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Eric Adams announces Keechant Sewell as NYPD police commissioner

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First Black woman named NYPD commissioner By ARIAMA C. LONG Amsterdam News Staff, Report for America Corps Member

first Black woman to hold the role in the history of the NYPD. “I am mindful of the historic nature of this announcement,” said Sewell Mayor-elect Eric Adams announced at the press conference. “I bring a his choice for New York City’s next different perspective. Committed to police commissioner Wednesday making sure the department looks morning. Adams named Nassau like the city it serves and making the County Police Chief of Detectives decision, just as Mayor-elect Adams Keechant Sewell, 49, as the incoming did, to elevate women and people of police commissioner. She will be the color to leadership positions.”

Sewell is a Queens native, and the third Black person to run the NYPD, reported the Associated Press. Former commissioners Benjamin Ward and Lee Brown served in the 1980s and 1990s before her, said the AP. Meanwhile, Rodney Harrison, the NYPD’s first Black chief of detectives, is reportedly headed out to Long Island in an interesting switch. Harrison recently retired as chief and will be

Content, Character, Curriculum=David Banks, Incoming NYC Schools Chancellor

Exonerated Muhammad Aziz plans to sue the city and state

On a frigid Wednesday morning last week, dozens gathered behind P.S. 161 in Brooklyn to welcome the city’s next Schools Chancellor David C. Banks. Banks stood at the front of the podium with Mayor-elect Eric Adams, recently returned from his Ghana trip, as well as several other supporters and community members. He and Adams appeared much more like with family and students of Banks, preachers surrounded by an adoring chimed in with enthusiastic applause congregation than leaders heading a despite the bitter cold. press conference. The crowd, filled See BANKS on page 16

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nominated to be the next commissioner of the Suffolk County Police Department, said NBC New York. Sewell has had national attention and a warm reception from locals so far. Erica Ford co-founded the violence interrupter organization LIFE Camp Inc. Ford said that the appointment of Sewell is a good sign and that the city needs a “shifting” to focus on the

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KENYA MARKS ‘JAMHURI DAY’ WITH INDEPENDENCE DAY SPEECHES AND MILITARY BANDS (GIN)—Jamhuri, the Swahili word for “republic,” is celebrated across Kenya on Dec. 12––when the country attained its independence from the British in 1963 and became a republic in 1964. Thatwasfollowedbyaflurryofnew national holidays. Some survived, othersarebeingquestionedandmay beheadingforthedustbinofhistory. The now-abolished Moi Day was created to celebrate the presidency of Kenya’s longest serving head of state, PresidentDanielarapMoi. The same was true of Kenyatta Day,whichwasinitiallysetasidetoremember the Kenyans who fought for independence but quickly became a celebration of Kenya’s first president, JomoKenyatta. In 1963, as the first president addressed a crowd, he was barraged by whiteswhoaskedifthe60,000EuropeansettlersshouldfearBlackleadership and the rebels, known by the colonists as“MauMaus.” “There’snogroundsatall[forfears],” he told an interviewer, “neither from those who were in the forest nor from those who were home guard have anything to fear from us at all, because allofthemarebrothersandsisters.” Several whites at the event affirmed that since the transfer of power, things had gone better for them than they expected. “Oh, far better,” said a white person seen in a video on Youtube. “They’ve gone infinitely better than I thoughttheywould.” This year’s speech by President Uhuru Kenyatta offered a commentary on Uhuru Gardens and why the Founding Fathers chose the former site of a concentration camp to mark IndependenceDay. “During the liberation war,” he began, “the Lang-ata camp was the most notorious clearing house for our liberation fighters. In fact, it is estimated that up to 10,000 of our gallant and most feared liberators were confined in this camp at some point or another. And most of them did not survive the wrathofthecolonizer. “In fact,” he continued, “using 15 ‘quack scientists,’ the colonizers argued that devotion to the cause of Mau Mau was a mental illness. And theonlywaytodealwithitwasbycreating mass detention camps where ‘shock therapy’ and torture would be administered as a cure. “By creating this garden as a place of remembrance, our Founding Fathers wanted generations to recall the darkness of our colonial past, but not to be stuck in the pessimism that dark

memoriescanbreed.” Uhuru Gardens, closed for almost two years, is slated to reopen to the public with a historic memorial park and the refurbishment of some dilapidatedbuildingsandmonuments. Meanwhile,thesonofDeputyPres-

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candidatefromamajorparty. But Madougou’s historic bid for the presidency ended abruptly when security agents arrested her after a rally protesting the president’s controversialelectoralreforms. Madougou was one of sever-

Kenya Defense Forces during the 2021 Jamhuri Day celebration

ident William Ruto took to his Twitter account to attack the president for betraying his father, the Deputy President William Ruto, and for favoring another candidate as his successor in the upcoming elections despite Ruto Sr. having actively campaigned for the presidentin2013and2017. Ruto also mentioned Uhuru’s political reform project—Building Bridges Initiative—which was declared unconstitutionalinarulingupheldbythe KenyanCourtofAppeals. Michelle Gavin of the Council on ForeignRelationswroteoftheAppeals Court ruling: “The Kenyan judiciary’s rejection of BBI could herald important changes to the unwritten rules of Kenyan politics. Rather than bending the institutions of the state to their will, political leaders are finding that they must work within the bounds of the 2010constitution.”

al Benin opposition leaders banned from running in an election in April in which Talon won a second term with 86%ofthevote. Critics say Talon, one of the richest men in Francophone Africa today, has eliminated almost all possibility of legitimate opposition. The judiciary’s independencehasevaporated.Talon’s former personal lawyer became presidentofBenin’sConstitutionalCourt. A new judicial body, the Economic Crime and Terrorism Court, or Criet, has targeted Talon’s political rivals. After the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights repeatedly ruled against his administration’s policies, Talon’s government prevented the court from hearing cases brought against him by individuals and nongovernmentalorganizations “The arbitrary arrest of opponents hasledtothedegradationofdemocracyinBenin,”saidOumarNdongo,academicdirectoroftheAfricanCenterfor StrategicIntelligenceinDakar,Senegal. “There was no justice,” said Essowe Batamoussi, the judge who fled Benin and has applied for asylum in France, in an interview with the Washington Post. “We received an empty file and a threat: if we did not put her in jail, we wereindanger.” Benin was long praised for its thriving multi-party democracy in a troubled region. But critics say the West African state’s democracy has steadily eroded under Talon, a 63-year-old cottonmagnatefirstelectedin2016. “It’s a sad day for our justice system,” one of her lawyers, Robert Dossou, told the AFP news service. “I maintain thereisnoproof.”

LAWYERS FOR DEMOCRATIC OPPOSITION IN BENIN CRY FOUL AS ANOTHER POPULAR LEADER IS JAILED (GIN)—Reckya Madougou, one of the strongest challengers to Benin’s autocratic leader, Patrice Talon, will be observing the next election from her cell in jail. The 47-year-old activist was found guilty of conspiring to assassinate political figures and sentenced to 20yearsbehindbars. Madougou was the head of the party Les Démocrates and had been the face of “Don’t touch my constitution!”––a civil society campaignthatralliedagainstleadersseeking to extend their reign under the guise of constitutional reform. The movement spread across West Africa. Supporters say she could have been Benin’s first female presidential BILLION DOLLAR GAS PROJECT

IN MOZAMBIQUE THREATENS A VULNERABLE NATION (GIN)—An investment of $1.15 billion in a gas project in northern Mozambique is being challenged by Friends of the Earth which foresees a major increase in greenhouse gas emissionsbyupto10%by2022. That’s the equivalent of the combined annual emissions of all 27 EU membercountries,accordingtoFoE. The decision to provide the finance package—one of the biggest ever offered to a foreign fossil fuel project by the UK Department of Trade and Foreign Affairs—is unlawful, the group maintains. Mozambique is not only one of the poorestcountriesintheworld,butalso oneofthemostaffectedbytheclimate crisis and most vulnerable to its impacts.Itisalsointhemiddleofaviolent IslamicState-ledinsurgency. Under the contract, the $20 billion development will extract 43 million tons of liquid natural gas (LNG) per yearfor32yearsfromoffshoregasfields inCaboDelgadoandwillcreate4.3billiontonsofcombustionemissions. FoE,representedbytheUKlawfirm Leigh Day and the law firm Matrix Chambers, will argue primarily that the failure of UK’s export credit agency to quantify the emissions produced from the use of the liquid natural gas meant the conclusion that financing the project was compatible with the ParisAgreement,wasunlawful. The project undermines Mozambique’s ability to meet its climate commitments under the Paris Agreement, claimsFoE. “How can Boris Johnson expect the rest of the world to pull the plug on fossil fuels when his government is giving such enthusiastic support to a development that could have the same climate impact as the entire EU aviation sector?” asked Will Rundle, headoflegalatFriendsoftheEarth. “The UK government should be supporting the building of a cleaner, saferfuture—notprojectsthatwillcontinuetofueltheclimateemergencyfor manyyearstocome,”Rundleadded. Last month, the UK government ended overseas fossil fuel subsidies, ruling out support for a $3.5 billion oil pipelineinEastAfrica. “We believe the government acted unlawfully by failing to comply with its climate obligations, which is why we aretakinglegalaction.” The UK’s export finance office had been accused by activists of “rank hypocrisy“ over its record on fossil fuel financing. They acknowledged that there were both environmental and reputationalrisksinprovidingfunding. See INT'L on page 32

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Community calls for gun ceasefire and mandate By NAYABA ARINDE Amsterdam News Editor Ripped yellow tape and detectives scouring city blocks for bullets and evidence greeted Brooklyn, Bronx and Queens residents on Monday, Dec. 13, 2021, as they went about their business. Just as the Amsterdam News was writing this article about increasing gun violence in the city, we received a phone call from a reader of yet another fatal shooting in 73 Precinct Brownsville, Brooklyn. This as Mayor-elect Eric Adams announced his appointment of Nassau County Chief of Detectives Keechant Sewell as the next police commissioner of the New York City Police Department. Early afternoon on Tuesday, Dec. 14, the NYPD confirmed that a male had been shot in the chest at Powell Street and East New York at 11:46 a.m. The victim Terrence Higgins, 31, was taken to Interfaith Hospital Medical Center by EMS. A NYPD spokesperson said that the, “Un-

known perpetrator fled on foot toward Sutter Ave. and is described as wearing a long green jacket and skull cap.” Higgins was pronounced dead at 12:05 p.m. There were no arrests by Amsterdam News press time. Gunshots are echoing on the quietest––and the busiest of NYC streets. “We need a ceasefire, a summit, and a sit-down with Mayor-elect Eric Adams,” said Danny Goodine, community activist, and occasional Amsterdam News photographer. “We were giving out food at P.S 401 for the holidays,” said Goodine, the Brownsville-based activist. “There is a shelter nearby and many of the children are homeless. Then we heard the shots; three minutes after, police were everywhere. Then we saw the helicopter. I went around there, but by then they had taken the victim to the hospital where he died. There is just too much gun violence in the neighborhood. There was another fatal shooting two days ago.” See GUNS on page 33

NYC City Council gives noncitizens voting rights By ARIAMA C. LONG Amsterdam News Staff, Report for America Corps Member The New York City Council decided to give eligible non-citizen residents a chance to vote in local elections last week. The move has received mixed reviews in the city. “During the height of the pandemic, it was our immigrant New Yorkers who kept New York City running. Over half of our frontline essential workers are immigrants and approximately 1 in 5 are non-citizens New Yorkers,” said Councilmember Ydanis Rodriguez who sponsored the bill. “They have all earned the right to participate in our city elections.” Rodriguez is a major advocate for immigrants’ rights. Rodriguez, an immigrant himself, became a U.S citizen in 2000 and first became a councilmember in 2009. During the mayoral debates this October, Rodriguez was targeted by then-mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa in an effort to fire shots at his opponent and Mayor-elect Eric Adams. Sliwa had erroneously claimed that Rodriguez was not a citizen. Adeel Ahmed, community organizer with the Black Institute, said that the negative attention and rhetoric against the bill is “hypocritical and unjust.” Ahmed pointed out that hundreds of thousands of noncitizens are Caribbean, Latino, or African. Giving these demographics the opportunity to vote wouldn’t suppress or disenfranchise Black/ African American voters, said Ahmed, because they’re all part of the same communities. “All this rhetoric being thrown around is the rhetoric of fear,” said Ahmed, “it is time for people of color to come together and embrace voter empowerment for each other and it is the just thing to do.” Under the bill Intro 1867, basically all im-

migrant New Yorkers who hold green cards, working authorizations, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), or Temporary Protected Status (TPS), and meets all the qualifications for registering to vote, are allowed to register and vote by Jan. 9, 2023. The bill would also create an advisory group to provide recommendations regarding the implementation of this new municipal voting system chaired by the public advocate with four other appointed members. Organizations like Citizens Union have worked for a long time to expand voter participation in municipal elections. However, their Executive Director Betsy Gotbaum noted that the implementation of the new voting system may be “incredibly complex.” Noncitizen voters won’t be required to form a separate line at the polls, but if there are state and federal races on the same day, voters will have a separate ballot that only includes local races. They can enroll in a political party, and will have to use separate registration forms from citizens distributed by the Board of Elections (BOE). Gotbaum said that it was “imperative” that the BOE begin preparing for noncitizens voting now and not wait. “The City Council should provide ample time for implementation. The incoming Adams administration and new City Council must provide adequate funding for the Board of Elections and carefully monitor the preparations to ensure that noncitizen voting is a success,” said Gotbaum. Ariama C. Long is a Report for America corps member and writes about culture and politics in New York City for The Amsterdam News. Your donation to match our RFA grant helps keep her writing stories like this one; please consider making a tax-deductible gift of any amount today by visiting: https:// tinyurl.com/fcszwj8w

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MetroBriefs Metro Briefs DEBLASIO UNVEILS UPDATE ON BLUEPRINT TO COMBAT EXTREME WEATHER IN NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio released the second monthly update to “The New Normal: Combatting Storm-Related Extreme Weather in New York City,” a landmark report that provides New York City with a new blueprint to prepare for and respond to extreme weather. The report details the city’s efforts to assist New Yorkers still recovering from Ida, launch new infrastructure improvements, and protect residents in basement units. Key progress made in November includes relief sewer installation in Queens, which adds sewer capacity to existing sewer systems. The Department of Environmental Protection has also begun a project to install 1,365 linear feet of storm sewer and 1,180 linear feet of water main in Jamaica at Hendrickson Place, 166th St., and 108th Ave. This relief sewer alongside the existing undercapacity storm sewer will alleviate flooding conditions and protect New Yorkers. The city has also continued to help New Yorkers impacted by Hurricane Ida and repair Ida-affected homes. This support includes working with each homeowner to navigate the FEMA financial assistance applications, and connecting homeowners to a dedicated list of New York City plumbers and electricians who are prioritizing Ida-affected repairs. ADVOCATES URGE CITY COUNCIL SPEAKER TO BRING SOLITARY CONFINEMENT LEGISLATION TO VOTE People who have lost loved ones to solitary confinement, people who survived solitary, and allies held a vigil outside City Council Speaker Corey Johnson’s apartment. Participants lifted up those killed by solitary and urged the Speaker to bring legislation to end solitary confinement to a vote that has 35 sponsors—veto-proof supermajority support. The vigil comes as 28-year-old Malcolm Boatwright died last week after being locked in Rikers Island, the 15th person to die this year in city jails—not all from solitary confinement but all from jail conditions. There is currently legislation to end solitary pending in the City Council with 35 sponsors, veto-proof supermajority support. Johnson has been a strong advocate for ending solitary confinement, and has previously supported automatic votes on bills with 34 co-sponsors. Despite the well-known and deadly harms of solitary, as well as the clear safety benefits of alternatives, and while the mayor promised to end solitary confinement and even claimed the city was going to end solitary, the City Department of Correction continues to use solitary by various other names. LAWMAKERS, CIVIL RIGHTS LEADERS AND ADVOCATES CALL FOR PASSAGE OF CLEAN SLATE ACT Members of the Clean Slate New York coalition, elected officials and advocates called on Albany to pass the Clean Slate Act during the 2022 legislative session. The speakers, which included State Senator Zellnor Myrie and Assemblywoman Catalina Cruz, highlighted how the Clean Slate Act would stimulate the economy following the COVID-19 pandemic and at a time when employers are struggling to fill open positions, and would address the harm done by decades of mass criminalization that targeted Black and Brown communities. The Act, which is slated to be a top issue for the legislature when they return to session in January, has a diverse array of support throughout the state, including overwhelming support from the public, along with faith leaders, crime survivors, labor groups and business leaders, including JP Morgan Chase. The Clean Slate Act would end the perpetual punishment of New Yorkers with a conviction record, which keeps many from accessing life essentials like employment and housing, by establishing an automatic process for sealing most conviction records after all the requirements of the criminal legal system have been met. ECONOMIC IMPACTS OF THE PANDEMIC TOP CONCERN FOR BLACKS The Black to the Future Action Fund released its third temperature check poll shedding new light on how Black communities are experiencing the economic impacts of the pandemic. The national survey revealed nearly half of Black adults (46%) say their personal financial situation is bad, with one-third (33%) saying their personal economic situation has gotten worse since the pandemic. Black adults overwhelmingly support policy changes that help keep money in their pockets and a roof over their heads. Monthly relief checks continue to be a policy solution supported by 87% of respondents. Similar to previous temperature check polls in July and September, 65% of Black adults said they would spend a $2,000 stimulus check on utilities. In a change from previous polls, 63% would spend it on food, a 6 percentage point increase compared to September (57%); and 59% would pay rent or mortgage, nearly double from September (31%). Nearly three-quarters (73%) of renters reported they would use a stimulus payment to pay for rent. —Compiled by Cyril Josh Barker

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Contempt of Congress charges against Mark Meadows, Trump’s former chief of staff By HERB BOYD Special to the AmNews On Monday, the House committee investigating the attack on the Capitol last January voted to hold former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows in criminal contempt for defying a subpoena. It was a decisive move and another step closer to nailing Trump for his provocations of the insurrection. The nine members of the committee— seven Democrats and two Republicans— unanimously supported the resolution that next faces a vote from the full House. At the onset of the charges against Meadows, he had agreed to cooperate but then changed his mind, claiming he was being pressured to discuss issues Trump had said were protected by executive privilege. Some of the evidence presented to the committee was from Trump allies urging him to stop the rioters. His change came after he had already provided a number of documents to the committee about messages related to the insurrection, one urged on Trump with an aim to disrupt a vote that would have confirmed Biden’s victory. Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) and chair of the committee said, referring to Meadows, “History will not look upon

you as a victim. History will not dwell on your long list of privilege claims or your legal sleight of hand. History will record that in a critical moment in our democracy, most people were on the side of the truth, of providing accountability, of strengthening our system for future generations. And history will also record in this critical moment that some people were not.” Schiff and Rep. Liz Cheney also read aloud a series of panicked text messages that members of Congress, prominent Fox News hosts, and even Trump’s own son, Donald Trump Jr., sent to Meadows pleading with him to do something to stop the violent siege on the Capitol and convince former President Donald Trump to make a statement condemning the riots. “What did the president of the United States do, and what did he fail to do? Mr. Meadows doesn’t think he should have to answer those questions. He thinks the American people should be left in the dark,” Schiff said. Schiff then read aloud the January 7 message from an unnamed member of Congress that said: “Yesterday was a terrible day. We tried everything we could in our objection to the 6 states. I’m sorry nothing worked.”

