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June 26, 2019 - July 02, 2019

Bolero and Bach Bring Arts & Ideas Home

by Lucy Gellman, Editor, The Arts Paper www.newhavenarts.org

A few ears pricked up when the groups onstage started remixing Bach. By the time a sax cut into a prelude in C Minor, people had stopped their conversations to see where one composer ended and the other began. When a web of strings appeared under “Guantanamera,” hands found their way to other hands and started to swing.

Saturday night, St. Luke’s Steel Band, Cuban sensation Tiempo Libre and the New Haven Symphony Orchestra closed out the 24th annual International Festival of Arts & Ideas on the New Haven Green, drawing thousands as they remixed canon with steel pan, propulsive Afro-Caribbean rhythms, smooth jazz and years of classical training.

As centuries of diasporic sound meshed with 400 years of classical music, the collaboration got New Haven dancing before sending attendees off to wait for the 25th annual festival next June.

The concert, which opened with performances from St. Luke’s Steel Band and the NHSO, also marked the beginning of Alasdair Neale’s tenure as NHSO music director, a position to which he was named last July. For more on the symphony’s upcoming season, which begins this September.

Taking the stage to cheers multiple times during the evening, Neale thanked New Haven for the warm welcome, introducing the symphony as musicians filed onto the space around him. As the first new music director in 12 year—he follows Maestro William Boughton—he has vowed to spend much of his first year listening to the community as he gets acquainted with New Haven. In particular, he has said he’s excited to hear what community members need from the NHSO and what they want to hear more of.

Saturday he did both of those, with musical pairings that seemed as if they’d been years in the making. As last-minute concert-goers found their spots and laid out picnic blankets and bottles of wine, members of both the symphony and St. Luke’s Steel Band filled the stage, sending waves of echoing, bending and rich sound into the crowd. Back on the green, attendees nodded along, as if they were keeping pace with the group.

In a set that ran just over half an hour, the band swung from expected repertoire— members are somewhat heralded for their work ranging from Marvin Gaye to Common—to different territory with Hamdenbased composer Deborah Fischer Teason, who teaches steel pan at Neighborhood Music School and St. Luke’s annual summer program. As Teason’s work unraveled onstage—an understated, creeping first movement that bloomed into a boisterous third—attendees swayed and rocked, a few getting up to dance.

That propulsion kept flowing as dusk approached, and the hour of Tiempo Libre drew closer. When Neale walked back onto the stage, excitement already buzzed through the air. A few pint-sized dancers took their place near the front, waving their arms in half interpretive dance, half

anticipation. A few attendees watched the corners of the stage carefully as the symphony lifted off, to see when members of Tiempo Libre might burst from the wings with a sudden infusion of sound.

Instead, they filtered on to applause and a few cheers from the audience. As members lifted their instruments, lead vocalist Xavier Mili introduced the group, dancing as he crossed from one side of the stage to the other and back again. In the audience, the most intrepid attendees rose to their feet, ready for whatever the group was going to whip out. The walkways across the green started filling up, all eyes toward the stage.

With the symphony taking cues from Neale, Tiempo Libre launched into “Baqueteo con Bajo Danzón” off its 2009 Bach In Havana, the familiar notes of Bach’s “Cello Suite No. 1” meeting something at once old and new. As smooth keys flowed into strings, the piece nestled into the heart of

a city that has worked to bring Bach into not just its symphonic repertoire, but also classrooms and public spaces with its participation in “Bach In The Subways.”

It turned out the group was just getting started. To cheers, Mili started talking about the band’s work, where tradition and experiment frequently mingle with the classical canon. The band’s founding members are steeped in that tradition: years ago they met at La ENA or the National School of Arts in Havana.

Mili gestured over to keyboardist and Tiempo Libre Founder Jorge Gómez, who plinked out the first few notes of a familiar sound—was it a fugue?—on the piano.

The audience nodded along. A few people looked restless, like they hadn’t signed up for a lesson in classical music during the summer months. Then musicians started mixing it up, with a buttery, jazz-kissed sax and trumpet that made it impossible not to

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Mili broke into a huge grin. The band snapped back into action.

“Welcome to the real world,” he said.

As the group and the symphony jumped through numbers, attendees rose to their feet, some dancing with complete strangers and others finding the friends they’d come out with. Others rolled to their own sort of rhythm as their arms made it up above their head. At Mili’s direction, whole sections of the green moved in unison, watching him for both music knowledge and dance direction.

Back onstage, the band cycled through its repertoire, slipping in a cover of “Guantánamera” among well-worn pieces and a few more recent tracks.

As they finished and cleared the stage,

Festival Co-Director Tom Griggs addressed the audience for one last time. For its two weeks, he said, the festival has been working to think about the concept of home— ”where we find home, and where we call home.” One more answer had been lurking in the music.

“And that’s what this has been all about,” he said.

To learn more about the collaboration between the NHSO and members of St. Luke’s Steel Band—and to get to better know Kenneth Joseph, Deborah Fischer Teason and Alasdair Neale—listen to Babz Rawls-Ivy’s interview with them below.

To see more from the concert, check out Tiempo Libre’s backstage peek above. This comes in part through the Arts Paper’s partnership with WNHH Community Radio and the Inner-City News.

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June 26, 2019 - July 02, 2019

Marilyn Moore for Mayor

by Francette Carson, ICN Correspondent

On Wednesday, June 19, 2019, a campaign meet and greet in support of State Senator Marilyn Moore’s mayoral candidacy for the City of Bridgeport was held in New Haven; hosted by Susan Yolen of Planned Parenthood. A large crowd gathered on this Wednesday evening demonstrating their support through monetary donations and eagerness to hear her political agenda. Moore’s campaign slogan is Reset*Reform*Restore. Moore is a black woman born and raised in Bridgeport and has been a lifelong resident. There has never been an African American to serve as Bridgeport’s Mayor. Marilyn Moore’s anticipated election as Mayor of the City of Bridgeport would be historic.

Moore has an impressive political record.

She has held the 22nd Senate seat for the past five years. In 2014, she was elected to State Senatorial District of Bridgeport, Trumbull, and Monroe. She was elected to a second term in 2016, and a third term in 2018. Moore’s political agenda is education, human services, public health, police accountability, increased opportunities for employment/fair wages, and resolution of financial issues within the city budget to build economic sustainability.

Moore has many supporters, and prior to her addressing the audience, fond words were delivered on her behalf. Moore’s previous employer indicated her ability to utilize creative and innovative strategies pushing through barriers to achieve identified goals. Moore’s campaign manager described her as an innovative, dedicated, persistent, hard-working woman that will not stop until she gets the job done. The message was clear that Moore has proven her capabilities through her activism, professional, and political career.

Moore conveyed her professional and political journey to the group of supporters. She began her professional career at AT&T, as a sales clerk; through hard work, dedication, and perseverance, she became an Executive for the company. After the merging of AT&T, Moore retired and se-

cured employment at Planned Parenthood, which she stated laid the foundation for her political career. While employed at Planned Parenthood, she diligently pursued the opportunity to lead a campaign to educate women on breast cancer awareness.

She later founded the Witness Project, a

program designed to decrease breast cancer mortality rates. Moore is an influential community activist and has dedicated herself to fighting for health care and the fight against hunger.

Moore emphasized that she is a woman of integrity, honesty, and commitment. She states, “I will not make promises or tell you what you want to hear. I will identify real issues and address those issues with real solutions.” She is sincere, compassionate, and knowledgeable about the pressing issues impacting the city. Bridgeport needs change, and there are many challenges to face. Moore is confident through perseverance, dedication, and passion she will be successful in cultivating positive changes in the city of Bridgeport. Senate Moore stated, “she will not make any promises for opportunities to secure support. However, she is committed to addressing the issues and getting the job done on behalf of the people of Bridgeport.” Moore’s Democratic opponent, Mayor Ganim has financial advantages and an extensive history serving as Mayor of Bridgeport from 1993 to 2003 and again in 2015 to present.

Ganim has raised $300,000.00, and Moore has only raised $100,000. 00. However, Moore is not discouraged she is ready to hit the ground running, campaigning reaching out to the people and informing them of her agenda to implement much needed and long-awaited changes in the City of Bridgeport.

Marilyn leaves the people with this message “God gives us everything we need, I’m not perfect, but I can tap into resources needed to get the job done.” Today, Moore needs your financial contributions. Tomorrow she needs your vote.

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“I am elated to announce that last night we made history in Rhode Island.

After more than 25 years of unwavering effort, we passed the Reproductive Privacy Act of 2019 (RPA), legislation that protects access to safe, legal abortion in Rhode Island no matter what happens at the federal level. In a momentous evening, the bill passed in both chambers of the General Assembly and was immediately signed into law by Governor Raimondo.

“When I say ‘we’ made history, I mean the thousands of activists, organizers, and supporters who have worked tirelessly—some for decades—alongside our dedicated coalition partners and tenacious legislators. This moment was made possible thanks to their determination.

“We must thank countless courageous and committed legislators, especially Representative Anastasia P. Williams, the sponsor of the RPA in the house, Senator Gayle Goldin, the initial sponsor in the Senate, and Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Erin Lynch Prata who worked incredibly hard to get this bill across the finish line. A special note of thanks goes to Representative Edith Ajello, who has been a stalwart reproductive rights champion for decades.

“Thank you to Governor Gina Raimondo who signed the bill immediately into law after it passed the General Assembly. Now, access to safe, legal abortion is finally codified in Rhode Island state law. The essential protections instilled by the RPA will ensure all Rhode Islanders—and especially people of color, people with low incomes, members of the LBGTQ+ community, and anyone who struggles with barriers to health care—can access the reproductive health care services they need. Abortion is health care, reproductive care is health care, and health care is a human right.

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June 26, 2019 - July 02, 2019

Juneteenth Honors The Elders, Invites In The Youth

By Lucy Gellman, Editor, The arts Paper, www.newhavenarts.org

A heartbeat-like drum had enveloped the upper New Haven Green. Attendees touched their knees and hands to the ground beneath them, a few steadying themselves as they did. The drums rose, slipping beneath the skin and into ear canals. Onstage, five elders who have given decades to the community started to receive their due.

Saturday, members of the Juneteenth Coalition of Greater New Haven surprised five elders in the New Haven community with public recognition of their work, which has ranged from championing neighborhood engagement and anti-violence initiatives to leading a national call for reparations and repatriation. The event was held in collaboration with the International Festival of Arts & Ideas with support from the Mayor’s Cultural Vitality Grant Program.

The celebration also featured live reenactments from chapters of African-American history in the U.S., booths from the New Haven Free Public Library, Advocate Lab, and Cornell Scott Hill Health Center, and performances from Ice The Beef, Artsucation Academy Network, spoken word artist and dancer Black Pearl and others.

It marked the sixth annual Juneteenth on the green; last year’s ceremony honored longtime Dixwell champion Jeffie Frazier.

To read about a concurrent Juneteenth festival in Goffe Street Park, click here.

This year’s honorees included Senior Elder Nabeela Uqdah, Newhallville champions Hazel and Allen Williams, poet Deborah Elmore, and arts advocate Aleta Staton, as well as a surprise pre-birthday recognition for Artsucation Academy Network Founder and Juneteenth Coalition CoOrganizer Hanan Hameen (“having Hanan as a daughter is like having three daughters,” joked her mother Iman Hameen of her work in the community). In addition to recognition from Mayor Toni Harp, all five elders received richly decorated wooden canes and personalized gifts.

“As a person of African descent, it really makes me feel good to see the work that has been done here by the Juneteenth Committee of Greater New Haven,” Harp said at the ceremony. “I am so grateful to this committee for helping us remember every Juneteenth about how much it took to get out of slavery, how we had to deal with life post slavery, and how we continue to have to deal with trying to be free in the United States of America.”

Each of the honorees has contributed to both New Haven’s history, and to the country’s. Born in January 1931 in Middletown, Ohio, Uqdah has been leading a national call for reparations and repatriation for most of her life. After arriving in Connecticut as a young adult, she sprang into action, leading protests at Branford High School when she was just 17 years old. Saturday, her daughter Iman Hameen recalled that her activism came from one place: feeling that something was (and continues to be) deeply wrong with the treatment of Black Americans in the country.

The road ahead of her wasn’t easy. After

graduating from high school, Uqdah was interested in becoming a flight attendant, but was told repeatedly that there was no place for a Black woman in that industry.

She switched tracks to nursing, starting to raise a family at home as she juggled school, homework and rotations during which she was soon recognized for her kindness. By the time she graduated from Yale’s nursing program in 1960 (it was then the Grace-New Haven School of Nursing at Yale), she was known for her whip-smart work and the time she took with patients.

But when she went for recognition as a surgical nurse, she was locked out of that option too.

“She was stopped by the myth of white supremacy,” recalled Iman Hameen after the ceremony. “That’s what it is. A myth.”

