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DeLauro Endorses Lamont At Women’s Roundtable

by THOMAS BREEN NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Ned Lamont reeled in another endorsement from a high-profile Connecticut Democrat during a roundtable conversation in downtown New Haven about women’s rights at the local, state and national levels.

U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro formally endorsed Lamont, a Greenwich businessman, in his bid for governor during a 45-minute conversation at Blue State Coffee on Wall Street with nearly 20 other local and state female politicians, labor organizers, small business people, and healthcare advocates.

The group pressed Lamont to uphold women’s rights in the workplace not just as an economic issue, but as a moral issue.

“I may be a guy,” Lamont said, “but I’m a feminist. I’m a feminist for a lot of reasons, not the least of which is that Connecticut will never live up to its full potential unless if each and every one of you, your daughters, children of color, have the best opportunity in this state.”

He promised New Haven State Rep. Robyn Porter that, if elected governor, he will make sure that the state legislature passes a $15-dollar minimum wage, and paid family medical leave legislation next year.

“We are the firewall to what’s coming out of Washington D.C.,” he said.

Lamont has already wracked up a

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a feminist.”

Ned Lamont gets DeLauro’s endorsement: “I may be a guy. But I’m

State Rep. Toni Walker.

number of high-profile local, state and national Democratic endorsements for his campaign. He’s received the endorsement of New Haven Mayor Toni Harp, New Haven State Sen. Martin Looney, U.S. Reps. John Larson and Joe Courtney, the endorsements of the state AFL-CIO labor unions, and the endorsement of the state party, which came back in May during the party’s convention in Hartford.

Lamont faces Bridgeport Mayor Joe Ganim for the Democratic nomination for governor during the state primary on Aug. 14.

DeLauro said she is endorsing Lamont for governor because he is a “fierce advocate” for women’s rights and because he represents the state’s best chance to elect a Democratic governor who will combat the Trump administration’s manifold efforts to erode federal protections for women in the workplace.

As the ranking Democratic Party member of the House of Representatives’ Committee on Appropriations’ Labor Subcommittee, DeLauro said, she has seen firsthand the attacks that the Trump administration have made on women’s rights.

She said the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) has proposed prohibiting doctors who receive federal funding through Title X from referring patients to abortion providers. She said the administration has moved to defund Planned Parent-

hood, dismantle the Affordable Care Act, overturn a 2013 law guaranteeing pay equity for federal contractors, and even stop collecting pay data based on gender.

“They say its too onerous,” she said.

But that data collection, she said, provides the necessary information for understanding how women are discriminated against in the workplace by receiving lesser pay than their male counterparts.

She said white women receive 83 cents on the dollar in comparison to their male colleagues. Black women, she said, earn 64 cents on the dollar, and Latinas earn 54 cents on the dollar.

New Haven State Rep. Toni Walker said these attacks on women’s rights are not limited to Washington D.C. She said Connecticut Republicans as well have worked to defund the state’s Medicaid and erode funding for childcare and pay equity.

“None of this will help the business community,” she said. “It will drive people out of the state.”

“Its not just an economic issue,” Porter said. “It’s a moral issue. No one should work a full-time job and still qualify for food stamps… I think the real thing is bringing dignity to work.

And when you do that, you actually increase the economy. Wage growth equals economic growth. It’s a fact.”

Quinnipiac University to hold White Coat Ceremony for new medical students on Aug. 9 Hamden, Connecticut

Karen S. Morris-Priester, MD, an anesthesiologist at Allentown Anesthesia Associates, Lehigh Valley Hospital, will deliver the keynote address at Quinnipiac University’s White Coat Ceremony for new medical students.

Members of the Class of 2022 at Quinnipiac University’s Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine will receive their white coats and stethoscopes and take the Hippocratic Oath at 3 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 9, at the People’s United Center on the university’s York Hill Campus, 305 Sherman Ave. The White Coat Ceremony will mark the beginning of the medical school journey for 98 new students.

Quinnipiac President Judy Olian and Bruce Koeppen, MD, dean of the School of Medicine, will provide opening remarks.

“The White Coat Ceremony formally welcomes the incoming medical students to the School of Medicine, but

more importantly it welcomes them into the medical profession with all of the responsibilities and expectations associated with being a physician,” Koeppen said.

Karen S. Morris-Priester, MD, an anesthesiologist at Allentown Anesthesia Associates, Lehigh Valley Hospital, will deliver the keynote address.

The Class of 2022, selected from 6,564 applicants, is composed of 42 males and 56 females with an average age of 25. Students come from California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Texas and Vermont.

The School of Medicine specializes in training primary care physicians, who are in short supply because their salaries lag behind those of specialists. According to an April 2016 Asso-

ciation of American Medical Colleges report, the United States will have an estimated shortfall of between 14,900 and 35,600 primary care physicians by 2025.

About the Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine at Quinnipiac University The medical school, which opened in 2013, develops physicians to become integral members of patient-centered health care teams, working closely with other health professionals to provide comprehensive care.

The school is a member of the Association of American Medical Colleges.

Clinical affiliations include St. Vincent’s Medical Center in Bridgeport and Trinity Health-New England, Inc., as well as many other hospitals. The school is named for Dr. Frank H. Netter, a world-renowned medical illustrator whose drawings and atlases have educated medical students for decades. For more information, please visit qu.edu. Connect with Quinnipiac

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by PAUL BASS

NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT

Denise Merrill isn’t looking to give 16-year-olds the vote, but she wants them to sign up to get ready.

Merrill, who is currently running for a third term as Connecticut’s secretary of the state, is pushing a proposed law to allow 16-yearolds to pre-register to vote.

“Pre-registration: I love it. Young people are starting to get involved. We’ve got to capture them early,” she said during an appearance on WNHH FM’s “Dateline New Haven” program.

“I want to allow 16-year-olds to register early to vote. That’s when we can get the most people to register because they’re going in to get their driver’s licenses. Not that they’d be able to vote yet before 18, but at least they would feel they are part of” the system.

As secretary of the state, Merrill oversees Connecticut’s voting rolls and elections — putting her in the limelight at a time when federal investigators have uncovered evi-

dence of Russia’s tampering with both.

Just last week Merrill attended a briefing in Washington with the director of homeland security who informed her colleagues around the country that Russian hackers had succeeded in accessing Illinois’ voting rolls in 2016.

She previously learned that the Russians had attempted to break into the databases of 21 states, including Connecticut’s.

All the others identified the attempts and thwarted them.

Merrill said she’s confident the state’s upcoming elections will be conducted securely, largely because we still rely on paper ballots.

She said she’s grateful that the University of Connecticut’s voting center warned her office away from purchasing “electronic poll books” that would have enabled local officials to send voting results from the polls directly and quickly to her office over the internet. The state had allocated the money for Merrill to purchases the

Merrill testifying at the Capitol in favor of an early-voting proposal.

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items, and she put the contract out to bid.

She forwarded the proposals from the three finalists for vetting to the UConn experts, who reported that all would be vulnerable to outside hackers.

The biggest potential vulnerability she sees lies in the way all 169 towns and cities maintain voting rolls with closed-loop routers. She is sending security consultants to each community to advise on improving security, including adding two-factor authentication to the routers.

“The biggest threat to our democracy,” Merrill argued, “is us,” not the Russians.

The threat is the loss of faith in the integrity of elections, the danger that people “will not believe our results are real,” she added.

“I think we’ve seen our last uncontested election,” she predicted.

Merrill said she and other secretaries of state are “racking our brains” to figure out “how we can reassure people” that elections are fair. She’s hoping to win four more years to work on that.

Teens Get The Code

by ISIS DAVIS-MARKS NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT

On Tuesday, an excited group of middle schoolers learned about the importance of geographical mapping systems.

“We are going to learn about how to use a program called Geographic Information Systems, which is also known as GIS,” Alfredo Herrera, a city government GIS analyst, told a room full of sixth to eighthgraders assembled at 200 Orange St. It was day one of a three-day “Digi Camp” organized by the city and sponsored by Microsoft, aimed at closing the digital divide.

“We can use it to look at maps in order to make certain decisions,” Herrera said, “such as where to build buildings, such as hospitals.”

Standing in front of a screen with large project map of the city, Herrera explained Thow GIS is used for a variety of different projects and analyzing data.

“You’ll be able to do an activity on your computers where you’ll be able to search for different locations in order to learn how to use the program,” Herrera said.

Many of the students were eager to learn about how the technology worked.

“Today we looked at maps, and the teachers told us how to search for different places,” rising sixth-grader Safia Elmammann said. “ I like to do gymnastics, so I looked for places where I can practice while I was using the program. I like working with computers, and I’m able to learn more about them in my technology class in school.”

This is the fourth year New Haven has staged the summer Microsoft digi-camp for local students in grades 6 to 11 to learn

about technology and computer programming. This year, enrollment in the camp is capped at 75 students.

The camp, which started Tuesday, gives local students the opportunity to learn more about technology.

After the opening ceremony, which featured speakers including Mayor Toni Harp, students were divided into four groups to learn about trobotics, 3-D printing, and laser cutting.

City Controller Daryl Jones helped organize the event.

“It isn’t always in the standard curriculum to teach computer science to kids in schools. Right now, in New Haven, there are around 600 vacant jobs that could be filled if people had necessary skills in computer science,” Jones said. “We want to begin to educate the kids here in the summer, but we want to continue to teach them about computer science and coding throughout the year.”

