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KAVION BROWN-GODFREY BODY FOUND IN EAST RIVER A WEEK AFTER 13-YEAR-OLD WENT MISSING

(See story on page 3)

“No More Room,” city starting to feel effects of overcrowded shelters and HERRCS (See story on page 3)

Candlelight vigil will push for state task force on missing/murdered BIPOC women and girls (See story on page 4)

Kavion Brown Godfrey (Photo illustration by AmNews)

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(GIN)—One thousand Kenyan soldiers will not be going to Haiti anytime soon.

That’s the word from the High Court in Kenya in freezing a U.N. Security Council-approved mission to the Caribbean nation to combat gang violence there.

The mission was put on hold after a former presidential candidate, Ekuru Aukot, argued that the nation’s articles of the constitution denied President William Ruto the power to deploy the troops.

Aukot’s petition also faulted President William Ruto for agreeing to lead the international peacekeeping mission while Kenya struggles with security issues arising from militant attacks

and, most recently, ethnic clashes.

The U.N. Security Council resolution, drafted by the United States and Ecuador, authorizes the force to deploy for one year to help national police address surging gang activity and rampant violence, with a review after nine months.

Kenya’s national assembly has yet to schedule a debate on the motion to deploy the contingent, which is expected to be made up of about 1,000 police officers. The non-U.N. mission would be funded by voluntary contributions, with the U.S. pledging up to $200 million. The High Court said it would rule on the case on Nov. 9.

Rings, bracelets, military medals, diplomatic gifts, watches, and gold fountain pens owned by Leopold Sedar Senghor and his wife were among the items scheduled to be auctioned in Caen, France. But last week, the auctioneer agreed to delay bidding after the Senegalese state asked to negotiate with the current owner about buying the collection directly.

The sale would have gone forward in December if no agreement had been reached.

Senegal’s culture ministry said it had spent $260,000 to acquire the items on Monday. “These lots were not put up for auction and we immediately contacted both the SenSENEGAL RESCUES FIRST PRESIDENT’S egalese government and our heir,” PROPERTY FROM AUCTION SALE the auctioneer said.

(GIN)—Precious possessions beMeanwhile, the Beninese governlonging to the first president of Sene- ment seized the property of Sebasgal were saved from the auction block tian Ajavon, a former presidential in a last-minute deal between the Sen- candidate and a political opponent egalese state and a private individual. of Patrice Talon, president of Benin, Auctioneer Solene Laine said the from his home in Cotonou. Ajavon sale was postponed because she was accused of tax fraud and drug and the seller “perfectly understood trafficking, but was acquitted before the excitement caused by this sale the Cotonou First Class Court. He among the Senegalese.” was tried again by the newly creat-

ed Anti-Economic Crimes and Terrorism Court, which he contends violated his rights as guaranteed by international human rights laws.

Ajavon currently lives in Paris as a political refugee. His conviction was termed illegal by the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights, saying it violated the rights to equality, freedom of association, and government participation. Amnesty International described a “climate of censorship and fear” and warned that a law targeting misinformation online was being used to harass the media.

In recent years, 17 journalists, bloggers, and opposition activists have been investigated under the legislation, Amnesty said, but Benin has refused to reconsider its laws.

Léopold Sédar Senghor (GIN photo)

Maurice Bishop Day, now a national holiday in Grenada

By HERB BOYD Special to the AmNews

Members of U.S. delegation to Grenada to honor Maurice Bishop and the announcement of a national holiday in his name. At the center is Dr. Ron Daniels and Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell. (Herb Boyd photo)

Finding the most exhilarating moment in four days of attendance at a tribute to Maurice Bishop, a former prime minister of Grenada who was mercilessly assassinated on October 19, 1983, is daunting because each salute to the slain hero was topped by the next. Whether it was the initial commemorative speech

by Dr. Ron Daniels, president of the Institute of the Black World 21st Century (IBW21), or a rousing sermonette by the Rev. Dr. Herbert Daughtry, who along with his grandson, Lorenzo, was part of the U.S delegation led by Dr. Daniels, or Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell’s heartfelt words delivered at the National Stadium—all were sterling reflections on Bishop and the national holiday. But these reflections may have been surpassed by the 19 spotlights that lit up the night sky on St. George’s waterfront. A beam illuminated the sky above the hundreds gathered there, many of them hoisting their flaming candles or contributing their

bright cell phones to the memory of Bishop and the fallen martyrs.

The beams amplified the moonlight and a blinking, circling drone that documented the scene.

Speeches by journalist and Black Star News publisher Milton Allimadi and Rev. Daughtry moved the crowd and set the stage for a recorded speech Bishop delivered just before his death. His words rose from the speakers and merged with the beams and they resonated with the same brilliance of oratory that he shared with a crowd at

Hunter College in the summer of 1983. He quoted Lincoln’s famous words about a government “of the people, by the people, and for the people” but added, “To us, democracy is much, much more than just an election.”

Earlier in the day designated a national holiday, the first on the fortieth anniversary of the slaughter, when practically all the businesses except Kentucky Fried Chicken were closed. A contingent of family members of the martyrs and friends bore wreaths to be placed at Fort

George (back then Fort Rupert) where the executions had occurred. There was a steady flow of unforgettable impressions from Angella Bishop, Maurice’s widow, Dr. Terrence Marryshow, and David Abdulah as wreaths were placed against a wall—one like many at the fortress which was undergoing reconstruction. It was almost tearful watching Andy Bain place his wreath for his father, Norris. Bain is a superb pianist, a talent he fully exhibited during the ceremony at the stadium where he accompanied the vocalist Randal Robinson.

Topping off the visit, the U.S. delegation that included Dr. James Early, Dr. Claire Nelson, and Mr. Abdulah was invited to meet with Prime Minister Mitchell and later they shared how impressed they were about his maturity and understanding of Grenada’s domestic conditions and place in the global economic and political realms. At 46, the prime minister embodies many of the dreams and aspirations of other notables who were taken from us before their fortieth year—Malcolm, Martin, Medgar, See BISHOP on page 36

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Kavion Brown-Godfrey’s body found in East River a week after 13-year-old went missing

By TANDY LAU Amsterdam News Staff, Report for America Corps Member The body of missing teen Kavion BrownGodfrey was found in the East River nearby the Wall Street Heliport this past Friday, Oct. 27. He was identified by his parents, said their family lawyer, although police say they are awaiting the medical examiner’s official determination.

The search for Brown Godfrey ends exactly a week after the 13-year-old boy disappeared into the East River last Friday, Oct. 20, at around 4 p.m.

An NYPD spokesperson said police responded to a “water rescue” from the 6th Avenue entrance to lower Manhattan’s East River Park.

There, officers learned from witnesses that a teenage boy “entered” the East River and did not return. Rescue boats, divers, and drones were deployed in efforts to find him.

Brown Godfrey reached high in life, both literally and figuratively, according to his family.

His father, Donnell Godfrey, remembered him as an ambitious kid with dreams of playing in the NBA. The youngster stood 6-foot-3; between his height and helpful nature, there were few shelves the family couldn’t access when he was home, said his dad.

Laquana Badger Godfrey holds photo of her son (Tandy Lau photo)

“He’s a young, smart, energetic, strong, intelligent kid,” said his father. “He loves sports. He was playing basketball for most of his life.”

“He’s so smart, kind, and respectful,” added Kavion’s mother, Laquana Badger Godfrey, before Kavion was found. “He was everything you could imagine: helpful, responsible; he loves his brothers. He loved us. My son just wanted to be around us. I’ll be sitting here and he’ll just be sitting this close—I’m like, ‘Move over just a little bit’—but he was just that loving and he loved life.”

His parents said Brown Godfrey attended Lower East Side Preparatory High School, where he was notably younger than most classmates due to his winter birthday. He was the oldest of four boys and is remembered as a fan of NBA 2K video games and music, both old school and new school.

Brown Godfrey’s parents held a press conference with Sanford Rubenstein at the personal injury lawyer’s Brooklyn office on Thursday, Oct. 26, to announce intentions to look into the NYC Department of Education’s responsibility for their son’s disappearance, although it is too early to determine whether a claim will be made. The interview occurred a day before Brown Godfrey’s body was recovered.

“The first question this family wants an answer to is was there a responsibility on the Department of Education [that] was breached [that] caused [this disappearance],” said Rubenstein. “We will conduct an investigation with regard to that issue and make a determination, and if they are responsible, take appropriate legal action.”

Brown Godfrey’s father told reporters the young man was scheduled to attend a soccer game supervised by his basketball coach when the incident occurred.

The parents have also publicly maintained

that they were the only spokespeople for Brown Godfrey, disputing remarks made earlier by a woman claiming to be his great-aunt.

“There’s someone [who’s] been speaking out on behalf of the family—a woman named Alena Godfrey; at least, that’s how she’s been identified in the press,” said Rubenstein. “She is not a spokesperson for the family and she has not been authorized by the family to speak.”

The woman in question spoke to the Amsterdam News this past Tuesday near where the incident transpired and identified herself as the great-aunt. The parents say they don’t know who she is.

“With this going on, it feels like I’m in a movie…and someone’s trying to interject themselves into my life,” said the father. “And it’s scary, and it’s crazy, and it’s ridiculous.”

A GoFundMe raised for Brown Godfrey and his family recently reached more than $12,000 in donations. The link can be found here.

Tandy Lau is a Report for America corps member and writes about public safety for the Amsterdam News. Your donation to match our RFA grant helps keep him writing stories like this one; please consider making a tax-deductible gift of any amount today by visiting https:// bit.ly/amnews1.

“No More Room,” city starting to feel effects of overcrowded shelters and HERRCS

By ARIAMA C. LONG Amsterdam News Staff, Report for America Corps Member Mayor Eric Adams has foretold of the coming ‘doom’ the city will experience because of the crippling weight of the asylum seeker crisis for months. With the recent move to limit shelter stays and legal determination to suspend the right to shelter law, he discussed the potential for a spike in street homelessness and an ongoing issue with some migrants resorting to “sex work” to make money.

So far the city has seen over 136,000 people come through and over 64,000 migrants remain under the city’s care.

In a conference on Tuesday, October 31, Adams confirmed there’s been quite a few migrants soliciting sex as work around the clock on Roosevelt Avenue in Queens and in the East New York neighborhood in Brooklyn in recent weeks. He said he has visited the sites firsthand.

“This is what happens when you create an atmosphere that people can’t provide for themselves. You can’t work illegally, you can’t carry out your job. When I talk about the spiraling impact of how this is going to impact our city, this is what I’m talking about. It is going to impact the foundation of the quality of life of our city,” said Adams.

The mayor has repeatedly asked the federal government to expedite work permits and

allow newly arrived migrants in the city to at least legally work while seeking asylum. Governor Kathy Hochul echoed that call tremendously, and at least attempted to provide migrants with state-approved work papers in the interim. Adams plans on partnering with law enforcement to aggressively prosecute the “johns” and focus on giving assistance to sex workers to make sure they’re not being forced into illegal activity.

Additionally, numerous women and their small children, sometimes unaccompanied, have been sighted on trains and in the subways selling gum, snacks, candy and other foods to make money.

“And it’s not...it’s not only the financial crisis,

Carchipulla and her family have been living in a room at the historic Roosevelt Hotel, converted into a city-run shelter for newly arrived migrant families (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)

but we are going to create generational problems based on the failure of the national government, and that is one example of that, when you have individuals who can’t work, See SHELTER on page 27

Program rehabilitating the city’s most dangerous drivers expires on same day as 7-year-old fatally struck by tow truck

By TANDY LAU Amsterdam News Staff, Report for America Corps Member The Dangerous Vehicle Abatement Program (DVAP) just reached the end of the road. The mandated safety course initiative, which opts for the carrot instead of the stick for the city’s most reckless motorists, expired last Thursday, Oct. 26, without a meaningful replacement.

The program targets New Yorkers with five or more red light camera violations within a year, which the DOT deem as “extreme outliers.” Fewer than 1% of vehicles with violations qualify for DVAP and most are recorded with no more than two infractions.

Beyond DVAP, pedestrian safety concerns are currently a hot topic citywide. The expira-

tion coincides with the same day an NYPD tow truck fatally struck 7-year-old Kamari Hughes in Fort Greene. Police say the driver, Stephanie Sharp, was arrested and charged for failure to yield and failure to exercise due care.

NYC Comptroller Brad Lander, the program’s driving force—pun intended—is calling for a renewal. DVAP stems from a bill-turned-locallaw sponsored by Lander when he was a City Council member.

“Reckless driving kills many NewYorkers every year…and people really saw [during the pandemic] that one challenge is we need to improve the safety of our streets through infrastructure and design,” said Lander. “But reckless driving behaviors [like] speeding [and] dangerous driving cause one-third of all crashes and we need more action to do something about it.

“The Dangerous Vehicle Abatement Program was designed to be one such policy that used information from red light cameras and speed cameras to identify the most reckless drivers— the drivers who ran red lights—and require them to take a course shown to have an impact on changing behavior.”

Under DVAP, participants are enrolled in a 90-minute in-person course detailing the “human impact” of reckless driving, such as pedestrian deaths and injuries, along with how the extreme offenders can remedy their unsafe behind-the-wheel habits. Vehicle seizures and impoundment by the Department of Finance only occur after failure to enroll in or complete the DVAP course.

The program prides itself on not being See DRIVERS on page 27

(Center, from left to right) Now-Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso and NYC Comptroller Brad Lander advocate for reckless driver legislation as City Council members in 2019 (John McCarten/ NYC City Council)

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Can the Constitution block Trump from the White House?

By HERB BOYD Special to the AmNews

hangs in the balance because he is being gagged by Judge Tanya Chutkan for criticizing prosecutors and, in several states, No matter how you slice it, good or bad including Colorado and Minnesota, posnews, Trump continues to command the sibly disqualified from securing the White headlines. It seems to make no difference House again. to his base or GOP members that he faces On Monday in a hearing in Colorado, atfour trials and more than 90 felony charges; torneys began oral arguments alleging that he remains the frontrunner for the Republi- Trump violated the Constitution’s insurreccan presidential nominee, and by a consid- tion clause for his role in the January 6 turerable margin. moil at the U.S. Capitol. A similar hearing is Even so, the former president’s fate slated to take place in Minnesota.

At the crux of the two lawsuits is Trump’s violation of a clause that was instituted after the Civil War to prevent former Confederates from holding office after they had pledged to support the Constitution.

Whether such a measure applies to the president will be a centerpiece in the case.

Trump’s defense team has challenged the lawsuit, at first on the grounds of freedom of speech and then that it could not be litigated against the president.

According to attorney Eric Olson, Trump’s

rhetoric encouraged the crowd to storm the Capitol and “summoned and organized the mob. We are here because Trump claims, after all that, that he has the right to be president again. But our Constitution, the shared charter of our nation, says he cannot do so.”

Regardless of how the case plays out and no matter what side wins, we can expect appeals, and in the end, should it land for the Supreme Court to decide, that outcome is almost certainly to favor Trump.

Candlelight vigil will push for state task force on missing/murdered BIPOC women and girls

There will be a candlelight vigil to call attention to the plight of missing and murdered women and girls of color this Friday, Nov. 3, 5:45 p.m. at City Hall Park in lower Manhattan.

The Bronx-based not-for-profit Girl Vow, Inc. is sponsoring the sunset vigil. Dawn Rowe, Girl Vow’s president & CEO, said her organization believes City Hall is one of the best places to stage a city and statewide call to have people listen to the concerns of Black girls.

The vigil also serves as another opportunity to call on Gov. Kathy Hochul to sign the legislation establishing the NYS Task Force on Missing and Murdered BIPOC Women and Girls of Color.

The task force is scheduled to be funded with $750,000. It would be a nine-person task force commissioned to investigate the high number of missing Black and Indigenous women and to look at the level of care and concern officials use when responding to their cases.

“New York is behind the eight ball on this,” Rowe told the AmNews. “There are several states that are already doing the work: that have task forces, that have passed legislation. And we’re sort of late when it comes to that. This is also a call to get the governor to pass the legislation that we were able to get passed unanimously in the Senate and in the Assembly.”

In 2021, the state of Minnesota created the Missing and Murdered African American Women (MMAAW) task force and asked it to investigate violence perpetrated against Black women and girls and to look at why so many tend to go missing.

California just pushed forward an effort to aid law enforcement in finding its missing Black youth. On October 8, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a bill establishing the Ebony Alert notification system. Starting in January, the system will notify the public with electronic highway signs and TV, radio, and social media messages when Black youth and women between the ages of 12 and 25 go missing.

“The Ebony Alert will ensure that vital resources and attention are given so we can bring home missing Black children and

It’s very important, because that is a key element to why a lot of our young girls go missing—it’s because of some of the dangers of social media.”

Girl Vow has established a National Taskforce for Missing and Murdered BIPOC Women that is now aiding the family of 22-year-old Shamari Brantley of Wheaton, Illinois.

Brantley, who suffers from schizophrenia, has been missing since mid-August. Her cellphone was found in the Bronx at the Zerega Avenue No. 6 line subway station.

Brantley’s mother, Artimece Cotton, and other family members are distraught about her disappearance and have only been able to travel back and forth between Illinois and New York City every week, while trying to search for Shamari, with the aid of Girl Vow. Brantley’s family and others from across the country will be at the Friday evening vigil, alongside local elected officials and community members who want to see the NYS Task Force put into place.

Once a New York state task force is set up, Rowe said Girl Vow wants to further strengthen the focus on missing Black girls. “One of the next things that we want to do is…to put a slew of town halls together, and really begin to gather the urgency and the concern of people in the community in terms of what’s happening with missing and murdered girls of color. We want them to continue to post and continue to help make sure that when young people, or just people in general, are missing, that we continue to support one another. We want to make sure that we change the system.

We want to change how New York looks at the issue and polices the issue of missing people here in New York.”

To support the push for the NYS Task Force on Missing and Murdered BIPOC Women and Girls of Color, email to info@ girlvow.org or go to Change.org to sign the petition in support of the task force.

(Girl Vow)

By KAREN JUANITA CARRILLO Special to the AmNews

Shamari Brantley’s mother, Artimece Cotton, holds missing person’s flyer for her daughter. Artimece said she last heard from Shamari on August 31. (Girl Vow)

women in the same way we search for any missing child and missing person,” said California State Senator Steven Bradford, who sponsored the bill.

The major media tends to give scant coverage to cases involving missing Black and Indigenous women, even though they go missing at high rates. Statistics from the Black and Missing Foundation, Inc (BAMFI) found that “nearly 40 % of missing persons are persons of color, yet African Americans make up only 13 % of the population.”

According to BAMFI, the disparity in media coverage occurs because of assumptions made about missing people of color: “...a lot of minority children are initially classified as runaways, and as a result do not receive the Amber Alert”; “…missing minority adults are labeled as associated with criminal involvement, gangs and drugs”; or there is simply a general “desensitization” to these cases because “it is believed that missing minorities live in impoverished conditions and crime is a regular part of their lives.”

said it’s not only what people do in this situation, but also the things they don’t do before it happens that have to be considered. “We don’t prepare our children a lot of times for the possibilities,” she said, “We don’t oftentimes review what they’re doing on social media, and that’s very important.

We don’t address the fact that sometimes our children feel neglected and feel overwhelmed. And I understand that parents are working; they’re overwhelmed as well.

But we have to take the time to really sit with our kids and have conversations with them about what’s happening in their lives and also in their friendships.” Parents and relatives should know the names of their children’s friends and have their addresses, phone numbers, and social media handles, if possible. “Parents have to become more aggressive, more aware of social media and When a loved one goes missing how it works and how it operates,” said When a young person goes missing, Rowe. “And I know that the world is moving family members are often at a loss about fast, but we have to find ways to make sure how to proceed with finding them. Rowe that we can parent beyond social media.

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TCS NYC Marathon runner Tricia Quartey-Sagaille competes for Black maternal health

By ARIAMA C. LONG Amsterdam News Staff, Report for America Corps Member Brooklyn resident Tricia Quartey-Sagaille, 42, is a runner, mother, dentist, business owner, and community advocate. This year, she’s taking on the TCS New York City Marathon on this Sunday, Nov 5, to promote Black maternal health after overcoming her own struggles with conceiving a child.

During her family planning journey with her husband, Quartey-Sagaille discovered she had fibroids, hormone-sensitive growths in the uterus that statistically affect Black women more than any other racial group. Fibroids can often cause health complications and issues with pregnancy and conception, and can lead to a hysterectomy or invasive surgery to treat.

After seeing a specialist, Quartey-Sagaille began in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatments.

“It didn’t feel real at first, even after the specialist told me the pregnancy test was positive. It took months to feel real,” said Quartey-Sagaille of learning the process had been successful. “The stressful injections and the monitoring—but it was meant to be.”

She also had a real fear of dying during childbirth as a Black woman. According to studies, Black women in the U.S. are more likely to die due to preventable pregnancyrelated causes than their white counterparts.

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Black New Yorker Quartey-Sagaille has dedicated her personal and professional life to advocating for others like her.

“What I’m running for is that awareness, because I was petrified and I had known people [who] had their wives pass away,” she said. “I know that socioeconomic status

doesn’t matter and me being a doctor doesn’t matter. So yeah, I was afraid.”

Born in Voorhees, N.J., Quartey-Sagaille grew up the youngest of four siblings. Her parents had emigrated from Ghana to the township in the 1970s. The medical profession bug runs in her family: Her father is a

podiatrist and her mother is a nurse.

She said she was always playing sports as a kid. “I considered myself a jock. Soccer, softball, basketball. In high school, I focused more on track and field. And I danced—I did ballet and jazz,” said Quartey-Sagaille.

Ironically, she was a sprinter and jumper in high school and hated long-distance running, but later, she wanted to challenge herself with longer distances after college.

Her first marathon was in 2014.

After having her “miracle” son last year via C-section, she started the difficult road to training for the big marathon while adjusting to changes in her body and breastfeeding. She is part of this year’s New York Road Runners (NYRR) Team Inspire, a group of 26 runners participating in the marathon with compelling reasons for their runs.

She’s excited about seeing her husband and baby as she crosses the finish line.

In addition to running for fun, QuarteySagaille also runs her own dental practice, Noble Dental Care in Park Slope (5th Avenue) and chairs the nonprofit Christopher Rose Community Empowerment Campaign.

Ariama C. Long is a Report for America corps member and writes about politics 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://bit.ly/amnews1.

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Inside the White House’s new Office of Gun Violence Prevention President Joe Biden and Rep. Maxwell Frost, D-Fla., applaud as Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at announcement of new White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention on September 22, 2023, in White House Rose Garden (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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By SHANNON CHAFFERS Amsterdam News Staff, Report for America Corps Member At a Rose Garden ceremony in late September, President Joe Biden announced the creation of the firstever White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention. Overseen by Vice President Kamala Harris and directed by longtime Biden policy staffer Stefanie Feldman, the office will seek to coordinate the federal government’s efforts to combat gun violence, and build on partnerships with actors on the state and local levels.

