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Connecticut Bail Fund to Host First Annual “End of Summer Jam” Fundraiser in Goffe Street Park

A local organization dedicated to fighting mass incarceration and mass deportation is hosting its first annual “End of Summer Jam” Fundraiser this Saturday, September 7th, from noon to 5pm in Goffe Street Park. The event will feature musical performances from local artists, kids’ activities including a bounce-house and boxing lessons, live mural painting, outdoor BBQ food, and more.

Based in Fair Haven, Connecticut Bail Fund has been on the frontlines of fighting against mass incarceration, immigration enforcement, and the over-policing of our youth for three years. Connecticut Bail Fund operates two community bail funds, both of which exist to free people from jail who cannot otherwise afford bail: one for pretrial detention (in the criminal legal system), and one for ICE detention (in the federal immigration system). In the past three years, the two funds have freed over 365 of our community members from incarceration — all of whom were being caged because they could not pay bail.

The impact of Connecticut Bail Fund’s work is massive. People that can’t afford to pay bail are regularly exploited by the court system. The criminal legal system leverages pretrial detention to coerce community members into pleading guilty just so they can get out of jail.

Similarly, the immigration system uses detention to isolate community members from their support systems so that it becomes easier to move them through the

deportation process without legal representation and community resistance. By bailing our community members out of jail, the Connecticut Bail Fund allows them to effectively defend themselves in court from a place of freedom. This leads to fewer convictions, lesser sentencing, and fewer deportations. It also prevents people from losing their housing, employment, and custody of their children because they are caged in detention unable to make bail.

Connecticut Bail Fund is also active in the broader movement to dismantle the racist systems of mass incarceration and deportation and transform the ways we pursue justice in our communities. For two years, Connecticut Bail Fund has organized a weekly “Participatory Defense” meeting for families in the community who are fighting criminal and/or deportation cases. This is a space where community members come together to share updates on what they’re going through, identify strategies to positively strengthen their own defense, and support each other through the process. The end goal of this work is to transform the landscape of power in the courts by centering the knowledge and agency of criminalized people in the defense process. Connecticut Bail Fund is just one member in a growing national network of these “Participatory Defense” hubs.

Together, all the hubs in the network have now produced over 6,500 years of “Time Saved.” “Time Saved” is calculat-

ed by subtracting the number of years of incarceration a person was facing when they first started working with the hub versus the number of years they ended up serving after participating in their defense.

As a movement building organization, Connecticut Bail Fund’s ultimate goal is to put itself out of business. By bailing people out and building collective community power in the defense process, Connecticut Bail Fund is laying groundwork for a grassroots movement to end money bail, challenge mass incarceration, stop deportations, and transform the way we pursue justice in our communities. Presently, Connecticut Bail Fund is gearing up to start a state-wide bail reform campaign, as well as a women’s organizing group that will bring light to the intersecting systems of criminalization that punish women of color in our community. Connecticut Bail Fund is committed to a grassroots movement led by those most impacted by systemic oppression and racism.

To continue growing, this work requires funding. That is why Connecticut Bail Fund is organizing its First Annual End of Summer Jam this Saturday, September 7, in Goffe Street Park. Guests are encouraged to bring chairs and spend the day hanging out, making friends, celebrating the movement, discussing ways to get involved, and preparing for the hard work to come.

State Rep. Walker Endorses Harp’s Reelection

by PAUL BASS

New Haven Independent

State Rep. Toni Walker, who worked closely with Toni Harp in the state legislature, has endorsed Harp’s bid for reelection as mayor of New Haven.

Walker delivered the endorsement Wednesday evening at a community event in Beaver Hills.

Harp, a former 21-year state senator, is running for a fourth two-year term as mayor. She faces a Democratic mayoral primary challenge this coming Tuesday from Justin Elicker.

When Harp served in the state legislature, she and Walker were known as the “Two Tonis”: For six years they co-chaired the powerful Appropriations Committee.

In a conversation with the Independent, Walker praised Harp for championing a broad approach to public safety and to job development both in Hartford and now in the mayor’s office. The pair worked, for instance, to “ban the box” on job applications requiring exoffenders to list their criminal histories up front. They championed a “raise the age” measure determining when teens could be tried as adults for crimes. As mayor, Harp’s administration organized

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Walker & Harp at Wednesday night’s meeting.

a “YouthStat” program identifying teens most at risk of shooting someone or getting shot, and then working to keep them out of trouble. It also opened a job and small business center on Dixwell Avenue.

“Running a major urban city in the state of Connecticut is really difficult. I look at the complexities I see with all of them.

Are there perfect solutions? No. Are there people who keep visions of understanding of where we can go? That’s what Toni has done,” Walker said.

Walker’s endorsement follows another from New Haven State Rep. Juan Candelaria. Other New Haven state legislators have remained neutral in the primary.

Walker announced her endorsement at a community meeting held at the Goffe Street Park community building at the corner of Sherman and Goffe. Alder Jill Marks, who has spearheaded a renewal of the park, organized the meeting. She invited city parks department landscape architect Katherine Jacobs to review possible upgrading plans with neighbors.

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Teacher Flight Leaves 32 Vacancies

by CHRISTOPHER PEAK

Even after last year’s budget cuts slashed the teaching force, more teachers fled to other school districts this year, leaving the district’s human resources office scrambling to catch up.

Within the last six months, 174 teachers (out of approximately 1,900 districtwide) have sent in resignation or retirement letters. That has meant that the school district is short-staffed by dozens of full-time employees, leaving coaches and substitutes to cover all the classrooms.

Administrators said, at a special Board of Education meeting held Tuesday evening at the district’s Meadow Street headquarters, that they have 32 vacancies.

The number of teachers who resigned for another job is slightly larger this school year, growing from 121 in 2018 to 156 in 2019.

But there’s one big difference. Last year, the end of the federal Teacher Incentive Fund grant meant that the district couldn’t afford to keep all its faculty.

Administrative interns were sent back to classrooms, bumping other teachers in what led to a massive reassignment.

In the late summer, teachers found out that if they didn’t start looking for jobs elsewhere, they might be laid off, as 20 counselors, librarians and teachers eventually were.

