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FOOD APARTHEID NYC

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As COVID recedes, NYC’s Black, Brown and immigrant residents struggle to access healthy food

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

Avenue and Fulton Street. On a sunny Wednesday in September, there was a long line of people, some Brooklynites, some just hungry New Yorkers. All waiting for hours, looking deThe Plaza square is sandwiched between a pressingly out of place in the Bedstuy Restorarenovated milk bottling plant, an Applebees, tion Plaza square. and the Billie Holiday Theatre in the BedfordMany were elderly men and women, some Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn. Layered with soft or strong accents, a reminder that deck-like stairs lead up from the street to the they have called another country home. June tables and stages that look out at famed Marcy See FOOD on page 6

Malikah Shabazz — daughter of Malcolm X passes

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Policy, Personnel, Practice

Recipe for effective Black leadership in 2022

By CYRIL JOSH BARKER, ARIAMA LONG, STEPHON JOHNSON & NAYABA ARINDE Amsterdam News Staff

political landscape, from their councilmember to the mayor. After years of racial injustice, unequal treatment and inequities of city resources many are hoping the Black political alignment In 2022, millions of New Yorkers are look- could bring change. ing at a streamline of Black leadership in their See LEADERSHIP on page 35

(L) Malikah Shabazz pictured here with twin sister Malaak Shabazz (Lem Peterkin photo)

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Predatory Medical Debt Collection Practices by Hospitals Must End Urban Agenda by David R. Jones, President and CEO of the Community Service Society of New York - See page 5

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BLINKEN FINDS ‘VIBRANT DEMOCRACY’ IN VIOLENCESTRICKEN NIGERIA (GIN)—A whiz-bang tour through Africa had some discordant notes for Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken who was treated to wide vistas of Chinese-built infrastructure as his motorcade zipped from airport to airport.

In Nigeria, he zoomed past the China Chamber of Commerce in Nigeria building, a domed, palace-like structure along the expressway.

Similarly in Nairobi, Blinken got a glimpse of a giant expressway under construction—part of China’s massive Belt and Road Initiative which funds huge infrastructure projects across Asia and Africa. Tractors and other heavy equipment appeared to be Chinese-made, and the Nairobi hotel where Blinken had official meetings was hosting a Chinese business group.

The American Enterprise Institute notes that Beijing made major infrastructure investments in Nigeria, including $7.5 billion since 2018, and China’s ambassador to Nigeria said Beijing plans to begin opening banks in the country soon, a move that could further integrate China into the country’s financial system, according to the New York Times.

But the American official was seriously caught on the back foot on the subject of human rights in the countries he visited. Shortly before his arrival, a Lagos state judicial panel turned in a report that accused soldiers and police officers of a “massacre” for spraying bullets into a peaceful crowd that was waving Nigerian flags and singing the national anthem in a non-violent protest over police brutality and corruption.

A dozen protestors were shot to death in the crowd that numbered in the thousands. “These shootings clearly amount to extrajudicial executions,” said Osai Ojigho, Amnesty International’s director for Nigeria. “There must be an immediate investi-

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gation and suspected perpetrators must be held accountable through fair trials.”

Video streams on social media showed wounded people lying in the streets or being carried by others into teeming hospital emergency rooms. Calls for action spread rapidly on social media, with the hashtag #EndSars, and celebrities in Nigeria and abroad—including Beyoncé and Justin Bieber, President Biden and Hilary Clinton—have added their voices to the demands.

Washington also backs Nigeria’s war against the Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram and

director of Transparency International. “It’s important that the U.S. government. . . remains principled as opposed to pragmatic.”

The last stop on his trip will be Senegal where he will meet with Senegalese President Macky Sall who will take over the chairmanship of the African Union in 2022.

All of the countries on Blinken’s Africa 5-day itinerary will be invited to the White House’s democracy summit— a focal point of the Biden administration’s efforts to show it puts human rights at the

the so-called Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP). But it is yet to clear the sale of 12 combat helicopters to Nigeria.

“We bought some ammunition from the U.S., and they are giving us conditions on how to use that ammunition,” Lawrence Adebowale, a teacher in Lagos, told the German news agency DW. “I don’t believe such conditions should exist.”

Similarly, in Kenya, the secretary of state had to confront an erosion of human rights and a spate of extrajudicial killings in the country.

One of the civil society leaders who met with Blinken said that he hopes the U.S. does not give Kenya a “free pass” on corruption issues just because it is an important diplomatic partner in the region.

“That’s the danger. Kenya is seen as an anchor state,” said Irungu Houghton, executive

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CLIMATE CHANGE ENGULFS HISTORIC SENEGALESE CITY—THE VENICE OF AFRICA (GIN)—Saint-Louis, the old colonial capital of Senegal, was built in the 17th century at the mouth of the Senegal River and was the capital of French West Africa until 1902.

But these days rising sea levels have created a flooding threat that has already seen entire villages lost to the Atlantic.

Guet Ndar, a district of SaintLouis, is a UNESCO World Heritage site. Mosques, homes and a school there have already been lost to coastal erosion.

In 2003, the authorities dug a channel through the Langue de Barbarie, a thin, sandy strip of land protecting Saint-Louis, so water could flow out of the estuary and away from Saint-Louis when the Senegal River threat-

ened to flood.

But their bid to protect the city backfired. Water flowed both ways, eroding the banks of the channel until it opened into a huge gulf, taking 800 meters of the Guet Ndar beach, as well as neighboring villages, with it.

It also upset the delicate balance of the local ecosystem. The canal brought seawater into the river and has affected the population of rare bird species and river fish. Coconut trees and mangroves that once protected the shores have been wiped out.

Ahmet Sene Diagne used to live in one such village. He recalls how he went to the town hall to warn against excavating the channel, but officials didn’t listen. Now, all that can be seen of Diagne’s village is the stump of a tree that once stood in the central square—the tree that Diagne got married under.

Latyr Fall, deputy mayor of Saint-Louis, recalls the old seawall that once protected his city. But the threat to “the Venice of Africa” is from climate change, he insists—and the sea level rise since colonial times calls for new measures to protect the coast. “The wall no longer protects us.”

The World Bank allotted $27 million to combat the effects of climate change in SaintLouis. It estimates that 10,000 people in the city are either already displaced or live within 20 metres of the waterline, the high-risk zone.

By 2080, according to a study commissioned by the Senegalese government, 80% of SaintLouis territory will be at risk of flooding and 150,000 people will have to relocate.

Saint-Louis has “already been wiped off the map,” said Boubou Aldiouma Sy, a geography professor at the city’s Gaston Berger University.

Meanwhile, Ahmet Sene Diagne now lives in a settlement called Jel Mbaam, where he grows and sells his own produce. On the wall of his home, hangs a map showing where his village used to be before it was submerged.

He still doesn’t trust the authorities to protect the coast.

“They should involve the people from here in their plans because we are the ones who live here and were born from this water,” he says.

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Affirmation Tower will be symbol Metro MetroBriefs Briefs of Black achievement (Photo courtesy of The Peebles Corporation)

BROTHERHOOD SISTER SOL HOSTS THANKSGIVING TURKEY DRIVE On Monday, The Brotherhood Sister Sol Executive Director & Co-Founder Khary Lazarre-White personally passed out turkeys along with his team to community members.

The organization also passed out meals on Wednesday.

Since the start of the pandemic, BroSis has officially served over 700,000 meals to those in need.

Each Wednesday, BroSis hands out meals to more than 100 families in the Harlem community and is on track to officially have distributed more than 1 million meals by the end of 2021.

TRACY MORGAN VISITS CHILDHOOD NEIGHBORHOOD TO DISTRIBUTE TURKEYS On Saturday, Nov. 13, actor and comedian Tracy Morgan, who grew up in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, returned “home” to make sure local families in the community had full tables for this Thanksgiving.

Partnering with the Food Bank For New York City at the Sumner Houses in Brooklyn, the “SNL” and “30 Rock” alum helped distribute food which included turkey with all the fixings, which was made available for approximately 500 households.

Morgan has been working with the Food Bank For New York City for the past year and has previously assisted with distributions in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx and Staten Island this past summer in honor of Father’s Day. HUNTS POINT PRODUCE MARKET GIVES BACK TO BRONX FAMILIES IN NEED FOR THANKSGIVING Hunts Point Produce Market, the country’s largest wholesale produce market, conducted its annual “Week of Giving” to support people in need during the Thanksgiving season. Every year, the market’s merchants donate fresh produce to local residents as a token of appreciation to the community.

This year, the market conducted an event in each borough over the course of a week, partnering with borough presidents, elected officials, and local community organizations.

By CYRIL JOSH BARKER Amsterdam News Staff A towering symbol of Black achievement is joining the New York City skyline. Affirmation Tower, which is currently in the development phase, is set to not only be Manhattan’s second tallest building by spire height, but the first skyscraper built by Blacks in the city’s history.

The building is a product of a dream team of Black developers including architect Sir David Adjaye (best-known for designing the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.); real estate firm The Peebles Corporation, led by Black multi-millionaire R. Donahue Peebles; century-old Black and womanowned design construction firm The McKissack Group; real estate investor Steven Charles Witkoff, founder of the Witkoff Group; and Exact Capital.

The team made its presentation to the Empire State Development Corporation last month in response to a request for proposals (RFP) with a commitment of 35% in contracts to people of color totaling more than a billion dollars.

Affirmation Tower will be located at 35th and 36th Streets, 11th Avenue and Hudson Boulevard West—across the street from the Jacob Javits Center, one block from the High Line, Hudson Yards and the No. 7 subway line. The project will

sit on 1.2 acres and include a 1663-foot tower, two hotels, an observation deck and skating rink as well as commercial office spaces.

Affirmation Tower’s roof height would be taller than One World Trade, however, out of respect for what One World Trade Center represents, the team chose to frame the skyscraper as Manhattan’s second tallest building by spire height, and One World Trade would remain the tallest building in the city.

More than 55,500 New Yorkers will be hired over six years including 15,000 permanent jobs, bringing in more than $3.5 billion in new tax revenue for the city and state over 30 years. Another $3.5 billion is to be spent on the project which will be awarding contracts. The project will provide $4.4 billion of new economic output per year.

“This project is emblematic of true equity in development,” said Peebles, who is a 60% partner on the project. “A symbol for all who visit New York, cementing in brick and mortar that New York is serious about economic inclusion.”

Affirmation Tower will house offices for the MidManhattan branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).

The branch’s former building on the Upper West Side was demolished. Negotiations are underway to also house offices for the NAACP New York See TOWER on page 29

GOD’S LOVE WE DELIVER PREPARES 9,000 MEALS God’s Love We Deliver prepared, cooked and packed more than 9,000 meals from Monday to Wednesday and delivered them to homes on Thanksgiving morning.

On Thursday morning God’s Love leadership, friends, and supporters of God’s Love We Deliver gathered at the non-profit organization to help prepare and deliver Thanksgiving meals for God’s Love clients.

The Thanksgiving feasts served their clients, family members, and their guests so that no one had to spend the holiday alone. Each meal was delivered with gift totes filled with a snack bag, a dental care product kit, and a personal care bag.

CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF NEW YORK AND CARDINAL DOLAN DISTRIBUTE 1,000 TURKEYS IN HARLEM FOR THANKSGIVING On Tuesday, Timothy Cardinal Dolan and Catholic Charities distributed 1,000 Thanksgiving turkeys to families in need at the Lt. Joseph P. Kennedy Community Center in Harlem.

Families also received food and ingredients to accompany the turkey, including onions, potatoes, yams, stuffing, green beans, and cranberry sauce.

Monsignor Kevin Sullivan, executive director of Catholic Charities of New York, joined the Cardinal as he delivered a blessing and remarks, urging all New Yorkers to reach out this holiday season to those families having their first Thanksgiving in the United States.

—Compiled by Cyril Josh Barker

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The Equity Research Action Coalition launches Black Babies Awareness Month

By YAMINAH SMITH Special to the AmNews

As brisk winds, crisp leaves and flavorsome smells fill the air, the Equity Research Action Coalition at Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill wants the people to add gathering in awareness of Black babies and families to their November holiday to-do list.

“November’s the time where we’re all kind of feeling that energy of, ‘Oh my goodness, Thanksgiving is coming.’ We’re going to have that big macaroni and cheese, ham and turkey and come together and just basically laugh and have joy with our families and those that we love. Part of Black Babies Awareness Month is that we have to love our babies and love our family. [November’s] just really a good time to really appreciate what we have and understand that Black babies’ lives matter. That includes the families of the babies but also those who take care of them,” said Research Action Coalition founder Dr. Iheoma U. Iruka.

“The Equity Research Action Coalition co-constructs with practitioners and policymakers actionable research to support the optimal development of Black children prenatally through childhood across the African diaspora using a cultural wealth framework. The Coalition will focus on developing a science-based action framework to eradicate the impact of racism and poverty, and all its consequences on the lives of Black children, families, and communities, and to ensure optimal health, well-being, school readiness and success, and overall excellence.”

This month, the Coalition leads Black Babies Awareness Month, a campaign to protect, promote and preserve the lives, well-being and cultural identities of Black babies and families. The campaign will feature an open virtual roundtable with key experts to share recent research, a social media toolkit, callsto-action for public interaction, and the national Black child policy agenda.

The 10 policies of the National Black Child Agenda include: • Maintain child tax credits and income supports • Address racial disparities in wages and career advancement opportunities • Invest in Black-owned and Black-led businesses, organizations and institutions • Expand the Family and Medical Leave Act • Expand health insurance • Expand universal access to early care and education • Address harsh discipline practices • Ensure equity in early intervention and special education • Ensure culturally responsive curriculum and practices through workforce development and training • Pass reparations

With over 60% of Black babies in the U.S. living in low-income households, Black Babies Awareness Month seeks to act as a gateway to improving the livelihood of Black people nationwide.

“Black Babies Awareness Month is a combination of the ongoing work that I’m doing at The Equity Research Action Coalition at UNC Frank Porter Graham,” explained Dr. Iruka. “It’s really to empower Black children and families. We have been fortunate to really leverage the expertise, researchers and lived experiences of Black parents to make up an awareness campaign and naFamily photo by Nappy

tional policy platform that really brings attention to the systemic issues that Black families, their babies and children, and the community continue to face.”

Iruka and the campaign encourage everyone to aid in their efforts to bring national attention to Black families and babies. Whether you share information, posts or tweets, Black Babies Awareness Month serves to highlight Black life and the disparities that impact Black livelihood with the help of the people.

“Our job is to protect our babies from harm. Whether it’s phycological, physical, or even having material hardships. We want our babies to have the best of what everyone has. So, step one is to protect them.

The second is to promote their health and access to high quality early learning and even educational opportunities that really lends itself to making sure that it meets the needs of our babies,” said Dr. Iruka, a mother of two Black babies.

If you wish to participate in Black Babies Awareness Month, support the campaign and follow the conversation at #BlackBabiesMatter on social media.

The Equity Research Action Coalition held the Twitter chat “Black Babies Awareness Month: Centering a National Black Child Agenda” on Wednesday, Nov. 17.

For more information about the Equity Research Action Coalition, visit https:// equity-coalition.fpg.unc.edu and follow them on Twitter at @FPGInstitute. To read the Coalition’s agenda visit, https://unc. live/3E14UUK. To connect with Dr. Iruka, visit her website, https://www.iheomairuka.com and follow her on Twitter at @iheomairuka.

NewJerseyNews Acting AG announces millions in funding to reduce gun violence and support victims in NJ

By CYRIL JOSH BARKER Amsterdam News Staff New Jersey’s Department of Law & Public Safety is making available $12 million in grant funding to reduce gun violence and support crime victims, including $10 million to support Community-Based Violence Intervention (CBVI) programs.

The department is now accepting applications from nonprofits and other community organizations for these grant funds, as described in the Notices of Availability of Funds that the department is releasing to the public today. Funding is available to support two programs: $10 million for the CBVI grant program, and $2 million in COVID-19 relief funds to provide emergency housing for crime victims.

“Under our administration, New Jersey has been a national leader in violence reduction efforts,” said Gov. Phil Murphy.

“This funding will support victims of crime in rebuilding their lives, while also preventing crime through intervention efforts and other community-based solutions. I applaud Acting Attorney General Bruck for his continued leadership on this critical issue.”

The $10 million CBVI fund-

ing was included in the State Fiscal Year 2022 Budget, and reflects a key component of the Murphy administration’s efforts to tackle the root causes of violent crime. Through the CBVI program, non-profit community service providers will receive funding for the development and implementation of violence intervention programming for communities impacted by higher than average rates of violence, with a focus on gun violence.

“I am thankful for Governor Murphy and Acting Attorney General Bruck’s commitment to combating gun violence in our communities and for understanding the need for alternative violence reduction initiatives,” said Newark Mayor Ras J. Baraka. “Here in Newark, my administration and our residents work collectively to create a safer city and we strongly believe in strategically investing in community-based public safety with a public health and trauma-informed approach.”

The purpose of the CBVI program is to support non-profit community service providers by soliciting applications for initiatives including street outreach and mentoring, trauma-informed programs with See JERSEY on page 32

East Orange hosts turkey giveaways, Thanksgiving luncheon for seniors

By CYRIL JOSH BARKER Amsterdam News Staff East Orange Mayor Ted R. Green City Council hosted two turkey giveaways for local residents and a Thanksgiving lunch for seniors.

The first giveaway took place last Friday at Imani Baptist Church of Christ and was hosted by Third Ward Councilmembers Bergson Leneus and Vernon Pullins Jr. in partnership with The Angel Project, Circles for Healing Nonprofit Organization, Proud Living Communities, and the Third Ward County Committee.

On Saturday Green and the City Council, in conjunction with The Ted R. Green Foundation hosted “A Day of Giving” at Calvary Baptist Church. On Monday, Nov. 22, the Division of Senior Services hosted a Thanksgiving Lunch with the

mayor and council at the East Orange Senior Center.

“This holiday season, we are grateful for our ability to continue to be a blessing to the families within our community, and I want to thank all of our sponsors who helped us make these events possible,” said Green. “As we embark on another year of uncertainty and COVID restrictions, I hope the families in our community have an opportunity to safely reconnect and recharge with their loved ones.”

According to the Community FoodBank of New Jersey, about 1.2 million people in the state can’t afford regular access to food, a 33% increase prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. Essex County has the highest rate of food insecurity in New Jersey at 17%.

More than 900,000 people in New Jersey (1 in 10) are food insecure.

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Camille Gainer Jones: A Girl from Queens marches to the beat of her own drum

By YAMINAH SMITH Special to the AmNews Amidst the bright lights, busy streets and bold artistry of New York, A Girl from Queens learned to march to the beat of her own drum…literally.

“I always wanted to play the drums,” Camille Gainer Jones told the Amsterdam News. “I just knew this was something I could do. It spoke to me. It wasn’t a process, I just knew. It was immediate.”

Camille Gainer Jones is an instrumentalist and bandleader with a deep-rooted tuneful passion. Influenced by East Coast culture, the drummer’s sound uniquely embodies and intertwines the essences of soul, reggae, R&B, hip hop, jazz, and rock.

At the age of 11, Jones began playing various instruments including the guitar, violin, piano, and drums.