Gun reform activists, who have long pushed for the creation of a federal office, celebrated the move as a major victory.

“It’s something that we’ve wanted for a long time…this [is] a big step forward for gun violence prevention,” said Josh Horwitz, a longtime gun reform advocate and the current co-director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions.

In his first years in office, Biden has sought to address gun violence through executive and legislative action, the most significant of which being last year’s Bipartisan Safer Communities Act. But Biden eventually sided with advocates on the necessity of a dedicated office, especially as a divided Congress stymied his more ambitious legislative goals, such as enacting universal background checks or an assault weapons ban.

“He wanted to accelerate the administration’s work to reduce gun violence,” Feldman said in an interview with the AmNews.

Biden, Feldman explained, has tasked the office with several main responsibilities, including ensuring full implementation of the Safer Communities Act, identifying additional executive actions the presi-

dent can take on gun violence, and enhancing partnerships with leading cities and states. The office will also coordinate federal government responses to communities affected by gun violence, with a specific focus on those reeling from mass shootings or an uptick in community violence.

“I think what we’ve learned over the last several years is that there just isn’t a sufficient federal response to support these communities when they’re in need,” Feldman said. “If a hurricane devastated a community, FEMA would step in. But gun violence can also have communitywide, significant impacts—mental health, physical health, economic impacts on a community—and there needs to be some sort of appropriate federal response there as well.”

To help steer these efforts, the office has hired Greg Jackson and Rob Wilcox as deputy directors. Both come from the advocacy sphere, and draw inspiration from their personal experiences with gun violence. Wilcox, who lost his cousin to gun violence, was the head of federal policy at Everytown. Jackson, a gun violence survivor, was executive director of the Community Justice Action Fund, a

violence prevention organization focused on gun violence in Black and brown communities.

Horwitz is encouraged by the staffing of the office.

“Stef Feldman is someone who has worked closely with Biden, and [is] thought of very highly in the advocacy community, and then the deputy directors Greg Jackson and Rob Wilcox are just a home run,” he said, noting their policy expertise and connections to advocates on the ground.

Addressing gun violence in communities of color Jackson will draw on his prior experiences to tackle disproportionate gun violence rates in Black and brown communities: Black Americans are 10 times more likely than white Americans to die by gun homicide, and gun violence often concentrates in racially segregated and under-resourced communities.

Jackson said this issue will be a major focus of the office.

“If we truly want to end this crisis of gun violence, we do have to prioritize how it’s impacting Black and brown communities,” he said.

“I’m excited to help lead that and ensure that [it] is central to our strategy, and I think the president

is equally committed [to] and extremely enthusiastic about centering those who are most impacted.”

The office will take a public health approach, in line with Biden’s long-standing stance that gun violence is a public health epidemic. That means the office will seek to invest in evidence-based solutions that respond effectively to community violence.

“The solutions are not just law and order. It is a community-wide public health response, which includes making sure that people have the services and support that they need to succeed,” Feldman explained.

One of these solutions is the increasingly popular communitybased violence interventions (CVI) approach. For example, Cure Violence is a CVI strategy that uses community members with experience of gun violence to intervene in conflicts that could turn violent, and provide mentoring and assistance to individuals at risk of engaging in violence.

Horwitz credits Jackson’s organization in part for the rise in funding for CVIs in recent years, culminating in the Safer Communities Act, which set aside $250 million over five years in funding to CVI organizations.

Jackson will now work to ensure that this money gets to people on the ground, something that has proven difficult in the past.

“I’m excited to lean in on the asset and investment side of that implementation, and ensuring that the resources that have been rolled out are prioritizing and connecting with the communities that are most impacted by violence and most in need,” Jackson said.

The office will also look to identify existing federal resources that could be put toward CVI programs. Horwitz believes this additional investment is a critical next step.

“This is a lot of money in the Safer Communities Act, but there still needs to be more resources,” he said. “We need a continuous investment in community violence intervention, hospital violence intervention, innovative programs to address the terrible toll of violence in Black and brown communities.”

The office will also seek to build connections between cities and states employing different strategies to address gun violence. For example, Jackson pointed to New York City as a model for CVI programs, given that a network of CVI organizations here based on the Cure Violence model receives $86 million in city funding through the Crisis Management System.

“Our hope is that we can help cities across the country build out a similar ecosystem of strategies to prevent violence, and so we’re looking to places like New York to help lead the charge,” Jackson said. “But we also recognize that there are resources that, even in places like New York City, have not gotten to the ground, or have not gotten to the communities most in need.”

Rahson Johnson, director for youth and community development at one CVI site, Save Our Streets Crown Heights, welcomes this approach.

“It definitely opens up the gates for more discussion, more resources, so I think the relationship-building and the coordinated efforts to address this epidemic…will have a resounding impact,” he said.

Although some view the CVI approach as a promising alternative to policing in communities that have a significant distrust of law enforcement, the office still views law enforcement as an important See GUN VIOLENCE on page 36

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ANTHONY Tongues are wagging that Lavaille Lavette Books hosted an exclusive unveiling of the highly anticipated third book of veteran “Chicago P.D.” executive producer Eriq La Salle’s series, “Laws of Annihilation,” recently at Roche Bobois furniture store in The Big Apple.

Lavette is one of the most sought-after writers and publishers in the book game. Her work includes Houston Rockets, Golden Nuggets and Catch restaurant owner Tilman Fertitta’s New York Times bestseller, “Shut Up and Listen,” which she edited and published. Attendees were treated to a captivating conversation with author La Salle, and moderator “Equalizer” actress Lorraine Toussaint. The event was attended by La Salle’s best friend, actor Wendell Pierce, his former “ER” costars Michael Michele and Gloria Reuben, along with actresses S. Epatha Merkerson and Tamara Tunie. Toussaint discussed how La Salle changed the culture on the very toxic set of “ER.” The talented actor-turnedauthor’s book shot to No. 1 on Amazon following his appearance on the “Tamron Hall Show”.......

Lisa Bonet and Lenny Kravitz’s daughter Zoe Kravitz is engaged to “Magic Mike” star Channing Tatum. Multiple outlets are reporting the coosome twosome was spotted leaving Kendall Jenner’s Halloween party in Hollywood together recently. According to Page Six, Kravitz went into the shindig sporting her new humongous seven-carat diamond engagement ring that is estimated to cost $550,000. The pair has been dating for two years.......

On Monday, November 20, The Apollo will mark the 35th anniversary of the historic 1988 Cold Chillin’ Juice Crew All-Stars Apollo Theater Showcase with “In Conversation: Cold Chillin’ Records Showcase.” These sold-out concerts in November of 1988 marked a pivotal moment in hip hop’s transition from the clubs and house parties to theaters and concert halls. Cold Chillin’ Records co-founder, Tyrone “Fly Ty” Williams and Video Music Box founder and director, Ralph McDaniels, will discuss how they helped blaze the trail for hip hop culture to be a global phenomenon. Rap icons making special appearances include Big Daddy Kane, Roxanne Shanté, Marley Marl and more.....

The 27th Annual Urbanworld International Film Festival honored Emmy Award-winning writer and “American Fiction” director Cord Jefferson with the Visionary Award at the Opening Night screening on November 1 at the SVA Theatre on 23rd Street in Manhattan.

Urbanworld’s Visionary Award recognizes filmmakers whose work pushes boundaries and sparks dialogue through storytelling.

“American Fiction” is Jefferson’s directorial debut and has been racking up awards on the festival circuit since its September premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, where it won the People’s Choice Award......

Councilmember and Education Chair Rita Joseph with storytime children for Halloween on Tuesday, Oct. 31, at the Brooklyn Public Library on Cortelyou Road. (Ariama C. Long photos)

Councilmember Joseph reads a series of spooky, interactive books to young kids on Halloween at the library.

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

This year, Joseph donned a simple cat costume for Halloween and read three books to the children: “There’s a Monster in Your Book” by Tom Fletcher, “Can Sometimes the littlest tykes and terrors You Make a Scary Face?” by Jan Thomas, can feel left out of the spooky season as and “Click, Clack, Boo! A Tricky Treat” by the city celebrates Halloween in full swing Doreen Cronin. this Tuesday. Never fear! Councilmember The kids excitedly gathered around on Rita Joseph’s storytime at the Brooklyn the carpet in their little costumes, playing Public Library (BPL) in Flatbush was just along with the interactive books. Costumes one of the many events geared toward in- included Sonic the Hedgehog, Winnie the fants and toddlers this year.

Pooh, Spiderman, and princesses. “[A library is] everything because it’s a Joseph said libraries play a critical role lifeline to the community. It provides so in public education and public safety many supports for adults, children, and when it comes to young people. Libraries teens,” said Joseph. are open late to provide a safe environJoseph grew up in the district, close ment for students; some branches have to the library on Cortelyou Road, and teen and technology hubs, and job reattended Public School 139. She also sources for adults. Funding for the city’s taught public school for 22 years. Old libraries was a huge topic of debate earhabits die hard: Now she’s City Council lier this year between the City Council education chair, she joked. She frequents and the mayor’s office. She said she was the library to read to the youngest visitors happy that they were able to restore liduring their weekly storytime. brary funding in the city’s budget.

Antonia Bramble, branch manager at Cortelyou, said that the library is often packed after school.

“We serve people,” added Jay Taubman, assistant branch manager. “We help people with finding jobs, finding social services, kids with reading and tutoring.

We always have services for people of all ages in our community.”

Joseph’s office collaborated with MetroHealth Plus and the Brooklyn Emerge food pantry to give parents bags filled with coloring books, crayons, and fruit.

In the spirit of health and wellness, they decided against giving out candy, much to the chagrin of a few kids.

Ariama C. Long is a Report for America corps member and writes about politics 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://bit.ly/amnews1.

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By MAL’AKIY 17 ALLAH Special to the AmNews

The ceremony was attended by various NOI supporters, including decades-long members, as well as Harlem commemorated the several of Muhammad’s relatives. legacy of Elijah Muhammad this “This is a great day where we past Sunday by co-naming the pay homage to the Most Honorintersection of 127th Street and able Elijah Muhammad,” moderAdam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd. as ator Julius Tajiddin began, before “The Most Honorable Elijah Mu- acknowledging an absent Counhammad Way.” The event was ini- cilwoman Kristin Richardson tially scheduled for the 126th birth Jordan and several others who anniversary of the late leader of the supported the campaign for the Nation of Islam (NOI) on Saturday, renaming. Then Sister Shanni Oct. 7, and postponed due to rain. read the proclamation.

The current NOI Temple No. 7 is “It’s really important to underjust steps west of the intersection. stand that Community Board 10 “Elijah Muhammad Way” (Bill Moore photos)

recognizes the changes in our district, and we’re trying to preserve our history,” said Chair Marcus Harrison. “We want to make sure that tradition is passed on so that kids from 30, 40, [and] 100 years from now can look up and see the names of the streets [to] prompt them wanting to learn about the individuals who impacted us, whose shoulders we stand on.”

Yusef Salaam, a member of the Exonerated Five, added, “When you come through a door, you have to acknowledge that door. You have to be able to speak truth to power be-

cause if it were not for that door, we wouldn’t be the people we are today.”

He explained how Minister Louis Farr Farrakhan assisted him and his co-defendants during their Central Park Five ordeal.

Muhammad’s granddaughter Llaila described her grandmother, Clara, as “a wife who was brave and a worker. She introduced her husband to their teacher, W.D. Fard.

We have this, but it cannot stop. We have too much work to do.”

His great-grandson, Khalil Gibran, said, “As long as there’s forces of evil in this world, racism, that every one

of the African diaspora is considered evil, suspect, and dangerous, there’s always going to be a place for an Elijah Muhammad.”

Activists Nova Felder and Melchizedek Shabazz-Allah noted several great leaders who came out of the NOI, including Malcolm X, Louis Farr Farrakhan, Muhammad Ali, Dr. Khalid Muhammad, the Father Allah, and Warith Deen Mohammed.

After Brother Julius pulled the string to unveil the new street sign, participants repeated chants of “Allahu Akbar.”

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Llaila Muhammad and Julius Tajiddin

Sharon Salaam, Yusef Salaam, and Llaila Muhammad

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Union Matters We can’t preserve our democracy if we don’t vote

GEORGE

GRESHAM Tuesday, November 7, is Election Day, and you should vote. No, it’s not a presidential election year and the House and Senate aren’t up for grabs, but we are deluding ourselves if we think that elections for municipal government and other local races don’t matter.

Who represents our communities on pressing local matters like public safety, housing, education, healthcare, and transportation has a huge impact on our daily lives. And as we’ve seen time and again, it’s candidates who cut their teeth in neighborhood politics who end up on the ballot for statewide and national races for years down the line.

Local elections shape the issues, decide the future of our communities, and create a pipeline for higher office.

For many years, the Republican Party has, through its Tea Party and now MAGA iterations, cultivated power by focusing on local elections. We’ve seen, for example, a concerted Republican effort recently to take over school boards in districts nationwide, using fearmongering about “critical race theory” and trying to keep books out of libraries that tell the truth about our nation’s complex history of racism, slavery, genocide, women’s rights, LGBTQ+ rights, and so on. These initiatives are backed by dark-money PACs that wield tremendous power and resources.

The selection last month of Rep. Mike Johnson as our new speaker of the House was the latest marker of the ascendance of the extreme right and its ability to win power, despite lacking a coherent or popular governing agenda.

Every House Republican—including those in New York’s swing districts who fashion themselves as “moderates”— voted for a politician with a truly reprehensible voting record. He voted to gut nutrition programs for children, criminalize abortion, end Social Security, and eliminate the Violence Against Women Act. He voted against the Workplace Violence in Health Care Act and against legislation to prevent discrimination against pregnant workers and older workers. He voted against supplemental funding for the 9/11 World Trade Center Health Program. And he helped lead the charge to try to overturn the will of the American people in the 2020 election.

Our pushback against this extremist agenda cannot wait. It is easy to feel overwhelmed or discouraged and choose to disconnect from politics—but this is a huge mistake. As the saying goes, “Just because you don’t take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics doesn’t take an interest in you.” Decisions made at election time affect all of us, whether we like it or not. And at this critical time, we are facing existential threats to the future of our democracy and the bedrock principles of justice and equality we hold dear.

Let’s turn out on Election Day and send a clear message of where our communities stand. To find out your New York City polling place, early voting hours and locations, visit www.vote.nyc.

George Gresham is president of 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, the largest union of healthcare workers in the United States.

Bernie Sanders holds senate hearing to examine Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital nurses’ strike

By KAREN JUANITA CARRILLO Amsterdam News Staff This past Oct. 27, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) conducted a Senate HELP (Health, Education, Labor and Pensions) Committee hearing at New Brunswick’s Rutgers University campus. The hearing, entitled “Overworked and Undervalued: Is the Severe Hospital Staffing Crisis Endangering the Well-Being of Patients and Nurses?”, was designed to look at why nurses at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital (RWJUH) have remained on strike since Aug. 4, 2023.

As members of the United Steelworkers (USW) Local 4-200, RWJUH nurses maintain that management is refusing to negotiate on key unfair labor practices issues. USW LOCAL 4-200 wants the hospital to set safer staffing ratios on floors, increase salaries, and freeze workers’ insurance premiums.

Sanders opened the hearing by thanking nurses all over the country.

“You can remember––because you lived through it––and I can remember 3,000 people a day dying during the worst public health crisis in 100 years. We can all remember hospitals overflowing with patients. And we remember nurses and doctors and other healthcare professionals going to work without the personal protective equipment they needed: they didn’t have the gloves, they didn’t have the masks, they didn’t have the gowns. And they went to work every day to save us. We owe them a debt of gratitude that can never be repaid.”

The senator said nurses have told his office that the main goal of their strike is getting better staffing ratios.

They are unable to provide quality care for patients, he said, because of “the totally inadequate nurse-patient ratios that they are forced to deal with.

What nurses in New Jersey, Vermont, and all over this country have told me is that they have been stretched to the breaking point. They told me that they are stressed out, they’re burnt out, and are leaving the profession they love in droves because they are overworked, undervalued, and are forced each and every day to do more work with less resources.”

Both USW 4-200 representatives and Mark Manigan, the president of RWJ Barnabas Health, which owns the hospital, and Alan Lee, president of Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, were invited to take part in the Senate HELP hearing. The event

In this July 30, 2015, photo, then-Democratic Party presidential candidate, Sen. Bernie Sanders, poses with a group of nurses after speaking at a rally on the 50th anniversary of Medicare and Medicaid on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin photo)

was designed to see if Congress could aid in designing a resolution to the strike. Initially both Lee and Manigan said they were going to attend, but at the last minute, they instead sent statements into the hearing.

In one part of his testimony, Manigan said he was “troubled by the inaccurate and misleading assertions put forth by … Chairman [Sanders] in recent public comments. Unlike a significant number of healthcare organizations in the Northeast and around the country, RWJUH has safe staffing guidelines in place that are derived from national, evidence-based practice by peer academic medical centers. These guidelines were agreed to by the USW 4-200 negotiating committee, representing RWJUH nurses, in multiple contract settlement offers from the hospital that they failed to ratify. Our patients receive safe and compassionate care across all of our services, as evidenced by multiple quality indicators and national quality rankings, which reflect our unwavering commitment to the communities we serve.

“Our negotiating team at RWJUH has met with the union six (6) times since October 6, 2023, including [Sunday, October 22], with the goal of reaching a fair and equitable resolution that provides the highest-quality patient care and creates a safe and supportive working environment for our nurses. I believe and humbly ask that you understand that is where my focus should be at this time, as well as working with our team to maintain

the delivery of care for our patients.”

But Judy Danella, a staff nurse at RWJ Barnabas Health who also serves as president of United Steelworkers Local 4-200 countered Manigan’s claims: “One of the main reasons we find ourselves in this situation is because of chronic understaffing by hospitals, which has made the nursing profession increasingly unsafe— both for nurses and their patients,” Danella said.

When hospitals are understaffed, she insisted, nurses risk getting hurt on the job. Instead of remaining in an unsafe position, they will look for another job and that only worsens the understaffing issue.

“In addition to making it more difficult to retain our existing workforce, this vicious cycle also makes it harder to recruit new nurses,” Danella added. “I have seen firsthand that hospitals now prefer to hire younger—often cheaper—nurses to replace the experienced professionals who have quit their jobs due to burnout or injury. The result has been to bring in young nurses directly out of college— many with no prior clinical training—and to put them directly on the hospital floor, with as many as five or six patients at a time. Being a nurse is not easy, and it requires a significant amount of training, both for the technical and emotional skills required to do the job.”

Toward the end of the hearing, Sen. Sanders spoke about wanting to create a federal standard for nursepatient ratios.

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Opinion End false police reporting!

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No incidence of false police reporting is as widely known and more consequential than one by the Minneapolis Police Department that described George Floyd’s death as a “medical incident during police interaction.” Fortunately, that false account did not stand as fact, because a video captured an officer with his knee pressed on Floyd’s neck for about 9 minutes, leading to his death.

There have been countless incidents in which the victims did not have the benefit of video evidence of innocence, or even when there was a video but it was dismissed or discounted by police reports.

Two years ago in South Carolina, Travis Price was charged with “hindering police” when a police body camera clearly showed he calmly followed the instructions of officers before they roughly pinned him to the ground.

A prosecutor charged the officer with assault and battery, and later when brought to trial, the fired officer apologized.

Such an outcome did not arrive for the falsely accused Rev. Keith Gadson and Anthony Dolci. Gadson was arrested in 1995 by a detective who assaulted and threatened to frame him, but never testified during trial to show probable cause for the arrest. Gadson was wrongfully convicted and sentenced to 20 years to life, denied parole seven times, and spent 32 years in prison for a crime he did not commit.

In 2018 and 2019, Dolci was falsely accused and wrongfully placed in handcuffs 10 times.

These arrests were the result of his management compa-

ny instructing the employees of Dorchester Towers to call the police on his LGBT family. “By August 2020,” Dolci wrote in an email, “all criminal charges were dismissed” after he turned down four plea bargains with the Manhattan DA’s office, “despite the evidence of false police reporting and more than 30 911 calls against the couple.”

On Sunday, Oct. 29, the Stop False Police Reporting Group stood in solidarity with Gadson and Dolci. Highlighted at the event were reports about their cases, which remain unresolved, and the ongoing dangers of false police reporting.

To offset further situations of injustice, the Stop False Police Reporting Group & Initiatives, a not-for-profit organization, is demanding accountability from the DA’s office and City Council members to “ensure marginalized communities are being helped and perpetrators of false police reporting are punished for harming innocent lives and their families.”

We gladly add our voice to this quest and the Universal Stop False Police Reporting Act, the first legislation in the state that calls for “Felony charges for both law enforcement and civilians who file false reports and the creation of a Public Database that will track and record law enforcement and civilians who are convicted of making false police reports.”

The death of George Floyd was a lightning rod, setting us in motion about a persistent injustice, but each day, we witness all the more reason to remain vigilant and halt the misinformation and lies from our law enforcement officers.

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Business and nonprofit leaders: youth perspectives shouldn’t be an afterthought

By DAVID MCGHEE Adults often say that children are our future, but still have a lot of our own opinions about what that future should look like. Politicians run campaigns about how they will help younger generations. Companies opine about how to best engage with Gen Z or Gen Alpha in LinkedIn posts and white papers.

Whole nonprofits are formed because of ideas to help youth with programming and services. But what’s often missing from these conversations and initiatives is the voices of young people themselves—and even more conspicuously absent are the voices of young people of color.

Most of us remember what it’s like to have adults make assumptions about us, what we believed, and, even worse, what we could accomplish. In elementary school, I had a teacher who called me—a Black male student—an “endangered species” because he expected me to become a high school dropout.

Even today, with a career in leading a nonprofit organization, I still remember that teacher who believed I wouldn’t succeed. I never heard him say such a thing to a white student, but I am grateful for the unintentional lesson he taught me: adults in positions of power are not always those with the most valuable perspectives. Instead, great leaders have a more inclusive understanding of whose perspectives matter and who should have a seat at the table, and that includes extending opportunities to young people of color who are otherwise marginalized every day.

At the Steve Fund, a nonprofit that supports the mental health and well-being of young people of color, we hope to not only

create programming for youth, but rather with youth. We do this by involving young people from the beginning as part of our Youth Ambassador Board. They help us understand the mental health challenges they are facing, and what solutions actually work for them. Young people of color face unique challenges in our society that can result in unique harm to their well-being, so without their perspectives, we would not be able to operate optimally. As a result of their inclusion, we have a more effective organization that

a deep dive into your organization’s content. Does this content take into account the context of young adults’ experiences—and, in particular, the experience of young people of color? We may be experts in our respective fields, but if young people are the ultimate beneficiaries of our work, their opinions must be reflected in the concepts, designs, and content we create for them. The Steve Fund does this by centering the youth we serve in our approach to the programs and initiatives we deliver.

