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The Inner-City News catches up with Soul Sister Enola Aird Breathe, Baby, Breathe:

Healing Racial Stress and Trauma

Imagine a place where you can come together with other Black people to just breathe, to relax, to share the joys and shed some of the burdens that so often come with being Black in this world. An uplifting place where we can engage in self-care and community care. A space where we can revitalize ourselves and our relationships with each other. Where we can free our minds and spirits from the many lies that have been told about Black people for centuries. A space where we can learn and practice emotional wellness skills to help us be at our very best–as individuals and as a people.

Community Healing Network (CHN) is a New Haven-based nonprofit that has been working to create these kinds of places for twelve years. It is inviting you into this kind of space on October 13 and 14, 2018, for Breathe, Baby, Breathe: A Retreat for Black People Responsible for Black Children.

This retreat will be held at Troup School, 259 Edgewood Avenue in New Haven, CT from 9 am to 5 pm on the 13th and 14th of October. Breakfast and lunch will be served, all for a suggested donation of just $20.19. And stipends are available.

CHN is promising that you will leave this retreat feeling refreshed, inspired, and empowered—with new skills for healing racial stress and trauma. Skills you can teach your children. Skills that can help create a culture of healing and wellness in our community.

Participants will be introduced to CHN’s Emotional Emancipation (EE) Circles, a healing experience that creates the kind of

space described above. The EE Circle process, developed by CHN in collaboration with the Association of Black Psychologists, has been called “life-changing,” and is resonating with Black people around the world.

To register for Breathe, Baby, Breathe, visit www.communityhealingnet.org This retreat is part of CHN’s New Haven launch of its 2018-2020 Global Truth Campaign and Tour to heal, and end, the trauma

of 600 years of anti-Black racism.

Here’s a Q & A with CHN’s founder and president Enola Aird, about CHN and the Tour.

Why is CHN so focused on promoting healing within the Black community?

In the United States in 2018, it’s dangerous for Black people to go about our daily lives. After centuries of fighting for civil rights, of movements for racial equality; we are still targeted while walking, driving, swimming, shopping, playing. Why? Dr. King once said: “Somebody told a lie one day. They made everything Black ugly and evil.” That lie is at the root of structural racism. It was told almost 600 years ago to justify the enslavement of African people and the colonization of Africa, and it is still with us today. It is the reason why, for too many people in the United States and around the world, Black lives do not matter as much as White lives. This affects every aspect of our children’s lives: their health, safety, self-worth, education, employment; and their chances of being incarcerated, and even killed.

For twelve years, CHN has been building a global grassroots movement for emotional emancipation to help us all see this lie for what it is and free ourselves from it once and for all. We are now stepping up our efforts to ensure that our children are raised on the truth-- so that they can see themselves in a whole new light and reach their fullest potential.

It is a global initiative to:

What is CHN’s 2018-2020 Global Truth Campaign and Tour about?

What are the stops on the Tour?

1. Engage Black people across the African Diaspora in the journey toward emotional emancipation—so we can all heal from, and end, the trauma caused by anti-Black racism; and 2. Equip Black adults to empower Black children by teaching them the truth of their history, their heritage, and their worth, and sharing emotional wellness skills to help them heal and be at their best. . This Tour is urgent--in light of the current political climate, the resurgence of proponents of White supremacy, and the increasing assaults on the dignity, psyches, and lives of Black people all around the world.

The Breathe, Baby, Breathe retreat and Clearing the Way for Black Children to Flourish, a workshop for leaders of community-based organizations, both of which will be presented at each stop along the Tour, will be facilitated by Dr. Cheryl Tawede Grills.

Dr. Grills is the Lead Trainer for CHN’s Global Emotional Emancipation Circles Training Team. A clinical psychologist, with a current emphasis in Community Psychology, she is Professor of Psychology at Loyola Marymount University and Associate Dean in the College of Liberal Arts. Dr. Grills is also a Past President of the Association of Black Psychologists (ABPsi), CHN’s primary ally.

The Truth Tour will launch in October 2018, from CHN’s birthplace of New Haven, CT. Our experience in New Haven will help us set the template for the rest of the Tour. Later stops will include Los Angeles, CA; Pittsburgh, PA; Baltimore, MD; New York, NY; Kingston, Jamaica; and Johannesburg, South Africa.

In August 2019, the Tour will stop in Richmond, VA, during the 400th anniversary of the first recorded forced arrival of Africans in the United States. Virginia is the place in the U.S where the lies about Black people were first cultivated and then spread throughout the nation. It is, therefore, the place where CHN and ABPsi will issue a Call to the African Union and the African Diaspora to put emotional emancipation – complete freedom from the lies – at the top of the global African agenda.

From Virginia, we will head to West Africa to Accra, Ghana.

People outside of the Tour cities can join the Truth Campaign by taking the pledge to Defy the Lie of Black Inferiority and Embrace the Truth of Black Humanity at CHN’s website, and by becoming members of our online community.

For more information on CHN and the movement for emotional emancipation, please visit www.communityhealingnet. org.

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Psst! Did Ed Board Flunk FOI Class?

by CHRISTOPHER PEAK NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT

The Board of Education may have violated the Connecticut Freedom of Information Act right in the middle of a workshop on how to follow that law.

After two proven violations of the state’s open meetings law this year, the board arranged for a training last week at 54 Meadow St. on how to better carry out its duty to do the public’s business in public.

The session, led this past Monday by Thomas Hennick, the public education officer at the Connecticut Freedom of Information Commission, touched on what staff should put in agendas and minutes, which citizens are allowed to comment or film during meetings, and when board members should take a sensitive discussion behind closed doors.

Hennick said that an open-government law was one of the central planks of Ella T. Grasso’s gubernatorial run in 1974, right as the country’s faith in government had been shaken by the Watergate scandal. The year she took office, she signed the Connecticut Freedom of Information Act, guaranteeing

access to meetings and records.

“A lot of times people will say to me, ‘Hey, we don’t understand this. We are volunteers; we have other jobs.’ Sometimes, when you’re involved in a situation like this, it’s almost like a second full-time job. You didn’t sign up for the FOI part.

You wanted to help your community; you wanted to be a good citizen,” said Hennick. “I get it. But that doesn’t excuse you from knowing freedom of information and working with it. It’s the law, and it governs how you conduct your business.”

Fewer than half of the board’s members showed up for the presentation. As Hennick spoke, the three present Jamell Cotto, Tamiko Jackson-McArthur and Ed Joyner whispered among themselves and shared text messages that popped up on their cell phones.

At one point, while the board member muttered to each other, Kathleen Foster, the city’s assistant corporation counsel who handles public-records requests, asked Hennick if sidebar conversations are illegal.

“Don’t do it,” Hennick said, as the board

continued to do it.

“Do I have to talk into the mic and say, ‘Pass me the water?’” Cotto asked.

“We don’t want to be naive,” Hennick said.

He gave examples of the type of comments that would violate the Connecticut Freedom of Information Act, if whispered: “Can you believe this speaker?” “That’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard.” “How are you going to vote?”

“You want to be careful about how you communicate with each other at a meeting,” he explained. “You want to be careful to avoid even having what could look like a conversation that the public should have a right to hear.”

In January, the Finance & Operations Committee’s two co-chairs whispered to each other during a school staffer’s presentation. After a hearing, the Freedom of Information Commission determined that whispering during the meeting violated the law’s requirement that all meetings be open to the public.

Lisa Siegel, a staff attorney at the commission who adjudicated that case, said that a sidebar conversation would be ille-

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CHRISTOPHER PEAK PHOTO Jamell Cotto and Tamiko Jackson-McArthur at FOI refresher.

THE INNER-CITY NEWS - October 03, 2018 - October 09, 2018

Kavanaugh Allegations Spark Sit-ins, Walkouts

by MARKESHIA RICKS NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT

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said. “We stand with Dr. Christine Blasey Ford. We stand with Deborah Ramirez. We are still standing with Anita Hill.”

Raffa pointed out that 77 percent of sexual assaults in America go unreported. She said that’s often because the person “suffers further hurt and humiliation by having their stories dismissed, their integrity doubted, or their motives questioned.”

She said Kavanaugh’s nomination was a moment of reckoning for the U.S. Senate.

“What senators do today will determine whether they stand with women and survivors or whether they stand against them.

We urge Sen. Chuck Grassley and every senator to stop the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh.”

One senator trying to put the breaks on Kavanaugh’s confirmation is Connecticut’s own U.S. Richard Blumenthal. He stopped

by his alma mater Yale Law School Sunday to support students who had staged a sit-in at 9:30 a.m.

“I’m really proud to be at my alma mater where students are taking a stand speaking out in favor of sexual assault survivors,” he said after addressing the students Monday.

“One out of every three women in America is a survivor of sexual assault in her life. but this crime is underreported, perhaps the most underreported, precisely because of threatening humiliation and intimidation seen just this past week from the highest elected official.”

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They’re angry. Some of them have been sexually abused. And they’re done being silent about it.

That’s the message that close to 100 people brought to the lower Green Monday afternoon as part of a national day of action to protest the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the highest court in the land and to stand with the women accusing him of sexual assault.

All over the nation, including at the New Haven Green and at Yale Law School, people dressed in black and participated in sitins and walkouts as part of the #BelieveSurvivors National Walkout and Moment of Solidarity. The protests follow the latest revelation that another woman, a fellow Yale graduate named Deborah Ramirez, has come forward to make a sexual assault allegation against him. His first accuser, Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, is set to testify before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday.

Lena Olive Reese was one of those protestors Monday who converged on the Green in her black for the protest, which began at 1 p.m. She said she was there in solidarity with her mother, for her best male friend who was sexually assaulted as a child, for black trans women who are being murdered at unprecedented rates, and for herself.

I’m angry because I have to walk from my car with keys in between my fingers to walk into my own home,” Reese told the crowd. “I’m angry because I don’t feel safe walking in the Green at night. I am angry because I had to quit something I love when I was in college because a man grabbed me by the hair to teach me a lesson. I’m angry that I stayed in a relationship with a man who forced me into situations that I was not ready for. But I thought that’s how men showed their love so I stayed.

“I’m angry that white, straight men have no idea how this feels,” Reese added. “And until the day that they have to walk with keys in between their fingers to walk into their own homes, I will not stop being angry.”

Black Lives Matter New Haven CoFounder Sun Queen offered poems that illustrated the trauma of sexual assault and the self-loathing, fear, and powerlessness that it can create. She said the poems grew out of a conversation she had with a friend who had been sexually assaulted. The friend had been made to believe her mother had been assaulted. But she hadn’t.

Sun Queen said when the friend learned that her mother had lied about her sexual abuse the friend then couldn’t talk about her own actual abuse. Sun Queen said she felt the urge to be a voice for her and so she wrote the poem.

“Me too is more than a hashtag,” she intoned. “Stop the silence.”

Gretchen Raffa, director of public policy and advocacy of Planned Parenthood of Southern New England, said the walkout and moment of solidarity were about listening to people’s stories and listening to survivors.

“We’re saying we believe survivors,” she

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Kids Press Judge On 4th Amendment THE INNER-CITY NEWS - 0ctober 03, 2018 - October 09, 2018

by CHRISTOPHER PEAK NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT

When retired judge Angela Robinson asked about the Fourth Amendment’s applicability to a case, she received a sharp analysis in response not from lawyers, but from the eighth-graders at Mauro-Sheridan Interdistrict Magnet.

Robinson got that legal advice from 45 students who’ve been learning about the Bill of Rights in social-studies class, when she visited this past week for Constitution Day. Robinson has been coming to MauroSheridan, an elementary school in Westville, for 21 years straight, trying to drum up interest in a career in law, especially for racial minorities who are underrepresented in the field.

The visit revealed how much middleschoolers can learn about the law, early, if they get the chance.

“I want to encourage all of you and all young people like you to become part of the legal profession,” Robinson told the students. “Is that something that might happen?” After a pause, a few of the eighthgraders gave an unsure yes.

Robinson herself grew up in Newhallville, graduated from Rutgers University and Yale Law School, and started her career at by working on medical malpractice cases.

In 1998, Gov. John Rowland nominated her to the bench. At 33 years old, she was the youngest judge in the state. Robinson served on the bench for two decades, hearing almost every type of case in courtrooms across the state.

Robinson had the students in Mauro-Sheridan’s library guess the different matters she presided over.

“Criminal?”

“Juvenile?”

“Am I allowed to say this: felony charges?”

“Manslaughter?”

“Divorce?”

“That’s right,” Robinson said. For two decades, she’d done all of those in her stints hearing felonies and misdemeanor charges in the criminal division, “accident or disputes” in civil division, plus family, juvenile and housing court.

After she left the bench, she returned to Wiggin and Dana, where she’s now the firm’s chief diversity officer. She said she went back to practicing law, she said, partly because she wanted to change the demographics of the attorneys who used to appear before her.

At the Mauro-Sheridan visit last Thursday, Robinson introduced Jonathan Tross, a six-foot-eight-inch former basketball forward who played in three March Madness tournaments in college, now an associate at Wiggin and Dana. As in a cross-examination in court, Robinson prodded Tross to talk about how his life had still turned out to be “fantastic,” even though he never played professional ball.

“I come here a lot, and a lot of you tell me you want to play sports. But making a living playing sports is a very, very different thing,” Robinson told the students. “I want you to continue to do the things you love. If you like continue playing sports, and consider that maybe the goal for your life will end up being a lawyer, like Jonathan, or a doctor or a computer scientist. There’s so many different things you can do.”

