistance and resources to borrowers as Congressional leaders and the White House considers how to assist Americans burdened with crushing student loan debt, including 2.4 million New Yorkers.

Student loan debt is especially onerous for low-income borrowers, first generation college students, women, and older adults.

Borrowers have no option but to rely on a federal loan servicer industry that disseminates incomplete and sometimes erroneous information, resulting in missed opportunities for reducing or eliminating debt. Additionally, federal discharge and forgiveness programs have become so complex that few individuals have been able to successfully benefit from them. These issues have only worsened in the COVID-19 related economic crisis despite efforts to temporarily pause the repayment and accrual of interest on loans to select borrowers.

Finally, our nation would also benefit from a restoration of federal funding of health care CAPs. The 2010 Affordable Care Act (ACA) provided an annual appropriation for consumer assistance programs to provide a dedicated federal funding stream to ensure financial support and consumer protections that were outlined in the Act. Unfortunately, CAPs have not received federal appropriations since then.

The lack of federal funding has forced some state and local governments to assume funding responsibility—and other states to simply close their CAPs down. Because of the funding deficits, the remaining CAP programs cannot meet the current demand for assistance and to ensure Americans receive the covered benefits they need and deserve. As Congress continues to move quicky to provide support to individuals who are underinsured or who have lost their jobs and health care coverage due to the economic downturn caused by the pandemic, CAPs will be critically needed to help consumers understand and utilize their health care options.

The survival of our most vulnerable families, especially Black and Brown New Yorkers hit hardest by the coronavirus and the economic crisis that ensued, depend on the choices that are now being made in Congress.

We have a tremendous opportunity to cut child poverty by historical proportions and invest in affordable and public housing while also providing Americans with crucial assistance and resources so that they can effectively navigate the health care and student loan debt sectors.

We thank you for your leadership and your consideration of this request.

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 170 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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New York City Technical College, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and Bayside High School in Queens.

An NYPD officer for 22 years, Adams started out as a transit cop with the NYPD and retired as a captain after 22 years.

As a founder of 100 Blacks in Law Enforcement Who Care he portrayed himself as challenging the department on issues of stop-and-frisk and police misconduct.

Representing Brooklyn’s 20th Senate district from 2006 to 2013, Adams was then elected to Brooklyn borough president in 2013, and was re-elected in November 2017. Now he has his eyes on Gracie Mansion and the Big Apple mayoralty.

Even though Adams often walked the streets in a bulletproof vest checking youth, riding anonymously in cabs when drivers were getting assaulted, demanding parents go through their children’s bedrooms and backpacks, the same streets have mixed responses to his record. Some older New Yorkers say they feel comforted with a law enforcer taking the reigns over the city, but some younger residents say that what with police and community relations being taut over the years, they are less excited by the notion that a career cop may become mayor next week.

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de Blasio and Curtis Sliwa, Adams met with President Joe Biden at the White House mid-campaign––before the June primary result.

As the two discussed solutions to law and disorder, Adams came away with great optics for his road to Gracie Mansion and declared himself “the Biden of Brooklyn.” Reaction was mixed as to what was seen by some as his practically being pre-ordained by Biden––the coarchitect of the notorious 1994 crime bill.

Inching towards the finish line Adams is staying on message: “We went through a grueling primary where we had some very smart, articulate, focused people, and I emerged as the victor through the primary, because I was very clear on my plan and message for the city.

“I believe now it’s imperative to continue to explain to New York what my vision is as a different caliber of a candidate, when [the other candidate is] not focused on issues, but on antics. We’re not going to allow that to determine the outcome of this race.”

Asked to respond to Black folk who have said that they have not seen Adams campaigning much in the neighborhood, Adams told the Amsterdam News: “I think that’s a narrative that my opponent tried to create, but it is clear that I’m doing the same hours that I did during the campaign: up at 5 a.m. in the morning working until 1 a.m., with a very full schedule. I’m no longer running just to

be the Brooklyn borough president, I’m running citywide. This is a big city, a lot of ground to cover, from the thousands of churches to the thousands of community events, to the thousands of block parties etc. I’ve been in every borough, and I’ve shown my face. And, so of course someone may say, ‘I didn’t see Eric on my block’ because, as you know, there are hundreds of thousands of blocks to walk down. But I’m very present, as I’ve always been, and it’s about the policies I’m going to implement to make sure we are safe blocks. That’s what I’m running on, smart policies for the city.”

NYCHA has become the political football and/or Achille’s heal of many an administration, would Adams support a privatization or renter-buy option?

“NYCHA has clearly been a failure for the city and the people who live in NYCHA. I believe that failure is based on many different things. Number one; the management is not dealing with some of the low hanging fruit––things we can do every day to address the quality of life. Number 2; we need a NYCHA Stat, something that I have been calling for some time now. It’s a real time system that allows us to analyze how many open tickets are there, and where are they on the stage of being corrected. What repairs need to be done. We need to wrap our hands around the problem and right now we don’t.”

His plan: “A scatter and pray model is not an effective model. I think we should

look at in-field building where we allow NYCHA leaders to build on the in-fields of NYCHA and allow the older tenants who have been there for years, allow them to move into the new units that are being built, so they can downsize.

“Many residents are living in 3-bedroom apartments, but they’re afraid to downsize because they will be moved out of their community. Let’s allow them to stay in their community, downsize, and allow the renovation of the older buildings, and allow new tenants to come into the older buildings. And then we must make NYCHA safe, much of our crime that we are seeing in the city is coming around NYCHA housing, and I think it’s due to number one, how we must police it more effectively; and number 2, we need to stop building the pipeline of incarceration by not having to right services or resources in NYCHA.” A microcosm model of his plan for the city?

“We are failing to have an intervention and a prevention plan to public safety, and what that looks like for me is intervention is right now. We have to go after gang violence. We have to look at our communications that I share with the president, about having a trilevel implementation of a plan––on the federal level, state level, city level–– with information sharing. Having the ATF provide us with the information we need to go after those illegal gun See ADAMS on page 31

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Out & About Rev. Jesse Jackson celebrates 80th birthday in NYC at NAN O n F r i d ay , c i v i l r i g h t s l e a d e r R e v. A l S h a r p t o n a n d t h e Na t i o n a l A c t i o n Ne t w o r k ( NA N ) h o s t e d a b i r t h d ay c e l e b ra t i o n a n d book signing in honor of civil rights leader and

s o c i a l j u s t i c e i c o n R e v.

Je s s e Ja c k s o n a t t h e NA N h e a d q u a r t e r s i n Ha r l e m.

A mentor to Sharpton, Ja c k s o n n a m e d t h e Na t i o n a l A c t i o n Ne t w o r k ’s Ha r l e m headquarters

t h e “ Ho u s e o f Ju s t i c e” i n 1 9 9 1 . A p ro m i n e n t c i v i l r i g h t s l e a d e r f o r ov e r 6 0 y e a r s, Ja c k s o n m o u n t e d a national campaign for t h e p re s i d e n c y i n 1 9 8 4 , a n d a g a i n i n 1 9 8 8 . He

(Bill Moore photos)

turned 80 on Oct. 8.

Elected officials stood w i t h S h a r p t o n a n d NA N as they saluted the work Ja c k s o n h a s d o n e t o a d v a n c e c i v i l r i g h t s. S h a r p ton signed copies of his

b o o k , “ R i s e Up : C o n f ro n t i n g A C o u n t r y a t t h e C ro s s ro a d s” n e w l y re l e a s e d o n p a p e r b a c k .

Ja c k s o n also signed copies of his book, “ Ke e p i n g Ho p e A l i v e.”

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Basketball and vax debate collide in BK On Sunday, Oct. 24, at the Nets’ season-home opener against the Charlotte Hornets, hundreds of protestors and fans voiced support

for Kyrie Irving outside Barclays Center.

Hawk Newsome of Black Lives Matter New York encouraged the vociferous crowd to

“Stand with Kyrie,” who has chosen not to get the vaccine as of yet, saying, “I think I just would love to keep that private.”

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Love & Basketballing in NYC The squeaking sneakers, the rhythm of the bounce on the hardwood floor, the swishing of the net, the clang of the rim; the sounds of the GAME. We back to ballin’!!! This year around these parts, we’re not simply happy that the sport is back, we have moved past that. This year we have two horses in the race, and both have EXPECTATIONS. For one team, the New York Knicks, we are hoping to build on a promising season and show that we’re perennial playoff contenders and for the other, the Brooklyn Nets, the goals are significantly loftier. With the talent assembled, as it reads on paper, an NBA Final appearance is the least this team can achieve and for most bringing the championship trophy to Atlantic Avenue is a forgone conclusion. Days before the opening tip-off the worlds of regular civilian life collided with professional sports, and the new COVID-19 reality has permeated athletic competition. With a presumed deterrent to the spread of the severity of the symptoms of the ailment and hopefully a sharp reduction to the very spread of the disease available, it would seem to be a layup that all players would be onboard. Nahh, that ain’t it. Superstar hoopster Kyrie Irving has dug in the trenches in belief that he will not be dictated to regarding what he could, would do with his personal health, which in this case is the mandated vaccination.

The histrionics of this decision have exploded off the sport pages and into international news cycles and look to remain that way into the foreseeable future. Fans of the franchise, while disappointed with the way the situation is playing out thus far, a team that boasts a prime Kevin Durant and James Harden should still be able to meet the desired goal as they are two of the best players the game has ever seen. According to the National Basketball Association that statement is not hyperbole. This year marks year 75 of the league and in honor of such balloting was tabulated by the independent accounting firm Ernst & Young LLP to determine The NBA 75th Anniversary Team. On that team are eleven active players: Giannis Antetokounmpo, Carmelo Anthony, Stephen Curry, Anthony Davis, LeBron James, Kawhi Leonard, Damian Lillard, Chris Paul, Russell Westbrook and the aforementioned pair of Kevin Durant and James Harden. A persuasive argument is also being made that the omission of Kyrie Irving to that list was one of the biggest snubs to the list and may reflect how his Hall of Fame candidacy will be handled.

Hard to think of it that way, but there is a chance that his stance may not be resolved this season and it will not just give the Nets a valid reason to not reach that championship perch, but also gives the league as a whole a reason to rid themselves of a player they deem far more troublesome than he’s worth. We’ve seen this movie play out time and time again. Hate that all this drama is happening in our backyard and will cast a cloud on the REAL story of the 2021-22 season as the NY Knicks will put it together and bring the trophy and parade back to Madison Square Garden, where it belongs!!! Go NY, Go NY Go. Over and out. Holla next week. Til then, enjoy the nightlife.

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Union Matters Congressman introduces new bill to make it easier to form a union

By STEPHON JOHNSON Amsterdam News Staff

by. Something that only half the country (25 states) has.

The bill was in response to Supreme Court case Janus vs.

AFSCME where the court ruled that public-sector workers don’t have to pay union dues to cover collective bargaining costs. It didn’t make it past the House, which was then controlled by conservatives. Now, Cartwright and union leaders see an opening.

“Public workers have educated our students, treated our patients and kept our communities strong and safe during the COVID crisis,” stated American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten. “But in many states, they are still denied the basic freedom to have a real say over the work they do,

New legislation would set minimum guidelines for public-sector employers for collective bargaining.

Union leaders are pulling for a new bill that would make it easier for workers to form unions.

Introduced by Rep. Matt Cartwright, the Public Service Freedom to Negotiate Act would make it mandatory for public-sector employers to meet certain requirements when it comes to collective bargaining. It also lets state (Photo courtesy of Gary Kavanagh via iStock) governments write and enforce their own labors laws, but they must meet federal guidelines. the pandemic, public service workers have The bill currently has over 120 co-sponsors. been on the front lines, risking their health Union leaders have come out in support of and safety to protect their neighbors. For all the proposed legislation. their service and sacrifice, they deserve the “Our communities are safer, healthi- freedom to form a union and negotiate for er and stronger when public service work- pay and working conditions without interers—people like our nurses, paramedics, 911 ference, if a majority of employees chooses operators, teachers and sanitation workers— to do so.” have the freedom to join a union and speak First introduced in 2018, Public Service up together for their communities,’’ stated Freedom to Negotiate Act sets a minimum AFSCME President Lee Saunders, who urged nationwide standard of collective bargainCongress to pass the legislation. “Throughout ing rights all states must provide and abide

their wages and other conditions of employment. The Public Service Freedom to Negotiate Act ensures minimum standards are in place across the nation to help those on the front lines achieve what would be impossible alone—better and more-efficient public services, dignity and voice at work, and fair compensation and benefits.”

National Education Association President Becky Pringle looks at this legislation as a way to tackle the precarious position she feels educators find themselves in and believes it will result in a better learning environment for American children.

“Educators use their collective voice to advocate for stronger public schools to help ensure their students’ social, emotional, and academic learning needs are addressed,” said. “But across the nation, some politicians are attacking educators and their unions to distract from the fact that those same politicians have failed to ensure our public schools have the resources needed to help educators keep students safe, focused and inspired.

“That is why Congress must pass the Public Service Freedom to Negotiate Act to help level the playing field for working families and empower educators to better advocate for their students.”

SAG-AFTRA introduces new executive directors for its L.A., New York and New England chapters This week SAG-AFTRA announced the appointments of new executive directors for three major areas in the country.

Rebecca Damon in New York, Serena Kung in Los Angeles, and Jessica Maher in New England. According to the union, Damon will also serve as executive director, labor policy and international affairs.

“The New York Local is extraordinarily fortunate to have Rebecca Damon as our local executive director,” stated New York Local President Ezra Knight. “She has dedicated her life to serving SAG-AFTRA members and brings an unparalleled breadth of knowledge from her years of volunteer service as executive vice president, New York Local president, and as one of the key architects of merger. Her deep relationships with lawmakers and labor leaders across the country are a boon to our members.

“I am joined by the entire New York Local Board in giving a resounding unanimous vote of confidence to Rebecca. We are eager to have the benefit of her staff leadership for years to come.”

“Serena worked as associate executive director for the last five years and as interim executive director for eight months and understands not only the inner workings of our union, but what our members need,” said Jodi Long, Los Angeles’ local president. “She has been invaluable in helping me assume the mantle of your Los Angeles Local president.”

Maher, in New England, has served with the union since 2008 after serving for AFTRA/SAG Boston for more than a decade. She’s been credited with lending a steady hand during the turmoil of the COVID pandemic and worked on member education and enforcing contracts.

Maher also spent time as the unit manager for the PBS show “NOVA.” During her time there she oversaw talent contracts and helped grow the narrator talent pool.

“National Executive Director Duncan Crabtree-Ireland said that all three women are uniquely qualified for their positions, and she looks forward to working with them.

“Each of them has the unqualified support of their local member leadership, and has proven to be an invaluable advocate for the membership,” stated Crabtree-Ireland. “I know that they will continue their record of distinguished service, and that they will make essential contributions to furthering the interests and cause of all SAG-AFTRA members.”

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By STEPHON JOHNSON Amsterdam News Staff

SAG-AFTRA has named Rebecca Damon, Serena Kung and Jessica Maher executive directors of its New York, Los Angeles and New England locals.

Damon served as president of the New York Local in 2017 and re-elected in 2019.

She served on the union President’s Task Force on Education, Outreach and Engagement and as chair of the Member Outreach Relations & Education Committee. She also served as the national chair of the Government Review Committee and Innovation and New Technology Committee.

Damon’s work has been recognized

several times with awards and she’s been featured on City and State’s “State Labor Power 100” list three times.

As for Los Angeles, Kung has served at the Motion Picture Editors Guild for over a decade overseeing memberships, finance, operations and creating programs for the post-production union members. She joined SAG-AFTRA in March 2016 where she continued her work on developing programs for constituents.

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Opinion Consumers and communities in crisis

By STATE SENATOR KEVIN PARKER, RICHARD BERKLEY, ESQ., AND IAN DONALDSON

debt skyrocketed across all sectors.

Energy consumer debt specifically ballooned 117% to $1.53 billion New York’s COVID-19 state of emergency ended since February of 2020, and these June 24, 2021, but the affordability and utility ar- figures do not even account for any rears crises that affect 1.5 million residential energy utilities that are not systematically (electric and gas) consumer households statewide tracked by regulators such as telecontinue to worsen unaddressed. Make no mistake phone, water, internet and cable. about it, this crisis threatens our state’s future eco- Customers of PSEG/LIPA on Long nomic recovery, as well as the livelihood of millions Island are equally grappling with of low-, fixed-, and moderate-income residents from historically unmanageable debts.

