New York Amsterdam News Issue # 47 November 25 - Dec. 01,. 2021 Issue.

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Vol. 112 No. 47 | November 25, 2021 - December 1, 2021

THE NEW BLACK VIEW

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FOOD APARTHEID NYC

(Ariama C. Long photo)

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

(Bill Moore photo)

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)

See STORY on page 28

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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