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THE INNER-CITY NEWS - May 30, 2018 - June 05, 2018

50 Mid-Lifers Graduate With A Lifeline

by MARKESHIA RICKS New Haven Independent

Rochelle Bolton has been unemployed since July 10, 2017. Thanks to a program that helps those experiencing long-term unemployment get back to work, she’s confident that she’ll be employed again soon.

Bolton and 50 of her fellow students in a mid-life Platform to Employment (P2E) program gathered at Gateway Community College’s downtown New Haven campus Thursday to celebrate their completion of the five-week course, which helped them rebuild their confidence after being out of work for more than six months.

There were dozens of empty seats to honor those who graduated from the program but couldn’t attend the ceremony because they had to work — a good reason to be absent.

Former New Haven mayoral aide Joe Carbone started not-for-profit WorkPlace, which administers the P2E program, to help people who can’t find employment because of a combination of age discrimination and the impact of long-term unemployment.

Carbone said the program’s success rate is unmatched: Some 80 percent of graduates take part in a trial-period of work where P2E covers the costs of wages. Of those graduates who take that second step, nearly 90 percent end up getting hired.

Graduates also learned Thursday that

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Bolton receives congratulations from State. Rep. Toni Walker and The WorkPlace COO Adrienne Dean-Parkmond Thursday.

The empty seats of the people who missed the graduation for the “best reason in the world,” said The WorkPlace President & CEO Joe Carbone. They had to work.

the average annual salary for program graduates has risen from $47,156 to $48,123, reminding them they could be headed for employment that helps them do more than just get by.

“It’s up to you to believe in yourself and not settle,” Carbone told the graduates Thursday.

For the lawmakers in the room, including New Haven State Sen. Martin Looney and State Rep. Toni Walker, Carbone noted that the program is revenue neutral and that when graduates get jobs at these higher wages, they put more money into the government’s coffers.

“We don’t cost Connecticut money,” he said. “We’re making Connecticut money.” That drew a cheer from Walker, House chair of the legislature’s powerful Appropriations Committee cheer.

Looney, a childhood friend of Carbone, praised the program as an “entryway into the middle class.”

“This is a model that needs to be replicated in so many other places,” he said, encouraging graduates to be ambassadors to others.

Sharon Gibson Ellis said she’d only just learned about P2E when she took the helm of the Valley United Way nearly two years ago. She has since hired three program graduates because she was looking for a mature pool of potential employees who knew how to work and had an attitude conducive to working.

It has been a good decision, Gibson Ellis said.

“I didn’t have children naturally,” she said. “I don’t want to have to parent in the workplace.” That line drew a chuckle from the audience filled with people looking for a second or third act in their professional lives.

Gibson said that today young people just entering the workforce know how

to get a job, but not how to work.

“It’s not about skill level,” she said.

“It’s how you fit in with the team. It’s your body language and your attitude.

Skills can be taught; attitude cannot.”

Walker shared her history of having gone from working in a bank to becoming a social worker and member of the legislature. She reminded the graduates that changing careers might not have been what they signed up for but by completing this program they can weather the change. She encouraged them to go out and tell others about their experience.

“I beg you to do it with the idea and compassion that says, ‘I did it and you can do it too,’” she said.

The biggest encouragement came from an April graduate of the program named Cletus Fusco. A former business owner who had also worked in the banking industry, she was unemployed almost a year and over 65 when she came to the program. She said she had started experiencing some of the symptoms common to those who have been looking for work that long: depression. The program helped her regain her confidence. Fusco is now employed by Cardinal Health.

“Maybe you will be rewarded with a compliment from your new boss like I’ve received, saying, ‘You’re the best hiring decision I ever made,’” she said.

Bolton, who is from New Haven, said she’s ready for that kind of compliment. She previously worked in health education and has her sights set on possibly returning to the health field, specifically in behavioral health, mental health and substance abuse.

But she said she’s open to anything.

“This program has given me hope and confidence, and actually got me out of my isolation,” she said. “I’d definitely recommend it to anyone who has been

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Ballet Dreams Take Flight THE INNER-CITY NEWS - May 30, 2018 - June 05, 2018

by ALLISON PARK

New Haven Independent

Zoe Votto is a shy girl. But when she sashayed to center stage, pink bow in hair, she stunned the audience with powerful pirouettes and confident coupes.

Her bravery, technical mastery, and undeniable talent won her a full scholarship to dance with the New Haven Ballet, a package sealed with dancewear, tuition, a transportation stipend, and a guaranteed role in next season’s major Nutcracker production.

When asked for her age, she whispered with a smile: “8t.”

Votto was one of 30 second grade students who performed in a DanceAIR performance at Friday evening at the Educational Center for the Arts (ECA) building on Audubon Street.

The venue, home of New Haven’s professional classical ballet training school, offered its intimate stage to DanceAIR, an outreach program offered by the New Haven Ballet that makes dance accessible to local public schoolchildren.

The one-hour performance was comprised of a rotation among six local elementary school ballet groups. With many dressed in color-coordinating polos and sneakers, the young dancers performed two-minute features to hummable classical tunes and wellpracticed choreography.

The DanceAIR Performance opened and closed with perfectly synchronized performances by advanced New Haven Ballet dancers spanning grades from elementary to high school. Weaving across the stage in perfect harmony and crisp synchronization, they served as an inspiring testament to their years of training and dedication.

“We want to make ballet accessible to everyone,” said New Haven Ballet Artistic Director Lisa Sanborn. She emphasized that the program doesn’t just teach ballet, but also equips young ballet students with “discipline” and “access to life skills [students] need in order to be successful.”

A former ballerina herself, Sanborn said that when she was growing up, there were “almost no ethnic ballet dancers.” The New Haven Ballet, as a non-profit organization, values diversity and inclusivity, and works to “provide the highest quality professional ballet instruction” to people in the community who “wouldn’t otherwise have access to arts education.”

While only one student from each of

heading the program.

DeNofrio’s teaching approach when it comes to young dancers is to try and “pull the spark out of the creative child and harness it,” so that they feel empowered to not only practice ballet on their own, but also feel the freedom of creative expression through dance.

Scarlette Rose Ribot, 7, was announced the winner from John S. Martinez School. Standing out from her dancemates in her bright orange top, Miss Ribot clearly had a taste for

the six local elementary schools that participated won the New Haven Ballet scholarship, Sanborn made sure to make every participant feel like a winner.

“Just because your name wasn’t called, does not mean that you don’t win,” she assured the students. Unlike many arts schools that offer meritbased scholarships to students, the

New Haven Ballet offers its dancers need-based scholarships that gives them the opportunity to dance regardless of financial constraints.

DanceAIR Coordinator and Children’s Division Director Christopher DeNofrio said that going into the elementary schools and introducing the students to ballet for the first time was the “most rewarding part” of spear-

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fashion. When asked about what she’s most excited for for the upcoming season with the New Haven Ballet, she exclaimed, “To wear the ballet stuff!”

Ribot’s 4-year-old sister, Angelika, said she aspires to follow her sister’s footsteps and “wants to be a ballerina, too.”

Little sisters weren’t the only family members feeling inspired that evening.

Zoe Votto’s mother, Lisa Votto, was found in tears in the front row after her daughter’s name was announced as Quinnipiac STEM School’s single winner.

With a young daughter passionate about dance, Lisa Votto wanted to find an opportunity to get her daughter involved, but “cost-wise, knew I wouldn’t be able to make that happen.” Through the DanceAIR program, Zoe was given the opportunity to bring her ballet dreams to life.

“I just never expected she would be the one chosen,” her mother added.

“It’s an amazing opportunity and I’m very grateful.”

Now, with the satisfying weight of her scholarship certificate in hand, Zoe Votto has a Nutcracker performance to prepare for.

THE INNER-CITY NEWS - May 30, 2018 - June 05, 2018

Cops, Neighbors Walk The Talk Downtown

“Each neighborhood that we do, I make it a habit of going up to people, going up to kids, going up to different people and telling them about this specific event and trying to engage as many people as we can,” he said. “Letting them know that we’re all out here together and that we’re on one accord.”

Hunt said he got the idea to start the walks after 14-year-old Tyrick “Reese” Keyes was killed last summer. Hunt, who works in student support services at the Engineering & Science University Magnet School (ESUMS), is no stranger to the impact gun violence has had on the city’s youth. His cousin, Marquell Banks, was shot and killed in 2011.

After Keyes was killed, Hunt said he contacted Police Chief Anthony Campbell and Assistant Chief Cain about doing the walks. A few months after the department had assigned new district managers, he began working with district managers to coordinate the walks.

The first one was in Newhallville, then Hunt’s Hill South neighborhood, then Dwight/Kensington, Fair Haven, Dixwell, and now Downtown.

He said the next walk is planned for June 1 in the Whalley/Edgewood Avenue/Beaver Hills section of the city with WEB District Manager Lt. Elisa Tuozzoli, who participated in the Downtown walk Wednesday. Hunt said once the walks make their way to every section of the city, they’ll start over again.

“We’ll just keep rotating them,” he said.

When the walkers got to the Green Wednesday and came upon the intoxicated man most just hung back and observed, while O’Neill took the lead.

The man became belligerent when O’Neill asked him if he had been drinking. But ultimately showed O’Neill his nearly empty bottle of booze.

O’Neill took the bottle and the man demanded it back.

“I can’t give it back,” he told the man.

“It’s illegal.”

He once again asked if the man could stand. He acknowledged that he couldn’t.

“Would you like me to call you an ambulance?” O’Neill asked firmly but without raising his voice. After a few minutes of attempting to argue with O’Neill the man, who was already sporting an ID bracelet that appeared to have come from a medical facility, eventually acquiesced to the ambulance.

by MARKESHIA RICKS New Haven Independent

Downtown top cop Lt. Mark O’Neil tapped the man stretched out on the Green. The man barely moved at first, then muttered incomprehensibly.

“I just want to make sure you’re OK.” O’Neil said. “Can you stand for me?”

The man couldn’t stand because he was intoxicated.

That was the beginning of the end of a Downtown District “community walk” Wednesday where neighbors and police got to not only talk about community policing but see it in action.

The walk was the latest in a series organized by community volunteer Daniel Hunt for New Haveners and police officers to get on neighborhood streets and engage people with the hope of strengthening police and community relations. Around a dozen cops and neighbors participated in the downtown walk Wednesday that started at the substation at 900 Chapel St. Lt. O’Neil reminded the walkers, who included some of his fellow district managers, that downtown isn’t a neighborhood in the traditional sense.

Though increasingly people live in the city’s downtown, it’s also the commercial and transit epicenter of the city.

“We want more people to come downtown,” he said. “Our main goal is to stop the nonsense down here and bring more people into downtown—to make downtown and the city of New Haven thrive. This is your gateway into New Haven.”

Assistant Police Chief Racheal Cain said although downtown isn’t a traditional neighborhood, the people they would meet would be typical of downtown’s daily inhabitants, namely workers, bus riders, and yes, people like the intoxicated man they ultimately encountered.

“I think it’s important to show them as well as the people in your normal neighborhood that the police and the community stand together and it is this type of relationship that is going to make the city better,” she said.

So they walked, stopping to chat up street vendors, shaking hands with people waiting at bus stops and flyering cars to let their owners know how to avoid break-ins, a crime of opportunity that is fairly common downtown, according to Lt. O’Neill.

O’Neill was going to flyer one car but noticed that the car had a parking ticket.

“He’s already having a bad day,” O’Neill said.

Hunt bumped into people, including cops, he knew all throughout the tour.

He said he’s met a lot of them on these walks.

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Formal downtown walk ends with man taken away on stretcher.

Daniel Hunt leads Wednesday’s walk downtown…

Assistant Chief Racheal Cain stops to talk with Chapel Street vendors.

Hunt stops to say hello to a police officer stopped at the traffic light at Chapel and Temple streets.

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Democratic Candidate Exits Race Calling For Greater Understanding of Diversity CT. Junkie News

HARTFORD, CT — One of the three Democratic candidates for state treasurer dropped out Tuesday, but promised to work with his party on a greater understanding of diversity.