Uqdah responded time and time again by mobilizing, moving from Connecticut to New York and organizing to pass out literature, prepare and deliver testimony and talk to people about the meaning of full reparations. She went on to live her advocacy, moving to Ghana for over a decade until recent hip surgery compelled her to return to the United States and to New Haven.

Onstage, Harp praised her for her advocacy, compassion, and oft-referenced kindness toward others, even in the face of discrimination. Before moving to Ghana, Uqdah worked for years at the Jewish Home for the Aged on New Haven’s Davenport Avenue. Addressing the crowd, she said she has since become concerned with the lack of knowledge and understanding around reparations in this country. After the ceremony, her daughter Iman said that is particulary because they have become “so watered down” from where discussions once were.

“I hope this those who consider themselves African-American—you need some studying,” Uqdah said. “You need to be studying the information that has been put out for you. No one but you. I want you to understand this. This is a very, very serious … it’s very serious, what we’re doing here today. It must be perfect.”

“Reparations and repatriation, you need to have that information,” she continued.

“You will have to find someone who is giving some classes. You need some classes in regards to who you are. You must understand it.”

Sitting beside her, Elmore received recognition for both her creative work in the community and role founding the women’s support group S.W.A.N.A (Sisters With a New Attitude) over a decade ago. Since the group’s inauguration, she has been instrumental in organizing meetings to remember and honor victims of gun violence and engage and educate community members through gathering.

She has been one of the pillars of New Haven’s Kwanzaa celebrations, including the creation of a Kwanzaa learning and kinship seminar in 2009. She was also an early celebrator of Juneteenth in New Haven.

“Thanks to S.W.A.N.A. for believing in

Lucy Gellman Photos Hanan Hameen, who was surprised Saturday when a ceremony she had planned for community elders doubled as a surprise recognition for her as well. After learning that she will be 40 in July, the crowd burst into a round of “Happy Birthday” à la Stevie Wonder.

Dancers from Artsucation Academy Network and Hanan Hameen’s classes at Neighborhood Music School lead the green in celebratory African dance.

me,” Elmore said.

She was in good company. Longtime residents of Newhallville’s Pond Street, Hazel and Allen Williams started a Newhallville block watch in the 1990s, to both beautify Pond Street and make it safer. To combat crime on the block, the couple encouraged neighbors to repaint their houses and front porches, move plants into their yard, and install lights on the front of their houses and their porches. They began to throw a block party, now the city’s longest-running fête all summer. In the 1990s, Allen Williams also began working with “One Voice,” a policing initiative intended to cut down on shootings in the neighborhood.

“They didn’t treat the drug dealers and the gang members like they were the enemy,” recalled recalled jazz musician and longtime New Havener (and Uqdah’s son-inlaw) Jesse Hameen II. “They treated them like they were their sons. It was with love.

I think that’s so important, that we get a

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Members of Ice The Beef warm up before performances.

Senior Elder Nabeela Uqdah with Mayor Toni Harp and her granddaughter Hanan Hameen.

chance to enjoy some peace.”

Since that time, other neighborhoods in the city—and around the country—have used the same block watch model to increase safety in their neighborhoods. For Hazel Williams, the love flows both ways: she accepted the award by noting her ongoing devotion to the city.

“This is the best city in the world,” she said. “I’d like to thank Pond Street, that’s the best street in the world. And I’d like to thank all of you who came out to help us. God bless, and may your days be long.

May you at least live to be 100 and me 100 minus a day, so I’ll never know you passed away.”

Because the couple’s wedding anniversary is on Juneteenth each year—June 19 marks the official celebration of Freedom Day or Emancipation Day—Hanan Hameen said that it has taken several years of top-secret planning to make sure they are available for the celebration. This year, the two are celebrating 38 years of marriage, a fact that

was met with whoops and applause.

The last to receive recognition—as a community engagement manager at Arts & Ideas, Saturday had her running around— Staton blushed amidst high praise for her longtime involvement in the arts, which has ranged from over 35 years of teaching to her community outreach in the city’s public library branches and work with Quinnipiac University, Long Wharf Theatre and others.

“I’m very very choked up,” she said. “Unexpected. So, so, so appreciated. From my village. God bless you.”

Hanan Hameen said that in part, she sees honoring elders as a way to educate some of New Haven’s youngest residents, from those who performed on the stage afterwards to those who may not have made it out to the ceremony.

“I want the youth to know who they are,” she said.

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“Economics and Power: A Path Forward for the New Haven African American Community” Dr. Fred McKinney, Carlton Highsmith Chair for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Quinnipiac University June 22, 2019

I want to thank Mr. Howard K. Hill and Reverend Morrison for extending to me the invitation to be your breakfast speaker this morning. I had not met Rev. Morrison before last week, but I have known and appreciated the work and commitment that Mr. Hill has to this community in New Haven and throughout the state.

This morning I am going to focus my remarks on “Economics and Power: A Path Forward for the New Haven African American Community.”

I want to start with some current affairs that have been in the news just this week to demonstrate the urgency and timeliness of this topic.

On Monday, the Phoenix police department released a video showing a disturbing over-reaction by two white officers who pulled and pointed their weapons at a young African-American family because their four-year old daughter had allegedly “stolen” a Barbie doll from a Family Dollar store. This could very easily had become another tragedy in the on-going and unnecessary armed assault by white police officers on the African-American community. In 2019, as of June 20th there have been 425 fatal police shootings in this country.

On Tuesday night in Orlando, our criminal president officially began his re-election campaign. It was marked by a march by a group of white nationalists called the Proud Boys. My parents, probably like your parents, often told me that you are judged by the company you keep. The Bible in Luke says “Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them. For a good tree bringeth not forth corrupt fruit; neither doth a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.”

We need no political impeachment to know that our current criminal president is a stain on this country and the world.

He reminds us of America’s uncomfortable past of racism, white supremacy, and ignorance.

On Wednesday, June 19th some Blacks and some progressive Whites celebrated Juneteenth, that uniquely American unholiday – holiday. It was 154 years ago when Union Troops entered Galveston, Texas and informed the slaves and the slaveholders that because of the Emancipation Proclamation, that they were now free.

Also on Wednesday, the House of Representatives held hearings to discuss HR 40, a bill that was originally introduced by former Representative John Conyers “to establish a commission to study and develop reparation proposals for AfricanAmericans and to examine slavery and discrimination in the colonies and the United States from 1619 to the present and recommend appropriate remedies.”

Then to top off the week, Democratic presidential front-runner, former Vice President Joe Biden created controversy by insensitively bringing up his ability to work with loathsome segregationists as his inarticulate way of saying he can work with politicians he does not like or agree

Dr. Fred McKinney with. Presidential rival, Senator Corey Booker demanded an apology from Biden for his insensitivity for dredging up the ghost from our not too distant past.

That was just this week in the discussion of race and power in America in 2019.

This week provides an appropriate context for my remarks this morning on the topic of economics and power and the conditions we as a people face not only in New Haven, but around this country. And more importantly what we should do now to address these conditions.

Power and New Haven Power comes in three forms: Political Power; Economic Power and Moral Power. African-Americans have indeed come a long way from that first Juneteenth in 1865. It was inconceivable that in 1860 that Black Americans could have attained the political power that we have in New Haven today.

In New Haven today, the mayor is black, the superintendent of schools is black, the president of the board of alders is black, the fire chief is black, the most recent police chief is black. If this was a game of poker we would a municipal royal flush!

Yet there is a pervading sense in this community that while we have come far, we still have a long way to go.

Political power in our democracy comes from the franchise. When we vote our interest, we elect representatives who promote our interests over the interests of those who oppose us. Democracy is in many respects civilized warfare. Instead of political factions engaging in violent confrontations to settle important decisions that impact the public good, we vote. Our history demonstrates clearly what happens when we do not vote. Our concerns, if they are on the agenda at all, are rarely seriously addressed when we do

not vote.

Political power through participation in the political process is absolutely essential to the development of our community.

However, political power alone, while necessary, is not sufficient to achieve the improvements in our community that we desire. Economic power is necessary for this to happen.

Economic power is best defined as the control over resources. I came to New Haven in 1976 to attend the Yale Graduate School of Economics where I became the first African American to earn a Ph.D. in economics. As a trained economist, I have spent my professional career studying how scarce resources are allocated. The New Haven African-American community, like many African-American communities across this country, has a resource allocation problem. Let me state clearly, that we also have a wealth and income problem. African-American wealth is less than one-tenth the wealth of the typical white American. In 2016, African-American households earn $39,000 compared to $61,000 for whites, less than 65 percent of what the typical white household earns.

When it comes to wealth, African-American households have on average $17,000 in wealth as defined by the difference between assets and financial liabilities.

White American households have over $171,000 of household wealth on average, more than 10 times the wealth of the typical African-American household.

This is where we are. And despite these significant disparities, I believe our community is not without resources that can be allocated in ways that can create great wealth and income and fundamentally change the conditions for most AfricanAmericans. Growing wealth is the source of real power. Wealth and increased income – economic power - can do what political power alone cannot do – transform communities and the lives of those most in need.

Poverty and the lack of wealth have consequences. Poor people have poor health.

Poor people die young. Poor people are poorly educated. Poor people have poor self-esteem. Poor people become victims of their poverty. Poor people become dependent on the generosity of others. Poor people are incarcerated. Poor people are not free. Poor people are powerless.

Before describing what specifically I mean by reallocating the resources we have, I want to discuss the third form of power – moral power. Moral power is independent of political and economic power. Moral power is the power of the mind and the spirit. Moral power comes from a belief system that unhesitatingly and unapologetically calls out right from wrong. Moral authority and power is often the underpinning of political power.

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.” From these moral statements we organize, we criticize , we analyze where we are and what we must do.

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For the faith community, be it Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Taoist, Hindu, Buddhist or something else, we base that moral perspective on an understanding and faith in a higher moral authority. But I put to you today that one need not be a member of any of these communities to have a moral compass that leads you to righteousness – the state of being right! Even an atheist can have moral power.

Moral power often confronts political and economic power when moral power is all that one has to offer. Some might say having moral power is like bringing a knife to a gun fight. Yet moral power is important and indeed critical to communities who lack either political power or economic power or both. Our own history of Rosa Parks saying she has a right to sit where she wants to sit on a public bus is the exertion of moral power. Mahatma Gandhi’s walk to the sea to free Indians of British rule of over 1 billion humans was moral power at work. Nelson Mandela’s struggle for freedom in South Africa was moral power practiced at the highest level.

The 1963 March on Washington that bore the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act was moral power.

The audience this morning has the moral authority to help change this community in order to create economic power. So, what must be done?

First and foremost, we must take an inventory of our assets and our liabilities. What do we own? What do we control? What do we owe? And, who do we owe it to?

Our community has a balance sheet. We must understand that balance sheet. It will be the measure of our economic progress and the accumulation of economic power.

And it must be how we judge and evaluate the performance of our political representatives whom we have entrusted with political authority. This should be their scorecard. And if they are not up to the task, we must support them in order to make them successful, or we must select someone else to bear this heavy load.

Secondly, we must develop a clear and persistent vision. In business, a company without a vision is doomed for failure. In sports, a team without a vision will never win a championship. In life, a person without a vision for themselves will live like a leaf blowing in the wind without direction or purpose or impact. In a community, a community without a vision is destined to remain poor.

This community’s vision must be clear in the sense that we can see it and everyone in the community can see it, express what it looks like, and understands the actions that take us closer to the realization of the vision and the actions that take us further away from that vision. For example, my vision for this community is not just black community that looks like a more affluent white community. It is a community that celebrates the success of our youth, whether they are our children or our neighbor’s children. It is a community that is physically and mentally healthy. It is a com-

munity that is clean. It is a community that respects its elders. It is a community that supports the educational development of our youth. It is a community where we don’t need police protecting us from each other because we will stop being at war with each other. It is a community where entrepreneurs strive. It is a community where no matter your beginnings, you can be who you want to be. It is a community that celebrates our culture. It is a community that respects those who do not look like us, worship like us, or even love us.

Our vision is in our hands.

And finally, in order to create this vision, we must commit to work, saving and sacrifice. Economic progress is not easy.

It does not come to those who sit around waiting for their number to hit. Economic progress requires work and sweat and pain and forgoing the pleasures of today for the benefits of tomorrow.

Economic progress requires savings.

Wealth is created when income exceeds expenses over long periods of time. Savings must be the personal goal of every household in our community, regardless of our income. I refuse to believe that we cannot save money because we are poor.

I was born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. Both of my grandfathers and my both my parents picked cotton on the Arkansas side of the Mississippi River delta. They were as economically poor as anyone in poverty today. Yet they saved money and they instilled that practice in their children. Now my grandparents never became wealthy.

But their children and their grandchildren were able to become owners of homes and businesses, professionals, and in some cases wealthy.

My grandparents were probably no different from your grandparents. They wanted a better life for their children.