Using her early-learned musical versatility and artistic poise, the New York native established a rich knowledge of and career in music and entertainment. All of this earned her a full scholarship to Brooklyn’s Long Island University and opportunities to work with many icons of entertainment including her master teacher Michael Carvin, Diana Ross, Alicia Keys, Heavy D, Mc Shan and the Juice Crew, Roberta Flack, Les Nubians, Roy Ayers and Wayne Brady. Jones also appeared on BET, BET on Jazz, the BET Jazz Awards, Yo MTV Raps, NY Lottery commercial and Black Girls Rock “An American in Hollywood.”

Yet, with all her success, the multitalented artist doesn’t forget the roots that raised her into the creative genius her listeners know her as. She credits the influences of artists like James Brown, Count Basie, Marcus Miller and the nurturing musical culture of her hometown for her artistic development.

“I grew up in Cambria Heights in Jamaica, Queens and there was a lot of music everywhere,” Jones told the Amsterdam News. “Everybody played music, I mean even if you didn’t play professionally, it was just the environment. There were concerts, jazz music, and a lot of very famous musicians also lived in my neighborhood. There was also music in the schools. At that time, everybody had to take a least one semester of piano in high school. So, we were a lot more sophisticated musically. That was the environment as I was growing up and during my developmental year.”

Following the traditions of the time, Jones’ parents watered the seed of musical excellence in her life. During her youth, her parents gifted her with drums for her birthday, a present that solidified the love Jones’ neighbor-

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THE URBAN AGENDA

By David R. Jones

Denise L. Bennett Predatory Medical Debt Collection Practices by Hospitals Must End Since the beginning of this devastating pandemic, our hospitals have been on the front lines battling it and saving the lives of countless New Yorkers. We applaud the doctors, nurses and first responders who care for patients, often while putting themselves at risk.

It is also true that every New York hospital is a nonprofit charity that pays no taxes and receives millions from the state’s $1.1 billion Indigent Care Pool (ICP) fund to offset the costs of treating the uninsured.

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hood embedded in her for music.

“My parents had no idea that I wanted to do it for a living. They just wanted to keep me interested and active,” Jones said. “Long story short, once I started playing the drums and playing in the R&B and funk jazz band in the neighborhood, I just felt like this was something I could do.”

And that she did. As an upcoming artist, Jones devoted countless hours to restlessly studying and perfecting her craft. Under the guidance of community structure, support and mentorship, she––along with her band––went on to land numerous gigs. From each performance, they walked away with exposure and experience, contributing to the success they have today.

As for the future of Jones and the band, the road to achieving higher success continues. She wants everyone to stay on the lookout for her upcoming shows and music.

“Everyone has a story. So, when you play music, you can only play what is your experience, your story,” Jones said. “Well, I have a new story to tell.

I just lost my husband, so I’m moving forward from that.”

For more information on Camille Gainer Jones’ story, visit her website at www.camillegainerjones.com.

To get updates on Jones, her music releases and performance dates, , follow her on Twitter at @RealDrummette , Instagram at @Drummette and Facebook at www.facebook. com/camillegainer.

You can find her music across various streaming platforms including Apple Music, SoundCloud, Spotify and YouTube.

This month, my organization, the Community Service Society of New York (CSS) released its latest report on hospitals’ medical debt collection practices. Using data hospitals reported to the New York State Department of Health (DOH), the report found that 56 nonprofit hospitals filed liens on 4,880 patients’ homes in 2017 and 2018, the most recent years for which data is available.

Under state law, hospitals are permitted to place liens on patients’ homes following a court-ordered medical debt judgment. Such judgments are the result of suits brought by the hospital against a patient. However, very few patients defend themselves in medical debt court cases. Why? Because many patients are unaware that they have been sued in the first place. They are also at a distinct disadvantage going up against hospitals with vast legal resources.

CSS began intensive research into nonprofit hospitals’ extraordinarily pervasive medical debt collection practices well before the COVID-19 pandemic. Not surprisingly, we found that low-income people and people of color had been and continue to be disproportionately impacted by these aggressive practices, which include lawsuits, liens, and wage garnishments.

Hospitals are barred from foreclosing on a lien against a patient’s home. Yet they persist in trying to collect from patients – the actor in this situation who can least afford it. A debt of as little as $1,900 – a rounding error on a hospital’s balance sheet – can trigger a lawsuit, a judgment, and a lien. And the data shows that a number of New York’s nonprofit hospitals put thousands of patients’ homes in jeopardy by filing these liens as a way of pressuring people to pay up even when they can’t afford to.

The 56 hospitals using these extraordinary collections practices did so despite amassing more than $442 million in ICP funds. This money is meant to support them in providing financial assistance to patients as well as to offset costs associated with uncompensated care. Put another way, these 56 hospitals

received an estimated 48 times more in ICP funds than they sought ($9 million) through court judgments followed by liens on patients’ homes.

We need to be clear: most hospitals in New York State (133 of the 189 that submitted data to the DOH) do not place liens on patients’ homes at all. And in response to the CSS report, several hospitals said they would end the practice; others said they were reviewing their debt collection policies. But some hospital systems said they would continue to impose liens in collection cases.

In New York City, liens are rarely imposed in the five boroughs, apart from Manhattan where 40 were taken.

Under direction of Health + Hospitals Corporation CEO Dr. Mitchell Katz, the city’s municipal hospitals discontinued medical debt legal actions in 2019.

However, the practice of securing liens is common among certain hospital systems serving the Albany region, Long Island and Central and Western New York. In fact, CSS found that 35 percent of all liens were placed by hospitals in the Capital District. And Northwell system hospitals in Long Island placed 677 liens on patients’ homes.

Slapping a lien on a patient’s home is a punitive act with rippling economic consequences. Liens can affect a person’s credit report and limit their ability to sell or refinance their homes.

They can also complicate a person’s ability to secure financing to purchase a car – vital in many areas due to a lack of public transportation – or apply for a home equity loan.

Ten states including Arkansas, Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas have laws on the books that bar the practice of placing liens on primary residences under any circumstances. New York may soon follow suit with a law of its own. State Senator Gustavo Rivera (District 33, Bronx) and State Assemblymember Richard Gottfried (District 75, Manhattan) have introduced legislation in Albany, S5622/A7363, that would forbid New York’s nonprofit hospitals from engaging in extreme medical debt collection practices, including taking liens on patients’ primary residences or garnishing their wages. The bill, which currently has 23 sponsors in the state legislature, is among a slate of reforms aimed at addressing healthcare inequities. State lawmakers hope to pass the bill in the next session and send it to Governor Hochul for signature.

Predatory medical debt collection practices must end. No New Yorker should be deterred from seeking medical care for fear they will go into debt, or worse, lose their economic security.

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

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Feddoes, 55, a nursing home worker who lives in the neighborhood was one of them. She was wearing a scarf on her head, orange scrubs, a face mask and a large Patagonia backpack.

“Places like this is very important for people like me, you know, single woman, single mother. It does always make a difference. I’ve been going to food pantry ever since I came to this country and didn’t have a green card,” said Feddoes, who moved to New York from Saint Vincent in the Caribbean when she was 15 years old.

Everybody got corn stalks, sweet potatoes, and other food items placed in their bags or shopping carts, before rounding the corner to other service tables at the food pantry organized by New York City Councilmember Robert Cornegy to feed the city’s hungry, especially the elderly who were isolated at home, seeking safety from the deadly virus.

The dual public health and economic crises, caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, only exacerbated the suffering of the 1.4 million or so New York City residents in neighborhoods without easy access to healthy food. The most viscerally impacted were those like Feddoes— Black, Brown, or immigrant, living in poorer neighborhoods—struggling to feed their families even with a full-time job in 2020.

Neighborhoods like these are found throughout the five boroughs. Activists, community organizers and civil society organizations that the Amsterdam News spoke to painted a picture of a desperate need for access to fresh foods in Northshore, Staten Island, as well as Bed-Stuy, Flatbush, and East New York neighborhoods in Brooklyn—all areas that were dealing with food insecurity before the pandemic.

Food shopping in general during the pandemic was hard. The mandated lockdown in March last year effectively shut down the little access to fresh food some people had to begin with.

Brooklyn native Sister Ellen Nelson, 60, grew up in Fort Greene’s public housing. Once a teenage mom, Nelson graduated and eventually became a transit worker. Now retired and living in East New York, Nelson completely changed her diet and lifestyle after a COVID scare last year.

Nelson lost two of her friends in 2020 and was diagnosed with COVID from March into May. During the lockdown she prayed a lot, spent time with her pets for company, and connected virtually with her kids. She said she couldn’t breathe, had no sense of smell, and was losing weight. The COVID symptoms were severe enough to convince Nelson to become a vegetarian and start working out.

“Lord Jesus help me, I began to say,” said Nelson. “After a while things just calmed down in May. I was afraid to go out my door but began to go back out-

THE NEW YORK AMSTERDAM NEWS side a bit. Of course I washed my hands old, I’m diabetic, I have two knee reand stuff and I got vaccinated as soon as placements, and I did the walk, and it it was my turn.” was nice,” said Nelson, beaming with pride about the progress she’s making.

A rush to respond Generally speaking, a sizable number of city residents were batNY FOOD 20/20, a collaborative tling adult obesity, diabetes, and hyfood study of the COVID-19 crisis, pertension, which put them at “high noted that “disparities in nutrition” risk for hospitalization, and death, can be paired with racial and ethnic from COVID-19,” said the study. disparities because a “disproporThe city also expanded the Suptionate” amount of Black and Brown plemental Nutrition Assistance Procommunities experience poverty and gram (SNAP) benefits program that food insecurity. There is also a se- used health bucks and healthy boderious issue with advertisements for gas to increase the availability of fresh unhealthy food and beverages that foods. Health bucks are coupons that target Black and Latinx youth, as well were part of SNAP that allowed resias “the glut of highly-processed prod- dents to redeem $2 worth of either ucts in stores and lack of neighbor- fresh fruits or vegetables at farmer’s

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hood access to healthy options.” This all can lead to a prevalence of dietand health-related diseases in these communities, said the study.

The city rushed to start programs that delivered groceries to seniors through 311 and put grab-and-go meals in schools to reach New Yorkers and students in need.

Even as the pandemic forced officials to “quickly and aggressively” address the increase in food insecurity, “many City agencies struggled to adapt” according to the testimony of Charles Platkin, executive director at Hunter College’s NYC Food Policy Center, during a June 2021 public hearing of the city council general welfare committee.

Between April and July 2020, New York State and the New York City Council passed over 30 pieces of legislation focused on emergency food programs or helping the restaurant industry, the food study reported.

Government-led food initiatives struggled to get an appropriate amount and variety of food out.

There were complaints that food was “spoiled, unhealthy, or not culturally appropriate,” said Platkin.

Nelson said she called 311 for city food deliveries during that time but didn’t want the meat in the kosher boxes and said the vegetarian options didn’t look so “healthy.” Eventually, she began cooking for herself and going out to farmer’s markets.

“Yesterday, I did the 5K run for the first time in Brownsville. I’m 60 years

markets for every $5 they spend on a food benefit card. Many farmers’ markets will accept SNAP/EBT, WIC, and senior coupons as well.

Bodegas, not known for having an abundance of fresh fruit and vegetables, were encouraged to stock up on more. However, price gouging drove the prices up not just for hand sanitizer, face masks and disinfectant sprays but basic food staples, like eggs, bread, and milk. Major food suppliers and independent grocers were caught jacking up prices city and statewide.

The Office of the Attorney General Letitia James (OAG) said they received more than 7,000 complaints of excessive prices and issued more than 1,565 cease-and-desist orders to businesses.

“This is definitely a crisis we’re in, in the way all these prices are raised up in supermarkets as well as local bodegas. People are just hurting,” said Staten Island food advocate and community district leader Robert Perkins.

“You name it there’s not one thing that didn’t go up.”

Overall in 2020, nearly a million households in New York City were SNAP recipients, according to a city data tracker. And many relied on pandemic food benefit cards (P-EBT) to get by.

A lot left to be done Major and minor food distribution organizations, food pantries, and soup kitchens were slammed by the increase in demand for food, which

led to many closing at the beginning of the crisis. The food pantries and soup kitchens left open saw a significant increase in visitors, often resulting in long lines, said Platkin, the head of NYC Food Policy Center.

Churches, organizers, and local officials pulled together to help but many did not have the resources required to reach every resident amid the chaos and confusion of the pandemic, said Platkin.

“We’ve been able to do a meaningful job considering, but there is more that needs to be done. By no stretch of the imagination have we been able to do it all,” said the Rev. Dr. Demetrius Carolina, who runs the First Central Baptist Church and the Central Family Life Center on Staten Island.

The city continued to grapple with the reality of lockdowns, civil unrest, protests, and a racial and criminal justice reckoning after the death of George Floyd in May 2020.

The need was simply overwhelming according to East New York native Jerome Nathaniel, the director of policy and government relations at City Harvest, a food rescue organization.

In February 2020, Nathaniel said City Harvest planned to deliver 70 million pounds of food over the course of the year, but they ended up giving out over 200 million pounds of food from March to August alone.

“I don’t think one organization, or one type of organization can do it. It would have to be food banks continuing to make sure people can eat tonight but also different organizations that touch on housing, medical, and child care,” said Nathaniel, “and then public policy can’t do it alone either.”

Nathaniel said the same neighborhoods that have limited access to food are the same ones that got hit the hardest by COVID, have high rents, inadequate wages, and less transportation, which is by “design” and structurally racist in some cases.

Council Member Cornegy said people couldn’t access good, healthy food because of quarantine and unemployment in Bedstuy. He said “cracking the code” on how to reach seniors in particular in the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) developments in his district was difficult.

“We started here on the plaza and then realized that there were people who were two blocks in proximity–– that to them this was a whole different world,” said Cornegy about going mobile with the operation.

The nursing home Feddoes works at is located on Long Island, but she declined to say which one. She has to commute from Bedstuy, and sometimes gets to Long Island two hours early and comes home late at night.

She has a daughter in California, a sister and niece in Brooklyn, and a mother back home in Saint Vincent that she sends money to. She said that she usually relies on overtime to help her pay all her bills, but that was not available last year.

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We didn’t listen.

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We’ve done hard things before, we do them all the time.

For most cancer patients, the usual options are surgery, chemotherapy, or radiation.

So we’re working on ways to get the immune system to deploy billions of cancer-killing cells and help more patients survive.

When some people experienced mysterious COVID symptoms and had nowhere to go, our team created the first Center for Post-COVID Care.

It wasn’t that long ago we had to open up your whole chest for heart surgery. Now we’re pioneering a bypass that goes through a few tiny incisions. With this surgery, we can get you back on your feet in weeks instead of months.

So if anyone ever tells you there’s no other way—don’t listen.

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Education Black community cites possible side effects as top reason for not receiving COVID-19 vaccine

By STEPHON JOHNSON Amsterdam News Staff The most recent Household Pulse Survey from the Census Bureau offers insights into people’s reasoning for getting or not getting vaccinated against COVID19. Conducted in mid-October, it asked whether or not respondents were vaccinated, if they planned to be, and their reasons for not getting the vaccine.

The results show 81% of Black respondents were vaccinated, which was equal to 81% of Hispanic respondents, but fewer than the 93% of Asian and 82% of white adult respondents, according to a Word In Black analysis.

When it came to people ages 12-17 (the vaccine was not yet available for younger kids at the time of the survey), the Black population was the least vaccinated, which has been a trend during the pandemic. Only 46% of Black kids ages 12-17 were vaccinated, according to the survey, compared to 58% of white kids, 61% of Hispanic kids and 88% of Asian kids.

Of the adult respondents who weren’t vaccinated, 12% said they would “definitely” go get the vaccine, which was the highest among the groups, and 36% said they “will definitely not” get the vaccine, which was the lowest among the groups.

It was nearly the same response for the 12-17 age bracket, with 8%, the highest, saying they will “definitely” get the vaccine and 9%, an average response, saying they definitely won’t.

“It’s hard as a physician and as a mom to get everyone to trust us and to get vaccinated, and I can tell you that the vaccine works, because my husband and I were negative, and so that lets me know and should let everyone know that the vaccine works and it keeps us safe,” Dr. Whitney Lyn, with the Cook County Department of Public Health, told WTTW after her kids tested

residents in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, Staten Island, the rates stand at 52, 53, 58, 53, and 55% respectively.

But things are looking up according to New York City Council Member and Chair of the City Council Committee on Hospital Carlina Rivera. “…As of today, 88% of New York City adults have had at least one dose of the vaccine, 88%,” said Rivera during New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s media briefing on Tuesday. “Staggering figure. You did that. As of today, 75% of all residents, all ages have had at least one shot. That’s amazing. And as of today, over a hundred thousand of our 5to 11-year-olds are already vaccinated. They’ve gotten their first shot. Over a hundred thousand already. This is something that’s just been available for the last couple of weeks. But parents are showing up. Kids are showing up. It’s working. We got a lot more to do. But it’s a great strong start.”

For the 12-17 age bracket, three responses had big discrepancies: the cost of the vaccine (it’s free to everyone, and health insurance is not required), the parent or guardian doesn’t vaccinate their children, and believing that other people have a higher need.

Black respondents were more than twice as likely to pick these options.

Though this survey was conducted before people aged 5-11 were able to get vaccinated, it offers insights into what vaccinations might look like in each group once down, Black New York City data becomes available.

The Census Bureau’s Household Pulse surveys offer more insight into vaccine hesitancy

positive for the virus.

When it came to reasons for not receiving the vaccine, concern with the possible side effects was the top response among Black respondents for both age categories.

It was also one of the top answers for all groups in both age brackets.

Among the adults, the biggest discrepancy among reasons for not getting the vaccine is for the option “Don’t Think COVID is a Big

Threat.” While more than 20% of each Hispanic, white and Asian respondents picked this reason, only 8% of Black respondents did.

Throughout the pandemic, Black Americans have been dying at higher rates than other groups.

When checking New York City’s statistics, Black New Yorkers have the lowest rates of people with at least one dose of the COVID vaccine (53%). When broken

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Out & About Soul Train 2021 at the Apollo

Nightlife

BET’s 2021 Soul Train Awards a magnificent Harlem world affair

El Debarge and Fat Joe

The 2021 Soul Train Awards culminated its whirlwind week in New York with one more local stop before the hippest trip in America departure. On Sunday, Nov. 21, the locomotive pulled up to Harlem’s Marcus Garvey Park with a purpose in mind: to usurp the world record of World’s Larg(Nayaba Arinde photo)

Soul Train line

“He’s so incredible. He’s done so much for us. That’s what the whole summary of the Apollo and the Soul Train Awards is— you get El Debarge.”

Will there be a collaboration perhaps with the two of them?

“Yes we will. Very shortly too. It’s in the works. That’s news for the Amsterdam News!”

Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams hosts fifth annual ‘Plantsgiving’ No turkeys were hurt during the proceedings as Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams hosted the fifth annual bird-free “Plantsgiving” distribution at Brooklyn Borough Hall, on the eve of the final Thanksgiving of his tenure as borough president. At the event, which was sponsored

by Wegmans, UA3, Kate Farms, The Campaign Against Hunger, Men Elevating Leadership, and National Grid, volunteers helped to distribute more than 5,000 pounds of produce to Brooklynites in need for the upcoming holiday. Lines and lines of pallets of veggies were lined up for churches to collect from dawn till early evening.

