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Event organizer Hamilton and her neighbor Everton Chambers, one of 200 attendees.

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Author’s Corner: Allison Grace By Christian Lewis, ICN Correspondent

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Allison and I connected on Facebook in January of 2011; we occasionally talked, mostly me asking her and other authors questions about the literary industry and book related questions. May 2013 we finally met in person at the Black Pack Party in New York and we have been sisters ever since. She is a kindhearted, sweet-spirited and down to earth person, she has a wealth of knowledge and I am pleased that I was able to meet her and befriend her. She is an amazing author who shares some of the same life experiences as I do. I would like to introduce to some and present to others, Author Allison Grace! Where are you from? I am born and raised in the

Bronx, New York. I spend a significant amount of time in Connecticut and relocated here briefly after a relationship gone bad. My next move will be to the South if I can help it. When and why did you begin writing? I was born with a pen in my hand. Honestly, I began writing in cursive at the age of 3 years old and writing in print at 2. I’ve always had a writing instrument and I have an affinity for pens and notebooks. A clean slate attracts me and I yearn to fill up the pages. When did you first consider yourself a writer? As someone that dabbles in poetry and short stories I’ve always been a writer. Never stopped. I always maintained my craft. What was the inspiration behind your first book? My first book was born out of heartache from a failed relationship. Lots of tears shed behind that book. I am working on rewriting the final book in the se-

ries to complete it. It’s been years in the making but closure is necessary. Is there a message in any of your books that you want readers to grasp? I have a message in all of my books. Many of the women in the books are strong on paper but weak when you break them down. They have deep seeded issues with trust and it’s usually born from a familial relationship that bred that type of influence. Most times from a mother or father. Funny thing is I have a great relationship with my parents. If you had to choose, what author do you consider to be your mentor? T. Styles hands down! She helped teach me the business years ago when I was apart of the Pep Squad for the Cartel Publications. Her work ethic inspires me and motivates me. She is an open book and still perseveres. She goes hard for her readers because they love and respect her craft. Her talent is unmatched and improves with each book. It shows. Are there any new authors out that have grasped your interest? I haven’t read a new author in a long time. I’ve been focused on my own books honestly. The last book that I opened up was Lala Anthony and her book Power Playbook. Lots of great information to be retained from it. Do you see writing as a career? Absolutely. The time put into this is not one for someone that doesn’t see it as a career. I work full-time and even when I am out and about with family or friends I am still connected. Reason being is that I have been able to connect and network with amazing individuals just by being in the right place at the right time. What advice would you give up and coming writers? Never stop writing! Make it an every day task either one word or one chapter. It is progress... slow progress but it’s progress

nonetheless. Once you see others bypassing you, you will be motivated to catch up. What are you currently workin on now? I am currently working on three novels for release in 2016. That’s at bare minimum. I am working on getting a book tour together for 2016/2017 and hopefully more distribution where people can access my novels in a local bookstore even though a lot of them aren’t around. My dream is Wal-Mart and Barnes and Noble as well as hitting the New York Times Bestsellers List. Where can interested readers purchase your books? I am working on updating my website however my novels are available on amazon.com as well as Barnes and noble.com. Paperbacks are available for purchase from me directly. All are autographed and some even have a surprise in them! Is there anything else you would like your readers to know? I wanted to thank all my readers, new and old for giving me the opportunity to entertain them. I hope they learn something from my books and the characters that I bring forth to them. There’s a lesson in everything and everyone if you dig deep enough. What is your preferred method for readers to get in contact with you or follow you? I am easily accessible on social media. My information is as followed: www.twitter.com/fullofessence www.instagram.com/ fullofessence essencepub”www.facebook.com/ illuminnessencepub or www.facebook.com/ fullofessence www.snapchat.com/ fullofessence All business inquiries and bookings can be made via phone 347395-6296.

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By Samuel T. Ross-Lee Following the murder of Trayvon Martin in my home state of Florida and the acquittal of his murderer, some visionary, insightful, and radical women started a movement. They called it #BlackLivesMatter. Alicia Garza, Opal Tometi, and Patrisse Cullors are not your stereotypical Civil Rights Movement leaders. They are not male. They are not preachers or lawyers. They are not waiting for anyone to give them a platform. They created their own. The #BlackLivesMatter movement has been misunderstood since its origin though much of the confusion is intentional. In this way, this movement is not atypical. Virtually every movement for Black Liberation has been met with raised eyebrows and obfuscating arguments. For, these are the tactics of resistance. The more time one has to spend explaining the meaning and the relevance of one’s movement, the less time and energy one has to actually be moving. Dr. King’s Southern Christian Leadership Council was forced to include the word “Christian”

