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Barrons back Alleyne as replacement in State Assembly

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

40 and 60, announced this past weekend that she is retiring from the assembly and has named community organizer Keron Alleyne, 31, as her The end of an era in East New York successor. has finally come. The “unbought, unThe Barrons, Inez and her husband bossed, and undefeated” Council- Assemblymember Charles Barron, member Inez Barron, who has also are fixtures in the community and represented State Assembly Districts well-known for their tendency to

run for city council and assembly in tandem…and win, much to the chagrin of political competitors.

“I’m pleased and honored to be here,” said I. Barron. “We have a candidate who understands what it is that we have been building and making happen here over the last 20 years.”

The power couple joined Alleyne,

his family, and his early campaign crew in front of the Prince Joshua Avitto Community Center on Saturday, Oct. 2 to show their support for the young politico.

Alleyne ran for state senate in Senatorial District 19 in last year’s elections, but lost to Incumbent Senator See BARRONS on page 6

NYC unveils social justice busts

By CYRIL JOSH BARKER Amsterdam News Staff

New York City’s Union Square Park is the temporary home for three grand busts of three images of the 2020 social justice movement.

The bronze busts represent: 2020 police brutality victim George Floyd, police brutality victim Breonna Taylor, and the late Congressman John Lewis.

However, just a few days after its unveiling, a caught-on-video vandal threw paint on the Floyd bust.

ting the shot. Hospital and nursing home workers in the state, such as employees at Northwell Health, had One of the first impacts of the until Sept. 27 to comply or face unemCOVID-19 vaccine mandates was evi- ployment. Employees in non-hospital dent this week when New York State’s based clinics and Community Care largest healthcare provider, Northwell Plus facilities in the city need proof of Health, terminated 1,400 employees vaccination by Oct. 7. for refusing to get vaccinated.

“Northwell regrets losing any emThe fallout is the result of one of ployee under such circumstances, several vaccine mandates causing but as healthcare professionals and See MANDATES on page 6 people to lose their jobs for not get-

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Vaccine mandates bring out ‘firing squad’

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RWANDA HANDS DOWN 25 YEAR SENTENCE TO FILM HERO FROM MOVIE ‘HOTEL RWANDA’ ( G IN ) — “ Ho te l Rwa n da” h ero Paul Rus e sabag i na ha s b e en s ente n c e d to 2 5 yea rs i n p r is on on te r ro r cha rg e s d e sp i te p l ea s from human r ights watchdogs and other c r i t i c s o f Rwa n da’s re p re ssive g ov-

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e r n m e nt to l e ss e n t he judg ement o r ca n c e l i t.

Rus e sabag i na wa s c re d i te d w ith she l te r i ng m o re t ha n a t h ou sa nd e t hn i c Tut si s d ur i ng Rwa nda’s 1 9 9 4 g e n o c i d e a n d wa s a re c ipi e nt o f t he U. S. Pre si d e nt ia l Me da l o f F re e d o m. He b oyc o tte d th e a nn oun c e m e nt o f t he ve rd i c t a fter ca l l i ng t he t r ia l a “sha m.”

A c our t f oun d t he 6 7 -year-ol d Rus e sabag i na gui l t y o f ba cking a reb e l g roup b ehi n d d ea d ly atta cks i n 2 0 1 8 a n d 2 0 1 9 . Hi s f a mily has ca l l e d t he t r ia l a sha m, say ing h e wa s t a ke n to Rwa n da, f ro m ex il e, by f o rc e.

The U. S. re si d e nt a n d B elgian c i t i ze n wa s c o nv i c te d o n eight cha rg e s i n cl ud i ng m e mb e rsh ip in a te r ro r i st g roup, murd e r and ab d uc t i o n . He wa s cha rg e d al ong w i t h 2 0 o t he r p e o p l e. Th e U.S., w he re Rus e sabag i na i s a resident, sa i d i t wa s c o n c e r n e d by t h e c on viction.

Rus e sabag i na, w ho re ma ins in

Ab ou t a yea r ag o, Ru s esabagi na disapp ea re d du r ing a visit to Du bai in th e Unite d A rab Emirates, a nd app ea re d days later in Rwanda in handcu ffs, a c cu s e d of su pp or ting th e a r me d w ing of h is opp osition p ol itical platfor m, th e Rwanda n Movement for D emo c ratic Cha ng e.

Th e a r me d grou p claime d s ome resp onsib il it y for atta cks in 2018 and 2019 in s ou th ern Rwanda in w h ich nine Rwanda ns die d. Ru s e sabagina testifie d at tr ial that h e h el p e d to for m th e ar me d grou p to h el p refu g e es bu t said h e ne ver su pp or te d viol enc e— and s ou ght to distance himself from its deadly attacks.

Th rou gh ou t th e tr ia l , Ru s esa bagina ma intaine d that h e is not gu il t y of th e charg es aga inst h im bu t sa id h e didn’t exp e c t to g et ju stic e. “ We knew from th e day h e was kidnapp e d that th e verdic t w ou l d b e ‘gu il t y’ on s ome or a l l of th e

th e last year has b e en t he brazenness a nd op en n ess w it h which t he Rwanda n aut ho r it ies have b e en w il l ing to systemat ically v io late al l of th e fair t r ial r ight s to which Pau l wa s ent it le d .”

A mnest y Internat io nal cr it icize d th e pro c e e d ings, n o t ing t hat Rusesabagina was in it ially d en ie d t he r ight to cho o s e his ow n lawyer. It adde d that Kagame’s co mment s that “ Ru s esabagina had ‘d o n e s ometh ing ter r ibly wro ng, co mmitte d a cr ime,’ may have prejudic e d th e defen dant ’s r ight to b e presu me d in n o cent unt il p roven gu il t y.”

U.S. State D epar t ment sp o kesman Ne d Pr ice said “t he rep o r te d lack of fair t r ial guarante es calls into q u estio n t he fairn ess o f t he verdic t,” an d he urg e d Rwan da’s g overnment to ex amin e “s ho r tc omings” in t he cas e, in clud ing Ru s esabagina’s rep o r te d lack o f confidential, unimp e de d access to h is law yers an d cas e do cument s.

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Advocates focus on mental health for incarcerated on Rikers

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George Floyd memorial in Union Square defaced Not even a few days after its unveiling, a statue of a bust of 2020 police brutality victim George Floyd in Union Square in Manhattan was defaced.

Reports indicate the NYPD has video of a man throwing paint on the statue around 10 a.m. Sunday. Police have not made any arrests and have not released video of the vandalism. The statue previously stood in Brooklyn on Flatbush Avenue over the summer where it was vandalized five days after it was unveiled.

Floyd’s Union Square statue was unveiled last Thursday along with those of Breonna Taylor, who was killed by police, and late Congressman John Lewis. The pieces were created by Confront Art by Chris Carnabuci.

African Burial Ground commemorates 30th anniversary of rediscovery (Ariama C. Long photo)

By ARIAMA C. LONG Report for America Corps Member, Amsterdam News Staff Following Mayor Bill de Blasio’s visit to Rikers Island last week, criminal justice advocates are putting forth their plans to put an end to the crisis happening at the jail complex.

The Legal Aid Society (LAS) with supporters of survivors of Rikers rallied yesterday, Oct. 4 at Foley Square in Manhattan, to promote the ‘Treatment Not Jail Act,’ which focuses on reforming the mental health services and qualifying process for those held on Rikers.

Advocates at LAS believe that the legislation will ensure that “problemsolving court models” reduce disparities along race, income, gender/ gender identity, and ethnic lines in the city’s health and criminal legal systems, which is urgent in a city impacted so severely by COVID-19.

Peggy Herrera has worked for a major city agency that caters to troubled youth for the past six years. Herrera’s 23-year-old son, who she said would prefer to go by the name “Justin,” was medically diagnosed with anxiety and attention-deficit disorder when he was 6 years old. Justin also traumatically lost his father at age 7.

“Of course, he was not a kid that would just sit, you know he had a lot of energy,” said Herrera.

Herrera said that her son was arrested at 11 years old by school safety agents because of a bag with brass knuckles in it, and that was the beginning of him being “criminalized” in the system.

Herrera said that even though she works with incarcerated youth and advocated for her son, her son on proba-

tion was still arrested throughout his adolescence. “They wind up remanding him, and when they did, I could not find him for three days. He was shocked because he never spent time in a jail besides bookings and those are horrible for him,” said Herrera.

When she found him, she said he had been in the bullpens for three days with no bed, no bath, no phone call, and sleeping on the floor. After that experience, he spent three weeks on Rikers before he was put in an inadequate drug program with inattentive staff, said Herrera.

Herrera said she’s volunteered on Rikers counseling women and young adults for years so she knows from her job what proper one-on-one treatment and care should be.

Right now, the court system has designed the mental health programs of those struggling with drug addictions or mental health illnesses into separate programs under Law Article 216 of the judicial diversion law.

“When I visited Rikers Island I saw the humanitarian crisis that was taking place in our backyard. We must shift the paradigm in how we treat the root causes that drive our neighbors to commit crimes. Poor education, low paying jobs & mental health are all contributing factors,” said Senator Jessica Ramos about the bill via twitter.

The Treatment Not Jail Act (TNJ), sponsored by Ramos and Assembly member Andrew Hevesi, firstly expands eligibility treatment no matter an individual’s charges and fights to ensure there’s an emphasis on treatment and support for incarcerated with disabilities, addictions, mental illnesses, and other health- related challenges. The See RIKERS on page 25

In commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the African Burial Ground’s rediscovery, the African Burial Ground National Monument is hosting in-person activities at the outdoor memorial and virtual presentations on its website and social media.

Starting earlier this week, the six-day commemoration included libation ceremonies, ranger presentations, dancing, singing, drumming and memorial talks. The theme for the event is “Honoring History, Ancestors, Spirituality, Art.” The commemoration ends Saturday, Oct. 9 with a daylong presentation including a libation ceremony with Baba Cyril Innis Jr., a tribute to the late Dr. Maya Angelou, and a performance by the Uptown Dance Academy.

Single carnations were available throughout the week to lay on mounds as offerings and index cards were provided to write messages for the 30th anniversary Memory Box. In Oct. 1991, the General Services Administration rediscovered intact burials in Lower Manhattan while excavating for the construction of a new federal office building. Teams removed the remains of 419 people from the site. Studies suggest an estimated 15,000 African American people are buried there.

East New York Restoration opens senior fitness hub The East New York Restoration Local Development Corp. in Brooklyn hosted a ribbon-cutting event on Wednesday at the renovated playground space at NYCHA’s Pink Houses located at Stanley Avenue and Lincoln Avenue.

The senior fitness hub will allow community elders to access three seasons of fitness for free. Collaborating with the Louis H. Pink Houses Residents Association, the East New York Restoration Local Development Corp. received support for the project from Borough President Eric L. Adams, NYC Councilwoman Inez Barron, NYS Assemblyman Charles Barron, Maimonides Medical Center/Community Care of Brooklyn, and Open Architecture/NY. The mission of East New York Restoration Local Development Corp. is to promote sustainable economic growth for all community businesses, foster prosperity for all community residents, and lead a renaissance in East New York.

NUL and Experian launch partnership to support financial inclusion and credit education The National Urban League (NUL) and Experian North America announced the launch of a new partnership to further the mission of financial inclusion and empowerment. NUL President and CEO Marc H. Morial and Experian North America Chief Executive Officer Craig Boundy shared the news during the opening day of National Urban League’s first all-virtual conference.

Through the partnership, Experian is providing NUL Young Professionals and those enrolled in one of 12 Urban League Entrepreneurship Centers with free access to their Experian consumer credit report and FICO Score, along with the ability to potentially increase their credit scores instantly with Experian Boost. Experian will also be offering small business tools, services, and educational content.

The partnership is part of Experian’s United for Financial Health initiative, which aims to empower and protect vulnerable consumers to improve their financial health through education and action.

—Compiled by Cyril Josh Barker

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A setback of Biden’s budget proposal will severely impact HBCUs

By HERB BOYD Special to the AmNews As expected, President Biden’s Build Back Better plan is stalled and forcing him to adjust his $3.5 trillion budget package. The anticipated shortfall will mean the promises made to historically Black colleges and universities are sure to be severely impacted. Already terribly underfunded, the HBCUs will be shortchanged if the negotiations now underway cut Biden’s request to a compromise of $2 trillion.

Lodriguez Murray, a senior vice president for the United Negro College Fund, expressed what many HBCU leaders feel about the setback. “We were terribly supportive because no president has ever… in the history of this nation, put these institutions so central to transformative change and investment,” she told the press. “For Congress to not follow through on [Biden’s] plan is earth shattering for the institutions.”

Murray’s concern was backed by a letter on Friday to Congress by the presidents of the UNCF’s 37-member institutions to pass the bill with additional provisions for the HBCUs. “Although HBCUs generate a significant return on investment,” the letter claimed, “they are historically underfunded, face discrimination with investments, and have higher budgets based almost exclusively on tuition from underserved students.”

These concerns will be voiced on Wednesday at a hearing by a House subcommittee on higher education— “Homecoming: the Historical Roots and Continued Contributions of HBCUs.” In Biden’s original proposal $45 billion was earmarked for HBCUs and other minority serving institutions in order to improve and expand their research programs, as well as to facilitate a pipeline for students that has been historically plugged. Such institutions as Philander Smith College in Little Rock, Arkansas benefited from federal relief money funneled through the pandemic funds. “We used the funds that we received to serve the students that we have, and now we’re asking for additional funds to make sure that when we are on the other side of this global pandemic our institutions will be bigger and better and more resilient,” said Roderick L. Smothers, president of the college.

Now, with Biden’s proposal caught in a Congressional impasse, and his budget request facing a serious reduction, those at the bottom of money, like the HBCUs, are sure to feel the changes most desperately.

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Legislation aims to combat hunger in NJ

By CYRIL JOSH BARKER Amsterdam News Staff Gov. Phil Murphy signed a legislation package into law aimed at combating food insecurity. The six bills will commit to addressing hunger by expanding access to the New Jersey Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and its benefits, bolstering school meal programs, and establishing the Office of the Food Insecurity Advocate.

The governor also signed a bill which directs the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development to include information on SNAP in any materials pertaining to unemployment compensation benefits. Another bill establishes a state supplement for “breakfast after the bell” meals.

“It is unacceptable that so many of our most vulnerable people are going without enough food,” said Murphy.

“With today’s bill signings, we are continuing our ongoing commitment to end food insecurity in New Jersey by strengthening food assistance and providing support to communities across the state.”

According to hunger organi-

zation Feeding America, one in 12 people face hunger including one in 10 children in the Garden State. Nearly 40% of the state’s households receiving SNAP benefits have children.

“These measures will go a long way toward reducing hunger in the Garden State, especially for the tens of thousands of children who face hunger every day,’’ said Adele LaTourette, director of Hunger Free New Jersey. “We look forward to working with the Murphy administration to implement these changes.’’

The federal Build Back Better Act at the federal level includes nearly $35 billion for child nutrition programs. This investment will help ensure all children have access to the nutrition they need all year long.

In August, the Biden administration announced a more than 25% increase in SNAP monthly benefits. The new maximum benefit for a family of four rose to $835 a month.

On Oct. 1, the average SNAP benefit increased by $36.24 per person, per month, or $1.19 per day.

“SNAP benefits have always been our first line of defense

in fighting hunger,” said State Sen. Shirley Turner. “Making it easier for senior citizens and people who are out of work to apply for programs like SNAP helps to reduce food insecurity, lift our residents out of poverty, and enable them to spend more on groceries that will keep them healthy.”

Over the summer, the New Jersey Department of Human Services delivered extra food assistance to school children who would have received free or reduced-price school meals when schools were closed due to COVID-19. Electronic benefit cards were sent to 236,000 children whose families are not enrolled in SNAP. “Access to food is a fundamental human need and no one in our state should go hungry or have to skip a meal,” said Human Services Acting Commissioner Sarah Adelman. “We are committed to improving access to SNAP, our country’s first line of defense against hunger, so New Jerseyans have the food assistance they need.