Students had the opportunity to engage in hands-on activities by learning about laser cutting, making designs using different computer programs, and listening to guest speakers explain how technology is used in different careers According to an email sent out by the program, fewer than 40 percent of public schools teach computer science or programming. The camp seeks to change this by exposing students to different aspects of computer science. The camp is giving students the opportunity to learn about technology from different perspectives: Con’t on page

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by CHRISTOPHER PEAK NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT

A statewide professional association is calling into question a claim that New Haven schools will have enough school counselors after the latest wave of layoffs.

Superintendent Carol Birks said the number of counselors in New Haven’s schools will still meet national benchmarks, despite her plan to lay off 20 of them, as part of her efforts to close a $19.4 million budget deficit.

In a letter sent on Monday, the Connecticut School Counselor Association (CSCA) disputed that math and asked the Board of Education to reject Birks’s layoff plan.

Virginia DeLong, the chairman of CSCA’s board of directors, argued that eliminating counselors would be a “disservice to students and families” across New Haven.

The school board is scheduled to vote to approve the layoffs of three dozen full-time employees, about half of whom are school counselors, at next week’s regular meeting on Monday night at Celentano School.

Initially, the district had budgeted slots for 61 school counselors next year. Traditionally, guidance counselors sent off recommendation letters and transcripts to college, but nationwide, the role has expanded in recent years, especially in urban areas. School counselors are now expected to focus on students’ mental health, social-emotional development, home life, academic course load and career plans.

Every elementary school got one counselor, and middle schools got two. High schools had a wider range, anywhere from one at a small school like New Haven Academy to eight at a big school like Wilbur Cross. A pair roamed the district, while two more staffed Central Office.

All together, the 61 counselors’ salaries were projected to cost $4.19 million. Depending on experience, the pay ranged from $51,000 to $93,000.

The cuts that Birks has proposed will slash the counseling department down by almost one-third. Seventeen counselors were sent lay-off notices two weeks ago, and three were reassigned to teaching roles.

Caseloads Too Big? Birks argued that the district would still meet staffing ratios set by the American School Counselor Association (ASCA).

ASCA states that each counselor should have a caseload of no more than 250 students. Birks reached that total by removing all K-5 students from the calculation.

But DeLong argued that that math misconstrues what the national organization intended. The staffing ratio is supposed to be applied at all levels, she said, and any calculation that excludes elementary schools is skewed.

“This is laudable but misleading,” DeLong wrote. “This means that there is the potential for elementary and/or middle school counselors to have ratios of 500+:1.

With ratios this high, school counselors surely will not have the time or resources to implement comprehensive school counseling programs, leaving students without

equitable access to a school counselor.”

When all students are included in the total, New Haven will have less than half the number of counselors that the organization recommends. There will be only one counselor for every 525 students, based on last year’s enrollment figures.

DeLong said that means New Haven’s counselors will be “stretched thin,” especially as they’re asked to take on extra responsibilities in schools that are already being pared down.

“In districts across the state, we have seen counselors have to take on the bulk of standardized testing duties, substituting in classrooms, and increased clerical tasks,” DeLong wrote. “Such non-counseling related activities greatly impede the direct services that school counselors are trained and prepared to provide, and careful consideration needs to be given to reassign non-counseling/indirect service tasks so they can focus on the prevention needs of all students and responsive needs of many.”

DeLong added that New Haven’s staffing ratio looks particularly slim for an urban school district, where counselors are responding to serious mental health issues, on top of looking over students’ courseloads, standardized test results and college applications.

Because a counselor’s interventions could stop bullying, outbursts or other disruptions to the learning environment, DeLong argued, it is “short-signted” to consider counselors as a role outside the classroom that could be done away with.

Even at higher staffing levels in recent year, higher-schoolers had already complained that a rotating, overextended staff of counselors struggled to connect with students amid long wait times for appointments.

Given the budgetary realities, Birks responded, she’ll try her best to meet the organization’s recommended staffing level at the high schools, while relying on other support services for the lower grades.

“We have to right-size and realign,” Birks said. “I respect the work of counselors.

Counselors helped me on to college and throughout my career. But we have to make some pretty tough decisions to focus on the instructional core as well as our overall district improvement efforts. It’s hard, it’s very difficult and it’s sad.”

Birks also pointed out that very few districts across the country are able to meet ASCA’s bar. ‘When you look around the state, around the country, we are aligned with — and still have a lot more — than some areas,” she said. ASCA reported that only three states (Vermont, New Hampshire and Wyoming) have adequate staffing. Connecticut’s ratio was roughly 465to-1 a few years ago, ASCA found.

Will Clark, the district’s chief operating officer, has also argued that several departments across the district are understaffed, from “special education to [English-language learning] to [information technology] to security to social work to speech to nurses and to other areas.”

ESUMS students at a Board of Ed meeting seeking more counselors.

While counselors are being laid off, each school will now have at least full-time social worker, which many schools did not have before, to pick up the slack, Birks said. Birks argued that her reorganization gives schools the minimum staffing necessary to meet state mandates, then allows principals to fit any additional hires to their student body’s unique needs.

“We’re looking at equity and concentration of need,” Birks said. “We’re trying to make sure we’re aligning our resources in a way which schools have requested. In some schools, we asked, ‘Did you want a full-time school counselor or a library media specialist?’ They decided. It varies by school.”

One counselor, who asked to remain anonymous, argued people don’t understood “the magnitude” of the cuts and just how “devastating” the impact could be.

“It is no surprise that the district is in financial constraints. However, what came as a surprise was the fact that 20 school counselors — in a district that has begged for more counselors — could lose their jobs,” the school counselor said. “We’re the ones who are held responsible if students are not successful in the classroom or don’t have post-high school plans. In a district with over 20,000 students who all need support; this is an injustice to them.”

In addition to CSCA, other groups have also called for the reinstatement of school counselors. They say there’s money to keep them on the payroll by redistributing federal grants or by holding off an expansion of Central Office.

DeLong proposed using grants, including the federal Title I and Title IV-A money and the state Alliance funding, to cover some of

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the costs of the counseling program.

Birks said that most of those funds were tied up in other programs that could not be cut, like English-language tutors, special education experts, instructional coaches and other support roles.

“We have to look at the system at large,” she said. “It’s easy to say on the sidelines, but we need a comprehensive view.” She added that three Massachusetts-based consultants from The Management Solution will be reviewing “every funding streams to make sure we’re best utilizing what the grants were intended for and how those dollars are touching students.”

Others felt that the money should be pulled from a planned expansion of Central Office, after Meadow Street emptied out during Reggie Mayo’s return as interim superintendent.

A joint statement by NHPS Advocates and the New Haven Teacher’s Collective said that cutting counselors meant “one less person … supporting their academic, social and emotional well-being.” The groups said short-staffing the guidance department could create long wait-times and added stress for upperclassmen trying to plan out their college and career options.

The groups didn’t propose an alternative funding mechanism, but Sarah Miller, a parent at Columbus Family Academy and a member of NHPS Advocates, said any extra money should go towards keeping teachers and counselors, rather than hiring administrators.

“It’s kind of jarring to see new executive positions being filled at the same time that teachers are being laid off,” she said. “We need to prioritize the people who serve kids, not a bureaucracy.”

Birks has scaled back her plans, cutting a chief of staff, general counsel and labor relations director from the draft of her organizational chart. And she still might not fill some of the roles that the board approved, relying for example on the consultants and a part-time budget director, in place of a full-time chief financial officer.

But even without those roles, Birks said she needs some support, arguing that she can’t manage the district by herself. “We have a very lean Central Office,” she said.

“We need to run the system.”

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Teens Get The Code Students don’t just sit in a room and code for three days.

On the first day, students had the opportunity to go to different workshops with other students in their age range.

Other activities during the camp, including a presentation given by two speakers from the FBI, highlighted the importance of computer science in the government.

The agents explained how knowledge of computer science helps agents to complete important day-to-day tasks in the office and how it also helps to complete investigations. They stressed that monitoring criminal’s usage of social media was especially important for solving crimes.

“I really liked learning about what the FBI agents do,” said sixth-grader Teja Vaughn.

“I learned how to code in school, and I want to be an FBI agent someday. I was excited to learn that the agents solve crimes by using social media.”

The camp runs through Thursday.

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Killer Dies In Shoot-Out; Healing Begins

by THOMAS BREEN AND PAUL BASS NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT

Tramaine Marquese Poole went out in a blaze of bullets when the law finally caught up with him.

City police officials and the family members of a 28-year-old woman Poole allegedly murdered breathed a collective and heartbroken sigh of relief on Thursday, but said that a years-long healing process has only now begun.

During a press conference held in the third floor atrium of the city’s police headquarters at 1 Union Ave., New Haven Police Chief Anthony Campbell announced that Poole, the 43-year-old man charged with murdering Tyekqua Nesbitt on May 31 at the intersection of Wilmot Road and Wintergreen Avenue, had been apprehended by the Virginia State Police on Wednesday morning. Police also believe he shot his 36-year-old wife (not fatally) on May 7.

Poole, who was charged with killing Nesbitt in front of her 6 and 11-year-old children, died in a shootout with Virginia State Police Wednesday morning.