in its original name to blunt criticisms that the organization was a communist party front. And, King’s famous Letter From The Birmingham Jail was an attempt to blunt criticism from eight White clergymen who questioned the legitimacy of a minister behaving in the manner King and his colleagues were, as they marched in the street, faced police dogs and fire hoses, and were willingly arrested and spent time in Southern jails. Civil Disobedience in pursuit of justice and equality for disenfranchised Negroes in 1963 seemed to confuse the Alabama clergymen who wrote an open letter entitled A Call For Unity, to which King’s letter was the response. It is even true that some of the very people who are the intended beneficiaries of a movement’s struggles are confused, or say that they are, of the movement’s intention, tactics, and focus. Not a few African-Americans have questioned the slogan and the tactics of the #BlackLivesMatter campaign. Some have joined the “All Lives Matter” mantra. While others have argued something akin to “Black lives must matter to Black people before they can matter to others.” On the surface, both of these counterclaims to the BLM movement appear reasonable, but what they really represent are misunderstandings and misdirection on a massive scale. It is clear that the proponents of

these counterclaims have taken little, if any, time to engage the movement from its source. They have, instead, allowed their biases, misreading, and unfettered speculations to run wild. Well, here is the source. From the BLM website, we find what they have to say about what this movement means and why these counter statements miss the point in significant ways.

conflict and war is state violence; Black folks living with disabilities and different abilities bear the burden of statesponsored Darwinian experiments that attempt to squeeze us into boxes of normality defined by White supremacy is state violence. And the fact is that the lives of Black people— not ALL people—exist within these conditions is (the) consequence of state violence.

When we say Black Lives Matter, we are talking about the ways in which Black people are deprived of our basic human rights and dignity. It is an acknowledgment Black poverty and genocide is state violence. It is an acknowledgment that 1 million Black people are locked in cages in this country–one-half of all people in prisons or jails–is an act of state violence. It is an acknowledgment that Black women continue to bear the burden of a relentless assault on our children and our families and that assault is an act of state violence. Black queer and trans folks bearing a unique burden in a hetero-patriarchal society that disposes of us like garbage and simultaneously fetishizes us and profits off of us is state violence; the fact that 500,000 Black people in the US are undocumented immigrants and relegated to the shadows is state violence; the fact that Black girls are used as negotiating chips during times of

All Lives Matter, while seeming more concerned with the whole of humanity, is a misleading rejoinder to the BLM movement as explained above, because the fact is “All Lives” are not under the same threats of violence from government sponsored police or disregard from government-controlled judicial systems where crimes against us too often go unpunished. The “Physician Heal Thyself” spirit of the Black Lives should matter to Black People sentiment, again, while appearing reasonable, is nothing more than a deflection from a legitimate critique of the judicial system whose role it is to protect and serve Black people with the same protection and service the dominant culture in America is afforded, without question and without hesitation. Reducing, or even ending, so-called Black on Black crime is not a substitution for reducing or even ending the killing of unarmed or already imprisoned Black bodies that have been taken by the

police, or correcting a system that is biased against us even before the trial begins. Also, when ending police violence against us is preceded by a focus on intra-racial crime in the Black community, we should note just how unique such a focus is. In other words, there is no other race of people in America to whom this criterion is applied. Most crime is committed against people by the people closest to them. This means that most crime is intraracial, not interracial, though the interracial kind is often broadcast the most and the loudest. But, despite the fact that crime is mostly intra-racial, no one says to the White community that they must stop killing, robbing, or otherwise hurting one another, before the police and the courts can treat them fairly or take their lives seriously.

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So that no one misunderstands this movement again, we need but pay attention to what they have said about themselves in this concluding statement. #BlackLivesMatter is working for a world where Black lives are no longer systematically and intentionally targeted for demise. Now, can anyone justifiably argue with that? Reverend Samuel T. RossLee is the Senior Minister at Immanuel Missionary Baptist Church, New Haven, CT.

Cop-Stop Black “Survival” Effort Launched Norwalk. His special-agent-incharge could and would verify that.

by MARKESHIA RICKS New Haven Independent

On a warm summer night, then-FBI agent Quentin Williams found himself arrested, handcuffed and surrounded by 12 police cars, because he was black. He knew his next move could land him in jail, get him killed, or send him home safe.

Officers eventually allowed Williams out of the cruiser, so that he could sit on the curb while they worked to sort out the story. “I was angry down in the pit of my stomach,” Williams recalled. “But on the surface I was smiling.”

Williams lived to tell the tale of how he survived that night. Now he is back in New Haven to make sure that others survive too. Williams, also a former prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney’s Office, stopped by his old stomping grounds in New Haven Tuesday to announce a new statewide initiative to teach people, particularly young people of color, the skills that he claims saved his life when he was arrested that fateful day in Rhode Island in 1994.