Buffalo to Brooklyn and Syracuse to Suffolk County.

New York’s utility consumers were Many hundreds of thousands of households could protected under the Parker-Richardnot afford their utility and other vital bills in an aver- son Act of 2021, a blanket prohibition age month prior to COVID-19, but as the pandemic against service shut offs that ended economically ravaged our communities, consumer on June 24, 2021. Between March of 2020 and now, the state agency charged with regulating the utilities in the public’s interest, the Department of Public Service (“DPS”), has done Witnessing the second, and thankfully the last debate be- almost zero public outreach to explain to debttween Eric Adams and Curtis Sliwa, particularly Sliwa’s residential waving his hands and jabbing a finger at his opponent, burdened was reminiscent of his verbal bouts with Gerson Bor- and small business conrero on NY1. The only thing missing was Sliwa’s ten- sumers what rights they have. Most consumers dency to bring props with him to underscore a point.

He needed more than props to turn the table in are also unaware they have a right to a ments or direct dialing the customers. In any case, this encounter and like the first round, he was flailing grace period ending December 21, 2021, consumers must be educated by something more efwildly, and only occasionally broke Adams from a smil- to get their economic house in order and fective than a notice buried in the bottom of a shutbegin working on repayment with their off letter or frighteningly large bill. ing silence. utilities. Nor has the Public Service ComLow-income, senior, immigrant and medically The most heated exchange arrived when the attacks became mission (“PSC”) ordered the utilities to vulnerable consumers have been burdened with the personal. Adams resumed his charge of Sliwa being a clown, conduct their own proactive public out- duty to reach out to their utilities and find out their “and acting like my son when he was four years old.”

See CRISIS on page 32 Where one lived and child support payments were matters reach, such as public service announcethat seemed to take precedence over the city’s homeless situation, the vaccine mandates, and other critical issues.

If viewers were interested in a better contest there was the World Series game or the Knicks versus the Philadelphia 76ers.

Of course, in a general sense, the outcome of a game between the 76ers and the Knicks is about as certain as what will be the

By KANDRA KNOWLES workers and interns are trained to do just this. final count between Adams and Sliwa. Ah, but the Knicks deResearch shows that SEL provides social workfeated their rivals the other night. Can Sliwa upset Adams?

There is a copious amount of research that ers and interns with a level of skill that is not With registered Democrats outnumbering Republicans seven shows that educators who are highly skilled common among teachers, as the development to one, Sliwa’s chances of defeating Adams are slim and none, with social-emotional learning (SEL) compe- of SEL competencies is not emphasized in many even if slim was Trump. tencies produce greater academic achievement. teacher-training programs.

The two debates were a waste of time, as is Sliwa’s bid to As we continue to deal with the realities of what Social workers—interns, specifically—can play become the 110th mayor of the city, unless of course this is just COVID-19 has presented to communities across a vital role in the development of SEL. Within a another opportunistic moment for the candidate to enhance the nation, we must prioritize SEL in our schools. school setting, interns can be tasked with obhis notoriety.

SEL empowers adult practitioners in educa- taining and reporting on weekly collected data, At the end of the debate each was asked to say something tion, as it helps to advance their own mental to support effective program evaluation. Interns kind and rewarding about their adversary, and Adams apwellness and student development. As schools also work with school leaders to measure SEL plauded Sliwa for taking care of a clowder of cats. This was a aim to build the instructional competencies of success and make recommendations as to what nice way to send the clown off to the litter box. teachers and school leaders around SEL, they can be done to enhance social-emotional comshould employ the expertise and skills of social petence among both students and staff. workers and social work interns from communiOne program that provides a foundation for ty-based organizations and colleges/universities the development of SEL skills is the Urban Asin the community. sembly’s Resilient Scholars Program (RSP). RSP Social workers and social work interns are is a program designed to support the developspecifically trained in their programs to master ment and sustainable implementation of an SEL and execute the tenets of SEL. Social workers program in schools within the Urban Assembly are trained to respond to trauma and student (UA) and across the country. The RSP model inneeds through SEL. As the increased exposure corporates the support of social work interns to to racism, home instability, illness, and eco- ensure the effective implementation and susnomic uncertainty shape the realities of stu- tainability of an SEL framework geared for students across the country, we must consider how dents. During the school day, social work interns the role of SEL competency building can be uti- work with teachers and administrators to create lized to empower students at this time. Social See SEL on page 32

The end of the Adams v. Sliwa show EDITORIAL

“...as the pandemic economically ravaged our communities, consumer debt skyrocketed across all sectors. Energy consumer debt specifically ballooned 117% to $1.53 billion since February of 2020, and these figures do not even account for any utilities that are not systematically tracked by regulators such as telephone, water, internet and cable.”

Middle and high schools should embrace social workers and interns

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

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With instability and political unrest roiling the world stage, it is more important than ever for America to have solid allies in the Middle East, a dangerous region historically rife with conflict and dysfunction.

Americans know and understand almost innately that Israel’s values are a mirror of our own: Israel champions democracy, the rule of law, has a strong judiciary and demonstrates freedom of religion and the press.

However, our recent hurried withdrawal from Afghanistan and the ensuing chaos illustrates how quickly fortunes can change in this volatile region. The resulting pandemonium underscores how much we need a steady and strong ally like Israel in the raging sea of despotism and autocracy that is the Middle East.

Regardless of which poll you cite, support by Americans for our vital ally Israel never truly wavers because Israel as a democratic nation stands in stark contrast to the hateful and controlling regimes run by the region’s autocrats and despots.

Backing for our democratic ally— Israel—has historically been constant and bipartisan, even among Americans who are usually woefully divided on a whole range of topics.

That is why it is so jarring and shocking to witness eroding support for Israel among political leaders who are not showing the same commitment to Israel that the vast majority of Americans continue to feel. Nowhere is that change more obvious than within the Democratic Party.

It is more than past time to sound the alarm on holier-than-thou members of congress who reflexively side with the Palestinians over Israel. What once appeared to be a flickering trend is now becoming a pervasive view within a party that is going shockingly astray from the values that it professes to champion.

It is stunning to see progressive American policymakers bending over backwards to invoke pronouns to refer to someone’s gender identity, while showing support for a reactionary Palestinian regime that does not allow for homosexuality and systemically discriminates against women. It makes no sense.

U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (AOC), a progressive Democrat, recently burst into tears on the floor of the

House and had to be consoled by Democratic colleagues when the House voted in favor of authorizing the Defense bill, which included funding for Israel.

AOC is part of a group of progressive legislators who have been increasingly critical of U.S. support for Israel. She has called Israel an “apartheid state,” and outspokenly blasted the Jewish state’s efforts at self-defense during the most recent military flareup between Israel and the terrorist group Hamas in Gaza. She has loudly and repeatedly called on President Biden to dial back support for Israel.

Why was the sensitive legislator weeping for passage of a bill that she ultimately reversed course upon and chose not to oppose? She was taking a stand against funding for the Iron Dome, a purely defensive military system designed to intercept Palestinian-fired short-range rockets and artillery shells lobbed into Israel with the sole purpose of indiscriminately killing as many Israelis as possible.

Why would any member of congress vote against or lament America helping to defend the lives of men, women and children in a pro-American nation targeted in their homes by terrorist groups which deny their right to exist? Is it better to stand with a terrorist organization that embraces tactics of mass shootings, car rammings, suicide bombings and widespread rocket terrorism against innocents?

The leadership of the Democratic Party owes it to America to rein in their misguided members and halt the staggering slide towards the abandonment of Israel by the party. This is a serious issue which demands immediate attention. We can’t allow this issue to slide by without notice or to be glossed over by a mainstream media quick to ignore the stark and stunning trend.

Support for Israel should remain bipartisan and strong, and Democrats should not jettison support for a true and longstanding American ally in favor of a terror-sponsoring regime that employs violence in the cause of destroying Israel.

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.”

Next week Ne Yorkers will go to the polls to vote for several important elected positions in the general election on November 2nd. If you are registered and able, it is imperative you participate in these very important elections. We cannot leave anything to chance, and we must do our part as citizens of New York City to ensure the political health of the city is our priority.

This election will have a major impact on the future of NYC. All New Yorkers will be voting for the offices of mayor, city council, comptroller, public advocate, borough presidents, as well as five state constitutional amendments which will be on the ballot. Additionally, there are elections for Manhattan and Brooklyn district attorneys, as well as a number of judges depending on where you live.

As you research who is on your ballot, it is also incredibly important you educate yourself about the five ballot proposals up for a vote in the general election on Nov. 2. The ballot proposals include questions on the future of political representation in Albany, environmental protections, easier voter registration and absentee balloting, and how New York’s civil courts function.

If you would like to learn more about who is on your ballot as well as read the full text of the five proposals, I strongly suggest you visit the Board of Elections website at www. elections.ny.gov to find out more. For a bit of context, the five proposals up for consideration on your ballot on November 2nd all came from Albany, where your representatives in both the Assembly

and the State Senate voted on whether these proposals would appear on your ballot. All the more reason to pay attention to politics at the state level and not just what is happening at the local level or in Washington, D.C. For a fantastic summary of each of the five ballot proposals, I would also look at the reporting by Rachel Holiday Smith and Samantha Maldonado in The City. They provide detail about each of the proposals: 1) the redistricting process that state lawmakers go through to redraw the boundaries of congressional and state legislative districts based on the new population numbers reported from the decennial census, 2) broad rights regarding environmental protections, 3) removing a current constitutional rule that says you must register to vote at least 10 days before an election in New York, 4) ending a state constitutional rule that says voters must have an excuse, or valid reason, to vote with an absentee ballot, and 5) possibly changing the monetary limit on claims in the city’s civil court.

For an even more detailed explanation of the ballot proposals, visit www.thecity.nyc. It is important we pay attention to all parts of our ballot and our democracy. Sometimes a little research is required, but it is worth it.

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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Trinidad coup maker dies; end of traumatic era, say victims

By BERT WILKINSON Special to the AmNews Late last week, the man who led the one and only attempted Islamist coup in the Americas in Trinidad 31 years ago collapsed and died at a local hospital just weeks after he had again made violent threats against the state.

Yasin Abu Bakr, 80, spent time in remand prison but was never convicted for staging an armed attempted coup against Trinidad’s elected government in July of 1990, as he and 113 other fundamentalists had railed against shortages of medicines, rising food and other prices, declining living conditions and a 22% unemployment level in the oil and gas-rich twin island republic with Tobago.

Bakr, a former policeman who had spent time in Libya, had apparently palpably miscalculated public sentiment and his own level of personal and national importance as he had figured that if he had successfully kicked out the administration of then Prime Minister Ray Robinson, he would have been hailed a national hero.

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“Official figures indicate that 24 people were killed during the attempted coup and the six-day standoff with security forces.” were quite the opposite when he and his men stormed parliament while it was in session, shooting PM Robinson and Security Minister Selwyn Richardson in their legs, invading the state’s television and radio station and other state facilities.

Taking advantage of the mayhem caused by the insurrection, rioters looted and burned large parts of commercial Port of Spain, the capital. Official figures indicate that 24 people were killed during the attempted coup and the six-day standoff with security forces. The coup plotters eventually surrendered and were offered an amnesty by officials as they worked to ensure no further deaths as well as relief, rescue and medical attention to those who had been held hostage in the house and other buildings. Astonishingly, Bakr’s Jamaat al Muslimeen group had demanded that

he be made national security minister and called for fresh elections in 90 days. Lawmaker Leo Des Vignes was shot and killed during the mayhem.

Between July 1990 and last week, Bakr and the state had faced off several times, including a clash in 2012 when he faced extortion related charges for demanding that local Muslims pay Zakah or mandatory financial contributions to help the poor, failing which he would have dealt with the recalcitrants. Again, he was not convicted or jailed.

Last month, he attacked the administration of Prime Minister Keith Rowley and other segments of society for allegedly oppressing Afro Trinidadians and the less fortunate but many sensed that he had become smart enough by now not to attempt anything violent or disruptive again, as security forces have never forgiven

him and were waiting for a chance at revenge.

“I am warning the government of Trinidad and Tobago, warning the police, the coast guard. I am warning everybody who is involved in the repression of African people. I am warning you today. This is your last day warning because it is coming to you,” he said, triggering an alert among security forces, long waiting for the day to move against Bakr once and for all.

Political pundits in Trinidad blamed both security forces and predecessor governments for not stymieing the growth of the Muslimeen organization, noting that gangland violence, drug trafficking, abductions and weapons smuggling have thrived in the aftermath of July 1990. Some of those who had stormed parliament were of high-school age, armed with AK-47 rifles.

Former minister Selby Wilson told the Express newspaper that his death now signals an end to Bakr and represents “a close to a painful period in T&T’s history. It is up to God to judge.

I hope he made peace with God.” The Jamaat says it has 10,000 registered members.

Most immigrants caught trying to enter the U.S. illegally are not Haitians

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IMMIGRATION KORNER From the tale being told by mainstream white media, one would think the entire population of Haiti was trying to enter the U.S. illegally.

While the focus has been on the thousands of Haitians trying to enter the U.S. by trekking thousands of miles through the dangerous Darien Gap from their temporary homes in Central and South America, U.S. Customs and Border numbers released on Oct. 22, tell a far different tale.

While border patrol made nearly 1.7 million arrests of immigrants illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border in fiscal year 2021––the highest number on record––the majority are not Haitians but Mexicans.

The CBP data shows 608,037 of the migrants apprehended were born in Mexico while 367,275 includes “others,” largely identified as Haitians, Venezuelans, Cubans and Brazilians.

Another 308,931 are from Honduras while 279,033 are from Guatemala, and 95,930 are from El

Salvador. There is no individual breakdown of Haitians.

Still, overall, the new apprehension is a huge jump from Fiscal Year 2020, when the number was just 400,651.

In August 2021 alone, there were 209,840 immigrants arrested, the highest for a single month in the past five years at least. This was preceded by 213,593 in July, another month that shattered records for the past five years.

The majority of those arrested, according to the CBP data, were nabbed in Del Rio, the Rio Grande Valley, El Paso and Tucson. Almost 1.1 million are single migrants––an almost 235% jump from 2020. Some 113,030 were reported in September alone, a 9% increase compared to August.

Almost 452,000 were families, an almost 764% jump from Fiscal Year 2020. Encounters of family unit individuals in August alone was 86,631.

Unaccompanied minors accounted for approximately 145,000 or a 374% increase from last fiscal year, with 18,806 reported in August alone. That is an average of 1,435 per day in August.

However, the CBP data shows the Joe Biden administration is relying heavily on Donald Trump’s Title 42 rule to expulse large numbers of the arrivals.

There were 84,911 expulsions of single adults under Title 42, the CBP data shows while 17,599 migrants with families were expelled under the same rule.

The news comes as a 26-page report from Human Rights Watch, titled, “‘They Treat You Like You Are Worthless’: Internal DHS Reports of Abuses by US Border Officials,” details internal reports made by asylum officers within U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) about the conduct of personnel in the immigration enforcement arms of their same parent agency, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

Though heavily redacted, the reports, which HRW obtained after litigation under the Freedom of Information Act, include allegations of physical, sexual, and verbal abuse, due process violations, harsh detention conditions, denial of medical care, and discriminatory treatment at or near the border.

In one example, the records show that a supervisor in the San Francisco Asylum Office communicated the following internally at DHS: “AO [asylum officer] [redacted] brought a serious matter to our attention just now: one of the applicants she interviewed today has a young child who was sexually molested by some-

one we believe to be a CBP or Border Patrol Officer. They were apprehended by Border Patrol, sent to the Ice Box [a border holding cell], then this occurred: the young girl was forced to undress and touched inappropriately by a guard in the Ice Box wearing green, with the nametag [redacted].”

The documents, which were produced in response to a request for records held by USCIS, do not record how DHS responded to these allegations.

One can only imagine how many other cases there are, including of countless Brown and Black immigrants too scared to speak out. We all saw the viciousness on full display in Del Rio against Black and Haitian migrants.

Little wonder that 20% of all deportees from the U.S. are Black, according to The Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services, even though they are hardly the majority of undocumented migrants.

For those holding out hope for change, don’t hold your breath. The holder of the office may change, but the system remains the same–– stacked against poor Black and Brown immigrants.

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Education Plateaued public school enrollment will likely fall due to COVID

By STEPHON JOHNSON Amsterdam News Staff Enrollment in public schools has been steady for years, but a variety of factors has caused that number to start falling. The first, of course, is the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

Between schools transitioning to virtual classes and then the subsequent return to in-person classes with or without mask and vaccine mandates, parents have found alternative schooling options for their children. Many families, especially highlighting a rising trend among Black families, have turned to homeschooling.