Law is among the least diverse professions in the country. Eight-five percent of attorneys are white, the American Bar Association reported last year. Among partners at law firms, the numbers are even smaller: only 3.3 percent are Asian, 1.8 percent are African-American, and 2.4 percent are Hispanic.

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Retired Judge Angela Robinson to students: I want you to be

Mauro-Sheridan’s eighth-grade: Did the cops have a warrant?

The reasons diversity could change the dynamics in so many courtrooms were readily apparent on Thursday, as MauroSheridan’s eighth-graders provided incisive takes on policing.

As Tross explained the Constitution’s mechanisms, like how our two-tiered system of “federalism” differs from a confederacy or a unitary government, students tried to connect the abstract terms back to their lived experience.

“Is that why some people say it’s better to go to federal jail than state jail?” one girl asked.

“Umm, I’m not sure why would anyone would think it would be better to go to the federal jail,” Tross said. “There’s definitely different things that each of these different governments handles. So umm.” He changed the subject.

The students started to fidget as Tross went through the president’s “express powers” to levy taxes and raise wages, but they whipped to attention as he brought up a recent lawsuit that challenged the government’s authority.

In 2011, two police departments outside of Las Vegas arrested a family after they refused to let officers set up a lookout to spy on the neighbors next door as part of a domestic-violence investigation, he said.

“They don’t have a warrant?” one boy asked, before Tross could finish telling the story.

When Robinson asked what they thought about the case, they clamored to explain their views. “One at a time,” she said.

“It’s illegal because the Fourth Amendment requires a warrant.” “I feel like back then it was easy to get away with it.”

“They’re taking advantage of the power that they have.”

An “Extravagant” Day For The Homeless

by ALLISON PARK

NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT

Hundreds gathered on the New Haven Green Saturday afternoon for an “Extravagant Cookout for the Homeless” that gave adults, children, and families a space to sing and dance while enjoying free access to clothing and food donations.

“It’s really about the people the forgotten ones,” said Jesse “J-Hop Hardy,” the central organizer of the eighth annual event.

Participants danced in groups to the Harlem Shake, and children belted ballads. Attended perused tables of Goodwill donation clothes lining the perimeter of the Green and ordered from a food truck offering deep-fried fish, turkey legs, and pork chop barbecue.

Hardy said he times the event to give back to “the homeless and needy before winter hits.” Hardy spent a year of his life homeless. He lived on the Green, slept on benches, and rested near dumpsters. Every once

in a while, he would sleep on the back steps of Trinity Church. Since then he has organized events like these to give back. Trinity Church on the Green’s James Thomas helped him put Saturday’s event together.

“It’s nice to see the community come together,” said event co-host Jessica Carl.

Among the families attending the event were Lily Reyes and her young son Adonis. After suffering from a disease, Adonis had his leg amputated. Reyes and her son received financial support from one of the sponsors of the event. “This doesn’t even scratch the surface of the issues” she said, “but every little bit helps.”

Curtis Robinson Foundation and the Yale Hunger and Homelessness Action Project also supported the event.

“It gets tremendously bigger and bigger every year,” New Havener Lawrence Gore, an annual attendee, said of the event. “I just came to be a part of something good and have peace of mind.”

After suffering a forklift injury that left him in a state of disability, Leigh Busby spent seven years of his life traveling around the country from Skid Row to New Jersey, homeless, he said. He said he is grateful to have lived the last four years in New Haven and doesn’t see himself moving anytime soon.

“New Haven has so much opportunity,” he said. By virtue of his artwork and his story being picked up through social media, Busby picked up gigs as a freelance photographer. He worked at the event on Saturday. Homeless people would rather be [out on the Green] than in a bed-buginfested shelter, Busby said.

Hardy has more plans on the horizon for projects to serve the homeless, including outfitting a bus with two showers, working with a laundromat, and enlisting a barber to travel around Connecticut to offer free haircuts.

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Lily Reyes and her son, Adonis.

THE INNER-CITY NEWS - October 03, 2018 - October 09, 2018

City Eyes New Fiber Network

by THOMAS BREEN

NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT

Yale University plans on building out a new fiber optic internal communications network for its 500 facilities. Thanks to a new working relationship between the city and the university, the Harp administration sees the school’s infrastructure upgrades as an opportunity to learn best practices and achieve economies of scale for developing its own new fiber-based communication system sometime in the near future.

That update came Friday from Controller Daryl Jones, who also heads the city’s information technology (IT) department, during a biweekly meeting of department heads held in the mayor’s conference room on the second floor of City Hall.

The primary subject of the hour-long meeting was the city’s next interdepartmental neighborhood sweep, this one planned for the Hill North on Wednesday, Sept. 26 and Thursday, Sept. 27. . The fourth such city-led sweep, following up on similar endeavors in Newhallville, Fair Haven, and the Annex over the past year, will see economic development officials, anti-blight and building inspectors, and a variety of other city personnel comb through around 10 square blocks between Congress Avenue, Ward Street, Sylvan Avenue, and Winthrop Avenue in the Hill. They’l look out for blighted homes, broken sidewalks, unlicensed businesses, and other quality-of-life concerns.

Friday’s meeting, chaired by Mayor Toni Harp, brought together two dozen department heads and other high-ranking city officials to review a wealth of carefully plotted, block-by-block statistics about Hill North in an attempt to use the geographic information system (GIS)-plotted data to inform where city officials should focus during the latest neighborhood walk. Some of the data reviewed included automobile collisions going back to 2015, owner-occupied homes vs. properties run by absentee landlords, and locations of SeeClickFix reports.

As the department heads planned for the walk ahead and discussed follow-up items for previous neighborhood sweeps, Jones also updated the group on new developments in the city’s IT department.

In particular, he mentioned a new working relationship with Yale’s IT department.

City officials will now meet with Yale tech personnel on a quarterly basis to discuss the university’s planned upgrades to its internal communication network.

“For them to announce that they’re redoing their entire fiber footprint for Yale,” Jones said, “is a really big win for us.”

The reason, he said, is that the city can learn about best practices for how to establish its own internal communications network,for internet connections to phone lines and camera recordings, based on fiber-optic cables rather than copper cables.

Fiber optic communications use pulses of light sent through thin strands of plastic or glass to transfer information at speeds 10 to 100 times faster than cable internet’s current methods of transferring data through

THOMAS BREEN PHOTO City Controller Daryl Jones (right) and city GIS Analyst Alfredo Herrera at Firday’s City Hall meeting.

electricity sent through copper cables.

“When they go underground, we can go underground,” Jones said about city IT officials and Yale IT officials. “When they drop fiber, we can drop fiber.”

He said the city is interested in building out its own high-speed internal communication system connecting all 44 government-operated buildings.

“It causes us to be more efficient,” he said.

“It also drives down cost.”

He said that the city currently spends between $10,000 and $15,000 for Comcast service for its nearly four dozen buildings, which include police substations and parks department buildings.

“More importantly,” he said, “we’re looking down the road because we’re setting ourselves up to get fiber, internet, public wi-fi to our residents. So this is just our first stage.”

Jones clarified after the meeting that the city will not be using the university’s new fiber communications network.

“We will share best practices,” he said about the potential city benefits resulting from Yale’s planned upgrades to its internal infrastructure. He said that the city may also be able to lay down its own fiber network when Yale opens up a street for the sake of building out its own system.

“More importantly,” he continued, “it’s the collaboration between the city and Yale on a project that will benefit the residents of New Haven.”

“The university will not be directly supporting the city’s network,” said Yale Deputy Press Secretary Karen Peart, “but as we work on our own networking projects, there might be opportunities for collaboration at some point. We welcome those opportunities and will remain in close communication with city representatives throughout our projects and theirs.”

Jones also updated his colleagues on Friday about two other city tech developments that may improve public safety and enhance how the city interprets the trove of neighborhood-specific data it currently collects.

The city controller said that his IT team

plans on meeting with customer representatives from Microsoft soon to discuss how best to use the Microsoft Azure Artificial Intelligence (AI) service to process, and even predict, blight and traffic collision information.

He said that the city already partners with Microsoft and uses Microsoft Office 365, Microsoft Cloud, and the tech-company’s voice-over IP phone system.

He said that the city is interested in using Microsoft’s AI technology to recognize blight based on analyzing pictures of homes and city streets, and to help focus the city’s traffic calming efforts by analyzing past crash data.

“The city would train AI [about] what blight is,” he told the Independent via email after the meeting, “and then LCI can literally snap pictures of buildings and determine if there is blight.” Similarly, he said, the city wants to train AI to determine how clean a street is and then use “predictive analytics” to determine best methods for cleaning the street.

“This will allow us to deploy resources in an efficient manner that can reduce costs to the city,” he said.

Jones told the group that the city will be meeting with Yale Police Chief Ronnel Higgins to discuss how to improve the city’s “blue light” system, which plans to place emergency phone lines within blue boxes at well-trafficked public spaces throughout the city.

Jones said that the city currently has nonoperational blue light boxes at Grand Avenue and Ferry Street and at Grand Avenue and Blatchley Avenue, as well as several operational boxes (donated by Yale) on the Farmington Canal.

He said the city is currently “slow walking” its blue light boxes because the current ones are not adequately weather0proofed, and because the city wants to add more amenities to them like wi-fi and surveillance cameras in addition to their direct access phone lines to 911.

“We are going to slow walk everything,” he said, “and work with Yale to get right before deploying fully.”

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Cops Probed For Letting Sex Attacker Go

by PAUL BASS

NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT

Police said they’ve taken a man off the street who has been assaulting street sex workers months after three officers allegedly stopped him but let him go.

Those three officers are now the subject of an internal police investigation.

Police Chief Anthony Campbell confirmed that the three officers are currently on administrative duty pending the outcome of the internal investigation into how they handled the matter. (At least one of the officers has previously been investigated and cited for using bad judgment on a call.)

The matter began when Beatrice Codianni, who advocates on behalf of sex workers through a group called Sex Workers and Allies Network (SWAN), informed police that prostitutes in Fair Haven were being attacked by men in the community on what the women refer to as “bad dates.”

“Women are getting beaten, raped and robbed,” Codianni said.

Codianni said the sex workers did not feel comfortable speaking with police officers, who have worked to limit rampant street prostitution in Fair Haven. The sex workers told her they’d be comfortable if SWAN would relay the information to police. So, Codianno said, she forwarded a description of one of those suspects to Chief Campbell and Sgt. Wilfredo Cruz.

Detectives subsequently developed a suspect who, it turned out, the three police officers had encountered during a motor vehicle stop late one night in May on the west side of town.

According to a member of law enforcement officer familiar with the case, the three officers found a man behind the wheel of the car and a female sex worker in the front

passenger seat. The sex worker informed one officer that the driver had pointed a gun to her head and demanded that she perform oral sex. Officers subsequently searched the car and found what turned out to be a bb gun; the officers allowed the driver to leave without arrest.

The man behind the wheel fit the description of the attacker forwarded by Codianni.

Police have since arrested the man on suspicion of sexually assaulting two sex workers in separate incidents since the night of that late-night west side stop, according to Chief Campbell.

Campbell said that thanks to the body camera footage of the west side incident, brass was able to see how the incident unfolded and the police were able to track down the alleged rapist.

“I am pleased with how the body cameras were working. Based on what I saw, I found the officers’ behavior completely unacceptable,” and “very disturbing,” he said.

He declined to discuss the matter further because the investigation is ongoing.

Other arrests may ensue. Without discussing specifics, Assistant Chief Herb Johnson, who oversees detectives, said the department has an active “ongoing” investigation that grew out of information forwarded by Codianni and SWAN. The group had originally protested the police for conducting stings of street sex workers. Since then the city has embarked on an experimental alternative-to-arrest diversion program called LEAD, or Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion. (Read about that here.) And Johnson and his detectives have worked with SWAN on alleged sexual assaults.

“We’re collaborating. We have a good relationship going forward,” Johnson said.

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“We want people to feel comfortable in reporting. That’s what we’re doing. When we get complaints, we call her, and she helps out in the community.”

“They’ve actually picked up somebody who has raped women and beaten them.

They asked us if we could find one of the women who filed the complaint,” Codianni said.

After Johnson set up a meeting between

SWAN and the department’s special victims unit, Codianni said, she returned to speak with some of the attacked sex workers to encourage them to share information directly with the police. She said some have agreed to. So a face-to-face meeting “is in the works. It’s just a matter of our schedules and their schedules; it’s going to happen.”

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THE INNER-CITY NEWS - October 03, 2018 - October 09, 2018

Newhallville Reimagines Newhallville

by MARKESHIA RICKS NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT

More black-owned businesses. More activities for children. A praying community with a few more speed bumps and communication. That’s how more than 100 Newhallville neighbors want to see their community develop.

ConnCAT CEO Erik Clemons wants to use what he has access to—resources, influence, knowledge—to help neighbors make that vision a reality on Newhallville’s terms.

Newhallville neighbors learned about the survey conducted by a team of young summer campers and about Clemons’ idea for conducting a larger version of the survey a “community opportunity wellness index” at their monthly management team meeting held at Lincoln Bassett School Tuesday.

The survey was conducted in August by participants in a summer Kids TV camp.

After talking to people at the neighborhood National Night Out event and at voting locations during the August primaries, the campers found that the things that make most communities tight-knit and strong are what people want more of for Newhallville.

Kim Harris, a co-chair of the Newhallville Management Team, told neigh-

bors that people in the survey asked for more communication.