With these new laws, together we will move closer to accomplishing our shared goal of ensuring no one in New Jersey goes hungry.”

Middlesex County park named after Black historical figure, opens to the community

By CYRIL JOSH BARKER Amsterdam News Staff Middlesex County and Perth Amboy residents celebrated the official opening of Thomas Mundy Peterson Park, America’s first Black voter, with a ribbon-cutting ceremony.

Peterson was a resident of Perth Amboy and the first African American to vote in 1870 in the United States after the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The Amendment granted African American men the right to vote nationwide. Prior to the enactment of the 15th Amendment, more than 700,000 African Americans cast votes in the U.S. in various states, ac-

cording to a report by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights “Thomas Mundy Peterson Park is an example of how, when everyone involved works together, we can create something wonderful for our residents to enjoy,” said Board of County Commissioners Director Ronald G. Rios.

“I know that I, and the entire Board of County Commissioners, look forward to seeing this park being used and enjoyed by the people of Middlesex County.”

The new park includes a synthetic-turf, multi-use field that can host soccer or football, a synthetic turf field that is adjustable for softball and baseball, a waterfront walkway with views of the Arthur Kill, inter-

pretive signs exploring the history of the site, and river and park benches. In addition, it will also offer a parking lot and comfort stations for visitors.

“The Thomas Mundy Peterson Park is the result of hard work on the part of the Middlesex County Board of County Commissioners and the City of Perth Amboy who work tirelessly to enhance the quality of life for our residents,” said Perth Amboy Mayor Helmin J. Caba. “This effort was many years in the making and represents more than just a park—it’s a community gathering space that honors a Perth Amboy citizen who played an important role in the history of our country.”

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Seeing eye-to-eye with Dr. Daniel Laroche

By CYRIL JOSH BARKER Amsterdam News Staff Glaucoma specialist and author Dr. Daniel Laroche is on a mission to eliminate barriers to health care that exist for Black and Brown people. After seeing so many people of color die during the COVID-19 pandemic and over 25 years in medicine, Laroche is spreading his message about the benefits of making health a No. 1 priority.

Laroche is the director of Glaucoma Services and president of Advanced Eyecare of New York. He primarily deals with eye health to prevent blindness caused by glaucoma, a condition hitting Black people the most.

“Eyesight or human vision is one of the most important senses,” he said. “As much as 80% of what we feel comes through our sense of sight.

By protecting the eyes, people will reduce the chance of blindness and vision loss while also staying on top of any developing eye diseases, such as glaucoma and cataracts.”

Born in Jamaica, Queens and growing up in Long Island, Laroche said he was inspired to become a doctor because of a Haitian father, who was also an anesthesiologist, and a Canadian mother, who was a nurse. Laroche re-

ceived his bachelor’s degree from New workforce that’s more diverse.”

York University and medical doctorate In most cases of glaucoma, there with honors in reis no pain, and Dr. Daniel Laroche search from Weil the loss of vision Cornell University occurs slowly.

Medical College.

Many people do He underwent not even reala medical inize it’s happenternship at Moning until they have tefiore Hospital lost a substantial and completed amount of periphhis ophthalmoleral vision. Laogy residency at roche says there the historicalis a way to prevent ly Black Howard the devastating efUniversity Hosfects of glaucoma: pital. ThroughDon’t skip your out his career he’s eyecare visits. seen the need for “It’s very immore Black medportant that Afical professionals rican Americans and the dispariover the age of 40 ties that exist. to get their eyes “We need more checked for glauBlack doctors coma,” he said. in more Black “This is a leading communities,” cause of preventLaroche said. able blindness.

“Unfortunately, We have new earthe major medical institutions were lier surgical treatments, and we can built on a white background. That’s cure glaucoma in some cases.” what contributes directly to health While Laroche works in eye care, care. We need to pay attention to that he’s also advocating for more Black by investing in building healthcare fa- people to get the COVID-19 vaccilities, training, and moving toward a cine. He said much of the hesitancy

Black

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is being caused by misinformation.

The COVID-19 pandemic exposed racial health disparities that existed for decades. Black, Hispanic and Native American people are about four times more likely to be hospitalized and nearly three times more likely to die of COVID-19 than white people. African Americans have nearly the lowest rates of vaccination among any ethnic group.

“There is an urgency to spread the message that COVID vaccines are saving lives,” he said. “It is critical that people of color get the correct information that these vaccines are making the difference between life and death. However, in the medical community we are seeing the heartbreaking results of the decisions as emergency rooms across the nation are filled to capacity and the death counts rise and all of this could be prevented.”

Along with being a doctor, Laroche is also the author of a young adult book, “How to Become a Successful Black Man,” which educates and empowers young Black boys and men about their history, heritage and legacy. Laroche connects history to the present-day life experiences and challenges of the Black man to instill self-confidence and personal growth to succeed.

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Roxanne Persaud in the June primary. He thanked his wife, Amerie, and the Barrons for supporting his “radical vision” for East New York.

“It’s running for office, against the machine, the Brooklyn Democratic Party. That machine,” said Alleyne.

“That’s radical vision.”

A former teacher and principal, I. Barron modeled her political ferocity after Brooklyn native Shirley Chisholm. She said that the district needs a bold candidate with a kind of “audacity” to vote on issues that matter and stand “flatfooted” on that vote in the face of criticism. She believes that Alleyne, over the years she’s known him, can be that person for the community.

Alleyne has also interned and worked for C. Barron in the past.

“Anytime you call this man and you know what? You don’t even have to call him all the time. Sometimes he goes out on his own to collect food to feed people, and that’s how I met him,” said C. Barron. “We didn’t make Keron Alleyne. He made himself, and then joined us and enhanced who he is.”

Born and raised in Brooklyn, Alleyne was taught the importance of service from both his parents and

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THE NEW YORK AMSTERDAM NEWS grandparents, he said. Alleyne’s grandfather in particular was a huge supporter of community gardens, a cause Alleyne has continued even through the hardships of food insecurity during last year’s devastating pandemic. “They say East New York is an inner city food desert, so let’s imagine growing food in a community that is abundant with fresh food,” said Alleyne.

Alleyne said it was difficult to reach people throughout 2020 who were in need of fresh foods, but eventually organized a small advocacy group of community gardeners, farms, and people to deliver produce to those in need. The advocacy group is now partnered with the NYC Parks Dept.

Greenthumb community gardens program to raise awareness and support for East New York growers.

Towards the end of the conference, the group surprised I. Barron with a bouquet of flowers to thank her for her service. She said that she was “excited” to be a part of the next chapter for Alleyne.

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members of the largest healthcare provider in the state, we understand our unique responsibility to protect the health of our patients and each other,” Northwell Health spokesperson Jason Molinet said in a statement. “We owe it to our staff, our patients and the communities we serve to be 100% vaccinated against COVID-19.”

Many municipal workers are demanding the city establish a permanent telework policy, as well as establish exemptions and accommodations policies. Last month, District Council 37, the city’s largest public employee union, filed an Improper Practice Petition with the Office of Collective Bargaining.

The petition argued that Mayor Bill de Blasio’s mandate put workers’ health at risk by prematurely bringing them back to the office. Currently city workers must either be vaccinated or submit to weekly COVID testing.

Spokesperson for City Workers for Justice, Jeremiah Cedeno, said that many municipal workers have resigned. He says those that have stayed want a permanent telework option and hazard

pay, among other things.

“We want transparency and we want to be able to be involved in the discussions that are being made around our plan,” Cedeno said. “People are less enthused and their morale is down and they don’t want to work for the city.”

Cedeno added that while no municipal workers in his organization have been terminated, he predicts that if a vaccine mandate goes through, there would be a number of workers who would leave.

“What we’re seeing is, even before these mandates kicked in, a lot of city workers were already resigning, or are job hunting or in the process of resigning,” Cedeno said.

De Blasio has previously stated that the city has made efforts to make sure that health and safety protocols were followed to accommodate bringing city workers back to the office and that being in-person was the best option.

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Out & About One Africa Music Fest shuts down Coney Island

By OLAYEMI ODESANYA Special to the AmNews Last Friday on Oct. 1, Afro-beats enthusiasts from all over the tri-state area came to the Interswitch One Africa Music FEST Concert at Brooklyn’s Coney Island Amphitheater. The fifth annual concert was hosted

by Netflix Actress Osas Ighodaro. Music fans came from all over the nation, and in fact Nigeria, to enjoy the great performances by some of the top Afrobeat artists. Along with Tiwa Savage, Olamide, Busiswa, Wurld, Flavour, Rema, Oxlade, Kwaw Kese, Bella Shmurda, Tome, DJ Buka, DJ Big Skipp, DJ Young Kofi, and many more performed at the concert.

(Olayemi Odesanya photos)

Kranium brought that reggae and dancehall flavor.

“My friends and I truly enjoyed ourselves at the concert,” said concert-goer Folake. “Especially, since the concert was held on Nigeria Independence Day. I definitely felt like we were at a celebration from the performers and the crowd.

Also known as Afro-pop and Afro-fusion, Afro-beats has been one of biggest musical genres to originate from West Africa since the 1960s, really from Felafels Kuti. Presently, from well-known songs like “Essence” from Wizkid and Tems and “Fall” by Davido, Afrobeats is becoming worldwide phenomenon.

“African talents and art are making headlines on a global level, and everyone is noticing the paradigm

shift,” said Paulo Okoye, CEO of One Africa FEST. “There is no better time than now to continuously export Africa’s substantial blend of quality Afrocentric music to the world while leveraging on the fast-growing African Entertainment industry.”

Overall, concert-goers were pleased by the performers and the vibe of the crowd. The crowd was made up of people all over the African and Caribbean Diaspora.

If you weren’t able to make it to the concert, or just want to continue to celebrate Nigeria’s 61st Independence. There will be a Nigerian Independence Day Carnival held on East 47th Street between 1st and 2nd Ave., Manhattan, N.Y. on Oct. 9th from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.

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Cleare support for Cordell Nightlife Black Excellence TV celebrates hip hop Written by David Goodson

Community and elected leaders united at a rally in support of Cordell Cleare for State Senate, District 30 Harlem.

(Bill Moore photos)

(Dave Goodson photo)

Remy Ma

BET celebrated hip hop with a reintroduction of two specials Tuesday, Oct. 5: the 2021 BET Hip Hop Awards and “Rap City ’21.” The longest-running rap show on BET, “Rap City,” returned for a one-hour special edition with legendary host Darian “Big Tigger” Morgan on BET and BET Her. Emanating from The Cobb Energy Centre in Atlanta, the 2021 BET Hip Hop Awards co-hosted by actors, hosts of the “85 South Show” podcast, and stars of Wild N’ Out—comedy supergroup 85 South (Karlous Miller, DC Young Fly, and Chico Bean)—premiered immediately after on the same outlets with the addition of VH1.

Executive produced and hosted by Big Tigger, “Rap City ’21” featured exclusive interviews with the likes of Jermaine Dupri, Tobe Nwigwe, Fat Joe, Jeezy and DJ Drama. The special revealed never before seen booth appearances, “Rap City” memories. The highly anticipated return of the iconic music show will continue to pay homage to BET’s commitment to hip hop and celebrate the stars of the culture’s past, present and future. Making its debut in 1989, “Rap City” was the preeminent hip hop series dedicated to rap music videos, important cultural commentary, and interviews with the stars of the moment along with original freestyles from artists including Jay-Z, A Tribe Called Quest, LL Cool J, Kanye West, Eve, Ludacris, The Diplomats, Jadakiss, Trina, Common, Big Boi, Killer Mike, and many more!

This year’s BET Hip Hop Awards featured show stopping performances by Young Thug & Gunna, Baby Keem, Tobe Nwigwe featuring Fat & Nell, and Isaiah Rashad featuring Doechii & Kal. Powerful female representation came in the form of Trina, See NITE on page 28

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Union Matters SEIU 32BJ endorses Eric Adams and others for general election AMNEWS STAFF REPORTS

Eric Adams

(Bill Moore photo)

On Wednesday, SEIU 32BJ announced their endorsements of Eric Adams for Mayor, Jumaane Williams for Public Advocate and Brad Lander for Comptroller, in addition to candidates for six boroughwide offices, and 44 City Council seats.

Members endorsed Vanessa Gibson for Bronx Borough President, Antonio Reynoso for Brooklyn Borough President, Eric González for Brooklyn District Attorney, Mark Levine for Manhattan Borough President, Alvin Bragg for Manhattan District Attorney and Donovan Richards for Queens Borough President.

“As our city continues to fight against COVID-19 and works hard to come back from the effects of the virus on our communities and our economy, our members want candidates who will fight for them and for all working New Yorkers, and push for a worker-led recovery. Our members are confident that the candidates they have endorsed will do that, and more,” said SEIU 32BJ President Kyle Bragg. “With so many members of our city government coming in fresh and taking on new roles, our members relish the opportunity to support a new cadre of leaders to take our city to where it needs to go next.”

The union previously endorsed Adams and several other candidates included here for the June New York primaries. The union’s executive board determined endorsements for the November elections in September.

SEIU 32BJ represents about 85,000 members in the city who work as residential porters, doormen and women, window washers, office cleaners, security officers, airport wheelchair attendants, school janitors and in other building service jobs.

School safety agents get vaccinations

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

As of Tuesday, Oct. 5, about 85% of school safety agents have now been vaccinated under the city’s COVID-19 vaccination deadline for all employees. But, more vaccinations doesn’t necessarily solve the staff shortage that many feared would leave schools without proper security for the return of in-person learning.

There are 4,513 school safety agents currently employed with 3,818 of them vaccinated, said Teamsters Union Local 237 President Gregory Floyd.

Many holdouts have either gotten the shot or chosen to fight for their jobs while on leave, said Floyd.

“No one’s lost their jobs, but they’ve been placed on leave without pay.

They have an opportunity to apply for exemptions that are being heard this week with the paperwork or go get vaccinated,” said Floyd.

On Monday, 117 school safety agents opted to get vaccinated rather than take leave, said Floyd.

“Through attrition they lost 1,000 people that were not hired, and retirement, so when the school year began there was a shortage before the mandate,” said Floyd.

The shortage was “created by” the city council and public officials’ decision to stop the hiring of school safety agents last year, and transferring the responsibility of school safety agents to the Department of Education instead of the

NYPD didn’t help, said Floyd.

This year there are about 745 fewer school safety agents employed compared to 2020, said Floyd.

He said the shortage certainly “didn’t help” any supposed rise in violence in city schools since the reopening.

A recent “slashing” outside Truman High School in the Bronx is among the growing “acts of violence” that have parents and advocates rattled, reported News12.

Mona Davids, president of the NYC Parents Union, told News12 that the ongoing violence in schools is a crisis and that she fears the violence will get worse without more school safety agents.

“The safety of our students is our first priority, and we are working closely with the NYPD to ensure that

every school has coverage by school safety agents. We will continue to closely monitor the situation to ensure that every student has a safe place to learn,” said a DOE spokesman.

Every school has school safety agent coverage based on the need at that school, and the DOE is working with the NYPD to determine what those needs are, continued the DOE spokesman.

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

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Opinion Successful Black American business leaders unfairly targeted

By DR. BENJAMIN F. CHAVIS JR.

once said in defense of Black business leaders, “There is a na- turning” back to society after prison incarceration. tional systematic campaign to unfairly subjugate and to preInvestigative journalism has its rightful and respected space in (NNPA NEWSWIRE)—There is an old African proverb that vent the financial success of Black American businesses.” ourdemocracy.Butitshouldalwaysbebalancedandnon-racially captures one of the challenges that too many financially successIt appears that business leaders from communities of color in prejudicial. The Times piece on Jack Brown was full of unsubstanful Black business leaders face today in America. That proverb the United States are being held to a different standard of business tiated innuendo and one-sided reporting. is, “Your earned riches may engender envy and jealous criticism practice, ethics, and regulation. Such is the case, I believe, with reThose of us in America’s Black press are fully aware of the but be not dismayed by the foolishness of the envious.” specttoJackBrownIIIwhowasrecentlytargetedforbusinessprac- double standards and the racial stereotyping that cast unfair Across the nation as business owners are attempting to re- tice criticisms by The New York Times because of what they state dispersions on Black entrepreneurs who dare to strive to own cover from the COVID-19 global pandemic, African American are personal financial profits that Mr. Brown has earned as result legitimate multi-million dollar businesses. business leaders who are defying the odds with their financial of his businesses providing shelters to New York City’s homeless.