Arunan Arulampalam, a Hartford resident and the son of refugees — his parents fled Sri Lanka in 1983 at the start of the civil war there, announced outside the state Capitol Tuesday that he was ending his campaign.

Arulampalam, an attorney with Updike, Kelly & Spellacy where he advises banks and financial institutions on debt and equity financing, said seven months ago he started an “improbable journey.”

He had never run for political office, but walked away with nearly 45 percent of the support at the Democratic Party’s convention. He thanked his supporters Tuesday at the same time as he refused to give up his campaign without getting something.

Arulampalam called Ned Lamont, the endorsed Democratic gubernatorial candidate, and made him promise to have the Democratic Party address the issues of race and diversity after the November election.

“It’s important that we lead on this issue,” Arulampalam said.

He said it’s important that “we engage communities of color, not because we need their votes but because we need their perspectives to help build a stronger party.”

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He said it will be easier to “start fresh” after the election and start talking about what it means to “build a bench and listen to all voices.”

Lamont said he respects Arulampalam’s “desire to lead a conversation in our party about diversity among candidates and in our ranks and I look forward to joining him in that effort after the November election.”

State Comptroller Kevin Lembo marveled at the fact that Arulampalam used his announcement to exit the race “to not get something for himself.”

That would have been a classic political move.

Lembo said Arulampalam used it as an opportunity to force in some ways an uncomfortable conversation about “how do we take what are strengths of the Democratic Party, but really take them to the next level.”

Sen. Gary Winfield, D-New Haven, endorsed Shawn Wooden at the convention, but said he’s been talking with Arulampalam about how to exit the race and his decision to use it to discuss diversity.

Winfield who attended Arulampalam’s announcement Tuesday said that’s “leadership.”

Leading up to the convention, Arulampalam said there was a change in the tone and the dynamic of the race.

Five days before the convention, Lamont and Susan Bysiewicz teamed up at the top of the ticket, the Democratic Party, with

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two white people running for governor and lieutenant governor, looked to other statewide races to diversify the ticket.

“There were issues of diversity and inclusion that had gone unaddressed,” Arulampalam said. “And there was a feeling among some that the best way to address that was in the context of the treasurer’s race. I received pressure in the days before the convention to drop out. I stayed and I fought because I thought it was the right thing to do.”

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Arulampalam He said he stayed in because he didn’t feel diversity should be limited to the race for state treasurer.

Wooden, an African-American attorney and former Hartford City Council president, received the endorsement at the Democratic Party’s convention two weeks ago.

Dita Bhargava, a Greenwich resident who was in the investment business, also received enough support at the convention to automatically qualify for the Aug. 14

primary.

Arulampalam said he would let the Aug. 14 primary play out and would not be announcing his support for either.

Republicans running for state treasurer include Thad Gray, the endorsed candidate, and Sen. Art Linares of Westbrook.

The position opened up in January when State Treasurer Denise Nappier announced she would not be seeking re-election.

THE INNER-CITY NEWS - May 30, 2018 - June 05, 2018

Malloy Issues Warning In Signing Health Insurance Bills

by Christine Stuart CT. Junkie News

HARTFORD, CT — Gov. Dannel P. Malloy signed two pieces of legislation Friday that he said were well intentioned, but will come with a cost to the state.

One of the bills will mandate coverage of the 10 essential health benefits, if Congress decides to repeal the Affordable Care Act. The other mandates insurance coverage of prosthetic devices.

“While these two pieces of legislation will help ensure some citizens of Connecticut have access to important medical care, protection of these services is meaningless if our citizens cannot afford insurance coverage in the first place,” Malloy wrote in a letter accompanying the legislation.

Malloy acknowledged that the Affordable Care Act is under attack by the Trump administration and Repub-

licans in Congress, but “policy makers must focus on maintaining access to needed care while protecting consumers from these rising costs.”

He said adding new benefits without the aid of a full actuarial cost analysis will lead to “increased burdens on our already strained consumers.”

“The mandates in these two bills along will require the state to pay at least $2 million each year,” Malloy said.

The budget he signed into law does not include money for that purpose so he’s asked his budget office to identify ways to offset the cost, which was an estimate his office received from the insurance industry.

The fiscal note for the bill requiring coverage of prosthetic devices said it would cost the state up to $600,000 in 2019 and $1.2 million in 2020. The amendment that would have eliminated the fiscal note never got called.

There should be no impact to the bill

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Gov. Dannel P. Malloy

mandating coverage of the 10 essential health benefits, according to lawmakers.

Rep. Sean Scanlon, D-Guilford, who championed the 10 essential health benefits said during the debate that it

won’t impact insurance rates because these benefits are already covered by insurance plans.

The legislation would apply to fully-insured plans. It would not impact self-insured plans like the one the state and large employers use. Several lawmakers talked about how guilty they feel about paying so little for such good health benefits.

The essential health benefits protected under the bill include ambulatory patient services; emergency services; hospitalization; maternity and newborn health care; mental health and substance use disorder services, including behavioral health treatment; prescription drugs; rehabilitative and habilitative services and devices; laboratory services; preventive and wellness services and chronic disease management; and pediatric services, including oral and vision care.

Sports Betting and Online Gaming Up For Discussion

by Christine Stuart CT. Junkie News

HARTFORD, CT — Gov. Dannel P. Malloy met with legislative leaders Wednesday and asked for their input on whether he should negotiate both sports betting and online, in-state gaming with the two tribal nations.

Earlier this month the Supreme Court struck down a 1992 law that barred most states from legalizing sports betting. Unable to pass legislation before May 9, the General Assembly and Malloy are now trying to figure out what it would look like in Connecticut.

Connecticut’s situation is unique in that it has two federally recognized tribes that essentially have the exclusivity over gaming in the state.

They share slot revenue with the state through a compact that was first negotiated by former Gov. Lowell P. Weicker.

Malloy and legislative leaders agree as governor he has the executive authority to negotiate the compacts with the tribes. But it’s likely he will also need enabling legislation to move forward with sports betting and online gaming.

“If we were to move forward without a compact then we would endanger the revenue we already receive from the tribes, so negotiating a compact by its nature is an executive function,” Malloy said. “Adoption of laws in how that compact would play out is a legis-

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Sen. Martin Looney and Sen. Len Fasano outside Gov. Malloy’s Capitol office

lative function.”

How many entities aside from the tribes will receive revenue from sports betting? Will it include the off-trackbetting facilities or will it be much broader? Will residents be able to bet on sports where they are able to buy a Connecticut Lottery ticket? Or will it be as simple as downloading an app onto a cellphone?

“That’s very much an open question,” Malloy said.

Unwilling to give away his negotiating strategy, Malloy said he’s asked

lawmakers how much they want him to negotiate.

He said there’s a line of income from the two tribes from slot machine revenue and the state doesn’t want to give it up.

“It’s very complicated,” Malloy said.

He said he’s confident that if the decision is to proceed with sports betting and online gaming then “an agreement can be reached” with the tribes.

Attorney General George Jepsen, in an opinion released last month, said legalizing sports betting would not af-

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fect the existing gaming arrangements with the tribes.

“Sports betting is not listed as an authorized game,” Jepsen said. “By contrast, for example, pari-mutuel betting on horse and dog racing and jai alai games are authorized games. The exclusion of sports betting from the specific list of authorized games is compelling evidence that the Compacts do not presently authorize it.”

Currently, the state and the tribes have a compact in which the state receives 25 percent of slot revenue in exchange

for exclusive casino rights.

In order to move forward, Malloy said they have to reach an agreement with the tribes.

“We have to make sure we don’t put our existing revenue stream at risk,” Malloy added.

He said adding online gaming to the discussion makes it more likely a comprehensive agreement can be reached.

Legislative leaders said they would have their own discussions to see if they could offer Malloy any advice on the negotiations with the Mashantucket Pequot and Mohegan Tribal Nations.

“We want to have communication with him next week before he begins those negotiations,” Senate President Martin Looney, D-New Haven, said.

Senate Republican President Len Fasano, R-North Haven, said he believes this would be a separate memorandum of understanding with the tribes that’s unrelated to the slot revenue sharing agreements they already have.

Looney said whatever Malloy negotiates with the tribes will need to be submitted to the Bureau of Indian Affairs, which has yet to approve an amendment to Connecticut’s gaming compact to allow a casino in East Windsor to move forward.

It’s unclear what would happen in Washington D.C. with the submission of another change to the compact.

THE INNER-CITY NEWS - May 30, 2018 - June 05, 2018

Ganim Makes A Pitch To Hartford’s Forgotten

by Christine Stuart CT. Junkie News

HARTFORD, CT — “A whole bunch of people got together and they didn’t want me to run,” Bridgeport Mayor Joe Ganim explains to a group of men hanging out on Park Street.

Ganim, an ex-convict, told the group that the other candidates in the race for governor “are not coming to the neighborhoods here.”

Ganim needs 15,458 signatures from registered Democratic voters in order to qualify for the Democratic primary on August 14. Last weekend, he failed to get the 15 percent of the delegates he needed to automatically get on the ballot.

“They can’t hit what they can’t see,” Ganim said quoting Muhammad Ali. Henry Jemison, who Ganim registered to vote before getting him to sign the petition, said “nobody is coming to the city.”

Ganim said he’s motivated to run for office to represent people in the cities who often are ignored when it comes to public policy.

“I would invite any candidate running to come walk with me,” Ganim said.

The unemployment rate in the city of

Hartford is slightly higher than the state average and much higher in the neighborhood Ganim was walking Thursday.

Ganim walked the street with a handful of volunteers and campaign staffers, some of whom spoke Spanish, and were better able to communicate his quest for signatures in a neighborhood with a large Puerto Rican and Hispanic population.

Just blocks from the state Capitol and Hartford Hospital many didn’t know what to make of Ganim, who served seven years in federal prison for racketeering, racketeering conspiracy, extortion, theft of honest services, bribery, conspiracy to commit bribery, and filing false tax returns, while others were eager to shake his hand and sign his petition.

Fredo Castillo, a Bridgeport council member, accompanied Ganim Thursday.

He reminisced about all the things they’ve done over the last few weeks to get signatures.

Castillo said she helped a pregnant woman move a refrigerator, and another woman and her children break into their house because they had forgotten their keys.

He laughed about how they ignored a “Beware of Dog” sign and Ganim was forced to jump back and forth over a

fence to shake a pitbull, who quickly figured out he could get around the fence.

“You gotta come to the people,” Castillo said.

He said it’s also a great way to get their voices heard.

Ganim, who has been focused on the petition drive, said there’s been a lot of things in his personal life that he let go, such as getting a shower curtain for his bathroom and a haircut.

Ganim said he finally made it to Home Depot for a shower curtain and picked up 10 signatures while he was there. As for the haircut? Ganim got that taken care of Thursday on Park Street.

“Not too short,” he kept telling Felix Mojica.

Mojica, who was wearing an ankle bracelet, later signed Ganim’s petition.

If Mojica is on probation he can vote, but if he’s on parole he can’t and his signature wouldn’t count toward Ganim’s 15,458 signatures.

Legislation that would allow parolees to vote got a debate in the House this year, but never got a vote.

Ganim said they look up the information on their phones sometimes if the

Ganim gets more signatures on Park Street Thursday person doesn’t know how they are registered, but it’s a time consuming process.

Sometimes it’s just easier to get the signature and move on. All of the signatures will need to be checked by the local registrar of voters in the city or town where the voter is registered.

Ganim encountered voters from East Hartford and Bristol Thursday and had to make sure their signatures were on different sheets of paper that are headed directly to the towns where the voters are

registered.

He has until June 12 to submit the signatures and have them verified.

The law gives the Registrar of Voters seven days to verify the signatures once they receive them. They’re supposed to give a receipt to the campaign to say how many were verified. They then have to mail the information to the Secretary of the State’s office, so it’s possible the ballot won’t take shape until later than Con’t on page 09

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Democrats Take A Play From Republicans On Gas Prices

by Christine Stuart CT. Junkie News

HARTFORD, CT — Gas prices are now 25 percent higher than they were last year and Democrats in Congress are borrowing a play from Republicans by blaming the occupant of the White House.