The event highlighted Adams’ ongoing commitment to ending food insecurity while promoting a healthy lifestyle for all Brooklynites, which stems from his health journey of overcoming Type 2 diabetes with a whole-food, plant-based diet. Through Brooklyn Borough Hall’s programs, capital allocations, land use recommendations and policy proposals, Adams has sought to

(Nayaba Arinde photo)

create a healthier borough and reduce rates of chronic disease, which disproportionately impacts low-income residents and communities of color.

“Our annual Plantsgiving distribution is all about giving back: to our neighbors, our communities, and our borough. Even amid the challenges of the past year, the fact that we get to gather with friends and loved ones to share a holiday meal should inspire gratitude.

Borough Hall has been so fortunate to work with some amazing partners on these annual distributions, and I want to personally extend my thanks to all of them for making this event possible, and for serving the entire borough in various ways. I wish a happy, restful, and safe Thanksgiving to all,” said Adams.

as well as celebrate the 50th anniversary of Soul Train and the premiere of the 2021 “Soul Train Awards,” taping for the first time ever at the World Famous Apollo in New York City.

“BET is proud to support the communities we serve and looks forward to providing

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The 2021 BET Soul Train Awards taped their “star-studded evening celebrating 50 years of the iconic Soul Train legacy,” recorded at Harlem’s World Famous Apollo, for Nov. 28, 2021 broadcast. There singer El DeBarge and rapper Fat Joe gave the Amsterdam News an exclusive quote when asked that indeed,

Written by David Goodson

est Soul Train Line. DJ Scratch and DJ Enuf staffed the wheels and steel with eclectic selections from Slave, James Brown, TS Monk, Queen, Freedom, Beyonce, Michael Jackson and of course a steady dose of hip hop to get the lines moving to the targeted number to beat, 426 people. The community at large, passersby, dance organizations, HBCU alum chapters and even the boys in blue (the NYPD) pooled their efforts and were rewarded at roughly 3 p.m. with the announcement from Guinness World Records official Christine Fernandez; she witnessed that the criteria was met and that a new world record had been set. The new standard is 536, enough to break the record from Goodyear Ballpark in Arizona, which called a soul train line of 426 dancers in 2014.

Going into the first-ever 2021 “Soul Train Awards” weekend, a multiplatform experience celebrating the best in culture, commerce, entertainment and music, the three-day event looked to impact the community at large

grass-roots experiences beyond the screen that highlight the best in Black culture,” said BET President Scott Mills.

“We look forward to embracing our audience with a warm ‘hug’ after more than a year of elevated health, financial and mental disparities,” added Staci Hallmon, general manager, BET L!VE. “We can’t wait to kick off our first-ever ‘Soul Train Awards’ Weekend experience with on-the-ground events specially designed to celebrate the annual tentpole event and the resiliency of NYC.” Mission accomplished and objective completed. The 2021 Soul Train Awards presented by BET premieres Sunday, Nov. 28, at 8 p.m. ET on BET and BET Her. The show will simulcast internationally on BET Africa at 2 a.m. CAT on Nov. 29 and air on BET France Dec. 1 at 10:30 p.m. CET. The show will also be available to watch on My5 and Sky On-Demand, in the U.K., beginning Dec. 3 Over and out. Holla next week.

Til then enjoy your turkey day and then the nightlife.

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Union Matters Staten Island Amazon workers pause organizing effort

By STEPHON JOHNSON Amsterdam News Staff It had a spark when it started, but now it’s over.

Last week, Amazon workers on Staten Island withdrew their petition to unionize less than a few weeks before a hearing would show the amount of interest workers had in organizing. Organizers must submit signatures from at least 30% of the workers on staff to hold a hearing with the National Labor Relations Board. In this case, organizers had to acquire 30% of 5,500 workers at the Staten Island location.

The AmNews contacted the original organizers of the Staten Island campaign multiple times to no avail.

Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union head Stuart Appelbaum told the AmNews that this shouldn’t deter the first-time organizers from making another attempt. However, does the consistent turnover of Amazon employees render any organizing flawed and on shaky ground?

Appelbaum told the AmNews to look back several months ago at a successful campaign against the online retail giant.

“People all over the world, people like in Bessemer, Alabama, people in Staten Island, and people in Europe and elsewhere in the world are all complaining about the same sorts of things,” he said. “And that’s why there is high turnover at every Amazon warehouse.”

In June, workers at an Amazon

No room for harassment and violence in our retail stores Stuart Appelbaum President, Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, Twitter: @sappelbaum. www.rwdsu.org

Retail sales in the U.S. are already surging as holiday shoppers are checking their lists and buying their gifts for the 2021 holiday season. It’s important that consumers are returning to stores this holiday season, but we are also concerned about an alarming uptick in harassment and abuse directed at retail workers, especially this year.

Retail workers in New York—including thousands of RWDSU members at stores including Macy’s, Bloomingdale’s, H&M, Zara, Guitar Center, and more—are eager to welcome customers back into stores this holiday season. However, workers are experiencing increased aggression and poor treatment from stressed out shoppers.

It’s been a tough time for retail workers in the U.S. and across the globe.

Besides the risks to the health of workers and their families that’s hung over retail during the entire pandemic, violence, abuse, and harassment on the job skyrocketed. Tensions rose as stores and governments instituted mask, social distancing, and other COVID safety protocols, and retail workers bore the brunt of customers’ anger, often fueled by misinformation and extreme political rhetoric. Workers were yelled at, spat upon, coughed on, and worse. Some workers have even been shot at—and some murdered—by irrational customers over mask and COVID restrictions.

This type of behavior toward retail

workers needs to end, and can’t simply be shrugged off as “part of the job.” We owe it to these retail workers—who have courageously served us throughout the darkest days of the pandemic—to make this a stressfree holiday season. Even in the best of times, the holiday season is very stressful for workers at retail stores and supermarkets. Big crowds, irritable customers, hectic days and the need for workers themselves to take care of their own holiday obligations can all weigh heavily on workers’ shoulders this time of year. In 2021, however, with the pandemic still a part of our lives, this stress could be exponentially worse. All of this is aggravated by a shortage of goods caused by supply chain problems this holiday season. Retail workers can become the target of shoppers’ frustration when customers hear that coveted holiday items are stuck on shipping containers at sea and have been backordered for months, especially if they’ve gone to multiple stores only to go home empty-handed.

This holiday season, we need to treat retail workers with dignity and respect, and we must understand that our own stress and the problems we are experiencing shouldn’t be placed on the shoulders of working people. Workers are not to blame. Stores should provide security, safety protocols and training to handle problems that may arise. It’s a time to come together this holiday season and do everything we can to reduce stress and anxiety for each other, and especially retail workers. A little extra kindness and understanding will go a very long way this holiday season.

fulfillment center in Bessemer, Alabama tried to organize to form a union and to collectively bargain so that they could ask for better wages, benefits, and work conditions. They accused Amazon of tampering with the voting process, which led to an eventual loss in the election.

RWDSU officials then filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) challenging the results and accusing Amazon of violating parts of the National Labor Relations Act. In August, the NLRB confirmed that Amazon interfered with the election process, while the company denied any wrongdoing.

Another clash between those two will happen soon when workers vote for a second time. Amazon officials have already, according to Reuters,

public comments about wanting to hear from employees (directly, rather than through a union), voicing skepticism that a union would have support from the employees, and circulating anti-union communications,” said Vincent. “It is a different warehouse, a different state, and a different set of employees. It is too early to know what will happen, but we are seeing the same trends.

“Employees are frustrated and want better working conditions and benefits,” Vincent continued.

“Amazon is sticking with what has worked for them in the past. At this point, I am waiting and watching.”

According to a report by The New York Times, the employee turnover rate at Amazon is 150%.

Appelbaum told the AmNews that

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Staten Island workers at Amazon quash organizing effort…for now.

made workers sit in on meetings, littered bathroom walls with antiunion propaganda and they have flown in staff from in the west coast to talk to workers.

Attempts by the AmNews to contact Amazon were unsuccessful.

Lynne Vincent, an assistant professor with industrial and labor relations at Syracuse University’s Whitman School of Management, said in an emailed statement that Amazon’s actions in Bessemer and on Staten Island are yet again pushing its workers to want their employer to make their situation more comfortable.

“Amazon is using their anti-union tactics that we have seen before—

the workers on Staten Island deserve praise and that the fight isn’t over. They have other places to look to for examples around the globe.

“It worked in Alabama and elsewhere, that people are fed up, and they don’t feel that they should be treated this way,” said Appelbaum.

“And I think that everyone should be encouraged by seeing people standing up to Amazon, regardless of what’s the initial result.”

In a letter to shareholders earlier this year, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos promised everyone that he would make Amazon the planet’s “safest place to work.” According to workers on Staten Island, that hasn’t been the case.

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Opinion A bold agenda for quality education for Eric Adams

By ZAKIYAH ANSARI and VANESSA LEUNG

of addressing racial inequities. The devastation of COVID-19 has impacted all aspects of our great city, Earlier this month, voters elected Eric Adams mayor and our public schools, particularly those serving of New York City. This historic moment cannot be un- low-income, Black, Brown and immigrant children, derstated, as Mayor-elect Adams will be our city’s have felt the impacts of this devastation firsthand. second Black mayor. At the same time, Black leaders The Adams administration’s education success will of government have had the burden of “fixing every- be judged by the real commitments it makes to supthing” on their shoulders. Mayor-elect Adams’ shoul- port our most marginalized students, including those ders will also bear this burden. We are hopeful he will who are Black, Latinx, immigrant, refugee, low-inbe more than a mayor who talks and doesn’t deliver. come, living in transitional housing, English Language After eight years of promises from a self pro- Learners, LGBTQIA, and learning with disabilities, claimed “progressive” administration to end the and how it prioritizes cultivating nurturing environ“tale of two cities,” we have seen how a lack of ur- ments where they can thrive by following through and gency, plans, and commitment from outgoing delivering outcomes.

Mayor Bill de Blasio has stifled the critical work For decades, we have worked together, slowly chipping away While we are grateful in this holiday season for the number of at long-enBlack men being exonerated for crimes they did not commit, it trenched, would be even better if they had received justice before having harmful politheir lives irreparably disrupted, their youths forever erased. cies and strucThere was always the belief that something was amiss in the tures to push convictions of the three men charged in the murder of Malcolm our public edX (el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz), particularly after one of ucation system them confessed and testified that the others had noth- to adequateing to do with the assassination on Feb. 21, 1965 at the ly serve all of Audubon Ballroom. our students.

It has taken more than five decades for Muhammad The Alliance for Aziz and the late Khalil Islam to have their convic- Quality Educations exonerated, and even longer for four Black men tion this year in Groveland, Florida to have their convictions over- won a historturned. ic commitment In 1949, four Black men were accused of raping a white from NYS to woman and that false accusation precipitated Klan attacks on fully fund $4B the Black community and the murder of Ernest Thomas, one in foundation of the accused. aid to public Much more needs to be said about both these exonerations schools. I (Zaas they arrive on the heels of Kyle Rittenhouse being found kiyah) was a not guilty in killing two white men in Kenosha, Wisconsin and parent volunwounding another. teer when that The incidents, separated by years, reveal once more the dis- fight began 20 parity in criminal justice when it comes to trying white men years ago and and Black men. The conviction of Aziz and Islam was a gross in- currently serve justice that stemmed mainly from a failure to consider the pre- as the advocavailing evidence of innocence. In Groveland, the injustice was cy director. I (Vanessa) am the co-execua consequence of the unforgiving Jim Crow system so clear- tive director of the Coalition for American ly evident in southern parts of America back then—and today.

Children and Families (CACF), which adWe may see another instance of systemic racism, the un- vocates for equity and opportunity for checked assaults of white men with guns as the trial in Bruns- those most marginalized across the diwick, Georgia comes to an end. If an underage white boy can verse Asian American Pacific Islander cross state lines armed with an automatic rifle, and charge self- (AAPI) community, focusing on dismandefense in the murder of two men, we would love to be wrong tling the damaging model minority myth. in our feelings that a similar acquittal will not occur in Georgia.

I am also the chair of the Panel for EduYes, Georgia is on our mind and so is the spate of exoner- cation Policy, and a public school parent. ations now occurring underscoring the injustices in the past.

We have stayed committed through administrations and chancellors, shifts in structures and priorities, and seen endeavors succeed, go wrong, or be set up to fail.

For example, as members of the New York City Council’s Middle School Taskforce, we worked in collaboration with the NYC DOE and private funders and launched the Middle School Quality Initiative (MSQI), an instructional intervention for improving literacy levels in NYC middle schools.

As a successful partnership between elected officials, the NYC DOE, and community leaders, this model should be replicated.

As such, we refuse to be siloed in the fight to improve our education system—we are

A season of exonerations!

at our best when we are in community. Recently, we partnered as members of New Yorkers for Racially Just Public Schools (RJPS), a grassroots coalition working to ensure that city and state education budget and policy decisions regarding schooling are centered on racial and educational justice. Our collective is united on a set of core beliefs, grounded in empathy and our full humanity: every New York City student deserves an education that is high-quality, transformative, culturally responsive, and diverse, providing tools and opportunities for all students to equitably participate in democracy, enter the workforce, and ultimately reach their fullest potential.

RJPS previously released a broad and comprehen-

EDITORIAL

“We have the opportunity to build a public school system that puts the needs of students it has historically marginalized first in all decisions, defining their well-being and success as the measure of its strength.”

sive agenda for racially just schools, and now, we invite Mayor-elect Eric Adams and the next chancellor to consider our Bold Vision for Quality Education. Our vision coupled with the billions in pandemic relief dollars we received from the federal government can transform our schools.

We have the opportunity to build a public school system that puts the needs of students it has historically marginalized first in all decisions, defining their well-being and success as the measure of its strength.

Indeed, we know our own children and grandchildren’s success in our public schools is inherently linked to the system’s success—and, crucially, the system cannot be deemed successful if it continues to neglect our most marginalized students.

As we move towards an Adams administration, we are ready to collaborate where there is alignment around his education goals, yet we remain committed and ready to hold this administration accountable alongside our allies: the way we have for decades past.

Zakiyah Ansari is the advocacy director of the New York State Alliance for Quality Education (AQE). Vanessa Leung is the co-executive director of the Coalition for Asian American Children and Families (CACF) and chair of the Panel for Education Policy.

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As we approach Thanksgiving, it’s customary to look back on the preceding year. It’s a chance to consider the good and the bad and identify where we can make improvements.

There are no obstacles we can’t conquer if we have faith, love, and an open mind.

By every objective metric, the year 2021 has been a rollercoaster of a year. The year began similarly to the previous one, with the majority of the country remaining under lockdown. Then, with the certification of the 2020 election and the January 6 demonstrations, the culmination of four years of intensive politics reached its apex just after the year began. Indeed, Joe Biden was sworn in as president and assumed command of a country in shambles. One sincerely hoped he could make a good difference. Patience is essential, of course.

To many, it seems, their aspirations have been continually dashed by our new president. Millions of Americans’ pockets are being emptied by inflation, as prices for practically all necessary commodities have risen. Everything from pet food to gasoline has virtually doubled in price, but earnings have remained unchanged or, in some cases, even decreased. Meanwhile, we are facing a severe labor shortage, with millions of people simply refusing to work.

People have discovered that it pays better to not work and instead collect government paychecks as a result of the extravagant stimulus packages that continued under Biden. Businesses are shutting as a result of a lack of staffing.

Others, on the other hand, see the new president as a role model, a beacon of hope, and the leader who is ready, willing, and able to mend our country and lift us out of the abyss. Whatever your political views, this Thanksgiving, like all other Thanksgivings, should be free of provocative political speech and incendiary political stories.

Thanksgiving is a day for family and friends to gather together, not to stay apart. That is why, despite the suffering we have endured over the past two years, we should all be grateful just to be here with one another.

COVID-19 was the black swan event of

2020, and we hoped it would be finished soon as we approached 2021. Yet, despite Biden inheriting a vaccine that prevented nearly all deaths from COVID-19, in the waves of the pandemic a new issue arose; that issue is the opioid crisis. The continuous surge in drug overdose mortality among our young is arguably more concerning than the deaths from COVID-19. More than 100,000 Americans have died as a result of drug usage so far in 2021. This far-reaching epidemic affects millions, regardless of their race, religion, sex, or income class. Our children have become hooked on opioids; they change their brain’s chemical composition, and they place them on a path to death. Like COVID-19, many families will be missing loved ones over Thanksgiving this year, only this time it is youth rather than the elderly who are the victims.

Even more epidemics have arisen that have become cause for great concern. While our population is rapidly dwindling, our new neighbors, illegal immigrants from South America, are quickly replenishing our numbers. President Biden, who ran on a platform of open borders, has kept his word. Every month, tens of thousands of people enter the nation illegally, and our border agents have no means of stopping them. Those that are apprehended are allowed to remain in the country and are never required to appear in immigration court. Foreigners, as it turns out, are practically invading our nation, and we have no control over it.

As we near the end of the year, I urge my fellow Americans to work together to overcome partisanship and find a common ground. We should heed the words of our Founding Fathers when they declared the first Thanksgiving. Surely, the day was not designated for getting drunk and eating turkey. In truth, Thanksgiving was founded as a day to express gratitude to the Lord for the benefits He has bestowed upon us. I hope that internalizing that message allows us to see that there is more to life than fighting and dragging others down. Our mission is to improve the world around us so that future generations will have a better place to live. For this Thanksgiving, that is my prayer.

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

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Thanksgiving is upon us CHRISTINA

GREER PH.D. Many people have mixed feelings about Thanksgiving.

Knowing the history of colonization, subjugation, and mass genocide committed by white settlers toward Native peoples across this country is an unsettling reality when compared to the narrative most of us were taught in elementary school—that of a happy and peace-filled dinner between pilgrims and Native people. We know the idea of Thanksgiving is nothing more than one of the many myths created by settlers to mythologize the founding of this country and disguise the truth and the glaring atrocities committed for hundreds of years.

Those realities exist and it is my hope that many of us reflect on the land in which we now live and work. It is also my hope that for those of us fortunate enough to gather around the table with family and friends, we are thankful for the sacrifices others have endured for us to be able to have this moment of reflection.

I try to use Thanksgiving as a time to really sit with my countless blessings.

The most obvious area of thanksgiving is the abundance of food on the table and the laughter coming from almost every corner of the house. I know so many families will have an empty seat at the table this year, having lost loved ones to the coronavirus, the racist incarceration system, or some other ailment. I know some families may have had to scale back this year because their financial security is not what it used to be. Others may be celebrating Thanksgiving in a new locale due to housing insecurity or eviction.

I will be thinking of so many different families this year as I sit down with my family and friends. So many soup kitchens and pantries are stocked for Thanksgiving due to the generosity of strangers. However, many of these important institutions need people to show their generosity throughout the year.

One of the organizations I support on a monthly basis is Fuel the People. They are guided by the belief that, “Food is the fuel for the revolution; Fuel The People works to provide nourishment to protestors on the front lines, support local Black and POC-owned restaurants and businesses, and donate to local organizations who work tirelessly to support Black liberation.

The fight for liberation and justice goes beyond protests, and we must remember that Black joy and prosperity are also worth fighting for.”