After the Times feature on Brown was published, Rudy Gisuccess are often targeted by “mainstream media” and others The Times emphasized, “Since 2017, as homelessness has uliani who is well known for his unprincipled attacks on Afwho summarily and unfairly castigate Black business leaders’ risen to record levels, the city has awarded more than $352 rican American leaders joined in the chorus against Brown. I economic achievements. Is this syndrome racially motivated? million to a nonprofit run by Mr. Brown to operate shelters. conclude with the following tweet that I posted: “It is questionThe simple answer is “Yes.” The money is meant to help homeless people regain their able to see Rudy Giuliani and The NY Times aligned. But today Former Congressman and past leader of the Congressional footing in life, but it has benefited Mr. Brown, too.” the Times published an innuendo-filled story targeting sucBlack Caucus, The Hon. Parren Mitchell (D-MD), 1922-2007, Is the Times implying that there is something wrong or un- cessful Black-owned business leader, Jack Brown, who Rudy ethical about earning a financial profit from Giuliani then calls Brown a ‘poverty pimp.’” one’s work and business? Brown’s CORE ServicSadly, Former President Trump, Giuliani, some in the NY es’ companies, nonprofits and for-profits, have Times, and many others take the position that there are limits worked effectively in New York for over a decade. and ceilings both politically and economically across the Both nonprofits and for-profits have to be run as nation that are categorically prescribed by race. We do not We gladly welcome news that debt relief is on the way successful businesses in order to be sustainable. agree. We will not submit. for public servants and their student loans. The Educa- Jack Brown has been a national leader in multiple tion Department has announced major reforms to the Black-ownedbusinessesnotonlyinNYC,butalsoin Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr. is president and CEO of the Naprogram that will bring thousands of borrowers closer other cities he has been effective in providing much tional Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) and can to wiping out their debts. needed services to the homeless and to people “re- be reached at dr.bchavis@nnpa.org.

The borrowers, without any action on their part, will automatically be eligible for relief.

Now if we can get a similar kind of relief in effect for students at HBCUs who are greatly underserved and who may be even more so if President Biden’s budget plan is reduced.

Biden’s “Build Back Better” agenda is gradually being bifurBy BEN JEALOUS ing to think creatively and work collaboratively to cated into one plan for jobs and another for the social net. What reimagine public safety. this means is that the plan is at the mercy of moderate DemNegotiations on a federal police reform bill have colIn Ithaca, New York, Mayor Svante Myrick worked ocrats such as Senators Manchin of West Virginia and Sinema lapsed because Congressional Republicans are willing with Tompkins County Administrator Jason Molino on of Arizona. to stand in the way of life-saving changes to policing. It a plan designed to deliver accountability, transparenIt’s confounding that two senators can wreck such havoc, viris time for state and local governments to take the lead cy, and excellence in public safety. They came up with a tually holding the Democratic progressives hostage and forcing in reimagining public safety. And it is time for all of us to plan that would replace the current police department them to reduce the budget request, even though as it stands it support local leaders who are willing to show leadership with a new department of public safety. is not sufficient. and take risks to make it happen.

The new department would be civilian-led, and There should be some congressional news on the debt ceiling Change is not going to come from Congress, at least it would employ both armed officers and unarmed by the time you read this, and that’s another pressing concern for now. The U.S. House of Representatives passed the community solution workers trained to respond to that has ramifications across the social, political, and economGeorge Floyd Justice in Policing Act earlier this year. It situations that do not require an armed response. ic spectrum. would have been a good first step. Like other good leg- The proposal won unanimous approval from the We are in total agreement with Biden’s recent comments to islation, though, the bill was stopped by Republican ob- Ithaca City Council, which created a task force to raise the debt limit and how the Republicans seem content to struction in the Senate. develop a plan for implementing it. extend the tax-and-spending recklessness of the previous adDemocratic Sen. Cory Booker has spent months neIthaca’s plan is meeting resistance from some state Reministration. gotiating with Republican Sen. Tim Scott on a reform publican leaders. They’re trying to convince the public Too often Americans are slow to connect the dots, particubill. As recently as August, Scott said they were getting that you can’t have accountability and safety. That’s a larly on economic matters, though there is very little they can close to an agreement. But talks fell apart in September, false tradeoff. Making policing more just and accountdo about it except pressuring their representatives. The other and Scott dishonestly blamed Democrats for the fail- able will make communities safer for everyone. day there were thousands of demonstrations supporting Roe v. ure to reach agreement, accusing them of wanting to I believe there is a critical mass of elected officials Wade, we need such outpourings on economic affairs and the “defund the police.” who are ready and willing to begin the process of dangers we incur from Republican obstinacy.

Scott’s claim is shameful. New York Magazine re- transforming policing in this country from the bottom cently noted that just last year Scott himself proposed up. Last year, 100 young progressive candidates ran that police departments lose some federal funding if for office as part of a slate committed to ending police they do not ban deadly practices like chokeholds or killings of unarmed civilians. There are mayors and no-knock warrants. But now he is telling the media city council members around the country looking at that requiring police departments to meet such fed- Ithaca’s plan and making their own. eral standards in order to receive federal money is the Reimagining public safety has become a movement. same as “defunding the police.”

Congress can’t stop us.

You can’t make this stuff up. Well, if you’re Sen. Scott, I guess you can. Even two major police groups rejected Ben Jealous serves as president of People For the AmeriScott’s claims, saying in a statement that “at no point did can Way. Jealous has decades of experience as a leader, coany legislative draft propose ‘defunding the police.’” alition builder, campaigner for social justice and seasoned I don’t know what political calculations led to Sen. nonprofit executive. In 2008, he was chosen as the youngScott’s change of heart or his dishonest spin. And I don’t est-ever president and CEO of the NAACP. He is a gradureally care. What I do care about is saving lives by making ate of Columbia University and Oxford, where he was a policing safer and more accountable.

Rhodes Scholar, and he has taught at Princeton and the Fortunately, there are local leaders who are will- University of Pennsylvania.

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Local governments can lead in public safety movement

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ARMSTRONG

WILLIAMS

The mainstream media wanted you to think that right-wing people would riot during their recent September Washington, D.C. protest. They were wrong. They wanted you to believe that the streets would be lined with a sea of red hats. They were wrong. They were eager to showcase video footage of a white man attacking a Black man in a red hat. Yet, at the cost of millions of taxpayer dollars, insurmountable animosity towards a political party, and the deep distrust in the system, there were no significant protestors; their numbers were dismal. The only people who showed up were the mainstream media and the thousands of police officers who could be responding to house calls and aiding the elderly and the helpless in their time of need.

The real protestors are the media; they are upset, unkempt, and dissatisfied with the weak display of violence on Capitol grounds.

But, instead of taking to the streets, they bring to the televisions in the sanctity of our homes to air their unfound and often fabricated grievances at the American way of life.

With their immense reach, the mainstream media has turned a large portion of the public into mindless zombies who speak from the mouths of talking heads instead of the head on their shoulders. In addition, they have made people angry by disproportionately airing shocking events and then using those events to argue that they indicate a broader problem.

During the warm Saturday, Sept. 18 nonevent, I spoke with a large number of officers, pet a magnificent police horse at the suggestion of one of our courageous officers, and witnessed the human side of law enforcement. But, unfortunately, the mainstream media does not want you to witness these events because they contradict their larger narrative that police officers are people.

They are faceless uniforms and badges to the mainstream media, and their sole care is for themselves.

Don’t be fooled by the mainstream media.

You are exceedingly smarter than they believe you to be, and trust me when I say this, they think you are fools and gullible.

Countless times per year, protests are regularly scheduled in Washington, D.C. These protests are committed to various causes, including abortion rights, LGBTQ rights, migrant rights, Black Lives Matter, and a variety of other prevalent concerns. Unfortunately, the police presence is limited when these protests take place. At worst, a street or two will be closed, and at most, a few police officers will be there to ensure no violence. How-

ever, the events of September 18th highlight a situation that should cause profound concern for our national security interests and our freedom to demonstrate peacefully. It just took a presumably right-wing group to organize a protest for Homeland Security to fully lock down the Capitol, the Supreme Court, and many other susceptible sites.

After all was said and done, miles and miles of barricades were erected, thousands of law enforcement officers were mobilized to guard the area, and a barrage of propaganda from left-wing media organizations was broadcast on our televisions, all to the tune of millions of tax dollars and thousands of wasted employment hours that could have been spent on tasks far more productive. Instead, the barricades went up overnight just to come down the next day, wasting all of that effort for nothing. In fact, after speaking with a few workers by the barricades, I was informed that a mass solicitation was sent out by the government just two hours prior to the barricades being erected and that the government hired whoever responded first.

Why didn’t this happen on January 6th? It looked relatively simple to get everything set up this time. Not only did Homeland Security confess that they had reliable information about the events on January 6th, but they also knew it would have occurred on a day when almost every single high-profile politician would be in a single location––the certification of election results in the Capitol Building. I’m sure you recall what Homeland Security and D.C. Metropolitan Police Department did on that day: nothing. When circumstances like these arise, it is virtually impossible not to suspect that powerful interests on both sides––Republican and Democrat––intended it to happen; it created hatred and contempt towards each political party, which sadly pays dividends in politics.

Almost every major news organization has admitted that police enforcement and media personnel outnumbered the protesters on September 18th. Some would call the government’s response to send thousands of officers to the Capitol area excessive, but it was the perfect storm for the media. Whatever the outcome, the headline was ideal for attacking the protestors themselves and conservatives as a whole: if the protest was large, the media could portray them as the violent enablers of January 6th who cheered on and continue to support people who killed a police officer, and if the protests were small––as they were––they could call Trump’s supporters “dying” and “pathetic,” as they did.

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.”

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Bail funds are needed and necessary cease requesting bail and remand on all cases at arraignment. DAs CHRISTINA are top law enGREER PH.D. forcement officers with powerful inI am still thinking about fluence on the criminal the gross abuses taking legal system and their deplace on Rikers Island and cisions to keep prosecutin jails across the country. ing and requesting bail There are so many inno- directly fuel the incarceracent individuals who are tion crisis.

Lastly, New York’s waiting for their day in court who are languishing judges must use their disin our jail system solely cretionary power to grant because they cannot release requests and stop afford bail. Which begs the sending people to Rikers. question, what is the pur- When the dangers of jailpose of bail? If two people ing have never been more commit the same offense clear, the practice of trapand one has means to pay ping people in jail with bail and another does not, unaffordable bail in rewhy is one person allowed sponse to manufactured to continue to live freely violent crime narratives and possibly be a produc- from law enforcement tive member of society, and media has never while the other must live been more reprehensible.

What Envision Freedom in dangerous conditions while awaiting their day makes evident is this fact, “jails have always been— in court?

I have been following the and will continue to be— work of the Envision Free- sites of violence, trauma, dom Fund (EFF) (formerly and death. Yet, the number the Brooklyn Communi- of people jailed continty Bail Fund) for years and ues to skyrocket. Every they argue that “The only 30 minutes in New York way to end the abuse and City, someone is jailed, violence of incarceration often because they cannot during this humanitari- afford their bail.”

We must continue to an crisis is to free people now.” Under the lead- pressure our elected offiership of Carl Hamad- cials to develop legislation Lipscombe, executive that supports all members director of Envision Free- of our community. We dom Fund, the EFF out- must let DAs know we are lines three clear demands: watching their sentencing First, the New York Leg- guidelines and those disislature must oppose any proportionately targeted changes to bail reform that by these antiquated pracwill result in an increase of tices. And it is my hope the number of people el- that this issue of bail beigible for money bail or comes a key focus of prepretrial detention—and sumed mayor Eric Adams.

If you are interested in uphold this commitment when the legislative ses- donating to and/or learnsion resumes in January. ing more about the EnviIn the meantime, EFF ex- sion Freedom Fund, go to pects them to speak out in www.envisionfreedom.org support of decarceration Christina Greer, Ph.D., is and against fearmongering attempts to justify in- an associate professor at creased jailing that costs Fordham University, the New Yorkers who are im- author of “Black Ethnics: migrants, Black, Latinx, Race, Immigration, and the Pursuit of the Ameriand LGBTQIA their lives.

Second, New York’s elect- can Dream,” the co-host of ed district attorneys must the podcast FAQ-NYC.

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Caribbean Update

Bahamas to repatriate hundreds of Haitian refugees

By BERT WILKINSON Special to the AmNews The Bahamas’ newly elected government is moving to repatriate more than 1,000 Haitian boat people who have made the dangerous crossing to the archipelago in recent weeks and authorities say they fear that more will come in the near future despite the fact that they are not welcomed.

In the past week, the administration of Prime Minister Phillip Davis airlifted more than 500 Haitians from the southeastern Inagua Island to CapHaïtien in Haiti and additional flights are being arranged to cater for the remainder, officials said.

Bahamian officials had expressed fears about the country being overwhelmed by boat people in the aftermath of the recent earthquake in Haiti and the early July assassination of President Jovenel Moïse. Recent arrivals of large groups of Haitians have confirmed fears that economic and political stability at home would convert into the arrival of a flotilla of Haitian refugees seeking to settle in The Bahamas.

An additional 1,000 will be sent back from Tuesday of this week, Labor and

Immigration Minister Keith Bell told reporters at the weekend. He and Security Minister Wayne Munroe also issued a joint statement vowing that the cabinet will take action to stem the flow of migrants to The Bahamas.

“The number one priority of the government is to defend the territorial sovereignty of The Commonwealth of The Bahamas while ensuring that the Bahamian people are protected. To this end, no resources will be spared as all involved agencies work towards addressing this situation. In the face of unprecedented levels of Haitian migrant activity that has inundated countries throughout the region, the government has taken decisive action to scale up operations. These measures have resulted in the interception of migrant vessels in the southern waters of The Bahamas, preventing passage into the central Bahamas near New Providence, where they were typically intercepted in past years. The routes to New Providence and other islands have effectively been cordoned off,” the statement said.

More than a quarter of The Bahamas’ population of about 300,000 is made up of Haitian immigrants who

landed there in recent decades. Successive governments have struggled with this issue while trying to deal with the country’s complex immigration laws which do not grant automatic citizenship to the offspring of migrants born in the country. Officials argue that this influx puts strain on health, education and other services. In some cases, the immigrants are too poor to construct proper homes and end up building unsightly shanty towns in the tourist paradise.

Several Caribbean Community and associate nations have had to grapple with the arrival of large groups of Haitians including The Turks and Caicos, Jamaica, Guyana and Suriname among others.

In June, Guyana abolished visa free travel for Haitians, contending that the country was being used as a human trafficking and smuggling destination for Haitians heading to neighboring South American countries like Brazil and French Guiana where they remain temporarily before making the dangerous land and sea trek north to Mexico and the U.S. And earlier this year, Suriname suspended charter flights from Haiti for reasons similar to that of neighbor-

ing Guyana.

The actions by Guyana and Suriname triggered criticism in the community as Haiti is a full member of the 15-nation bloc where nationals travel visa free and can remain, in most cases in any member state, for up to six months with documentation hassles.

Reiterating its instant deportation policy, The Bahamian government said it is getting help from the U.S. coast guard via ships and helicopters as it warned Haitians not to make the journey.

“We want to express in the strongest possible terms to the citizens of Haiti that the journey by boat to The Bahamas is a dangerous one, and we have deployed our assets and resources to prevent entry into our territorial waters. When intercepted, you will be quickly processed and returned home. We are resolute in defending and protecting our borders. We do not yet know how long this spike in illegal migrants will continue; however, the government will continue to work tirelessly on behalf of the Bahamian people, empowering our men and women on the front lines and ensuring that the migrants are treated humanely and repatriated swiftly.”