Those belt-tightening measures meant that, for every five teachers that the district lost, it hired back only three new

CHRISTOPHER PEAK PHOTO Lisa Mack and Carol Birks answer questions at special

meeting. teachers.

That’s not the case this year, as the district is trying to replace most of the teachers who have departed. Within roughly the same six-month period, it has already hired almost as many teachers, and is still short.

Since February, the district has hired 179 teachers, 55 of whom don’t have their certification yet.

Overall, this year’s hires have been doing the job longer, boasting about 4.8 years experience at the front of the

classroom on average, about a year-anda-half more than last year’s hires.

They have slightly fewer advanced degrees. Only 9.1 percent have gone beyond their master’s, compared to 27.7 percent last year who’d earned a six-year certificate or a doctorate.

At this week’s Board of Ed meeting, district human resources chief Lisa Mack said that the 32 vacancies are primarily in hard-to-fill positions, in particular for 10 teachers in special education, seven in math and four in bilingual edu-

cation. Those numbers are still moving, she added.

“That number can fluctuate up or down, as we fill vacancies,” Mack said. “We have realigned schedules to make sure all classes are covered, as well as using some of our veteran substitutes on a short-term basis.”

Typhanie Jackson, the district’s student services director who oversees special education, added that some retirees have come back to help with those staffing shortages.

Superintendent Carol Birks, meanwhile, has sought to downplay the problem. At a recent Board of Ed meeting, she sent out a report with misleading numbers, suggesting that this year actually has the highest retention rates on record.

While she was on vacation, Keisha Redd-Hannans, an assistant superintendent, read off numbers that said only 269 full-time employees had left this “academic year,” compared to a high of 294 in 2016.

But her stats stopped on June 30, long before the most teachers send in their mid-summer resignations. She didn’t make any distinction between full-time employees, instead grouping together chefs, guards, aides, teachers and principals. And she didn’t say how many people the district employed each year for an accurate retention rate.

“It is a large number, there’s no question about that,” said Dave Cicarella, the teacher’s union president.

Cicarella said that so many educators — especially those in the mid-range of

seniority — are calling it quits to work in suburban school districts, where they can be paid up to $15,000 more for an easier teaching assignment or even take a promotion to an assistant principal position.

“These people are in their 30s; their kids are getting older. They don’t necessarily want to go, but they get aggressively recruited,” he said. “New Haven teachers are highly sought after. They know it’s an urban district, and that if you can teach here, you can teach anywhere.”

Cicarella added that, while it’s not the most significant factor, recurring budget deficits are also making a few teachers uneasy.

“We used to have plenty of state and federal money to keep us going; now, I’m not so sure,” he said. Before, the job might have been challenging, but “at least it was secure; that’s not the case anymore.”

Without increased funding that would allow New Haven to pay its teachers more, what can be done to convince educators to stay? Cicarella said that the district can do more to make its teachers feel supported.

“Sometimes, too many of them feel, ‘I’m in this by myself.’ That’s not the intention, but they don’t feel completely supported,” he said. “Everyone knows resources are limited, but we really have to be willing to take a hard look at what we’ve done up to this point and how we can do it better, to help teachers be more successful and truly be supported so they want to stay.”

Health Workers Spread Narcan Message

by PAUL BASS

New Haven Independent

“Tilt the head back,” Alixe Dittmore was telling Julie Lucas. “Cover a nostril.

Stick this in their nostril.” Then: Spray.

At the moment, no one was suffering a drug overdose on the New Haven Green.

Dittmore — and a crew of other publichealth workers — were on the Green Thursday to make sure that when future overdoses do occur, there or elsewhere, people like Lucas are ready to save lives.

Dittmore was taking part in an International Overdose Awareness Day event.

Organized by Cornell Scott Hill Health Center amid a rise in the use of the deadly opioid fentanyl, the event featured information about the addiction treatment medication Suboxone, fentanyl test strips — and an effort to get more people, users and nonusers alike, equipped with Narcan, the nasal antidote.

“We want to get Narcan in everybody’s

hands,” said Hill Health Chief of Medicine R. Douglas Bruce “There’s only four minutes until they’re dead” after an opioid overdose, noted Phil Costello (at right), Hill Health’s clinical director of homeless care. “The ambulance sometimes takes eight minutes.” Narcan revives overdose victims and buys them 30 to 60 minutes to get emergency medical treatment.

Shannon Francis (pictured) of the Greater Hartford Harm Reduction Coalition handed out Narcan kits with two doses, gloves, and information. The group worked alongside a team from New Haven’s Sex Workers and Allies Network (SWAN).

Alixe Dittmore also worked the Harm Reducation Coalition table. Julie Lucas, who said she regularly hangs out with friends on the Green, said she wanted the training in order to be ready in case one of them overdoses, which has happened

several times. Hill Health clinical pharmacist Kaitlyn Jesse obtained temporary state permission to write and fill Narcan prescriptions at the four-hour event. She had written 15 in the first hour and 45 minutes.

Paul Sutphin, a regular on the Green, was charging his phone when he noticed the booths. He met up with Yale New Haven Hospital Transitions Clinic community health worker Jerry Smart and told him about his problems finding permanent housing since his release from prison a year ago. Smart’s job is to connect recently released ex-offenders with health care and direct them to housing if needed. Sutphin, who suffers from grand mal seizures, said he hopes to find an apartment so he can avoid shelters, but he doesn’t have the money, he said.

“Call me Monday,” Smart said after they spoke. “I’ll point you in the right direction.”

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A Carpenter’s Election Take

by STAFF

New Haven Independent

(Opinion) As a lifelong resident of the city of New Haven, homeowner, carpenter, community organizer, and father raising children in our city, I believe Mayor Harp deserves to be reelected.

Before the carpenters began working on projects that were facilitated

by Toni Harp when she was a state senator, our union local had very few minority members from New Haven. Now it has over 150 and more than a 35 percent minority membership statewide.

Over the past 18 months, the carpenters have hired 45 New Haven residents, who are mostly from New Haven’s lowincome neighborhoods. For the first time in our local’s history, we have minority representation on regional executive board, two seats on the local executive board are held by two New Haven minority residents, and we have four black female stewards.

