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Census Party Rolls Thru Fair Haven

by THOMAS BREEN

New Haven I ndependent

Behind a face mask, DJ Rob Nice stood on the back of a flatbed truck driving up Blatchley Avenue and shouted through the mic: “2020 Census, baby! Wash your hands! Wash your hands!”

Standing a few feet away, Kaylib raised his own mic to speak up above the reggaeton beat. “2020 Census!” he shouted.

“Veinte Veinte Census Dot Gov!” DJ Rob Nice and Kaylib took a break Friday morning from their usual gigs spinning independent hip hop on Ugly Radio to participate in the Census 2020 Party-On-Wheels.

A caravan of a half-dozen cars—including a city parks truck bearing DJ Rob Nice, Kaylib, DJ Skorp, and a mess of amplifiers, wires, laptops, and one exhaust-spewing portable generator— rolled through the streets of Fair Haven to raise awareness about the once-a-decade national headcount that is still taking place during the Covid-19 pandemic.

The event was spearheaded by the city’s Complete Count Committee.

The car blasted music and information about the Census, which can be filled out online and responded to as late as Oct. 31 this year.

The decennial count of everyone living in the United States plays a critical role determining federal legislative districts and in influencing how much money each state receives from the federal government for such programs as Medicaid, Medicare, food stamps, and Head Start.

Standing in the parking lot of Radiant Star of Jacob church at 201 Chapel St., city Assistant Director of Comprehensive Planning Keith Lawrence and Complete Count Program Manager Karolina Ksiazek said that Friday’s rolling getout-the-count dance party was specifically targeted at encouraging people in traditionally undercounted communities — including lower-income black and brown New Haveners — to fill out the Census online, by phone, or by mail.

“We obviously can’t do the face-to-face community events that we had planned” because of social distancing requirements designed to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus, said Lawrence (pictured at left, with Complete Count Committee member Addie Kimbrough).

The committee has been hosting virtual webinars on Zoom and Facebook Live over the past few weeks. But more outreach is needed, Ksiazek said: New Haveners in some of the hardest-to-count neighborhoods of the city don’t always have reliable Internet access.

So the committee — in partnership with Ugly Radio — turned to an in-person event adapted to the pandemic: a rolling party through the streets, blasting music to anyone at home, on the sidewalk, on

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Kaylib, DJ Rob Nice, and DJ Skorp riding up Blatchley Avenue during Friday’s Census party on wheels.

National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference and a leader of the New Haven Latino Council, was on hand, too.

He said he decided to participate in the caravan to reinforce for Hispanic New Haveners in particular that undocumented immigrants can fill out the Census without fear that that information will end up in the hands of immigration enforcement officials.

“We believe as a faith-based community that it is our moral imperative to ensure the well-being of all residents, not just our parishioners,” he said.

Mayor Justin Elicker applauded the rolling party as an innovative way to get the word out about the census as Covid-19 dominates the headlines—and keeps many New Haveners sheltered in place at home.

“We’ve got to get creative” about how to spread the word about the Census, he said.

Friday morning’s party got off to a bit of a late start — an hour-and-a-half late start, to be precise — because no one brought a power generator necessary for the DJs on the back of the truck to amplify their music and messages.

Gary Robinson, a former DJ at Ugly Radio, showed up at around 11:15 a.m. with a portable 5500 watt generator in tow. The Ugly Radio crew spent another half-hour positioning the generator on the back of the truck, plugging in all the wires and getting the sounds just right.

Then the caravan hit the streets to drive east on Chapel, up Blatchley, across Lombard Street and then up Ferry Street.

In English and Spanish, DJ Rob Nice and Kaylib shouted above the hip hop and reggaeton, urging people looking out from their windows and porches to go to the Census’s website and respond to the count.

Toray Parks danced to the music blaring from the passing truck as he checked the mailbox at his Ferry Street apartment.

Inside the box was an envelope from the U.S. Census Bureau, urging him to respond to the count.

He smiled and waved as the rolling census party passed on by. “All right, all right,” he said. “It’s a shame there’s no one out here to enjoy it.”

He told the Independent that he hadn’t filled out his census form yet. With envelope in hand and rolling party driving by, he said, he does plan on filling out the form.

According to the U.S. Census website’s response tracker, 44.2 percent of New Haveners have responded to the Census so far. Statewide, 61.1 percent of Connecticut residents have responded.

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Setting up the portable generator before the rolling party began.

the roads, or otherwise within earshot.

“This is a way to get out to where people are,” said Ksiazek. “I think it will reach a lot of people who haven’t been reached.”

New Haven native and Witnesses to Hunger member Lisa McKnight (pictured) said she turned out to the complete count caravan Friday to do her part in encouraging fellow African American residents to fill out the census form.

“I grew up in a community where we didn’t harbor a lot of trust” for the government, she said.

She said she was won over to not just

participate in the census, but also encourage others to do so, when she learned that the Census Bureau is legally not allowed to share any of the information it collects with other areas of government. She also was convinced when she learned that the count plays a critical role in determining funding for social services like Head Start and food stamps.

“I want to see our federal tax dollars coming back to our community,” said fellow Witnesses to Hunger member Rachel Schmidt.

Rev. Abraham Hernandez, the executive director of the state chapter of the

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Three patients at Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital have been diagnosed with a toxic-shock syndrome that is likely associated with Covid-19.

A Yale New Haven Hospital spokesperson made that announcement in a Monday afternoon email press release.

The email states that the three child patients represent the first in the state to be diagnosed with Pediatric Multi-System Inflammatory Syndrome.

“Unfortunately, this disease carries features of toxic shock syndrome and elements of Kawasaki Disease and strikes school-aged children. While these cases are exceptionally rare, given our proximity to New York, where there have been a significant number reported, we have been watching their experience closely,”

Clifford Bogue, physician-in-chief of YNHCH, is quoted as saying in the release.

“We are working diligently with local and state health officials to address this issue and strongly recommend that children who may be suffering from symptoms seek early referrals to pediatric infectious disease specialists, rheumatologists or cardiologists.”

The email states that symptoms of Pediatric Multi-System Inflammatory Syndrome include a persistent fever, rash, vomiting, and diarrhea. Patients can also suffer from cardiac inflammation.

“If your child is experiencing any of these symptoms, please call your pediatrician for advice.”

A handful of children in New York have died from the toxic-shock syndrome, and dozens more have been sickened.

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Summer Camps Allowed To Open; Summer School Uncertain

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New Haven I ndependent

Youth programs can begin to host small numbers of children on June 29, as long as they follow public health restrictions set by the state. The fate of summer schools amidst the Covid-19 pandemic is less clear.

State Early Childhood Commissioner Beth Bye explained the logic behind this decision on Monday, during an education-focused Zoom panel hosted

by Gov. Ned Lamont’s Reopen Connecticut Advisory Group.

“There is not always a right answer.

There is often a less worse answer,” Bye said. “For many families, summer camp is their childcare.”

The Office of Early Childhood runs the 2-1-1 Child Care hotline. Bye said that more than half of the calls to the hotline are from hospital workers.

Nursing home workers are the next most in need.

The state has already allowed childcare facilities to stay open as part of the public health response, Bye said.

Summer camps fall into a similar category and would be allowed to serve 30 children per day, with temperature screenings and small class sizes.

Camps can seek a waiver to host more kids if they have a particularly large campus. Summer School Forecast Unclear State leaders have yet to announce a green light for summer schools. The decision on whether to allow summer school will depend on infection trends and the most up-to-date knowledge on how Covid-19 spreads, Education Commission Miguel Cardona said.

State epidemiologist Matthew Cartter said that communities will continue to see Covid-19 cases through the summer and a second wave of infections will likely happen in the fall. Because of how difficult it is to predict the virus’ impact, educators need to be ready to change plans quickly, Cartter said.

“Thinking about an epidemic is not like a weather forecast,” Cartter said.

The experts on the panel represented teachers, superintendents and school boards. All said that distance learning has not been as effective as in-person learning and has left out major sections of school populations, despite the best efforts of teachers and social workers.

To get back to school, however, districts need more help on how to maintain students’ safety, the panelists said.

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Should they do a hybrid of in-person and distance learning? How will they afford these new measures?

“Teachers want to get back into the classroom, but they want us to do this right. The last thing we want is for schools to serve as a center for respreading the virus,” said Don Williams, executive director of education lobbying group CEA. LEAP will definitely hold its youth programs this summer. Whether they will all be online depends on how possible it is to translate the public health restrictions on summer camps into reality, said Executive Director Henry Fernandez.

If summer 2020 were like any other summer, LEAP would host 500 children and 100 young teens at its five sites. Around 120 high school and college students would get paid to run those programs.

LEAP wants to get as close to those numbers as possible, Fernandez said.

“Each of those groups really matters to us,” Fernandez said. “We recognize how many young people rely on LEAP for employment and how many families look to LEAP for a high-quality summer program.”

LEAP has already moved its schoolyear programs online. In the process, the nonprofit has lost around half of the students it would be serving.

Fernandez said that LEAP has run summer camps for 27 years in New

Haven. Running a virtual summer camp is a completely new challenge.

“How do we run a virtual program that kids might actually want to go to?

That’s a big thing getting kids to show up when they could be outside running around,” he said.

Meeting state guidelines may mean some amount of in-person, outdoor camps with virtual programming for the rest of the week, Fernandez said.

LEAP and other youth nonprofits have questions about what the state is recommending that they do. Does each of LEAP’s sites count as a separate program, with its own 30 person cut-off? Will the New Haven Public School buildings LEAP normally uses be open? Will the state help camps find face masks, cleaning products and hand soap to keep kids and staff safe?

Bye is scheduled to talk with the New Haven youth organizations on Wednesday to flesh out some answers, Fernandez said.

Finding a way to get kids out of the house is important too from a health standpoint, Fernandez emphasized.

He said that New Haven organizations have seen serious impacts on youths’ mental health from Covid-related anxiety and bars on interacting with kids their own age.

“We all want to err on the side of safety and health. We also need to understand that in the context of mental health and safety,” he said.

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Lamont Fires Public Health Commissioner

by Christine Stuart Ct. News Junkie

In a move that surprised staff at the Department of Public Health, Gov. Ned Lamont fired Commissioner Renee Coleman-Mitchell Tuesday.

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At an unrelated press event later Tuesday, Lamont said he thought it was a good time to make a change as the state approaches its first phase of reopening on May 20.

“I think the job has changed,” Lamont said. “I think in terms of public health long-term, I wanted better coordination with our Department of Social Services.”