Saving lives: Community advocates fight to inform (City Council Staff photo)

By HEATHER M. BUTTS, JD, MPH, MA Special to the AmNews

For months, lines snaked around city blocks outside of convention centers, hospitals, and pharmacies as New Yorkers rushed to get vaccinated against COVID-19. But as spring turned to summer and then fall, the lines for the shots began to dwindle like the number of leaves on park trees, leaving millions of New Yorkers, especially Black New Yorkers, un or under-vaccinated. Early December brought the total number of vaccine doses administered in the city Councilmember Debi Rose rolls up her sleeve to 12,658,147. As New York preto get vaccinated and inform New Yorkers pares itself for yet another posabout COVID-19 safety protocols. sible wave of infections and deaths, who are the people ensuring those receiving these doses impact on the Black community. Data were able to get to vaccination sites? from the Center for Disease Control That they had the information neces- and Prevention (CDC) indicates that sary to make informed decisions about COVID-19 hospitalization rates among getting vaccinated? What are these Blacks were about 4.7 times the rate of same people doing to work with those whites”—crowded living conditions, in the Black community that are still being essential workers, lack of access not vaccinated? to proper health care, and chronic This is the second in a three-part health conditions are just a few of the series examining the challenges factors contributing to the devastating around coronavirus vaccine rollout effect of COVID-19 in the Black comwithin the Black community in the munity. New York region. As explored in the According to the New York City Defirst article in this series—the “COVID- partment of Health, 49% of Black New 19 pandemic has had a detrimental See VACCINE on page 29

NewJerseyNews Federal grant establishes Crime Gun Intelligence Center in Paterson By CYRIL JOSH BARKER Amsterdam News Staff The City of Paterson continues to battle with issues around gun violence. Over the past several weeks alone the city has seen a rash of shootings. Last weekend, two men were injured during a shooting at Market Street and Cianci Street. Reports indicate that police were called to the area after reports of shots being fired but when they arrived there were no victims. Later police learned the two victims were taken to the hospital via private vehicle with gunshot wounds. Two weeks ago, Paterson saw its 27th homicide victim when 27-year-old Khadijah Wilson was fatally shot near the corner of Park Avenue and Summer Street. Wilson was taken to the hospital by private vehicle where she died, according to reports. No arrests have been made. U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr., co-chair of the Congressional Law Enforcement Caucus, announced today that the U.S. Department of Justice awarded a $700,000 federal grant to the Paterson Police Department to establish a Crime Gun Intelligence Center. The grant is part of the DOJ’s Local Law Enforcement Crime Gun Intelligence Center Integration Initiative, which helps local police utilize state-of-the-art technology to locate crime guns

and their sources and effectively prosecute perpetrators. “Our brave men and women in uniform put their lives on the line to keep our communities safe. It is imperative that they have every resource they need to continue their vital work,” said Pascrell. “Big cities like Paterson have been the epicenter of America’s gun violence epidemic. With this grant, Paterson PD will have new tools and technology to swiftly identify guns used for criminal purposes and prosecute those who put our community in harm’s way.” Paterson Mayor Andre Sayegh said he’s grateful for the grant and that it will improve public safety. “This announcement couldn’t come at a more fortuitous time,” he said. “Like many cities across the country, we are combating a spike in gun violence but our police need additional resources. This grant gives us the tools and technology necessary to bring violent criminals to justice.” Pascrell has championed efforts to help state and local law enforcement better trace crime guns as the lead sponsor of the Crime Gun Tracing Modernization Act with Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy. The legislation would finally give the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives the ability to electronically search for the records of guns used in crimes across the country.

Archdiocese of Newark’s Mercy House to give 1,000 toys to families in need By CYRIL JOSH BARKER Amsterdam News Staff T h e Me rc y Ho u s e, a re s o u rc e a n d re f e r ra l c e n t e r o p e ra t e d by t h e A rc h d i o c e s e o f Ne w a rk ’s R e s p e c t L i f e O f f i c e, i s d i s t r i b u t i n g a p p ro x i m a t e l y 1 , 0 0 0 n e w a n d u n w ra p p e d t oy s t o f a m i l i e s in need during its annual C h r i s t m a s Toy G i v e aw ay o n F r i d ay , D e c . 1 7 , a t 1 1 a. m. Parents who stop by The Mercy House’s location in Newark’s Clinton Hill section will receive one toy per child, along with a small gift such as crayons. The gifts are intended for boys and girls aged 17 and under. Families are encouraged not to bring children to the event to preserve the element of surprise on Christmas. “No child should ever wake up on Christmas morning without a

toy, especially if they believe in Santa,” said Cheryl A. Riley, director of the Respect Life Office. “But many families we serve can’t afford to buy Christmas presents because they’re facing hard times. That’s why it’s so important to us to make sure every child gets a toy. We want to make a difference.” Toys were donated by archdiocese parishes, schools, and parishioners. Outerbridge CrossFit of Staten Island and members of the Upper Montclair Country Club contributed hundreds of gifts as well. This year, the giveaway will include trendy fidget toys as well as popular building blocks, sports items, and brandname dolls. This is the fourth year The Mercy House has held its Christmas Toy Giveaway, a tradition that began when the center first opened in 2018.

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Walla Elsheikh says hope still abounds even as COVID postpones Birthright AFRICA event By OLAYEMI ODESANYA Special to the AmNews “Due to schedule changes as well as recent uncertainty surrounding the new COVID variant, we felt it was best to postpone December 2021 travel,” said co-founder of Birthright AFRICA Walla Elsheikh. “We are, however, excited to launch the Pre-travel Virtual Program now for Birthright AFRICA Scholars to begin explorations of their heritage and culture virtually in order to qualify for the travel opportunity with Jidenna to Ghana in July 2022.” In 2015, Sudanese American education innovator Walla Elsheikh and global education leader Diallo Shabazz founded Birthright AFRICA to provide free educational trips for adolescents and young adults of African descent to African countries. Birthright Scholars are encouraged to learn and to be proud of their African heritage. “We aim to instill pride, enhance confidence, and spark the creativity of our scholars to fulfill their leadership and entrepreneurial aspirations,” said Elsheikh. “As our program continues to grow, we hope Birthright AFRICA creates the next generation of global leaders and entrepreneurs who are proud of being of African descent.” Elsheikh is a proud African who

was born in Sudan songwriter and actor and lived in Uganda Jidenna, Tastemakers before she lived in Africa CEO & foundNew York. Elsheikh er Cherae Robinson, has almost two deand Manager of Incades of experience tra-African Trade Iniin mentoring, mantiative at Afreximbank agement and leader- African Export and ship. She has worked Import Bank Temwa with numerous colleGondwe. It was held giate spaces, served virtually and in-peras a program direcson. Along with pertor, consultant and formances by Day coordinator for small Hodge and Dwana and large nonprofSmallwood Performits throughout NYC, ing Arts Center, JidenNew Yorker Virginia and Washna and songstress Walla Elsheikh ington, D.C. Elsheikn Carmen Rodgers from received her MBA in strategic man- NYC performed. agement and social entrepreneurship The purpose of the gala was to raise from Indiana University and her BA in funds to cover travel costs for the finance from Pace University. Birthright AFRICA Scholars who were The transplanted-New Yorker told selected to attend Ghana this month. the Amsterdam News, “I want to give But now the trip is postponed until people of African descent who are in July 2022 due to concerns of the new the diaspora an opportunity to learn COVID-19 variant, Omicron. about their African roots, that’s really In October, Birthright AFRICA what this program is truly about. No launched their national outreach and matter the age, it is never too early or selected 12 Birthright Scholars in the late to learn about your culture.” age range of 13-30 to join the new exIn September 2021, Birthright AFRICA B:8.75"ecutive board with board member and their partners celebrated their fifth Jidenna in the upcoming cohort. This T:8.75" anniversary gala. The gala was co- would be the first cohort since the chaired by Grammy Award-nominated pandemic occurred.

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“‘The Return of the Return’ is what we are calling the upcoming cohort. Birthright scholars will embark on the life-changing impact of returning to the motherland and get the special opportunity to connect and reflect on the journey with Jidenna.” Since the program’s founding, more than 20,000 African descents were able to register as Birthright AFRICA Scholars and have had access to their virtual self-exploration program. With the partnership of City University of New York, six education partners and community-based organizations, Birthright AFRICA has had more than 60 scholars receive their birthright by traveling to select African countries: South Africa and Ghana. During the pandemic, Birthright AFRICA has developed virtual programs, self-exploration activities and opportunities where their scholars across the diaspora can connect to the country they will soon visit once it’s safe to resume travel. By 2025, Birthright AFRICA hopes to become global and have participants all over visiting African countries. For more information or to check eligibility, register and start pretravel virtual exploration, please go to https://birthrightafrica.org/birthright-scholars/.

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youth from a place of compassion. “I look forward to working strongly with them to make sure that we can once again make New York City the safest big city as well as decrease the number of shootings and decrease the number of young people being arrested and put through the system.” In her interactions with Sewell, Ford said that Sewell was quick to respond, investigate, and lend support. She called Sewell a “woman of her word.” “This is an awesome opportunity to have a Black woman lead the largest police department in the country,” said Chief Kim Royster, a 37-year NYPD veteran and current chief of Transportation. Serena Martin-Liguori, executive

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By HERB BOYD Special to the AmNews Wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for 20 years and on parole for 36 years for the assassination of Malcolm X in 1965, Muhammad Aziz, then known as Norman 3X Butler, plans to sue both the state and the city of New York for as much

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director of the LI-based New Hour for Women & Children organization, was excited at the prospect of having a Long Islander and woman of color take the reins as police commissioner. Martin-Liguori’s organization prioritizes gender justice for women and is hopeful that will be a factor in Sewell’s plans for the city. “For us at New Hour, we’re dedicated to empowering women and women impacted by the carceral system. We applaud her appointment and hope that she’ll champion issues that are near and dear to our heart, which is women who are survivors of abuse and women who have survived violence,” said Martin-Liguori. “We’re hopeful.” Sewell said at the conference that the city’s police department is at a pivotal moment, facing the dual challenges of public safety and police accountability. She plans on carrying out Adams’

vision of breaking down barriers between police and community, focusing on violent crime and gun violence, and making decisions with good judgement and “emotional intelligence.” She also said that anti-crime and plainclothes units work, but understands the concerns about the reinstatement of ‘stop and frisk.’ Historically these police tactics have targeted Black and Brown communities and were disbanded under Mayor Bill de Blasio in 2020. Stop and frisk specifically fell out of favor in the early 2000s when it was found to be discriminatory and unconstitutional. “You have to make sure you get the right people with the right temperament with emotional intelligence that can serve communities,” said Sewell when asked about anti-crime units. Adams chimed in at the conference that they will successfully use the

tools and not abuse them. Not everyone is as optimistic as Adams and Sewell though. Josmar Trujillo, a vocal anti-police brutality activist, said that Sewell’s support for “broken windows policing” acts as a “shield” for Adams to insert himself into policing matters more than most, if not all, mayors of the past. “Broken Windows policing— a debunked and nakedly racist policing theory—indicates she intends to keep us stuck in a time loop as far as public safety goes.”

as $60 million. This aim for restitution comes after Aziz, and the late Khalil Islam (Thomas 15X Johnson) were exonerated last month and the apology by D.A. Cyrus Vance that the trial withheld evidence that could have freed the accused. Thanks to the Innocence Project, and Aziz’s attorney, David Shanies, the convictions against the two men—Islam was paroled in 1987 and died in 2009—were vacated. The other man charged and tried was Mujahid Halim (Thomas Hagan or Talmadge Hayer) who confessed his role in the crime and insist-

ed the others were not part of the shooting at the Audubon Ballroom. There was no physical evidence linking them to the crime. Shanies said that Aziz, 83, and paroled in 1985, will take legal action over the purported damage to his reputation. The claim against the state is $20 million with a $40 million claim against the city, unless a settlement is reached. There was no comment from the attorney general’s office. Vance’s move to vacate the convictions stemmed in part from the relentless pursuit of Aziz and his allies, as

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Photo credit: Muhammad Aziz, a suspect in the slaying of Malcolm X, is escorted by detectives at police headquarters, after his arrest, in New York, Feb. 26, 1965. Aziz, previously known as Norman 3X Butler, one of two men convicted in the assassination of Malcolm X, is set to be cleared after more than half a century, with prosecutors now saying authorities withheld evidence in the civil rights leader’s killing, according to a news report Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2021. (AP Photo, File)

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Out & About December 12th Movement celebrates 34th anniversary The December 12th Movement celebrated its 34th anniversary this past Sunday. At a moment in time when the conditions which brought D12 into being are repeating themselves but at a more intense level, members, veterans, and supporters—both old and new—gathered to recount three decades of struggle. The gathering was hosted by Viola Plummer, the energetic and seemingly ageless chairperson of D12. A question from the audience, “Why December 12th” led to a recounting of the organization’s origin in December 1987 in response to a New York State-wide attack on Black people by law enforcement and vigilante white supremacists. Viola, the last living member of the original leadership, spoke about the roles they—Sonny Abubadika Carson, Coltrane Chimurenga, Elombe Brath and Fr. Lawrence Lucas—played in the growth of the organization. She and other members recalled the December 12th march and rally in Newburgh, New York, followed a few days later by the historic first “Day of Outrage” which shut down all transportation from Brooklyn across the entire city. The underlying theme and explanation for D12’s continued existence, vitality and leadership is tied to their “faith in the masses.” As Viola

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repeatedly said, citing the mantra of the 1969 “Miracle” New York Mets, “You gotta believe!” And D12 believes that the masses make history, that they make revolution, and the role of revolutionaries is to make them conscious. D12’s work over these past 34 years reflects its relationship to the needs and desires of the masses of Black people for self-determination, liberation and human rights. Colette Pean noted, “On the national and international level, we have been in the leadership of the Reparations struggle. In 2001, we, along with NBUF, took 400 people to the U.N. World Conference Against Racism in Durban, South Africa, which produced the first international declaration of the TransAtlantic Slave Trade and Slavery as

crimes against humanity…In 2002, we were the catalysts for the first national demonstration for reparations, the ‘Millions for Reparations’ rally in Washington, D.C.” Kamau Brown recalled, “In 2005, when Katrina struck New Orleans, D12 organized a relief campaign, collecting and driving 5 truckloads of supplies to the embattled area. When the earthquake hit Haiti in 2010, we went there to deliver 12,000 gallons of water.” When the real attacker of the Central Park Jogger confessed, D12 brought the community pressure necessary to have the convictions of the 5 wrongfully convicted Black and Latino youth overturned and to secure their reparations. Lateefah Carter spoke about set-

ting up the Afrikan Peoples’ Farmers Market. “We provided quality fruits and vegetables to the community for 22 years at affordable prices. We also held programs on health and nutrition.” Omowale Clay noted the importance of Sistas’ Place as a “liberated zone” in the Bed-Stuy community. “We have been here 26 years and regularly present the greatest artists of what our music director Ahmed Abdullah has named ‘Jazz—a music of the spirit.’” In 2015, New York State Assemblywoman Annette Robinson awarded landmark status to Sistas’ Place. Participants highlighted the work done in the U.S. to lift the U.S. sanctions on Zimbabwe, including the gathering of over 4,000 people who

came to hear then-President Robert Mugabe speak at Harlem’s renowned Mt. Olivet Baptist Church. Members fondly recalled the down-to-earth wisdom, political acuity and work ethic of Robert “RT” Taylor and Olive Armstrong, two members of the leadership who have passed. These are only a few of the many activities that were spoken of. There is not enough space in this article to describe them all. As always with D12, the program ended with the call for carrying on the work. Brother Majid said, “On a local level, we are waging a struggle to ‘Stop the Killings.’ We are out in the streets every week, organizing Black men to join us and to take the lead in ending the random gun violence which is destroying our community.” Vinson Verdree spoke of D12’s active support for the Amazon workers’ struggle for unionization in Bessemer, Alabama and Staten Island. Clay reminded the group, “This May 19th will be the 32nd year of our successful shutdown of businesses on 125th Street to honor the birth of Malcolm X.” Finally, Malik Callender summed up: “On a national level we are currently leading a campaign to have President Biden issue an executive order for reparations which would include a $50 billion down payment to provide state-of-the-art healthcare facilities in Black communities across the U.S.”

March for Mumia in Philadelphia marks 40th anniversary of his incarceration Human rights and community activists worldwide marched Dec. 11 to mark the 40-year imprisonment of Mumia Abu-Jamal, Philadelphia journalist, radio personality and former Black Panther, and demand his release. Supporters maintain that Abu-Jamal “was arrested, convicted and unjustly imprisoned as the result of judicial, police and prosecutorial misconduct for allegedly killing a Philadelphia policeman in Dec. 1981.” He was released from Pennsylvania’s Death Row in 2011. However, supporters worldwide assert that AbuJamal was framed, is innocent and continue to fight for his release (https://bringmumiahome.com/). Activists rallied and marched in Philadelphia, Houston, Mexico, France, Germany, Austria and other cities.

Pam Africa, spokesperson for International Family & Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal, speaks to the crowd at Philadelphia City Hall.

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Harlem hosts tree lighting

Harlem hosted their annual tree lighting at Adam Powell Jr. State Building Plaza. There were kids, singers, Santa, and a good time had by all. The Hon. Al Taylor, State Sen. Cordell Cleare, Winston Majette, and Dr. Bob Lee was the MC. All in the community were welcome. Special thanks were sent to NY State Council on the Arts, WBLS, Starbucks, and Harlem Mothers S.A.V.E (Bill Moore photo)

NAN Youth H.U.D.D.L.E. celebrates 8th birthday NAN Youth H.U.D.D.L.E. turned 8 years old with a celebration at the network headquarters in Harlem. Ashley Sharpton hosted the event. Gwen Carr and her grandson Eric spoke to the youth in attendance. Enjoyed by all were food, games and dance. (Bill Moore photo)

Club 244 hosts their annual Toy Drive

Members of Harlem’s Club 244 coordinated their annual Toy Drive, and also added coats, books, and school supplies. (Bill Moore photo)

In picture: Robert Jackson, JaJa Pinnock, Marc Mills, William Procope

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Nightlife The National Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame is making moves Written by David Goodson

I n t h i s c l i m a t e o f p o l i t i c a l c o rMa r y J. B l i g e rectiveness (new word!) can we D r. D r e e v e n b e g c e r t a i n q u e s t i o n s ? Fo r R u n D. M . C . instance, if you refer to a demoTo n i B r a x t o n graphic as our people, what is Na s the common denominator that Anita Baker binds us? Can art/expression be Al Green deemed a characteristic? Is there New Edition such a thing called our people? B o n e T h u g s - N- Ha r m o n y A n h o n e s t , d e v i l - m a y - c a r e , i t- i s Joe Simon w h a t- i t- i s r e t o r t w o u l d b e a n a s Big Daddy Kane s u r e d “O F C O U R S E ! ” T h e r e a r e The Jones Girls things that hit and affect us difThe Baltimore Royal Theater f e r e n t . Fo r t h e m o s t p a r t R & B Dee Dee Sharp music is one of those things. Deniece Williams Fo r s o m e r e a s o n , h o w e v e r, a s a The Stubbs Girls g e n r e o f m u s i c , i t ’s a r g u a b l y t h e Pa t t i L a b e l l e & T h e B l u e B e l l e s m o s t d i s r e s p e c t e d . T h e Na t i o n The Dells a l R h y t h m & B l u e s Ha l l o f Fa m e George Benson is making moves to add legitiChaka Khan macy and credence to the conSWV tributions of the pioneers and Xscape recent practitioners of the craft. Clive Davis Since 2013 artists such as The Brook Benton G o d f a t h e r : Ja m e s B r o w n , A l i y a h , The Isley Brothers P r i n c e , T h e Te m p t a t i o n s , L u t h e r Peabo Bryson Va n d r o s s , Michael Ja c k s o n , Dick Clark A r e t h a F r a n k l i n , Ja c k i e W i l s o n Ja m e s G a d s o n and Whitney Houston have been Ja c k s o n 5 the featured inductees, and this Ja e “ T h e G o s p e l k i d d ” week the nominees for the 11th Gladys Knight class to be enshrined into the Robert Brown Na t i o n a l R h y t h m & B l u e s Ha l l R u s s e l l T h o m p k i n s J r. o f Fa m e h a v e b e e n a n n o u n c e d . Jerr y Blavat S i x t o e i g h t c a n d i d a t e s o f a n e xtensive list of nominees were reOnly six to eight from this list? vealed this week. G o o d L u c k ! ! Yo u c a n c a s t y o u r The full list of nominees below. vote at https ://rbhofvote.com/ Those among those forging Berr y Gordy t h e i r p a t h f o r i n c l u s i o n , Ne w E d i Jermaine Dupri t i o n , B e l l B i v D e Vo e , a n d J o d e c i G a m b l e & Hu f f made bigger news this week as it Ha l l & O a t e s was announced that those names Dru Hill a l o n g w i t h a n o t h e r s u r e - f i r e Ha l l A n t h o n y Ha m i l t o n o f Fa m e r, C h a r l i e W i l s o n , w i l l Roberta Flack c o m b i n e f o r a n a t i o n a l t o u r. Ye s , Av e r a g e W h i t e B a n d y e s y ’a l l . R o n n i e , B o b b y , R i c k y , B l u e Ma g i c M i k e , Jo h n n y a n d R a l p h w i l l c o n B e l l B i v D e Vo e tinue by hitting the road with TLC Charlie Wilson and Jodeci for E n Vo g u e T h e C u l t u r e To u r ! P r e s a l e b e g i n s Sade this Thursday, Dec. 16 at 10 a.m. Babyface Please use code BPC. General on LL Cool J sale for the tour is this Friday, Jodeci D e c . 1 7 a t 1 0 a . m . Fo r m o r e i n Lionel Richie f o r m a t i o n v i s i t B P C Ti c k e t s . c o m . D e e D e e Wa r w i c k C i r c l e t h e D a t e o f Fe b. 2 6 N Y C R i c k Ja m e s when the show touches down at Ja y -Z Ma d i s o n S q u a r e G a r d e n . 2 0 2 2 Ja n e t Ja c k s o n i s s h a p i n g u p r e a l n i c e t h u s f a r. Diddy More info will be revealed a little Pa t t i L a b e l l e later fo sho! Ma s t e r P Over and out for now. Holla Wu -Ta n g C l a n n e x t w e e k . Ti l t h e n , e n j o y t h e L u t h e r “S k y w a l k e r ” C a m p b e l l nightlife,