“The home-schooling numbers show that parents see that our education system doesn’t meet a certain need and they have the desire to cater education how they see fit in their households,” Dr. Carlene Reid, a Ward 8 SBOE representative in Washington, D.C., told the Washington Informer.

A drop in enrollment can have lasting effects. In Washington state, the Seattle Public School District reported 1,300 fewer students at the start of the 20212022 school year. This will take about $28 million out of their funding from the state for the 2022-2023 school year.

In New York City, an internal memo from the Department of Education discussed that officials visiting schools have seen a 20% drop in enrollment with COVID fears overruling Mayor Bill de Blasio’s optimism for school reopening with no remote option.

The mayor told reporters earlier this month that everything was being blown out of proportion.

“I don’t know about the memo and, you know, it’s a massive organization,” de Blasio told reporters during a recent media briefing. “So, I find this also another area where a confusion reigns, where you take a single memo from a single person, then anyone tries to determine that that is the larger truth. There may be some individual schools where the numbers suggested that it was worth doing more effort to reach out to those kids and those families and make sure that they were aware of what was going on with their school, or if they had moved to another school or wanted to go to another school.”

But, despite one mayor’s choice to see the new school year as a triumph, the drop in attendance also hurts other students.

“Even in a situation where you get across-the-board cuts, the impact and the pain from those cuts are felt most deeply by the schools and kids who need the help the most,” Michael Leachman, vice president for state fiscal policy at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, said in a January webinar.

In projections for the 2021-2022 school year, educationdata.org predicted that the 7.6 million Black students enrolled in public school will be a 0.2% decline from the previous year. Both American Indian/ Alaska Native and white students are projected to have a larger decline.

With pivots to homeschooling and other forms of schooling, Black parents have had more of a say in their children’s education. Whether through specially crafted online curriculums or creating some of their own, parents are able to teach their children aspects of history that aren’t traditionally taught in public school.

On top of that, Black students face additional challenges at school. They are suspended and referred to law enforcement at higher rates than their classmates, and often face unequal punishment. Many studies

during the pandemic have shown that the pandemic is taking a toll on mental health in the Black community.

When the AmNews filed a FOIL request for the prices and number of tablets purchased for remote learning in 2020, the city’s Department of Education gave us documents showing that they had purchased 310,000 iPads that cost $379 each.

But schools find themselves between a rock and a hard place with the pandemic keeping kids away, lack of remote options (in some places) stopping students from progressing academically, and the sense of loneliness that comes with staying at home while their friends are seeing each other.

“The pandemic exacerbated feelings of nonbelonging and not-mattering; already tenuous relationships between schools and Black boys became more frayed,” Roderick L. Carey, a professor at the University of Delaware and creator of The Black Boy Mattering Project, told Chalkbeat. “We can use COVID as a miraculous opportunity to change schools for the better.”

When the United States went into lockdown in March 2020, there was speculation that the country would have another baby boom, as people wouldn’t have much else to do while stuck in their homes. This turned out not only to be not true, but the opposite: birth rates in the United States have been declining annually since 2014.

Before the pandemic, the poor state of the economy and societal changes of having smaller families and starting them later were already having an impact on the birth rate in this country. In addition to leading to lower school enrollments, a declining birth rate will be felt across all facets of society.

“The fact that it’s coming on the heels of a lengthy ongoing decline in births exacerbates its impacts,” Phillip Levine, a professor of economics at Wellesley College, told CNN. “In reality, it’s not the 300,000 fewer births once [as a result of COVID], it’s the hundreds of thousands of fewer births every year that’s likely to have substantial impacts on society.”

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‘Lackawanna Blues’ is a master class in session!

By LINDA ARMSTRONG Special to the AmNews “Lackawanna Blues” is a theatrical masterpiece! There’s a master class happening at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre on W. 47th Street, a master class in storytelling, character description, acting and directing and it is being given by Ruben Santiago-Hudson through his one-man, autobiographical play, “Lackawanna Blues.” Santiago-Hudson has created a touching, beautiful tribute to Nanny—Rachel Crosby—a woman who raised him in her boarding house in Lackawanna, New York.

It is so engaging to listen to him describe how they met and how she came to raise him as her son. SantiagoHudson endearingly introduces the audience to the disabled, poor and sometimes mentally ill people that Nanny would take in.

He portrays 24 different individuals to perfection. Nanny was a kind-hearted woman with limitless generosity, love, food, and support. She was a mother to the entire community in Lackawanna, and not only took in people who desperately needed a home, food, clothing and money, but also took in disabled animals. Nanny had a strength in spirit that helped her to be a champion and a protector for the abused. As Santiago-Hudson describes the assorted types of people that lived in the boarding house, he lets each tell their story of woe, and the stories are quite captivating.

A seasoned actor, SantiagoHudson smoothly transitions into the 24 characters. He skillfully takes on the physical stances, tones and mannerisms of each person and makes each one seem to be standing right there on that stage—and it was magnificent to behold! Nanny, for Santiago-Hudson, wasn’t just the

Ruben Santiago-Hudson (front/standing) and Junior Mack (back/seated in top-left photo) (Marc J. Franklin photos)

woman who raised him; she taught him life lessons, supported him in every way, and took a pride in this boy who became her son, best friend and loyal keeper of the stories of her love and kindness.

A person like Nanny, who

does so much unselfishly for others, should have their story on Broadway. What a tremendous tribute this piece is to her.

Generations will know who Rachel Crosby from Lackawanna, New York was because Santiago-Hudson has written,

performs and directs this piece with his whole-heart.

One of the truly marvelous aspects of this play is how Santiago-Hudson’s words flow from his mouth with a rhythm that gels with the guitar playing of Junior Mack, who per-

forms onstage alongside him.

(Also, SantiagoHudson plays a mean harmonica.) Santiago-Hudson touched everyone as he gives a biblical affirmation to represent what Nanny’s life meant when he says following her passing, “Well done, my good and faithful servant.” And that applies to Santiago-Hudson as playwright, artist and director. Well done!

“Lackawanna Blues” is a must-go! It’s a blast! And it has been extended through Nov. 7, so go and learn about Nanny and feel the importance of the light she shined on so many lives.

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By CHARMAINE PATRICIA WARREN Special to the AmNews

In Montclair, New Jersey at Peak Performances (Nov. 4-7), Stephanie Batten Bland’s “Look Who’s Coming to Dinner” tops this month’s calendar. Bland is known for “…creating performance at the intersection of dance-theater and

installation, questioning contemporary and historical cultural symbolism and the complexities of human relationships.” And for “Look Who’s Coming to Dinner,” inspired by the 1967 Stanley Kramer film starring Sydney Poitier, Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, she pays tribute to those who paved the way toward acceptance in love and life. “Set around a transformative dinner setting, seven dance-theater artists excavate interlaced universal traumas through imagery and ritual as they seek a seat at the table. In dialogue with the film’s use of intimate domestic settings to evoke the vast tensions of its cultural context, the dancers excavate interlaced universal traumas through imagery and ritual as they seek a seat at the table,” according to the release. For more information visit www.peakperfs.org/

ALSO THIS MONTH: Nov. 1-15 (Virtual)—Sooraj Subramaniam and Kuala Lumpur-based January Low explore their parallel experiences of the Odissi Indian classical dance form in the world premiere of “Other Places of Being” for the BAC digital season. For more information visit www.bacnyc.org

Lenzu, gorno (Glenn Potter-Takata), film by Yuan Liu, film by Janessa Clark, Jasmine Hearn and more.

For more information visit www. pioneersgoeast.org

be-titled work with composer Nov. 9-14 (In-person)— Elizabeth Gartman. For more in- The Indigenous Enterprise, formation visit www.newcham- a collective of dancers from berballet.com across Turtle Island—currently known as North America— Nov. 14 (In-person)—As part makes their Joyce debut and Nov. 7 (In-person)—As part of of Works & Process at the Gug- will present traditional works Works & Process at the Guggen- genheim, the Alvin Ailey Amer- representing the legacies of heim, Akram Khan will share ex- ican Dance Theater offers a their native elders and more. cerpts from “Creature” along with a season preview with artistic For more information visit discussion moderated by Meghan director Robert Battle. Prior www.joyce.org

Photos from Company SBB/Stefanie Batten Bland’s “Look Who’s Coming to Dinner” (Carlos Cardona photos)

Nov. 2-7 (In-person)—Gibney Company choreographic associate Rena Butler will offer world premieres along with Sonya Tayeh and Alan Lucien Øyen for the Company’s Joyce debut under founder, artistic director, and CEO Gina Gibney and directors STILL RUNNING: Nigel Campbell and Amy Miller.

Oct. 20 - Nov. 6 (Virtual & In- For more information visit www. person)—“Crossing The Line givneydance.org Festival” spotlights Africa’s cultural renaissance through interNov. 4, Dec. 9 & 16 (In-person)— disciplinary artists and features The fall 2021 curatorial team, guest works by Igbo-American artist artist/curator Hilary Brown-IsOkwui Okpokwasili, in collabo- trefi, Philip Treviño, and Gian ration with Peter Born; nora chi- Marco Riccardo Lo Forte brings paumire, a native of Zimbabwe Pioneers Go East Collective’s and central Mozambique; and CROSSROADS to Judson MeSomi, Chirstopher Myers and morial Church. Featured will be Kneza Schaal. For more informa- Sheree Campbell, Yoshiko Chuma tion visit www.fiaf.org and Dane Terry, film by Anabella

Nov. 16-28 (In-person)—Complexions Contemporary Ballet returns to the Joyce Theater for its 27th season with two programs: (Program A), the world premiere of “SNATCHED BACK from the EDGES” and (Program B) “LOVE ROCKS.” All works are by cofounder Dwight Rhoden. Desmond Richardson is the other co-founder. For more information visit www.joyce.org

Nov. 17-21 (In-person)—Dancer and choreographer Twyla Tharp celebrates her 80th birthday at City Center in a program of signature works and two world premieres with dancers from Alvin McNamara. For more information to his farewell performance, Ailey American Dance Theater visit www.guggenheim.org there will be an appearance by (James Gilmer and Jacquelin dancer and resident choreog- Harris); American Ballet Theatre Nov. 11-13 (In-person)—The rapher Jamar Roberts, and the (Aran Bell and Catherine Hurlin); Chocolate Factory Theater pres- newly appointed artistic direc- the actor and dancer Robert Fairents the world premiere of PURO tor of Ailey II, Francesca Harper child; and New York City Ballet TEATRO: a Spell for Utopia by luci- will join the discussion. For (Sara Mearns, Roman Mejia, and ana achugar furthering achugar’s more information visit www. Tiler Peck). For more information “…mission of making work as a guggenheim.org visit www.nycitycenter.org practice of constructing a new theater – a utopian theater – as a pracNov. 15 (In-person)—As Nov. - Dec. 13 (Virtual)—Jordan tice of growing a collective utopian part of Works & Process at Demetrius Lloyd will premiere “Trip uncivilized body with the audi- the Guggenheim, members of Gloss World Premiere” “…an experience,” according to the release. For Dance Theatre of Harlem will ment in translation from a 3-dimenmore information visit www.choc- perform highlights and join sional world to a 2-dimensional olatefactorytheater.org the discussion about resident screen…with layered animation that choreographer Robert Gar- captures an amalgamation of moveNov. 12-13 (In-person)—Miro land’s “Higher Ground” set to ments by six dancers drawing from Magloire’s New Chamber Ballet a selection of songs by Stevie a web of inner stories and imagined returns to the Mark Morris Dance Wonder with Imani Perry. For fantasies,” according to the release,” Center with repertory works and more information visit www. for the BAC digital season. For more the world premiere of a yet-to- guggenheim.org information visit www.bacnyc.org

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Doc Farrow plays soldier battling survivor’s guilt in ‘Saved Rounds’

By NADINE MATTHEWS Special to the AmNews

have to deal with, Actor, director, producer ‘If I had been there, it may have (docfarrow.com photo) been different.’”

This struggle is dramatized by another character in the film, who haunts Doc. Farrow explains, “He represents the people that died that I was there for, those who died I wasn’t there for, and people I could not save who were back home going through what they had to go through.”

He is candid about his continuing struggle with the effects of being in a war and how it affected his ability to write and act. “The nightmares started to come back and I was forced to learn how to embrace that for the writing. The irritability when spending time around people came back.”

However, Farrow persisted, committed to telling a story that would resonate on a human level. “The character has to be brave enough to overcome, and in order to write that, I had to be able to bring everything that I have, and am still, overcoming.” A feeling of responsibility to his audience pushed him.

“I had to go there myself. If I didn’t then the next person won’t be able to see that we all go through something and we all have the opportunity to heal, which is the whole point of the movie.”

In addition to getting in touch with his emotions, workshopping his script was another challenge. “That was another layer of fear that went with that. It was like, I went through all this gut-wrenching work to write this and now you’re saying it’s not good enough?” He came to learn something valuable about the creative process from the experience. “I learned they aren’t critiquing me, they’re critiquing what works and what doesn’t about the script.”

Farrell’s personal experience in battle also allowed him to see Iraquis through a different lens. “There were those who wanted us to leave. Then others were smiling and gracious even going through so much more trauma. Then I found such beauty in people stopping five times a day and praying. Listening to the prayer was a beautiful thing.

It’s not for me, but it was still beautiful to see and hear.”

“Saved rounds” is a colloquialism used in the military, referring to a piece of information that a person forgot to say after telling everyone they can leave. But what do you do when you’re no longer able to deliver that information?

A short film by actor and director Doc Farrow, “Saved Rounds” attempts to chart the journey of an alcoholic veteran, racked by survivor’s guilt, to deliver a gift to the family of a fallen comrade. Deborah Leonhardt, who co-wrote the script, plays his supportive but beleaguered girlfriend accompanying him.

“You don’t find out who you are until you get shot at,” Farrow half-jokingly stated in a recent interview. Though many know Farrow as Coach Wilkins on the CBS comedy series “Young Sheldon,” they may not know that he had a military career.

Farrow reveals he got his nickname during his service. “Doc is a nickname that marines give their corpsmen. We’re the ones that go in, stand shoulder to shoulder with them, and patch them up. So if you’re good, you walk away with the honored nickname of Doc.” Farrow doesn’t reveal his birth name.

It was only after retiring that he even thought about becoming an actor, and it was Dave Chapelle and Larry the Cable Guy, in a manner of speaking, that led to the decision.

Farrow was living in Arizona and studying nursing when, “One night, as I was smoking a cigar watching TV. Dave Chapelle and Larry the Cable Guy were on. I just said to myself, ‘Yeah, I can do that.’” He soon began acting classes. The classes strengthened his belief he was on the right path, though they weren’t easy for him. “You’re talking about someone from the military,” he explains, “who has learned how to lock up every rational emotion, so it was very challenging for me.”

Fate then stepped in and prodded him to move closer to film and TV mecca Los Angeles. “I lost my job, and with $2,100 in my pocket, hopped on my motorcycle and rode to L.A.,” Farrow recalled. He got into the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and started getting roles and doing stand-up.

The film was shot in Palmdale, Calif.— the arid, rocky, terrain in “Saved Rounds” mirrors both the battlefield in Iraq, and the one in the mind of Farrow’s character (also named Doc) when he returns home.

Stated Farrow, “I did not think of this film being set anywhere other than desert. It needed to be the essence of desert warfare. Also, Doc’s soul needed to be in a place of desertedness.”

The experience forced Farrow to confront his own demons. “It took me two and a half years to get past my own hurt and my own feelings about my life and move back into the space of what my therapist calls ‘moral and spiritual fracturing,’ to allow myself to write the script and shoot the film,” he explains.

“There were people in combat who died who I had been close with, and some died when they got back from the war and a lot of that had to do with suicide or “Saved Rounds” is still on the film festidrugs and alcohol.” Losing comrades after val circuit. Follow @savedrounds in IG and they return, he pointed out, is sometimes Facebook for screening opportunities and harder. “It’s a much bigger pain because I more info.