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Author of A Survival Guide: How Not To Get Killed By the Police Part I, a 31-page handbook that covers what to do when you are pulled over, and if you are ever stopped on the street, Williams is now head of a notfor-profit organization called Dedication to Community, or D2C, which focuses on improving community/police relations specifically through an initiative called Choose 2 Live. That initiative trains people how to behave when they come in contact with police officers; it is up and running in 12 states. Now it will be coming to Connecticut. Williams said many of his friends in law enforcement read the title of his book and immediately suspected it was anti-cop. He told a room packed with law enforcement officers from all across the state Tuesday that in fact the guide is “pro-law enforcement” because it is meant to insure safer interactions for police officers and members of the community. He said he wrote the book at the behest of his wife, who has often watched how he handled

Williams said he knew that if he had reacted with anything other than politeness and cooperation he could have ended up spending a night or more in jail, or worse. MARKESHIA RICKS PHOTO

Williams (at right) with police Sgt. Albert McFadden at “Choose 2 Live” initiative announcement at the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

might be an elaborate practical joke. His FBI buddies were notorious pranksters. And if it was a joke, Williams said he thought, this one was a doozie. He was surrounded by no fewer than 12 police cars. In case it wasn’t a joke, he played it straight. He was unfailingly polite, and followed the commands of the arresting officer to the letter. The Revs. Steven Cousin and Keith King

random traffic stops. She urged him to write it for their then unborn son. The now father of two said getting it published and creating a platform to get it into the hands of people took on a sense of urgency after reading about “the senseless killing of people ... by rogue law enforcement officers or individuals under the color of law.”

Connecticut U.S. Attorney Deirdre Daly said that despite efforts to “bridge the divide” between law enforcement and the communities they are sworn to protect, tensions remain. “There are too many lives lost to this divide,” she said Tuesday. “We do not live in a perfect world, but we must do everything we can to make it better.”

A reading of the handbook doesn’t expressly say it is aimed at people of color; the instructions are specific and colorblind. He explains law enforcement officers mindsets during stops and how to respond to requests. But in the book’s dedication Williams acknowledged his own disgust at the growing list of unarmed people he lists Oscar Grant, Jonathan Ferrell, Trayvon Martin, Israel Hernandez and Robert Cameron Redus who have been killed.

Williams credited former Assistant U.S. Attorney, the Rev. Keith King of New Haven, with helping to make the partnership possible. King has worked for years to build relationships between local police and the community they protect and he said that when he learned of the work his former colleague was doing he championed the partnership. “We have to do what we can to help both sides come together,” he said. Williams thought the arrest

“May I ask what this is about?” he asked. The cop told him to shut up and get against the car. But because he was an FBI agent and always carrying his gun, he risked the cop’s wrath to tell him who he was and that he had a 9 mm FBI-issued gun in a fanny pack around his waist. The cop took the pack and put Williams in the back seat of the cruiser. After about 30 minutes of head scratching over his credentials by the police on scene, the supervising lieutenant arrived. That supervisor ultimately told Williams why he was under arrest: Earlier that day a black man had allegedly pointed a gun at a white man. Williams had an airtight alibi for the time of the alleged incident. He was in Bridgeport closing out a year-long civil rights investigation into the alleged execution-style killing of a young black man by the police in

Instead he lost more than two hours of a beautiful summer night, and suffered the humiliation of sitting handcuffed on the curb, surrounded by law enforcement while onlookers watched. But he lived to talk about it. That was what Williams said counted. He said when he was finally let go, officers sent him away with a weak, “I hope you understand.” He understood. That didn’t mean he approved of the way it was handled. Williams said those officers could have taken just 18 seconds to have a conversation with him and apologize. He encouraged the law enforcement officers in the room Tuesday not to neglect those 18 seconds. But even if officers don’t take that time, he said for the person on the opposite side of the badge, compliance and cooperation are key to survival. In his book he stresses that if you are stopped and you feel that you were mistreated, or that the stop was unwarranted, report the incident after you are released. While you’re standing on the street or pulled over is not the time to make your displeasure known. “No matter how I felt,” he said of that night in Newport, “my goal was to get everyone home safely.”

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Deirdre Daly at Tuesdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s announcement.

Affordable Housing Elusive In Boom by ALIYYA SWABY New Haven Independent

New Haven no longer has to entice builders to bring apartments to town renting for up to $5,000 a month. Luring desperately needed affordable housing is proving trickier, an expert panel agreed. Some of the key players in building low-income housing throughout the state discussed that challenge at a panel Thursday afternoon at the United Way’s offices at 370 James St. The panel was organized by Opening Doors, a regional alliance for ending homelessness.

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Market-rate apartments have sprung up throughout the city in the past couple of years, including 136 units at The Novella on Chapel and Howe Streets, 158 units at Winchester Lofts at Winchester, Munson and Henry Streets, and 160 units at College and Crown downtown. Rental prices range from about $1,300 to $5,000 a month. Meanwhile, the city and landlord Northland Investment Corp. are in the process of evacuating the 301-unit subsidized housing complex Church Street South, whose buildings have received dozens of condemnations and citations for unsafe conditions. The city has not yet figured out where many of those people will go. People desperately need affordable housing; the cost of housing is considered a burden when it is more than 30 percent of the household’s income, said Richard Porth, United Way president. About 57 percent of households in New Haven earn more than the federal poverty level but cannot pay for all of their essential costs, he said. Those households are below a threshold called ALICE, an acronym for Asset Limited, Income Constrained,