There are so many organizations doing the work to provide meals and solidarity to people in need. I hope this holiday season as you take stock of your many blessings, large and small, you remember to support the many organizations doing the work year round.

Happy Thanksgiving to all of our readers and thank you for being a part of my extended Amsterdam News family. Wishing you and yours a safe holiday season.

Christina Greer, Ph.D., is an associate professor at Fordham University, the author of “Black Ethnics: Race, Immigration, and the Pursuit of the American Dream,” and the co-host of the podcast FAQ-NYC.

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Caribbean Update

Several Caribbean countries lift COVID restrictions while appealing for more jabs

By BERT WILKINSON Special to the AmNews

With the availability of COVID-19 vaccines at a relatively high rate in the Caribbean Community, several governments have moved in the past month to lift emergency restrictions, tweak night time curfews and ease limits to social activities as they struggle to normalize life while keeping an eye on new infections and fatalities.

The cabinet of Prime Minister Keith Rowley of Trinidad recently ended more than a year of emergency restrictions and abandoned nightly curfews which had had bar owners and restaurateurs complaining bitterly about revenue losses and mounting debts, including facility rentals.

But even as locals are now beginning to enjoy some of the pre-March 2020 social and other freedoms, authorities in the twin island republic of Tobago complained this week about a surge in the number of fatalities with a record 48 deaths over the weekend. The spike

pushed Rowley to make yet another appeal for citizens to get vaccinated as the “reports are that we had the largest number of citizens dying in a day from the pandemic—28 people––and in fact the virus is still raging throughout the world, through Europe and the United States and, of course, through the Caribbean. We are not out of it but we are, in fact, choosing to fight to survive and all I can say to you tonight on this platform is the most important admonition I can give you, protect yourself from this virus. Get vaccinated. The vaccines are the only response that can give us any improvement in our physical condition to escape the ravages of the virus,” he said.

In neighboring Guyana, authorities have moved the curfew to midnight to 4 a.m. from 6 p.m. a year ago as officials say they are encouraged by the fact that 51% of the adult population has been fully vaccinated but some outlying regions have rates as low as 23%. Medical authorities in Trinidad are also reporting a jab rate in excess of 50%. Flights

between Guyana and Brazil and land border crossing with Brazil and Suriname have been allowed to resume in earnest after months of restrictions.

Awash with a wide array of vaccines including Sputnik V from Russia, others from China, the U.S., England and India, Guyanese officials say schools could even be opened in some of the administrative regions in January if children between the ages of five to 18 years continue to be inoculated against the virus.

“We are not going to be able to stay home anymore so shortly this country will resume to full normalcy in the classroom. Before long, sooner rather than later, we are going to go back to full return to the classroom,” Education Minister Priya Manickchand said recently.

Meanwhile, the Gaston Browne administration in Antigua is now allowing bars, restaurants and clubs to reopen to fully vaccinated patrons but the 11 p.m. curfew remains in effect. Nearby Barbados has pushed up its curfew by three hours to midnight as the country prepares to celebrate 55 years as an inde-

pendent nation and as it prepares to dump Britain’s Queen Elizabeth as its head of state and replace her with Afro Barbadian governor general Sandra Mason at month end.

“If things get out of hand, we know how to bring it back. The easing of the curfew is no excuse for people to abandon the protocols and to abandon in particular mask wearing, or the other things that are necessary to keep us safe. We also recognize that parallel to what we are doing here, that as I said, we will expand and roll out the safety zones such that persons can feel more comfortable in doing what they have to do,” Prime Minister Mia Mottley said.

In the north Caribbean, The Bahamas and Jamaica have taken similar measures with the new Bahamian government doing away with night time curfews while still requiring mask mandates and other health protocols. Jamaica has maintained its 8 p.m. curfew but officials are to review this in mid December while preparing to announce amended measures for the Christmas holidays.

Is Beto O’Rourke right to criticize Biden on immigration?

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IMMIGRATION KORNER On Sunday, Nov. 21, Beto O’Rourke, the former Democratic Party U.S. congressman who is running for governor of Texas, criticized President Joe Biden for a lack of urgency on pursuing a revamp of immigration laws.

O’Rourke said he will distance himself from the White House in his underdog campaign, telling CNN’s “State of the Union” program on Sunday: “I do not think we have seen enough urgency when it comes to rewriting our immigration laws to match the needs and the reality that we see, especially in our border communities. So, yes, we expect more of our president and those who represent us in Congress.”

So, is O’Rourke, right? Sure, he is.

Let’s take a look at what has happened since Biden and his first Black, Asian and Caribbean American Veep, Kamala Harris, took office.

Biden has kept in place Title 42, the controversial order first implemented by Donald Trump last year, that allows migrants to be immediately expelled without an opportunity to seek asylum in light of the pandemic.

Biden has deported thousands, including almost 10,000 back to Haiti, a country that is now being run by gangs and is in a mega-crisis after the assassination of its president in July and the earthquake that followed in August.

Biden’s veep and appointed immigration czar, Harris, has been famously MIA from the issue and largely missing from public view, leading many to question what exactly her role in the administration is.

She has also been largely missing from negotiations on the Hill over lobbying efforts for inclusion of immigration reform in the Build Back Better Act. The weakness of the veep is evident to many and it›s hard to see her running for president in 2024 even with Biden’s blessings.

Luckily the Build Back Better Act passed the House on Nov. 19 with immigration measures that would allow undocumented people present in the U.S. since before 2011, up to 10 years of work authorization. It, however, fell short of an initial goal to offer them a pathway to citizenship.

The bill also includes long-term work permits and protections for 7 million hard-working immigrant essential workers that will help prevent family separation, stabilize the workforce, boost the economy, and create jobs, according to Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) Chair Raúl Ruiz (D-Calif.).

The measure also offers a sort of waiver to immigration laws, using a process known as parole, to allow people to stay in the country for five years, with the option to extend for another five years thereafter.

It is the most extensive immigration reform package passed by the House in 35 years, albeit in a much-reduced version from what advocates sought.

The provisions fall way short of what Biden and Harris as well as most Democrats’ ran on and promoted––the goal of providing a pathway to citizenship for an estimated 11 million undocumented people living in the U.S. With Democrats barely controlling the Senate and with Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema against filibuster, the House-passed bill will now go to the Senate under reconciliation rules, in an effort to sidestep the filibuster rule.

The parliamentarian, an unelected official who provides counsel on Senate rules, has already said that the first two Democratic immigration proposals were incompatible with reconciliation, warning they went beyond a budgetary impact and represented a substantial change in policy.

The third proposal—with the parole option included in the passed House bill—has yet to be presented to the parliamentarian, so it›s unclear if she will reject this as well.

If it is rejected as well, Democrats will face a tough fight in 2022 to hold on to the House and the Senate, as immigrant voters and independents in support of immigration reform turn their backs on the Party.

It’s unclear how Manchin and Sinema will vote on this bill, as they have already signaled that they don’t support every item in the House’s bill.

While Sinema said she supports the current package’s immigration proposals, she has also acknowledged there are “legal limitations to what can be done in a reconciliation package.”

Manchin for his part has told Fox News that he generally did not support changes to immigration policy that were not accompanied by enhanced border security.

“For us to even be talking about immigration without border security is ludicrous,” he said earlier this month.

The fact is that O’Rourke is right. The Biden White House has not shown its real vigilance on the hot button issue and has largely kept in place the Trumpian strategy on the southern border crisis and in dealing with Haitians and Central American migrants. Beto is absolutely right to distance himself from the administration that is a mega disappointment to immigrants and immigrant voters.

The writer is publisher of NewsAmericasNow

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Louis, Narcisse join protest against pesticide plant in Flatbush

By ARIAMA C. LONG Report for America Corps Member, Amsterdam News Staff Brooklyn community members gathered to fight against placing a pesticide warehouse and lab, located at 1427 Ralph Avenue in Flatbush, in their neighborhood for a second time after they told the City ‘no’ to the facility back in March.

Flatlands Flatbush Civic Group, Utica to Flatbush Initiative, and other groups were joined by Councilmembers Farah Louis and newly elected Mercedes Narcisse, a rep from Public Advocate’ Jumaane Williams’ office, and male District Leader for the 58th Assembly Cory Provost among others this Thursday, Nov. 11, at the rally outside of the facility fences.

“We’ve been fighting this for months. We won. We won the fight and now they’re finding ways to come back,” said Louis at the rally.

“It’s not fair. We don’t want it. We said we didn’t want it and we still don’t want it.”

The pesticide facility is on the same block as a school bus and ambulance depot as well as several long-standing African and Caribbean food facilities and other food distribution centers.

Places like Gitto’s African Farmers Market and Good Food For Less, said concerned Flatbush resident Jamaal Carryl, have been staple, open-air markets in the community since the ’90s.

Carryl said that there are plenty of products and produce in uncovered barrels or on display without packaging found at the year-round market. He worries that exposure to the plant could be harmful for the food and customers, but also spread because of the food distribution network being so close to the poison storage site.

Steven Fox, from the Public Advocate’s office, said that the proximity to food markets was especially a concern. Fox said that it simply wasn’t “common sense” to store food next to poison. “The answer is only one thing, my guess is cheap property,” said Fox as to why the city would venture to do so.

On March 17, 2021, the community was initially incensed when told that Mayor Bill de Blasio and the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) were planning on putting a large pest control office, lab, and storage space near the borderline of Community Boards 18 and 17 that would service all of the city. Some community members rallied against it.

Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, currently transitioning to his position as mayor, disapproved of the proposal on April 13, and

on May 18, both DOHMH and Department of Citywide Administrative Services issued an immediate withdrawal of their land use application in a letter to the Department City of Planning.

“We want to be responsive to community concerns and make sure there is ample time for community awareness and education, so we withdraw the ULURP application,” said Sheila Benjamin, DOHMH assistant commissioner in the letter.

In response to Amsterdam News’ inquiries about the withdrawal, DOHMH’s Michael Lanza said that they are currently “reviewing the community’s concerns” and that no decisions have been made. He said that they are in communication with community leaders. DOHMH did not respond to further questions about the community rally or environmental impact to the food distribution centers behind the building by post time.

Gerard Brewster of Utica to Flatbush Initiatives said that DOHMH has had “ex-parte meetings” with Community Board 18 but has failed to reach out to the very loud community groups across the district that are against the facility.

Because the pesticide plant falls near the border of two city council districts and community boards, Narcisse said that she is happy to support a neighboring district’s concerns. “The community has spoken, they don’t want it in their backyard and it’s potentially dangerous and I’m standing with them,” said Narcisse.

Narcisse also pointed out that as part of the ballot proposals just voted on in the general election, 82.13% of voters chose yes to having a right to clean air, clean water, and a healthful environment. The government can’t “infringe” on these environmental rights, and if they do, people will have the power to sue.

Provost called the city “disrespectful” and “downright wrong” for filling the Flatbush community with storage facilities and now the pesticide plant. “Let this mayor know on his way out he can take this pesticide with him,” said Provost.

Requests for comment from Adams’ office, or incoming Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, weren’t returned by post time.

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DOC NYC wraps 11th annual showcase

By NADINE MATTHEWS Special to the AmNews

playbook eerily similar to that used in D.C. after the election of Barack Obama, America’s first Black president. Washington improbably overcame his antagonists and went on to being one of America’s most widely celebrated political figures.

“Attica”

DOC NYC, America’s largest documentary film festival, just wrapped its eleventh annual showcase of the best in nonfiction filmmaking of the past year.

See below for our picks of must-watch films, most of which are now or soon will be available on your various streaming or cable services.

“Sing, Freetown” A brilliant chronicling of two creatives with vastly different personalities trying to collaborate on a play that holds overwhelming significance. One is Sierra Leone’s most famous expatriate, London-based journalist Sorius Samura. The other Charlie Haffner, Sorius’ one-time mentor and sometime hero. With a strong narrative bent, combining humor, suspense, drama, pathos, and hope, “Sing Freetown” is not your average documentary

“Grandpa Was an Emperor” Reggae legend Bob Marley, who had great respect for Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie, helped save the royal’s great-granddaughter’s life when she was a young girl. Now she takes us with her on a painful journey back in time as she recalls how a coup resulted in many members of her family, including her father, being executed and many others jailed for many years.

“Citizen Ashe”

“Subject of Desire” Using the 2018 Miss Black America Pageant as its entry point, “Subject of Desire” is an insightful, thoughtful argument about the ways that the idea of beauty has been weaponized against Black women “Kevin Garnett: Anything Is Possible” and girls throughout history in order to deny them You’ll smile until your cheeks hurt… then you’ll cry. access to power.

A masterful study of the importance of teamwork, the skill involved in crafting team dynamics for success, “The Photograph” and the limitless talent and charisma of Kevin GarLegendary Harlem Renaissance photographer nett, one the most authentic individuals to ever hit James Van Der Zee perfected the art of capturing the hardwood. Featuring Doc Rivers, Bill Russell, Paul Black people and their lives with great dignity at Pierce, Danny Ainge, Isaiah Thomas, and many more. a time when the world generally afforded them little. Told through the eyes of a man who found “The Rumba Kings” a photo of his beloved grandfather that was taken A pleasing look at the growth of Congolese Rumba, by the storied photographer, “The Photograph” is as its namesake African country neared the official a thought-provoking travelogue through Harlem, end of Belgium’s official colonial rule. The doc illusa world unto its own. trates how the musical style instilled a much needed sense of pride to a people brutalized by the Belgian “Bree Way: Promise, Witness, Remembrance” regime. A plethora of archival photos, insightful Painter Amy Sherald asked Breonna Taylor’s commentary from Congolese music journalists, and fiance permission to use the engagement ring he extensive footage of musical performances make never got to officially put on Taylor’s finger, in her this a rich and rewarding watch. portrait of the young woman tragically murdered in her bed by Kentucky police. Filmmaker Dawn “Punch 9 for Harold Washington” Porter features Sherald and Taylor’s mother and A timely look at the election of Chicago’s first other family members to paint a touching por- Black mayor in 1983, and the reaction of the entrait of the people Taylor touched both when she trenched political machine bent on stymying lived as well as when she died. any and all of Washington’s initiatives; a political

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“Attica” A seminal event in New York state history was the overtaking of Attica State Prison by inmates in 1971. Told from the perspective of former inmates who participated in the uprising, and families of the guards who worked there, filmmaker Stanley Nelson’s compelling retelling is a must-see even with its many very hard to watch moments.

“The Slow Hustle” Actress Sonja Sohn (The Wire) directed and co-produced this troubling look at how the Baltimore Police Department, and the city’s political machine, mishandled the investigation of the on-duty death of one of their own.

“Citizen Ashe” Highlighting the importance of access in successful outcomes, “Citizen Ashe” is an engaging portrait of one of the most important and beloved figures in American sports history: Arthur Ashe, who literally grew up on a tennis court.

“Black and Missing” Produced by journalist Soledad O’Brien, this four-episode series chronicles the work of the Black and Missing Foundation, created to address the neglectful manner in which media and law enforcement treat missing Black girls and women. Also retraces cases such Relisha Rudd, Tameka Houston, Pam Butler, and others, and the herculean efforts involved with getting them on the radars of mainstream media. Also features John Walsh, Glenn Kushner.

“Summer of Soul” Produced by Questlove, most of the footage in this rousing documentary is over 50 yearsold. The Harlem Culture Festival put on a concert in Mt. Morris Park in 1969, at the same time as Woodstock, which took place some 100 miles away in upstate New York. While Woodstock became an iconic symbol of American music history, the Harlem Culture Festival was quickly pushed aside and forgotten until now. Featuring Stevie Wonder, Sly and the Family Stone, Fifth Dimension, Gladys Knight and the Pips, and many other legendary American musicians, it is intercut with present-day commentary from some of the performers and attendees themselves. The footage of Mavis Staples and Mahalia Jackson singing “Precious Lord” will give you chills. An absolute must-see.

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‘freestyle love supreme’—Improv at the highest level

By LINDA ARMSTRONG Special to the AmNews

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There is nothing on Broadway like “freestyle love supreme,” playing at the Booth Theatre! I am so thrilled that it is back and bringing audiences the most unique theatrical experience. “freestyle love supreme”: improv at the highest level, is an audiences’ dream! Fantastic! It’s no wonder that this production received a Special Honor for the 2020 Tony Awards, a trophy which it gladly takes out and shows the audience.

At the show I attended, the audience—full of both first-timers and repeat participants—were there in full voice, shouting out words and headline suggestions based on the categories given by the actors. What’s so incredible about this production is that every show is absolutely different from the next, and the audience is literally a part of the show as the cast, on-thespot, makes up freestyle songs, raps and scenes based on their suggestions.

At the performance I attended, the “freestyle love supreme” cast, which is always switching, consisted of some of the most skilled, versatile actors, singers and overall performers you will ever encounter: Aneesa Folds aka Young Nees; Anthony Veneziale aka Two-Touch; Christopher Jackson aka C-Jack; Chris Sullivan aka Shockwave (the master of human-made beats and sound effects); and Andrew Bancroft aka Jelly Donut. It should be noted that Christopher Jackson, Anthony Veneziale and Chris Sullivan are founding members and, in fact, Veneziale conceived of the idea and created it with the assistance of Thomas Kail and LinManuel Miranda and the production is directed by Thomas Kail.

There is such a cohesion of talent on that stage; it’s one of the stunning elements of this production and every audience gets to feel and experience it.

Before the show starts, audience members are given a barcode and asked to text a word that they want to see included in a scene. Those words are put on paper and pulled from a bucket and given life on stage. Then the audience was asked to shout out their least favorite things. The audience was very vocal, and the actors choose three subjects to improv around: Anti-vaxxers, Supply Chains and Pop Quizzes. It was brilliant and side-holding-laughter funny as Jelly Donut did sporadic raps about Anti-Vaxxers, Two-Touch did Supply Chains and Young Nees took on the trauma of Pop-Quizzes for young kids in school. The audience was overwhelmed with the humor, joy and spontaneity of the geniuses before us. It was great! Two-Touch then invited the audience to think back to when they were younger and give a headline for something that happened that they wished they could do over. In the balcony, a student named Alexander was thrown a mic and shared his story of

(L to R) Chris Sullivan, Wayne Brady, Anthony Veneziale, Aneesa Folds, and Kurt Crowley (on keyboard) in ”Freestyle Love Supreme” at the Booth Theatre

woe in his school cafeteria. Two-Touch asked him questions and got all the details of what happened to him. It was the day he came to lunch late, missed the seat at the table he normally sat at and went to another table where the boys were acting as WWE wrestlers.

Before you knew it, he was wrestling with them and in the end of it put into a headlock and wound up chipping his tooth on the table, as he banged it trying

named Caroline shared a story about her day before coming to the theater and they improved her story from the time she was woken up at 10 a.m. by her mother Linda, to hearing about her best friend’s sexual escapades, to her watching a football game she didn’t understand between Columbia and Penn State at Columbia Homecoming, and then getting the train to the theater. What was great was that

(L to R) Tarik Davis, Aneesa Folds, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and James Monroe Iglehart in “Freestyle Love Supreme” at the Booth Theatre

to escape the headlock. Well, you can’t imagine the creativity on that stage that not only portrayed his story to improv perfection, but then did a scenario in which Alexander was given a second chance and the group changed his decision in a particularly hilarious way and deescalated the toxic masculinity of he and his two friends and helped them to realize that they needed a therapist. Then, after getting therapy, each boy was able to grow into a productive, sensitive successful man. You can’t imagine how entertaining this all was for the audience.