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Union Matters Columbia graduate students call university’s bluff, strike marches on By STEPHON JOHNSON Amsterdam News Staff

willingness to negotiate certain issues. It rendered bargaining useless in their eyes. In November, in a letter to members of the Columbia University community, Mary C. Boyce, provost and professor of mechanical engineering, stated that the workers were offered what they thought was a fair deal. “As you may be aware, these talks are progressing more slowly than either side would like and we face the very real possibility of a strike…,” wrote Boyce. “I believe that a strike is unnecessary and avoidable, and that the priority right now should be to allow negotiations to play out.” According to the university, they offered a $42,766 salary for PhD students on 12month appointments, $32,074 for students on 9-month appointments with 3%. For graduate students, they offered an immediate compensation increase of 5% with a 3% increase and a minimum increase of $21 an hour after three years. The deal also included the doubling of the school’s annual childcare subsidy and a support fund for reimbursement of out-ofpocket medical expenses. Last week, Columbia University Director of

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Columbia University graduate workers remain unafraid. This week marks the group’s sixth week of its strike against the university after the university threatened them with losing their current gigs and replacing them leading up to the end of the school year. Student Workers of Columbia-UAW 2110 officially went on strike on Nov. 4 calling for better wages, a neutral third-party arbitrator, and a comprehensive health care Columbia graduate students continue plan with vision and dental to strike for better wages and benefits. coverage. Specifically, they want $26 an hour minimum wage with a yearly increase by $1.50 along Graduate workers have complained about with dental and health coverage. working overtime to complete work and feel Eduardo Vergara, PhD candidate, de- like they’re being used as cheap labor for the partment of Latin American and Iberi- Ivy League institution. an cultures, told the AmNews recently, “I Last week, the AmNews obtained an email would have found a job there and tried to that Columbia University Vice President of continue with my dissertation. What about Human Resources Dan Driscoll sent to stuthe next few years? No idea.” dent workers telling them that the university Tamara Heche, PhD candidate, department of intended to permanently replace their labor Latin American and Iberian cultures, added that post-Dec. 10. “thesethreatsareevenmoreconcerninganddamWhen the strike began in November, gradagingfortheacademiccommunityasawhole.” uate workers pointed to the university’s un-

Media Relations Caroline Adelman stated: “A recent message to the union bargaining committee explaining the University’s approach to spring appointments and teaching assignments was necessary to sustain the academic progress of our students, particularly undergraduates whose classes are disrupted, and also to ensure that students who are working receive their spring assignments on time…” University officials didn’t respond to requests for comment this week. But graduate students have other organizations on their side. In an emailed statement, State Senators Jabari Brisport and Julia Salazar, New York City Council Member Tiffany Cabán, the New York City Democratic Socialists along with a slew of New York State Assembly Members, called on the school to end its threat against its graduate workers. “Low wages and inadequate healthcare have long acted as barriers which keep working class students, students of color, and many others from pursuing graduate education,” read the statement. “Columbia, which has elsewhere expressed a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion should act on this opportunity to make graduate education accessible to students from a variety of backgrounds, rather than maintaining the de facto exclusion which is the result of compensation that falls far below the cost of living and the failure to provide insurance which meets basic needs, such as dental care.”

CUNY students/unions march for a new deal By STEPHON JOHNSON Amsterdam News Staff City University of New York (CUNY) students, faculty and staff have clamored for an increase in their budget. Last weekend, they took their grievances to the streets. Both groups, along with elected officials, marched in Queens calling on the New York State government to fully fund their budget request and embrace CUNY’s “New Deal.” Nearly 1,000 CUNY students, faculty and staff and elected officials marched from LaGuardia Community College in Long Island City to the CUNY School of Law and ending at Court Square Park. Marchers wore masks that read “#APeoplesCUNY” and red shirts stating, “Everybody Love Somebody at CUNY.” New York City Public Advocate Jumaane Williams joined the protesters in Queens and said that the well-being of the students is CUNY’s key to success. Faculty and staff are the door. The university is ignoring it at their peril. “I’m a proud CUNY alumni twice over, and as CUNY continues to be the path to higher education for so many, especially immigrant, low-income, Black and Brown New Yorkers, it is completely unacceptable that its per-student budget has plummeted in the last 15 years,” stated Williams. “The current tuition hikes, lack of sufficient mental health counselors, and deteriorating infrastructure show a failure to prioritize affordable public education, or support students and staff alike. Albany must fully

fund CUNY with a new Deal for CUNY is common sense (Photo courtesy of Professional Staff Congress (PSC-CUNY) deal that prioritizes smart fiscal policy and I’m ready to equity, so that the opporfight for it in 2022.” tunity that I and so many Earlier this spring, PSC-CUothers had for a high NY helped launch campaign ads quality CUNY education that ran on New York, Long Island, is accessible to all New Albany and Westchester broadYorkers.” cast and digital media, calling for CUNY’s New Deal rean end to tax breaks for the rich quests an increase in (money that could be used to infunding which, according crease CUNY’s budget) and to emto the Professional Staff brace the new deal. Congress (PSC-CUNY), One CUNY alum whose name has fallen at CUNY senior has been one of the topics of pocolleges by 38% since litical conversation, spoke and re1990 and 18% since 2008. minded the state that supporting With the addition of “inCUNY is supporting the people. flation, leading to tuition “As a proud CUNY graduate, hikes, reduced services, I know firsthand the power of a over reliance on under- CUNY faculty, staff, students, and elected officials demand a “New Deal.” CUNY education and the opporpaid adjuncts and shorttunity it provides to so many New ages of full-time faculty and staff.” sandra Biaggi, Brian Benjamin, Jamaal Bailey Yorkers who might otherwise not have According to the PSC-CUNY, the univer- and Jabari Brisport—stated that any budget access to higher education,” said New York sity is asking for an operating budget in- would need to show love to CUNY because Attorney General Letitia James. “But there crease of $313 million to hire more than it’s an important part of the road to upward would be no CUNY without the dedicat1,000 full-time faculty in addition to new mobility for disadvantaged New Yorkers. ed professors and faculty and staff behind mental health counselors and advisors and “CUNY is the pride of NYC. Most CUNY it, and we must give them and our students a tuition freeze. Champions of the bill want students stay here after graduating and con- the support they need to keep this system a $5.8 billion increase in capital reserved for tribute billions of dollars to our economy,” running. That means ensuring fair staffing CUNY for the next five years. said Gounardes. “As we look for ways to re- ratios, providing adequate mental health CUNY officials declined AmNews’ request cover from the COVID-19 economic crisis, support, and keeping tuition low so that all for comment. what better way than to invest in a sure our students can have access to the quality Senator Andrew Gounardes, the main thing: our amazing public universities. Our education they deserve. sponsor of the New Deal for CUNY legisla- students deserve full time teachers, mental “These investments into CUNY are key to tion (New York Senate Bill S4461)—which is health support, academic advisors and the continued success of New York City and co-sponsored by fellow state senators Ales- buildings that aren’t falling apart. The New the entire state,” James said.

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Opinion Quit smoking our future By KERON ALLEYNE

school in the district. J.H.S. 166 or George Gershwin campus is the school, which is surrounded There is another concern brewing in the com- by various safe havens for young people. Directmunities of Black and Brown people. Please con- ly behind the school sits Sonny Carson (Linden) sider this a warning from the great community of Park which has a track, tennis courts, playEast New York, Brooklyn. grounds, outdoor workout facilities—the school Last week, a new smoke shop opened up in our boasts a recording studio and directly around neighborhood—directly across from a middle the corner sits the Prince Joshua Avitto Community Center. All of these are amenities that have been supported under the elected leadership of Assemblymember Charles Barron and Councilmember Inez Barron to improve the lives of our young people.

Trump’s wall of defiance crumbling

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Aha, Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows, has been held in contempt of Congress by the full House after the committee charged him with defying a subpoena. Possible criminal charges loom for Meadows from the House’s vote of 222-208, clearly along party lines. Key to the contempt charge is that he did nothing to stop his boss from urging on the insurrection at the Capitol last January. This is part of a one-two punch against the former president after a federal judge ruled on Tuesday that his tax filings can be released by the Treasury Department. With this judgment, the House Ways and Means Committee gains access to Trump’s tax returns, files he had fought to keep from public scrutiny. It’s still to be determined if the files will actually be exposed to the public, but it’s clearly a another blow to the widening chink in his armor and Meadows’ vacillations and shielding himself behind the president’s so-called executive privilege proved ineffective. Meadows joins Trump’s other confidante and ringleader Steve Bannon, who has openly defied the House for a deposition and refused to produce documents related to the attack. He awaits arraignment and has surrendered his passport. Neither faces long jail terms or expensive fines if convicted, but it does mean that we are slowly witnessing key members of his gang being picked off. It is our hope that it gets closer and closer to the boss himself, and brings him before the justices—of course, not those in the Supreme Court. And we are certainly excited to hear that the attorney general of Washington, D.C. has taken steps to sue the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys, aiming to hurt Trump’s supporters financially and converge financial charges with the criminal charges they face. The network of right wingers, white supremacists, and reactionaries is getting the necessary hits to both repair some of the damage it has done and hopefully stifle any future anti-democratic uprisings.

hookah and blunts in their mouths. Along their walls other smoke-related paraphernalia were on display with brightly colored smoke devices. If you didn’t know any better, the location could’ve been a toy shop or even a candy shop. This blurred line was only underscored by the workers saying they wouldn’t remove anything without the owner’s approval. As a community we went back outside chanting for the location to be shut down and put the community on notice. Within 10 minutes our demand was met as the workers left the premises and the gates shuttered. After this, we made a collective decision to be back out there every day at the same

This smoke shop and all others are a direct assault on that positive vision for all young people. Once this smoke shop appeared in this odd location, questions were asked of its owner and why on its awning it was advertising itself as ‘Van Siclen Candy Shop’ when it was clearly a smoke shop. There was ultimately no resolution after a preliminary discussion happened since the owner stated so much was invested in making the shop what it was. Brother Andre T. Mitchell of Man Up Inc. reached out to me as a local organizer and chairperson of Operation P.O.W.E.R. to collaborate on a rally to communicate our concerns another way. On Tuesday, Dec. 7, at the time of dismissal (2 p.m.) we let our displeasure be known as a collective. As a collective community—which included Assemblymember Charles Barron, Community Board 5, Man Up Inc., the Nation of Islam, Operation P.O.W.E.R., Brite Leadership Coalition and various community members—we demanded the business be shut down. In the windows of the business were cartoon characters that had bongs,

time until the business would really shut down indefinitely. The next day we would meet very little resistance with the business gates already shuddered. We got on the bullhorn chanting, “No smoke shops…in front of our schools,” as students and parents alike joined in. It was a beautiful display of community solidarity and to our joy we got word that the shop would be closed indefinitely. We won! A true community victory that was won collectively but this is a wakeup call for all Black and Brown communities. Our community is littered with liquor stores, fast food, and now we’re dealing with a surge in smoke shops. Throughout the pandemic several locations just like this one have opened up in various sections of the community. In fact, these smoke shops seem to see opportunity in advertising these shops to our children for long-term gain. We must push back on that notion even if it takes rallies and confrontation. The youth will take our place someday and the community they inherit is just as important as the educational foundation they receive. As a community, we quit smoking and we join the fight to safeguard the community’s future. Keron Alleyne P.O.W.E.R.

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It pains me to see the sinfulness and moral treachery of our youth in America today. A notable example of this was during the Astroworld concert in Houston, Texas, which brought to light just how low our nation has fallen. At least 8 lives were tragically lost, with over 100 injured. All in the name of worshipping celebrities as if they are deities. Where has our faith gone? Famed rapper Travis Scott hosted his notorious Astroworld event in Houston amid the jubilation of tens of thousands of fans. They flocked to Texas to walk through the massive gaping mouth of Travis Scott which brought them into Scott’s concert, or as they may call it, the Promised Land. Shortly after the event started, the bloodbath began. Thousands rushed through the gates for a front row view of Scott in action. In the process, people were trampled and killed. What is so sad is that these people must have felt human bodies underneath them as they sprinted towards the stage, yet they cared so little to stop and help. What is worse is that there are reports of a mysterious man who was injecting concertgoers and security with unknown substances. Yes, a man walked around with a syringe and was sticking people with drugs or poison. Quickly, the fans started falling dead. There are horrifying and creepy videos of Scott “floating” over fans on a prop, while you see dead fans being pulled out of the crowd. Of course, that did not stop many from dancing their minds away. Only after extended calls for Scott to stop the show did it finally end. That was not before his staff and many security personnel pushed to keep the show going. It is sickening to think about. It will be seen whether Scott and those close to him will face criminal prosecution for their actions, or lack thereof. The terrible events of Texas are just the tip of the iceberg of a disturbing trend in this country, and in many ways the Western world at large. The obsession with brands, labels, and celebrities has crossed the line from mere fandom and is now nothing less than idol worship. One of the Ten Commandments, to not worship idols, is being practiced by millions of Americans today. These worshippers bow down to their saviors who take the form of rappers like Travis Scott and brands like

Louis Vuitton. The inflated media culture and false worth of “likes” on social media has driven this generation mad. Think about this for a second; who were your heroes growing up? Maybe it was your parents, a distinguished political figure, or an all-star athlete. In short, the heroes of the past were those who lived long, fruitful lives, who overcame adversity, and in the face of that struggle, succeeded. They lived by example, and in turn, we sought to live by their example. Who are the heroes of today? People like the Kardashians, who have gained fame by posting provocative photos on social media and flaunting their jet setting lifestyle on Instagram. Kids today idolize Lil Nas X, who infamously posted a music video depicting sexual acts with the devil. Is this not devil worship? Is this not debauchery of the highest degree? Our nation is following in the footsteps of the destroyed cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. These depraved cities were famously destroyed by God in the biblical narrative of Genesis. Whether you believe the story actually happened or not does not discount the powerful lesson of the narrative; a society will destroy itself if it is grounded in immoral and corrupt behavior. In truth, this idea should be common sense. How can a society survive like that? If all people do is value sinful behavior, material goods, and instant gratification, its pitfalls will eventually catch up to itself. America was founded on the righteous ideals of lifting up your neighbor and working towards a common and better future. Americans today are focused on lifting only themselves up, often at the expense of a common and better future. We must ask ourselves where we wish to see this country 20 years from now. Do we want to be a blip in history, like many experiments in the past, or do we want to continue to be a shining light for peoples and nations to turn to in their best and worst moments? Our actions over the next few years will determine that fate. Armstrong Williams (@ARightSide) is manager / sole owner of Howard Stirk Holdings I & II Broadcast Television Stations and the 2016 Multicultural Media Broadcast Owner of the year. www.armstrongwilliams.co | www.howardstirkholdings.com

I know it seems like we just finished an election season…because we did. And I hope you voted and encouraged others in your family and friend group to participate in the most recent municipal elections. Well, if you participated, I thank you. If you did not and are eligible to do so, don’t fret, another election is just around the corner. In the next few months, New Yorkers will have the opportunity to weigh in on who will be the Democratic nominee for governor of New York. Due to Andrew Cuomo resigning and his Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul becoming the governor, we will see a robust primary season with candidates already declaring their intentions to become the Democratic nominee. Gov. Hochul has been aggressively fundraising and traveling across the state dealing with COVID and a myriad of governor’s duties. She has also employed her lieutenant governor (former Harlem State Senator) Brian Benjamin to travel across the state to assist her in her leadership efforts. Many are pleased with the current way Hochul and Benjamin are leading the state. However, some are concerned with the conservative endorsements she has already received. There are also several qualified challengers who are hoping to use the next few months to make their case to New York voters across the state. Attorney General Tish James has decided not to run for governor and leave her position as New York attorney general, a post which many believed is an ideal fit for James. Besides the potential for James to have made history as the first African American women

to be elected governor (a feat narrowly missed by Stacey Abrams in Georgia in 2018), James was initially hoping to make the case to New Yorkers that her expertise prosecuting wayward individuals and politicians as well as her grassroots connections made her an ideal fit to unify this diverse state and bring a new approach to governance and leadership. However, James has decided to continue her work as N.Y. state attorney general. Current Public Advocate Jumaane Williams is hoping to bring his particular brand of progressive politics to the entire state. Williams has been a leader in discussions pertaining to police brutality and overall ethics within the state. Will his successful showing as a Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor in 2018 be enough to galvanize voters this time around when he is vying for the top position in the state and a rematch with Hochul? Of course, NYC mayor Bill de Blasio is flirting with the idea of running and Long Island Congressman Tom Suozzi has already thrown his hat in the ring as a more conservative alternative to Gov. Hochul. It is too early to tell who will be victorious in June, but it is not too early to start researching the candidates and looking into their past voting records, policy proposals, and endorsements. Reminder: it is our duty to inform ourselves. 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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Soon gone: Jamaica to definitely abandon Queen By BERT WILKINSON Special to the AmNews Jamaica, one of the world’s smallest, most high achieving and upstart nations, will next year definitely use the occasion of its 60th independence anniversary celebrations to dump Britain’s Queen Elizabeth as its head of state, install its own native president, and become a republic like four of its Caribbean Community neighbors. Clearly spurred into action by the ease with which Barbados made the transition at the end of November, Prime Minister Andrew Holness said the decision has surely been made for the island to sever the last major colonial link to Britain. The governing Labor Party (JLP) has come under tremendous pressure at home since millions of Jamaicans watched the installation of Governor General Sandra Mason as the first Barbadian president during the 55th independence anniversary celebrations on Nov. 30. The Barbados ceremonies have triggered a fierce debate on the island, with many wondering why “Little Eng-

land” was able to complete the process before Jamaica. Now, governments in Antigua and St. Lucia are facing calls to do likewise but no cabinet in the region is under more pressure than Jamaica’s as national pride swells and as a wide cross section in Jamaica thinks that diamond jubilee observances next August present the perfect opportunity to complete the independence process, especially because the 40th and 50th landmarks were missed. “It’s just amazing the potential that exists, 60 years of independence and the 60th year has generated much interest in our status as a nation and those questions will be addressed shortly. I’m certain those who have ears to hear those vague terms will understand them until it is time to have that full and direct discourse, which that process has started,” Holness said at a public ceremony. Jamaicans will, however, have to vote in a referendum to make the transition. In the case of Barbados, Prime Minister Mia Mottley’s cabinet was able to avoid such constitutional hurdles and challenges because the governing Labor

Party (BLP) has 29 of the 30 house seats so the question of a two-thirds parliamentary vote became unnecessary. Of the 15 nations in Caricom, only Guyana, Trinidad, Dominica and now Barbados are republics. Tiny Montserrat is still a British colony but is nevertheless a full member of the bloc. Even if he was lukewarm to the idea of making the switch, Holness would have been cornered by a number of ideas that were offered to him by former prime minister and elder statesman P.J Patterson. Patterson, 86, wrote both Holness and Opposition Leader Mark Golding urging them to not only meet on the issue but to share a public platform to sell the idea to a Jamaican public which has intermittently been hearing about plans for the island to become a republic and sever the last colonial vestige. Once that is done, the road to a republic would be easy, seamless and trouble free he says. “It is repulsive to contemplate a diamond jubilee where our constitution rests on an order in council dated 23rd July 1962 and a head of state who does not reflect our own image and enables

every Jamaican to aspire reaching the highest position within our native land. The time is long due to seek yonder horizon during the year of our jubilee,” Patterson wrote in his letter. Just as lucid and clear on the issue is Attorney General Marlene Malahoo Forte. She said serious work has already started and the new year should produce results. “A document is currently being prepared for the prime minister and I do believe that, in due course, perhaps early in the new year [an announcement will be made]. When we go into January the time is going to be taken up with the budget process to come and then, by the time the budget debate and the sectoral debate are over, something concrete will be announced by then. He [PM] has given instructions to myself as attorney general and minister of justice to immediately commence the work of advising on the work of reforming the constitution. The work had actually commenced before, and it is going to be done. It is going to be an involved process, but I am happy that it will begin in earnest,” she told the Observer newspaper.