The two agencies share a role in overseeing nursing homes, which have been hit hard by COVID-19.

Lamont said he wanted to make sure public health was closely coordinated with the rest of state government and DSS. He said he’s been thinking about the “reorganization for months,” regarding the two agencies and some of their functions.

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The pandemic put Lamont’s office in daily contact with DPH, but he declined to say exactly what he learned during that time frame that led him to fire Coleman-Mitchell.

Paul Mounds, Lamont’s chief of staff, said May 20th was also a good time for

them to reevaluate the leadership at the agency, “understanding the important role DPH was going to be playing, not just now, but into the future as we respond to this COVID crisis.”

Coleman-Mitchell had been largely absent from public view for several weeks despite the ongoing pandemic response — a period during which public health commissioners in other states have been prominent at daily briefings.

Lamont appointed Coleman-Mitchell to head the department last year. During her short tenure she made the controversial decision to release anonymized school-by-school vaccination data as the measles virus made a return to the U.S. in multiple outbreaks. At the same time, she had to be encouraged by Lamont to release that data after telling reporters that she wouldn’t.

During the heated period of debate over whether to remove the state’s religious exemptions to vaccines, ColemanMitchell yelled at a reporter to stop taking her photo during a public hearing.

Sources say she’s been largely unwilling to do her job, which includes educating the public.

“I appreciate Commissioner ColemanMitchell’s willingness to join my administration and lead one of our most vital state agencies, which is responsible for overseeing so many critical public health needs,” Lamont said. “Her service over the last year has been a great deal of help, particularly in the face of the global COVID-19 pandemic that has brought disruption to many throughout the world.

I thank her for her advocacy on behalf of the health and safety of our residents, and for being a dedicated partner in service to the State of Connecticut.”

Lamont also announced that DSS Commissioner Deidre Gifford would become the acting Public Health commissioner.

“The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has required every state agency to even more closely align with each other and sync our operations to deliver a coordinated response for the people of Connecticut.

I am determined to continue these efforts for the duration of our emergency response and beyond,” Gifford said.

Mounds said there are likely to be more changes in leadership at DPH in the coming weeks.

Reopen Connecticut Advisory Committee Grows

by Christine Stuart Ct. News Junkie

HARTFORD, CT — Gov. Ned Lamont’s Reopen Connecticut Advisory Committee has grown, but no one is talking about how it happened or where someone can go to apply to become a member.

On April 23 when Lamont announced his Reopen committee there were about 46 members.

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However, when a subcommittee of the group met for the first time in public on Monday, there were more members. There were initially nine members of the education subcommittee, at least two people appear to have been added: Robert Rader, executive director of the Connecticut Association of Boards of Education, and; Fran Rabinowitz, executive director of the Connecticut Association of Public School Superintendents.

How does one become a member of this committee that’s advising Lamont on when to reopen schools and the economy?

“Right now every interested group is talking to the Reopening Committee in regards to their particular industry or faith leaders, nurses, so we’re reaching out from that point of view,” Lamont said Monday.

He said the committee now has more than 48 people so it’s already “a little unwieldy.”

At the moment, he said he’s not interested in adding more people. However, the point of the question during the briefing Monday – which was made clear on follow-up – was more about transparency and how the new members got onto the committee in the first

Not sure what it will look like after May 20

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Gov. Ned Lamont place. That question remains unanswered.

Aside from the April 23 press release, there’s no information about what changes may have been made to the membership of the committee, which is expected to advise Lamont about when and how the economy and schools should reopen.

The first phase of the reopening includes outdoor restaurant service, outdoor museums, retail space (like malls), and hair salons and barber shops. The guidance for reopening those industries was posted over the weekend, but seems to be changing by the minute.

Late Monday, NBC Connecticut reported that Lamont changed his guidance for hair salons and will now allow them to use hair dryers. Initially, use of hair dryers was

banned based on the idea that they would help spread the virus through air movement.

“We talked to a lot of salon owners and there was a lot of trepidation about opening up a hair salon even on a very selective basis,” Lamont said Monday afternoon. “I was told that the idea of a hair dryer is more likely to be able to spread the germs and employees and customers agree it’s probably the safest protocol to not allow it for now.”

That seems to have changed.

House Minority Leader Themis Klarides, R-Derby, said knowledge gives people confidence, even if they don’t agree with your policy. She said the lack of transparency and details has been the hallmark of

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the Lamont administration.

“People are never going to agree with every decision any of us makes, but what they need to have is confidence and all the details about what they should and shouldn’t be doing and what they can expect,” Klarides said Monday.

Lamont said he’s not sure what it will look like after May 20, which is the date of the first of the four phases of the reopening.

He said constituencies like parents and students interested in the reopening of schools “have been actively involved in discussions about what we’re doing going forward.”

“I’m not sure what the life is of this committee right now. It might be reaching the end,” Lamont said.

Deputy Minority Leader Vincent Candelora, R-North Branford, said the Lamont administration has departed from the traditional notion of open government.

He said he appreciates the back and forth he’s having with the chairs of the Reopen Advisory Committee, “but there needs to be a more formalized process.”

He said legislators are getting bombarded with questions they’re unable to answer.

“It’s starting to take on the flavor of the Star Chamber,” Candelora said.

Lamont, who has said from the very beginning that the committee is simply advisory, said he will be making the decisions when it comes to reopening.

“We have the clearest rules right now of any state in the country,” Lamont said Monday. “We’re sending out our protocols to others.”

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Covid Warrior, 92, Beats The Odds

by PAUL BASS

New Haven I ndependent

Four generations gathered on a Beaver Hills lawn Monday afternoon to witness a miracle: Frances Younger was coming home.

Frances Younger wasn’t supposed to come home.

She had been sick since April 15, in the hospital since April 28. She had Covid-19. She had pneumonia too —viral and bacterial. She had fluid around her heart. Her kidneys were failing.

She couldn’t eat. She could barely breathe; at one point she was on six liters of oxygen.

At 92 years old, Frances Younger was well past the age at which people are presumed to have a realistic chance of surviving this pandemic.

Those statistical projections don’t take into account individual human beings with names, like Frances Younger. Or the multitude of prayers that kept knocking on the doors of divine decision.

Frances moved to New Haven in the early 1960s from her native West Virginia with her late husband Melvin, a coal miner. She raised her kids here, ran a daycare, worked in a factory until the glue gave her asthma. Then she got to work raising her grandchildren.

Two and a half years ago, Frances suffered a fall. She needed to live somewhere with handicapped access. Her daughter, Cindy Williams, has a ramp outside her house on Ella Grasso Boulevard. So mom moved in.

Cindy’s brother Melvin was living there too. Cindy’s sister, Carol Fletcher, moved in recently after a fire at her home.

Frances was back with three of her children — who, every one of them, proceeded to come down with Covid-19.

“We all lost our taste and smell. We all had these little slight coughs. I think I had it the worst of everybody,” Carol said. “I had these really bad body aches and chills.”

Carol and Cindy, who have jobs at Yale (Carol as a senior administrator for a plastic surgeon, Cindy as an account assistant at the medical school), were already working from home since the Covid-19 shutdown. Now they were quarantined and continually checking Frances for fear that the coronavirus would catch her, too.

Sure enough, by mid-April, Frances started exhibiting shortness of breath.

Loose stools. She stopped eating and drinking.

Her condition worsened. She was admitted to Yale New Haven Hospital’s St. Raphael campus on April 28.

Doctors informed the family that Frances suffered from multiple dangerous conditions on top of Covid-19, including the heart problem and the two forms of pneumonia.

“Her numbers don’t look good,” the

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doctors informed the family. “Her numbers, her labs, do not line up.” Then the doctors went over resuscitation orders and plans for what appeared to be a likely end to a long life well lived.

The children called out their “warriors.”

“Start praying,” Cindy instructed friends in New Haven, Frances’ friends from St. Matthew’s UFWB Church on Dixwell Avenue, her beloved Pastor Kevin Hardy, another friend in North Carolina. Cindy was specific in her instructions, laying out Frances’ conditions that required healing.

They Zoomed every morning with Frances. They prayed with her. Old friends Wade and Lillian Townsend sang “Blessed Assurance” and “Amazing Grace.” Frances sang with them. She didn’t want to die.

She was praying too: “I was praying to get out of there!”

Sure enough, her oxygen levels improved. Death wasn’t quite ready for Frances after all.

Her children got the word Frances was coming home. And they got ready.

By 3 p.m. Monday, Cindy and Carol and

Melvin waited by the front door for an ambulance crew to return their mom.

Frances’ grandson Dion showed up.

Then great-granddaughter Latea, along with great-great grandson Terrence.

The sky darkened every few minutes.

Then it brightened. Then it darkened again. Frances was coming; so was a thunderstorm.

A crack sounded above.

“Hold it back, Lord!” Cindy called out.

The phone rang: The ambulance crew was leaving the hospital.

It arrived along with the first raindrops.

The thunder and heavy rain held back as Frances’s family pulled out cellphones.

“Oh my god! Mama’s coming home!”

As the crew wheeled toward and up the ramp to the back door, Frances said she hadn’t expected to be coming home.

“I feel good,” she said.

The family settled her inside. Asked what she would like next, she said she hopes to see more of her eight grands, great-grands, and great-great-grands.

She said she wants to see Pastor Hardy.

Cindy promised to make it happen.

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Alana Ladson Paints Through the Pandemic

by Rachel Ababio, The ARTS Paper www.newhavenarts.org

It’s the dark of night. A lone screen illuminates the room in a blue glow.

Through computers, eyes watch a woman sit in front of a blank canvas.

Lucky Daye’s dulcet tones dance in the air. She’s an artist—you can tell by the curved way she grips her brush, how she dusts acrylic on eggshell white, creating life out of nothing.

That artist is Alana Ladson, a painter who is also known for her role as youth operations coordinator at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. Last week, the lifelong New Havener was one of over 40 creatives to participate in At Home in New Haven, a citywide virtual stage founded by Anthony Allen, Emalie Mayo, Hope Chávez and Paul Bryant Hudson earlier this year.

When Ladson isn’t making art, she is facilitating the EVOLUTIONS Afterschool Program (EVO) at the Peabody.

This spring, she got involved with At Home in New Haven through Hudson, a musician and artist who she has known for 15 years. In a recent interview, he explained that one of the program’s goals was to give local artists a stage when many of them are suddenly out of work.

