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Sopa! Goes From Nuts To Soup THE INNER-CITY NEWS - February 06, 2019 - February 12 , 2019
Soup nursed Eric Rey back to life. Now, he’s turning it into a small business.
their home, getting feedback from 12 participants on each soup. If a recipe didn’t stick—Rey recalled a Thai Tom Kha Gai that never seemed to land, and a coconut and collard greens that was too sacrilegious—they moved on. And then in the fall, they applied to and were accepted into Collab’s food business accelerator.
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Rey is the cofounder of Sopa New Haven, a new food micro-business that he is running with his younger brother, Alejandro Pabon-Rey. After beta testing several soup recipes last year, the brothers have officially launched the business, which offers fresh soup delivery each week. The name (which both tend to exclaim with enthusiasm, vibrato, and an invisible exclamation mark), comes from the Spanish word for soup, a nod to both their Latinx heritage and the project’s humble origins in 2018. Sopa began unexpectedly last June, with a trip that Rey took to Peru to visit and hike the ancient Inca citadel of Machu Picchu. Rey thought he had prepared adequately for the trip: his bags were packed, he made his flight, he had his itinerary ready to go. But when he arrived, he encountered an obstacle he hadn’t banked on. Cusco, his first stop, is located 11,152 feet above sea level (New Haven, for comparison, is 59 feet above sea level). Altitude sickness set in: Rey was constantly nauseous and gasping for air. He struggled to sleep. And though he was hungry, he couldn’t eat a thing. Until somebody put a warm bowl of cream of corn soup in front of his face. “The only thing that worked, the only thing that settled my stomach, and the only thing that I felt nourished [by] and settled after the meal was soup,” he recalled on a recent episode of WNHH radio’s “Kitchen Sync” program. “I felt full and complete, and for the first time, the surge of nutrients coursing through my body again.” The soup brought him back into the land of the living. Rey thought about soup as he hiked, making it to the top of the citadel despite cramping muscles and a lack of
“We thought, this is like providence,” Rey said. “What do we got to lose? Let’s toss our hat in the ring.”
oxygen. He thought about soup when he got back on the plane, and when he made it back to New Haven. When he saw Alejandro for dinner four days after he got home, “I just laid it out,” he recalled. The two were sitting at their childhood kitchen table, where they had “all our headto-heads, our heart-to-hearts.” It was the table where both Rey and his brother had served some of their first attempts at homemade food, and broken bread with family members at least once a week. The table where Sunday evening dinner was sometimes 15 people, conversation bubbling up around signature dishes. “I was like, we’re gonna sell soup. That’s what it is,” Rey said. “Soup for me is another way to love people. I think that’s what
you’re sharing when you share a pot of soup with somebody, you’re sort of sharing love.” And immediately, Pabon-Rey was on board. “It was full steam ahead,” he said. In many ways, Pabon-Rey added, the project came naturally to them. While the two are 13 years apart in age—Rey was 13 when his little brother was born, and left for the University of Connecticut when he was just four—both grew up cooking, puttering around a kitchen in the city’s Hill neighborhood. In their family, food was love: one aunt’s pitipuá doubled as a show of affection, while another’s sancocho warmed family members from the inside
out. When Rey tried a dish that piqued his interest, he learned how to make it. “I don’t remember when I started cooking, but I just remember that homemade meals were always happening,” recalled PabonRey. “At home, it kind of came natural from seeing mom always cook. I kind of wanted to be a part of it. I was probably 11 or 12 when I started cooking meals at home … it’s full-blown now.” Sopa, meanwhile, began at more of a simmer than a full boil. After that first conversation, the brothers Rey started small, making pots to taste in their home kitchen. They sketched out categories inspired by Rey’s trip to Peru: a traditional soup, signature soup, an international soup, and a stew. They held small-batch tastings in
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Since beginning the accelerator, a joint venture between Collab and CitySeed, the two have turned up the heat on the business, securing a commercial kitchen in West Haven while learning about the economic and structural limits of having a two-person operation. While still balancing part-time jobs, they’ve rolled out a menu of four soups, each with its own personality and backstory. Both said that they don’t just see Sopa as a business venture—it doubles as a responsibility to give back to the family and the neighborhood that raised them. “I’m sort of honored to perhaps set an example for somebody who is coming behind me,” Rey said. “That’s the relationship that I have with my brother ... and so part of that is I look at it as a responsibility, not only for him but for others.” Now, they meet once weekly to cook, delivering soup on Tuesdays to give the soup a chance to cool and deepen in flavor. There is a coconut curry with kale and cabbage, bursting with garlic, red curry paste and curry powder, a salty, smoky vegan black bean, warming chicken and rice soup, and time-intensive sancocho, a Caribbean chicken, beef and turkey stew Con’t on page 8
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Black History Month: Two Centuries of Black History and the Black Press By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Correspondent
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In the March 2018 story, “Race News: Chronicling the Black Press and fight for Justice,” journalist Tony Pecinovsky noted that the rocky relationship between journalism and the struggle for African-American equality, like any other courtship, is full of ebbs and flows, fluctuations that often times mirror larger societal changes. “Exploring this relationship, in all its nuance and complexity, is especially important today as we try to discern and understand contemporary reality, a reality the Trump Administration increasingly attempts to obscure and mystify with its reliance on “alternative facts…’ ‘…facts’ that oftentimes lack quantifiable, tangible evidence,” Pecinovsky said. In that context, he said Fred Carroll’s book, “Race News: Black Journalists and the Fight for Racial Justice in the Twentieth Century,” is a welcome addition to the understanding of both journalistic and African-American history.
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Some historians have rightly begun to see the struggle for African-American equality through the lens of the “long Civil Rights revolution.” “Thankfully, Carroll also sees the role of ‘race news’ through the lens of a long struggle and notes that early twentieth century commercial publishers proudly traced their lineage back to black journalism’s beginnings… to its very first newspaper, Freedom’s Journal, which was founded in 1827,” Pecinovsky said. He also noted that the “black news industry was owned, produced, and consumed primarily independent of white oversight,” thereby enabling black journalists to “package their mission of ending racial discrimination and securing citizenship rights within a profit-oriented, objective presentation of current events designed to cater to the many interests of the largest possible black readership.” The Black Press remains as viable as ever. “The Black Press is an aspect of the fabric of the Black existence in America that is not getting enough attention or support from the community,” Kisha A. Brown, the founder and CEO of Justis Connection, told NNPA Newswire. Justis Connection is an organization committed to connecting top legal talent of color to local communities and Brown said the Black Press plays a large role in telling the stories of those communities. She said African Americans need to honor that. “We rally to support athletes and artists who are ‘wronged’ by the system but what we fail to honor is the voice of the Black Press that has been capturing our stories for centuries,” Brown said. “Long before Black Twitter and online blogs … and so the Black Press is not only an essential voice, but it is also a historical and cultural archaeological goldmine that we must preserve.” One of the oldest Black-owned business industries in America, The Black Press began more than 191 years ago. On March 16, 1827, the first edition of “Freedom’s Journal” was published, thrusting African-Americans into the bustling publishing business. At the time, Blacks in America weren’t even considered citizens, most were slaves and forbidden to read or write. However, John Russwurm and Reverend Samuel Cornish rose up bravely, declaring that, “We wish to plead our own cause. Too long have others spoken for us.” Dorothy Leavell, publisher of the historic “Chicago Crusader” newspaper and Chairman of the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA), said in an earlier interview that when Russwurm and Cornish established the Black Press by publishing “Freedom’s Journal,” they wanted to provide a voice for Black people. The Black Press became one of the only means of communication between Black people. “Black men and women were vilified in the New York press in the 1800s,” Leavell said. “Some White newspaper publishers sought to defend the dignity, honor and character of Black people, however, Russwurm and Cornish said they, ‘wish to plead our own cause.’” Without the Black Press, genuine stories of African-Americans would go untold, Robert W. Bogle, the publisher of the “The Philadelphia Tribune,” said during a recent NNPA conference. Bogle said that only Black people can tell their stories accurately. “We are as relevant today as we were when the ‘Freedom’s Journal’ said they wanted to tell our story in our words,” said Bogle. NNPA, the Black Press of America, represents more than 215 African-American owned newspapers and media companies around the country with a combined weekly subscribership of more than 22 million. When celebrating the 190th anniversary of the Black Press in 2017, NNPA President and CEO Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr., said that March 16, 2017 is a sacred historical day in the long, multi-dimensional freedom struggle of African people in America and throughout the world, because of the courage of Russwurm and Cornish who dared first to publish the “Freedom’s Journal.” Chavis said that the Black Press in America has been on the frontlines of social change in the United States for [more than 190] years. “Today, more than ever, the Black Press remains the trusted and audacious voice of Black America,” said Chavis. “Today, the NNPA continues this irrepressible tradition of publishing truth to power. Our freedom fighting publishers are all united as we reaffirm the vital importance and relevance of the Black Press now and into the future.” And, as African Americans and others observe Black History Month, Brown said she’d like to see the Black Press continue to capture current events that aren’t borne from reports done by other media outlets. “Tell the story of the Black entrepreneur. There are so many people who are reconnecting with the spirit of our ancestors to get our own bootstraps to pull ourselves up with,” Brown said.
