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Dine With Great Minds

INNER-CITY NEWS February 15, 2016 - February 21, 2016

Malloy Proposes Bill To Outsource Some DMV Services

The Case of the Scottsboro Boys

State To Take The Lead On

“Historic” Pact

Changing School School Start Start Times Times Changing 1

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Tell ‘Em I Said It The Value of Black History Month By Samuel T. Ross-Le Several questions, conspiratorial and otherwise, are asked about Black History Month. There is the: Why do we have the shortest month of the year? There is the: Why is Black History relegated to one month a year? And the ubiquitous: Why isn’t there a White History Month? Negro History Week, established by Dr. Carter G. Woodson and The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History in 1926 was first established for the purpose coordinating the teaching and focus of Negro history in the public schools. The week in February chosen was so, reportedly, because it was the week in which the Birthdays of both Abraham Lincoln, the socalled Great Emancipator, and Fredrick Douglass, the Great Abolitionist, fell. It was not until some 47 years later in 1976 when the week increased into a month and we have what we have today. The teaching and recognition of Black History was never intended to be relegated to just one month of the year in February, no more than the concept and the celebration of romantic love is intended to be relegated to one day of the year in February with the recognition of Valentines Day on February 14th. The initial celebration began to highlight that which had gone unrecognized. But, the celebration was not established to limit the unrecognized history of Black people to one small space on the calendar and then to forget about it for the rest of the year.

We don’t do such a thing with Heart Disease, whose awareness is also this month, when people are suffering and dying from heart disease everyday. We highlight the existence of heart disease in February for the purpose of making people aware of the disease so that that awareness can arrest our attention and move us into action. When our attention is arrested and our focus has been fixed on the bright, brilliant, blessed and, yes, sometimes brutal history of Black people in America and beyond, we are then, hopefully, motivated to explore and to learn from the history of our people, so that we know where and what we came from and how and if we should move in making the world a better place for us and for others. When I was growing up in Florida, my mother had in our house what is called a “What Not” shelf. The shelf or shelves

held a variegated collection of little trinkets and figurines that served no purpose other than to sit on the shelf and look pretty. Every now and then, my mother would take them down and dust them off, only to return them to the shelf when she was done. This task fell to my siblings and me all too often, but our main job, as we saw it, was not dusting. It was being as careful as we could not to break any of Momma’s What Nots, as we removed the individual and disparate pieces and placed them back on shelves. Unfortunately, many of us treat Black History like that. The history is the “What Nots”, and the February is the shelf upon which it carefully. Our schools, churches, civic minded institutions and organizations, and the like, pull the “What Nots” down from the shelf once a year, dust it off, as we highlight the lives and accomplishments of disparate people and then place

them back on the shelf to be admired until the next dusting. I, frankly, think that Dr. Woodson had more in mind than that when he conceived of Negro History Week. In a 1998 article for the American Historical Association, Peter N. Stearns gave several well founded reasons for studying history. He wrote: History Helps Us Understand People and Societies. History Contributes to Moral Understanding. History Provides Identity. And Studying History Is Essential for Good Citizenship. No doubt, Dr. Woodson would have agreed with each of these reasons. For me the highest value in the study of history is to be found in its power to motivate and possibly to transform us. I believe that we can do accomplish great things while we are here on Con’t on page 10

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New Haven Natives Carla Morrison and Dicky Freeman celebrate Black History Month in Atlanta with Civil Rights Leader Rev. Jesse Jackson. (L-R:) Reverend Jesse Jackson, Carla Morrison of Sisters of Today and Tomorrow and Attorney “Dicky” Freeman, during Rainbow Push Atlanta monthly Bureau Trade meeting. Rainbow Push Wall Street Project Economic Summit will take place in New York City, February 16-18th. For more information, log onto: Carla Morrison (404) 319-2130

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Educators and officials are nearly unanimous in believing that teenage children would be better students if high school classes started later in the morning. Study after study shows that students, especially as they get older, need more sleep. Those studies are what educators constantly refer to when they tackle the issue of trying to change school start times. But that’s where the hard part starts. “This is the single most complicated issue that I have been involved with in my time on the Board of Education,’’ said Guilford School Board Chairman William Bloss, “and I’ve been on it since 1999.’’ “Every time we answer one question, two others are raised,’’ said Bloss. The town of Guilford has been studying changing school start times for more than a year. But the school board recently adopted the 2016-17 school budget without changing school schedules. “We recognize that changing

start times will be a positive for our students,’’ Guilford School Superintendent Paul Freeman said. “We will continue to work towards that change of times in the future, but a variety of budget pressures and other concerns are keeping us implementing any significant change for the 2016-17 school year.’’ One of the biggest advocates in Guilford for later school start

times was Dr. Craig Canapari, a parent and director of the Yale Pediatric Sleep Center. In his practice, he treats teens whose biggest problem is a lack of sleep, Canapari said, which can lead to anxiety, depression, poor impulse control, emotional problems and decreased motivation. Surveys show that less than 10 percent of high school students get the 9-10 recommended

hours of sleep, Canapari said, and sleep deprivation increases the likelihood of car accidents, the biggest cause of death for teens. Twelve years ago, the town of Wilton switched start times at its middle and high schools from 7:35 a.m. to 8:15 a.m. for students in grades 6 to 12. Elementary school students in Wilton switched to the earliest time start slot – 7:35 a.m. Besides Guilford, school officials in Bridgeport, Cheshire, Greenwich, Ridgefield, Westport and West Hartford, among others, have held various level of discussion on the issue. Bloss said: “If we were writing on a clean slate no one would start high school before 8 a.m.; the science is very clear that due to real differences in how teenagers sleep, many have real trouble getting adequate sleep if they have to wake up as early as they need to now. “But we are not writing on a clean slate: changing start times would have a ripple effect unlike almost any other change that we could make,’’ Bloss continued. “Particularly if one town changes and its neighbors don’t, athletics might be affected and

might require some children being pulled out of their last class in order to get to away games on time.” Bloss said other impacts might after school employment for high school students, child care, other after-school activities such as arts or music, and participation in programs at magnet schools. And that doesn’t even get into the cost of changing school bus contracts, both Bloss and Freeman added. Local school officials believe changing school start times might be easier accomplished if the state took the lead. But Rep. Andrew Fleischmann, co-chairman of the legislature’s Education Committee, said the state has struggled with the same complex issues local officials have in looking at the issue. “The issue of changing school start times has been around for years,’’ Fleischmann, a Democrat from West Hartford, said. “It would certainly benefit the entire state of Connecticut if we could simply flip all the high school starting times to later times and all the elementary school starting times to early times.” But it isn’t that easy. “The logistics are incredibly complex,’’ Fleischmann said. “And then you have the issue of the bus contracts. There are just so many impacted parties.’’ But Fleischmann said education officials aren’t ready to throw in the towel “on what obviously is the right thing to do.’’ Fleischmann said having school districts in a particular region of the state look at the issue at the same time is a course of action that could be pursued. “You have to start somewhere,’’ he said. “Taking this region by region is one approach to push the agenda forward.’’