“We do not really have a hub for how we communicate with each other,” she said. “We go out. We canvas and we do those things but we are in the process of putting a hub of management teams together so we can talk to each other.”

Gary Gates, president of the Newhallville Neighborhood Corp., pointed out a church for sale across from Lincoln Bassett School.

“It would be great for building a foundation to do something,” he said.

Harris reminded neighbors that an empty state building in the community (the former welfare office on Bassett Street) has potential but it would be up to the neighborhood to create a vision and then figure out a way to execute it — before some enterprising out-oftown developer comes to scoop it up.

“We’ve can make it happen,” she said.

“We’ve got to want this. We need information and lots of money.” The lot’s of money part drew a laugh from the crowd.

Building Bridges Erik Clemons, who runs the arts education and worker retraining ConnCAT organization, liked what he heard. He came to the meeting Tuesday to make an offer. Not of “lots of money.” But access and opportunity.

MARKESHIA RICKS PHOTO Kim Harris and Spirite Watson, 8, and Aneissa Beam, 11, present a dream board for Newhallville.

Kid TV reporter interviews Melinda Aneissa Beam for the project.

“I’m in meetings every day, all day with people who have ideas in mind on what they want to see Newhallville and Dixwell look like,” he told neighbors.

“For the most part, the people in those meetings are not from those neighborhoods they’re talking about.”

When Clemons is not busy with his work at 4 Science Park as president and CEO of ConnCAT, he said, he’s busying thinking up ways to strengthen the black community and create an infrastructure in neighborhoods that haven’t seen their fortunes rise with the rise of other parts of the city. He’s also thinking about how he can be a bridge between what he described as “this real issue of great wealth up the hill and poverty down the hill.”

But he’s not putting on a cape to swoop in and save Dixwell and Newhallville, he said. He’s offering to leverage his access to resources through his own organization and others like the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven and DataHaven to “set the table.”

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THE INNER-CITY NEWS - 0ctober 03, 2018 - October 09, 2018

“Chewie” Killed, Then Struck A Deal

by CHRISTOPHER PEAK NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT

After murdering four people, should a gang’s enforcer receive a lighter sentence for turning in other members who participated in the bloodshed?

U.S. District Court Judge Janet C. Hall was faced with that dilemma Wednesday in her Church Street courtroom as she weighed the fate of a killer who turned the tables on one of New Haven’s deadly Red Side Guerrilla Brims.

Lawyers and victims offered different takes on how much time a gangbanger deserves for participating in six shootings, then helping authorities lock up others who’d carried out the violence.

“I am charged with the task of somehow balancing the enormity of pain and loss that you caused by your actions with the tremendous assistance almost unparalleled that you provided to law enforcement,” Hall said. “The problem is when I use the word ‘balance.’ There is no way to ‘balance’ those two things, and that’s when my shortcomings as a human being will be evidenced to you, the prosecutors and the victims.”

Leading up to the judge’s decision, Luis “Chewie” Padilla, 25, admitted to narcotics trafficking and related acts of violence, including murder, attempted murder, assaults and armed robberies. He committed most of the crimes as enforcer for the Red Side Guerrilla Brims, an offshoot of the Bloods street gang, who terrorized New Haven from 2011 to 2013. Padilla shot at innocent bystanders, organized hits on disloyal members, robbed other gangs’ stashes, and held down a trafficking network that ran drugs and guns across state lines.

Padilla appeared before Judge Hall on Wednesday in a black polo shirt, pulled over a long-sleeved prison uniform. In a quiet voice, flat of affect, he read a short statement to the court.

“Please believe me when I say I’m sorry.

I’ve suffered every day knowing how much pain I caused,” he said. “After my arrest, I had the choice of bringing forth justice. I chose to do right.”

After weighing the brutality of what she called an “indescribable reign of terror,” Judge Hall gave Padilla an 18-year sentence.

That punishment tripled what the defense had requested. But it still came in far below the life sentence recommended by federal law.

Federal prisoners are required to serve at least 85 percent of their prison term and are not eligible for parole. After he’s released, Hall ordered, Padilla will also have five more years of probation.

Padilla’s sentencing closes a multi-year, multi-agency investigation that took down 21 former members of the Red Side Guerrilla Brims. A joint undercover investigation of the ATF and the New Haven Police Department, known as “Operation Red Side”, which began in January 2014.

The investigation revealed that the Red Side Guerrilla Brims arrived in New Haven in late 2010, when two boys broke

CONTRIBUTED PHOTO

Relatives of five victims of Luis Padilla’s violence gather outside federal court Wednesday: Derricka and Demetrius Suggs Wilkes, Barbara Walker, Thomas and Anisa Daniels.

CHRISTOPHER PEAK PHOTO

MARKESHIA RICKS PHOTO Former U.S. Attorney Deirdre Daly announces the arrest of 21 Red

Side Guerrilla Brims in 2015. away from another Bloods sect and started recruiting. Calling himself “Tall Man,” Jeffrey Benton, now 33, emerged as the gang’s leader.

The Brims differed from other local street gangs in their brutality and their ambitions. While other crews made their names known with spray paint and online posts, the Brims kept a low profile. And while other gangs tended to represent neighborhoods (like R2 in Newhallville or the Grape Street Crips in the Hill), the Brims didn’t care about local turf.

They were working on establishing on an interstate trafficking network, prosecutors said. The Brims traded crack-cocaine for illegal guns in Bangor, Me., where Benton’s cousin lived. The gang pulled in a higher profit margin on the rocks, earning about $6,000 per 50-gram shipment, double the going rate in New Haven. Then, through straw purchases from a gun dealership and trades with addicts, the gang ran firearms back to New Haven.

The pipeline gave the Brims “easy access to handguns and a steady flow of money,” prosecutors said. Padilla travelled to Maine for the operation several times, they added.

Authorities learned that directly from Padilla, Assistant U.S. Attorney Peter Markle

noted in court on Wednesday.

Eight months into their crackdown, law enforcement placed Padilla in federal custody, after a gun was found in his home.

Since then, Padilla had been cooperating with the government’s case against the Brims. He described the gang’s hierarchy, its rules and its profits, and he identified members. He admitted his own culpability in court on Sept. 29, 2015, pleading guilty to three charges.

“He broke allegiances and provided detailed and compelling information to law enforcement,” Markle told Judge Hall.

“His cooperation was forthright and steadfast. He never wavered.”

In total, with Padilla’s help, the investigation resolved seven murder cases, four attempted murders and four armed robberies that occurred in 2011 and 2012, plus one earlier homicide that had almost gone cold.

Victims’ Families Dubious The victims’ families who packed the courtroom benches on Wednesday questioned what had motivated Padilla to turn state’s witness. Had he shown any genuine remorse for gunning down their loved ones? Or was he was simply trying to protect himself from life behind bars?

Robert Kappes, the defense attorney, said

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Thomas Daniels, Jr., killed at 18. the extent of Padilla’s cooperation revealed how sorry he was for his actions. He said his client admitted to crimes that the police didn’t even know about, and he risked his life by taking the witness stand in state court to testify for prosecutors.

Padilla began killing when he was just 16 years old. He claimed his first victim on March 14, 2009, when he shot and killed Thomas “Tank” Daniels, Jr., an 18-yearold a recent graduate from Wilbur Cross High School who was enrolled at Gateway Community College, during a failed robbery attempt in the Hill.

Padilla didn’t publicly own up to that crime for eight years, leaving family members unsure who’d killed the teenage boy until March 16, 2017, when they received a last-minute call that Padilla planned to plead guilty.

Tank’s dad, also named Thomas Daniels, said he missed playing chess and video games, coaching the baseball and basketball team with his son. He said he’s suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder “real bad” ever since. He has tried to work through the trauma by founding a support group for other dads who’ve lost children to violence, Fathers Cry Too. “This murder took everything from me: my son, my best friend, my main motivation,” said Daniels. “I’m still recovering.

I’m here today so my son could get some justice.”

After he spoke, Judge Hall asked if Padilla’s confession had helped bring him closure.

“Was it a comfort to know how your son died, who killed him?” she asked.

“No, not at all, because it’s after the fact,” Daniels said. “He’s helping himself.”

Daniels later added that Padilla would serve in prison for just as long as his son was alive. “That number alone is an insult,” he said. “[Tank] is gone for eternity.”

After joining the Brims, Padilla orchestrated a killing spree to which he also fessed up.

During three bloody months in 2011, he played a role in the murder of Derrick Suggs, an innocent bystander, on March 18; Kevin Lee, a marijuana dealer who was shot three times in a botched robbery, on April 20, and Donnell Allick, a star basketball player that Benton, the gang’s leader, shot through an open window in Beaver Hills, on June 24.

“I don’t want him to ever see the light of

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providing questionable ethical advice to young women seeking coveted court clerkships with Kavanaugh.

Some individual Yale Law School professors canceled classes Monday and about 200 students dressed in black and staged a silent sit-in in the main thoroughfare of the school and then held a teach-in to learn about the last time a U.S. Supreme Court nomination roiled the country and Yale graduates were at the center of national attention because of sexual assault allegations. That time it was Yale Law alums Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill.

Blumenthal called the Thomas-Hill hearings “disastrously flawed,” pointing out that it was a short investigation and though there were corroborating witnesses, they were barred from appearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee. He said that an even lower standard is being applied in Kavanaugh’s confirmation process than what was applied to Thomas.

“We need to do better,” Blumenthal said.

“What happened to Anita Hill should not happen here. We should accord the respect these survivors deserve. There should be a full, fair investigation. If there is not, there will be a cloud that will forever hang over this nominee and a stain on the Supreme Court itself.”

Blumenthal is one of the Democratic senators calling on the White House to release millions of pages of Kavanaugh’s documents and to order an FBI investigation into the allegations made by his former classmates.

“In good conscience, we cannot vote without a full and fair FBI investigation and we cannot vote without an opportunity for these survivors to be heard respectfully. We need hearings with the witnesses who have knowledge of these sexual assault allegations.”

“This Has Been Going On For Years” Back on the Green, in the afternoon, activist Ann M. stepped up to say something simple but profound.

“My name is Ann and I didn’t tell the first time I was assaulted because I was five years old,” she said. “I didn’t have the courage to tell. I thought it was my fault.”

She said she can say that out loud now after more than two decades of therapy, and she said it’s important that survivors speak to allow for their own healing and for the healing of others.

“Survivors have to see other survivors make it through,” she said. “It’s never gone.

It’s a hole in your soul. Somebody shot a hole in your soul. It’s never gone but it can be repaired. And it’s important for other women to model that.”

She said it also was important to acknowledge the role that race or the absence of it plays in the heightened national attention around the Kavanaugh allegations.

“When white women speak out about this, it gets national attention,” said Ann, who is white. “But this has been going on for years young black girls and women subjected to sexual violence, many at the hands of white men. If we don’t understand that and understand it as a historical way of life in this country, things won’t change.”

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the dream board presented by the summer campers a reality. Clemons offered ConnCAT as a place to meet and eat to facilitate the index. The real work of gathering the data lies with the community, he said.

“We can hold space while the people from the community create the index and people can create what they want to see very much like what the kids did,” he said.

Creating the index would take about a year, he said “For me personally, I want to create opportunities in the Newhallville and Dixwell neighborhoods especially,” he said. “From those opportunities, there will be access because, in my opinion, opportunity means nothing without access, just like diversity means nothing without inclusion.”

Clemon told neighbors that there is a wealth gap in the country as a whole, and especially in New Haven, where for every dollar a white person makes a black person makes seven cents.

“That is how wide the wealth gap is,” he said. “With that, of course, is an opportunity gap.”

He called the resulting index a manifesto that will be the community’s vision for how to close those gaps.

“Especially every time someone wants to come in and develop the land in Newhallville and Dixwell and is not indigenous to the community,” he said. “That they have to come to see y’all and not come to see you after the plan is done and the cranes are on the ground, to talk to you about what you but talk to you about what you all need and the opportunities for the people who live in this community.”

Gary Gates asked whether the index will help develop a system for providing employment or opportunities for entrepreneurship. He also said he is less concerned about Newhallville identifying as a “black community” especially as more people of other races move in. He said he wasn’t knocking what Clemons offered he just skeptical that it might be better to focus on one issue like employment and entrepreneurship.

“I want to empower people,” he said.

“And I accept that we’re a mixed community at this point.”

Shirley Lawrence told Clemons that any skepticism its because the community has been “studied and surveyed to death.” But the fruits of that data collection don’t benefit the neighborhood, she said.

Clemon said he understood. “This is how I can help create the table,” he said.

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Yale Cops Report A “Larceny” THE INNER-CITY NEWS - 0ctober 03, 2018 - October 09, 2018

by PAUL BASS

NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT

INCIDENT/ INVESTIGATION REPORT On September 27, 2018, at 1202 hours I was dispatched to 101 Ashmun St. in response to a larceny complaint.

Upon my arrival, dozens of men and women in uniform were seen assembling on the sidewalk outside of the Rose building, which was determined to include the headquarters of the Yale Police Department (YPD). The individuals were identified as members of said police department and members of a labor union, the Yale Police Benevolent Association (YPBA). They carried signs reading, “Yale Cops Want A Contract Now.” I spoke with complainant Rich Simons. He identified himself as president of the YPBA union. He said his union has been in negotiations with Yale University over a new contract for two and a half years since its previous contract expired in 2016. (Information about background to this ongoing dispute can be found in these three supplemental reports.)