Boscov’s celebrates Black History Month and salutes the men and women whose many accomplishments and contributions have transformed our society. Their impacts on athletics, entertainment, education, journalism, government and industry continue to influence our lives. We look forward to the youth of today continuing to mold our world and its future. Follow us for a 4-part series as we pay tribute to the African American community.
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Calling All Student Journalists! by Lucy Gellman, Editor, The ARTS Paper www.newhavenarts.org
Have you heard? We’re now accepting applications for our Youth Arts Journalism Initiative or YAJI, a paid mentorship program during which students report out articles, and get paid for their work. If you are a New Haven Public School student between grades 9 and 12, apply today at: https://bit.ly/2GeKbSK. In its second year, the mission of the Youth Arts Journalism Initiative (YAJI) is to use The Arts Paper to train 10 high school students from New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) to independently research, report out, draft, and publish four articles about hyperlocal visual, performing, and culinary arts. Let us tell you a little about the program. In April, we begin with a weeklong intensive during NHPS spring break, and follow it with seven weeks of pitch meetings and professional mentorship after school. Students are compensated for their work, in what we hope will be a path to creative economic empowerment. A full list of dates and locations is available on the application page. In its current state, YAJI is partly aligned with the National Core Arts Standards, which have been adopted by the Connecticut State Board of Education. Last year, we observed that creative writing programs were on the chopping block from some
schools across the state of Connecticut, and found it timely to draw a connection between the creative work many students do, and the critical skills it prepares them for as young journalists. We don’t just take students who like writing—alums from our first year played instruments, did theater, and geeked out about math and science. That’s why it’s a teaching program. YAJI zeroes in on critical analysis and engagement, the ability to put artistic ideas in cultural context, and creation of original content. Our interpretation of an “article” is broad: students are allowed to produce comic strips, original music, video, or podcasts as their final capstone projects, if they are accompanied by a written summary. On a day-to-day and week-to-week basis, what we’re doing is always a little different. During our weeklong intensive in April, we will be based out of the main branch of the New Haven Free Public Library (NHFPL), where we will provide students with lunch each day and bus passes for the week. Each day, we will be meeting with professionals in the field, studying everything from contract negotiations to how to handle a portable podcast mic. Mini “field trips” include Connecticut Public Radio studios at Gateway Community College, the Yale University Art Gallery, the Connecticut Center for Arts & Technology (ConnCAT) and Baobab Tree Studios.
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The Yale Divinity School has decided not to purchase a single-family home near its Prospect Hill campus, citing neighbor concerns about taking $20,000-plus off the city’s annual property tax rolls. Yale Community Affairs Associate Karen King delivered that news on Monday night during the regular monthly meeting of the East Rock Community Management Team at mActivity gym on Nicoll Street. She reported that the divinity school has nixed its prior plans to purchase a singlefamily house at 320 Canner St. Part of the reason, she said, was critical feedback received from St. Ronan and Edgehill neighbors. “The divinity school recently informed the Ronan-Edgehill neighborhood association that they would not be purchasing 320 Canner,” she said on Monday. “We appreciate everyone’s feedback on that. It was taken into serious consideration when the divinity school was making its final decision.” The two-story, privately-owned Canner Street house was last assessed by the city at $481,810. At the city’s current 42.98 mill rate, the home provides $20,708 in property taxes to city coffers every year. In January 2018, King and her Yale colleague Stephen Brown told the East Rock management team that the divinity school planned to purchase the Canner Street
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email that the school’s decision not to buy 320 Canner was influenced by neighborhood concern about taxes. “We considered the neighborhood’s concerns very carefully,” he wrote, “and ultimately decided to support their request not to proceed with the purchase of the Canner Street property. We care a great deal about the health of New Haven and realize there are real concerns about property taxes. We are exploring other options for Andover Newton Seminary at Yale Divinity School that would not have the same implications as the purchase of the Canner Street property.” Sarah Drummond, Andover Newtown Seminary’s academic dean, told the Independent via email that the school’s decision not to purchase 320 Canner means the small seminary’s staff and 30 students will have to wait a bit longer before having a single center for their weekly classes, Bible studies, and worship services. They currently are based out of the divinity school’s main Prospect Street campus. “But we are making the most of it,” she wrote. “We are proud descendants of wanderers, and our 213-year-old school has relocated on three previous occasions. Of course, the last one was almost 100 years ago…” King and Krattenmaker both said the school has not yet decided where it will look next to house the Andover seminary.
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A woman casts her eyes skyward, long wrinkles pooling beneath them. Her lips are a tomb, closed and sloping down just so. Large hands cup both sides of her face. The longer we look, the younger she seems to become. And yet, we can’t tell if she’s in the land or the living or the dead, or somewhere in between. The figure is one of over 40 sculptures, sculpture boxes, and mixed media pieces in Susan Clinard’s Places We’ve Been, running at the Whitney Humanities Center now through June 19. Deeply feeling from the first piece to the last, the show demands that viewers look within themselves and find the things that make them human. It’s not an easy ask, except for the artist who makes it so. Spread over the center’s hallway and first-floor exhibition space, Places We’ve Been is inspired by what Clinard calls “points of time from our shared human narrative,” from raging forest fires in California to #MeToo and political protest to Donald Trump’s most recent travel ban. From the mouth of the hallway onward, figures look out from the walls, some in painted and papered boxes, others outlined in black wire, others still in their own tiny and not-sotiny three-dimensional worlds. Each is never far from a pair of large sculpted hands, beckoning for us to come closer. “I am captivated by the subtle nuances in life, the mundane flipped to reveal the poetic,” Clinard writes in a statement accompanying the show. “Places We’ve Been is like a salt shaker sprinkling stories on your tongue of who we are.” She has conjured that shaker with each piece, as if some invisible hand has dropped hundreds of stories— very, very human stories—in front of our faces, and asked us to take a long, hard look. On one side of the hallway, wire, hemp and and acrylic sculptures peek out, hanging from the wall at eye level. In one titled “Gossip,” wire hands and faces protrude from a thick black web, chatter bubbling beyond the frame. There’s gossip within gossip, another two figures towering above, heads pressed together in that wild exchange of a secret. Whole worlds seem like they could be enclosed in there: friends’ latenight, giggly whispers, stirring rumors, hushed heart-to-heart conversations and neighborhood NIMBYism to which New Haven is no stranger. The sheer grace of its form mixes with a sort of gnawing, curious unease, and makes us think twice about playing the game of telephone with our lovers, friends, col-
leagues. In another titled “The Meeting,” two figures face each other at a table, one form pointing accusatorially while the other shrinks back, head tilted down. Clinard has frozen the frame and asked us to enter, watching what will happen next. It’s not hard to: we feel the table materialize beneath our hands, cool and firm while the world around it keeps spinning too fast. We don’t just see one figure lean back but almost feel it, that prickly sense of shame and embarrassment suddenly on our own skin. We have to decide: are we the admonisher, or the admonished? Do we like the position we’re in? One wall away, another story unfolds. Beside her hard and soft, mixed media “Backbone,” Clinard has fashioned a tiered sculptural box titled “Living Memory,” a sort of dollhouse turned on its head. At the base, a handful of soldiers catch our eye, posed around one figure who raises his twig-sized arms and looks straight out at the viewer. To his left and right, soldiers seem to egg each other on: one raises his right arm as if to shout Fire! while another across from him lunges forward with a rifle in both hands. In the back, a soldier seems to feel for an arm that’s no longer there, blown clean off at the shoulder blade. It is the war, brought home and put literally front and center. And suddenly, whatever this conflict, it seems small and senseless. There is power in these tiny worlds, each with enough heart to bend us toward action over inaction, peace over war. In the center’s large room, Clinard has made particularly good use of three windows, each of which twinkled with snow and streetlight during a blustery January opening. At the center window stand the figures who comprise her recent Voices of Women: Front and Center series, 11 figures who are bound— and made captive—by their gender. Across a long ledge, each of them look out, faces weathered and wide-eyed, or tired and mid-question. As each emerges from the wood around them—there is something intensely Camille Claudel-ian about Clinard’s sheer feeling, and she’s embraced it fully— they’re held captive, each body turned into a modern-day pillory from which they cannot escape. In another of the show’s most moving works, Clinard has placed Trump’s travel ban on majority-Muslim countries in historical context, a collection of sculptures forming the 2017 series “History Repeats Itself.” Arranged in a line, they show the people behind closed border policy, state-sanctioned xenophobia, and normalized propaganda: a Muslim mother carrying her
Lucy Gellman Photos. A detail from sculptor Susan Clinard’s Voices of Women: Front and Center (2018). Backbone, mixed media (2017). Beside it is Clinard’s 2018 piece Living Memory. A detail of The Meeting (2016). Gossip (also 2016) is to its left. A detail from Child Soldiers, wood and acrylic (2008).