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School Officials Want The State To Take The Lead On Changing School Start Times

Sargent Workers OK “Historic” Pact by ALLAN APPEL New Haven Independent

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In an era of union givebacks and losses, Sargent/Assa Abloy workers Monday voted 187 to 5 to approve a three-year contract that avoids a strike and keeps health benefits intact. “Awesome.” “A slam dunk.” “Historic.” Those were the terms that members of United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America Local 243 (UE) used at a 6 a.m. meeting at the Annex Club on Woodward Avenue called to ratify the contract. New and previous union chiefs Morrison and Pompano confer. The current contract expires next month. New 3/“ UE local president Wayne Morrison informed members present for the vote that medical “costs did not go up one brown penny,” Morrison reported. The local’s membership numbers 265; only those present at Monday’s meeting could vote. Sargent/Assa Abloy officials did not respond to a request for comment. The Sargent Drivebased company makes keys, locks, tools, and scales for people around the world. The new contract offers workers, who currently average “over” $20 an hour, a $1,500 lump sum payment the first year, a 3 percent raise in year two, then a 2.5 percent raise in year three, union officials said. Workers held onto their current full medical, dental and prescription benefits, and received a modest pension boost. Keeping the current medical benefits without increasing costs to workers was by far the most important feature in the new contract, according to Sharon Riendeau and her friend

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medical is awesome,” declared worker Theresa Williams.

Gina King who have been with the company for 35 and 27 years respectively. “We’re ecstatic our medical is unchanged,” said King, who works in the bored locks department. “And we’re not bored,” added a third longtime employee, Donna Allevi. By terms of the old and new contract, co-pays have run about $5 for an office visit. The price of most prescriptions is also very modest, about $20, King estimated.

Two dollars was added to the pension multiplier, bringing it to $40.That means if you work at the company for ten years and retire, the monthly pension benefit is $400. There is also no cap on years worked. However, these defined pension benefits are available only to workers at the company since 2006, explained former UE Local 243 President Ray Pompano. By terms of previous contracts, which remain in effect in the newly ratified one, workers joining the company in

2007 are on a 401K company matching program. Pompano, who passed the leadership on to Morrison in December after a national record-setting 31 years in the post, remained on the negotiating team this year, making this his 19th contract negotiation. He said it was one of the most remarkably efficient negotiations because “the company knew when they read an article in the New Haven Independent how much we wanted to keep our medical. There was no way this company was going to move us. All in all, it was because of the reputation of UE Local 243 that we would not back down.” Morrison said that the modestly-priced medical costs to employees in the medical package were a “sacred cow.” As the votes were being cast and counted, speaker after speaker commented on both the ease of this year’s negotiations and their historic character. Lawyer Barbara Resnick, a UE international union representative, said that she is

engaged in negotiations of 14 contracts at present for the union; in all of them medical benefit alterations are on the table. She termed UE Local 243’s achievement unique in the Northeast and perhaps the country. She had set aside Monday morning to begin what she and others expected to be drawnout negotiations. Instead she ended up being in town to oversee the ratification of the contract. “I was floored. We wondered why it happened so quickly. I think they [the management] have a lot of work and they didn’t want interruptions. They heard you. The offer without increases really floored us. The medical is a slam dunk,” Morrison concluded. As they waited to queue up and then vote, by department,one member asked when the $1,500 first-year cash payment per employee will be delivered. The answer: on ratification of the new contract, which would kick in, on the completion of the old in mid-March. Morrison said he’d look in to speaking with management about the possibility of beginning sooner. Another questioner wanted to know if union dues are going up. “Good job,” Terry Bacote congratulated the prez; he was relieved there was no strike. “Yes,” Morrison answered. “Fifty cents. That’s not 50 cents a day. 50 cents a week.” “Can you lower it to 25?” the questioner called out. Morrison paused, and smiled without answering, amid applause and some laughter. “Any more questions?”

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All Aboard The (Micro)Bus! by PAUL BASS New Haven Independent

New Haven should seek more control over how public buses run or else start its own microbus service to fill gaps in the state’s broken system. So suggested Mayor Toni Harp. She made the suggestion during the most recent episode of “Mayor Monday” on WNHH radio’s “Dateline New Haven public event her transportation chief held at BAR last week on promoting alternatives to car commuting. Harp has previously called for better bus service in New Haven, which is controlled by CT Transit, an arm of the state Department of Transportation. A recent report found, for instance, that lower-income New Haveners would have to travel 90 minutes or longer on a good day, much longer at night or on weekends to reach entry and mid-level jobs in suburbs. If they can get there at all. Bus routes are geared to commuting models from a half century ago, when

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Harp signs a goNewHavengo! bus pledge.

people traveled in town to factories or other city jobs, rather than at odd hours to, say, retail positions on Boston Post Road or North Haven’s Universal Drive. Meanwhile, a quarter of New Haveners, and far more than that in lower-income neighborhoods, have no regular access to a car to go to work. “All the decisions are made regionally and in Hartford. Often they don’t take into

consideration the needs of the people in the city. Then they make plans in terms of routes. It takes forever for them to figure out that a route is not an appropriate route. It doesn’t get people where they need to go,” Harp said during the WNHH interview. “I really think the planning of all that needs to happen a little bit more locally.” Harp also suggested that Yale open its shuttle service up to all

people in New Haven. Barring more control over CT Transit routes, Harp floated the idea of the New Haven government launching a “microbus system that overlays the Connecticut Transit if we can’t wrestle it away from them to make it more efficient.” She hasn’t explored the details of such a plan yet, she said. But she imagines it involving the city purchasing minibuses. Drivers

would pick up people at a central spot in town to take them, for instance, to jobs at the Connecticut Post Mall in Milford during times when CT Transit service is limited. “You would take [a regular bus] to a certain point and get some credit and then take the microbus to where you need to go. Everybody going out there would meet in a certain place in a certain time,” she said. She suggested the city could use federal block grant money to support the service, and perhaps help a small business get started to operate it. “It just seems to me that if we can’t get CT Transit to actually get people to where they need to go in an efficient way, then we have to create something on top of it,” Harp argued. During the program, Harp also discussed the role of nonviolence in lessons taught during Black History Month, sparked by a reading of a passage in Ta-Nehisi Coates’ National Book Awardwinning Between The World And Me.

Malloy Proposes Bill To Outsource Some DMV Services INNER-CITY NEWS February 08, 2016 - February 14, 2016

by Christine Stuart New Haven Independent

As the Department of Motor Vehicles’ information technology systems undergo one of the biggest changes the department has seen in 40 years, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy wants to outsource more of the department’s work. As a result, the unions aren’t happy. Malloy introduced legislation last week that allows the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles to contract with a third party to offer vehicle registration services, postpones issuance of vessel titles until 2018, and permits residents to register their vehicle even if they haven’t paid property taxes or parking tickets.