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IMMIGRATION KORNER It’s almost the end of the year, but there seems to be no slowdown on the immigration news scene. Here are five top stories you may have missed in just the past few days. 1: U.S. immigrant population drops for first time in 10 years Axios is reporting that the population of foreign-born citizens and residents in the U.S. has dropped for the first time in over a decade, based on their analysis of new experimental U.S. Census Bureau data. AXIOS analyzed new data from the American Community Survey (ACS) which revealed the smallest decade gain in the foreign-born population since the 1960s, at 3.6 million. In comparison, the immigrant population grew by 8.8 million during the 2000s. 2: U.S. begins denying Afghan immigrants The Joe Biden administration has reportedly begun issuing denials to Afghans seeking to emigrate to the U.S. through the humanitarian parole process, Axios also reported. This comes after a system that typically

processes 2,000 applications annually has been flooded with more than 30,000. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has started issuing the humanitarian parole denials, according to multiple immigration attorneys and advocates the news site spoke with. Two administration officials told Axios the program was never intended as a workaround to the established refugee resettlement program or Operation Allies Welcome, which has brought roughly 75,000 vulnerable Afghans to the U.S.—and counting. It’s intended only for people in extreme circumstances who are not included in the operation and are unable to wait for refugee resettlement. 3: Remain in Mexico program for migrants ‘places them in danger’ Yahoo news is reporting that immigration advocates and attorneys are voicing frustration with the Biden administration over its court-ordered reimplementation of the Trump-era “Remain in Mexico” policy, saying the enforcement and expansion of a program the administration opposed in court shows the White House isn’t fighting as aggressively as it could and the policy places migrants in danger. “The MPP program is something that the Biden administration promised to end during the elections. If we quote what the Biden administration or what [Secretary of Homeland Secu-

rity Alejandro] Mayorkas said about MPP—‘we’re all on the same page that this is a horrible program and it causes so much harm to our community,’” Dulce Garcia, an immigration attorney in San Diego and executive director for Border Angels, a proimmigrant advocacy organization, was quoted as saying. MPP refers to “Migrant Protection Protocols,” the formal name of the program. Nearly 70,000 asylum-seekers across the southern border are subject to the policy. Migrants began being returned to Ciudad Juárez, across the border from El Paso, Texas, on Monday, Dec. 6. The policy will eventually expand to seven other locations, including San Diego and Calexico, Calif., Nogales, Ariz., and several Texas border cities including Brownsville and Eagle Pass. 4: DeSantis wants $8m to remove ‘unauthorized aliens’ from Florida Florida’s Donald Trump wannabe, Ron DeSantis, is proposing $8 million in his new state budget to create a new program that would allow his government to contract with private companies to transport “unauthorized aliens” out of Florida, the Miami Herald reports. The proposed program, which the governor wants to pay for with interest accrued from federal funds, and a “series” of incoming legislative bills that he says will fight “back against the Biden border crisis,” are the latest battle

lines drawn by a governor who appears to be drumming up a potential challenge against President Joe Biden in 2024. 5: Legal immigrants have one less hurdle to getting a green card The Miami Herald is reporting this story, which is at least a good news item this holiday season. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has, the paper reported, updated a key requirement to obtain permanent residence or a green card in the United States effective Dec. 9. The agency issued a policy alert temporarily waiving a hurdle in the obligatory—and sometimes feared— medical and vaccination examination for immigration purposes, which makes sure there are no health issues that would deem the applicant inadmissible to the United States. The medical examination is a key requirement for all legal immigrants filing for adjustment of status to that of a lawful permanent resident. The results are submitted to USCIS through Form I-693. During the Trump administration, the agency instituted a rule stating that a Form I-693 is valid only when a civil surgeon signs it no more than 60 days before the date an applicant files the application for the underlying immigration benefit. The writer is publisher of NewsAmericasNow.

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“I wanted to see the character of the man I was going to turn my babies over to,” preached Adams. “How sound are you for this battle we are in front of. This is a real fight.” Pre-COVID-19, the graduation rate among Black and Hispanic high school students in 2019 was about 13% to 15% lower than that of Asian and white students even though graduation rates had reached an overall record high, according to the mayor’s office. Adams said that it was far past time for the city to stop pretending that a huge percentage of Black and Brown children never reaching proficiency is “normal.” Banks is a nationally recognized education leader, the president and CEO of the Eagle Academy Foundation, and was principal of the all-boys public school Eagle Academy for Young Men. Adams said at the press conference that it took him eight years to interview a suitable candidate for his appointment of chancellor (conceivably because he planned on being mayor while Bill de Blasio was in office). After that lengthy process, Adams settled on Banks as the next schools chancellor to be sworn in with him next year.

In 2004, Banks and the 100 Black Men, Inc. established the first Eagle Academy for Young Men as a part of New York City’s high school reform initiative. “People are not focused on Black and Latino males, so to create a place for them was considered innovative. Something out of the box,” said Banks. The organization chose to start the all-boys academy because in the integrated schools boys were still getting left behind in areas such as attendance and academics. Much more so than girls who were still managing to achieve, said Banks. “They just need people to love them and to say ‘we’re going to support you and have high expectations.’ That they’re not a threat because people see Black and Latino boys as threats as they get older,” said Banks. “They live in a system that doesn’t affirm who they are, so they start to take on that identity of negativity.” Banks grew up just around the corner from the elementary school where the conference was held on Montgomery Street in Crown Heights with his largerthan-life family. He said that his family and community instilled in him the same principles he used as a bedrock for his “progressive” educational philosophies later on. “I had so much fun. It was an idyl-

lic kind of childhood,” said Banks. “In many ways that was my base.” For his students, who often grapple with unstable homes, a fear of police, gang activity, and larger societal narratives, Banks said that he strived to create the same ideal of safety and comfort at his schools. During last year’s onslaught of the COVID crisis, Banks was a member of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s Taskforce to Reopen Schools. In criticism of former Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza, Banks said he would have been much more upfront and direct with school staff and community-led in his effort to get a handle on the pandemic. He plans on attacking the ongoing COVID crisis, with worrying variants and school closures, by “showing respect” and “asking the teachers and principals [and students and parents] what they think.” Banks, who was briefly a school safety agent himself, said that safety in schools is paramount for students. He believes in addressing the emotional wellbeing of students in addition to physical safety. “We’re going to continue to do whatever it takes to ensure that weapons are not in school, but also we want to build on making sure kids are emotionally safe,” said Banks. Because of the COVID crisis, he said there were many school safety

officers lost. He plans on hiring back the “appropriate amount” of officers and maybe looking into changing the uniforms so they don’t so closely resemble cops. Outside of the crisis, Banks said that he wants to move away from a reliance on standardized testing and revamp the Gifted & Talented (G&T) program without necessarily eliminating it. “I’m talking about how we develop leaders,” said Banks. “Our standardized exams don’t generally measure those kinds of things. They don’t measure critical thinking or progressiveness.” At the moment, de Blasio has plans to “overhaul” the G&T program while permanently ending the screening of kindergarteners. Banks said he’d implement a system where the definition of ‘gifted and talented’ is expanded to include things like artistic ability. He said there should also be an increase in the availability of open seats in the program for Black and Brown students.

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Greg Tate: A massive loss for cultural criticism, a bigger loss for those who loved him By JORDANNAH ELIZABETH Special to the AmNews Greg Tate, known to the world as the “Grandfather of Hip Hop Criticism“ and a profound voice in Black culture, shared his unique, Boombastic, ironic voice with the world as a longtime journalist for The Village Voice from 1987 through the 2000s. He was also the founder of the Black Rock Coalition, giving a powerful platform to Black rock and roll musicians who made undeniably important contributions to the genre but were largely unacknowledged by the white media in America. His debut book, “Flyboy in the Buttermilk,” published in 1992, became an essential collection of cultural criticism often read in university courses across the world. Not only did he cover rock and hip hop, but he examined jazz and Black films with his humorous and insightful understanding of what would become staples in music and entertainment history. He wrote like no other, his writing voice displayed in colorful, often made-up Black colloquialisms that could not be duplicated. As he got older his voice did not become more refined by the standards of white colleagues but smoothed out, became

whose protagonist is a mercurial, silent hulk of an antihero. And most especially for the director of ‘Ghost Dog,’ whose script requires his leading man to convincingly deliver stoic savant, vulnerable puppy dog, self-possessed everyman, effortless charmer of precocious but wary hood children, sharkeyed triple-tap professional assassin.” Greg Tate reading at New York University in 2013 I personally am (File:Lozgregtate.png: Alex Lozupone derivative work: a humble disciple, Innisfree987 (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/ mentee and journalFile:Greg_Tate_2013.jpeg), “Greg Tate 2013”, https:// istic descendent of creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode) Tate’s. He took me more buttery than rebellious, honing under his wing while I was writing an his mind-expanding, at times eccen- article for The Village Voice on the Black tric linguistic stylings into vivid and shoegaze rock group, The Veldt, who imaginative descriptive offerings. are mutual friends of ours. I was having In one of his last pieces for the Crite- some trouble with one of the editors rion Collection he wrote a thoughtful at the Voice (it’s all under the bridge, critical exploration of Jim Jarmusch’s thanks to VV for the opportunity), and “Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai” Danny Chavis of the group exclaimed (1999) in which he writes, “Whitak- “Don’t you worry about it, baby girl! er’s man-strong eyes are a Technicol- We gonna call Greg Tate!” Danny conor dream machine for any director nected us via instant messenger, but

it wasn’t until I wrote an essay-manifesto entitled “Black Voices in Music Criticism are Essential” for East Bay Express that Greg reached out. We quickly became collaborators, as I hosted the Baltimore book release of his book “Flyboy 2: The Greg Tate Reader,” and added him to a panel of the same name as my East Bay Express essay at the Baltimore Book Festival. Over the years, we’ve sat on panels and shared coffee as he listened to my woes at the best hangouts in Harlem. Greg knew everyone, he was at the center of the International Black glitterati––he was a connection and source of love and friendship between Black intellectuals and artists who only grew in stature and prominence while in association with him. Nonetheless, Greg was humble and never boasted of his worldwide acclaim and never spoke of his A-list friends, giving everyone attention as if we were his only comrade. He was far from intimidating and as wise as an owl in his prime––sharp senses, clear vision and deeply aware of his surroundings. I can tell stories, but I cannot find the words to truly express how important he was to me. I called him Baba Greg Tate. “Baba” is a Persian word for a See GREG on page 21

Greg Tate, visionary cultural critic, dies at 64 By RON SCOTT Special to the AmNews Greg Tate, journalist, essayist, and author—one of the most influential writers of this century, who elevated writing on Black culture and all it influenced from jazz to hip hop, art and film—died on Dec. 7, in New York City. He was 64. His daughter, Chinara Tate, confirmed the death. No cause was given. Standing on a long line in Trader Joe’s, casually glancing down at my phone and suddenly without any self-control, I yell out, “What, What the hell!!!!!” Immediately all eyes are on me. People standing near me on line started inching away. Tears were running out of my eyes like a waterfall at the cashier, words were difficult. No, they didn’t understand: the text on my phone stated, Greg Tate has died. NO, not Tate. He was our indestructible “Iron Man,” a Black warrior, fighting through America’s dark cloak of myths, swinging his sharp words like a long sword penetrating through the B.S. Just

acknowledging he is gone is very difficult. No fronting here, Tate and I weren’t running buddies but we were kindred brothers. We appeared together on a few panels some years ago. Every time he spoke I wanted to pull out a pen and take notes, he was that prolific. This cat was like a ray of sunshine: in his presence he made you glow, gave you confidence to move forward with your project or another perspective on whatever subject. He was a mentor to thousands from around the world. After contacting a friend in South Africa, he texted me the following, “I will never forget the long silent walk in the direction of the mountain of the San and Khoi gods, Table Mountain, in Cape Town where we were both scheduled to talk at a literary festival, Open Book Fest. I will never forget Greg. I will never forget not to forget Greg. Even if, in a fit of exorcism I try to: because Greg now fully lives in our spiritual and intellectual blood streams. The realm of the gods,” said Bongani Madondo, personal friend and one of Tate’s mentees by osmosis, in Johannesburg, SA.

You didn’t have to be in his presence; just read his works to feel his WORDS and understand the urgency of Now. His “Flyboy in the Buttermilk: Essays on Contemporary America” and “Flyboy 2: The Greg Tate Reader (2016)” are mandatory readings. If you date back to the 1980s like me, then reading him every week in the Village Voice (which hit the newsstands on Tuesday night) was an automatic reflex. His weekly afro-futurism interpretation of the music from funk, jazz, hip hop, art, literature, sci-fi, race, film, and history were astounding (at the same time he opened doors for so many young folks in all these fields). He was a Black intellectual with roots in the hood never looking to take prisoners, writing in the middle of a Cecil Taylor tune which only the hip or inspired could really dig. Not seeing him playing and conducting his big band Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber is a big loss. They were unlike any other, but you wouldn’t expect any less from the cofounder of the Black Rock Coalition. Their repertoire of classics and original compositions swung

in deep funk, hip hop, avant garde and everything in between. Earlier this year, Tate conducted the Arkestra during a live performance at the Apollo Theater during the screening of the original Gordon Parks film of “Shaft.” Kicking a new rendition of Issac Hayes’ theme song “Theme from Shaft.” And, lest we forget, his collaboration with one of the most important figures in jazz, composer Butch Morris on the Burnt Sugar Album “The Rites.” The rock group Bad Brains would have never entered my vocabulary if not for Tate. Those in-person chats made it possible to see that smile, the twinkle in his eyes and hear his words that flowed like a Wayne Shorter solo. Always one to ask “How is the writing going?” or “What are you working on?” It wasn’t about him, it was about him sharing his knowledge and just being real. During his time at the Village Voice, young Tate was writing with big willie cats like Stanley Crouch, Nat Hentoff, Gary Giddins and investigative See TATE on page 21

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December 16, 2021 — December 22, 2021 After planting a seed and watering it, the next step is to let Mother Nature nurture it. You’ll see your seeds blossoming as a result, becoming more fruitful. This is the cycle to nurture Vinateria yourself, your home, your business, your spouse or mate. This also includes the children, the land, plants, and other life forms around you. Love is a verb. It shows action that comes in many forms like a simple touch, words of love/encouragement, the expression of love, a hug, even a penny for your thoughts. This also includes thoughtful conversations, pouring love into yourself that has a ripple effect that pours love onto others, the environment, and thus becomes a joyous contagion of love. How are you showing up for yourself to give self-love? How you treat yourself is how you treat others. Venus, in Capricorn retrograde, begins Dec. 19 until Jan. 29, 2022. It will be a testing of how strong your faith is in all aspects of your life. The replay of how you showed up is the result of the reciprocity effect. Reflect from Nov. 17 to Dec. 19, 2021, on what has transpired in your life to date.

This month is significant to develop a oneon-one dialogue with yourself but on a deeper level, including a 2020 retrospective on your overall relationships. What you invest in your time during this cycle will be beneficial and rewarding in the long run. So consistency is the key in the process of your due diligence. A feeling of newness is upon you be it in business, the home, health, beauty, and partnerships, etc. Venus is in retrograde, beginning on Dec. 19, 2021, through Jan. 29, 2022, which requires you to take precautions in your affairs. Also, read the paperwork and listen closely to what’s being conveyed to you. Stand your ground Cappy.

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Set the tone in all aspects of your relationships as your life is getting to the issues to do something about it. Enough is enough, and the narrative of the storyline is up for change. Sink or swim, and may the best decision win. Immerse yourself to write a new book by incorporating chapters with a new perspective on life. Once you set the tone, and your mind is made up, there is no going back. The only way is to follow up on your objectives within your own agenda.

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Leo

The pursuit of happiness is only the outcome when you apply yourself as you put in the work. No matter what occurs, you keep your faith and dreams strong. And at the forefront make it your business to stay inspired and encouraged with a never letting up attitude. One thing for sure is you’ll always rise like the lioness in the jungle protecting her cubs. You may have had quite a few no’s, before yes’s, to build your muscles. The wisdom gained plus the outcome moves you in a different light where only you know the path. Use your discernment to confirm the source of information you’re receiving. Making a name for yourself is one thing, yet the work you do in your community is essential. Each one teaches one, is a phrase you know all too well. July 24 – Aug 23

Aquarius

This is an active week of things going on as you plan with the feeling of being in alignment with the Jan 22 – Feb 19 universe smiling down on you. Continue to work and follow up on any projects with upcoming deadlines whether you set them or not. Get it done so as to manifest the new beginning in 2022. You’ll realize you have unique and innovative ideas, and to run with them. In short, apply yourself until the results are in. Stay focused! When it comes to change you have to believe it can happen before making necessary adjustFeb 20 – Mar 20 ments. Once you do you’re unstoppable to accomplish your vision, your goals, or your mission, and let no one stand in your way. Choose the path you want to take and knowing before you run, you have to crawl, walk, skip, hop, and then run it to the highest level. There’s no going back, the only way is the escalator which is up. Weed out any distractions and also learn from the experience once you participate in any of them. Keep it moving. You have no time to waste.

Pisces

Let bygones be bygones and move on with your Aries life before you miss your train or stop. When you Mar 21 – Apr 21 feel the need to make your move, don’t beat around the bush—go for it. You’ve learned a valuable lesson thus far to better yourself and to shape your world as you envision it. There’s no need to question yourself as you already know how something is going to go due to the fact you’ve been there. Let it go, and let it flow to elevate yourself. Get into the water, be it baths, increasing your water intake, or simply visiting a body of water to renew yourself.

Taurus

It’s time you begin to get real with yourself! Your actions should be in total alignment with your Apr 22 – May 21 soul’s mission. If it doesn’t feel right, don’t do it. This isn’t the time to play follow the leader, much less play into their world due to the fact you’re already a leader. Ask yourself does it line up with your agenda. You have opportunities at your disposal so pick and choose from the best ones, and that life experience gives you the most optimal resources to extend yourself.

Gemini

What’s done in the dark will come to light as the North Node shifts gears from the Gemini/SagittarMay 22 – June 21 ius axes to the Taurus/Scorpio axes. Relationships, partnerships, legal or semi-legal matters can be brought to light, or a fulfillment of some sort coming to an end. It’s a time to recuperate to get back in a different light as you move forward with your plans. You’re the only person who can stop your own show. So if you don’t show up, that’s on you. Now’s the time to reach your highest potential to achieve what goals you have in mind.

Virgo

Gather up your facts, research, and take notes to merge everything together into another project. You love information because it helps you understand yourself by sharing it with others to aid in their journey. Take a mini break from work, regain your focus and prepare yourself for the duration of long hours of putting in work. You’re building your foundation to pass on generational wealth, knowledge, and recipes to your children to carry on as the evolution change. Aug 24 – Sep 23

Libra

It’s a make-it-or-break-it movement, with a sense of destiny on your side to change the course of your life. You sense the direction to go with all you have to walk by faith and know that the divine creator is on your side guiding you. Any major projects, advancements, and decisions forthcoming will need a final decision soon. It’s up to you now to make your dreams, and missions fulfilled. When one door closes another one opens. Sept 24 – Oct 23

This may be a slow-moving week to sort out all the details, and the facts to make the necessary plans needed for a job well done, or simply handling business.You’re on a mission to finalize past obligations that need to be resolved. Also, you may bump into former colleagues or friends that you haven’t seen in a while. A message of importance can come through by way of a conversation, or a mental image while on your daily route. Organizations within your home, business, and office space are up in the air this week so tidy up things and get everything in formation.

Scorpio

Oct 24 – Nov 22

Sagittarius

Word of mouth, or door to door, is one of the main ways of how information is transferred. Although technology has advanced in a way to communicate, not everything can be communicated online as some information needs to remain at ground level. As the nodes shift gears from Sagittarius/Gemini axes to the Scorpio/ Taurus axes, the old ways of how information is communicated just may resurface on the many levels you’re already aware of. Any health-related concerns that need to be addressed before going into the New Year are for your benefit to better health and a better way of living. Nov 23 – Dec 21

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father or grandfather who is wise and honorable. He guided me through life and I felt comfort knowing he was in the world to spread good cheer and support Black artists who were pushing the envelope, advancing Black culture and making art that would become world-renowned. He had an eye for those who were pure at heart diamonds in the rough, while he simultaneously grew in stature with every passing day as more and more lovers of literature learned of his iconic writing. I know many of us are asking “What will we do now?” That was the first question I asked myself when I heard of his death in one sentence in an email from a colleague. Greg and I had plans for him to speak to my class at The New School and celebrate our birthdays (his Oct. 14th, mine the 16th) but he had a family engagement and the plans fell through. I had texted him just a week before he died. I told him I’d interviewed Pete Rock who was funny and kind and that I hoped he had a good Thanksgiving Holiday. He replied “Awesome bout Pete. Holidaze was sweet with DC fams.” That was the last I’d heard from him. His death was unexpected. The news was sudden, nonetheless, I don’t wish I’d said or done more. That text gives me solace

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that we hadn’t gone weeks or months without communicating. And honestly, after the initial shock, I feel peace as if he’s still around and able to do even more work in the world now that he is a spiritual being who does not have to grapple with overcoming the limited powers we have on Earth. His power is infinite now and he has the freedom to support us without pain and the obstacles of tangible reality. With this said, I don’t know what the world is going to look like without Greg. I fear the Black artistic world may fall out of touch with one another, like families who lose their matriarchs and patriarchs. I hope that we will not get lost in our work, busy with raising our kids and running endless errands now that we don’t have the pleasure of making time to have coffee and meals with Greg whenever we land in Harlem. I hope we will all become closer in light of this loss. I hope we will honor him every day by creating outstanding articles, films and art. I pray we will navigate the politics of this world as gracefully as he did. Only time will tell. We will dedicate my conversation with Nate Chinen and Greg Bryant for The Year in Jazz: A Jazz United Podcast Live Taping at The National Jazz Museum in Harlem on Dec. 15th to him, a day before this article is published. It is the very least I can do, and B:8.75" in the future, I hope to do more. T:8.75" We love you, Baba Tate. Rest in Power.