If you find that your organization is missing the context and leadership that young people of color could provide, explore forming a youth council or inviting a youth member to permanently serve on your board. This not only offers young people valuable opportunities to develop leadership skills, but it also shows them you treasure their expertise. Consider paying them for their time, as you would any other consultant. You could even explore a co-model, in which every leadership position in your company has a youth co-leader who helps represent the important voice of young people across all racial demographics.

When working with young people of color, remember the lesson that I learned from my old teacher: the opinions of people in power are not the only ones that matter. Let’s let the diverse youth of America create a future, not just inherit it, by giving them more than a folding chair at the table.

Let’s give them the permanent seat they deserve and show, by our actions, that we value their opinions, feelings, and leadership abilities.

"Children of color make up slightly more than half of children in the United States, so their insights should be included when organizations develop their priorities and strategies.

To do this effectively, leaders should start by auditing how they currently engage with young people of color."

reaches more young people—and those who advise us see that they can be leaders right now.

Children of color make up slightly more than half of children in the United States, so their insights should be included when organizations develop their priorities and strategies. To do this effectively, leaders should start by auditing how they currently engage with young people of color. Does your organization’s governance structure include diverse youth voices from the onset or just as an afterthought?

David McGhee is the CEO of The One way to examine how you engage with young people is to do Steve Fund.

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If you assumed that the oceans separating the United States and the war between Israel and Hamas would make you safe, think again.

Terrorists are not simply at America’s doorstep, they’re in the house, and our leaders are too unprepared and afraid to stop it. Hezbollah, one of the largest terror organizations, boasting more than 100,000 members, is on its way into America— fueled by the foolish open border policies that the Biden administration has championed.

Hezbollah began in Lebanon, emerging in the early 1980s after the Lebanon War. Today, it stands as a major extremist group. Driven by a religious mandate, it views America and Israel as parallel adversaries, and believes that both nations should be obliterated. Their mission is to destroy freedom wherever it thrives.

Hezbollah has a global footprint, but a significant fraction of its operatives is based in Venezuela. Reports suggest a collaboration between Hezbollah and the Venezuelan government in an attempt to transform the country into a nexus for international crime. Surprisingly, or perhaps not, Venezuela tops the list for migrant entries with around 55,000 apprehensions by border patrol, double that of Mexico. These operatives undoubtedly manage to cross our borders quite openly, only to be detained and provided with essentials like a phone, food, transportation, and a distant court date—to which most fail to show up.

Terrorists, it seems, may actually be given preferential treatment to American citizens. Who would have thought?

This scenario has paved the way for an alarming spread of terrorist cells within the United States, and our unwavering quest for privacy has inadvertently provided groups

like Hezbollah with even more avenues to undermine our security.

Consider apps such as Telegram, Signal, or Discord. These platforms offer users the ability to establish anonymous, encrypted accounts for secure messaging. Messages can be erased at the user’s discretion, leaving no remnants once deleted, unlike many other popular applications.

There is immense value in privacy. However, when universally accessible tools can be wielded by bad actors, we must grapple with a challenging question: Where do we draw the line on privacy? Should there be mechanisms allowing law enforcement, with proper warrants, to access messages, generally?

I suspect opinions are divided; many might agree, while others firmly disagree. In our digital age, the battle over privacy stands tall at the intersection of politics and social discourse, with risks of terror threats often falling behind the wants of Americans to communicate and use the internet without Big Brother’s watchful eyes on them.

Regardless of where we land on this debate, it is crucial to remember that there are extremist terror factions within America aiming to transform bustling cities like New York and Los Angeles—already strained with high migrant intake and limited tracking capacities— into war zones resembling Gaza.

Their ambition is to instigate conflicts that could challenge even the formidable strength of the U.S. military. They are here already, and America is in such a divided and strained state that they would have no problems taking advantage of us.

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us. Their objective is undoubtedly to drain our resources, compel us to prioritize outsiders over our own citizens, and intensify unrest in our major cities. Given the trajectory the United States is on, it appears increasingly likely that Hezbollah, along with any allied extremist groups, truly could transform one of our major cities into Gaza faster than we think.

America needs to be tough; this is why we need stronger border policies. It is undeniably true that outsiders need help and that most people crossing our border are in a bind. But America’s interests are more important; we need to protect our own before we protect everyone else. There’s a reason why conservatives call for closed borders.

It’s not because they don’t think people ought not be given help, but because they know that opening up our borders puts us at risk to people with bad intentions infiltrating our country.

We’ve seen it already, with gangs like MS-13 and the like proliferating, committing disgusting and satanic acts like beheading people and eating their hearts. At this point, it’s only a matter of time before enough terrorists cross over our border into our nation and strike us when we least expect it. Yet, by then, it won’t be local news, but international news. Tragically, only then will the Biden administration—or whoever is in power at the time—realize that a wall has to go up and needs to stay up, lest our nation fall under attack once more.

Armstrong Williams (@ARightSide) is manager / sole owner of Howard Stirk Holdings I & II Broadcast Television Stations and the 2016 Multicultural Media Broadcast Owner of the year. www.armstrongwilliams.co | www.howardstirkholdings.com

Even though there are no federal or statewide races this year, New Yorkers should still be prepared to head to the polls on November 7 to vote for several important races throughout the city. Yes, this is an odd year, but it does not mean it’s a year “off” from politics. If you have not done so already, be sure to start making a voting plan for Election Day (or the days before you plan on voting early).

If you read this column, you know how I feel about the act of voting. It is not only a civic duty and a way to be active participants in our own democracy, it is also a way to honor our ancestors who fought, bled, and even died for Black Americans and all Americans to have equal access to the ballot. We should never take the process and privilege of voting for granted.

When you go to the polls for the November 7 election, your ballot will have candidates for your particular City Council race. All 51 City Council seats are on their respective ballots, due to redistricting. Some races are more competitive than others, but you can visit www.nyc.gov to find your electoral map.

If you live in the Bronx, Queens, or Staten Island, you will have the opportunity to choose your next district attorney (DA). The incumbents— Darcel Clark, Melinda Katz, and Michael McMahon, respectively— are all up for re-election since there are no term limits for district attorney offices in New York.

I don’t think I have to reiterate just how important the role of a DA is for a borough. DAs bring justice to victims, help keep their respective boroughs safe, and prosecute high-level crimes.

Some judicial races will also be on your ballot.

Have you done your research on the Civil Court judges on your ballot or the delegates to the judicial convention? If not, familiarize yourself with the candidates on your ballot at www. whosontheballot.org, an amazing resource for all things Election Day. You can literally type in your address, find your polling site (and your alternate polling station if you choose to vote early, which is available until November 5), see your ballot, and familiarize yourself with the two ballot proposals on which you will be asked to vote: 1) Removal of Small City School Districts from Special Constitutional Debt Limitation and 2) Extending Sewage Project Debt Exclusion from Debt Limit.

Be prepared for this important election season and be sure to tell family and friends Election Day is November 7. We are responsible for the health of our democracy.

Christina Greer, Ph.D., is an associate professor at Fordham University; author of “Black Ethnics: Race, Immigration, and the Pursuit of the American Dream”; co-host of the podcast FAQ-NYC and host of The Blackest Questions podcast at TheGrio’ and a 2023–24 Moynihan Public Scholars Fellow at CCNY.

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Africa-Caricom relations moving full speed ahead

By BERT WILKINSON Special to the AmNews In barely two years, the 15-nation Caribbean Community and key institutions on the African continent have moved to strengthen relations to a level that has perhaps not been seen since the antiapartheid era in the ’70s and ’80s with a number of important engagements that appear to signal that both sides are very determined to reap major rewards in this incarnation.

Back in September 2021, Caricom and Africa held their first summit aimed at holding long talks about opportunities in trade and direct investment, air travel, and maritime links, among other areas.

Encouraged by the success of that summit at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the major follow-up had to do with the overnight appearance of the African Export-Import Bank’s (Afreximbank) brandnew office in Barbados in the past year.

And this week, hundreds of delegates from Africa flew by chartered Ethiopian Airlines jumbo jet to Caricom headquarters in Guyana for the second Afri-Caribbean Trade and Investment forum that began on Monday. Delegates from both regions appeared upbeat and were encouraged by the pace of developments since the leaders met in 2021.

Perhaps the most important institution at the conference center would, of course, be the Afri Exim Bank, which has already made $1.5 billion available to governments and the private sector in a dozen Caricom states for concession borrowing, a point that was not lost on Guyanese Foreign Minister Hugh Todd as he urged the region to take advantage of this opportunity to deal with a range of services, including oil and gas, food security and productivity, agricultural development as well as air and sea travel.

Todd said the African bank is also helping the region “develop its own Exim bank”

that would work along similar lines to its African counterpart.

Several regional prime ministers, including Mia Mottley of Barbados and Phillip Pierre of St. Lucia, are in Guyana for the conference, as well as key African oil and gas support and consultancy companies, anxious to link up with Guyana as it speeds toward becoming one of the world’s largest daily oil producers in about five years. Commercial quantities were discovered back in 2020 and already the daily tally from two oilfields has reached about 400,000 barrels.

Several of the African states are major oil producers, including Nigeria and Mozambique.

Another key agenda item and opportunity would be efforts by Antigua to persuade Nigeria-based airline Air Peace to conclude a partnership with Antigua-based LIAT commuter and island-hopping service, which collapsed in 2020 at the height of the pandemic. Several attempts to kickstart commercial service between Africa

and the Caribbean have been abandoned in recent decades, but with several governments in both regions abolishing visa requirements, prospects in this brand-new area are rising, officials say.

Antiguan Prime Minister Gaston Browne said negotiations are far advanced to the extent that he is “pleased to recall that the delegation of Antigua and Barbuda led this charge to establish the link between the African continent and the countries of the Caricom. Today, two years following the historic [2021] summit, while the momentum of the summit propels our binding ties, we are furthering and deepening our relations with our brothers and sisters of Africa through frequent dialogue on a bilateral basis, and collaboration within public-private partnerships.”

Three months ago, Air Peace ran a commercial test flight to Antigua from Nigeria, while planning for another in late October or early November. This is even while it eyes investing in LIAT, officials said.

Why are so many immigrant roots lawmakers staying solidly pro-Israel?

FELICIA PERSAUD

IMMIGRATION KORNER As I write this article, an AP report states that over 8,000 Palestinians have been killed between October 7 and 29, including 2,913 innocent children and 29 journalists in the intensive bombardments and attacks on the besieged Gaza Strip by Israel, following the terrorist attack on its state on Oct. 7.

Yet, despite worldwide denunciation, including from the U.N., of the innocent killings via air, sea and land bombardment, the cutting off of food, water, electricity and even internet, many immigrant roots U.S. congressmembers are staying firmly on the side of Israel, silent on the issue or barely touching it all together.

Immigrants and children of immigrants account for at least 15% of the 118th Congress, a share that has steadily grown over the past three Congresses, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of members’ biographical information gathered from the Congressional Research Service, news articles, congressional offices and other sources.

Yet, few are bothering to raise their voices in condemnation of what Secretary-General António Guterres has called a “humanitarian catastrophe unfolding in front of our eyes.”

There is a reason and that reason has to do with money—specifically campaign donations and support from the very powerful AIPAC Political Action Committee, which, on its own website describes itself as “America’s largest bipartisan pro-Israel PAC.” whose mission is to “encourage and persuade the U.S. government to enact specific policies that create a strong, enduring and mutually beneficial relationship with our ally Israel.”

And it proudly lists all the U.S. lawmakers it supports, both Democrats and Republicans. They include many Black, Hispanic and immigrant lawmakers, including Congresswomen Grace Meng, Young Kim, Norma Torres, Yvette Clarke, Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, Congressmen Ted Lieu and Adriano Espaillat, Senator Ted Cruz and many, many more including Minority House leader Hakeem Jeffries.

AIPAC is among the groups currently reaching out to members of Congress, even as the House has remained mostly at a standstill. Marshall Wittmann has told Bloomberg News that the group’s primary focus now “is to ensure that America provides Israel the resources it needs as quickly as possible so it can permanently dismantle Hamas, which perpetrated the barbaric, terrorist attack on the Jewish state.”

AIPAC spent $2.2 million on federal lobbying from January through September of this year, according to filings

with Congress. It also started a political action committee last election cycle that brought in nearly $19 million in donations during the 2022 campaigns.

So far this cycle it has reported $10.5 million in donations through Aug. 31.

The group has sent large donations to the Republican National Committee, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, and the National Republican Congressional Committee, as well as donations to individual candidates on both sides of the aisle, Federal Election Commission reports show.

Ironically, as mentioned in my Oct. 16th column, White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre, as senior advisor and national spokesperson to MoveOn.org, once wrote an op-ed calling AIPAC “the antithesis of what it means to be progressive.”

The pro-Israel lobbying group has been slammed as “trafficking in anti-Muslim and anti-Arab rhetoric while lifting up Islamophobic voices and attitudes.” In fact, Senator Bernie Sanders, while running for president, accused the group of providing a platform for “bigotry.” It also runs a number of attack advertisements against Democratic lawmakers, including Somali immigrant Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, as well as Betty McCollum, who have spoken critically of Israel.

Since Oct. 7th, most of the Caribbean American Congressmembers supported by the PAC have been very selective in what they have said publicly.

Jamaican American Congressmember Clarke has issued just one statement on the conflict.

On Oct. 11th she joined Jewish Congressman Dan Goldman, (NY-10) and New York State Assembly member Simcha Eichenstein, (AD-48) “in calling on U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and the U.S. State Department to take immediate action to help American citizens safely and quickly return home from Israel.”

No mention of the Americans still trapped in Gaza.

Haitian American Congresswoman Cherfilus-McCormick has also only issued one statement on the issue, on Oct. 12th, four days after the Oct. 7th attack, stating: “I remain unequivocally committed to ensuring that Israel has what she needs to defend herself from this detestable assault, and to provide security for its people. America will always side with Israel in its war against Hamas.”

Born in the Dominican Republic, Congressman Espaillat has been more involved, and immediately declared on Oct. 7th: “We stand united with Israel.” His office also declared that it is committed to “providing assistance to constituents or their loved ones who are currently in Israel.” There was no similar language reserved for Palestinians. However, Espaillat has introduced the Safe Return Act to support Americans abroad during crises, both in Israel and Gaza.

Money talks and AIPAC knows it!

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

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Health Mpox vaccinations should be recommended for high-risk men, even after outbreak ends, advisers say

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer

NEW YORK (AP)—Gay and bisexual men at high risk for the mpox infection should get vaccinated against the virus even after the current outbreak ends, government health advisers said Wednesday.

The committee’s recommendation now goes to the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and, if she signs off on it, will be sent out as guidance to U.S. doctors.

More than 30,000 U.S. mpox cases were reported last year. The number dropped dramatically this year, to about 800. But because the virus doesn’t naturally circulate in the U.S., any single case counts as an outbreak, according to the CDC. Mpox, formerly known as monkeypox, is caused by a virus in the same family as the one that causes smallpox. It is endemic in parts of Africa, where people have been infected through bites from rodents or small animals.

The virus was not known to spread easily among people, but cases exploded in Europe

Family nurse practitioner prepares syringe with Mpox vaccine for inoculating a patient at vaccination site in Brooklyn. Gay and bisexual men at high risk for mpox infection should get vaccinated against the virus even after current outbreak ends, government health advisers said (AP Photo/Jeenah Moon)

and the U.S. in the spring and summer of 2022, mostly among men who have sex with men. Deaths were rare, but many people suffered painful skin lesions for weeks.

A two-dose vaccine, Jynneos, became a primary weapon in the U.S. It’s recommended primarily for men who have sex with men who have more than one sex partner, have

remind people the virus is still out there, and that people can be infected during international travel, CDC officials said.

The daily average of new U.S. cases is one to four per day, although some people likely aren’t being diagnosed, CDC officials said. Two deaths were reported in September, bringing the total to 54 in the U.S. since mpox hit last year.

San Francisco had more than 800 cases last year, but the count dropped to an average of only one per month in the first half of this year. The number of cases rose to seven in August, 20 last month, and at least 10 so far this month.

“Things are much better than they were last summer,” said Dr. Stephanie Cohen, who oversees STD prevention work at San Francisrecently had a sexually transmitted disease, co’s health department. “But there are (still) or are at higher risk for infections through many more cases than there should be.” sexual contact for other reasons.

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‘X’ the opera explodes with dance, music, pageantry

By HERB BOYD Special to the AmNews A few years ago, there was a series of Dos Equis beer commercials that announced “the most interesting man in the world” and bragged that his reputation was expanding faster than the universe. Kazem Abdullah does not, for a moment, subscribe to being the most interesting man in the world, but consider these facts: He was born in Indianapolis 44 years ago on July the Fourth, with an Arabic birthname bestowed on him by parents from Sierra Leone; was raised in Dayton; became a worldclass clarinetist, with a long current residency in Germany; and, perhaps most interestingly, is a Black man with a baton, not one in a track relay, but on the podium in front of major orchestras.

Beginning on November 3 through December 2 at the Met, Abdullah will conduct the latest iteration of “X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X.” During a phone interview before my attendance at a rehearsal, Abdullah divulged a portion of his impressive résumé, including an extensive discussion of jazz and how it relates to the X opera.

“What I like most about the opera is the extent to which the composer Anthony Davis has incorporated jazz into Malcolm’s life,” he said. “And as the music matures from the 1920s to the 1960s, so does Malcolm. His story is truly an American story.”

Malcolm’s story has international implications, too, some of which emerge in the production that I was able to witness a week before its launch at the Met on November 3.

Abdullah’s comments on jazz and how it’s woven into the opera are certainly true, but other African American genres are also present, depending on the historical era depicted.

The blues continuum surfaces throughout the performance and is most prominent when it accompanies Malcolm’s mother, Louise Little (Leah Hawkins), in her lament on learning of the death of her husband.

When she repeats the number of Klansmen accused of killing her beloved Earl, the mournful music echoes her words: “A boy born in terror, marked by our fear. Not four, not 10; so many men rushing in a Black man’s night.” Their intimations are of

Sterling Brown’s poem “Old Lem,” where he wrote, “They don’t come by ones. They don’t come by twos. But they come by tens.”

The score becomes a blend of swing and bebop when Malcolm is lindyhopping or boogying in the nightspots. Abdullah appears to signal to the bassist to emphasize the beat.

It is during this scene that the choreography takes command, although it weaves almost seamlessly from episode to episode, whether in the beginning where the dancers convey the festive arrival of young Malcolm to the crowd outside the Littles’ home where they capture the sadness of Earl’s murder.

Those who experienced the original version 36 years ago may recall some of the scenes, but as librettist Thulani Davis promised, there are some changes, most notably the length of the opera. There also seemed to be more intentional rhyming in this iteration, and a little more rapping, particularly during the solos by Malcolm (baritone Will Liverman), but Victor Ryan Robertson as Elijah Muhammad has the show-stopping moments—a latter-day Cab Calloway.

Rehearsals, as some of you may know, often contain a number of stops and restarts, and this one had several; even so, there was enough to glean the opera’s potential. The choreography is a practically unbroken tapestry of movement; the lighting and images that embellish the actors are like another performer; and always in the background was a bold, unannounced sense of pageantry.

Some semblance of the opera’s often snapping rhythm was evident when watching composer Anthony Davis walking around the theater, now and then with body gestures capturing the tempo and surge of sound from the orchestra’s pit.

The shifting cadences and modulations were controlled admirably

by Abdullah’s magic baton, and there was his way of signaling to the players to tone down or intensify their sound. There were moments when memories of “Porgy and Bess” surfaced, and then “West Side Story,” but as Abdullah reminded me during the interview, this is Malcolm’s story, “Malcolm’s musical.”

To that extent, let’s reserve the rest of the review until we are back in the theater for the debut on November 3.

Will Liverman as Malcolm and Victor Ryan Robertson as Eljah in Anthony Davis’s “X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X” (Marty Sohl/Met Opera photos)

Bryce Christian Thompson as Young Malcolm and Raehann Bryce-Davis as Ella in Anthony Davis’s “X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X” Scene from Anthony Davis’s “X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X”

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By JASON PONTEROTTO Special to the AmNews On Sunday, the Metropolitan Opera House presented an 18-hour marathon reading of “The Autobiography of Malcolm X as Told to Alex Haley,” before their premiere of Anthony Davis’s “X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X.” The event was free and open to the public; the book was read aloud in its entirety by various performers, scholars, students, and more. It began at 6 a.m. and ran through midnight, on the Grand Tier. The readers went up to the stage for their sections, projecting the blunt and forceful speech from the famous autobiography throughout the theater house.

Readers included performers from the opera.

One of the readers was Dr. Ilyasah Shabazz, the third eldest of Malcolm and Dr. Betty Shabazz’s six daughters.

Shabazz read multiple paragraphs from Chapter 11 of the book, “Saved,” where Malcolm discusses his transformation toward the Nation of Islam and undergoes a self-education and awakening.

“It was brilliant for the Met to do this, to have this sort of communal storytelling for adults, for their children,” Shabazz said about the event.

Some of the performers from the opera who read included 12-yearold actress Scarlett Diviney, who said she was in the middle of reading Malcolm’s autobiography. She said she thinks of Malcolm similarly to fellow liberation figure and civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King.

“He really did so much for everyone in the world,” Diviney said about Malcolm.

Leah Hawkins, a soprano performer who also read, is portraying both Malcolm X’s wife, the late educator and racial justice advocate Dr. Betty Shabazz, as well as his mother, Louise Little, in the opera. Hawkins, a soprano, said she was determined to do both of these characters justice.

“I want to make sure I portray them in a way that is complementary to who they were and how they made Malcolm into the man that he was,” Hawkins said.

“It’s been an honor to explore that.”

Hawkins recently performed with the Met as a soloist in “Requiem’s Dream” and “Porgy and Bess.” She said the opera about Malcolm’s story deserves to be told on the grand stage, despite any possible opposition.

“It’s important that we do these kinds of stories,” Hawkins said. “There are

Dr. Ilyasah Shabazz at the Marathon Reading of The Autobiography of Malcolm X as Told to Alex Haley at the Metropolitan Opera on October 29, 2023. (Marty Sohl / Met Opera photo)

Marathon Reading of The Autobiography of Malcolm X as Told to Alex Haley at the Metropolitan Opera on October 29, 2023. (Evan Zimmerman / Met Opera photo)

going to be other stories on this stage that we tell that people are not going to like, but that’s our duty as artists, in art…to bring those things to light.”

“Sometimes we have to be a little uncomfortable to learn and grow,” Hawkins added.

“X” will premiere on Nov. 3, marking the first time the opera has arrived at The Met. The opera was first conceived in the 1980s by family members Pulitzer Prize-winner Anthony Davis, brother Christopher Davis, and cousin Thulani Davis. Anthony led as composer while Christopher, an actor and director, provided the story, and scholar Thulani served as librettist. Workshops for the opera took place in 1984 and 1985 at the American Music Theater Festival in Philadelphia before the production debuted at the New York City Opera in 1986.