Complainant handed me a two-page typewritten statement detailing the larceny allegation. It was headlined “Corporate Theft.” The statement alleges that the union “learned that Yale University unilaterally implemented” a change to police officers’ benefits: It eliminated a cap on out-of-pocket expenses the officers incur on prescription drugs. The university made the same change to benefit for members of other unions, but only as part of contract negotiations, according to the statement. “Yale eliminated our members’ out-of-pocket maximum expense cap on purchased drugs without negotiating with the Y.P.B.A. without discussing the issue with the Y.P.B.A. and without even notifying the Y.P.B.A.!”

The statement described such “secret, unilateral elimination” of the benefit as “stealing” under the definition of larceny.

“Let’s do this!” complainant Simons then called to the assembled uniformed officers. They proceeded to follow him on a march on the sidewalk on Lock Street and Canal Street in the direction of Prospect Street. “What do we want?” yelled some of the marchers at the front of the procession. To which other marchers responded: “A contract!” Multiple motorists deployed horns while in transit. However the flow of traffic was unimpeded; the

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horn-blowing appeared to reflect support for the marchers.

The marchers proceeded to Woolsey Hall at the intersection of Grove, Prospect, and College streets. En route, I spoke with one of the marchers, Becky Fowler. (She is pictured second from left in the photo exhibit at the top of this report.) She reported that she has worked for the YPD for 12 years. (Subsequent investigation revealed that Officer Fowler has helped many homeless individuals in her position.) “We want to keep our benefits,” Fowler further stated when asked why she was participating in this action. “We won’t allow them to be taken away.”

Complainant Simons was then observed crossing the street to an entrance to a Gothic university building at 3 Prospect St., which upon further investigation appears to be the office of Yale President Peter Salovey.

Simons stated he had a letter to deliver to Peter Salovey. I observed the letter; it thanks Salovey for “the University’s decision to withdraw” proposals during contract negotiations that “would have required our members to pay premium co-shares and eliminated reimbursement for Medicare Part B premiums.” The letter proceeds to raise the issue of the alleged larceny on prescription benefits. “The Y.P.B.A. requests that you monitor the remaining negotiations to assure that progress continues,” the letter states.

Simons handed the letter to a woman named Yun Xie. She accepted the letter and said she would deliver it to President Salovey. She identified herself as director of communications for the Office of the President (at Yale).

The crowd of Yale police officers marched back from Woolsey Hall to outside the entrance of 3 Prospect St. They engaged in a series of chants Based upon information and prior experience, “Petey” is believed to refer to Yale President Peter Salovey.

The officers then marched back yet again to the entrance of Woolsey Hall.

Along the way they continued to create loud noises through horns identified as vuvuzelas, more commonly observed being utilized at World Cup soccer matches. YPD Officer Joe Funaro was among those utilizing this instrument. He said he has tried other methods as well to get the attention of Yale officials by participating in negotiating sessions as a member of the union contract negotiation team. “It’s

been two and a half years since we had a contract,” Officer Funaro told me.

“We’re just trying to get it done.”

A final round of speeches took place outside the Woolsey Hall steps. One of the speakers was one Andrew Matthews, a retired state police trooper (and former Yale police officer) who currently serves as attorney for the YPBA. “Let’s give ‘em hell!” Matthews declared. Matthews also noted the presence of members of other Yale unions who had shown up in support.

Complainant Simons offered one last rallying cry. He then provided to me additional financial information. He noted that Yale’s endowment stood at $16 billion the last time the YPBA successfully negotiated a contract with the university. That endowment now stands at $29 billion. Simons suggested that Yale has enough money to avoid the prescription drug benefit change.

Boxes of pizza were spotted near Simons, apparently provided for participants in the march.

I contacted Yale University for a response to complainant’s allegations.

University spokeswoman Karen Peart provided the following statement: University negotiators have been working for well over a year in an effort to settle a contract with the police officers’ union. Yale police officers are among the highest paid in the state, with excellent benefits and retirement plans, including retiree health. They also have access to many additional benefits, such as the Child Scholarship Plan and Yale Homebuyer Program. The university takes pride in the department, and has always strongly supported the police officers, whether that’s in wages, benefits, or recognizing outstanding work. Yale also makes sure the officers have the resources and training they need. We have made attractive contract proposals to the union. The parties are continuing to discuss the issues that the officers’ union raised at today’s rally.

We remain hopeful that the officers’ union will continue to work with Yale to reach a settlement.

Peart requested that this supplemental report prepared by her office be attached here.

No criminal charges were filed. Instead (at the complainant’s behest) the following charge has been referred to the National Labor Relations Board for further investigation and possible action:

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Remembering The Very Elegant Mr. Parker:

Henry Ellsworth Parker, 90, the former state treasurer of Connecticut, died on September 29, 2018 in New Haven, Connecticut.

Parker was elected state treasurer in 1974, on the Democratic ticket that saw Ella T. Grasso gain office as the state’s first female governor.

As Connecticut treasurer, Parker was sole fiduciary of the state’s $3.8 billion pension fund, and served as Bond Commissioner, Bank Commissioner and a member of the Financial Advisory Board.

His charismatic personality, grace, eloquence and sartorial elegance quickly became a hallmark of his visionary leadership and expanding national influence in the financial services arena.

Among his many achievements as treasurer was the creation of Yankee Mac, a $450 million home mortgage program helping the urban centers, and his chairmanship of the Governor’s Task Force on South Africa, a body that produced for Connecticut model anti-apartheid legislation, the first in the nation.

He counted as his greatest achievement his 1977 chairmanship of the State Citizen’s Committee that resulted in Dr. Martin Luther

Henry Ellsworth Parker King Jr.’s birthday becoming a state holiday seven years before it became a national holiday. Parker’s Governor Grasso signed it into law in 1976?

In 1986, Hank joined Atalanta Sosnoff Capital Corporation in New York. He retired

from the financial services industry in 1997.

Prior to winning statewide office in Connecticut, from 1966 to 1969 Parker served as chairman of New Haven’s newly formed Black Coalition, a civic organization that would address a variety of problems inhibiting African American progress.

In 1969, Parker was asked to run for mayor of New Haven and to chair the Democratic Alliance.

He received 36% of the vote, won ten wards, and seven Democratic aldermen—dubbed “the Magnificent Seven,” were elected. He ran again in 1971 and received 42% of the vote and ten wards.

Henry E. Parker was born to Daisy and Henry L. Parker in Baltimore, Maryland, on February 14, 1928. Parker often reflected that he and his siblings were children of the Great Depression and World War II, reared against a painful backdrop of racial discrimination, abject poverty and flagrant injustice.

Throughout his youth, Parker was a high achiever. Legendary sportswriter Sam Lacy regularly reported in the Baltimore AfroAmerican newspaper on Hank’s athletic prowess in football and basketball at the famed Frederick Douglass High School. He

was an honor student, captain of the football and basketball teams, president of the student council, and winner of the H. S. McCard Medal for declamation.

Upon graduating in 1946, Hank was awarded a scholarship to the historically Black institution, Lincoln University, in Pennsylvania. After funding fell through, Parker was drafted into the U.S. Army. He became a starring center for his unit’s basketball team.

After discharge from the army, Parker declined an offer to play for the Harlem Globetrotters; instead, he attended Hampton Institute from which he graduated in 1956.

In 1959 he married Janette (Jan) Johnson of Poughkeepsie, New York. They moved to New Haven, where Parker became the Program Director of the Winchester Community School, and Jan organized Mother Goose Nursery and Kindergarten.

Hank was an avid golfer and enjoyed playing with his friends in Connecticut during the summer, spring, and fall and enjoyed the Palm Coast in the winter.

He will be remembered by many as a kind and generous person who strove to be the best in all his endeavors and left a significant mark on the lives he touched in so many

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ways.

His parents, son, Curtis Hasan; three sisters, Thelma Parker Wiley, Bettye Parker Ford, Florence Parker Monroe, and brother, Jerome Parker, precede him in death.

In addition to his wife Janette (Jan) and his daughter Janet, he leaves to mourn sister, Peggy Parker Ammons; his grandson Troy Brown, a great grandson, Daniel Brown and mother Janice Long; nephew, Frank Wiley; nieces, Lisa Monroe, Susan Monroe, Jodi Ammons Johnson, Riley Johnson. He is also mourned by his in-laws, the Johnson family of Poughkeepsie, New York, and a host of friends.

Calling hours will be held on Thursday, October 4, 2018, and the funeral service will be conducted on Friday, October 5, 2018, at Dixwell United Church of Christ in New Haven. Services are being arranged through the Curvin K. Council Funeral Home, http:// curvinkcouncil.com .

In lieu of flowers, contributions can be made to the Henry E. Parker Education and Scholarship Fund, c/o Atty. Martyn Philpot.

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NBA Board of Governors Approves Rules Changes For 2018-19 Season

By Amanda Scurlock

The NBA Board of Governors today unanimously approved rules changes in advance of the 2018-19 season.

Beginning with the 2018 NBA preseason, the shot clock will reset to 14 seconds in offensive rebounding situations, as opposed to 24; the clear path foul rule will be simplified; and the definition of a “hostile act” will be expanded for purposes of triggering instant replay review.

Details on each rule modification appear below: Shot Clock Reset – The shot clock will reset to 14 seconds in three scenarios: after an offensive rebound of a missed field goal or free throw that hit the rim; after a loose ball foul is called on the defensive team immediately following a missed field goal or free throw that hit the rim; or after the offensive team gets possession of the ball after it goes out of bounds immediately following a missed field goal or free throw that hit the rim.

The rule has been in effect in the NBA G League since the 2016-17 season, in the

WNBA since 2016 and in FIBA play since 2014-15. The rule was also in place during 2018 NBA Summer Leagues.

Simplification of the Clear Path Foul Rule – The changes to the clear path foul rule establish “bright line” standards based on the position of players at the time of the foul while also narrowing required referee judgment and reducing the number of variables impacting the rule’s application.

A clear path foul is now defined as a personal foul against any offensive player during his team’s transition scoring opportunity in the following circumstances: the ball is ahead of the tip of the circle in the backcourt; no defender is ahead of the offensive player with the transition scoring opportunity; the player with the transition scoring opportunity is in control of the ball (or a pass has been thrown to him); and if the foul deprives his team of an opportunity to score.

As part of the clear path foul rule simplification, referees will no longer need to make judgment calls as to whether or not a defender was between (or had the opportunity to be between) the offensive player with the tran-

sition scoring opportunity and the basket.

In addition, referees will no longer have to determine whether or not the defender was at any time ahead of the offensive player prior to committing the foul, nor will it be relevant whether or not a defender beat the offensive player with the transition scoring opportunity into the frontcourt. Further, plays of this nature will no longer have to originate in the backcourt (since transition scoring opportunities can originate in the frontcourt).

Under the simplified rule, a clear path foul cannot occur if the fouled player is in the act of shooting or if the foul is caused by the defender’s attempt to intercept or deflect a pass intended for the player attempting to score in transition.

If a clear path foul is committed, the offended team will continue to be awarded two free throws and possession of the ball on the sideline nearest the spot where the foul occurred.

This article originally appeared in the Los Angeles Sentinel.

Meet the 3 Black Women Who Designed Lebron James’ New Nike Shoes

The first LeBron signature shoe to be reimagined by female designers has been born. Three African American designers from Harlem, NYC - Kimberly Goldson, Felisha Noel, and Undra Celeste Duncan were selected to tackle the project based on their previous work and passion for sport.

At the request of Nike and Lebron James himself, the trio of designers first traveled to Nike World Headquarters to learn how a performance shoe was made before meeting back in New York City for a working design session. The designers and James say they felt a kinship the moment that he

described his vision for the shoe.

“We each had something that connected the four of us based on what LeBron saw from his mom, and the sacrifices she made for him,” says Goldson. “My mom did it.

LeBron’s mom did the same for him. The connectivity was there between all of us.”

Their new design called the HFR x Lebron 16 was inspired by James’ belief that “African-American women are some of the strongest people on earth.”

He comments, “As someone who has a platform, because of what I do, I thought it was important to lend that platform to a

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group of people that I believe are underrecognized. Being the son, husband and father of strong African American women, I felt like this was something I wanted to do for them and for all the strong women out there who are succeeding despite what might be stacked against them.”

In its cooperative creation, representatives at Nike say that the HFR x LeBron 16 is a symbol of unified strength.

The limited edition shoes can be purchased online at www.nike.com/launch/t/ womens-lebron-16-hfr-white-sail/

THE INNER-CITY NEWS - October 03, 2018 - October 09, 2018

Meet the Black Family From Illinois Who Just Paid Off $330K in Debt Within 5 Years!

Tinley Park, IL — A couple from Illinois have successfully paid off their $330,000 debt in just 5 years, and many are wondering how they managed to be debt-free in such a short time. The couple, Talaat and Tai McNeely, have since turned their experience into a successful YouTube channel and series of online courses called His & Her Money to help other couples manage their money as a team.

After discovering Talaat had over $30,000 of debt from credit cards and vehicles, Tai almost backed out on getting married to him. However, they still pushed through — even though struggling at first — until they paid off that $30,000 in just their first year of being married.

Their next goal was to buy a house.

The McNeelys bought their home in Illinois in June 2013. Even though they were living off a single income with Talaat earning a so-called “middleclass salary” as a special education teacher and school administrator and Tai being a stay-at-home mom, they managed to finish the payment for the house mortgage in just five years — which is 25 years ahead of schedule!