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reporter Wayne Barrett. He was swimming with these big fish and shining. I read his piece first, then on to Crouch and Barrett, Giddins and Hentoff, who was on the last page. At that point Tate and Crouch were blazing guns and Thulani Davis—dam, all hard-hittin visionaries, nuff said. At times his words were so deep it felt like Ornette Coleman and Sun Ra caught up in a beef, looking through my dictionary or googling online to understand his lines. His vocabulary was

so enticing, so hip with a groove that caught the attention of the Black bourgeoisie, LBGTQ crew, hip hop and intellectuals of all races. Yo, this brother got it going on and on and on!! His words danced with Amiri Baraka, Ishmael Reed, Ralph Ellison and Albert Murray with the wit of Oscar Brown Jr. You know the brother that wears the hip caps, colorful scarf wrapped around his neck and the tinted glasses. He had swag with a tad of Monk happening, don’t even think about attempting to duplicate Tate, it’s not going to happen! But we can all take his advice and keep reading his writings. Gon’ Greg Tate, we got your legacy, thanks so much for Being and sharing.

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The Radio City Christmas Spectacular is BACK!

By LINDA ARMSTRONG Special to the AmNews There is nothing more moving than when the holiday season officially begins with the opening night of the Radio City Christmas Spectacular! Due to the pandemic the show was cancelled last year, the first time in the production’s 79-year history. As I walked into Radio City Music Hall with my family and walked down the aisle, the enormous space was filled with Christmas music as the swelling organs played in the front side of the theater. I felt the tears well up and roll down my face as we made our way to our seats. I had missed this so very much and was so grateful to be in this place to ring in the holiday season with this New York tradition. I was especially thrilled to have both my daughters, now 28 and 19, with me—they had grown up on this show and they were excited as well. The evening was beautifully begun with host Jill Martin, Knicks and MSG Network broadcaster and “Today” show contributor, who shared with the audience that there were a lot of tears of joy backstage, as the Rockettes and all the people connected with the show were so excited to be back. She talked about the Garden of Dreams foundation and shared a film explaining the charitable work it does year-round. Then the story of a young man, Garden of Dreams participant Dale Neyra, who had suffered with congestive heart failure, was shared and he came out and delighted the audience by playing the piano and performing an original song: a performance

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which garnered him a standing ovation. He had tears of joy and gratitude as he thanked the audience. Sitting there in our second row, center orchestra seats—WOW!—I found myself tearing up quite often. As the show began, I recalled memories of bringing my two daughters there as children and realizing that they are now women.

chronized tap dancing that we have all come to see is a tapping frenzy of delight. One of my all-time favorite numbers at the Radio City Christmas Show is the “Nutcracker.” When Santa spoke about the tradition of the show and I heard the music, I literally started to cry, because of the beauty and meaning of what I was about to see. My

audience is taken on a sightseeing tour with the Rockettes on a Grayline bus. These ladies are gorgeous, spirited and adorned in dazzling holidaycolored costumes. One of the funniest dance numbers and one of the most beloved is “Here Comes Santa Claus,” in which hundreds of Santas seemingly exist around the world to make sure that everyone gets their presents. A new number called “Santa’s Workshop” has Santa’s helpers coming to get him and take him back to the North Pole. It’s a fun, happy number. Once at the North Pole and trying to create a special toy for a little girl, we are led into the ever popular “Rag Dolls” number, with the Rockettes as delightful, life-size rag dolls, dancing with perfectly coordinated moves. In a number called “Snow” the audience is treated to the Rockettes in costumes that resemble snowflakes. It’s a stunning number. After that, I found myself tearing up again as the intro came for “Living Nativity,” which is the story of Christ’s birth and the three wise men coming to pay tribute to the newborn King. That music sends chills throughout my body and brings me great joy. This number was followed by “Christmas Lights,” which has everyone on the stage, the ravishing Rockettes and the other dancers who have performed throughout the production. There is nothing like the Radio City Christmas Show. It is a family tradition that thank God, has returned.

What makes the Radio City Christmas Spectacular so unique and loved is the tradition it has set, where for the most part you know the numbers coming up and the costumes the fabulous Rockettes will be wearing. In the first number, “Sleigh Ride,” the Rockettes are dressed as reindeer and they are setting up to pull Santa’s Sleigh. When Santa came out, everyone went crazy! We all knew the words he was going to say and we were waiting to hear them. Santa says he’s coming to New York to Radio City Music Hall and then it’s time to put on the 3D glasses for the 3D video projected in front of us. As gift boxes seemed to fall off of Santa’s sleigh and into our hands, I saw both children and adults reaching up to grab them, smiling and laughing. When the Rockettes perform “The Twelve Days of Christmas,” that syn-

oldest daughter, sitting by me, rubbed my shoulder and said, “It’s all right, Mommy.” As I cried, I said to her, “I just love this number.” Clara dancing with the animals is so gorgeous, graceful and comforting to watch. Just the introduction by Santa of the next number had the audience shouting with joy and anticipation and no one was disappointed as the marvelous Radio City Rockettes performed with absolute precision timing in the For more info, visit www.rockettes. “Parade of the Wooden Soldiers.” When com/christmas. that cannon flag shot up, as the soldiers locked arms and slowly and methodically fell, the audience’s level of appreciation rose to shattering levels. This was a moment we were all waiting for. The Christmas Spectacular truly is a tribute to this great city and there is no number that does that better than “New York at Christmas” as the

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BARRY HARRIS, PIANIST BEBOP KEEPER, DIES AT 91 rell, Alice Coltrane’s (maiden name was McCloud) older sister. He was classmates with the founder of Motown Records, Berry Gordy Jr. who also played piano. “I was 17 when I first saw Charlie Parker at a dance hall and 21 when I saw Art Tatum,” said Harris. “I became entrenched with Charlie Parker and Bud Powell.” He was also influenced by Art Tatum, Coleman Hawkins, and Thelonious Monk. (Mirko Caserta (https://commons.wikimedia.org/ Detroit, a jazz wiki/File:Barry_Harris.jpg), „Barry Harris“, https:// haven from the 1930s creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/legalcode) through the 1950s. (known as the Jazz Baroness), who was Harris’ favorite place as a teenager a devoted patron of jazz and an heir of was the Blue Bird Lounge, where he the Rothschild fortune. Monk’s popular watched musicians like Miles Davis tune, “Pannonica,” is named after her, as and Sonny Stitt through the window. well as Harris’ “Inca.” In 1963, she invited As a teenager he was befriended by Harris to live in her home in Weehawken, saxophonist Gene Ammons whose piN.J., along with a multitude of cats. A few anist was Junior Mance. “Junior would years later Monk moved in and resided sometimes get up and let me play in his there until his death in 1982. The house spot with Gene, I was only 17 then,” said contained two pianos next to each other, Harris. Many of his friends in high school giving them the opportunity to become followed him and his group because they close friends while practicing together for played dance music and gave dances. In hours a day. The baroness died in 1988, an AmNews interview he shared, “When but she stipulated in her will that Harris you think about it, the dancing is what is could stay in the house until his death. missing today from jazz, the dancing is a Harris at age 84, was a marquee key part to the music that was lost.” magnet regardless of the country. When When Harris was old enough to play in he appeared at the Village Vanguard jazz bars, he became a regular pianist at the club in New York City, the line extend- Rouge Lounge where he backed some of ed down the block. “Once I heard bebop his favorite musicians like Lester Young. in Detroit, I didn’t want to play anything He sometimes sat in with bebop hero else and that urge continues today,” said Charlie Parker, when he was in town. Harris during an interview with this Harris made practicing a daily ritual writer for the AmNews. “I like playing bal- and many musicians such as Frank lads, they are so beautiful. The great com- Foster, John Coltrane, Bennie Maupin posers like Jerome Kern and Ira Gershwin and Joe Henderson stopped by his aren’t played much in a jazz context.” house regularly to get advice from him Harris appears in the 1989 documen- and share musical concepts. Bassist tary film “Thelonious Monk: Straight, No James Jamerson and pianist/organist Chaser” (produced by Clint Eastwood), Earl Van Dyke, who were regulars, acperforming duets with Tommy Flanagan. knowledged Harris’ mentoring influIn 2000, he was profiled in the film “Barry ence. They both went on to become Harris—Spirit of Bebop.” legends in the Motown Records studio Barry Doyle Harris was born on De- band The Funk Brothers. In his early cember 15, 1929 in Detroit, Michi- jazz days Jamerson was an occasional gan. He was the fourth of five children. member of Harris’ trio. His father, Melvin, was a mechanic; his In the early 1950s Harris received a mother, Bessie (nee Johnson), was a call from saxophonist Benny Golson rechurch pianist at Mt. Zion Hill Baptist questing that he come to New York for Church. She began teaching him piano his recording date; he soon returned to at age 4. Harris later played at the church record with Thad Jones. Returning in as an adolescent. 1955, he joined Max Roach with Donald With no piano readily available for Byrd, Sonny Rollins and Clifford Brown. band members at his junior high school, In 1958 he recorded his first album as a Harris took to the clarinet; faced with the leader “Breakin’ It Up” (Argo Records) same problem at North Eastern High with bassist William Austin and drumSchool, he played bass in the school’s or- mer Frank Grant. chestra and band. “I played clarinet and After his stint with Cannonball Adderbass just to be in the band but I always ley in 1960, Harris remained in New York played piano. Piano is my life,” Harris City’s jazz environment. That same year stated to Scott during an interview. he led his own trio on the album “Barry Harris graduated from high school in Harris at the Jazz Workshop” with bassist 1947; his prom date was Margaret Far- Sam Jones and drummer Louis Hayes. Barry Harris in 2007

Barry Harris, the bandleader, composer, educator and bebop piano perfectionist and interpreter, who kept the idiom alive on stages throughout the world and taught his music fundamentals to thousands of students for seven decades, died on December 8, at Palisades Medical Center in North Bergen, N.J. He was 91 and lived in Weehawken, N.J. Harris had been hospitalized for the last two weeks and died of complications due to COVID, said Kira von OstenfeldSuske, who was part of a small support team of friends and students that helped Harris in recent years. He continued to lead classes on Zoom for about 100 international students until two weeks before his death. Last month in November, this writer had the pleasure of seeing him at a concert celebrating NEA Jazz Masters at Flushing Town Hall in Queens. Standing ovations greeted him as he was assisted on stage. He had to be assisted on playing the first Monk tune but by the second tune, it came together, as he implemented those lingering improvisational chord structures. He followed with a blues duet and banter with his good friend of 70 years and fellow Detroit native Sheila Jordan. He also sang a rendition of his noted ballad, “The Bird of Red and Gold.” Unfortunately, that was to be his last performance. Somewhat slowed by a stroke in 1993, Harris soon returned to form and continued to perform all over the world until the COVID-19 pandemic shut down clubs and concert halls in 2020. “At 21 years old, I became a student of Barry Harris. He taught me a way of looking at the piano, at chord structure, that I have never seen anywhere else (before or since),” said pianist, composer and producer Rodney Kendrick. “His teachings have allowed me to dive deeper into the music of Charlie Parker, Bud Powell, Monk, Duke, Randy Weston, and a host of others. His teachings have allowed me to forge my own sound based on the foundation that they left. Barry Harris was my mentor and my friend, one of my musical friends and truly a gift to us all.” Harris was a consummate freelancer who enjoyed playing in a variety of diverse settings from a local spot in Detroit to inaugurating the Lincoln Center’s Penthouse piano series in 1997. His many honors include NEA Jazz Master in 1989; honorary doctorate from Northwestern University in 1995; 1998 Lifetime Achievements Award for Contributions to the Music World from the National Association of Negro Musicians; and the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. In New York, Harris befriended the Baroness Pannonica de Koenigswarter

During that time, he met Monk which developed into a life-long friendship. In 1961 he signed with Riverside Records and recorded “Listen to Barry Harris,” a solo album that featured his originals “Ascension” and “Sphere.” This early recording demonstrates a rich bold tone that keeps giving, each note is profoundly accented and touches your heart like a warm mother’s touch and swings softly with fluctuating melodies and cascading rhythms. As a youngster Harris was in awe of Coleman Hawkins and listened to his music constantly. In 1965, he performed with Hawkins and played with the saxophonist until his death in 1969. He sometimes sat in with Parker, bebop’s leading man, when he was in town. Harris became a first call pianist for musicians such as Sonny Stitt, Illinois Jacquet, Dexter Gordon, Lee Morgan, and Charles McPherson. During that 20 year-span, he also recorded 19 albums as a leader. He appeared on albums with Adderley and other musicians, including saxophonists Dexter Gordon and Hank Mobley. He was a key contributor to trumpeter Lee Morgan’s “The Sidewinder,” which became a jazz hit in 1964. Harris’ desire to teach and play music in a friendly nurturing environment for young and established musicians led to the creation of the Jazz Cultural Theater (JCT), a storefront located between 28th and 29th Street on 8th Avenue. The co-founders and partners were Harris, bassist Larry Ridley, jazz promoter Jim Harrison and Frank Fuentes. The project was financed by Baroness Pannonica. JCT was also known for Harris’ music classes for vocalists and instrumentalists. It was a popular jazz scene until the landlord doubled the rent. Harris recorded his album “For the Moment” (Uptown Records, 1984) at the site. “Barry single-handedly went out and took bebop around the world and back again as a teacher, and artist,” said saxophonist, composer and owner of Bill’s Place Bill Saxton. “I had the pleasure of studying with Barry in 1976, he was a master. I have watched his uniquely styled music program evolve into a format for jazz studies program.” Over the years beginning in 1974, Harris utilized various sites to run his weekly workshops including University of the Streets and Manhattan’s Lincoln Square Community Center. Often over 50 aspiring and established musicians and singers attended. Harris’ lessons will be a part of their musical DNA for life. “The most important thing I have done as a musician and educator is to teach young people how to play jazz,” stated Harris during an interview with AmNews. “My main thing is to keep jazz alive. I travel the world from Europe, to Japan and Spain to play and teach this music.” Harris is survived by his daughter, Carol Geyer, and son-in-law, Keith Geyer, who live in metro Detroit.

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president of the PGA of America, moved to exclude them. Joe Louis, the former heavyweight boxing champion, interceded on behalf of the golfers and the situation, mainly through the nationwide microphone of Walter Winchell, which gained national traction. A lawsuit was once again filed by Spiller and, like before, the PGA and Smith promised to change the rules. Although the segregation clause remained in place, some

November 1961, the PGA of America finally relented and removed the clause that had been in existence since 1943. The success of this came much too late for Spiller, who was by now 48 years old, having started his golf career comparatively late. Even so, he had paved the way for other Black golfers to participate in the major PGA of America tournaments, and win. Spiller died in 1988 in Los Bill Spiller courtesy of the PGA and Oklahoma Golf Hall of Fame

denied entry in the 1948 Richmond Open Held in Richmond, California by the PGA of AmerGolf enthusiasts, particular- ica, he began to relentlessly ly those attuned to Blacks who challenge the PGA’s segregahave excelled on the links, may tion policy. No participant in have heard of a few old-tim- a major golf tournament could ers such as Ted Rhodes, Char- enter without approval of the lie Sifford, Pete Brown and Lee PGA, and, of course, one of the Elder (who died recently died rules was you had to be white. on Nov. 28), but unless you With the assistance of attorare deeply informed Bill Spill- ney Jonathan Rowell of the Bay er may have escaped your gaze. Area, Spiller filed a lawsuit. He Spiller was born Oct. 25, 1913 was joined in the lawsuit by Ted in Tishomingo, Oklahoma and moved to Tulsa in 1922, a year after the race massacre took the lives of countless African Americans. At a very early age his athletic prowess bloomed, and he eventually starred in two sports as a high school student and at Wiley College in Marshall, Texas. Golf was not one of the sports he pursued in college. He was 30 years old when he seriously began playing golf and saw it as a possible professional career. By this time he was residing in Southern California, and armed with a degree in education he taught for a while, supplementing his Rhodes, and they charged they income by working as a rail- were being denied an opporturoad porter. He was convinced nity to earn a living because the by a fellow porter to give golf a PGA was a closed shop. Such try and began competing and rules, under the Taft-Hartley winning in Blacks-only ama- Act, were illegal and against teur tournaments in the 1940s. the law. After the PGA agreed His performance in the Los An- to end its discriminatory policy geles Open was sensational in that would allow them to par1948, though he failed to defeat ticipate, they withdrew the lawthe great Ben Hogan. Finishing suit. This promise was not kept in the top 60, however, made as the PGA sidestepped the him eligible for the next PGA agreement by sponsoring “intournament—the Richmond vitational tournaments,” and Open. It should be noted that Blacks were not among those Ted Rhodes also made the invited. cut tying at 22nd while Spiller Spiller, however, was invited ended in a tie at 29th making to the 1952 San Diego Open, them the first Africans to play in where apparently the sponnon-USGA, PGA Tour events. sors were not aware of the When he was whites-only clause. To correct this mistake, Horton Smith,

sponsors began inviting African Americans anyway. By 1960, the racist policy of the PGA was a common practice, one that the attorney general of California and the state’s future Supreme Court Justice Stanley Mosk could not ignore. He advised the PGA of America that it would not be allowed on public courses where most of the tournaments were held. To get around this injunction, the PGA resorted to hosting their tournaments on private courses. Aware of the manipulation to avoid ending discrimination, Mosk then began contacting attorney generals in other states to adhere to his measure. In

Angeles California, and in 2009 he was granted a posthumous honorary membership to the PGA, along with Ted Rhodes and John Shippen, and to the boxing immortal Joe Louis. “He would have been proud of this honor,” said his daughter, Pamela SpillerStewart. “Bill Spiller is a hero, but unappreciated,” said Al Barkow, a national sports writer on golf. “Charlie Sifford gets a lot of the credit for breaking the racial barrier, but Bill Spiller paved the way.” He was inducted into the Oklahoma Golf Hall of Fame in 2015.

ACTIVITIES FIND OUT MORE Any golf digest or historical account of Blacks in golf usually includes at least a paragraph on Spiller and his pioneering career. DISCUSSION More needs to be said about the number of tournaments Spiller won and what amount of money he earned on the links. PLACE IN CONTEXT Spiller came of age during the first decade of the 20th century and lived to near the end of it, making his mark in golf along the way.

THIS WEEK IN BLACK HISTORY Dec. 12, 1940: Singer Dionne Warwick, winner of five Grammys, was born in Orange, N.J. Dec. 12, 1943: Popular saxophonist Grover Washington Jr. was born in Buffalo, N.Y. He died in 1999. Dec. 12, 1963: The East African nation of Kenya achieved its independence.