Many of them moved north seeking a better life. Some of them ended up in Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, New York and New Haven. We must take lessons from our ancestors and start saving for our children and our grandchildren. If we cannot give our children and our grandchildren a better economic foundation from which to start their lives, I submit to your that our lives have been a failure. Now that is harsh, but economic development and progress is unrelenting in its demands.

There are no short cuts. We must begin to emphasize saving.

Time does not permit me to talk about the importance of education, culture and entrepreneurship in the development of our community, but suffice it say, these are also key components to a comprehensive plan to accomplish the vision I am sure we all must share for our community.

I thank you for your time and attention and welcome the opportunity to continue this conversation and I sincerely hope that we can turn ideas into action.

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Community Fund for Women & Girls Advances Gender Equity with $130,000 in Grants LGBTQIA+ Organization Latest to Join Slate of Nonprofit Partners New Haven, Conn. (June 26, 2019) – At The Community Fund for Women & Girls’ annual meeting, newly appointed Chair Karen Peart announced grant awards totaling $130,000 to 12 nonprofit partner organizations working to advance gender equity in the region. Among the grantees is the New Haven Pride Center, which is the first LGBTQIA+ organization to receive a grant from The Fund.

“These grantees are working on the front lines of gender equity and economic security and you will also find a deep commitment to inclusiveness,” said Peart. “All of the grant awards are related in some way to economic security and inclusive growth and all of them are made possible by women’s philanthropy – the generous sharing of time, talent and treasure.”

The annual meeting also featured the moderated panel discussion, “The Care Economy: Women, Wealth and Work” featuring Jessica Sager, co-founder and CEO of All Our Kin; Natalícia Tracy, Ph.D., executive director of Brazilian Worker Center and Elyse Shaw, study director at the Institute for Women’s Policy Research.

The panelists discussed how women make up the bulk of the U.S. healthcare and care support workforce (nearly 88 percent), the personal and financial costs to women providing services in the care economy and the importance of advocacy to raise wages and improve working conditions. To learn more about the subject and view the panel discussion, visit fundforwomenandgirls.org.

2019 Grant Recipients in Alphabetical Order: All Our Kin: $10,000 to support the continuation of the Business Development Program, through which childcare professionals succeed as business owners, parents are able to participate in the workforce and

children receive the early learning experiences they need to succeed in school and beyond.

Bridges Healthcare: $15,000 to support the expansion of prevention education and case management services with a particular focus on the West Haven community. BSAFE will address the needs and concerns of girls and young women between the ages of 13-25 around sexual activity and reproductive health, pregnancy and parenting and will support young women and girls to make healthy, responsible decisions to foster future independence and self-sufficiency.

Chapel Haven: $5,000 to support the Communicative Competency Women’s Group offering discussion-based, community integrated programming that teaches women with high functioning Autism to define personal boundaries and healthful

relationships, improve life skills, enhance awareness of others, and socialize as a way to empower, build relationships, and increase personal safety.

Collective Consciousness Theatre: $7,000 to support a 12-16 week program for young women who attend a New Haven public school and elder women who reside at a New Haven senior residence/eldercare facility. Students interview elders about their political participation generally and their voting experiences specifically. Students and theatre artists will produce a public gallery-style exhibit, a talkback with some of the participants and a PSA-style video leading up to the 2020 Presidential election.

Community Bonds: $15,000 to support the first formal organizing initiative against mass incarceration in Connecticut, led by women of color.

Connecticut Women’s Education & Legal Fund: $20,000 to support the Bilingual Community Advocacy project and Advocacy Fellowship program in Greater New Haven. Bilingual Community Advocacy is a part of CWEALF’s comprehensive Legal Education Program that empowers lowincome and Spanish speaking clients with free legal information, legal advocacy, referrals to Cooperating Attorneys and partner agencies, and community education.

The Connecticut Collective for Women and Girls: $20,000 for continued support for a statewide network of women and girlserving organizations, allies and advocates.

IRIS (Integrated Refugee & Immigrant Services): $12,000 to support literacy programming for refugee mothers with young children, who have no other options for learning English. Mothers will attend daily

English language classes while young children attend adjacent preschool readiness class. Multi-level class focuses on practical applications of reading, writing, and speaking English in order to improve womens’ integration and help them manage their daily tasks, support their children’s education, and engage in community life.

New Haven Free Public Library: $9,500 to support the expansion of the Tech Titans: Girls Who Code Club, which serves girls in grades 3-5 weekly, throughout the NHFPL system. Girls learn coding basics, the history of women in STEM, and additional STEM topics in a safe space. Funding will expand the clubs to four additional library locations by joining the Girls Who Code national network as a community partner.

New Haven Pride Center: $2,000 to contribute to the hiring of a part-time program officer who will focus exclusively on creating new programming and enhancing existing activities for LGBTQ+ identified women, including assigned female at birth, cisgender and transgender women.

Student Parenting and Family Services: $7,500 to support adolescent New Haven mothers in overcoming barriers to education and employment. The program provides crisis intervention, counseling, home visits and basic needs assessments.

Women & Family Life Center: $7,000 to support the continuation of one-on-one financial consulting programming while expanding the program to other sites in neighboring towns to serve more women.

About the Community Fund For Women & Girls The Community Fund for Women & Girls is Greater New Haven’s only endowment promoting the social and economic advancement of women and girls. Learn more at fundforwomenandgirls.org

5 Famous Black Chefs You Should Know About

BlackNews.com Nationwide — These famous black chefs are carving out a name for themselves in the hyper-competitive food world. They represent a wide variety of cooking and food styles.

Loic Dable Born and trained in France, Dable worked in many luxurious hotels and restaurants in what many consider the best food city in the world—Paris. He took his talents to the Ivory Coast in East Africa and opened his restaurant Migrations. Dable took what he learned in France and combined that with African cooking traditions to create his signature Afro-fusion cuisine. He also teaches locals about the joys of cooking and stressing the use of readily available ingredients.

Mashama Bailey Bailey went to cooking school in New York after getting fired from a job as a social worker. She started as a personal chef

and worked in some of the best kitchens in New York City. In 2014, she opened The Grey in an abandoned Greyhound station in Savannah, Georgia, which was nominated for a James Beard Award for Best New Restaurant. She makes traditional southern dishes with some New York City flair thrown in, like collard greens imbued with pecan smoke.

Marisa Baggett After opening a restaurant and catering company at 22, Chef Marisa Baggett was asked to host a sushi-centered dinner. She accepted the challenge and became fascinated. She went to the California Sushi Academy and became the first black female to graduate. She worked in sushi kitchens and gained fame for her southern twist on the Japanese specialty. She now travels as an itamae and teaches the art of sushi making to anyone willing to learn.

Bryan Furman

Pitmaster Bryan Furman stands out in the crowded Atlanta barbecue scene, winning “Best New Restaurant” awards from all over. His restaurant B’s Cracklin’ Barbecue is committed to whole hog cooking and heirloom animal husbandry. All the sides are made from scratch and use local ingredients. That’s rare in barbecue joints, especially in Atlanta.

Jeff Henderson Growing up in the tough LA streets isn’t easy. Jeff Henderson knows this well, as he was stabbed in the chest by a rival gang member at just age 16. In 1988, he was arrested and sentenced to 10 years in prison for drug trafficking. It was in prison where he found his love for cooking and turned his

life in a different direction. He penned his story of redemption in the best seller COOKED, which is being made into a movie. Henderson is now a bestselling author, motivational speaker, and celebrity chef.

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“IMatter” Rolls Into City Hall THE INNER-CITY NEWS -

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by Lucy Gellman, Editor, The Arts Paper, www.newhavenarts.org

The faces look out into the center of the space, begging the viewer to come closer.

Some pairs of eyes sparkle and tilt upward; others stare penetratingly, as if they are desperate to get a message out before they blink. Ten mouths, chins, sets of shoulders come into focus. They speak without moving, with large statements printed in bold beneath all of them.

Tuesday afternoon, the latest chapter of the IMatter Project came to New Haven’s City Hall as 10 of the project’s signature banners were installed and fêted in the building’s first-floor atrium. It follows installations in the Ninth Square, downtown New Haven, Goffe Street Armory, Dixwell Avenue firehouse and defunct C-Town building.

The project, which has received support from the city’s Youth Services Department, is the brainchild of Guilford-based photographer Rob Goldman, who also has IMatter outposts in Long Island and New Jersey (read more about those here). Since September of last year, he has been working with the mayor’s office to install those banners around the city, each picturing a New Haven youth with a big, declarative statement in bold below.

“The idea that they can be celebrated for who they are, that idea is a miracle,” said Goldman at the reception. “And for me to be part of that is as big a miracle. So I just, I thank you for your courage, for putting yourself out there, for being models and being able to say ‘I matter.’”

Each comes from an hour-long session that he spends with each young person, during which he takes several photographs and works with the person to craft a statement that sits beneath their image. Statements, which he said are “like advertising, but not selling anything” have so far included “I Give A Voice To The Silent,” “I Speak Up For What I Know Is Right,” “Your Validation Does Not Define Me” among others.

“I am so proud of the work we are doing here in City Hall to lift up the voices of our young people,” said Mayor Toni Harp at the reception. “So often, our young people don’t believe that they have a voice, don’t believe that they matter. And yet those of us who are older know that their belief in themselves, what they want to do with their lives, is what will create the future for our town and for our community.”

Around the atrium Tuesday, some of the subjects stood beside their banners, pulled family and friends over for a peek, or caught up with Goldman months after doing a photo session with him. Isaiah Bussey, whose photograph hangs on the Dixwell Avenue firehouse, said that he feels incredibly proud to have his face looking out over the neighborhood, just blocks from where he lives. His mom, Nina Silva, said that it has adds to his reputation as “Mr. Dixwell.”

“It’s so inspiring for us and for them,”

Lucy Gellman Photos: Nyla Conaway, one of the students photographed, with friends and family at the reception. Conway will attend Smith College in the fall.

so many different backgrounds.”

Her excitement echoed across the atrium all afternoon, as the space filled with the smell of pizza and sound of laughter.

As Harp and Goldman ceded the mic to two spoken word poets, attendees milled around the space to look at the banners, which picture a mix of high school students and recent graduates. Alder Kim Edwards, whose late son Benjamin Brown is pictured at the far side of the atrium, said that she was moved by IMatter as both a mom and a lifelong New Havener.

“I love the project, period,” she said while waiting to pose for a photo. “I thought it was a special project not only because Ben was on it, but because of all the youth.

Like, they get to see it and think, ‘that’s me up there.’ They are the youth within our city. And that’s very powerful.”

As a parent in the throes of loss, she added that the banner of her son continues to give her strength even after his death. Two years ago, Brown was diagnosed with a brain tumor after what he and the family thought were sinus headaches. Edwards recalled the steps of her son’s illness, from surgery and radiation treatment to his death in late March of this year. She said she still drives by the Goffe Street Armory sometimes “just to see my baby,” and look into those eyes as they watch over the neighborhood.

“I blow my horn and I say hi,” she said.

“He’s still here.”

Isaiah Bussey at the reception.

Silva said. “It’s a real self-esteem builder.”

Standing by a sepia-toned banner with the message “I Can Shape The Future With My Voice,” Common Ground High School Senior Yaniel Alejandro Ramos (pictured above) fielded questions on the project.

After hearing about the project on social media, he said he reached out to Goldman to see if he could snag a spot in the photo lineup. He recalled heading into the studio on the day of the appointment and being greeted with fanfare just for being himself.

“I was super glad and super grateful to work with people like Rob and like Bo [Sandine], who have been a path of support since the start, and have really helped me to get to where I’m at right now,” he said.

“Especially with this project, I thought I wouldn’t be able to finish something like

Recent graduate Makayla Dawkins with Yaniel Ramos, Nyla Conway and Isaiah Bussey.

this and make change in my own little way.”

After taking the photo in November, he hadn’t seen a copy until it showed up at City Hall. After this year, he said he hopes to pursue nursing at Southern Connecticut State University or a college in Florida.

“It’s super new—the feeling, I can’t describe it,” he added. “In my eyes, it’s huge.”

Makayla Dawkins added that she sees the project as a chance to give New Haven students a platform and a voice outside of their schools. A recent graduate of James Hillhouse High School, Dawkins has spent the past years serving as a student representative on the city’s Board of Education, while also advocating for better education in Hartford. In the fall, she is attending the

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University of Connecticut at Storrs with plans to study social work.

She first heard about IMatter from Jeroy Smith, then a dream director with The Future Project at her school. Smith encouraged her to get involved in September of last year; her photo was taken by October.

She recalled feeling immediately comfortable with Goldman and Project Assistant Bo Sandine, who worked with her to generate the sentence “There Isn’t Anything I Can’t Overcome.” In April, the banner went up on Dixwell.

“It makes me feel pretty good,” she said.