Employed. About 35 percent of Connecticut households are below that threshold. “Affordable housing” and “decent housing” are not necessarily the same, Matthew Nemerson, city government’s economic development administrator, said at Thursday’s forum. As factories moved into city limits long ago and housing sprung up around them, workers were packed into tenements—affordable but not decent. “We really want housing that’s dignified,” he said. “Who’s going to pay for it?” As the neighborhoods in the city continue to change, people want to be able to walk to work, meaning the areas peripheral to downtown are increasing in value, Nemerson said. That is

happening too in cities such as San Francisco, New York and Boston, where market-rate apartments are filled and demand for housing is high. “They’re trying to figure out how they can actually add additional taxation or permitting cost or some sort of internal transfer to people who are building very expensive housing to make sure they can build affordable housing,” he said. A few years ago in New Haven, rent increased to the price where developers can afford to build without losing money, he said. But city officials here have less leverage to ask developers to absorb the cost of affordable housing, Nemerson said. “We ask them to include it and we try to work with them to afford it,” he said.

The city has limited funding for subsidizing developers for the affordable housing, he said. But it asks developers to build at least 10 percent of affordable housing into each building, at a negotiated rate that can vary, he said. (Another debate in town centers on how to define “affordable” housing, whether new government-subsidized apartments will house lowincome or middle-income people. That often depends on the rules of state or federal programs that subsidize those apartments’ construction, a subject of current discussions over how to include 30 percent “affordable” housing in a development planned for the Hill neighborhood.) John Bradley, executive director of Liberty Community Services, asked the panelists about the many three-family homes in the city, many of which are now physically deteriorating. Are those obsolete in today’s housing market? Nemerson said that New Haven has a “rich and wonderful supply of larger homes,” traditionally affordable and owned by families who rent out one or two of the bedrooms. Now many those houses are owned by landlords who rely on federal Section 8 rent-subsidy certificates as their business model. Though the rent in a neighborhood may “want to be $1,400,” for example, the certificates can be worth $2,500 per month, a “gold mine” for the landlords, he said. One unintended consequence is that rents spike for houses nearby without Section 8 certificates, he said. “We’re seeing a strange impact where the [federal Department of Housing and Urban

Development] rents are becoming the market rent, not the other way around,” he said. Why can’t cities just get lots of housing built, if the demand is so high? asked Amy Casavina Hall, United Way vice president and moderator of the event. “We make it impossible for people to build lots of housing,” Nemerson said. People have in the past have rejected plans for large-scale subsidized or affordable housing in their neighborhoods, he said, especially in the suburbs. “Only New Haven will end up building any kind of largescale anything,” he said. Brett Hill, executive director of HOME, which matches people with appropriate affordable housing, said a state law is helping some developers build in suburbs. The statute 830G lets developers who build affordable apartments bypass zoning laws in xiety/»towns with less than 10 percent affordable housing. “Developers are making a fair amount of money” on the large complexes, he said. “The system can work.” Affordable and subsidized housing is much more expensive to build than marketrate or luxury developments, Nemerson said. Developers must put more money and energy into following federal law for building quality subsidized housing, he said. Prices stay consistent if an area has a diverse stock of housing, said Katy Shafer, deputy policy director for the Partnership for Strong Communities. People wary of affordable housing in their neighborhoods are only thinking of the “unfortunate examples,” she said.

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People in 1839 expected in the beginning a bad result, and that was part of the motivating fervor of the movement of religious abolitonists who began to organize the Amistad prisoners’ defense team in the form of the Amistad Committee.

by ALLAN APPEL New Haven Independent

You can draw a direct line between the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement today and the story of the Amistad captives of 175 years ago: While the legal system grinds away toward justice, you and your allies absolutely must, at the same time, be energetic advocates for yourselves and your cause. Amistad Committee, itself formed 175 years ago to help as the legal defense in the case, drew more than 200 guests and supporters to mark the 175th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court decision freeing the Amistad captives who revolved on a slave ship, then were held in New Haven.

“High we exalt thee, realm of the free,” goes the first line of the Sierra Leone national anthem, which attendees also sang.

The event took Wednesday night at Amarante’s Sea Cliff in Morris Cove. The Amistad case is considered the first civil-rights legal victory in U.S. history.

The Amistad captives of 1839 hailed from Sierra Leone, which was then a British colony.

Event organizer Hamilton and her neighbor Everton Chambers, one of 200 attendees.

“The captives were always advocating for themselves, not just relying on the legal system,” wrote Tessa Rock, a New London high school 10th grader and a first-place winner in the statewide essay contest that was one of the features of the celebration. Before the dinner got underway, she was there discussing the Amistad story along with the city’s representative at the event, New Haven Corporation Counsel John Rose. The legal case was “ridiculously complex,” he said.

In addition to a quick course through that history, Sillah thanked the Amistad Committee, in partnership with the Sisters Cities program in New Haven, for providing Sierra Leone with funds and ambulances to combat the recent Ebola crisis. When she said “Sierra Leone is now Ebola free,” applause crescendoed across the room.

The essay winner and her proud parents, Mamie and Paul Rock.

Perry, who serves on the Amistad Committee board.