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Health Data proves that racial disparities compound COVID risk By CHRISTINE SPOLAR KHN

units began distributing protective equipment and COVID tests in Black neighborhoods. The ferocity of the COVIDIn Pittsburgh, Abrams asked 19 pandemic did what Black tech-minded allies to docuPittsburgh—communities that ment the reality of COVID inmake up a quarter of the city’s fection in Pittsburgh. “We population—thought impossiintuitively knew what was hapble. It shook the norms. pening,” she said. “But without Black researchers, medical that data, we couldn’t target professionals and allies knew our attention and know who that people of color, even needed the help most.” before COVID, experienced Within days, volunteers were bias in public health policy. As on daylong rounds of video the deadly virus emerged, data calls and appealing to county analysts from Carnegie Mellon and state bureaucrats for more and the University of Pitts- Advocates within the Black Equity Coalition—a grassroots collaboration of volunteers, community race-based statistics to bolster burgh, foundation directors, leaders, and data analysts—gather to discuss their ongoing mission to uncover the life-threatening their research. disparities between white and Black Pittsburgh. (Left to right) Robert Gradeck, Kellie Ware, Karen epidemiologists and others Fred Brown, president of the pooled their talents to config- Abrams, Tiffany Gary-Webb, Mark Lewis and Fred Brown. (Martha Rial for KHN) nonprofit Forbes Funds, and ure databases from unwieldy state data proportional investment and genera- commission, had yet again detailed Mark Lewis, who heads the Poise Founto chart COVID cases. tional disproportional treatment. And glaring disparities. dation, were stalwarts of a “huddle,” a Their work documented yet anoth- it impacts all that you see.” The blandly titled report, “Pitts- core of longtime advocates who evener life-threatening disparity between The COVID pandemic proved how burgh’s Inequality Across Gender and tually founded the coalition. white and Black Pittsburgh: people of structural inequities have been missed Race,” jolted emotions in the city of Brown emphasized pulling labor stacolor were at higher risk of catching the or ignored, Burgess said. 303,000 people—and underscored how tistics to show that the essential workdeadly virus and at higher risk of severe “I’ve lost friends, family and a lot of health disparities track with income. ers keeping the city running—among disease and death from that infection. church members. My son had COVID. Among the findings: Black people in them nursing homes aides and home More than 100 weeks after advocates For me it’s personal,” he said. “I knew Pittsburgh earned far less than their care staff—were overwhelmingly Black began pinging and ringing one another immediately it would have a dispropor- white neighbors and suffered far worse or Latino. to warn of the virus’s spread, these vol- tionate effect.” from disease. For every dollar white Mapping COVID testing centers and unteers are the backbone of the Black In 2020, COVID reduced overall U.S. men earned, the report found, Black analyzing data proved sobering, he Equity Coalition, a grassroots collab- life expectancy by 1.5 years, according women earned 54 cents, making them said. It turned out that the people most oration that scrapes government data to the National Center for Health Sta- five times as likely to live in poverty as likely to be tested lived in Pittsburgh’s and shares community health intel. tistics. Black and Hispanic people fared white men. predominantly white neighborhoods. About a dozen members of its data the worst, losing more than three years With notably higher cardiovascular Largely employed in tech, academia team of 60 meet twice weekly to study in life expectancy. White people saw a disease and cancer rates, Black resi- and finance, they could easily adapt to hospitalization rates and employment 1.2-year drop. dents’ life expectancy was about eight lockdowns. They had round-the-clock statistics. Social media advisers turned Using county data, the Black Equity years less than white Pittsburghers’ life internet at home and could afford food health equity into a buzzy online effort, researchers found a sobering racial gap expectancy. deliveries to limit the chance of infecwith videos and weekly Facebook town in the Pittsburgh area: Black residents The report sparked a furor, which tion. Later, they could access vaccines halls, to encourage vaccinations. Local of Allegheny County saw dispropor- Ware met with perspective shaped quicker. ministries are consulted, and volun- tionate hospitalization rates—and were over years away from the former steel “The communities that had the most teers take surveys at pop-up clinics, more likely to land in the ICU or on a town. “The report was factual,” Ware tests were the affluent ones,” Brown sponsored by other groups, at barber- ventilator—in the pandemic. Weekly said, “but I know this: there’s not a ton said. And those with the fewest “were shops and hair salons. Elected lawmak- hospitalization rates were higher of places where it’s great to be a Black the most resilient, the people who had ers seek its counsel. during surges of infection in April, woman. Those earnings? It’s 54 cents to to go out there and work.” “We came together because we were July and December 2020 and again in a dollar for women in Pittsburgh. It’s 68 Lewis, a certified public accountant concerned about saving lives,” said Tif- March and October 2021. Deaths, too, cents nationally. It’s all a shade of bad.” who spent years as a corporate auditor, fany Gary-Webb, associate dean for di- were disproportionate but fluctuated The first signs of the pandemic su- focused on standards. County and state versity and inclusion at the University after December 2020. percharged Ware and others. As COVID health professionals worked mightily to of Pittsburgh, who oversees the data For much of the pandemic, death devastated New York in March 2020, control the spread of COVID but didn’t effort. “It evolved, with us realizing we rates were higher for African Americans Karen Abrams, a program officer at the always gather data to ensure fairness in can do more than address COVID.” than for other racial groups, the coali- Heinz Endowments, a foundation in distribution, he said. “We realized that, COVID ravaged communities across tion said. Pittsburgh that spends $70 million a as testing was done, it was not being rethe United States—more than 787,000 year on community programs, began corded by race,” Lewis said. “Why? A lot Americans have died, including Colin ‘It’s all a shade of bad’ connecting the dots in texts and calls of the issue was—at the state and the Powell, the first Black secretary of state with nonprofits, business owners and local level—there was no requirement and a decorated Army general—and Kellie Ware has long considered university researchers. to collect it.” laid bare how marginalized popula- health inequity a deadly problem. COVID spread quickly in dense multiGary-Webb said researchers had a tions lose out in the scrum for public She graduated from Pittsburgh public generational households and in Black sense of where the inequities would be health dollars and specific populations schools, left for law school in Boston, neighborhoods in Chicago, Washing- found because they knew the neighwere left vulnerable. and months before COVID began its ton, New Orleans and Detroit. Abrams borhoods. They first layered in perMonths before the pandemic began, global assault she was working in her was among the advocates in Pennsyl- centages of Black families in poverty as the Rev. Ricky Burgess led the Pitts- hometown mayor’s office as an equity vania who watched county and state well as data on the locations of federburgh City Council to declare racism a and diversity policy analyst. health systems race to prepare and ally qualified health centers to advise public health crisis. Ware was at her desk in late 2019 who feared that Black residents would health authorities on where and when “Institutional racism is for real,” the when her phone started ringing. A be underserved. to increase testing. councilman said in a recent interview. damning report, compiled by univerIn Philadelphia, early on in the panUniversity and nonprofit researchers “You are talking about generational dis- sity sociologists and the city’s gender demic, volunteer doctors in mobile See HEALTH on page 36

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Religion & Spirituality The community says goodbye to Michael ‘Mr. Mentor’ Thomas

The Brownsville community is mourning the death of Michael T h o m a s , k n o w n a s M r. M e n t o r, c r i m inal justice advocate, community act i v i s t , a n d r e t i r e d c o r r e c t i o n s o f f i c e r. He died from prostate cancer on F r i d a y , N o v. 1 9 , 2 0 2 1 . From his Scared Straight Program, with tours of Rikers Island; to his # 1 D a d P r o g r a m , T h o m a s’ w o r k d i d not stop during his full time job and after retirement. Not only did he tr y to make a difference at work, he also touched many lives in the community. “ Mi c h a e l l ov e d B ro o k l y n ,” h i s f a m i l y stated of the Brownsville native. His concern and love for the youth enc o u r a g e d h i m t o s t a r t h i s M r. M e n t o r P ro g r a m a n d t h e S av e t h e Yo u t h Fo u n dation, to educate the young people about their rights pertaining to the l a w a n d a s a d e t e r r e n t f r o m i n c a r c e ration. The viewing for Michael Thomas took place at the Citadel Cathedral of P r a i s e & Wo r s h i p o n D e c . 1 , 2 0 2 1 . H e was laid to rest at Evergreens Cemetery the following day.

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Yorkers in the city are fully vaccinated in the city. 54% of Black New Yorkers in the hcity have at least the first sdose. Overall, 70% of New Yorkers in the city are fully dvaccinated and 78% of New -Yorkers in the city have re-ceived at least the first dose. yThis double-digit discrep-ancy is a significant reason gthat Black New Yorkers are nfar more likely than their owhite neighbors to contract rand die of COVID-19. t Vaccine hesitancy is not a -new phenomenon nor limitned to communities of color. -The World Health Organiezation’s Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) oWorking Group defines vacecine hesitancy as a “delay rin acceptance or refusal of dvaccines despite availabili-ty of vaccine services. Vaclcine hesitancy is complex eand context-specific, varyying across time, place, and dvaccines. It is influenced by efactors such as complacenecy, convenience, and confitdence.” Black New Yorkers will ,only reach vaccination d r

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THE NEW YORK AMSTERDAM NEWS December 16, 2021 - December 22, 2021 • 29 parity when they have both racism that Black communi- cine. “I was nervous. I wasn’t (STAR) Program, College of equal access to and trust that ties face.” The denial of ap- sure. I wasn’t sure what Medicine, SUNY Downstate vaccines are safe. A crucial propriate medical care, and would happen…I was get- Health Sciences Universipart of making that happen having conditions misdiag- ting information from vari- ty, has created a series for are the individuals work- nosed, or medical treatment ous places.” She credits the DownstateTV called “Coroing within the community withheld, are also contrib- continued efforts of Meyers navirus, COVID-19 Informato ensure Black New Yorkers uting factors according to and NCNW with helping her tion Session.” Titles include are properly informed. Meyers. sift through all the data she “What is COVID-19” and Nicole Meyers, presiMore than simply identify- was getting, and make an in- “What to do if you or somedent of the National Coun- ing some of the root causes formed decision based on one in your home gets sick.” cil of Negro Women, Staten of mistrust and hesitan- facts and science. She also Taylor’s series, which is on Island section, is one such cy within the community, indicated that, in addition YouTube, has been viewed advocate. As Meyers told Meyers and her colleagues to her hesitance around the hundreds of times and has the AmNews, “Institutional have partnered with local vaccine, and the challenges provided a wealth of inforracism, historical inequities organizations to facilitate of digesting advice from var- mation from hand washin health care…and lack of prioritizing access to the ious sources, physically get- ing, to mask wearing, to trusted messengers inform- vaccine; created their own ting to vaccine sites was also how the disease spreads, for ing Black and Brown people vaccine waitlist; scheduled a battle. people in New York City and of the benefits of becoming appointments for communiNCNW and Meyers helped beyond. In addition to the vaccinated. It’s grounded ty members as well as taken with that as well. “They made web series, Taylor has also in institutional racism. It is them to appointments; held it very easy.” When the boost- participated in several edubuilt into the system.” monthly virtual COVID-19 er shot was available, Overby cational sessions including Meyers explained that “the educational webinars and indicated that NCNW helped a Town Hall in March 2021 historical traumas of the invited experts to discuss up- her to get phone numbers, hosted by the National Black Tuskegee experiment, Lacks dates and answer questions get locations about where to Leadership Commission on and Sims certainly provide received from the Black and obtain the booster shot, and Health and Harlem Prevencritical context to the nor- Brown communities; and in- helped her make a booster tion Center entitled “COVIDmalized experiences and vited Black and Brown lead- shot appointment. “I needed 19 Vaccines.” fears that are embedded ers to directly ask questions. help navigating the system.” It’s not just the medical in present-day responses Mosezetta Overby cred- Community members like community that is fighting to vaccine mistrust among its the efforts of the Nation- Meyers, trusted by Overby, to keep Black New Yorkers Black families.” She went on al Council for Negro Women provided that much needed informed, their elected leadto say that “although we know generally and Meyers specif- help. ers are doing their part as that not every Black person ically, with helping her overThose trying to ensure that well. Councilmember Debi may have a keen awareness come concerns regarding community members are Rose of the 49th District in of [the] Tuskegee, Sims, and getting vaccinated. Overby, vaccinated are also using Staten Island leads by examLacks cases, we can certain- a retired educator, said that multimedia to get the word ple. As she said, “I’m fully ly attribute some of the dis- she first received a letter out. Dr. Tonya Taylor, PHD, vaccinated and wear a mask trust to those cases. It merely from NCNW asking if she was MS, assistant professor, Spe- when attending indoor social serves as an example of the interested in getting the vac- cial Treatment and Research See VACCINE on page 30

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30 • December 16, 2021 - December 22, 2021 THE NEW YORK AMSTERDAM NEWS Test and Trace Teams. I’m news is overall New York is registration assistance, and currently a COVID-19 Track- doing great. The bad news more to get information to er and constantly carry infor- is as the vaccine rolled out the communities in need. Continued from page 29 mative literature, masks to Black and Brown communiJohnnie M. Walker, Betgive out, and hand sanitizer.” ties still have problems. You hune-Height Recognition gatherings. My staff and I Community leader and need an internet connection Program national co-chair, have worked hard to inform Harlem Children’s Zone to book your vaccine ap- and New York State Conveour constituents about the President and founder Geof- pointment. If you work two ner, shares this view. Walker COVID-19 virus and the im- frey Canada wrote a piece to three jobs, finding a place said that “lack of trust in the portance of wearing masks for PolicyLink entitled “Why that can accommodate you medical and science proin crowded settings and get- I took the COVID-19 Vac- past 7 p.m. is still really hard. fession” is a large barrier in ting fully vaccinated. And cine” to add his voice to the If you don’t speak English, people getting the vaccine, we provide masks to anyone call for individuals in the it’s pretty hard to get a vac- but that “outreach such as or any organization that re- Black community to get vaccine because you may have webinars and workshops can quests them.” Rose also cinated. “I did not decide to issues with documentation.” be critical in sharing inforspoke about a newsletter that get vaccinated without reKalita also explained how mation,” and that’s the work she emails her constituents flecting deeply on the rela- time is an issue for people, that Walker is specifically enevery Friday, featuring a reg- tionship between Black and especially those in the Black gaged in. ular “Vaccination Updates” Brown communities and the community who may not It is this “lack of trust” section. It includes the latest health-care system in the have a surplus in their sched- that Lorna Wilson, treasurnews about COVID-19 and United States. However, I’m ule to chronicle minute- er of the Faith United Methits variants, where to get confident I made the right to-minute COVID changes. odist Church, also cites as vaccinated, the availability decision for myself and my Kalita also highlighted the a massive barrier to Black of home vaccinations, free family, and I’m sharing my multitude of inequities in community members gettransportation to vaccina- thoughts with you with the communities such as a lack ting vaccinated. “Most tion sites, and in-school vac- hope that you will do the of grocery stores, absence people feel like the vaccine cinations. same.” According to Canada, of transit hubs, and dearth is against us. It is miseduca“We have worked closely the virus must be stopped, of media outlets that people tion. It’s sad. People ask how with city Health Department and the most effective way to feel they can get trusted in- did it come up so fast; I say officials to schedule NYC do that is to get vaccinated. formation from. According scientists don’t go on vacaMobile and Pop-Up vaccine The digital media commu- to Kalita, it’s not possible to tion.” sites in our district,” Rose nity is also getting the word treat the issue of under-vacWhere do we go from here? said. out. S. Mitra Kilatra is the cinated individuals as solely Nicole Meyers of NCNW beMinister Robert Perkins, co-founder and publisher an issue of vaccines. “These lieves we need to “increase Staten Island Male District of Epicenter-NYC, a news- are communities that were the number of trusted mesLeader of the 61st Assem- letter to help New Yorkers feeling acutely disconnected sengers. Provide more combly District, also believes get through the pandem- before COVID.” munity-based awareness in doing his part, stating, “I ic and navigate vaccine regKalita and her team are programs and educate the personally took the shot, and istration. Kalita spoke with doing their part with news- community leaders. The have successfully supervised AmNews and said, “The good letters, vaccine help, vaccine training and awareness must

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be designed in digestible ways so that accurate information about the benefits of being vaccinated becomes a normalized discussion and not a discussion based on a debate.” According to Lorna Wilson of Faith United Methodist Church, “The Black community has been historically marginalized. There’s so much distrust. We need people we can trust.” As reported in an article in the British Medical Journal, “Unvaccinated Americans have died at 11 times the rate of those fully vaccinated since the delta variant became the dominant strain.” Further, “vaccinated people were 10 times less likely to be admitted to hospital and five times less likely to be infected than unvaccinated people.” The stakes are high not just for Black New Yorkers but the entire city if high quality information from trusted sources is not provided to the Black community to inspire more people to get vaccinated.

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With more police caution tape, candle and chalk memorials, bullet holes, and blood-stained sidewalks, Goodine, the founder of Men Elevating Leadership—named for his murdered son, Shamel Blake Harper—continued, “It’s like the Wild Wild West. Anytime you can shoot in broad daylight, around a temporary housing facility and school, and with all these cameras, then there is a lawlessness that needs to be addressed immediately. I hope Mayor Eric Adams does all he can to get a grip in this city to help save some lives.” Even in the wake of rampant shootings, stabbings, robberies, assaults, and subway violence, Mayor Bill de Blasio used his recent press conferences to push his new vaccine mandates on children 5- to 11-years-old, and employees in private businesses, and private schools. In response to a request for a statement from Mayorelect Eric Adams—a former police captain, state senator and 22-year-NYPD officer—his spokesman Evan Thies stated, “The mayorelect’s No. 1 priority will be reducing violent crime and making New Yorkers safer. He will improve public safety by targeting illegal guns, cracking down on the gangs that are driving violent crime, and working with the communities that are suffering the most from crime to find the programs and investments they need to partner against violence and disorder.” Current Mayor Bill de Blasio did not respond to the same request by press time. The spokesperson for the NYPD’s Sergeant Edward Riley sent the Amsterdam News their record of shooting incidents on Dec. 12, 2020 and 2021. Their 24hour recap for 12/12/20 showed five incidents with nine victims. A year to the day this week showed eight incidents and eight victims. In their year-to-date recap from last year to Dec. 12, 2020, there were 1,463 incidents and 1,792 victims. This year up until Dec. 12, 2021, there were 1,498 in-

THE NEW YORK AMSTERDAM NEWS December 16, 2021 - December 22, 2021 • 33 cidents and 1,795 victims. that and put a pandemic on the community. It’s an ep- a Saturday, Nov. 13, 2021 Responding to the recent top of it you have a histori- idemic. We need to get all armed robbery of a gold violence at Staten Island’s cal number of gun violence of our thinkers and the ex- chain by a group of men, Susan E. Wagner High events. In 2018 we were perts at the table so that we from a 32-year-old victim. School, students walked the safest city on record can come up with a com- In a statement they said, out in protest this past in terms of gun violence. prehensive plan to effec- “The victims attempted to Monday. And last week We broke records and vio- tively address it.” flee and the unidentified Central Family Life Center lence was down in terms of Mitchell, a national train- individuals discharged and Staten Island’s Crisis shooting. It was the lowest er of Cure Violence Global firearms multiple times, Management System team it had been in NYC. Then concluded, “We have evi- striking the 32-year-old True 2 Life credible mes- you bring on the pandemic, dence based on data-driv- male in the torso and striksengers went to Wagner HS and a year and a half later en solutions in the city that ing the 46-year-old male to mediate conflicts, give the numbers spike. We are we need to utilize, and we victim in the back. The unout advice and information still in the midst of the pan- need to ramp it up so that identified individuals fled to help ensure “the safety demic and things haven’t we can prevent the next the scene northbound on of the students, teachers gotten better. The uncer- occurrence from happen- Macombs Road in a black and nearby residents.” tainty has increased.” ing and save the next per- Mercedes-Benz sedan. In a statement they said, Reflecting somberly, son’s life.” The 32-year-old victim “We will have our Mobile Perry said, “Less than two Uptop pedestrians and was transported by private Trauma Units on scene as weeks ago Keondre Adams, underground riders are means to Bronx Lebanon a tool and safe space for a young man I see like nervous no matter what Hospital where he was proparents and students to my nephew, was shot and time of day or night. Day- nounced deceased. EMS speak with our wellness killed—I knew his father light shootings in areas transported the 46-yearand mental health profes- for 30 years. It was just such as Clinton Hill, Bed- old male victim to Lincoln sionals. With respect to all street stuff, being 18. It was Stuy, and West Harlem are Hospital in stable condilaw enforcement and the not gang-related. The root examples of how daily vio- tion.” phenomenal job they do at is poverty.” lence keeps NYC residents Neither pandemic nor the high schools, we feel The young man was shot alert and afraid for person- holiday season tidings it is necessary for our ap- dead inside What U Need al safety. brings a ceasefire to viproach of mediation and Deli & Grill in New BrighThe list of recent cases olence in New York City. changing the culture in our ton. At 5:23 p.m. on Tues- of city violence read like a Cure Violence activists say schools to lead this type of day, Dec. 14, Anthony horror show. to the contrary: they only response.” Fonseca, 50, was arrested At 8 p.m. on Monday Dec. seem to exacerbate it. From They added that their and charged with murder, 13, 2021, Tyrek Townsend, new community resourc“Crisis Management part- manslaughter, and crimi- 37, was found shot in es to fair police policy and ners Man Up Inc., Commu- nal possession of a weapon. the torso at 113 Ave. and tactics, New Yorkers say nity Capacity Development In a message for May- Linden Boulevard; he was something has to give. and others from across or-elect Eric Adams, Perry pronounced deceased at In the meantime the NYC” joined them in a show said, “He has to look at in- Jamaica Hospital. As of Legal Aid Society released of much needed support. frastructure, employ those press time there were no a statement in response to Program Manager “Iron” not usually employed. Our arrests and the investiga- the appointment by MayMike Perry said, “The vi- first ask is simply to double tion is ongoing. or-elect Adams of Keechant olence happening in our and triple the amount of Also on Monday a man ar- Sewell as next commisschools across NYC has anti-violence groups in the guing with another person sioner of the New York City a direct connection with city. We have two or three was fatally stabbed inside Police Department. “We the pandemic and issues/ cure violence groups in a No. 2 train Bronx subway welcome the appointment conflicts that have made Staten Island, but we need station early Monday, cops of a new NYPD commistheir way to social media more.We have six major said. sioner who we hope will during the lockdown. The neighborhoods on the Meanwhile, on Sunday, bring a new approach to issues/conflicts between Northshore plagued by gun Dec. 12, 2021 at approxi- the helm of an agency in the Staten Island neigh- violence. One group covers mately 3 a.m., police found dire need of top-to-bottom borhoods have made their two areas which means a 31-year-old male shot in reforms. way to the high schools. four are grossly neglected. the torso in front of 8 Rock“Policing in New York It is our job to help our These groups have proven away Ave., Brooklyn. He City remains fraught as young brothers and sisters to work. Look at the num- was pronounced dead at ever. The next commiswho are involved to under- bers, you see the target Brookdale University Hos- sioner must demonstrate stand what peace and norm area numbers are a lot less pital Medical Center. There an understanding that change is. We will do that!” than areas that don’t have were no arrests by press many community probCentral Family Life cure violence groups. time. lems do not warrant a law Center Executive Direc“We will need Mayor Eric There have been two ar- enforcement response; that tor Dr. Demetrius Carolina Adams’ support. He has to rests and manslaugh- police misconduct must be added, “The work of this put money and resources ter charges of a 17- and taken seriously and adanti-violence movement in the hands of those doing 19-year-old in the Sunday, dressed swiftly; and that is a team effort. As we at- the work.” Oct. 24, 2021, gunshot tackling some of our city’s tempt to be a collaborative Across the river and deep murder of Saiko Koma, 21, most pressing public safety force for proactive change, in Brooklyn A .T. Mitch- of the Bronx. issues, especially gun viowe encourage our entire ell, executive director and In Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn lence, requires full funding Staten Island community founder of Man Up Inc., just after 2 a.m. on Satur- for proven, communityand partners to join us in said, “The shootings that day, Nov. 30, 2021, Lizseh based approaches, includthis effort.” have been happening in Casserly, 32, was fatally ing the CURE Violence True 2 Life runs with the Canarsie are another un- stabbed in the chest and model, and not a knee-jerk slogan, “We Risk our Lives fortunate circumstance the neck, as reports say a resort to the failed, aggresto save Lives!” Perry told that just confirms that gun homeless man objected as sive and racist approaches the Amsterdam News, “ Vi- violences in this city is out she and her male compan- of the past. The commisolence is peaking just like of control, and we need ion walked too close to his sioner must also immediin the other boroughs. a comprehensive plan in sidewalk tent. ately meet with community Gun violence is direct- order to address it. That Cops just released a members to build real and ly tied to the conditions of includes all hands on deck. photo of a Mercedes Benz meaningful pathways to the people.When you have First and foremost led by being sought in regard to input and accountability.”