“These are folks who make a livelihood outside of institutional, traditional, or professional spaces,” he said. “Even the barriers around navigating things like the unemployment application for someone who makes their entire living outside of that world is huge. Artists have found themselves, not for the first time, and not for the last, in a state of absolute crisis.”

Hudson added that Ladson’s artwork gives him an acute sense of her personality. While the two have been friends for over a decade, he knows her partly

through her craft, which he greatly admires.

“It speaks really clearly for her, and I really appreciate and value the intentionality around that,” he said. “The things she creates are really beautiful reflections of her, and I think that speaks to me. I love to see my friends and people I know and appreciate walking in their absolute truth.”

Ladson’s truth speaks clearly to not only Hudson but to multitudes in the city, where she was born and raised. In 2016, the artist displayed her solo exhibition Queens at the New Haven Free Public Library. She has also showcased

her work with New York’s Young Brown Collective and sold pieces with Yale’s African Student Association, the New Haven Night Market, CURLFEST NYC, and Ankara Bazaar NYC. Ladson’s biggest artistic inspirations stem from black women and nature. As a child, she chafed at the the lack of pictorial representation she saw around her— no images truly delineated her lived experience. These frustrations persisted into adulthood. The absence of black women in art—the absence of herself— fueled feelings of hurt and insecurity.

Ladson explained that she wanted to see “more women and more melanin in these

soft, vulnerable positions.” Her art creates what she never found.

That approach extends to her professional work. Every year, she organizes an exhibit for her students at the Yale Peabody with that same practice in mind.

In 2018, she helped curate Ladies First, an exhibition of women of color in science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM. She said that she wants viewers of her work to come away with the same new realization—that they too can have a seat at the artistic table. She hopes people will see her work and “feel seen.”

Ladson currently instructs EVO programs through her computer screen; when COVID-19 enforced closures hit New Haven in March, the Peabody closed its doors. She misses her students’ presence. She worries about the New Haven creatives that she sees struggling financially. But she also described the extra time she has to create as “my silver living to come out of this mess.”

Wednesday, she brought that verve to her class, an hour-long live painting demo beamed out to Zoom screens around the city. As she was settling into it, she explained that she wanted her viewers to feel a sense of inner peace and tranquility.

Quiet R&B and Chillhop flowed through the space. Warm light illuminated the canvas and her lithe figure. While Ladson later said that she was anxious, it didn’t show: She flashed a smile at her camera, gripped a brush between her index finger and thumb, and struck the canvas with a bold stroke of paint.

“When people look at my art, what I want them to see is calm, peace, beauty, relaxation,” she said. “The idea is to look at it and think ‘hmm,’”—Ladson stretched her body back and closed her eyes—“that’s really nice.”

As she painted, a form began to take shape. She swirled her brush in water then dipped it into brown acrylic. Brush hit canvas—it was a bust of a woman, dark-skinned against a white backdrop.

Creamy pink formed large, smiling lips.

A fan brush doused in black fashioned a tuft of hair. Ladson detailed monarch butterflies at the painting’s edge.

By the end of the session, she had forged a space for herself before viewers’ eyes. All proceeds from the demo went to the CT-CORE Mutual Aid Fund.

“I felt empowered,” Ladson said after the session. “I’m used to live paintings.

It was a little different not having people bunched up or just around, that common peek over your shoulder, but I didn’t mind it … live painting is always fun for me, whether it’s virtual or in person. It’s just fun to see something come to life on something that used to be blank and white.”

“Suddenly, it’s full of color and has meaning,” she added. “It’s beautiful.

Hopefully, everybody will have taken something away from it.”

In the future, Ladson wants to develop both her digital and traditional art in hopes of illustrating a children’s book and becoming an animator. Recently, she was accepted into Cartoon Network’s mentorship program “Black Women Animate.” She attended last October in LA. “It was the coolest experience ever, and it nailed down that I want to do art for the rest of my life,” she said. “So, whether I’m animating, painting, illustrating, or all of the above, it’s happening, and I’m never letting it go.”

Follow Ladson’s work at @alanaladsonart on Instagram or at her Etsy page.

understanding of the virus.

Elicker took the self-administered test by putting a swab one to two inches inside each of his nostrils and rotating it 15 times.

Then placed the swab in its original packaging and handed it off to medical staff to get tested.

In the parking lot of Jordan’s Furniture, Elicker and others awaited the rapid test results.

The Long Wharf testing site is the only one in the city with the Abbott rapid molecular ID NOW test for Covid-19. This allows for a diagnosis to be made with the return of results in no more than a half-hour.

After waiting nervously about ten minutes, Elicker received the call for his negative test results.

“I was going to do a Facebook Live but I decided I wanted this private moment to

myself in the car,” he said.

Elicker also said the city is continuing to look into putting together more testing sites.

Elicker’s hope is to have the city ramp up its testing of asymptomatic people in the near future, he said. Mayoral spokesperson Gage Frank said city residents need access only to a phone to make an appointment at the Long Wharf site. Individuals without cars can call 211 to have a taxi bring them to the site, with a protected driver. Frank said the taxi drivers can also provide gloves and a mask to those in need of them. After every use, the taxis are sanitized completely. Those without internet access can call 211 to have the health department book a testing appointment for them as well.

Artist Alana Ladson at work. Rachel Ababio screenshots, from Zoom.

Mayor Tests Negative

by MAYA MCFADDEN

In hopes of encouraging the community to get tested for Covid-19 at any of New Haven’s five sites, Mayor Justin Elicker was swabbed and received an answer in less than a half hour Tuesday morning at the CVS rapid-testing site at 60 Sargent Dr. The result: Negative for the coronavirus.

While going through the pre-test questionnaire with a medical professional from his car, Elicker explained having little to no Covid symptoms besides “a little bit” of a cough.

“I just wanted to show how easy it is,” the mayor said.

Elicker encouraged everyone who is symptomatic or not to schedule an appointment to get tested at any of the city sites so medical professionals can get a better

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State Receives 60 Days’ Worth of PPE

by Christine Stuart Ct. News Junkie

NEW BRITAIN, CT — Half a million protective masks, 6 million surgical masks, 100,000 surgical gowns and 100,000 thermometers have been delivered to a warehouse in Connecticut.

Gov. Ned Lamont, who toured the warehouse where it will be counted and shipped out to frontline workers, said the supply would last for 60 days.

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“Amazon ain’t got nothing on us,” Lamont bragged at a press briefing inside the warehouse.

The personal protective equipment, which has been in short supply, is one of the largest deliveries the state has received since the beginning of the coronavirus outbreak.

“We learned pretty early on that Connecticut would have to take the lead on this ourselves,” Lamont said.

But it wasn’t easy. The shipment from China took awhile to make its way to Connecticut.

“We worked every relationship we could find in and around China,” Lamont said.

“That’s where almost all the PPE, the masks and the gowns are produced.”

He said he’s grateful to the people of China.

“Today marks another important step as we continue to battle the novel coronavirus,” Lamont said. “I want to personally thank the Chinese people for their continued support during this public health crisis. I would especially like to thank the China Construction Bank for helping facilitate this shipment and for their generous donation. Further cooperation and col-

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Gov. Ned Lamont and Lt. Gov. Susan Bysiewicz get the tour of the warehouse

laboration between the United States and China is very important as we navigate this global pandemic.”

Lt. Gov. Susan Bysiewicz said that in one day, this shipment eclipsed all of the combined PPE that the state had received up to May 11.

“This is the culmination of nearly two months of hard work,” Bysiewicz said.

The PPE will be distributed by state agen-

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cies and the National Guard through the unified command structure.

But with the first phase of reopening only a week away, Lamont said businesses are largely on their own to get PPE for their staff.

“Look, it’s their job to see if they can get their own PPE. That’s true of not-forprofits, that’s true of nursing homes, that’s true of small businesses,” Lamont said.

“We are here as a backstop. I think we’re one hell of a backstop right now.”

As of Monday, Lamont said more than 15 million pieces of PPE had been distributed by the state since March.

Connecticut has 33,765 confirmed cases and it reached a grim milestone Monday announcing that 3,008 residents had died.

The number of hospitalizations dropped again to 1,212, and the number of new tests reported also dropped, from 6,623 on Sunday to 2,316 on Monday.

Over the weekend, the Connecticut Department of Public Health distributed the state’s first allotment of remdesivir to acute care hospitals. The medication, produced by Gilead Sciences Inc., has shown promise in helping patients infected with COVID-19. It was recently authorized by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for patients who have severe symptoms of COVID-19.

So far, the state has received 30 cases of 40 doses each, for a total of 1,200 doses.

The Lamont administration is working to secure more doses for the state. Gilead has committed to supplying approximately 607,000 vials of remdesivir over the next six weeks to the United States. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is allocating those supplies to the states.

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STOUT Makes It All Alright

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STOUT had summoned the ghost of Nina Simone.

On stage, she leaned her whole body into the mic, then threw her head back. Blue-green light flooded the room, bouncing off a silver sequined dress. For a moment, her face was soaked in the glow. She moved her arms skyward, collapsed whole decades of music history, and ushered in Kendrick.

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“We gon’ be alright,” she crooned, vocals soaring.

“We gon’ be alright.”

Friday, STOUT blessed New Haven for 45 minutes straight, performing an intimate tribute to the late Nina Simone as part of At Home in New Haven (AHiNH).

Beamed out from Kennies Earl Kreative House on Shelton Aveneue, the concert was one of over 40 that packed the inaugural week of the program, a virtual stage for the city’s artists, chefs, gardeners, writers and musicians.

“It is my intention, our intention, to bring you joy in this time,” she said Friday. “Take away what you will.

But take joy and peace … [because] once this thing lifts, we gotta hit the ground running.”

Born and raised in New Haven, STOUT has been performing for her entire life, first in church and school choirs and later on international stages with Alicia Keys, Stevie Wonder, Missy Elliot, Usher, Childish Gambino and others. Three years ago, she joined Cory Henry and The Funk Apostles, with whom she has been traveling since. She has released gospel music, including her 2015 Awakened, under the name Denise Renee.

Maybe for that reason, Friday felt like home and homecoming. As dusk crept over the city, STOUT swept onto the Shelton Avenue stage, dressed head to toe in shimmering silver. If her audience was several screens away, it didn’t feel like it: she was ready to sing in the spirit of Queen Nina, and for a moment the performance felt so close one could almost forget the reality of shuttered venues, dry taps and virtual tip jars. Almost.