“It makes me feel important to the community, that I’m valued. I passed by the firehouse every day when I used to to the high school, and it really made me feel like I mattered to the community. Newhallville is the community I grew up in—so I really felt like I was a part of it, as a person with

“Ben is like, the strongest kid I know,” said his aunt Dana Edwards, slipping between past and present tense as she spoke.

“It’s been a long two years. Watching him transition to what he had to go through … it was really, really hard.”

With the banner, she added, “it’s like Ben is living. I have days where I miss him and I drive by.”

In addition to current locations across the city, Goldman is working with the antiblight Liveable City Initiative (LCI) to prepare three glowing, nine-foot IMatter pillars that will stand at the intersections of Dixwell Avenue, Shelton Avenue, and Munson Avenue in September. June also marks the opening of Goldman’s New Haven studio at 123 Court St. and the official launch of “IMatter Voices,” an ongoing audio collaboration with New Haven station 94.3 WYBC. To use IMatter Voices, viewers can listen to stories on the project’s website or on their phone, by scanning a QR code that opens the story. Recorded stories also play daily on the station, where station breaks or advertisements might otherwise go.

“What’s really fantastic is not only getting to know these young people, but getting to hear their words, their stories,” said WYBC host Juan Castillo, who has been speaking on-air to some of the students and recent graduates who have been photographed.

“It’s how they see our world and how they see our future. They inspire us.”

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The Father F.A.C.T.O.R.

by Dr. David Asbery On June 11, 2019, I stopped by the Community Action Agency of New Haven to talk to a group of fathers who are enrolled in an 8 week program, The Father F.A.C.T.O.R. The program is aimed at strengthening families while building a network of resources for fathers. The goal of the program is to share and increase their knowledge on what it means to be an effective father throughout their child’s life, while also helping them to play a more active role in nurturing and raising their children.

Landon Osborn, the coordinator of The Father F.A.C.T.O.R. program and I started things off by sharing some of our own experiences of being a father, being in a failed relationship, and dealing with child support and custody issues. After our talk, each father joined in, opened up, and talked about their own successes and struggles and what they have learned thus far while attending the Father F.A.C.T.O.R. program.

Landon and I would like to thank Kenn Harris from New Haven Healthy Start, a program of the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven, for sponsoring this program. We both agree that programs like this are crucial in that they give fathers a safe space to let their guards down and learn how to be better men, fathers, husbands, and partners. As the completion of this 8 week program draws near, each one of these fathers promised to take what they’ve learned and pass it on to a father in need. For more information about this program please contact Dr. David Asbery at davidasbery@fixingfathers.org or Landon Osborn at landonosborn1@gmail.com.

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10% Afforable Housing Mandate Debated

by THOMAS BREEN

New Haven Independent

The city’s planned zoning overhaul for Whalley, Grand, and Dixwell Avenues hit a gentrification speed bump from activists concerned about protections for lowincome residents.

That debate around the future of the city’s downtown-adjacent “commercial corridors” took place Wednesday night during a workshop held at the beginning of the City Plan Commission’s six-hour meeting on the second floor of City Hall.

No one spoke in opposition to the construction of more housing and a more walkable streetscape along these avenues. But city staff, commissioners, neighborhood leaders, and affordable housing advocates debated how best to get there.

In particular, they considered how best to ensure that newly built housing doesn’t force out of neighborhood residents who can’t afford downtown-level market-rate rents.

The City Plan Department’s proposed Commercial Gateway District draft zoning regulations, department director Aïcha Woods explained, contain a 10 percent “inclusionary zoning” mandate. (Read this CityLab article for a comprehensive primer on the increasingly popular zoning policy, as well as a case study on how it’s worked, and not worked, in Washington D.C.) That proposed rule would require all new residential or mixed-use developments with nine or more units in the rezoned districts to set aside at least 10 percent of their apartments at “affordable” rents—with “affordable” pegged to 60 percent or less of the area median income (AMI), or around $55,140 for a family of four.

Click here to read the new draft zoning regulations in full and here to read the city’s proposed changes to the use table. The proposed new zones would cover Dixwell Avenue from Tower Parkway to Munson Street, Whalley Avenue from Howe Street to Pendleton Street, and Grand Avenue from Olive Street to Hamilton Street.

Woods said the 10 percent affordability number emerged from over a year of public meetings, intensive internal research, and careful review of the Affordable Housing Task Force‘s findings and recommendations.

Initially, she said, the department’s rezoning efforts were focused primarily on floor ratio adjustments, environmentally friendly building incentives, and switching parking minimums for parking maximums to best foster vibrant avenues built at the scale of people, not cars. But a heated public meeting with housing activists at the downtown library in April helped shift the department’s focus more towards the necessity of writing affordability into the regs.

“Financial Feasibility Concern” “I think it’s tremendously valuable to raise these issues,” said City Plan Commission Chair Ed Mattison, who served on the Affordable Housing Task Force. Up until now, he said, residents concerned with using public policy to help shape the city’s apartment construction boom to include low-

THOMAS BREEN PHOTO A legal aid poster calling for more affordable housing. Below: A packed room at Wednesday night’s meeting.

WEB Community Management Team Chair Nadine Horton.

Dixwell management team member Crystal Gooding.

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income renters have had few public venues to work through those ideas.

He said he does have a “financial feasibility concern,” however, about the risk that an inclusionary zoning mandate would deter investors from building housing in New Haven altogether, therefore resulting in no new housing, market-rate or otherwise.

“The academic studies show that changing zoning rarely by itself is able to change what happens on the ground,” he said. “It just isn’t powerful enough.”

That’s why what the city is proposing with these new zoning regulations is just a pilot, Woods said. It’s designed to provide an immediate test of all of the proposed revisions, including the 10 percent affordable requirements, to see if they spur equitable development along Whalley, Grand, and Dixwell.

Couldn’t the pilot wait until after the city hires a consultant to complete a formal inclusionary zoning study that recommends which percentage mandates would be most effective in this city, as recommended by the task force? alternate commissioner Elias Estabrook asked.

“There has been so much demand for doi ng something on these corridors,” Woods said. “I would hate to put it off.” She said she plans on hosting another public meeting on the matter sometime in July before submitting the proposed updates to the City Plan Commission for a formal recommendation vote, and then passing them along to the Board of Alders for more review and potential adoption.

“We might not get it perfectly right” the first time around, Deputy Zoning Director Jenna Montesano said. But “I think we have to do something now” based on the flood of new developments and the urgency for some affordable housing protections expressed by the community.

“We Feel Very Much Included” Robin Golden, a consultant with New Haven Legal Assistance Association, agreed.

“We do not have time to wait for any kind of study,” she said. Some kind of inclusionary zoning needs to go in place now, and, if 10 percent is what the department recommends to start with, then 10 percent is what the city should try out.

Nadine Horton, the chair of the WhalleyEdgewood-Beaver Hills Community Management Team, said that her community has hit road block after road block in trying to attract developers and new housing investment because of Whalley Avenue’s 1960s-era zoning, that privileges car dealerships and parking lots and singles-story, standalone buildings like fast food chains over multi-family housing.

“We can’t entice certain developers because of the zoning,” she said. She commended Woods for coming out to the management team and into the community to worshop the proposed zoning changes over the past few months. “We feel very much included in the process,” she said.

“People’s Lives Are At Stake” Kerry Ellington, a community organizer with New Haven legal aid, had a different take on the proposed zoning overhauled

and the process that has led up to it.

She said she has seen her apartment building at Chapel and Orchard Street “gentrified before my eyes” during her decade living in the Dwight neighborhood, where rents have gone up to accommodate students and hospital workers and other professionals wanting to live just outside of Downtown.

“Gentrification is a real issue that’s not being assessed and not being addressed in our city,” she said. She criticized the city’s economic development strategy as being focused on bringing in new investment at all costs.

“It can’t hurt to develop a genuine, multimonth process” that would include people like her and her neighbors in this zoning redo, she said. “Coming from my community, we’ve been left out of this process.”

The department needs to do a better job educating residents who might not come to management team meetings about what zoning is, how it affects their lives, and how it might be used to protect the interests of working class people and not just developers.

“We need a space in the community to hash that out,” she said. “This is because people’s lives are at stake.”

Ming-Yee Lin, a staff attorney with legal aid, seconded Ellington’s push to prolong the process and delay the pilot commercial corridor adoption.

“We have to remember these are real communities,” she said about Dixwell, Whalley, and Grand Avenues. While a host of new market-rate apartments might fill middle and upper-income housing needs, they might also displace the city’s poorest from neighborhoods they’ve lived for generations. “People are feeling anxiety” about this construction boom, she said, and the zoning overhaul should be particularly sensitive to those concerns.

You say this is a pilot, Dixwell Community Management Team member Crystal Gooding said to Woods. “What if it fails? Then you have three corridors where this fails?”

“We don’t have a secret process we’re going to roll out at the end,” Mattison said. This proposal is just the first full draft of a document that will continue to evolve as members of the public, commissioners, alders, and other stakeholders contribute feedback.

Woods and Montesano encouraged all interested residents to submit feedback on the rezoning project here. While she did not commit to any particular new public meeting, Woods thanked the speakers for their feedback and promised to include it in the final proposal presented to the commission and the alders.

“This is an astounding turnout,” Mattison said at the end of the commercial corridor workshop. Reflecting the inclusionary zoning debate, he recalled the most important piece of advice he received from a former chair of the City Plan Commission as Mattison rose to become the head of the board.

“You just have to be careful,” Mattison said, “that you don’t make a tremendous mistake.”

THE INNER-CITY NEWS -

“We Have Hunger On The Run”

June 26, 2019 - July 02, 2019

HANH Hails Her Graduates

by ALLAN APPEL

U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro with New Haven and Hamden Mayors Harp and Leng, and other officials.

by ALLAN APPEL Nina Stanley is a teacher’s aide at Roberto Clemente Leadership Academy in the Hill.

She sees lots of kids in the cafeteria come back asking for a second breakfast and a second lunch.

“They’re not picky,” she said. “They even eat vegetables. There’s a lot of hunger out there.”

Kim Hart went hungry herself once, along with her son. They had to avail themselves of food pantries and soup kitchens. “At a certain age, he wouldn’t go, because he was embarrassed. I am truly a witness to hunger.”

Those two women, members of the advocacy group Witnesses To Hunger told their stories at a Monday morning press conference formally to kick off New Haven’s and Hamden’s Free Summer Meals Program.

Their blue-shirted group along with about 50 other volunteers had come out in force Saturday distributing flyers in Newhallville and other “food-insecure’ areas of the city.

Those flyers contained info about the 70-plus meal sites — schools, camps, churches, and mobile units throughout New Haven and Hamden — where this summer from June 24 through Aug. 16, any kid age 18 and under will be able to get a nutritious breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

Billy Bromage of Witnesses to Hunger and the Hamden Community Development Manager Adam Sendroff were at pains to point out that no ID or paperwork of any kind will be asked for.

If you’re18 years or younger, and you’re hungry, that’s all that’s required.

The idea is to make it as easy as possible for people to participate, said Bromage, especially for undocumented people. To locate sites, you can call 2-1-1; text CT meals to 877877, or check the CTSummerMeals website.

A No-Brainer For The Developing Brain In addition to the moral imperatives of ending hunger, the idea behind the program, which had its origins in the War on Poverty of the late 1960s, is to provide children with access to nutritious food beyond the school year. At least half of the city’s schoolchildren qualify for free meals. In some neighborhoods the number is much higher.

Lack of access to healthy food exacerbates summer learning loss, which is often referred to as the “summer slide.” It contributes to children eating junk food, obesity, and other factors that contribute in turn to the achievement gap.

“Nutrition is critical for physical and cognitive development,” said Hamden Schools Superintendent Jody Goeler. “It’s common sense,” backed up, he added, by many studies.

“When kids have proper nutrition, the summer slide doesn’t occur,” said New Haven Schools Superintendent Carol Birks.

“We have not only an achievement gap; we have a hunger gap. Until we resolve that, we’ll always have an achievement gap,” added Goeler.

Last year 195,000 meals were served during the eight-week summer period in New Haven and 12,000 in Hamden. Officials said they expect to serve more kids this year. Still in the works will be the deploying of a mobile food pantry in certain communities if the accompanying adults need a bag of groceries to take home.

“This program gets us to Aug. 16,” noted Joseph Rodriguez who has been the New Haven Board of Ed’s representative to the New Haven Food Policy Council.

That leaves approximately ten days between the end of the summer meals initiative and the start of school, he said. “Please help insure our kids are served during that August gap.”

Susan Harris of the Witnesses to Hunger got specific: 30,000 meals are needed during that period at the end of August. She appealed to representatives of corporations and other nonprofits in the audience to step forward.

Most of the costs of the program — certainly the food will ultimately be paid for through reimbursements from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, according to officials. Servers of the food are by and large staff and volunteers with the central kitchens of New Haven and Hamden schools, who are preparing most of the meals.