Thulani, along with the Elevator Repair Service theater company, and George Scott helped organize the reading event.

Robert O’Hara, the Tony-nominated director of “Slave Play” is leading this production this time. He said this latest presentation includes Afro-futuristic elements connecting Malcolm X to some of the major issues affecting society today.

“I wanted to tell a story of someone walking in Malcolm X’s shoes, who had the wherewithal of knowledge of there’s still police brutality, there’s still blatant racism and systemic racism, there’s still the prison industrial system, and there is still human rights injustice,” O’Hara said.

“I’m embedding all of that information into this production.”

O’Hara says that he told the Met upon being brought on that they must earn the right to be able to tell this story about Malcolm, and he shared what that looks like.

“The way you earn the right to do a Malcolm X opera, after not doing this work with centralizing Black and brown bodies for a century and a half, is the way you interact, and talk about it and treat the people in the opera and the outreach,” O’Hara explained.

“Opening up the doors and reading the words of Malcolm X over the entire day is a tribute to his life and to his struggle, the struggle for freedom.”

O’Hara also took part in the reading.

“Putting that language into the space is important,” O’Hara said about the event.

More information about the opera can be found at the Met website at www.metopera.org.

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Legendary Singer Little Richard in a scene from “Little Richard: I Am Everything” (Photo courtesy of DOC NYC)

By NADINE MATTHEWS Special to the AmNews From November 8–16 in theaters and online, with extended online screenings available across the U.S. through November 26, DOC NYC—the nation’s largest documentary film festival—returns. This year, more than 200 feature length and short films, 33 of which are world premieres and 29 are U.S. premieres, will screen both online and at the IFC Center, SVA Theatre, and Village East by Angelika.

According to the official release for this year’s festival, “We are beyond proud to be celebrating the international documentary community’s incredible work this year.

These films reveal new insights into our interior lives and the world around us in complex, engaging, and often prescient ways.”

The festival opener on November 8 is “The Contestant,” chronicling one of the world’s first reality shows. It features the life of an aspiring Japanese comedian, unaware for almost a year and a half that he is being filmed in his apartment and is well-known to millions of viewers.

Closing the festival at the SVA Theater on November 16 is Sam Pollard and Llewellyn Smith’s “South to Black Power,” a fascinating study of popular New York Times columnist Charles Blow, famous for his outspokenness; his bestselling memoir “Fire Shut Up in My Bones,” which was adapted into a production at the Metropolitan

Opera; and his Black liberation manifesto “The Devil You Know.”

Some of the most highly anticipated films are “American Symphony,” chronicling musician Jon Batiste and his partner’s fight against her returning cancer; “Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Story,” about the legendary poet; Raoul Peck’s “Silver Dollar Road,” an exposé about the way real estate developers work in blatant and subtle ways to divest Black families from inherited property; “Stamped From The Beginning,” based the work of anti-racist activist and author Ibram X. Kendi; “Lakota Nation vs. United States,” where the Lakota people try to get the U.S. government to honor its treaties with them; and “Little Richard: I am Everything,” which uses the life of the pioneering singer to out the Black, queer origins of rock ’n’ roll.

Also of note is director Beatriz Luengo’s “Patria Y Vida: The Power of Music,” which chronicles Cuban hip-hop musicians living in exile and recording a protest song calling for freedom of speech in Cuba that becomes a global phenomenon, making its New York Premiere.

“36 Seconds: Portrait of a Hate Crime” also makes its world premiere. The film follows a grieving Muslim community after the killing of three young Muslims in Charleston, S.C. A production of PBS’s “The American Experience,” “The Riot Report” also makes its world premiere at this year’s festival. The

doc explores the infamous 1968 Kerner Commission report, which explained that poverty and institutional racism were what led to the numerous riots of the inner cities in the ’60s. “White society is deeply implicated in the ghetto. White institutions created it, white institutions maintain it, and white society condones it,” the report famously stated.

A spate of intriguing films dots the International section this year, including “Al Djanat: The Original Paradise” by Chloé Aïcha Boro, which makes its world premiere. The film traces the conflict over a patriarch’s estate in Burkina Faso.

Putting the always timely issue of immigration to the fore, Núria Clavero and Aitor Palacios’ “The Caravan” makes its U.S. premiere.

It follows a family as they risk everything to make it to the Mexican border and the further challenges they find when they get there.

Kim Longinotto and Franky Murray Brown’s “Dalton’s Dream” follows Jamaican singer Dalton James as he tries to make his way in the famously tough music industry.

Cyrielle Raingou’s “Le Spectre De Boko Haram” brings viewers a disturbingly up-close view of the terror group through the eyes of schoolchildren in Kolofata, Cameroon.

DOC NYC’s American Stories section brings a trove of films with a uniquely American focus, such as Peter Chelkowski and Jim Wickens’s “One With the Whale,” which trains its eye on an Indigenous family living in Alaska’s St. Law-

rence Island as they grapple with how to hold onto their culture in a world often at odds with it.

There is also “Unseen” (also from PBS’s American Experience), which tracks the experiences of Pedro, a legally blind undocumented immigrant who, despite this, is determined to get his degree in social work with the ultimate goal of using it to help his community.

Veteran filmmaker Dawn Porter’s “The Lady Bird Diaries” takes a close look at one of America’s most iconic first ladies, Lady Bird Johnson.

In an era fraught with political strife from all corners of the country, it’s apt that DOC NYC has a section called Fight the Power, consisting of stories of political activism, such as Ella Glendining’s “Is There Anybody Out There?” The subject of the film is also the director and has stated in interviews that she became “more and more politicized as a disabled person” as she made the film.

Another interesting and always timely entry in this section is celebrated director Yoruba Richen, with “The Cost of Inheritance,” which analyzes the subject of reparations through the lens of families with a history steeped in slavery.

DOC NYC will also offer slates of movies focused on music and musicians, intimate portraits of extraordinary individuals, sports, Canadian film, and a varied selection of short films. For more information, visit www.docnyc.com.

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When you go with the flow as you flow with what you are doing, the New beginnings require a new crowd of people aligning with your mission pieces of what you are working on or seeking will fall into place. Take a and vision. Not everyone can journey with you. As you meet certain folks, ask them the questions that are in your heart to ask. When you do, you will see Leo Aquarius moment to reflect on why you started, what you started, and where you July 24 Jan 22 are now. You can laugh at your experience and cry about some, yet everysimilar stories playing out differently. Just know you are on the right path as Aug 23 Feb 19 thing is working out for your personal and professional growth. Pay your the folks and resources showing up for you are in alignment. From Novemhealth a visit and check in on areas that have been bothering you. If nothber 4 around 3:21 a.m. until November 6 around 2:39 p.m., remember the ing is bothering you, a little exercise helps with both your stamina and your attitude. In foundation of before and after to see how far you have come; that includes you personally the days leading up to November 9 around 3:08 a.m., keep your foundation strong. when you look back at pictures of you.

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The way you are navigating through your daily life is carefree—with a You are brainstorming something this week to include in a course, class, or childlike mindset. Nothing to clutter your mind, just focusing on your end in your personal life to assist you and others on their journey. Be mindful of goal. You are wholeheartedly contemplating getting somewhere, and reyour health as your shoulder, back, ears, nose, throat may give you a little disPisces Virgo Feb 20 Aug 24 sults will come in due time. Take it easy, as detours will come up to take comfort. Do some bends and stretches to help release stagnant energy. Any Sept 23 Mar 20 you on a different route that allows you to have a different experience. kind of finance that’s overdue or opportunities are within arm’s reach now.

When you do, it will give more meaning to what you are doing in your life.

From November 6 around 2:39 p.m. until November 9 around 2:45 a.m., you From November 1 around 5:30 p.m. until November 4 around 3 a.m., just breathe and choose the best option for you. “float on “like the song’s title by The Floaters.

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Do what you have to do to get where you need to go. Use your resourcAn ending and new beginning is on the rise. Please do not resist, you’ve es and everything you know, including the things in your possession. All been fighting long enough and it’s time to give something or someone types of hunches, clues, hints are hovering over you. You just need to be Libra a chance—just as when folks take a chance on you, or you are taking a still and just like a bee it will begin to buzz around you before it lands on Sept 24 Aries Oct 23 chance on something. Surrender to a higher version of yourself that you. In the days leading up to November 9 around 3:08 a.m., partnerMar 21 Apr 21 you imagine being. When you do, all that other stuff will melt away like ships, secrets, deja vu, and semi-legal affairs are unfolding in your lap. butter. Take control and know what you need and want. From November 4 Stay focused on the end goal and remain calm. around 3:21 a.m. until November 6 around 2:39 p.m., advice will come from wise women and men at its appointed time.

Well, what seems like new information to you, you already heard from the grapevine. It’s just now catching up to you. November is a month Trust what you feel: your intuition has never led you off-track. When it of dreams coming true, public appearances, or other social media outScorpio comes to partnership, lovers, contracts, or legal affairs, be choosy yet firm lets. Be mindful of where you step, as November may seem clumsier Oct 24 in your decision. A form of revelation will confirm what you already know. than normal. It’s all divine as things manifest in the spiritual form before Nov 22 Taurus No need to ask.

Any outstanding obligations are approaching and know manifesting in the physical form. From November 1 around 5:30 p.m.

Apr 22 May 21 you will get what you earned. Stay on task this week and pay attention to until November 4 around 3 a.m., get ready for a new voyage. Stay packed and ready for certain details in conversation or signs the universe is showing you. From when the time and opportunity arrive. The energy started around the end of October November 6 around 2:39 p.m. until November 9 around 2:45 a.m., be still, and what is for into November. you will come to you.

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Kyle Marshall Choreography comes to Joyce Theater

By ZITA ALLEN Special to the AmNews Kyle Marshall, whose company, Kyle Marshall Choreography (KMC), makes its Joyce Theater premiere November 8–12 with a bill of three New York premieres, is a choreographer, performer, teacher, and the artistic director of a company that sees the dancing body as a container of history, an igniter of social reform, and a site of celebration.

Since inception in 2014, KMC has performed at venues including the BAM Next Wave Festival, Jacob’s Pillow Inside/ Out, Actors Fund Arts Center, NJPAC, Little Island, and Roulette.

Marshall has received choreographic and dance film commissions from the Baryshnikov Arts Center, “Dance on the Lawn” (Montclair’s Dance Festival), Harlem Stage, and THE SHED. He is a recipient of a 2020 Dance magazine Harkness Promise Award and 2018 NY Juried “Bessie” Award. As a teacher, Marshall has conducted masterclasses and creative workshops, and set choreography at schools such as ADF, Rutgers University, Ailey/Fordham University, and more. He is currently a Caroline Hearst Choreographer-In-Residence at Princeton University and is in residence at the Center for Ballet and Arts at NYU. In a recent interview with the Amsterdam News, Marshall and KMC Creative Director Edo Tastic spoke about the work to be performed this month, which is the product of a creative collaboration between them, as well as a company of talented dancers. The upcoming performance features a trio of unique works — “Ruin,” “Alice,” and “Onyx” — that showcase the results of that collaboration, best described as both innovative and thought-provoking.

“Ruin” reflects on the natural rhythms and elemental rituals that shape humankind by excavating body percussion and the physical relationship to sound. Dynamic listening devices designed and constructed by sound collaborator Cal Fish will be used throughout the dance. Through their magic, the ground and air become sources of sound and amplification.

In real time, music is cultivated by performers Bree Breeden, Jose Lapaz-Rodriguez, Nik Owens, Cayleen Del Rosario, and Marshall. ”Ruin” will have costumes, hair, and make-up designed by Tastic, costume construction by Meagan Woods, and lighting by Itohan Edoloyi.

“Alice” is a solo work about the spiritual journey to self-acceptance, dedicated to those on the verge of transformation, guided by the music of jazz great Alice Coltrane, and inspired by KMC’s Tastic.

“Onyx” delves into the origins of rock and roll, revealing the Black and brown people whose sounds, performances, and personalities created the revolutionary genre.

Through improvisational scores, character embodiment, and flowing phrase

Dancers Cayleen Del Rosario, Jose Lapaz-Rodriguez (Photo by Albert Yee)

Dancers Cayleen Del Rosario, Bree Breeden, Nik Owens, Niara Hardister, Kyle Marshall.

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work,“Onyx” reflects on the fame, influence, appropriation, and erasure that riddles the legacy of so many Black and brown artists. Through this embodiment of history,“Onyx” recognizes and celebrates these groundbreaking musicians while widening the perspective of the Black American cultural experience.

The soundscape collage by Kwami Winfield offers samples from groundbreaking artists Little Richard, Betty Davis, Death, James Brown, LaVern Baker, Tina Turner, Big Mama Thornton, Ann Peebles, and

Sister Rosetta Tharpe.

Asked what he wants people to know about his work, Marshall said, “One of the key things is that it is rooted in history, especially the history of Black and brown people. Also, it embraces the cutting-edge sense of collaboration, movement, storytelling, and abstraction.” Marshall said Tastic, who has worked with the company for the last couple of years brings, “a kind of embrace of a visual aesthetic and a more visual experimentation [that] has been a new space for us to play with.”

For his part, Tastic said his visual aesthetic is “deeply rooted in research and an appreciation for abstract story-telling.” He described some of the details in “Onyx” as being like those that symbolize the essence of music legend Tina Turner’s iconic fight for artistic agency and emancipation by deploying an imaginative use of make-up and props that are “rooted in the research of the persona and trying to reach a new layer for the audience to see.”

Noting the collaboration that is at the center of his work, Marshall said that not only does Tastic’s visual contribution allow him creative freedom, but his own work with the dancers has a deep collaborative aspect as well.

“The people I work with as performers are involved in the building of the work.

I’m very interested in how they’re interpreting it. For ‘Onyx,’ for instance, a lot of it came out of improvisations and the dancers’ response to certain artists and certain music as well as who they, themselves, are, so Cayleen Del Rosario kind of sits in that thrashing moment. Bree Breeden really is embodying Tina Turner. Nik Owens is thinking about Little Richard and that queer persona...Niara as Betty Davis is a kind of sultry performer.

“It was cool to see how we innately connect to a variety of different artists but also what they’re saying in the work.

The unique thing about ‘Alice’ was that it was a way of thinking about a solo—my first solo on another performer, but also what does this person or this body want to say in this moment about their own spiritual journey.”

When asked about the meaning of his work as a reflection of a belief that the body is a container of history, Marshall explained, “I’ve always been curious about how history influences our body, how the past influences the present, and how we move into the future. Also, I think that the body is a space of the politic, a space of identity, and culture and humanhood.

And, as we’re a predominantly queer organization, predominantly Black and brown, and proudly so, we can’t ignore things that are happening out in the world, outside the studio. Consequently, the work can pose basic questions about some of these moments in our current time to open our humanity up to seeing different perspectives and make people aware of things they need to be aware of. Art can be a space of learning, a space of processing, and a space of spiritual healing.”

At the same time, to make sure folks realize his performance is a dance concert, not a lecture, “in the end, it’s joyful,” Marshall said. There is something rewarding about giving people an experience that they can both digest as food for thought and, at the same time, enjoy.

For more info, visit www.joyce.org/performances.

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Preserving Afro Mexican heritage amidst Día de los Muertos

By MAGRIRA Special to the AmNews Unless you live under a proverbial rock without Wi-Fi service, you know that New York City is now filled with members of the Mexican community, and Harlem has reflected this change in the type of businesses, food trucks, restaurants, and street vendors lining the streets. The type of music heard drifting out of bodegas now packed with items imported from Mexico adds to the city’s vibrant multicultural atmosphere.

I’ve lived in Harlem since the late ’80s, and I’ve witnessed the swirling of cultures as this section of the city has transformed. A blink of an eye turned what was once a stronghold for African Americans, Africans, Puerto Ricans, and Dominicans into a new haven for immigrants, primarily Mexicans. I am Afro Mexican, and as an Afro Mexican, we are often lumped in and assimilated with the aforementioned groups.

I’m not complaining. It’s all good. It’s not like we are trying to deny our African roots; it’s the opposite. We embrace our melanin with love.

Mercedes White (Courtesy photo)

With this influx, our cultural traditions find significance in the heartfelt commemoration of Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead)––observed from October 27 to November 2.

There are numerous misconceptions about Día de los Muertos, often originating from other Spanish-speaking communities. Perhaps it’s the skull decorations that trouble them or the belief that the departed, including pets, return to visit. Many also feel uneasy about the ofrenda, or altar, associating it with Santeria and Voodoo.

However, nothing could be further from the truth.

Creating an ofrenda, typically done in private homes and cemeteries, is a simple yet profound way to honor our departed loved ones. It includes family photos, marigolds, offerings, water, food, salt, candles, and Pan de Muerto adorned with bones and skulls, symbolizing the circle of life. The aroma of copal incense often hangs in the air, carrying prayers and purifying the space, crafting a sacred atmosphere—a warm invitation for spirits to return.

Día de los Muertos holds deep

roots in the ancient traditions of Aztec, Toltec, and Nahua communities, where death was viewed as a natural phase in life’s cycle rather than an endpoint. UNESCO acknowledged this profound cultural heritage in 2008, recognizing it as an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. This designation emphasized that cultural traditions, like Día de los Muertos, are not relics but living expressions passed down through generations.

Here’s what Mercedes White, head of the Theater Program at the Harlem School of the Arts (HSA); model and influencer Nioby Monroe; and editor and content creator Michael Baca, aka the Black Mexican, have to share about being Afro Mexicans in this country and embracing both of our cultures, of which we are equally proud.

Amsterdam News: Ms. White, you are like my spirit animal. It’s awesome that there is an ofrenda at the Harlem School of the Arts (HSA) to acknowledge the short film “Taking the E Train” (based on the upcoming children’s book) that you are producing. How was it for you growing up, being Afro Mexican?

Mercedes White: Honestly, it was both awesome and confusing. Throughout my upbringing, my awareness of my Black identity was limited. I knew I was Black–– how could I not? But Blackness is more than just skin color, and I struggled to relate. It wasn’t until I ventured into my predominantly Mexican neighborhood that I was sharply reminded of my differences.

Despite sharing the same cultural upbringing and participating in the same traditions as my Mexican peers, I was always seen as Black, and that was that. This confusion escalated when my father’s side of the family insisted, without relent, that I was not Black but Mexican. So how was this experience both awesome and confusing? Well, it was a mix of both. As a child, all I wanted was to belong. Yet, as I grew older, I realized that regardless of what others said or thought, I belonged to both cultures. Nothing could change that fundamental truth.

AMN: What elements of the beauty within each culture, both separately and when blended, do you wish more people comprehended?

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MW: Both cultures have strong foundations in the family unit, especially under the influence of the matriarch. This shared aspect leads to notable similarities in upbringing experiences.

AMN: Nioby Monroe, thank you for representing both the African American and Mexican American communities as a model and influencer. I follow you on social media. What does that entail, exactly?

Nioby Monroe: First, thank you.

Embracing my African American and Mexican American heritage entails embodying the rich cultural traditions and experiences of both ancestries. It means having a unique identity that intertwines the histories, struggles, achievements, and resilience of two distinct communities.

AMN: What challenges did you face, if any, growing up?

NM: The challenges I’ve faced since childhood, and even now, stem from the fact that I’ve never fit neatly into any predefined category, leaving people often unable to truly understand me.

AMN: Thank you so much, Michael Baca, aka the Black Mexican. My brother from another mother. I follow you on social media. You make me laugh!

Michael Baca: Thank you, my Afro Mexican sister.

AMN: Let’s jump into it. How do

you celebrate Día de los Muertos?

MB: I celebrate Dia de los Muertos by spending time with my family and remembering the loved ones who have passed. We tell funny stories about them, and most importantly, we teach the children about relatives who have passed. Talking about relatives (who) have passed is our way of keeping them alive in our hearts.

It is very important to my family that we remember our loved ones because we believe you only actually die when nobody remembers you.

AMN: I feel you, and I agree.

What does being Blaxican or Afro Latino mean to you?

MB: When I was growing up, I would choose to identify as Mexican or Black only because I feel like society puts you into a box and forces you to identify with being Mexican or Black. Many job applications still force you to identify as Black or Hispanic, and if you check the box for Hispanic, then you cannot choose the box for Black or any other race. Also, as a content creator, I have received many comments telling me that I cannot identify as Blaxican, and comments such as, “If your dad is Black, then you’re Black.” Being Blaxican or Afro Latino is a way that I show respect to both of my cultures, which I respect and am proud to be a part of.

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Jordan Boatman talks about her role in ‘Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors’

By LINDA ARMSTRONG Special to the AmNews If there is one show you need to see, especially during the Halloween season, it is “Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors,” playing at New World Stages (W. 50th Street).

This hilarious 90-minute take on the story of Dracula is written by Gordon Greenberg and Steve Rosen with direction by Greenberg. The company’s five actors are absolutely hysterical, great at playing multiple roles, and will have you bitten with laughter from the opening number to the end.

African American Jordan Boatman plays Lucy, Dracula’s love interest, along with other characters. Boatman sports a British accent and, along with her fellow company members, is an absolute delight. Some of her previous productions have included “The Nineties,” “Medea,” and “Murder on the Orient Express.”

Her film/TV work has included “Rob Peace,” “Bull,” “The Good Fight,” and “The Path.”

After seeing Boatman in action, you will know that the path she is on is one of success.

She has a fresh, natural presence on stage and is an absolute joy to watch as she and her fellow cast members—Arnie Burton, James Daly, Ellen Harvey, and Andrew Keenan-Bolger—entertain you with the wackiness and zany energy of this funny haunt.

Boatman recently spoke with the AmNews to talk about the show.

AmNews: What did you think when you first saw the script for “Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors”?

JB: I thought it was very funny. I thought it was hilarious. I auditioned for “Dracula” as you do with so many things these days: through a self-tape…My best friend…graciously helped me with the self-tape, and she and I were laughing during the audition.

I thought it was funny, smart, and clever, the way that they tell their jokes and they intertwine modern references to a play that takes place in 1827. When you think about Dracula, this is not what I would have thought, so I was surprised.

I love this type of comedy, I’m a huge Gene Wilder fan—this is right up my alley. And my dad is a big fan of that, so I watched a lot of these types of movies growing up. I could hear and feel the way this was going to come out, so I was shocked and really excited to be a part of it when I saw the script.

AmNews: How did you approach the role of Lucy and the others that you play, and how did you develop the British accent for Lucy?

JB: In a few different ways. Specifically, with Lucy, I really wanted—as funny as the show is and as crazy, silly, and hectic, and us running around doing a million things at once—[was for] Lucy to be a person, to be grounded and have relationships, hopes, dreams, and de-

sires. I wanted it to be something you could recognize. And I think that that is in there.

One of the first things that Gordon, our director, said to us when we started [that] was as much as this is a comedy, I also want there to be a story. I want there to be people up on the stage. I spent a lot of time with this script and with Lucy, I just went through and filled in details of who she might be.