The title of the _num=5055" legislation is called “An Act Decreasing Wait Times at the Department of Motor Vehicles.” Wait times increased this fall after the department closed for more than a week to upgrade its computer systems. The $25million upgrade caused some unforeseen problems, including an unknown number of drivers mistakenly losing their registrations over insurance paperwork, and also forced former DMV Commissioner Andres Ayala to apologize to the public. Ayala later resigned in January. “Long wait times experienced by customers at the DMV is simply unacceptable, and that’s

why we’re outlining common sense proposals to lower them,” Malloy said. “This enhanced flexibility best serves the customer, allows private contractors to conduct most routine motor vehicle transactions, and most importantly, decreases wait times at the DMV.” Malloy contends that government needs to find ways to improve customer service, but the unions aren’t happy. “The Connecticut Department of Motor Vehicles is already an outsourcing disaster,” Lori Pelletier, president of the Connecticut AFL-CIO, said. She said over the past year the public has witnessed what

happens when work is outsourced and there’s no data on whether it will save the state money in the long run. “The software upgrade, done by a private, for-profit company, has caused increased wait times and listed vehicles in the wrong municipalities. It’s obvious that outsourcing IT work has been a terrible failure. And for reasons that defy logic, we have bills that would continue to outsource and privatize the DMV,” Pelletier said. “Why continue to waste taxpayer dollars on needless privatization schemes when state workers can do it right the first time and for less money?” AFT Connecticut First Vice President Jean Morningstar said

the outsourcing of the information technology was just the most recent in a “long line of outsourcing failures that could and should have been avoided.” However, “the administration appears ready to double-down on another risky contracting scheme. If it fails — like so many previous privatization bungles — state residents will be left with the tab and suffering from degraded services,” Morningstar said. Morningstar serves on the State Contracting Standards Board, which has been unable to meet to go over contracts because the governor has yet to fill the vacancies on the board Con’t on page 16

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Tell ‘Em I Said It this earth, if we study the examples of those who came before us as they accomplished so much with so little. For example, if non-literal people could build colleges and universities with nickels and dimes to educate the children of ex-slaves, we should be able to educate our children with the resources we have, even as the government funded institutions fail to educate so many of them. If “Black Wall Street” could exist in Tulsa, Oklahoma during the early part of the 20th Century off of the strength of AfricanAmericans working with one another to build and maintain economic power until it was destroyed by White terrorist, then we should be able to build economic strength through our collective efforts during these early years of the 21st Century, without a reliance on financial institutions and businesses that we do not own and that do not serve our long-term aspirations. And, if our enslaved ancestors could appropriate the scriptures for themselves, using the parts that served their ultimate goal of liberation from bondage, we should be able to maintain a healthy hermeneutic in our churches today and resist the notion (and the practice) that Christianity is a “White Man’s Religion”. Our history should be about more for us than trinkets of information and recognition of figures turned into figurines that we take down once a year and dust off for a while, only to return them neatly back to their spaces on the shelf. A rich history is not something simply to admire. It ought to be something that teaches us what we have done (including the mistakes we have made) and can still do. If we are not focusing on our history as a means of making our present day reality better, then we are making a mockery of what Dr. Woodson gave us.

social-emotional learning and prompt parent engagement, Toll said. They are also learning how to direct their own learning in specific time blocks during the day.

by ALIYYA SWABY New Haven Independent

A New Haven middle school “school of the future” won’t get a planned full expansion next year, as administrators try to straighten out some of kinks in the model.

And middle school students are using online playlists in humanities and science to direct their own learning and master content, she said.

The Elm City College Prep board voted to halt a planned expansion of the experimental educational model, called “Greenfield,” in its middle school next year. The vote came after Achievement First charter network CEO Dacia Toll updated all board members of the successes and challenges of the new model Wednesday night at a meeting on Dixwell Avenue. Achievement First operates the school. This year, Elm City College Prep tried out the Greenfield model in kindergarten at 407 James St. and in fifth and sixth grades in a newly leased building at 495 Blake St. The model, designed by the company that developed Apple’s computer mouse, gives students more autonomy of their learning and incorporates real-world learning into academic learning. Next year, the board voted, the fifth and sixth grades will move out of the Blake Street building and into the elementary school

But middle school students were not ready for large group selfdirected learning, instead needing to work in smaller groups with more support, she said.

ALIYYA SWABY PHOTO Exploring

3-D design at Elm City.

building on James Street. And the Greenfield model will expand to second through fourth grades. That will be a smooth transition since some aspects are already being piloted in third and fourth grades, Toll said. Now Elm City College Prep Middle School is split into two, with Greenfield students at Blake Street and “classic” seventh and eighth grades at Elm City College Prep Middle School on Dixwell Avenue. Greenfield will not expand to the seventh and eighth grades, Toll said. At least not yet. Administrators hit a few bumps

in the road rolling out the model in fifth and sixth grades. Elm City College Prep Middle School Principal Robert Hawke explained some of these difficulties at the last board meeting in November. A plan for two-week career “expeditions” in fifth and sixth grades fell through. And administrators scaled back to a three-day indoor series of arts and culture workshops instead. The main problem is that leaders were “so focused on the new,” they forgot to build on existing foundational elements of teaching and learning, Toll said. The new

educational experiments “are not a replacement for having common expectations and new staff who are skilled at basic classroom management.” Teachers received two days “sort of” for training on school culture, compared to the weeklong process at other schools in the charter network, she said.

Most of the teachers in the middle school were new to the profession and needed more support than planned for, she said. The length of the school day which ends at 5 p.m. is too long for both students and teachers.

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Experimental-School Rollout Slowed Down

“The original school day til 5 o’ clock? Mistake,” Toll said. The plan to pursue a K-6 Greenfield school on James Street will benefit students and teachers, allowing the elementary school to work under one design so administrators can strengthen it over time, she said.

Some of the new aspects worked well, especially in kindergarten.

“I still deeply believe in this, but it takes a while,” Toll said.

Kindergartners are enjoying the regular “goal team” and “dream team” meetings that promote their

The Elm City College Prep board voted unanimously to expand Greenfield K-6 next year in the James Street building.

Mayor Seeks 39+% Raises For Paras by PAUL BASS In the wake of a study showing income inequality growing faster in New Haven than in any other U.S. city, Mayor Toni Harp Monday called for government to help lift the wages of workers on the lower rungs specifically, school paraprofessionals.

“It’s a big raise. But that’s deserved for what they do,” Harp said during her weekly “Mayor Monday” appearance on WNHH radio’s “Dateline New Haven” program. She put the requested raise in the context of a new Brookings Institution study showing that the gap between high and low earners in New Haven has increased by 6.7 times over the past seven

years. An activist group called New Haven Rising has called on Yale University and Yale-New Haven Hospital to address the gap by hiring more New Haveners for living-wage jobs. Harp said on the radio program that city government needs to step up as well. “New Haven Rising resonates with people [because] they are concerned with the unemployed, but as well with the underemployed,” Harp said. “I have to respond. The city of New Haven has to respond.”

“One of the things that really concerns me is paraprofessionals at the Board of Education. They start out at $18,000 a year,” Harp said. “Who can live on that? But we have people to do that, go to school every day, work with our kids. Some have bachelor’s degrees. Some have master’s degrees. That’s all they make.” Harp said that during a recent curriculum review, she heard from teachers citywide that they need more help in the classroom, which paraprofessionals provide, enabling teachers to remain

focused on the rest of the class, for instance, if one or a handful of students require special attention, or if students work at different levels. The system employs 483 paraprofessionals, according to Michael Crocco, director of the school district’s talent office. They cover all the kindergarten and first grade classes as well as special ed. Superintendent Harries said in an interview that he’s on board for requesting the paraprofessional raises in the soon-to-be-released 11

Harp called for raising the starting annual salaries of the paraprofessionals from $18,000 to between $25,000 and $30,000. She said she has “pushed” Superintendent of Schools Garth Harries to include that raise in the upcoming

proposed new fiscal year school budget, and to find that money elsewhere rather than have the city seek a tax increase to pay for it.