Will it be Obama 2.0 for immigrants?

FELICIA PERSAUD

IMMIGRATION KORNER Like Barack Obama, Joe Biden was elected at a time when voters, mainly immigrant and Black swing voters, handed back control of both the House and the Senate to the Democratic Party.

And like Obama, Biden is about to waste that power trying to play––not to his base––but to repeat his boss’s vanilla politics. That is especially true when it comes to immigrants and immigration reform.

Let’s face it––Obama spent a lot of his time playing it safe to appease the right. So much so that he ended up costing Democrats control of the Congress in his first two years. This was largely because he failed to address the main issue he had promised––immigration reform.

Just like Obama spent his first two years earning the nickname “Deporter-in-Chief,” because of his large scale deportation of immigrants, Biden seems to be taking a page clear out of

his boss’s playbook and could soon be slapped with that title too.

Over 5,000 Haitians have already been deported back to Haiti after the horrifying scenes of many being chased and lassoed by white U.S. border patrol agents on horsebacks that the administration had sent there. All in the name of trying to apply for asylum.

Thousands more are being sent back daily to a country that is unstable, and where many live below the extreme poverty line of U.S. $1.23 per day.

Many of those being deported have not lived in Haiti for over a decade and are being let loose with USD 120 or 12,000 gourdes.

Between September 19 and 29th, the United States, operating seven to eight flights per day, expelled 5,405 Haitian.

There were also 1,238 children among those migrants returned to Haiti. The International Office of Migration says over 1,000 deportees a day could be returned to Haiti in the coming weeks.

So much for Biden’s promises to “undo the moral and national shame of the previous administration.” His administration’s approach to immigration has been equally aggressive as it continues the Donald Trump poli-

cies. While Trump reportedly called Haiti a ‘s-hole’ nation, the Biden administration is treating Haitians like they are “s..holes.”

To make matters worse, Biden’s Department of Justice last week appealed and won an order to continue expelling migrant families caught crossing the U.S.-Mexico border under a COVID-19 pandemic order - Title 42. The controversial title was issued in March 2020 by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention under Donald Trump and this administration is happily going along enforcing it.

Biden’s press secretary, Jen Psaki, like its immigration czar and immigrant roots vice president, Kamala Harris, and its immigrant-born DHS secretary, was also happy to reiterate what has become the administration’s message: ‘The border is closed. This is not the time to come.’

Sounds familiar? Like a Trump line?

Department of Homeland Security Secretary, Cuban-born Alejandro Mayorkas, was even more aggressive: “If you come to the United States illegally, you will be returned.

Your journey will not succeed, and you will be endangering your life

and your family’s lives.”

How about if the U.S. had said that to Mayorkas’ parents when they fled Cuba and applied for refugee status here? Where would he be today?

Biden is also failing to strongly push the Democratic-controlled Congress, to prioritize the lives of migrants and immigration reform for many who have been living here. So far, they have been unable to get their caucus in the Senate to stick together as the Senate parliamentarian, Elizabeth MacDonough, rejected their plan to tie legalization to their infrastructure bill.

One thing is certain––it is that the administration and the Democratically-controlled Congress will have no excuses when it comes to congressional elections next year. Many will pay the price for Biden’s ‘Obama 2.0’ strategy if they don’t change course now and deliver substantive changes––by legislation or by executive order for immigrants! Time is running out for Biden and Democrats. What they do before the end of 2021 will determine if they will be able to hold on to power or become a lame duck, much like Obama’s presidency.

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‘Pass Over’ playwright has powerful message

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write this piece after so many murders of Black men by police. Explaining why Black Lives don’t seem to matter to racist cops, Nwandu remarked,

it is not a reason for sadness, according to Nwandu, it’s more important that the audience focuses on what happens afterwards. “What I want people to

Regarding a play like “Pass Over” making it to Broadway at this time, Nwandu said, “I think that the meaning will be made in time, I think now is a little too soon to understand everything that it means. I know that as a Black woman I think that Black women specifically hold a lot of the morality and a sort of moral power. Even in the election when you break it down by race and gender— who’s voting to save this country. Black women are always on the front lines of every sort of healing, reckoning or change to make this country more of what it’s supposed to be.”

About making her Broadway debut, Nwandu humbly shared, “It’s a heavy responsibility. But I feel so proud to have been chosen for this moment.” Nwandu was a fascinating young woman to interview, listening to her respond to questions it was obvious that she has a very deep thought process and a great love for her people. Not to mention she is a very well-educated and brilliant, down-to-earth person.

This young lady has quite an impressive background. She is a MacDowell Fellow; an Ars Nova Play Group alum, a Dramatists Guild Fellow, and a Eugene O’Neill Playwrights Conference Literary Fellow.

She is winner of a Lilly Award, Lucille Lortel Award, Whiting Award, Samuel French Next Step Award, Paula Vogel Playwrighting Award, Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting Award and Negro Ensemble Company’s Douglas Turner Ward Prize. Her work has been supported by Sundance Theater Lab, Space on Ryder Farm, Ignition Fest, Cherry Lance Mentor Project, Fire This Time, and The Movement Theater Company.

This accomplished woman has a AB in English from Harvard, MSc from The University of Edinburgh and MFA from NYU “Cops are just the modern- see is not that Moses is down, Tisch. And, she is also one of day equivalent of slave catch- but that Moses gets back up. the producers of “Pass Over.” To ers. The reason for cops is Whether you think it’s actual up-and-coming Black writers, to protect and serve proper- resurrection—he gets back up. Nwandu gives this advice, “Tell ty [owners]. The property was The death is something he asks the Truth.” “Pass Over” will slaves. Passed it down, passed for and what his friend gives only play at the August Wilson it down. We haven’t fixed the him. He wanted an end to his Theatre through Oct. 10, 2021. problem of slavery in America, reality and Kitch gave that to so the problem won’t be fixed.” him and he was able to come Visit www.passoverbroadway.

The character Moses dies, but back from that.” com for tickets and more info.

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part of my purpose. The problems that I think about are complex, but it’s my purpose to If you haven’t seen “Pass tell them very simply,” she said.

Over” on Broadway, you must Throughout the play, make plans to go. This stirringly moving play tells the Antoinette Chinonye Nwandu story of Black men, Moses and Kitch, and their immobilizing fear of police brutality, a fear which for many people unfortunately has been a reality.

Their existence is minimal, but they manage to love and support each other. They manage to give each other that sense of worth that society does not bestow upon them. I recently had the pleasure to interview “Pass Over” playwright Antoinette Chinonye Nwandu, who is making her Broadway debut with the stunning production.

Reflecting on what she is saying in this play, she said, “We’ve told ourselves the story of a Black man’s death too many times, we’ve seen it, so I want to tell the story of the Black man reborn.” Her main characters Moses and Kitch live on a ghetto street corner, afraid to move, their everyday existence consists of tedium and redundancy with hopelessness on the side. It makes one wonder what is their onus to survive.

Nwandu shared, “I think a lot of times it’s love, if a person feels loved they know their life is worth tending.”

It’s interesting to watch these two characters as they engage in conversation, and suddenly freeze and look terrified when they think the police are coming. When asked what she wants the audience to experience at those moments, Nwanda responded, “I want us to experience in our bodies exactly what they are experiencing. Something as simple as a joyful moment can turn into terror very quickly.”

Regarding the white character who enters their domain, the playwright shared, “He rep- Nwandu has the “n” word flying resents the two sides of suprem- frequently between the two acy—in order for supremacy to Black men. “I was just being exist it needs muscle, which faithful to the way my students is Ossifer, but it also needs spoke. I taught public speaking agency, ability, the person that and it was the way my students gives the green light, that allows spoke. I liked their voices and it.” It is amazing how Nwandu they stuck with me. Their lancan break everything down so guage is very musical.” beautifully. “I feel like that’s Nwandu was inspired to

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By LINDA ARMSTRONG Special to the AmNews

What circus do you know that is owned by us, features us and an international group of talent, deals with the issues of the day, and is the perfect family show? Yes, UniverSoul Circus is back! It is time to go out and have fun as a family.

It is time to be amazed and astonished at the talent of these aerialists, high wire acrobats, daredevil motorcyclists, teeterboard acrobats, skilled horseback riders, and more.

When my youngest daughter and I arrived at Roy Wilkins Park at 177th Street and Baisley Boulevard in Queens and I saw the Big Top in the distance, I felt like I was coming home to the sense of family and community that only the UniverSoul Circus brings. This decades-long circus has always been a source of entertainment, amazement and Black pride. The message is to always encourage our youngsters that they are smart, beautiful, and special and should believe in themselves. There’s always

been a message of loving your family and God. Yes, this circus has always been glad to cross that line and I love it!

This year’s show has two ringmasters, Donald “N.O.” Long and Cheyenne-Rose Dailey, who are joined by a UniverSoul Circus original, the one, the only Sidekick Zeke! The circus was so happy to be back and performing in New York. N.O talked about the pandemic and those who were lost to it, with a feeling that those that were under the Big Top were grateful and blessed to still be here. Another portion of the show had a focus of “We Can’t Breathe” and a moving group of praise dancers performed as the names of those murdered by police were shown. As I said, this circus is never afraid to stand up for our people and take on the poignant issues of the time.

Some of the staples to this circus that I love the most are the “Soul Train Line,” where four men and women are taken out of the audience and compete in a dance competition; there’s also the call and response—You wait to hear N.O.

High Wire Act at UniverSoul Circus

say, “When I say Big Top, You Say Circus” and we all had so much fun duplicating the way he says it. Then of course there’s the audience competition to see which of the three sides of the center ring is the loudest.

My daughter’s favorite is when we all join in on “If you’re happy and you know it…” We get to

clap, stomp and SCREAM! This circus always leaves me excited and voiceless.

There’s just nothing like UniverSoul Circus and the feeling of inclusion that has always been a part of its makeup. You have the Caribbean dancers from Trinidad and Tobago, the stilt walkers and the limbo

dancers who will limbo under a stick set on fire. You have performers from Colombia and teeterboard acrobats from Mongolia. There are camel acts from Russia and performers from Gabon, Guinea, Mexico, Kyrgyzstan, Brazil, Santiago, Chile, Bakersfield, Calif., Cuba and South Africa.

It had our hearts racing as the daredevil motorcyclists came zooming and flying high into the tent, twisting and flipping in mid-air over our heads.

There was such a graceful delivery by the teeterboard performers from Mongolia. You could tell watching them that they were part of a well-trained machine. Their attributes are precision, delicacy and beauty.

This is a show you don’t want to miss! The circus will only play at Roy Wilkins through Oct. 11, but please be aware that COVID protocols are in place. Anyone 12 or older must provide proof of at least the first vaccine and masks must be worn by everyone at all times except when eating and drinking.

For tickets visit www.ticketmaster.com.

Charmaine Warren to be honored at Bessies Angel Reception Bessies will also introduce #ArtistSupportStories, a social media video campaign where anyone in the community can lift up an inCharmaine Warren

dividual, group, or organization from the dance community who supported them in some way during the pandemic.

The Bessies pre-ceremony Angel Party will honor performer, dance historian, curator, producer,

and educator Charmaine Warren for her unwavering commitment to dance and community. “From Charmaine’s extraordinary career (Tony Turner photo)

The NY Dance and Performance Awards—The Bessies— New York City’s premier dance awards honoring outstanding creative work in the field, are thrilled to announce the presenters for the 37th annual Bessie Awards ceremony. The virtual ceremony will take place Monday, Oct. 11, at 7:30 p.m. For a complete list of nominees, visit bessies.org/2021-nominees/.

This year’s presenters include notable members of the dance and performance community including Arthur Avilés, Monica Bill Barnes, Tina Croll, Tess Dworman, Nia Love, AnnieB Parson, Charles Rice Gonzales, and Bijayini Satpathy.

As previously announced, the ceremony will include special presentations to two pillars of the dance community—George Faison, the 2021 Lifetime Achievement Honoree, and DanceAfrica, recipient of the 2021 Bessie Award for Outstanding Service to the Field of Dance.

The program will feature videos of all the nominated artists and works. The evening will also include tributes to essential dance workers and all those who work behind the scenes and are central to making live and online performance happen in New York. The

ing Dance on the Lawn, to her teaching and mentoring—Charmaine’s vision and advocacy in dance are exemplary and revolutionary,” said Bessies Executive Director Heather Robles.

The celebration will continue at the free virtual Bessies after-party.

Tickets for the 2021 virtual Bessie Awards ceremony can be reserved online at www. eventbrite.com/e/the-2021-virtual-bessie-awards-ceremony-tickets-173944932977.

For more information about this year’s pre-ceremony Angel Party and to purchase tickets, visit www.eventbrite.com/e/thebessies-2021-angel-party-tickets-169474650241.

committee composed of artists, presenters, producers, and writers. All those working in the dance field are invited to join the Bessies Membership and participate in annual discussions on the direction of the awards and nominate members to serve on the selection committee. For more information about The Bessies, visit www.bessies.org.

The Bessies Steering Committee, responsible for setting policy and providing oversight for the Bessie Awards throughout the year, is comprised of Cora Cahan, Judy Hussie-Taylor, Jeanne Linnes, Stanford Makishi, Nicky Paraiso, Carla Peterson, Craig Peterson, Gus Solomons Jr., Paz ABOUT THE BESSIES Tanjuaquio (Chair), Laurie UpThe NY Dance and Perfor- richard, and Charmaine Warren. mance Awards have saluted outstanding and groundbreaking The 2020–2021 Bessies Seleccreative work in the dance field tion Committee: Ronald Kevin Alin New York City for 37 years. exander, Charles Vincent Burwell, Known as “The Bessies” in honor Maria Baranova-Suzuki, Michele of revered dance teacher Bessie Byrd-McPhee, Yoshiko Chuma, Schönberg, the awards were es- Sangeeta Ghosh Yesley, Celia Ipas a brilliant dancer and perform- tablished in 1984 by David R. iotis, Benjamin Akio Kimitch, er, to supporting The Bessies in White at Dance Theater Work- Koosil-ja, Anabella Lenzu, Adesthe early days through her en- shop. They recognize outstand- ola Osakalumi, Pam Pietro, Tiffathusiastic presence on the Com- ing work in choreography, ny Rea-Fisher, Elka Samuel Smith, mittee, to founding Black Dance performance, music composi- George Emílio Sanchez, Elgie Stories, to her masterful produc- tion, and visual design. Nomi- Gaynell Sherrod, Andrea Snyder, ing of DanceAfrica, to co-found- nees are chosen by a selection Ivan Talijancic, and Philip Treviño.

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John Legend’s film co. joins ‘Ain’t Too Proud’ production team Good things come to those that wait. That’s the only thing I can think of when I am reading the news that twelve-time Grammy Award-winning superstar John Legend and his partners Mike Jackson and Ty Stiklorious in Get Lifted Film Co., have joined the producing team of the smash Broadway musical sensation “Ain’t Too Proud—The Life and Times of the Temptations.”

Is this COVID-19’s way of saying “I’m sorry for the mess that I made”? This move comes on the heels of Legend’s televised performance with the cast of “Ain’t Too Proud” on last Sunday night’s CBS special, “Broadway’s Back!”

The production is currently in rehearsals preparing to return to the Imperial Theatre (249 West 45th Street) with a gala performance on Saturday, Oct. 16.

Legend is all about it and he, and Jackson, return to Broadway having previously won a Tony Award as producers of August Wilson’s “Jitney” which received the 2017 award for Best Revival of a Play.

“Ain’t Too Proud” with John Legend

In a statement, John Legend said, “Performing with this incredible cast is a memory I’ll always cherish. The Temptations music is core to my own musical upbringing and is an integral part of America’s cultural heartbeat. This is a musical I love and a story I want to

help share. In this pivotal time, it’s so important that we support and maintain Broadway, an essential part of the soul of New York and the entire nation.

I’m honored to be a part of the ‘Ain’t Too Proud’ team and the return of Broadway.”