A neat huddle of equipment sat to her right. She glowed at the center of the room, reaching into a bag of tricks that included backup singers, multiple cameras, and a mixture of prayer, poetry and looping that could bring the biggest internet-as-performance skeptic to their knees. As she eased into her set, she praised Simone for her lasting impact on the world.

The musician seemed to move through her body, a force shifting and pulsing with the light in the background. As viewers eased into the performance, she wailed a simmering, slow-burning version of “Feeling Good” that flowed right into “Alright,” layering two whip-smart lyricists and musical truth tellers across decades.

“If Nina was here, I think she’d say ‘we gon’ be alright,’” she half-said, half-sang. She wasn’t performing for audience members. She was ministering to them.

She broke through the heavy of the week, singing Simone’s sheer will and power into the moment. It felt right on time: for the fear and loneliness of isolation that quarantine breeds, for a virus that has taken over 70,000 American lives and may take many more as states reopen, for a country that allows guns—in white hands—but not protest signs into multiple state capitol buildings.

Nina Simone would not have been shy about the fact that the COVID-19 pandemic joins the 400-year long epidemic and public health crisis that is anti-Black racism, and STOUT wasn’t either. This was an homage to an artist who contained multitudes—who could release song birds from her throat in one breath and describe “real girls’ talk” as “Marx, Lenin and revolution” in another.

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That sense of benediction flowed through the night, anointing everything it touched. At one point, dancers Jolie Diamond and Adjovi Simpini joined her onstage, filling the frame with movement and bright, brilliant color. At another, she lifted a book of poetry and read Nikki Giovanni’s “No Heaven,” taking time to let each line soak in for listeners who were scattered across tens of screens, at their couches and dinner tables and kitchen counters.

“How can there be no heaven if God created a voice like that?” she asked no one in particular, still holding the words close. Moments later, she added, “I hope it will reach her family.”

Close to 30 minutes in, she set a loop into motion, vocals lush and layered as they filled the room. Then she stepped back, and began to wail. It took a second to realize it was “The Lord’s Prayer,” performed with enough teeth and heart to bring a listener straight to church. With each note, the prayer seemed to radiate further, reaching somewhere that was both New Haven and far beyond New Haven.

Moments later, she launched into The Band’s “I Shall Be Released,” which Simone covered two years after Bob Dylan initially wrote and recorded the song. As she gave herself over to the lyrics—I see my light come shining/From the West down to the East—they became her own.

She crooned them at a whisper, then released them as bolts of silk into the room. She let her voice bloom and tear right through the space, just as it does on many of her gospel tracks.

Then she wrapped herself in her arms, a gesture that she urged the audience to do at home. She began to minister one last time before the video feed, run by AHiNH organizer and musician Paul Bryant Hudson, concluded.

“I hope it brought you some joy,” she said. “No matter what you’re going through, we’re gonna get through this. And it’s gonna be over ... we don’t have to live in fear.”

Follow STOUT at @threestout on Instagram or at her website.

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NAACP Launches #WeAreDoneDying Campaign, Empowering Black and Brown Communities to Take Action Against Senseless Killings of African Americans ture, our community members face tough choices as access to food, good jobs, and a quality education slips further away,” said Derrick Johnson, president and CEO, NAACP. “These issues are compounded by the lack of strong leadership from the White House. In the absence of adequate guidance, Black lives are adversely affected. We will no longer stand idle as our people suffer discrimination, marginalization, and are offered as disposable for poor decisions by this Administration.”

As the incidence of COVID-19 cases and deaths rise, the Black community is experiencing the worst outcomes. With more confirmed cases and deaths than any other country, African Americans are facing the brunt of this virus. The numbers continue to rise each day while states reopen non-essential businesses with little to no evidence that the country is ready.

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Washington, D.C. (May 7, 2020) – The NAACP, the nation’s foremost social justice organization, has launched a campaign entitled #WeAreDoneDying, aimed at exposing the inequities embedded into the American healthcare system and the country at large. From COVID-19 to running while Black in America, the abuse faced by people of color, particularly African Americans is devastating.

The campaign is a Call-to-Action and highlights the NAACP’s policy interests and supported legislation for African Americans and people of color, a large demographic that is often left out of recovery effort conversations. The integrated and interactive content will create actionable steps for people to feel empowered by demanding action from their state’s elected officials on issues such as healthcare, education, criminal justice, economic justice, and voting rights.

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nified the deep-seated racial disparity in America embedded in all aspects of life,” said Leon W. Russell, Chairman, NAACP Board of Directors. “The NAACP Empowerment Programs’ 111 years of advocacy and fighting for the rights of Black people positions us to lead the fight for our community’s interest during this time of uncertainty.”

Learn how you can join and get involved with the campaign by visiting NAACP.org.

Founded in 1909, the NAACP is the nation’s oldest and largest nonpartisan civil rights organization. Its members throughout the United States and the world are the premier advocates for civil rights in their communities. You can read more about the NAACP’s work and our six “Game Changer” issue areas here.

This article originally appeared in The Afro.

Rep. Waters Stands with Amazon Workers

LOS ANGELES – Congresswoman Maxine Waters (CA-43) issued a statement of support for Amazon employees and other frontline workers who are protesting unfair treatment at many grocery stores, factories, warehouses, delivery companies, and retail stores across the country during the coronavirus pandemic: “I am proud to declare my strong and unwavering support for the unsung heroes of the coronavirus pandemic: our frontline workers. These hardworking men and women are risking their lives on a daily basis to ensure that our families and communities have the food, medication, household items, and services that we are relying upon to survive the coronavirus pandemic.

“It is unconscionable that many employees of Amazon – one of the wealthi-

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est companies in America – are coming forward and expressing the inhumane and unsafe work conditions they are enduring during this pandemic. Many of them still lack the personal protective equipment (PPE) they need to safely do their jobs, and others have indicated that Amazon has outright failed to adhere to commonsense Centers for Disease Control (CDC) guidelines for workplaces that have been directly impacted by the coronavirus. As a result, on March 31st, Amazon reported that an operations manager at the facility in Hawthorne, California in the 43rd District died from complications with COVID-19. This is a tragic and avoidable consequence. Such incompetence and negligence is absolutely unacceptable, a sentiment shared by at least one Amazon executive, who

recently resigned in protest of the company’s treatment of workers.

“I am grateful to my constituents, labor unions, and workers in communities all across this country who are shining a light on the dire working conditions that far too many frontline workers are confronted with during this pandemic. The recent reports of COVID-19 deaths and infections that may have been caused by inadequate health and safety measures at many of our national, regional, and local businesses must not be overlooked. As my colleagues and I continue to fight for increased funding for testing and PPE for workers in the next round of coronavirus relief funding, I will be holding virtual meetings with workers and labor union leaders in my District to discuss what else can be done at the federal level

prevent the deadly spread of this virus amongst our frontline workers.

“As we witness the demonstrations and calls to action that are taking place all around this country in support of our workers, we must all do our part. If our frontline workers can get up every day and place their lives on the line, we have a responsibility to exercise social distancing, hand washing, mask wearing, and other preventative measures that will help us curtail the spread of COVID-19.

I urge everyone in our community to follow the guidance of the experts and join us in the fight to protect our frontline workers and our community from this deadly pandemic.”

Congresswoman Maxine Waters (DCA), Chairwoman of the House Financial Services Committee.

Andre Harrell, Legendary Music Executive, Dies at 59

By Nsenga K. Burton, Ph.D, NNPA Newswire Culture and Entertainment Editor

The Twitterverse is in mourning after reports legendary music executive Andre Harrell was found dead in his Los Angeles apartment. The Bronx native was one half of the rap duo Dr. Jeckyl and Mr. Hyde.

In the early 1980s, Harrell joined Russell Simmons at Def Jam Records, eventually becoming Vice President and General Manager. In 1986, Harrell left Def Jam Records to start his own label, Uptown Records at MCA, which became the sound of 1990s Hip-Hop Soul.

At Uptown, Harrell signed Heavy D and the Boyz, Marly Marl, Al B. Sure, and Guy

among others. It is at Uptown Records where Harrell famously discovered future music mogul Sean “P Diddy” Combs, who started at the company as an intern and rose to the ranks of a Vice-President of A&R signing such acts as Mary J. Blige, Jodeci and Father MC. Harrell also served as an Executive Producer for the FOX television hit New York Undercover (19941989). Harrell fired Combs, who left to form Bad Boy Records bringing Hip-Hop legend Notorious B.I.G. with him and signing Total, Faith Evans, 112, Craig Mack, and a host of other artists. Despite the breakup, Combs and Harrell remained lifelong friends.

After Combs’ departure, Mary J. Blige

and Jodeci also left the label, leaving Uptown with declining sales. In 1995, Harrell left Uptown Records to join iconic record company Motown Records with Heavy D becoming CEO of Uptown. Harrell, who had been paid $20 million to sign with Motown, was fired two years later in 1997, taking a $5 million payout with him.

In 2014, Andre Harrell and Combs reunited, with Harrell becoming Vice-Chairman of Revolt TV & Media, Combs’ multi-platform music network. Harrell was also a producer on Revolt‘s wildly popular show “State of the Culture.” At REVOLT, Harrell oversaw the REVOLT Music Conference (RMC) and produced and hosted the show, “Music Talks” where he interviewed

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music legends like L.A. Reid, Babyface, Nas, Queen Latifah and Sean Combs. At the time of his death, the entertainment powerhouse was working on a 3-part-series about Uptown Records for BET Networks. A pioneer of Hip-Hop Soul and a major figure in black R&B music and television soundtracks, Harrell was 59.

This story is developing. Check for updates on Twitter @TheBurtonWire.

This post was written by Nsenga K. Burton, Ph.D., founder & editor-in-chief of The Burton Wire. Follow her on Twitter @ Ntellectual.

This article originally appeared in The Burton Wire.

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Georgia Man Ahmaud Arbery, Shot and Killed — Jogging While Black

By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior Correspondent

Add jogging while Black to the evergrowing list of reasons African Americans continue to be shot down senselessly by armed White men, supposedly under the color of law.

Twenty-five-year-old Georgia resident Ahmaud Arbery was shot and killed while jogging after a former police officer and his son chased him down because they “thought he looked like the suspect in a recent string of break-ins.”

The incident took place two months ago but has come to light after Civil Rights Attorney Lee Merritt and Arbery’s mother, Wanda Cooper, appeared on CNN this week to call for justice.

Cooper said police originally told her that her son was involved in a burglary.

They claimed that there was a confrontation between Arbery and the homeowner and a struggle over a gun.