Although I am proud of the work that I and my union have undertaken to achieve these remarkable feats, Mayor Harp played an important role in this success.

Mayor Harp’s 2013 election marked a shift in our union’s approach to work in New Haven and the region. In the 2013 election, the carpenters did not endorse Mayor Harp and we did not have the strong local hiring program that we have now. Instead of holding a grudge, the mayor insisted that we invest in creating pathways into apprentice-track jobs for New Haven residents and people of color. The carpenters engaged in this project in good faith and assigned it to me.

Since then, it has been my mission to ensure that good work for the carpenters is also good work for New Haven. As Mayor Harp’s administration has cultivated a construction boom, we have been able to hire many New Haven residents into good middleclass jobs.

This work has provided more opportunities for people with stories like mine. I grew up in West Rock, facing hardships that many residents in this neighborhood still face: rising rents, violence, and a lack of opportunity.

My life changed when I became an apprentice in the carpenters. The job offered me an opportunity to move beyond just survival. With my salary, benefits and carpentry skills, I have purchased and maintained real estate properties and achieved economic se-

Ernest Pagan (second from right in photo), who wrote the following opinion article, is a representative with the carpenters union.

curity for me and my family.

Having a union job also allowed me to bounce back from a terrible injustice. In 2007, I was falsely accused of murder. The crime was committed while I was at home wrapping Christmas presents with my mother and sister. The investigating police officers interrogated me for three days without obtaining a confession. But my family and I could not afford the $3 million bail, which left me waiting in prison for 14 months while my trial proceeded. During this time, my case caught the attention of a good public defender, who found significant inconsistencies in the witness accounts.

At the trial, three witnesses admitted that they did not see me at the crime scene. The jury ruled in my favor and I was exonerated from all charges.

Not everyone will experience an injustice like the one I endured. But my experience is just one example of how something completely out of your control can turn your life upside down in a moment. In neighborhoods like West Rock, residents are more likely to be the victims of an unbalanced criminal justice system, violent crime, or financial hardship.

Unions provide security against these challenges. After spending fourteen months in prison, I was able to continue my career as a carpenter.

This would have been almost impossible if I had been working a nonunion construction job. In addition, our members get access to health benefits and other forms of insurance that prevent an illness from bankrupting a family. The salaries that we negotiate allow our members to become homeowners and invest in their communities.

I believe that every worker in our city deserves the security of a union job, and Mayor Harp shares this belief. In addition to pushing on local hiring, she has worked with us to setup a pre-apprenticeship program in Hillhouse High School. She organizes regular meetings between Economic Development and the trades. As a result of the recent jobs campaign and Mayor Harp’s efforts, Yale has restarted its EEO meetings, and is pushing its four largest construction firms (Dimeo, Turner, Skanska, Gilbane) and the trades to hire more individuals from every New Haven neighborhood. In these meetings Yale’s leadership now insists that opportunities going to New Haven residents must be carefully tracked and local hiring goals must be met.

With each local hire, I have an opportunity to share my story and become a mentor. I help these members recognize the opportunities available if they commit to learning the craft and doing the work. I work with them to make sure that the challenges they experienced growing up do not impede their success in the trades.

As they pursue their apprenticeships, they become skilled craftspeople who build the most complex structures in our city.

Together with Mayor Harp, the carpenters are fulfilling an important project. Now when I look at the New Haven skyline, I see my work and that of my neighbors. I see the skills of our residents and the security of their families. And together, I can see a better New Haven, a city where we can live and work with dignity, a city where we work in unity. Happy Labor Day.

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Project To Study 100,000 DNA Samples For 100 Years

by ALLAN APPEL

New Haven Independent

A locally run long-term trial will sequence and study the DNA of up to 100,000 participants with the aim of finding new ways to detect and attack cancer and heart disease — and crack the code of other diseases.

Officials from by Yale New Haven Hospital and Yale Medical School’s Yale Center for Clinical Investigation (YCCI) Wednesday announced the launch of what they are calling the Generations Project, one of the country’s largest DNA sequencing efforts.

Its aim: To enroll, within the next five years, 100,000 people from within the orbit of Yale-connected medical facilities statewide and beyond to consent to offering a dab of saliva and a teaspoon of blood — the basic materials from which the human genome will then be tested, sequenced, and examined.

“The groundbreaking piece,” said principal researcher Michael Murray, “is we are going to generate 100,000 people into a research cohort, a research infrastructure that can be used for a hundred years.”

That research, with so many participants, will enable scientists to look for patterns of changes to alert patients to protect against disease, target new drug development, and translate the results into better clinical care, according to the pitch at the heart of the participant recruitment materials.

The materials were distributed at an optimistic news conference convened at YCCI offices at 2 Church Street South, where samples have already begun to be taken.

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Three hundred eleven people have already signed the serious consent forms and provided samples since June, the pilot phase of the project, said project Associate Director Anastasio Kelly,.

Officials said the push to get people to volunteer is ramping up quickly, especially with an electronic consent form that has been developed by Murray and others on the staff.

Participants agree to have their genomic profile merged or be on file with their ongoing medical records. That way clinical and academic research from the GP project that bears on discovery of new gene patterns like sensitivity or dosage of a particular drug for a particular patient would be immediately addressed in a communication to participant/patient and his or her doctor, for example.

“Three percent will be notified for having in their genome specific gene chang-

es that put people at high health risk” for conditions like heart disease and cancer,” Murray estimated.

If your gene profile suggests you might be at risk for Alzheimers or other conditions for which there is no current cure, no notification will go out, he added.

If treatment for Alzheimer’s becomes available years from now, you and your doctor would automatically be notified to take appropriate actions.

“This is forever,” Kelly said.

In 2010 the Yale Center of Genomic Health was organized, and it was one of the first in the country to develop the capacity for exome sequencing.

“Human genetics has transitioned to human genomics,” said Yale Medical School Dean Robert Alpern.