U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal visited the Shell gas station on Capitol Avenue Tuesday where the cash price for regular unleaded gas was $3.21 per gallon. Blumenthal called on Republican President Donald Trump to do something about the rising price of gas.

Blumenthal acknowledged that world events like the collapse of Venezuela’s oil industry, which was one of the largest foreign suppliers to the United States, has contributed to an increase in prices.

“But there are also clear steps that the President of the United States can take,” Blumenthal said.

He said Trump can put pressure on pressure OPEC members to increase supplies. He could also use his relationship with Saudi Arabia to get them to release more crude oil.

He said the increased demand coupled with the diminished supply is increasing gas prices not only in Connecticut, but nationally.

Last week, Democratic senators including Minority Leader Chuck Schumer held a news conference at a gas station near the U.S. Capitol to blame the price increase on Trump.

Blumenthal said Democrats are trying to draw attention to the president’s

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U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal

failure to take action to use his existing authority.

“Even if Congress is unable to provide additional authority there is clearly a need for the president to use his existing authority,” Blumenthal said.

He said Trump could pressure the World Trade Organization to take action.

Blumenthal said increased use of shale and exploration for oil in America has never been higher, but “we’re affected by the world market.”

Harry Arora, the Republican running against U.S. Rep. Jim Himes and cofounder of an investment firm said there’s a lot of hype about increasing gas prices and President Trump has taken the right steps.

“This hype is going to go away and market forces will lead to more production,” Arora. “President Trump has

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Arora said that tweet had an impact.

He said the OPEC countries are also aware that American production of oil and shale are increasing and if they don’t release more supply now—they will lose in the future.

He said the only problem America has at the moment is getting the oil it produces to the market. He said there’s a lack of pipeline capacity.

Hours after Blumenthal held his press conference, the price of crude dropped $5 per barrel.

“As the summer driving season gets underway, there’s reason to be optimistic and perhaps happy: OPEC appears ready to raise crude oil production to meet higher global demand, dashing at least for now, the likelihood of seeing the national average hit that ugly $3/ gallon mark,” Patrick DeHaan, head of petroleum analysis for GasBuddy said.

“For now, the national average peaked just under that level and prices are now starting to move ever-so-slowly lower, but more drops are coming.”

According to GasBuddy, which surveyed 135,000 gas stations, Connecticut’s average price per gallon was $3.13 Tuesday.

Blumenthal said drivers might see some relief at the pump over the next few weeks, but “the prognosis is very bad unless the president acts.”

He said the oil prices have no “economic justification.” He said the world’s economy isn’t 25 percent more prosperous than it was a year ago. He said for oil prices to jump 25 percent is “completely unjustifiable.”

He said he hopes this effort to get the president to act is bipartisan.

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As of Thursday the Ganim campaign said they had collected over 14,000 signatures. But Ganim said of the ones they’ve submitted about 75 percent are coming back as signatures that will count toward the total.

Some people don’t know if they are registered with a party and Connecticut has a closed primary system, so the voter signing Ganim’s form would need to be registered with the Democratic Party.

Ted Lorson, a spokesman for Ganim’s campaign, said the campaign is paying some people to collect signatures, but he was unable to say how many and at what rate.

Some of the people are volunteers and true believers that Ganim is exactly the type of leader the state needs.

Beverne Cordner, a case manager at the Department of Developmental Services, and Cynthia Jennings, an environmental and civil rights attorney who also serves on the Hartford City Council, are just two of the members of Ganim’s signature collection effort in Hartford.

Guy Smith, another Democratic gubernatorial candidate, is also collecting signatures.

A spokesman for Smith’s campaign said they are paying about 50 workers $15 an hour to collect signatures. He said there are another 100 volunteers also contributing to the effort.

At Bear’s Restaurant on Front Street in Hartford, Ned Lamont, who received the endorsement of the Democratic Party last weekend, said Ganim has the right to do what he’s doing.

“I’ll keep it on the issues,” Lamont said following his meal and a tour of the restaurant that prides itself on giving former inmates jobs.

Ed Marcus, the former Democratic Party chairman, penned an editorial in the Courant Thursday that concluded that Ganim will come out of the petition drive in much better shape.

“The strong likelihood is that those signers of his petitions — at least a significant majority of them — will actually vote for Ganim in a primary, as will their family members,” Marcus wrote. “Once you sign a petition for someone, you tend to feel you have a vested interest in that candidacy.”

That’s what Ganim is hoping.

Castillo said Ganim is restless. He said he grabbed a clipboard on Sunday and just walked out on his own to collect signatures.

Ganim will be in New Haven on Friday and Greenwich on Saturday. But he wasn’t certain whether he would be knocking on Lamont’s door and asking for his signature.

“I don’t know where he lives,” Ganim said.

by ISIS DAVIS-MARKS New Haven Independent

When other kids were in school, Gladys Mwilelo recalled, she was standing in line for water or out selling patties so her family could have enough money to eat.

Mwilelo was living in a refugee camp at the time, in the African nation of Burundi.

Now she and her family live in New Haven. She came to her younger sister’s class at Truman School Wednesday to tell them what it’s like to live in a refugee camp.

“Everyone’s dream is to come to the United States. I spent three to four years out of school because my family couldn’t afford it. Sometimes I know that you,” Mwilelo said, turning to address the students, “don’t feel like going to school when your mom tries to get you out of bed in the morning. But when you’re not in school and you know that you can never go to school it feels horrible.”

Instead of going to school, Gladys and her siblings often had to find other activities to preoccupy themselves — by playing cards, for instance but it was also important that they found ways to support their families.

“My siblings and I often spent the day selling patties on the side of the money so that we could pay for food. We ate food like cassava, but we couldn’t afford fruit because it was too expensive,” Mwilelo said.

Mwilelo, who now studies communications at Central Connecticut State University, addressed a group of seven Truman fourth and fifthgraders in Mary Lou DiPaola’s ESL class. Truman offers an ESL program to students who didn’t grow up speaking English at home. The ESL program is integrated with the rest of the school, so the students in the program are able to take classes in other subjects with students who aren’t in the program.

Emmanuella, Gladys’s sister, is also in DiPaola’s ESL class. She is currently in the eighth grade.

The students in DiPaola’s class had recently read an “Education for All” article in Time for Kids magazine about a refugee camp in Kenya, so

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Mwilelo came in to talk about her own experiences living in a refugee camp.

“I knew Swahili and French before I came here, but I didn’t know English. I had to learn English here, ” Mwilelo said.

Mwilelo is a graduate of Wilbur Cross High School and a refugee originally from the Democratic Republic of the Congo; she and her family left because of an ongoing war. After Gladys and her family left the Congo, they stayed in a city in Burundi called Bujumbura for 12 years as urbanized refugees meaning that they lived in a city and not a refugee camp until her father lost

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his job and they had to relocate to a refugee camp. She spent two and half weeks in a refugee camp in Burundi before coming to the U.S. in 2013 after her father had waited for 18 years to have his immigration application approved.

“You need to prove to the UN that you need help. You need to have a strong reason why you should leave.

There is a lot of corruption in Burundi, and every time he tried to apply to leave he would fail. But he kept trying and we were eventually able to come here,” Mwilelo said.

Mwilelo’s experiences in the camp were very different from those that she had in New Haven. In the camp,

Mwilelo had to live in a tent with her family. The UN gave them food and patrolled the borders of the camp.

Her family was only allowed to get water once a day at around 6 p.m. and there was only one water fountain in the camp.

“Women would carry the water in a jug on their head in Burundi. It’s the tradition there because you can more equally distribute the weight when you’re carrying the water. The women are using their hands all day, so it’s better to carry it on top of their heads. Water is necessary. People would try to cut the line in order to get ahead. If you didn’t get water when they allowed you to, then you wouldn’t have water for the day, ” Mwilelo said.

Water wasn’t the only scarce resource: School cost money, so Gladys wasn’t able to go to school for around three or four years.

Mwilelo tried to explain her experience living in the camp to the students by pointing out some of the pictures in the Time article and writing terms like “urbanized refugee” on a notepad in the classroom. The students asked Mwilelo pre-written questions and shared their own thoughts on refugee camps. Some of the students in the class had similar experiences to Mwilelo: A couple of fourth graders in DiPaola’s class, Nasserullah Fnu and Razia Assadi, are also refugees although they emigrated here from Afghanistan and only knew a little English when they arrived in the U.S. “We also had camps like those.

We made toys out of clay because we didn’t have electronics. We sat around and did nothing or we played sports. My family came here from Afghanistan in 2016, so it’s my second year in New Haven. I have a brother and a sister, ”Fnu said.

Now that Mwilelo is living in the U.S. she wants to help other refugees adapt to life in New Haven.

“New Haven welcomed me. I want to help New Haven residents because it’s my community. My family does a lot of work with refugees, and I do work with IRIS, helping kids like Nasserullah. My goal is to help everyone,” Mwilelo said.

Cross Champs Get Their Due THE INNER-CITY NEWS - May 30, 2018 - June 05, 2018

by MARKESHIA RICKS New Haven Independent

A team of Wilbur Cross High School women brought home a first-place trophy to their school and a national championship to their state and the New England region. Not for the athletic ability or even their academic skill, but their business acumen.

Cross’s Restaurant Management Team won first place at this year’s National ProStart Invitational Restaurant Management Competition in Providence, R.I.. On Tuesday the team celebrated the win at City Hall.

The national competition is a Shark Tank meets Iron Chef event in which high schoolers representing management teams and culinary teams from all over the country pitch restaurant ideas and cook their best dishes before judges.

This year Wilbur Cross’s Restaurant Management Team’s idea—a dessert shop that uses liquid nitrogen to make frozen treats—took home the gold.

Their teacher and coach, Chef Nathaniel Bradshaw said team captain Janaisha Taylor told him after last year’s invitational where the management team placed fifth that the team would win first prize this year.

“She said, ‘We’re going to put a team together where everyone gets along with each other,’” Bradshaw said. “You know what, good job!”

Mayor Toni Harp said she has hosted ceremonies at City Hall to celebrate all manner of student achievement

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The national champions, their coaches and principals with Mayor Toni Harp at City Hall.

including sports, academics and fine and performing arts but celebrating the championship efforts of this team is “a little different.”

“It’s unique and it’s something which every single one of us can relate,” Harp said. “Each of us has to eat. Virtually all of us go out to eat from time to time.

Everyone can envision the challenges built into successful restaurant management. The extent of which these Wilbur Cross restaurant management students have excelled in something not usually associated with public education speaks to the new horizons

being explored in the New Haven Public School System.”

She said the team’s achievement reflects New Haven’s continuing commitment to providing a meaningful education to all of its students.

Scott Dolch, executive director of the Connecticut Restaurant Association and the Connecticut Hospitality Educational Foundation which supports the ProStart program in the state noted that the Wilbur Cross team is bringing the first ever national championship to the state and the New England region.

“I attended their presentation at the

Bradshaw.

ProStart Invitation in Providence and I was blown away seeing them perform,” he said. “They were professional dedicated and focused on their goals and they presented a concept that judges called and I quote, ‘A restaurant ahead of the curve. A restaurant that investors would actually invest in.’”

Dolch noted that in addition to presenting a concept the team had to design a floor plan, a marketing scheme essentially build a restaurant from the ground up and tell judges how they would run it. In addition to serving up non-dairy frozen desserts made with

liquid nitrogen, the team said they would give part of their profits to fund scholarships and opportunities for young women interested in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields.

They worked on the concept for nearly a year. “People understand sports and the amount of time and effort you put into playing a sport,” Dolch said. “The same is true for our culinary and our management teams.”

Wilbur Cross Principal Edith Johnson called the culinary program at Cross “one of the crown jewels.” She said the program is in such high demand that students have come to the school to be part of it and parents have been angry when it fills up. She praised Bradshaw’s dedication. The father of two usually picks up his children from school, delivers them home, cooks them dinner, and then comes back to school to work with students. He also cooks Thanksgiving breakfast for the annual Elm City Bowl.