The incident took place in Brunswick, a southeast coastal town in Glynn County that’s less than five hours from Atlanta.

So far, there have been no charges filed against the former officer, Gregory McMichael, and his son, Travis McMichael.

CNN and other media have reached out to the McMichael’s for comment but

were told they wouldn’t comment because of “an ongoing investigation.”

Reportedly, two district attorneys have recused themselves over possible conflicts of interest, one of whom wrote that Travis McMichael acted out of self-defense, and their actions fell within Georgia’s citizen arrest laws.

“The decision to rely on the citizen’s arrest statute is really a recent invention, prior to that they just simply said it was

Shooters Finally Arrested For Killing 25-Year Old Black Man Who Was Jogging Through His Own Neighborhood

self-defense,” Merritt told CNN, adding that the men are trying to use the law to say they were trying to stop a crime.

“According to that law, you actually have to be observing the crime or be in the immediate knowledge of the crime,” Merritt said. “The only thing they have ever said is… that (Arbery) stopped by a house that was under construction and he looked through the window. We don’t know if that happened or not, but even if

that did happen, that is not a felony that would invoke the citizen’s arrest statute that would make this allowable.”

After the shooting, Gregory McMichael told police he saw the same man “the other night” and that he stuck his hand down his pants on that occasion, leading McMichael to believe he was armed, according to the police report.

After seeing Arbery jogging, McMichael then alerted his 34-year-old son, Travis, according to a Glynn County Police report.

“Travis, the guy is running down the street, let’s go,” McMichael said, according to the report.

The two grabbed a shotgun and a pistol and followed Arbery in their truck, police said. Travis McMichael, the driver, followed Arbery and then attempted to cut him off, the report continued. Arbery turned around and began running in the opposite direction, the police report said.

They chased Arbery to a nearby intersection where they caught up to him. The men claimed they told Arbery to stop because they wanted to talk to him.

Travis McMichael then exited the truck with the shotgun, and his father claimed at that point Arbery “violently attacked” his son, and they struggled over the gun.

Travis McMichael fired two shots, ac-

men in their vehicle. One of the men had a shot gun, and as Arbery appeared to be defending himself, he was then shot at least twice.

It took more than two months for it to happen, but after the video was leaked and the case began receiving high profile attention from the like of Democratic Nominee Joe Biden, CNN reports that the two aggresors were finally taken into custody and booked into the Glynn County Jail.

Civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump said that it was outrageous that it took this long for the pair to be arrested.

“It’s a travesty of justice that they enjoyed their freedom for 74 days after taking the life of a young Black man who was simply jogging,” he told reporters.

“Arbery’s family deserves justice,” Clarke stated.

Merritt added that McMichael and his son only had the authority to follow Arbery and send law enforcement to the location. They had no authority to engage him.

The 911 calls show a dispatcher questioning McMichael as to what, if anything, Arbery was doing to break the law.

“They didn’t give any answer for that,” Merritt told CNN. “They said, ‘He’s a Black man running down our road.’”

Coalition of Civil Rights Leaders Support CBC in Protecting Black Health

By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior Correspondent

Nationwide — Gregory McMichael and his son, Travis McMichael, two of the men involved in the shooting of Ahmaud Arbery, have finally been arrested.

Arbery was killed back in February in Glynn County, Georgia, by the men who pursued him because they thought he “looked suspicious.”

Arbery, a 25-year old African American who was a known jogger in the area, was reportedly jogging through the neighborhood when the men decided that they were going to make a citizen’s arrest because they suspected him to be a robber.

Gregory says that before the situation escalated that he asked Ahmaud to “stop” so that they could talk. But video shows that a lot more happened then just that. The video shows that Arbery was aggresively being pursued by the two

cording to the police report, killing Arbery.

“What made a jogger look like a suspect besides his Black skin,” an outraged citizen named Gary Hughes wrote on Twitter.

“Why are these murderers not in jail awaiting trial for murder? If he looked suspicious, call the cops, don’t grab a shotgun and a pistol,” stated Hughes, who joined more than 1,000 individuals to either comment on or view a Twitter posting of the incident by Kristen Clarke, the president and executive director of the National Lawyer’s Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.

WASHINGTON, D.C., May 3, 2020 – National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) President and CEO, Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr., National Action Network (NAN) Founder Rev. Al Sharpton, Dr. Julianne Malveaux, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), National Coalition of 100 Black Women, and the Black Women’s Health Imperative, are up in arms because they say too many Washington politicians are protecting insurance company profits over health care for African Americans.

Collectively, they argue that too often, insurance companies refuse to cover emergency services, and either patients are forced to pay bills they cannot afford, or hospitals are shuttering.

Congress claims to be tackling this challenge, but until the Congressional Black Caucus got involved, Congress focused only on protecting insurer profits, not people, according to the coalition.

Chavis, Sharpton, and others are throwing their support behind the CBC. They’re asking that others also support the CBC. Led by Chair Karen Bass (D-Calif.),

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the 55-member CBC has worked almost non-stop in fighting for health equity in the African American community.

The CBC works to protect and expand voting rights, comprehensive criminal justice reform, building a more inclusive economy, and ensuring access to quality and affordable healthcare.

A primary focus of the CBC remains to target insurance companies that have disproportionately neglected the needs of African Americans while also providing below standard care.

“This outrageous situation benefits one group and one group alone: powerful insurance executives, who have managed to get off the financial hook for such bills, even as insurers shrink insurance coverage networks to wring more and more profits out of the system,” Chavis has stated.

He and the other leaders have continued to express strong opposition to any legislation that would give insurers more control over health care prices.

In their continued push for health equality, the group is working to ensure that insurance companies Expand their networks and cover more emergency services. This will maintain access to care in hard-hit Black communities. “The status quo means hospitals in our communities close first,” the group noted in a statement.

“We cannot let this happen. Together, we can ensure that the old way of doing business – putting insurance company profits over people – STOPS.” They continued: “Join us and support the CBC. Help us work to make sure Congress passes a bill that keeps us healthy and alive by allowing insurance networks to grow and cover lifesaving services.”

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The Fight for the 2020 Vote and the March to the Ballot Box

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Rowe-Finkbeiner added that Moms Rising has more than 1 million members spread out across all 50 states.

By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior Correspondent

Since the onset of COVID-19, voter registration in the United States has decreased by a whopping 90 percent.

Additionally, more than 18 million voters have been purged off the rolls since 2016, and, with the all-important 2020 General Election on the horizon, activists, and others, are working to ensure the registration of millions.

On Monday, May 4, The Transformative Justice Coalition (TJC) and the Voting Rights Alliance held a tele-townhall titled, “The Fight for the Vote 2020: Our March to the Ballot Box.” Broadcast over Facebook Live, the presentation featured panelists who agreed that the election process would be severely hindered unless strategies are developed for more robust voter outreach and empowerment.

Panelists included National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) President and CEO, Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr., TJC Founder, and President Barbara R. Arnwine, Esq., Moms Rising CEO Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner, and Vote.org CEO Andrea Hailey.

“A person without a vote is a person without protection,” stated Attorney Daryl D. Jones, TJC’s Board Chair, who served as a moderator.

The panelists tackled robust voter out-

She said mothers are high targets of voter suppression.

reach and registration strategies, media, and specialized outreach to purged voters and those on inactive lists, creating voter contact systems, onerous absentee ballot requirements, and voter identification.

“The struggle for voting rights continues in America even amidst the pandemic the struggle for the most fundamental right, the right to vote, continues,” Chavis stated.

“We have to be concerned that while we sit here tonight, there are tactics,

strategies, and efforts afloat in too many of these states to suppress the vote and to make people fearful of voting such was the case 50 years ago,” Chavis continued.

“We had to overcome those tactics of voter suppression, and we have to do it now,” he added.

No excuses, and no barriers should be in place for mail-in ballots, Arnwine stated.

“Vote by mail works for White people, but it doesn’t for a whole lot of people

of color,” she stated, adding that there were 1.3 million ballots mailed in Wisconsin, but 197,000 were not counted for various reasons, including the lack of postage stamps.

“In some of these states, they have this evil match law where if they don’t think your signature matches, they will not count your vote,” Arnwine said. “We have to be clear, you have to not only have vote-by-mail options and absentee balloting, but you have to have onsite, distances, and personal protective

“You change your name, and you get pushed off the rolls,” Rowe-Finkbeiner stated. “You have to check your status and make sure you have at least five friends ready to vote. The situation has never been more urgent.”

Hailey stated that Vote.org had team members working as late as 3 a.m. during recent primaries to monitor lastminute rule changes that affected voters.

“Confusion itself can be a voter suppression tactic, so we’re trying to cut through all of that noise to make sure there’s no confusion,” Hailey noted.

“We see it as our job to monitor this and to work with state and local officials to have an understanding of what the voter experience is going to look like. Every state should have no-excuse absentee voting. You should be able to have at least 20 days of early voting so that you don’t have these long lines like you saw in Wisconsin. People should not have to choose between their health and their ability to cast a ballot,” Hailey said.

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IN MEMORIAM: Little Richard, One of the Most Influential Founding Fathers of Rock n’ Roll, Dies at 87

By Lauren Victoria Burke, NNPA Newswire Contributor

Richard Wayne Penniman, better known as Little Richard, was one of the most influential singer songwriters in popular music. He was one of the founders of Rock n’ Roll in the 1950s and one of the most memorable performers in rock history. Little Richard was born in 1932 in Macon, Georgia.

“Tutti Frutti” (1955), one of Richard’s signature songs, became a hit reaching the No. 2 on the Billboard chart. Another hit, “Long Tall Sally” (1956), hit No. 1 on Billboard. “Tutti Frutti” was added to the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress in 2010 and cited for its “unique vocalizing over the irresistible beat announced a new era in music”. Two of his songs,”Tutti Frutti” and “Good Golly, Miss Molly” were listed on the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll.

Little Richard’s music was covered by several artists thereafter and his influence included The Beatles, who opened for Little Richard as he toured Europe in 1962. He also advised Paul McCartney on his distinctive vocalizations. Little Richard influenced Otis Redding, James Brown, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, John Lennon and Cliff Richard and those influences frequently showed up in their music.

Legend has it that James Brown came

up with the Famous Flames debut hit, “Please, Please, Please”, after Richard had written the words down on a napkin.

Redding started his professional career with Little Richard’s band, The Upsetters. Bob Dylan performed covers of Little Richard’s songs on piano during a high school talent show with his rock and roll group, the Golden Chords. In 1959, Dylan wrote in his yearbook under “Ambition”: “to join Little Richard.”