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infant, Japanese-American woman interred during the second World War, an African man and his daughter who suffered from the Helms Amendment in 1987, a European Jew denied entry to the U.S. in 1941, when 900 Jewish refugees aboard the SS St. Louis were barred from coming into the country. “History will repeat itself, but at what cost?” asks an accompanying label, one of the few in the show. In one sense, the pieces are political: they advocate for better gun control, open borders, fair and safe workplaces and more humanitarian aid without ever having to use the words. In Figures of Lament and Hope: Shootings in Our Public Spaces, we cannot help but get fired up about banning bump stocks and passing stronger gun legislation. So too with a series of Clinard’s delicate and moving boats, nearly propelled forward as they hang from the ceiling in a statement on the immense beauty in migration. And yet, in their wild sense of heart, they are also not political at all. The prevailing feeling isn’t righteous partisan anger but overwhelming emotion, as if you may start to cry and never stop. As if you may fall straight to your knees, as Clinard once did when she was a social worker in Chicago, and felt like her heart might tear in two from the amount of pain in the world around her. There’s nothing polemical or reactionary about them. If you truly allow yourself to feel the work, there doesn’t need to be. Instead, they are a show of both empathy and immense technical proficiency, as if we have stepped from mid-polar vortex New Haven into Paris’ Musée Bourdelle, the quirky atelier of a monumental sculptor. The pieces keep us coming back not just because they are timely, but also because they are good. In each, there is enough to warrant a second, third, or tenth look: rough textures meet obsessively smooth ones, inner compartments reveal delicate sculptures-within-sculptures, freezeframes remind us that there are children halfway around the world learning what the weight of a machine gun feels like in their small hands. Indeed, Clinard has asked us to stare something in the face, and make her a promise in return. That we’ll be better, so someone else’s tomorrow can be too. That choosing shared humanity is one’s natural state, as organic as having a body and making it move through the world. It’s a big ask. And yet, it doesn’t seem hard to swallow surrounded by the pieces, where any political skepticism is supplanted by the catch in your throat. It doesn’t seem hard at all.
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Campbell Retiring; Reyes To Be Interim Chief by PAUL BASS
Anthony Campbell is retiring, thrusting onto Mayor Toni Harp a politically volatile decision to make about who should next lead the police department. Campbell Friday unleashed a parting shot at city lawmakers who he said “don’t respect” the work he and other top cops are doing and are driving them out of the department. Campbell, who oversaw the department at a time when violent crime reached historic lows, has put in papers to retire as of March 29 after 21 years as a city cop. He said he’s taking a position as an inspector with the New Haven state’s attorney’s office, a position for which a number of New Haven cops were vying as an exodus continues at the NHPD. Assistant Chief Otoniel Reyes will step in as interim chief, according to Mayor Toni Harp “It’s a bittersweet feeling. I’m excited to work with [New Haven State’s Attorney] Pat Griffin at the state’s attorney office and bring a better sense of collaboration with the community,” Campbell said in an interview. “On the other hand, I’m leaving behind my police family. They’ve been there when I got hurt and helped support me through recovery. They’ve been there when my family had medical issues. They’ve been there when I climbed the ladder to become chief. It’s hard to leave members of your family behind.” In an interview, Campbell said he’s leaving for the same reason that so many other New Haven cops are leaving: Uncertainty about the future of medical insurance coverage. Even though the chief and assistant chiefs are not members of the police union, they receive the same medical benefits that other cops do under a union contract. The future of those benefits is uncertain. “I’ve made it clear to everyone from the mayor to the Board of Alders that I will never allow the city to take my medical benefits,” Campbell said. In a letter to the rank and file Friday afternoon, Campbell called it “a blessing and an honor to serve with you and serve you. I will be praying for each of you and for this great city as I have for the last 21 years.” Exodus Campbell, the 45-year-old son of a Riker’s Island corrections officer, led the department at a time of transition. Concerns over further givebacks on health care, combined with offers from suburban departments that pay higher wages and better benefits for less stressful work, have led to the mass departures of cops over the past year. The cops have been working without a union contract for three years. The contract is currently in binding arbitration, with the city arguing that it lacks the money to pay cops more and that it needs some benefits givebacks like charging more for retiree families’ health insurance. Forty-nine cops retired or resigned in 2018, according to Campbell. Ten have so far this
Chief Campbell at a police promotion ceremony Thursday night, surrounded by assistant chiefs who are also looking for new jobs.
THOMAS BREEN PHOTO
MAREKSHIA RICKS PHOTO The
new boss, at least for a while: Otoniel Reyes.
year. Thirty-nine more are eligible to leave, and many are looking. In his tenure, Campbell, a calm and personable Yale Divinity School graduate, lowered the temperature and drama at 1 Union Ave. after the contentious tenure of his predecessor, Dean Esserman, who promoted new approaches sometimes sidetracked by explosive personality conflicts. Esserman resigned in September 2016. Campbell stepped in as acting chief, then was sworn in as New Haven’s 17th permanent chief in June 2017. Campbell did have his share of controversies to address, including over falsified background checks for new officers. He was able to depersonalize conflicts and deal
respectfully with all factions of the police department as well as with the community. He also oversaw the introduction of body cameras for most uniformed officers. Mayor Toni Harp called Campbell’s tenure a success. “While he was chief, we had the lowest violent crime in the history of our city. He’s done a great job. We’re sorry to see him go,” Harp said. “It’s been such an honor to work for Mayor Harp,” Campbell said, for his part. Harp noted that Campbell was almost killed earlier in his career when a suspect driving away from cops hit him and thrust him into the air. “Some people would have just retired then with disability. He came
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back to work. He’s been a great chief. We are grateful that he has spent the time with us,” Harp said. Campbell, a professed believer in mercy and second chances, ended up asking a judge to give his almost-killer leniency. Harp said she knew for a while that Campbell felt he needed to leave for financial reasons, and that assistant chiefs have also been applying for jobs with other law-enforcement agencies. She said she met with leaders of the Board of Alders to discuss protecting police executive health benefits from changes. “The feedback was not positive,” Harp said. Chief Campbell described that discussion, which took place two weeks ago, as a turning point for him. He said he told alder leaders at that meeting that if the city doesn’t move the chief and assistant chiefs into an executive management health plan, they will all look to leave. That no one with more than 11 years experience would be left to run the department. That New Haven could end up like Hartford, needing to call in the state police because the local department became dysfunctional. “All my staff has been applying because they do not want to lose their medical,” Campbell said he told the group. “You’re forcing us into a position where we have to protect us and our families.” He quoted Alder Dolores Colon as responding: “If you get an offer, you guys should take it. If we have to bring in the state police and have people with 11 years leading us, so be it.” Another attendee at the meeting confirmed Friday that Colon made that comment. “That says to me that the hard work that I and the men and women have been doing to get crime down to the level, that it is is just not respected,” Campbell said in the interview Friday. “I can’t risk my medical and the things that I have worked hard for for 21 years to be taken by people who made it clear that they don’t respect the work that we do. I don’t want to work for people who do not respect what I do and the sacrifices that I and my family have made. “So when this opportunity opened up, I’m doing exactly what the alder told me to do.” Colon could not be immediately reached for comment for this story. Board of Alders President Tyisha Walker-Myers, who attended the meeting, disagreed with Campbell’s account. She called it “unfair” and “untrue” to blame the alders. “It’s not because of that meeting that happened two weeks ago,” Walker-Myers said in a conversation Friday. “[The issue] was presented. We had a conversation about it. People are still talking about it.” “If Chief Campbell decided to go, he made a decision that there is a better opportunity for him,” Walker-Myers said. Walker-Myers said that everyone left the meeting with the clear understanding that leadership would continue discussing the issue, that it was still “open.” She said she
personally assured the chief afterwards that “we were still discussing it.” “I do wish him well,” Walker-Myers added. “I don’t think it’s because of the meeting.” On Friday, incoming police union President Florencio Cotto Jr. said he hopes that “with Chief Campbell deciding to retire, the city administration realizes that with the slashing of benefits and the uncertainty of binding arbitration, more will follow.” Who’s Next If the last chief transition is any guide, Mayor Harp and the police commission face a politically fraught process of selecting Campbell’s successor, in an election year. The last transition saw public protests among different groups in town supporting different candidates. Among the potential successors are the assistant chiefs, Luiz Casanova, Otoniel Reyes, Racheal Cain, and Herb Johnson. Several of them are known also to have been seeking employment with other departments. She said that unlike last time she may not conduct a national search for a successor: “I do believe that we have some folks inside who could do the job. I’d like to give them a chance before I do a national search. I’ll work with the chief administrative officer and the staff to do interviews. If we’re satisfied that we can have someone from inside who can do the job, that will be our best bet.” Con’t from page 2
Sopa! Goes From Nuts To Soup
with chunks of corn, pumpkin, plantains, potato and yucca. In February, Rey said they will be testing out gumbo in time for Mardi Gras, a recipe that they’re keeping top secret until it’s ready to go out for delivery. From there, the two plan to keep testing recipes. While both added that there’s still economic uncertainty around the project, Pabon-Rey said they’ve gone into it with a “fail forward” mentality. 0“What I do know is we’re here to work. And we’re going to put in the work that is required,” Rey said. “That both of us strongly believe in the idea and the concept, and if we put our heads down and work hard and smartly, that good things will happen.” “I’d rather toil, and work, and be unsure with my brother in the trenches than punching a clock somewhere, trying to make somebody else a bunch of money,” he added. To listen to the entire episode of Kitchen Sync, click on or download the audio below. This piece comes in part through The Arts Paper’s content sharing partnership with WNHH Community Radio and its longstanding news affiliate, the New Haven Independent. Brothers Alejandro Pabon-Rey and Eric Rey are working on their soup startup, Sopa New Haven. Collab Photo.