Gil Traverso, director of instruction for high schools, said that the students’ success is an example of what passionate teaching and learning can do.

He said it also proves the naysayers who negatively judge New Haven Public Schools that the students in the Elm City are better than most.

“When you have teachers teaching with passion every day, this is what you get,” he said. “National champions.”

Vets Lead Gateway Graduation Line

by ALLAN APPEL

New Haven Independent

Marine and Army combat vets Mike Fonda, Jonathan DeLeon Lopez, and Jonathan Rodriguez helped lead the procession of graduates to receive their degrees at the 26th annual commencement exercises of Gateway Community College.

It was one of the many small but noticeable innovations introduced by Paul Broadie, who in a cost-saving measure, mandated by the cash-strapped state, became the president last summer of the now combined Gateway and Housatonic Community Colleges.

The graduation for the now-combined New Haven unfolded with pomp, family hoots of good cheer, and academic circumstance at the Webster Bank Arena in Bridgeport, just around the corner from the Housatonic branch. It marked the first time the two now sister

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Fonda, DeLeon, and Rodriguez, who is still in the Marine Corps reserve and therefore wears his uniform to the ceremonies.

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institutions shared the same venue for their ceremonies.

The veterans contingent, numbering in total 18, led in 1,132 Gateway graduates at 11 a.m. The same venue is to be the site of Housatonic’s graduation exercises, where Housatonic Community College’s 716 members of the class of 2018 get their sheepskins at 5 p.m.

Broadie praised the students’ perseverance and courage, giving several individual shout-outs to students from whom he said he’d learned particular life lessons.

Among those was Gateway’s New Jersey-born but Guinea, West Africaraised Student of the Year Klotoume Kromah, affectionately known as “KK.” Having returned to America, and New Haven at age 14, KK overcame language challenges to graduate, at age 16, with a 3.8 grade point average, and the vice president of the school’s Phi Theta

Kappa honor society. The liberal arts/ science major and future doctor — in part because she saw lots of suffering to do very inadequate medical care on her native continent — also worked in one of Gateway’s administrative offices and was a star power forward on GCC’s women’s basketball team.

Her mother took her home from New Jersey to Guinea at a young age, she said, in part so she could experience cultural values that she might miss as a teenager in the U.S. Among those, KK said, was seeing all one’s community as members of an extended family.

“I consider all the students at Gateway my brothers and sisters,” she said as she formed up in the graduation line with fellow basketball playing graduates Shantel Rathford and Elizabeth Stubbs President Broadie also hailed Erika Chavez Cardenas and her 21-year-old son Sergio, both arrivals from Cancun in

THE INNER-CITY NEWS - May 30, 2018 - June 05, 2018 The Stamford (CT) Alumni Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. Announces

College Signing Day Ceremony

The Stamford (CT) Alumni Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. will hold its 2018 College Signing Day event on Saturday, June 2 from 12pm to 2pm at The Margaret E. Morton Government Center in Bridgeport, CT. The main purpose of the event is to acknowledge the graduating seniors, who are members of their local Kappa League program, for graduating from high school and for announcing their college selection as part of the next phase of their education journey. This event gives the students’ parents, friends, relatives, mentors, and their community of support a chance to applaud them in a more formal and public way.

“Our Guide Right program has had a tremendous year and we are excited to have members of our Kappa League program graduating high school this year and pursuing higher education. Our annual signing day event is our opportunity to congratulate youth throughout Fairfield County who are taking steps toward their future and making a serious investment in their education,” states Marquelle Middleton, Assistant Guide Right Chairman.

At this year’s event, young men and women will announce their college selection choice. As part of the ceremony, students sign a document that outlines their commitment to strive for academic and personal excellence in pursuit of their college education. There will be more than

$10k in scholarship funds awarded to these graduating seniors. Some of the colleges chosen include St. John’s University, Xavier University of Louisiana and The New York Institute of Technology.

Ceremonies such as these are held in cities across the nation as part of the fraternity’s National College Signing Day Program, which is in its third year of existence.

For more information on the Stamford (CT) Alumni’s Chapter Guide Right and Kappa League Programs, please contact Mr. Marquelle Middleton via email at Marquelle.Middleton@gmail.com Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. is an international organization founded on the campus of Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana on January 5, 1911.

Since its inception, it has trained over 150,000 men, particularly undergraduates, for leadership roles in their communities and the attainment of a high degree of excellence in their academic pursuits.

The International Headquarters is located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Its National Service Program, Guide Right, is a program for the educational and occupational guidance of youth, primarily inspirational and information in character. Its reach extends to high school and colleges alike. Guide Right’s signature initiative, Diamonds in the Rough, exposes young men across the nation to an intense college preparatory and scholarship access program.

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Once Homeless, This Black Teen Just Earned a Full Ride Scholarship to Harvard University BlackNews.com Philadelphia, PA — Richard Jenkins, who spent his life as a child in numerous homeless shelters, is now off to conquer Harvard. Jenkins was accepted to attend the prestigious university and was awarded a full-ride scholarship.

Richard Jenkins, an 18-yearold African American teen, has experienced a lot of hardships throughout his childhood. He was bullied at school, he had medical issues, and they were poor. He and his mom and brothers transferred from a shelter to another from Tennesee to Florida then back to Philadelphia after they lost their home to foreclosure.

“That was what triggered me that I needed to chase something,” he told CNN. “No matter what, I can’t allow myself to go through that anymore. I can’t allow my brothers or my mother to go through that when they’re older.”

He used those struggles as inspirations to one day go to college, strive and study harder to achieve that. He excelled in class even though he suffered from severe migraines, particularly in his ninth grade when his father suffered a heart attack.

Jenkins was eventually accepted in

Girard College, a local boarding high school for gifted students. There, he joined the mock trial program, the World Affairs Council, and the basketball team. He also established Makers’ Space Club, an area with 3D printers, sewing machines, and other DIY equipment students can use to bring their ideas to life.

“He is so creative and he loves taking the initiative to do something,” said Hye Kyong Kim, a tech coordinator at the school, who had Jenkins in one of her classes.

When the time for college applications came, he aimed for the top-tier schools. But he was waitlisted at the University of Pennsylvania and was denied entrance into Yale.

“I thought, ‘Alright, time to start looking at other school options,’” he said.

And so the next email he opened was a very special one.

He continued, “Then I opened up Harvard and threw my phone because I saw the word ‘welcome.’”Jenkins called his mom, Quiana McLaughlin, to share the good news.

“I think I said, ‘I told you so,’” said McLaughlin, laughing. “I just had a feeling he would be accepted. He had all the qualifications.”

Richard Jenkins

Aside from the acceptance, he was also given a full-ride scholarship and allowance for room and board.

Jenkins, who is set to graduate as valedictorian in June, plans to study computer science with a specialization in artificial intelligence. He also wants to take Japanese language classes and learn Kendo, a martial art involving martial swords.

“I just want him to find success, however he defines it for himself,” said his proud mom.

His godfather, Donald Kinsey Jr., started a GoFundMe to help Jenkins buy some things for college, such as new clothes and a tablet computer.

“He will work his way through college, pay for his expenses himself and won’t ask or need anyone’s help,” Kinsey said. “I’m creating this campaign because Richard Jenkins III deserves a reward.”

Jenkins, knowing his own struggles, wants to inspire other aspiring students.

“There’s going to be times when you’ll stumble off the track or think you don’t want to continue,” he said, “but as long as you stick to the plan, you’ll be fine.”

Serena Williams’ Game-Winning Catsuit Is Not For Fashion, It’s For Her Life

by Derrick Lane for BlackDoctor.org

“Don’t call it a comeback. I’ve been here for years…” are the first words from LL Cool J’s legendary comeback song, Mama Said Knock You Out. Those words and that song are could be the theme song for tennis superstar Serena Williams after her recent win.

After all, every superhero needs their theme music.

In her first Grand Slam match in nearly 16 months, Williams defeated Kristyna Pliskova, 7-6 (4), 6-4, in the first round of the French Open on Tuesday.

Much has changed in Williams’s life since she last played on one of the game’s biggest stages, winning the 2017 Australian Open.

She is now married and the mother of an infant daughter. Ranked No. 1 when she left the game, now she’s slowly building back up her rank as an unseeded player after playing only four singles matches on tour this season.

And she has been doing it all while wearing a stylish black lycra bodysuit that fit her like a sleek, sexy superhero.

“I call it like my Wakanda-inspired

catsuit,” Williams said, in a reference to the blockbuster movie Black Panther. Yet this was not a purely sartorial decision, it was for her health too.

Tennis fans and naysayers alike noticed that in just about every photograph taken since Williams had started training again, she was wearing tight leggings. Some had privately speculated that she might be covering up knee problems, but Williams it wasn’t that at all.

“I had a lot of problems with my blood clots,” she said. “God, I don’t know how many I have had in the past 12 months. So there is definitely a little functionality to it. I have been wearing pants, in general, a lot when I play so I can keep the blood circulation going.

It’s a fun suit, but it’s also functional so I can be able to play without any problems.”

If you remember, Williams has a history of blood clots. Back in 2011, she spent nearly 12 months incapacitated by a cut to her foot sustained last July and by a pulmonary embolism. She revealed that the clot in her lung had been a life-threatening condition. “I was on my death bed at one point – quite literally. I’ve had a serious illness but at first I didn’t appreciate that,” she said.

One of the more recently publicized

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blood clots was when she started to have trouble breathing while recovering from her C-section in 2017.

She thought she was having another blood clot, and told the medical staff she needed a CT scan and treatment for blood clots. Her doctors initially did not honor her request, and instead performed an ultrasound on her legs, Williams told Vogue. But eventually, they did give her a CT scan, which indeed showed that she had several blood clots in her lungs, known as pulmonary embolisms, according to Vogue.

Williams was put on a life-saving blood-thinner medication, but this had the side effect of preventing her surgical C-section wound from healing properly. Her surgical wound reopened, and doctors performed another surgery in which they found a hematoma, or a mass of clotted blood, in her abdomen. She needed another operation to insert a filter into a major vein to prevent more clots, Vogue said.

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“It feels like this suit represents all the women that have been through a lot mentally, physically, with their body to come back and have confidence and to believe in themselves,” Williams said after beating Pliskova. “I definitely feel like it is an opportunity for me to inspire a whole different group of amazing women and kids.”

She sums up her catsuit as an inspiration on her social media accounts: “Catsuit anyone?” she posts on Instagram. “For all the moms out there who had a tough recovery from pregnancy—here you go. If I can do it, so can you. Love you all!!”

THE INNER-CITY NEWS - May 30, 2018 - June 05, 2018

Black-Owned Travel Company Partners with South African Tourism Board to Launch 12 Luxury Tours From the U.S. to Johannesburg

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Black-Owned Travel Company Partners with South African Tourism Board to Launch 12 Luxury Tours From the U.S. to Johannesburg A 2015 study showed that the increase in international Black travel would continue to increase. The Real South Africa Group of tourists on a former trip to South Africa Washington DC — The rise in African American travel over the past 6 years due to increased education and income led to the creation of travel companies, such as Travel Noire, NoMadness and Tastemakers Africa.

“Although international travel for African Americans is rising, there still seems to be a gap left in the market,” Paris Taylor, I.C.E. Many travelers have already benefited from the development of the black travel movement. “When you speak to the tourism boards on the African continent, they will tell you that their market is middle aged, retired Europeans, so the industry is built around them,” Cherae Robinson, Tastemakers Africa.

“They are looking for Safari.”

They’ve tapped into a wave of African Americans wanting to see different representations of themselves, and people from elsewhere who want authentic experiences. The Real South Africa agrees with Cherae Robinson, that African American travelers are looking for more authentic experiences.

People are curious – the company’s emergence is the link between being curious and going there and experiencing it yourself.