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KYA FRENCH October 28, 2021 — November 3, 2021 AS THE NODE OF THE MOON CHANGES FROM 3 DEGREES TO 2 DEGREES, WE CAN EXPECT MUCH SLOWERVinateria PROGRESS AS THE GEMINI AND SAGITTARIUS AXIS COME TO END BY CHRISTMAS. THE 21ST-27TH IS LIKELY TO BE AN ADVENTUROUS TIME FOR WINDOWS OF OPPORTUNITIES TO PRESENT YOU TO THE WORLD, TO CREATE AND END, TO STOP OR START SOMETHING NEW. THE ENERGY CAN USUALLY BE FELT 2 DAYS BEFORE, AND 2 DAYS AFTER THE COSMIC EVENT. FIND TIME WHERE YOU CAN BE ALONE WITH YOURSELF, WITHOUT ANY DISTRACTIONS OR INTERRUPTIONS, FOR PEACE OF MIND BEFORE YOU START AND END YOUR DAY. SET YOUR INTENTIONS AS YOU RISE TO GET AHEAD OF THE DAY BEFORE NOONTIME. BEING STILL IS BEST TO WATCH THE SCENE UNFOLD RIGHT BEFORE YOUR EYES. TAKE NOTE OF MISSED INFORMATION; OTHERS MAY HAVE THEIR EYES ON YOU, BUT WHO HAS THEIR EYES ON THE WATCHERS? SILENTLY GATHER UP YOUR FACTS AND DETAILS TO BUILD A SOLID FOUNDATION, AND BRING IT TO THE TABLE TO STAND ON. OTHERWISE, YOU’LL JUST BE A CONVERSATION, GOING NOWHERE. SKETCH OUT A PLAN AND THEN FOLLOW THROUGH TO COMPLETION.

November is vital in many ways such as health, home, work, community outreach, and your presence.Your body is your vehicle so pay attention to the signs and signals to address the issues. Make it a week to relax, recuperate, and study a field a bit deeper while finding solitude as well as completing projects. It’s a week filled with surprises, gifts, favors, and counseling given by you or just on the receiving end as a kind gesture of “thank you.”Women will play a major role this coming month. No time for games, it’s all about being ready and pulling your bra straps up. Take care of yourself first, then the home.

Capricorn

Dec 22 – Jan 21

It’s a month where things may feel more at a standAquarius still. Patience is advised as the universe is asking you Jan 22 – Feb 19 to focus on the details with the information given that’s right in front of you. This week is fast-paced and exciting with great news, yet the energy slows down by the 9th until the 21st of the month. Drink plenty of water, rest as if you’re in an incubator waiting to develop a new concept, etc. Partnerships formed may not be relationships with what you value. Release instead and make space for the new.

Mentally you are sharp and quick on your feet.

Pisces Yet don’t lose sight of what needs to be organized.

Feb 20 – Mar 20 Being organized is essential in all aspects of life, be it at home, your profession, or planning, etc. This month, whatever new adventures you venture into, be ready to take off into new territories that raise the bar and elevate you to higher grounds. The feeling is out with the old, and in with the new. Learning is great for those who want to excel and experience the meaning of life.

Scorpio’s season is in a friendly water sign like yourself, except Scorpios don’t take things at face value, and like to release allowing bygones to be bygones, or take it to the grave. Cancer, you often like to feel needed, nurtured, sheltered, and that the home front is comfortable and peaceful. Think in terms that others may want the same in return to feel the hospitality. Being self-efficient is okay for it teaches you to stand your ground, let alone carry your weight. This month is about breaking down walls and creating your own.

Cancer

June 22–July 23

November is prime time for you to finalize, structure, and capitalize on the past 12 months July 24 – Aug 23 including this past October. This is your moment to commit on a grand scale as well as upscaling yourself in your business, personal development, partnerships. And with any affiliations, the aim is to hit a grand slam for the team with a standing ovation in Leo style. Leo, you take pride in your diligence due to the amount of work you apply yourself, so pat yourself on the back.

Leo

Virgo

Thinking about dropping a new course, creating a pamphlet, or teaching something new to the people? Or perhaps starting a new way of roundtable discussions socially, to reach more like-minded individuals. Getting to know yourself better in addition to your family history may be a question you want to investigate to have a clearer picture of the background of its roots. Seek the help you need by asking family questions, also siblings, and friends of the family. You may not want to join groups until you have scouted around before you commit.

Aug 24 – Sep 23

Libra

Aries

Word of mouth, and door to door, are the old ways to spread the news/word around within your neighborhood. Now that technology has advanced on many levels spreading the news, it has been more accessible for others to reach you in various high and low places. What message do you want to get across or how are you getting your point across for others to tune in on that frequency?

Creating another masterpiece is in store. Remember, you set the tone which is the foundation branching off into other avenues or streams of income.

Taurus

This is your season to shine in all its glory.

Schedule time off or simply call things off. When Oct 24 – Nov 22 the mind and body are not operating on the same frequency, your energy is shifted finding a way to coexist in harmony. Find out what’s off-key. Is it your mental or emotional faculty that’s undecided on what to do? Give it some time to think, yet don’t ponder but instead allow it to come to you. Intentions flow where your focus goes. Ask yourself where your focus is and is it clouding your judgment. Whatever is holding you back or whatever you’re holding on to too long, let it go. Just drop it.

Deep down in your soul what are you yearning for to assist you in your growth? What sacrifices are you willing to make to advance your self-development?

Obstacles, limitations, and the imagination of you inspiring yourself are likely to be selfimposed restrictions that you may put on yourself when it comes to making up in your mind. This week get it together mentally and structure yourself now to get you out of your funk. The funk is for your awareness. Trim down the fat, let go of the distractions and concentrate on yourself and your plans.

Mar 21 – Apr 21

What tone are you setting this month within your relationships be it a spouse, mate, friends, or comApr 22 – May 21 munities you may be affiliated with? If your attention is false, then you’re going nowhere. When you are true about your intentions, you’ll receive better results. The foundation you’re setting is vital due to the fact you’ll always need to remember who you are, where you came from, what you are doing and when you are going, and how you make people feel. This cycle of change is about the decisions and choices we make that determine our outcome. Change up if needed. Change is beneficial.

Gemini

Information along with communication is a recipe to spread an important message across the globe be it by mail, social media, or word of mouth, etc. Double-check your facts like a company doing a background check before they hire a candidate for the job. Freestyle this week, down to your appearance, the company you keep, and how you go about your day by breaking from your normal routine. Gemini, you don’t follow rules much for one, and you may have much going on in your space, also in your mind to follow anyone’s rules other than your own. Find a team that’s flexible yet with the structure on handling their affairs promptly.

May 22 – June 21

Sept 24 – Oct 23

Scorpio

Sagittarius

This coming new month is all about new, new, new in all avenues of your life. Purchasing a new home, rearranging the house, applying a fresh coat of paint, and divorcing yourself from the old to welcome in the new. Slow progress is a process to check the validity of the information before it reaches the boss’s desk to make a thorough and better decision. This is a fresh start for you to break new ground while forming new alliances and seeing things from a bird’s eye view instead of what you know. Step outside your comfort zone.

Nov 23 – Dec 21

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Studio Museum of Harlem adds to renowned Artist-inResidence Program

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According to scientific investigation, all genetic ancestr y of people living outside Africa can be traced almost completely to a single exodus of humans from that continent long ago. It’s so deep that the over whelming and overall evidence shows that the vast majority of modern human ancestr y outside of Africa comes from a single exit from Africa, said David Reich of Har vard Medical School, an author of the 142-population paper.

S o i t ’s n o s u r p r i s e t hat s o m e o f the best artists—in the world— c o m e f ro m A f r i c a a n d t h e i r d e s c e n d a n t s. It ’s a l s o n o s u r p r i s e t h a t i n t h i s ra c i s t w o r l d — o u r art is not given the same attent i o n a s w h i t e a r t i s t s. T h a t ’s w hy T h e St u d i o Mu s e u m i n Ha r l e m i s s o i m p o r t a n t a n d p rov i d i n g a s p a c e f o r a r t i s t s t o g ro w , e v e n m o re e s s e n t i a l .

Cameron Granger, Jacob Mason-Macklin, and Qualeasha Wood have been included in the renowned multigenerational artist-in-residence community.

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ly upheld the careers of so many artists of African descent.” “(Never) As I Was : Studio Museum Artists in Residence 2020–21” at MoMA PS1 features new work by the Museum’s 2020–21 cohort of artists, Widline Cadet, Texas Isaiah, Genesis Jerez, and Jacolby Satter white.

Wi t h p ra c t i ces spanning new m e d i a, p a i n ting, s c u l p t u re, and photogra p hy , Ca d e t , Te x a s Is a i a h, Je rez , a n d Satt e rw h i t e p ro p o s e dynamic ways of e x p e r i e n ci n g t i m e, s p a c e, and locality set i n t o t h i s c u rre n t m o m e n t o f c o m p l e x t ra n s -

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Classic$ fuses hip hop and classical music in fresh new way

By JORDANNAH ELIZABETH Special to the AmNews

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, New York City native Michael Vincent Waller was unable to tour his classical album, “Moments,” which led him to experiment and create music he never believed was possible. “I had listened to hip hop music for over 20 years, but never thought I could contribute anything to its history. I found my passion in music at 18, and that was composition, piano at first, and eventually specifically contemporary avant-garde minimalism,” expresses Waller.

Nonetheless, Waller discovered inspiration in hip hop, combining his classical compositions with hip hop tracks and creating a new fusion genre. He embarked on the project entitled Classic$ in collaboration with the powerful hip hop producer, Lex Luger, who has worked with many of the biggest names in hip hop including Jay Z and Kanye West.

“I could remix them with collaborators, reshape them, and even distill them into new sounds in popular genres, such as hip hop/rap/trap (which was my listening diet for a longtime)––it seemed there was

something this music had to say with even amongst a large variety and huge volume of new music that dominate this large sector of global listeners. This became a new sound to frame,” said Waller in a press release.

The eight-track album remixes songs featuring singer, Jaydonclover, Valee and Lil’ Gotit.

The songs are crafted with the serene and sensual sounds of cello, violin and piano drawn from Waller’s previous compositions and overlaid trap hip hop vocals and drumbeats.

The blending of two genres that seem to be polar opposites in the minds of many artists and music lovers are melded together masterfully on Classic$, an album that offers a new perspective of musical possibilities and artistic exploration.

“I want to take the same attention to detail associated with classical and chamber music and apply it to one of the most viable, listenable, and casual genres, i.e. trap,” says MVW “It’s got freshness and energy, but there are a whole bunch of nuances and details you don’t typically hear in modern rap. I’m trying to take the best of both worlds.”

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Artists Jacob Mason-Macklin, Qualeasha Wood, and Cameron Granger

al and material support from the Studio Museum from October 2021 through September 2022.

Thelma Golden, director and chief curator of the Studio Museum, says, “We’re excited to welcome Cameron Granger, Jacob Mason-Macklin, and Qualeasha Wood to the distinguished roster of the Studio Museum’s artists in residence. The Artist-in-Residence program is foundational to the institution and has a deep impact on the careers of emerging artists. After five decades of providing institutional support for working artists, developing leading scholarship around their practices, and presenting their work to new audiences, we are able to reflect on and take great pride in how the program has consistent-

formation. Each artist took on t h e c h a l l e n g e o f t h i n k i n g c r i ti c a l l y a b o u t t h e t e n s i o n s, p o s s i b i l i t i e s, a n d o p p o r t u n i t i e s b e t w e e n p r i v a t e v s. p u b l i c a n d i n t e r i o r v s. e x t e r i o r, q u e s t i o n i n g h o w t h e s e b i n a r i e s m i g h t b e e x p a n d e d , re i m a g i n e d , a n d re n e g o t i a t e d t h ro u g h a n d b e y o n d t h e i r w o r k . “(Never) As I Was” is a tender and lyrical exploration of family histories, memoir, and diasporic approaches to both time and space. In reflecting on their private pasts, these artists have subsequently created works that look to a world that is at once achingly the same and never as it was.

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DARIUS JONES, MCLEAN @ SISTA’S, BREATHE, SWEET LOU 95, ARTURO O’FARRILL Reeves, drummer Will Calhoun, and spoken word artist Kewulay Kamara.

“I am looking forward to playing at Sista’s. It’s my favorite place: they understand the music and culture and they give Big love,” said McLean.

Alto saxophonist Darius Jones whose There will be two sets at 9 p.m. and performances and recordings find a way 10:30 p.m. Admission is $20 in advance. to ignite emotions while bringing aware- For reservations call 718-398-1766. ness to the mind will perform two nights Two sets, 9 p.m. and 10:30 p.m., $20 in on Oct. 27 and 28, at The Green Wood advance, Call (718) 398-1766.

Cemetery’s Catacombs in Brooklyn. He will be performing pieces from his soonOn October 31, at Mt. Olive Baptist to be released album, “Raw Demoon Church (201 Malcolm X Blvd., 120th Alchemy (A Lone Operation).” The per- Street), at 3 p.m. Thure trombonist, formance will draw upon the work of composer, arranger and community musical icons, including Sun-Ra, Ornet- activist Craig Harris will perform with te Coleman, Roscoe Mitchell, and Geor- BREATHE, a 12-piece string ensemgia Anne Muldrow. “I wanted to capture ble and his trombone. There is a mesa moment in time,” said Jones. “To crys- sage in their music and an urgency to talize the beginning of something and listen and activate your action chord. the end of something else.”

“BREATHE is a sonic statement in reAttendees will ride on Green-Wood’s sponse to the long term and current trolley to and from the Main Entrance injustices inflicted upon African Amer(25th street and Fifth Avenue) and the ican people. BREATHE is offered to Catacombs. There are two 50-minute support the community in staying reconcerts per evening: 6:30–8:00 p.m. silient and persistent in fighting for and 8:00–9:30 p.m. Visit the website justice.” Free admission with Eventwww.green-wood.com.0 brite invitation. This is the link for tickets. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ On Oct. 30, Rene McLean and Music breathe-were-still-stand-strong-tickof the Spirit Band will return to one ets-196521720757. NY State CDC of New York City’s most historic jazz guidelines will be observed. clubs, Sista’s Place (456 Nostrand Ave.) in Brooklyn. Now in its 26th season.

On November 2, the legendary inMcLean, who like his mentor pianist novative alto saxophonist and comand composer Randy Weston, brings poser Lou Donaldson, fondly known spirited rhythms of the ancestors to as “Sweet Lou” Or “Papa Lou” will celeach set with hard swinging riffs rem- ebrate his 95th birthday at Dizzy’s jazz iniscent of his father alto saxophonist club (Jazz at Lincoln Center 60th Street Jackie McLean. and Broadway). He is known for his The multi-reed instrumentalist, com- blues approach with a kick of funk. His poser, band leader offers a surprise nickname “Sweet Lou,” is because he element when it comes to what instru- plays those ballads oh, so sweet somements he may play. Of course, his alto is one in the audience yelled out dam always at hand but then again, he may “Sweet Lou.” Without hesitation he go to his tenor or soprano saxophones, says, alto saxophonist Charlie Parker or flute and perhaps the indigenous was his “greatest influence.” instruments the ney (middle Eastern Donaldson, a native of Badin, North flute) or shakuhachi (Japanese flute).

Carolina, attended North Carolina The Spirit Band includes percussion- A&T State University in Greensboro, ist Baba Neil Clarke, the explosive South where he was a member of the band African trumpeter Lesedi Ntsane, pi- but his main interest was baseball. He anist Humbert Eaves III, bassist Nat was a star on the A&T team with hopes

4th annual ‘Autumn in New York Jazz Fest’ in Harlem Oct. 30 On Saturday Oct. 30 from 2-5:30 p.m., the New York State Jazz Literacy and Art Society will livestream its 4th annual Autumn in New York Jazz Festival live on YouTube from Harlem Heritage Tours, located at 104 Malcolm X Blvd, between 115 And 116th Streets.

The broadcast will feature Dr. John ’Satchmo’ Mannan’s Easy Street Band, featuring Dr. John Satchmo

Mannan, vocalist; Terri Davis, vocalist; saxophonist Al Flythe; Misha Tysiganov on piano; Larry Roland on bass; and Rusell Carter on drums.

This free, live event is supported by the Jazz Foundation of America. Listeners can tune in for free on Saturday at 2 p.m. at www.youtube.com/channel/ UCJhOImcp1ed_3JXkfrQ-gOQ.

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of playing in the big leagues until an injury put him in the bleachers. During his long association with Blue Note Records, the NEA Jazz Master recorded his biggest hit “Alligator Boogaloo” (his good friend and Hammond B-3 organist Dr. Lonnie Smith also performed on the album), the title track from the (1967) album an anthem for jazzheads and R&B lovers. He was inducted into the North Carolina Music Hall of Fame in 2012.