THE INNER-CITY NEWS - February 06, 2019 - February 13, 2019
Young NHPD Promotes 11
“Future Leaders”
9TH ANNUAL
by THOMAS BREEN
Chris Cameron had a full beard earlier this month as he finished a yearlong undercover investigation into a group of Fair Haven drug dealers. Now clean shaven, he’ll be back in uniform when he hits New Haven streets for his next police assignments as no longer a detective, but a newly-minted sergeant on the local force. Cameron was one of six city police officers to rise to the rank of sergeant on Thursday afternoon during a New Haven Police Department promotion ceremony held in the second-floor atrium of City Hall. The ceremony, which filled the auditorium with dozens of officers, family members, and friends, also saw the promotion of three sergeants to the rank of detective and two officers to the rank of detective. “There is no greater thing in life than to serve,” Police Chief Anthony Campbell said as the crowd before him smiled, clapped, and cheered. And these five officers, he said, have made lives and careers out of doing just that. Thursday’s promotion ceremony comes at a critical juncture for the department. On the one hand, violent crime in New Haven continues to drop across the board, particularly in the annual number of murders and non-fatal shootings. On the other hand, the department continues to hemorrhage officers, especially the more experienced ones, to retirement and better-paying, less-demanding jobs in the suburbs. Last year alone, the department lost 49 officers to retirement and resignation. In the first two weeks of the new year, it lost another seven. So for Campbell, Thursday’s promotion ceremony wasn’t just about recognizing the good work of a select group of deserving officers. It was also about elevating some of the force’s most accomplished and diligent officers to positions of authority, so that they can develop their skills as supervisors and eventually become the next leaders of the department. “Our department is so young,” Campbell said. With this latest round of promotions, he said, “each officer now has easier access to a supervisor.” Assistant Chief Herb Johnson agreed. “We have a young department,” he said before the ceremony began. “We need to promote future leaders.” Cameron, a 36-year-old West Haven native and 11-year veteran of the local force, was one of those younger officers to rise the ranks on Thursday afternoon. Before becoming a sergeant this week, he worked as an plainclothes detective in the criminal intelligence unit. He said he spent the last year with a full beard, working undercover on what would turn out to be a successful bust of a group of Fair Haven Con’t on page 13
Tuesday, February 26 at 12:00PM Omni New Haven Hotel THOMAS BREEN PHOTO Newly minted segeants (in blue) and lieutenants (in white) at Thursday’s promotion ceremony.
ROSANNE CASH Chief Anthony Campbell at Thursday’s ceremony.
Activist, Author, Grammy Award-Winning Singer/Songwriter
Cameron (right) with Campbell on Thursday.
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THE INNER-CITY NEWS - February 06, 2019 - February 13, 2019
National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day is February 7 By The Charleston Chronicle
National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NBHAAD) is February 7. Now in its 18th year, NBHAAD is a day to increase awareness about HIV among blacks/African Americans* and encourage people to get involved in prevention efforts, get tested, and get treatment if they are living with HIV. HIV diagnoses have fallen in recent years among African American women—declining 20% from 2011 to 2015. Diagnoses among young African American gay and bisexual men (aged 13 to 24) are now stable, after years of increases. This good news shows that the nation’s HIV prevention efforts are helping to reduce HIV infections among African Americans. But there is still much work to do. In 2016, African Americans accounted for 44% of HIV diagnoses, despite making up 12% of the U.S. population.** Also, HIV diagnoses are up among African American gay and bisexual men aged 25-34—increasing 30% from 2011 to 2015. We need your help to make more progress in reducing HIV among African Americans. Join us on NBHAAD to promote HIV testing, prevention, and treatment and fight stigma around HIV. What Can African Americans Do? Get educated and get involved. Learn the facts about HIV and share this lifesaving information with others. Get tested. Knowing your HIV status gives you important information to help keep you and your partner healthy. CDC recommends that every American get tested for HIV at least once and those at high risk get tested at least once a year. Unfortunately, too many people live with HIV for years before they know it, which means they aren’t getting the benefits of early treatment. If people living with HIV take HIV medicine as prescribed, they can stay healthy for many years. HIV medicine also helps prevent transmission to others. To find a testing site near you, visit Get Tested, text your ZIP code to KNOWIT (566948), or call 1-800-CDC-INFO. You can also use a home testing kit, available in drugstores or online. More resources on testing are available from CDC’s Act Against AIDS campaign Doing It. Protect yourself and your partner. Today, we have powerful tools to prevent HIV and help people living with HIV stay healthy . If you are living with HIV, start treatment as soon as possible after you get a diagnosis. The most important thing you can do is take HIV medicine as prescribed by your doctor. HIV medicine lowers the amount of virus (viral load) in your body, and taking it every day can make your viral load undetectable. If you stay undetectable, you can stay healthy for many years, and you have effectively no risk of transmitting HIV to an HIV-negative partner through sex. To make sure you stay undetectable, take your medicine as prescribed, and see your provider regularly to get a viral load test.
and not sharing needles or works are the only 100% effective ways to prevent HIV. Learn more about how to protect yourself and your partners and get information tailored to meet your needs from CDC’s HIV Risk Reduction Tool (BETA).
There are many other actions you can take to prevent getting or transmitting HIV: • Use condoms the right way every time you have sex. Learn the right way to use a male condom or a female condom. • If you are HIV-negative but at high risk for HIV, take daily medicine to prevent HIV, called pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). • Talk to your doctor about post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) if you think you have been exposed to HIV in the last 72 hours and are not on PrEP. • Choose less risky sexual behaviors. • Limit your number of sexual partners. • Get tested and treated for other sexually transmitted diseases. • Never share needles or other equipment to inject drugs (works). • Remember, abstinence (not having sex)
What Can CDC Partners Do? Health departments, community-based organizations, and other partners can address stigma and discrimination, extend the reach of their HIV prevention and testing services that focus on African Americans, and link those who are HIV-positive to care. Learn how CDC can help you. * Referred to as African Americans in this feature. ** Does not include African Americans who are Hispanic/Latino. This article originally appeared in the Charleston Chronicle.