Mike Jackson stated, “We

ly joined the ‘Ain’t Too Proud’ family. Today we make it official. We have enormous admiration and respect for John, Mike, and Ty and are thrilled they have joined our team! They have a deep love and appreciation for The Temptations, their extraordinary body of music, and their cultural significance which will be a wonderful thing for ‘Ain’t Too Proud’ as we re-open on Broadway Oct. 16 and then, in December, begin our first national tour across the country.”

Tickets are on sale now via www.ainttooproudmusical.com, www.telecharge.com, by calling 800 447 7400, or at the Imperial Theatre box office.

For more information, visit: https://www.telecharge.com/siteinfo. aspx?siteinfotype=helpfaq www.ainttooproudmusical. com www.facebook.com/ainttooproudmusical www.instagram.com/ainttooproudmusical www.twitter.com/ainttooproud

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are thrilled to be partnering with this fantastic team to help reopen Broadway. We love the live theatrical experience, and it has been a long time coming.”

Producers Ira Pittelman and Tom Hulce said, “At the ‘Broadway’s Back!’ special, John unofficial-

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KYA FRENCH October 7, 2021 — October 13, 2021 Vinateria REBIRTH OF A NEW NATION: THE NORTH AND SOUTH NODES ARE GRADUALLY SHIFTING TOWARDS THE END OF THE GEMINI AND SAGITTARIUS AXIS CURRENTLY AT 3 DEGREES. INFORMATION IS BEING SPREAD LIKE THE WIND THAT BLOWS IN ALL DIRECTIONS. RAPID DISCUSSIONS, MEETINGS, AND CONVERSATIONS ARE TAKING PLACE, BUILDING A COMMUNITY OF NETWORKS TO BETTER COLLABORATE. AT TIMES WHERE SPIRITUAL RETREATS TAKE PLACE, FINDING A MENTOR OR GURU TO ASSIST YOU ON YOUR JOURNEY IS IN THE FORECAST. GOVERNMENT-RELATED TOPICS OF THE TRUTH ARE EXPOSED FROM LEFT TO RIGHT. EVEN IF THE GOVERNMENT TOLD THE TRUTH, SO MANY LIES HAVE BEEN TOLD AS THE TRUTH. THE TRUTH AS A RESULT WOULD BE JUST AS CONFUSING AS A LIE.

The Phoenix must rise from the ashes bringing forth a new profound faith within Dec 22 – Jan 21 your uniqueness. Uplift yourself while opening your heart and let go of the old ways of doing things. Your relationships are changing as your true self is showing up more to guide you. Of course, our dreams and visions hold the answers to the unknown that is played out in different ways, bringing insight to our daily lives, and even creativity to manifest a product and bring our gifts forward to share with the world. The rebirth of a Capricorn is in the making.

Capricorn

Aquarius

The way you received information through conversation gives ideas to a projJan 22 – Feb 19 ect you may be creating. Exploit ways to expand your gifts, talent, and services which put you in a different bracket opening the doors of opportunities. You have the green light to start this month fresh, spontaneously and courageously, to step out into the world to meet and connect with other like-minded souls with a trailblazer spirit.

Now that you are into the rhythm, the Pisces pace is a bit different when you are workFeb 20 – Mar 20 ing and cruising to your agenda rather than someone else. Take time to cruise this cycle as the answers you seek are in the details through conversations, images, and other forms of messaging. Kick-off your shoes and relax with a good book, a great movie, or make it your business to get into some form of self–improvement.

Romance and finance are the theme; this cycle begins a routine as your schedule Mar 21 – Apr 21 may clash by you overcommitting yourself.

Organization is the key be it in a way of cleaning your home for a more peaceful environment after returning from a long day of work. Rise a bit earlier as family, work, and other obligations could pull you in a tug of war direction. Remember, balance is the key, as well as please, have boundaries. Assist yourself first before helping others. Take a nature walk or go by a body of water for reflection and peace of mind away from your daily grind.

Aries

The word “I” is in the word independent to keep in mind as you set new rules and comJune 22–July 23 mitments to yourself. It’s to explore, journey on new and exciting excursions that can transform your perspective on life, also how you feel about yourself. What do you love to do? What brings joy to your heart? Sometimes, we have to step out of the zone of comfortability to take advantage of the exciting opportunities that life has to offer during this global reset.

Cancer

This cycle week feels of attunement to meet your inner self and bring forth information by visuals, dreams, and messages from the spiritual realm, or a loved one revealing something to you for future reference. Letting go is the metamorphosis to restructuring yourself and peeling away the old into the new version of you. This week get into some form of publishing, writing, achievement, or simply rewarding and putting yourself into a much better space.

Leo

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Virgo

What do you value the most? Education is invaluable. That’s why nuggets are found in a book that some don’t have the time or patience to read or invest time to do so. You, on the other hand, find that information is useful to apply in various ways to demonstrate and bring forth more meaning. You’re traveling in a week where things started or discussed may be at a standstill or simmering for review. Just do your part and follow up.

Aug 24 – Sep 23

Libra

You’re in the spotlight this month, and everywhere you go, you will bump into someone, so the shades you may be wearing really won’t help. This is a fertile cycle month to bear fruit regarding career-related matters while networking and attending events in person or online to spread the word of a new project or keep your name circulating. Own this month since it’s your season to brightly shine and bring something of value to the table.

Sept 24 – Oct 23

Some form of compensation may appear out of left field this week, and your work Oct 24 – Nov 22 may be receiving more attention than ever.

A special someone may want to romance you, or maybe you are seeking the same. Besides, someone will show their appreciation by a compliment or by a kind gesture. During this cycle week, some form of separation with someone or something may start to take place, or finally trimming the fat, financially to reduce costs and removing things taking up valuable space.

Scorpio

Taurus

Can you say, “I heard it through the grapevine?” People are willing to help you advance into a position or by sudden meetings with those whose intentions are to connect you to the right people.

It’s a cycle where you know someone who knows someone, and/or they heard of your work. Also, in addition, you’re referring people for goods and services. Try not to over-exhaust yourself this week, so make it a point to schedule time out to recenter yourself to restore your energy.

Apr 22 – May 21

A thump, knock, then a bang from the Gemini inside is asking you to recognize the inner May 22 – June 21 growth and changes that are occurring to elevate yourself even higher. Growth can be a slow process just like planting the seed of a flower or fruit in the ground. It’s the unseen states of germination before you see any sprout coming to the surface of the soil. Continue to build strength and resistance through any adversities.

Sagittarius

Emotionally, you can be a wreck, or your feelings regarding others are strongly felt from a distance. Some people aren’t wrapped too tight, so guard yourself at all costs. This month, and especially this week, emphasize your will and determination to accomplish any task you set out to do. You may cross paths with someone with who you share a story or encourage them to don’t give up. Your words are inspiring this month. With the gift of gab to back you up, use this cycle to influence others on their journey as well as your own.

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DR. LONNIE SMITH, B-3 ORGAN PRECISIONIST, DIES AT 79 Dr. Lonnie Smith

Dr. Lonnie Smith whose deliberate cross genres of gospel melodies, R&B, blues, and jazz added a distinct voice to the Hammond B-3 organ, died Sept. 28, at his home in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He was 79.

His death was confirmed by his longtime partner and manager Holly Case, who was by his side, the cause was pulmonary fibrosis.

Early in the 1970s Smith added the “Dr.” title to his name. He noted to the Amsterdam News, “I am not a medical doctor, but I can sure operate when it comes to this music and I know how to make an audience feel good.”

Smith was named a 2017 NEA Jazz Masters Fellows, the nation’s highest honor in jazz. The Jazz Journalists Association voted him Organist/Keyboardist of the Year for nine years. In 2012, Dr. Smith started his own record label Pilgrimage Inc. and in 2015 he made a historic decision to resign with Blue Note Records after 45 years.

The label released “Evolution” in 2016.

His 75th birthday celebration at New York City’s jazz club Jazz Standard was a live recording of his second Blue

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Note album “All in My Mind” with his longtime contributors guitarist Jonathan Kreisberg and drummer Jonathan Blake.

This year Blue Note released “Breathe” the last album before his death which featured the surprise presence of pioneer punkrocker Iggy Pop, who appeared on the two vocal tracks “Why Can’t We

Live Together” and Donovan’s “Sunshine Superman.”

Lonnie Smith was born July 3, 1942, in Lackawanna, New York, a suburb of Buffalo. He was raised by his mother, Beulah Mae Early, and his stepfather, Charles Smith. He originally sang in the church choir and during the doo-wop days of the 1950s he was singing with the

Teen Kings which became the Supremes (that included Jerry Bledsoe, who later became a top radio personality in NYC). The group recorded a song “Snap, Crackle and Pop.” The group earned quite a reputation and became the opening act for then teen idol Fabian. During an earlier interview with the Amsterdam News Dr. Smith recalled, “I really liked singing but I had to wait to go on stage after the band and then sit down again, so I figured playing an instrument was the way to go.” He had hopes of playing the saxophone but ended up with “a beat-up coronet.”

Although he didn’t know how to play piano, he took the gig anyway.

He recalls, “the only thing that got me through was my singing. I would pick at the piano and no one really noticed my inadequate playing skills.” After being introduced to his new instrument, he concluded the organ was his destined choice, it was the only instrument he actually knew and sang to every Sunday in church.

While playing piano at one club he also played in downtown Buffalo at the Little Paris during his breaks. He eventually quit the piano gig when the owner refused to give him anymore breaks because he never returned on time. Young Smith’s many See JAZZ on page 21

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By KYSHA HARRIS AmNews Food Editor, @SCHOPnyc Y’all! I miss you. Sending you much blessings, joy, and of course good food vibes.

It has been a minute since I put my fingers to keyboard to connect with you about this life in food. What I can tell you is…IT… HAS…BEEN…A LOT! I continue to get up to a decent pace with my work as food editor at The Spruce Eats.

There are lots of spreadsheets, SEO and growth assessment, editing and developing new content. Please check out my first video for our series “It’s Elementary” on YouTube.

I delve into what makes chili chili. It was

great fun to shoot and reminded me why I love to do what I do.

Speaking of loving what I do, I am reminded of an outstanding food and fun-filled weekend with my colleagues in Raleigh, North Carolina. While two of my colleagues Lauryn and Kristin flew, I drove down with my fur sons on Labor Day weekend to stay with our colleague Victoria.

We attacked the weekend with aplomb!

Victoria primed us with a spreadsheet (yes, a spreadsheet) of all the places we would go. However, first there would be epic tuna melts and sparkling rosé followed by toasted Mekelburg’s chocolate babka (as smuggled

by Kristin from Brooklyn) à la mode.

Our first night dinner was at Brewery Bha-

vana in downtown Raleigh. Monastic looking space with marble, wood and white.

Outstanding craft brew and an Asian-inspired menu that can’t stop, won’t stop.

We filled the table first with incredible tra-

ditional cocktails with an Asian twist and copious dim sum appetizers of crab Rangoon, cucumber salad, soup dumpling, shu mai, sweet pork buns and scallion pancakes with oxtail, marrow, coconut jam. INHALED IT! All was tremendously ridiculous.

We almost balked at entrées from all we had already eaten but thank goodness we didn’t.

By EILEEN BARRET have serviced East Harlem by hosting ferson Houses Management office at Mapo tofu with ground pork, crab AmNewsFOOD Staff Writer, “get active” outdoor garden and street- 300 East 115th street to take part in nasi goreng (fried rice) enrobed @AromasBakery based events. Vitafusion Fruit Tree this planting event. Proof of COVID in egg and Chinese water spinproject has planted more than 200,000 vaccination or a negative COVID test ach in oyster sauce. Wow! Packed Have you ever taken a bite of a piece trees around the globe! taken within the prior 72 hours and with flavor in every corner of the of fruit freshly plucked from a tree? If Join me, as I join them this Friday, masks are required. The event is hap- bowl…and there are no corners not, a freshly picked piece of fruit is Oct. 8 at 10:30 a.m. outside of the Jef- pening rain or shine! which is how good it was. vibrant and juicy. Imagine While we did the best we could (Image courtesy of Vitafusion Fruit Tree Project) the most delicious piece of to finish, we took the leftovers candy you ever tasted—it is home. I made a little snickittybetter than that. snack for us later in the weekend.

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Dr. Lonnie Smith

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days of hanging out and practicing at Art Kubera’s music store paid off when the owner offered him a Hammond B-3 organ at no charge.

His career didn’t take off until the early ’60’s when he met manager and agent Jimmy Sibling who booked him in studio sessions with Motown stars Dionne Warwick, Gladys Knight, Charlie and Inez Fox and the Impressions.

He later played a gig at Small’s in Harlem where he met George Benson who had joined McDuff and Lou Donaldson. Benson’s manager Jimmy Boyd set-up a recording session for Dr. Smith with guitarist Grant Green. Unfortunately, Smith never showed up for the date stating during an interview with this writer, “I had only been playing for a year and still practicing and didn’t feel I was ready to play with a great musician like Grant Green.” A few years later Smith and Benson sat-in with Green at Harlem’s Palm Café.

Later when Benson started his own band, he asked Smith to join him. During his stint with Benson, they recorded five albums on Columbia Records (John Hammond signed both).

During their Columbia sessions Lou Donaldson asked both musicians to join him on his “Alligator Boogaloo” Blue Note session. The recording became one of Donaldson’s greatest hits which also played a major part in Smith leaving Columbia after only one year to accept a contract with Blue Note Records in 1967 as a sideman with alto saxophonist Donaldson.

After four years, he became a leader recording four albums for the label including his debut classic “Think!” (1968) and ending with “Drives” (1970).

“Dr. Lonnie was a genius, a very consistent organist for many years,” said alto saxophonist and composer Donaldson. “He played on my first album ‘Alligator Boogaloo,’ we played together for 10 years. He was a good friend.”

The accomplished composer and Hammond B-3 master, who inspired five generations never took formal music lessons and couldn’t read music. During our interview some years ago Smith noted, “When I was young playing was all that mattered, reading music was secondary and I just never took the time to study. I’ve been blessed with a great ear and I’ve always been able to convey my musical thoughts to any band.”

Smith never stopped performing live, but he did take a studio hiatus until 1993 when he returned to the studio with a tribute to John Coltrane “Afro Blue” released on the MusicMasters label. The

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same trio with guitarist John Abercrombie and drummer Marvin Smith went on to record two Jimi Hendrix tribute albums, “Foxy Lady” (1994) and “Purple Haze” (1995). Smith’s music was noticed in the hip hop community when A Tribe Called Quest sampled his music leading to a trend among rappers.

Smith has been featured on over 100 albums, with 30 as a leader and eight with Donaldson.

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studio we never thought young people would be playing our music.”

“Music is something from my heart, I’m enjoying God’s gift.”

In addition to Case, Smith is survived by four daughters, Lani Chambers, Chandra Thomas, Charisse Partridge and Vonnie Smith, and several grandchildren.

A memorial will be held in New York City time and date to be announced.

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Maud and another mixed-race student, Florida Des Verney soon encountered the complaints of other students when their ancestry was revealed. A protest was mounted to have them exclud-

Any mention of forerunners of African American women musicologists is incomplete if Maud Cuney-Hare is not Maud Cuney-Hare listed. Before Eileen Southern and D. Antoinette Handy made their mark in the category, there was Maud Cuney Hare. Born Feb. 16, 1874, in Galveston, Texas, she was the daughter of Adelina Dowdy and Norris Wright Cuney, a mixed-race couple, though her father was of majority-white ancestry.

Her father was one of eight mixed-race children of Adeline Stuart, who was an enslaved housekeeper for Gen. Philip Minor Cuney.