Many Rock critics noted the similarities between Prince’s androgynous look and vocal style to Little Richard.

In 1963, Richard agreed to assist a failing tour effort by The Everly Brothers, Bo Diddley and The Rolling Stones and was given his own TV special after the tour ended.

Little Richard received all the honors possible in music. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as part of its first group of legendary inductees in 1986. He was also inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.

Little Richard is the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Recording Academy and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Rhythm and Blues Foundation. In 2015, Richard received a Rhapsody & Rhythm Award from the National Museum of African American Music for his key role in the formation of popular music genres and helping to bring an end to the racial divide on the music charts and in concert in the mid-1950s changing American culture significantly.

At the suggestion of Lloyd Price, Little Richard sent a demo to Price’s label, Specialty Records, in 1955. Producer Robert “Bumps” Blackwell, who worked at Specialty Records, thought Little Richard was Specialty’s answer to Ray Charles, but was told by Little Richard he was a fan of the sound of Fats Domino. In 1955, he recorded “Tutti Frutti” in three takes and it was released as a single in November 1955.

Penniman’s performances, like most early rock and roll shows, resulted in integrated audience reaction during an era of strict segregation in the South. On tours that included groups of music stars, Little Richard and other artists such as Fats Domino and Chuck Berry would allow audiences Black and white to enter

buildings via the same door but sit in separate places — but everyone would dance. Vocal supremacist groups such as the North Alabama White Citizens Council warned that rock and roll “brings the races together.” The universal popularity of Little Richard killed the myth that black performers could not successfully perform at white-only venues.

Little Richard’s high-energy performances while playing the piano included dancing on top of the piano, running on and off the stage and throwing souvenirs to the audience. He also dressed flamboyantly onstage. Some of what is taken for granted now in popular music was invented by Little Richard.

Little Richard was ranked eighth on its list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time and Rolling Stone listed three of Little Richard’s recordings, “The Girl Can’t Help It”, “Long Tall Sally” and “Tutti Frutti”, on their 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

Little Richard was the third of 12 children of Leva Mae and Charles Penniman. His father was a church deacon and his mother was a member of Macon’s New Hope Baptist Church.

Lauren Victoria Burke is an independent journalist for NNPA and the host of the podcast BURKEFILE. She is also a political strategist as Principal of Win Digital Media LLC. She may be contacted at LBurke007@gmail.com and on twitter at @LVBurke

Black-Owned Businesses demand share of federal dollars as COVID-19 rages on

By J. Cunningham, Special to Texas Metro News

The coronavirus pandemic has ravaged the U.S. economy, leaving scores of businesses in limbo and livelihoods in jeopardy.

And Black businesses – many of which were already fighting to access capital – are struggling to weather this economic disaster COVID-19 has wrought.

They are calling on the federal government to ensure that their companies aren’t wiped out by the pandemic’s onslaught.

Last month, the government passed the $2.2 trillion CARES Act, which was supposed to help support businesses and sustain underemployed and out-ofwork Americans. But business owners said the funding fell short. The $349 billion Paycheck Protection Program that was part of the CARES Act ran out of money in just two weeks, and multimillion-dollar chains extracted huge sums from the program. For example, Ruth’s Chris Steak House received $20 million, and the Potbelly Sandwich Shop got $10 million.

Smaller business owners meanwhile complained that they couldn’t get their

applications through.

Last week, the release of a second loan program to bolster businesses and revive the economy provides about $484 billion for small businesses, hospitals and additional testing. But Black business owners said funds need to be earmarked specifically for African American firms to ensure that their companies survive the pandemic.

“It’s clear that we’re taking the biggest hit, but we’re finding that the resources aren’t being given to the worst hit,” said Larry D. Ivory, president of the Illinois Black Chamber of Commerce, which represents 144,000 businesses, calling the phenomenon “pandemic racism.”

“It makes no sense. If you have devastation, you need to put money and resources into the people and places worst hit.”

Black-owned businesses already stand to be disproportionately impacted by the pandemic, reinforcing disparities in the United States. Some 40 percent of revenues from Black-owned businesses are in the top five most vulnerable sectors, including retail, leisure and hospitality, according to a report from the McKinsey Institute that was released earlier this month. Compared to other

businesses countrywide, just 25 percent of revenues are affected, the report says.

“We need relief economically,” said Regina Smith, the CEO of the nonprofit Harlem Business Alliance. “We cannot continue to support the continued de-

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mise of Black businesses.”

There are about 2.6 million Blackowned businesses in the United States, which employ about one million people, according to the U.S. Small Business Administration. These firms, many

of which are small, are considered to be the lifeblood of many communities.

They create jobs, they keep money in communities, and they provide residents with needed products and services.

But Black business owners said the COVID-19 pandemic will decimate their ranks if the government doesn’t step in to help keep them from shutting down. They need grants and loans on a hyper-local level that will help Black business owners with their immediate bills and keep them from having to furlough, fire, or cut the pay of employees.

They also need access to local, state and federal government contracts – and specifically, a “master contract” where the government awards money to a nonprofit, community-based partner, and that entity, in turn, identifies Black businesses to fulfill the contract, according to a white paper from the Black Business Empowerment Committee, a group of business owners, houses of worship and community groups committed to growing and sustaining Blackowned businesses.

Cunningham is a long-time journalist and editor in New York.

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OP-ED: Stop Excluding People of Color in Environmental Policies

By Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr., President and CEO, OF NNPA

The deadly destruction wrought by the coronavirus pandemic has laid bare the harsh inequities in American society, disproportionately ravaging Black America and other communities of color, as well as individuals who were on the social margins long before the crisis.

The inequities have surfaced in obvious ways, including early data released by states showing that the virus is killing African Americans at disproportionately high rates, a disturbing trend that illustrates the substandard availability of health care in Black America.

The inequities have also surfaced in subtle ways, such as policy decisions that fail to reflect the needs and day-to-day realities of low-income communities and communities of color. The irony is that many of these policies are well-meaning.

But in some cases, they also have had troubling unintended consequences.

Consider the area of environmental policy. Protecting the environment should be about protecting people, regardless of the color of their skin, ethnicity or race, or where they live or how much money they make. The fight to save our planet should be about ensuring a long and successful sustainable future – for everyone.

Yet, there are many in the mainstream environmental movement who continuously overlook the needs and realities faced by some of our most underserved and vulnerable communities. That includes the mainstream environmental advocacy community’s push to enforce plastic bags bans in favor of reusables, despite the fact that cardboard paper and other reusables pose a clear public health risk – especially for workers on the front lines of the pandemic response.

Why, for example, is it smart public

policy to insist that grocery workers be exposed to reusable bags, when research shows these bags can be repositories of the COVID-19 virus? The majority of these essential workers are low-income people of color who are disproportionately bearing the brunt of the COVID-19 crisis, dying from the deadly disease at twice the rate of white people.

Additionally, in New York, it is welldocumented that a statewide plastic bag ban also disproportionately hurts Black and Latino-owned businesses and shoppers. Though there is an exemption in this ban for recipients of benefits like WIC and food stamps from paying the five-cent tax on paper bags, workingclass people of color and low-income New Yorkers still must pay.

Some stores have been charging for both plastic and paper, and in some cases, more than five cents a bag. Five cents might not seem like much. But five cents (or more) per bag adds up, especially when one is living paycheckto-paycheck, or, as is more likely at this moment, not working at all due to the financial toll of the COVID-19 crisis.

Some environmentalists have argued that opponents of the bag ban are trying to capitalize on the COVID-19 crisis by recommending a suspension of any bag regulations. Again, it appears that some mainstream environmentalists only use research data to support policies that reflect their privileged vantage point without respect to the impact of those policies on the underprivileged.

I coined the term environmental racism in 1982 while involved in the Warren County, NC protests against the digging of a PCB landfill in the heart of a poor Black agricultural community. At that time there were some who thought that environmental issues were should not be considered as civil rights or as racial jus-

tice issues. There was in the past, and it continues in the current public discourse, a kind of arrogance by the privileged who think they know what is best for the underprivileged.

Today as the environmental justice movement has grown into a global campaign for change led by grassroots activists and leaders from people of color communities throughout the world, we all now know much more about the intersection between the issues of racial justice and environmental justice.

I recall vividly back in the late 1980’s when I co-authored and published the landmark study for the United Church of Christ Commission for Racial Justice: Toxic Waste and Race in the United States, the established environmental movement was unnerved that people of color would dare to do empirical re-

search and define our own reality with respect to exposures to environmental hazards. Our national study proved that there was a deliberate link between race and the placement of toxic waste facilities in America.

In adherence to a blind devotion to a privileged ideology, some who call themselves environmentalists often neglect to take into consideration the day-to-day concerns of millions of lowincome and Americans of color living in urban centers that are also communities that house hazardous sanitation sites, incinerators, rail yards, power plants and other environmental threats. Some mainstream environmental groups consistently insist on pushing for policies that make life harder for people of color and poor communities, arguing that the hardship – if they recognize it at all – is a

necessary price to pay in order to achieve their overall goals that those of privilege have exclusively envisioned as the standard for all others to obey.

As the pandemic continues, we need to let go of high-minded ideological arguments and do everything possible to protect workers on the front lines – including grocery clerks and those who make deliveries. Some states have temporarily lifted their bans or eradicated them altogether. A number of grocery stores are bringing back plastic bags and telling customers not to bring their own reusable bags.

Due to the crisis, New York has twice extended non-enforcement of its plastic bag ban in the face of a lawsuit that challenges its constitutionality. This is not enough. The state should give essential workers and shoppers alike a sense of protection during the pandemic and bag the plastic ban altogether.

More often than not, these life-changing decisions are being made without the consultation or input from the affected communities of color. Close to 40 years later we still remain on the outside of these conversations, continuously overlooked by many in the mainstream environmental movement as well as in local and state governments.

There is an obvious divide between the members of the mainstream environmentalism movement and the environmental justice community, primarily made up of urban Black and brown people. Until both parties can come together and pay the necessary attention to the pervasive environmental concerns that our communities endure on a daily basis the rift will only deepen, if not completely fracture. Exclusion of people of color will not solve the nation’s or the world’s environmental challenges.

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The program celebrates 10 years of empowering minority youth to be global leaders In accordance with the COVID-19 social distancing and stay-at-home guidelines set forth by Phil Murphy, governor of New Jersey, along with organization’s concern for the well-being of students and families, Glass-Campbell cancelled the original program formerly held at Princeton University.