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THE INNER-CITY NEWS - February 06, 2019 - February 12 , 2019
“Cookology” Grows ConnCAT’s Culinary Footprint by Lucy Gellman, Editor, The ARTS Paper www.newhavenarts.org
Creamy sauce day wasn’t going the way Chef JoJo had envisioned. At the stove, Dior Hobson had the Alfredo bubbling away, but it seemed too thin for the 15-minute mark. A nest of noodles that the class had cranked out the day before didn’t look quite right either. And at the center of the counter, a debate had exploded on the merits of crushed tomatoes over white sauce. “They’re just better,” insisted 12-year-old Luca Rivera. Those disagreements are customary for Cookology, part of a growing after-school program at the Connecticut Center for Arts and Technology (ConnCAT) in New Haven’s Science Park neighborhood. In addition to classes in digital arts, agriculture, theater and STEAM subjects for fifth through tenth grade, cooking has been added to introduce students to basic culinary techniques that they can take home with them. The class is taught by 19-year-old Jovon “Chef JoJo” Alston, a graduate of ConnCAT’s culinary arts program, with help from current culinary student Troy Smith. Cookology began, in part, because “most programs are exorbitant and can be a financial challenge for families,” said ConnCAT’s Youth and Community Programs Manager Steve Driffin. While ConnCAT was founded as a training center for unemployed and underemployed adults, staff wanted to add options for some of its youngest community members, who found themselves without anything to do after school. That began two years ago, and has since grown with a full summer program and class options each day from 2:30 to 6 p.m. Classes are $25 for a semester, and taking students on a rolling basis. This month, the group swung into the new year with new lessons in pasta, building on a culinary lexicon that has included pizza, omelettes, sausage, burgers, cake, and at least one experiment with rice krispie treats and hot sauce (“don’t ask,” Smith said, cracking a smile). Students meet Thursdays and Fridays, to have a prep day and a cooking day that culminates in a final meal before they head home for the weekend. “I just love being part of this little community,” said Rivera, who attends Edgewood School and said her dream recipe is a calzone packed with bacon and mozzarella, browned just so at the edges. “This is like my little family. It’s a very strange crowd, but that’s what I like about it.” That’s also true for Savannah Brooks, a freshman at James Hillhouse High School who said she finds cooking meditative, and jumps at the opportunity to help her mom in the kitchen. During the week, it doesn’t always seem like there’s time for it—she runs track, sings in a choir, and is learning guitar and piano. In the middle of it all, cooking centers her. If given the time to perfect any recipe she wanted to, she said she’d zero in on “the hard stuff,” learning to make a vanilla-studded crème brûlée from eggy start
Dior Hobson, in Mickey Mouse sweatshirt, with fellow students. He said his dream food, if he could perfect any recipe, would be a vegan vanilla cake.
Luca Rivera: “It’s a strange crowd, but that’s what I like about it.”
Savannah Brooks, with Rivera behind her.
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Jovon “Chef JoJo” Alston, a graduate of ConnCAT’s culinary program, leads the class each week. to caramelized finish with a blow torch. “It’s just that I’m not always focused,” she said. “And food makes everyone happy.” Even when recipes don’t go according to plan. As Hobson checked the sauce for what seemed like the tenth time, Alston gathered the class around the simmering mixture, off white with flecks of black pep-
Chef Jojo and Kaliyah Tucker, an 11-year-old student at Highville Charter School next door to ConnCAT. per. He frowned as he dipped a spoon in and watched the sauce slide off in fat drips. He asked students if they could remember the word for what consistency he wanted to see. “The term I’m looking for is called nappé,” Alston said. “It’s a French word. It means that the sauce is thick enough to stick to the back of the spoon.”
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Alston is no stranger to learning the culinary ropes himself. Born and raised in Fair Haven, his first cooking lessons took place in his Poplar Street kitchen, watching his mother and grandmother scurry lovingly around the stove. As the middle child— Alston smiles instantly when he mentions his younger brother and older sister—he saw cooking as the thing that continually
brought his family together, around the table long enough to catch up on what was going on in their own lives. By high school, Alston was intrigued enough to join Wilbur Cross High School’s culinary competition team, a group that spent its afternoons racing the clock to make and plate three-course meals. He was a member of the team when it took first place at the Connecticut ProStart championships in 2017, and went on to take first prize at the national championships in Charleston, South Carolina later that year. In Cross’ team, Alston found his niche. By the time he got to his senior year, “I wasn’t sure that college was right for me.” Then he took a tour of ConnCAT’s Orchid Cafe and sprawling kitchen, an ocean of stainless steel, cast iron and fastidiously scrubbed floors and countertops. Something clicked instantly. “It’s the feeling of being satisfied that I get to create for people,” he said, taking the Alfredo off the heat and adding a few handfuls of chopped parsley into it. Students crowded around him as he worked, hanging onto every word. After graduating last year, he stayed on as staff at the organization’s Orchid Cafe, dedicating his Thursday and Friday afternoons to teaching. In the coming year, he plans to go on to another culinary program, currently in talks with Gateway Community College about their restaurant and hospitality management program. As he’s gone from student to teacher, he said he’s also learned a great deal about making culinary compromises. As clean up time approached on a recent Friday, a parsley-flecked pasta Alfredo wasn’t cutting it. Calls for his red sauce amplified around the room. After vowing that he wouldn’t cave, he rummaged around and emerged with an industrial-size can of tomatoes, tipping it into a pan with both hands. “I think it all depends on your taste buds and what you’re used to,” Rivera said. “ Chef JoJo’s tomato sauce is fire.” Alston worked furiously, cutting corners as the clock ran up against him. Typically, he said, he starts with fresh garlic, which infuses tomatoes with a kick. But there was no time for that. In the can of crushed tomatoes, powdered garlic, and salt. He handed off the stirring operation to students Kaliyah Tucker and Amaya Blount, who took turns in front of the bubbling red mixture. Blount, 12, is student at Betsy Ross Arts Magnet School who has started a small cupcake business out of her Meriden home. Tomatoes aren’t exactly her ministry, she explained. At home, she’s used to whipping up lemon and strawberry cake mix from scratch each Saturday and Sunday, the only days of the week she doesn’t have to get up at 6 a.m. to make the school bus. But the class at ConnCAT has piqued her interest in other savory recipes that she brings home with her, helping her dad in the kitchen when she has time. “I try to learn everything I can,” she said.
THE INNER-CITY NEWS - February 06, 2019 - February 13, 2019
Do You Need a Will? Sen. Cory Booker Announces 2020 Run for the White House Con’t from page 09
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By Lauren Victoria Burke, NNPA Newswire Contributor
Young NHPD Promotes
11 “Future Leaders”
drug dealers. Thanks to his work and that of his partners on the force, he said, city police were able to seize nine firearms, $75,000 in cash, and a kilo of heroin. “It’s very satisfying,” he said about a year’s worth of undercover work leading to such a big bust. “You live that case.” Now a sergeant, his next assignment will be on second-shift patrol. Martin Feliciano also earned a sergeant’s basge at Thursday’s ceremony. Feliciano, a 36-year-old native of Patterson, N.J., got his first job as a police officer in Santurce, Puerto Rico, when he was just 18 years old. He joined the New Haven force 11 years ago, and most recently worked as a patrol officer in the K-9 unit. He’s going to stay in the K-9 unit, but now as a sergeant. “It’s diverse,” Feliciano said about what attracts him to police work. “I like the action. You never know what you’re going to get” on any given day on the job. The other officers promoted to the rank of sergeant on Thursday were Paul Finch, an 11-year veteran of the force who holds a master’s degree from the University of New Haven and currently serves as a member of the department’s hostage negotiation team; Richard Benson, started his policing career in 2003 as a patrol officer in Fair Haven and Newhallville; Brendan Canning, who joined the NHPD in 2012 and has worked as a patrol officer in the Hill and on the narcotics enforcement unit in Beaver Hills; and Kenneth King, who also joined the NHPD in 2012 and has worked a walking beat in Westville and at the police academy. The department’s three newest lieutenants are Robert Maturo, who joined the force in 2001 and currently heads the department’s records division; Sean Maher, who joined the NHPD in 2007 and is the top cop for the Downtown-Wooster Square district; and Elliot Rosa, who joined the NHPD in 2002 and currently serves as a patrol sergeant. And the two new detectives are Christian Bruckhart, who joined the New Haven force in 2014 after transferring from the Wallingford Police Department and holds a master’s degree from University College London; and Lizmarie Almedina, who joined the local force in 2014 and has worked in the special victims unit and as a school resources officer. “Each of them has demonstrated that they can honor the name that they wear on their patch,” Campbell said on Thursday, “the name of the New Haven Police Department, which has a long hist of integrity, decency, and excellence. But they are also honoring their family name, and elevating that name by taking on more challenges, more responsibility, the ability to teach, to train, to mentor those who come behind them.”