Nationally, summer meal programs feed 2.7 million kids per day, said New Haven U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro, who was among officials in attendance. In Connecticut it has been 31,000 kids a day. She said her Third U.S. Congressional District is the most foodinsecure in the state.

The good news: Last week, The subcommittee responsible for the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, where she oversees food and drug safety, voted approval of a 32.5 percent increase in summer meal programs, up to $552 million. The bill goes to the floor for a vote this week, DeLauro said.

“We can have hunger on the run,” she concluded, to enthusiastic applause.

Yaleija Jackson recently had a bad experience with a dentist. When he pulled her tooth, it hurt. A lot.

That has only increased her career aspiration to be a dentist, and a good one. The quest begins with her entering Howard University in the fall majoring in health sciences.

Yaleija shared her story Tuesday afternoon at the Housing Authority of New Haven’s (HANH) 360 Orange St. headquarters.

There, after their regular meeting, the HANH Board of Commissioners and CEO Karen DuBois-Walton took great pride in unfolding their sixth annual ceremony in which Elm City Communities (another name for HANH) celebrated all the kids living in developments throughout the city who have just graduated from high school.

Each year since 2013, HANH staff has reached out to high school seniors to congratulate them and to invite them to a ceremony to acknowledge their achievement and to help them with their next steps at a higher learning institution, the military and/or entering the workforce.

Participants at Tuesday’s ceremony took pictures with their families and HANH officials, and then shared a festive meal and walked away with new KINDLEs. Yaleija grew up in HANH’s Brookside development on the city’s west side. She attended Wilbur Cross as part of the school’s school-within-a-school health and culinary academy.

She graduated Cross on June 14. She happily characterized the Tuesday afternoon ceremonies as “real heartfelt, and a lot faster.”

There are no other docs or dentists or vets or medical professionals in her family, Yaleija said. She would be the first.

And why dentistry?

With clarity, and a lovely smile, she replied, “I like teeth.”

Other graduates, like Career High’s Melanie Velez, also had stories to tell. Melanie was in attendance with her dad Angel Gonzales. She said her first step out of high school is to go to Gateway Community College, where she will study psychology.

It was not her first choice. Her first love is acting, she said, and she was accepted to both the New York Conservatory and to the American Academy for Dramatic Arts, two-year colleges that prepare you directly for a career on stage and screen.

Gonzales said that his painting contracting business is just getting off the ground, and the family, which also lives in Brookside, is preparing to buy a house of their own soon.

That’s why the more affordable Gateway is going to be Melanie’s first step.

“I like Shakespeare,” she said, but her immediate aim is to work in film and TV, in particular on TV superhero shows.

The organizer of the ceremonies was Colby Jenkins, who, as a James Hillhouse High School graduate back in 2013, was in the second class of high school sheepskin holders whom HANH honored.

Jenkins just received her bachelor’s de-

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ALLAN APPEL PHOTO The graduate, with her new Kindle Fire.

Melanie Velez and her dad Angel Gonzales at the reception.

gree from Central Connecticut State University majoring in creative writing. For the past years she has worked in HANH’s offices writing bulletins and other materials, and organizing the awards ceremonies.

HANH CEO DuBois-Walton called the moving ceremonies “the most important part of the board meeting.” She presented Jenkins with a special award.

Jenkins’s work with HANH is part of another aspect of how the authority offers opportunity and training, along with recognition, to its young people. She is part of the STEP initiative (Student Training and Employment Program), which employs young

people in paid internship and training programs throughout the HANH system.

DuBois-Walton said the program employs about 12 kids.

In his charge to the graduates, HANH Boarad Chair Erik Clemons said, “I truly believe the world will be saved by artists and young people [like you]!

The other graduates honored include: Jacqueline Torres; Jocelyn Feliciano; Kavona Kornegay; Sheylian Berrios; Shanylka Pagan; Lorenzo Loria; Daris Gaither; Kyra Brown; Amales Jimenez; Lesley Romero; Amani Knotts; and Jaira Rosetta.

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THE INNER-CITY NEWS - June 26, 2019 - July 02, 2019

OP-ED:

On Juneteenth we must

remember our fight for freedom continues

By Derrick Johnson, NAACP President and CEO NNPA NEWSWIRE — “The NAACP stands at a significant moment in time when racial subordination and racial hierarchy is being reinforced at the highest level of leadership in this country. The recent accounts of domestic terrorism at black churches, images of Blackface populating the airwaves, the increase in hate crimes, and Black lives senselessly taken at the hands of over policing and brutality, shows that we are living in a world that often devalues us as people who have the right to live freely.”

On June 19, 1865, Texan slaves found out they were freed by the Emancipation Proclamation, two and a half years after it was issued by President Abraham Lincoln. Since then, annual celebrations of the emancipation have been referred to as Juneteenth, commemorating the end of slavery in the United States and honoring African American freedom and liberation.

As we have for years, we celebrate Juneteenth through food, prayer and festivities honoring a rich tradition that continues to promote education and self-improvement.

We’ve seen this holiday take root within communities and organizations throughout the country, taking on a national and even global presence with a mission to promote African American culture and respect for all cultures.

But as we continue to cultivate knowledge and appreciation of our history and reflect

upon the monumental challenges that our ancestors faced in fighting for freedom from bondage, we must also consider the ways in which the Black community continues to be under the threat of hate, xenophobia, and bigotry.

The NAACP stands at a significant moment in time when racial subordination and racial hierarchy is being reinforced at the highest level of leadership in this country.

The recent accounts of domestic terrorism at black churches, images of Blackface populating the airwaves, the increase in hate crimes, and Black lives senselessly taken at the hands of over policing and brutality, shows that we are living in a world that often devalues us as people who have the right to live freely.

However, what we saw during the historic wave of grassroots activism that swept across the country during the 2018 midterms — with women and people of color leading the way — was an overwhelming rebuke of these heinous acts, and a show of support for an America with a bold, forward-looking and inclusive vision.

As the nation’s foremost civil rights organization, the NAACP has been a leader in the struggle to improve the lives of Black people in America. However, the historic importance and impending impact of the 2018 midterm elections, have propelled us to bring our activist roots to the forefront.

Many diverse groups, including NAACP units throughout the country, are rising up to advocate for policies that ensure that we empower communities of color to make our voices heard and implement effective strategies to address the growing impact of the rise of white nationalism and emboldened racial rhetoric.

As we celebrate Black liberation, let us continue to unite and fight together to confront the challenges we face today.

Sickle Cycle Is On The Rise!

by Charlotte Flemmings Curtis, BlackDoctor.org Charlotte Curtis was diagnosed at birth with Sickle Cell Disease (SC). Sickle Cell Disease is an inherited blood disorder that blocks the flow of oxygen throughout the body which causes many complications including organ damage.

Growing up, Charlotte was active in the Sickle Cell community and had a desire to bring more awareness to the illness. After having an impactful career as an Appointee in President Barack Obama’s Administration, Charlotte created Sickle Cycle in May of 2017. Sickle Cycle is an organization dedicated to advocacy and awareness

about Sickle Cell Disease. Since its inception, Sickle Cycle has raised thousands of dollars to support sickle cell research and programs.

Charlotte recently launched The Sickle Cycle Podcast, which is a monthly conversation about all things related to the inherited blood disorder. In celebration of the 10th Anniversary of World Sickle Cell Awareness Day, the June episode features worldrenowned Dr. Kwaku Ohene-Frempong.

Dr. Ohene-Frempong is Director Emeritus of the Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and President of the Sickle Cell Foundation of Ghana. Dr. Ohene-Frempong discusses the history of Sickle Cell Disease and how this illness has guided his life, personally and professionally.

As we celebrate World Sickle Cell Awareness Day on June 19, Charlotte’s continued goal is to educate the world on ways to help improve the quality of life for those living with this illness. More information about the podcast can be found on Soundcloud.

HazWaste Central Open for the Season Working with Communities to Protect Our Water Sources

SAFE & FREE DISPOSAL OF HOUSEHOLD CHEMICALS

SATURDAYS ONLY, 9 AM–NOON THROUGH OCT. 26, 2019 Closed Holiday Weekends of July 6 and Aug. 31, 2019

HazWaste Central is for residents of these participating towns: Bethany, Branford, East Haven, Fairfield, Guilford, Hamden, Madison, Meriden, Milford, New Haven, North Branford, North Haven, Orange, Wallingford, West Haven, Woodbridge.

Residential Waste Only

PARTIAL LIST OF WHAT TO BRING TO HAZWASTE CENTRAL Visit www.rwater.com/hazwaste for a complete list.

KITCHEN & BATHROOM Aerosols

Floor Care Products

Nail Polish Remover

Bathroom Cleaners

Metal & Furniture Polish

Oven, Drain, Tile Cleaners

Antifreeze Auto Batteries Auto Body Repair Products

Brake & Transmission Fluid Gasoline Latex & Oil-Based Paints*

GARAGE & WORKSHOP Paint Thinner & Stripper Used Motor Oil* Varnish

GARDEN & MISCELLANEOUS Batteries* Chemical Fertilizer Fluorescent Bulbs (Including CFL type)*

Herbicides, Fungicides Insecticides, Pesticides Mercury & MercuryContaining Items

Photographic Chemicals Propane Cylinders (Small 1 lb.)

Swimming Pool Chemicals

NO ELECTRONICS OR GAS GRILL-SIZE PROPANE TANKS Do not mix items or remove from their original package. * Local disposal options may be available. Please check with your public works department, local transfer station or the following resources: Batteries: call 1-800-8-BATTERY or log on to www.call2recycle.org (excluding alkaline and auto batteries).

Compact Fluorescent Light (CFL) Bulbs: call 1-800-CLEANUP or log on to www.earth911.com.

Paint: log on to www.paintcare.org and visit the Connecticut portion of the site to find a drop-off location for household paint.

Small Businesses: Call 203-401-2712 for Disposal Information

For more info and to sign in early visit rwater.com/hazwaste or call 203-401-2712.

Located at the Regional Water Authority, 90 Sargent Drive, New Haven, I-95 exit 46.

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THE INNER-CITY NEWS -

June 26, 2019 - July 02, 2019

She Refused to Change Her Name, Now You Can Call Her Dr. Marijuana Pepsi to herself and others that you can overcome any obstacles in life and achieve your dreams.

Not only does Dr. Vandyck work full time at Beloit College as director of a program that serves students who are first generation enrollees, come from low-income families, or have learning or physical disabilities, She also owns Action as Empowerment, a performance coaching business that runs retreats and workshops for people looking to change their lives. Plus, she’s a real estate agent.

Her last name, originally Jackson and later Sawyer, is now Vandyck. She married Fredrick Vandyck in 2017 and they live on a 3-acre hobby farm with pigs and chickens and such in Pecatonica, Illinois, near Rockford.

According to The Journal Sentinel, teachers, classmates, bosses and other people in Marijuana’s life pushed back against her name and teased her. Some suggested she go to court and change it. Some flat out refused to call her that or insisted on Mary, which she rejected.

As much as people blamed and judged her mother for the name, Marijuana credits her mom with making her the strong, balanced, entrepreneurial woman she is today. Her father, Aaron Jackson, lives with his wife in Chicago and is a devout Jehovah’s Witness.

by Derrick Lane, BlackDoctor.org

I’m sure being African American or growing up Black, many of us have heard of some unusually unique names given to our brown-skinned brothers and sisters.

For example, I grew up knowing someone named Cappuccino (yes, like the beverage).

How about another person named Crobar.

No, seriously, his name was Crobar.

I’ve even heard ones like Ashinkashe’, Toiletta, and even Brinashante (combination of parents “Brian” and “Ashante”).

With ethnic names, there’s much debate about changing your name to a raciallyambiguous name like “John” or “Hope” or even “Mary.” There are many who argue that having a non-ethnic names opens the door for you in business and in the corporate world. What do you think?

Well, one woman thought that if her parents named her, then she was going to keep her name and achieve success no matter what her name is.

That person is Marijuana Pepsi. Yes, you read that right.

Marijuana Pepsi Vandyck completed her dissertation and received a Ph.D. from Cardinal Stritch University in May. She kept her birth name of Marijuana Pepsi to prove

Her parents were of the post-Woodstock era, when cannabis use was rampant. “And they would cool off with a Pepsi,” Marijuana’s aunt, Mayetta Jackson, told the Journal-Sentinel in 2009. “I thought it was crazy, but they were such fun-loving people that it suited them.” Marijuana’s sisters have relatively common names, Kimberly and Robin So what was her dissertation topic you ask? It was “Black names in white classrooms: Teacher behaviors and student perceptions.”

Marijuana interviewed black students at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, where she received her bachelor’s… … degree, about the effect of their distinctly black names on their treatment by teachers and on their academic achievement. The young people were eager to talk on this topic.

Many of the students reported an experience that Marijuana knew all too well. The teacher would stop on their names while taking attendance and begin quizzing them about it in front of everyone.