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THE INNER-CITY NEWS - May 30, 2018 - June 05, 2018

Civil Rights Activists, NFL Players React to New National Anthem Policy

“They put the protest movement on

blast,” Edwards said. “They just cre-

ated a bigger stage than ever.”

In a recent commentary for Vox. com, Harvard Law School labor professor Benjamin wrote: “This new league policy is meant to enforce a particular vision of patriotism, one that involves compliance rather than freedom of expression.”

Sachs wrote that the new anthem policy was illegal—for a host of reasons.

“The clearest illegality derives from the fact that the league adopted its new policy without bargaining with the players union,” Sachs wrote.

“When employees, including football players, are represented by a union, the employer—including a football league—can’t change the terms of employment without discussing the change with the union. Doing so is a flagrant violation of the employer’s duty to bargain in good faith.”

ESPN.com reported that President Donald Trump supported the NFL’s policy that requires players to stand for the national anthem or remain in the locker room, during an interview with Fox News.

“I think that’s good,” Trump said. “I don’t think people should be staying in locker rooms, but still I think it’s good. You have to stand proudly for the national anthem or you shouldn’t be playing, you shouldn’t be there.

Maybe you shouldn’t be in the country.”

Many players have already indicated that they are not happy with the new rule.

In a statement released on Twitter, Philadelphia Eagles safety Malcolm Jenkins wrote: “While I disagree with this decision, I will not let it silence me or stop me from fighting. The national conversation around race in America that NFL players forced over

are living in the fast-paced digital age. The high-velocity delivery and transmission of news and information, however, may or may not produce authentic or accurate facts or simply the truth.

Yet, for more than 47 million Black Americans the reality of life’s multiple challenges and opportunities are not the primary concerns and focus of what is popularly known as “mainstream media.” Thus, the value and mission of the Black Press of America today is more strategically important than ever before, for Black

Americans and others who embrace the trend-setting cultural, academic, technological and game-changing achievements that are accomplished daily in Black America.

This is why the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) is pleased with the continued partnership between the General Motor’s Chevrolet Division and the NNPA to sponsor the 2018 Discover the Unexpected (DTU) Journalism Scholarship and Fellowship Program.

We are identifying and mentoring the next generation of young, gifted,

talented and committed journalists and publishers who will rise to take their rightful place as our future community leaders and business owners.

Seeking out the best of Black America, not only in the field of journalism, but also in the overall context of the long-protracted struggle for freedom, justice, equality and empowerment is of the utmost importance. This summer in Georgia, Virginia, New York and in Washington, D.C., six NNPA journalism scholars selected from Historical Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) located across

By Lauren Victoria Burke, NNPA Newswire Contributor

Civil rights activist Tamika Mallory says that the new NFL national anthem policy was an attempt to “resurrect slavery in the 21st century.”

Former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick began kneeling during the playing of the national anthem before NFL games to protest police brutality during the 2016 NFL season.

Protesters held a rally in front of the National Football League’s New York City headquarters on May 25 after the league announced new rules that punish players who don’t stand for the national anthem.

Tamika Mallory said that the NFL owners were acting as a “proxy for a fascist president” and that the new policy was an attempt to “resurrect slavery in the 21st century” and punish Black players. The kneeling protests started when former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick began sitting during the anthem and then kneeling as a protest against police brutality.

“What is being said is that the n–gas don’t have basic rights,” Mallory said.

“And I want to say today that Ida B. Wells, Dr. Martin Luther King, Marcus Garvey, the four little girls in Birmingham are turning over in their graves right now about the disrespect, the disgrace, that is happening in this country.”

Mallory continued: “If we, as Black people, lay down and allow this system to continue to oppress us, we are the ones to be held responsible.”

Civil rights activist and author of “The Revolt of the Black Athlete” Harry Edwards told USA TODAY that the NFL’s new national anthem policy was “the dumbest move possible.”

the past 2 years will persist as we continue to use our voices, our time and our money to create a more fair and just criminal justice system, end police brutality and foster better educational and economic opportunities for communities of color and those struggling in this country.”

In an interview with ESPN, Seattle Seahawks wide receiver Doug Baldwin called the president “an idiot… plain and simple.”

“I respect the man because he’s a human being, first and foremost. But he’s just being more divisive, which is not surprising. It is what it is,” Baldwin said. “For him to say that anyone who doesn’t follow his viewpoints or his constituents’ viewpoints should be kicked out of the country, it’s not very empathetic, it’s not very Americanlike, actually to me. It’s not very patriotic. It’s not what this country was founded upon.”

Baldwin continued: “It’s kind of ironic to me that the president of the United States is contradicting what our country is really built on.”

In his Vox.com commentary about the NFL’s new national anthem policy, Sachs wrote that now that the owners have made it a workplace rule to stand during the anthem or stay in the locker room, any player who takes the field and takes a knee is protesting an employer rule.

the nation will have the opportunity to work in Black-owned newspapers.

These outstanding NNPA DTU Fellows will also journey together to highlight and file news reports about real life stories that are occurring in our communities. In the current national media climate where allegations of “fake news” are routinely propagated, we will welcome receipt of the news and inspirations from the writings, videos and social media postings of our young, aspiring journalists.

That protest, Sachs said, “is unquestionably protected by federal labor law.”

The NFL pre-season begins in August.

This article was originally published at BlackPressUSA.com.

Freddie Allen contributed additional reporting for this story.

Discovering the Best of Black America in 2018

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

There is an old African proverb that says, “What you seek, you will surely find.” We live in a world where the news cycle continues to decrease, because of innovations in communications technology. Yes, we

THE INNER-CITY NEWS - May 30, 2018 - June 05, 2018

Starbucks halts brewing so its employees can talk about race

By JOSEPH PISANI, AP Retail Writer

NEW YORK (AP) — Starbucks, mocked three years ago for suggesting employees discuss racial issues with customers, asked workers to talk about race with each other.

It was part of the coffee chain’s antibias training Tuesday, created after the arrest of two black men in a Philadelphia Starbucks six weeks ago. The chain apologized but also took the dramatic step of closing its stores early for the sessions. But still to be seen is whether the training, developed with the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund and other groups, will prevent another embarrassing incident.

“This is not science, this is human behavior,” said Starbucks Chairman Howard Schultz. He called it the first step of many.

The training was personal, asking workers to break into small groups to talk about their experiences with race.

According to training materials provided by the company, they were also asked to pair up with a co-worker and list the ways they “are different from each other.” A guidebook reminds people to “listen respectfully” and tells them to stop any conversations that get derailed.

“I found out things about people that I’ve worked with a lot that I didn’t know,” said Carla Ruffin, a New York regional director at Starbucks, who took the training earlier Tuesday and was made available by the company to comment on it.

Ruffin, who is black, said everyone in her group said they first experienced bias in middle school. “I just thought that was pretty impactful, that people from such diverse backgrounds, different ages, that it was all in middle school.”

She said the training and discussion was needed: “We’re never as human beings going to be perfect.”

Starbucks declined to specify how much the training cost the company, though Schultz said it was “quite expensive” and called it “an investment in our people and the long-term cultural values of Starbucks.”

The chain also lost sales from closing early, but the late-in-the-day training sessions meant no disruption to the busier morning hours.

At the company’s Pike Place Market location in Seattle, commonly referred to as the original Starbucks, the store stopped letting people in at 1 p.m.

Trina Mathis, who was visiting from Tampa, Florida, was frustrated that she couldn’t get in to take a photo but said the shutdown was necessary because what happened in Philadelphia was wrong.

“If they haven’t trained their employees to handle situations like that, they need to shut it down and try to do all they

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can to make sure their employees don’t make that same mistake again,” said Mathis, who is black.

Others visiting the store questioned whether the training would make a difference or suggested it was overkill.

Anna Teets, who lives in Washington state, said the problem has been fixed and the company has dealt with the situation. “It’s been addressed,” she said.

The training was not mandatory, but Starbucks said it expected almost all of the 175,000 employees at 8,000 stores to participate and said they would be paid for the full four hours. Executives took the same training last week in Seattle.

Training in unconscious, or implicit, bias is used by many corporations, police departments and other organizations.

It is typically designed to get people to open up about prejudices and stereotypes for example, the tendency among some white people to see black people as potential criminals.

Starbucks said it would make its training materials available to other companies.

Many retailers, including Walmart and Target, said they already offer some racial bias training. Nordstrom has said it plans to enhance its training after three black teenagers in Missouri were falsely accused by employees of shoplifting.

In the Philadelphia incident, Rashon Nelson and Donte Robinson were asked to leave after one was denied access to the restroom. They were arrested by police minutes after they sat down to await a business meeting.

Video of the arrests were posted on social media, triggering protests, boycott threats and debate over racial profiling, or what’s been dubbed “retail racism.”

It proved a major embarrassment for Starbucks, which has long cast itself as a company with a social conscience. That included the earlier, widely ridiculed attempt to start a national conversation on race relations by asking its employees to write “Race Together” on coffee cups.

Starbucks said the Philadelphia arrests never should have occurred. Some black

coffee shop owners in the city suggested black customers instead make a habit of patronizing their businesses. Amalgam Comics and Coffeehouse owner Ariell Johnson said she has called the police just once in the two years she has been open. She said that should happen only when there is a provocation or danger.

Nelson and Robinson settled with Starbucks for an undisclosed sum and an offer of a free college education.

They also reached a deal with the city of Philadelphia for a symbolic $1 each and a promise from officials to establish a $200,000 program for young entrepreneurs.

The two men visited the company’s Seattle headquarters on Friday, Schultz said, to “see what Starbucks does every day.” He added that Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson has agreed to mentor them. “I suspect this won’t be the last time they come,” Schultz said.

Calvin Lai, an assistant professor of psychological and brain sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, said diversity training can have mixed effects.

“In some cases it can even backfire and lead people who are kind of already reactive to these issues to become even more polarized,” Lai said.

One afternoon wouldn’t really be “moving the needle on the biases,” he said, especially since Starbucks has so many employees and they may not stay very long.

Starbucks said the instruction will become part of how it trains all new workers. Stores will keep iPads given out for Tuesday’s meetings and new videos will be added every month for additional training.

Starbucks said it also plans to hold training at its stores in other countries.

Associated Press reporters Terry Tang in Phoenix, Phuong Le and Elaine Thompson in Seattle, Lynne Sladky in Miami, Mark Gillespie in Cleveland and Errin Haines Whack in Philadelphia contributed to this report.

THE INNER-CITY NEWS - May 30, 2018 - June 05, 2018

Prince Harry and American Actress Meghan Markle Exchange Vows in Blackest Royal Wedding Ever

By Lauren Victoria Burke, NNPA Newswire Contributor

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, an American actress with an African American mother, were married on May 19 after exchanging vows at St. George’s Chapel in the Windsor Castle in England about an hour from London.

The ceremony was striking for its racial diversity in a royal family not know for it. The blend of African American and British culture noted by many onlookers resulted in a memorable ceremony with cutting edge aspects and several obvious historical first for the British royal family.

It wasn’t just the entrance of tennis champion Serena Williams wearing Versace or Oprah Winfrey in a pink Stella McCartney dress and hat, it was the music, the style and the words spoken at the ceremony. Gone was the predictable stuffiness that often accompanies royal ceremonies; the

wedding’s diversity made the affair even more regal.

The bride’s mother, Doria Ragland, stood nearby, sometimes shedding tears, as the only blood relative on Meghan’s Markle’s side of the family to attend the wedding. Markle’s father, Thomas, was too ill to attend the ceremony after a recent heart ailment.

Sheku Kanneh-Mason, a Black 19-year-old classic cellist from Nottingham England, who was the first Black musician to win the BBC Young Musician of the Year award in 2016, performed at the wedding. Kanneh-Mason performed “Sicilienne,” “Après un rêve” and “Ave Maria” during a break in the ceremony when the royal couple had to depart the altar to sign a registry in a backroom and out of the sight of their guests.