The first genomic sequencing took ten years and a billion dollars to accomplish, he noted. Now you can do it for $300 and

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It’s now technically fairly easy to do the sequencing, Alpern said. The forwardlooking genomic science is to focus not on single genes but on patterns of mutations and correlate those changes to health risks.

Perhaps most challenging for the project at this point is to obrain developed consent and authorization forms, candid and informational enough to answer people’s concerns about privacy and other sensitive matters.

Those include how their genomic information will be used, stored, studied, loaned out to other researchers, and become the bases for new products. Yale’s materials, on line, on paper, and in person, explain all that.

To learn more about the Generations Project and how you can participate, email here or call 1-877-978-8343.

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Insurance Department Schedules Rate Hearing

by Christine Stuart

New Haven Independent

0HARTFORD, CT — The public is invited Wednesday, Sept. 4, to participate in a public hearing on health insurance rate increases submitted to the Connecticut Insurance Department for review.

Ten health insurance companies, including two offering health insurance plans both on and off Connecticut’s health insurance exchange, proposed an average 7.8% increase in rates for 2020.

Anthem Health Plans, Inc., which is one of the two companies competing for business on Access Health CT, proposed a 15.2% increase in individual health plans mostly because of a 9.3% increase in medical cost trends and the reinstatement of the federally mandated health insurer tax. Anthem served approximately 27,300 members last year.

ConnectiCare Benefits, Inc., which serves about 75,600 consumers, proposed an average 4.9% increase in its rates. It also attributed the increase to a 9.3% increase in medical cost trends.

Nationally, insurance rates have been going down as insurance companies increase their profits in the individual marketplace.

Kaiser Family Foundation reported that by 2017, the individual market generally

had begun to stabilize. But that didn’t stop insurers from hiking rates in 2018.

“In 2018 insurers raised benchmark premiums by an average of 34% in response to policy changes such as the Trump Administration’s decision to cease costsharing subsidy payments and reduce funding for outreach, and uncertainty over whether the ACA as a whole would remain law. These premium hikes, along with slow claims growth, made 2018 the most profitable year for individual market insurers since the ACA went into effect,” they wrote on June 27th in an issue brief.

Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina announced earlier this week that it was lowering its premiums for 2020 by an average of 5.5 percent.

The rate decrease means a $230 million reduction in health care costs for 2020 in North Carolina.

In Connecticut, the public will have an opportunity to address plans offered in both the individual and small group marketplace.

However, the public is likely to be disappointed again that affordability for consumers is not part of the considerations in the rate-setting process in Connecticut.

The Insurance Department’s job is to

make sure that the premiums cover the claims and that there is no discrimination against any specific group of clients. According to state statute, the rates have to be adequate and they can’t be excessive or unfairly discriminatory, but beyond that there’s little regulators can do to reign in costs for consumers.

Sen. Matt Lesser, D-Middletown, who co-chairs the Insurance and Real Estate Committee, said he’s concerned about the rate increases. He said legislation to allow regulators to look at affordability died again this year in committee.

Last year, Rose Ferraro, of the Universal Health Care Foundation of Connecticut, told Insurance Department regulators that her organization continues to be frustrated that its testimony will not impact the outcome of the rate review process.

“We recognize that the Connecticut Insurance Department takes this process very seriously. We understand that rate review is an actuarial exercise for regulators, but right now premiums are not an abstract math problem for families,” Ferraro said.

She said she understands the cost of health care continues to rise and that it impacts rates, but if we continue to “ignore the enormous elephant in the room

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of health care costs we will continue to see those costs rise.”

Lesser said there are many ways to reduce healthcare costs.

“The Trump administration has been looking to repeal and destabilize the ACA, and they’ve taken steps as well to drive up costs to try and break the thing,” Lesser said.

He said there’s more that can be done to

lower costs for all consumers.

He said the legislature should have passed legislation that would have allowed the state to apply for a reinsurance waiver to lower the cost of higher claims.

The legislation passed the House, but died on the Senate calendar.

He vowed to bring it back again next year.

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A Determined African American Culture

By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Correspondent

NNPA NEWSWIRE —“The long struggle over the development of education in the postbellum South occurred in large part because no dominant class could convince the freed people that its conception of education reflected a natural and proper social order,” Anderson wrote in “The Education of Blacks in the South,” James Anderson is the author of The Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935.

During segregation, Black schools in the South focused on building an environment of success for community children.

Educator, activist and youth worker Derrick R. Brooms said black schools served multiple purposes – particularly during the Jim Crow era.

“There are ways in which some Black schools during that era served as both fugitive and liberation spaces and opportunities,” Brooms wrote on Twitter.

“It was in these spaces that many black communities saw, supported, and invested in multiple possibilities,” Brooms said.

The conversation started on social media last month when Imani Perry, a Hughes Rogers Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, urged her more than 60,000 Twitter followers to not believe the myth that the schools were terrible pre-desegregation.

“There’s an extraordinary body of black education history that tells otherwise,” Perry said. As examples, Perry provided James Anderson, Vanessa Siddle Walker, Michael Fultz, Heater Williams and Valinda Littlefield.

Anderson is the author of, “The Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935” which received the Outstanding Book Award of the American Educational Research Association.

He is also co-editor of New Perspectives on Black Educational History and has published numerous articles and book chapters on the history of education.

“The long struggle over the development of education in the postbellum South occurred in large part because no dominant class could convince the freed people that its conception of education reflected a natural and proper social order,” Anderson wrote in “The Education of Blacks in the South.”

“There was nothing inevitable about the former slaves’ ability to resist these competing ideologies of education and society and pursue their own course. They had spent much time preparing themselves for the moment when they could act in ways more consonant with beliefs sacred to them that could not be expressed before emancipation. Blacks soon made it apparent that they were committed to training their young for futures that prefigured full equality and autonomy,” Anderson said.

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Washington DC, USA, 1951. Student traffic controllers are waiting to be deployment at an intersection in Washinton DC. (Photo iStockphoto / NNPA) Professor of African American Educational Studies.

For 25 years, she has explored the segregated schooling of African American children.

Walker considered the climate that permeated segregated schools, the network of professional collaborations that explains the similarity across schools, and the hidden systems of advocacy that demanded equality and justice for the children in the schools.