Just like them, an average American household also had debts such as credit card debt, student loans, house mortgage, among others. Tai and Talaat shared six simple, yet effective strat-

egies to help pay off any amount of debt.

One is having multiple bank accounts. Tai and Talaat said they have 13 bank accounts such as for dining out, for vacation, for car fund, for annual or bi-annual bills, and for a main household checking account where their direct deposit comes in and where they get the money for all the different 13 bank accounts. They said separating everything and organizing it makes it easier for them to budget their money.

They also said making payments at least two times a month is helpful. “By doing that, we were able to pay the same amount of money each month, but it ended up being an extra payment a year. So that knocked off some years of our mortgage,” Tai said.

It also applies to other loans as if paying the equivalent of 13 monthly payments per year instead of just 12.

Moreover, Tai shared that whenever Talaat got a raise, they would put the extra money toward their house payment instead of increasing their standard of living. She said, “I would do the calculations, I would break it up by 12 months, and I would call our mortgage company and say, ‘Hey, I need you all to increase our mortgage payment by XYZ.’” Another thing that could help pay

off debts is turning hobbies into side hustles. The added income from side hustles such as dog walking, creating crafts, freelance writing or editing, or selling clothes can be very helpful even though it’s just doing something enjoyable, yet profitable from home.

Instead of scrambling for money whenever bills that are due every six months, or every quarter, or every year come, Tai suggests planning ahead for it. Tai said. “What we did was, let’s say we had a bill for $1,200. We took that and divided it by 12 months and that’s $100 a month. So $100 every single month came from our main checking account to our monthly bill account, so when those bills came new, we had some money.”

While paying off their debt, Talaat made sure he and his family still enjoy life and have fun to avoid burning out and eventually failing. They bring their children to free activities at their local library and Home Depot and take trips to Wisconsin.

“It’s not about not having fun, it’s not about not having a life,” Talaat said.

“It’s just building the fun and building the social life into the confines of the plan that you created for yourself to get out of debt.

For more details about the couple and their online courses, visit www. hisandhermoney.com

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Dr. Ian Smith Releases Novel About Exclusive Clubs at Harvard

By Katara Patton

Most people know Dr. Ian Smith for his great fitness and diet advice that come along with his best-selling books. But the medical doctor is also a novelist—and his second mystery/thriller releases on September 18.

“The Ancient Nine” is inspired by Smith’s real-life experiences as a part of the secret societies known as final clubs at Harvard University.

Smith said he started writing this book more than 25 years ago when he was a senior at Harvard.

“I knew back then I wanted to one day publish this story,” he recently told the Defender. “I was not a writer yet…but I wanted to get it in my computer so when I was ready to revisit it, it would be accurate…

I’ve been working on it and tweaking it for a long time.”

Smith admitted “a large portion” of the book is true and he reveals some never before disclosed secrets, but he “leaves it to the reader’s imagination to figure out what was true and what took a creative turn.”

In the book, Spenser Collins is a Black student from the South Side of Chicago enrolled at Harvard. Spenser thinks his life will be about basketball and pre-med, but when he receives an invitation to join the exclusive Delphic Club (founded by banking tycoon J.P. Morgan), his story takes an unexpected turn. Spenser and his friend, the son of a wealthy “club” man, work to un-

cover a long-standing mystery surrounding the club and the disappearance of a student.

The novel shares the amazingly different side of life for the wealthy involved with the all-male exclusive club and keeps readers on their toes as we too wonder what really happened in the mystery the two friends are trying to solve.

Smith said he thought it was the right time to release his suspenseful account.

“With the recent controversy surrounding the [final] clubs, and the push to open up the clubs to women and more minorities…I thought it a fitting time to talk about what happens behind the scenes. I thought members would be more open given the current climate of openness,” he said.

The health and fitness expert and novelist admitted that he’s not sure how his club members will take his releasing a story filled with secrets.

“I don’t know how it’s going to work; once you’re a member, you are a member for life unless you get excommunicated. A lot of members are still my friends…and I had a great experience.”

“The Ancient Nine” is not Smith’s first novel—as one will determine from the well-developed story that moves at a great pace. Smith has worked in more than just medicine/fitness. He released his first novel “The Blackbird Papers” in 2004. This story follows a murder case on Dartmouth’s campus, which parallels what was occurring during the time Smith attended for his first two years of medical school.

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Sticking to the same genre, Smith is working on another novel that is set in Chicago.

The Ashe Cayne series follows an ex-Chicago Police Department cop now turned private investigator. Smith said, “Chicago is a character in the book.”

“I’ve always had a desire to write like this,” Smith said. “I always nourished (the desire to write) privately.” And when he thought his writing was at a level where he wanted it to be, he was ready to go public with his creative writing.

The process for writing his health books and for writing his novels is totally different.

“It is left vs right brain basically,” he shared. “I find that writing the health books is pretty linear whereas writing novels is a great creative endeavor. It is liberating and allows me to go into spaces I otherwise can’t go in…explore things I couldn’t explore in nonfiction.”

Fans wanting to learn more can follow Ian Smith on Twitter @driansmith and Instagram @doctoriansmith. His book “The Ancient Nine” also has a Facebook page.

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This article originally appeared in the Chicago Defender.

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Former First Lady Michelle Obama is releasing a new memoir entitled Becoming, and is already planning her 10-city book tour. The book will be released in the U.S. and Canada in print and digital formats, and an audio edition of the book, read by her, will also be issued in digital and physical formats.

The book will be published simultaneously in 24 languages around the world. Some of the languages include Spanish, German, Portuguese, Danish, Arabic, Hebrew, Greek, Japanese, Korean, Indonesian, Vietnamese, Simplified Chinese, and more.

The memoir is a work of deep reflection and mesmerizing storytelling. Obama invites readers into her world, chronicling the

experiences that have shaped her - from her childhood on the South Side of Chicago to her years as an executive balancing the demands of motherhood and work, to her time spent at the world’s most famous address.

With unerring honesty and lively wit, she describes her triumphs and her disappointments, both public and private, telling her full story as she has lived it - in her own words and on her own terms. Warm, wise, and revelatory, Becoming is the deeply personal reckoning of a woman of soul and substance who has steadily defied expectations - and whose story inspires us to do the same.

THE INNER-CITY NEWS - October 03, 2018 - October 09, 2018

Amber Rose Joins ‘Respect My Vote!’ and Gives Her Top 10 Reasons We Should Vote in the Midterm Elections Rose and her annual Amber Rose SlutWalk have partnered with Hip Hop Caucus’ Respect My Vote! Campaign to Mobilize Women and Everyone Who Cares About Women to the Polls on 11/6/18

Los Angeles, CA (September 19, 2018) - Activism is the theme of the 2018 Amber Rose SlutWalk taking place in Los Angeles, CA on October 6th, exactly one month before the midterm elections. Rose has partnered with Hip Hop Caucus’ non-partisan Respect My Vote! campaign as a spokesperson and to collaborate on a special seven week campaign leading up to Election Day on November 6th, to educate, inspire, and mobilize young people to the polls on women’s issues.

To kick off the partnership, Amber Rose SlutWalk and Respect My Vote! released Amber Rose’s Top 10 Reasons We Should Vote, focused on the ways in which those we elect make critical decisions on policies that can either bring us towards greater equality and opportunity for women, or set us back.

“I am committed to ending rape culture and slut shaming and empowering women with the freedom to be who they want to be and achieve what they want to achieve,” said Amber Rose, producer, radio and television personality, author, entrepreneur, and founder of Amber Rose SlutWalk. “We are working to change the culture, but we also have to change our laws to fully protect women from harassment, get justice for violence against women, and ensure equal opportunity for women at work and in school. That is why activism is the theme of SlutWalk this year. We are going to exercise our activism by voting. I am excited to partner with Hip Hop Caucus on the ‘Respect My Vote!’ campaign. We are going from the poles to the polls!”

Amber Rose’s Top 10 Reasons We Should All Vote are featured on her Respect My

Vote! pledge to vote page at respectmyvote.com/amberrose. The 10 reasons are what Rose along with SlutWalk and Hip Hop Caucus voters are calling on candidates and elected officials to fight for on behalf of women: #1 Rape and Violence Against Women; #2 Reproductive Health; #3 Equal Pay; #4 Mass Incarceration; #5 LGBTQ Equality; #6 Paid Family Leave; #7 Sexual Harassment; #8 Immigration; #9 Environmental Justice & Health; #10 Student Loans and Education. Full text here: respectmyvote.com/amberrose/#top-tenreasons.

Also at respectmyvote.com/amberrose people can register to vote and pledge to vote. When people take the pledge to vote, they will receive text and email updates from Rose and Respect My Vote! that inspire people to vote, and that also provide information on polling locations, what to bring to the polls, and how to protect your vote. Rose will also be using her social media platform and the platform of SlutWalk to provide inspiration and information about voting.

“Women voters and especially women voters of color are defining the midterm elections and Amber Rose and SlutWalk’s commitment to empowering young voters is a powerful testament to the leadership in and for our culture,” said Rev. Lennox Yearwood Jr., President and CEO of Hip Hop Caucus, the non-profit organization behind Respect My Vote!. “We are not only calling on women voters to go to the polls, we are also calling on all people who care about women to vote in the interest of equality and opportunity for women. Hip Hop Caucus is honored to be partnered

with Amber Rose SlutWalk for the 10 year anniversary of our Respect My Vote! campaign. ” Respect My Vote! will be releasing an Amber Rose special edition Respect My Vote! shirt for SlutWalk on October 6th.

The shirt will represent the essence of the power of women at the polls. Prior to SlutWalk, Respect My Vote! will also join Amber Rose Foundation on October 2nd at University of Southern California for OpenED, an open, edgy and empowering fireside chat with Amber Rose and movement leaders, including Hip Hop Caucus’ Executive Director and COO, Liz Havstad.

Last year’s SlutWalk made over a billion impressions online and had over 14,000 people in attendance, and this year the call to action from SlutWalk will be clear, to vote this November on the issues that most impact women’s lives.

Find out more about Respect My Vote! at respectmyvote.com and the partnership with Amber Rose SlutWalk at respectmyvote.com/amberrose. Get the details about Amber Rose SlutWalk on October 6, 2018 at amberroseslutwalk.com.

Hip Hop Caucus (hiphopcaucus.org) is a national nonprofit, nonpartisan organization established in 2004 that uses the power of Hip Hop culture to engage and empower young people and communities of color in the civic and political process. Follow @ hiphopcaucus on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.

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cussion about women’s rights and equality issues. Donations made to the Foundation are used to bring annual events such as this year’s 4th Annual Amber Rose SlutWalk Festival and 2nd Annual OpenED conversation, to life. But most importantly, your donation and support of the Foundation,

helps the groups and organizations of people who have been subjected to slut shaming, judgment, stigma, victim blaming and sexual assault. For more information on The Amber Rose Foundation, please visit www.theamberrose.org.

New Coalition Aims To Double Number Of Women In Color In Tech

By MSR News Online

A groundbreaking coalition of tech companies has joined forces to double the number of Black, Latina and Native American women graduating with computing degrees by 2025.

Twelve technology companies have teamed with Melinda Gates to form the Reboot Representation Tech Coalition which will invest $12 million in efforts to address gender diversity in tech.

The coalition was formed in response to a new report showing there are fewer women of color today earning computing degrees than there were a decade ago. The numbers weren’t great to begin with, but have since dropped from six percent to four percent, according to the report. In addition, only five percent of tech companies’ grants went to programs with an explicit focus on women and girls in tech.

“Rebooting Representation” culls insights from leading tech companies and leadership on how tech companies’ use of corporate social responsibility and philanthropic efforts can impact gender diversity, how decisions are made and concrete strategies for individual companies and the tech sector, as a whole, to close the gap.

More than 100 of the sector’s top executives and experts, along with 32 companies, were interviewed for the report co-authored

by Gates’ investment and incubation company, Pivotal Ventures, and McKinsey & Company.

“The technology sector occupies a unique

role in our society as one of our most powerful engines of economic growth and social mobility,” write Gates and Kevin Sneader, global managing partner, McKinsey & Company, in the report’s foreword.

“Ensuring more women have pathways into this sector is both a fundamental issue

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of equity and a business imperative.

“The data is clear that diverse companies are more innovative and profitable. Tech companies have much to gain — and much they can contribute — by choosing to make diversity and inclusion a priority.”

The report’s findings will now inform the coalition’s work as it plans strategies over the next few years, including a focus on five high-impact opportunities: Fighting stereotypes around women in computing Creating more inclusive experiences of computing for girls in middle and high school Redesigning the experience of college students majoring in computing Creating connections among programs so women and girls move directly from one tech experience to the next Building knowledge of which programs are working The founding companies include Minnesota-based Best Buy, along with Adobe, Applied Materials, BNY Mellon, Dell, Intel, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Oath, Qualcomm and Symantec.

“It is an honor to now broaden this focus by joining the Reboot Representation

Tech Coalition and, under the leadership of Melinda Gates, work to double by 2025 the number of women of color graduating with computer-science degrees,” said Hubert Joly, Best Buy chairman and chief executive officer.

Best Buy will commit $200K each year over the next three years to the coalition.

The company will also expand its Teen Tech Center network which provides technical training in areas such as cybersecurity, entrepreneurship, IT support and app development. The network is slated to grow from 20 to 60 centers in the U.S., Canada and Mexico by 2020.