Next, a student from Barnard College

the story already was funny as Caroline was telling it and Two-Touch was reacting to what she said. But when the ensemble did improv for everything from start to finish and included spins on her mother Linda, that was ridiculously hilarious. Oh my God, we couldn’t stop laughing.

On the last call for words, the audience, completely loving being a vital part of the production shot up their hands. This time, my best friend Denese’s word was chosen, “Yes.” And Young Nees, who has an incredibly, powerful, beautiful voice, started to sing about the word Yes and talk about

real things that happened in her personal life. She sang of being a shy girl with social anxiety and her mother pushing her to participate. She auditioned for the Chorus of New York City and got in. She performed with them in Japan, Switzerland and many other places. She sang of her parents telling her of the joy she could bring others.

Her story and voice touched the audience deeply. C-Jack took to the microphone and he asked whether people were feeling good sitting in these seats, and how sitting there opened you to the person next to you. He asked if people felt blessed to be there and many other positive questions that the audience answered Yes to. The energy in the theater was off the charts. Two-Touch also told inspiring personal stories of his childhood during the show. Throughout the show Shockwave provided countless amazing beats and sound effects. At the performance I attended, Richard Baskin Jr. made his outstanding Broadway debut as the conductor of the live on-stage band.

This production is something that should always be on Broadway because improv is the roots of the theater, and long may it reign! It was amazing how these actors would not only create something out of one word, or a headline, or a storyline, but also incorporate sharing personal truths in their lives with the audience. Every moment at “freestyle love supreme” was one the audience will definitely cherish. Unfortunately, the show is playing a limited engagement through Jan. 2, 2022.

You have got to head over to the Booth Theatre on West 45th Street and experience this improv treasure for yourself. Just come with words and ideas, who knows?

For more info, visit www.freestylelovesupreme.com.

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neil degrasse tyson The Inexplicable Universe: Unsolved Mysteries Wed, Dec 1 @ 7:30PM Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson unravels more mysteries of the universe in this cosmically entertaining evening.

stephanie mills & the whispers Sat, Jan 15, 2022 @ 8PM The ultra-soulful songstress Stephanie Mills is back by popular demand, with celebrated R&B balladeers The Whispers.

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earth, wind & fire Tue, Dec 7 @ 8PM Wed, Dec 8 @ 8PM Earth, Wind & Fire will turn NJPAC into a “Boogie Wonderland” for two nights.

Get your tickets, and “Let’s Groove!”

eric roberson Sat, Feb 26 @ 8PM GRAMMY™ nominee Eric Roberson (“Picture Perfect,” “At the Same Time”) shows why he’s called the King of Independent Soul and R&B.

the hip hop nutcracker with MC Kurtis Blow Sat, Dec 18 @ 2 & 8PM NJPAC’s original holiday mashup remixes Tchaikovsky’s ballet with supercharged hip hop dance (and some surprises!).

the 90’s all star dance concert Sat, Mar 19 @ 8PM Featuring Robin S., CeCe Peniston, Black Sheep, Lumidee, George Lamond, Lisette Melendez, Aly-Us, Nardo Ranks, Marshall Jefferson, Strafe and Rochelle Fleming. @NJPAC • 1.888.MY.NJPAC • njpac.org Groups of 9 or more call 973.353.7561 One Center Street, Newark, NJ

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m a p i a s t m Enough is enough as the feeling to step up to t Cancer a higher calling is steadily approaching you. In a o June 22–July 23 short time, it’s going to make you, or break you i to make your move in the direction you finally wish to go. Sometimes you y got to play checkmate to step into the light. The energy pulling on you can p cause mood swings in your behavior, be it crying, jogging a memory, or con- w versations that spark insights into your reasoning. All that’s great to get you into universal alignment with your calling. Don’t waste time pondering. Do something about it! f f o This week’s cycle is a game-changer for the h Leo purpose of your personal growth and develop- o July 24 – Aug 23 ment for the team. Investors, sponsors, etc. are w likely to keep supporting a great cause. Stay on track with your purpose, b and weed out distractions, deadweights, and non-nonsensical, superficial s folks. Who was there when you were at the bottom, in the beginner’s stage? a Now, you’re at the finish line or at least a few short distances away from your destination. Keep thriving even when you’re there and grab another ladder to keep climbing. The people around you will uplift you due to you uplifting them as well.

Neptune in Pisces stationed direct on Dec. 1, the nodes of the Moon are now stationed at 0 degrees on Dec. 4 before transiting to north node in Taurus and south node in Scorpio. In the movie, “Hidden Figures,” when John Glenn is in space making his orbits before landing, he was experiencing the “no-go, go-zone,” where things can Vinateria suddenly occur, good or indifferent and cause physical damage all the while completing its orbits around the moon and preparing for an earth landing. If you’re currently in a situation, or decision-making process wanting to end old ways to begin new, etc., then make your MOVES and stick to the plan to see results. The veil is thin just like when the moon is entering a solar eclipse when the Sun, Moon, and Earth are in alignment blocking the Sun’s light. It’s time to build a new world and move ahead with force like when women shook up and shifted the workforce beginning in the late 1950s. “If they don’t give you a seat at the table bring a folding chair.” Shirley Chisholm

Capricorn

Revealing information is likely to come through conversation resulting in grasping a better understanding of a situation in your life. Some impressions of people will feel like an illusion, so it’s best to decipher what’s real and false even though the information can have a profound fact-finding meaning to it. Be in gratitude with the feeling of thankfulness bringing joy each day with confirmation in your day, your week, and month, etc. Identify with being in love with yourself while Venus is in your sign.

Dec 22 – Jan 21

Aquarius

The work you do in the community, plus the work you do within the comfort of your home, could spread like wildfire. When you’re in public places, speaking or simply on the phone in passing, etc. other people hearing you may be holding on to your every word and spreading it by word of mouth. Protect your ears, throat, neck, and head. Follow up with home activities, work duties, and taking better care of yourself before you begin your day.

Jan 22 – Feb 19

Show yourself off but not in the way of being a showoff. A person who knows their craft can articulate well and deliver a powerful heartfelt message. We have a purpose, and this week you’re sure of yourself.

As you help one another in return you’re likely to be rewarded when the time comes, and you’ll know. Your memory may be jogged regarding meeting someone new, and where you feel a familiar feeling of someone you’ve met before. Otherwise, it’s through conversing with other likeminded people within your daily commute that a connection comes.

Pisces

Feb 20 – Mar 20

Who is your support system and the people you confide in to share your experiences and stories with? People who are not in your everyday life yet know you better than those new friends of yours. As the time adjusts to consuming daylight savings, you need to fall back and learn your truth by writing down those thoughts that spring forward on your agenda. Information and ideas come fast, and some come slower to get you into alignment to learn a lesson for your own growth. Women perhaps will be your aid to get you through the breakthrough process.

Aries

Mar 21 – Apr 21

Taurus

Now that you feel reawakened and full of zestful energy, tackle your daily tasks to acApr 22 – May 21 complish them with flying colors. Organization is the key to you being on time and in good shape. Don’t allow others to consume your time, as you’ll need a quick pause in your schedule for some “me time.” This is an outstanding week to do outstanding things on an extraordinary scale, even attending charity and other social events.

Gemini

Are you questioning your plans or forming new partnerships, as well as solving any semi-legal matters this week? Education plays a factor this week if you’re thinking of taking up a new study, be it an online course. Perhaps thinking to deep dive into mystical information where usually folks leave it untouched due to its occult mystery.

Don’t worry Gemini, you love to learn. What’s unlearned can be learned to utilize the facts & figures in the right manner. Stay on your path and carry on.

May 22 – June 21

This is a great moment this particular week to cherish the memories of a project being fulfilled. A transformative period that brings you an “ah”moment of rebirthing of self. Financially, romantically, you’re entering a popularity cycle as your name keeps circulating among your peers or those hearing your name come up in conversation for a job well done. Continue to keep up the good work: the kind of work that one accomplishes as there are many more objectives to be fulfilled moving forward.

Virgo

Aug 24 – Sep 23

Libra

Libra: The brick and mortar of your foundation is ready for its grand opening or finalizing all the details. If you’re not ready for the new adventure ahead, then get back on track, focus, and stay the course. You have a new program to begin. This is the cycle where you bring your A-game and showcase your skills as an individual Boss. Listen to your intuition as your gut feelings direct you to do something or send you in a different direction.

Sept 24 – Oct 23

People will always have something to say and so does your intuition. Your hunches are strong, do follow up and go with the flow. Some folks will seek information from you just to tie up your time as information will come to you.

This is a great cycle to go within and open the dialogue to communicate with the divine. You’ll find yourself wanting to be alone, and as a result, while you’re working hang the “do not disturb” sign on your door or somewhere else where it’s visible to avoid interruptions. That includes silencing your phone.

Scorpio

Oct 24 – Nov 22

Sagittarius

“I’m feeling myself” is likely your theme as the sun shines all its glory in your zodiac sign this month. Wake up, wake up and get to it in this 31-day cycle. What does your heart’s desire, state your demand, and your wish is thy command? Apply yourself with that wish you order to work so the universal energy can work with you. It’s a spiritual bond that you don’t want to lose. Come up with as many ideas to start a new adventure within your business. Simply create and write down your master plan for your next venue then get to work to see your success.

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Support small businesses this holiday season

By KELLY TORRES Special to the AmNews

be more productive. Joselyn’s Modern Woman Planner is the first planner to bring me to action. Get this planner Now that the holidays are here and for that go-getting, high-achieving, much of what we put on hold in 2020 hungry chef entrepreneur or baker in and 2021 is “kinda” behind us, I think your life. They have a business to run placing joy at the top of our list as an and a condensed quarterly planner indulgence we all deserve. If you’re will keep them accountable to their a gift giver, this is the holiday year to written word. show up! One of the things I love about the holidays is that when we take a AmNews: What inspired you to moment to reflect on a person and create the Modern Woman Planner? truly consider what gift will put a smile Joselyn: I created the Modern on their face, we manifest happiness Woman Planner because I didn’t in that moment. I want to share with want to carry a big, bulky planner as you two small business owners whose a busy, commuting NYC woman anyproducts have brought joy to my life in more. Especially a spiral-bound planways that were unexpected. ner that would snag my sweaters, cling to my purse pockets, or tangle I’ve watched these company owners in with my keys. I kept buying differfrom afar and have admired their ef- ent planners and never felt satisfied forts in continuously stoking the fires with them. They had too many pages of their entrepreneurial journey. This that I would leave blank, they were holiday year you might want to check too bulky, and they just didn’t have a out these two women business owners planning system that worked for me. who are starting small, yet thinking After creating my inspiration lifebig. Remember, when you purchase style brand and running a few Modern something from a small business, an Women Mastermind Groups, I realactual person does a happy dance. ized other ladies had the same issue. I spoke to a designer friend, created the The Modern Woman Planner planner’s first pages, and sent them Joselyn Martinez, owner out as a free download to my mailing Instagram: @joselynmartinez list every month.

Website: https://joselynmartinez.com I started getting a lot of positive

friendly. Their creative names evoke a sentiment and help to bring more intentionality into one’s life.

Ashlynn announced the launch of her company, The Bronx Candle Co., a few days before she turned 25. Now that her company is one year old, she still stands solid as the entrepreneur and owner of her small batch candle company. She does it with grace and a few dashes of street style, a total deliberate homage to her beloved Bronx, where she was born and raised. As her proud aunt, I fell in love with her concept and was impressed by her determination to contribute to her Bronx community in the form of a business.

She has big goals and is already starting to give back in big and little ways, including donating a percentage of her past sales to Black Girls Code, a nonprofit organization for women of color in technology. Her soy-based candles are sure to impress because they are all handcrafted and eco

AS: My dream is to open a brick and mortar candle/home goods shop in the Bronx. Gentrification has been affecting different parts of NYC, which has made it difficult for local natives to live and create in their neighborhoods. I’d like to have my shop in the Bronx, where I was born and raised, to maintain local business ownership and show that local community members are just as much of an asset.

AmNews: What inspired you to create The Bronx Candle Co.?

Ashlynn: I was inspired to create AmN: What is your dream for the The Bronx Candle Co. by my love of company? candles and handcrafts. I love using JM: My goal is to have the business my hands to create and build differserve as many people as possible. I ent things around the house. Candles went to an all-girl high school where seemed like the perfect project to get I learned women were just as capable myself into. as anyone else to reach their goals. I hope to create one for little girls in the AmN: What challenges did you come future and eventually all individuals. across and how did you handle it?

AS: I think the most challenging AmN: What do you see next for you? parts of being the owner of a small JM: I am grateful to have created candle business are social media marwhat I have thus far. I envision ex- keting and maintaining hope for sales pansion and making a few variations and engagement. Managing your own of planner styles. I’d love to bring my social media account is very different lifestyle workshops across the U.S. from doing so with your business. It’s extremely time consuming and not The Bronx Candle Co. always as successful as you expect it Ashlynn Sarubbi, owner to be, which can be discouraging.

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Joselyn and I became social media friends a few months back. When I came across her Instagram, I had a deja vu moment because she embodies the personality and characteristics of so many of my previous college friends. With her work on mindset and entrepreneurial growth for the modern woman, I was instantly drawn. I purchased her Modern Woman Planner and the contents of the planner really got me to think!

I put in writing exactly how much money I want to manifest in my business. I wrote out my actual big, humongous goals. As a professional chef and entrepreneur, I inhabit a lifelong search for motivation and for ways to

tried to understand. The planner had a series of mistakes. It was bad.

I had enough reasons to give up, but like my leading quote says: Decide before you start, that you will not quit, that you will never ever give up.

feedback from the Mastermind ladies because they finally had a planning system to complete their projects. At this time, I knew I had to keep going.

After a few years of sending the sheets out as a free download, I decided it was time for the physical planner to be born.

AmN: What challenges did you come across and how did you handle it?

JM: Getting a designer that would deliver my planner on time was difficult.

The designer was always late. She had loads of personal stories on why the planner wasn’t ready. My work ethic doesn’t leave room for excuses much, but I know things happen. I

AmN: What do you see next for you?

AS: For the next chapter of my business, I’ll be performing a total rebranding. I’m hoping to create a clear-cut brand from my candles to my packaging that will expand my clientele. I’m also working towards offering a variety of candle scents and sizes within the next few months.

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By EILEEN BARETT Special to the AmNews Growing up, holiday gatherings always happened at my place.

Over the course of a few hours family members would stream into our home and find a spot to park themselves for the evening. About two dozen people would cram into our apartment in East Harlem, and stay for hours. I would spend days watching my mom plan and prep a combination of traditional American dishes like the roasted turkey and mashed potatoes and some classic Puerto Rican dishes like pernil, pasteles, and arroz con

gandules. I remember an abundance of savory dishes and always one lonely, store bought, pumpkin pie for my dad. Dessert was just not a part of my mom’s repertoire.

It should come as no surprise that when I moved back to NY in the early 2000s and attended culinary school, my mom happily turned over the holiday meals to me. While I’ve kept a lot of her traditions going, I banished the store bought pie! With the inheritance of the Thanksgiving meal came new traditions like homemade desserts!

Another change is that I personally have Thanksgiving on the

fourth Friday of November (because I’m just too tired to eat or even look at food after spending days cooking.) This isn’t a complaint; I think there’s magic in Thanksgiving leftovers, and there is also a very special addition to the menu: my Pumpkin Sticky Buns! Imagine the fluffiest cinnamon roll you’ve ever had drizzled with warm caramel sauce with just a touch of salt and pecan crumble.

This recipe is easy to follow, even for a novice baker.

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self enough time to prep them, as the proofing happens in two stages and can take up to two hours. Pro tip: Set them up as overnight rollsB after you cut the cinnamon rolls.w Place them in the pan and insteadb of setting them up to rise again,b cover and refrigerate overnight.c When you are ready to bake them off, bring the rolls to room tem-w perature and let them rise for 1e hour before placing them in thes oven. They are best served warm. S Many loved ones didn’t gatherd last year, so I say, welcome familys members back to your Thanksgiv-M ing table with this epic dessert.j a Happy Baking!

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By EILEEN BARETT Special to the AmNews Total Time 2 hours 30 minutes Serving 9 Sticky Buns Ingredients For the dough: ¾ cup warm whole milk 2¼ teaspoons quick rise or active yeast (1/4-ounce package yeast) ¼ cup granulated sugar 1 egg at room temperature ¼ cup unsalted butter, melted ½ cup pumpkin puree 3½ cups bread flour, plus more for dusting 1 tbsp ground cinnamon 1 tsp ground nutmeg ¾ teaspoon salt For the filling: ¾ cup dark brown sugar (light brown sugar can be substituted) 1 tbsp Pumpkin Pie spice ¼ cup unsalted butter, softened

For the caramel glaze: 1 cup light brown sugar, packed 4 tbsp unsalted butter 1/8 tsp sea salt ½ tsp ground cinnamon ½ cup heavy cream ¾ cup toasted Pecan, chopped (optional) Instructions Warm milk to around 110༠ degrees F. Transfer warm milk to the bowl of an electric mixer and sprinkle yeast on top.

Add in sugar, egg, pumpkin and melted butter.

Mix until well combined. Next stir in flour, spices, and salt with a wooden spoon until a dough begins to form.

Place dough hook on stand mixer and knead dough on medium speed

for 8 minutes. Dough should form into a nice ball and be slightly sticky.

If it’s too sticky, add in 2-3 tablespoons of flour.

Transfer dough to a well-oiled bowl, cover with plastic wrap and a warm towel. Allow dough to proof for 1½ hours, or until doubled in size. Dough may rise in more or less time depending on the humidity and temperature in your home.

After the dough has doubled in size, transfer to a wellfloured surface and roll out into a 14x9 inch rectangle. Spread softened butter over dough, leaving a ¼ inch margin at the far side of the dough.

In a separate bowl, mix together brown sugar and pumpkin pie spice.

Use your hands to sprinkle mixture over the buttered dough, then rub the brown sugar mixture into the butter.

Tightly roll dough up, starting from the 9-inch side and place seam side down making sure to seal the edges of the dough.

Cut into 1 inch sections with a serrated knife. You should get 9 large pieces.

Place cinnamon rolls in a greased pan lined with parchment paper ( 9x9 inch cake pan or round 9 inch cake pan). Cover with plastic wrap and a warm towel and let rise again for 30-45 minutes.

Preheat the oven to 350༠ degrees F. Remove plastic wrap and towel and bake cinnamon rolls for 30 minutes or until just slightly golden brown on the edges. Allow them to cool slightly for 5-10 minutes before glazing.

While rolls cool, combine ingredients for the glaze in a saucepan and simmer over low heat, whisking constantly until thickened (5-7 minutes), add pecans, and pour evenly over warm rolls.

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In 2020 The Jazz Gallery in NYC awarded Golson a Lifetime Achievement Award in celebration of his illustrious career as a composer, saxophonist and educator.

Unfortunately, the pandemic prevented TJG from celebrating its annual Gala, where the awards would have been presented.