I think that relationships ground people, so what does it look like when she’s thinking about her fiancé Jonathan, how is her relationship between her and her older sister that she is the caretaker for, how does that develop?

I like doing accents, so the opportunity to do a British accent all these months— I jumped into it. I spent a lot of time sitting in the park, talking to myself with a British accent. Hopefully not looking crazy. I watched a lot of movies for the accent.

Lucy is prim and proper, but what else is she? Back in those days, she was lucky to be educated at Oxford.

My other characters come in, they are not there for a long time, but they come in good and strong.

The five of us are having a great time. I’m so lucky to be surrounded by these talented, amazing people, who are also just kind and lovely. We have fun with each other on and off stage, so it’s just trying to keep up with them and trying to tell the story and it takes you away, you get caught up. You’re running around backstage—there are so many quick changes, entrances and exits, and it keeps the blood pressure up and you’re running, but it’s an exciting story. It’s exciting just to be on stage and be a part of it, coffins are coming out of one side of the stage and there’s lightning.

Sometimes I come out of a show with more energy than I came into it with. I’m always excited to get to do the show. It’s a hard show to do and it’s a lot of energy to exert for 90 minutes, especially on the weekends when we have two shows. I find even when I come in and think I’m tired, I don’t know how I’m going to do this one, those lights come up and you say “Good evening,” people are excited and you can feel the energy from the audience. When the audience is with us and engaged, that helps us, too. It makes it that much more exciting to just go through AmNews: Where are you from? it because we feel that you guys are going JB: I’m from Los Angeles, but I grew up in through it with us.

Westchester [outside] New York.

AmNews: This play is so wild and crazy, AmNews: What did your family think about what do you hope the audience will experiyou becoming an actress? ence when they come to see it?

JB: My dad is an actor—Michael Boatman.

JB: A good time. I am a lover of theater and I think there is something so specific about a AmNews: Michael Boatman as in “Law & group of people being in a room together and Order: SVU”? experiencing a moment together, and I don’t JB: Yes, “Law & Order: SVU,” “Spin City,” think you can get that anywhere else.

“The Good Fight.” So, I saw it growing up. I The joy of this play is that you get to come don’t think my family was surprised (that) in and see people living out their crazy, fanthis is what I wanted to do—I said that since tastical lives in front of you. I hope audiencI was very young. My mom is an attorney and es can really come in and embrace it, jump having been married to an actor for all these in, have a good time, fully commit—and we years and gone through those steps with him; will, too. I want the audience to experience I think she has a good perspective on it as well. just the feeling of unabashed joy and silliness.

Their perspective was, “Okay, you want to be There’s a beautiful story as well, of Lucy and an actor. If there is anything else, anything else Jonathan, and I love the story of Dracula and you would like to do, please do that! But if not, what he’s going through. You can get to know then we’ll support you with it.” their stories and have a few laughs. Come with I think that’s good advice. I would say it to a friend and talk about it all night. Come, get my child as well, because this is a hard busi- engaged, leave your worries at the door for 90 ness and any parent would want to protect minutes, and come have a good time with us. their child from it. They knew it was falling on deaf ears. I did theater all through middle AmNews: You have done plays, TV, and school and high school, I was the co-president films. What is the allure of doing live theater of my drama club in high school, so they knew compared to TV and films? which road they were walking down. They JB: I love TV and film because that gives you have beautifully supported me in this. such beautiful details of a story, but theater— there’s something about being in a room with AmNews: You all seem to be having a great someone right now and you are getting the time on the stage. How do you keep up that story straight from the source. level of energy for the [whole] 90 minutes?

As an actor, I think it’s exciting to develop a JB: I like to say it’s a train; you just got to character and grow with that character. With get on. And once you get on, you just keep TV/film, you rehearse, and you do it, and it’s moving because the show takes you with it. done. With theater, I’ve been playing Lucy for

a little over a month and I’ve got a few more months with her, and we grow and change as people every month, and so will she.

I find [with] every play that I do, my knowledge, my understanding, and my feelings about my characters grow because I get to know them better. I love the rehearsal process of live theater and just getting to build this world. That’s part of the allure for the actors, designers, and the director: We all put in our piece and build this world and get to get up on the stage and say how did we do, do you like it, and invite people in with us. That’s always exciting. With every audience, something new happens.

AmNews: This play has a lot of sexual tension and there is passion on stage between women and men, and men and men. How much fun is it to be a part of a production with these elements?

JB: It’s so much fun! I rush to work every day. Everyone is so wonderful and we love to have a good time together, so it’s silliness and lovely. In the show, I’m part of a love triangle and it’s a lot of fun.

AmNews: What in your UNC School of the Arts education prepared you for this work?

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Sista’s Place, Village Vanguard, Acuna at Dizzy’s Claudia Acuna (Hollis King photo)

The Nat Adderley, Jr. Band will make their way to the sacred stage of Sista’s Place (456 Nostrand Avenue) on November 4. Fortunately, the arranger, pianist, and songwriter has dodged the disastrous fate of being categorized. Some refer to him as a jazz musician whose bands are saturated in jazz rhythms with a flair of soul and his performance dates with violinist Regina Carter and saxophonist Vincent Herring. But R&B and pop folks call attention to his many years as musical director for the incomparable song stylist Luther Vandross.

Some of Adderley’s lyrics for the singer include “Stop to Love,” “Wait for Love,” and “Give Me the Reason.” Some of his many arrangements include “So Amazing,” “If Only for One Night,” and “Never Too Much.” His many projects keep him crossing a variety of genres, such as composing “The Wave” for Kirk Whalum, arranging Natalie Cole’s 1987 recording of “When I Fall In Love,” producing “Just Another Lonely Night” for Johnny Gill, arranging Aretha Franklin’s album Jump to It, producing Gloria Lynne’s album No Detour Ahead, and producing “That’s How Heartaches are Made” for the Temptations.

Adderley says his early influences were Chick Corea, John Coltrane, and Thelonious Monk. To be sure, from adolescence, his father cornetist Nat, Sr. and his uncle “Cannonball” mentored him. Today, he carries their love for soul jazz in the tradition of tunes like “Hummin’” and “Jive Samba,” all now standards penned by his father. The same can be said for his Vandross lyrics, which are now also standards on the R&B side.

Adderley’s one-night stand at Sista’s Place will be an evening filled with rollicking excitement from genre to genre.

Call 718-398-1766 for reservations.

The Village Vanguard (178–7th Avenue South), known for its long, steep staircase leading deep-down into its celebrated basement club, has maintained its beat generation hipness in Greenwich Village since Max Gordon opened it in 1935, when poets and writers called it home.

Over time, the club transitioned from cabaret acts to comedy to folk music to jazz, which eventually became an exclusive relationship in 1957. That jazz relationship has only become stronger through the years. The club is now under the reign of

Deborah Gordon after the passing of her mother, Lorraine Gordon, in 2018.

Musicians with a varied vocabulary for interpreting their perspective on this music called jazz can often be found downstairs behind the Red Door.

Tyshawn Sorey, one of this music’s dedicated explorers, who continues to crush genre barriers, will appear at the Village Vanguard from October 31–November 5.

Sorey’s music speaks to an organic truth that can’t be contained in a genre cage. His performances, recordings, and compositions range from improvised solo percussion on the Lower Eastside to opera in Europe. In 2019, his song cycle for Josephine Baker, “Perle Noire: Meditations for Josephine,” was performed on the steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Sorey has recorded or performed with Anthony Braxton, Muhal Richard Abrams, Cory Smythe, Vijay Iyer, Butch Morris, and Sylvie Courvoisier.

The drummer, multi-instrumentalist, and composer will be joined by the likeminds of piano virtuoso Aaron Diehl and bassist Harish Ragavan, who rejoice in pursuing boundless skies.

For tickets, visit the website villagevanguard.com or call 212-255-4037.

Claudia Acuna, the Chilean songstress, returns to Dizzy’s jazz club (60th Street and Columbus Circle) for one night only on November 2. She has a vocal instrument as soft as a good night kiss, joyful as a summer’s day, and swinging like any late jam session. Whether she sings in English or her native Spanish tongue, the results are the same: something mesmerizing.

Acuna will be accompanied by pianist Pablo Vergara, bassist Carlos Henderson, drummer Yayo Serka, and special guest guitarist Dominique James (first set only).

Since her early participation in those late steamy jam sessions at Smalls and Zinc Bar, she has been featured on various recordings with Avishai Cohen, Tom Harrell, Antonio Hart, and Arturo O’Farrill. Her diverse experience as a featured singer and as a leader offers a repertoire drawing from her Latina roots, or interpreting a jazz standard from a South American perspective.

Her latest CD, “Duo,” released in 2022 (Ropeadope), may very well be her best offering to date. The nine songs were recorded with the likes of Fred Hersch, Christian McBride, Kenny Barron, and

Regina Carter. Seven of the songs come from composers hailing from Chile, Cuba, Argentina, and Mexico, and one from the great Chick Corea. The final track is Acuña’s original composition, and speaks of her relationship with Mother Earth: “…at the end of the day, we all walk alone, and we can discover our beauty when we see Earth and us as one.”

This project was a long-time desire of hers to record a duets album of songs from her homeland, Chile.

What makes this recording so moving is Acuna’s emotional vocals interacting with each instrumentalist. These songs are more than just ballads—they embrace a spiritualness, a moving dance with Acuna, each musician and each instrument, from McBride’s bellowing bass to Barron’s understated melodies and the strings of Carter’s violin. They are hearttouching novellas.

Where listeners are active participants, despite most of the songs being sung in Spanish, one can feel the lyrics vibrating.They are one with the music with the song! Some of these songs will come to life during her night at Dizzy’s.

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BY HERB BOYD Special to the AmNews At the heart of Louise Meriwether’s book “Daddy Was a Number Runner,” “which gives it force,” wrote James Baldwin in the foreword, “is a child’s growing sense of being one of the victims of a collective rape—for history, and especially and emphatically in the Black-white arena, is not the past, it is the present. The great, vast, public, historical violation is also the present, private, unendurable insult, and the mighty force of these unnoticed violations spells doom for any civilization [that] pretends that the violations are not occurring or that they do not matter or that tomorrow is a lovely day. People cannot be, and, finally, will not be treated in this way. This book should be sent to the White House, and to our earnest Attorney General, and to everyone in this country able to read—which, may however, alas, be a most despairing statement.”

Baldwin has lengthy praise for his Harlem kinswoman, and the eloquence he extends here aligns perfectly with Meriwether’s. Not only does she write with poetic bravura, but she is unsparingly honest in her depiction of her beloved community’s detritus and its denizens.

Rather than compiling a portrait of her and her work through a vast number of biographies, we have chosen this entry from no less an authority than the “Oxford Companion to African American Literature,” compiled

by Rita B. Dandridge. We should also note that Meriwether is by no means as obscure as many of those discussed in this column but her recent death on Oct. 10 at 100 years old, prompts this response and hopefully serves as the paper’s obituary to this distinguished woman of letters.

Born in Haverstraw, New York on May 8, 1923, to Marion Lloyd Jenkins (a bricklayer) and Julie Jenkins (a housewife), “Meriwether grew up in Harlem during the depression,” Dandridge begins. “The only daughter of five children, she remembers her mother applying

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for welfare because her unemployed father could not sustain the family as a numbers runner.”

Meriwether’s educational background included a B.A. degree in English from New York University and an M.A. in journalism from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1965. She worked as a freelance reporter from 1961 to 1964 for the Los Angeles Sentinel, Dandridge continued, and “as a Black story analyst for Universal Studios.” She was on the faculty at

Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York and at the University of Houston.

While living in Los Angeles, she married Angelo Meriwether, and retained the name even after marrying the second time. “In the early 1960s,” Dandridge writes, “Meriwether published bio sketches of important African American figures: Grace Bumbry, singer; Audrey Boswell, attorney; Vaino Spencer, the first Black woman who secured a judgeship in Cali-

fornia; and Matthew Henson, explorer. Her short stories appeared later that same decade.” Then came a succession of young adult books on African American notables, including the Civil War hero Robert Smalls, the surgeon Daniel Hale Williams, and Rosa Parks.

Her first novel, “Daddy Was a Number Runner,” released in 1970, was not autobiographical but certainly dramatically captured her personal experiences during the decade that found her and her family struggling to survive amid economic despair. Here is an excerpt from the novel, from the perspective of main character Francine:. “[It] seemed like Harlem was nothing but one big garbage heap. And how crowded the streets were, people practically falling off the sidewalks, kids scrambling between your legs almost knocking you down. There was something black and evil in these streets and that something was in me, too.”

Mary Helen Washington in her collection “Black-eyed Susans: Classic Stories by and about Black Women,” situates Meriwether’s “Daddy Was a Number Runner” in the context of a “Black girl’s growing up period as essentially unprotected. Meriwether and other writers, Washington posits, “show the Black girl developing reliance and resilience in order to deal with the hostile forces around her, quite often assuming adulthood earlier than she should have to because of the external pressures around her.”

Another Meriwether novel, “Fragments of the Ark,” departs in time and circumstance as it follows the trials and tribulations of a young man’s escape from slavery, tracking closely to the actual adventures of Robert Smalls. Moreover, it was written in 1994, some years after her activist days in the Civil Rights Movement, and part of a contingent of artists challenging William Styron’s distortion of the life of Nat Turner.

“Whether in her writings or her militant tactics, Meriwether insists on revising American history to give African Americans a deserving respectable place in it,” Dandridge concludes.

FIND OUT MORE Any book claiming to have a definitive list of African American literature would be deficient without the inclusion of Meriwether.

DISCUSSION Rather than add more about her early years, the decision was to focus on her days in the literary circuit.

PLACE IN CONTEXT Born during the Harlem Renaissance and coming of age during the Great Depression, she lived the full expanse of the twentieth century with a telling impact.

THIS WEEK IN BLACK HISTORY Nov. 1, 1945: The first issue of Ebony magazine is published.

Nov. 2, 1983: Dr. King’s birthday becomes a national holiday.

Nov. 3, 1868: John W. Menard of Louisiana becomes the first African American elected to Congress.

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can’t provide for their families, have to turn to illegal activities to do so,” he continued.

Camille Joseph Varlack, chief of staff for the mayor, said that for the last year and a half the city has been managing the response and “doing a fairly exceptional job,” but that’s changing with the continued lack of support from the state and federal government.

“We have also been laser clear that we cannot continue to manage this crisis on our own and have been calling on the federal government for months if not over a year to create a federal decompression strategy so that this national crisis is not sitting on the back of a municipality,” said Varlack.

Another major issue discussed at the conference is that only a small percentage of migrants are reapplying for shelter stays after having to vacate, creating a simmering frustration among the newly arrived immigrant community and advocates.

Several housing and immigration groups traveled to Fort Lee, New Jersey last week to rally outside of Adams’ condo property. They advocated to keep the right to shelter law,

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“punitive” in nature and is the brainchild of the Center for Justice Innovation’s Driver Accountability Program, which enrolled mostly male Black and brown New Yorkers residing in Brooklyn and Staten Island. The model initiative argues that fines and incarceration don’t tackle the root causes of reckless driving and exacerbate socioeconomic and racial disparities already existing in the criminal justice legal system.

To be clear, citywide traffic accidents often occur in Black and brown neighborhoods with some of the lowest percentages of car ownership and higher rates of public transit use, according to Alexa Sledge, Transportation Alternatives associate director of communications. While there’s less data about who is behind the wheel in these communities, she said white New Yorkers boast higher rates of car ownership and self-report the highest rates of reckless driving behaviors, like speeding, and texting and calling while driving, to the Department of Mental Health and Hygiene in 2015.

“There’s all these neighborhoods where predominantly people of color are living, and they’re constantly being faced with traffic violence, serious injuries, and fatalities in these neighborhoods, even though they are not the people owning or driving cars,” said Sledge.

“We’re trying to get a lot of these reckless drivers off the streets to make these neighborhoods safer. Obviously, street design is the number one way to make your community and your neighborhood safer. But also having these repeated reckless drivers not behind the wheel or at least thinking more about their actions is also really important…ultimately, we see that

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that’s currently benefiting the influx of migrants, unchanged. The group also urged Adams to implement City Fighting Homelessness and Eviction Prevention Supplement (CityFHEPS) vouchers to get people out of shelters and into permanent housing, freeing up space for migrants.

“The mayor needs to stop transferring people from place to place and kicking them out and needs to provide people with shelter until they get housed. We all have a right to shelter and a right to housing. The city has been transferring homeless people and abusing them for years in shelters across the city. Now with the 30 and 60-day rules, the city is continuing that abuse and making it even worse for homeless immigrants,” said Dinick Martinez, leader with the Safety Net Activists, in a statement.

Martinez said that instead of risking an increase in homelessness, the city should use the new CityFHEPS laws and also move people into vacant city apartments in supportive housing, New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD), and Housing Connect buildings.

“Getting people into permanent housing must be the number one priority and solution to freeing up space in the city’s overburdened shelter system. Mayor Adams’ callous disregard for the experiences and hardships of unhoused people

is clear in his continued attacks on right-toshelter protections,” said Taina Wagnac, senior manager of state and local policy at New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC) in a statement.

Wagnac is adamant that the city can meet the housing needs of New Yorkers and new arrivals by prioritizing humane solutions to reduce homelessness.

Adams commented at the conference that “the City Council passed a law that anyone has the right to sleep on the streets” when asked about how the city is preparing to deal with more street homelessness.

He was referring to the four-bill package expanding the CityFHEPS voucher program that he “didn’t like” and tried to veto back in June of this year. His veto was overridden by a majority in City Council in July. The City Council created the legislative package mostly to counter Adams’ sweeps of homeless encampments across the city, that began in April, and his subsequent mental health initiatives that allowed emergency workers to involuntarily move unhoused on the streets with noted mental illness into medical facilities for care.

“I didn’t like that law because we were trying to make sure that we don’t have what we’re seeing in other cities of encampments all over the place,” said Adams, “The City Council said, no, anyone has the right to sleep on the streets. And

now that I say that, you know, some people may be sleeping on the streets, people are like saying, ‘oh, my God, what are you doing?’ Well, you just passed the law. You just passed a law that says anyone should have a right to sleep on the street and there’s nothing we can do about it.”

In response, an unnamed City Council spokesperson fired back in a statement saying that the mayor “inaccurately” framed the bill as allowing people to sleep outside unhoused.

“It’s unfortunate that the mayor would provide the public with bad information about a city law that is not true,” said the spokesperson. “This City Council passed a bill to provide information to people about their existing legal rights under city and state law—it provided no new rights, as was falsely stated, and the mayor allowed it to be enacted into law.”

The spokesperson said that Adams should focus on contingency plans to prevent an increase of people sleeping on city streets “rather than misleading the public.”

we really do need to use restorative justice to keep our streets safe, and just locking them all up is not the answer.”

Despite Lander’s recommendation to collaborate with the Center for Justice Innovation on DVAP, the DOT operates the program independently. The Department said contract efforts fell through after sustained attempts, due to the organization’s availability.

The Center for Justice Innovation provided a statement by senior director Amanda Berman, but declined further comment.

“At the Center for Justice Innovation, we work alongside communities and systems to advance safety in all forms, including on our streets,” Berman said. “It is critical to continue to invest in innovative approaches that center equity, accountability, and the need for positive behavior change in drivers so that our roads and neighborhoods are safer for all.”

The comptroller was also critical of the DOT’s rollout, which was hobbled by the COVID-19 pandemic. The City Council intended DVAP to cover 5,000 vehicles, but only 1,605 notices had been mailed as of this past March and more than 700 were ignored. Only 12 vehicles were impounded after 159 seizure warrants were issued as a result, 10 of which were returned after the drivers enrolled in and completed the program.

While the DOT acknowledges a verifiable drop in speeding violations by DVAP participants, the department points to a general decrease in such infractions among all city drivers, including among frequent offenders not enrolled in the program. Coinciding with the program’s rollout was the city’s speed camera expansion. The DOT believes both the course and the new surveillance contributed to a 55% decrease in speed violations among 88 DVAP enrollees. A “control group” of 30 other offend-

ers saw a 37% decrease in speed violations without any form of “educational” intervention.

The findings, which were published in an agency evaluation of DVAP, concluded that more punitive measures to remove programqualifying offenders from the road, like state legislation authorizing the DMV to suspend vehicle registrations, should be the priority, given the high cost of the course per participant.

“Our comprehensive evaluation of the Dangerous Vehicle Abatement Program, which included a rigorous analysis of the driving records of hundreds of participants, found that the program—while well intentioned—was ineffective at meaningfully reducing unsafe driving,” said DOT spokesperson Vincent Barone by email.

“We welcome the comptroller’s partnership in advocating for new state laws to get dangerous drivers off the road and plan to do other targeted driver education.”

Lander also advocated for city and state cooperation on addressing reckless driving, pointing out challenges DVAP faced due to

red light cameras identifying offending vehicles by license plates rather than by driver.

But he says non-punitive programs provide a first layer of prevention.

“We could have an escalating series of steps [where] reckless drivers get the opportunity to take a course and change their behavior,” said Lander. “If they don’t do that, [they] get a license suspended or a speed delimiter installed in their car, or their insurance goes up and ultimately their car is impounded. And all the while, data [would] be kept that helps us see what works to change driver behavior, and what works to identify and get the most reckless drivers off the road.

And what impact that has on saving lives.”

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Education NARCAN: CM, DOHMH battle opioid crisis one community class at a time

By ARIAMA C. LONG Amsterdam News Staff, Report for America Corps Member New York City’s opioid crisis has hit a decidedly concerning spike in recent years and an overall increase in racial inequities when it comes to overdose deaths. To combat this, the city’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) has deployed community health workers to educate hotspot communities and youth about administering narcan, or naloxone, in case of overdose emergencies.

According to city data, “2,608 people died of a drug overdose in the city in 2021, an increase of 78% since 2019 and 27% since 2020, with evident disparities by age, race, poverty level, and neigh-

borhood of residence.”

Opioids are defined by the state health department as prescription opioid pain relievers. This includes hydrocodone, oxycodone, fentanyl and morphine, as well as illegal opioids like heroin, fentanyl, and opium. The incredibly potent opioid fentanyl was found in 80% of those drug overdose deaths in 2021. Rates of overdose death were still highest among Black New Yorkers and Bronx residents in 2021, per city data.

Other neighborhoods with high overdose deaths include parts of central Brooklyn, Harlem, and Staten Island.

Councilmember Sandy Nurse collaborated with DOHMH health community workers Moya Dewar and Jermaine Walker to teach a free narcan community train-

A sample of narcan nasal spray. (Ariama C. Long photos)

ing to residents at a local store in Brooklyn this past Saturday.

“I’m very committed to making sure that as many people [as possible] understand how to use narcan and how to support people who might be going through something that’s potentially life threatening,” said Nurse.