During an address focused on the power of love, that BBC commentators defined as “spirited,” Bishop Michael Curry, the head of the U.S. Episcopal Church, brought the Black church to

the royal wedding. Curry began and ended his speech quoting Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. saying, “Martin Luther King was right: We must discover love. And when we do, we will make a new world.”

Karen Gibson directed The Kingdom Choir in a performance of “Stand By

Me.” The Ben E. King song is a R&B standard from 1961.

“A Black woman in an updo directing a Black choir in “Stand By Me” after a Black preacher gave a three-point sermon, complete with altar call, might be the official end of the United Kingdom. This is the real ‘Brexit,’”

tweeted former Obama White House official Joshua DuBois.

As the newly-minted British royal couple left St. George’s Chapel with family following and entered a carriage after the ceremony, The Kingdom Choir again sang. This time it was an Etta James styled version of “Amen (This Little Light of Mine),” a 1920s gospel song that was popular during the Civil Rights Movement.

“Black bride. Black pastor. Black choir. Black cellist. African chants.

Folks clapping and sangin’ “This Little Light of Mine.” Even a horse named “Tyrone.” This is the Blackest royal wedding evuh,” tweeted Dr. Stacey Patton, as the church ceremony ended.

This article was originally published at BlackPressUSA.com.

Lauren Victoria Burke is an inde pendent journalist, political analyst and contributor to the NNPA Newswire and BlackPressUSA.com. She can be contacted at LBurke007@gmail.com and on Twitter at @LVBurke.

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By Rajoielle Register, Head of Brand role models leave permanent impressions Strategy and Growth Audience Marketing, on a young person’s mind well into their Ford Motor Company late teens. That’s why early exposure to science, technology, engineering, arts We’re all familiar with the popular and mathematics (STEAM) fields are proverb, “It takes a village to raise a especially important. child.” As a 21st century society, this Reflected in its legacy history, American still holds true, literally and figuratively. industry was built on innovation. In order For non-millennials, who grew up in a to awaken dreams and inspire the next vastly different era, there is a nostalgic generation of innovators, problem-solvers mindset that a diverse community of and leaders, it’s imperative to expose inspiring people interacting with children children to STEAM at an early age. If has a positive and sustained life-changing engaged, receptive and they’ve developed impact on their development. By no means an interest by eighth grade, they’re three should this mean the village is responsible times more likely to pursue careers in for raising your children, but we all have STEAM fields later in life. a stake in their development and success.

STEAM careers are at the forefront of Early exposure to career choices are often some of the fastest-growing industries. the first step in the “What do I want to be Conversely, they also have some of the when I grow up?” conversation. Although largest gender gaps as women comprise definitive decisions won’t be made for only 26 percent of all science, tech, years to come, dreams and thoughts engineering and mathematics jobs. As they about future careers begin early. Whether continue to grow, women are getting left policeman, fireman, truck driver, doctor, behind. dentist, teacher, musician, sports star, and/ Many young girls are turning away or whatever it is their parents and relatives from STEAM careers during their do, most children are passively aware and developmental years and have completely relate to the limited pool of occupations to opted out by high school. That must which they are exposed. change and we, the village (with torches in While teachers offer an impressionable hand), must step up to lead, advocate and climate for first-hand learnings and champion that change. experiences, parents provide the most important impact and stimulus on a child’sT:5.472” For over three decades, the Ford Motor Company has been committed early life. Early exposure to non-traditional to supporting innovative initiatives that learning environments not only creates a

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Both within and outside the village, this is an important conversation that we must have as the future of our children is at stake. In addition to sponsorships, scholarships and aligning with synergy partners such as the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA), Ford has demonstrated its commitment in a handson way, connecting with and supporting a host of STEM and STEAM focused initiatives including Girls Who Code, Tech Sassy Girlz, STEMinista project, Destination Imagination, School Retool, Michigan Technological University, Amphi Middle School’s Girl Power in Science & Engineering, FIRST® Robotics and #WomenInSTEAM, among others.

Here in the U.S. and around the world, women are severely underrepresented in STEAM fields—career fields that are expected to grow more than 9 million jobs by 2022. No surprise, both women and men are needed to fill those jobs and we, individually and collectively, must do our part to begin to narrow the gap, especially among African American youth.

For African American communities, integrating young women in science and technology begins with planting the seed at an early age, nurturing that seed to show the impossible is possible and, cultivating girls to become a part of those fields. Ever shifting, the formative and impressionable years between teen and young adult are a principal cause for why young girls are looking away from STEAM. Ford remains committed to inspiring young people to seek knowledge, be curious, solve problems and like Henry Ford himself make their dreams of a better world come true.

Whether parent, educator, leader, STEAM alum, or just someone who cares about the village and its children, you can play a role in supporting an up-and-coming generation of young girls interested and desirous to pursue a career in STEAM. Let’s unite as one to stimulate, inspire and change a life. At the end of the day, we’re all stakeholders in the future and success of our children.

This commentary was originally published at BlackPressUSA.com.

Rajoielle “Raj” Register leads cross brand strategy and growth audience marketing at Ford Motor Company. A proud STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Mathematics) graduate, Raj embraces her education advocacy and is especially passionate about advancing impactful educational initiatives as highlighted by her oversight of visionary community programs that support HBCUs (Historically Black Colleges and Universities) and STEAM.

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Discovering the We are also grateful to the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO) for assisting Chevrolet and the NNPA to notify and reach HBCU students attending 120 HBCUs across the nation about the DTU fellowship opportunities. In fact, over 23,000 online responses were made by students who were interested in the DTU program.

Reviewing and evaluating the numerous applications that were submitted revealed the tremendous academic achievements and commitments of HBCU students, who fervently desire to serve the empowerment interests of Black communities via their respective journalism skills and talents. This, in itself, is a good news story.

Too often we only learn or hear about the tragic injustices and systematic racial discriminations that are in fact facets of the realities that are all too prevalent in Black America. We need, however, more balance and truthtelling in the media when it comes to the struggles and plight as well as the resilience and transformation of Black America.

For more than 191 years, since the first publication of “Freedom Journal” in March 1827, the Black Press of America has continued to be on the frontlines reporting our triumphs, defeats and our successful resistance to oppression, injustice and inequality.

Each generation has a responsibility to help prepare the next generation to take the baton of history and to run to win by breaking and setting new records of achievement and excellence of all fields of endeavor.

Again, we publicly thank General Motors – Chevrolet for enabling the NNPA to award this group of young, freedom-fighting scholars to sharpen their pens and commitments to become champions of the freedom and responsibilities of the press. The Black community will benefit. All of America will benefit. The DTU Fellows will seek and they will find.

They will also exemplify the good news.

This article was originally published at BlackPressUSA.com.

Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. is the president and CEO of the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) and can be reached at dr.bchavis@nnpa.org. You can follow Dr. Chavis on Twitter @drbenchavis.

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INNER-CITY NEWS July 27,2018 2016 -- August THE INNER-CITY NEWS - May 30, June 05, 2018 02, 2016

The Town of East Haven is currently accepting applications from qualified candidates for the position of General Foreman, Streets and Highways. The starting salary is $68,379.00 per year and the town offers an excellent benefit package. Only candidates with at least 8 years of experience in the construction, maintenance and servicing of highways, streets and drainage with at least 4 years VALENTINAexperience, MACRI RENTAL HOUSING PRE- or APPLICATIONS AVAILABLE of supervisory High School Diploma GED and a CDL, class 2 will be considered. Applications are available at Mayor’s Office, 250 Main Street, HOME INC,CT on behalf of Columbus House and the New Haven Housing Authority, East Haven or online at http://www.townofeasthavenct.org/civiltest.shtml. is accepting pre-applications for studio one-bedroom apartments at this develThe deadline for submission is June 8, and 2018. opment located at 108 Frank Street, New Haven. Maximum income limitations apply.Town Pre-applications willisbecommitted available from 9AM TO 5PM beginning Monday Ju;y The of East Haven to building a workforce of diverse individ25, 2016 and ending when sufficient pre-applications (approximately 100) have uals. Minorities, Females, Handicapped and Veterans are encouraged to apply. been received at the offices of HOME INC. Applications will be mailied upon request by calling HOME INC at 203-562-4663 during those hours. Completed preapplications must be returned to HOME INC’s offices at 171 Orange Street, Third Floor, New Haven, CT 06510.

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lowing positions: Firefighter D/Paramedic. Salary-$56,074.98/year (effective July 1, 2018). Candidates must possess a valid Driver’s License from the State of Connecticut; a High School Diploma or GED; Paramedic License from the 242-258 Fairmont Ave State of Connecticut or be enrolled in a Paramedic Program that can be com2BR Townhouse, 1.5 BA, 1 level ,shall 1BAnot smoke pleted within 2 years; must be 18 years of age.3BR, Ideal candidates or use All tobacco products of any Candidates in Spanish encournew apartments, newkind. appliances, new bilingual carpet, close to I-91 are & I-95 aged to apply. Thehighways, application is available online at:www.FirefighterApp.com/ near bus stop & shopping center EastHavenFD Pet under 40lb allowed. Interested parties contact Maria @ 860-985-8258

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Sealed bid packages to be clearly marked “Leasing Office Improvements at Zbikowski Park, Attention: Mitzy Rowe, CEO.” A pre-bid walk through will be held on Monday, May 21, 2018 at 10:00 a.m.

Please meet at the site located at 111 Lillian Rd., Bristol, CT. Attendance is strongly recommended for all bidders.

Contract Plans and Specifications dated February 20, 2018, revised April 13, 2018 as prepared by Capital Studio Architects, LLC, 1379 Main St., East Hartford, CT 06108, will be on file at the Bristol Housing Authority, 164 Jerome Ave., Bristol, CT. Project information can also be obtained online at Projectdog.com.

The Bristol Housing Authority reserves the right to reject any or all bids and/ or to waive any informalities in bidding when such action is deemed to be in the best interest of the Bristol Housing Authority. All bid documents must be 100% completed when submitted.

A 100% Performance, Labor and Material Bond is required. All sureties must be listed on the most recent IRS circular 570.

“Attention of bidders is directed to certain requirements of this contract which require payment of Davis-Bacon residential wage rates, and compliance with certain local, state and federal requirements.”

For further information, please contact Carl Johnson, Director of Capital Funds, Bristol Housing Authority at (860) 585-2028 or David Holmes, Capital Studio Architects, LLC at (860) 289-3262.

Union Company seeks: Tractor Trailer Driver for Heavy & Highway Construction Equipment. Must have a CDL License, clean driving record, capable of operating heavy equipment; be willing to travel throughout the Northeast & NY. We offer excellent hourly rateor& excellent benefits BA/BS in Civil Engineering Construction Management.

Contact: Dana Briere Phone: 2-5 yrs. experience.

OSHA Certified.

Email: Proficient 860-243-2300 in reading contract plans and specifications. dana.briere@garrityasphalt.com Resumes to RED Technologies, LLC, 10 Northwood Dr., Women & Minority Applicants are Bloomfield, CT 06002; Fax 860.218.2433; encouragedRED toTechnologies, apply LLC is an EOE. Email resumes to info@redtechllc.com.

Affirmative Action/ Equal Opportunity EmployerRemediation Division Project Manager Environmental

Field Engineer

3-5 years exp. and Bachelor’s Degree, 40-Hr. Hazwoper Training Req. Forward resumes to RED Technologies, LLC, 10 Northwood Dr., Bloomfield, CT 06002;

Fax 860.218.2433; or Email to HR@redtechllc.com

RED Technologies, LLC is an EOE.

Garrity Asphalt Reclaiming, Inc seeks: Reclaimer Operators and Milling Operators with current licensing and clean driving record.

We offer excellent hourly rate & excellent benefits Contact: Rick Tousignant Phone: 860243-2300 Email: rick.tousignant@garrityasphalt.com Women & Minority Applicants are encouraged to apply Affirmative Action/ Equal Opportunity Garrity Asphalt Reclaiming Inc Employer

seeks: Construction Equipment Mechanic preferably experienced in Reclaiming and Road Milling Equipment. We offer factory AN AFFIRMATIVE ACTION/EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER training Asphalt on equipment we operate.