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Name: Cornerstone NY Cert of Form filedArts w/ process anyCo. andConsultants all proposals. tion: New York County. SSNY SSNY shall process to the LLC is C/O theofdesignatLLC: 595 filed with of State of/ KNY the princ. office the LP. whom LLC Only cash or certified funds payable Notice of formation of lawful Grits Single woman looking to build SSNY shall mail proAND WOMEN BUSINESS ENTERPRISES E LMINORITY LCorporation Aupon Mon AOWNED E07/29/21. BR O Wprocess N ,Co., E T OWNED NY 11228. Purpose: Any law- ed agent upon whom pro10028. Purpose: Any of Org filed with Secy. of served. Holdings - New York, LLC. 7/1/21. SSNY desig. 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(CSC), 80 State St.,4:30 Alshall mailwelcome, copy of expenses process Office location: NY (SSNY) on the Purchasing between hours of 9:00 a.m. beofserved & shall mail may may be served. SSNY desigDE addr. of 12207-2543. activity. Coffee LLC Art. Of Org. filed formed Delaware (DE) thecontract LLCinentered at the oftoon its from SSNY. C.I. addr. of LP: State of NY (SSNY) on NY Speed Internet. Free Installapaid. Please call (347) 470intoaddr. pursuant this advertisement willDepartment be awarded to the Org. filed with the Secy. of bany, NY 12207-2543. DE Persuant toLittle a Purpose: Judgment of ac/o g a in s t L L C Corporate to : U S CSero rp County. SSNY designated as 03/17/21. Office location: NY Notice of formation ofOffice 560 tion, p.m. daily except Sundays andas Holidays, on and whom after process c/o Universal Regagent upon nated LLC: Falls Dr., SSNY on 11/4/21. 07/27/21. Princ. office of LLC: lowest251 responsible bidder without discrimination onto the basis ofSaturdays, race, color, princ. office. Any Office NY Smart DVR IncludorInc., myHD attorney: (800) 5228Maples Frank D. Lombardi, Esq., State ofLLC: NY c/o(SSNY) on with addr. of CSC, 251 N o t i c location: eNECK oNY f F County. oRD r mCounty. aLLC t i oSSNY nArts. o f Agents F osex, rc loactivity. s u reManagement a n d19808. S a lenational d u ly origin, 7014 Ave., whom process agent LLC formed in2018. ColCounty. LITTLE TUESDAY, JANUARY 9, documents may also Referee be istered Inc., 26 Proposal process against it may be Location: Wilmington, DE Cert. sexual orientation, age upon orAgents, place of residence. c/o Rudin Co., lawful SSNY has been designated vices PO13th Box 309, ed, FeeLimited, Voice Remote. Some 582-3678 NY office loca10/11/2021. Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, Notice of formation of Ripka T a k a m i c h i B e a u t y R o o m filed on June 01, 2017 and #202, BK, NY 11228. Prinmay be served and shall mail orado (CO) on 08/22/1997. of Org. filed with the Secy. of ddirected o w n l oto a the d eE. drequirements aGreenbush, t t h e T of o w n oserved f B a b yand l o nshall ’ s w email b s i proces te at Prospective bidder's is alsoCarville Ln, Form. with DE Secy. of agent of prothe Ugland House, Inc., 345 filed Park Ave.,attention NY, NY as an Arts. agentas upon whom Grand apply. Promo ExNY Dicaro County. SSNY has designated DE 19808. Cert. & ofBarak, Form. filed Arts LLC Arts. of Org. Cayfiled Shapiro, LLC LLC. Org.07/14/2021 filed with restrictions anState, O rder ppointing S#4, uccipal business address: 300 of process copy designated as agentLLC of tion: schedule "B"AinQualification the proposal concerning M/WBE participation the contract. NY (SSNY) on www.townofbabylon.com. NY 12061. Add.inagainst maintained against the LLC served upon of 401 Federal St., upon ofitwhom process 10154. SSNY designated as cess against may be Notice of of SSNY man,the C.I., KY1-1104. Cert. of 07/21/21. 1-888-609designated as anofagent with Secy. of the State DE, LLC with Secy. of NY (SSNY) Attorney(s) for Plaintiff N Y office D eit plocation t . obe f SNY t aCounty. tserved e and o n pires The of schedule of proposed M/WBE participation is to bewhom submitted by theNY been cessor Referee dated NoE. 74th St., #10A, NY, NY to 220 E 60th St, #3k, NY, LLC upon process NY in DE: Universal Registered C/O the LLC: 88 Greenwich is Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: may served against agent LLC upon whom proand shall Office mail alocation: copy of any 1711 RETAIL, LLC Appl. for filed withNY Registrar of LP 06/14/2021 9405 whom process against it SSNY 401 Federal St., Dover, DE apparent low bidder within sevenun(7) calendar daysInc., the date of opening on office loca175 Mile Crossing Boulevard 10/3/17. NY vember 28, 2017, I,may the 10021. 10022. R/A: VB&T Certified against itaftermay be served. has been the designated 300 Creek View upon Agents, Street, Apt 714, New York, Any lawful activity. shall mail process to: 93 cess against it be process against LLC to Auth. filed with Secy. of State Partnerships C.I., 133 Elgin of bids. The M/WBE goal for projectSSNY isSPECIAL 24 %. shall may be funded served shall mail as 19901. Purpose: Any lawful NOTE: These projects be inand part through tion NY County. SSNY has Rochester, New York 14624 C ounty. Princ. bus. addr.: dersigned Referee willthis sell 110 SERVICES Purpose: any lawful act. Public PLLC, mailNewark, process to: shall anthe agent upon whom proGet DIRECTV! ONLY Rd, Ste.Accountants, 209, DE NY 10006. Purpose: Any lawMadison St, Apt 6A, NY NY served. SSNY shall proC/O LLC Angela Polite NY (SSNY) on mail 11/23/20. of Ave., Box 123, Grand Cayth copy ofofany process against activity. been designated as Channels an agent the F. 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Purpose: lawful St., 3000, and any 1000s oflawful Shows/Movies On officer DE Cert of the LLP, Partner-in-charge purpose. 10003 LLC formed in SOLAR Delaware (DE)detriment pose: Any activity. EXECUTIVE LLC Notice of Formation of ETERLLC: P.O Box 230218, New $99. 100 pills for $150. for significantly unbalanced to the potential of the Department may be cause may be served and shall mail Development Block Grants. A project funded by and conceived d e s ig n a te d a g e n t o f L L C Notice of Form ation of 44 act. Room 600, 851 Grand ConDenver, CODE 80202. Address against the LLC is Demand (w/SELECT All process InForm filed: Sec. of State, Dated: November 18, 2019 #98015 of matters, 560 Lexingtary. 11/17/20. SSNY designatonRudin Appl. for Auth. filed with Sefor a determination ofNY non-responsiveness and the rejection of the bid. NIS FINE CHEMICALS USA York, NY 10023. Purpose: FREE shipping. Money back a copy of any process against through the NY Rising Community Reconstruction program of upon whom process against EAST 75TH STREET, LLC course, Bronx, on Janube maintained in CO: 1821 to C/O the LLC: 620 W 42nd St Notice of Formation of SIGcluded Package.) PLUS Div. ofof formation Corp, John G. ton Ave., 6th Fl.,LLC NY, upon NY ed ofas agent of State of NY on Blake cy. Notice of of Jess LLC Arts. SP ofProposers Org. filed with lawful activity. Formation of BRG WESTguaranteed! 1-855-579-8907 the LLC isonC/O thewith LLC: 175 the Governor’s Office StormAny Recovery. m ust it may be Formation served andofshall Arts. of Org. filed Secy. of SK Stream arySolicitation 29, 2018 atof(SSNY) 2:00 St., Ste. Denver, documents (Specifications ONLY) will be 200, available for Apt 21A, New York, NY 5, LLC Arts. of Notice NATURE Up to FIVE Townsend Bldg., PO Box 10022. DE addr. LLC: Corprocess against itp.m., may whom 11/22/21. Trayah Interiors LLC Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) SIDE LLC filed the West 12thof Street, Apt.Secy. 4B, download free 9,Dover, 2019 for the full duration of of agency comply with any and allArts. funding requirements, as of wellState as mail process to: Any 263 of Bowof State NYwith (SSNY) on STREET LLC p re m is eService sOffice kSSNY nofo charge wlocation: n shall a starting s 1 mail 5NY 5December 0 CO 80202. Arts of Org. filed 10036. Purpose: lawful Org. filed with Secy. Screens Simultaneously at DE 19903. Any 898, poration Co., 251 LitNotice of Qualification of 79 ORCHARD Notice of Qualification 980 be served. Notice of formation oflocation: FellowLLC formed in County. DISH TV $59.99 For 190 Org filed with the Secy. of or on 08/02/21. Office the Solicitation Time from the City Record Website at City Record Onof State of NY (SSNY) on New York, NY 10011. PurNotice is hereby given that a any other State, County, Town local government or agency ery, 2nd Fl., NY, NY 10002. 1 2 /0 4 /1 7 . O ffic e lo c a tio n: Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. U nionport R oad, U nit N o. the CO Secy. of State, with activity. of NY (SSNY) on 11/19/20. No Additional Cost. Call DIlawful purpose. tle Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE PLACE OWNER CLIFTON RAIL PROPERTY LLC Appl. process to c/o Anbau EnterEnterprises LLC. Arts. of ship Delaware (DE) on 10/13/20. + $14.95 High Channels State of regulations. NY (SSNY) on Line (https://mspwvw-dcscpfvp.nyc.gov/CROLPublicFacingWeb/) NY County. SSNY designat11/21/19. Office loc.: NY license, number 1324834 for pose: Any lawful activity. rules and A goal of 15% for New York State Certified Purpose: any lawful activity. NY County. SSNY designatof State of NY (SSNY) on 1700 Broadway, Ste. 550, 6A, Bronx, NY. All that cerlocation: NY County. Office RECTV 1-888-534-6918 19808. Cert. of Form. LLCas Appl. for Auth. filed with for Auth. filed has with been Secy.apof County. prises,designated 11 E. 26th St.,agent NY,filed NY Org. filed with Secy. of State SSNY as of Speed Free NY office 11/12/2020. agent of as LLC upon SSNY of designated as liquor license, Minority Businesses andlocafor New York Certified A15% ed Drawings areofnotState available download and CO MUST be purchased. as Internet. agent LLCInstallaupon NY Denver, 80290. Purpose: tain plot, or of SSNY designated agent of 10/27/21. Notice of Office formation of 68with Secy. of for the Secy. 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Some FORD HOUSE PRESERVAas agent been be served. shall mail City Department oft sbe Transportation, Office of thedesignated Agency Chief Contracting against it may be cess d/b/a Don Giovanni RisN O TIC E O F FO R M ATIO N project. Proposers must demonstrate their good-faith efforts to for $99. 100 pills for $150. agent of LLC upon whom promay be served. SSNY shall iTownsend m p r o v e n t h e r e o n it may be served. against filed LLC with the Secy. of Bldg., 401 Federal LAUNDRY GROUP County. LLC formed in Org. NY County. formed in WAY DEOfficer/Contract 19808. Cert. of Form. filed agent upon SSNY shall mail process to55 Water 1-888-609restrictions TION, L.P. Cert. ofNew LPYork, filedit designated upon whom process against Management Unit, Street, Ground Floor, process to as c/o Corporation served. 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NY office of LLC: 1120 SSNY designated ast a agent off the Corps., 401 Federal St., Ste. holidays. The entrance is located on the(SSNY) South Side of any the Building facing thethe SSNY shall mail proserved. State St., Albany, NY 80 on 08/05/21. Office copy of process to a bany, 12207-2543. PurSinanaj, Madison jamin The Town will not reimburse any individual or firm with any costs coholic Beverage Control t h e S e c y . o f S t e o toupon the been LLC, 611 Broad- 10021. cess Bronx, County of Bronx,You City Mandarin, LLC. AuCREC St., Albany, NY 12207State Get DIRECTV! ONLY has designated SSNY ndthe building Vietnam Veterans Memorial. will not be allowed in without 07/13/2021 NY office location of the Americas, Ste. Ave. LLC whom process 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purcess to: 2730 Frederick Dou- way, 12207-2543. DE addr. of location: NY County. Princ. LLC: 520 2 Ave, Suite 20B, pose: Any lawful activity. Never Pay For Covered Ave., Ste. 1001, New York, Law at 358 W 44th Street, associated with the preparation of their proposal. NY(SSNY) has been desigNotice of Qualification of Ste. 807, NY, NY Purpose: Any lawful activity. a n d S t a t e o f N e w Y o r k , filed etc.). with Secy. of glass 2543.Blvd, Purpose: Any lawful 155 Channels & $35/month! government issued identification (driver's thority license, passport, as an agent upon be whom pro- Bronx County. SSNY has 1803, NY, NY 10036. SSNY it may served. against pose: Any lawful activity. 6-J New York, NY LLC: 251 Little Falls Dr., of LP: 30 Hudson office New York, NY 10016. PurRepairs Again! NY 10017. Purpose: AnyComlawnNew a t e against dYork, aPurpose: s aNY afor gRetail ebe npremises t served u pand o n Home MONTICELLO STRUCBlock 3943 and Lot 2867 toof books NY and (SSNY) on designated State activity. Purpose: 1000s of Shows/Movies On cess itn may been designated as Warranty an agent as wom agent oflawful LLC 10012. 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(SSNY) on amount 08/02/21. Office SSNY SSNY shall York, mail Little a copy of 30 BOROUGHS LLC designated proximate of judgesuant law, that the NYC Screens Simultaneously at Street, New NY 10023. Org. filed Secy. of2019 State Hand Physical Therapy NYC, the LLC is C/O the LLC: tion Service Co., 80 State St., LLC: CSC, 251 Falls of of NY (SSNY) AState Pre-Bid meeting (Optional) hason beened scheduled forwith December 16, Any lawful activity. as agent of LP upon LLC Arts. of Org. filed Films Office location: NY County. OFF + 2 FREE MONTHS! f LAdditional P file d ofw Cost. ith S eCall c y . Rd, of location: NYin the County. LLC Contracting Arts.PT of PLLC. Org. filed with Secy. any against the LLC o whom process LLC m ent is AM $119,173.75 plus Department Consumer AfDINo Purpose: Any lawful activity. ofTheresa NYupon (SSNY) on 11/19/20. at 10:00 Agency Chief Officer Bid Room, Ground Albany, Dr., process NY 12207-2543. DE Wilmington, DE 19808. 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Dover, storage NY County. cess against it may be Date: January 9,State 2018 vice Co., 80later St., Al- location: designated as 4, anArts. agent been LLC upon whom process Appl. for filed SeNY SSNY 56 State, Leonard Apt. LBroadway, P : cSAVE / o A5sthcmoney, e n d Aon mreduce ear perica of attendees to Manager two (2) 10470. Gateway Oaks Dr. designated d ename(s) x10016. # 3Auth. 80 2 4shall 6 / designated 2 0with 1 2the . proNProject o 2804 Floor, FREE! itno may than be served. against Org. filed with Secy.against of State of John G.be Townsend Purpose: Any lawDE 19901. tem. asSt., agent of 39W, LLC upon served. SSNY mail bany, NY 12207-2543. Name whom process it against it may served. business days prior to the pre-bid meeting date. cy. of State of NY (SSNY) on Savings Include an American Walk-In Tubs as agent of LLC upon whom NY 10013. SSNY desigNY, L L C , 6 3 5 M a d i s o n A v e ., Notice of Formation of Purpose: Any lawful activity #100, Sacramento, CA Cash to willFredda be Accepted. titionreliance for CASA INC to SSNY shall process to upon onToiletshall 08/12/21. Bldg.,whom 401 Federal St., Ste. to 4, ful NY activity. on AZUL. the grid, preprocess against it of cess Herz Brown, Standard Right and Height and addr. ofmail each general be (SSNY) served mail -INyour SSNY shall mailofprocess Office location: NY 11/22/21. process against itsubmitted may bewriting natedbeas agent LLC upon may STERNBUCH FAMILY Ste. 1300, NY, outages NYand 10022. 95833. Address to be mainFREE! ($500 Value) WALK BATHTUB SALE! SAVE $1,500 All questions shall be in to the designated person indicated establish, maintain, operCorporation Service Co., 80 may Office location: NY County. DE 19901. Purpose: Dover, pare for power and served. 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found anomalies as they worked. For instance, race was noted on some testing data, with patients designated as Black, white or, inexplicably, unknown. The “unknowns” were a significant percentage. So researchers began layering additional census, labor and ZIP code data, to identify neighborhoods, even streets, at risk. The ZIP code data took months to shake loose from state databases, largely because government software was slow in the fast-moving pandemic and government data was not updated regularly or formatted in ways that could be easily shared. Their efforts paid off: the group was able to winnow down Allegheny County records that omit race to 12% of positive COVID cases; 37% of statewide records are missing race details, the coalition reported. Robert Gradeck, who runs the Western Pennsylvania Regional Data Center, a data collaborative managed by the University of Pittsburgh, said COVID should play a lasting role in improving public health reporting. “We kept thinking: What can we learn from this?” Gradeck said. “It’s not that you can’t answer questions. But you can answer only part of them.” Among the top recommendations to

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health authorities: adopt software practices to ensure that race and other demographic data must be entered into electronic records. And then refine how to share data among counties, states, research institutions and the public. The coalition attracted support in monthly calls with state Health Secretary Rachel Levine, recently sworn in as a four-star admiral in charge of the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, which responds to health crises on behalf of the federal government. “I thought what they did was critically important,” Levine said, noting that officials recognized the coalition’s research as revelatory. With “a diverse group of professionals, they were able to use and collect data in a very effective way.” Their early research found the COVID rate among Black people in Allegheny County, which encompasses Pittsburgh, was three times the rate of white people. Hospitalizations among Black people have been as high as seven times the rate of whites, according to “Missing Our Shot,” the coalition’s 2021 report. A vaccine clinic campaign stop Ed Gainey, a state legislator from Pittsburgh, was among the first politicians to say African Americans in his hometown were missing out on COVID protections. Last month, Gainey was elected the city’s first Black mayor, after winning a primary, within months of the murder of

George Floyd, that pointed to inequities in health care and policing. A Democrat who worked for two Pittsburgh mayors, Gainey admits he and other Black elected officials were somewhat ill-equipped in the first weeks of the pandemic. “I fought hard to get the vaccine into the community last year, but I really didn’t know the language—the health language—to be able to get it,” Gainey said during an interview at a pop-up vaccine clinic in the city. Vaccinations have risen because of community efforts, he said, but children are still a source of worry. Gainey, who grew up in a low-income housing complex, said he understands when some youngsters shrug when asked about COVID risks. “But I will tell you I know this: if you can make a kid believe in Santa Claus, you can make them believe in the vaccine. And you know, I understand some of the young kids’ reluctance. I didn’t grow up going to the doctor regularly either,” he said. “I came from the same kind of environment.” As the 2019 report made clear, many of the benefits of Pittsburgh’s techbased economy—a vaunted “ed-andmeds” renewal against the industrial decline of the 1980s—still were largely bypassing African Americans. The first year of COVID was an iterative process of trying to stay ahead of the virus. Gary-Webb, who earned a doctorate from Johns Hopkins’ public

health school, said it was also a time for Black residents to be heard about what they knew and saw in their neighborhoods. The coalition, sustained by thousands of volunteer hours, attracted some funding earlier this year, notably for outreach and to pay for running datasets. Last month, the Poise Foundation was approved for a three-year, $6.99 million grant, federal money to be administered by the state health department to support an array of health partnerships in the region and, notably, to improve COVID vaccine uptake in ZIP code areas the Black Equity Coalition identified as vulnerable. Among its goals: demographic messaging, data analysis on COVID testing and education outreach in dozens of counties. Gary-Webb counts herself among a group of “boomerang” Pittsburghers who have lived in other places—in her case, Baltimore, New York and Philadelphia—and COVID has helped them recalibrate how Black residents can participate in public health. As she put it: “The health planners were saying, ‘Help us get out the message.’ We said, ‘No, we are not just getting out the message. We want to be talking about equity at the same time.’”