The Reboot Representation Tech Coalition is housed at National Center for Women & Information Technology with administrative support provided by Pivotal Ventures. All investments funds from the companies will go directly to efforts that engage underrepresented women of color.

For more information about the Reboot Representation Tech Coalition, visit www. rebootrepresentation.org.

—Information provided by Reboot Representation Tech Coalition This article originally appeared in the Minnesota Spokesman – Recorder.

THE INNER-CITY NEWS - 0ctober 03, 2018 - October 09, 2018

Black Family Goes Viral

Because All the Children Became Doctors — Just Like Their Dad!

The Black Male Nurse: Why We Need And Celebrate You Gemma Greene, BDO Staff Writer

Gender roles in the workplace have been in place since the beginning of time.

While traditionally, men have stayed away from the loving and caring jobs while women have traditionally stayed away (or have been locked out of) highpower jobs.

But times are changing.

Nationwide — A Nigerian-American family is making a huge buzz in social media and the medical field now that all of the children have become doctors. It wasn’t an easy task to accomplish, but with great determination and outstanding abilities, they were all able to succeed. Definitely family goals!

Their father Herbert Oye, who is also a doctor, left Nigeria in the 1970’s and moved to the United States in search of a greener pasture. He attended medical school, and worked hard to eventually open his very own vascular surgery practice in West Virginia. He then went back to Nigeria and opened a hospital.

Naturally, his four children — David, Monique, Michelle, and Melissa Oye — were inspired by him, and they all decided to

become doctors as well. They don’t have their own practices yet, but that is their ultimate goal.

At least two of the children can be followed on Instagram: Dr. Monique Oye – @MoniqueOye Dr. Melissa Oye – @MelissaOye Meanwhile, their Dad is still a practicing doctor in Beckley, West Virginia. His practice specializes in various treatments including advanced wound care, endovascular surgery, vascular surgery, and more.

For more details about his practice, visit www.wvvascularinstitute.com

Women have been entering maledominated fields for decades, but it’s less common for a predominantly female occupation to have a substantial increase in its share of men. That is, until now. The need for male nurses has grown.

The experiences of male nurses offer lessons that could help address a problem of our time: how to prepare workers for the fastest-growing jobs, at a time when more than a quarter of adult men are not in the labor force.

Only 13 percent of nurses in the United States are men, but that share has grown steadily since 1960, when the number was 2 percent, according to a working paper published in October by the Washington Center for Equitable Growth.

But don’t get it twisted: some gender roles are still in effect. Even though men are a minority, male nurses are paid more than women. The stigma against men

still runs deep, particularly among older patients and in parts of the country with more traditional gender roles, nurses have said.

But for some men, the notion that caregiving jobs are women’s work is outdated. Progressive attitudes about gender roles, as measured by the General Social Survey, were associated with more men who entered nursing, the new paper found.

“This narrative that men can’t provide care in the way that women can is part of that broad cultural narrative that misunderstands what nursing’s about,” said V.A. hospital student nurse, Mr. White, to the New York Times. He is earning his nursing degree at Oregon Health and Science University in Portland. “We need to talk with young people about caring as a gender-neutral idea, but also as something that’s rooted in skills, in expertise.”

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Children and mental health: What can you do to help your child?

By Priscilla Q. Williams

According to the Children’s Mental Health Report, mental health disorders are the most common diseases of childhood.

An estimated 17.1 million children have or have had a psychiatric disorder more than the number of children with cancer, diabetes, and AIDS combined.

This is a major issue many parents don’t speak about. I recently had a chance to sit down and interview Ms. Kenyatta Williams, a licensed clinical social worker.

Her educational and professional experience has included an eclectic approach to address the psychological and practical needs of children, adults, and families.

In an interview with Black Doctor.com, we learn the importance of getting your child help and different signs parents need to know if their child suffers from mental illness.

BDO: What has been your experience in working with children who have a mental illness?

KW: An area of my social work practice that has been a sacred place for me involves children with mental illness. During my career I have implemented many therapeutic interventions for children with mental illness which have included family

therapy, play therapy, talk therapy, social skills groups, parenting classes/support groups and behavioral management techniques.

BDO: There are many signs of mental illness that parents may not notice, what are some signs parents should pay attention to with their children?

KW: One of the major concerns that some parents often deal with involves their children having mental health challenges. This includes depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorders, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, to name a few. It is important to recognize when your child has a change in behavior or seems to display emotional distress that may seem unusual for your child.

It is crucial for your child to be examined by a pediatrician to rule out any medical condition that may be contributing to behavioral changes. If your child’s pediatrician determines that there is no underlying medical condition, your pediatrician will likely refer your child to a mental health professional.

These are some behavioral changes to recognize that parents should be aware of; however, children may not display all these symptoms and some symptoms may

be specific for a particular illness. It is also critical to be mindful of the duration of time that these symptoms are present.

Typically, these symptoms are present two weeks or longer, but this may not always be the case.

• Sad or withdrawn from family or friends • Crying excessively for no apparent reason • Severe mood swings • Fearful for no reason • Angry outbursts • Change in eating/sleeping habits • Difficulty concentrating • Change in academic performance BDO: What resources are available for parents to help assist them with their child?

KW: Here are a few resources available for parents and their children. Some national agencies that are of great resources for self-education and local mental health resources and locations are: www.nami.org www.cdc.gov www.samhsa.gov BDO: How can people connect with you and what can people expect from you in the community?

KW: If you have questions or concerns that you would like further information about or to share your experience I can be contacted at my email: Godsfc16@ gmail.

com. I am also looking to empower and educate the community about health and wellness.

In October for Breast Cancer Awareness Month, I am hosting an event “I’m Every Woman – Kicking Fear”. This event will include education, information, and resources. The event will take place on October 28, 2018, in Northbrook, IL. For more

information visit email, me at Godsfc16@ gmail.com.

Overall, get your child the help they need and don’t be afraid to take your child to see a healthcare professional. Your child deserves the help and support they need.

This article originally appeared in the Milwaukee Times.

Alzheimer’s Disease: Black Americans Are Hardest Hit

by Constance Brown-Riggs, is a registered dietitian, certified diabetes educator

But these genetic mutations account for less than 5 percent of Alzheimer’s disease.

Research suggests the impact of various genetic risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease may be different among Blacks than for whites.

As the aging population continues to grow, so will the prevalence of Alzheimer’s disease and worse yet, Blacks will be hit hardest. According to the Alzheimer’s Association’s 2018 Alzheimer’s Disease Facts and Figures, an estimated 5.2 million Americans have Alzheimer’s disease and 1.1 million of them are Black-American.

Alzheimer’s disease is currently ranked as the sixth leading cause of death in the United States. However, it is the fourth leading cause of death in older Blacks. Moreover, where you live can impact how likely you are to die as a result of Alzheimer’s. For example, deaths from Alzheimer’s in Mississippi is 45.8 percent higher than any other state. On the other hand, New York residents with Alzheimer’s experience the lowest death rate at 13.1 percent.

Signs and Symptoms Misplacing your car keys or forgetting where you parked your car is not a cause for panic. These are signs of normal agerelated memory loss. However, if you forget what the car keys are used for that’s a serious sign of memory loss.

The first symptoms of Alzheimer’s vary from

What is Alzheimer’s Disease?

Alzheimer’s disease is a devastating, progressive disease that slowly destroys memory and thinking skills, causes challenging behavior problems, and eventually leads to an inability to carry out simple tasks. Most people with Alzheimer’s have late-onset type with symptoms appearing in their mid60s. Early-onset Alzheimer’s disease is very rare, occurring in individuals between 30 to 65 years of age.

Why are Blacks Hardest Hit? Scientists don’t yet fully understand what

causes Alzheimer’s disease in most people.

However, research suggests Alzheimer’s disease is caused by a combination of genetic, health, lifestyle and environmental factors. The importance of these factors in increasing or decreasing the risk of developing Alzheimer’s differs in Blacks compared to whites.

For example, vascular risk—medical conditions that impact the blood vessels, such as heart disease, stroke, and high blood

pressure, as well as diabetes and obesity are associated with increased risk for Alzheimer’s disease. Blacks experience higher rates of vascular disease, diabetes, and obesity compared to whites, putting them at greater risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease.

Problems with genes are also associated with Alzheimer’s disease. Scientists have identified rare changes (mutations) in three genes that virtually guarantee a person who inherits them will develop Alzheimer’s.

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person to person. Memory problems are typically one of the early signs of cognitive—also known as mental, impairment related to Alzheimer’s disease. Also, difficulty with non-memory aspects of reasoning, such as word-finding, vision or spatial issues, and impaired reasoning or judgment, may signal the very early stages of Alzheimer’s.

As the disease progresses, people experience more significant memory loss and other cognitive difficulties.

Some sources claim that products such as coconut oil or dietary herbal supplements such as Protandim® can cure or delay Alzheimer’s. However, there is no scientific evidence to support these claims.

There is evidence that a healthy diet, physical activity, appropriate weight, and

no smoking can lower the risk of many chronic diseases and help you stay healthy as you age. Scientist continue to explore the possibility that a healthy lifestyle might also slow down, or even prevent Alzheimer’s. They are also studying the role of social activity and intellectual stimulation in Alzheimer’s disease risk.

Currently, there is no cure for Alzheimer’s, but early and accurate detection and diagnosis are crucial. If you are concerned that you or someone you love may have Alzheimer’s or cognitive impairment click here to take the dementia risk assessment quiz.

Also, if you are 65 and older or have a family history of Alzheimer’s, ask your healthcare provider about a “check-up from the neck up” to check your brain health and cognitive function. Just as proactive screening for cancer, heart disease, or vision problems, a regular cognitive assessment can help you and your healthcare provider identify and manage changes early.

Constance Brown-Riggs, is a registered dietitian, certified diabetes educator, national speaker and author of the Diabetes Guide to Enjoying Foods of the World, a convenient guide to help people with diabetes enjoy all the flavors of the world while still following a healthy meal plan.

Follow Constance on social media @eatingsoulfully This article originally appeared BlackDoctor.com

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Premiere Black Women’s Organization Spearheads International Change

By Lauren Poteat, NNPA Washington Correspondent

During the height of the 48th Annual Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), members of the International Black Women’s Public Policy Institute (IBWPPI), gave way to their 10th Annual Gala and Policy Forum, centered around ‘Leadership in a Global Black Women’s Movement.’

Focused on the need for women to support other women, the CBC events brought together global thinkers and advocates for the movement of Black women into global citizenship, spearheaded by IBWPPI CoFounder/President, Barbara A. Perkins.

“The International Black Women’s Public Policy Institute takes pride in educating and training Black women on how to take control of their futures,” Perkins said. “We are the only organization focused solely on policies that are the priority of Black Women and are advocates for Black women and girls globally through acts of kindness and public policy, that are simple, yet bold and compelling.”

As part of the anniversary panel, comprised of the Hon. Paula A. Cox, the former Premier of Bermuda, Her Excellency Audrey P. Marks, the Ambassador of Jamaica to the U.S., the Hon. Katherine ForbesSmith the Senate President of the Bahamas, Princess Dr. Moradeun Ogunlana of Nigeria, the CEO of Innovative Global Consulting and Dr. Julianne Malveaux, the founder and president of Economic Education, dynamic women set the stage with dialogue centered around the unique experiences and issues that their individual countries faced when it came to women in leadership—a discussion right on que with IBWPPI’s main mission.

“Our work stretches far beyond our backyards,” Perkins said. “Our mission is to convene hearings and conversations that

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evaluate the impact of current public policy and initiate new policies that address major threats to the well-being of Black women, their families and communities.

We are a membership driven organization with a seat at the table for all those who believe as we do, that it is our duty to help make life better for others.”

Adamant about women’s rights, Perkins further stated that her vision for the organization has and will be to push people forward—over the next 10 years.

Tackling human trafficking with legislative change, economic security, health and wellness, education, while also sponsoring forums, town halls, workshops and events that raise awareness and funds for victims in need of support—IBWPPI continues to challenge the status quo and to establish itself as a premiere institution for Black women.

“Our goal is to promote Acts of Kindness as the key to good public policy,” Perkins stated. “We use gender diplomacy to engage in critical dialogue and to convene

leadership groups at home and abroad.

This model works as we begin to chart the next 10 years while training the next generation of international leaders through our Young Ambassadors Program.”

Founded in 2009, inspired by the legacy of Dr. Dorothy I. Height, Chair Emeritus, National Council of Negro Women, IBWPPI currently consist of partners in North America, Bahamas, Belize, Bermuda, Cuba, Haiti and Ghana Africa.

Seeking to expand representation, every year these women convene in a different country during the month of March, while also supporting various missions including: 500 pairs of work-boots and rainboots for communities in Haiti, Ghana and the Bahamas in the aftermath of natural disasters, promoting clean water in Haiti, and establishing a Reading Room Initiative in each country, where individuals convene IBWPPI Work.

To learn more about IBWPPI or how to become a member, please visit: IBWPPI Membership

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By Jeffrey L. Boney, NNPA International Correspondent For the first time in the history of its existence, the National Newspaper Publishers Association, which represents over 200 Black-owned media companies across the U.S., has made its way to IleIfe in Nigeria for a culturally impactful inaugural trade mission.

The NNPA, under the leadership of its president and CEO, Dr. Benjamin Chavis, was invited to Ile-Ife in Nigeria, by His Imperial Majesty, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Babatunde Ogunwusi, Ojaja II, The Oonirisa (Ooni) of Ife, for The Olojo Festival, from September 27 through October 3.