Stemming from the continuing relationship between New Haven and Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, the whole event percolated with a sense that past is present. Each of the tables had as a centerpiece the flags of both the United States and Sierra Leone, along with a facsimile of a drawing of Cinque, Margu, or another of the Amistad prisoners as they awaited trial in 1839. They were sketched by a 17year-old New Havener named .yale.edu/collections/ highlights/drawings-amistadprisoners-new-haven”William

Hamilton, vice president of the Amistad Committee, along with Kai Perry of the program committee, were the chief organizers of the event. Of the need for continuing advocacy for civil rights, Hamilton pointed out that when former president John Quincy Adams spoke at length and eloquently to the Supreme Court in making his case for the Africans’ freedom, “everyone thought it was the beginning of abolition” of slavery in the country. But no, it was just for those people, she added. “We connect it to the Black Lives Matter movement. That’s what happened then,” she said, citing the involvement of the churches as key players in advocacy during and after the Amistad trials. Perry, who was busy passing out copies of the essays of Tessa Rock and the other prize winners Geranne Darbouze of Central High School and Jason A. Spencer of Warren Harding High School in Bridgeport — made this point about the significance of the Amistad story for young people: “They need to understand that it happened in their backyard. A lot of [the essay writers] made a connection with Black Lives Matter and with whites caring. For me it is important that they know that even though they’re young, they can make a difference.” Other events in the citywide celebration include tonight’s 5:30 p.m. dramatic performance by Tammy Denease of the life of one of the captive girls: “Sarah Margu: A Child of the Amistad.” The location is the New Haven Museum on Whitney Avenue just north of Trumbull, and admission is free.

Rose also pointed out to her that the judge in charge of the initial Amistad trial was the very same who, just six years before, in 1833, Prudence Crandall for opening her school in Canterbury, Ct. to an AfricanAmerican girl. Her violation of the law: in effect creating the first integrated school classroom in the United States.

Also at the table of honor in front of the flower-bedecked dining room was long-time Amistad Committee President Al Marder, along with Ed Hamilton, the sculptor of the Amistad memorial statue adjacent to City Hall (the statue is precisely on the site where the captives were initially held in 1839); and Mrs. Isha Sillah, the head of chancery for the Sierra Leone embassy in Washington, D.C.

Townsend, said Ros Hamilton.

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City Marks 175th Anniversary Of Amistad SCOTUS Decision

Margu “Returns” For Amistad’s 175th Africans’ freedom did not come without strings attached. The evangelist abolitionists expected the Africans to help raise money not only for boat passage home to Sierra Leone, but also to establish a missionary school there.

by ALLAN APPEL New Haven Independent

In 1839 Margu was was only 9 years old when she was snatched from her home into slavery. She was marched 80 miles to the slave pens off the coast of Sierra Leone, to await the harrowing Middle Passage across the Atlantic Ocean to Cuba.

Margu participated in all of this, as well as becoming part of the signing or deaf community in Farmington.

In New Haven, she would help make history that our city is celebrating Wednesday, 175 years later after a landmark civil-rights victory. Margu was a Muslim, from a Mende culture with an advanced legal system. Because she had never left her inland home before, she and her fellow captives, on beholding the sea for the first time, proclaimed the Atlantic Ocean “the big river.”

When the 39 remaining Africans returned to Sierra Leone, most abandoned the missionaries and went home to find their own families. Margu stayed with the missionaries at the school. Eventually her value, it was determined, would be enhanced if she got a college education. ALLAN APPEL PHOTO Denease

points to an image of Margu, whom she’ll portray in this week’s 175th Amistad decision anniversary.

Amy Durbin, to discuss the upcoming performance, the gallery’s highlights, and how what was arguably the most significant and complicated civil rights case up to the time might best be understood now.

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Such stereotype-breaking and humanizing details emerged from a discussion with actress Tammy Denease at the splendid Amistad Gallery at the New Haven Museum. Thursday evening at 5:30 p.m. Denease is portraying Margu in Sarah Margu: A Child of the Amistad. The free performance at the museum is part of :// www.nhregister.com/generalnews/20160305/new-haven-tocelebrate-175th-anniversary-ofamistad-the-slave-ship-that-ledto-freedom”the citywide celebration of the 175th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision that determined the 53 Amistad captives, held in New Haven, were not property to be argued over, but free human be-

“Most people are familiar with the legal case,” Denease said. “I like to put the human face on it.”

ings. It was the nation’s first civil rights victory, and the “Black Lives Matter” moment of its day.

That human face included how Margu, who had “Sarah” added to her name by the missionary couple who adopted her, navigated the new Christian and highly capitalistic world she was encountering.