The NEA Jazz Master’s performance includes a few jokes, “no rock and roll, no fusion, no Kenny G just straightahead jazz,” said in his distinctive highpitched voice, along with a few belted out blues tunes with humorous lyrics.

Sweet Lou has been a mentor to six generations of musicians and the numbers keep rising. For reservations visit the website jazz.org/dizzys Recently, the pianist and composer Arturo O’Farrill returned to midtown Manhattan’s Birdland jazz club after a forced 11-month hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This return engagement wasn’t related to his long running weekly Sunday evening residency with his Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, it was to introduce the audience to his just released album “dreaming in lions….” (Blue Note Records). It is composed in 13 movements and features The Afro Latin Jazz Ensemble, a 10-piece scaled down version of his renowned Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra.

The album encompasses two inspired multi-movement suites that O’Farrill conceived in collaboration with the Cuban Malpaso Dance Company: “Despedida,” a meditation on farewells, and “Dreaming in Lions,” inspired by Ernest Hemingway’s novella “The Old Man and the Sea.” “Hemingway’s book was a great inspiration in my composing the music for Dreaming in Lions,” said O’Farrill. “The old man felt alienated at the end of his life, he had lots of prowess but felt lost. He wrote the book off the coast of Cuba and experienced the shores of Africa.” As I recall the book the old man was early in life a strong proud fisherman, but time had become his enemy. “I want my music to evoke memories, to bring back sights and sounds and affect people’s lives,” added the composer.

Two inspired multi-movement suites O’Farrill conceived in collaboration with “Despedida,” a meditation on farewells and goodbyes in five movements. “Del Mar” is mellow, “Intruso” picks up the pace with a swinging clarinet, trumpet blaring, percussions leaping and piano hittin, what a tremendous hip melodic rhythmic flow it’s all there the brass section gives it a big band sound in spurts. “Your Beauty Cocoon Is My Confusion,” flute low key, trombone smooth then in comes dancing Latin beat, the sounds, the rhythms are layered in a beautiful concerto, moves like a New York salsa Hotel Diplomat dancefest but no sweat, not rushed, a mix of rhythms dance worthy.

“I am playing both piano and keyboards on this project. The keyboards allow me to create different textures and change colors which is very important,” explains O’Farrill. He combines the music traditions of Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Mexico, and the African diaspora, leading some to describe his music as “Pan Latin.” He responds, “I have always been a firm believer, wherever enslaved people were, they brought along magic, it was bigger than hatred and that music continues to shape our lives. As Cornel West stated, enslaved people gave us love and culture.” The pianist has worked with the Malpaso Dance Company in the past and is friends with the Fernado Saez, executive director and dancer and co-founder Daileidys Carrazana.

“Their dancing is very bluesy incorporating ballet, modern dance and they know all the Afro Cuban dances, as well,” noted O’Farrill.

After years of recording some extremely important and memorable albums, the pianist releases this debut album on the legendary Blue Note Records label. “It’s a huge honor to be a part of this incredible record label, it shaped my musical life with my heroes like Lee Morgan and Wayne Shorter.”

He adds, “It is deeply meaningful to have my wife and two sons perform with me on this debut, this is a great moment to share with them.”

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AmNews FOOD Talking SCHOP! Raleigh Realness, The Finale KYSHA HARRIS Food Editor

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Yep. Like a “Real Housewives” reunion, this is the third and final installment of my long Labor Day Weekend in Raleigh, North Carolina. A truly liberating weekend of togetherness with like-minded people, who happen to be my colleagues and now friends, that I will not soon forget.

Last I left you, our group spent a day in Greensboro eating, drinking and vintage shopping. Victoria and I returned to Raleigh and joined my friend Dawn in Cary to dine at Academy Street Bistro for the best shrimp and grits I have ever eaten.

And now, without any further ado, our final night in Raleigh…

Kristin and Lauryn returned to Raleigh in need of a remedy, a cure in the form of grease and carbohydrates after their raucous wedding celebration in Greensboro. Enter Cook Out, a fast food chain, mostly in the South. Burgers, fries, onion rings, hush puppies and some wicked good custard shakes were

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consumed at 10 a.m. No judgments.

We digested our “breakfast” by the pool and journeyed on a failed run to get tattoos before the turn up for our final night began. I made an amuse-bouche of our Brewery Bhavana leftovers to go with cocktails before we jumped in an Uber to downtown Raleigh.

First stop, The Ark Royal, a tiki bar, for some banging drinks, an impromptu photo sesh (at least for me it was) and a “who wore it better” moment with someone wearing Kristin’s dress. Clearly, Kristin. We stayed for one round only because an epic meal was awaiting us.

We sauntered up to Cortez, a seafood restaurant that looks like it should be in South Beach with its open-air space and modern design.

While we did not have a reservation, it was the beginning of dinner service and the bar was open seating. Done!

After some smart, unique, stupidgood craft cocktails like my CBD infused watermelon cooler…WE… WENT…IN! From the bread + weed (herb-nori-anchovy) butter and dozens of North Carolina oysters, through almost all of their small plates like hog snapper ceviche and charred octopus, and ending with some pretty ridiculous fried churros with caramel sauce and cinnamon sugar, we were not there to play.

We walked our Cortez meal off in route to an arcade and bar where I got reacquainted with Space Invaders and Centipede. Then another saunter to Watts & Ward for a nightcap.

And with that, Raleigh was a wrap! Thank you, Victoria. See you again soon.

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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Leigh Whipper, an early star of stage and screen

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substantial role in “Of Mice and Men,” which brought him considerable notice and praise. But it was as crab man in “Porgy,” in which he was a vocal vendor selling all sorts of fish that was a highlight of the production, so much so that later it was included in the film version.

In 1943, he was in the cast of “The Oxbow Incident,” acting alongside Henry Fonda and

committee of the Negro Division of the Hollywood Victory Committee. His film career flourished in the 1940s before and after the war in such popular motion pictures as “Lost Boundaries” in 1949, where he portrayed a janitor; “The Shrike” in 1955, “The Young Don’t Cry” in 1957, and Lodi in the Peter Gunn feature, “Streetcar Jones.”

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Whether credited or uncredited, African Americans have consistently popped up in films, and Leigh Whipper was among the pacesetters in these cameo appearances. You probably saw him in countless productions without knowing who he was or the challenges he faced making it as a Black actor in Hollywood.

Whipper was born in Charleston, South Carolina in 1875 or 1876, depending on the source. His father was William James Whipper, a noted abolitionist, trial lawyer, and municipal judge.

Frances Rollin Whipper, his mother, was a writer. He attended public school in the nation’s capital and later earned a law degree from Howard University Law School in 1895. Rather than pursue what appeared to be a promLeigh Whipper (Fair Use Image) 20th Century Fox. 1943 ising career in the legal arena, he chose to follow his dream in theater. later in “Mission to Moscow” Lois Mailou Jones, painted an Interestingly, Whipper never that year receiving accolades oil on canvas portrait of him really studied acting and was not for his portrayal of Emper- that’s at the Brooklyn Museum, a drama student, but by watch- or Haile Selassie. His scene in and entitled “Dans un Café a ing others perform, he picked which he delivered a speech Paris.” According to a review up style and technique from the before the League of Nations on the museum’s webpage, leading actors of the day. This has often been cited as hall- “The artist’s portrayal of a penkeen observation was wedded mark in his remarkable career. sive Whipper answered Alain with his voracious reading and By this time, he was a prom- Locke’s call for Black artists to interpretation of the great writ- inent member of the Actors’ create ennobling representaers, including the famous poet Equity Association, and its first tions of African Americans.”

Paul Laurence Dunbar. He made Black member in 1913. Along He was an inspiration for a his acting debut in stock theater with his activism in in Equity, number of aspiring actors and in Philadelphia in 1899 with a role he was a member of the Amer- artists and was even among in “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” based on ican Federation of Radio Art- the notables who spirited JuHarriet Beecher Stowe’s novel. It ists (1937) and the Screen lieanna Richardson’s dream to was as a member of the Georgia Actors’ Guild. Of even great- create the now highly successMinstrels that he made his first er significance, he was a found- ful website, HistoryMakers.

Broadway appearance. In 1920, ing member of the Negro Actors It was an early interview with he had his first film role as an Guild of America in 1937. Ac- him while she was a student at Indian fakir in Oscar Micheaux’s companying him in this accom- Brandeis in which his narrative silent film “The Symbol of the plishment was actress Fredi was so compelling and set her a Unconquered.”

Washington, who was his lead- lifelong pursuit.

He appeared in a number of ing lady in the Broadway proWriter Michael Sragow in his productions with small parts duction of “Lysistrata.” review of “The Oxbow Incident” before landing a more Whipper, during World War II, for the Library of was a member of the steering

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America recounts this powerful scene from the film and Whipper’s emotional performance. “Whipper, who created the crabbed stable-hand Crooks in John Steinbeck’s stage version of ‘Of Mice and Men’ (1937) and perfected the part in Lewis Milestone’s transcendent movie (1939), conjures an oasis of moral sanity with the tall, thin, wraith-like Sparks, the town’s handyman and unofficial preacher.

(Trotti and Wellman wisely remove Clark’s mealymouthed white minister.)

“As Sparks recalls his brother’s lynching,” Sragow continues, “Whipper’s haunted delivery cuts to the bone.

After this latest lynching is done, Whipper drops to his knees. As the men scatter and leave him alone in the suddenly silent clearing, Sparks sings with personal urgency to each of the hanged men: ‘You got to go through Lonesome Valley/ You got to go there by yourself.’ The words hover over the men who ride off. There’s no better evidence of the value an alert director like Wellman and an instinctive talent like Whipper can add to an archetypal situation. They elevate the scene to a poetic lamentation.”

Lessons from Dunbar’s poems and theater performances that nourished his dream may have been in play during this memorable scene.

Whipper had many stage appearances after his Hollywood days were over in the early 1970s.

When Richardson found him, he was living in Harlem where he died in 1975, just shy of his 99th birthday. His daughter, Leighla Frances Whipper, was a calypso songwriter and music publisher.

ACTIVITIES FIND OUT MORE Both the BlackPast.org and the Library of America offer profiles that chronicle Whipper’s acting on stage and screen.

DISCUSSION It must have been quite a leap on stage without any training and it probably was, and it may surface in the responses from our readers.

PLACE IN CONTEXT Whipper was born in the late 1870s and lived until the 1970s, so he was a full sweep of the 20th century.

THIS WEEK IN BLACK HISTORY Oct. 29, 1969: The Supreme Court ordered an end to all school segregation, immediately.

Oct. 30, 1945: Jackie Robinson signed with the Brooklyn Dodgers, officially breaking Major League Baseball’s color barrier.

Oct. 30, 1979: Richard Arrington was elected the first Black mayor of Birmingham, Alabama.

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Health EmblemHealth hosts Harlem Health and Wellness Expo EmblemHealth, one of the nation’s largest nonprofit health insurers, working alongside local elected officials and community organizations, recently held its Healthier Futures Wellness Expo in Harlem, New York. Thousands of Harlem residents and families attended the event where COVID-19 and flu vaccinations were provided in addition to dozens of other medical screenings, including breast cancer, diabetes, and HIV screenings, as well as a job fair, live entertainment, food, and other activities.

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Religion & Spirituality Elease Cooke, 102––a life well lived

By JULIAN K. BRAXTON Special to the AmNews “CAREFUL THIS IS GOD’S PROPERTY” were the words framed by the bedside of Mrs. Elease Cooke.

For 102 years she held this title.

The seventh of 17 children, Elease was born to the late Richmond and Lottie Halley Carter on Feb. 15, 1919, in Camden, South Carolina. For over a century, God took care of Elease and surrounded her with love and bountiful blessings every step of the way. On Wednesday evening, Oct. 6, 2021, God saw fit to call His servant on home from labor to reward.

Elease was reared in a Christian home filled with the love of God, love of family and love of people. Following in the footsteps of many of her older siblings, Elease moved to New York City in the 1940s. She married Julian Cooke in 1941, and from this union three children were born: Inez, Barbara, and Patricia.

In 1956, Mrs. Cooke joined Great-

er Central Baptist Church in Harlem.

For over 65 years, she was a devoted servant leader to the congregation of Greater Central. She was a member of the Female Ushers Ministry for over 60 years. Her beautiful smile, soulful spirit, palpable warmth, and energetic presence blessed all whom she greeted each Sunday. She was also a devoted member of the United Ushers Benevolent League of New York State and Vicinity.

Mrs. Cooke loved her family, and her house was always the go-to gathering place for family and friends during holiday celebrations. She was an exceptional cook, and the love that she baked into every dish filled every soul.

For the last six years, she lived at the Isabella Center in Washington Heights, a place where she continued her ministry for loving God’s people.

Her strong faith, unfailing optimism and “Jesus Joy” were an inspiration for so many of the staff and residents.

In 2019, Mrs. Cooke was featured in the Amsterdam News on the oc-

casion of the 100th birthday. When asked what the secret to her long life is, Mrs. Cooke responded, “It’s simple, family, faith, hope and love, and kindness, yes, always being kind to others is the only way to live.”

The service of praise and thanksgiving for the life of Mrs. Cooke was held on Saturday, Oct. 16, 2021, at Greater Central Baptist Church in Harlem. Pastor Frank Hawkins preached a soul-stirring eulogy, “A Faithful Servant Receives Faithful Reward.” Rev. Frederick Crawford, pastor of Union Grove Baptist Church, Bronx, New York presided

over the service, and grandson Julian Kenneth Braxton of Boston, Massachusetts shared a special tribute. In addition, Guest Minister of Music Elder Terence Kitchings and Minster Kenneth Gainey gave special musical tributes at the beautiful homegoing celebration. The interment took place at Mt. Kisco Cemetery in Valhalla, New York. Isaiah Owens Funeral Service of New York was in charge of the arrangements.

She leaves to cherish her memory three devoted daughters, three sisters, one brother, three grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren.

Rev. Jesse Jackson celebrates 80th birthday in NYC at NAN

Elease Cooke

(Bill Moore photos)

On Friday, civil rights leader the Rev. Al Sharpton and the National Action Network (NAN) hosted a birthday celebration and book signing in honor of civil rights leader and social justice icon the Rev. Jesse Jackson at the NAN headquarters in Harlem.

A mentor to Sharpton, Jackson named the National Action Network’s Harlem headquarters “The House of Justice” in 1991. A prominent civil rights leader for over 60

years, Jackson mounted a nationwide campaign for president in 1984, and again in 1988. He turned 80 on Oct. 8.

Elected officials stood with Sharpton and NAN as they saluted the work Jackson has done to advance civil rights. Sharpton signed copies of his book, “Rise Up: Confronting A Country at the Crossroads,” newly released on paperback. Jackson signed copies of his book, “Keeping Hope Alive.”

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not about the NBA, not about any organization. This is about my life and what I am choosing to do.”

He was listed as “ineligible to play” in the injury report and didn’t play in the Nets season-opener against the Milwaukee Bucks Tuesday. Two weeks ago, the Nets announced Irving wouldn’t be permitted to play or practice with the team until complying with NYC’s vaccine mandate.

“Kyrie has made a personal choice, and we respect his individual right to choose,” a Nets’ statement read. “Currently, the choice restricts his ability to be a full-time member of the team, and we will not permit any member of our team to participate with part-time availability.”

Mike Bass, a league spokesman, said last week that “any player who elects not to comply with local vaccination mandates will not be paid for games that he misses.”

This situation is causing friction with the NBA’s player’s union which has refused instituting a league-wide vaccine mandate, although 96% have already done so.

“Without a doubt, losing a player of Kyrie’s caliber hurts,” said Nets’ general manager, Sean Marks. “I’m not going to deny that, but at the end of the day, our

THE NEW YORK AMSTERDAM NEWS focus, our coaches’ and organization’s focus needs to be on those players that are going to be involved here and participating fully.”

At the rally on Sunday afternoon the crowd bumrushed the forecourt of the Barclays Center, and tried to enter the building. Hawk Newsome of Black Lives Matter New York encouraged the vociferous crowd to “Stand with Kyrie.”

Barclays Center workers rushed to close the doors, as basketball fans stood bewildered on line, as rally coorganizer activist Rev. Kevin McCall said, “We are here to stand in solidarity with Kyrie Irving.”

Hawk Newsome told the Amsterdam News, “I am saying no to the vaccine mandate, you are not going to force me to take a vaccine.”