“Upon receiving that information,” Campbell said, “I breathed a sigh of relief because justice had been served.”

Campbell was joined on Thursday morning by nearly a dozen law enforcement officials who had worked on the two-month manhunt for Poole, as well as

by Nesbitt’s two sisters, Tashauna Nesbitt and Latoya Herbert, and by Nesbitt’s mother, Cheryl Nesbitt.

With tears streaming down her face, Tashauna, who is Nesbitt’s twin sister, said she was relieved that Poole had been apprehended, but said that she and her family are only now beginning what will most certainly be a year-long process of healing from the death of a loved one.

“From day one, I promised my sister that justice would be served,” she said, “and I got that justice yesterday. I’m now a mother to four children, and even though he’s gone, this still does not bring 100 percent peace to me. Her soul is at rest, but we’re still hurting. It’s going to take not days, not months, but years to get back to somewhat of a normal life.”

Tashauna thanked the city police department’s victims advocate, Officer Jillian Knox, for spending the past 64 days with the Nesbitt family, helping them get from place to place a time when they were afraid to leave their home because Poole was on the loose, and providing emotional support at a time of crisis.

“We suffered a tragic loss,” Tashauna said, “and now we just want to heal it.

We don’t want anyone else to be hurt. No retaliation.”

She implored residents to donate to the GoFundMe page that has been set up to support her sister’s two children.

Murder victim Tyekqua Nesbitt’s family at Thursday’s press conference: her mother, Cheryl Nesbitt, her twin sister, Tashauna Nesbitt, and her sister, Latoya Herbert.

Police Chief Anthony Campbell and Asst. Chief Herb Johnson.

NHPD Officer David Hartman with a picture of Vader, the Virginia State Police dog who was killed by Poole during a shootout with Virginia law enforcement on Wednesday.

Nesbitt’s sister Latoya Herbert agreed that the family can now rest a bit more easily, and also extended condolences to Poole’s family, who have now lost a loved one themselves.

“I want to say to Tramaine’s family,”

she said, “I’m sorry about the way that he chose to leave this world. It wasn’t supposed to have been like this, and nobody deserves to lose their child. But we all have to agree that we all need our peace.”

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Campbell praised the family for calling for peace amidst such a tragedy.

“You show us that, although bad things do happen in this world,” he said, “that despair is not the way to go … You extended grace, and that’s not something that everyone can or will do.”

Chase Ends In Shoot-out Poole, who was wanted on a $5 million bond, fled the state after Nesbitt’s murder and evaded capture.

Until Wednesday, when he got into a shoot-out with Virginia State Police.

Troopers chased him while he was traveling in a stolen car on I-95, according to Virginia State Police spokeswoman Sgt. Michelle Anaya. The car’s driver had refused to stop for the cops. A man in the vehicle shot at the troopers during the pursuit, according to Anaya.

The driver left the highway at Exit 24.

Troopers blocked an intersection and stopped the car. The man inside the car kept firing at the troopers, who fired back, according to Anaya.

The man “died at the scene.” A subsequent examination of his body by the Chief state Medical Examiner’s office indeed confirmed that he was indeed Tremaine Marquise Poole, New Haven police confirmed late Wednesday.

A female passenger in Poole’s car was treated at a hospital for non-life-threatening injuries suffered in the shoot-out.

A state police canine died from injuries after getting hit by one of the bullets.

Campbell said that, upon hearing from Asst. Chief Herb Johnson at 10:16 a.m.

Wednesday that a subject fitting Poole’s had died in a gun battle with Virginia State police, he immediately sent three New Haven police detectives down to confirm Poole’s identity.

He said Virginia law enforcement has already confirmed the identity of Poole, and has alerted Poole’s spouse. But New Haven’s police force won’t be able to technically confirm the identity of Poole until they roll the suspect’s fingerprints and compare them to Poole’s fingerprint card that they have on file. Campbell said he expects his detectives will provide that official confirmation later Thursday.

He also said that the New Haven detectives will be present at the processing of the stolen car that Poole was found in.

He said he hopes that that car will provide some evidence as to where Poole has been for the past two months.

Campbell said that he could not reveal any information about the car or about the woman who was found in the vehicle with Poole because of the nature of the ongoing investigation. But, he said, the department is still looking to apprehend anyone who may have provided support for Poole over the past two months.

“Poole did not leave this world with-

out taking another life,” Campbell also announced, “the life of Virginia state trooper canine Vader, who had been in service for two years.”

Campbell said that Vader’s handler was almost shot by police during Wednesday morning’s shootout, and that Vader died during the shootout.

Campbell said the city’s police department will ask the U.S. Marshal’s Office if some of the $5,000 reward money initially offered to anyone who could provide information about Poole’s whereabouts may instead by used for Vader’s funeral.

“My first thought was: Thank God,” Campbell said about his emotional response to hearing about Poole’s apprehension in Virginia yesterday. “Thank God that this community can be at ease.

Thank God that this family has a sense of peace and closure.”

Following is a release Virginia State Police Sgt. Michelle Anaya issued Wednesday afternoon: At approximately 8:18 a.m. on Aug. 1, 2018, a Virginia State Police trooper was traveling north on Interstate 95 in Sussex County when he identified a vehicle that had been reported stolen out of Connecticut. The trooper activated his lights and siren to initiate a traffic stop on the vehicle. The vehicle’s driver refused to stop for the trooper and sped away.

A pursuit was initiated north on I-95 during which time an individual in the suspect vehicle began shooting at the trooper’s vehicle. Sporadic shooting by the pursuit suspect continued as the stolen vehicle headed north on I-95 and then took Exit 24 for Owens/Route 645 in Sussex County. As the stolen vehicle approached the intersection of Loco School and Bell roads, Virginia State Police positioned themselves to stop the stolen vehicle. The pursuit suspect continued firing at the state police vehicles.

One of the suspect’s bullets pierced a K9 trooper’s back passenger window and struck a state police canine riding in the back seat compartment.

Once the stolen vehicle was stopped, state troopers engaged with the suspect and shots were fired. The male suspect died at the scene and will be transported to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Richmond, Va. for examination and autopsy.

A female passenger in the suspect vehicle was transported to a nearby hospital for treatment of non-life threatening injuries.

The state police canine did not survive his injuries. No troopers were injured in the course of the incident.

In accordance with state police policy regarding officer-involved shootings, three troopers have been placed on administrative leave.

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by BRIAN SLATTERY NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT

Nick Di Maria has set his musical organizational skills to a socialist beat. Or so he said, with a sense of humor, in talking about Jazz Haven‘s upcoming Jazz Week, which features 15 jazz events all around New Haven from Aug. 17 to Aug. 25.

Jazz Week will kick off with the Dr. Eddie Henderson Quartet at Lyric Hall on Whalley Avenue in Westville on the evening of Aug. 17. Across town, the Phil E. Brown Trio will set up shop at Amoy’s on Orange Street in Ninth Square. Those two concerts are harbingers for what is to come in the days afterward, whether it’s the Morris Trent Duo at the Anchor Spa on College Street (Aug. 20), Jazz Haven Fusion Night at Stella Blues on Crown Street (Aug. 23), or Joe Morris and the New Haven Improvisers Collective at the State House (Aug. 23). The main event, on Aug. 24 at Temple Plaza, is a triple-header of the Alec Rice Quintet, the Andrew Beals Quartet, and Adam Rogers Dice.

These events add to and amplify what Di Maria, a board member at Jazz Haven, pointed out are ongoing events in the Elm City, from the Hawkins Jazz Collective’s ongoing Wednesday night residence at the Owl Shop, to Rohn Lawrence’s longtime Monday night stand at Lily’s Pad at Toads, to Cafe Nine’s regular jazz jams. Except Sunday Aug. 19, there’s something scheduled every night

of Jazz Week.

In other words, it’s a schedule that seeks to be as inclusive as Jazz Haven could make it, with a mix of local and outof-town acts, straight-ahead bands and avant-garde groups, and lots of ways for audiences and other jazz musicians to get involved. The schedule has been finalized just as Di Maria himself who leads his own band is about to hit the road for a mini-tour squeezed in just before Jazz Week starts.

“I’d rather be known as the fifth-best trumpet player, but the number one guy that brings people together,” Di Maria said.

Di Maria grew up in Waterbury, studied music at Western Connecticut State University, and spent a little time in New York City, but has planted his flag in the New Haven music community since arriving on the scene over 10 years ago.

During the school year, he’s is the general music teacher at Truman School on Truman Street in New Haven, where he instructs kids from kindergarten to eighth grade. As a board member of Jazz Haven, he has found a vehicle for even greater community-oriented ambitions the “musical socialism” that he thinks of as an outgrowth of the ethos he developed as a punk kid and has carried forward to this day.

“Everything I learned” about playing music professionally, he said, “I learned by making mistakes.” He also learned that “there’s a vast ocean of excellent

Kelly Green, slated to play in Jazz Haven’s Jazz Week.

musicians” all around him. “Why not go back and nurture the local scene?”

To Di Maria, that means a lot of things.