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Large CT fence contractor seeking experienced painters. Must have at least 5 years’ experience staining and/or painting wood and cellular products. Work available 10-12 months per year. All necessary equipment provided. Medical, holiday, sick and vacation pay provided. Must pass a physical and drug test, have a valid CT driver’s license and be able to obtain a DOT medical card. Rates from $18.00 - $22.00 VALENTINA MACRI RENTAL HOUSING PRE- APPLICATIONS AVAILABLE per hour plus benefits.

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Please email resume to gforshee@atlasoutdoor.com AA/EOE/M-F HOME INC, on behalf of Columbus House and the New Haven Housing Authority, is accepting pre-applications for studio and one-bedroom apartments at this development located at 108 Frank Street, New Haven. Maximum income limitations apSeeking to employ experienced individuals in the foreman, operator and teamster ply. Pre-applications will be available from 9AMlabor, TO 5PM beginning Monday Ju;y trades for a heavy outside workand statewide. personal transportation (approximately and a valid drivers 25, 2016 ending Reliable when sufficient pre-applications 100) license have required. To apply please (860) 621-1720 or send resumeINC. to: Personnel Department, P.O. Box beencall received at the offices of HOME Applications will be mailied upon368, re- Cheshire, CT06410.

Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/V quest by calling HOME INC at 203-562-4663 during those hours. Completed preDrug Free Workforce applications must be returned to HOME INC’s offices at 171 Orange Street, Third Floor, New Haven, CT 06510.

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The Housing Authority of the City of New Haven d/b/a Elm City Communities is currently seeking Proposals for Indefinite Quantities Contract for Certified Hazardous Materials Abatement & General Contractor Services. A complete copy of the requirement may be obtained from Elm City Communities’ Vendor Collaboration Portal https://newhavenhousing.cobblestonesystems.com/gateway beginning on

Monday, May 11, 2020 at 3:00PM.

Listing: Commercial Driver

Quinnipiac Avenue, New Haven

Immediate need for a full time Class A driver for liquid asphalt deliveries for nights and weekends.

Previous experience required. Competitive wage, 401(k) and benefits. Send resume to: HR Manager, P. O. Box 388, Guilford, CT 06437.

Spacious 2 bedroom townhouses with hardwood floors. 1.5 baths. Select with basements and washer/dryer hookups. On-site laundry facility. Off street parking. Close proximity to restaurants, shopping centers and on bus line. No pets. Security deposit varies. $1,425-$1,450 includes heat, hot water and cooking gas.

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Waste Treatment

HOME INC, en nombre de la Columbus House y de la New Haven Housing Authority, está aceptando pre-solicitudes para estudios y apartamentos de un dormitorio en este desarrollo

Project Manager, Superintendent, Equipment Operator, Laborers, M/F Solid 3+ yearsCTDOT Exp. 40 hr Hazwhopper, 10 hr OSHA, Statewide Work.

Females and Minorities are encouraged to apply. email resume to occllchr@gmail.com Great Pay for Great Work

Wastewater Treatment Plant Operator (Attendant I): Operates and maintains equipment and processes in a municipal sewage ubicado enRequires la calle a109 Street, New de ingresos Protection (DEEP) Class treatment plant.

H.S.Frank diploma or GED plus Haven. a State ofSe CTaplican Dept. oflimitaciones Energy and Environmental I Operators License or higher certification, a Class I Operator-in-Training certification.Martes Must possess máximos.

Las pre-solicitudes estaránordisponibles 09 a.m.-5 p.m. comenzando 25 and maintain a valid driver’s $ 21.79 to $ 25.76 (hourly) / $ suficientes 20.70 to $ 25.76 (hourly) based on certifications & experience plus an excellent julio,license.

2016 hasta cuando se han recibido pre-solicitudes (aproximadamente 100) fringe benefit package. Apply: Department of Human Resources, Town of Wallingford, 45 South Main Street, Wallingford, CT en las oficinas de HOME INC. Las pre-solicitudes serán enviadas por correo a petición 06492. The closing date will be that date the 50th application form/resume is received, or May 11, 2020 whichever occurs first.llamando EOE a HOME INC al 203-562-4663 durante esas horas.Pre-solicitudes deberán remitirse

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Constuction Laborer

Looking for a Laborer with experience in Crane/Pile Driving operations. We will consider those with no prior experience. Required skills/qualifications include: OTC 105 OSHA10 hour Certification, Valid Drivers License, Must be able to lift over 50 pounds, Minimum age of 18, Must Provide personal transportation to and from the jobsite.

Please contact: Eric Bombaci Bombaci Construction 242-258 Fairmont Ave 8605754519 Bombaciconst@aol.com

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Seeking to employ experienced individuals in the labor, foreman, operator and teamster trades for a heavy outside work statewide. Reliable personal transportation and a valid drivers license required. To apply please call (860) 621-1720 or send resume to: Personnel Department, P.O. Box 368, Cheshire, CT06410.

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Invitation to Bid: nd Notice 2The Housing Authority of the City of Norwalk, CT

is requesting proposals for SAYEBROOKE VILLAGE Construction/Permanent Lender.

2BR Townhouse, 1.5 BA, 3BR, 1 level , 1BA

Listing: Commercial Driver

All new apartments, new appliances, new carpet, close to I-91 & I-95 highways, near bus stop & shopping center DriverPet for under petroleum and liquid asphalt deliveries.

Position: day, evening and/or weekends. Previous 40lb allowed.

Interested parties contact Maria @ 860-985-8258

experience required. Competitive wage, 401(k) and benefits. Send resume to: HR Manager, P. O. Box 388, Guilford, CT 06437.

Old Saybrook, CT can be viewed and printed at www.norwalkha.org under the Business secRequest for Proposal documents (4 Buildings, 17 Units) Norwalk Housing is an Equal Opportunity Employer. tion RFP’s/RFQ’s.

Adam Bovilsky, Executive Director.

Tax Exempt & Not Prevailing Wage Rate Project

The Housing Authority of the New Construction, Wood Framed, Housing, Selective Demolition, Site-work, Cast-City of Norwalk, CT is requesting proposals for in-place Concrete, Asphalt Shingles, Vinyl Siding, Web Site Redevelopment Flooring, Painting, Division 10 Specialties, Appliances, Residential Casework, and Rebranding.

Request for Proposal documents can be viewed and printed at www.norwalkha.org under the Business secConstruction/Paving Laborers and Operators Mechanical, Electrical,tion Plumbing and FireNorwalk Protection.

St. New Haven, CT RFP’s/RFQ’s.

Housing is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

This contract is subject to state set-aside and contractAdam compliance requirements.

Bovilsky, Executive Director.

We are looking to fill open Laborer and Operator positions on our Construction and Paving crews.

Bid Extended, Due Date: August 5, 2016 Anticipated Start: August 15, 2016 The job of a laborer varies,by changing from day to day. They a variety of duties involving tool Sealed bids are invited the Housing Authority of theperform Town of Seymour Project documents available via ftp link below: use, lifting, carrying, and managing equipment and machinery to provide support and aid to the skilled Our team is currently looking for an experienced Diesel Mechanic to keep up our level of commitment to until 3:00 pm on Tuesday, August 2, 2016 at its office at 28 Smith Street, http://ftp.cbtghosting.com/loginok.html?username=sayebrookevillage craftspeople on-site. Experience is a plus, but willing to train the right candidates. safety and customer service. In this role, the successful candidate will perform truck repair and maintenance Seymour, CT 06483 for Concrete Sidewalk Repairs and Replacement at the As an Operator, we seek motivated individuals that will be able to arrive to the job site on time and are work in accordance with factory and industry standards, run diagnostics on vehicles and work closely with Gardens Living Facility, 26 Smith Street Seymour. notSmithfield afraid of hard work. Assisted Individuals must also be willing get off the machine and help on the ground when Fax or Email Questions & Bidsteam to: Dawn Lang @ 203-881-8372 dawnlang@haynesconstruction.com other members to meet company goals. Responsibilities may include but not be limited to performCT. Unified Deacon’s Association is pleased to offer a Deacon’s Certificate Program. This is a 10 month program designed to assist in the intellectual formation of Candidates ********An Affirmative Action/Equal Employer********** in response to the Church’s Ministry needs. The cost is $125. ClassesOpportunity start Saturday, August 20, 2016 1:303:30 Contact: Chairman, Deacon Joe J. Davis, M.S., B.S. (203) 996-4517 Host, General Bishop Elijah Davis, D.D. Pastor of Pitts Chapel U.F.W.B. Church 64 Brewster

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needed. The ideal candidate must also work well with the foreman and crew to ensure all projects HCC are built encouragesing the participation of all Veteran, S/W/MBE Section 3and Certified Businesses minor and major repairs on&trucks trailers, conduct regular preventative maintenance on service to the highest quality standards.

Operator Candidates must have experience running all sizes of equipment Haynestrucks, Construction Company, 32 Progress Ave, Seymour, 06483 and maintain accurate records of each repair performed on perform regular diagnostic tests onCTtrucks A pre-bid conference will be held at the Housing Authority Office 28 Smith such as, minis, large and small excavators, dozers, loaders, and paving equipment (Material Transfer AA/EEO EMPLOYER vehicles. Experience is a plus, but willing to train the right candidates. Apply in person or apply online at Street Seymour, CT at 10:00 Machines, Pavers, Rollers, etc.). am, on Wednesday, July 20, 2016. americanind.net. American Industries, Inc. is an AA/EOE. in personare or available apply onlinefrom at americanind.net.