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By LOIS ELFMAN John Jay’s young team is finding its footing Special to the AmNews It’s great to be back in action after a year off the court due to the pandemic, but the prolonged absence meant that Lynda Day, head women’s basketball coach at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, had to rebuild a team practically from scratch. There are only two returning players on the roster, but the freshmen have brought a love of the game and lots of energy. “We have a lot of freshmen playing big minutes, but all it really John Jay competes in the also navigates as she has has done is create opportu- CUNY Athletic Conference, another job as director of a nities. We’re learning a lot which is Division III. The Montessori preschool. She about ourselves and about players balance their love said she happily juggles obeach other, so we can get it of basketball and competi- ligations for the love of the together when we start con- tion with school, family ob- game. ference play in January,” ligations and jobs. Day said “Even though [the players] said Day. it’s a tough balance, one she are putting a lot more time

obligations in, I think they have a major advantage over the average student in the fact that, one, you have to manage your time very well as a student-athlete,” said Day. “They learn a lot of life lessons through sport. Also, they have their coaches looking out for them, trying to help them become better people, not just better athletes.” The two assistant coaches for women’s hoops, Cassandra Taylor and Nyasha Howard, previously played

for Day and are John Jay alums. Day said, of course, they want to make the players as good as they can be on the court, but they also want to see them build a great foundation for life. It wasn’t easy to rebuild the team after a year away, but Day is pleased with the camaraderie that this group has built in a relatively short time together. CUNY AC play begins on Jan. 4 with a home game against Brooklyn College. Mayor-elect Eric Adams, a John Jay graduate, is welcome to attend. “I do think there’s such young talent here that they really don’t know what they are capable of, but I truly would love to see us play our best basketball,” said Day. “Win as many conference games as we can to position ourselves as best as possible. … I believe this team has the potential to get to the conference finals.”

Hofstra women’s hoops trying to establish new reputation Senior guard JaKayla Brown is Hofstra’s leading scorer

The last three games have been kind of rough for Hofstra University women’s basketball, but even in losses come lessons that hopefully will bring the Pride to a new level of play. It’s a veteran team with seven seniors who are hungry to finish their collegiate playing days in winning fashion. “I’m proud of the way the team is working,” said Danielle Santos Atkinson, in her third year as head coach. “Our last few games we’ve been not ourselves, we’ve not played to our identity, which is a team that plays really hard and gets after it on the defensive end of the floor. “We’re working to get ourselves back on track,” she added. “We have a veteran team, so from a leadership perspective we’re leaning on them and relying on them as we continue to move throughout this year.”

Building a winning culture is a process. Santos Atkinson and her coaching staff did not expect to turn things around in one year. In this third year, the progress continues. “We feel that with the team we have this season, the starters that we have returning, we have an op-

portunity to do something special and to really have a special year,” said Santos Atkinson. “With that, we’re going to continue to build. We’re laying a foundation for this program to build on for years to come. We want to breed the level of success we are looking to attain.”

2021 NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Tournament, Santos Atkinson, who is part of the Women of Color Coaches Association and other groups, participates in building the future. “We do try to push that envelope in continuing to work toward gender equity,” she said. “I don’t know if we’ll ever get there, but we want to see the work being put in to help level it.” After Saturday’s loss to Ole Miss, the While the priority is play- players have a few days off ing well and winning, to focus on finals. Play rethey did take time during sumes this Saturday with a recent road trip to two a road game at Cleveland HBCU schools, Howard Uni- State. Then the Pride return versity and Morgan State, to to their home court for a tour the campuses and take Long Island faceoff against in the history. With gender Stony Brook. After a break for equity a big part of conver- Christmas, Hofstra will finish sations around women’s 2021 with games against Cocollege basketball since the lumbia and UNCW. (Hofstra Athletics photo)

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Family and friends say goodbye to Ernie ‘Nes’ Morris By VINCENT DAVIS Special to the AmNews

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dante Wallace Dennis. Morris’ health had been steadily declining the last Harlem and many few months. In recent years communities like it he had suffered two strokes, are defined by their and was battling diabetes and individual blocks, high blood pressure. culture and charErnest A. Morris Jr. was acter. But it is the born in New York City in 1941. people who shape He attended P.S. 89 and J.H.S. the areas. Ernie 164 in Harlem before going Morris, who was afon to high school at LaSalfectionately known le and George Washington as Nes, Nesto, Nes in Manhattan. Morris’ basMan, Alphabet Man, ketball and academic skills and a few others, is led him to the legendary Lauone of those. rinburg Institute, a private Morris, who passed school in North Carolina. away at the age of 80 Morris’ achievements in the early mornon the court and classing hours of Nov. 23, room earned him a basketwas honored and ball scholarship to Benedict celebrated by many College in South Carolina, of his family and where he teamed up with friends who gathMcCullough to make Beneered this past Saturdict the nation’s highest scorday at Bethel Gospel ing team in 1964. Assembly church on A well known figure West 119th and Fifth of Harlem, Morris obFamily and friends came out to celebrate the life and homegoing of New York City basketball luminary Ernie “Nes” Morris Avenue. Others took tained a master’s degree part in the services from Long Island Univervia Zoom. Morris as a youth and who aided him communities in which he lived, played sity, coached youth basketball and Long time buddies Myles Dorch, in his final years, spoke affectionately and coached. “If you needed a ques- worked until his retirement as a Bob McCollough, Bobby Hunter and of their friendships, his love of basket- tion answered, even with the advent of physical education teacher in the Charles McMillan, who was coached by ball, his acumen, and his impact on the Google, call Nes,” said longtime confi- New York City school system. B A

USA Basketball makes major announcements on women’s programs It was a week of news coming from USA Basketball. On Dec. 8, Minnesota Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve was named head coach of the U.S. Women’s National Team for 2021–’24. Her skills will be tested pretty quickly as there will be a FIBA World Cup in 2022. The winner of the gold medal receives automatic qualification to the 2024 Olympic Games. On Dec. 9, Kara Lawson was named 2021 USA Basketball 3x3 Coach of the Year. Lawson, head coach of Duke women’s basketball, coached the U.S. women to gold in 3x3’s Olympic debut. Then on Dec. 10, Allisha Gray of the Dallas Wings, a member of that

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By LOIS ELFMAN Special to the AmNews

Allisha Gray earned Olympic gold and USA Basketball honors

inaugural team, received USA Basketball’s first-ever 3x3 Athlete of the Year. “Being in the Olympics, the Opening Ceremony, seeing all the other athletes, it was a moment I will never forget,” said Gray. “Seeing other countries, seeing Olympians from other sports… overall it was cool. It sucked because of COVID you didn’t get to experience it with the fans, but it was still a once in a lifetime opportunity.” Gray was a part of USA Basketball’s National Team pool. She was offered a spot on the 3x3 team, which made its Olympic debut in Tokyo. 3x3 is an incredibly fastpaced game. Making it more challenging is that the coach isn’t on the court with the players during the game. “You really had to communicate with your teammates and every-

t one had to be on one accord becausep if one person was off it was pretty no-t ticeable,” said Gray. “We had pre-p game meal and then after pregamec meal we would literally go overb schemes and plays that we wantedc to run against that specific team. “Coach Kara had us prepared soG once the game started, we knewd what plays to run, we knew what tot expect,” she added. “It was just up toc us to execute the plan.” s Neither Gray nor her teammatesa Stefanie Dolson, Kelsey Plum ands Jackie Young had much experi-a ence playing 3x3, unlike many oft the teams they faced. They relied1 on their talent, training camps andd learning as they went through thea Olympic qualifying process. D “We got the ultimate goal, which was the gold medal,” said Gray, whoe in Tokyo marveled at her journeyc from smalltown Sandersville, Geor-i gia to the Olympics. p Gray feels blessed for the 3x3 Ath-a lete of the Year recognition. Sheo thanked her parents for all they dide when she was growing up, seeing toh it she got the best basketball oppor-a tunities, which included driving hero to Atlanta for AAU practice and thenw to tournaments on the weekends. i “My parents sacrificed a lot for me2 to be able to be in the position I amw today,” said Gray. “I am so grateful.”

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Losing and rebuilding becomes normalized for the 4-9 Giants By JAIME C. HARRIS two seasons before being AmNews Sports Editor terminated. Judge may soon be next, although The Giants’ 37-21 the Giants’ ownership loss to the Los Angeand next general managles Chargers on the er may see a young coach road last Sunday enwho was mentored by Bill sured they will end the Belichick during his years season with a losing on the New England Patrirecord for the fifth ots staff from 2012-2019, straight time. A dubithat has the necessities ous distinction for a to guide the Giants back franchise that will also to the postseason and miss the playoffs for sustained success. Judge the ninth time in the sounds the part but his past 10 seasons. public eternal optimism The fallout will be has a large segment of the another rebuild no team’s fan base unconmatter how the franvinced. chise’s ownership, “I am the head coach led by John Mara and Now in his second season as the Giants head coach, Joe Judge’s record and everything in this with the team is 10-19, including 4-9 this season, heading into Sunday’s Steve Tisch, may frame program reflects on me,” game against the Dallas Cowboys at MetLife Stadium the inevitable changsaid Judge after the loss es to the front office, to the Chargers. “I will coaching staff and roster. Gen- the team will be the subject of will turn 40 on Dec. 31, is the never shy away from that, eral manager Dave Gettleman intense internal organizational Giants’ third head coach since I do not make any excuses almost assuredly will not be discussions. Ben McAdoo was named to the and I do not hide from that back, head coach Joe Judge’s After a period from 1981 position in January of 2016. The either. I am not a finger pointstatus to return for a third to 2016, in which the Giants list doesn’t include Steve Spag- er. I am not an excuse maker season should be in ques- made 16 playoff appearanc- nuolo, who went 1-3 as their in- and I am never trying to detion, and starting quarterback es, played in five Super Bowls terim head coach after McAdoo flect anything,” he expanded. Daniel Jones, running back and won four, losing for them was fired in December of 2017. “In terms of the direction the Saquon Barkley and other sig- has become normalized even Following McAdoo was Pat program is going, there is a lot nificant players’ futures with if unacceptable. Judge, who Shurmer, who went 9-23 in of things that I see week after

week with our players and where we are going that I am encouraging all the way. Sometimes that is tough to see externally, but these are the key foundational pieces that are being put in place and we are making lots of progress going forward. My scope is always big picture. I look to every week, week to week, but ultimately, my vision goes beyond that. I am looking long-term. “First time I got in front of the microphone in front of you guys, I talked about putting a foundation together,” Judge recalled to the media, “pushing it and building it the right way. I never talked about taking a shortcut or wanting immediate gratification. We need to put guys in the right position, we need to execute plays and we need to finish games. I am not going to shy away from that, this is a production business… A lot of things are moving in the right direction and are being solidified.” Results are what matters above all else. To this point in Judge’s Giants tenure, the outcomes have been abysmal.

Jackson State to face off against South Carolina State in the Celebration Bowl Deion Sanders’ dramatic reclamation of the Jackson State University football program will reach another milestone when the Tigers face the South Carolina State Bulldogs in the Cricket Celebrity Bowl at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia this Saturday beginning at 11 a.m. The game, considered the Black college football national championship, will be broadcast on ABC. It will be the first appearance in the Celebration Bowl for both teams and JSU’s first bowl game since playing in the 1971 Azalea Bowl, Jackson State legend Walter Payton’s freshman year. The Celebration Bowl’s inaugural game was in 2015 and annually matches the NCAA Division I Southwest Athletic Conference and Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference champions. Jackson State won the SWAC going 11-1, the most single season victories in school history, while South Carolina State finished 6-5 under longtime head coach Oliver “Buddy” Pough, who is in his

20th season heading the program. The Bulldogs most recently produced linebacker Darius Leonard, a two-time MEAC Defensive Player of the Year (2016, 2017). After being drafted by the Indianapolis Colts in the second round of the 2018 NFL Draft, Leonard was named NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year in leading the league in tackles, was voted First-Team All-Pro in 2018 and 2020, and SecondTeam All-Pro in 2019. The 54-year-old Sanders, a 2011 Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee, and considered one of the NFL’s greatest cornerbacks and kick returners, took over a football operation in September of last year that had not won more than five games since the 2013 season. On Tuesday, it was announced that he had been selected as the 2021 Stats Perform FCS Eddie Robinson Award recipient, which honors the national coach of the year in the Division I subdivision. The award’s namesake is the iconic Grambling State University head coach, who passed away in 2007. “This is a team effort, it’s a valiant effort, it takes a lot, it

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By JAIME C. HARRIS AmNews Sports Editor

Jackson State University head football coach Deion Sanders has transformed the HBCU’s program and helped stimulate the economy of Jackson, Mississippi

does not just take me,” said Sanders. “I know it takes a visionary, but people have to really support the vision. And that’s what we did.” He was greatly aided by his son, quarterback Sheduer Sanders. The younger Sanders, who was recruited by numerous major college programs coming out of Trinity Christian right outside of Dallas, Texas, initially com-

mitted to Florida Atlantic but joined his father when he took the job at JSU. Sheduer shrugged off pressure and exceeded expectations in becoming the 2021 Jerry Rice Award winner, given to the best freshman in FCS football. Throwing for 2,971 yards, 28 touchdowns and just five interceptions, he became the first HBCU player to win the award since it was estab-

lished 11 years ago. The Sanders duo also substantially impacted Jackson, Mississippi beyond the football field. Visit Jackson, which on its website is described as “the official destination marketing organization for the city of Jackson,” recently reported that JSU’s 2021 football season brought in $30 million, an increase of $14 million from the 2019 season.

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Sports The Knicks continue to tumble as COVID adds to their troubles (Bill Moore photo)

By JAIME C. HARRIS AmNews Sports Editor On a night at Madison Square Garden when the basketball world celebrated Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry setting the NBA’s new all-time 3-pointers made mark, it was a somber occasion for the Knicks. The 105-96 defeat on Tuesday night was the Knicks’ fourth in a row and seventh in their last eight, dropping them to 12-16, 5-10 at home and in the 12th spot in the 15team Eastern Conference. Right now they are a shell of the team that went 41-31 last season and were the Knicks Forward Obi Toppin remained in the No. 4 seed in the conferNBA’s COVID-19 health and safety protocols ence. Weakened as many when his team lost by 105-96 to the Golden teams across the league State Warriors at MSG on Tuesday have been by players being placed in COVID-19 health and safety protocols, the Knicks to the Milwaukee Bucks. were without guard RJ Barrett, forward The Knicks ended their loss to Golden Obi Toppin and rookie guard Quentin State with NBA rankings of 25th in Grimes, who scored a career- and team- points per game (105.5), 16th in oppohigh 27 points on Sunday at MSG in his nents points per game (107.3) and a first regular season start in a 112-97 loss telling 28th out of league’s 30 teams in

assists per game (21.4). Their last victory (121-109) came 10 days ago in San Antonio versus the Spurs and they are back in Texas tonight to face the Houston Rockets. Rotation changes and schematic alterations by head coach Tom Thibodeau have yielded positive outcomes. A reasonable summation suggests the Knicks lack enough high impact players to reverse their current trajectory. The one glaring deficiency of the team that has been problematic for the better part of the past decade is a top-tier, two-way lead guard. The Knicks failed to successfully address the position this past off-season and it has manifested in the offense being stagnant and the defense left vulnerable at opponents’ point of attack. Team president Leon Rose hoped to squeeze a good year out of Kemba Walker and signed the 31-year-old Bronx native to a two-year, $17.9 million deal in August. But Walker was removed from the starting lineup and rotation by Thibodeau due to minimal production at the end of November, and apparently will be anchored to the bench as long as he is a Knick. If they have any intent on competing for a playoff spot, the Knicks’ decision makers, namely Rose, must strongly consider a trade to acquire a difference-

making point guard long before the Feb. 10, 2022 NBA trade deadline. The Sacramento Kings De’Aaron Fox is a player long-rumored to be a primary target of the Knicks. As for Curry’s historic night at the Garden, the irony was inescapable. The Knicks were set to draft the transformative point-guard with the eighth overall pick in 2009 but instead he was scooped up by the Warriors at No. 7. Twelve years into his career, the remarkable 33-year-old babyfaced basketball assassin has reshaped how the game is played. The three-time NBA champion and two-time league MVP has made the 3-point shot the most dangerous weapon in the game. Dropping five of 14 attempts against the Knicks on Tuesday, Curry broke the all-time record at 7:33 of the first quarter when he netted a 28-footer. It was his 2,974th, surpassing Ray Allen who was in attendance. Reggie Miller, who held the record before Allen, was also in the building as part of the TNT broadcast team. “I had great support here,” said Curry during an interview with TNT after the game. “This arena, I can’t express how much of an honor that was for the reaction here on the road and the appreciation for this milestone…a very, very, very special night.”

The Nets stay on a winning track despite health and safety obstacles By VINCENT DAVIS Special to the AmNews

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league’s leading MVP candidate, bounds off the bench. Undrafted who is dealing with right ankle rookie rookie guard David Duke Jr., soreness, to carry With games versus the Dallas them as he has all Mavericks, Houston Rockets, At- season. Durant lanta Hawks, Detroit Pistons on the had 34 points, road from Dec. 7-12, taking three 13 rebounds and out of four, the only loss (114- 11 assists versus AM NEWS AM NEWS 01414 104) coming against the Rockets, the Raptors, this AM NEWS 10/07/21 12/02/21 the Nets returned to the Barclays coming off a 5110/07/21 0 7 74470 22784 Center this week for a five-game point performance homestand. against the Pistons It began Tuesday night with a in a 116-204 win on 131-129 overtime win over the To- Sunday. Durant’s ronto Raptors, improving their teammates stepped record to 20-8, the best in the East- up to give him solid ern Conference. The victory was support in holding AM NEWS AM NEWS 01424 the Nets’ third in a row and sixth off the Raptors. AM NEWS 12/09/21 in their previous eight games.10/14/21 It Guard Patty Mills 10/14/21 0 7 74470 22784 was an impressive example of the had 30 points and Nets overcoming adversity as they rookie forward had seven players, including star Kessler Edwards, guard James Harden, in health and a second round safety protocols due to COVID-19. pick (No. 44 overIn addition to Harden, LaMarcus all) out of PepperAM NEWS AM NEWS Aldridge, DeAndre’ Bembry, James dine by the Nets 01434 Nets guard Patty Mills has been a mainstay of the AM NEWS Johnson, Jevon Carter, Bruce in last summer’s 10/21/21 12/16/21 team’s rotation this season, having appeared in all 28 10/21/21 0 7 Brown and Paul Millsap were also draft, contribut74470 22784 games heading into last night’s matchup in Brooklyn unavailable. ed an important 17 versus the Philadelphia 76ers But they had Kevin Durant, the points and 10 re-

a product of Providence College, had 10 points and 13 rebounds in a starting role. “It was a team effort in everything we did tonight,” said Durant, who played 48 minutes. Put into a starting role due to the absences of the usual first unit players, center Nic 01494 Claxton added 16 points and AM forNE ward Blake Griffin 13. Kessler, who 12/02/ 0 7 22784 is on a74470 two way contract, splitting his time between the Nets and the G-League, said head coach Steve Nash encouraged him to “trust yourself and have fun with it.” After taking on the Philadelphia 76ers tonight in Brooklyn, the Nets 01504 will host the Orlando MagicAMon NE Saturday, the Denver on 0 7 Nuggets12/09/ 74470 22784 Sunday and the Washington Wizards next Tuesday before a Christmas Day matchup with the Los Angeles Lakers on the road.

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