With Thomas Duffy, Yale’s director of bands, he’s organizing brass band workshops with the Funky Dawgz Brass Band. He has plans to organize outdoor New Orleans-style parades with willing horn players. He’s hoping to broaden Jazz Haven’s reach across the genre, encompassing more Latin music, more jazz inflected by rock and funk. He’s working to increase the diversity of musicians across race and gender lines. And he’s hoping to be able to organize music shows in which jazz bands share the bill

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with non-jazz bands even punk bands.

People may say they don’t like certain genres of music, he said, but “everyone likes live music.”

Making those kinds of things happen, he continued, involves tearing down some of the barriers that musicians themselves put up. “Ninety-nine percent of the world listens to music for relief, enjoyment, and fun,” he said. “It’s musicians who are overthinking it.” As he thought more about bringing people together across all kinds of societal and musical lines, he said, he realized it had something in common with a political campaign and a certain avowed social-

ist’s campaign in particular particularly in the way it embraced lots of small donations and volunteer efforts.

But for now, he has a short stint of shows to perform, and then a week of events to help run. He sees some of what he envisions already in Jazz Week’s programming for this year. In the main event’s afterparty on Aug. 24 featuring Kelly Green and George Coleman, he said, “you get the future, you get equality, and you get a pillar of the jazz community” in Coleman himself.

“Because the city deserves it,” he added. “The city deserves to have excellent music and an excellent festival.”

Chicken Nuggets Coming To Chapel St.

by MARKESHIA RICKS NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT

A homespun, Connecticut-based chain is putting out a shingle on Chapel Street and adding chicken nuggets to New Haven’s foodie landscape.

The chain, Garden Catering, which started in Old Greenwich and specializes in chicken prepared in several ways but especially as nuggets, plans to open its eighth location in late August in the former Dunkin Donuts space across from the Green on Chapel near Temple.

The owners, the Carpentari family, isn’t serving up just any old pre-packaged chicken nuggets, from Anywhere, USA. Garden Catering serves hand-cut, hand-battered, 100 percent all-white meat chicken, just as the original restaurant did before their family took on the business.

Garden Catering, originally owned by Lou Landoli, opened its first location in Old Greenwich in 1978. Landoli ran it until he died in 1990.

Frank Carpentari Sr., who’d worked in the restaurant business all of his life, bought the business and reopened it with the same

name and the same secret nugget recipe in 1991, according to Frank Carpentari Jr., who is now the director of operations.

“I was just a kid at the time,” Carpentari recalls. “Since then, my sister Tina and I both joined the business and we’re kind of the next generation taking the torch.”

Carpentari said New Haven was a natural choice for the business. In fact, the family

tried to bring the restaurant here seven or eight years ago but the deal fell through.

“I’ve always thought New Haven was an amazing city to just be a part of,” he said.

“It’s a fun, historic city, with great universities and colleges, and a thriving art scene.

And the foodie culture makes sense for our customers.”

Carpentari said that restaurant will hire a

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staff of about 10 to 15 employees, with a mix of full and part-timers. He anticipated that the jobs might be attractive to college students who are working their way through school.

“I would define it as fast-casual with a little seating, about a dozen or so seats at the location,” he said. “We are primarily graband-go, but there are certainly some seats for those who would like to enjoy dining inside. It’s all counter service and we take a fairly casual approach—not to our guest experience. But our average ticket is $10 to $12.”

Unlike the original location, which is built in an old train car converted to function like what Carpentari called a “hole-in-thewall” diner, the Chapel Street location will be more in keeping with their other locations around the state. But he said the spirit of the original location lives on through the restaurant employees, who are trained in the history of the family-owned business. They know that oftentimes customers might already have a history with Garden Catering from its other seven locations.

They also tapped New Haven design firm

Box 8 Creative to update the brand’s logo and other elements that will be on display when the restaurant opens.

“We have a bit of a reach with our furthest north location in Fairfield,” Carpentari said. “I think we do draw into New Haven, and the name is already recognized by students and people who have moved to the area.”

Having grown up in the state, Carprentari said, he knows New Haven’s reputation as a food town. So he knows that people will have high expectations.

“I think we’ll be able to satisfy those,” he vowed.

But it’s not just going to be about food.

Carpentari said Garden Catering likes to give back.

The New Haven location will host a week of giveaways leading up to a “Free Nugget Day” as part of the opening celebration. Carpentari said the company will also team up with local nonprofits. “We always make it a part of our mission to make the communities were we operate a better place with lots of give-back programs and through give-back nights,” he said.

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Former NBA Player Derek Anderson Creates School That Teaches Acts of Kindness, Life Skills and Crisis Management

By Curtis Bunn, Urban News Service

Derek Anderson, the former San Antonio Spurs star, wants to teach black kids how to talk to the police.

Growing up virtually homeless in Louisville, Kentucky, Anderson made the unlikely journey from inner-city high school to college basketball star at the University of Kentucky and then an 11-year career in the NBA, crowned by a championship with the San Antonio Spurs.

None of that would have happened, he said, had he not treated people with kindness from his earliest memory. Kindness is transformative.

That insight inspired him to create the Stamina Academy, an after-school and weekend program in his hometown. While free of charge, the school demands a lot from its students, who are boys ranging from fifth grade through twelveth.

The lessons taught are what sets Stamina Academy apart. Instructors present scenarios that students may encounter in everyday life and teach them how to manage potentially explosive encounters—including ones with law enforcement. The scenarios are filmed to be watched and studied.

In one film, a student plays a police officer who has just pulled over another student in a random traffic stop, as often happens in the real world. The pretend-officer challenges the student with increasingly uncomfortable questions. The student-driver learns how to keep calm and avoid feeling provoked.

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“They see first hand how something can get out of hand and how something can be avoided,” Anderson said. “They figure that if they respond with respect there could be no escalation to the situation.”

The real-world lessons may be just as valuable as learning to diagram a sentence or remember what happened on July 2, 1776. “It’s just as important that kids have strong life skills as it is they achieve in the classroom,” Anderson said. “We want to produce well-rounded kids who can avoid challenging situations through knowledge and being kind and positive, and who understand it all starts simply with being nice.”

Anderson insists his calm demeanor has carried him through, around and above various situations.

Staying calm wasn’t easy. His father was not in his life and his mother, who battled drugs, often was not there. “When I wanted a job at the candy store and grocery store, I was kind and polite and it helped me get hired,” Anderson said. “When I needed to sleep at someone’s home, I was kind and grateful. Always. That’s what got me through.”

Anderson uses basketball to lure his 76 students. The former star player takes a hands-on approach to coaching, and his players benefit from his vast experience and know-how.

“And who Derek is as a person is important,” said Rontisha Toney, whose son, Austin, plays basketball and attends Stamina Academy after school and on weekends.

“He focuses on the kids as people. He’s positive. He’s patient, always smiling. After practice, the player who performs the best in character and in play gets a belt that he gets to take home for the night. That kind of stuff helps build character and let’s them know it is more than just about the game.”

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He told the story of one of his 13-year-old students approaching an older woman at a Louisville Dairy Queen and paying for her order. “The woman cried,” Anderson said.

“If they perform acts of kindness everyday,” he said, “it becomes a lifestyle. That’s how you make change.”

Stephen Franklin, whose 14-year-old son Miles, attends Stamina and plays for its team, said a gesture by Anderson stood out to him—and validated what he teaches the kids.

“My wife is busy, I’m busy. My daughter is in dance,” Franklin recalled. “And I called D.A [Anderson] to tell him I would be late getting Miles to practice. He shocked me when he said, ‘Want me to go get him?’

“You never hear that from a coach. He’s a great example of what he wants the kids to

become. We’re a family about community service and D.A. reinforces the spirit of gratitude.”

Students can spend the night in the Stamina gym, where tents are set up on the basketball court. There is a shower, a sauna and a barber. Anderson provides food and clothes for those who need them.

He guesses he has spent about $60,000 to make phase one of Stamina Academy a reality. He is seeking funds and property to build out a full-scale campus to teach more young men.

“The plan is to make it everything I wish I had growing up,” he said.

“We have to be the example, be positive, to change the way people act, the way people deal with each other,” Anderson said. “I say it all the time: Being kind is the greatest gift in the world.”

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109th NAACP Annual Convention Closes with Call to Vote and to Increase Millennial Engagement

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By Lauren Poteat, NNPA Newswire Washington Correspondent

Thousands of people from across the country gathered in San Antonio, Texas for the 109th Annual NAACP Convention.

The daring theme of this year’s convention (“Stop Hate, Vote”) was right on target, given that the 2018 midterm elections are just a few months away. Panels and breakout sessions also focused on social justice and civil rights in the Trump Era, conversations that NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson deemed “highly necessary.”

“As we begin to look at the critical landscape—with the increase in intolerance and hatred—we realize that the 2016 elections resulted in a new level of boldness for racists to display their racism,” Johnson said. “The only way to counter that is to vote…Vote on the midterm elections, so that we can hold elected officials accountable and make sure that they implement positive change.”

President and CEO Derrick Johnson

The convention also included a diverse career fair, educational seminars, workshops on public policy, and a special hiphop summit. Johnson also spoke about the importance of millennials and their community and political engagement.

“Millennials should understand that

their role in democracy is the same as everyone else’s,” Johnson said. “We are African Americans first and we owe it to our communities to use all of the tools necessary to better impact our society.”

Championing this effort, NAACP Chairman Leon W. Russell shared his

own ideas during his annual convention address.