WNHH radio’s “This Day In New Haven History” sat down with Denease and with the museum’s education director,

Durbin said that while the captives were being held in the New Haven jail approximately where the statue of the captives’

leader, Cinque, now stands next to City Hall the jailer would take the captives out on the Green periodically to get fresh air. “They would do exercises on the Green. The jailer would sell tickets,” Durbin said. “As if they were part of a circus performance, for 12 cents, I believe.” After the Supreme Court decision in 1841 liberated Margu, she and the other Africans were not provided any money to return to Africa. In Farmington, the abolitionists and missionaries taught Margu and the others to read and write. In exchange the Africans taught them how to grow rice and other crops not native to New England. Yet they also had to go out on frequent speaking tours, for the

That’s how Sarah Margu, shipped off to Oberlin College in Ohio, became the first African ever to graduate from an American college. Denease said her take on Margu’s story is true to the conflicts the girl experienced in navigating two worlds. As many times as Denease has portrayed Margu, she says she discovers new facets, most recently the young woman’s relationship to the deaf community in Farmington, where she lived before returning to Africa. “I constantly find more things,” Denease said, but kept returning to “the determining spirit [of Margu and her colleagues] to be free and to be treated as equals.”

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by PAUL BASS

College, ran for co-chair as a team with Yale student Gabrielle Diaz. They captured 189 and 194 votes at the machines, according to the final tally (including absentee ballots).

New Haven Independent

A team of candidates representing the Dixwell neighborhood and a bordering sliver of Yale University scored a clear victory in a crowded ward committee election. The five-way election for two open 22nd Democratic Ward Committee co-chairs took place Tuesday. It was the only one of 30 wards in town to have a contested co-chair race. Ward committees’ main function is to endorse candidates for elected office, though some committees take on broader communitybuilding roles; each ward has two co-chairs.

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Dancy, Diaz thank supporters Tuesday night.

The 22nd Ward is split between the Dixwell neighborhood and Yale’s Ezra Stiles and Morse residential

colleges. Victoria Dancy, a project manager and part-time adjunct at Gateway Community

that Yale and the city don’t mix. “I never bought into that,” she said.

“We are so excited to work with you all,” Diaz told two dozen or so supporters who gathered inside the entryway to The ward’s alder, Jeanette the Wexler-Grant polling Morrison, worked hard on their station. “We are so excited to campaign. Morrison said she work with Jeanette.” has tried since first winning her Dancy thanked opponents alder position five years ago to Cordelia Thorpe, Angela bridge the divide between town Watley, and Helen Powell for and gown, which is in stark “this wonderful race.” Thorpe, relief in Ward 22. who was an incumbent, “We all have to live here,” she captured 81 votes; Watley, 81; said at the polls at Wexler-Grant Powell, 54. School Tuesday night. When “It’s hard to beat a machine,” she was growing up, she said, Watley remarked. “there was an unwritten rule”

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It’s Time We Change The Way We Talk To Young Women About HIV/AIDS to say, reshare content from trusted sources like the CDC’s Act Against AIDS accounts on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

By Arionne Nettles, BlackDoctor.org Contributor In the U.S., this fact is an important one. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, one in four people living with HIV infection here are women and compared to other racial groups, both African-American and Hispanic women are affected more than other racial groups. This risk is intensified in young women.

3. Show them how to use condoms correctly. Worn incorrectly, condoms don’t offer much protection from HIV. A 2012 study published in Sexual Health showed that improper condom use is a frequent occurrence. These common errors caused issues like breakage and leakage, which researchers attribute to the spread of sexually transmissible infections like HIV.

READ: Our Girls Matter: Making Progress Against HIV/AIDS Among Women & Girls

4. Take action with them.

More than half of 13- to 24year-old living with HIV are undiagnosed. Researchers are still studying the biological reasons that younger women’s bodies may be more susceptible to the virus, but societal issues such as not knowing how to prevent it, being afraid to tell partners to use condoms, and the overall stigma surrounding HIV discussion contribute to this statistic.

Young women and adolescent girls are at the greatest risk for HIV and AIDS worldwide.

structive. She tried to speed up the process with drug abuse just so no one would know she had HIV. That stigma, Robin says, can stop with discussion.

Here are some tips to talk to the younger women and adolescents in your life about HIV/AIDS to be sure they’re well-informed:

When Robin was diagnosed with HIV just months shy of her sixteenth birthday, it was the stigma surrounding the disease that led her to making dangerous choices. She thought she was going to die, so she became self-de-

“Anybody can have HIV: it can be your doctor, your lawyer, your judge, anybody,” Robin says in her video as a part of the CDC’s Let’s Stop HIV Together campaign. “This disease is real and it doesn’t discriminate at all.”

The fear of stigma and discrimination is the main reason people don’t get tested, or if diagnosed, disclose their status, according to the World Health Organization. Creating a safe space to talk without judgment

1. Create a safe space.

can help the young women and girls you know feel comfortable discussing HIV with you. 2. Utilize social media. Social media is a powerful tool that’s at your disposal to normalize HIV discussion in your network. 89 percent of young women ages 18 to 29 use social media sites and 93 percent of teens, according to Pew Research. If you’re unsure of what

To put aside any nervousness they may have, get tested with them. Not only does it get them acclimated to the actual process, but it will likely help address other related questions about safe sex and services that are available to them. Knowing about resources like Planned Parenthood or understanding how the Affordable Care Act covers preventative health services like HIV screening and counseling for sexually active women can help them make more informed choices. To find a local testing center near you, visit the AIDS.gov HIV Testing and Care Services Locator.