By Christian West-Coleman NASHVILLE, TN — Greetings Nashville! We’ve entered a new year and it’s the perfect time to review our lives and prioritize for the future. While the topic may seem gloomy, it’s a great time to think about getting one’s affairs in order by drafting a Will. Wills are important legal devices for the distribution of assets after death. In my practice, I am often asked “Do I really need a Will?” The answer to that question is often, “Yes!” In order to guarantee that your assets will be distributed to whom you want and in the manner you want, you should strongly consider a Will. So, first, I’ll provide a little information about how to draft a proper Will and how assets are distributed without a Will under Tennessee law. For a legal Will, Tennessee law requires that a person be 18 years of age and of sound mind. The Will must also be signed before two witnesses, who also sign. If you do not have a Will, Tennessee law decides how your assets will be divided. Tennessee law has a default plan for how property is distributed after death called Intestate Succession. If you have no Will, your assets will be automatically split between your spouse and children. If you have no spouse, then it is split between your children. If no children, then to your parents and so forth. Thus, it is important to draft a Will so that your intentions can be carried out. For instance, you may desire to leave money to a particular relative for a particular purpose. Or you may have a business and need to specify how it should be managed in the future. Or you simply favor one child over the other (sad, but it happens). You can only do these things with a Will. Christian West-Coleman is an associate attorney with McCullough Law, PLLC. She is spear-heading the firm’s Nashville Office, which is located at Washington Square, 222 2nd Ave. N., Ste. 326, Nashville, TN 37201. The firm can be reached at 615-730-0073. This article originally appeared in The Tennessee Tribune. Atty. Christian WestColeman (Photo by tntribune.com)
Though much of the 2020 Election attention this week went to former Starbucks Coffee executive Howard Schultz, the end of the week held a surprise entry: Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey. It was widely expected that Sen. Booker would run, the former mayor of Newark with a high-flying social media presence and an affable personality has been rumored to be a contender for the White House for years. Booker, 49, is likely to project an upbeat positive tone at a time when President Donald Trump is winning comparisons to some of the worst presidents in U.S. history. If either Senators Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) or Booker win the White House, they would become the second African American president in history, after Barack Obama. Booker announced his candidacy via a video called “Rise.” The video focuses on many of the issues he confronted as Mayor of Newark such as housing and poverty. The video’s narrative features the New Jersey Senator affirming that he still lives in the inner-city Newark. “I still live there today, and I’m the only senator who goes home to a low-income, inner city community. The first community that took a chance on me,” Booker says in the announcement video. “I believe that we can build a country where no one is forgotten, no one is left behind, where parents can put food on the table. Where there are good paying jobs with good benefits in every neighborhood. Where our criminal justice system keeps us safe, instead of shuffling more children into cages and coffins. Where we see the faces of our leaders on television and feel pride,
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not shame,” Booker continues. Sen. Booker will join Sen. Harris, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI), former Housing Secretary Julian Castro (D-Texas) and South Bend Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg, have all announced that they will run for the White House in 2020. Sen. Booker has already made stops in key
primary states over the last few months. He now plans to travel more extensively as he joins the most diverse presidential field in American history. Lauren Victoria Burke is an independent journalist and writer for NNPA as well as a political analyst and strategist as Principal of Win Digital Media LLC. She may be contacted at LBurke007@gmail.com and on twitter at @LVBurke
THE INNER-CITY NEWS - February 06, 2019 - February 12 , 2019
Black Publishers Push for More Heart Health Awareness By Lauren Poteat NNPA Washington Correspondent
On a mission to combat issues of heart failure, disproportionately endured by Black Americans yearly, the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA), the largest Black-media resource in the Unites States, took the lead on a very important conversation surrounding heart health and its ongoing negative impacts on people of color. During a high-energy panel discussion, held on Jan. 24th as part of the organization’s Mid-Winter Conference, medical professionals, journalists, their fellow panelists and session attendees vehemently pushed for people of color to actively “get ahead” of their heart health. Bishop Elton Amos, M.D., key panelist and founder of Church of God In Christ Global Health and Wellness, an organization devoted to promoting healthy lifestyles among minorities, championed the conversation on
heart health and its effects on Black Americans. “We have to get ahead of our health,” Bishop Amos said. “Heart disease is still the number one killer for all Americans, with even higher risks for people of color. We have to start utilizing our doctors more, getting tested regularly and working better on balancing and maintaining healthy lifestyles.” Often deemed the “unholy trinity,” according to the American Heart Association, three dangerous health factors including high blood pressure, obesity and diabetes, all play vital roles in increasing ones chances at succumbing to heart disease and strokes. The report by the American Heart Association went on to state that in relation to high blood pressure (also known as “hypertension”), Black Americans have the highest rates of this disease around the world and are more likely to have cases of diabetes in America, when compared to their White counterparts.
In the United States, Black Americans are also disproportionately affected by obesity. Among non-Hispanic Black Americans, age 20 and older, 63 percent of men and 77 percent of women are reportedly overweight or obese. “There are ways that we can lower our risks,” Bishop Amos continued. “We don’t have to live unhealthy lifestyles and organizations like ‘Wellness for Your Soul,’ really help to put people on track. I strongly encourage everyone to learn more about the state of their heart health and utilize doctors and programs available to assist in improving your health.” To combat heart failure and high blood pressure, obesity and diabetes, the American Heart Association recommends scheduling regular doctor appointments, checking your blood pressure regularly, eating healthier diets and increasing consistent exercise. For more information on achieving better heart heath, visit: heart.org
Pictured (from left to right): W. Larry Williams, CEO, Anchor Ad Group; Tanisha Blake, Associate Brand Manager, Payer Marketing, Eli Lilly and Company; Nate Miles, VP, Strategic Initiatives, State Government Affairs, Eli Lilly Company; Dorothy R. Leavell, Publisher of the Chicago Crusader and NNPA Chairman; Bishop Elton Amos, M.D., Faith Based Initiative Partnerships, Eli Lilly and Company Photo Credit: Mark Mahoney
Black Student Beaten and Accused of Stealing His Own Car by Police Wins $1.25 Million Settlement
Evanston, IL — Lawrence Crosby, an engineering graduate student who was violently arrested and beaten by police and falsely accused of stealing a car he actually owns, recently won a $1.25 million settlement from his lawsuit against the Evanston Police Department. On October 2015, Crosby, who was then 25-years old and pursuing his Ph.D. studies at Northwestern University, was pulled over by police. When he exited his car with his hands up, police took him to the ground and allegedly struck him 11 times. After brutally beating Crosby, police of-
Crosby was accused of charges including resisting arrest. Following the incident, Evanston Police Department reportedly even posted a video defending the officer conduct, which is now deleted. Since being found not guilty, Crosby filed a civil suit against the city and officers. “The settlement was for $1.25 million, and I consider that a fair and just compensation for the experience that I went through,” Crosby said. Despite the settlement, no officers were disciplined and offered an apology to Crosby. He just now hopes to work with law enforce-
ficers discovered that the car in question was actually owned by Crosby. Apparently, someone mistakenly thought Crosby was breaking into the car and called 911. Most recently, now-28-year old Crosby has spoken out for the first time since the incident about its lasting effects. “It’s not easy for me to have to be put back into that situation and have to relieve it again. At that moment in time, I did not know if I would make it to the end of the night,” Crosby told Fox 13. “I’ve had to deal with post-traumatic stress and having fear of the police, honestly”
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ment, academics, and other organizations to discuss the impact of implicit bias and stereotypes in our lives and how to end it. “We’re not looking for apologies (now). We’re looking for change,” Crosby’s lawyer, Steven Yonover, said. Meanwhile, there has been no admission of liability in the settlement yet, according to an attorney for the City of Evanston. It is pending approval by the city council and is scheduled for January 28th.