There are so many predjudices in this world. A person’s name should not be one of them. So if your parents named you Cindy or Cindenopolis, neither one should stop you from being who the Almighty created you to be: great!

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Electric

EMPLOYMENT SPECIALIST - (P/T)

Distribution Engineer – The Town of Wallingford Electric Di- Assist individuals receiving services in identifying and making vision is seeking a highly technical individual to work in the design and choices about their social, vocation and personal goals. Duties indevelopment of overhead and underground power distribution lines. The clude case management, job development/placement/retention serutility serves 24,700 customers in a 50+ square mile distribution area with vices and job support as needed. Requires use of personal vehicle. a peakVALENTINA demand of 130 MW. The positionHOUSING requires a B.S. degree in electri- B.A. in a related field; plus 2 yrs’ related experience or equivalent MACRI RENTAL PREAPPLICATIONS AVAILABLE cal engineering plus 2 years of responsible experience in utility engineering, combination of education and experience. Pay rate $16.61/hr. or an equivalent combination of education and experience substituting on a Apply to:Authority, GWSNE, 432 Washington Ave., North Haven, CT 06473/ HOME INC, onSalary: behalf$78,336of Columbus House andplus the an New Haven Housing year-for year basis. $100,225 annually excellent EOE/AA - M/F/D/V fringe benefit package.

Apply to: Human Resources Department, Town of Fax (203) is accepting pre-applications for studio and one-bedroom apartments at this495-6108/hr@goodwillsne.org devel-

NOTICE

Wallingford, 45 Southat Main Wallingford, CT 06492. #: (203) opment located 108Street, Frank Street, New Haven.Phone Maximum income limitations ap294-2080, Fax #: (203) 294-2084. Closing date will be July 8, 2019. EOE.

DELIVERY PERSON NEEDED

ply. Pre-applications will be available from 9AM TO 5PM beginning Monday Ju;y 25, 2016 and ending when sufficient pre-applications (approximately 100) have Experienced Lay-out for will be mailied upon rebeen received at the offices of HOMEperson INC. Applications quest byStructural calling HOME INC at 203-562-4663 during Steel and Misc those hours. Completed preapplications must be returned to HOME INC’s offices at 171 Orange Street, Third Send Resume to hherbert@gwfabrication.com Floor, New Haven, CT 06510.

Part Time Delivery Needed One/Two Day a Week,

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Galasso Materials has an immediate opening for a Paving Estimator. Must have at least 5 years of experience in estimating State, VALENTINA MACRIwork.

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ubicado en la calle 109 Frank Street, New Haven. Se aplican limitaciones de ingresos máximos. Las pre-solicitudes estarán disponibles 09 a.m.-5 p.m. comenzando Martes 25 The Authority of the suficientes City of Norwalk, CT(aproximadamente 100) julio,Housing 2016 hasta cuando se han recibido pre-solicitudes en las oficinas de HOME INC. Las pre-solicitudes serán enviadas por correo a petición is requesting for durante Legal esas Services. llamando a HOME INCproposals al 203-562-4663 horas.Pre-solicitudes deberán remitirse fordeProposal documents canStreet, be viewed andNew Haven Accounting Department has two immediate openings for full aRequest las oficinas HOME INC en 171 Orange tercer piso, , CT 06510 . printed at www.norwalkha.org under the time Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable professionals in a fast-paced office environment. Must be highly organized, Business section RFP’s/RFQ’s possess good computer skills, be detail oriented, and able to Norwalk Housing is an Equal Opportunity Employer. manage multiple projects. Benefits include health, dental & Adam Bovilsky, Executive Director.

LTD insurance plus 401(k). Send resume to: Human Resource Dept. P O Box 388, Guilford CT 06437.

Listing: Accounting

NEW HAVEN Garrity Asphalt Reclaiming, Inc seeks:

CARPENTRY SHOP

Large CT Fence Company looking for a full-time carpenter for our Wood Fence Production Shop. Experience preferred but will train the right person. Must be familiar with carpentry hand & power tools and be able to read a CAD drawing and tape measure. This is an inshop production position. Duties include mortising & drilling wood posts for fence panels, building fence panels, gates & more. 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 pking@atlasoutdoor.com. AA/EOE-MF

HELP WANTED:

Large CT guardrail company looking for Laborer/ Driver with valid CT CDL Class A license and able to get a medical card. Must be able to pass a drug test and physical. Compensation based on experience. Email resume to dmastracchio@atlasoutdoor.com AA/EOE M-F

FENCE ERECTING CONTRACTORS

Large CT Fence & Guardrail Contractor is looking for Fence Installer foremen and helpers. Foreman must have at least 5 years’ experience. Helpers-no experience required, will train the right person. Work available 10-12 months per year. Valid Ct. Driver’s license required and must be able to get a DOT Medical Card. All necessary equipment provided.

Medical, vacation & other benefits included. Must be able to pass a physical and drug test. OSHA 10 training required. Please email resume to pking@atlasoutdoor.com AA/ EOE – M/F

Large CT. Fence Company is looking for an individual for our stock yard. Warehouse shipping and receiving and Forklift experience a must. Must have a minimum of 3 years’ material handling experience. Must be able to read and write English, and read a tape measure. Duties will include: Loading and unloading trucks, pulling orders for installation and retail counter sales, keeping the yard clean and organized at all times and inventory control. Individual will also make deliveries of fence panels and products, must be able to lift at least 70lbs. Required to pass a Physical and Drug test, have a valid CT. Driver’s License and be able to obtain a Drivers Medical Card. CDL B & A drivers a plus.

Send resume to pking@atlasourdoor.com AA/EOE/MF

Coventry Housing Authority is accepting applications for it’s Section 8 Elderly/Disabled housing until July 31, 2019. Annual income limit is $21,200 (one person) & $24,200 (two people). Interested parties may pick up an application at The Coventry InvitationHousing to Bid: Authority, 1630 Main Street, Coventry, CT, or have one mailed. Completed ap********An Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer********** plications must be postmarked or hand delivered no later than July 31, 2019. For more 2nd Notice information call 860-742-5518

Construction Equipment Mechanic preferably experienced in 242-258 Fairmont Ave Reclaiming and Road Milling Equipment. We offer factory training on equipment we operate. Location: Bloomfield 2BR Townhouse, 1.5 BA, 3BR, 1CT level , 1BA We offerapartments, excellent hourly & excellent benefits All new newrate appliances, new carpet, close to I-91 & I-95 Old Saybrook, CT Contact: Tom Dunay Phone: 860highways, near243-2300 bus stop & shopping centerTown Engineer – Seeking a highly qualified professional engineer (4 Buildings, 17 Units) Email: Tom.dunay@garrityasphalt.com to direct the administrative and technical work a municipal Pet under 40lb allowed.

Interested parties contact Maria @ 860-985-8258 Coventry Housing TaxforExempt & Not enPrevailing Wage Rate Project Authority is accepting applications for it’s State Elderly/ Women & Minority Applicants are encouraged to apply gineering department. The position requires a Bachelor’s degree in Disabled housing until July 31, 2019. Annual income limit is $52,850 (one person) & Affirmative Action/ Equal Opportunity Employer

Civil EngineerSAYEBROOKE VILLAGE

Civil Engineering plus 10 years of progressively responsible civil

CT. Unified Deacon’s Association is pleased to offer a Deacon’s engineering work with some supervisory experience. Must be a Certificate Program. This is a 10 month program designed to assist in the intellectual formation of Candidates Connecticut Professional Civil Engineer. Salary: in response to the Church’s Ministry needs. The cost is $125. Classes start Saturday,licensed August 20,State 2016 of 1:303:30 Contact: Chairman, Deacon Joe J. Davis, M.S., B.S. $99,976 - $127,919 annually plus an excellent fringe benefit pack(203) 996-4517 Host, General Bishop Elijah Davis, D.D. Pastor of Pitts Chapel U.F.W.B. Church 64 Brewster

Garrity Asphalt Reclaiming, Inc seeks:

$60,400 (two people). Interested parties may pick up an application at The Coventry Hous-

New Construction, Wood Framed, Housing, Cast- CT, or have one mailed. Completed applicaingSelective Authority,Demolition, 1630 MainSite-work, Street, Coventry, in-place Concrete, Asphalttions Shingles, Siding, or hand delivered no later than July 31, 2019. For more informamust beVinyl postmarked tionAppliances, call 860-742-5518 Flooring, Painting, Division 10 Specialties, Residential Casework, age. Applications or resumes will be accepted until July 5, 2019, Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing and Fire Protection. at the following address: Town of Wallingford, Human Resources contract is subject to state and contract compliance requirements.

Department, 45 South Main This St., Wallingford, CT 06492, (203)set-aside 294-

Reclaimer Operators and Milling Operators with current St. licensing New Haven, and CT clean driving record, be willing to travel throughout the Northeast & NY. 2080. Fax: (203) 294-2084. EOE We offer excellent hourly rate & excellent benefits Contact: Rick Tousignant Phone: 860- 243-2300 Email: rick.tousignant@garrityasphalt.com Women & Minority Applicants encouraged to apply Sealed bids are invited by the are Housing Authority of the Town of Seymour Equal Opportunity Employer untilAffirmative 3:00 pm onAction/ Tuesday, August 2, 2016 at its office at 28 Smith Street,

SEYMOUR HOUSING AUTHORITY

Bid Extended, Due Date: August 5,Designer/Urban 2016 Urban Planner Anticipated Start: August 15, 2016 Fitzgerald & Halliday, Inc. (FHI) is seeking an experienced Urban Designer or Urban Project documents available viafor ftp our link Community below: Planner Design Services team. Candidates should demonstrate their http://ftp.cbtghosting.com/loginok.html?username=sayebrookevillage ability to manage projects, lead a team, engage in all aspects of design, prepare proj-

KMK Insulation Inc.

Seymour, CT 06483 for Concrete Sidewalk Repairs and Replacement at the ect visuals, maps, and renderings, and facilitate meetings for a variety of clients. Re1907 Hartford Turnpike Smithfield Gardens Assisted Living Facility, 26 Smith Street Seymour. sponsibilities will include leading community planning projects that town and village Fax or Email Questions & Bids to: Dawn Lang @ 203-881-8372 dawnlang@haynesconstruction.com

Union Company seeks:

North Haven, CT 06473 planning design, transit-oriented development planning, municipal master HCC encourages the participation of all Veteran,center S/W/MBE & Sectionand 3 Certified Businesses Tractor Trailer Driver for Heavy & Highway Construction plans, open space planning, Haynes Construction Company, 32 Progress Ave, Seymour, CT 06483 streetscape design, form-base codes and design, regional A pre-bid conference will be held at the Housing Authority Office 28 Smith Equipment. Must have a CDL License, clean driving record, and statewide development plans. Additionally, the candidate must possess excellent AA/EEO EMPLOYER Street CTheavy at 10:00 am, on Wednesday, July 20, 2016. capableSeymour, of operating equipment; be willing to travel Insulation company offering good pay oral and written communication skills. throughout the Northeast & NY.

and benefits. Please mail resume to We offer excellentare hourly rate &from excellent benefits Housing Authority OfBidding documents available the Seymour Minimum degree: Bachelor's degree in Urban Planning, Urban Design, Landscape Arabove address. at 860-243-2300. chitecture, or Architecture with a minimum of 5 years of experience. Candidates with fice, 28 SmithContact Street,Dana Seymour, CT 06483 (203) 888-4579. a valid driver's license preferred. Salary commensurate with level of experience. Send Email: dana.briere@garrityasphalt.com MAIL ONLY resume to designer@fhiplan.com or Claudia Massie, 416 Asylum Street, Hartford, CT Women & Minority Applicants are encouraged to apply This company is an Affirmative Action/ The Housing Authority reserves the right to accept or reject any or all bids, to 06103. Fitzgerald & Halliday, Inc. is an EEO/AA /VEV/Disabled employer.

Affirmative Action/ Equal Opportunity Employer

Mechanical Insulator position.

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

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***HELP WANTED*** J & S General Contractors LLC

Currently has a full time opening for a fence installer foreman.

Candidates must have at least 5 years of fencing experience, strong communication skills, the ability to provide clear and detailed instructions to their crew and management, a reliable form of daily transportation, a valid driver’s license, have the ability to obtain a DOT medical card and agree to a physical and drug testing as required.

A valid CDL and current OSHA card are encouraged.

We offer competitive wages, medical insurance and a 401k plan.

Email resume to: jsgc.mike@gmail.com Or fax: 203-495-9111 ***No phone calls please*** J & S General Contractors LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer

***HELP WANTED*** J & S General Contractors LLC

currently has a full time opening for a fence installer helper.

Candidates must have at least 1 year of fencing experience, a reliable form of daily transportation, a valid driver’s license, have the ability to obtain a DOT medical card and agree to a physical and drug testing as required.

A valid CDL and current OSHA card are encouraged.

We offer competitive wages, medical insurance and a 401k plan.