Harvard Seeks & Witnesses Spike in African-American Applicants of Harvard’s outreach to outstanding students everywhere.”

by Zenitha Prince Senior AFRO Correspondent Harvard College is reporting a record number of applicants for its Class of 2020, and African Americans constitute one-tenth of the higher education hopefuls. Applications for admission numbered at 39,044 this year, the Ivy League institution reported. That is a 4.6 percent increase from last year and a 246 percent increase from 40 years ago, when Harvard first accepted coed applications. “We have come a long way since 1976, the first year a single admissions committee reviewed applications from both men and

A senior fills out a college enrollment application. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

women,” William R. Fitzsimmons, Harvard College dean of admissions and financial

aid, said in a statement. The record number of applicants, he added, “reflects the effectiveness

The increase in applications may also reflect the college’s attempt to ease the financial burden on those potential students. Recent statistics show that a college education is becoming increasingly expensive, which may discourage many from pursuing higher education. From 2007 to 2015, for example, college loan debt exploded from $516 billion to $1.2 trillion, according to the U.S. Department of Education. Approximately 25 percent of students who take out loans for college are 90 days delinquent, according to the Federal Reserve

Bank of New York. Harvard waived the application fees of nearly 25 percent of this year’s applicants due to financial hardship. If those students are accepted, they will likely be eligible for the school’s financial aid program. Twenty percent of Harvard’s current undergraduates are from families with incomes of less than $65,000 a year. The college pays all tuition for those students, including room and board. More than half of Harvard’s undergraduates receive some sort of financial aid. Con’t on page 22

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Audre Lorde: Activist, Poet, Intersectional Feminist mother advised her not to worry about anything besides her education. In high school, Lorde began associating herself with others who were seen as outcasts, writing poetry and generally behaving in unconventional manners.

Posted by Susan, BlackThen.com Audre Geraldine Lorde was born February 18, 1934 in Harlem, New York, to parents of Barbadian and Carriacouan extraction. Her childhood was marked by emotional detachment from her parents, who were busy running their real estate business. Her father frequently attended political meetings, keeping him out until late at night. There was much conflict with her mother, who was a stern disciplinarian. She was extremely nearsighted, but dedicated to educating herself, and learned to read at an early age. She realized the power that poetry possessed as a means of communication and expression, and wrote her first poem in eighth grade. She also

became known as the best student in all of her secondary school classes, which made many white students jealous. In her “mythography,” Zami, A New Spelling of My Name, she discussed how she naively believed that she would win an

election for class president at her all-white school by virtue of her being the smartest person in class. She lost the election, and recalls running home to her mother explaining to her how she didn’t win the election because she was black. Her

Elaine Brown: Prison Activist, Former Chairwoman of Black Panther Party

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Posted by Susan, BlackThen.com Elaine Brown was born to an impoverished, hard-working single mother in North Philadelphia in 1943. Her mother worked tirelessly to ensure that she received a quality education, decent clothing, and private music lessons, sending her to an experimental elementary school where she studied classical ballet and piano. This is testament to the indomitable spirit of the black working class woman to provide opportunities for her children to become educated and cultured, sacrificing pleasures and comforts to ensure that they have the best opportunities to advance themselves. Upon graduation from high school, Brown attended several different universities, including Temple University and the University of California, Los Angeles. She eventually took a job as a cocktail waitress at a Los Angeles strip club, where she met J.R. Kennedy, a white fiction

writer who became her teacher and lover. Brown was radicalized through study and experience as a black woman in a racist, sexist, classist society. After the murder of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Brown joined the Black Panther Party in 1968. Through the Black Panthers, she sold newspapers, continued her study of revolutionary theory and practice, and helped set up the Party’s programs such as Free Breakfast for Children and busing programs to help prisoners’ families visit them in ru-

rally-situated facilities. She also recorded excellent songs and worked for the Black Panther newspaper. After Eldridge Cleaver was expelled from the Party, she took his position as Minister of Information. During this time, she also entered electoral politics with runs for Oakland City Council, which she lost by a relatively small margin. When Party co-founder Huey P. Newton was forced out of the country, he appointed Brown as Chair, a position she held from 1973 to 1977. During her term, she focused heavily on electoral politics and community service programs. There was conflict as the party was heavily influenced by patriarchy and other issues, so Brown resigned from Chairwoman in 1977. Brown continues to remain active, campaigning for offices under the social-democratic Green Party and working against mass incarceration and other societal/ structural problems.

Lorde studied abroad in Mexico, becoming solid in her identity as a queer woman and a poet. When she returned to New York City, she began working as a librarian and became a fixture in alternative Greenwich Village. Lorde got married, but became divorced after having two children. She then began working at historically black Tougaloo College in Mississippi, where she met her life partner, a white professor named Frances Clayton. All throughout the 1960s, Lorde was active as a writer and

as an activist, working within the anti-war, civil rights, and feminist movements. Her work was published in anthologies, reviews, journals, underground newspapers, and in magazines worldwide, being an influential and early voice for queer women of color. She was also key in developing the concept of intersectionality, which is the concept which states that identities overlap; this educational theory studies the interactions between these identities and, subsequently, the oppression, domination, and discrimination that results. This was a major contribution to antioppression practice and theory and laid the groundwork for entire new departments and fields of study. Lorde died in 1992 from liver cancer, but her poems, research, life story, and passion live on.