THE INNER-CITY NEWS - February 06, 2019 - February 13, 2019
Louisville airport renamed in honor of Muhammad Ali City officials expect the name change will attract tourists to the city By Frederick H. Lowe BlackmansStreet.Today Louisville, Kentucky’s International Airport has been renamed the Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport in honor of Muhammad Ali, a Louisville native, three-time heavyweight boxing champ and a world-renown figure who caused people to stop in their tracks, reach out to touch him, or just stand happily in his glow. The list of his fans included young black men who wanted to emulate his boxing style, older black men who took pride in his unabashed confidence, boasting “I am the Greatest,” and anti-Vietnam War activists who respected his courageous refusal to be inducted into military and fight in a war he abhorred and deemed racist. Ali could even call Leonid Brezhnev, president of the Soviet Union, a fan. A smiling Brezhnev met with Ali for 35 minutes in 1978 at the Kremlin in Moscow. I never saw my dad, Mitchell Lowe, smile so much as when Brezhnev met Ali. It was as though he and other black men had met one of the most-powerful men in the world. Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer on Thursday announced Louisville Regional Airport Authority voted on Wednesday to rename the airport in honor of Muhammad Ali who born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. in Louisville on January 17, 1942. Today would have been his 76th birthday. A formal renaming is scheduled for the week of June 3rd at the “I am Ali” festival, which will be held at the Muhammad Ali Center, Jean Porter, communications director for Mayor Fischer, told BlackmansStreet.Today. That’s when signs should be installed throughout the airport and on roads leading to the airport. More than 3.2 million passengers and 4.7 million pounds of cargo passed through the airport in 2014. The airport has three runways and sits on 1,500 acres. The airport is home to Worldport, the worldwide hub of United Parcel Service or UPS.. The Kentucky Air National Guard’s 123 Airlift Wing operates C-130 transport aircraft from the co-located Louisville Air National Guard Base. During the Kentucky Derby’s derby week,
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Richard Overton, the oldest World War 2 veteran, dies at 112 years old
Richard Arvin Overton’s diet and smoking habits would have had health experts believing he wasn’t long for this world. Mr. Overton smoked cigars daily, a habit he picked up as a teenager while growing up in St. Mary’s in Bastrop County, Texas. He was born there on May 11, 1906, to Gentry Overton, Sr., and Elizabeth Franklin Overton Waters. He spiked his coffee with whiskey and sometimes he drank whiskey without it. He also ate ice cream every day. “I eat ice cream every night because it makes me happy,” he said. He obviously had good genes, because Overton, who lived in Austin, Texas, died December 27 in a rehabilitation center. He was 112 years and 230 days old, making him the country’s oldest World War 2 veteran, and the third oldest man in the world. He had been hospitalized in St. David’s Medical Center in his hometown for more than a week before he died of pneumonia in the rehab center. Mr. Overton joined the Army on September 3, 1940, at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, more than a year before the Japanese
launched a surprise attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941, which President Franklin Roosevelt described as a “day that will live in infamy.” As a member of the1887th Engineer Aviation Battalion for colored or Negro troops, Mr. Overton was in Pearl Harbor when ships were exploding and burning from the bombing. A book has been written about the 1887th Engineer Aviation Battalion, but it is no longer in print. He served in Guam, Palau, Iwo Jima and Hawaii. Mr. Overton said he ducked bullets as he dragged bodies from the battle grounds. “It was the grace of God I survived,” he said. He won eight awards, including the Expert Rifle Marksmanship Badge before he was honorably discharged in 1945 as Technician Fifth Grade. After his discharge, he worked at a furniture store. Later, he went to work in the state treasurer’s office when future Texas Governor Ann Richards ran the office. After he retired from state government, Mr. Overton sat on the front porch of the home that he built and lived in for 72 years.
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He always wore his blue World II Veterans baseball cap. That’s not all he did. At 107, he still drove. The house is located on Richard Overton Avenue, which was named in his honor on his 111th birthday. He would talk and wave to neighbors as they walked by. In 2013, President Barack Obama honored Overton at the White House. President Obama said Americans did not appreciated what Overton had done. He returned to a segregated country. The City of Austin used zoning laws o force blacks to live in
Richard Overton as a young ma certain neighborhoods. When a neighborhood was mostly black, Austin officials refused to provide basic services. Many roads in black neighborhoods weren’t paved, according to the book “The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America,” by Richard Rothstein. In 2016, a documentary film was made about his life. He was married twice but he did not have any children. A funeral service will be celebrated on January 12 at Shoreline Church in Austin.
Kofi Annan, United Nations Secretary General
Kofi Annan, the first black African to serve as United Nations Secretary General, died August 18 at hospital in Bern, Switzerland, following a brief undisclosed illness, the Kofi Annan Foundation reported. Mr. Annan, who was 80, was surrounded by his wife, Nane, and their children, Ama, Kojo and Nina, at the time of his death. He lived in Geneva, Switzerland. Antonio Guterres, UN Secretary General, hailed Annan as “a guiding force for good” and a “proud son of Africa who became a global champion for peace and humanity.” Annan served as UN Secretary General for two five-year terms beginning in January 1997, after rising through the organization’s ranks.
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He was born in Kamasi, Ghana, on April 8, 1938. He joined the UN system in 1962 as an administrative and budget officer with the World Health Organization in Geneva. He was promoted to senior-level posts in budget, finance and peacekeeping. Mr. Annan held UN posts in Ethiopia, Egypt, the former Yugoslavia and at UN headquarters in New York. In 1997, he was appointed UN Secretary General. His first major initiative was a plan for UN reform, which was presented by the member states in July 1997. In that post, his office advocated for human rights, the rule of law, development and Africa. He also galvanized global action to fight HIV/AIDS and terrorism.
For his work, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2001. In his 2006 farewell statement to the UN General Assembly, Annan said his job was difficult and challenging yet thrilling and rewarding at times. Annan later worked as UN Special Envoy for Syria in the wake of the conflict that began in March 2011. He also chaired an Advisory Commission in Myanmar in 2016 to improve the welfare of all people in Rakhine state, home of the Rohingya community. In Ghana, he established an international peacekeeping training center in 2004. The center is named in his honor.
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INNER-CITY July 2016 -- August THE INNER-CITY NEWS NEWS - February 0627, , 2019 February 2019 02,13, 2016
Elm City Communities NOTICE
Request for Proposals Youth Development Program Services- West Rock
VALENTINA MACRI RENTAL HOUSING PRE- APPLICATIONS AVAILABLE Housing Authority City of New Haven d/b/a Elm city Communities is currently seeking HOME INC, on behalf of Columbus House and the Haven A Housing Authority, Proposals for Youth Development Program Services at New WestRock. complete copy of theisrequirement may be obtainedforfrom Elm City’s Vendor Collaboration Portal https:// accepting pre-applications studio and one-bedroom apartments at this develnewhavenhousing.cobblestonesystems.com/gateway Wednesday, February opment located at 108 Frank Street, New Haven.beginning Maximumon income limitations ap6, 2019 at 3:00 PM ply. Pre-applications will be available from 9AM TO 5PM beginning Monday Ju;y
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HELP WANTED: Large guardrail company for Laborer/Driver withupon validreCT been received at the CT offices of HOME INC.looking Applications will be mailied CDL Class licenseHOME and able get203-562-4663 a medical card. Mustthose be able to pass a drug testpreand quest byAcalling INCto at during hours. Completed physical. Compensation based on experience. Email resume to dmastracchio@atlasoutapplications must be returned to HOME INC’s offices at 171 Orange Street, Third door.com AA/EOE M-F
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en las CT. oficinas de HOME INC. Lasispre-solicitudes enviadas por stock correoyard. a petición Large Fence Company looking for an serán individual for our Ware-
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SEYMOUR HOUSING AUTHORITY Sealed bids are invited by the Housing Authority of the Town of Seymour until 3:00 pm on Tuesday, August 2, 2016 at its office at 28 Smith Street, Elm City Communities Seymour, CT 06483 for Concrete Sidewalk Repairs and Replacement at the Request Proposals Smithfield Gardens Assisted Livingfor Facility, 26 Smith Street Seymour.
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The Housing Authority the City of Wednesday, New Haven July d/b/a Elm City CommuniStreet Seymour, CT at of 10:00 am, on 20, 2016. ties is currently seeking Proposals for Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) Executive Management. A complete copy of the requirement may be obtained from Bidding are availablePortal https://newhavenhousing.cobblestonefrom the Seymour Housing Authority OfElm City’sdocuments Vendor Collaboration fice, 28 Smith Street, Seymour,on Monday, February CT 06483 (203) 888-4579. systems.com/gateway beginning 4, 2019 at 3:00PM.
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– Telecommunications company looking for low voltage cable installer with a C or T license, specializing in fusion/splicing, testing and termination. Also must be familiar with all aspects of indoor & outdoor cable installation, aerial bucket work, pole work, messenger, lashing, manhole & underground installation. Good salary with full benefits. Fax resume to 860-282-0424 or mail to Fibre Optic Plus, LLC 585 Nutmeg Road North, South Windsor, CT 06074 Attn: Don Ballsieper Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer
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3-5 years exp. and Bachelor’s Degree, 40-Hr. Hazwoper Training Req. Forward resumes to RED Technologies, LLC,
Project Engineer job opening available for a growing / established Heavy Highway Construction Contractor based out of Avon, CT. Tasks include takeoffs, CAD drafting, computations, surveying, office engineering, submittals, other miscellaneous engineering tasks. Competitive compensation package based on experience. Many opportunities for growth for the right individual. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Email resume to jobs@rothacontracting.com
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seeks: Construction Equipment Mechanic preferably experienced in Reclaiming and Road Milling Equipment. We offer factory training on equipment we operate. Location: Bloomfield CT We offer excellent hourly rate & excellent benefits Contact: Dan Peterson Phone: 860- 243-2300 email: dpeterson@garrityasphalt.com Women & Minority Applicants are encouraged to apply Affirmative Action/ Equal Opportunity Employer
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Listing: Transportation Assistant - Immediate Opening
Invitation to Bid:a full time High Volume petroleum oil company is seeking 2nd Notice Transportation Assistant. Work time begins at 6:00AM. Previous petroleum oil, retail or commercial dispatching experience a plus. MUST possess excellent attention to detail, ability Saybrook, to manage multiple projects, excelOld proficiency andCTgood computer skills required. Send resume(4to: Human Resource Buildings, 17 Units) Dept., PO Box 388, Guilford, CT 06437.