“In this new era of xenophobia, neoNazism, White nationalism, and current efforts to take our nation back to a darker and more dangerous time, I have come to San Antonio, Texas to say to the NAACP and our allies, ‘the time has come to defeat hate.’”

Russell continued: “We call on voters, especially millennials of color, to stand against the face of bigotry and divisiveness.”

Acknowledging that nearly 63 million Americans voted for the current president and that Black voter turnout declined, Russell still expressed hope for the future.

“Our hope is to vote out the hate and we need everyone to vote,” Russell said.

The NAACP also honored Willie Brown, San Francisco’s first Black mayor, with the “Spingarn Medal,” the organization’s most prestigious award; the award was in recognition of his years of civil rights work and dedication to the

betterment of the Black community.

Former President Bill Clinton presented the award to Brown and paid tribute to the civil rights activist. Brown said that the Spingarn Medal represented his dedication to public service and the community.

Dozens of millennials attended this year’s convention, much to the pleasure of former NAACP President and current National Newspaper Publishers Association President Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. “The NAACP is just as relevant today as it was 50 years ago,” Dr. Chavis said.

“The potential that the organization has with these millennials is even greater.

The NAACP literally has the opportunity to embrace these young lives and thus be embraced, to create an even better, bolder organization for the lives of all people.”

to do here.”

“Sometimes you think about a kid being in the third grade at that age — being 8, 7 years old or in the fourth grade — having responsibility. Or having stress. No kid at 8 and 9 should have stress. And I was one of those kids. So I know exactly what these kids today are going through.

I was going to a school on the other side of town, but I was living with a family on the complete opposite side of town. So there was no way that I could even get to the school to even participate. You know, we didn’t have a car, the city bus didn’t

come to where I was living. But any time I would show up to school, it was weird, the teachers would always tell my mom that when he shows up, he’s one of the best students that we have. We just hope that he can show up more. And we just couldn’t do it at that point in time. So I know exactly what a lot of these kids are going through.”

“We literally have a school. It’s not a charter school, it’s not a private school, it’s a real-life school in my hometown.

And this is pretty cool.”

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LeBron James Opens A School: “This Is What I’m Here For”

by Derrick Lane, BDO.

Basketball superstar LeBron James’ hometown of Akron, Ohio has a problem.

Actuall, Akron’s public schools have a major problem; its at-risk students are falling well behind the rest of the K-12 population in the classroom. LeBron James has stepped up big time, out of his own pocket, to help fix that.

James’ I Promise School opened Monday to serve low-income and at-risk students in his hometown, and the public school could be an agent of change in the eastern Ohio city.

The I Promise School is technically a joint venture between the Akron, Ohio school system and the LeBron James Family Foundation. The I Promise school, which officially launched on Monday, is currently only available for third and fourth graders, but will expand each year with aims to have grades one through eight by 2022.

Brandi Davis, the principal of the I Promise School, said of the new educational structure, which highlights the emotional and career well-being of the parents as well as the students, “We are going to be that groundbreaking school that will be a nationally recognized model for urban and public school excellence.

We are letting people know it is about true wrap-around support, true family integration and true compassion.”

On Sunday night, James tweeted out his own opinion of the school’s opening, noting that he personally missed 83 days of school when he was in the 4th grade. “Tomorrow is going to be one of the greatest moments (if not the greatest) of my life when we open the #IPROMISE School,”

Lebron tweeted.

I Promise will feature longer school days, a non-traditional school year, and greater access to the school, its facilities, and its teachers during down time for students. That’s a formula aimed at replicating some of the at-home support children may be missing when it comes to schoolwork. The school has also anchored its curriculum in math and science-based teaching, dipping into the STEM — science, technology, engineering, and math — curriculum that prepares students for the jobs of the future.

The school will feature: – an on-site food bank – student support from stress – gives every student a bike – guarantees free college tuition starting in 2021

Did you say free college tuition?!

WHOA! That’s big time. here are some of the reasons why the NBA All-star did this.

“You didn’t know what was possible for you because you kind of always paid attention to the statistics,” explains LeBron in an ESPN interview. “Growing up in the inner city, the numbers are always stacked up against you. So you didn’t really know what was possible. I think what happened for me was that I got some mentors and little league coaches and some teachers that I kind of started to believe in. And they started to make my dreams feel like they could actually become a reality.”

“We’re starting with 240 kids, 120 in third grade and 120 in fourth grade. And I believe that’s where it all kind of starts.

And that’s where it started for me. You know, fourth grade I missed 80 days of school. That following year I… … met the Walker family, and they had a support system. I met some little league coaches playing basketball and football and the following year I didn’t miss one day of school. So I feel like this is the point where we can kind of get into the minds of the kids and let them know that we’re here for them. And I think that’s what kids ultimately want, they just want someone to feel like someone cares about them. And that’s what we’re trying

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Michelle Obama Joins New “When We All Vote” Campaign for the Midterms

By Lauren Victoria Burke, NNPA Newswire Contributor

Former First Lady Michelle Obama is featured in a video along with celebrities Tom Hanks, Janelle Monáe, Faith Hill, Tim McGraw and Lin-Manuel Miranda to encourage people to register and vote.

In less than 100 days, the midterm elections that will either expand President Trump’s power or greatly restrict it, will take place on November 6. There has been much talk about the likelihood of a “blue wave” that could give Democrats the gavel and investigative power in Congress over the next two years of Trump’s presidency. The underlying urgency of Michelle Obama’s message is an unspoken aspect of her new registration effort.

The name of the new effort, “When We All Vote,” is also an indication that the former first lady is well aware of the fact that higher voter turnout usually leads to Democratic victories at the polls. The effort is also a challenge registered voters to participate in elections “both big and small.” Though the effort is billed as “non-partisan,” the sense of urgency about the country’s direction under President Trump’s leadership is an unavoidable backdrop.

Several live events are also expected as part of the effort between now and election day.

Former President Barack Obama is expected to hit the campaign trail to assist Democrats who are looking to take back

Michelle Obama the House and Senate in 2019. On July 31, the former President announced that he is endorsing 81 Democratic candidates on the ballot this November.

There is a record number of women on the ballot this year. Many of the endorsements former President Obama has focused on were candidates who worked in his administration, like Colin Allred, Lauren Underwood and Richard Cordray.

The Obamas have been relatively quiet since departing the White House in early 2017, but that is likely to change. The former president and the former first lady’s launch of “When We All Vote” is likely to be only the first of several post White House efforts they will participate in.

“I’m confident that, together, they’ll strengthen this country we love by restoring opportunity that’s broadly shared, repairing our alliances and standing in the world, and upholding our fundamental commitment to justice, fairness, responsibility, and the rule of law,” Obama wrote in his endorsement statement.

Lauren Victoria Burke is an independent journalist, political analyst and contributor to the NNPA Newswire and BlackPressUSA.com. You can reach Lauren by email at LBurke007@gmail.com and on Twitter at @LVBurke.

This article was originally published at BlackPressUSA.com.

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Cary, NC — Based on her campaign platform to remain focused with 20/20 vision, Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc.’s grand chapter of delegates re-elected Deborah Catchings-Smith to a second two-year term as international president during the organization’s national convention (boule) in Dallas earlier this month. Catchings-Smith was installed along with seven national officers, including First Vice President Rasheeda Liberty, who was also re-elected to a second term.

During her campaign, she outlined how the key areas of collaboration, fact-based decision making, effective processes, security and safeguards, and accountability helped her remain laser-focused on the goals outlined in the strategic plan and achieve significant results for the organization.

“I am grateful for the overwhelming support members, affiliates and our partners have shown me over the years,” Catchings-Smith explains. “It is a true privilege and indeed an honor to serve another term as the 24th international president. We are gaining momentum and will continue to be intentional, impactful and measurable in all that we do.”

Catchings-Smith has been active in the sorority since her college years at Illinois State University where she earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration with a minor in finance. Her leadership roles within the sorority spans 36 years and includes local, regional and national elected positions. She was born in Jackson, Miss., raised in Chicago. and resides in St. Louis with her husband of 30 years, Robert Smith.

She has more than 29 years of experience

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About Sigma Gamma Rho Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc., an international collegiate and non-profit community service organization, was founded in 1922 on the Butler University campus in Indianapolis, Indiana. It has welcomed more than 90,000 members who have joined the organization

as undergraduates and professionals. Official affiliate groups include Rhoer Club (young girls) and Philos (friends of the sorority). The sorority has more than 500 chapters in the United States, Bahamas, Bermuda, Canada, Germany, South Korea and the U.S. Virgin Islands. It is the mission of the sorority to enhance the quality of life for women and their families in the U.S. and globally through community service. Programs, initiatives, and partnerships are devoted to progress in the areas of education, healthcare, political action, and leadership development. It is headquartered in Cary, North Carolina, and is a member of the National Pan-Hellenic Council’s “Divine Nine.” For more information, visit www.sgrho1922.org.

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Meet the First Black Woman to Earn A Ph.D. Degree in Nuclear Engineering From MIT

Cambridge, MA — In the field of STEM where African-American women are still underrepresented, Mareena Robinson Snowden became the first American-born woman of color to earn a Ph.D. in nuclear engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She is hoping that she will not be the last.

In a study released by National Science Foundation in 2015, it was reported that African-American women make up only 2 percent of practicing scientists and engineers.