With vaccinations a must and live performances resumed, The Jazz Gallery paid tribute to Golson featuring a host When Benny Golson’s mother stepped of young musicians he inspired or played off the streetcar with a package in her with over the years. The abled rhythm hand, the young teenager thought sax- section included pianist David Virelles, ophone but knew she couldn’t afford to bassist Vicente Archer and drummer spend that much money. To his wild sur- Jonathan Blake (who reflected on his reprise it was a brand-new Martin tenor lationship with Golson as a youngster saxophone. Once he and his mother through the friendship with his father viwent around the corner to a neighbor’s olinist John Blake). Featured saxophonhouse, who showed Golson how the ists who played Golson originals were: parts fit, there was no stopping him. The Jaleel Shaw flyin’ high on “Stablemates,” NEA Jazz Master is one of the most pro- Ron Blake was in a mellow groove on lific jazz composers in the spectrum, fol- “Whisper Not” (described Golson as a lowing in the footsteps of his mentor mentor, friend and confidant), Dayna Tadd Dameron.

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Most recently, pianist and composer Bertha Hope was the center of attention while enjoying a most exciting Jazzmobile birthday celebration performing before a packed house in Harlem’s Interchurch Center.

For this big celebration, the pianist was indulging in bold melodies, showering crescendos, a tad of stride and some Hope improvisational magic.

Some audience members were up dancing the lindy and Harlem twostep. Her repertoire included Hank Mobley tunes like “Soul Stick” and his jazz standard “This I Dig of You” which allows for the pianist to stretch out and Hope went all out. Together the band members bassist Kim Clarke, saxophonist Gene Ghee, and drummer Lucianna F. Padmore were an intuitive locomotive moving forever forward.

The band members’ names should be much more recognizable since their playing is so definitive. Hope’s rendition of Thelonious Monk’s “Ask Me Now” was simply mesmerizing. She says, “Playing with young people keeps me energized,” and it seems everybody on the bandstand served as high-voltage energizers. “I am so grateful to have such a great band,” said Hope. Hopefully, she will record with them before, as she says, “They get snatched up.”

“This party was so wonderful. I am grateful to Robin [Bell-Stevens, director of Jazzmobile] for putting this concert together. I received so many flowers, cards and birthday gifts from the audience,” stated Hope. She plays as though she is 25 years old but she is an elder pianist with wisdom and experience at age 85. She is a great musician to be reckoned with and still learning as she pointed out.

Currently, she is writing new music for a few commissions and working on a new video project. She can be seen with featured vocalist Terri Davis, live every Sunday afternoon from 12 noon - 3:30 p.m. at Alvin & Friends Restaurant (14 Memorial Hwy) in New Rochelle, N.Y. Visit her Facebook page for more information.

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Hear You Benny” built on Golson’s “I Remember Clifford” (he noted, Benny was a well-rounded musician, whose sound blew my hat off), tenor saxophonist John Ellis hit “Step Lightly,” Donny McCaslin on tenor came up blazing (he thanked Golson for inspiration and being totally killing). The set ended with everyone joining in for Golson’s greatest hit “Killer Joe.” The musicians’ testimonials took the same course; he is totally committed to the music and shares his knowledge with his peers and younger musicians, always asking, “Do you have your publishing in order?” A word of wisdom: “Never get satisfied, there is always something to learn.” At age 92, Golson and Sonny Rollins are the only two surviving musicians from the iconic photograph “A Great Day in Harlem.”

Recently, the 57-year-old Harlem School of the Arts was the site of a histor-

ical evening. The organization’s executive leadership, invited guests, parents and students gathered for the long delayed official unveiling of the $9.5 million renovation known as the Renaissance Project and the return of in-person classes.

The COVID-19 pandemic caused the organization to close its doors March 14, 2020. In the absence of in-person classes, an online platform enabled students to continue their creative endeavors. HSA finally reopened Sept. 27, 2021 for a full session of in-person fall classes. The space was transformed into a 21st century cultural hub. The brick wall that blocked the public view was eliminated with a makeover that included an angled glass wall, allowing for sunlight and public view.

HSA announced the addition of new staff member trumpeter W. Lee Hogans, as chief education officer. As a wellrounded musician, he has worked with Prince, Lauryn Hill, saxophonist Maceo Parker, and bassist Marcus Miller. He studied with jazz composer and trumpeter NEA Jazz Master Clark Terry. Over the past 20 years, Hogans has been an educator, and administrator. Most recently, he was the director of education at Jazz House Kids in New Jersey.

Hogans’ visionary outlook for HSA will include a strong jazz program with contributions from Herb Alpert.

“We are trying to figure out what will be best to put us on the map,” said Hogans. “We are looking at a community jam session involving Harlem musicians and others within the boroughs to perform in our space. We are planning more master classes that will add to our community’s rich history dating back to the Harlem Renaissance. We want to be more involved in the community.”

The school will also offer free classes that include instruments.

Hogans will engage with all department heads to formulate a curriculum for all disciplines (dance, music, musical theater, and media design) and build opportunities that serve and support the artist community in Harlem and surrounding areas (community partnerships). One exciting program still being discussed is a performance relationship with the new jazz club The Porch which is due to open sometime in December.

“We want to offer HSA students an opportunity to experience the real world by performing in front of live audiences and being paid,” explained Hogans. “Our college prep classes will invite various professionals and professors teaching skills in professional development. The school has worked with Jazz at Lincoln Center and Julliard presented the course ‘How to Audition and What to Expect.’ This is more than the site of training and educating the next wave of young creatives, but a place where professional artists will come and perform, mentor and immerse our students with experience and expertise.”

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By HERB BOYD Special to the AmNews A spoiler notice for students of African American literature was pointless for the ending of Nella Larsen’s “Passing,” now showing on Netflix. The same can be said of William Wells Brown’s novel “Clotel.”

In fact, the two books have in common the issue of color and its significance to the outcome of its main characters.

It should also be noted that both Larsen and Brown were mulattos and that experience may have had some bearing on their literary outlooks and productions.

In our column last week Larsen and her novel were discussed, and Brown gets a similar treatment this week. There is no exact date of Brown’s birth, but it was apparently somewhere around 1814 or 1815 in Montgomery County, Kentucky near the town of Mount Sterling.

At the age of 19, he and his mother escaped from slavery and fled to Ohio. Later, he settled in Boston and began a total dedication to the abolitionist movement, a commitment that was also an impetus to a writing career which was often compared to his contemporary, Frederick Douglass, with whom he feuded publicly.

Brown spent his early years in St. Louis where he was often hired out by his master to work on steamboats that plied the Mississippi River.

From this vantage point and form of labor he acquired a broader perspective of life in the region as well as the means of escape. No longer in bondage, he changed his name and fell under the influence and tutoring of Quakers who enhanced his desire to learn and helped facilitate a job with the print-

er Elijah Lovejoy.

From 1836 to 1845, Brown lived in Buffalo, New York and continued his work on steamboats on Lake Erie. In this capacity he assisted numerous fugitives in their escape from bondage ferrying them

tive Slave Act in 1850 made it impossible for him to return to the states and even created difficulties for him in Europe where slave catchers were on the prowl.

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to a terminal point in Detroit and then onto Canada. All the while he was an outspoken member of the Negro Convention Movement that flowered during the years prior to emancipation. He was a popular speaker at various events and traveled extensively on behalf of the organization. In 1849, he left the U.S. with his daughters and continued his anti-slavery speeches abroad, particularly in England and France. Passage of the Fugi-

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ery, Brown was an advocate of prison reform and played a prominent role in women’s suffrage and the anti-tobacco movement. This activism did not impede his literary aspirations and in 1853, he wrote “Clotel” which is considered the first novel by an African American, though it was first published in England. He was living and lecturing in England when the book was issued and a year later

his freedom was purchased by a British couple. He used this newfound freedom to return to the U.S. with his two daughters. Upon his return, he married for the second time to Anna Elizabeth Gray.

Elizabeth Schooner, his first wife, was the mother of his two daughters, Clarissa and Josephine.

During his stay in Europe, Brown used his down time to write, which included a wide range of literary productions, initially a travel book that had a great utility for those venturing abroad.

In 1847, he had already published a memoir, the “Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave, Written by Himself,” which rivaled Douglass’ autobiography as a best seller. In the book he strongly assailed the slave owners’ and their brutal violence that was in contradiction to their supposed Christian beliefs.

Then, in rapid succession, came “Clotel,” “The Escape; or, A Leap for Freedom,” one of the first plays written by an African American, and by 1867, an expansive history of the role of African Americans in the Revolutionary War. He was a prolific writer and his essays, reviews, and short stories increased his popularity and made him an acclaimed speaker in demand at various conventions, rallies, and organizational events.

In effect, he became a household name and later was inducted into the Kentucky Writers Hall of Fame that was established in 2013.

A public school in Lexington, Kentucky is named in his honor and a historic public marker is at the approximate location of his home in Buffalo. He died in 1884 in Massachusetts.

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The best source of Brown’s life is his own memoir and a number of other writings from his prolific literary production.

DISCUSSION Only mentioned in passing here is his feud with Douglass which would shed additional light on him and his personality.

PLACE IN CONTEXT Born as the War of 1812 slowly faded, Brown lived to the latter days of the 19th century.

THIS WEEK IN BLACK HISTORY Nov. 22, 1942: Guion S. Bluford Jr., the first African American into space, was born in Philadelphia.

Nov. 23, 1887: Black sugar cane workers were killed during the Thibodaux Massacre in Louisiana. They had demanded an increase in salary beyond the 42 cents a day in scrip that could only be spent at company stores.

Nov. 24, 1935: Former U.S. Congressman Ronald Dellums was born in Oakland, Calif. He died in 2018.

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"Antisemitism, the hatred of the Jewish people, has been and remains a blot on the soul of mankind. In this, we are in full agreement."

— Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. This Chanukah, Jewish and non-Jewish communities around the United States and Canada, and in partnership with dozens of corporations, are uniting in an effort to Shine A Light on antisemitism.

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Health Straight facts about Omega-3s and heart health

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Many people are familiar with omega3 fatty acids, and some of those at risk for heart disease take them as dietary supplements.

However, according to a Harris Poll commissioned by Amarin Pharma, Inc., some people have limited understanding of the risks and benefits of these dietary supplements.

Heart disease is the leading killer of men and women globally, and risk increases over the age of 45, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In fact, the American Heart Association predicts 45% of the United States population will have some form of cardiovascular disease by 2035.

According to the CDC, people with diabetes are twice as likely to have heart disease or a stroke than those without diabetes, and at a younger age. To help counter their risk, almost half (46%) of heart patients and more than one-third of patients with diabetes take omega-3 dietary supplements, according to the poll. Six in 10 of those heart patients and 55% of people with diabetes consulted a health care professional before taking them, but only 45% of the general adult population taking omega-3 dietary supplements has done so.

Among poll respondents who think they are at risk of heart disease, 56% of those taking omega-3 dietary supplements believe they have been proven effective in reducing the risk of (or treating) heart disease, and 44% believe they have been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat or prevent heart disease. However, this is not the case, and they have

not been approved or proven effective in preventing disease.

Additionally, while men with diabetes (87%) are more likely than women (73%) to cite obesity as a risk factor, 75% are also more likely to believe fish oil dietary supplements are proven to reduce risk of CVD, compared to 58% of women.

“The volume of misinformation can be overwhelming for the average person who may not know whether or not to use omega-3 dietary supplements, let alone which dosage is optimal,” said R. Preston Mason, Ph.D., member of the cardiovascular division at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School, president and co-founder of Elucida Research LLC and consultant for Amarin. “Heart disease and other conditions like diabetes are too risky to leave to unproven products.”

If you currently take or are considering taking omega-3 dietary supplements, Mason recommends arming yourself with information about some commonly held beliefs about omega-3 fatty acids and the risks and benefits of these dietary supplements, especially in relation to heart disease risk.

FDA Regulation Although roughly one-third of people surveyed reported believing omega-3 dietary supplements, which are often referred to simply as fish oil, are approved by the FDA, the FDA found fish oil supplements, which contain omega-3 fatty acids, do not meet the standards of significant scientific agreement required for a scientific health claim.

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ly proven to provide cardiovascular benefits in clinical studies. There are multiple reasons for this: Omega-3s come in different forms and have different efficacy, safety and clinical effects, which can behave differently based on how they are manufactured, handled and administered.

Certain ingredients in fish oil supplements such as docoahexaenoic acid (DHA) may raise low-density lipoprotein, which is often referred to What You Should Know About Fish as “bad cholesterol” or LDL-C. Oil Dietary Supplements and Statins Typical fish oil supplements conStatins are currently the first-line tain only 30% of the omega-3 fatty proven therapy for lowering choles- acids EPA and DHA, with the majority terol. However, statins, along with diet of the product consisting of non-omeand exercise, still leave persistent car- ga-3 ingredients, often including satdiovascular risk. urated fats.

Despite commonly held beliefs Fish oil supplements are considered to the contrary, fish oil dietary sup- food; according to FDA standards, they plements have not been successful- are not intended to treat diseases.

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Feddoes said she was grateful for the pantry when her money was cut in half.

Feddoes said she was a live-in caretaker prior to getting her green card, and then switched to nursing afterwards.

She has never not had two jobs, she said, and if there was one job, it came with overtime. She worries a little about not being able to retire if she gets sick and is unable to work.

“This is not a place for people who are lazy or just sitting around, it’s for people that work and it makes a difference,” said Feddoes about the food pantry. On the food pantry line, she was delighted to get sweet potatoes and tuna that week.

Laughing, Feddoes said that her favorite meal is seasoned tuna fish and sweet potato from the microwave.

In south Brooklyn, Waqiel Ahmed of the Pakistani American Youth Society partnered with Black Lives Matter Brooklyn Branch President Anthony Beckford to open a mobile food kitchen that served free, hot halal meals to residents.

Ahmed said that they were sending people that came to them in need to other places before they just decided to do something on their own. He said they started in one location with about 100 people and then expanded to five locations, serving about 1,100 families after a few months last year.

Together, Ahmed and Beckford fed

parts of Crown Heights, Brighton Beach, Coney Island, Flatbush, Kensington, and Gravesend in Brooklyn. These neighborhoods are mostly Black and Caribbean and/or Orthodox Jewish, Muslim, and immigrant communities.

“There’s a lot of immigrant people, they lose jobs and they’re working like week to week paychecks. And, a lot of people, by word of mouth, called us and recommended us where to go,” said Ahmed.

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do most of the labor last season because most of the volunteers are seniors. Their usual growing season starts in April, and last year that was when the virus outbreak had hit its peak in the city. The farm usually grows crops requested by the surrounding Black, Asian, and Latino community. Depending on the season, they grow carrots, long beans, okra, bitter melon, herbs, tomatillos, malabar spinach, pimiento peppers, ghost peppers,

build out a “haphazard” network of farmers and gardeners.

Alleyne went on to work with the city’s community gardens in the parks department, or Greenthumb, to create a community garden advocacy group. The gardeners in the group, who are mostly elderly Black women, gathered together for a celebratory bbq in Highland Park this October.

Community gardener and chef Kelebohile Nkhereanye said that she soldiered on growing herbs and foods in her garden and gave them away to her neighbors last year.

She said other neighborhoods get to capitalize on their access and affordability, which makes it seem like people in East New York or elsewhere don’t want healthy, fresh food. She said that’s not true. Nkhereanye spoke about a “gap” in how the community perceives their own access to fresh foods.

(Ariama C. Long photo) “Some people don’t go to the farmer’s markets because they think it’s Worker shortages at urban farms and okazi leaves. expensive or it’s for white people, and Last year, they had to end the grow- so there’s a gap in knowledge,” said In east Brooklyn, some urban farms ing season early, said Harris. “Most of Nkhereanye. “The structure in place that wanted to be part of the solution re- the gardens were abandoned since is not designed to give us credit and alized they could only do so much be- seniors were impacted the most by let us know our food system.” cause of worker shortages.

COVID,” said Harris.

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Malikah Shabazz, the daughter of Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz, dead at 56

By HERB BOYD Special to the AmNews Additional reporting

by NAYABA ARINDE Amsterdam News Editor

respect our privacy as we lay Ma- strength and determination of her likah to rest. We will announce a mother in Malikah. May she Rest tribute/memorial for her in the In Peace.” coming days. Blessings and peace Her death comes several days be unto you. The Shabazz family.” after two of the three men conThe Rev. Al Sharpton told the victed of killing her father on The family of Malcolm X (el-Hajj Amsterdam News, “I am stunned Feb. 21, 1965, were exonerated.

Malik El-Shabazz) is experiencing and deeply saddened with the loss The 1966 convictions were overanother moment of unexpected of Malikah.” turned after a relentless investisadness with the death of Malikah The founder of the National gation by the Innocence Project Shabazz. According to the police, Shabazz, who was the twin sister of Malaak Shabazz and one of Malcolm and Dr. Betty Shabazz’s youngest daughters, was found dead in her home in the Midwood section of Brooklyn. She was 56.

The Amsterdam News called the NYPD press department, and a police spokesperson said, “At 4:40 p.m. [Monday, Nov. 22] we responded to an aided call, and EMS was on site. She was pronounced Malikah Shabazz, left, daughter of Malcolm X, walks with her deceased…The initial reports said sisters, Ilyasah, third from right, Attallah, second from right, it was natural causes.” and Malaak, after talking to the media following the death The police added that while of their mother Betty Shabazz, June 23, 1997 in New York. there was no current investigaMalikah Shabazz, was found dead in her home in New York City tion, and “no further action on our from what appeared to be natural causes, police said Tuesday, end,” everything is open “until the Nov. 23, 2021. She was 56. (AP Photo/Ron Frehm, File) medical examiner makes a final determination.”

Action Network added, “She fre- and attorneys for Muhammad “As a family that has endured its quently came to NAN and worked Abdul Aziz (Norman 3X Butler), share of heartbreak and sorrow, with us on many issues, in fact she the lone survivor of the two conwe are naturally devastated by was just there three weeks ago victed. Aziz, 83, was paroled in the loss of our beloved Malikah,” when NAN hosted the Rev. Jesse 1985. Khalil Islam (Thomas 15X a statement from the family to the Jackson’s 80th birthday. She was Johnson) was the other and he Amsterdam News said. “She was a a passionate and strong activ- was released in 1987 and died in cherished member of our family ist/advocate. I was too young to 2009. If the prosecution would and we will dearly miss her loving know her father, but I knew her have rigorously pursued the case resolve in the face of our setbacks. mother very well (Dr. Betty Sha- and the compelling evidence, and In this holiday season we extend bazz, who was godmother to my accepted the confession of Mujaour good wishes and ask you to two daughters). You could see the hid Halim (Thomas Hagan or Tal-

madge Hayer), who said the two convicted with him were innocent, a different narrative might have prevailed.

In a recent article in the Washington Informer, A. Peter Bailey, who edited the Blacklash newsletter of the Organization of Afro-American Unity and who was a devoted Malcolmite, said that neither he nor any of the loyal followers of Malcolm were surprised or shocked by the exonerations.

“Though they were reportedly ardent supporters of the assassination, neither had a position in the Nation of Islam needed to plan and execute such a goal,” Bailey wrote.