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THE INNER-CITY NEWS - February 06, 2019 - February 12 , 2019
From Silent Film to Blaxploitation:
The Film Detective Celebrates Black History Month with 70 Years of African-American Cinema History
Rockport, MA — The Film Detective, a classic film and television company that restores and distributes vintage films for today’s cord cutters, announces a lineup of prominent African-American films in honor of Black History Month. Beginning February 1st, the Featured category on the company’s app will refresh daily, providing a range of films from the 1920’s to the 1990’s to highlight the achievements in African-American cinema during the last century. Dominating the lineup are four Oscar Micheaux films including Within Our Gates, Micheaux’s 1920 film, considered to be the earliest known surviving film directed by someone of African-American decent. Other Micheaux titles are Murder in Harlem (1935), Lying Lips (1939) starring Edna Mae Harris, and God’s Stepchildren (1938), at once praised as a masterpiece and denounced as racially stereotypical. For those who want to learn more about the ground-breaking director, The Film Detective has produced an original tribute available on the app that provides a short history of Micheaux’s career. Other notables on the list include the 1981 television movie, Death of a Prophet, starring Morgan Freeman as the black rights activist Malcolm X, and Sounder (1972), the coming-of-age tale about a sharecropper’s son who has the chance to liberate himself from the life of a poor farmer through education. Based on the young adult novel by William H. Armstrong, the movie rings home the theme of never giving up hope, symbolized by the boy’s dog, Sounder. The four-time Oscar nominated film stars Paul Winfield and Cicely Tyson, who is set to make history this month as the first African-American woman to receive the Honorary Award at the 91st Academy Awards on February 24. Sure to delight horror fans who are still nostalgic over its 50th anniversary last year, Night of the Living Dead (1968) will stream on the second, in honor of lead actor Duane Jones’ birthday. The film is noteworthy for casting the first African-American lead in the horror genre. The Film Detective will also feature the incomparable Sidney Poitier’s 1957 film, The Mark of the Hawk, a story about the struggle between the people of a colonial African country and British settlers. The film is set to stream on February 20, in honor of the two-time Oscar-winning actor’s 92nd birthday. History maker Joe Bullet (1973) – the controversial South African action movie, and the first in the nation to include an allblack cast – also makes the list. The film was banned and not seen for decades in its home country after just two screenings. The film portrays the main character Joe Bullet, played by Ken Gampu (The Gods Must Be Crazy), as an action hero; a portrayal which heavily conflicted with the views of the ruling apartheid government. For those interested in owning the title, The Film Detective is currently the exclusive home video distributor of Joe Bullet in North America. Female-centric 1974 films TNT Jackson and Get Christie Love! will be added to the app to pack an extra punch. Starring Jean-
Cicely Tyson in Sounder (1972)
nie Bell, TNT Jackson sees a high-action karate expert search for her brother through the gritty streets of Hong Kong. The television movie Get Christie Love!, starring Teresa Graves, which also spawned a television series (1974-1975), is noted for making Graves the first African-American actress to lead an hour-long drama series. Graves held that honor until recently, when,
in 2012, Kerry Washington was cast as the lead in the hit series Scandal (2012–2018). ABC announced last year that it is rebooting Get Christie Love and will star Kylie Bunbury. The series will be backed by Uni TV, which is the first major U.S. television studio headed by a Black female president. New to The Film Detective from its recent partnership with Independent International
Pictures is Blaxploitation title, Tamango, a 1958 Franco-Italian film about a sea captain helming a ship full of illegal slaves after the abolition of slavery in the 19th century. France banned the film in its West African colonies “for fear it would cause dissent among the natives.” The film was not released widely in the United States because it broke the Hays Code with interracial love scenes between Dorothy Dandridge and Curd Jürgens. Recent acquisitions from VCI Entertainment and Kit Parker libraries see the addition of other Blaxploitation films new to the TFD app including, Dr. Black, Mr. Hyde (1976), Black Shampoo (1976), and The Bad Bunch (1973). For audiences looking to revisit two of the most prominent African-American influencers of the time can catch biopics: The Jackie Robinson Story (1950), starring the first African-American major league baseball player himself, and The Joe Louis Story (1953), which portrays the life of one of the greatest heavyweight boxers of all time. One of the more intriguing titles on the list is the 1983 documentary Amos ‘n’ Andy: Anatomy of a Controversy. Narrated by actor George Kirby, the documentary takes a deeper look into the history of “The Amos ‘n’ Andy Show,” originally a popular radio series of the 1920’s and 1930’s, where two white men portray black characters. The Amos ‘n’ Andy Show (1951-1953) was the first television series to feature black actors playing main roles, however due to protests that began with the radio series, the TV show was eventually pulled from any future television syndication. The Film Detective is also proud to add Crackdown: Big City Blues (1990) to its lineup, recently restored and released on DVD and Blu-Ray. Directed by the late Paul De Silva and produced by the Prince Henry Entertainment Group, the film illustrates the anguish, struggle, and brutality of a local community in the height of the crack epidemic in New York City – a central issue during the 1990’s. Crackdown features Stu ‘Large’ Riley – who starred in Shaft (2000) alongside Samuel L. Jackson – and Rhonda Ross Kendrick, the daughter
of actress/singer Diana Ross, best known for the soap opera Another World (19971999) and mini-series The Temptations (1998). Black History Month Lineup: Feb. 1: The Jackie Robinson Story (1950) Feb. 2: Night of the Living Dead (1968) Feb. 3: The Emperor Jones (1933) Feb. 4: Within Our Gates (1920) Feb. 5: Black Shampoo (1976) Feb. 6: Joe Bullet (1973) Feb. 7: The Bad Bunch (1973) Feb. 8: The Joe Louis Story (1953) Feb. 9: Miracle in Harlem (1948) Feb. 10: Beware (1946) Feb. 11: Murder in Harlem (1935) Feb. 12: Dr. Black, Mr. Hyde (1976) Feb. 13: The Blood of Jesus (1941) Feb. 14: Get Christie Love! (1974) Feb. 15: Amos ‘n’ Andy: Anatomy of a Controversy (1983) Feb. 16: Hi De Ho (1947) Feb. 17: Sepia Cinderella (1947) Feb. 18: God’s Stepchildren (1938) Feb. 19: The Black Godfather (1974) Feb. 20: The Mark of the Hawk (1957) Feb. 21: Crackdown Big City Blues (1990) Feb. 22: Death of a Prophet (1981) Feb. 23: TNT Jackson (1974) Feb. 24: Sounder (1972) Feb. 25: Lying Lips (1939) Feb. 26: Black Fist (1974) Feb. 27: Tamango (1958) Feb. 28: Rock n Roll Revue (1955) About The Film Detective: The Film Detective is a leading distributor of restored classic programming, including feature films, television, foreign imports and documentaries. Since launching in 2014, the company has distributed its extensive library of 3000+ hours on DVD and Blu-ray and through such leading digital and television broadcast and streaming platforms as Turner Classic Movies, NBC, EPIX, Pluto TV, Amazon, MeTV, PBS and more. In 2016, The Film Detective launched its classic movie app, and in June of 2018, the company launched a 24/7 linear channel on Sling TV. Visit us online at www.TheFilmDetective.com
Chicago Woman Generously Rented Hotel Rooms for the Homeless During Dangerously Cold Weather
Chicago, IL — When temperatures were dangerously cold in Chicago, Candice Payne, a 34-year old real estate broker, decided to save the lives of some of the homeless people in the area. She started renting hotel rooms to keep them warm, and motivated others to help as well. Last week, Candice made a spur-of-themoment decision to rent 30 hotel rooms at $70 each at the Amber Inn Hotel using her own credit card when she learned that at least 70 people without homes didn’t have any source of heat during the historic subzero temperatures in Chicago. Apparently, those living in “tent city” were forced to evacuate due to a fire caused by a propane tank explosion. The Chicago Fire Department subsequently warned people
from using propane tanks as it posed fire threats. Candice posted about the situation on social media to ask for help in transporting them to the hotel. Later on, there were cars and vans with volunteer drivers. Donations of money from several good Samaritans kept on coming as well. They used it to book more rooms to accommodate more people. Donations of food, clothes, winter gears, and more also flooded in. “Maybe they didn’t know how to or where to start to help, so I’m glad that I was able to be that vehicle,” she told CBS News. With Candice and other volunteers’ help, they were able to book a total of 60 rooms to cover three nights for approximately 100
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people. She told CNN she was glad to be able to help in such a way. She said, “What inspired me was my current blessings, so I
was just trying to give back.” She has also launched a GoFundMe page to help fund her efforts. So far, the page has already raised more than $14,000.
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