New Haven Gets 200K To Clean Brownfields by STAFF New Haven Independent

The state granted New Haven $200,000 to perform environmental assessment on land that can then be developed into affordable housing after a cleanup. Directed by the Department of Economic and Community Development, the grant is one of 16 across the state, a total of $8.7 million, intended to help cities clean up and renew empty properties so they can be used for future development. “These strategic investments help towns and cities take abandoned, blighted, and vacant properties, and bring them back to life in order to spur new investments, new development, and new jobs for those in the communities,” Malloy stated in a release Wednesday.

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St. Luke’s Development Corporation will use the grant in New Haven to determine the environmental condition of prop-

erties at 10-12 Dickerman St., 117-125, 129 Whalley Ave. and 34-36 Sperry St. and the potential cost of cleaning them up, according to a release from Mayor Toni Harp. The Dickerman Street property would be developed into two affordable housing units and additional rental units. The other two properties would be developed into a mixed-use project of 28 multifamily units on top of commercial and community space. The city’s anti-blight agency, the Livable City Initiative (LCI), has already promised $100,000 to the construction phase of the project. St. Luke’s has committed about $200,000 for the first stages of development. “This comprehensive project will add inventory to the city’s affordable housing stock and improve the overall physical appearance of the neighborhood,” Mayor Harp said, in the release.

Dine With Great Minds by STAFF New Haven Independent

What do world famous architect Cesar Pelli, renowned author Jelani Cobb, Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro, poet Reginald Dwayne Betts and Connecticut Banking Commissioner Jorge Perez have in common? If you love New Haven children as much as we do, you can join these and other leaders for a rousing conversation over dinner next wee. New Haven’s great minds will convene once again to support its equally creative LEAP program. On February 25th, the annual LEAP Year Event will kick off with a reception at Hopkins School followed by dinners at 30 different homes and restaurants in and around New Haven. Each dinner has an amazing Guest of Honor who will lead an interesting discussion on a topic of their expertise while you savor the meal and join in the conversation. You can see a full list of the dinners as well as purchase tickets at www.leapforkids.org/ leapyear. Tickets are $150 for the dinner and reception (or $75 for people under 40) and $50 for the reception only. LEAP, which was founded in New Haven in 1992, served over 1000 young people last year. Operating in five neighborhoods with the city’s highest child poverty rates, LEAP provides academic and social development programs both after school and over the summer. LEAP does so in a unique way, employing over 100 New Haven public high school and college students to act as academic counselors, mentors and role models for younger children. LEAP Year Event is one heck of a lot of fun, no matter what your interests are. This year we have Thimble Island Brewery founder Justin Gargano providing a beer tasting during

one delicious dinner. Bregamos Community Theater founder Rafael Ramos will provide amazing food while actors perform readings from the theater’s upcoming play. Interested in the world wide refugee crisis? Who better to discuss solutions with than Unni Karunakara, the former International President of Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders), at the home of Dr. Elizabeth Bradley in New Haven. Want to learn more about New Haven Civil Rights pioneer

Constance Baker Motley (the first African American woman to argue before the Supreme Court and be appointed to the federal judiciary)? Then join with cochair of Human Rights Watch Joel Motley, as he screens his short award winning documentary about his mother, following a tasty dinner at the home of Yale Law Professor Kate Stith-Cabranes in Bethany. Why not have a wonderful night and support New Haven children and LEAP at the same time.

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Outsource and it doesn’t have a quorum. “It’s made worse by the admission of the governor’s budget chief last week that he had no idea how much state officials are already spending on outsourced public projects,” Morningstar said. But Malloy contends the legislation will help the public interact with the DMV. By allowing residents with delinquent property taxes and parking tickets to register their vehicles, it is expected that the number of customers having to make duplicative trips to branch offices will be minimized, and as such, contribute to reduced wait times and an enhanced customer experience. Malloy also believes that postponing the issuance of vessel titles until Dec. 31, 2018 will free up more backroom staff resources to address the immediate issue of reducing wait times in branches. And allowing the state to enter contracts with private contractors such as AAA to provide vehicle registration services, will reduce wait times at DMV branches. Currently, AAA only provides noncommercial driver’s license services. The bill was referred to the legislature’s Transportation Committee.

By D. Kevin McNeir NNPA News Wire Contributing Writer

Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks during a visit to the House of Prayer Missionary Baptist Church in Flint Michigan. (Barbara Kinney/Hillary for America)

Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton (left) visits with Flint, Michigan Mayor Karen Weaver to discuss the water crisis in Flint and relief efforts. (Barbara Kinney/Hillary for America)

“I was honored to be asked to come to Flint by the city’s mayor as she continues her valiant effort to draw national attention to the tragedy here,” Clinton said. “This is not merely unacceptable and wrong, but also immoral. The children of Flint are just as precious as children in any other place and they’re deserving of health care and a quality education. We still don’t know how many will be effected or the challenges that they will face in the future. But we do know that action is needed immediately. During my visit here, I had the opportunity to address a large congregation at the House of Prayer where their pastor and others remain committed to bringing about

positive change.” Clinton continued: “I hear that both senators from Michigan are proposing a $200 million bill and Congress should pass that bill. Then we need to figure out how to initiate more medical testing and also institute educational

support so that everyone, especially the children here, are better equipped to cope with the long term effects of lead poisoning. The state of Michigan also needs to step up to the plate.” Clinton added that it’s vital that a bright line be shined on Flint. “What happened here was so egregious – officials knew what was going on and they ignored it, they remained indifferent to it – this particular crisis deserves as much attention as possible. First things first – everyone deserves clean air and clean water,” she said as she prepared to return to New Hampshire in order to campaign for the final days before the state holds its presidential primary elections. Weaver has recently begun promoting a private-public partnership that would fund a

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton took a pause from campaigning on Sunday, Feb. 7 to visit Flint, Michigan at the invitation of the city’s mayor, Karen Weaver, following weeks of conversations between the two leaders about the health crisis that citizens, particularly children, continue to face after several years of drinking and bathing in tainted water. While on the campaign trail and even during interviews and private speaking engagements, Clinton has referred frequently to the challenges facing the residents of the lead-poisoned city – a once bustling factory town long in decline that in addition to widespread poverty and unprecedented unemployment now faces a state-declared man-made emergency because of undrinkable tap water. Former Secretary of State and First Lady Clinton, scheduled to tour the city with Mayor Weaver, spoke to Flint residents at the House of Prayer Missionary Baptist Church, and then traversed the city listening to personal testimonies, requests and complaints in order to learn more about the state of the crisis. Weaver, during an MSNBC televised interview on Sunday, said Clinton has promised to help in every way possible including adding pressure on Congress to approve a bill that would allow for federal funding to help the city deal with its water crisis. “We’ve been waiting for the state [of Michigan] for almost two years to come in here and fix this problem,” Weaver said. “We can’t wait any longer.” Clinton spoke with the NNPA News Wire from Flint by telephone following her tour and a host of meetings with clergy, elected officials, the mayor and residents of the city.