News about the exonerations were still a topic of discussion when Ms. Shabazz’s death commanded the headlines. A number of notable community activists and clergy issued statements of condolences, including the the Rev. Bernice King, Dr. King’s daughter, who tweeted, “I’m deeply saddened by the death of Malikah Shabazz. My heart goes out to her family, the descendants of Dr. Betty Shabazz and Malcolm X.” “I pray that Allah has mercy upon Malikah Shabazz,” said Abdur-Rahman Muhammad, an independent scholar who was featured in Netflix’s “Who Killed Malcolm X?” That production gave momentum to the renewed investigation of Malcolm’s murder and the subsequent ex-

onerations. “My prayers are with the entire Shabazz family at this time. This is such a tragedy.”

“Our hearts are truly heavy and saddened on learning of the passing of Malikah Shabazz!” said Assemblyman Charles and City Councilwoman Inez Barron. “Malikah had a beautiful caring loving spirit! May God bless and sustain the Shabazz family! We pledge to continue our love and support for the Shabazz family, a family that has sacrificed, suffered and contributed so much for the liberation of our people! We owe it to Brother Malcolm and Sister Betty! Peace and Blessing!”

“From Allah we come and to Allah we return. May Allah be pleased with our beloved sister Malikah Shabazz,” Muhammad Mosque No. 7, Protocol Director/ Community Affairs, Daleel Jabir Muhammad stated. “We pray that the Shabazz family and everyone who knew and loved her find comfort in the memories of her life and the life she led as a mother, sister, aunt and friend. Ameen.”

Along with her sisters, Attallah, Qubilah, Ilyasah, Gamilah, and Malaak, she is survived by her daughter, Bettih Shabazz.

Imam Talib Abdur-Rashid announced, “Insha’Allah, Salaatul Janaza for Malikah Shabazz will be on Saturday, November 27, 2021 at 10 a.m., Islamic Cultural Center, 1711 3rd Avenue, at 96th Street, New York.”

Pastors for Peace caravan: a bridge between Cuba and the United States

By YUNIELIS MOLINER ISASI Translated by KAREN JUANITA CARRILLO Special to the AmNews

States has on the island, which affects the Cuban people.

In their journey through the Greater Antilles the caravan members visited the Afro Cuban city of Matanzas, and Gail Walker, The idea of peace and love pro- daughter of the Rev. Lucius Walker mulgated by Jesus of Nazareth is and director of the Interreligious what guides the 75 members of Foundation for Community Orthe XXXI Pastors for Peace cara- ganization, said: “It is always good van visiting Cuba. They arrived on to return to Matanzas, the City the island Nov. 15 with the medi- of Bridges, for what it represents cines and supplies necessary to in the resistance of Cuba. Many face COVID-19. young people are coming for the The caravan arrived in Cuba first time and we have a global even while there is an ongoing vision of what our support for the campaign to discredit Cuba’s gov- Island means.” ernment, by people who want to One young person who took promote an uprising in the Carib- part in the caravan for the first bean country. time this year is Tahia Islam, a Pastors for Peace has rep- member of The People’s Forum resentatives from several U.S. in New York. Islam was amazed states; their members’ main to see the support that the govdemand is the cessation of the ernment gives to the population, economic, commercial, and fi- leaving no one helpless. nancial blockade the United The young pastor Tania Lozano,

the COVID-19 crisis, vaccines were developed in Cuba and the pandemic was dealt with.

Pastors for Peace is a project of the Interfaith Foundation for Community Organizing, and was formed in response to former PresGail Walker, director of IFCO, led the XXXI Pastors for Peace caravan ident Ronald on a recent visit to Cuba.

Reagan’s agwho participated alongside her While in Matanzas, caravan gressive policy against Latin Amerparents in the Pastors for Peace members shared with the people, ican countries. caravan also shared her experi- visited socio-cultural projects, and The Caravan was created in ence: “The existence of strong pro- exchanged ideas with interreli- 1988 and has been traveling to paganda against Cuba and my gious leaders.

Cuba since 1992. This is the 31st parents’ stories about the tranquilGloria La Riva, who is with the expedition of love, peace, and ity and beauty of this island moti- Socialism and Liberation Party, solidarity that they bring to the vated me to follow their path.” acknowledged that in the midst of Greater Antilles.

(Photo courtesy of Felix González)

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State Conference in Affirmation Tower.

In an interview with the AmNews, NAACP New York State Conference President Hazel Dukes said NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson thought it was a great idea to put the offices in the Affirmation Tower because of the building’s African American influence.

“It will be historical for the city and the state of New York,” Dukes said. “This will really be the icing on the cake for what we’ve been fighting for all these years. McKissack and Don Peebles have a track record. They are qualified and they can do this.”

In an interview with the AmNews, Cheryl McKissack, president and CEO of The McKissack Group, said 80% of Affirmation Tower will be Black-owned and aims to be a tourist destination similar to the National Museum of African American History and Culture. The McKissack Group will be a 10% partner on the building.

“It’ll gain so much notoriety because it’s never been done

THE NEW YORK AMSTERDAM NEWS November 25, 2021 - December 1, 2021 • 29 before,” McKissack said. “We York will spur other devel- agement and communicate interview with the AmNews. need something big and bold opments across the coun- with all members of the de- “For African Americans, it’s a to say that New York is the try, especially in urban areas,” velopment team. The compa- unique opportunity to affect place that you want to be be- McKissack said. “Other cities ny’s managing partner, Craig the skyline in New York City cause we’re forward thinking, are taking note and they’re Livington, said the racial to build a building that will be we’re progressive in our think- competing for people to come equity movement in 2020 has an international landmark for ing. We’re not just doing the to their cities and they know opened people’s eyes and ac- generations to come and also a source of pride for African (Photo courtesy of The Peebles Corporation) Americans. This building affirms the concept that we can be broad, we can be inclusive, and that African Americans can participate in the economic story of New York.”

Livingston adds that the project will feed the “Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) ecosystem” creating jobs and economic stimulation for the Black community.

“Whenever a Black developer is awarded a project, we have a much higher propensity to employ more African American, Black, minority companies and they in turn employ Black and Brown employees,” he said.

“We are feeding this ecosystem. These dollars are being status quo. We’re doing some- that this is a big attraction. knowledged that econom- proliferated through different thing new here.”

We’re striving for excellence ic opportunity has not been companies and into our comMcKissack added that Af- here. If you go to Affirmation fairly allocated amongst all munities and it’s meaningful. firmation Tower is a concept Tower versus the Freedom Americans.

This is something that should she hopes will be replicated in Tower or Hudson Yards, you’re “Affirmation Tower is a happen all over the counother cities across the nation. gonna have the same level of unique, once-in-a-lifetime try as we look at the reopenThe building is getting interna- quality.” opportunity to contribute to ing of so many different cities tional attention because of its Exact Capital, which will the rebuilding of New York and the rebuilding of so many historical significance. be a 10% partner, will serve City coming out of this COVID different economies coming “Affirmation Tower in New as financiers, project man- era,” Livington said during an out of this COVID era.”

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CMS, Save East Harlem hold roundtable with Schumer and pols

By ARIAMA C. LONG Report for America Corps Member, Amsterdam News Staff Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer met with electeds, such as U.S. Rep Adriano Espaillat, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, Sen. Cordell Cleare, along with Stand Against Violence East Harlem (SAVE) and community groups to discuss funding for violence intervention programs in the Build Back Better bill on Friday, Nov 19.

Schumer said that he would strive to keep funding control for Crisis Management System and violence intervention programs in organizers’ hands because many were community-led to begin with. Each borough is unique in how it approaches gun violence and violence reduction, he said, and the money should be provided from the Build Back Better bill but not dictated.

Now that the nearly $2 trillion bill has passed the House and is awaiting a vote from the Senate, Schumer is trying to keep as much funding in for various city programs as possible.

“This is a grassroots movement and you need the dollars,” said Schumer to a crowded room of volunteers and elected officials. “I’m inspired by this.”

At the roundtable, organizers and violence interrupters spoke about

(Ariama C. Long photo)

their experiences on the ground canvassing, training to “stop the bleed” in case of a shooting or incident, counseling, and conflict resolution in realtime to reduce gun violence.

Above all, they spoke about a clear need for more sustainable funding to support the city’s CMS workers and various violence interrupter programs.

Shanduke McPhatter, founder of Gangstas Making Astronomical Community Changes Inc. (GMACC), said that the cure violence model is community-led and the basis for the city’s CMS today. He demonstrated that violence interrupter workers without sufficient programming, outreach, and support is inadvisable. “The vi-

olence interrupter is to quell and interrupt the transmission of violence,” said McPhatter. “Once that happens and I’ve identified this person as a potential shooter or be shot, then I have to figure how to help him or her not shoot.” He said that the basis of the model becomes about building relationships and trust, which takes time and investment.

Many of the organizers present emphasized the “therapeutic component” to borough wide violence intervention programs as well.

LIFE Camp’s Tracy Queene, who is executive of therapeutic services, gave a brief tour of the organization’s bright orange peace mobile bus

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that was conspicuously parked outside the SAVE East Harlem building on East 117th Street.

Queene showed off the space, imbued with the scent of citrus as soon as you step up the small collapsible stairs. The surprisingly large bus has a gaming center, fitness equipment, recording studio, and is meant to be a calming space where they often hold meetings and healing circles for people in need of stress relief, she said.

Not Another Child organizer Oresa Napper Williams, who lost her son to gun violence, spoke about taking community members touched by gun violence on retreats as part of their outreach. She said that this year’s trip to the Poconos was very moving.

“For a mother to just be around a campfire with a blanket and her child’s picture on it and able to throw a log in which conveys the weight that they have on their shoulders since their baby was killed,” said Williams, “it’s therapeutic.”

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32 • November 25, 2021 - December 1, 2021 THE NEW YORK AMSTERDAM NEWS communities where they were initiated. Bruck. “The grant funding we’re making The programs employ violence interven- available today is an essential part of the tion strategies that provide alternatives Murphy administration’s public safety to violence and embody a community- strategy and a reflection of our commitContinued from page 4 based public safety model. ment to this issue. We recognize that cognitive behavioral therapy, and inte“We cannot end gun violence unless prosecutors and police cannot end gun gration of local social service providers we invest in the people working on the violence on their own, and this funding to connect people to social and econom- ground to make their communities safer,” will strengthen the community partners ic services. said Acting Attorney General Andrew who are so essential to building safer Advocates say CBVI programs have a track record of success, and have reduced homicides by as much as 60% in

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neighborhoods.”

Murphy and Bruck are leading a statewide three-pronged approach to tackling gun violence, which is classified as a public health crisis, including addressing the root causes of violence, keeping guns away from those most likely to harm others, and taking swift action against those who break the law.

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“You have Letitia James as the AG, Jumaane Williams as the public advocate, Eric Adams as the mayor, Hakeem Jeffries is in leadership, Greg Meeks is dealing with international foreign affairs committee, you have Carl Hastings handling the lead in the assembly, Andrea Stewart Cousins is the leader in the Senate. As you look it is clear that we are in positions of power, it’s imperative that we utilize them correctly.”

What about the grandfathered-in status quo?

“I believe we should expect changes, short-term, mid-term, and longterm changes, because resources are coming from the federal and state level that can really put in place some a real systemic changes. I think if we , , do some things around education, - around employment, we can make a . major impact in our city.”

At the state level, Blacks hold leadership positions in the Senate, Assembly, as attorney general and lieutenant governor. With several candidates already announcing gubernatorial runs, New York State could elect a Black governor in 2022.

Nationally, a Black woman is currently sitting as America’s vice president.

The local politicians are promising a “new day” for New York City as the Big Apple continues to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic and press forward from America’s 2020 racial reckoning after the police killing of George Floyd.

“Tomorrow’s going to be a new day in New York City, the day when every member of our community has the support they need to thrive,” Mayor-elect Eric Adams said the day before winning the general election.

“My dreams came true here, and as mayor, I’ll fight for your dreams, too.”

Next week will mark 15 years since the police murder of Sean Bell. Bell TH

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Activists called the incident racially motivated. Others said it had nothing to do with race and didn’t believe that Bell’s killing was an actual murder.

There are also the deaths of Mohammed Bah and Eric Garner, whose mothers are still seeking justice Despite all of this, despite the new mayor’s background and despite the support from more conservative outlets, some in law enforcement believe that Adams has the ability to toe the line between serving the community and satisfying law enforcement.

Marquez Claxton, of 100 Blacks in Law Enforcement Who Care, said that putting policies into practice is up to the incoming mayor. Considering his background, Adams believes that this should be relatively easy.

“The involvement of directly impacted parties in the process of creating a mayoral administration is consistent with Mayor-elect Adams’ pledge to embrace the diversity in philosophy, culture and socio-political priorities,” stated Claxton.

“These organizations and individuals are investors in the city and have skin in the game.”

New York State Sen. Jamaal Bailey said that the concept of “skin in the game” is the right word to use. The more people with experiences in Adams’ ear, the better.

“I think that he has tapped the number of individuals who have a wealth of experience and a number of in a variety of areas that will take that we’re going to need in our city,” said Bailey. “I don’t know about, I don’t know about the conflict. So much as it is just simply different.

Different agendas.”

Kyle Bragg, president of 32BJ, said that he hopes that Adams’ experiences with both sides of the law will come into play and not his experiences with one side of the law.

“One important reason working New Yorkers like our members supported Mayor-elect Adams is because they understand that his long-standing personal and professional experiences with the city’s police have shaped him deeply,” said Bragg. “And they know this experience will help him balance New Yorkers’ desire to feel secure in their neighborhoods with holding police accountable to those they serve.”

“We do not need the policy of police containment and turning our community into a police state which feeds the prison industrial complex.

It is unconscionable,” said Assemblyman Barron.

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(Bill Moore photo)

Letitia James

of Higher Heights, said with the election of Kamala Harris in 2020 and a record number of Black women running for office in 2018, Black women are converting election power into political power.

“Black women are a powerful force in the American political system, and their political power at the polls and on the ballot continues to grow and is increasingly recognized as the force it is,” she said. “When Black women run for office, they not only challenge biased views of who can or should lead, but also disrupt perceptions of electability.”

Bronx Borough President-elect Vanessa Gibson, the first Black and the first woman to win the seat, said voters were looking for a change with the hope that long-standing disparities would get close to being resolved.

“People were excited about the fact that a woman of color was running for the borough president’s office,” she said. “I think many people gravitated towards that. I also think that generally people were looking for change.

They were excited about the possibility of someone new coming in for office.”

It’s no secret that Blacks are looking for things to get better with so much leadership that looks like them in place.

Earlier this year before the election, a Marist Poll found that only 42% of Black New Yorkers believe that the city is moving in the right direction while 39% believe the city is moving in the wrong direction.

Over the summer, a Gallup poll revealed that 64% of U.S. adults say racism against Black people is widespread in the nation with 55% believing Black people are treated less fairly than whites in their community in dealings with police. A majority of Black adults, 80%, believe they are

(Office of the NYS Attorney General photo)

“Whenever you have Giuliani say the election of a person means that the city is going in the right direction, we know that we are not. We have long been aware that having a Black face in high places doesn’t mean Black power or self-determination.

We don’t need a change in complexion, we need a change in direction.

We don’t need plantation politics, we need liberation politics.”

Observing New York City walking through the crime chaos, deliberate distractions, and sometimes more style than substance political shenanigans, Brownsville activist Danny Goodine noted, “We think we choose who we put in position when we pull levers on election day, but we don’t know who is behind them to put them in there; to counter the crime are the immediate issues we need to be addressed.”

Adams said he is about addressing the fundamental ailments of the city.

“That’s the goal, and in order to do that, it’s not to be distracted.”

Fielding media questions for the past week over a public spat with Black Lives Matter Greater New York co-founder Hawk Newsome, said with regards to his bringing back the much berated Street Crimes Unit, Adams told the Amsterdam News, “I ran on the same things I’m saying now, I campaigned on. People said, ‘We heard what you Eric, this is what we support.’ They elected me in the primary, they elected me in the general election by over 70% based on what I ran on…people are saying that you are rolling out a plan that is going to keep us safe, and not allow cops to be abusive then Brother we trust you. You’ve been doing this for almost 35 years…I understood what the problems were with plainclothes unit. I’m not bringing back street crime.

I’m not bringing back anti crime… I’m bringing back the plainclothes unit that’s going to focus on gangs and guns.

“The reason they were dismantled is because they were being abusive.”

His unit, he insisted, is going to “wear clearly identifiable police clothing with the wind breakers and T-shirt.”

Adams said his policy is not to “motivate them based on the amount of contracts they were having with the public.

I’m not using the standard anymore.

I’m going to judge you on quality of the arrest, and you want to wear your body cameras and keep them on, so every interaction you make with people it’s going to be recorded and reviewed.”

There would be no influx of errant police officers surging into the community; Eric Adams told the Amsterdam News on Wednesday morning that the city can “trust me.”

Meanwhile, during the city’s recent general cycle Black women made especially high achievements with many entering politics for the first time. Glynda Carr, president and CEO

Vanessa Gibson

treated unfairly by police.

In an interview with the AmNews, Basil Smikle, who serves as director of Hunter College’s Public Policy Program, thinks there will be a change of tone and attention to issues impacting the African American community in the city. However, he said that leadership should still be held accountable.

“When you see big apartment buildings and hotels going up on 125th Street, you have a lot of residents wondering whether they can even afford to live or eat in their own neighborhood,” Smikle said. “That means that there needs to be a level of accountability that perhaps had not existed before that is far more critical now.”

Smikle points out that elections are always a form of accountability. Measures to expand ballot access voted on during the general election did not pass and could present a challenge in getting people to head to the polls for future elections.

“We have a majority minority electorate and we’ve had that since 2013,” he said. “We now have a substantial number of elected officials at the highest levels of leadership in our city that are much more representative of the city than previously so I do think you’ll see a change.”

State Senator-elect Cordell Cleare agreed that there’s definitely a lag between the call for criminal justice reforms and what actually gets passed into laws.

False civilian and police reporting strikes at Black men and is serious because people lose their lives.

In New York City, the Amy Cooper incident, where a white woman in the park falsely called the cops on a Black man, and the George Floyd death at the hands of police were at the heart of this latest criminal justice wave, said Cleare.

As a reaction to last year’s racial reckoning, the City Council proudly announced several bills touting police reform and redefining public safety. Some of the bills had existed before but lacked the support needed to get pushed through.

“Here we are in New York the progressives that we are and it took that to pass the chokehold bill which had already existed after the murder of Eric Garner,” said Cleare. “We had that experience and it was recorded and televised, but it took that moment to make things happen.”

Garner was a Black man who died from an NYPD chokehold in 2014, which was similar to Floyd having his neck kneed on until death by Minnesota police in 2020. Garner’s mother, Gwen Carr, is still seeking justice in her son’s name. In 2019, she and petitioners filed for a judicial inquiry into Garner’s killing and related police misconduct and is currently in the middle of court sessions.

“The judge hasn’t allowed us to question any witnesses with any disciplinary authority so it’s unbelievable to me that she won’t even allow us to question Richardson, who was the head of NYPD discipline when my son was murdered in 2014 and when Pantaleo was finally fired in 2019,” said Carr in a statement summarizing how the proceedings went on Nov 4.

Carr described the court proceedings so far as “disappointing.”