“Although Black schools were indeed commonly lacking in facilities and funding, some evidence suggests that the environment of the segregated school had affective traits, institutional policies, and community support that helped Black children learn in spite of the neglect their schools received from white school boards,” Walker wrote in her 1996 book, “Their Highest Potential.”

“Most notably, in one of the earliest accountings by Thomas Sowell, the schools are remembered as having atmospheres where support, encouragement, and rigid standards, combined to enhance students’ self-worth and increase their aspirations to achieve,” Walker said.

Fultz is an emeritus professor with the Department of Educational Policy Studies. He received his Ed.M. and Ed.D. at Harvard Graduate School of Education and taught there in the Administration, Planning and Social Policy program for three years before moving to the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1990.

His teaching and research interests focus on the history of American Education, the history of African American education, and Urban Education.

“From the 1880s through the 1920s, the adage, ‘As is the teacher, so is the school,’ was commonplace in the rhetorical repertoire of African American educators in the South,” Fultz wrote in a 2008 article titled, “As is the Teacher, So is the School: Future Directions in the Historiography of African American Teachers.”

“The essence of its meaning lingered throughout de jure segregation. Its expression encompassed vital themes re-

lated to the need and demand for a ‘sound professionalism’ among the expanding number of African American teachers in the region,” he wrote.

“Its significance flowed from a self-evident logic, implicitly understood and fundamentally contested, by both black and white southerners: the ‘fate of the race’ depended on its schools; the quality of those schools depended on the quality of the teachers they had; and the quality of the teachers depended upon their character, dedication, and professional training,” Fultz wrote.

“Ambrose Caliver, the first African American research specialist, hired by the U.S. Office of Education, reduced the issues to a single sentence, ‘In the hands of the Negro teachers rests the destiny of the race.’”

In her book, “Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom,” Williams said she “moves across time to examine African Americans’ relationship to literacy during slavery, during the Civil War, and in the first decades of freedom.”

The book traces the historical antecedents to freed people’s intense desire to become literate. It demonstrates how the visions of enslaved African Americans emerged into plans and action once slavery ended.

Littlefield works at the University of South Carolina. She’s a scholar of the history of women, African Americans, and education with an emphasis on southern African American women and African American history from 1877 to the present.

The University of Illinois Press will publish her book on southern African American women schoolteachers during the Jim Crow era.

“Read Black memoirs or talk to your grandparents,” Perry said.

“One of the reasons I’ve written about Black formalism is that even scholars circulate the myth that Black people had nothing and built nothing in the segregated South,” she said.

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2016 – 2.0 IS NOT GOOD ENOUGH

by Oscar H. Blayton It’s déjà vu all over again.

The defeat of the Democratic presidential candidate in 2016 was crushing, and many reasons have been given for why Hillary Clinton’s bid for the White House went down in flames. Some people blame her failure to visit key states often enough. Others blame a lack of enthusiasm on the part of African American voters. And then there were the Russians, among many other things.

But four year after their humiliating defeat, many Democrats seem to be leaning towards agreeing that what they did in 2016 is good enough for 2020.

Enter Joe Biden, stage right, with a broad toothy grin and promises of moderation and electability.

The reaction of many African Americans to Joe Biden’s appearance on the political horizon is a huge yawn of boredom. What many white politicians and policymakers in the Democratic Party

do not realize is that African Americans understand that Donald Trump is not the sole problem we face today. He is merely the symptom, not the disease. And the disease has festered for centuries, mutating from one epoch to another – through slavery, Reconstruction, the civil rights movement, down to today. It is not enough to just beat Trump.

Conservative and moderate Democrats stuck their heads in the sand after November 2016 and ignored the white supremacy dynamics that were in play during the election. They resolutely proclaimed that Trump rode into office on economic anxieties. Black folk have much more economic anxiety than whites but we did not vote for Trump. Trump rode into office on anxieties over the loss of white supremacy.

In 2008, what voters of color saw in Barack Obama was a step towards social justice and racial equality. What they sa2leged white woman who had once equated youth of color with animals and called them “superpredators.”

Now Democrats are asking for a “do over” in 2020, serving up a moderateto-conservative Democrat trailing a foul-smelling political history that we ignore at our own peril. If we unpack Joe Biden’s political history, we find the

following: School Busing – In 1974, as a junior U.S. senator from Delaware, Joe Biden promised his white constituents that he would oppose desegregating schools by busing students. In the 1970s, it was clear that many school districts were segregated along racial lines because housing patterns were likewise segregated, and busing students was the most logical solution to achieve school integration. Biden did not care about the social injustice of segregated schools. He only wanted to satisfy his racially bigoted white constituents. Because of politicians like Joe Biden, school districts today are more segregated than they were in the 1970s. This is an argument backed by data. The National Center for Education Statistics’ data show that the percentage of African American students attending majority white schools is down to 23 percent from a high of 44 percent in the 1980s. The current situation is equivalent to the integration level in 1969.

The Hyde Amendment – The original Hyde Amendment, passed in 1976, barred the use of federal funds to pay for an abortion except to save the life of the woman or if the pregnancy arose from incest or rape. Joe Biden voted for its

adoption and has staunchly supported that law until recently, when he began his current presidential campaign. He insists that his decision to flip on this issue was not due to politics, but he has expressed no other reason that makes sense.

Anita Hill – When Clarence Thomas was nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1991, Joe Biden was the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Biden’s aggressive questioning of Anita Hill, an African American law professor who accused Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment, appeared to many Americans to be inappropriate and hostile. Anita Hill told the Huffington Post Live that Joe Biden did a disservice to the American public when he refused to call other witnesses who could have corroborated Hill’s characterization of Thomas’ behavior as sexually inappropriate. And she asserted that this failure got in the way of bringing to the public a better understanding of sexual harassment. It took Joe Biden almost 18 years to offer an apology to Anita Hill after acknowledging that his actions during the Thomas hearings were “wrong.” But this 2019 apology was so weak and disingenuous, Anita Hill refused to accept it.