As NYPD top brass and rank and file stood on the fringes of the burgeoning crowd and swarmed Flatbush Avenue, Newsome charged, “If you look across the country it is Black people who are not taking the vaccine.” While arguably the white percentile of unvaccinated is also considerable, the BLM organizer continued that the unvaccinated Black folk will be subjected to restrictions if they want to get on “public transport, and eat out, or go to parent-teacher night, they won’t have jobs to support themselves…so we need to pay attention to that.”

The next day, Monday morning, an estimated 1,000-plus crowd including municipal workers, police, EMS, and

firefighters walked the Brooklyn Bridge protesting the enforced mandate due to kick in on Friday, October 29. Some said they did not trust the vaccine or the government. Others said that they just wanted the choice between testing or the vaccine.

All the media coverage, the millions of dollars worth of commercials, political discussions has not swayed thousands of city workers and medical staff, despite the threat of losing their jobs.

“Your vaccine you won’t force…

My body, My choice,” was the refrain chanted by many on Sunday. “We the people, will not comply.” Others proclaimed that they were, “Not anti-vaccine, anti-mandate.”

At Sunday’s protest former Bronx City Councilmember Andy King told the Amsterdam News, “I’m here because a man called Kyrie Irving is not afraid to stand on principle…and say ‘My right is my right’… someone wants to take on their spiritual belief.”

Nation of Islam’s Brother Henry Muhammad of Muhammad Mosque Brooklyn No. 7C spoke about other therapies developed in the world that have not been acknowledged. “They are trying to use money, and the threat of money, to make us take something that is not right for our bodies. Kyrie Irving is one brother that is standing up listening to the voice of god within himself, and because he can attract millions, they want to make him an example.”

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Stating that she is a fired anti-mandate teacher Mitzie Holstein carried a sign saying, “I did not take the jab, so they took my job.”

“I’m here in support of the community, in support of the people, of those who have lost jobs…our rights, in support of choices that we choose for ourselves,” said activists Shanduke McPhatter, founder of GMACC (Gangstas Making Astronomical Community Changes). “I am also someone who has not taken the vaccine because of all the things I believe it could do to my body.”

The Brooklyn Borough president independent candidate also added to those have got the vaccine, “Take the shot, that’s your choice and I support that.

“There are teams coming to play the Nets that don’t have the same mandate that Kyrie and the Nets do. Kyrie should be able to play. His contract did not say he had to take a vaccine in order to play.”

While not speaking on Sunday, Irving explained prior, “I’m a human being first. Obviously, living in this public sphere, it’s just a lot of questions about what’s going on in the world of Kyrie. I think I just would love to keep that private, handle it the right way with my team and go forward together with the plan. You think I really want to lose money? You think I really want to give up on my dream to go after a championship? You think I really just want to give up my job? You think I really want to sit at home?”

THE PEOPLE’S ADVOCATE From the streets to City Hall, Jumaane is fighting for New Yorkers and delivering real results.

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the key issues on the table.

According to a PIX 11/Emerson poll released Monday, crime is the top issue for New York City voters followed by homelessness, jobs, COVID-19, health care, the environment and schools.

“In Central Harlem, Southeast Queens, Black, Central Brooklyn, North Shore, Staten Island and South Bronx where you have concentrations of working class Black folks who have what I would argue are really kitchen table, kind of bread-and-butter issues,” said Anthony Thomas, executive director of the nonpartisan voter engagement organization Show up, Turn Out. “They want public safety, they want good housing, and they want economic health and/or job creation and they certainly want education right in their communities.”

Mayor The race for mayor is down to the wire between Brooklyn Borough President and Democratic candidate Eric Adams and Guardian Angels founder Republican Curtis Sliwa; both participated in their second debate on Tuesday. The PIX 11/Emerson poll found Adams leading Sliwa 61% to 25% among likely voters. Fourteen percent say they are undecided.

In their final days on the campaign trail, Adams and Sliwa are making media appearances and reaching out to voters to make their cases before next Tuesday’s Election Day. “I want those 10 million dreams that are ready to wake up to know, just as my dreams are becoming a reality, I want yours to become a reality,” Adams said to voters during Tuesday’s mayoral debate. “This is the greatest city and the greatest country on the globe and I know what we can do. The way goes New York goes America and the way goes America goes the globe.”

Sliwa said in one interview that even though the polls point to a victory for Adams, he’s still moving forward, determined for a victory of his own.

“I’ve run across so many Democrats who say, ‘Curtis, why are you knocking yourself out? Isn’t Eric Adams already the mayor? Because he’s announced himself as mayor, everyone assumes he’s gonna be mayor,” Sliwa said.

Despite Adams and Sliwa being the two top contenders for mayor, seven other candidates are also running: Raja M. Flores of the Humanity United Party, Quanda S. Francis of the Empowerment Party, Fernando Mateo of the Save Our City Party, William Pepitone of the Conservative Party, Stacey H. Prussman of the Libertarian Party, Catherine Rojas of the Socialism and Liberation Party, and Skiboky S. Stora of the Out Lawbreaker Party.

THE NEW YORK AMSTERDAM NEWS State Attorney General Letitia James in a 2019 special election. Williams announced weeks ago he’s exploring a run for governor.

“As your public advocate, I’m ready to continue holding our leadership accountable in this moment of transition for New York City,” Williams said in an email to supporters. “Our City needs housing justice, criminal justice reform, and equity in educational opportunity.”

Williams faces three other opponents including Libertarian Devin Balkind and Devi E. Nampiaparampil, who is running on the Republican and Save Our City Party lines. Williams is also facing Brooklyn community leader Anthony Herbert, who is running on the Conservative and Independent Party lines. He’s received numerous endorsements from law enforcement unions.

“The public advocate should be that person that’s the cheerleader bringing everybody together, being able to go into any community and sit down with any and everybody,” Herbert said during a debate earlier this month. “I would approach it from that standpoint.”

Comptroller Four candidates are running to replace Scott Stringer for comptroller.

The frontrunner is City Councilmember and Democratic candidate Brad Lander. He received major endorsements from Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and U.S. Elizabeth Warren. This month, Lander said he wants to set up a money tracker to track the billions of dollars in federal aid the city received for the COVID19 pandemic.

“The money that has been spent has been a random wish-list as opposed to a strategic approach,” Lander said in an interview.

Other candidates in the race for comptroller include Conservative Paul A. Rodriguez and John Tabacco running on the Independent and Libertarina party lines.

Borough President Brooklyn—While Adams is running to be New York City’s next mayor, four candidates are running to replace him as Brooklyn Borough president. Democrat Antonio Reynoso beat out several candidates in the primary election. His campaign has focused on equity, COVID-19 recovery, affordable housing, and environmental and racial justice.

“The single most pressing issue facing Brooklyn is building back from the COVID pandemic,” Reynoso said.

“Here in Brooklyn, we’ve always been defined by our diversity, the strength of our communities, and our resiliency in the face of hardship. But to put us on a stronger path forward, we need bold, unapologetically progressive leadership fighting for truly affordable housing, support for our small businesses, Public Advocate economic justice, and action to address In the race for public advocate, Ju- long standing inequities, from our maane Williams is running for a full schools to our hospitals to our crimiterm after winning the seat vacated by nal justice system.”

Concourse Village, Highbridge, Morris Heights, Mount Eden, Morrisania)— With Vanessa Gibson on the path to victory for Bronx Borough president, Democrat Althea Steves hopes to fill the City Council seat Gibson is vacating.

She’s been building her campaign on the issues of housing, youth developBronx—City Councilmember and ment and justice reform. Stevens faces Democratic candidate Vanessa L. Republican candidate Kajara R. Boyd.

Gibson is on her way to making hisDistrict 35 (Fort Greene, Clinton Hill, tory as the first Black person and the first woman to serve as Bronx Borough Crown Heights, Prospect Heights, Bedpresident. Along with COVID-19 re- ford Stuyvesant)—Term limits are forccovery and affordable housing, Gibson ing City Councilmember Laurie Cumbo says employment is one of the top to vacate her seat making way for Democratic candidate Crystal Hudson. She’s issues in her campaign.

“I’m excited,” she said during a tele- received major endorsements from the vised interview last week. “I’m ready United Federation of Teachers, 32BJ for the next assignment and at the end SEIU and DC37. Hudson faces Regina of the day I want people to give me a Kinsey of the Common Sense Part. chance. For those who didn’t support District 36 (Bedford Stuyvesant, me, watch me work and give me a chance to show you what I’m all about Northern Crown Heights)—Demoand take this borough to the next level.” cratic candidate Chi A. Osse is running Gibson faces Republican Janelle M. unopposed to replace Councilmember King and Conservative Samuel Ravelo. Robert Cornegy. Osse wants to defund the NYPD and improve housing, health Queens—Democrat and current care and education in the district.

Queens Borough President Donovan District 40 (Crown Heights, East Richards wants to stay in his position after only being in office for a little less Flatbush, Flatbush, Kensington, Midthan a year. He won the seat last No- wood, Prospect Park, and Prospect vember during a special election when Lefferts Gardens)—Democrat Rita C. former Queens Borough President Ma- Joseph and Republican, Conservalinda Katz was elected district attorney tive Constantin Jean-Pierre are on the for Queens County. Issues Richards is ballot to replace Councilmember Mapassionate about include affordable thieu Eugene. Joseph is a public school teacher who wants to improve educahousing and fixing public transit.

Richards faces Thomas J. Zmich, who tion, increase affordable housing and is running on the Conservative, Repub- achieve social and racial justice. lican and Save Our City Party lines.

District 49 (North Shore, Staten Island)—Councilmember Debi Rose District Attorney Manhattan—Democratic candidate made history in 2010 when she was Alvin Bragg is the front runner in the elected the first African American to district attorney race in Manhattan to higher office from Staten Island. Demreplace Cy Vance, who is not seeking ocrats want to keep her legacy going reelection. Bragg, who is former New with Black female candidate Kamillah York State chief deputy attorney gener- Hanks. She faces Jason Price, a Black al and former federal prosecutor, beat man, of the Ordinary People Party, and out eight candidates in the primaries. Republican Patricia Rondinelli.

If elected, Bragg will be the first African Special Election American to serve as Manhattan DA. NYS Senate (District 30, ManhatHe faces Republican Thomas Kenniff.

Bragg is representing Gwen Carr, the tan)—With Brian Benjamin’s selection mother of Eric Garner, in the judicial to serve as New York State lieutenant inquiry into the death of her son in an governor, three candidates are vying to fill the 30th District state senate effort to hold the NYPD accountable.

“I can’t think of a case that’s been seat in Harlem he vacated. Democrat more emotionally significant to me as Cordell Cleare, Independent candia lawyer,” Bragg said in a published in- date Shana Harmongoff and Repubterview this week. “The fact that we sit lican Oz Sultan are all on the ballot. here, seven years after Mr. Garner was Cleare, who previously served as chief killed and don’t know basic facts, that’s of staff for former State Sen. Bill Perkins, was named the Democratic noman embarrassment.” inee for the race by members of the Manhattan Democratic Party.

City Council “This is a beloved and special disDistrict 7 (Central Harlem)—Democratic candidate Kristen Jordan beat trict that contains my home commulongtime politician Bill Perkins in the nity,” Cleare said in an interview with primaries. Issues she’s centering on in the AmNews. “We have to get on the her campaign are police accountabil- road to economic recovery. In parts of ity, affordable housing and distribu- the district there was already an imtion of wealth. She faces Republican balance and now it’s been exacerbated by the pandemic. Someone has to Alpheaus Marcus. go in there and fight but we can only District 16 (Claremont, Concourse, do this together.”

Other candidates in the race for Brooklyn Borough president include Shanduke McPhatter of the Voice for Change Party, Menachem M. Raitport running on the Conservative and Republican Party lines, and Anthony L. Jones of the Rent is 2 Damn High Party.

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Adams

and it should be unpredictable, and that is the combination of proper policing. If bad guys believe they only have to look out for blue and white cars, that is a disadvantage to public safety.

“We are not going to have a plainclothes unit that was aggressive, cowboy style. We’re going to have better trained officers with conflict resolution skills, and they’re going to wear their video cameras so we can video every interaction that happens between the public and police to make sure they are complying with the right rules.”

Comments from the community seem to present something of a generational split.

Some members of the older generation have said that they are quite comfortable and even excited about the Adams’ enforcement background. Some

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dealers that are really having guns coming to the northern state. And then we must also have an intervention plan of dealing with the violence with precision policing and targeting those dangerous gangs, getting them out of gangs, but also going after those who refuse to get out of gangs and are wreaking havoc and violence in our city.”

Amsterdam News readers asked us to get a direct response from the candidate as to whether or not he would bring back the controversial Street Crimes Unit or a facsimile thereof.

“There is a plainclothes anti-gun unit.

Policing is supposed to be predictive,

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The Politics of Liberation” had this to say about Black power, “The adoption of the concept of Black power is one of the most legitimate and healthy developments in American politics and race relations in our time… It is a call for Black people in this country to unite, to recognize their heritage, to build a sense of community. It is a call for Black people to begin to define their own goals,

to lead their own organizations and to support those organizations. It is a call to reject the racist institutions and values of this society… Black power therefore calls for Black people to consolidate behind their own so that they can bargain from a position of strength.”

They further state this about Black power.

“It does not mean merely putting Black

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of the young people are a little more cautious about what that means for them given the oft-times dire history between the NYPD and the Black community.

Adams said, “Well, their feelings are due to the historical[ly] negative relationships with police and communities, but what I would encourage them to do is read my background, and not go based on soundbites or based on the political rhetoric. This is an opportunity to read and ask the question ‘What type of mayor will Eric be?’ Look at that after been arrested and beat by police officers [as a teen], I didn’t say ‘Woe is me,’ I joined the movement. I marched during the Clifford Glover shooting; a 10-yearold child. I marched when Randolph Evans was shot; when Arthur Miller was shot––and we’re talking about during the 1970s. So, the long history I have fighting

on behalf of Black and Brown people and the injustices from law enforcement and continued as a police officer in the 1980s and 1990s.

“My testimony in federal court to end stop-and-frisk; my passing of bills in the State Senate to end the database––so when you look at my real contributions to police reform, only those who don’t know my history, or didn’t take the time to read it, is going to have a level of reluctancy on how I’m going to be on this reform issue. This is my life’s work.

“It’s like going to someone that has spent their lives in a particular field, and think that they’re not going to continue their work. I’m not going to change as a 61-year-old when I’ve spent 40 years of my life doing this.”

With the current virtual judicial

faces into office. Black visibility is not Black Power. Most of the Black politicians around the country today are not examples of Black Power. The power must be that of a community, and emanate from there… The Black politicians must stop being representatives of ‘downtown’ machines, whatever the cost might be in terms of lost patronage and holiday handouts.”

My, my, my how things remain the same!

It is also time for us to truly honor “Black Solidarity Day” and its founder Dr. Carlos Russell on Monday November 1st, 2020 by staying home from

work or school, supporting Black businesses and attending a “Black Solidarity Day” event!

Monday, November 1, 2021, is Black Solidarity Day. No Work, No School, No Shopping is the rallying call as always since Dr. Carlos Russell spearheaded the first Day of Absence in 1969. The December 12th Movement calls for a General Strike this year on Black Solidarity Day, joining the workers’ strikes all around the country demanding living wages and work with dignity.

For more information call Sista’s Place 718-398-1766.

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THE NEW YORK AMSTERDAM NEWS the fact that progress in the PSC’s special COVIDdents and adults, while modeling it. For this 19 (Case 20-M-0266) proreason, we should strive to increase the caceeding has completely Continued from page 12 pacity to teach, monitor, and build SEL comstalled. This is worspetencies. Social workers and interns are ened by the inexplicable, a platform that is attuned to the demonstra- severely underrepresented and at this time, almost complete failure tion of SEL skills and competencies and also, we must change this. Now is the time for by the State’s Office of to teach these skills as well. The program schools and districts to partner with comTemporary Disability Ashas amassed great success in advancing SEL munity-based organizations and nearby insistance (“OTDA”), the skills among its students and is a model for stitutions of higher learning to ensure the funnel though which bildistricts to consider. social-emotional wellness of young people. lions of dollars of federal There is a unique opportunity and perrelief to consumers must haps responsibility for us to best position Kandra Knowles is a doctoral student at flow, to take any definitive support staff in schools and in out-of-school Fordham University and is an advocate for transparent and accountorganizations to serve the SEL needs of stu- student and adolescent wellness. able action. No plans have been put forward publicly by and OTDA do not act transparently until the next financial meltdown for the PSC and DPS to address the un- and decisively now, they are doom- those hit hardest by COVID-19—comprecedented debt crisis and reduce ing millions of New Yorkers to crush- munities of color, low-income and the impending threats of shutoffs in ing unnecessary and unpaid utility medically vulnerable households, and a manner compliant with the Home debt, and their communities to years seniors—to recover financially.