For some reason, many students are really intimidated by physics or anything about math. Snowden is somehow one of those.

30-year old Snowden told CNBC that STEM was not really the field she wanted as a child. “I think my earliest memories of math and science were definitely one of like nervousness and anxiety and just kind of an overall fear of the subject,” she said.

Her high school teachers and a family friend were the ones who introduced her to physics and math and showed her that it could be enjoyable, too “They kind of helped to peel away that mindset. They showed me that it’s more of a growth situation, that you can develop an aptitude for this and you can develop a skill. It’s just like a muscle, and you have to work for it,” she continued.

In 2011, she enrolled at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. During her undergraduate study, she joined a summer research program at MIT. That’s when she was introduced to nuclear engineering and she decided

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to pursue graduate studies in that career.

However, it was not easy at all being the only woman of color in most of her classes. But by participating on on-campus groups for Black students and taking inspiration from NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson in Hidden Figures, she managed to push through.

After earning her nuclear engineering Ph.D. from MIT, she did a fellowship at the National Nuclear Security Administration. Eventually, she started a job at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace where she focuses on nuclear weapon modernization issues.

As the first in her field, she encourages other Black girls to also pursue a career wherein they are underrepresented and “bring their full selves to the table.”

Back in the Seventies, Ron Stallworth became the first African-American to join the Colorado Springs Police Department. The ambitious, young, college grad was soon promoted to detective, and his initial undercover case involved covering a Stokely Carmichael (Corey Hawkins) rally when the incendiary Black Power advocate was invited to speak at Colorado College.

But his most unlikely mission involved infiltrating the local chapter of the Ku Klux Klan. Here’s how that came to pass. Using his real name, he impulsively answered a classified ad recruiting new members, not knowing what to expect.

When the organization subsequently contacted him by phone, Ron adopted a white accent and complained bitterly about his sister’s dating a black man.

That was all that it took for him to get invited to the next Klan meeting and to secure a membership card signed

by Grand Wizard David Duke (Topher Grace).

Instead of blowing his cover by showing up himself, Ron asked a Jewish colleague, Flip Zimmerman (Adam Driver), to attend and impersonate him.

Despite several close calls, the two managed to closely monitor the Klan’s movements over the next nine months.

That alternately comical and lifethreatening assignment is the focus of BlacKkKlansman, a thought-provoking dramedy adapted by Spike Lee from Stallworth’s memoir of the same name.

The movie made quite a splash at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year, where it won the Jury’s Grand Prize.

What makes the picture work is the way in which it mocks the small-mind-

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Friends Use Various Strengths To Create Emperors Cut, A High-Quality But Affordable African-American Cigar Line

By Curtis Bunn, Urban News Service

As a young man, Greg Willis bonded with his father by sitting on the front porch with him and smoking a cigar. He cherished that time, and, over the years, gained an affinity for robustos.

Those intimate father-son moments have come full circle for Willis, a Cox Automotive Media Solutions expert in Atlanta. He, and his four business partners, spent the past year developing a new high-quality cigar which they predict will turn heads.

The result is the company Emperors Cut, which produces a medium-to-full-bodied cigar that the group plans unveil in July.

They have test marketed their product to cigar smokers of various tastes to resounding praise that has fortified their efforts to push forward. For Willis, it is an ode to his dad, Robert, who died in 1996.

“For sure, my dad would be proud of what we have created—and he would enjoy it,” Willis, 54, said.

Each of his four partners, also professional men in their 50s, took different paths to become cigar aficionados. Maurice Holland, who lives in Suffolk, Virginia, enjoyed his first cigar on vacation in Jamaica 20 years ago, he said. Since then, he has traveled extensively, always enjoying a variety of sticks along the way.

Darnell Streat met Willis while they were students at Norfolk State University. He started smoking cigars about 15 years ago.

Greg Hurt said he has been into cigars since the 1990s and enjoys them as an opportunity to escape the rigors of everyday life.

Robert Howard, a Washington, D.C. lawyer, discovered cigars last year, believed in the product and joined the group as an

investor.

Streat, who connected the partners, had contemplated developing a line for years.

Finally, he called Willis. “He believed we could make it happen.”

And so, they have. They spent considerable time researching the industry and domestic and international markets - the U.S. is responsible for little than half of the $20 billion global cigar market. They also learned about the handful of AfricanAmerican-produced cigars in the market – including El Primer Mundo, Trilogy and Tres Lindas Cubanas. But the friends are confident their product can find its place, among African-Americans and cigar lovers in general.

They hired a veteran cigar roller in Miami and went through several incarnations of the product, “The beauty of having so many experienced palates is that we could articulate clearly what we wanted to accomplish in a stick and got it right with a few iterations,” Holland said.

Their first release is called Natural Pleasure, a puros, meaning the wrapper, binder and filler—the three leaves that make up a premium cigar – are all made from the same country of origin, in this case, Nicaraguan. “It starts with pepper notes and evolves into a very smooth smoke with hints of coffee, cocoa and pepper,” Holland said. “It will to appeal to the most experienced cigar smokers while its flavor profile appeals to less experienced and new smokers (and) women smokers.”

The $10 price was intentional; they wanted a high-quality but affordable cigar— well, affordable by cigar standards.

But getting where they are has been a jour-

ney that tried their patience and resilience, particularly as African American proprietors.

“Imagine the skepticism of Westerners teaching kung fu! Given the art was created by Asians, the perception is they are best suited to advance the art,” Holland said. “Apply that (thinking) to cigars and Latin America. We know our product has to be on point to get over the frame of reference hurdle.”

Then there were the endless machinations to get licensed. Holland: “The U.S. government does not make it easy for new players in the tobacco space. (It also was challenging) getting a seat at the table with smokers. You have smokers who . . . are not open to cigars outside their knowledge zone. We want mind share (to influence experienced, knowledgeable smokers) and that remains our challenge in a mature market.”

They were surprised to find that one of the most significant barriers was erected by the Food & Drug Administration. Starting this August, it will begin applying a regulation designed to make sure drugs are safe - called “substantial equivalence,” to new tobacco products. This means they cannot market their stogies until the FDA issues an order permitting their sale. Given the backlog in applications, the FDA’s permission is not likely to come soon. This process pushed the partners to the brink of giving up, it was so arduous, Willis said.

“The cigar industry is extremely insular; they keep proprietary information close to their vest and are hesitant to new entrants,” he added. “We experienced this but found a strategic partner that helped us navigate the complexity of Substantial Equivalence and other nuanced matters.

“We understood substantial equivalence was a major hurdle but not insurmountable short-term. We did the due diligence by way of research to stay within the scope of Substantial Equivalence. Our blend does not fall outside the scope of the existing blends of our strategic partner. Yet, our blend remains true to what we intended it to be.”

Howard, the lawyer, oversees “compliance with the myriad of laws governing the marketing and sales of cigars.”

Willis and Streat are hybrids, serving in various capacities of the business.

The friends invested “significant” funds to launch the company, Willis said, and will invest more capital into their marketing campaign, which includes distinctive packaging and distribution through their Nicaraguan partner.

They plan to produce 10,000 cigars to start and will market them through their website emperors-cut.com.

“Emperors Cut is a lifestyle brand,” Holland said, “synonymous with good times.

The smoker defines the good time; we just want to be their stick they know augments their fun.”

Josephine Baker Documentary Headlines African Diaspora Film Festival in Washington, D.C. film are the human trafficking of the slave trade in the past and the present day human trafficking in the Virgin Islands, as well as political corruption and immigration.

Festival organizers also plan to present the premiere screening of the awardwinning drama, “The Citizen,” a narrative about middle-aged African political refugee (Wilson) who seeks Hungarian citizenship.

The film has already earned acclaimed from critics at The New York Times and other publications.

Organizers have also expressed excitement about “Streetlight Harmonies,” a film about doo-wop featuring a who’s who of musicians that trace the evolution of pop music from doo-wop and Phil Spector’s legendary “wall of sound” through Motown, surf music and the British Invasion.

The festival also includes a special program where films depict the lives of a native of one country who moves to another nation like, “African-Americans in Europe,” which features a Josephine Baker documentary by Annette von Wangenheim.

Two other films directed by women ex-

By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire

“Streetlight Harmonies,” by Brent Wilson and the documentary “Josephine Baker: Black Diva in a White Man’s World,” count among the highlights of the 12th annual African Diaspora International Film Festival which opens on Friday, August 17 at the Marvin Center at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. The three-day festival, which presents films to diverse audiences and redesigns the Black cinema experience by strengthening the role of African and African descent directors in contemporary world cinema, will feature 16 films that will take audiences in and out of the United States, including eight that will have their premieres in the nation’s capital.

“There’s a lot new this year,” said Reinaldo Barroso-Spech, an educator in foreign languages and Black literature who created the festival with his wife, Diarah N’Daw-Spech, a financial consultant and university budget manager.

The opening night film, “Timeless,” by Ed LaBorde counts as a love story that transcends time from 19th century Ghana to the modern day Caribbean.

Some of the social issues explored in the

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plore issues of identity in diaspora communities in the United States.

“The Good Life—or La Belle Vie—by Rachelle Salnave reflects on the cultural crossfire she experienced as a HaitianAmerican growing up in Harlem juxtaposing her parents’ memories of noble family histories with a humble working class reality.