The Olojo Festival is a very prestigious annual celebration to commemorate the dawn of creation and to highlight the historical and spiritual ties of Ile-Ife being the cradle of human existence.

The NNPA was officially invited by The Ooni of Ife to participate in the annual

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Festival as a way to better understand the history and cultural significance of IleIfe, as well as to better inform African Americans and others throughout the world about the development opportunities and important cultural intersections between our sisters and brothers in Nigeria and across Africa and with people of African descent throughout the global

African Diaspora.

“It has truly been a blessing to be a part of this unique and meaningful pilgrimage to Ile-Ife, Nigeria,” said Dr. Chavis.

“African Americans have a history that did not begin or end with slavery in the United States. It is time we fully reconnect with who we really are without the Con’t on page 22

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INNER-CITY NEWS July 27,2018 2016 -- August 02, 2016 2018 - October 09, 2018 THE INNER-CITY NEWS - September 0ctober 03,26, October 09, 2018

The Housing Authority of the City of Bridgeport

ELM CITY COMMUNITIES

ELM CITY COMMUNITIES

NOTICE Request for Proposals

Program Management Services Consultant

Pest Control and Preventative Maintenance Services The Housing Authority of the City of New Haven VALENTINA MACRI RENTAL PREAPPLICATIONS AVAILABLE The Housing Authority of the City ofHOUSING New Haven d/b/a Elm City d/b/a Elm City Communities is currently seeking Bids Communities is currently seeking Bids for Pest Control and Preventative Maintenance Services.

INC, on behalf of Columbus House A and the New Haven forHOME Program Management Services Consultant. complete copy of Housing Authority, A complete copy of the requirement may be obtained theisrequirement may be obtained for from Elm and City’s Vendor Collaboaccepting pre-applications studio one-bedroom apartments at this develfrom Elm City’s ration Portal https://newhavenhousing.cobblestonesystems.com/ opment located at 108 Frank Street, New Haven. Maximum income limitations ap- Vendor Collaboration Portal https://negateway beginning on Monday, 27,from 20189AM at 3:00PM. ply. Pre-applications will be August available TO 5PM beginning whavenhousing.cobblestonesystems.com/gateway Monday Ju;y beginning on Monday, August 6, 2018 at 9:00AM. 25, 2016 and ending when sufficient pre-applications (approximately 100) have been receivedWater at the offices of HOME INC. Applications will be mailied upon reTreatment quest by calling HOME INC at 203-562-4663 during those hours. Completed preWater Treatmentmust Pumping Operator I. The INC’s Town offices of Wallingford applications be returned to HOME at 171 Orange Street, Third Water Division is seeking Floor, New Haven, CT qualifi 06510.ed candidates to maintain and op-

DELIVERY PERSON

erate the water treatment plants, pump stations, and well facilities.

Must process a High School Diploma or G.E.D with one (1) year of experience involving the operation or maintenance of equipment of the type predominant in the water treatment industry. Ability to obtain within oneMACRI (1) year, State of Connecticut DPH Class I Water VALENTINA VIVIENDAS DE ALQUILER PRE-SOLICITUDES DISPONIBLES Must Have your Own Vehicle Treatment Plant Operator’s Certificate, Class I Water Distribution System Operator Certification and successful completion of an apHOME INC,treatment en nombre de laoperator’s Columbuscertifi House y deprogram. la New Haven proved water plant cate $25.01Housing Authority, está aceptando pre-solicitudes para estudios y apartamentos de un dormitorio en este desarrollo - $30.40 hourly plus an excellent fringe benefit package. Apply: ubicado enoflaHuman calle 109 Frank Street, Haven. Se aplican limitaciones de ingresos Department Resources, TownNew of Wallingford, 45 South máximos. pre-solicitudes estaránThe disponibles p.m.thecomenzando Martes 25 Main Street, Las Wallingford, CT 06492. closing 09 datea.m.-5 will be The Community julio, cuando se han recibido suficientes pre-solicitudes 100) Foundation for Greater New Haven date the2016 50thhasta application/resume is received, or October 23, 2018(aproximadamente whichever occursde first.

EOEINC. Las pre-solicitudes serán enviadas por correo a petición en las oficinas HOME is seeking to fill the position of Director of Gift Planning. llamando a HOME INC al 203-562-4663 durante esas horas.Pre-solicitudes deberán remitirse Please refer to our website for details: http://www.cfgnh.org/ a las oficinas de HOME INC en 171 Orange Street, tercer piso, New Haven About/ContactUs/EmploymentOpportunities.aspx. , CT 06510 .

EOE. Electronic submissions only. No phone calls

Part Time Delivery Needed One/Two Day a Week,

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If Interested call (203) 435-1387

Town of Bloomfield Full Time Fleet Services Manager

$70,904 - $109,445

Pre-employment drug testing.

AA/EOE For details and how to apply go to www.bloomfieldct.org

NEW HAVEN

Request for Proposal (RFP) General Counsel Solicitation Number: 115-EO-18-S

Invitation for Bid

KMK Insulation Inc. 1907 Hartford Turnpike North Haven, CT 06473

The Housing Authority of the City of Bridgeport (HACB) d/b/a Park City Communities (PCC) seeks proposals from attorneys/law firms for the provision of a full cadre of legal services. Respondent(s) must have graduated from an accredited law school and be a member of the Connecticut Bar. A complete set of RFP documents will be available on September 24, 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 Pre-Proposal Conference will be held at PCC’s Administrative Offices at 150 Highland Ave, Bridgeport, CT 06604 on October 11, 2018 at 10:30 a.m. All interested parties are strongly encouraged to attend the conference. Although not mandatory, all applicants are encouraged to attend to better understand the PCC’s requirements under this RFP. Additional questions should be emailed only to bids@parkcitycommunities.org no later than October 18, 2018 @ 3:00 p.m. Answers to all the questions will be posted on PCC’s Website: www.parkcitycommunities.org. Proposals shall be mailed or hand delivered by November 5, 2018 at 3:00 p.m.to Ms. Caroline Sanchez, Director of Procurement, 150 Highland Ave, Bridgeport, CT 06604. Late proposals will not be accepted.

Housing Authority of the City of Bridgeport Request for Proposal (RFP) Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) Management and Support Services Solicitation Number: 116-S8-18-S

The Housing Authority of the City of Bridgeport (HACB) d/b/a Park City Communities (PCC) is seeking proposals from consulting/management firms to provide management and support services for our HCV Program. A complete set of RFP documents can be obtained on September 24, 2018 by emailing your request to bids@parkcitycommunities. org, please reference solicitation number and title on the subject line. A Pre-Proposal Conference will be held at PCC’s Administrative Offices at 150 Highland Avenue, Bridgeport, CT 06604 on October 10, 2018 at 10:30 a.m. All interested parties are strongly encouraged to attend the conference. Although not mandatory, all applicants are encouraged to attend to better understand the PCC’s requirements under this RFP. Additional questions should be emailed only to bids@parkcitycommunities.org no later than October 18, 2018 @ 3:00 p.m. Answers to all the questions will be posted on PCC’s Website: www.parkcitycomProposals shall be mailed or hand delivered by November 5, 2018 at 3:00 Invitationmunities.org. to Bid: p.m. to Ms. Caroline Sanchez, Director of Procurement, 150 Highland Ave, Bridgeport, CT nd 2 Notice 06604. Late proposals will not be accepted.

Mechanical Insulator position.

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Please mail resume to above address.. MAIL ONLY This company is an Affirmative Action/ Equal Opportunity Employer.

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Interestedeldct.org parties contact Maria @ 860-985-8258 answering telephone lines and in dealing with customers. Personable customer to www.bloomfi Tax Exempt & Not Prevailing Wagemultiple Rate Project

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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

Steel Fabricators, Erectors & Welders Health Benefits, 401K, Vacation Pay. Email Resume: Rose@qsrsteel.com Hartford, CT

St. New CTperformers.

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service skills a must. Previous petroleum experience a plus. Applicant to also perform administrative tasks such as typing proposals, scheduling appointments and ordering parts New Construction, Wood Framed, Housing, andSelective materials.Demolition, Please sendSite-work, resume to:CastH.R. Manager, Confidential, P O Box 388, Guilford CT 06437. in-place Concrete, Asphalt Shingles, Vinyl Siding, ********An Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer********** APPLY NOW!

Flooring, Painting, Division 10 Specialties, Appliances, Residential Casework,

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Steel Fabricators, Erectors & Welders Electrical, Plumbing The Manchester Housing Authority will open the State of Connecticut Elderly waitTop pay for top performers.This Health Benefiists,subject 401K, Vacation Pay. contract to state set-aside andlistcontract compliance ing for Spencer Village Irequirements. & II. The property consists of 80 studio units with a base rent of Email Resume: Rose@qsrsteel.com Hartford, CT $425.00. 300 applicants chosen by lottery will be entered on the waiting list. Applications are

SEYMOUR HOUSING AUTHORITY

available in person and on the MHA website at http://manchesterha.org and will be accepted by

Bid Extended, Due Date: August 5, 2016 mail or in person at 24 Bluefield Drive Manchester, CT 06040. Applications will be accepted October 1st 8AM Anticipated Start: August 15, 2016– October 31st, 2018 4PM. Applicants must meet the income limits and the Experienced Construction Workforce Needed Sealed bids are invited by the Housing Authority of the Town of Seymour definition of an “elderly person”. An “elderly person” is 62 years of age or older, or a person who Project documents available viacertifi ftp link below: Site Laborers - Hvy Equipment Operator - 5+yrsat Expits & Versatile has been ed by the Social Security board as being totally disabled. [CGS sec8-113a] until 3:00- Min pm3yrs onExp Tuesday, August 2, 2016 office at 28 Smith The Street,Glendower Group, Inc FY 2018 Income Limits http://ftp.cbtghosting.com/loginok.html?username=sayebrookevillage CDL Drivers (A&B) 5yrs Exp moving/hauling Hvy Eq over road Seymour, CT 06483 for Concrete Sidewalk Repairs and Replacement at the Qualifications HazMat/Tanker Endors Encouraged to Apply Smithfield Gardens Assisted Living Facility, 26 Smith Street Seymour. Request for Fax or Email Questions & Bids to: Dawn Lang @ 203-881-8372 dawnlang@haynesconstruction.com Working Foreman – 3yrs Exp w/HazWoper & Conf Space Entry

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Co-Developer For Farnam Courts Phase II

HCC encourages the participation of all Veteran, S/W/MBE & Section 3 Certified Businesses

Haynes Construction Company, 32 Progress Ave, Seymour, CT 06483 A pre-bidProof conference be heldwhen at theapplying.

Housing Authority The Office 28 Smith of Currentwill Credentials Glendower Group, Inc an affiliate of Housing Authority City AA/EEO EMPLOYER of New Haven d/b/a Elm city Communities is currently seeking Street Seymour, CT at 10:00 am, on Wednesday, July 20, 2016.

Driver License, OSHA 10, OSHA 40 HazWoper, Confined Space proposals for Co-Developer For Farnam Courts Phase II. A complete copy of the requirement may be obtained from Elm City’s Bidding documents are available from the Seymour Housing Authority OfVendor Collaboration Portal https://newhavenhousing.cobbleCisco LLC - 525 Ella Grasso Blvd, New Haven, CT 06519 fice, 28 Smith Street, Seymour, CT 06483 (203) 888-4579. stonesystems.com/gateway beginning on Tuesday, September 4, We are an Equal Opportunity Employer/AA 2018 at 9:00AM Apply in Person – No Phone Calls

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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Property Management Company is seeking a Resident Services Coordinator in New Haven, CT. Part time- 16 hrs/wk. Must have experience working w/ senior and disabled community. Social Services background preferred. Please call (860) 951-9411 x238 for inquiries.

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Water Treatment

Water Treatment Pumping Operator II. The Town of Wallingford Water Division is seeking qualified candidates to maintain and operate the water treatment plants, pump stations, and well facilities. Must process a High School Diploma or G.E.D with three (3) years of actual experience in a water treatment plant with one (1) year of supervisory experience, or an equivalent combination of education and qualifying experience. In addition must have VALENTINA MACRI RENTAL HOUSING PRE- APPLICATIONS AVAILABLE State of Connecticut DPH Class IV Water Treatment Plant and Class II Water Distribution System Operators Certification, or the ability to obtain within six (6) month probationary HOME INC, -on behalfhourly of Columbus House and the benefi New Haven Housing Authority, period. $24.94 $30.27 plus an excellent fringe t package.

Apply: Departis accepting and one-bedroom apartments at this develment of Humanpre-applications Resources, Townfor of studio Wallingford, 45 South Main Street, Wallingford, CT opment at 108 New Maximum income limitations ap06492.

Thelocated closing date willFrank be theStreet, date the 50thHaven. application/resume is received, or October Pre-applications willfirst. be available from 9AM TO 5PM beginning Monday Ju;y 16,ply.

2018 whichever occurs EOE

NOTICE

25, 2016 and ending when sufficient pre-applications (approximately 100) have been received at the offices of HOME INC. Applications will be mailied upon request by calling HOME INC at 203-562-4663 during those hours. Completed preapplications must be returned to HOME INC’s offices at 171 Orange Street, Third Floor, New Haven, CT 06510.