Garrity Reclaiming Inc MBE’s, WBE’s, AND SBE’s ARE ENCOURAGED TO SUBMIT Location: Bloomfield CT seeks: Construction Equipment Mechanic Contact: experienced James Burke Phone: 860preferably in Reclaiming and Firefighter/ParamediC 243-2300 Invitation to Bid: Road Milling Equipment.

We offer factory The Town of Wallingford is currently accepting applications for Firefighter/ email: jim.burke@garrityasphalt.com training on equipment we operate.

2nd card, NoticeHS diploma/GED, Paramedic. Applicants must have: a valid CPAT Women & Minority Applicants are Location: Bloomfield CT valid driver’s license and hold a valid Paramedic License that meets CT State Regulations. Copies of licenses and certifications must be submitted with Contact:encouraged James Burke Phone: 860to apply application materials. The Town of Wallingford offers a competitive pay rate 243-2300 Old Saybrook, CT Affirmative Action/ Equal Opportunity of $54,064.40 to $69,701.32 annually. In addition, there is a $4,400 annual email: jim.burke@garrityasphalt.com Employer We offer excellent hourly rate & Buildings, 17Application Units) deadparamedic bonus plus an excellent fringe(4 benefit package.

Women excellent & Minoritybenefits Applicants are line is June 1, 2018 or the date the 75th application is received, whichever Tax Exempt & Not Prevailing Wage Rate Project occurs first. Apply: Human Resources Department, Town of Wallingford, encouraged to apply 45 South Main St., Wallingford, CT. phone: (203) 294-2080; fax: (203) 294Affirmative Action/ Equal Opportunity 2084. EOE. New Construction, Wood Framed, Housing, Selective Demolition, Site-work, Cast-We offer excellent hourly rate & Employer in-place Concrete, Asphalt Shingles, Vinyl Siding, excellent benefits Centrally Located Construction Company in Connecticut Flooring, Painting, Division 10 Specialties, Appliances, Residential Casework, has positions available for experienced project managers, laborers and truck drivers.and Fire Protection.

Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing This company is an Equal Opportunity M/F. This contract is subject to state set-asideEmployer and contract compliance requirements.

Union Company seeks: Tractor Trailer Females and Minorities are encouraged to apply.

Driver for Heavy & Highway Construction Please fax resume to ATTN: Mike to 860-669-7004.

Bid Extended, Due Date: August 5, 2016 Equipment. Must have a CDL License, clean driving record, capable of operating Anticipated Start: August 15, 2016 Common Ground High School is seeking a Full Time TeachUnion Company seeks: Tractor Trailer heavy equipment; be willing to travel ing Assistant (TA). The TA is responsible for available supporting via teachers in below: the Project documents ftp link Driver for Heavy & Highway Construction classroom during the school day, providing targeted supports in academic throughout the Northeast & NY. We offer http://ftp.cbtghosting.com/loginok.html?username=sayebrookevillage Equipment. Must have a CDL License, labs both during and after school, and assisting with summer academic proexcellent hourly rate & excellent benefits grams. For a full job description and how to apply, please visit http://comclean driving record, capable of operating Contact: Dana be Briere Phone: mongroundct.org/2018/05/common-ground-is-seeking-a-special-educationheavy equipment; willing to travel Fax or Email Questions & Bids to: Dawn Lang @ 203-881-8372 dawnlang@haynesconstruction.com teaching-assistant-ta/ 860-243-2300 Email: the Northeast & NY. We offer HCC encourages the participation of all Veteran, S/W/MBE & Section 3 Certifiedthroughout Businesses dana.briere@garrityasphalt.com hourly rate & excellent benefits Haynes Construction Company, 32 Progress Ave, Seymour, CT 06483excellent The Housing Authority of the City of Norwalk, CT is requestWomen & Minority Applicants are Contact: Dana Briere Phone: AA/EEO EMPLOYER ing proposals for Copier Lease and Maintenance Service. encouraged to apply 860-243-2300 Email: Proposal documents can be viewed and printed at www.norAffirmative Action/ Equal Opportunity dana.briere@garrityasphalt.com walkha.org under the Business section RFP’s/RFQ’s Employer Women & Minority Applicants are Norwalk Housing is an Equal Opportunity Employer. encouraged to apply Thomas Hickey, Interim Executive Director.

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Dispatcher

Boundaries LLC is a full-service Land Surveying Firm located in Griswold, CT. We are recruiting for these Materials is seeking a motivated, organized, detail-oriented candidate to join its NOTICE positions and are accepting resumes for Survey Field Galasso truck dispatch office. Responsibilities include order entry and truck ticketing in a fast Technicians, Survey Computer Technicians, Licensed paced materials manufacturing and contracting company. You will have daily interacwith employees and customers as numerous truckloads of material cross our scales Land Surveyors, Civil Engineers, from 4/9/2018 tion daily.AVAILABLE We are willing to train the right individual that has a great attitude. NO PHONE VALENTINA MACRI RENTAL HOUSING PRE- APPLICATIONS through 12/31/2018. Interested parties can contact us CALLS PLEASE. Reply to Hiring Manager, PO Box 1776, East Granby, CT 06026.

EOE/M/F/D/V. at HOME 860-376-2006 or submit yourHouse resume INC, on behalf of Columbus andto theJfaulise@ New Haven Housing Authority, boundariesllc.net.

AA/EOEfor studio and one-bedroom apartments at this develis accepting pre-applications

The Glendower Group, Inc

opment located at 108 Frank Street, New Haven. Maximum income limitations apply. Pre-applications will be available from 9AM TO 5PM beginning Monday Ju;y Request for Proposals CARPENTER 25, 2016 and ending when sufficient pre-applications (approximately 100) Market have Research and Brand Positioning Large CTreceived Fence Company carpenterINC. for our Wood Fence Probeen at thelooking officesforofa HOME Applications will be mailied upon reduction Experience preferred will train the rightduring person.those Must hours. be questShop. by calling HOME INC but at 203-562-4663 Completed prefamiliar with carpentry hand & power tools and be able to read a CAD draw- The Glendower Group, Inc an affiliate of Housing Authority City mustThis beisreturned HOME INC’s offices 171 Orange Street, Third ingapplications and tape measure. an in-shoptoproduction position.

Dutiesatinclude of New Haven d/b/a Elm city Communities is currently seeking Floor,fence Newpanels, Haven, CT gates 06510. building posts, and more. Some pickup & delivery of materials may also be required. Must have a valid CT driver’s license and be able to obtain a Drivers Medical Card. Must be able to pass a physical and drug test. Please email resume to pboucher@atlasoutdoor.com. AA/EOE

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proposals for Market Research and Brand Positioning. A complete copy of the requirement may be obtained from Elm City’s Vendor Collaboration Portal https://newhavenhousing.cobblestonesystems. com/gateway beginning on Monday, May 21, 2018 at 3:00PM

VALENTINA MACRI VIVIENDAS DE ALQUILER PRE-SOLICITUDES DISPONIBLES ELM CITY COMMUNITIES

CLERK TYPIST

HOME INC, en nombre de lafor Columbus House y de la New Haven Housing Authority, Request Proposals Performs a wide está variety of clerical duties requiring excellent computer and Payroll & Other Human Resource Management interpersonal skills. This position requires 1 year of office work experience aceptando pre-solicitudes para estudios y apartamentos de un dormitorio en este desarrollo of a responsible nature and a H.S., G.E.D. or business diploma. $20.42 to Systems Services ubicado en la calle 109 Frankand Street, New Haven. Se aplican limitaciones de ingresos $24.72 hourly plus an excellent fringe benefit package. Apply: Human Remáximos. Las pre-solicitudes estarán disponibles 09 a.m.-5 p.m. comenzando Martes 25 sources Department, Town of Wallingford, 45 South Main Street, WallingThe Housing Authority of New Haven d/b/a Elm City (aproximadamente julio, 2016 hasta cuandoofsethe hanCity recibido suficientes pre-solicitudes ford, CT 06492. 100) The closing date will be that date the 75th application form/ Communities is currently seeking Bids resume is received, or May 30, 2018, whichever occurs first. EOE en las oficinas de HOME INC. Las pre-solicitudes serán enviadas por correo a petición for Payroll & Other Human Resource Management Systems and llamando a HOME INC al 203-562-4663 durante esas horas.Pre-solicitudes deberán remitirse Services. A complete copy of the requirement may be obtained . a las Elm oficinas de Vendor HOME INC en 171 Orange tercer piso, New Haven , CT 06510KMK Insulation Inc. from City’s Collaboration PortalStreet, https://newhaven-

housing.cobblestonesystems.com/gateway beginning on Monday, April 16, 2018 at 9:00AM.

DELIVERY PERSON NEEDED Part Time Delivery Needed One/Two Day a Week, Must Have Own Vehicle If Interested call

(203) 435-1387

The Town of Wallingford is currently accepting applications for Firefighter/Paramedic. Applicants must have: a valid CPAT card, HS diploma/GED, valid driver’s license and hold a valid Paramedic License that meets CT State Regulations. Copies of licenses and certifications must be submitted with application materials. The Town of Wallingford offers a competitive pay rate of $54,064.40 to $69,701.32 annually. In addition, there is a $4,400 annual paramedic bonus plus an excellent fringe benefit package. Application deadline is June 1, 2018 or the date the 75th application is received, whichever occurs first. Apply: Human Resources Department, Town of Wallingford, 45 South Main St., Wallingford, CT. phone: (203) 294-2080; fax: (203) 294-2084. EOE.

1907 Hartford Turnpike North Haven, CT 06473

The Town of East Haven is currently accepting applications from qualified candidates for the position of General Foreman, Streets and Highways. The starting salary is $68,379.00 per year and the town offers an excellent benefit Large CT fence & guardrail contractor Please mail resume to above address.. MAIL ONLY package. Only candidates with at least 8 years of experience in the construcThis company is an Affirmative Action/ looking for a shop welder. Duties include but are not limEqual Opportunity Employer.

Invitation to Bid:maintenance and servicing of highways, streets and drainage with at least 4 tion, ited to welding & fabricating gates, plating posts, truck and years of supervisory experience, High School Diploma or GED and a CDL, class Ave 2nd Notice trailer repairs. Must be 242-258 able to weldFairmont steel and aluminum.

2 will be considered. Applications are available at Mayor’s Office, 250 Main GUILFORD HOUSING AUTHORITY Some road2BR work Townhouse, may be required. 1.5 All necessary equipment BA, 3BR, 1 levelThe ,currently 1BA is accepting applications for COUPLES ONLY for its one Street, East Haven CT or online at http://www.townofeasthavenct.org/civiltest. provided. Must have a valid CT driver’s license and be able All new apartments, new appliances, new carpet, close to I-91 & apartments I-95 bedroom at Guilford Court and Boston Terrace inOld GuilSaybrook, shtml.CTThe deadline for submission is June 8, 2018. to obtain a DOT medical card. Required to pass a physical highways, near bus stop & shopping centerford, CT. Applicants must be age 62 and over or on 100% (4 social Buildings, 17 Units) and drug test. Medical, vacation & other benefits included. security or federal disability and over the age of 18. Applications TheWage TownRate of East Haven is committed to building a workforce of diverse inunder 40lb allowed.

Interested parties contact Maria Please Pet email resume to pboucher@atlasoutdoor.com AA/@ 860-985-8258 & Not Prevailing Project may be obtained by calling the application Tax line Exempt at 203-453-6262, dividuals.

Minorities, Females, Handicapped and Veterans are encouraged to EOE-MF ext. 107. An information packet will also be provided with the ap-

Welder:

Mechanical Insulator position.

Insulation company offering good pay and benefits.

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plication. Applications willNew be accepted until end of Framed, business Housing, day Construction, Wood Selective Demolition, Site-work, Castare procured

POLICE OFFICER in-place Concrete, Asphalt Shingles, Vinyl Siding, Flooring, Painting, Division 10 Specialties, Appliances, Residential Casework, Competitive examinations will be held for the Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing and Fire Protection. position ofrequirements.