In 2022, the city passed legislation to distribute naloxone kits in businesses and nightclubs, lead trainings in overdose reversals, give out over 32,000 fentanyl test strips, launch a drug-checking pilot program, and set up four public health vending machines in the city to support low-barrier access to naloxone and other health supplies. Nurse’s district has a vending machine on Decatur Street and Broadway.

Walker grew up in Harlem with

several family members who were and are living with substance abuse, she said. For her, the mission to save lives one class at a time is very personal.

“This is very important to me specifically. I have people that I care about that use,” said Walker.

“I don’t want my family members or loved ones called outside their names. And I don’t want the stigma of it.”

In their class, Walker and Dewar noted that the opioid uptick in the city occurred mostly due to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. “Everyone was in their home, locked up,” they said. “Feeling isolated and alone.”

The health workers reviewed the effects of opioids, pain relievers, and narcan nasal spray on the brain and body; risk factors for

habitual users; what to do in case of an overdose to prevent death or injury with the narcan spray; and how to contact help and report symptoms of a possible overdose to authorities or emergency services. Lastly, they handed out free narcan kits, fentanyl test strips, and a blue certificate for completing the class to attendees.

For more information visit nyc. gov/naloxone or nextdistro.org/ nycnaloxone to get a free kit.

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Councilmember Sandy Nurse at the narcan community training on Sat, October 28 at General Irving store in Brooklyn.

New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (NYC DOHMH) health community workers Moya Dewar (left) and Jermaine Walker (right) lead the narcan community training.

DOHMH health community worker Jermaine Walker, 53, speaks about the opioid crisis in the city.

A narcan community class in Brooklyn.

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Religion & Spirituality Podcast reassesses, remembers Sweet Daddy Grace

By KAREN JUANITA CARRILLO Amsterdam News Staff Why should you listen to the “Sweet Daddy Grace Podcast”?

Because it’s a record of history. Because it will open your mind to an understanding of Black migrant culture. Because you’ll learn about Cape Verde and its residents, and it will help you understand why they came to live in the United States. You’ll get to sneak a peek behind the curtains during the founding of an important 20th century Black church movement. And because you’ll have the chance to understand the church’s legendary founder, Bishop Charles Manuel “Sweet Daddy” Grace.

Bishop Grace was born Marcelino Manuel da Graça on the Cape Verdean Island of Brava. He traveled to the United States, like other Cape Verdeans, looking for temporary employment and had hoped to return to the African island nation. But Grace felt God was calling him to remain in the U.S., so he stayed and built a church.

With his United House of Prayer for All People (UHOP), Grace created a major Black church movement in the United States––a movement that remains vibrant to this day.

The “Sweet Daddy Grace Podcast” explains how the Cape Verdean Graça anglicized his name and became Grace. It explains the traditions he brought to the U.S., why he structured his church to have Catholic leanings, why music plays a big role in UHOP services, and why racial barriers that often restrained native-born African Americans living in mid 20th century America appeared arbitrary and unnecessary to Sweet Daddy Grace.

The podcast tells Grace’s story through the eyes of Marcy DePina, a Newark, New Jerseybased podcast producer who is also of Cape Verdean descent. Bishop Grace’s flamboyance and notoriety was something DePina grew up hearing about, but most of the Cape Verdeans she knew were mildly ashamed of Grace’s reputation. “My own story and my own family history is intertwined within his story, and he’s always been a figure in the background in my life,” DePina said.. “There was always this lingering question as to whether we were really related to him or not.

Because you know family members would whisper about it, but if us kids started asking questions, we were shooed away and told to mind our business, or they would start speaking in Creole so that we couldn’t understand.”

Yet DePina grew up determined to find out why there was so much of a mystery around Grace and his Cape Verdean ancestry. “So, I wanted to look at this from two perspectives: one his own life, but also my own life.

I wanted to look at how family history often times––especially when there’s a secret involved––can get buried with a person when

Sweet Daddy Grace was born Marcelino Manuel da Graça on the Cape Verdean Island of Brava.

DJ, radio host and podcast producer Marcy DePina created the “Sweet Daddy Grace Podcast.”

they go, and you might never know the truth.”

Cape Verdean embarrassment about Bishop Grace was partly tied to the way he was depicted in the public. His religiosity may have been a draw for thousands, but in the majority white press—and sometimes even in the Black press—Grace was portrayed as a charlatan.

UHOP’s financial success had allowed Bishop Grace to make substantial real estate acquisitions: at one point he was known as one of the richest Black men in America. When Grace died in January 1960, the Amsterdam News’ James Hicks wrote “The death of Daddy Grace brings down the curtain on one of the most colorful, religious careers American [sic] has ever known. His acquisition of such properties as the famous Castle at 2 Fairmount Avenue in the Annex at Bridgeport, Conn.; the fabulous El Dorado apartment at 300 Central Park West in New York; his walled manor in Cuba and other choice pieces of real estate in various parts of the world earned he and his followers the title of the wealthiest of religious groups in the nation bar none––and that includes the empire of Father Divine.”

But like Father Divine, Marcus Garvey, Noble Drew Ali, Detroit’s James F. Jones, and countless others, Sweet Daddy Grace was characterized in a way that made him a figure of shame and disdain.

“There was an air of mystery around them.

They were talking about radical concepts and very different ways of viewing the world. They were inspiring people to look at themselves from a different perspective and understand their intrinsic value and understand their power––which was radical at that time.

“I think that made them dangerous and I think, for most people living in America, being a Black person in America at that time was so dangerous and people just wanted to stay safe,” DePina said. “Figures like Daddy Grace, Noble Drew Ali, and Marcus Garvey,

who held different points of view and had different religious practices and different ideas about spirituality and about what it means to be a Black person. They were seen as dangerous… as subversive and anyone associating with somebody like that could get in trouble.”

The “Sweet Daddy Grace Podcast” is DePina’s attempt to draw another image of Bishop

Grace, one that shows his faults, his good deeds, and his philosophy of life. DePina wears many hats beyond being a podcaster.

She’s also a DJ and radio host, executive director at the Newark City Parks Foundation, Inc., a music curator at the Newark Museum of Art, president of the board of directors at Newark Arts, and founder of FORSA! Media Group LLC. Piecing together Bishop Grace’s life story helped DePina understand the rich trajectory of her own life’s work.

“I’m a DJ and one of the biggest things for me is about raising frequency through sound.

It’s what I love to do: I love seeing people rejoice and feel those moments of just sheer joy when they’re dancing and they’re enjoying the music or they’re singing along. I had this moment [while deejaying]…where I was just like wow, I kind of feel like I get it, I feel a little bit like Daddy Grace. I’m spreading my own joy, I’m on my own spiritual mission of helping other people but through music. As I was watching people go into a state of trance and shouting and dancing in the congregation at the House of Prayer, I felt that really deep connection in knowing that I was on the right path in telling this story. [C]ertainly this podcast is part of his legacy, but it’s also part of mine.”

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‫ئجا ے‬ ‫تعی ے ے‬ ‫جا ے‬ ‫تعی ر‬ ‫بات کا ر‬ ‫ئگا۔‬ ‫گا۔‬ ‫لیا لیا‬ ‫جائزہ‬ ‫جائزہ‬ ‫درخواستوں کا‬ ‫درخواستوں کا‬ ‫کنکن‬ ‫لی لی‬ ‫ےک ےک‬ ‫داری‬ ‫داری‬ ‫ایہرایہ‬ ‫کہر ک‬ ‫کہ ک‬ ‫ہ ےہ‬ ‫کرت‬ ‫بات کا‬ ‫اساس‬ ‫الٹری‬ ‫الٹری‬ ‫کرت ے‬

‫אידיש‬ ‫(אידיש‬Hebrew) (Hebrew)

َ ‫الع َر‬ َ (Arabic) (Arabic) ‫الع ِ َبر ِب‬

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‫אוועילעבל‬ ‫אוועילעבל‬ ‫איזאיז‬ ‫האוזינג‬ ‫האוזינג‬ ‫צוגענגליכע‬ ‫צוגענגליכע‬

‫التكلفة‬ ‫التكلفة‬ ‫ميسور‬ ‫ميسور‬ ‫السكن‬ ‫السكن‬ ‫يتوفر‬ ‫يتوفر‬

November November 16,16, 2023 2023 :‫דאטום‬ :‫דאטום‬ ‫דיודיו‬ ‫אפליקאציע‬ ‫אפליקאציע‬ November November 16,16, 2023 2023 :‫التقديم‬ :‫التقديم‬ ‫لطلب‬ ‫لطلب‬ ‫التاريخ ُمحالد ُمَّدحدَّد‬ ‫التاريخ ال‬ ,‫פאסט‬ ,‫פאסט‬ ‫דורך די‬ ‫דורך די‬ ‫געשיקט‬ ‫געשיקט‬ ‫ווערט‬ ‫ווערט‬ ‫עס עס‬ ‫אויב‬ ‫אויב‬ ‫אדער‬ ‫אדער‬ ,‫אנליין‬ ,‫אנליין‬ ‫אריינגעגעבן‬ ‫אריינגעגעבן‬ ‫ווערן‬ ‫ווערן‬ ‫بحلول מוזמוז‬ ‫بحلول‬ ‫البريد‬ ‫البريد‬ ‫ختمختم‬ ‫يتم يتم‬ ،‫العادي‬ ،‫العادي‬ ‫بالبريد‬ ‫بالبريد‬ ‫إرساله‬ ‫إرساله‬ ‫حالةحالة‬ ‫وفيوفي‬ ،‫اإلنترنت‬ ،‫اإلنترنت‬ ‫عبرعبر‬ ‫تقديمه‬ ‫تقديمه‬ ‫يتم يتم‬ ‫أن أن‬ ‫يجب‬ ‫يجب‬ ‫אייך‬ ‫אייך‬ ‫עס עס‬ ‫קעןקען‬ ‫אפליקאציע‬ ‫אפליקאציע‬ 1 ‫פון‬ 1 ‫פון‬ ‫מערמער‬ ‫שיקט‬ ‫שיקט‬ ‫איראיר‬ ‫אויב‬ ‫אויב‬ .‫דאטום‬ .‫דאטום‬ ‫דעםדעם‬ ‫ביזביז‬ ‫געפאסטמארק'ד‬ ‫געפאסטמארק'ד‬ .‫أهليتك‬ .‫أهليتك‬ ‫إلغاءإلغاء‬ ‫إلىإلى‬ ‫واحد‬ ‫واحد‬ ‫تقديمتقديم‬ ‫طلب‬ ‫طلب‬ ‫من من‬ ‫ألكثر‬ ‫ألكثر‬ ‫إرسالك‬ ‫إرسالك‬ ‫يؤدي‬ ‫يؤدي‬ ‫ قد‬.‫التاريخ‬ ‫ قد‬.‫التاريخ‬ ‫هذاهذا‬ .‫דיסקוואליפיצירן‬ .‫דיסקוואליפיצירן‬ :‫التقديم‬ :‫التقديم‬ ‫طلبطلب‬ ‫علىعلى‬ ‫للحصول‬ ‫للحصول‬ info@kearneyrealtygroup.com ,:‫אפליקאציע‬ ‫באקומען‬ info@kearneyrealtygroup.com ,:‫אפליקאציע‬ ‫די די‬ ‫באקומען‬ ‫צו צו‬ 845845 -306 -306 -7705 -7705 kearneyrealtygroup kearneyrealtygroup .com .com :‫اإللكتروني‬ :‫اإللكتروني‬ ‫البريد‬ ‫البريد‬ ‫الهاتف أو‬ ‫الهاتف أو‬ ‫عبرعبر‬ :‫אימעיל‬ ‫אדער‬ ‫טעלעפאן‬ ‫דורך די‬ 845845 -306 -306 -7705 -7705 kearneyrealtygroup kearneyrealtygroup .com .com :‫אימעיל‬ ‫אדער‬ ‫טעלעפאן‬ ‫ דורך די‬Kearney Kearney Relaty Relaty Group Group 57 57 USUS 6 Su 6 ite Suite 207207 :‫شخصي‬ :‫شخصي‬ ‫بشك ٍل‬ ‫بشك ٍل‬ ‫العادي أو‬ ‫العادي أو‬ ‫البريد‬ ‫البريد‬ ‫عبرعبر‬ Baldwin Baldwin Place, Place, NYNY 10505 10505 Kearney Kearney Realty Realty Group Group 5757 USUS 6 Suite 6 Suite 207 207 :‫פערזענליך‬ :‫פערזענליך‬ ‫אדער‬ ‫אדער‬ ‫פאסט‬ ‫פאסט‬ ‫דורך די‬ ‫דורך די‬ ‫فيه فيه‬ ‫للسكن‬ ‫للسكن‬ ‫التقديم‬ ‫التقديم‬ ‫تريدتريد‬ ‫الذيالذي‬ ‫المبنى‬ ‫المبنى‬ ‫وعنوان‬ ‫وعنوان‬ ‫عنوانك‬ ‫عنوانك‬ ‫تضمين‬ ‫تضمين‬ ‫عليك‬ ‫عليك‬ Baldin Baldin Place, Place, NYNY 10505 10505 November 30,30, 2023, 2023, at 11 at 11 amam at 57 at 57 Rt.Rt. 6, Suite 6, Suite :‫ومكانها‬ :‫ومكانها‬ ‫القرعة‬ ‫القرعة‬ ‫انعقاد‬ ‫انعقاد‬ ‫تاريخ‬ ‫تاريخ‬ ‫איינגעבן‬ ‫איינגעבן‬ ‫זיךזיך‬ ‫ווילט‬ ‫ווילט‬ ‫איראיר‬ ‫וואווא‬ ‫געביידע‬ ‫געביידע‬ ‫פון די‬ ‫פון די‬ ‫אדרעס‬ ‫אדרעס‬ ‫און די‬ ‫און די‬ ‫אדרעס‬ ‫אדרעס‬ ‫אייער‬ ‫אייער‬ ‫אריין‬ ‫אריין‬ ‫רעכנט‬ ‫ רעכנט‬November 207, 207, Baldwin Baldwin Place, Place, NY.NY. Link Link to to livestream livestream Will Will be be poste poste don don November November 30,30, 2023, 2023, at 11 at 11 amam at 57 at 57 Rt.Rt. 6, Suite 6, Suite 207, 207,‫לאקאציע‬ ‫לאקאציע‬ ‫אוןאון‬ ‫דאטום‬ ‫דאטום‬ Baldwin Place, NY.NY. Link to to livestream Will be be poste don Baldwin Place, Link livestream Will poste don www.TheHamletAtCarmel.com forfor those who wish to to attend thisthis lottery www.TheHamletAtCarmel.com those who wish attend lottery virtually. virtually.

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Per l'applicazione: November November30, 30,2023 2023 Per ottenere ottenere l'applicazione: Per o e-mail: e-mail: 845-306-7705 845-306-7705kearneyrealtygroup.com kearneyrealtygroup.com Per telefono telefono o Per persona: Kearney KearneyRealty RealtyGroup Group57 57usus6 6suite suite207 207Baldwin Baldwin Per posta posta o o di di persona:

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Срок Срок подачи подачи заявления: заявления: November November 16,16, 2023 2023 আবেদন আবেদনজমাজমাদদওয়ার দদওয়ারদেষদেষতাররখ তাররখ November November 16,16, 2023 2023 Заявление Заявление должна должна быть быть подана подана онлайн онлайн илиили попо почте почте к этой к этой дате. дате. Отправка Отправка এইএইতাররবখর তাররবখরমবযে মবযেঅে​ে​েই অে​ে​েইঅনলাইবন অনলাইবনঅথো অথোদমল-এর দমল-এরমাযেবম মাযেবমজমাজমারদবত রদবতহবে। হবে।1 এর 1 এর более более 1 заявления 1 заявления может может дисквалифицировать дисквалифицировать вас. вас. অরযক অরযকআবেদন আবেদনজমাজমাকরবল করবলআপনাবক আপনাবকঅব অবাগ্োগ্েরহবেবে রহবেবেযবরযবরদনওয়া দনওয়াহবে। হবে। ГдеГде получить получить бланк бланк заявления заявления Онлайн: Онлайн: info@kearneyrealtygroup.com info@kearneyrealtygroup.com আরও তথ্য পাওয়ার জন্য অনলাইন: info@kearneyrealtygroup.com আরও তথ্য পাওয়ার জন্য অনলাইন: info@kearneyrealtygroup.com ПоПо телефону телефону или или электронной электронной почте: почте: 845-306-7705 845-306-7705 দ ান দ ানঅথো অথোইবমবলর ইবমবলরমাযেবম: মাযেবম: 845-306-7705 845-306-7705 info@kearneyrealtygroup.com info@kearneyrealtygroup.com info@kearneyrealtygroup.com info@kearneyrealtygroup.com একজন Kearney Realty Group 57 57 us us 6 suite 207207 ПоПо একজনে​েরির ে​েরিরঅথো অথোদমল-এর দমল-এরমাযেবম মাযেবম Kearney Realty Group 6 suite почте почте илиили лично: лично: Kearney Kearney Realty Realty Group Group 57 57 us us 6 suite 6 suite 207207 Baldwin Baldwin Place, Place, Baldwin Place, NYNY 10505 Baldwin Place, 10505 NYNY 10505 10505 আপরন আপরনদ খাবন দ খাবনআবেদন আবেদনকরবত করবতচানচানদেখানকার দেখানকারঠিকানা ঠিকানাএেংএেংআপনার আপনাররেরডংবয়র রেরডংবয়র Включите Включите ваш ваш адрес адрес и адрес и адрес здания, здания, на на которое которое вывы хотите хотите подать подать ঠিকানা ঠিকানাঅন্তর্ভ অন্তর্ভ ু ি ু িকরুন। করুন। заявку. заявку. Дата и место и место проведения проведения лотереи: лотереи: November November 30,30, 2023, 2023, at 11 at 11 amam at 57 at 57 Rt.Rt. লটাররর তাররখ এবং অবস্থান্: November 30,30, 2023, at 11 amam at 57 Rt.Rt. 6, Suite লটাররর তাররখ এবং অবস্থান্: November 2023, at 11 at 57 6, Suite Дата 6, Suite 6, Suite 207, 207, Baldwin Baldwin Place, Place, NY.NY. Link Link to to livestream livestream Will Will be be poste poste don don 207, Baldwin Place, NY.NY. Link to to livestream Will be be poste don 207, Baldwin Place, Link livestream Will poste don www.TheHamletAtCarmel.com www.TheHamletAtCarmel.com forfor those those who who wish wish to to attend attend thisthis lottery lottery www.TheHamletAtCarmel.com those who wish attend lottery www.TheHamletAtCarmel.com forfor those who wish to to attend thisthis lottery virtually. virtually. virtually. virtually. Лотерея Лотерея определит, определит, какие какие заявки заявки будут будут рассмотрены рассмотрены на на предмет предмет লটাররর ারণারণকরাকরাহবেহবেদ দ দকান লটারররমাযেবম মাযেবমরনযুরনযু দকানঅোরিবকেনগুবলা অোরিবকেনগুবলার্াডাবটর র্াডাবটরজনেজনে аренды. аренды. প পুাবলাচনা ুাবলাচনাকরাকরাহবে। হবে।

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‫لع َر ِب‬ Date limite(Hebrew) de dépôt des demandes: November 16, 2023 ‫אידיש‬ ‫الع َر ِب‬ À‫אידיש‬ soumettre en ligne ou, si envoyée par courrier,‫איז‬ doit porter‫צוגענגליכע‬ un (Hebrew) ‫אוועילעבל‬ ‫האוזינג‬ cachet de la poste ne dépassant pas ‫אוועילעבל‬ la date Vous pourriez November 16, limite.

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आवेदन िरने िी अंततम ततथि: 18 मई, 2023

ऑनलाइन सबमिट करने के मलए या, यदि िेल द्वारा भेजा जाता है, तो सिय सीिा से बाि िें पोस्टिाकक ककया जाना चादहए। यदि आप एक से

अधिक आवेिन जिा करते हैं तो आपको अयोग्य घोषित ककया जा सकता है।

आवेदन िरने िे ललए: November 16, 2023

ऑनलाइन: info@kearneyrealtygroup.com फोन या ईिेल द्वारा:

845-306-7705 coppercitylofts@gmail.comिेल द्वारा या व्यक्ततगत रूप

से

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32 • November 2, 2023 - November 8, 2023

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Supplemental Summons and Notice of Object of Action Supreme Court Of The State Of New York County Of New York Action to Foreclose a Mortgage Index #: 850197/2022 Mortgage Assets Management, LLC Plaintiff, vs Bonnie Wiener As Heir To The Estate Of Linda Orlin, Unknown Heirs Of Linda Orlin If Living, And If He/She Be Dead, Any And All Persons Unknown To Plaintiff, Claiming, Or Who May Claim To Have An Interest In, Or General Or Specific Lien Upon The Real Property Described In This Action; Such Unknown Persons Being Herein Generally Described And Intended To Be Included In Wife, Widow, Husband, Widower, Heirs At Law, Next Of Kin, Descendants, Executors, Administrators, Devisees, Legatees, Creditors, Trustees, Committees, Lienors, And Assignees Of Such Deceased, Any And All Persons Deriving Interest In Or Lien Upon, Or Title To Said Real Property By, Through Or Under Them, Or Either Of Them, And Their Respective Wives, Widows, Husbands, Widowers, Heirs At Law, Next Of Kin, Descendants, Executors, Administrators, Devisees, Legatees, Creditors, Trustees, Committees, Lienors, And Assigns, All Of Whom And Whose Names, Except As Stated, Are Unknown To Plaintiff, United States Of America Acting Through The Secretary Of Housing And Urban Development, United States Of America Acting Through The IRS, People Of The State Of New York, The Board Of Managers Of 220 East 60th Street Condominium, City Register Of The City Of New York, County Of New York “John Doe #1” Through “John Doe #12,” The Last Twelve Names Being Fictitious And Unknown To Plaintiff, The Persons Or Parties Intended Being The Tenants, Occupants, Persons Or Corporations, If Any, Having Or Claiming An Interest In Or Lien Upon The Subject Property Described In The Complaint, Defendant(s). Mortgaged Premises: 220 East 60th Street Unit 5M New York, NY 10022 To the Above named Defendant: You are hereby summoned to answer the Complaint in this action, and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the Complaint is not served with this Supplemental Summons, to serve a notice of appearance, on the Plaintiff(s) attorney(s) within twenty days after the service of this Supplemental Summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within 30 days after the service is complete if this Supplemental Summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York). In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. The Attorney for Plaintiff has an office for business in the County of Erie. Trial to be held in the County of New York. The basis of the venue designated above is the location of the Mortgaged Premises. TO Unknown Heirs of Linda Orlin Defendant In this Action. The foregoing Supplemental Summons is served upon you by publication, pursuant to an order of HON. Francis A Kahn of the Supreme Court Of The State Of New York, dated the Twenty-Eighth day of September, 2023 and filed with the Complaint in the Office of the Clerk of the County of New York, in the City of New York. The object of this action is to foreclose a mortgage upon the premises described below, dated November 21, 2008, executed by Linda Orlin (who died on October 31, 2019, a resident of the county of New York, State of New York) to secure the sum of $625,500.00. The Mortgage was recorded at CRFN 2008000487819 in the City Register of the City of New York, New York County on December 26, 2008. The mortgage was subsequently assigned by an assignment executed November 14, 2012 and recorded on November 27, 2012, in the City Register of the City of New York, New York County at CRFN 2012000464586. The mortgage was subsequently assigned by an assignment executed August 8, 2022 and recorded on August 26, 2022, in the City Register of the City of New York, New York County at CRFN 2022000335785; The property in question is described as follows: 220 East 60th Street Unit 5M, New York, NY 10022 NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property.