complete pipe system replacement, but she also remains highly critical of state officials, particularly Governor Rick Snyder, who she says knew about the foul, lead-poisoned water but chose to look the other way because of the costs related to overhauling the pipe system. Clinton campaign chairman, John Podesta, in an earlier statement, said, “We should use the spotlight of the presidential campaign to keep the focus on Flint and to lift up the historic underlying issues that Flint and too many other predominantly low-income communities of color across American are struggling with each day.” During the latest Democratic presidential debate, held last week and aired by MSNBC, Rachel Maddow, who served as a co-moderator, asked Clinton if she would launch a federal response. Clinton said she would “absolutely” while also seeking remedies to the myriad of burdens now faced by Flint residents. “That includes fixing their pipes, it includes guaranteeing whatever health care and educational embellishments they may need going forward and I think the federal government has ways where it can bill the state of Michigan,” Clinton told Maddow. “If Michigan won’t do it, there have to be ways that we can begin to move, and then make them pay for it and hold them accountable.”

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Hillary Clinton Tours Flint, Michigan

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Nationwide — Anie Akpe, an African American female tech entrepreneur from New York City, has created an amazing social discovery app called NetWorq App, and it was developed with one thing in mind, ‘one-click connectivity’. Does the following conversation ring any bells? Person #1: Can I have your business card? Please. Person #2: I’m sorry! I am all out, looks like I didn’t carry enough with me. Do you mind giving me yours instead, and I’ll reach out to you? Person #1: Actually I didn’t carry any. I don’t know how I forgot to bring any this meeting. “Many professionals have been caught unprepared in situations where exchanging a business card would have been handy. Most people will often remember to bring along their business cards when attending big events like a business meeting or trade show. However, very few people carry their business cards with them all the time, every time,” says Anie. She continues, “Sadly you never know when an opportunity

for a useful networking will occur. Take, for instance, on a typical day, when you are out for a coffee or lunch break at the diner across the street. You bump into someone from a company you would want to do business with or a prospective client. Failure to exchange contacts could lead to you losing an opportunity to scale up your business.” This is where NetWorq App comes to the rescue; this is an app that will allow users to create

a digital e-card version of their business card that they can take around with them in their smartphone. Let’s face it, it is easier to forget to wash your face than it is to leave behind your smartphone; you take it virtually everywhere you go. So it is more common for you to bump into someone who also has his/her cell phone. It gets even better; NetWorq app allows you to design easily professional looking Digital ECards. You can then share the e-

card via SMS, email or on social media. NetWorq app takes it even further; it also has an events section within the app, which allows you to share events that you are attending automatically with your network. “Now think about it, doesn’t NetWorq App gives you more options than the conventional paper business cards,” Anie adds. Other features include: #1 - Social Media Integration

#2 - Ability to synch smartphone calendar events into the app #3 - Ability to Create Events on the App and share with your network including social media platforms. From the event, all contacts that RSVP’d for the event have the ability to exchange business cards before the event or at the event by simply clicking the digital ecard. #4 - Real-time stream to show you which events places are nearby in cities like New York, Munich, Berlin, Nigeria and Ghana. NetWorq App will also import information from Twitter, Facebook as well as contacts from the user’s smartphone. The app allows users to connect with the event attendees on social networks like LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. To join the 35,000+ others who have already downloaded the app, visit: https://play.google.com/store/ apps/details?id=io.kylar.networq You can also follow Anie Akpe on Twitter at @AnieAkpe

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Black Female Tech Entrepreneur Launches New Digital Business Card App

Breaking Down Beliefs of Racial Hierarchy By Dr. Gail C. Christopher, America’s Wire Writers Group

system seems tilted toward whites, and there remains unequal treatment for children and adults when it comes to health, education, housing and employment. David R. Williams, a sociology professor at Harvard University, cites studies showing that when whites, blacks and Hispanics

visited hospital emergency rooms with the same ailment, white patients received pain medication more frequently than people of color. Does that make the physicians racist? That may not be the case. With the advancements in neuroscience, we

our country down for centuries. We must jettison that belief and move forward with the truth of our equal values as a human family. It’s significant that a polling analysis conducted by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation in conjunction the Northeastern University School of Journalism has found that a majority of whites now acknowledge that racism still exists, and that it creates bias in structures such as the criminal justice system. Furthermore, a majority of Americans believe more needs to be done to eliminate racism. In a poll last year, 53 percent of whites said more changes needed to be made to give blacks equal rights with whites, up from just 39 percent a year earlier. Those findings underscore that now is the time for the Truth Racial Healing & Transformation (TRHT) process, which the Kellogg Con’t on page 27

Washington, DC — Fifty years ago, the Civil Rights Movement led to a series of laws banning public discrimination. African Americans were no longer barred from certain restaurants, some schools were integrated and fair housing laws created more living options. But today, it’s clear that court rulings and legislation didn’t change the root cause of conscious and unconscious bias – the widespread belief in racial hierarchy still exists. As a nation, we didn’t understand the power of this belief, this misguided notion that some people are either superior or inferior because of the color of their skin. This bias manifests in many ways. Unarmed men and women are killed by police and civilians, the justice

now know much more about the power of the mind. We understand that unconscious beliefs are deeply held, that centuries of this belief system have unconsciously shaped how some of us respond. But now, 21st century technology – YouTube, cell phones, dashboard cameras, body cameras – are leveraged to shape new beliefs about our humanity. They are capturing and exposing vivid samples of people of color abused and dehumanized. We must move beyond the absurd notion that some people have more value than others. What’s promising is that recent polling data demonstrates a palpable desire for a positive change in how we view one another and how we shape our society to reflect the inherent value of all people. We have carried the burden and the weight of this mythology of a hierarchy of human value, allowing it to weigh

The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution TV Review by Kam Williams Documentary about Radical Political Party Premieres on PBS on February 16th The late Stokely Carmichael is famous for coining the phrase “Black power!” What he might not be as well remembered for is founding the Black Panthers. Frustrated by the tortoise-paced progress of the Civil Rights movement and by the number of martyrs dying and disappearing around the South, he decided to leave SNCC (The Student NonViolent Coordinating Committee) to form a group for folks interested in self-defense. “You tell the people of Mississippi that all the scared [N-words] are dead!” he announced. However, Stokely had little to do with the organization after opening that first chapter in 1965 in Lowndes, Alabama (an 80% black county where no African-American had ever been allowed to vote). Instead, it would be fall to Huey Newton and Bobby Seale to popularize the Panthers. They opened a storefront in Oakland in 1966,

but they didn’t really catch fire until Martin Luther King was assassinated. At that point, many young African-Americans became disenchanted, which made the idea of confronting the police by brandishing weapons very appealing. Soon, Panther chapters began spring up all over the country. And it helped recruitment immeasurably when ex-con-turned-bestselling author Eldridge Cleaver

came aboard as Minister of Information. After all, the media-savvy spokesperson gave good soundbite, even if it only served to antagonize the police and establishment. For instance, he called then Governor Reagan “a punk, a sissy and a coward,” going so far as to challenge the Gipper to a duel to the death. And after Huey was arrested for the murder of a police

officer, Eldridge threatened open armed war on the streets of the country, if Newton weren’t freed. Meanwhile, J. Edgar Hoover was cooking up a counterintelligence program (COINTELPRO) designed to bring down the Panthers. The FBI proceeded to embark on a surreptitious reign of terror which included frame-ups, disinformation, assassinations and infiltration. The ploy worked, as

paranoia came to permeate the organization, which splintered when the leadership became suspicious of one another. Huey called Eldridge a coward. Eldridge then quit and called for hits against anyone still in the Party. Thus unfolds The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution, a warts-and-all documentary directed by Stanley Nelson (Freedom Riders). The film is fascinating not only because of its copious archival footage, but on account of the many revelations exposing the dark underbelly of an outfit often given a pass in spite of myriad flaws in terms of misogyny and machismo. The Black Panthers revisited less as a political party concerned about the welfare of the people than as an internecine power struggle between a couple of larger than life egos.