The 1994 Crime Bill – Biden does not deny that he was the architect of the 1994 Crime Bill. But what he does deny, in the face of facts to the contrary, is that it led to mass incarceration in America. And the weight of that outcome was borne mostly by people of color. Attempting to execute a complicated two-step shuffle, Biden denies that the bill led to mass incarceration while at the same time trying to distance himself from responsibility for the impact of the bill. But his maneuvers have been met by sharp criticism from several other Democratic presidential candidates who believe he should accept responsibility for fostering such bad policy.

The road to Donald Trump was paved with politicians like Joe Biden, their big grins and folksy sayings masking an indifference to the suffering of people of color. You can find them at every level of government, professing not to be racist, but tolerating racism in local, state and federal policies. Politicians like these ask us to forget and forgive while they provide us with nothing but empty promises and disappointment.

But there must be some accountability for politicians like Joe Biden because, while he is not the first of his kind, unCon’t on page 14

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How to Be an Anti-Racist, according to Ibram X Kendi

By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Correspondent

NNPA NEWSWIRE — “A combination of memoir and extension of [Kendi’s] towering Stamped from the Beginning… Never wavering… Kendi methodically examines racism through numerous lenses: power, biology, ethnicity, body, culture, and so forth… This unsparing honesty helps readers, both white and people of color, navigate this difficult intellectual territory…

Essential.”

Ibram X. Kendi admittedly once trivialized racism.

The American University professor placed some of the blame for race relations in America on blacks. In a speech delivered in 2000, while he was still in high school, Kendi suggested African Americans were too busy blaming their lot in life on racism life instead of being more proactive.

Today, the National Book Award-winning author is delivering a new take on racism in America through his latest work, “How to Be an Antiracist” (320 pages; One World Publishing).

Kendi says that many Americans are smitten with the thought that they can somehow avoid being labeled as a racist only by a passive attempt at treating others as equals.

“When a person says that they are colorblind, to me, that means they are blind to racism, and they’re blind to differences,”

Kendi told NBC News.

“People who say they don’t see race is not seeing the diversity of humanity, whether that diversity is about skin color, or hair texture, or culture,” he said.

In “How to Be an Antiracist,” Kendi explains that his concept of antiracism reenergizes and reshapes the conversation about racial justice in America.

On his webpage, Kendi writes that even more fundamentally, his concept “points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other.”

Instead of working with the policies and system in place, Kendi asks his readers to think about what an antiracist society might look like.

He questions how all can play an active role in building it.

Kendi weaves together a combination of ethics, history, law, and science – including the story of what he said is his awakening to antiracism.

A New York Times reviewer wrote: “What do you do after you have written [Kendi’s previous book] “Stamped From the Beginning,” an award-winning history of racist ideas?… If you’re Ibram X. Kendi, you craft another stunner of a book… What emerges from these insights is the most courageous book to date on the problem of race in the Western mind, a confessional of

self-examination that may, in fact, be our best chance to free ourselves from our national nightmare.”

He became a full professor at 34 years old.

Publishers Weekly reviewers wrote: “A boldly articulated, historically informed explanation of what exactly racist ideas and thinking are… [Kendi’s] prose is thoughtful, sincere, and polished. This powerful book will spark many conversations.”

And, Kirkus Reviews said: “A combination of memoir and extension of [Kendi’s] towering Stamped from the Beginning… Never wavering… Kendi methodically examines racism through numerous lenses: power, biology, ethnicity, body, culture, and so forth… This unsparing honesty helps readers, both white and people of color, navigate this difficult intellectual territory… Essential.”

Born in New York in 1982, Kendi’s parents were student activists and Christians inspired by Black liberation theology.

He attended Florida A&M University, where he majored in journalism and freelanced for several Florida newspapers, and later, he interned at USA Today Sports Weekly, The Mobile [Ala.] Register and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

In 2004, Kendi graduated from Florida A&M with a degree in African American Studies.

BillMoyers.com At 27 years old, he earned his doctoral degree in African American Studies from Temple University in 2010. A year earlier, Kendi took a job as an assistant professor of African American history at the State University of New York at Oneonta.

According to his biography, Kendi has been visiting professor at Brown University, a 2013 National Academy of Education/ Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow, and postdoctoral fellow at the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis.

He has also resided at The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress as the American Historical Association’s 20102011 J. Franklin Jameson Fellow in American History.

In the summer of 2011, Kendi lived in Chicago as a short-term fellow in African American Studies through the Black Metropolis Research Consortium.

He has received research fellowships, grants, and visiting appointments from a variety of other universities, foundations, professional associations, and libraries, including the Lyndon B. Johnson Library & Museum, University of Chicago, Wayne State University, Emory University, Duke University, Princeton University, UCLA, Washington University, Wake Forest University, and the historical societies of Kentucky and Southern California.

In his new book, Kenzi noted that “racial inequity is a problem of bad policy, not bad people.”

He says, “denial is the heartbeat of racism,” and “being an antiracist requires persistent self-awareness, constant selfcriticism, and regular self-examination.”

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NOTICIA NOTICE PUBLICA The Housing Authority of the City of Bridgeport (HACB) VALENTINA MACRI RENTAL HOUSING PRE- APPLICATIONS AVAILABLE d/b/a Park City Communities (PCC)

abrirá de of espera de viviendas públicas de bajos ingresos HOME sus INC,listas on behalf Columbus House and the New Haven Housing Authority,para 1 dorm. para personas de edad avanzada, 62 y mas o mayores de 62 necesitando Cuidado de is accepting pre-applications for studio and one-bedroom apartments at this develCongregación Ancianos. abrirá listas de espera para unidades familiares de opment located de at 108 Frank Street, New nuestras Haven. Maximum income limitations ap3BR, comenzando will el be miércoles de 9AM septiembre el viernes 30 de septiembre de ply. Pre-applications available 4from TO 5PM hasta beginning Monday Ju;y 25, 2016Para and calificar ending when pre-applications (approximately have 2019. parasufficient ancianos, usted debe tener 62 años 100) o más y; para las unidades been un received at the of debe HOMEser INC. willtres be mailied upon re- bruto anual no 3BR tamaño de offices familia unApplications mínimo de (3) y el ingreso quest by calling HOME INC atde203-562-4663 during those hours.