Sending a payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. DATED: October 9, 2023 Gross Polowy LLC Attorney(s) For Plaintiff(s) 1775 Wehrle Drive, Suite 100 Williamsville, NY 14221 The law firm of Gross Polowy, LLC and the attorneys whom it employs are debt collectors who are attempting to collect a debt. Any information obtained by them will be used for that purpose. 78222

SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF New York, Emigrant Funding Corporation, Plaintiff, vs.

Hershey chan Realty, Inc., ET AL., Defendant(s).

Pursuant to an Amended Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale and Decision + Order on Motion duly entered on July 14, 2023 , I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the portico of the New York County Courthouse, 60 Centre Street, New York, NY 10007 on December 6, 2023 at 2:15 p.m., premises known as 44 Bowery, New York, NY 10013.

All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Manhattan, County, City and State of New York, Block 202 and Lot 28.

Approximate amount of judgment is $4,103,570.52 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 850215/2021. COVID-19 safety protocols will be followed at the foreclosure sale.

Scott H. Siller, Esq., Referee Borchert & LaSpina, P.C., 19-02 Whitestone Expressway, Suite 302, Whitestone, New York 11357, Attorneys for Plaintiff

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NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT NEW YORK COUNTY JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, Plaintiff against NERA PROPERTY HOLDING LLC, et al Defendant(s) Attorney for Plaintiff(s) Parker Ibrahim & Berg LLP, 5 Penn Plaza, Suite 2371, New York, NY 10001. Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered June 3, 2022, and Amended on June 30, 2022 I will sell at public auction to the highest bidder at Room 130 at the Supreme Court, New York County, 60 Centre Street, New York, New York on November 15, 2023 at 2:15 PM. Premises known as 531 West 162nd Street, New York, NY 10032.

Block 2122 Lot 13. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Manhattan, County of New York, City and State of New York. Approximate Amount of Judgment is $829,409.72 plus interest, fees, and costs.

Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index No 850232/2018. The foreclosure sale will be conducted in accordance with 1st Judicial District's Covid-19 Policies and foreclosure auction rules. The Referee shall enforce any rules in place regarding facial coverings and social distancing. Referee will only accept a certified bank check made payable to the referee. Elaine Shay, Esq., Referee File # 850232/2018

Notice of Formation of COMMONWEALTH PIER F&B LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/05/23. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: 853 Broadway, 17th Fl., NY, NY 10003. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to c/o Union Square Hospitality Group at the princ. office of the LLC. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION of limited liability company (LLC).

Name: MEKBROS, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/19/2023. Office location: New York Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and address SSNY shall mail a copy of process is 39 W. 14th Street, New York, NY 10011. Purpose: any lawful purpose.

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HIDDEN BRIDGES NYC, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 09/05/2023. Office: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served & shall mail to: 515 E 88th St, Apt 3H, NY, NY 10128.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

MTA REAL ESTATE (MTA RE) Request for Proposals RFP No. BWHD102523: Lease of Metro-North’s Hartsdale Station Building, Hartsdale, New York. For info on this RFP, please go to https://new.mta. info/agency/real-estate/

SUMMONS Index No. 850268/2023 STATE OF NEW YORK SUPREME COURT – COUNTY OF NEW YORK U.S. BANK NA, AS TRUSTEE, FOR THE CHASE MORTGAGE FINANCE CORPORATION MULTICLASS MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006-S1 Plaintiff, -vs- THE HEIRS AT LARGE OF BALKRISHENA KAUL, deceased, and all persons who are spouses, widows, grantees, mortgagees, lienors, heirs, devisees, distributees, successors in interest of such of them as may be dead, and their husbands and wives, heirs, devisees, distributees and successors of interest of all of whom and whose names and places are unknown to Plaintiff; SARITA KAUL A/K/A SARITKA S. KAUL; PRASHANT KAUL; AKASH KAUL; ASHEESH KAUL; BOARD OF MANAGERS OF 555W23 CONDOMINIUM; JOHN DOE, individual who refused to provide their name; JANE DOE, individual who refused to provide their name; Defendants. Mortgaged Premises: 555 West 23rd Street, Unit S12L, New York, NY 10011 TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANT(S): YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in the above entitled action and to serve a copy of your Answer on the plaintiff’s attorney within twenty (20) days of the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service, or within thirty (30) days after service of the same is complete where service is made in any manner other than by personal delivery within the State. The United States of America, if designated as a defendant in this action, may answer or appear within sixty (60) days of service hereof. Your failure to appear or answer will result in a judgment against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. In the event that a deficiency balance remains from the sale proceeds, a judgment may be entered against you, unless the Defendant obtained a bankruptcy discharge and such other or further relief as may be just and equitable. NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer to the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property. Sending payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. NEW YORK County is designated as the place of trial. The basis of venue is the location of the mortgaged premises. Dated: April 5, 2023 Mark K. Broyles, Esq. FEIN SUCH & CRANE, LLP Attorneys for Plaintiff Office and P.O. Address 28 East Main Street, Suite 1800 Rochester, New York 14614 Telephone No. (585) 232-7400 Block: 695 Lot: 1602 NATURE AND OBJECT OF ACTION The object of the above action is to foreclose a mortgage held by the Plaintiff recorded in the County of NEW YORK, State of New York as more particularly described in the Complaint herein. TO THE DEFENDANT, the plaintiff makes no personal claim against you in this action. To the above named defendants: The foregoing summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an order of HON. FRANCIS A. KAHN, III Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, dated September 27, 2023 and filed along with the supporting papers in the NEW YORK County Clerk’s Office. This is an action to foreclose a Mortgage. Parcel 1 ALL that certain plot, piece or parcel of land together with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the County, City and State of New York Parcel 2 ALL that certain plot, piece or parcel of land together with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the County, City and State of New York Parcel 3 ALL that certain plot, piece or parcel of land together with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the County, City and State of New York Parcel 4 ALL that certain plot, piece or parcel of land together with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the County, City and State of New York Mortgaged Premises: 555 West 23rd Street, Unit S12L, New York, NY 10011 Tax Map/Parcel ID No.: Block: 695 Lot: 1602 of the Borough of Manhattan, NY 10011 78130 Notice is hereby given that a License number 1346097 for liquor, wine, beer and cider has been applied for by the undersigned to sell liquor, wine, beer and cider at retail in a restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 600 West 218th Street, New York, NY 10034 for on premise consumption. Inwood Farms, LLC.

The Paull Group LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 08/21/2023. Office: NY County.

SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served & shall mail copy to: 301 E. 81st St., NY, NY 10028. R/A: U.S. Corp.

Agents, Inc., 7014 13th Ave. #202, Bklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF NEW YORK FREEDOM MORTGAGE CORPORATION, Plaintiff AGAINST FARHAD M. BOUKANI, ET AL., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly entered December 19, 2022, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the New York County Courthouse in Room 130, located at 60 Centre Street, New York, NY on November 22, 2023 at 2:15PM, premises known as 467 WEST CENTRAL PARK, UNIT NO. 1D, NEW YORK, NY 10025. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Manhattan, County, City and State of New York, Block 1842, Lot 1003. Approximate amount of judgment $332,718.76 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index #850053/2019. The aforementioned auction will be conducted in accordance with the NEW YORK County COVID-19 mitigation protocols and as such all persons must comply with social distancing, wearing masks and screening practices in effect at the time of this foreclosure sale.

Roberta Ashkin, Esq., Referee Gross Polowy, LLC 1775 Wehrle Drive Williamsville, NY 14221 18-003391 77790

NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT - COUNTY OF NEW YORK HNY CLUB SUITES OWNERS ASSOCIATION INC., BY AND THROUGH ITS BOARD OF DIRECTORS, Plaintiff -against- ELIZABETH FERRER, et al Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale dated June 27, 2023 and entered on July 3, 2023, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction in Room 130 of the New York County Courthouse, 60 Centre Street New York, NY on November 29, 2023 at 2:15 p.m. premises being an undivided ownership interest as tenant-in-common with other owners in the Timeshare Unit in the building located at 1335 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY; known as The NYH Condominium. Together with an appurtenant undivided 0.0381% in common interest percentage. This a foreclosure on ownership interest in a timeshare unit, a studio penthouse on a floating use basis every year, in accordance with and subject to declarations.

Declaration of Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions dated October 27, 2003 and November 3, 2003 as CFRN # 2003000442513 as recorded in the Office of the City Register, County, City and State of New York. The Timeshare Unit is also designated as Block 1006 and Lot 1302. Said premises known as 1335 AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS, NEW YORK, NY. Approximate amount of lien $19,155.50 plus interest & costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment and Terms of Sale. Index Number 850084/2019. ELAINE SHAY, ESQ., Referee. DRUCKMAN LAW GROUP PLLC, Attorney(s) for Plaintiff, 242 Drexel Avenue, Westbury, NY 11590

SUMMONS IN TAX LIEN FORECLOSURE–SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, COUNTY OF NEW YORK – NYCTL 2021A TRUST AND THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON AS COLLATERAL AGENT AND CUSTODIAN FOR THE NYCTL 2021-A TRUST, Plaintiffs, against TAHIR, et. al., Defendants. Index No. 158819/2022.

To the above named Defendants –YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the complaint in this action within twenty days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service or within thirty days after service is completed if the summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York. In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint. Plaintiffs designate New York County as the place of trial. Venue is based upon the county in which the property a lien upon which is being foreclosed is situated. The foregoing summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an order of the Hon. Francis A. Kahn III, J.S.C., dated October 11, 2023. The object of this action is to foreclose a New York City Tax Lien covering the premises located at Block 1010 Lot 1637 on the Tax Map of New York County and is also known 157 West 57th Street, Unit 46B, New York, New York.

Dated: October 18, 2023 BRONSTER LLP, Attorney for Plaintiffs, NYCTL 2021-A TRUST AND THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON AS COLLATERAL AGENT AND CUSTODIAN FOR THE NYCTL 2021-A TRUST, By: Josef F. Abt, Esq. 156 West 56th Street, New York, NY 10019 (347) 246-4776

NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT - COUNTY OF NEW YORK HILTON RESORTS CORPORATION, Plaintiff -against- AYODELE ANIMASHAUN, ABISOLA AYOANIMASHAUN, et al Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale dated June 27, 2023 and entered on June 29, 2023, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction in Room 130 of the New York County Courthouse, 60 Centre Street New York, NY on November 22, 2023 at 2:15 p.m. premises situate, lying and being in the Borough of Manhattan, County of New York, City and State of New York, being an undivided ownership interest as tenant-in-common with other owners in the Timeshare Unit in the building located at 1335 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY; known as The NYH Condominium. Together with an appurtenant undivided 3.1810% common interest percentage. This a foreclosure on ownership interest in a timeshare unit, a studio penthouse on a floating use basis every year, in accordance with and subject to declarations. Declaration of Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions dated October 27, 2003 and November 3, 2003 as CFRN # 2003000442513 as recorded in the Office of the City Register, County, City and State of New York. The Timeshare Unit is also designated as Block 1006 and Lot 1302. Said premises known as 1335 AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS, NEW YORK, NY. Approximate amount of lien $86,295.18 plus interest & costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment and Terms of Sale. Index Number 850110/2020. SCOTT H. SILLER, ESQ., Referee, DRUCKMAN LAW GROUP PLLC Attorney(s) for Plaintiff, 242 Drexel Avenue, Westbury, NY 11590

SUPREME COURT - COUNTY OF NEW YORK AVANT CAPITAL 52 EAST 64TH STREET LLC, Plaintiff -against- 52 EAST 64TH STREET LLC., et al Defendant(s). Pursuant to the Consent Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale dated June 16, 2023 and entered on June 20, 2023, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction in Room 130 of the New York County Courthouse, 60 Centre Street New York, NY on November 22, 2023 at 2:15 p.m. premises situate, lying and being in the Borough of Manhattan, County of New York, City and State of New York; known and designated as Block 1378 Lot 41. Said premises known as 52 EAST 64TH STREET, NEW YORK, NY. Approximate amount of lien $17,978,720.88 plus interest & costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment and Terms of Sale.

Index Number 850134/2020.

SCOTT SILLER, ESQ., Referee KRISS & FEUERSTEIN LLP Attorney(s) for Plaintiff 360 Lexington Avenue, Suite 1200, New York, NY 10017 Notice of Qualification of HABYT PROPERTIES US LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/12/23. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 05/17/23. Princ. office of LLC: 335 Madison Ave., Ste. 6F-2, NY, NY 10017.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: 850 New Burton Rd., Ste. 201, Dover, DE 19904.

Cert. of Form. filed with Jeffrey W. Bullock, Secy. of State of the State of DE, Dover Office, 401 Federal St., Ste. 3, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Supreme Court - New York County - Hilton Resorts Corp., Pltf. v. Jean B. Dubois and Marie H. Dubois, Defts. Index # 850087/2021. The foregoing supplemental summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an Order of the Honorable FRANCIS KAHN, III, Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, County of New York, dated the 27th day of September 2023 and duly entered the 28th day of September 2023 in the office of the Clerk of the County of New York, State of New York. Cruser, Mitchell, Novitz, Sanchez, Gaston, & Zimet LLP, Attys. for Pltf., 341 Conklin Street, Farmingdale, NY, 5165868513.

TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANTS: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the Complaint is not served with this Summons, to serve a notice of appearance, on the Plaintiff's attorney, within twenty (20) days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within thirty (30) days after completion of service where service is made in any other manner than by personal delivery within the State) In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT THE OBJECT of the above captioned action is for the foreclosure of: An undivided 10,000/16,783,800 tenants in common interest in Phase 2 of HNY Club Suites located at 1335 Avenue of the Americas NY, NY. Section: 4 Block: 1006 Lot: 1303. Mortgage bearing the date of April 4, 2015, executed by Jean B. Dubois and Marie H. Dubois to Hilton Resorts Corporation, a Delaware Corporation, to secure the sum of $71,257.12, and interest and recorded in the Office of the Clerk of New York County on September 25, 2015 in CRFN: 2015000342332. The relief sought in the within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the Mortgaged Premises as described above to satisfy the debt secured by the Mortgage described above. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT - COUNTY OF NEW YORK HILTON RESORTS CORPORATION, Plaintiff -against- JOHN M. DAGNON, PATRICIA DAGNON, et al Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale dated January 27, 2023 and entered on January 29, 2023, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction in Room 130 of the New York County Courthouse, 60 Centre Street New York, NY on November 22, 2023 at 2:15 p.m. premises situate, lying and being in the Borough of Manhattan, County of New York, City and State of New York, being an undivided ownership interest as tenantin-common with other owners in the Timeshare Unit in the building located at 1335 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY; known as The NYH Condominium. Together with an appurtenant undivided 1.4182% common interest percentage. This a foreclosure on ownership interest in a timeshare unit HU2, a studio penthouse on a floating use basis every year, in accordance with and subject to declarations. Declaration of Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions dated October 27, 2003 and November 3, 2003 as CFRN # 2003000442513 as recorded in the Office of the City Register, County, City and State of New York. The Timeshare Unit is also designated as Block 1006 and Lot 1303. Said premises known as 1335 AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS, UNIT HU2, NEW YORK, NY. Approximate amount of lien $72,457.30 plus interest & costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment and Terms of Sale. Index Number 850033/2017. SCOTT H. SILLER, ESQ., Referee, DRUCKMAN LAW GROUP PLLC, Attorney(s) for Plaintiff, 242 Drexel Avenue, Westbury, NY 11590 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF New York ADR LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/27/23.

Office location: NEW YORK County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to Fensterstock, P.C., 200 Vesey Street, 24th Fl., NY, NY 10281. Principal business address of the LLC is 200 Vesey Street, 24th Fl., NY, NY 10281.

Purpose(s): any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of BRODSKY FLATIRON LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/11/23. Office location: NY County. Princ. office of LLC: The Brodsky Organization, Attn: J. Dean Amro, 400 W. 59th St., NY, NY 10019. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. office. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF NEW YORK Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., Plaintiff AGAINST Gerarda Ragone a/k/a Gerarda Anna Ragone, Individually and as Trustee of the Ragone Living Trust; et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly entered June 21, 2023 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the New York County Courthouse in Room 130, located at 60 Centre St, New York, NY 10007 on December 6, 2023 at 2:15PM, premises known as 415 East 37th Street Unit 14K, New York, NY 10016. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Manhattan, County, City and State of New York, Block 969 Lot 1114. Approximate amount of judgment $75,165.09 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index# 850017/2018. The auction will be conducted pursuant to the COVID-19 Policies Concerning Public Auctions of Foreclosed Property established by the First Judicial District. Allison Furman, Esq., Referee LOGS Legal Group LLP f/k/a Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, LLC Attorney(s) for the Plaintiff 175 Mile Crossing Boulevard Rochester, New York 14624 (877) 4304792 Dated: October 19, 2023 76999

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NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF New York, Board of Managers of 207-209 East 120th Street Condominium, Plaintiff, vs. Kwame Leslie Dougan, Defendant(s).

Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale and Decision + Order on Motion duly entered on April 5, 2022, a Decision + Order on Motion duly entered on June 26, 2023 and an Order duly entered on October 13, 2023, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction on the portico of the New York County Courthouse, 60 Centre Street, New York, NY on December 6, 2023 at 2:15 p.m., premises known as 207 East 120th Street, Unit 1F, New York, NY 10035 a/k/a 207-209 East 120th Street, Unit 1F, New York, NY 10035. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Manhattan, County, City and State of New York, Block 1785 and Lot 1001 together with an undivided 10.2363 percent interest in the Common Elements. Approximate amount of judgment is $37,331.07 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index #158033/2019. COVID-19 safety protocols will be followed at the foreclosure sale.

Elaine Shay, Esq., Referee Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C., Attn: Danny Ramrattan, Esq., One Battery Park Plaza, 18th Floor, New York, New York 10004, Tel: 212.825.0365, Attorneys for Plaintiff

Notice of Qualification of CHAPTER 33, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/14/23. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 08/10/23.

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, 401 Federal St., #4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

ELEVATE CONSTRUCTION GROUP LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 10/02/23. Office: New York County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, c/o Joel Kipnis, 137 Duane Street, #2E, New York, NY 10013. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of AD XXIII Consulting LLC. Arts of Org Filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/16/23. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy of process against LLC to 160 Riverside Blvd, Apt 22A, NY, NY 10069, R/A: US Corp Agents, Inc. 7014 13th Ave, #202, BL, NY 11228. Purpose: Any lawful act.

Notice of Formation of GRIFFITH SUTTON TOWER 38A LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/10/23. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to Steven J. Sedereas, Esq., c/o Mandelbaum Barrett PC, 570 Lexington Ave., 21st Fl., NY, NY 10022. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Andrea Sullivan, LCSW PLLC Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 06/06/2023. Office: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served & shall mail to: 315 W 57th St., Ste. 203, NY, NY 10019. Purpose: Any lawful act.

Brooklyn Bread Apparel, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 11/30/2022. Office: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served & shall mail to: 1740 Broadway Ave., Fl. 15, NY, NY 10019. Purpose: Any lawful act.

HOLISTIC AFFAIRS LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 08/29/2023. Office: Bronx County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served & shall mail to: 828 E. 149 St., Apt. 405, Bronx, NY 10455. Purpose: Any lawful act.

Dream Concept Multiservices, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 05/30/2023. Office: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served & shall mail to: The Limited Liability Company, 228 Park Ave. S #34823, NY, NY, 10003. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of formation of Limited Liability Company (“LLC”).

Name: Albany State Street GP LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of the State of New York (“SSNY”) on October 17, 2023.

N.Y. office location: New York County. The SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to Albany State Street GP LLC, c/o CSC, 80 State Street, Albany, New York 12207-2543. Purpose/character of LLC is to engage in any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of CPG STEVENSON B4 GP LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/06/23. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. Purpose: Real estate investment/development.

Notice of Qualification of 1S REO OPPORTUNITY 1, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/02/23. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 01/09/19. Princ. office of LLC: 370 Highland Ave., Ste. 200, Piedmont, CA 94611. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to 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 the State of DE, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: Is to own real estate in the State.

Notice of formation of Currant Productions LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 10/27/2023. Office location: New York County.

SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. The Post Office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon them is 135 W 52nd St, Apt 31B, New York, NY 10019. The principal business address of the LLC is 135 W 52nd St, Apt 31B, New York, NY 10019. Dissolution date: Perpetual. Purpose: Any lawful act or activity.

Stop, Drop & Scroll LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 04/04/2023. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served & shall mail to: 228 Park Ave. #619229, NY, NY, 10003.

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TNTSERVICE23 LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 08/09/2023. Office: NY County.

SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy to: 156 West 141 St, Apt 3G, NY, NY, 10030.

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various aspects of what happened back when he was Bishop’s press secretary. It was clear they had done their homework, as Rojas observed, and he handled them with the delicacy by which they were delivered. Among the last surviving members of Bishop’s cabinet, Rojas narrowly escaped

the mob that was told to shoot him on sight.

A passionate resolve emanated from the students, and there was every indication that this was just the beginning of their curiosity. One student, who told the audience about a painting she had seen that captured the historical

incident, personified the overall interest and promising commitment of the young people. If this lively exchange of information entices further study of the life and legacy of Bishop and other legends, then one of the main objectives of the days of celebration will be accomplished.

tion to establish a federal office in March. But the bill failed to garner Republican support, a sign of the party’s hostility toward taking action on gun violence prevention, including CVI investments.

“Republicans often want to pull back on these programs, when what we need right now is desperately to push forward,” Horwitz said.

The office also faces outside opposition from gun lobby organizations like the National Rifle Association, which criticized it, saying it was a “puppeteering maneuver by the gun control lobby, designed to dismantle our Second Amendment rights.”

Beyond political resistance, Jackson pointed to the sheer scope of the issue as the biggest challenge the office faces.

“With over 130,000 people [who] have been shot or killed every year, we recognize the scale of what we’re taking on, and how much

it will take to have a significant impact on reducing the impact of violence in our communities,” he said. But “there’s a lot of power in that, knowing that survivors have been leading the advocacy fights across the country, survivors are working in government throughout the agencies, [and] survivors are now leading the Office of Gun Violence Prevention in the White House. We think our biggest challenge could become our biggest strength once we activate and start to engage more folks in the community.”