After the war, Gen. Cuney, one of the largest slaveholders in Texas, freed her and his children by her. Even before the Civil ed from the dormitory. Maud War ended, Gen. Cuney had sent and her father defied the adhis mixed-race sons, Joseph and ministration, which was under Norris, to Pittsburgh to be educat- pressure from its white southern ed. Later, Norris worked on steam- financial donors. W.E.B Du Bois boats on the Mississippi River and was among the students and subsequently became a leader community members who chalof the Texas Republican Party. In lenged the conservatory and its Galveston, where Maud was born, attempt to exclude Maud and he was appointed collector of cus- Florida. While Florida capitulattoms at the port. ed and moved on, Maud stood Along with his duties at the port, her ground, explaining that “I reNorris founded a business of ste- fused to leave the dormitory, and vedore workers that employed because of this, was subjected to hundreds of employees that grew many petty indignities. I insisted into a union. He was also a vora- upon proper treatment.” cious reader, including ShakeAlmost expectantly, Maud speare, and a violinist and singer of became a member of the highly some reputation. Maud’s mother vocal and politically conscious was also a gifted pianist and singer. neighborhood where she lived It was in a household infused with in Boston. Her friendship with music and literature where Maud Du Bois that began with his supcame of age. Inevitably, after com- port for her defiance at the Conpleting high school in Galveston, servatory grew deeper and soon she was accepted as a student at she was immersed in the activithe New England Conservatory ties that occurred at Josephine St. of Music. Her piano teacher was Pierre Ruffin’s home. In fact, for a Edwin Klahre and she studied short period of time she was entheory under Martin Roeder. Her gaged to Du Bois who described tutorial in literature was at Har- her as “a tall, imperious brunette, vard’s Lowell Institute. with gold-bronze skin, brilliant eyes and coils of black hair.”

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Maud returned to Texas after graduation from the Conservatory and began private lessons with pianist Emil Ludwig. A portion of her time and working hours was given to the students at the Texas Deaf, Dumb, and Blind Institute for Colored Youth in the 1890s.

There were also her performances at the Austin Opera House where she once more asserted her social and political activism against the segregated seating that relegated African Americans to the balconies.

On one occasion when her demand was refused, she and Ludwig cancelled a concert date and performed at the Texas Institute for Colored Youths where there was no segregation.

She also taught at the Settlement House program of the Institutional Church in Chicago and in Prairie View, Texas in 1903 and 1904. Among the singers she collaborated with was the Canadian baritone William Howard Richardson in 1913. They would tour together for 20 years, including being the first musicians of color to perform at Boston Public Library’s concert-lecture series. Meanwhile, Maud launched her Allied Artists Center that encompassed a full retinue of artistic endeavors. Though essentially a center for African American aspirants in the arts, it was open to all.

When she was not administering the center, Maud was busy as a performer and composer.

She wrote and directed the play “Antar of Araby” (1929) based on the Islamic poet Antar bin Shaddad with an overture composed

by Clarence Cameron White and incidental music by Montague Ring. As a musicologist, her interests were wide, touching on the music and folklore traditions of Mexico, Cuba,

Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.

From her travels she collected a vast amount of artifacts and musical knowledge that would later be used in her books, lectures, and teaching.

There was even a column she edited in the NAACP’s The Crisis magazine, again uniting her with Du Bois, and her articles were published in the Christian Science Monitor, the Musical Quarterly and other journals. Perhaps her best-known work was “Negro Musicians and Their Music” in 1936 where she compiled a veritable compendium of African American musical history. However, because of her dislike for ragtime and jazz she failed to include the music of significant jazz notables such as Scott Joplin, Duke Ellington, and Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong.

Even so, noted pianist and arts leader Josephine Harreld Love praised it for its meticulous scholarship and deemed it a “priceless legacy of accomplished documentation.” Unfortunately, she never saw the completed and edited version since she was crippled by cancer and died before it was published. She was first married to J. Frank McKinney, a doctor of mixed raced but they divorced in 1902 and she was disappointed in a custody battle for their daughter, Vera. Eight years later she would gain access to her daughter before she died later that year.

Her next marriage was to William Parker Hare and it was from him that she began affixing Hare to her last name. The house they settled in on Sheridan Street is marked by a plaque installed by the Bostonian Society. Her connection to Du Bois was also notable for her involvement in the historic Niagara Movement, one of the first women in the organization. She also wrote a biography of her father.

Maud died in February 1936 in Boston and a memorial service was held for her and she is buried in an unmarked grave next to her father and mother in Lakeview Cemetery, Galveston, Texas.

ACTIVITIES FIND OUT MORE The Boston Historical Society is replete with information about her phenomenal contributions.

DISCUSSION More can and should be said about her aversion to several forms of African American music.

PLACE IN CONTEXT From the later 19th to the early days of the 20th century Maud was actively involved in social and political movements.

THIS WEEK IN BLACK HISTORY Oct. 3, 1954: Rev. Al Sharpton born in Brownsville, N.Y. Oct. 3, 1904: BethuneCookman College launched in Daytona Beach, Fla. Oct. 4, 1940: Noted literary agent, Marie Brown, born in Philadelphia.

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COVID safety, deaths cloud school year for parents

By AHNAYAH HUGHES Howard University News Service WASHINGTON—As schools continue to adapt to classroom life amid the coronavirus pandemic, parents are divided.

Some parents want their children in the classroom, which has proven best for learning for most students. Others want their children safer at home with virtual learning, despite the difficulties it poses.

In Memphis, Jacquelyn Yarbrough wanted her 12-year-old daughter, Tealy, back in the classroom. So, she enrolled her in Anne’s Catholic School, a private school in Memphis, after years of public school education.

“Because the school is fairly small, I don’t have that constant state of worrying about her safety or if the kids around her are wearing masks,” Yarbrough said.

“In public schools everywhere, there’s just been so much back and forth about children being masked up or vaccinated, or about it being a parent’s right to choose, but it’s about doing what’s best for the kids.”

Parents must weave through an array of differing rules and circumstances as they consider the right path for their children.

Some school systems, for example, require masks. Some don’t. Some systems, like New York City and Los Angeles, require all faculty and staff to be vaccinated. Others do not. Finally, there are no FDA approved vaccines yet for children under 12.

Prior to schools’ reopening, the National Parent-Teacher Association, which is comprised of millions of parents, guardians, educators and caregivers, recognized the difficulties the upcoming year would present for parents.

“National PTA understands that the reopening of our nation’s preK-12 schools during the coronavirus pandemic is vital to ensure the continuity of education, however it should not outweigh the safety and the mental and physical health of our students, educators, school employees and families,” the organization said in a statement.

“National PTA believes that states and school districts must plan and align logistics, educational strategies and public health approaches into one coherent response. We recognize that there will not be a one-size fits all process for the reopening of schools.”

Parents are justifiably concerned.

Since the school year began, student deaths due to COVID-19 complications have been reported in South Carolina, Kansas, Mississippi, Kentucky and Tennessee. In Minnesota, 10 school staff members and one student have lost their lives after contracting the virus within the classroom.

Los Angeles parent Malissa Barnwell-Scott, here with her husband, Marcus Scott, and their two children, said she is concerned about the “political craziness” surrounding this school year. “I feel like people have turned it into something it’s not,” she said. “It’s public health and should be treated that way.”

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Parents and teachers in Chicago Public across the nation temporarily closed due Schools are expressing their worries over to outbreaks among students and staff. the handling of COVID-19 cases after School districts in Washington and

Memphis parent Jacquelyn Yarbrough was so concerned about uneven COVID-19 rules in the public school system that she enrolled her daughter, Tealy, 12, in a private school. Since school began there, a Memphis public school system elementary teacher, a student and a staff member have died from COVID-19.

the parents of two children at Jensen Elementary are believed to have died of complications related to the virus.

Additionally, schools of all grade levels

Ohio, among others, have shifted to remote learning until at least mid-October. Others continue to close for short intervals for deep cleaning and disin-

fection, but the possibility of going fully remote for some schools seems possible.

According to a survey conducted by the Center for Reinventing Public Education, at the end of July, 41 of the nation’s largest school districts intended to offer a remote learning option. Now that school has been underway for over a month in many cities, more than 90 school districts plan to make online learning a viable option.

Karen Cobbs, a mother in Freehold, N.J., said sending her son Kaden, 12, to school was a difficult decision, given that she has underlying health conditions.

“He really missed the social interaction, and I didn’t want to keep him from that,” Cobbs, 52, said. “I just wanted him to get through the first three weeks without anything happening, but unfortunately that didn’t happen.”

Kaden caught COVID outside of the classroom, and although he had been cleared to return to school, Cobbs decided to quarantine him for a few extra days to be safe.

“I would be really frustrated if my kid got COVID because a parent sent their child to school knowing they had been exposed,” Cobbs said. “But the scary thing is that not everyone is as conscientious.”

Parents and school boards across the nation went head-to-head over safety protocols within the classroom before the school year even began. In Philadelphia, parents sued the Central Bucks School Board after its decision not to require masks in the classroom. Meanwhile, in Ohio, parents gathered outside Lake Local School District schools in protest of a new mask mandate.

“I’m glad that it hasn’t come to anything like that in my own district,” Cobbs said.

“But people just don’t understand that their actions may have a greater impact on others. People don’t want to think of doing good for someone else.”

Cobbs continued, “You don’t know who other people’s children are going home to when they leave school.”

Many parents have said that the communication with their children’s school is vital in easing their worries.

Malissa Barnwell-Scott, a mother of two students in the Los Angeles school system, said her children’s schools have been keeping parents in the loop on normal school activities, but not much regarding COVID and safety practices.

“I believe that all they say is happening, is actually happening,” Barnwell-Scott said. “I don’t feel in the dark, but I don’t feel like I know enough. I’d like to be a bit more informed.

“Watching all the political craziness surrounding this, I feel like people have turned it into something it’s not. It’s public health and should be treated that way. It affects our kids.”

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Health Despite nationwide outreach efforts, vaccinations lag in Black communities Howard University News Service Valerie Shannon, 48, says being able to earn the equivalent of a high school diploma means everything to her. She will do whatever it takes to get it, she said.

So, she’s enrolled in a program at the Goodwill Excel Center, a public charter school in northwest Washington to earn a GED. A city-mandated requirement for completing the program is that she be vaccinated against coronavirus, but when a vaccination team from the D.C. Department of Health came to the school and offered her one, she balked.

“I know I need to get it,” she said.

“I’m going to, well I have to, if I want to keep going here, but honestly, I’m just scared.”

Derek Daniels, 38, a youth success coach at the center did get it, but only, he said, because District of Columbia Mayor Muriel E. Bowser has ordered that he and other city employees get the shot by early November, if they want to keep their job.

“There was always so much information,” Daniels said. “One week they’d say do this, and the next week they’d take it back. It was never made clear to me. If I had the choice, I wouldn’t have gotten it, but I love my work, so here we are.”

Nationwide, D.C., states and municipalities have invested millions in incentives and partnered with health systems and community organizations to get more people vaccinated In Alabama, getting a vaccine was immediately awarded with a chance to drive a car at the famous Talladega Superspeedway. In Arkansas, state officials were handing out $20 lottery tickets.

In California, officials held a lottery for 10 vaccine recipients to win $1.5 million each. In Hawaii, vaccine recipients could win one of 50 roundtrip tickets courtesy of American Airlines.

In Illinois adult vaccine recipients could be entered into a $7 million cash prize pool along with three $1 million cash prizes and in Oregon, 36 people could walk away with $10,000, one for every county.

In the nation’s capital, children ages 12 to 17 could receive $51 gift cards, air pods, iPads or a $25,000 college scholarship or iPads if they were vaccinated from Aug. 7 to Sept. 30.

But despite those efforts and vaccination mandates by President Biden, governors, mayors and major corporations, the pace of vaccines has slowed to a near crawl in Black com-

Andrea Coleman, 32, brought her 12-year-old son and 13-year-old daughter into the Ronald McDonald Mobile Clinic in Washington to get their first doses of a COVID-19 vaccine.

munities, outreach workers said.

In Richmond, for example, outreach workers said they are lucky if they inoculate 10 to 15 people on a good day, even as statistics show African Americans there with dramatically lower vaccination rates. When they began in earnest in March, they averaged thousands per day, they said.

At a food bank in Washington where workers were offering free vaccinations on a recent Saturday, clinicians were getting so few requests for shots, they had to keep taking the medication back to the freezer to keep it from spoiling.

At another location not far away, it was a similar situation, said Bonnie Harris, a vaccine outreach worker with the Department of Family Medicine at Howard University College of Medicine. Only three people had consented to a vaccination over an hour.

Harris, who goes out three or more times a week, said they are lucky if they vaccinate five people.

Just over 59% of Washington residents are fully vaccinated, health officials said. Only 33% of African Americans are fully vaccinated, they noted. African Americans are less than half the city’s population, but they account for 76 % of lives lost since the pandemic began.

In Baltimore, vaccination rates are critically low, especially in Black and

Latino communities, said Ryan Moran, assistant vice president of care transformation for MedStar Health, a conglomerate of hospitals, clinics and doctor’s offices that serve over half a million people annually in Maryland and the Washington, D.C. region.

“Numbers right now are discouraging, but we view every single shot in the arm as progress,” Moran said. “When they’re ready, we’ll be there.”

In Fulton County, Georgia, which has the highest number of COVID-19 deaths in the state, Karen Rene’, program director and second vice president of the NAACP Atlanta branch, is coordinating a large outreach effort The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention awarded the branch a $2 million grant to coordinate vaccination campaigns in Atlanta, Chicago, Houston, New Orleans, Dallas and Norfolk, Rene’ said.

Rene’, who is also a city councilwoman in East Point, Georgia, said the organization is creating public service announcement videos to be played in the cities.

It is also working with social media influencers to reach young African Americans and coordinating with organizations in each city to tie vaccination efforts to local events.

For example, in Chicago, they worked with an outdoor concert to have vacci-

Dr. Janine Rethy, center, the division chief of community pediatrics at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, runs a pediatric mobile medical clinic that gives shots to eligible children on Tuesdays.

So far, Rethy said they haven’t vaccinated many residents.

nations as a component of the event.

In Atlanta, she said, they are sponsoring their own vaccination concert.

Educating residents and building trust, she said, are key to seeing a change, particularly in parts of Atlanta with vaccination rates below 3%.

“We have to meet them where they are,” she said, “even when it means literally holding their hands, walking them across the street to get the vaccine and doing it all over again when they come back.”

Temple of Praise Baptist Church in southeast Washington has become home for Victoria Park, 59, a nurse’s assistant, and Benita Bryan, 52, a licensed practical nurse, owners of 5 Medicine, for the last five months Their company other faith-based communities and the D.C. Health Department are partners in the “Faith in the Vaccine” program to provide COVID-19 testing, vaccinations and education.

“We’ve had three today, one first shotter and two second shotters,” Park, said.

“It’s three more than a lot of days. For everyone we get or bit of progress we make, we get knocked back 10 steps.

“Fighting misinformation has honestly been most of our work.”

“Better educating people from the beginning would have helped so much especially in these communities where there’s so much mistrust.

It’s easier to believe what you heard or saw on social media.

MedStar Georgetown University Hospital in Washington offers vaccines to family members of their pediatric patients.

Dr. Janine Rethy, the division chief of Community Pediatrics, runs a pediatric mobile medical clinic that gives shots to eligible children on Tuesdays.

Rethy said they haven’t vaccinated many residents.

“We strive to create a space where they can get any question at all answered,” she said. “Our approach considers how to reach them in a way that’s comfortable and engenders trust.”

Andrea Coleman, 32, brought her 12-year-old son and 13-year-old daughter into the Ronald McDonald Mobile Clinic at Kelly Miller Middle School to catch up on their required vaccines for school. All three left having received their first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine.

“I was hesitant at first when they offered it,” Coleman said. “But they answered all of my questions and made me feel comfortable.”

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bill focuses on procedural justice to change the narrative in the court system that “terrifies” so many and advocates for health care professionals to do a thorough evaluation in order to determine if a person will qualify for treatment under this bill.

LAS’ MICA Project Attorney Jeffrey Berman explained that generally drug courts in New York State do not accept or feel comfortable accepting clients who live with serious mental illness or struggle with serious disabilities despite these applicants otherwise qualifying.

“You’re totally at the mercy of prosecutors throughout the state,” said Berman.

“What happens then is that the drug courts then push these clients away to be considered for a mental health court. However, mental health courts require full consent of the prosecutor who controls our client’s fate. And too many people are being rejected for treatment and sent to state prison,” added Berman.