“Life Is Fare,” by Sephora Woldu counts as a cross-cultural film that challenges how patriotism and nationalism are practiced by people of a country, and is inspired by current Eritrean and Ethiopian migration experiences in the United States.

“From its inception, the festival has always showcased great films that explore the black British experience,” BarrosoSpech said.

For tickets and more information, visit www.nyadiff.org.

Stacy Brown is an NNPA Newswire Contributor and co-author of “Michael Jackson: The Man Behind the Mask: An Insider’s Story of the King of Pop.” Follow Stacy on Twitter @stacybrownmedia.

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Closing dateare is August 8, 2018 or thethe dateSeymour of receipt of the tal https://newhavenhousing.cobblestonesystems.com/ groundct.org/2018/07/common-ground-is-seeking-an-assistant-manag50th application, whichever occurs first.

Apply: Human Resources Departfice, 28 Smith Street, Seymour, CT 06483 (203) 888-4579. ment, Town of Wallingford, 45 South Main St., Wallingford, CT 06492. EOE. gateway beginning on Monday, July 30, 2018 at 3:00PM er-of-facilities-and-grounds/

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

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July 2016 -- August THEINNER-CITY INNER-CITY NEWSNEWS - August 0827, , 2018 August02, 14,2016 2018

PUBLIC NOTICE

The Housing Authority of the City of Bridgeport

NOTICE

The Housing Authority of the City of Bridgeport (HACB) d/b/a Park City Communities (PCC) will be opening its Low Income Public Housing Waiting Lists for 1BR Elderly/62 and VALENTINA MACRI RENTAL HOUSING PRE- APPLICATIONS AVAILABLE over individuals and our 2BR & 3BR family units beginning Monday, August 13 through Friday, August 31, 2018. To qualify for Elderly, you must be 62 years or older; for 2BR HOME INC, on behalf Columbus House and the (2) New Haven Housing Authority, & 3BR units a family size of MUST be a minimum of two AND the annual gross income is accepting studiobelow and one-bedroom apartments at this develmay not exceedpre-applications the income limitsfor shown for the household size. Pre-Applications opment located at Gary 108 Frank Street, New Haven. income limitations apmust be picked up at Crooks Community Center,Maximum 301 Bostwick Ave. Pre-Applicaply.can Pre-applications will befrom available from www.parkcitycommunities.org.

9AM TO 5PM beginning Monday tions also be downloaded our website OnlyJu;y one pre-application perending family when will besufficient accepted; pre-applications duplicate pre-applications will be disqualified.

25, 2016 and (approximately 100) have

been received at the offices of HOME INC. Applications will be mailied upon reApplications must be returned toduring Gary Crooks ONLY. quest by calling HOME INC at 203-562-4663 those hours.

Completed preapplications must be returned to HOME INC’s offices at 171 Orange Street, Third This housing authority does have a preference point system: disabled, homeless, elderly, Floor, New Haven, CT 06510.

working, displaced, domestic violence, veterans, elderly congregate and witness protection. A waiting list with preferences means that applicants who qualify for the preference will receive

NOTICIA

Household size VALENTINA MACRI VIVIENDAS DE ALQUILER PRE-SOLICITUDES DISPONIBLES 1 3 Income Limits

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HOME INC, enVery nombre de (50%) la Columbus House y de la$38,750 New Haven$43,600 Housing Authority, está Low $33,900 aceptando pre-solicitudes para estudios y apartamentos de un dormitorio en este desarrollo Extremely LowStreet, New $26,15 de ingresos $20,35 $23,25 ubicado en la calle 109 Frank Haven. Se aplican limitaciones 0 0 0 máximos. Las pre-solicitudes estarán disponibles 09 a.m.-5 p.m. comenzando Martes 25 julio, 2016 hastaLow cuando se han recibido suficientes (aproximadamente 100) (80%) $64,75 $50,35 pre-solicitudes $57,55 en las oficinas de HOME INC. Las pre-solicitudes serán 0 0 enviadas0 por correo a petición llamando a HOME INC al 203-562-4663 durante esas horas.Pre-solicitudes deberán remitirse If youde require a reasonable this process, helpHaven line will, be a las oficinas HOME INC enaccommodation 171 OrangeforStreet, tercera designated piso, New CT 06510 . available to receive your requests at (203) 337-8804 PCC Does not discriminate based upon race, color, disabilities, religion, sex or national origin.

NOTICIA PUBLICA NEW HAVEN

The Housing Authority of the City of Bridgeport (HACB) d/b/a 242-258 Park City Communities (PCC) Fairmont Ave

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

abrirá sus listas de espera de viviendas públicas de bajos ingresos para 1dorm. para personas de edad avanzada, y mas y nuestras familiares 2BR &close 3BR comenzando el Lunes, All new62apartments, newunidades appliances, newdecarpet, to I-91 & I-95 13 de Agosto hasta el Viernes, 31 de Agosto de 2018. Para calificar para ancianos, usted debe highways, near bus stop & shopping center tener 62 años o más; para las unidades 2BR & 3BR un tamaño de familia debe ser un mínimo de dos (2) el ingreso anual Interested no puede exceder límites de ingresos que se muestran a Pety under 40lbbruto allowed. parties los contact Maria @ 860-985-8258 continuación para el tamaño del hogar. Las pre-solicitudes deben ser recogidos en el Centro Comunitario Gary Crooks, 301 Bostwick Ave. las aplicaciones previas también se pueden descargar desde nuestra página Association web www.parkcitycommunities.org.

CT. Unified Deacon’s is pleased to offer a Deacon’s Sólo se aceptará una pre-solicitud por Certificate This is a 10duplicadas month program designed to assist in the intellectual formation of Candidates familia; las Program. pre-aplicaciones serán descalificadas. in response to the Church’s Ministry needs. The cost is $125. Classes start Saturday, August 20, 2016 1:303:30 Contact: Chairman, Deacon Joe J. Davis, M.S., B.S. deben serBishop entregadas a Gary CenterChurch solamente!

(203)Aplicaciones 996-4517 Host, General Elijah Davis, D.D.Crooks Pastor ofCommunity Pitts Chapel U.F.W.B. 64 Brewster St. New Haven, CT

La Autoridad de Viviendas tiene un sistema de preferencias: personas sin hogar, discapacitados, mayor de edad, empleados, víctimas de violencia domestica, veteranos, ancianos congregados y protección de testigos. Una lista de espera con preferencias quiere decir que personas que cualifican con su preferencia recibirán asistencia antes de personas sin preferencias.

SEYMOUR HOUSING AUTHORITY

Sealed bids areTamano inviteddelbyhogar the Housing1 Authority2 of the Town of Seymour Los limites de ingresos 3 until 3:00 pm on Tuesday, August 2, 2016 at its office at 28 Smith Street, Muy Bajo (50%) $33,900 $38,750 $43,600 Seymour, CT 06483 for Concrete Sidewalk Repairs and Replacement at the Extremademente Bajo $23,25 $26,15 Smithfield Gardens Assisted Living$20,35 Facility, 26 Smith Street Seymour.

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Bajo (80%) $57,55 $64,75 A pre-bid conference will be held at$50,35 the Housing Authority Office 28 Smith 0 0 0 Street Seymour, CT at 10:00 am, on Wednesday, July 20, 2016.

Si necesita un ajuste razonable para este proceso, una línea de ayuda designada estará disponible

para recibir sus peticiones (203) 337-8804 Bidding documents are available from thealSeymour Housing Authority Office, Smith Street, CT 06483 (203) religión, 888-4579.

PCC 28 no discrimina basadoSeymour, en la raza, color, discapacidad, sexo u origen nacional.

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

Invitation for Bid (IFB) CF Greene & Trumbull Gardens Parapets Solicitation Number: 112-PD-18-S The Housing Authority of the City of Bridgeport d/b/a Park City Communities (PCC) is requesting sealed bids for CF Greene and Trumbull Gardens Parapets. A complete set of the plans and technical specifications will be available on July 16, 2018. To obtain a copy of the solicitation you must send your request to bids@ parkcitycommunities.org, please reference solicitation number and title on the subject line. A MANDATORY pre-bid conference will be held at 150 Highland Ave, Bridgeport, CT 06605 on July 31, 2018 @ 10:00 a.m., submitting a bid for the project without attending conference is not in the best interest of the Offeror. Additional questions should be emailed only to bids@parkcitycommunities. org no later than August 9, 2018 @ 3:00 p.m. Answers to all the questions will be posted on PCC’s Website: www.parkcitycommunities.org.All bids must be received by mailed or hand delivered by August 16 , 2018 @ 2:00 PM, to Ms. Caroline Sanchez, Director of Procurement, 150 Highland Ave, Bridgeport, CT 06604, at which time and place all bids will be publicly opened and read aloud. No bids will be accepted after the designated time.

EXP, welder for structural steel, misc. metals shop Send resume: hherbert@gwfabrication.com

FENCE ERECTING CONTRACTORS

Field Engineer

BA/BS in Civil Engineering or Construction Management.

2-5 yrs. experience. OSHA Certified.

Proficient in reading contract plans and specifications.

Resumes to RED Technologies, LLC, 10 Northwood Dr., Bloomfield, CT 06002; Fax 860.218.2433; Email resumes to info@redtechllc.com. RED Technologies, LLC is an EOE.