Potential challenges In its early days, the office has focused on building connections with organizations on the ground and across federal agencies, Feldman said. For example, they recently assisted the DOJ in rolling out $4.4 billion in funding designed to increase com-

munity safety through grants for community partners and law enforcement.

But Horwitz says to maximize its impact, the office will need a significant, dedicated source of funding.

The office is currently supported through the funds Congress appropriates to the White House every year, although it’s not yet clear what that budget amounts to. But Horwitz is worried about future political opposition to such funding in Congress, which has the power to set a budget or block funding to the office. “[The office] is going to need [its] own resources to fully maximize the effect. And that, of course, requires Congressional authorization, spending, and that’s going to be very difficult,” Horwitz said.

The office has support from Democrats, most notably Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut and Congressmember Maxwell Frost of Florida, who introduced legisla-

I break down the accent phonetically and that comes from school.

After I spent three weeks talking to myself in a British accent, I called one of my professors from school. I told my teacher, Robin Christian McNair, “I need another brain to hear this.”

I’m so glad I can call her up. I called Robin before I started rehearsals.

I studied movement in school and that was super-helpful for the character Kitty that I play. I

play three other characters besides Lucy and I wanted them to be recognizably different people, and I think my movement training helps with that.

I also play the Driver at the beginning and one of the actors in the opening scene. The biggest thing from school is my developing a practice, before I get in a rehearsal room: What is my work, what am I going to do to build

these characters to get to know these people, to make them real people and get them to the stage?

How will I go about developing the characters? What is driving my character throughout?

There’s so many things that I learned in four years at UNC. I feel very well equipped to build a person from the script that I’m given and build [a] character into a three-dimensional woman.

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memories of those glorious and subsequently horrendous days as she chaired a panel where elders and Maurice—as well as some of exchanged their thoughts with those, such as Brenda Baptiste, a roomful of young students. who have personal memories of During the Q&A session, the stuthe revolutionary past. dents had a battery of queries, Ms. Baptiste, a multimedia spe- and most of them were directed cialist, recounted some of her to Don Rojas, asking him about Continued from page 2

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part of addressing gun violence.

Feldman said she believes police and CVI programs can work together, despite tension between the groups that stem from their strained relationship.

“It is certainly something that we hear, and I know is a real concern of many,” Feldman said. “However, I have seen law enforcement and community leaders effectively partner, and recognize that they each have an important role to play in advancing community safety.” She added that Biden is a proponent of community policing.

In addition to supporting intervention practices, Feldman said the office would also look into investing in other prevention measures, like building on the funding that the Safer Communities Act allocated to mental health services in schools.

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process when I’m starting a play.

With the accent, in school, I kind of got a structured way to go back to.

In school, when I’m playing somebody for six months, I want to have something I can go back to and look at. Once you have the rules, you can live outside of them, but I like to know that the rules are there.

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“This office is absolutely very focused on the full suite of prevention and intervention strategies—not only community violence intervention, but mental health supports in our schools, [and] all of the socio-emotional learning work that goes on in schools,” she said. “Targeted strategies to help young people who might be at risk of becoming involved in gun violence, helping them find alternatives through youth programming, jobs, after school activities. All of those are pieces of the puzzle that we believe are critical in order to save lives.”

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Rick Pitino and St John’s hope for a resurgence in the talented Big East

By DERREL JOHNSON Special to the AmNews With legendary head coach Rick Pitino returning to the conference in which he previously coached Providence and Louisville, the New York City-born and Bayville, Long Island raised Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Famer is now leading St. John’s, with high expectations from the school’s avid supporters.

“We are going to give every ounce of perspiration we have in us to try and get a victory,” Pitino said last week at Madison Square Garden at the Big East’s men’s basketball annual media day. Pitino, who guided Iona to two MAAC regular season (2022, 2023) titles and two MAAC tournament championships (2021, 2023), just made a short geographical move from New Rochelle to Queens to join St. John’s. As he melds 12 new players on the roster, Red Storm fans should temper their desire for immediate positive results.

“We have new faces and the toughest thing for us has been to get the guys to know each other’s skill set and getting them to communicate defensively,” he said. “We are basically starting from scratch and that’s been tedious, to say the least, but it’s been very enjoyable.”

Although he did a solid job, former head

The Big East Men’s basketball head coaches pose for a group photo at the annual media day event last week at Madison Square Garden (Derrel Johnson photo)

coach Mike Anderson failed to get St. John’s into the NCAA postseason tournament in his four seasons (2019-23) there. Pitino aims to have his squad, made up of mostly transfers, end that drought. The team last participated in March Madness under former head coach Chris Mullin, one of the Red Storm’s most iconic figures “I had three prerequisites that I wanted in this recruiting class,” Pitino explained.

“I wanted great athletes who were great people. Then I wanted to make sure they had high goals for themselves so they could take their goals and turn them into

something special. If you want to prosper the name on the back, play for the name on the front. That’s how you build a culture. When you play every single day in practice for the name on the front, the back will prosper. That is what we keep preaching to this team.”

Senior center Joel Soriano, a rare returning player on the team, who averaged 15.2 points and 11.9 rebounds last season and was named to the preseason All-Big East First Team, assessed the team’s outlook.

“We had guys that came from the MAAC and guys that came straight out of high school,” he

said. “It’s just getting our guys up to speed on how physical our conference is, how much faster it is, and how the refs let you play.”

Soriano noted he is focused on collective goals.

“I want to make the NCAA Tournament,” he said. “I want to play Friday night in the Big East tournament, win 20-plus games this year, and really just win. That has been my goal since I’ve been here.”

The Red Storm host Stony Brook to open the season on campus next Tuesday at Carnesecca and face Michigan at Madison Square Garden on November 13.

Ice Theatre of New York Diversify Ice Foundation (L-R) Event co-chair Atoy Wilson, ITNY founder/artistic director Moira North, honoree Joel Savary, Tai Babilonia, Emmanuel Savary, and ITNY executive director Jirina Ribbens

Joel Savary, founder of Diversify Ice Foundation, with evening’s performers (Lois Elfman photos)

By LOIS ELFMAN Special to the AmNews

must continue to push for a more inclusive and equitable sport where every skater can thrive. This award is not just for me. It is a testament to the power of community and collaboration.”

Coach and choreographer Joy Thomas is a Diversify Ice board member and former ITNY skater. “I believe I may have been the first Black woman in [ITNY],” said Thomas.

“It’s very meaningful being able to merge and meld the two.”

Twin sisters Andrea and Selena Alphonse are Diversify Ice ambassadors “to show young skaters that it doesn’t matter how old or young you are, you can always skate,” said Selena. “It

Joel Savary took up the sport of figure skating as a teenager, and although he loved it, he faced bias and microaggressions that made him want to quit. His younger brother Emmanuel also became a skater and enjoyed considerable success—winning the U.S. intermediate title and competing at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships. Joel shared their experiences in his book, ”Why Black and Brown Kids Don’t Skate.” He also founded the Diversify Ice Foundation in 2017, which embraces the motto “the future of skating is colorful.”

Last Friday, Ice Theatre of New York (ITNY) put on the company’s Fall Frolic performance.

Emmanuel, who is in the midst of a competitive comeback, performed and Joel received the 2023 Will Sears Award, named for the late U.S. pairs skater whose motto was “dare greatly.” Several prominent names were in attendance, including Atoy Wilson, the first African American skater to win a U.S. national title, and Tai Babilonia, 1979 World Pairs Champion and Diversify Ice board member.

“Our efforts have already begun to change the face of figure skating,” said Joel Savary.

Diversify Ice provides scholarships, mentorship and forums for frank discussion. “We

was so exciting skating with all these amazing skaters,” said Andrea.

ITNY skater Theron James debuted a piece he created titled “Amistad,” a powerful testament to Black history that included a depiction of an enslaved person ultimately throwing off his chains. “I really wanted to free myself of everything, but also tell a story of what was past, what’s present, and what’s our future,” said James.

Joel Savary said the evening was deeply meaningful. “It means change; it means daring greatly, working hard, and seeing incremental steps to the changes we’re making in the figure skating world,” he said.

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The Giants gift the rising Jets a win going into Week 9

By JAIME C. HARRIS AmNews Sports Editor

Jets linebacker Bryce Huff (No. 47) and his defensive teammates celebrate shutting down the Giants’ offense in a 13-10 overtime win on Sunday (Jets.com photo)

The Jets should send the Giants bottles of expensive champagne to thank them as reciprocation for the gift they were given on Sunday at MetLife Stadium.

In what was maybe the most putrid offensive game of this NFL season, in which the Giants’ longest completions of the day were inconceivably two four-yard passes, one to tight end Darren Waller and the other to running back Matt Breida, the Jets defeated the Giants 13-10 in overtime on a rainy, blustery afternoon at MetLife Stadium to improve to 4-3.

The Giants sank deeper in the standings and are 2-6, tied with the New England Patriots and the Chicago Bears, both also 2-6, for the third worst record in the 32team NFL. Two missed field goals by place kicker Graham Gano, who converted 29 of 32 in 17 games last season but is just 11-17 through Week 8 this season, were consequential to the outcome.

Especially a 35-yarder with 28 seconds remaining in the fourth quarter and the score tied 10-10.

The Jets, who did little more than the Giants on offense in the face of both defenses playing stellar, moved the ball in overtime and won on a 33-yard field goal from Greg Zuerlein with 6:09 on the clock.

The real culprit in the loss was Giants head coach Brian Daboll.

After quarterback Tyrod Taylor,

who was starting in place of firststring QB Daniel Jones, who is expected back this Sunday versus the Raiders in Las Vegas after sitting out the past three games with a neck injury, went out with a rib injury in the second quarter, Daboll abandoned the passing game with rookie Tommy DeVito.

The New Jersey native and Uni-

versity of Illinois product attempted just seven passes and the Giants finished the game with an astonishing minus-9 yards net passing. They relied solely on running back Saquon Barkley, who had 36 carries for 128 yards.

“I'd say this,” Daboll tried to justify after the loss. “I kind of figured this is the way the game

would be played out. We were going to run the ball regardless.

With the weather conditions and the way our defense was playing, we knew it would be kind of a fourth-quarter game.

“I felt comfortable with him running the offense,” he said of DeVito. “But again, the plan was we were going to keep it on the ground quite a bit based on the weather and based on how we thought the game was going to be played out, and it played out pretty much the way we thought it was going to be played out. Just came up short.”

Jets head coach Robert Saleh saluted his team’s mental capacity to continue to grind when it appeared the Giants had a near certain victory.

"It's easy to cash it in...thinking the game is over," he said.

With no chance of making the playoffs, the Giants traded starting defensive tackle Leonard Williams to the Seattle Seahawks for a 2024 second round pick and 2025 fifth rounder.

The Jets host the 3-4 Los Angeles Chargers on Monday night at MetLife Stadium.

Cam Thomas continues to soar for the Brooklyn Nets Nets guard Cam Thomas’ 33-points in his team’s 133-121 road win versus the Charlotte Hornets on Monday was his third straight game with 30 or more points to begin this season (Bill Moore photo)

By DERREL JOHNSON Special to the AmNews Brooklyn Nets guard Cam Thomas has carried over his breakout 2022-23 season over to the early stages of this season.

Thomas came off the bench to score 36 points in Brooklyn’s season opener, a onepoint loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers and scored 30 points as a starter in a 125-120 loss to the Dallas Mavericks.

On Monday night, the 22-year-old Thomas earned his second start of the season and led Brooklyn to a 133121 win over the Hornets in Charlotte, the team’s first victory of the season. In doing so, the one-time Louisiana State University star became the second-youngest player in NBA history to have three straight 30-point games to begin the season. Only fellow LSU Tiger Shaquille O’Neal, who in the early 1990s established himself as a future NBA great, was younger.

Not only was the 6-foot-3-inch Thomas averaging 33 points heading into the Nets’ game last night (Wednesday) against the Heat in Miami, but he was shooting 61.4%.

“I think he’s enjoying competing on both ends of the floor and that part of it, I think he is gaining an extreme amount of trust with his teammates,” said Nets head coach Jacque Vaughn on Monday of the prolific Thomas.

“We know he has the ability to score the basketball, but it’s not forced. It’s within the flow of our offense, which you see.

And then at certain times we need him to get a bucket, then he’s capable of doing that also. So he is learning how to survey the game a little bit when he’s needed when he’s a facilitator when he’s getting to the paint for us, which he’s done that at a high level also.”

The Nets were 1-2 before facing the Heat and played their previous two games before meeting the Heat without starting center Nic Claxton, who suffered an ankle injury in the season opener against the Cleveland Cavaliers. On Monday, the Nets also announced starting forward Cam Johnson will be out 10 days due to a strained calf.

With Johnson and Claxton sidelined for the Nets’ win over the Hornets, it was an impressive victory in Vaughn’s view.

“We earned this win tonight because

we did a lot of things that we have been working on to a high level,” he said.

“Whether that’s being locked into the game plan, I think, which we executed extremely well. And that started with that first group. To jump out with a lead like we had to, to have the physicality, the shot selection, the pace. When you establish those things on the road, generally good things happen after that.”

Thomas noted the play of Ben Simmons as being impactful on the win. The 6-foot-10-inch point forward played a season-high 35 minutes, and was averaging 8.3 points, 10 rebounds, and 8.3 assists in three games this season when he went up against the Heat.

“We’re getting comfortable with him,” Thomas said. “He’s playing fast, uptempo, he’s going to find us, so the main thing is that we just got to run and we know he’s going to find us… And obviously, you know, he’s playing well…I wouldn't say at his full potential yet, but he’s getting back in stride, he’s, he’s looking real good and he’s been solid.”

The Nets’ upcoming games have them challenging the Bulls in Chicago tomorrow, the Boston Celtics at the Barclays Center on Saturday and the Milwaukee Bucks and the L.A. Clippers at home on Monday and next Wednesday respectively.

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Big East women’s hoop teams anticipate a competitive conference season (L) The head women’s basketball coaches of the Big East with Commissioner Val Ackerman and (R) members of the UConn Huskies squad (Lois Elfman photos)

By LOIS ELFMAN Special to the AmNews The message at Big East Women’s Basketball Media Day at Madison Square Garden was that University of Connecticut guard Paige Bueckers is back. Although she hasn’t competed in over a year due to a torn ACL, Bueckers was voted Big East Preseason Player of the Year. The UConn Huskies were also atop the conference’s Preseason Poll.

“I’m looking forward to grow-

ing my game every single day,” said UConn freshman guard KK Arnold. “Having a coach like Geno Auriemma and having teammates like Paige and Nika [Muhl] are teaching me the way.”

In recent years, there has been a lack of diversity among head coaches in the Big East, but that is no longer the case. If not for the untimely death of Georgetown’s Tasha Butts, there would have been three Black female head coaches in the conference. The other two women, Billi Chambers

of Xavier and Erin Batth of Providence, understand representation matters and will be doing their utmost to bring their programs to new heights.

“She cares about us dearly on and off the court,” said Xavier senior guard Tae’lor Purvis of Chambers.

“She’s very competitive. Everything we do, we have to do it hard and intentionally. … She drops so much knowledge every day.”

“We haven’t played a game yet, and I’m telling you just in practice they’re giving me ev-

erything they’ve got,” said Batth, the first Black female head coach at Providence in any sport. “I’m excited to see them get after it this season.”

There were also some visitors on media day—three women who played in the WBL, a women’s professional basketball league founded in 1978. In New York City to celebrate a WBL display at WNBA headquarters, the women were the guests of DePaul coach Doug Bruno, who coached them with the Chicago Hustle.

“Our mission is to promote the historic and social relevance of the WBL, the first women’s professional basketball league in the United States,” said Liz GallowayMcQuitter, president of Legends of the Ball. Pioneering WBL player Charlene McWhorter-Jackson said she hopes the college players appreciate the foundation laid for them. “They have their opportunities because of the sacrifices we made and the fact that we walked through the door that Title IX opened for us,” she said.

St. John’s and Seton Hall represent local women’s hoops in the Big East The St. John’s Red Storm and the Seton Hall Pirates are the Big East’s two local hoop teams that will be battling for a spot in March Madness (Lois Elfman photos)

By LOIS ELFMAN Special to the AmNews Big East Women’s Basketball Media Day began on a somber note as players, coaches, conference leadership and media mourned Tasha Butts, the former head coach at Georgetown, who died two days prior after a battle with breast cancer. Although she was named head coach just six months ago, she made a distinct impact on her team.

“Everyone had their own special, unique relationship with [Coach Tasha]; that is a blessing,” said graduate student forward Graceann Bennett. “We…also know what

she would want us to be doing.”

Butts is the fourth former WNBA player to pass away in a little over a year (three from breast cancer and one from ovarian cancer), and her death spotlights the importance of Black women’s health and the need for awareness and healthcare access. Seton Hall coach Anthony Bozzella said his players will be prioritizing breast health awareness throughout the season.

“It’s about the awareness we raise,” said Bozzella. “For our Pink Day (a game dedicated to breast health), we’re buying things that go in the shower to remind us about self-exams.”

With the departure of Seton Hall scorers

Lauren Park-Lane, who is spending her fifth year of eligibility at Mississippi State, and Sidney Cooks (graduation) returning veterans will be stepping up. “We have a lot of new players, so I’m excited to get out there with them and have fun,” said senior guard Amari Wright. “We’re taking it day by day, practice by practice, game by game,” said graduate student guard Sha’Lynn Hagans. “It’s my final year; I want to go out with a bang.”

After an excellent 2022-23 season, which marked St. John’s return to the NCAA Tournament, the Red Storm are also in a time of redefining. Redshirt senior guard Unique Drake is looking forward to playing hard and having an-

other winning season. “I’m ready to play with the new team that we have because we have a lot of new players this season,” said Drake, who appreciates having been part of the rebuilding.

“We’ve definitely all bought in. We’re very passionate and we’re going to play like that every single day,” said St. John’s graduate student guard Jillian Archer.

Graduate student guard Amber Brown, who comes to St. John’s after four outstanding years at Pittsburgh, is looking forward to playing in the Big East. “The pace of the conference, the players in the conference and with my new team and new coach,” said Brown.

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Sports The Knicks begin the NBA’s new in-season tournament versus the Bucks

By JAIME C. HARRIS AmNews Sports Editor The Knicks, coming off of back-to-back games against the Cleveland Cavaliers, begin the NBA’s inaugural in-season tournament tomorrow at Milwaukee versus the Bucks.

The event, which models European soccer’s immensely popular UEFA Champions League tournament, includes all 30 NBA teams divided into three groups (A,B and C) of five teams within their respective conferences, and will culminate with the championship game in Las Vegas on December 9.

The groups were randomly determined based on last season’s final won-loss records. The Knicks are in the East’s Group B along with the Bucks, Miami Heat, Washington Wizards and Charlotte Hornets.

After the Bucks tomorrow, the Knicks’ following group stage games will be versus the Wizards in Washington on November 17, the Heat at Madison Square Garden on

November 24, and the Hornets at MSG on November 28.

The Knicks were 2-2 heading into the second straight game versus the Cavaliers last night at the Garden. They defeated the Cavs 109-91 on Tuesday at Cleveland with the Cavs missing starting point guard Darius Garland (left hamstring strain) and starting center Jarrett Allen (left ankle bone bruise), as well as their leading reserve Caris LeVert (left hamstring soreness).

The Knicks seized on those absences and stayed ahead of the Cavaliers for the last three quarters, playing aggressively and physically as they did in defeating Cleveland 4-1 in the opening round of last season’s playoffs.

“It’s tough because we’re missing a bunch of guys, but you can’t dwell on it because we have to come back tomorrow and do it again,” said Cavaliers guard and New York native Donovan Mitchell, who scored a game-high 26 points. “I’m never one to make excuses.”

Jalen Brunson and Julius Randle each

scored 19 points to pace the Knicks and RJ Barrett, who is having a strong start to the new campaign, added 16. Brunson, who was averaging 19.8 points and 4.5 assists, and Randle, who was posting 15.0 points and 11.3 rebounds prior to last night’s rematch, had not played consistently well through their team’s first four games.

Randle was shooting just 29.5%.

Brunson’s numbers were much better.

He was at 38.9% overall and 46.4% on 3-point attempts, but in the October 25 108-104 season opening loss to the Boston Celtics, was just 6-21, and in the Knicks’ 96-87 defeat versus the New Orleans last Saturday, missed 10 of 14 shots, including 1-5 on 3s. “...We all know that we have to get better, including myself,” said Brunson after Tuesday’s win. “So we’re going to continue to encourage each other along and continue to get better every day.”

The Knicks will play the Los Angeles Clippers Monday night at MSG and the San Antonio Spurs at home next Wednesday.

Jalen Brunson and the Knicks faced the Cleveland Cavaliers on Tuesday and again last night (Wednesday) before heading to Milwaukee to take on the Bucks tomorrow (Bill Moore photo)

Past champions and aspiring first-time winners headline the NYC Marathon Kenya’s Albert Korir and the United States’ Tatyana McFadden, TCS NYC Marathon champions, will line up this Sunday seeking to reclaim marathon titles (Bill Moore photos)

By JAIME C. HARRIS AmNews Sports Editor The New York City Marathon, arguably the most coalescing and diverse annual single-day sporting event in the world, returns on Sunday for its 52nd staging.

The only year the marathon hasn’t been run since its inception in 1970 was 2012 in the aftermath of hurricane Sandy.

Past champions and hopefuls endeavoring to etch their names among some of the greatest distance runners of all

time will line up at Fort Wadsworth on Staten Island at the base of the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge at the starting point for the 26.2 mile race, then traverse the arduous course through the five boroughs before ending in Central Park at 68th Street.

While defending men’s champion Evans Chebet had to withdraw, the field remains stacked with potential winners. Among them are 2021 New York Marathon titlist Albert Korir of Kenya, 17-time NCAA champion Edward Cheserek of Kenya

making his marathon debut, American Elkanah Kibet, who was born in Kenya and competed collegiately at Auburn University, Mosinet Geremew of Ethiopia, and Maru Teferi of Israel.

The women’s race will be equally loaded with a trio of Kenyans: 2022 NYC victor Sharon Lokedi, 2021 champion Peres Jepchirchir, and Brigid Kosgei, a five-time Abbott World Marathon Majors race winner which includes wins in London (2019, 2021) and Chicago (2018, 2019). They are all expected to

be at or near the front in the race’s closing miles.

The wheelchair race will see five-time New York City Marathon champion, the USA’s Tatyana McFadden, and defending winner and fellow American Susannah Scaroni, battling on the women’s side.

Two-time New York City titlist, American Daniel Romanchuk, and last year’s firstplace finisher Marcel Hug of Switzerland, who is the course record holder and fivetime NYC champ, will be vying to add to their impressive list of victories.