Berman said judges and prosecutors without medical backgrounds are then “gatekeepers” in this arduous process under the judicial diversion courts. He said his clients are forced to admit to charges and are expected to “open up” to strang-

ers about their deeply abusive pasts or traumas in order to even be considered for treatment in mental health court. That whole time they can spend up to a year in jail in the meantime, said Berman.

In addition to demanding the passage of the bill, LAS, Brooklyn Defender Services, and Milbank LLP recently filed a class-action lawsuit against the Department of Correction (DOC) over its “failure” to pro-

vide people with access to medical care while locked up.

“New York City’s jails are in a fullblown humanitarian crisis, resulting in indescribable suffering and at least twelve deaths in 2021, including at least five people who died from suicide,” said Veronica Vela, supervising attorney with LAS Prisoners’ Rights Project in a statement.

“DOC can no longer deprive our clients of their right to medical care, and

if the department is unable to guarantee that right, then the court must immediately consider releasing people.”

In his briefing on Sept. 27, post-visit to the jail, de Blasio said that it was his mission to reduce the incarcerated population, speed up the intake process, improve the situation for corrections officers and incarcerated alike. He also said that he would ensure that crucial health care teams are getting the support they need.

“The final point, what we have to do––we can’t do it today, we can’t do it tomorrow, but what we have to do as quickly as possible in this city is get off Rikers Island once and for all. That plan is in place. It is moving rapidly.

That is the bigger solution. This is not a place that should continue for the long haul,” said de Blasio during the tense briefing. “We need to move to community-based jails.”

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Religion & Spirituality Harlem hosts immigrant services support day Uptown organizations came together to provide resources and information to Harlem families, including immigrant services, back-to-school supplies, PPE, food pantry items, insurance information, and clothing. The event was co-sponsored by the office of Comptroller Scott Stringer, ICNA Relief, Zeina L.INC., the Council of African Imams, the Senegalese Association of America, Manhattan Community Board 10 Harlem, and NYC African Communities Together.

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of our public employees and the contribution they make. I saw with my own eyes repeatedly, the reality of remote—at times, it did inhibit communication, it inhibited efficiency, effectiveness, collaboration.”

One group that remains in the balance over vaccine mandates is school staff. The city could see a large number of its workforce in schools exit if they don’t comply with a mandatory vaccine mandate that went into effect last Friday.

On Monday, DC 37 and the city’s Department of Education announced an agreement for nearly 20,000 DOE employees. DC 37 members who have not provided proof of at least one dose of the vaccine will have the option to resign or take a leave of absence. Employees had until Tuesday to apply for medical or religious exemptions.

“This fight has always been about the right of individuals to make their own medical decisions without fear of retribution in the workplace,” said DC 37 Executive Director Henry Garrido.

“Very few of our members remain unvaccinated, but for those who do, we do not believe their jobs should be on the line. This deal strikes the balance between public safety and fairness.”

As of Sunday, Oct. 3, 93% of DC 37’s almost 20,000 DOE workers had provided proof of at least one dose of the COVID19 vaccine.

Reports indicate that the DOE needs 3,700 substitute teachers to fill the void of full-time teachers who will be off the job because of the vaccine mandate.

In total, 5,500 teachers have refused to get the COVID-19 vaccine.

On Monday, several teachers filed for a temporary restraining order to stop the DOE vaccine

mandate in the case Kane vs. De Blasio. The restraining order focuses on the exemption process carried out by city schools.

Those seeking a religious exemption must provide a letter from an “established religion” to certify one’s personally held religious beliefs are sincere. The restraining order points out “The Establishment Clause” in the First Amendment which states the government cannot establish a religion nor can they determine what religions are or are not “established religions.”

“It’s incredibly sad that neither Mayor de Blasio nor the largest school system in America has any clue what the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is,” said lead plaintiff Michael Kane.

The teacher’s attorney, Sujata Gibson, said the religious exemptions’ requirement violates teachers’ constitutional rights not to get the vaccine.

“These exemption policies are as blatantly unconstitutional as they are repulsive,” said Gibson.

“This issue is long-settled and it shocks the conscience that this type of unconstitutional discrimination would be resurrected by the NYC DOE.” De Blasio previously stated that a “very small” number of requests for medical or religious exemption by teachers have been made and hundreds have been approved so far.

“If they don’t get vaccinated, they consciously make the choice not to get vaccinated, they will be suspended without pay, but there is a process,” he said. “It’s all been delineated by the arbitrator of how to address that. If someone wants to come back, there’s a way to do that. If they don’t, then there are consequences.”

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Notice of Qualification of SOLUTIONS HEALING (REMEDY) LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/28/21.

Office location: NY County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 01/25/21. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 37 E. 18th St., 7th Fl., NY, NY 10003. DE addr. of LLC: 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808-1674. Cert. of Form. filed with Dept. of State: Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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Notice of Qualification of HVS XLII LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/17/21. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 04/19/21. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co. (CSC), 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: c/o CSC, 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State of DE, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of Rachel L Goldman PhD Psychologist PLLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/16/21. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of PLLC: 675 3rd Ave., Ste. 1037, NY, NY 10017. SSNY designated as agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the PLLC at the addr. of its princ. office.

Purpose: Practice of Psychology and any lawful activity relating thereto.

Notice of formation: Sam City Collaborative, LLC. Art. of Org. filed with the Secy of State. of the State of NY (SSNY) on 09/15/2021. Office location: NY County. The SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail a copy of any process to Sam City Collaborative, LLC, c/o Genesis Companies, 745 Fifth Avenue, Suite 500, New York, NY 10151. Purpose: to engage in any lawful activity.

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Notice of Qualification of 1770 2ND AVE NYC LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/07/21. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 08/12/21.

Princ. office of LLC: 777 S. Figueroa St., 41st Fl., Los Angeles, CA 90017. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808.

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

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of formation of Pain Free Strength LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/24/20 NY office location: NY County. SSNY has been designated as an agent upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon is C/O the LLC: 4558 Broadway, New York, NY 10040. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice is hereby given that a license, serial #1338847 for beer, wine & liquor has been applied for by the undersigned to sell beer, wine & liquor at retail in a Restaurant under the ABC Law at 200 gth Ave., NYC 10011 for onpremises consumption; Ruam Mitr Corporation.

Notice of Formation of Rachel L Goldman PhD Psychologist PLLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/16/21. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of PLLC: 675 3rd Ave., Ste. 1037, NY, NY 10017. SSNY designated as agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the PLLC at the addr. of its princ. office.

Purpose: Practice of Psychology and any lawful activity relating thereto.

NOTICE OF QUALIFICATIONS of LLC. Auth. Ivonne Welch Insurance Agency, LLC filed Secretary of State (SSNY) on 08/10/21. Office Location: NY County. LLC org. in California. SSNY desig. as agent of LLC upon whom proc. against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of proc. to: 25240 Hancock Avenue Suite 305, Murrieta, CA 92562. Purpose: any lawful activity.

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Notice of Formation of V. cardui Consulting, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/13/21.

Office location: NY County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

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Notice of Qualification of SoulCycle LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/16/21.

Office location: NY County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 03/25/11. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co. (CSC), 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543.

DE addr. of LLC: c/o CSC, 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Jeffrey W. Bullock, Secy. of State of the State of DE, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St. - Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901.

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Notice of Qualification of HVS XLII LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/17/21. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 04/19/21. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co. (CSC), 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: c/o CSC, 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State of DE, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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Mott 7 LLC, Arts of Org filed with SSNY on 09/27/21. Off Loc: New York County, SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: The LLC, 52 Mulberry St, New York, NY 10013. Purpose: to engage in any lawful act.

Notice of Qualification of HOLONIX, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/28/21.

Office location: NY County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 05/27/15. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 37 E. 18th St., 7th Fl., NY, NY 10003. DE addr. of LLC: 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808-1674. Cert. of Form. filed with Dept. of State: Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901.

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NOTICE OF QUALIFICATIONS of LLC. Auth. Ivonne Welch Insurance Agency, LLC filed Secretary of State (SSNY) on 08/10/21. Office Location: NY County. LLC org. in California. SSNY desig. as agent of LLC upon whom proc. against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of proc. to: 25240 Hancock Avenue Suite 305, Murrieta, CA 92562. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of THE FUSION FILMS LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/19/21.

Office location: NY County.

Princ. office of LLC: 365 3rd Ave., #4B, NY, NY 100169073. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to So Young Yang at the princ. office of the LLC. Purpose: Any lawful activity

Notice is hereby given that a license, serial #Pending for beer & wine and spirit has been applied for by the undersigned to sell beer & wine and spirits at retail in a restaurant under Harlem Nytes Hospitality LLC located at 344 East 59th Street NY NY 10022 for on-premises consumption; DBA: Narcisse at 344 East 59th New York NY 10022

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Notice of formation: Harlem Sam City, LLC. Art. of Org. filed with the Secy of State. of the State of NY (SSNY) on 09/15/2021. Office location: NY County. The SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail a copy of any process to Harlem Sam City, LLC, c/o Genesis Companies, 745 Fifth Avenue, Suite 500, New York, NY 10151.

Purpose: to engage in any lawful activity.

101 LEGAL NOTICES Notice of Qualification of STRUCMONTICELLO TURED PRODUCTS MSP16, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/02/21. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 07/29/21. Princ. office of LLC: 600 Third Ave., 21st Fl., NY, NY 10016. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the princ. office of the LLC. DE addr. of LLC: c/o Corporation Service Co., 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St. Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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Notice of Qualification of GAR Equipment, L.L.C. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/12/21. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in New Jersey (NJ) on 03/31/11.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: 27 Ramsey Rd., Lebanon, NJ 08833, also the address to be maintained in NJ. Arts of Org. filed with the State Treasurer of the State of NJ, 125 W State St., Trenton, NJ 08625.

Purpose: any lawful activities.

101 LEGAL NOTICES Notice of Qualification of OCTAGON CLO OPPORTUNITY FUND IV (US) L.P. Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/21/21. Office location: NY County.

LP formed in Delaware (DE) on 09/15/21.

Princ. office of LP: 250 Park Ave., 15th Fl., NY, NY 10177.

Duration of LP is Perpetual.

SSNY designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co. (CSC), 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. Name and addr. of each general partner are available from SSNY. DE addr. of LP: CSC, 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of LP filed with Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901.

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The ascending New York Liberty look toward the 2022 season The WNBA Playoffs continue as the remaining teams battle to reach the final and win the title.

For the New York Liberty, it is already the off-season. After a 12–20 season and the Liberty’s first playoff berth since 2017, the players and the coaching staff are pleased with their progress but nowhere near satisfied. In the team’s exit interviews with the press, players spoke about continuing to grow individually and collectively.

“We know what we’re capable of, so demanding that of ourselves from the very beginning I think will go a long way,” said Sami Whitcomb. “Everyone going away and working on the things we know will help us next year.”

While no doubt all the players will be working on aspects of their games, it remains to be seen who will be with the Liberty come training camp next spring.

“I think with any team you’re

(Bill Moore photo)

By LOIS ELFMAN Special to the AmNews

Liberty forward Michaela Onyenwere was a unanimous choice as the WNBA Rookie of the Year

trying to keep a core group together,” said Whitcomb. “It’s hard to get that chemistry and experience as a group if you’re not keeping some kind of group together.

So obviously that’s vital.”

Liberty head coach Walt Hopkins said the starting point for next season will be the high level at which the team finished this season. The message management gave players in their post-season interviews was positive and looking toward the future.

Players were told to use their time overseas to be intentional in refining skills and strengthening weaknesses.

Hopkins said he will stay in touch with the players.

“It’s really a young group, not just in age, but also in experience in a lot of ways,” said Hop-

kins. “Coaching staff, Jonathan [Kolb, general manager], we’re all still learning. The idea is that we get to start training camp with the ferocity, focus, intensity and leadership that it really took us this season to figure out how all those pieces fit together. There’s not a shortcut for that.

“I think we’ve got the vast majority of pieces in place right now,” he added. “The potential of this group is tremendous. It’s not just the individual growth but it’s also the collective growth of how they play with one another within this system. … They come in with that knowledge now.”

Rookie forward Michaela Onyenwere swept the WNBA’s Rookie of the Month honors and was named Associate Press Rookie of the Year.

Guard/forward DiDi Richards was named to the AP All-Rookie Team.

“It’s been a whirlwind,” said Onyenwere, who will play in Spain during the off-season. “I’ve been really adaptable throughout this process and it’s definitely helped me for the long run.”

Monroe cross country is back in action

By LOIS ELFMAN Special to the AmNews

Aaliyah Moore has shown considerable skills this cross country season (Stockton photos)

After cancelling cross country and track and field during the 2020–21 school year due to the pandemic, the studentathletes of Monroe College are on campus, training hard and getting into the competitive groove. Although Monroe is a four-year college, the athletic programs are two years and compete against twoyear institutions. The freshmen from the 2019–20 year have moved onto four-year institutions, so coach Shirvon Greene is starting with a new group of athletes.

“Throughout the pandemic, we were still continuing the recruiting process,” said Greene, head coach for women’s and men’s cross country and associate head coach for track and field. “For me, I knew it was going to be a hard task because they would be away from the school for a year as well as the restrictions from their countries. It was a bit challenging to build this current team.”

As in past, the rosters are quite international. There are five women competing in cross country. Two are locals—one from White Plains and one from New Rochelle—and the other

Tshwanelo Maruping is progressing toward track season

three young women come from Kenya, South Africa and Guyana. Training started in mid-August.

“The good part of it was they were training when they were back home,” said Greene. “With COVID restrictions, they did as much as they could. When they got here, it was difficult for the first couple of weeks, but we’re using the competition season to get into real shape.”

Both the women’s and men’s squads have run personal bests, and Greene was pleased with their efforts at the recent Highlander XC Challenge at New Jersey Institute of Technology. All the athletes will compete in track and field.

Greene not only spent last year recruiting, but also honing his coaching skills.

He studied the performances of his past athletes. “Trying to find a way to incorporate the past and the current programs,” said Greene.

To stay in shape, Greene runs with the team, but he has put his competitive days behind him. “The purpose now is to get them to the next level,” said Greene. “Cross country is the foundation, is the base for what they want to accomplish for indoor and outdoor track.”

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The Jets have a day of firsts in defeating the Tennessee Titans

By VINCENT DAVIS Special to the AmNews

(Bill Moore photo)

The New York Jets are in a positive and refreshed state of mind on their trip to London, England to play the Atlanta Falcons this Sunday after winning their first game of the NFL regular season last Sunday, defeating the Tennessee Titans 27-24 in overtime at MetLife Stadium.

It was a day for the Jets.

It was their rookie quarterback Zach Wilson’s first NFL win. It was also Robert Saleh’s first victory as a head coach. It was not only the team’s first successful outcome this season, it was the first time the 1-3 Jets led in any quarter of any of their games.

Although there were moments of excellent play by the Jets versus the 2-2 Titans, specifically in the second half, the first half, for the most part, was shaping up to be much like

Jets wide receiver Corey Davis had four catches for 111 yards and a touchdown on Sunday versus the Tennessee Titans, his former team

their previous three games. A Wilson interception at 12:26 of the second quarter with the Jets down 6-0 was a sign the young quarterback was not correcting his mistakes.

The Jets went into the half down 9-0 but it should have been worse. The Titans offense failed to take advantage of opportunities to put touchdowns on the board instead of field goals. The Jets’ defense was the cause of much of their problems. Led by defensive tackle Quinnen Williams, who had two sacks, and the one and a half by defensive end Bryce Huff, the Jets totaled seven on the day on Titans QB Ryan Tannehill. As usual, Tennessee’s offense was powered by running back Derrick Henry, last season’s NFL rushing leader, who had 157 yards on 33 carries against an aggressive Jets front seven.

A rushing touchdown at the 4:49 mark of the second quarter by Jets rookie running back Michael Carter from

the 2-yard line gave the Jets their first score of the game and the score was 9-7 Titans at the half. The second half and overtime was the Jets’ best stretch of play this season. They outscored the Titans 20-15, capping it off with a 22-yard field goal in the OT period by Matt Ammendola and a 49-yard miss

by Titans kicker Randy Bullock that ended the game.