Cleare said the officers that killed Garner lied and there have to be consequences for these injustices. “Daniel Pantaleo was allowed to keep his job for five years following the incident, getting paid by us, and I was along with people protesting,” said Cleare.

Cleare said that having a Black Manhattan DA and Black mayor in addition to diversity initiatives within the police department, community partnerships, and delegating some responsibilities away from police, then it “could” make a difference. She said the “blue wall” isn’t black or white in her opinion.

“It has to be implemented correctly. It can’t be the same leadership at the top because you will find that you could put Black people in these spaces, but if they feel that they have to behave a certain way it could be just as bad or worse,” said Cleare. “If they’re not free to operate in a just way, sometimes people have told me sometimes it’s worse to run into your own.”

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Hostos women’s basketball is back in action these women onto a senior college— whether Division I, II or III. Just continue the winning ways that Hostos has and continue to recruit kids that will build that expectation and continue to thrive,” said Shaw, who also teaches health at a charter school in the Bronx.

The Caimans opened the season with a couple of wins. Shaw said he and the players are taking things one game at a time, one practice at time. Cognizant that community college student-athletes often have multiple obligations (Photo courtesy of Hostos Athletics)

By LOIS ELFMAN The Hostos Caimans aim for more success Special to the AmNews

Losing a year of competition due to the pandemic was rough for the women’s basketball program at Hostos Community College in the Bronx, which had built a fierce reputation. The Caimans dominated CUNYAC play for several years and won the NJCAA regional title four consecutive years (2017–’20). Hostos claimed back-toback national titles, emerging triumphant in the NJCAA Division III Women’s Basketball Championship in college as an assistant coach past 11 years. In addition to 2018 and ’19. of the men’s team. “There Hostos, he coached at NazAs Hostos is a two-year in- was uncertainty about this areth Regional High School stitution, most of the names year, but I was always con- in Brooklyn, winning several on this year’s roster are new fident,” said Shaw, who was state championships, as well to the team. The coaching hired last spring. as AAU with Castle Athletics. staff is also new, although Shaw, a graduate of Brook“My goal is to continue the head coach Dwight Shaw lyn College, has been coach- tradition. I don’t predict a has a strong history with the ing girls’ basketball for the fall-off. We’ll continue to get

between school, jobs and family, he schedules practices in the evening.

“I’m a big believer in you can’t rush greatness,” Shaw said. “I have really high expectations, but the first expectation is to win a CUNY championship. Then take it from there.”

Since community college players are only around for two years, Shaw makes it clear they don’t have time to waste. In addition to his contacts, the assistant coaches are also solid recruiters who know the basketball scene in New York City. Of course, they’re also knowledgeable of the Xs and Os. While Shaw hopes to someday coach at a fouryear institution, his immediate goal for Hostos student-athletes combines academic and athletic success. “One of my real things is to see the graduation rate at Hostos get even better,” he said. “Seeing that the ladies can get an education and a college degree.”

Liberty’s Didi Richards serves as a judge in the Quest Rookie Challenge

staying in the New York area, working out with the Liberty coaching staff and allowing her body to heal (she also had a hamstring injury during the NCAA Tournament). She appreciates how Quest encourages people—be they athletes or people working to make an impact in the world.

“They support people on their personal journey, people that make a difference in their communities,” said Richards, who has been partaking of Quest products such as protein bars, cookies and other protein treats since high school. “It’s so The New York Liberty’s Didi Richards is taking part in the Quest Rookie Campaign moving to be with a company that can see…the building excitement for One life tip Richards offers ers and fans, the WNBA has things we go through in next season. young women is to be un- announced a revised playorder to be athletes.”

“It was culture shock when apologetically themselves. offs format. The single-game While Richards initially I first got here…but now I The second tip is building eliminations are gone. Startfound New York City a bit can’t imagine being any- confidence through knowl- ing next season, there will over whelming, she quick- where but here,” said Rich- edge. The third is to be be three rounds to the playly came to embrace it. ards, who returned to Texas prepared. Taking her own offs with all eight teams parShe, WNBA Rookie of the for Thanksgiving, her first advice, she’s excited to see ticipating from the start. The Year Michaela Onyenwere time celebrating that holi- what comes next. first round will be a best of and Betnijah Laney have day with family since before In other WNBA news, three series and rounds two been attending events and college at Baylor. much to the relief of play- and three will be best of five.

(Photo courtesy of Quest)

By LOIS ELFMAN Special to the AmNews

After a successful first season with the New York Liberty, guard/forward Didi Richards earned a spot on the WNBA 2021 All-Rookie Team. Since the season wrapped with the Liberty’s first trip to the playoffs since 2017, Richards has been busy with appearances on behalf of the team. She is also taking part as a judge in Quest Nutrition’s Quest Rookie Challenge (questrookiechallenge.com), which will award three individuals seeking to make an impact in their communities with $20,000 each.

“It was the first brand that reached out and actually wanted to work with me,” said Richards, who is also featured in the new Quest Rookie Campaign.

“It’s been life-changing for me because of the injury that I’ve gone through [in October 2020 Richards suffered a spinal cord injury that left her temporarily paralyzed].”

Richards has decided not to play overseas during the WNBA off-season. She is

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Harden shakes early season slump as the Nets keep rolling Whether it was a change in how games are being officiated this season, allowing defenders to be more physical and not giving offensive players calls when they initiate contact, or a long recover y time from a lingering hamstring injur y, Brooklyn Nets guard James Harden wasn’t playing at at his normal high level during the early part of the Nets’ schedule.

Kevin Durant had been carr ying the team on the offensive end, leading the league in scoring. But Harden found his rhythm coming into November and now is looking like the nine-time AllStar whom the Nets expect to help them make a run for a title.

Between Nov. 12-19, Harden led the Nets in scoring four out of five games, putting up 39, 24, 27 and 36 points.

The one game Harden didn’t top the team in scoring—Durant had 33 points against their former team, the Oklahoma City Thunder on Nov. 14—Harden contributed a double-double, dropping 16 points and adding 13 assists.

“I just tr y to go out there and be aggressive,” said Harden after the

(Bill Moore photo)

By VINCENT DAVIS Special to the AmNews

After a slow start to this season, Nets guard James Harden was averaging 20.8 points, 7.6 rebounds and 9.1 assists before facing the Boston Celtics on the road last night (Wednesday)

Nets’ 120-96 road victor y over the Orlando Magic last Friday, recording a stat line of 17 points, 11 assist with 11 rebounds.

“Guys were open. I tried to push the pace a little bit, get into the teeth of the defense.”

Harden had a game-high 14 assists in the Nets’ 117112 win over the Cavaliers in Cleveland on Monday night, helping the Nets improve to 13-5, which was the best record in the Eastern Conference when NBA play began on Tuesday night. They were one game ahead of the 12-6 Chicago Bulls.

The 32-year-old Harden was averaging 20.8 points, 7.6 rebounds and 9.1 assists heading into last night’s (Wednesday) game versus the Boston Celtics on the road. His assists mark put him second in the league behind the Phoenix Suns Chris Paul (10.3).

The Nets will host the Suns Saturday at the Barclays Center and will play the Knicks in Brooklyn on Tuesday.

Facing a tough stretch of games, the Knicks’ depth will be tested F Practicing time during the NBA regular season is a rare commodity as games come fast and furious. The schedule makers gave the Knicks a twoday pause between games after their 106-100 win over the Los Angeles Lakers at Madison Square Garden on Tuesday.

They will host the Phoenix Suns at the Garden tomorrow night to begin a perilous stretch of games.

The Knicks will face the Atlanta Hawks and Brooklyn Nets away from home this Saturday and next Tuesday respectively, then come back to MSG to play the Chicago Bulls Thursday, Dec. 2, and the Denver Nuggets on Saturday, Dec. 4.

So holding off the

(Bill Moore photo)

By JAIME C. HARRIS AmNews Sports Editor

The Knicks hope to have center Taj Gibson back from a groin injury as they begin a tough stretch of games starting with the Phoenix Suns tomorrow at MSG

Lakers, who were without LeBron James, was a necessary victory. James was serving a one-game suspension after elbowing the Detroit Pistons’ 20-yearold forward Isaiah Stewart above his right eye on Sunday, causing a large gash as they jockeyed for position during a foul shot in the third quarter. Stewart was knocked to the floor by the blow and once he arose was relentless in trying to get at James.

He had to be restrained by multiple players and coaches, and consequently was suspended for two games.

Thankfully for the Knicks, James wasn’t available because they once again labored to close out an opponent after gaining a large lead.

Playing without starting center Mitchell Robinson (concussion), guard Derrick Rose (ankle), who’s fourth on the team in scoring, and center Taj Gibson (groin), the Knicks blitzed the Lakers in the

first quarter and went up by 25 in theB second quarter before the Lakers cut itA to 63-31 at the half.

By 1:26 of the third, a Carmelo Anthony dunk tied the score at 79-79.r The Knicks pushed the lead back up tos 105-93 on an Immanuel Quickley three-t pointer with 5:00 on the clock in theS fourth and withstood another Lakersf run. Quickley’s four fourth quarteri three-pointers was a key to the win. p “Yeah, he is fearless. I’ll say it again,t he is fearless,” emphasized Juliusb Randle, who had 20 points and 16 rebounds, in speaking of the second-yearn guard. “Because he works the way hen works. It doesn’t surprise me.” l Quickley, who finished with 14d points, attributed the victory to a groupA mindset of next man up. “We have an great team, one through 15, anybodyl could step in and be ready to play,” hej said. “That’s the great thing about oura team is we have guys that if somebodya is out and no question, we miss Derrickfi tonight, but he was still a leader, stilli talking off the floor, just making surei guys are in the right spots and thingst like that.” w Guard Evan Fournier, who went 6-9S from three and registered 26 pointss versus the Lakers, had his best performance as a Knick since scoring 32 in theS season opener in a 138-132 double over-o time win against the Boston Celtics.

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Jackson State is one win away from fulfilling Deion Sanders’ promise

By JAIME C. HARRIS AmNews Sports Editor

affair as the elder Sanders is a finalist for the 2021 Stats Perform FCS When NFL Hall of Eddie Robinson Award, Fame defensive back bestowed to the national Deion Sanders commitcoach of the year in the ted to Jackson State as Division I subdivision. the HBCU’s head footThe Tigers are currently ball coach in September ranked No. 14 in the FCS of last year, he vowed to Coaches Poll. instill a culture of winSanders endured ning and pride into a health issues this season program that had not after undergoing foot captured a SWAC chamsurgery in September to pionship since 2007, and address a dislocated toe whose previous appeardating back to his playance in the NCAA Diviing days. He was then sion 1-AA/FCS playoffs hospitalized in late Ocwas 1997. tober after experienc“We can be a pillar of ing complications from all HBCUs. I’m foolish the surgery that kept enough to believe,” prohim off the sidelines for claimed the charismatic three games. Sanders is Sanders. “We’re looking back using a motorized Jackson State quarterback Shedeur Sanders will lead the the Tigers into the SWAC championship for players that are fast, wheelchair from where game versus Prairie View A & M Dec. 4 smart, tough and discihe guides his team. plined…We will never settle for the Prairie View A & M Panthers play last Saturday with a 24-10 lege football, Shedeur, who Sanders, who has been widely mediocrity ever again… I did Dec. 4 at Mississippi Memorial win over Alcorn State. Quar- was a highly recruited high known by the nickname Prime not leave my 100 acres and a Stadium in Jackson, Mississip- terback Shedeur Sanders, the school prospect out of Trinity Time or Prime for the past four mule to come here and fail.” pi. The game will be broadcast coach’s son, was 28-39 for 297 Christian in Cedar Hill, Texas, decades, has been rumored In just one full season at the on ESPN2 kicking off at 3 p.m. yards and three touchdowns, roughly 15 miles from Dallas, as a candidate for several FBS helm, the 54-year-old Sand- Prairie View is 7-3 and 6-1 in and added to his candidacy as where Deion Sanders was his (Football Bowl Subdivision) ers has kept his word. He has the Southwestern Athletic Con- a finalist for the 2021 Stats Per- offensive coordinator, initial- head coaching positions inlifted the Tigers to the top of ference West division. form Jerry Rice Award, present- ly committed to Florida Atlan- cluding Texas Christian Univerthe SWAC East and can end JSU, which is 10-1 overall, ed annually to the FCS national tic University before his father sity of the Big 12 Conference.

JSU’s conference champion- completed its undefeated reg- freshman of the year. accepted the job at JSU. The The FBS is the highest level of ship drought when they face ular season (8-0) in conference In his first season of col- award nominations are a family college football.

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Former Yankee Eppler looks to revive the Mets The Mets have had a losing record four out of the last five seasons and have not made the playoffs since 2016. Owner Steve Cohen, a lifelong Mets fan, who purchased the team in September of last year, is putting his trust in Billy Eppler to prudently utilize some of his billions to resuscitate the team.

Eppler was hired as the Mets’ new general manager as announced by the organization last Thursday and was introduced to the media on Friday.

After reports that many prominent executives in baseball had little to no interest in taking the job, Eppler, 46, who was fired as the Los Angeles Angels GM a little over 14 months ago after five losing seasons, was seemingly the most appealing willing candidate on the market for the Mets’ key decision makers, which includes team president Sandy Alderson, who led the search.

“I’m so thankful to Steve and Sandy for what I consider an opportunity of a lifetime,” said Eppler in a statement follow-

ing his signing to a four-year contract. “We have a lot of work to do and will systematically begin to work towards our goal of building a perennial winner.”

The Mets finished 77-85 last season, third in the National League East.

Eppler previously worked for the Yankees as an assistant general manager from 2012-’14 and before that was their director of professional scouting. “Over the past two decades, Billy has been a scout and Former Yankees assistant general manager Billy Eppler was hired last week an assistant GM. by the Mets to be their new GM after missing the playoffs for the fifth He’s also more straight season with the Angels than familiar with the New York market,” said ing talent. He’s going to make Mets’ quest for a general manAlderson. us better. I am really pleased ager who will provide stabili“He’s smart, he hustles and that we have someone of his ty and an actionable vision has has a keen eye for identify- caliber leading the Mets.” The been an elusive endeavor over (Wikipedia photo)

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the past four seasons. Since the 74-year-old Alderson’s tenure as GM from 2010-’18, the Mets have had seven men, including Alderson for a brief second stint this past season, hold the title as permanent or interim general manager.

He stepped in to temporarily fill the day-to-day responsibilities after acting GM Zack Scott was placed on paid leave due to being arrested for drunken driving.

Scott, who had attended a fundraiser at Cohen’s house in Connecticut hours before his arrest, was fired Nov. 1.

Scott had been elevated to acting GM resulting from Jared Porter’s termination. Porter’s stay was shortlived, lasting from December 2020 to January 2021 following the disclosure that he had sent unsolicited sexually explicit images and texts to a female reporter in 2016 when he worked for the Chicago Cubs. The judgement of Alderson in his hiring of general managers is justifiably in question as Scott and Porter were brought on under his stewardship.

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Sports The Giants’ firing of OC Garrett isn’t a solution to the team’s deep problems

By JAIME C. HARRIS AmNews Sports Editor

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Garrett is fundamentally a scapeNEWS goat for an offense that hasAM been poor this season and one of the most un10/07/21 The 3-7 Giants fired productive in the NFL over the last offensive coordinafive. The unit is currently ranked tor Jason Garrett on 25th out of the league’s 32 teams in Tuesday coming off of total yards and is putting up just 18.9 Monday’s 30-10 defeat points per game ahead of Sunday’s to the defending Super matchup against the 5-6 Philadelphia Bowl champion Tampa Eagles at MetLife Stadium.

NEWS Bay Buccaneers on the The Giants’ ranks inAM the preroad. It was another vious four seasons were 21st in 10/14/21 chapter in the team’s 2017, 17th in 2018, 23rd in 2019 march toward another and 25th last season. So the issues season failing to make predate Garrett, the former Dallas the playoffs for the Cowboys head coach from 2011fifth straight year.

2019 and interim head coach for “We made a decision eight games in the 2010 season. to move on from Jason Irrespective of how the franchise’s AM NEWS Garrett as the offenownership of John Mara and Steve sive coordinator of the Tisch, general manager 10/21/21 Dave GetNew York Giants,” said tleman and Judge choose to spin head coach Joe Judge. it, Garrett is the fall guy.

“Look, I have a lot of But they are just as culpable for respect for Jason as the Giants’ offensive deficiencies, as Currently in his third season as the Giants’ a person, as a coach. starting quarterback, Daniel Jones has not decisions on front office and scoutHe’s been a tremening department hirings, drafting, generated hope in the Giants’ fan base that he is dous asset for me as the long-term answer at the position free-agent signings and AM player deNEWS a young head coach. velopment are all significant fac10/28/21 He’s helped our development here. support staff members. He’s done a tors. Running back Saquon Barkley “He’s built very strong relation- good job putting the team first. I have (2018) and tight end Evan Engram ships in the building with the play- a lot of respect and appreciation for (2020) are the Giants’ only two skill ers,” Judge went on, “along with other everything he’s done for us.” position players to be named to the

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The Jets’ division losses keeps them at the bottom AMofNEWS the AFC East

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When Jets head coach Robert Saleh 11/04/21 named veteran quarWith eight weeks left in the NFL terback Joe Flacco season, beginning today with the the starter over Mike annual three-game Thanksgiving White for the matchschedule, then 17 regular season up versus the Dolgames, the AFC East division is far phins, it was an from settled. But it’s no surprise the unpopular decision AMfanbase.

NEWS 2-8 Jets are in last place. among the This is another of their rebuildWhite had11/11/21 given the ing years. They began the season team a spark after rewith a rookie quarterback, a new placing Zach Wilson, head coach, a new offensive coorwhose first season dinator and a new defensive coorhas been a struggle. dinator. Each of the coaches are White helped the Jets working in their positions for the take down the Cinfirst time in the NFL. cinnati Bengals 34-31 AM NEWS The Jets’ 24-17 loss this past Sunday in Week 8, throwto the Miami Dolphins at MetLife ing for 40511/18/21 yards and was their third loss in a row, followthree touchdowns. ing defeats to the Indianapolis Colts Wilson sustained and Buffalo Bills, and their fifth in a sprained PCL in a the last six games. The 4-7 Dolphins 54-13 loss to the Pahave now won three straight after triots on Oct. 24. He is Jets rookie receiver Elijah Moore had a breakout game dropping seven straight. expected back as the on Sunday, posting career highs of eight catches and The 6-4 Bills, preseason favorites 141 yards in a 24-17 loss to the Miami Dolphins starter this AM Sunday NEWS to be AFC East champions, are in a when the Jets play 11/25/21 tight race with the New England Pa- rare year of not making the playoffs the Houston Texans on the road this triots, who have become a strong last season. The Patriots lead the di- Sunday. Flacco completed 24 of 39 playoff contender this season after a vision at 7-4. of his passes for 291 yards and two

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“We did some good things,” said Flacco. “But we made too many mistakes to win the football game.” The Jets were in contention 01464 for most of AM NE the afternoon but couldn’t overcome 11/11/ 0 7 74470 22784 the errors. The score was tied 14-14 in the fourth quarter when Jets defensive end John Franklin-Myers was called for a roughing the passer penalty on Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa on an incomplete pass on third down, keeping the drive alive 01474 and ultimately leading to a Miami AM NE touchdown.

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