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

Fax 860.218.2433; or Email to HR@redtechllc.com

RED Technologies, LLC is an EOE.

Garrity Asphalt Reclaiming, Inc

seeks: Construction Equipment Mechanic preferably experienced in Reclaiming and Road Milling Equipment. We offer factory training on equipment we operate. Location: Bloomfield CT We offer excellent hourly rate & excellent benefits Contact: Dan Peterson Phone: 860- 243-2300 email: dpeterson@garrityasphalt.com Women & Minority Applicants are encouraged to apply Affirmative Action/ Equal Opportunity Employer

Garrity Asphalt Reclaiming, Inc

Large CT Fence & Guardrail Contractor is looking for seeks: Reclaimer Operators and Milling Operators Fence Installer foreman and helpers. Foreman must have at with current licensing and clean driving record, be least 5 years’ experience. Helpers-no experience required, willing to travel throughout the Northeast & NY. will train the right person. Work available 10-12 months per We offer excellent hourly rate & excellent benefits Invitationand to Bid: year. Valid Ct. Driver’s license required must be able Contact: Rick Tousignant to get a DOT Medical Card. All necessary equipment pro2nd Notice Phone: 860- 243-2300 vided. Medical, vacation & other benefits included. Must be Email: rick.tousignant@garrityasphalt.com able to pass a physical and drug test. Foreman rates from Women & Minority Applicants are encouraged to apply Saybrook, CT $16 to $22 to $28.10/hour plus benefits,Old helper rates from Affirmative Action/ Equal Opportunity Employer $18.10/hour plus benefits. OSHA 10 training required.

(4 Buildings, 17 Units) Please email resume to pking@atlasoutdoor.com AA/EOE Tax Exempt & Not Prevailing Wage Rate Project

SAYEBROOKE VILLAGE

Union Company seeks:

VanNew Driver to transport w/disabilities Construction, Woodindividuals’ Framed, Housing, SelectivereceivDemolition,Tractor Site-work,Trailer Cast- Driver for Heavy & Highway Coning services according to assigned schedule/destination. HS struction Equipment. Must have a CDL License, in-place Concrete, Asphalt Shingles, Vinyl Siding, diploma/GED plus 3-12 months exp/training. Current CT PSL/ clean driving record, capable of operating heavy Flooring, Division 10 Specialties, Appliances, Residential Casework, Medical Card a Painting, must. Split shift 20-25 hrs/week. Pay rate $11.85/ equipment; be willing to travel throughout the hr. Apply to: GWSNE, Recruitment Mgr., 432 Washington Ave, Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing and Fire Protection.

North Haven, CT 06473/fax (203) 495-6108/ hr@goodwillsne.

This contract is subject to state set-aside and contract compliance requirements. Northeast & NY. org EOE/AA – M/F/D/V We offer excellent hourly rate & excellent benefits Contact Dana at 860-243-2300.

Bid Extended, Due Date: August 5, 2016 Email: dana.briere@garrityasphalt.com Waste Treatment

Anticipated Start: August 15, 2016 Women & Minority Applicants are encouraged to apply Wastewater TreatmentProject Plant Operator (Attendant II):via Operates documents available ftp link and below: Affirmative Action/ Equal Opportunity Employer maintains equipment and processes in a municipal sewage treathttp://ftp.cbtghosting.com/loginok.html?username=sayebrookevillage ment plant. Requires a H.S. diploma or GED. In addition, must possess a State of Connecticut Department of Energy and EnviFax or Protection Email Questions & Bids Dawn Lang 203-881-8372 dawnlang@haynesconstruction.com ronmental Class II to: Operator or @higher certification; or encourages the participation of allcertification.

Veteran, S/W/MBE & Section 3 Certified Businesses a Class IIHCC Operator-in-training or higher Must possess Haynes Construction Company, 32 Progress Ave, Seymour, CT 06483 Large CT Fence & Guardrail Contractor is looking and maintain a valid driver’s license. $25.38 to $30.24 hourly / $22.59 - $30.24 on certifications AA/EEObased EMPLOYER for experienced, responsible commercial and resi& experience plus an excellent fringe benefit package. Apply: Perdential fence erectors and installers on a subcontracsonnel Department, Town of Wallingford, 45 South Main Street, tor basis. Earn from $750 to $2,000 per day. Email Wallingford, CT 06492. The closing date will be that date the 50th resume to pking@atlasoutdoor.com AA/EOE application form/resume is received, or August 21, 2018, whichever occurs first. EOE

FENCE ERECTING SUBCONTRACTORS

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‘Night Comes On’ Proves to be an Inspiring Movie Centered Around Teenage Revenge

By Dwight Brown NNPA News Wire

Intimate portraits of young siblings are rarely this raw and authentic. There is something special and magnetic about the relationship between this orphaned 18-year-old Black girl and her supportive 10-year-old sister.

Actress turned director Jordana Spiro (best known for Netflix series Ozark) cowrote the script for “Night Comes On” with Angelica Nwandu. Their story follows Angel LaMere (Dominique Fishback, HBO’s “The Deuce”), who has just been released from a juvenile detention center in Philly, where she did time for possession of a deadly weapon. Angel is hardheaded and her parole officer (James McDaniel, “NYPD Blue”) is skeptical about her motivation for rehabilitation and rightly so.

Angel’s been in and out of 13 foster homes where abuse and violence were the norms. Her dad murdered her mom. She’s been separated from her young sister Abby (Tatum Marilyn Hall) and upon her release, her ex-lover Maya (Cymbal Byrd) is giving

flattering photography possible, it is up to the two young actresses to carry the rest of the movie, and they do. Most of the time you feel like you’re walking down the street with Angel, as she stumbles into a string of wrong decisions. You want to reassure her that she is in charge of her life and things can get better — though you know, there is no quick fix for her horrific past and seemingly dismal future. You’re duly hooked into Angel’s dilemma because Fishback deftly portrays her bitterness, determination and love, all at once, in a world that has deserted her.

Fishback’s performance would be the film’s strongest element, except she’s often upstaged by the very precocious, brainy, articulate and gifted Tatum Marilyn Hall.

Hall’s acting is seamless and natural. Her interpretation of Abby is that of a kid who is well beyond her years and provides the one anchor that can keep her older sister moored to reality and basic human values.

If anyone can save Angel from committing a homicide, it’s her little sister. Angel asks Abby, “Do you think I’m like him

her shade and has moved on emotionally.

Not much to live for, but memories of her mom’s caring advice and dreams of them at the ocean shore with the sounds of waves rushing in, sustain her as best they can.

Watching this young, vulnerable soul, who is adrift in so many ways, pulls you into her desperation. As she seeks revenge for her mother’s death, buys a gun and contemplates killing the father who’s responsible, your interest is locked and loaded too.

Something is going to happen. You’re on the edge of your seat and the tension lasts around 75 minutes of this 87-minute film.

What’s on view from first-time filmmaker Spiro, is a talent for getting to the heart of scenes, ably depicting the two leads’ turmoil and moving the drama along at a nice clip (editor Taylor Levy). The footage is clear, the colors rich, the lighting on the brown hues of the artists incandescent and the composition of each shot is flawlessly beautiful (cinematographer, Hatuey Viveros Lavielle). Spiro has surrounded herself with the right crew.

Given the astute direction and the most

(dad)?” proving that Fishback deserves other leading film roles, while Hall, deserves her own TV show.

The proceedings build and build to an ending that is not climatic enough for all the previous dread and anticipation. Not making the third act as stomach-churning and tense as the first two acts is a flaw.

Never showing the murder that haunts the girls is also an iffy choice.

The array of talent—Spiro, Nwandu, Lavielle, Fishback and Hall—is enough to separate this film from a crowded field of low-budget indie movies that don’t have nearly this much heart and vision. ‘Night Comes On” is a memorable and intense family portrait.

Dwight Brown is a film critic and travel writer. As a film critic, he regularly attends international film festivals including Cannes, Sundance, Toronto and the American Black Film Festival. Read more movie reviews by Dwight Brown here and at DwightBrownInk.com.

Campus Police Called on Black Woman For Looking Suspicious While Eating Her Lunch and Relaxing

Northampton, MA — Oumou Kanoute, an African American student attending Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, was “terrified” when the police were called on her while she was just eating lunch in one of the campus’ rooms for students!

Kanoute, an upcoming sophomore at Smith, has been spending summer as a teaching assistant at the same school. Last Tuesday, she was eating lunch and relaxing – what she usually does in a commonly used room when an employee thought she looked suspicious and decided to call the police.

The caller said Kanoute “seems out of place” in the building, according to the campus police transcript released by Smith College.

An officer responded and immediately concluded that it “was a student relaxing in the living room,” the transcript said. No

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She wrote on a Facebook post sharing the incident, “I did nothing wrong, I wasn’t making any noise or bothering anyone. All I did was be black.”

“This is why being black in America is scary,” she added as a caption in the video she took of the interaction.

She was asked why she was there and she calmly answered that she was in the summer program and was just relaxing.

“If you see the video, I was calm, but I wasn’t calm, I was terrified,” she told ABC News.

In a statement on the school’s website, Smith College President Kathleen McCartney deeply apologized for the incident and said the employee who called the campus police “has been placed on leave pending the outcome of the external investigation.”

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