Wilson showed future franchise quarterback potential going 21-34 for 297 yards. In the post game press conference Saleh asked Wilson, “You having fun yet?” The BYU product smiled and replied “I am.” He added, “It’s an interesting fun, though. It was a roller-coaster game.”

Jets wide receiver Corey Davis also had fun, catching four passes for 111 yards and a touchdown against his former team. Davis spent four years with the Titans before signing a threeyear, $37.5 deal with the Jets last March.

“Feels great,” said Davis. “I was quiet this week. I didn’t want to make it any bigger than what it is because, honestly, it was the next game. It’s one that we needed regardless if I was there previously or not. It definitely feels good to beat your old team, and it’s on to the next now.”

The Giants game plan for the Cowboys after a big win versus the Saints of the four Giants games this season that was decided by the final play. Down by 11 points with 12:09 remaining in the fourth quarter after the Saints’ multi-purpose backup quarterback Taysom Hill capped off an 11-play, 63yard drive with an 8-yard touchdown run, the Giants tied the score at 21-21 with just 31 seconds left in regulation on a 48-yard field goal

by Graham Gano.

They then won the coin toss to start overtime and never allowed the Saints offense to touch the ball again. The Giants advanced 75 yards in 9 plays, with running back Saquon Barkley willing his way into Giants quarterback Daniel Jones passed for a the end zone from career-high 402 yards in last Sunday’s 27-21 win the Saints’ 6-yard over the New Orleans Saints on the road line to clinch the win. Their first victory since defeat- into this Sunday’s meeting with the ing the Dallas Cowboys last January Cowboys on the road. in the season finale was as much of “We haven’t won a game all year, a relief as it was reassurance going so for us to come out here and win (Bill Moore photo)

By JAIME C. HARRIS AmNews Sports Editor

The circumstances for a Giants win versus the New Orleans Saints last Sunday were markedly unfavorable. They had lost their first three games to start this season, were averaging just 18.6 points per game while giving up 24, missing wide receivers Sterling Sheppard and Darius Slayton due to hamstring injuries, and entering a highly exuberant atmosphere at the Caesars SuperDome, where the Saints were playing their first home game since being displaced by Hurricane Ida, which ravaged New Orleans at the end of August.

Yet the Giants were a desperate team. After falling to 0-3, countless fans and media speculated that offensive coordinator Jason Garrett was on a path to termination if not at the conclusion of the season than perhaps sooner. Some, in full reactionary mode, advocated for the immediate dismissal of Garrett, head coach Joe Judge and general manager Dave Gettleman following a crushing 17-14 loss at home to the previously winless Atlanta Falcons on a game-ending field goal in Week 3.

Their desired housecleaning was deferred when the Giants pulled out an unlikely 27-21 overtime victory against the Saints. It was the third

a game in a tough environment against a great defense and a great team is great,” said Barkley after his TD dropped the Saints to 2-2.

“We have to keep believing in eachS other and get ready for next week.

Personally, it helps with your confidence to make plays out there espe-i cially late in the game…It definitelyW builds my confidence up.” n After being sidelined 14 gamesa last season with a torn ACL, Bark-A ley experienced his most produc-g tive game since his return in WeekC 1 of this season. He had 13 carriess for 53 yards and a touchdown, andc caught five passes for 74 yards, in-d cluding a 54-yard TD reception. L Quarterback Daniel Jones alsoa elevated to new heights, throwingi for a career-high 402 yards. Veter-d an receivers John Ross and KennyW Golladay, and rookie first rounda pick Kadarius Toney mitigated thet absences of Sheppard and Slay-r ton. Golladay led the team with six catches for 116 yards. Toneyp snagged six passes for 78. And Rosst three for 77 yards, the most impact-b ful a 52-yard touchdown receptionc from Jones at 8:51 in the secondt quarter. s “If you look at it, all of the receiv-S ers had a part and did their job,”e said Golladay. “I felt like everyonew in the receivers room did a great1 job of helping Daniel Jones out. HeT put it on us.” f

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The Knicks come back to the Garden to open preseason The Knicks opened their 2 0 2 1 pre s eas o n s ch e d u l e at Madis o n S qu a re Gard en on Tu e s day n ig ht, d ef eat ing th e In d ia na Pa c ers by 125-1 0 4 .

Before then, the last time the Knicks played a game at MS G, Trae Young made the building his personal playground, scoring 36 points and adding nine assists in leading the Atlanta Hawks to a 103-89 win in Game 5 of the opening round of the NBA playoffs.

The Knicks were eliminated 4-1 that June 2 night.

It was a painful ending to an other wise surprisingly successful season.

They far exceede d e x p e c t a t i o n s by finishing 41-31 and e a r n i n g t h e No. 4 s e e d i n t h e E a s te r n C o n f e re n c e. B u t their struggles in t h e f ra n c h i s e’s f i r s t p o s t s e a s o n a p p e a rance since 2013 left them disappointed and looking to come b a ck m o re e q u i p p e d .

The Knicks added s h o o t i n g g u a rd Ev a n Fo u r n i e r a n d p o i n t g u a rd Ke m b a Wa l k e r t o b o l s t e r t h e b a c kc o u r t a n d p rov i d e quality depth at b o t h p o s i t i o n s. T h e B ro n x n a t i v e Wa l k e r was excited to play his first game as a

(Bill Moore photo)

By JAIME C. HARRIS AmNews Sports Editor

Knicks guard/forward RJ Barrett dropped 17 points in the team’s preseason debut versus the Indiana Pacers at home on Tuesday

K n i c k i n f ro n t o f t h e h o m e c ro w d . “ It was sp e c ia l to b e h onest,” h e said to the MS G Network in an inter view on th e Garden c ou r t after th e game. “ Ju st to s e e that New York a c ross my ch est. B eing from here, it ’s like a dream c ome tr u e.”

The 3 1 - y e a ro l d v e t e ra n c a n be a positive influence on younger players such as t h i rd - y e a r g u a rd / f o r w a rd R J B a r re t t , who made notab l e i m p rov e m e n t s last year after the ups and downs of

h i s ro o k i e s e a s o n . B a rre t t p l ay e d 2 5 m i n u t e s a g a i n s t t h e Pa c e r s, s c o ring 17 points on 7-14 shooting. Knicks head c o a c h To m T h i b o d e a u s e e s f ro m B a r re t t a c o n t i n u a t i o n o f h i s u n re l e n ting work ethic.

“His commitment is special,” said Thibodeau following Tuesday’s game.

“He’s a great kid. Hard worker. Disciplined. He’ll keep getting better. He’s only 21. But he’s putting a lot of work into the game.”

The Knicks next face the Washington Wizards this Saturday on the road, and are at home next Wednesday and Friday to play the Detroit Pistons and Wizards respectively.

Underdogs showing their grit in WNBA Semi-Finals (WNBA photos)

Candace Parker of the Chicago Sky is bringing pride to her hometown

By LOIS ELFMAN Special to the AmNews No team in WN BA h i sto r y ca m e into th e p layo ff s m o re dom i na nt tha n th e Conne cticu t Su n . No t o n ly did the tea m have a h isto r ic 14- ga m e w i n n ing st reak in th e s e co n d ha l f of the s ea s o n , bu t a s th e playoffs e nte re d th e s e m i-f i nal rou n d th e Su n re ceive d mu lti p le p o sts ea s on awards. Th e s e i n clu d e d WNBA Coa ch o f th e Year for Cu r t Mi lle r, Kia WNBA Most Improved Player for Br i o n na Jo n e s and Kia WNBA Most Valuable Player Jonquel Jones.

In s e m i -f i na l o n e, t he Sun f a c e d o f f w i t h t he Chi cag o Sky a n d t he Sky bur n e d t he Sun 1 0 1 – 9 5 . Co n n e c t i cut batt l e d ba ck i n ga m e t w o, p re va i l i ng 7 9 – 6 8 . W he n t he ac t i o n m ove d to Chi cag o f o r ga m e t hre e, t he Sky to o k f ul l a d va nt ag e, w i nn i ng 8 6 – 8 3 . The ga m e’s h ig h s c o re rs w e re Ka hl e ah Co p p e r w i t h 2 6 p o i nt s an d A l l i e Quig l e y w i t h 2 1 p o i nt s, but t he i mpa c t o f Candace Parker, who grew u p i n t he Chi cag o suburb o f Nap e r v i l l e, ca n n o t b e u n d e re st i mate d .

A f te r 1 3 s ea s o n s w i t h t he L o s A ng e l e s Spa rks, Pa rke r

Brittney Griner of the Phoenix Mercury has shown dominant play

signed w ith the Sky so she c ou l d sp end th e su mmer playing in front of fa mily.

The other semi-final f e a t u re s t h e L a s Ve g a s Aces and the Phoenix Me rc u r y . W h i l e t h e A c e s ha d a mu c h b e tt e r re g u l a r s e a s o n — f i n i s h i ng 2 4 – 8 a s c o m p a re d t o t h e Me rc u r y ’s 1 9 – 1 3 — n o t t o m e n t i o n t h e A c e s g o t t o re s t a s t h e Me rc u r y h a d t o d e f e a t t h e Ne w Yo r k L i b e r t y a n d t h e n t h e S e a ttle Storm in the first two ro u n d s o f t h e p l ay o f f s, i t c a n n o t b e u n d e re s t i m a te d t hat t h e Me rc u r y i s t h e only team in the semi-fina l s t hat ha s w o n a W N BA

Championship (2007, 2009 and 2014). The Aces won game one 96–90, but t h e Me rc u r y d o m i n a ted game two 117–91 and p re v a i l e d i n g a m e t h re e 8 7 – 6 0 . B r i t t n e y G r i n e r, w h o i s h av i n g p e r h a p s the best season of her W N B A c a re e r, c o n t r i b u t e d 1 8 p o i n t s, 1 1 re b o u n d s, f o u r a s s i s t s a n d t h re e b l o c k e d s h o t s. “ We k n e w t h a t t h i s w a s a big game—game three is always a big game in a series like that, espec i a l l y w h e n y o u s p l i t— s o we wanted to come home a n d w i n ,” s a i d G r i n e r after game thre e. “ Ev-

e r y b o d y k n o w s w h a t ’s o n t h e l i n e . … We k n o w w h a t i t t a k e s .”

Game four was last night. Ot her p o st-s eas o n WNBA ho n o rs in clud e t he Kim Per ro t Sp o r t s manship Award to Nn eka O g wumike of the L os Angeles Sparks, Sixt h Wo man o f the Year to Kels e y Plum of t he Las Ve gas Aces an d WNBA Basketball E xe cut ive o f t he Year to Aces g en eral manag er o f basketball o p erat io n s Dan Padover. If either s emi-fi nal g o es to a fifth game, it w ill b e playe d to mo r row e ven ing. The Finals st ar t on Sun day.

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Sports Yanks not making it much of a rivalry with the Red Sox As if playing 19 games during the regular season wasn’t enough for one of America’s biggest sports rivalries, the baseball Gods blessed Major League Baseball with one more on Tuesday night, this one for an American League wildcard spot.

It was Game 163 of the season for both teams, who ended the regular season on Sunday with 92 wins and 70 losses each.

Ten of the Red Sox’s 92 wins were against the Yankees. Winning the majority of the 19 games gave the Red Sox home field advantage for a single-elimination, loser goes home matchup.

The Red Sox, who were dominated by the Yankees two weekends ago at Fenway Park and swept in their three game series, avenged those defeats with a 6-2 win in the most important game they have played this season in front of a sellout crowd of 38,324.

The Red Sox rocked Yankee ace starter Gerrit Cole, who didn’t live up to his record breaking nine-year, $324 million dollar contract signed in December 2019, the highest ever for a pitcher.

both hitting homers. Stanton also hit two bombs off of Boston’s Green Monster, shots that would have been home runs in most other ballparks.

“The ending is really cruel, but there’s nothing better than competing for something meaningful,” said Boone, trying to turn a negative into a positive. Boone knows the thrill of victory, having hit a series ending, walk-off home run against Boston in Game 7 of the 2003 ALCS. The Red Sox will now play the AL East division winning Tampa Bay Rays beginning tonight, in the best-of-five American League Division Series.The Rays had the AL’s going 100-62. As good as their regular season record is, it was baseball’s third best, behind the National League West champion San Francisco Giants’ 107-55 and the defending World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers’ 106-56.

Yankees ace Gerrit Cole gave up three runs in less than three full innings in a 6-2 loss to the Boston Red Sox in their wildcard game on Tuesday As for the Yankees, owner Hal Steinbrenner must determine if the system He was removed from the game by Yan“This is the worst feeling in the world,” utilized by general manager Brian kees manager Aaron Boone in the third said a sullen Cole after the game.

Cashman needs to be abandoned. Reinning after giving up a two-run home The Yankees relievers couldn’t stop lying heavily on analytics, the Yanrun to Boston shortstop Xander Bo- the bleeding, giving up three more runs kees, with the second highest payroll gaerts in the first, and a home run and by the eighth inning. First baseman An- in baseball at over $200 million (the two walks in the third to put the Yan- thony Rizzo and outfielder Giancarlo Dodgers are No. 1), have not won a kees in an early 3-0 hole.

Stanton provided the Yankees’ scores, World Series title since 2009.

(Wikipedia photo)

By VINCENT DAVIS Special to the AmNews

Another losing season, another needed overhaul for the Mets

By JAIME C. HARRIS AmNews Sports Editor

The Mets didn’t end up 11.5 games The Mets, who haven’t behind the Namade the playoffs since tional League 2016, fired Luis Rojas on East division Monday. Officially, franchampion Atchise owner Steve Cohen lanta Braves prideclined the team option marily because on the 40-year-old’s conof Rojas. He was tract for 2022. In two seaa symptom, not sons managing the Mets, the source. The the COVID-19 pandemfailed campaign ic shortened the 2020 began by ousting campaign in which the highly regardteam went 26-34, and ed hitting coach this past season, when Chili Davis and they lost eight of their assistant hitting The Mets fired Luis Rojas after two seasons managing the team to a final 12 games to post a coach Tom Slater combined record of 103-116 mark of 77-85, Rojas was in early May. Al16 games under .500. derson essentialHe has been a member of the Mets orFor his part, Rojas was non-con- ly designated them scapegoats for an ganization since coaching their Domin- troversial in exiting. “I want to share offense that went on to be putrid the ican Summer League squad in 2006. such heartfelt gratitude to so many in ensuing five months, affirming Davis “The entire Mets organization is grate- the Mets organization for not only the wasn’t the issue. ful for the dedication and devotion that last two seasons as manager, but for The Mets finished the season 27th out Luis has exhibited over the last two sea- the last 16 years in a variety of roles,” of 30 teams in Major League Baseball in sons as manager,” said Mets President said the son of former major leaguer runs scored with just 636. The pitching Sandy Alderson in a statement. “He has Felipe Alou in a team released state- staff, with ace Jacob de Grom making AM NEWS shown a great commitment to the Mets ment. “We live in a results-oriented only 15 starts resulting from10/07/21 several inover many years in multiple capacities. business, and am deeply disappoint- jured body parts including his right foreThese decisions are never easy, but we ed for our staff and fans that we didn’t arm, lat muscle and shoulder, did an feel a change is needed at this time.” reach our goals this season.” admirable job posting a collective ERA (MLB.com photo)

of 3.90, ninth overall. But they couldn’t carry an offense that was an albatross.

Even before the season began there was a sign Alderson had made poor decisions in structuring the Mets’ leadership. In January, general manager Jared Porter was terminated after being accused of sending unsolicited sexually explicit texts to a female reporter in 2016 while employed by the Chicago Cubs.

Affirmation came on Aug. 31, when acting general manager Zack Scott was arrested for drunk driving hours after having attended a fundraiser at the Cohen’s house in Connecticut.

The necessary changes in the organization shouldn’t exclude Alderson. There’s a reason why the small market Tampa Bay Rays, with far less resources than the Mets, have been vastly more successful over the past decade. The fundamental answer is the minds and baseball philosophies of those in the executive offices.

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