Completed pre-para el tamaño del puede exceder los límites ingresos que se muestran a continuación applications must be returned to HOME INC’s offices at 171 Orange Third hogar. Las pre-solicitudes deben ser recogidos en el CentroStreet, Comunitario Gary Crooks, Floor, New Haven, CT 06510.

301 Bostwick Ave. las aplicaciones previas también se pueden descargar desde nuestra página web www.parkcitycommunities.org. Sólo se aceptará una pre-solicitud por familia; las pre-aplicaciones duplicadas serán descalificadas.

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HOME INC, en nombre de la Columbus House y de la New Haven Housing Authority, está La Autoridad de Viviendas tiene un sistema de preferencias: personas sin hogar, discapacitados, aceptando pre-solicitudes para estudios y apartamentos de un dormitorio en este desarrollo mayor empleados, violencia domestica, veteranos, ancianos congregados y ubicadodeenedad, la calle 109 Frank víctimas Street, NewdeHaven.

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The Housing Authority of the City of Bridgeport (HACB) d/b/a Park City Communities (PCC)

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To qualify for Elderly and Congregate, you must be 62 years or older; for 3BR units a family size MUST be a minimum of three (3) AND the annual gross income may not exceed the income limits shown below for the household size.

Pre-Applications must be picked up at Gary Crooks Community Center, 301 Bostwick Ave. Pre-Applications can also be downloaded from our website www.parkcitycommunities.org. Only one pre-application per family will be accepted; duplicate pre-applications will be disqualified.

Applications must be returned to Gary Crooks ONLY. This housing authority does have a preference point system: disabled, homeless, elderly, 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 assistance before applicants who do not.

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

requirement may be obtainedfrom Elm City’s Vendor Collaboration Portal https://neElectrical, Plumbing and Fire Protection.

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Women-Owned Businesses are encouraged to apply.

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Inc Sealed bids are invited by the Housing Authority of the Town of Seymour until 3:00 pm on Tuesday, August 2, 2016 at its office at 28 Smith Street, Seymour, CT 06483 for Concrete Sidewalk Repairs and Replacement at the ELM CITY COMMUNITIES Co-Developer of the Redevelopment of Valley Street Townhouses Smithfield Gardens Assisted Living Facility, 26 Smith Street Seymour.

Fax or Email Questions & Bids to: Dawn Lang @ 203-881-8372 dawnlang@haynesconstruction.com HCC encourages the participation of all Veteran, S/W/MBE & Section 3 Certified Businesses Request for Proposals Haynes Construction Company, 32 Progress Ave, Seymour, CT 06483 A pre-bid conference willIndependent be held at the Housing Office 28 Smith AuditAuthority & Tax Services The Glendower Group, Inc an affiliate of Housing Authority City of New HaAA/EEO EMPLOYER Street Seymour, CT at 10:00 am, on Wednesday, July 20, 2016. ven d/b/a Elm city Communities is currently seeking proposals for Co-DevelThe Housing Authority of the City of New Havend/b/a Elm City Communioper of the Redevelopment of Valley Street Townhouses. A complete copy of Bidding documentsseeking Proposals for Independent are available from the Seymour Housing Authority ties is currently Audit &OfTaxes Services. A the requirement may be obtained from Elm City’s Vendor Collaboration Portal fice, 28 Smith Street, Seymour, CT 06483 (203) 888-4579. complete copy of the requirements may be obtained from Elm City’s Vendor https://newhavenhousing.cobblestonesystems.com/gateway beginning on Collaboration Portal https://newhavenhousing.cobblestonesystems.com/ Monday, July 22, 2019 at 3:00PM The Housing Authority reserves the right to accept or reject or all bids, to gateway beginning on Wednesday, August 14, any 2019 at 3:00PM. reduce the scope of the project to reflect available funding, and to waive any 12 informalities in the bidding, if such actions are in the best interest of the Housing Authority.

THE INNER-CITY NEWS - September 04, 2019 - September 10, 2019 INNER-CITY NEWS July 27, 2016 - August 02, 2016

ELM CITY COMMUNITIES

Invitation for Bids NOTICE

Scattered Sites East and West- Furnace & Hot Water VALENTINA MACRI RENTAL HOUSING PRE- APPLICATIONS AVAILABLE Conversion/ Replacement

The Housing Authority of the City of New Havend/b/a Elm City Communities is curHOME INC, Bids on behalf of Columbus andWestthe New Haven Housing Authority, rently seeking for Scattered SitesHouse East and Furnace & Hot Water Converis accepting pre-applications for studio and one-bedroom apartments at this develsion/ Replacement. A complete copy of the requirements may be obtained from Elm opment located at 108 FrankPortal Street, https://newhavenhousing.cobblestonesystems.

New Haven. Maximum income limitations apCity’s Vendor Collaboration ply. Pre-applications available from 9AM TO 5PM at beginning com/gateway beginningwill onbe Wednesday, September 4, 2019 3:00PM Monday Ju;y 25, 2016 and ending when sufficient pre-applications (approximately 100) have been received at the offices of HOME INC. Applications will be mailied upon reELMINCCITY COMMUNITIES quest by calling HOME at 203-562-4663 during those hours. Completed preapplications must be returned to HOME InvitationINC’s foroffices Bidsat 171 Orange Street, Third Floor, New Haven, CT 06510.

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The Housing Authority of the City of New Havend/b/a Elm City Communities is currentlyVALENTINA seeking Bids for Interior and DE External Door Installations and DISPONIBLES Repairs. A comMACRI VIVIENDAS ALQUILER PRE-SOLICITUDES plete copy of the requirements may be obtained from Elm City’s Vendor Collaboration Portal beginning HOME INC,https://newhavenhousing.cobblestonesystems.com/gateway en nombre de la Columbus House y de la New Haven Housing Authority, está on aceptando Wednesday, Septemberpara 4, 2019at pre-solicitudes estudios3:00PM. y apartamentos de un dormitorio en este desarrollo ubicado en la calle 109 Frank Street, New Haven. Se aplican limitaciones de ingresos máximos. Las pre-solicitudes estarán disponibles 09 a.m.-5 p.m. comenzando Martes 25 julio, 2016 hasta cuando se han recibido suficientes pre-solicitudes (aproximadamente 100) en las oficinas de HOME INC. Las pre-solicitudes serán enviadas por correo a petición Seeking to employ individuals in esas the horas.Pre-solicitudes labor, foreman, operator teamllamando a HOMEexperienced INC al 203-562-4663 durante deberánand remitirse stera trades for adeheavy outside statewide.