Excellent (4 stars) Unrated Running time: 113 minutes Distributor: Firelight Films

Did You Know That Ruby Dee Was The First Black Woman To Have A Star Role At The American Shakespeare Festival?

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BlackThen.com Ruby Dee, by name of Ruby Ann Wallace (born October 27, 1922, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.— died June 11, 2014, New Rochelle, New York), was an American actress and social activist who was known as much for her pioneering work in African American theatre and film as for her outspoken civil rights activism. Dee’s artistic partnership with her husband, Ossie Davis, was considered one of the theatre and film world’s most distinguished. After completing her studies at Hunter College (1945) in Manhattan, Dee served an apprenticeship with the American Negro Theatre and began appearing on Broadway. She met Davis on the set of the play Jeb (1946) and married him

in 1948. She often appeared with her husband in plays, films, and television shows over the next 50 years. Among Davis and Dee’s most notable joint stage appearances were those in A Raisin in the Sun

(1959; Dee also starred in the film version in 1961) and in the satiric Purlie Victorious (1961), which Davis wrote; Davis and Dee also appeared in the movie version of the latter (Gone Are the Days!, 1963). The couple

acted in several films by director Spike Lee, including Do the Right Thing (1989) and Jungle Fever (1991). Among their television credits are Roots: The Next Generations (1979), Martin Luther King: The Dream and the Drum (1986), and The Stand (1994). The couple’s partnership extended into their activism as well; they served as master and mistress of ceremonies for the 1963 March on Washington, which they had helped organize. Dee also appeared in numerous projects without Davis. In 1965, she became the first African-American woman to star in major roles at the American Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Connecticut. She was also the first black actress accorded a feature role (1968– 69) on a prime-time TV show, the soap opera Peyton Place. Her

later films included The Way Back Home (2006) and American Gangster (2007). Her performance as the mother of a drug kingpin (played by Denzel Washington) in the latter film earned Dee her first Academy Award nomination. She continued to appear in numerous television productions; notably, Their Eyes Were Watching God (2005), an adaptation of Zora Neale Hurston’s novel. In addition to her acting, Dee authored several books. Dee and Davis were jointly awarded the National Medal of Arts in 1995 and a Kennedy Center Honor in 2004. In 2005, Dee received a lifetime achievement award from the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee. http://www.britannica.com/ biography/Ruby-Dee

Jesse B. Blayton Sr, First Black Man To Purchase A Radio Station

BlackThen.Com Jesse B. Blayton, Sr. made radio history when he became the first African-American to own and operate a radio station in America.Blayton was born December 6, 1897 in Fallis, Oklahoma and studied at the Walton School of Chicago and the University of Chicago. He moved to Atlanta in 1922 and became Georgia’s first African-American Certified Public Accountant six years later.By the 1940s, Jesse B. Blayton, Sr. had become a bank president and a professor at Atlanta University. In 1949, he purchased 1,000watt station WERD/Atlanta and hired his son Jesse Blayton Jr. as station manager.

The younger Blayton hired radio veteran Jack Gibson to be an announcer and Ken Knight to be program director. WERD’s “black appeal” format became an instant success with AfricanAmerican listeners. By 1951, Gibson—using the on-air name “Jockey Jack”—was Atlanta’s most popular disc jockey. During the 1960s, the station shared building space with the Southern Christian Leadership Council and provided a platform for civil rights activists to make their voices heard.Blayton sold WERD in 1968 and remained active in community affairs until his death.Jesse B. Blayton, Sr. died on September 7, 1977.Jesse B. Blayton, Sr. was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 1995

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The Case of the Scottsboro Boys

On March 26th, 1931, nine black youths riding a freight train, were arrested in Scottsboro, Alabama, after being falsely accused of raping two white women. After nearly being lynched, the Scottsboro Boys were brought to trial. Despite evidence that exonerated the teens, including a retraction by one of their accusers, the state pursued the case. All-white juries delivered guilty verdicts and all nine defendants, except the youngest, were sentenced to death. From 1931 to 1937, during a series of appeals and new trials, they languished in Alabama’s Kilby prison, where they were repeatedly brutalized by guards. In 1932, the United States Supreme Court concluded in Powell v. Alabama that the Scottsboro defendants had been denied adequate counsel at trial. In 1935, the Court in Norris v. Alabama again ruled in favor of the defendants, overturning their convictions because Alabama had systematically excluded black people from jury service. Finally, in 1937, four of the defendants were released and five were given sentences from twenty years to life; four of those were released on parole between 1943 and 1950. The fifth escaped prison in 1948 and fled to Michigan. Clarence Norris walked out of Kilby Prison after being paroled in 1946 and moved north; he received a full pardon from Governor George Wallace in 1976.

The Immortal Cells Of Henrietta Lacks By Dr. P. Gould, BlackDoctor.Org

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Many of the medical breakthroughs you read and hear about today are largely due to one relatively unknown Black woman: Henrietta Lacks. It is because of her cells that some of the most dangerous diseases and outbreaks have been avoided or stopped. And it all started with a pain in her stomach. On January 29, 1951, Lacks went to Johns Hopkins Hospital because she felt a “knot” inside of her. She had told her cousins about the knot, and they automatically assumed correctly that she was pregnant. But after giving birth to Joseph, Henrietta started bleeding abnormally and profusely. Her local doctor tested her for syphilis, which came back negative, and referred her to Johns Hopkins hospital. Johns Hopkins was their only choice for a hospital since it was the only one near them that treated black patients. Howard W. Jones, her new doctor, examined Henrietta and the lump in her cervix. He cut off a small part of the tumor and sent it to the pathology lab. Soon after, Lacks was told that she had a malignant epidermoid carcinoma of the cervix. But later in 1970, colleagues writing a tribute discovered that Lacks’ cancer had been misdiagnosed and was

actually an adenocarcinoma of the cervix. This was a common mistake at the time and the treatment would not have changed Lacks was treated with radium tube inserts, which were sewn in place. After several days in place, the tubes were removed and she was discharged from Johns Hopkins with instructions to return for X-ray treatments as a follow-

up. During her radiation treatments for the tumor, two samples of Henrietta’s cervix were removed—a healthy part and a cancerous part—without her permission. The cells from her cervix were given to Dr. George Otto Gey. These cells eventually became the HeLa immortal cell line, a commonly used cell line in biomedical research.