Energy Fair Practices Act, or the fed- of economic depression. erally funded Emergency Rent and It took more than a decade for New Kevin Parker is a New York State senUtility Assistance Program (“ERAP”). York’s economically vulnerable house- ator (D-21). Richard Berkley, Esq., is Regardless of those lost opportuni- holds to bounce back from the Great executive director and Ian Donaldson ties, it is irrefutably clear: the time Recession. If our regulators contin- is communications aide of the Public to act was a year ago, but if the PSC ue to drag their feet, it might just take Utility Law Project of New York.

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rights, rather than vice-versa. The task will be worsened by lack of internet or telephone or language access problems, and these vulnerable households will undoubtedly be harmed by these barriers to accessing the legal rights created by the Parker-Richardson Moratorium Act. Finally, the DPS has not required utilities to tell their customers to first avail themselves of the myriad federal and state programs that offer financial assistance to consumers in arrears, before seeking a deferred payment agreement that could begin resolving their arrears, but also cut them off from further government help if given in the wrong order.

These failures to communicate basic consumer rights and needs in the face of the pandemic-caused arrears crisis are harmful enough on their own but are compounded by

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inquiry into the killing of Eric Garner police by then-police officer Daniel Pantaleo ongoing this week, the Amsterdam News asked what police reform would look like in an Eric Adams administration. His response was, “Sean Bell’s dad endorsed me.

Patrick Dorismond’s dad endorsed we. The symbol of police abuse Abner Louima endorsed me.

“Look at the family members who lived through these tragedies, they are saying that the person we believe will stand up for us is Eric Adams. These are people who lived through it. They know that I have a real agenda for dealing with the police abuse.”

And police accountability?

Adams prefaced his answer with: “There are certain things that are in the span of my control, and certain things that are not in my span of control. I don’t control the courts and their determination of guilt or innocence through a trial.” Adams determined though, “I control who is going to be fired or not in the police department, and I tell people that they are not going to have to wait a long period of time before we get rid of those abusive officers. It’s not going to take to take 4 years to get rid of officers like Pantaleo who killed Eric Garner.

“It’s not going to take a long period of time to get justice within my span of control. Those things that are outside my span of control I can only use my voice to [bring an] expeditious conclusion to the criminal justice process. We will have due process in an expeditious way, so the families are not continuing to wait for the outcomes.”

As for addressing the grandfathered-in police culture, Adams replied, “I am the only mayor in modern times, that understands the police department. Every other has had to turn over the agency to a commissioner. I understand the police department, because I was a police officer. I understand the challenges of policing, but at the same time I understand how we must reform the agency, and I’m going to do that.”

Coy when asked if he would get a new police commissioner Adams said, “Yes I will. We would have to find the best person during these times to fit the position.”

Big issue in the Black community…

Let’s talk real estate and gentrification.

His answer: “The real estate communities are not donating to me because they think they are going to run amok in our city…when you buy or rent in this city, there are two questions you ask; how safe is it? How good are the schools?

“An unsafe city with bad schools impacts real estate and property. My message around safety and my message around education is what the real estate industry embraces. They say this guy is going to make sure we have a safe city and good schools, and so in Brooklyn I have voted down many projects because it did not deal with affordability, it did

THE NEW YORK AMSTERDAM NEWS not deal with the right message about diversity. But also talked about going after those landlords that fail to respect the voucher system. I also talked about going after landlords that illegally evict people and create crimes such as criminal mischief and arson to get people out of their homes.”

After rallies by organizations like the December 12th Movement protesting for years with the slogan “Gentrification is ethnic cleansing,” Adams acknowledged; “Any time anyone is forcefully removed from their community is wrong. It doesn’t matter what method is used; you can’t just displace long-term residents.

“My responsibility of my administration is to build housing that’s affordable; to make sure that people are not illegally displaced [because of their] rent; make sure that affordable units are not illegally removed from the rent rolls; the middle-class and low income housing; and come up with ways to do so––like my plan of retrofitting 25,000 units from hotels in outer boroughs into… housing.

“Making sure that the city remains fair, affordable and safe.”

With condos being thrown up every 5 yards, would you look into converting some of those into abodes for the homeless?

“I would love to, but we are in a city and country where people have the authority to build as long as they are not asking for zoning changes or anything from the government, we are limited on what we can compel them to give us. But, if we need to leverage the zoning changes, or any ask on the government to come with an agreement of building affordable units.”

What are his plans to handle issues of open drug dealing and taking on the streets of NYC? “We could have the safety we need and justice we deserve, that’s the balance I’m going to bring.

“I’m not going to surrender my streets to violent police officers, and I’m not going to surrender to violent people–– and I’m talking about both of them when I talk about safety. So, I’m going to make sure police officers do their job, and not stand back and watch crimes take place.

And I’m also going to make sure that they are not heavy-handed while they’re doing that job.”

What plans are afoot to improve police/community relations?

“I have a clear plan to do that. Number one; we should diversify the department.

I’m going to allow everything from school safety agents hospital police those who are H R police, all of those units which are predominantly Black, Brown and 100% New Yorkers I’m going to allow them to be promoted to the police department after 2 years of service.”

Adams said, he is “going to slowly change the demographics of the department. Second, I am going to have community groups and organizations play a role choosing precinct commanders. Right now, they don’t have any say so. They are going to interview precinct commanders and make the determination if they are suitable to be the

commander is their community. It’s an important thing to do, and it’s going to really change the relationship between police and communities.”

Mayoral control of schools?

“I think it’s crucial. Bloomberg had it. [de Blasio] had it. I don’t think you should stop doing it once a person of color becomes mayor. I have a real plan for our schools, and I want to make sure that I have the authority without any barriers. We can’t go back to the days of school boards.We know what happened there. Educating our children should not be about adult conversation, we should focus on our children. And I’m going to need mayoral control to accomplish that.”

What would you think about specialized high school testing?

“I think we have only eight specialized high schools, three are coming from the state, five are coming from the city.

“I don’t want to spend my political capital fighting over eight schools. We need to make all of our schools, good schools.

Let’s leave those eight schools alone.

Let’s open five more schools, one specialized high in each borough. Let’s do a cross-section of skill sets, to determine who gets into those five schools, not just one test. By doing that we will show that being special or gifted is not only an examination, but there are so many people who we are leaving without opportunities because we are defining gifted the wrong way.”

Adams was diagnosed with dyslexia while at John Jay College.

“Let’s focus on those children who are being missed, and those children who learn differently. We are spending so much on gifted students and specialized high schools, that we are ignoring those students who have learning disabilities, dyslexia, and dealing with other challenges. That’s where I want to spend my energy and my political capital.”

And what of the assailed gifted and talented program?

“Yes, let’s expand the gifted and talented program. The problem that I was hearing from poorer communities was the fact that we were not having seats in the various districts. There were too many zip-codes in school districts where we did not have the program. The gifted and talented program was too segregated. That does not help the student, and that does not help the community.”

Is he for closing Rikers?

“Yes I am. I am going to follow the plan, but I not only want to close down the building––I want to close down the pipeline that feeds Rikers. If you do an analysis of who’s on Rikers; 5%have learning disabilities. I don’t find it impressive talking about closing Riker’s Island, I find it impressive to close the historical pipeline of these children constantly having generation after generation serve time in jail because we’re not dealing with an upstream approach to the educational crisis we have.”

What’s your position on charter schools, and would you support an open enrollment?

“When we have these discussions about charter schools, and public

schools, and district schools––those are adult conversations. Parents want their children to learn. So, 65% of Black and Brown children don’t meet proficiency in district schools; 40% don’t meet proficiency and charter schools––so they’re both failing.

“I say that we need to look at what methods have been successful––the scale of excellence, so if there’s some charter schools, or some district schools like Bedford Academy that have got it right, let’s duplicate it.

“It’s not the type of school that we should be focusing on, we should be focusing on the successful schools. Just as you have unsuccessful district schools, you have unsuccessful charter schools.

We need to stop focusing on the name of the school, and focus on which schools are successful…because they are all public schools. They are not private schools. So, when we have a charter school that has proven successful, we scale it up.

“Many of them have longer classroom days. They start earlier in the summer months. They do different things, so maybe we need to duplicate some of those things in district schools as well.”

Stating previously that in general he supports having remote options for some businesses, when the paper asked him about supporting small and small Black businesses, Adams responded; “Pro small business. My plan is a clear one; we need to leverage procurement that’s done with the city. We need to zero in on allowing the Chamber of Commerce to do the backroom work of small businesses––something as simple as doing their payroll, then HR work so that their businesses can focus on their business. And then we need to stop being so bureaucratic. It’s so difficult, too expensive to do business in this city with our agencies getting in the way of businesses operating. We need a more business-friendly environment, and we’re specifically talking to those businesses that were impacted by COVID-19 so that they can get back on their feet, so that they can hire locally.”

Will his be a transparent administration for compliments and complaints?

“I made it clear that I want the comptroller to do his job. Audit the agencies.

I think the city is dysfunctional,” said Adams. “I’m going to do everything I can to be as transparent as possible. I don’t believe that when people discover that something is wrong with the agencies in our city that it is an attack against me, because I started from a place that we’re not doing a good enough job. We can do a better job; I encourage the transparency.

Some people are going to use it to help us move forward, and other people are going to play ‘gotcha.’ I got that, that doesn’t bother me. Either way I want to do everything possible to have a successful city.”

Does he have a thick skin for the gritty, witty, lovable NYC temperament? The Brownsville-born, Queens-raised New Yorker replied deftly, “Yeah New Yorkers attack. But I attack also. I’m not going to be punching bag, but I don’t mind positive enforcement on what we can do better.”

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Zach Wilson goes down as the Jets sink deeper The saying “It’s darkest before the dawn” means that circumstances are at their worst before they get better. The question for the New York Jets is, how long will it be dark? How long will they be at their worst? When will things improve?

It seems like it will be dark for another several weeks for the 1-5 Jets, who host the 5-2 Cincinnati Bengals at MetLife Stadium. The Jets lost their rookie starting quarterback Zach Wilson for maybe the next month to a strained posterior cruciate ligament (PCL) in his right knee in a 54-13 loss to the New England Patriots on the road last Sunday.

The NFL season hasn’t even reached its halfway point and the Bengals have already won more games than they’ve won all of last season.

They went 4-11-1 but are

now leading the AFC White in August of Mike White North. Their most 2019 after the Cowimpressive win was boys waived him. The last Sunday’s 41-17 26-year-old White’s defeat of Lamar Jackentr y into Sunday’s son and the Baltigame was his regular more Ravens. season pro debut. He The Jets, on the threw for 202 yards, other hand, are one touchdown and coming off of their two interceptions. worst loss of the To reinforce the poseason. Wilson was sition, the Jets made knocked out of Suna trade with the Phild a y ’s g a m e b y P a t r i adelphia Eagles for ots linebacker Matt Joe Flacco, who was Ju d o n i n t h e s e c o n d the starter for the quarter when he Ravens 2013 Super fell on the back of Bowl winning team. t h e Q B ’s l e g a f t e r The 36-year-old vethe threw an incomeran spent last season plete pass. with the Jets backWilson was able to ing up Sam Darnold. walk off of the field He appeared in five on his own after sevgames, starting four eral minutes of examwhen Darnold was inination on the field jured, going 0-4 and by the Jets training passing for 864 yards, and medical staff but six touchdowns and did not return. “At three interceptions. first, it wasn’t necesThe Jets sent Philasarily like a painful delphia a 2022 sixththing,” he said after round draft pick that the game. “I felt a pop. I thing had happened.” by the Dallas Cowboys in can become a fifth-roundfelt a twist,” Wilson further He was replaced by Mike 2018 out of Western Ken- er, based on Flacco’s playexplained. “I knew some- White, a fifth round pick tucky. The Jets signed ing time.

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Depleted Giants persevere for their second win of the season

Even afte r d o m i nati ng th e Ca rolina Pa nth e rs i n a 2 5 -3 v ictor y la st Su n day at MetL ife St a d i u m, th e 2 -5 Giants are sti ll o n a daunting que st to ap p roa ch re sp e ctabi li t y i n th e st anding s. Th e i r o d d s to make the p layo f f s a re extremely long and reflect a n u nlike ly outco m e.

The y w ill trave l to Ka n sas Cit y to f a ce a st agg ere d but da ng e rous 3-4 Chie fs s q u a d th i s Su n day, who a re co m i ng o ff of a 27-3 b eatd ow n at th e ha nds of th e Te n n e ss e e Tit ans. Bu t th e Gia nts should savor and build on their per for mance against th e Tit ans. “ That was a g o o d j o b o f c omple m e nta r y f o o tba l l,” said Gia nts h ea d c oa ch Jo e Ju dg e a f te r th e mu ch ne e de d w i n . “We’re a ver y re silie nt tea m. You guys a sk me al l th e ti m e,” Judg e d re late d to re p o r te rs, “ how do I s e e th e guys c o me to w o rk, h ow ca n I gaug e the m o o d i n

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Quarterback Daniel Jones and the 2-5 Giants earned their second win of the season, defeating the Carolina Panthers 25-3 at MetLife Stadium on Sunday

th e bu il ding? “ I tel l you a l l th e time, I do it ba s e d on h ow th e y sh ow u p to w ork, h ow th e y me et, th eir intent in th eir a c tions and w hat th e y’re doing, h ow th e y pra c tic e on th e fiel d, s o that ’s my ba rometer.

That ’s my measur ing stick r ight th ere.”

Th e Gia nts w ere de pl ete d on offens e a s r u n ning back Saquon Barkle y (ankl e), w ide re c eivers Kenny G ol laday (kne e), Sterl ing Sh eppard (ha mstr ing) and Kadar iu s Tone y (ankl e), a nd l eft tackl e A ndrew Th oma s, w h o was pla c e d on in ju re d res er ve la st Tu esday w ith l eft fo ot a nd r ight ankl e inju r ies, w ere a l l sidel ine d.

Yet th e u nit stil l pu t u p th e th ird most p oints th e y have s c ore d th is s eas on. W h il e th eir overa l l total yardag e ou tpu t of 302 was u nder w h el m ing and th e y pu t u p only two tou ch dow ns, th e Gia nts capita l ize d on s c or ing opp or tu nities a s G ra ha m Ga no made g o o d

on three field goals versus his for mer team as the defense stifled the Panthers.

D efen sive co o rd inato r Pat r ick Graham’s group held t heir o p p o n ent to just 117 yards passi ng an d a mere 56 r us h i ng. Sam Darn o ld , in his first s eas o n as t he Pan thers’ st ar ter after b eing trad e d to t hem by t he Jet s last Apr il, was replace d in the four th quarter by PJ Walker after p o st ing an in effe ct ive st at lin e o f 16-25 fo r 111 yard s an d o n e intercep tio n . Darn o ld’s counterpar t, Giant s QB Dan iel Jo n es, was s o lid in g o ing 2 3-33 fo r 203 yards an d on e touchd ow n . Mo st im p o r t ant ly, Jo n es, who has b e en p lague d by turn overs in his t hre e s ea s o n s as t he Giant s st ar ter, en d e d t he day w it h n o n e.

“We’ve had s o me tough games an d s o me clo s e games,” said Jo n es, “but w e b elie ve in who w e are as a team, what w e’ re doing as a team and where w e’ re g o ing. We’ve just g o t to ke ep t r ust ing t hat.”

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Game Changers conference addresses the dynamics of women in sports

By LOIS ELFMAN Special to the AmNews

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kinds of opportunities to include womAs live events e n ’s s p o r t s ,” return, the Game said BachChangers conman.

She ference brought mentioned a people together in recent WSJ N e w Yo r k C i t y t o article about discuss w o m e n ’s licensing, sports and women which inin sports. Diverse cluded the perspectives were WNBA. “If presented on things i t ’s making ranging from trailn e w s , i t ’s o u r blazers to corporesponsibilrate sponsorship to ity to cover m e nt o r s h i p.