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Garrity Asphalt Reclaiming, Inc seeks:

NOTICE

NEEDED

Phone: 243-2300 HOME INC, on behalf of860Columbus House and the New Haven Housing Authority, Email: tom.dunay@garrityasphalt.com is accepting pre-applications for studio and one-bedroom apartments at this develWomen Minority Applicants are New encouraged to apply income limitations apopment & located at 108 Frank Street, Haven. Maximum rmative Action/ Opportunity Employer ply.Affi Pre-applications willEqual be available from 9AM TO 5PM beginning Monday Ju;y 25, 2016 and ending when sufficient pre-applications (approximately 100) have been received at the offices of HOME INC. Applications will be mailied upon request by calling HOME Reclaiming, INC at 203-562-4663 during those hours. Completed preGarrity Asphalt Inc seeks: applications must be to HOMEwith INC’s offices at 171 Orange Street, Third Reclaimer Operators andreturned Milling Operators current licensing Haven, CTbe06510. andFloor, cleanNew driving record, willing to travel throughout the North-

Part Time Delivery Needed

east & NY. We offer excellent hourly rate & excellent benefits

NOTICIA

Contact: Rick Tousignant Phone: 860- 243-2300

One/Two Day a Week,

Must Have your Own Vehicle

Email: rick.tousignant@garrityasphalt.com VALENTINA MACRI VIVIENDAS DE ALQUILER PRE-SOLICITUDES DISPONIBLES Women & Minority Applicants are encouraged to apply Affirmative Action/deEqual Opportunity Employer HOME INC, en nombre la Columbus House y de la New Haven Housing Authority, está

If Interested call

aceptando pre-solicitudes para estudios y apartamentos de un dormitorio en este desarrollo ubicado en la calle 109 Frank Street, New Haven. Se aplican limitaciones de ingresos máximos. Las pre-solicitudes estarán disponibles 09 a.m.-5 p.m. comenzando Martes 25 Tractor Trailer Driver for Heavy & Highway Construction Equipjulio,Must 2016have hastaacuando se han recibido suficientes pre-solicitudes ment.

CDL License, clean driving record, capable of(aproximadamente 100) en las oficinas HOME INC. Las pre-solicitudes serán enviadas operating heavydeequipment; be willing to travel throughout the por correo a petición llamando a HOME INC al 203-562-4663 durante esas horas.Pre-solicitudes deberán remitirse Northeast & NY. We offer excellent hourly rate & excellent benefits a las oficinas de HOME INC en 171 Orange Street, tercer piso, New Haven , CTQSR 06510 .STEEL

Union Company seeks:

(203) 387-0354

Contact Dana at 860-243-2300

Email: dana.briere@garrityasphalt.com Women & Minority Applicants are encouraged to apply Affirmative Action/ Equal Opportunity Employer

HELP WANTED:

NEW HAVEN

Large CT guardrail company looking for Laborer/Driver with valid CT CDL Class A license and able to get a medical card. Must be able to pass a drug test and physical.

Compensation based on experience. Email resume to dmastracchio@atlasoutdoor.com AA/EOE M-F

ELM CITY COMMUNITIES

DELIVERY PERSON

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 VALENTINA MACRI RENTAL HOUSING PRE- APPLICATIONS AVAILABLE Contact: Tom Dunay

CORPORATION

APPLY NOW!

Request for Proposals Hearing Officer Services The Housing Authority of the City of New Haven d/b/a Elm City Communities is currently seeking Proposals for Hearing Officer Services. A complete copy of the requirement may be obtained from Elm City’s Vendor Collaboration Portal https:// newhavenhousing.cobblestonesystems.com/gateway beginning on Wednesday, April 29, 2020 at 3:00PM.

Dispatcher

Galasso Materials is seeking a motivated, organized, detail-oriented candidate to join its truck dispatch office. Responsibilities include order entry and truck ticketing in a fast paced materials manufacturing and contracting company. Must be available to work nights and/or days. We are willing to train the right individual that has a great attitude. NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE. Reply to Hiring Manager, PO Box 1776, East Granby, CT 06026. Galasso Materials is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employmentwithout attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.

Centrally Located Construction Company in Connecticut has positions

available for experienced project managers, laborers and truck drivers.

This company is an Affirmative Action / Equal Opportunity Employer M/F. Females and Minorities are encouraged to apply.

Please fax resume to ATTN: Mike to 860-669-7004.

Centrally Located Construction Company in Connecticut has a position available for experienced Full-Time Office assistant / Bookkeeper. Job Support A/P, A/R Payroll. QuickBooks experience required, MS Office, Internet / Emails. Salary depending on experience.

This company is an Affirmative Action / Equal Opportunity Employer M/F. Females and Minorities are encouraged to apply.

Please fax resume to ATTN: Mike to 860-669-7004.

Steel Fabricators, Erectors & Welders Top pay for top performers. Health Invitation to Bid: Benefits, 401K, Vacation Pay. 2nd Notice

242-258 Fairmont Ave Tri-Axle Dump Truck driver needed with min. 2 years’ experience. Reliable, Email Resume: Rose@qsrsteel.com Hartford, CT 2BR Townhouse, 1.5 BA, 3BR, 1 level , 1BA SAYEBROOKE VILLAGE honest, and respectful a must. Class B, valid medical card, Osha 10 card, clean drivAFFIRMATIVE ACTION/EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

ing record, Old Saybrook, CT pass a drug screening, and have reliable transportation to and from work.

The job is full time, Monday thru Friday (some OT and night shifts), hourly pay. A (4 Buildings, Best 17 Units) Buy Premium Fuel & Trucking LLC is a New Haven based company and an CITY OF qualifiparties ed condidates fill numerous vacancies to include, DirecPetMILFORD under 40lbSeeking allowed. Interested contact Maria @to 860-985-8258 Tax Exempt & Not PrevailingEqual WageOpportunity Rate ProjectEmployer. Email resumes to nancytomassini@yahoo.com

All new apartments, new appliances, new carpet, close to I-91 & I-95 highways, near bus stop & shopping center

tor of Operations Milford Landing Marina, Recreation Director, and more. For informationAssociation and detailed application instructions, visit WWW.ci.milford.ct.us CT. Unified Deacon’s is pleased to offer a Deacon’s New Construction, Wood Framed, Housing,CITY Selective Demolition,Seeking Site-work, CastOF MILFORD qualifi ed condidates to fill numerous vacancies to in-

Director Operations Milford Landing Marina, Recreation Director, and more. in-place Concrete, Asphaltclude, Shingles, VinylofSiding, For information and detailed application instructions, visit WWW.ci.milford.ct.us Flooring, Painting, Division 10 Specialties, Appliances, Residential Casework, Accountant I – The Town of Wallingford Electric Division isMechanical, seeking an Electrical, entry levelPlumbing and Fire Protection. professional who will be responsible for a variety of basic municipal and/or utility accountThis contract is subject to state set-aside and contract compliance requirements. ing functions. Must possess a bachelor’s degree from a recognized college or university in LEGAL NOTICE

Certificate Program. This is a 10 month program designed to assist in the intellectual formation of Candidates in response to the Church’s Ministry needs. The cost is $125. Classes start Saturday, August 20, 2016 1:303:30 Contact: Chairman, Deacon Joe J. Davis, M.S., B.S. (203) 996-4517 Host, General Bishop Elijah Davis, D.D. Pastor of Pitts Chapel U.F.W.B. Church 64 Brewster

State of Connecticut Office of Policy and Management

St. New Haven, CT

Electric

accounting, finance, or business administration. Must have and maintain a valid Connecticut Driver’s License. Salary: $62,542 - $80,021 plus an excellent fringe benefi package. ApBidt Extended, Due Date: August 5, 2016 Request for Proposals for Services The State of Connecticut, Office of plication forms will be mailed upon request from the Human Resources Department. Phone: Anticipated Start: August 15, 2016 Policy and Management is recruiting for (203)-294-2084 Email wlfdhr@wallingfordct.gov . The closing date Sealed are invited by the Housing(203)-294-2080.

Authority of Fax the Town of Seymour The State of Connecticut, Office of Policy and Management, is seeking a Policybids Development Coordinator Project documents via ftp link to below: will be the date the 50th application or resume is received or May 27, 2020, whichever oc-availableproposals provide certain services related to state and federal taxauntil 3:00 pmposition. on Tuesday, August 2, 2016 at its office at 28 Smith Street, curs first. EOE http://ftp.cbtghosting.com/loginok.html?username=sayebrookevillage tion with the intent of the request is to identify individuals or firms with Seymour, CT 06483 for Concrete Further information regarding the duties, Sidewalk Repairs and Replacement at the the necessary expertise to provide an analysis of an employer payroll eligibility requirements application Smithfield Gardens and Assisted Living Facility, 26 Smith Street Seymour. tax within a stated timeframe.

Fax or Email Questions & Bids to: Dawn Lang @ 203-881-8372 dawnlang@haynesconstruction.com instructions for this position is available HCC encourages the participation of all Veteran, S/W/MBE & Section 3 Certified Businesses at: Chief Engineer – The Town of Wallingford Electric Division is seeking a highly qualifi ed engineer with The request for proposals is available online at https://biznet.ct.gov/ Construction Company, technicalAuthority and leadership/management skills that will be responsible forHaynes the planning, designing, and 32 Progress Ave, Seymour, CT 06483 A pre-bid conference will be held at thestrong Housing Office 28 Smith https://www.jobapscloud.com/ SCP_Search/Default.aspx?AccLast=2 and http://ct.gov/opm/cwp/ maintenance of the electric generation, transmission, and distribution systems and related facilitiesAA/EEO of the EMPLOYER Street Seymour, CT at 10:00 am, on Wednesday, July 20, 2016.

CT/sup/bulpreview.asp?R1= view.asp?a=3006&Q=383284&opmNav_GID=1386 or from Ebo-

SEYMOUR HOUSING AUTHORITY

Electric

Electric Division. Must possess a bachelor’s degree from a recognized college or university in electrical, mechanical, or civil engineering, plus eight (8) years of progressively responsible engineering managerial electrical utilities or an engineering consulting firm doing work for electric utilities. An Associates The State of Connecticut is an equal Bidding documents are available fromwork the for Seymour Housing Authority Degree in one of these fields may substitute forOftwo (2) years of the work experience requirement. One year opportunity/affirmative action employer of supervisory experience as a supervisor is preferred. In addition, must possess and maintain a Connecticut fice, 28 Smith Street,theSeymour, (203) 888-4579. and strongly encourages applicationsCT 06483 Motor Vehicle Operators License. Salary: $97,203 - $124,140 plus an excellent fringe benefit package. of women, minorities, and persons Application forms will be mailed upon request from the Human Resources Department. Phone: (203)-294with disabilities.

2080.

(203)-294-2084 wlfdhr@wallingfordct.gov . The closing date will be June 2, 2020. EOE The Housing Authority reserves the right to Fax accept or reject Email any or all bids, to

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reduce the scope of the project to reflect available funding, and to waive any informalities in the bidding, if such actions are in the best interest of the Housing Authority.

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ny Hargrove, Office of Policy and Management, Budget and Financial Management Division, 450 Capitol Ave., MS# 53BUD, Hartford, Connecticut 06106-1379. E-mail: ebony.hargrove@ct.gov. Telephone (860) 418-6255. Deadline for response submission is 3:00 p.m., Monday, June 16, 2020.

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