Police Officer in the Guilford, This contract is subject to state set-aside and contract compliance

CT. Unified Deacon’s Association is pleased to offer a Deacon’s on July of31, 2018. Credit, police, and landlord checks Certificate Program. This is a 10 month program designed to assist in the intellectual formation Candidates in response to the Church’s Ministry needs. The cost is $125. Classes start Saturday,by August 20, 2016 1:30the authority.

Smoke free housing.

3:30 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 EQUAL OPPORTUNITY HOUSING

Class A CDL Driver

St. New Haven, with CT 3 years min. exp. HAZMAT Endorsed.

(Tractor/Triaxle/Roll-off) Some overnights may be required. FAX resumes to RED Technologies, at 860.342-1042; Email: HR@redtechllc.com Mail or in person: 173 Pickering Street, Portland, CT 06480. RED Technologies, LLC is An EOE.

NEW HAVEN EARLY CHILHDOOD COUNCIL REQUEST FOR QUALITY ENHANCEMENT PROPOSALS

North Haven, Orange, Seymour, West Haven and

Bid Extended, Due Date: August 5, Woodbridge 2016 SEYMOUR HOUSING AUTHORITY Police Departments.

The New Haven Early Childhood Council isAnticipated seeking toStart: August 15, 2016

Centrally Located Construction CompanyAuthority in Connecticut Sealed bids are invited by the Housing of the Town of quality Seymour fund enhancement (QE) projects for the period available via ftp link below: Project documents positions availableAugust for experienced Candidates may register for the testing process untilhas 3:00 pm on Tuesday, 2, 2016 project at its office at 28July Smith Street, 1, 2018 to June 30, 2019 for the following services: http://ftp.cbtghosting.com/loginok.html?username=sayebrookevillage managers, laborers and truck drivers.

Seymour, CT 06483 for Concrete Sidewalk Repairs and Replacement at the www.policeapp.com/southcentral.

This company is an Equal Opportunity Employer M/F. • on-site education consultation to prek programs Smithfield Gardens Assisted Living Facility, 26 Smith Street Seymour.

• mental health resources for children and families in prek programs; Fax or Email Questions & Bids to: Dawn Lang @ 203-881-8372 dawnlang@haynesconstruction.com Females and Minorities are encouraged to apply.

• professional development trainings related to CT Early Standards, HCC encourages theLearning participation of all Veteran, S/W/MBE & Section 3 Certified Businesses Please fax resume to ATTN: Mike to 860-669-7004. trauma informed care and topics required

A pre-bid conference will be held at the Housing Authority Office 28 Smith Street Seymour, CT at 10:00 am, on Wednesday, July 20, 2016.

by School Readiness and NAEYC.

TRANSFER STATION LABORER

Off load trailers, reload for trans/disp. Lift 50 lbs., operate industrial powered trucks and forklift.

Asbestos Worker Handler Training a +. Resumes to RED Technologies, LLC, 173 Pickering St., Portland, CT 06480; Fax 860-342-1022; or Email to lkelly@redtransfer.com RED Technologies, LLC is an EOE.

Application deadline is Wednesday, June 20, 2018.

Haynes Construction Company, 32 Progress Ave, Seymour, CT 06483 AA/EEO EMPLOYER

An info session will be held Monday, May 12th from 2-3pm at 54 Meadow

Street, conference Ofroom 3B. To receive the RFP and for established rates for each Bidding documents are available from the Seymour Housing Authority service type, contact the School Readiness office fice, 28 Smith Street, Seymour, CT 06483 (203) 888-4579.

Denised@nhps.net 203-946-7875.

The Housing Authority reserves the right to accept or reject any or all bids, to reduce the scope of the project to reflect available funding, and to waive any

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The physical performance, written, and oral board exams will be administered by the South Central Criminal Justice Administration.

THE DEPARTMENTS PARTICIPATING IN THIS RECRUITMENT DRIVE ARE EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYERS.

THE INNER-CITY NEWS - May 30, 2018 - June 05, 2018

Chevrolet Revs Up for Third Year of Journalism Fellowship for HBCU Students

DETROIT — Chevrolet and the National Newspaper Publishers Association have chosen six students from Historically Black Colleges and Universities for the 2018 Discover the Unexpected Journalism Fellowship.

With the help of NNPA editors and reporters, the Fellows will discover and share positive, inspirational and relevant stories from AfricanAmerican communities during their eight-week summer internship.

The 2018 DTU Journalism Fellows are Tyvan Banks of Norfolk State University, Diamond Durant of Morgan State University, Daja Henry of Howard University, Denver Lark of North Carolina A&T State University, Natrawn Maxwell of Claflin University and Ila Wilborn of Florida A&M University.

Chevrolet will award each DTU Fellow a $10,000 scholarship and a $5,000 stipend. The students will form two teams of three people, and each team will have access to a new 2018 Chevrolet Equinox during their reporting assignments.

To date, Chevrolet has awarded more than $300,000 in DTU scholarships and stipends. For it first two years the program included only a select number of schools, but the 2018 online submission process was open to students at all HBCUs majoring in journalism, communications, mass media or visual arts.

The 2018 NNPA Discover the Unexpected Fellows will receive $90,000 in scholarships and stipends. The NNPA DTU journalism program is sponsored by Chevrolet. Discover the Unexpected Fellows will receive $90,000 in scholarships and stipends

“In 2016 Chevrolet launched the DTU fellowship at Howard University and last year added Clark Atlanta University, Morehouse College, and Spelman College,” said Paul Edwards, U.S. vice president of Chevrolet Marketing. “This year we want to give every HBCU student with a strong voice the opportunity to report the inspiring stories from around the U.S. as they Find New Roads behind the wheel of the 2018 Equinox.”

“The NNPA is looking forward to

continuing our support of young storytellers to document positive stories in our communities,” said NNPA President and CEO Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr. “Young journalists have the power to bring about positive change in our communities and this country through their words, so it is vital to include their voices in the conversation.”

DTU Fellows will work with The Washington Informer in Washington, D.C.; The Atlanta Voice in Atlanta,

Georgia; The New Journal & Guide in Norfolk, Virginia; and New York Amsterdam News in New York City, New York.

The Fellows’ journey begins in Detroit, where they’ll participate in two days of journalism training with Chevrolet and NNPA leadership at General Motors’ Global Headquarters before they hit the road to begin their reporting assignments.

Legendary lyricist and hip-hop pioneer MC Lyte, the program’s national

spokesperson since its inception, will meet with the Fellows during the summer to share her wisdom about storytelling and advice on creating a unique voice. Dana Blair, an on-air correspondent, branding expert and entertainment producer, joins the team and will serve as mentor for the Fellows.

Learn more about the Discover the Unexpected Journalism Fellowship at www.nnpa.org/dtu.

Racism after Graduation May Just Be What’s on the Menu

By Julianne Malveaux, NNPA Newswire Columnist Marvel’s “Black Panther,” Chadwick Boseman, graduated from Howard University with a bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts (BFA) in 2000.

On May 12, Boseman returned to his alma mater to address the Class of 2018, while receiving an honorary degree.

The Howard University graduation is one of more than 100 Historically Black College and University graduations and one of more than 4,000 general graduations across the country.

On May 5, White House Correspondent April Ryan, brought down the house at Bennett College in North Carolina.

In Arkansas on the same day, journalist and political commentator Sophia Nelson, made lasting remarks during the Philander Smith College commencement exercise.

All across the nation, families are gathering, people are celebrating and graduations are being hailed as an occasion of joy.

However, despite these many festivities, if you are a Black American who graduated from the University of Florida (UF), your achievements may have been marred by the horrible memory of faculty marshals physically pushing you off of the stage, after you decided to celebrate your Black Greek (fraternity) pride, with the execution of a few “steps.”

More than 20 students were assaulted by the unidentified faculty member (although some say he is a chemistry lecturer), who is now on paid leave.

Why would the university continue to pay someone who seems to have differentially attacked Black students, as apparently no White students were assaulted or pushed off of the stage?

This lecturer is a menace to society and college students, who should not be exposed to his racism, either on stage or in a classroom.

According to The New York Times, UF President W. Kent Fuchs apologized to the affected students and left a personal

message of apology on Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity member Oliver Telusma’s voicemail, due to the incident.

However, from where I sit, President Fuchs should track that student down along with all of the others and visit them faceto-face.

The UF incident reminds Black students that graduation is but one of the many hurdles they must clear.

Every day, every single day, they face the possibility of pernicious racism, differential treatment, and the threat of law enforcement to compel compliance with the most foolish of laws and norms, spoken or unspoken.

That’s why Holly Hylton, the White woman who managed a Philadelphia Starbucks, felt free to call the police on two Black men after they had been seated, without ordering anything.

That’s why a hysterical White female bigot, called the police on a Black man, who was barbecuing in a public park in Oakland, California, where barbecuing is customary.

That’s why the police were called on three Black women (and a White man), because they failed to wave or smile when

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they exited an Airbnb in Rialto, California, and were detained for 45 minutes despite possessing proof that they had reserved their space.

That’s why the police wrestled a 25-yearold Black woman to the ground (exposing her bare breasts) in an Alabama Waffle House, after she asked for plastic cutlery and an ignorant employee reportedly said “she did not know her place,” and the beat goes on and on and on.

The police are too often called to put Black people in their place, to force them to comply, to reinforce the tenet of White supremacy; the notion that when we see a White person, we must shuck and jive and smile. So-called law enforcement officers become servants of racism, who want us in our place.

I want the graduates to know that their place is everyplace.

Class of 2018, your place is in that Starbucks at the table, order or not. Your place is in that Waffle House, getting the utensils you requested. Your place is at the lake in Oakland, burning those bones on your grill. Your place is on that stage at UF. Resistance has a high price. Who wants to go to jail and end up, like Sandra

Bland, whose mysterious death in Texas still has not been solved? Who wants to be handcuffed, humiliated, exposed, and maligned, just for asking a simple question?

Starbucks will close thousands of stores to the tune of millions of dollars for unconscious bias training. But who will train these biased police officers and the racists who call them, because their feelings are bruised when no one waves at them?

The Class of 2018 will learn, as have millions of other Black Americans, that racism is alive and well.

They’ve cleared a hurdle with graduation, but even as some cross the stage, they are being reminded that there are many more hurdles to clear, to survive in our unfortunately racist nation.

Perhaps though, the Class of 2018, will be among those to dismantle the racist hurdles.

Perhaps in the process of clearing other hurdles (graduate and professional school, marriage and children, artificial intelligence and gentrification), they will also find the wherewithal to eliminate racial barriers to success.

THE INNER-CITY NEWS - May 30, 2018 - June 05, 2018

Small businesses are the engine of job growth, the drivers of innovation, and the backbone of communities throughout Connecticut. To ensure that more minority-owned small businesses can capitalize on the many resources to help them grow and thrive, the state of Connecticut and its Department of Economic and Community Development (DECD) have established the Minority Business Initiative (MBI). Through the (MBI), the Minority Business Revolving Loan Fund (MBRLF) was established to allow minority business owners access to capital to grow their business through the DECD.

The Black Business Alliance and CT Dept. of Economic & Community Development (DECD) presents…

MINORITY BUSINESS MEET AND GREET Wednesday, June 06th at 5:30 PM

The 3 Strategic Partners leading the MBRLF Program:

Spanish American Merchant Association

You’re Invited – Meet distinguished members of the State government, the DECD, the MBI Board, and the strategic partners driving this initiative forward on behalf of the Small Business Community.

YALE GRADUATE CLUB

155 Elm Street | New Haven, CT 06511 Light refreshments will be served.

RSVP at: https://www.bbusinessalliance.org/events/upcoming-events/wednesday-june-6th-at-new-haven For more information about this workshop or to learn more about the MBRLF program: Visit the Black Business Alliance website: https://bbusinessalliance.org or Email us: admin@bbusinessalliance.org For further information on the Connecticut Minority Business Initiative visit the ctmbi.com Personalized guidance for minority-owned businesses in all stages of growth

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