These cells were the first ever immortal human cell line. An endless source of identical cells that is still around today. Thanks to HeLa cells we now have a vaccine for HPV Thanks to HeLa cells, the polio epidemic was defeated in 1960’s Thanks to HeLa cells, we now have breakthroughs in HIV, measles, mumps, and ebola. Normal cells are able to reproduce usually up to about 50 times before dying off, but not Henrietta’s. Her cells are able to replicate infinitely on just about any surface, allowing research and experiments to go on anywhere and in any environment. These experiments would have been impossible to conduct without Henrietta’s cells. Millions of patients healed and dollars were made off of HeLa cells without the family knowing up until decades later. In significant pain and without improvement, Lacks returned to Hopkins on August 8th for a treatment session, but asked to be admitted. She remained at the hospital until the day of her death. She received treatment and blood transfusions, but died of uremic poisoning on October 4, 1951 at the young age of 31. A subsequent partial autopsy showed that the cancer had metastasized throughout her entire body. It wasn’t until 1971 (twenty

years after they did it!), that her descendants first learned her genes had been sequenced and that the genome was made available to the public. But it took a number of years and in 2013, after a protracted fight, the family won the right to make the genome available only to scientists who apply, as well as to serve on a working group that will help review the applications. They have never received any payment for Henrietta Lacks’s cells or any compensation from the profits that have come from the research done using her cells. For decades, Henrietta Lacks’ mother had the only tombstone of the five graves in the family cemetery in Lackstown, and Henrietta’s own grave was unmarked. In 2010, however, Dr. Roland Pattillo of the Morehouse School of Medicine donated a headstone for Lacks after reading The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. The headstone is shaped like a book and reads: Henrietta Lacks, August 01, 1920 – October 04, 1951. In loving memory of a phenomenal woman, wife and mother who touched the lives of many. Here lies Henrietta Lacks (HeLa). Her immortal cells will continue to help mankind forever. Eternal Love and Admiration, From Your Family

Black Lives Matter Activist DeRay Mckesson Enters Baltimore Mayor’s Race

by Lisa Snowden-McCray Special to the AFRO Activist and Baltimore native DeRay Mckesson surprised many Wednesday evening when he filed to run for mayor of the city of Baltimore. The lastminute move made him the 30th candidate in an already crowded

mayoral race. A member of the Black Lives Matter movement, Mckesson has made a name for himself as an outspoken advocate against police brutality. He recently appeared on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.” “Baltimore is, and has always been, a city of promise and possibility,” read a statement posted on the funding website Crowdpac. “If we are to reach that promise and possibility we cannot rely on traditional pathways to politics and the traditional politicians who walk

those paths. We have seen and lived through enough lofty promises and vague plans. We must demand more from our leaders and local government.” By Thursday afternoon, Mckesson had raised over $30,000 toward a posted $250,000 goal. In a long post on Medium.com, McKesson wrote, “I am running to be the 50th Mayor of Baltimore in order to usher our city into an era where the government is accountable to its people and is aggressively innovative in how it identifies

and solves its problems. We can build a Baltimore where more and more people want to live and work, and where everyone can thrive. It is true that I am a nontraditional candidate_—_I am not a former Mayor, City Councilman, state legislator, philanthropist or the son of a well-connected family. I am an activist, organizer, former teacher, and district administrator that intimately understands how interwoven our challenges and our solutions are. I am a son of Baltimore.”

Former mayor Sheila Dixon, Councilman Nick Mosby, State Senator Catherine Pugh and businessman David Warnock are just some of the other candidates running for mayor. Because Baltimore voters tend to be mostly Democrats, the April 26 primary typically determines the outcome of the mayor’s race. “The Afro” reached out to Mckesson for comment, but did not receive a response by press time.

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New African American Guide to Starting Your Very Own Organic Garden Nationwide — Just in time for the spring season, a new publication has been released to help African American families start a home garden and grow their own food. It’s called Grow Your Own Food! The African American Guide to Starting Your Very Own Organic Garden. Available as an e-book exclusively at www.ebooksandreports.com for just $2.49, the book teaches African American men, women, children how to grow their own organic fruits, vegetables, herbs, and spices (like tumeric, ginger, and peppers)! Home gardening is at an all-time high in America today. In fact, in the United States, 8 out of 10 households take part in some sort of home gardening activity. As a result, more and more African Americans are taking interest in their health and also growing their own organic food – that is, food without pesticides, chemicals and other harmful toxins. Many are growing their own organic food in

their backyards or even on their balconies, and the black community especially seems to take interest in growing their own herbs and vegetables! Grow Your Own Food! The African American Guide to Starting Your Very Own Organic Garden teaches readers: * How to get started with your own personal garden * How to do container gardening in small spaces * How to grow organic fruits, vegetables, spices and herbs * How to choose the best location for your garden * How to use “green watering” techniques * What tools are needed, and where to get them * How to make your own compost and home-made, nontoxic pesticides * Why organic gardening is so important * and the top online resources for African American gardeners

Why Black people in particular need to eat organic food In the African American community, diabetes, heart disease and cancer continue to claim the lives of thousands of people every year – more than any other ethnic group in the United States. All three of these deadly health conditions have been linked to poor diet and lack of exercise, and many health problems have specifically been linked to the presence of not just pesticides and chemicals in the food we eat, but also hormones, anti-biotics, and harmful products like high fructose corn syrup. This information alone is a great reason why more African Americans should take interest in growing and eating more organic foods! For more details and/or to download Grow Your Own Food! The African American Guide to Starting Your Very Own Organic Garden, visit www.ebooksandreports.com

Water Crisis in Flint Is Part of a National Water Crisis in America

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By Roger Caldwell NNPA News Wire Columnist There is no quick fix for the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, and no quick fix in the water problem in America. All across America, there are over 50 cities which have similar conditions as bad as Flint, and no one knows who to talk to about a resolution of these issues. Many of these citizens have poisonous, brown water coming out of their tap, and the EPA is telling them their water is safe. The Flint water crisis has called attention to the contamination of poisonous drinking water where the pipes under the ground are corrosive, and making children and citizens sick. This situation started in April 2014 when the city switched its drinking water supply

from the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department to the Flint River. Flint residents began complaining about the taste, color, and odor of their tap water as well as side effects like rashes and hair loss within a month after the city switched its water supply. The back-story of the Flint water crisis starts in April 2013 when a bankrupted city was under the control of a State appointed emergency manager, and the governor was looking for ways to save money. Many believe that the state was deliberately ignoring the basic needs of the city because sixty percent of the residents are Black. “We’ve had a city in the United States of America where the population, which is poor in many ways and majority AfricanAmerican, has been drinking and bathing in lead-contaminated water. I’ll tell you what—if the kids in a rich suburbs of Detroit had been drinking contaminated water and being bathed in it, there would’ve been action” says Hillary Clinton.