HazWaste Central

Last Collection of the Year NOTICIA

October 27, 2018

VALENTINA MACRI VIVIENDAS DE ALQUILER PRE-SOLICITUDES DISPONIBLES HOME INC, en nombre de la Columbus House y de la New Haven Housing Authority, está Working withy apartamentos Communities aceptando pre-solicitudes para estudios de un dormitorioto en este desarrollo Protect OurNew Water ubicado en la calle 109 Frank Street, Haven. SeSources 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 llamando a HOME INC al 203-562-4663ONLY, durante esas horas.Pre-solicitudes deberán remitirse –NOON SATURDAYS 9 AM a lasHazWaste oficinas deCentral HOME INCresidents en 171 Orange tercer piso, New HavenBranford, , CT 06510 . is for of theseStreet, participating towns: Bethany,

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All new apartments, new appliances, new carpet, close to I-91 & I-95 Antifreeze Brake & Transmission Fluid Paint Thinner & Stripper highways, Gasoline near bus stop & shopping center Auto Batteries Used Motor Oil* PetBody under 40lb allowed. Interested parties contact Maria Auto Repair Products Latex & Oil-Based Paints* Varnish@ 860-985-8258 GARDEN & MISCELLANEOUS Batteries* Herbicides, Fungicides Photographic Chemicals CT. Unified Deacon’s Association is pleased to offer a Deacon’s Chemical Fertilizer Pesticides Cylinders (Small 1 lb.)

Certificate Program.

This is a 10 monthInsecticides, program designed to assist in the Propane intellectual formation of Candidates in response to the Church’s Ministry needs.

The&cost is $125. Classes start Saturday, August 20, 2016 1:30Fluorescent Bulbs Mercury MercurySwimming Pool Chemicals 3:30 (Including Contact: Chairman, Davis, M.S., B.S. CFL type)*Deacon Joe J.Containing Items (203) 996-4517 Host, General Bishop Elijah Davis, D.D. Pastor of Pitts Chapel U.F.W.B. Church 64 Brewster St. New Haven, NO CT ELECTRONICS OR GAS GRILL-SIZE PROPANE TANKS

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* Local disposal options may be available. Please check with your public works department, local transfer station or the following resources: Batteries: call 1-800-8-BATTERY or log on to www.call2recycle.org (excluding alkaline and auto batteries).

Compact Bulbs: call Authority 1-800-CLEANUP log on of Seymour Sealed bidsFluorescent are invitedLight by (CFL) the Housing of theor Town to www.earth911.com. until 3:00logpm onwww.paintcare.org Tuesday, Augustand2,visit 2016 at its office at 28 Smith Paint: on to the Connecticut portion of the site toStreet, find a drop-off locationfor for household Seymour, CT 06483 Concretepaint.

Sidewalk Repairs and Replacement at the

SEYMOUR HOUSING AUTHORITY

Smithfield Gardens Assisted Living Facility, Smith Information Street Seymour.

Small Businesses: Call 203-401-2712 for 26 Disposal For more information sign in visit: A pre-bid conference willandbetoheld atearly, the Housing Authority Office 28 Smith www.rwater.com/hazwaste Street Seymour, CT at 10:00 am, on Wednesday, July 20, 2016.

or call 203-401-2712.

Bidding documents are available from the Seymour Housing Authority OfLocated at the Regional Water Authority, 90 Sargent Drive, New Haven, I-95 exit 46. fice, 28 Smith Street, Seymour, CT 06483 (203) 888-4579.

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

Field Engineer

State of Connecticut Office of Policy and Management The State of Connecticut, Office of Policy and Management is recruiting for an Information Technology Analyst 1 position, a Municipal Assessment Professional position and a Research Analyst position.

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

For information regarding the duties, eligibility requirements and application instructions, please visit https://www.jobapscloud.com/CT and click on:

3-5 years exp. and Bachelor’s Degree, 40-Hr. Hazwoper Training Req. Forward resumes to RED Technologies, LLC,

Information Technology Analyst 1 (40 Hour) Recruitment #180815-7603FD-001

RED Technologies, LLC is an EOE.

Municipal Assessment Professional Recruitment #180817-5864AR-001 Research Analyst Recruitment #180822-6855AR-001 The State of Connecticut is an equal opportunity/ affirmative action employer and strongly encourages the applications of women, minorities, and persons with disabilities.

FENCE ERECTING CONTRACTORS

10 Northwood Dr., Bloomfield, CT 06002;

Fax 860.218.2433; or Email to HR@redtechllc.com

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

Large CT Fence & Guardrail Contractor is looking for Fence Installer foreman and helpers. Foreman must have at least 5 years’ experience. Helpers-no experience required, will train the right person. Work available 10-12 months per year. Valid Ct. Driver’s license required and must be able to get a DOT Medical Card. All necessary equipment provided. Medical, vacation & other benefits included. Must be able to pass a physical and drug test. Foreman rates from $22 to $28.10/hour plus benefits, helper rates from $16 Invitation Bid: to $18.10/hour plus benefits. OSHA 10 trainingtorequired.

Please nd Notice email resume to pking@atlasoutdoor.com2 AA/EOE

Garrity Asphalt Reclaiming, Inc

seeks: Reclaimer Operators and Milling Operators with current licensing and clean driving record, be willing to travel throughout the Northeast & NY. We offer excellent hourly rate & excellent benefits Contact: Rick Tousignant Phone: 860- 243-2300 Email: rick.tousignant@garrityasphalt.com

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CDL Driver with 3 years min. exp. HAZMAT Endorsed.

Old Saybrook, CT (Tractor/Triaxle/Roll-off)

(4 Buildings, 17 Units) FAX resumes to RED Technologies, at 860.342-1042; Email: HR@redtechllc.com Tax Exempt & Not Prevailing Wage Rate Project Mail or in person: 173 Pickering Street, Portland, CT 06480.

RED Technologies, LLC is EOE/AA.

Women & Minority Applicants are encouraged to apply Affirmative Action/ Equal Opportunity Employer

Union Company seeks:

New Construction, Wood Framed, Housing, Selective Demolition, Tractor Site-work,Trailer Cast- Driver for Heavy & Highway Conin-place Concrete, Asphalt Shingles, Vinyl Siding, struction Equipment. Must have a CDL License, driving record, capable of operating heavy The Flooring, Housing Authority City of Norwalk, Painting, Division of 10 the Specialties, Appliances, Residentialclean Casework, CT is seeking BIDS FOR (1) F250 pickup truck or equivalent, equipment; be willing to travel throughout the Mechanical, Electrical, and FireVans Protection.

(1) Transit Cargo Van or equivalent and (2)Plumbing Transit Connect This contract is subject to statecan set-aside and and contract compliance requirements. Northeast & NY. or Equivalent.

Bidding documents be viewed printed at www.norwalkha.org under the Business section, RFP/RFQ. Norwalk Housing Authority is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Adam Bid Extended, Due Date: August 5, 2016 Bovilsky, Executive Director

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Norton to Introduce Bill Requiring Federal Agencies to Advertise with Minority-Owned Media

WASHINGTON, D.C.— Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that she will introduce a bill to require all federal agencies to include the amount they spent in the most recent fiscal year on advertising contracts with newspapers and media companies owned by minorities and women in their annual budget requests to Congress.

Norton’s bill would also require the agencies to produce projections of their spending for the upcoming fiscal year.

“The federal government is the largest advertiser in the United States, and it has an obligation to ensure fair access to its contracts for minority and women-owned newspapers and media companies,” Norton said on Thursday, Sept. 20.

The congresswoman, who has served in the House of Representatives since 1991, said she will also send letters to all 12 appropriations subcommittees during the next appropriations cycle requesting that they require each agency under their jurisdiction to include this advertising data in their budget requests.

“My bill would provide the transparency to ensure federal agencies are striving to reach minorities, who often get their daily news from smaller media outlets who serve communities of color,” Norton said.

Two years ago, Norton led a group of Congressional members in requesting a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report on the federal advertising contract obligations to small disadvantaged businesses (SDBs) and those owned by minorities and women.

During a news conference on Capitol Hill alongside numerous African American and Latino newspaper publishers and owners from the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) and the National Alliance of Hispanic Publications, Norton demanded accountability.

She drafted a letter asking for a report from the GAO that eventually contained signatures of dozens of her colleagues on the Hill as well as senators and others.

In July, the GAO released a report revealing that fiscal year 2017 saw only 16 percent of the federal government’s advertis-

ing contract obligations spent with SDBs and those owned by minorities and women.

Further, the report concluded that, of the $5 billion spent on advertising by federal agencies over the past decade, just $50 million went to Black-owned businesses.

After the report’s release in July, the NNPA called on Congressman Cedric Richmond, the chair of the Congressional Black Cau-

cus, and members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus to “forcefully raise their voices of discontent and reaffirmation of the demands for equity, for justice, for fairness and end to this kind of systemic refusal to treat African American-owned and Latino-owned businesses along with others in a just, fair and equitable manner.”

“It’s time for all of us to respond and to act.

There should be legislation introduced in Congress immediately to rectify this gross systemic inequity,” said NNPA President and CEO Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA National Chairman Dorothy Leavell called the results of the report, shameful. She said she too would call for legislation and, in the meantime, would try and set up a meeting with members of Congress to further explore the matter.

On Thursday, Chavis said the NNPA wishes to “profoundly thank Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton for her continued leadership on this crucial economic and racial justice issue.”

“The U.S. Government by law should advertise equitably with Black-owned newspapers and media companies,” Chavis said.

“Congresswoman Norton’s timely legislative initiative is about ensuring equal justice, inclusivity and diversity, as well as a much-demanded end to the glaring pattern of racial exclusion and discrimination by the U.S. Government toward the Black Press with respect to annual advertising spending,” he said.

Another Viewpoint: When Tiger Wins, Everyone Wins from Africa Con’t from page 19

By Tim Lacy, Special to the AFRO

When Tiger Woods won his first tournament in five years last weekend, it was the fire that lit the fuse for the explosion that was yet to come. Weekend sports have become a ritual for my wife, Mrs. “L” and the knuckleheads, and their passion spills out all over the house.

Maddie has turned 15, and she has opinions locked in stone. They call me Grump, but Maddie runs a close second when things don’t go her way. Jordan is a Redskins, Ravens and Seahawks fan—as far as the NFL—so she fits right in. John can give you names and stats of every football player and basketball player dating back to the days when Moses played for the Heavenly

to America

Ballers. He is a fan, but also does double duty as the resident statistician. Jordan’s passion is visible when she cautions the others to keep down the noise. The honcho of this group is Mrs. “L”, who has been a Redskins fan since she discovered that the funny looking ball served a purpose after all.

This group has relegated the master bedroom as the clubhouse, and this is where the mayhem takes place. I have been smart enough to stake a claim on the family room where my recliner resides. There I can relax and watch anything from “I Love Lucy” reruns to the 100th episode of “Star Wars.” My clicker is my friend and I put it to good use.

It isn’t difficult to determine when it is

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a good time to click back to the game to watch a replay of the home boys doing something good. The signal for that is the uproar coming from the second floor.

There is this sudden yelping and stomping, serving as a reminder of how the occupants of Pearl Harbor must have felt back in December of ’41.

Meanwhile there is this constant parade from the second floor to the kitchen. During these occasions we dispense enough ice cream, popcorn, soda, Doritos, nachos and candy to make any vendor enough to pay his rent and car note.

At any rate, the Redskins are winning and Ravens are winning (I still ain’t convinced that RGIII has got the “Right Stuff”). The Seahawks have been a little shaky but Russell Wilson stood tall and brought home the victory. Rumor has it that Seahawks ownership is a little disenchanted with the team’s overall performance, and with this disgruntled attitude you have just stumbled

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on my pet peeve. Instead of stuffing the money in your pockets, pay your talent.

When you trade or release your big guns you wind up going to war with slingshots.

You may buy into the David and Goliath story, but this ain’t the Bible and the Philistines don’t play in the NFL. Ms “L” has another favorite team. Being a dyed-in-the-wool Redskins fan, she inherited the hate that comes with rivalry.

Whenever the Dallas Cowboys were mentioned, she developed this bad taste in her mouth. However, with a lineup change came an attitude change. She has adopted Dak and Zeke, and when the Cowboys suffered a smack down I had sense enough not to mention it. What the heck, why ruin a good thing?

I was smiling all week.

This article originally appeared in The Afro.

trappings and ornaments of White supremacy.”

Ile-Ife is widely regarded as the cradle of the Yoruba race and culture. According to Yoruba myth, Ile-Ife is deemed the cradle of human existence based on the collection of historical information, empirical facts and science. Ile-Ife is celebrated as the original source of all mankind and The Olojo Festival is celebrated annually as the spiritual confirmation that God created the world and deposited the elements of creation in Ile-Ife. The city of Ile-Ife is widely known for its many sacred shrines and spiritual sites that are meant to regularly highlight, promote and remember the Yoruba race and its cultural identities. The members of the NNPA delegation were able to visit many of these shrines and sites during their visit to the historical land.

Over the course of their visit to Ile-Ife, Nigeria, the NNPA will be participating in all aspects of The Olojo Festival and will be sharing many pictures, videos and coverage of this awe-inspiring and culturally significant annual celebration with its many readers.

Jeffrey L. Boney is a political analyst and international correspondent for the NNPA Newswire and BlackPressUSA. com and serves as Associate Editor for the Houston Forward Times newspaper.

Jeffrey is an award-winning journalist, dynamic international speaker, experienced entrepreneur, business development strategist and founder and CEO of the Texas Business Alliance. Follow Jef-

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