Email resume to: jsgc.mike@gmail.com or fax: 203-495-9111 ***No phone calls please*** J & S General Contractors LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer

***HELP WANTED*** TOTAL FENCE LLC

Currently has a full time opening for a fence installer foreman.

Candidates must have at least 5 years of fencing experience, strong communication skills, the ability to provide clear and detailed instructions to their crew and management, a reliable form of daily transportation, a valid driver’s license, have the ability to obtain a DOT medical card and agree to a physical and drug testing as required.

A valid CDL and current OSHA card are encouraged.

Please apply in person to:

TOTAL FENCE LLC 525 ELLA GRASSO BOULEVARD NEW HAVEN, CT 06519

Or email resume to: gina@totalfencellc.com

***No phone calls please*** Total Fence LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer

***HELP WANTED*** TOTAL FENCE LLC Currently has a full time opening for one fence installer helper.

Candidates must have at least 1 year of fencing experience, a reliable form of daily transportation, a valid driver’s license, have the ability to obtain a DOT medical card and agree to a physical and drug testing as required.

A valid CDL and current OSHA card are encouraged.

Please apply in person to:

TOTAL FENCE LLC 525 ELLA GRASSO BOULEVARD NEW HAVEN, CT 06519 Or email resume to: gina@totalfencellc.com ***No phone calls please*** Total Fence LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer

June 26, 2019 - July 02, 2019

The Housing Authority of the City of Norwalk, CT The Cooper Group in N. Stonington, CT has Temporary, 12 week is requesting proposals for Financial Advisory Services.

Request for Proposal documents can be viewed and printed at www.norwalkha.org under the Business section RFP’s/RFQ’s Norwalk Housing is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Adam Bovilsky, Executive Director.

HELP WANTED:

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

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

Equipment Operator

positions for Finish Painters, starting 6/3/19. Requires min. 2 years experience, ability to prep surfaces, brush paint and glaze windows. Must have own tools and transportation.

Fluency in English. We are an Affirmative Action/EOE. Send resume and references to Employment@thecoopergroupct.com

QSR STEEL CORPORATION

APPLY NOW!

Steel Fabricators, Erectors & Welders Top pay for top performers.

Health Benefits, 401K, Vacation Pay. Email Resume: Rose@qsrsteel.com Hartford, CT

AFFIRMATIVE ACTION/EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

Help Wanted: Immediate opening for Equipment Operator for Heavy and Highway Construction.

10 hour OSHA certificate required. CDL license a plus but not required.

Please call PJF Construction Corp.@ 860-888-9998. We are an equal opportunity employer M/F.

Laborer Help Wanted: Immediate opening for Construction Laborer for Heavy and Highway Construction.

10 hour OSHA certificate required.

Please call PJF Construction Corp. @ 860-888-9998. We are an equal opportunity employer M/F.

APPLY TODAY

CDL Driver Help Wanted: Immediate opening for CDL Driver for Heavy and Highway Construction.

10 hour OSHA certificate and clean CDL license required.

Please call PJF Construction Corp. @ 860-888-9998. We are an equal opportunity employer M/F.

Project Manager/Project Supervisor Help Wanted: Immediate opening for a Project Manager/Project Supervisor for Heavy and Highway Construction. Previous experience on CTDOT projects required.

Please call PJF Construction Corp. @ 860-888-9998. We are an equal opportunity employer M/F

Listing: Accounting Accounting Department has an immediate opening in Accounts Payable. This full time position in a fast-paced office environment could be an excellent entry to an Accounting career. Requires good computer and organizational skills, attention to detail, and multi-tasking. Benefits include health, dental & LTD insurance plus 401(k). Send resume to: Human Resource Dept. P O Box 388, Guilford CT 06437. ********An Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer**********

Town of Bloomfield

Emergency Medical Services Coordinator for the Bloomfield Volunteer Ambulance Full Time - Benefited

$79,785 annual salary

Pre-employment drug testing. For more details, visit our website – www.bloomfieldct.org

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Town of Bloomfield Truck Driver/Maintainer II Full Time - Benefited

$27.31 hourly

Pre-employment drug testing. For more details, visit our website – www.bloomfieldct.org

THE INNER-CITY NEWS - June 26, 2019 - July 02, 2019

Certified Police Officer

NOW ACCEPTING PRE-APPLICATIONS FOR SASCO CREEK Affordable Rental Housing -ONE, TWO & THREE BEDROOM UNITS

The Town of Wallingford is currently accepting applications for current Connecticut P.O.S.T.C Certified Police Officers. Applicants must be active P.O.S.T.C Certified Police Officers in good standing with their current department, or have retired in good standing, still having a current certification status with P.O.S.T.C. This Process will consist of Written, Oral, Polygraph, Psychological, Medical Exam, and Background Investigation.

The Town of Wallingford offers a competitive pay rate $65,124.80- $ 78,312.00 annually (As of July 1, 2019).

Application deadline will be July 15, 2019 Apply: Human Resources Department, Town of Wallingford, 45 South Main St., Wallingford, CT. phone: (203) 294-2080; fax: (203) 294-2084. EOE.

1655 Post Road East, Westport CT

Preliminary Applications will be accepted beginning on 06/03/2019 AND ENDS with a postmark date of 06/28/2019. Pre-applications received after the end date as postmarked will be automatically rejected.

Pre-applications are to be mailed only to Owner’s offices located at 5 Canal Street, Westport, CT 06880.

Owner: Sasco Creek Housing Associates Limited Partnership Managing Agent: Millennium Real Estate Services, LLC

BUYER

Performs tasks in facilitating the purchase of a wide variety of materials, supplies, equipment and professional services. The position requires an associate’s degree in business administration and 3 years purchasing experience.

A bachelor’s degree in business administration may substitute for 2 years of the work experience. $28.90 - $35.13 hourly, plus an excellent fringe benefit package. Apply: Human Resources Department, Town of Wallingford, 45 South Main Street, Wallingford, CT 06492. Phone: 203-294-2080, Fax: 203-294-2084. The closing date will be that date the 50th application form/resume is received, or July 15, 2019, whichever occurs first. EOE

Applicants will need to meet the income requirements based on family size for 60% of Area Median Income, or less. Preliminary Applications will be received during the period noted above and placement on the wait list will be made through the random selection method, once the period has ended. The maximum number of pre-applications to be placed on the wait list is one hundred (100). Pre-applications will not be accepted by hand-delivery, facsimile, email or any other electronic transmission.

Four Person family 60% AMI Max limit $86,580/year: 2 Bedroom unit Maximum current rent- $1,010/month

Elm City Communities

Request for Proposals

Six Person family 60% AMI Max limit $100,440/year: 3 Bedroom unit Maximum current rent- $1,215/month

Housing Authority City of New Haven d/b/a Elm city Communities is currently seeking Proposals for IQC for Certified Hazardous Materials Abatement Contractor Services. A complete copy of the requirement may be obtained from Elm City’s Vendor Collaboration Portal https://newhavenhousing.cobblestonesystems.com/gateway beginning on Wednesday, June 12, 2019 at 3:00 PM

Pre-Applications will be provided to any & all interested persons. Individuals or families may pick up a hard copy of the pre-application at the Owner’s offices located at 5 Canal Street, Westport, CT or online at http://millennium-realty.com/.

You may request a pre- application be mailed to you by contacting us at 203-227-4672.

For Additional Information Contact Carol Martin: Phone: (203)227-4672 TRS/TDD: (800) 842-9710

Social Services Provider II (Bilingual-Spanish) Full-Time Opportunity. Master's degree from an accredited college or university in an applied behavioral science discipline, plus three years of related work experience required. Must possess and maintain Connecticut state certification as a licensed clinical social worker. Detailed information about the Town is available on the Town’s website www.greenwichct.org Town of Greenwich, HR Department, 101 Field Point Road, Greenwich, CT 06830. EOE M/F/D/V

NOW ACCEPTING PRE-APPLICATIONS TREFOIL COURT, Fairfield, CT

Preliminary Applications will be accepted beginning on 06/03/2019 AND ENDS with a postmark date of 06/28/2019. Pre-Applications received after the end date as postmarked will be automatically rejected.

Pre-Applications are to be mailed only to Owner’s offices located at 15 Pine Tree Lane, Fairfield CT 06825.

Owner: Trefoil, LLC Funded by:

Connecticut State Department of Economic and Community Development, and U. S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development through its Section 8 housing program Applicants will need to meet the income requirements based on family size for 50% of Area Median Income, or less. Eligible applicant households must have a head, co-head, or spouse age 62 or older, or a disability determination from the Social Security Admin. to qualify. Preliminary Applications will be received during the period noted above and placement on the wait list will be made through the random selection method, once the period has ended. The maximum number of pre-applications to be placed on the wait list is one hundred (100). Pre-applications will not be accepted by hand-delivery, facsimile, email or any other electronic transmission.

Income Limits: One Person - $35,950 Two Persons $41,050 Pre-Applications will be provided to any & all interested persons. Individuals or families may pick up a hard copy of the pre-application at the Owner’s offices located at 15 Pine Tree Lane, Fairfield, CT or online at http://millennium-realty.com/.

You may request a pre- application be mailed to you by contacting us at 203-366-6578.

For Additional Information Contact Carol Martin: Phone: (203)366-6578 TRS/TDD: (800) 842-9710

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NOW ACCEPTING PRE-APPLICATIONS

NOW ACCEPTING PRE-APPLICATIONS FOR HALES COURT Affordable Rental Housing -ONE, TWO, THREE & FOUR BEDROOM UNITS, 2-78 Hales Court, Westport CT

CANAL PARK, Westport, CT

Preliminary Applications will be accepted beginning on 06/03/2019 AND ENDS with a postmark date of 06/28/2019. Pre-Applications received after the end date as postmarked will be automatically rejected.

Pre-Applications are to be mailed only to Owner’s offices located at 5 Canal Street, Westport, CT 06880.

Preliminary Applications will be accepted beginning on 06/03/2019 AND ENDS with a postmark date of 06/28/2019. Pre-applications received after the end date as postmarked will be automatically rejected.

Pre-applications are to be mailed only to Owner’s offices located at 5 Canal Street, Westport, CT 06880.

Owner: Canal Park LLC

Owner: Hales Court Housing, LLC Managing Agent: Millennium Real Estate Services, LLC

Funded by:

Connecticut State Department of Economic and Community Development, and U. S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development through its Section 8 housing program

Applicants will need to meet the income requirements based on family size for 60% of Area Median Income, or less. Preliminary Applications will be received during the period noted above and placement on the wait list will be made through the random selection method, once the period has ended. The maximum number of pre-applications to be placed on the wait list is one hundred (100). Pre-applications will not be accepted by hand-delivery, facsimile, email or any other electronic transmission.

Applicants will need to meet the income requirements based on family size for 50% of Area Median Income, or less. Eligible applicant households must have a head, co-head, or spouse age 62 or older, or a disability determination from the Social Security Admin. to qualify. Preliminary Applications will be received during the period noted above and placement on the wait list will be made through the random selection method, once the period has ended. The maximum number of pre-applications to be placed on the wait list is one hundred (100). Pre-applications will not be accepted by hand-delivery, facsimile, email or any other electronic transmission.

Four Person family 60% AMI Max limit $86,580/year: 2 Bedroom unit Maximum current rent- $1,070/month Six Person family 60% AMI Max limit $100,440/year: 3 Bedroom unit Maximum current rent- $1,190/month

Income Limits: One Person - $50,550 Two Persons $57,750

Eight Person family 60% AMI Max limit $114,300/year: 4 Bedroom unit Maximum current rent- $1,300/month

Pre-Applications will be provided to any & all interested persons. Individuals or families may pick up a hard copy of the pre-application at the Owner’s offices located at 5 Canal Street, Westport, CT or online at http://millennium-realty.com/. You may request a pre- application be mailed to you by contacting us at 203-227-4672.

Pre-Applications will be provided to any & all interested persons. Individuals or families may pick up a hard copy of the pre-application at the Owner’s offices located at 5 Canal Street, Westport, CT or online at http://millennium-realty.com/. You may request a pre- application be mailed to you by contacting us at 203-227-4672.

For Additional Information Contact Carol Martin: Phone: (203)227-4672 TRS/TDD: (800) 842-9710

For Additional Information Contact Carol Martin: Phone: (203)227-4672 TRS/TDD: (800) 842-9710

NOW ACCEPTING PRE-APPLICATIONS FOR HIDDEN BROOK APTS Affordable Rental Housing -ONE, TWO & THREE BEDROOM UNITS

NOW ACCEPTING PRE-APPLICATIONS FOR PINE TREE Affordable Rental Housing -ONE & TWO BEDROOM UNITS

1655 Post Road East, Westport CT

15 Pine Tree Lane, Fairfield CT

Preliminary Applications will be accepted beginning on 06/03/2019 AND ENDS with a postmark date of 06/28/2019. Pre-applications received after the end date as postmarked will be automatically rejected.