For two years, Governor Snyder, his administration, and the EPA acted as if the residents, mostly Black and poor, was not telling the truth about poison lead water coming out of their taps. The treatment of these residents is a racial crime, and the Governor and his administration should be fired and prosecuted for breaking the law. Also, the EPA, the state environmental officials, and the federal government must be held responsible for not doing their job, and putting budgets ahead of peoples’ health and needs. The residents’ problems in Flint were not treated as significant because they had no political power, and they were primarily Black. Consumer advocate and environmental activist Erin Brockovich says, “the water crisis in Flint is the tip of the iceberg because water contamination is a national problem in America. We can’t politicize water. It shouldn’t be independent, Republican, or Democrat. This is everybody’s issue. This is what sustains our

life.” Erin Brockovich’s company is working in 20 cities across the country with similar problems as bad as Flint. Some of the cities are Tyler, Texas, Hannibal, Missouri, Saint Bernard Parrish, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, and Stockholm, California. Many of the water infrastructures are 70 years old, and it will take $1.5 trillion to improve and modernize these systems. As the Mayors and the Governors fight over budgets, the water utilities are changing the disinfectants, and destroying the quality of the water. It is ridiculous when regulators stand up at a public meeting and tell residents their water is safe to drink, even though the color is brown with a bad odor. Also, many city water systems are being contaminated by unregulated chemical spills. In Charleston, a chemical called 4methylcyclohexane methanol leaked into the Elk River, and 400 people were treated with rashes, nausea, and vomiting. In the Dan

River near the border of North Carolina and Virginia, 82,000 tons of toxic coal spilled into the river. As more water is contaminated, there is less safe usable water in the country. The federal government must identify and work with the states to improve the water crisis in the country. The national infrastructure must be modernized with a new piping system, and Flint Michigan must become a model of what can be done when the federal government and state are transparent, partnering, and telling the truth. Roger Caldwell is the President/ CEO of On Point Media Group, a marketing and public relations firm located in Orlando, Florida. He is a graduate of Howard University in political science. As a stroke survivor, author, and community journalist, his passion is national and statewide politics. Follow him at rogerpoliticalblogs.wordpress.com or leave comments at jet38@bellsouth.net.

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by ALLAN APPEL Remsen Welsh, a 14-year-old Educational Center for the Arts theater student, is just getting started on her most recent assignment, writing her own autobiographical play. Jade King Carroll was about 14 when she was lucky enough to meet the centenarian Delany sisters, Sadie and Bessie, on the set at the McCarter Theater in Princeton, where her dad often contributed original music to the productions. That’s where the outspoken Delanys’ lives growing up with a father who was a freed slave and making their own pioneering achievements were being fashioned into a Broadwaybound play entitled Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters’ First 100 Years. King, Remsen, and about 25 others met at a “community conversation” inspired by themes in the upcoming Long Wharf production of Having Our Say. The conversation was convened Wednesday evening at the Ives Main Branch Library. The event was part of an ongoing partnership between Long Wharf and the New Haven Free Public Library that brings actors, directors, or others associated with each of the theater’s offerings to programs at all the city’s branches. Remsen listened carefully to the recollections of King’s young enchantment with the theater and the Delanys, for King has grown up to be an up-andcoming young director who is helming the Long Wharf production. The two-person play, adapted by Emily Mann from a book about the Delanys, opens Feb. 17 and runs through March 13.

playwright and accomplished director meet.

stage of the theater and in the process tell you about their childhood, life in the Jim Crow era in the south, and then their last chapter living in Harlem through the Civil Rights Era. They don’t like to be called “black” because they are, well, brown. They are also uncomfortable with “AfricanAmerican.” The play features a cornucopia of busted stereotypes. A delicious sample was offered by two community actors, Aleta Staton and Ann Greene, who read a small section of the play’s second act to kick off the conversation. This is how the Delanys who are opposite personalities but know each other so well they finish sentences together discovered that Jim Crow laws had entered their lives when they were little girls: SADIE: When we got to Pullen Park, we found changes there too. The spring where you got water now had a big wooden sign across the middle. BESSIE: On one side, the word “white” was painted. SADIE: And on the other, the word “colored.” What in the

world was all this about? BESSIE: We may have been little children, but, honey, we got the message loud and clear. SADIE: (Laughing) But when nobody was looking, Bessie took the tin dipper and leaned over and scooped some water from the other side and said, “I’m goin’ get me some white water!” BESSIE: It tasted just the same. Elizabeth Nearing, the Long Wharf’s community engagement manager, said she chose such selections from the play because “you get to know the humor of them [the sisters] while dealing with serious material.” Remsen, who is homeschooled, sat beside her dad and listened intently to the director’s own recollections. “I was there from the initial days of the play’s creation, with ikipedia.org/wiki/ Emily_Mann_%28director%29" Emily Mann,” who became Carroll’s theater mentor, King said. She said the genius of the play is that it touches on sensitive issues that you could get away only through the mouths of funny, accomplished, centenarian sisters.

Carroll herself identified with one of the play’s takes on history: namely, that a great forward movement through the mid-1960s Civil Rights movement eventually stalled. At least that’s what the sisters say in the play. “At 102 and 104 they were so honest, alive, survivors. It’s also a celebration, [and also] an easy jumping off point for a conversation we need to have,” King said. “Community conversation” was followed by community hug. Remsen came away with a lot to ponder. Which is what a community conversation is all about. The schedule for the upcoming library programs based on Having Our Say: Saturday, Feb.13, from 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Fair Haven Library; Saturday, Feb. 20, from 2:00 p.m. to 3:30p.m. at the Mitchell Library; Tuesday, Feb. 23, from 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at the Wilson Library; and Saturday, Feb. 27, from 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Stetson Library.

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Foundation launched on Jan. 28. More than 70 diverse organizations and individuals ranging from the National Civic League to the YWCA USA to the NAACP are partners in the TRHT process. This broad coalition seeks to move the nation beyond dialogues about race and ethnicity to unearthing historic and contemporary patterns that are barriers to success, healing those wounds and creating opportunities for all children. Specifically, the TRHT process will prioritize inclusive, communitybased healing activities and policy design that seek to change collective community narratives and broaden the understanding that Americans have for their diverse experiences. TRHT will assemble national and local commissions that will hold public forums on the consequences of racial inequity and work toward mobilizing systems and structures to create more equitable opportunities. In the forums, we will also discuss racial hierarchy and how best to dismantle it. Clearly, there must be broader knowledge of the harm that comes from the devaluation and from the structures of inequality. They create physical harm, they create mental and emotional harm, and when there’s harm, healing is needed. When an unarmed black person is killed, I have a bodily reaction to that tragedy. I relive losses of my own, such as when I was a teenager in Cleveland. My first cousin was shot and killed by a white thrill-seeker in our segregated neighborhood. I recall that we buried her that week, while he enlisted in the Navy and left the city. It was the first funeral I ever attended. Despite all the joyful moments my cousin and I shared growing up together, my only lasting recollection is of her body lying in that casket. All of us must become more cognizant of the cost of violence and the harm. We must be willing to invest in the processes that help to bring about healing. TRHT will lead this transformation. Other Truth and Reconciliation efforts around the world aim to reconcile. But America’s genesis is this hierarchy. And so we don’t have to come back, we don’t need to reconcile, this nation needs to transform. The TRHT will chart that course. Dr. Gail C. Christopher is vice president for TRHT and a senior advisor at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.

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