S evt h a t .” eral women shared “Sports their paths to the journalists executive suite, have a reand former tennis sponsibility pro turned executo find stotive Katrina Adams ries beyond gave an insightful the sensapresentation about t i o n a l o n e s ,” Katrina Adams (shown here at a Harlem Junior Tennis & Education being the first in said Boivin. gala) delivered a powerful speech at Game Changers various aspects of “ S p o r t s j o u rsports. professor of practice at Arizo- nalists need to take that reT h e s e s s i o n t i t l e d “St at e o f na St at e Un i v e r s i t y , t h e Wa l t e r s p o n s i b i l i t y o f l o o k i n g ha rd e r W o m e n ’s S p o r t s : T h e M e d i a’s C r o n k i t e S c h o o l o f J o u r n a l i s m w i t h w o m e n ’s s p o r t s , f i n d i n g P e r s p e c t i v e ,” w a s m o d e r a t e d a n d M a s s C o m m u n i c a t i o n . those stories and telling them. b y S h i r a S p r i n g e r, l e c t u r e r i n B a c h m a n s a i d s p o r t s j o u r- T h e n , I a l s o t h i n k h a v i n g j o u r n a l i s m a t t h e B o s t o n U n i - n a l i s t s s h o u l d c o v e r w o m e n ’s m a y b e m o r e w o m e n i n l e a d e rv e r s i t y C o l l e g e o f C o m m u n i - s p o r t s o n a r e g u l a r b a s i s , n o t s h i p p o s i t i o n s i n s p o r t s j o u rc a t i o n , a n d f e a t u r e d R a c h e l j u s t w h e n b i g s t o r i e s , s u c h n a l i s m w o u l d h e l p t o o .”

Bachman, senior sports re- as recent claims of abuse in Springer asked Bachman p o r t e r f o r t h e W a l l S t r e e t t h e N a t i o n a l W o m e n ’s S o c c e r a n d B o i v i n w h a t t h e m o s t i m Journal, and Paola Boivin, L eague, ar ise. “ There are all por tant stor ies cur rently are

i n w o m e n ’s s p o r t s . B a c h m a n m e n t i o n e d t h e U. S . w o m e n ’s national soccer team and the way they’ve built a following. “Then, of course, filing a gender discrimination lawsuit attracted even more attention and really inspired many w o m e n a r o u n d t h e g l o b e ,” Bachman said.

Boivin noted that journalists cannot stop following stories of sexual abuse in athletics. “Not just in gymnastics, but these stories are obviously surfacing in sports all over t h e w o r l d ,” s h e s a i d . “ T h a t ’s a stor y as tough as it is, we need t o c o n t i n u e t o s t a y o n t o p o f .”

Exploring the challenges at t h e l o w e r l e v e l s o f w o m e n ’s sports also intrigues Boivin and she hopes more people start writing about it. This would include retaining girls and women in sports.

Bachman mentioned that Phoenix Mercury players refused to do media after their loss in the fourth and deciding game of the WNBA Finals, for which the league fined the team $10,000 for violating league rules governing postgame media interview access.

“Professionally, there should be expectations. I actuall y s a w t h a t a s a g o o d s i g n ,” Bachman said.

Columbia earns its highest preseason ranking in program history The Ivy League released its I v y L e a g u e W o m e n ’s B a s k e t ball Preseason Poll, and Columbia University was picked third, indicating confidence that the Lions will qualify for t h e f o u r- t e a m I v y L e a g u e To u rnament next spring. Princeton University, an NCAA Division I Wo m e n ’s B a s k e t b a l l To u r n a ment fixture, was placed atop the poll, which is selected by 1 6 m e m b e r s o f t h e I v y L e a g u e ’s media contingent (two from each of the eight universities).

This is a return to action for the student-athletes of the Ivy League whose entire 2020–’21 season was cancelled due to the pandemic. They were not even residing on campus. “ We a r e t h r i l l e d t o b e p l a y i n g a g a i n ,” s a i d M e g a n G r i f f i t h , in her sixth season as head c o a c h . “ T h e b r a n d o f w o m e n ’s basketball that everybody is going to see this year is going t o b e v e r y e x c i t i n g . I t ’s j u s t t h e start for us, building off of two s e a s o n s a g o .”

Griffith said her h e r t o d o . S o m e t h i n g sB team has unfinb e t t e r t h a n o t h e r s , b u tS ished business. t h a t ’s w h e r e s h e ’s a After qualifying for w o r k i n p r o g r e s s .” the 2020 Ivy League D a v i s s a i d s k i l l w o r ki To u r n a m e n t a n d a w a s v e r y i m p o r t a n ta shot at post-season d u r i n g t h i s t i m e a w a yp play, Columbia saw f r o m c o m p e t i t i v e b a s -w that opportunity k e t b a l l a s w e l l a s s t a y -w yanked away due to i n g c o n n e c t e d w i t h h e ri t h e p a n d e m i c . “ We t e a m m a t e s a n d c o a c h -t talk about that all e s . S h e a n d h e r t e a m -s the time as a staff, m a t e s a r e t a k i n g t h i n g so a s a p r o g r a m ,” s a i d o n e d a y a t a t i m e a n dc Griffith.

“I think s u s t a i n i n g a t e a m - o r i -t t h e r e ’s a l o t o f m o ented perspective. o mentum to build off “ We ’ r e a l l t r y i n g t oo o f .” l i f t e a c h o t h e r u p ,”V The 2019–’20 team s a i d H s u , w h o t h a n k e dW was young and t h e c o a c h i n g s t a f f f o rr promising. Most of building her c o n f i -l those players have d e n c e t o s h o o t w h e ns returned, including s h e ’s o p e n . “ I t ’s n o tw junior g u a rd / f o rj u s t m e i n t h e g y mi ward Kaitlyn Davis, s h o o t i n g , w e ’ r e a l l g e t -i who garnered Ivy t i n g i n t h e g y m . … O u rc L e a g u e R o o k i e o f Columbia junior Kaitlyn Davis is ready to get back on m a i n f o c u s i s g r o w i n gs the We e k h o n o r s the hardwood a s a p r o g r a m .” c h e r f r e s h m a n y e a r, Columbia w o m e n ’ss a n d A l l - I v y s o p h o m o r e g u a r d g a m e s o f u n a n d s h e c o n n e c t s b a s k e t b a l l k i c k s o f f i t s s e a s o nf Abbey Hsu. t h e p i e c e s f o r y o u r e a l l y w e l l ,” o n N o v. 9 a g a i n s t H a m p t o nc G r i f f i t h l i k e n e d D a v i s t o s a i d G r i f f i t h . “ S h e c a n l i t e r a l - U n i v e r s i t y a t L e v i e n G y m n a -t Magic Johnson. “She makes the ly do ever ything that you ask sium.

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Cheaters vs. Choppers: A World Series few New Yorkers wanted

By STEPHON JOHNSON Amsterdam News Staff A large number of New Yorkers were hoping they would be rooting for the Yankees going for the franchise’s 28th World Series ring right now. Instead, Tuesday marked Game 1 of the 2021 World Series between the Houston Astros and the Atlanta Braves, which ended in a 6-2 win for the National League champions from Georgia.

For many Major League Baseball fans, it’s a game of choosing your poison.

Do you want to root for a team that continues to lead its fans in a tomahawk chop chant or do you want to root for a team that’s been found to have cheated in winning the 2017 World Series championship while in the view of some remaining unapologetic?

The Braves, who won their division 88 victories this season, have stunned baseball by making it to the Fall Classic. And it’s not just about winning games. It’s who they beat to get there. There’s noth-

ing truly remarkCarlos Correa.

(YouTube photo) able about this He’s more than Braves team. They fine with playplayed in a weak ing the villain National League and being an irEast where the ritant while still New York Mets being one of the held first place best shortstops for much of the in the game. season before Correa hit .385 collapsing in late against the ChiAugust. They sufcago White Sox fered a tremenin the ALDS and dous setback outfielder/deswhen their best ignated hitter player, left fieldYordan Alvaer Ronald Acuna rez picked up Jr., tore his ACL in where Correa July. left off, winHowever, inning the ALC S stead of calling MVP by posting the season a wash, a slash line of Braves General .522/.538/.870 Manager Alex An- Houston Astros manager Dusty Baker Jr. watched his team fall 6-2 to the Atlanta against the thopoulos recog- Braves in Game 1 of the World Series on Tuesday Boston Red Sox . nized the division Houston is fahis team was playing in in the National League Di- ring to show for it so far. vored to win it all, but the was still ripe for the taking vision Series (NLDS), folWith the Astros, there’s Braves are playing some and went all in. He ac- lowed by an upset of the a cloud of cheating. But of their best baseball right quired Eddie Rosario, Joc 106-win juggernaut Los it looks like many of the now. While you’d say that Pederson, Jorge Soler and Angeles Dodgers in the players don’t care or should be the case, the Adam Duvall, and remade National League Champi- choose to learn the les- postseason is unpredictthe entire Braves outfield. onship Series (NLCS), dis- sons of The Secret and able. The Braves, however, Atlanta then seized the missing them in six games. state that “If I believe are like a hot goalie in the moment, defeating the The parallel is the current people aren’t angr y at us, NHL Playoffs: they’re on 95-win, NL Central Divi- Dodgers have the look of then people aren’t angr y until they’re off and hoping sion Champion Milwau- the 1990s Braves with a lot at us.” Seemingly ever y- the motel lights don’t go kee Brewers in four games of winning, but only one one except shortstop out on them just yet.

The challenge of covering women’s sports

By LOIS ELFMAN Special to the AmNews

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I agree that many journalists stick to Now is an incredbasic narratives ible time for female that identiathletes. The Olymfy only a handpic Games in Tokyo ful of women were exhilarating as worthy of atwith women reachtention. So why ing new heights on did an athlete the track, in the who tweeted swimming pool and her displeasure on the basketball with a lack of court. For the first coverage tell time ever, women me to contact outnumbered men her agent for on the U.S. team. an inter view Viewership for the only to have WNBA Finals was him ignore my robust and regurequests? lar season viewerOver the past ship was up. Young 15 years, I have women pursuwritten approxing sports journalimately 1,000 ism are embracing articles for the covering women’s New York Amsports, quite the sterdam News, change from female more than Even when three-time Olympian Vanessa James sports reporters 95% of which ends her competitive days she will still be a feeling they have to queen of the ice, not a skating princess have focused cover men’s sports on women’s to be taken seriously. complain they don’t get sports. It’s time for me to Some female athletes enough coverage, and share some thoughts.

Last week at the Game Changers conference, a highly respected journalism professor cited as an example of what women athletes endure that the Phoenix Mercur y had a playoff game relocated to somewhere other than their home arena due to performances of Disney on Ice. “It was this juxtaposition of skating princesses, basically, and WNBA basketball players,” she said.

“It really kind of bothered me.”

As someone who has covered the sport of figure skating—credentialed media at 14 U.S. Figure Skating Championships and nine World Championships—I fully understand the difference between competitive figure skating and a Disney on Ice show. However, virtually ever y skater who performs in an ice show was a competitor at some point and their athleticism deser ves respect.

In 2018, I attended the WNBA’s Inspiring Women luncheon at the invitation of the WNBA with the understanding that I would cover it. I approached one of the WNBA players and asked for a brief inter view.

She asked who I was, and I promptly provided my info.

Before I got my second question out, the coach of a well-known high school program inter vened and insisted the player must immediately go to the front of the room for a photo op. I thanked her and said goodbye. When they were only a few feet away, this coach made a joke about me.

Female athletes and their coaches ask for better coverage, but they are so ready to dismiss a reporter eager to give it. And women in sports journalism need to respect all female athletes at least publicly, not just the ones they consider athletic.

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Kemba Walker helps the Knicks build depth and maturity

By JAIME C. HARRIS AmNews Sports Editor

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Bronx native Kemba Walker had long established himself as New York City basketball royalty before signing with his hometown team this past August. It is a union that brought Walker full circle, from playing at Madison Square Garden as a high school star for head coach Moe Hicks at the legendary Harlem Catholic school Rice, to carrying the UConn Huskies to the 2011 Big East championship in his junior year in one of the most iconic collegiate postseason performances ever.

In five games over five consecutive days, the 6-foot-1 point guard scored a major conference-record 130 points, culminating with a victory over Louisville that catapulted the Huskies to an unlikely and odds-defying NCAA title, defeating Butler University, who at the time was coached by Brad Stevens, for whom Walker would later play with the Boston Celtics.

His stellar pro career, including the first eight years with the Charlotte

Bronx native Kemba Walker led the Knicks with 19 points on Tuesday night at Madison Square in a 112-99 win over the Philadelphia 76ers

Bobcats/Hornets, a franchise with which he became one of its greatest and most beloved players, then

on to the Celtics for the 2019 through the 2021 seasons, saw Walker selected to four All-Star teams (2017-2020), the All-NBA Third Team, and he was a two-time recipient of the prestigious NBA Sportsmanship Award.

However, his experience Tuesday night when the Knicks took on the Philadelphia 76ers at the Garden was as viscerally meaningful to the high character role model as any of the aforementioned accolades. With 4:06 remaining in the second quarter, Walker knocked down a 16-foot step-back jumper to push the Knicks’ lead to 49-38. By the time he drained a 25-foot three-pointer at 1:42, Walker had gone on a one-man, 10-point scoring spree for his team, pushing the Knicks’ advantage to 57-40 sending the crowd into a frenzy. Many exuberantly chanted his name.

“I was waiting for that moment. It was the kind of moment I dreamed of when I was a young kid, wanting to be in the NBA, watching the Knicks play, coming to a Knicks game and seeing how the crowd goes crazy,” he said after pacing the Knicks with 19 points, in a 112-99

win, improving their record to 3-1 before facing the Chicago Bulls tonight and the New Orleans Pelicans Saturday, both on the road. “That was a great moment for me.”

For the fans as well, who so deeply desire their New York-made son to excel. “It was fun. Hopefully we can have more moments like that. It was just such a great team win. Everybody contributed in many different ways, and that’s how New York basketball is. Everybody brings us together.”

Knicks head coach Tom Thibodeau also savored the occasion. Walker has added depth, maturity and leadership to his ballclub, as well as someone that can create off the dribble for himself and his teammates, critical skills they were lacking last season.

“I thought he played a great game,” said Thibodeau. “So tonight, I thought the way Kemba played helped set the tone.”

Although Tuesday wasn’t Walker’s first game at MSG since joining the Knicks, it was demonstrably his welcome home party.

The Nets try to find continuity and chemistry without Kyrie Even with seven-time All-Star guard Kyrie Irving maintaining his stance to be unvaccinated over one week into the start of the NBA regular season, Brooklyn Nets forward Kevin Durant, an 11-time All-Star, says his team is still equipped to be a formidable presence as they play without one of basketball’s most dynamic forces in their lineup.

“While we’re playing in a game, I’m not going to sit there and say ‘Oh, when we get down or it’s a tight game, like, damn, we don’t have enough.’ We’re not going to be thinking about [Irving] during the game,” said Durant on Sunday after the Nets’ 111-95 loss to the Charlotte Hornets at the Barclays Center, their first game of this regular season at home.

“We definitely want Kyrie Irving out here on the floor, and he’s a huge part of what we do. But it’s not happening right now. So we’ve got to figure it out.

“But no one is going to lose confidence while we’re playing and hope Kyrie comes to save us during the game.

No, we’ve got to play.”

There was a group of people against vaccine mandates demonstrating outside Barclays on Sunday loudly demanding “Let Kyrie play! Let Kyrie play!” and displaying signs that read “Stand with

Kyrie.” Irving is prohibited from playing home games as New AM NEWS York City public health mandates 10/07/21 require those seeking entry into large public venues to have been administered at least one dose of the AM NEWS COVID-19 vac10/14/21 cine.

Two weeks ago, Nets general manager Sean Marks announced that he and team owner Joe Tsai decidAM NEWS ed they would 10/21/21 not allow the 29-year-old superstar to engage With Kyrie Irving still out due to remaining unvaccinated, the Nets, in team activities, favored to win the NBA title when the season began, were 2-2 including pracbefore facing the Miami Heat in Brooklyn last night (Wednesday) tices, until he is able to fully participate. night by defeating the Washington WizAM NEWS In his absence, the Nets have not re- ards by 104-90 in the second game of 10/28/21 sembled the dominant team most pun- a six-game homestand to even their dits predicted. They did bounce back record at 2-2. from the loss to the Hornets the next They were paced by Durant’s 25

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points. Heading into last night’s (Wednesday) game versus the Miami Heat, Durant had topped the Nets in scoring in each of their first four games while three-time NBA 01414 AM NE scoring champion James Harden 10/07/ 0was still trying to 7find his rhythm.

74470 22784 Durant was averaging 31 points per game prior to playing the Heat in contrast to Harden’s 17.3.

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