Pre-applications are to be mailed only to Owner’s offices located at 5 Canal Street, Westport, CT 06880.

Preliminary Applications will be accepted beginning on 06/3/2019 AND ENDS with a postmark date of 06/28/2019. Pre-Applications received after the end date as postmarked will be automatically rejected.

Pre-Applications are to be mailed only to Owner’s offices located at 15 Pine Tree Lane, Fairfield, CT 06825.

Owner: Sixteen Fifty- Five Post I Limited Partnership Managing Agent: Millennium Real Estate Services, LLC

Owner: Pine Tree Housing Limited Partnership Managing Agent: Millennium Real Estate Services, LLC

Applicants will need to meet the income requirements based on family size for 50% of Area Median Income, or less. Preliminary Applications will be received during the period noted above and placement on the wait list will be made through the random selection method, once the period has ended. The maximum number of pre-applications to be placed on the wait list is one hundred (100). Pre-applications will not be accepted by hand-delivery, facsimile, email or any other electronic transmission.

Applicants will need to meet the income requirements based on family size for 80% of Area Median Income, or less. Preliminary Applications will be received during the period noted above and placement on the wait list will be made through the random selection method, once the period has ended. The maximum number of pre-applications to be placed on the wait list is one hundred (100). Pre-Applications will not be accepted by hand-delivery, facsimile, email or any other electronic transmission.

Four Person family 50% AMI Max limit $72,150/year: 2 Bedroom unit Maximum current rent- $1,080/month

Four Person family 80% AMI Max limit $82,080/year: 2 Bedroom unit Maximum current rent- $1,058/month

Six Person family 60% AMI Max limit $83,700/year: 3 Bedroom unit Maximum current rent- $1,225/month

Pre-Applications will be provided to any & all interested persons. Individuals or families may pick up a hard copy of the pre-application at the Owner’s offices located at 15 Pine Tree Lane, Fairfield, CT or online at http://millennium-realty.com/.

You may request a pre- application be mailed to you by contacting us at 203-366-6578.

Pre-applications will be provided to any & all interested persons. Individuals or families may pick up a hard copy of the pre-application at the Owner’s offices located at 5 Canal Street, Westport, CT or online at http://millennium-realty.com/.

You may request a pre- application be mailed to you by contacting us at 203-227-4672.

For Additional Information Contact Carol Martin: Phone: (203)366-6578 TRS/TDD: (800) 842-9710

For Additional Information Contact Carol Martin: Phone: (203)227-4672 TRS/TDD: (800) 842-9710

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June 26, 2019 - July 02, 2019

Juneteenth Reparations Hearing on H.R. 40 Puts Reparations Debate in National Spotlight

By Lauren Victoria Burke, NNPA Newswire Contributor

NNPA NEWSWIRE — “These are the vestiges of enslavement that people don’t want to deal with,” said Dr. Julianne Malveaux, the former President of Bennett College.

“These are the vestiges of enslavement that people don’t want to deal with,” said Dr. Julianne Malveaux, the former President of Bennett College.

Malveaux testified at a House hearing on legislation that would set up a commission to study reparations for the ancestors of enslaved Africans kidnapped and brought to America.

Dr. Malveaux and others testified on H.R. 40, the Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act which would seek to analyze the legacy of the trans-Atlantic slave trade and its continuing impact on communities. The hearing was held by the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties on June 19th.

On June 18, Senate Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said that Americans, in part, made up for slavery by electing Barack Obama.

“I don’t think reparations for something

that happened 150 years ago for whom none of us currently living are responsible is a good idea. We’ve tried to deal with our original sin of slavery by fighting a civil war, by passing landmark civil rights legislation. We elected an African American president,” McConnell added.

“I think we’re always a work in progress in this country… No, I don’t think reparations are a good idea,” the Republican from Kentucky concluded.

Another view was heard at the Juneteenth hearing on the House side of Capitol Hill.

“Enslavement reigned for 250 years on these shores. When it ended, this country could’ve extended its hallowed principles — life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness — to all, regardless of color. But America had other principles in mind,” writer TaNehisi Coates said at the hearing. In 2014, Coates wrote “The Case for Reparations” in The Atlantic. The lengthy article reignited a national discussion on the issue.

“Victims of that plunder are very much alive today,” Coates said at the hearing.

“We recognize our lineage as a generational trust, as inheritance, and the real dilemma posed by reparations is just that: a

dilemma of inheritance. It is impossible to imagine America without the inheritance of slavery,” Coates also said.

The congressional discussion on reparations was the first of its kind. Though former Congressman John Conyers authored legislation to study reparations for many consecutive years.

Rep. Sheila Lee Jackson (D-TX) a sponsor of H.R. 40, said, “It is only [African Americans] that can singularly claim to have been slaves under the institution and leadership of the government. H.R. 40 is, in fact, the response of the United States of America long overdue.”

Commenting on social media on the hearing, Howard University African American Studies Department Chairman, Dr. Greg Carr wrote, ‘A couple of things #HR40 hearing is reinforcing: 1. The need to study the long #Reparations movement and it’s well-established objectives is greater now than ever; 2. Supporters of White American nationalism can find an American Negro to say anything they need them to.”

Though the hearing was discussed widely on social media, both CNN and MSNBC spent most of June 19th running footage of former White House staffer Hope Hicks walking down a hallway in the Rayburn

House Office Building while saying nothing to reporters before and after refusing to contribute testimony on alleged White House misconduct Capitol Hill.

‘Imagine if we had cable news networks that treated the #Reparations hearing as important as the #HopeHicks hearing… whew! I’m Beat!,” wrote DCBeat founder Tiffany Cross on twitter.

South Carolina Republican Senator Tim Scott said reparations are a “non-starter” when asked about the issue.

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

Robert Friend, One of the Last Tuskegee Airmen, Dies At 99

by Derrick Lane, BlackDoctor.org

Robert Friend flew 142 combat missions in World War II as a member of the famed Tuskegee Airmen. While he fought for his country, protected men and women while fighting off bitter racism, he still remained humble.

“I never felt that I was anything but an American doing a job,” Friend told the Desert Sun in 2017. That humble spirit died on June 21st at a hospital in Long Beach, California. He was 99.

Friend became an expert on missile systems and directed Project Blue Book, the classified Air Force investigation into unidentified flying objects.

He spent 28 years in the Air Force, serving in the Korean and Vietnam wars. He also worked on space launch vehicles and served as a foreign technology program director before retiring as a lieutenant colonel and forming his own aerospace company.

Friend’s daughter, Karen Friend Crumlich, told the Desert Sun newspaper her father

died at a hospital in Long Beach, Calif. The cause of death was not disclosed.

“My dad was my hero. He was always there for me and at the end, I wanted to be there for him,” she told the outlet. “He passed with family and dear friends surrounding

him with love and affection. He is truly a National Treasure who I will carry in my heart. I promise to keep his legacy alive by telling his story to anyone who wants to hear it.”

Friend was one of the last surviving

Tuskegee Airmen, who were the first African American military aviators in World War II. It was widely thought by their white counterparts that Blacks didn’t have the mental capacity to fly an airplane. But the Tuskegee Airmen proved them all wrong.

The roughly 1,000 black pilots who were trained in the program flew 15,000 combat sorties, destroyed 260 enemy aircraft and received 150 decorations of the Flying Cross and Legion of Merit, fighting off Nazi’s and inspiring a new generation of pilots back home.

The unit’s success was widely credited with paving the way for the integration of the military after World War II, and in 2007 Col. Friend and his comrades were awarded the Congressional Gold Medal, recognized for their “unique military record that inspired revolutionary reform in the Armed Forces.”

Friend died of a disease caused sepsis.

Sepsis is a potentially life-threatening

condition caused by the body’s response to an infection. The body normally releases chemicals into the bloodstream to fight an infection. Sepsis occurs when the body’s response to… … these chemicals is out of balance, triggering changes that can damage multiple organ systems.

If sepsis progresses to septic shock, blood pressure drops dramatically. This may lead to death.

Sepsis is caused by infection and can happen to anyone. Sepsis is most common and most dangerous in: – Older adults – Pregnant women – Children younger than 1 – People who have chronic conditions, such as diabetes, kidney or lung disease, or cancer – People who have weakened immune systems A public memorial service for Friend is being planned for Fourth of July weekend.

He will be missed!

Joint Statement on Violent Protests That Have Left Haiti at a Standstill

NNPA NEWSWIRE — “One of the key pillars of a democratic society is the freedom to stand up and speak out, and we fully support the right of Haiti’s citizens to do so. The protesters are urged to remember, however, that violence only begets more violence and its continuation could undermine the international support that Haiti so urgently needs to right itself in the days, weeks, and months ahead.”

Washington, D.C. — Representatives Frederica Wilson (D-FL), Kathy Castor (D-

FL), Lois Frankel (D-FL), Val Demings (DFL), Alcee Hastings, (D-FL), Debbie Murcarsel Powell (D-FL), Darren Soto (D-FL), Donna Shalala (D-FL) and Barbara Lee (DCA) have issued the following statement in response to violent protests in Haiti: “We are extremely troubled by news reports coming out of Haiti that describe a country in a state of emergency as protests continue and at least two lives have been lost.

“Congressional lawmakers have made

several trips to Haiti and have witnessed firsthand the devastating toll that natural and manmade disasters have taken on the island nation and its citizens. We must do all that we can to ensure that Haiti does not become a failed state as this crisis unfolds.

“While the frustrations that have prompted the protests are justifiable, the violent acts being used to express them are indefensible and hurt the very people they’re meant to help.

“Violent protests have shut down gov-

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ernment services and businesses and are preventing people from getting to work and school. The loss of even one day’s pay could set an already struggling family back by weeks, while the primary targets of the protests continue to live in great comfort.

“One of the key pillars of a democratic society is the freedom to stand up and speak out, and we fully support the right of Haiti’s citizens to do so. The protesters are urged to remember, however, that violence only begets more violence and its continuation

could undermine the international support that Haiti so urgently needs to right itself in the days, weeks, and months ahead.

“To address this growing crisis, we plan to convene in July a meeting in South Florida that will include members of the Haitian diaspora and its advocates, elected officials from Haiti and the United States, and other key stakeholders to discuss strategies that will strengthen the rule of law and civil society in Haiti to the benefit of all Haitians.”

THE INNER-CITY NEWS - June 26, 2019 - July 02, 2019

It’s Time to Put People Before Drug Company Profits.

While too many Connecticut residents struggle to make ends meet, the big drug companies continue to rake in billions. It’s no wonder, considering that they make Americans pay the highest prescription drug prices in the world.

That’s why it’s critical for all Connecticut lawmakers to put aside their differences and support commonsense solutions to lower drug prices, including: • Allowing our state to negotiate for lower prices.

• Preventing brand-name drug companies from paying off generic competitors to stop more affordable medications from reaching consumers.

People shouldn’t have to choose between buying medication and buying food for our families. To all state lawmakers: It’s time to work together and pass bipartisan legislation to lower prescription drug prices—now.

Visit aarp.org/StopRxGreedCT to learn more.

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June 26, 2019 - July 02, 2019

Pause the WiFi? Most definitely.

Your kids will never have to struggle with slow Internet speeds again. Whether they’re gaming online with friends or working on a school project, Xfinity delivers fast and reliable Internet for all their needs. Plus, take control with Xfinity xFi — keep screen time in check by monitoring who’s online and even pause WiFi to any device on your home network. With Xfinity, any challenge is simple, easy and awesome.

Get started with Internet, TV & Voice

79

$

99

a month/ 2 years

Includes up to 150 Mbps download speed

with 2-year agreement

Ask how to add xFi Advantage for enhanced network security

Equipment, taxes, and other charges extra, and subject to change. See below for details.

Call 1-800-xfinity, go to xfinity.com, or visit your local Xfinity Store today.

Offer ends 8/4/19. Restrictions apply. Not available in all areas. New residential customers only. Limited to the Standard Triple Play with Performance Pro 150 Mbps Internet and Voice Unlimited services. Early termination fee applies if all Xfinity services are cancelled during the agreement term. Equipment, installation, taxes and fees, including regulatory recovery fees, Broadcast TV Fee (up to $10.00/mo.), Regional Sports Fee (up to $8.25/mo.), and other applicable charges extra, and subject to change during and after agreement term. After term agreement, or if any service is cancelled or downgraded, regular rates apply. Service limited to a single outlet. May not be combined with other offers. TV: Limited Basic service subscription required to receive other levels of service. Internet: Actual speeds vary and are not guaranteed. Xfinity xFi is available to Xfinity Internet service customers with a compatible Xfinity Gateway. Ability to pause limited to home WiFi network. Does not apply to Xfinity WiFi hotspots. Voice: If there is a power outage or network issue, calling, including calls to 911 may be unavailable. Call for restrictions and complete details. NPA224999-0003 NED AA Q2 WPP V11

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