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CITYNEW OF MILFORD HAVEN Seeking qualified condidates to fill numerous vacancies to include,Benefits & 242-258 Fairmont AveElectrician and more Pension Coordinator, Clerk A,Truck Driver/Laborer, For information and detailed application 2BR Townhouse, 1.5 BA, 3BR, 1instructions, level , 1BA All new apartments,visit newWWW.ci.milford.ct.us appliances, new carpet, close to I-91 & I-95 Click on SERVICES, JOB TITLE. highways, near bus JOBS stop &and shopping center Pet under 40lb allowed. Interested parties contact Maria @ 860-985-8258

Cheshire Housing Authority Rumberg Road CT. Unified Deacon’s Association is50 pleased to offer a Deacon’s Certificate Program. This is a 10 month program designed to assist in the intellectual formation of Candidates Cheshire, CT 06410 in response to the Church’s Ministry needs. The cost is $125.

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Pre Applications for waiting list at Section 8 Elderly complex called Beachport will be St. New Haven, CT accepted September 4, 2019, 9:00 am to December 2, 3:00pm. To qualify you must be either 62 years old or disabled with a maximum gross annual income of 35,350 (one person), 40,400 (two people). Interested parties may pick up a pre-application at 50 Rumberg Road, call to have one mailed, or email cheshirehousing@aol.com.

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until 3:00 pm on Tuesday, August 2, 2016 at its office at 28 Smith Street,

Substitute Custodian: Town of East Haven is currently seeking Seymour, CT 06483 for Concrete The Sidewalk Repairs and Replacement at the

qualifi ed applicants for Assisted the position of Substitute Custodian.

Qualifi ed candidates Smithfield Gardens Living Facility, 26 Smith Street Seymour. shall have some knowledge of materials, methods, and equipment used in building custodial work, sufficient physical strength and stamina to perform the duties required willHigh be held at the AuthorityinOffice 28care Smith of A thepre-bid class; conference graduation from School or 1Housing year employment building and Street Seymour, CT at 10:00 am, on Wednesday, July 20, 2016. cleaning operations. Candidates bilingual in Spanish are encouraged to apply. Rate of pay is $12.00/hr, weekly hours range from 15-25, 2-3 days per week. Deadline: September 2019. Applications arefrom available online at Housing www.townofeasthavenct.

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250 Main Street, East Haven CT. The Town of East Haven is committed to building a workforce of diverse individuals. Minorities, Females, Handicapped and Veterans HousingtoAuthority areThe encouraged apply. reserves the right to accept or reject any or all bids, to

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September 04, 2019 - September 10, 2019

The Cast of The Bernie Mac Show: 18 Years Later IS NOT GOOD Con’t from page 09

by Derrick Lane, BlackDoctor.org

In 2001, The Bernie Mac Show entered our households. For five years straight, we’ve watched and laughed as Bernie and his TV wife Wanda (Kelita Smith) raised his sister’s three kids: Vanessa, Jordan, and Bryana. Watching Bernie adjust to parenthood, and threatening to bust kids’ heads ’til the white meat shows, was hilarity in itself. The awardwinning show’s ended in 2006, two years before Bernie Mac died.

Since the show, the other cast members have stepped in and out of the spotlight.

It’s been years since we’ve seen Camille Winbush (Vanessa), (Jeremy Suarez) Jordan, and Dee Dee Davis (Bryana) — until now. The remaining cast recently reunited and they look great!

Camille Winbush played Vanessa “Nessa” Thompkins was Bernie and Wanda’s elder niece, the eldest of the three children. She was the one who was always trying to be “too grown.”

She also had the pressure on her because she was the eldest and had to take on a caretaker role for her little brother and sister. But, like many teenagers, as time progressed, her attitude got better. She started getting along with her Bernie and began preparing for college.

After The Bernie Mac Show, Camille

kept doing film, with her next long recurring role on The Secret life of an American Teenager as Lauren. She’s now 28.

Played by Jeremy Suarez, Jordan Thomkins was one of the most memorable characters from the show. Mainly because he super mischievous and always getting into something. Jordan was the middle child, and the only boy, who was always getting beat up by his little sister, Bryana. He seemed to always cry and/or pee on himself, but as time flew by, he became more masculine — thanks to his Uncle Bernie.

Today, Jeremy is 27 years old, continues to act in independent films and according to him he’s “Feeling truly blessed.”

Jordan and Vanessa’s half-sister.

Played by Dee Dee Davis, Bryana is obviously her uncle’s favorite, which is why he calls her “Baby Girl.” Baby Girl was the sweetie of out of the children, until she grew to be bratty and obnoxious. She would also troll and bully her big brother Jordan.

Today, Dee Dee, 22, is a mom. In June of 2017, the actress gave birth to Logan Anthony Lee Jackson, a son whom she shares with fiancé, Smokey Lee Jackson.

ENOUGH

less people of conscious act, he will not be the last.

One way to bar the doors to elected office against politicians who shrug off their past trespasses and look to escape responsibility for causing human suffering is to borrow the three strikes rule from Biden’s 1994 Crime Bill.

According to the Department of Justice’s Criminal Resource Manual, the three strikes law was created to take violent criminals off the streets by giving them enhanced punishments. Since Joe Biden wrote a bill that supported the idea that a three strikes rule would bring an end to bad behavior, perhaps that concept should be applied to him.

Opposition to school busing – Strike One. The Hyde Amendment – Strike Two. Anita Hill’s treatment – Strike Three.

And for good measure: The 1994 Crime Bill – Strike Four.

Joe, you’re out, go home.

Oscar H. Blayton is a former Marine Corps combat pilot and human rights activist who practices law in Virginia. ​

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