Georgia Ann Hill Robinson: First African-American Policewoman in the United States Posted by Jae Jones, In 1919, Georgia Ann Hill Robinson became the first African-American policewoman in the United States. In 1916, Robinson was recruited as a volunteer for the Los Angeles Police Department. Later, on June 10, 1919, she was appointed as a paid policewoman as a matron in Athe jails and later worked juvenile and homicide cases. She held a degree in the nursing field and later founded the Sojourner Truth Home. Robinson never knew her parents. She was first raised by her older sister, then later in a convent. At the age of 18, she moved to Kansas where she took the job of governess. She later met and married her husband, Morgan Robinson. Robinson became involved in various community organizations, where she was spotted by a Los Angeles Police Department recruiter who offered her a job. On July 25, 1916, Robinson became the first black policewoman in LAPD history, and in the entire

United States. She was assigned as a jail matron and went on to work juvenile and homicide cases. In 1928, Robinson attempted to break up a fight between two drunken women. She suffered a head injury that led to total permanent blindness. She went on disability, began working with local community leaders to desegregate Los Angeles beaches and schools, and continued her work with women in the shelter. Robinson died in 1961.

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The Perfect Match Film Review by Kam Williams

rected by Billie Woodruff (Addicted).

Confirmed bachelor Charlie Mack (Terrence J) is always upfront with women about his dating philosophy, simply, “I don’t do relationships.” The shameless playboy’s almost 30, and his womanizing ways have become an embarrassment to his family and friends. They feel it’s high time for him to mature, especially after he brought his latest conquest (Chantel Jeffries) along on a blind date set up by his sister, Sherry (Paula Patton).

Fair warning: this characterdriven escapade is certainly not for the prudish, as it contains frontal nudity and some fairly frank dialogue. That being said, it’s also funny, engaging, unpredictable and visually-captivating, courtesy of a constant parade of eye candy across the screen. Overall, this delightful ensemble dramedy is reminiscent of a couple of other great urban classics, Love Jones (1997) and The Best Man (1999). That’s good company!

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Besides, his BFFs, Ricky (Donald Faison) and Victor (Robert Christopher Riley) have both already settled down. The former is married and doing his best to impregnate his desperate for a baby wife, Pressie (Daschia Polanco). And the latter is engaged to Ginger (Lauren London) who’s worried that Charlie’s going to ruin her impending wedding by “bringing one of those floozies” to the reception. Meanwhile, therapist Sherry is willing to see her brother as a client, if that would help him figure out why he’s such a pathetic case of arrested development, at least when it comes to romance. Otherwise, Charlie’s actually rather well-adjusted. He’s a wellpaid executive at Premier Edge,

and settles on Eva (Cassie Ventura), a gorgeous stranger he just met at a coffee shop, as the object of his affection. However, he still gets involved with the express understanding that theirs will be a “no strings, no expectations” relationship. She agrees, despite the fact that she’s only used to being in committed ones. So, they’re both ostensibly operating in uncharted waters.

a leading L.A. PR firm where he’s proven to be quite adept at attracting lucrative new accounts to the company. The plot thickens one evening

when he’s out having drinks with the guys and they challenge him to remain faithful to the same woman for the next month..Charlie takes the dare,

Will this libidinous liaison turn into love, now that Charlie has grudgingly agreed to give what would ordinarily be a one-night stand a chance to blossom? That is the burning question at the center of The Perfect Match, an intriguing romantic romp di-

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Harvard Seeks The availability of resources has helped remove barriers to an education at Harvard and has made it possible for people of different backgrounds to apply to the college, officials said. “Harvard’s Financial Aid Initiative (HFAI) has resonated strongly with students who never thought Harvard was a possibility,” said Sally C. Donahue, the Griffin director of financial aid at Harvard. “Only about 20,000 students applied before HFAI began over a decade ago. With nearly 40,000 applicants today, Harvard students now come from a much broader array of economic, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds than at any time in Harvard’s history.” African-Americans comprise 10.6 percent of 2016 applicants to Harvard. In 2015, 241 Black students were admitted to the college and 75 percent of them decided to enroll, according to the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education. African-American students account for 11.6 percent of the Class of 2019.

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Texas state trooper who arrested Sandra Bland fired Brian Encinia, a Texas state trooper, who arrested Sandra Bland, an Illinois motorist later found dead in her jail cell, has been fired. Encinia can still appeal the Texas Department of Safety’s decision to fire him which occurred after a grand jury indicted him for perjury in December. He is accused of lying about the circumstances surrounding the July 10, 2015 arrest of Bland and the heated confrontation between the two that followed. Bland, a native of Naperville, Ill., a Chicago suburb, was driving to Prairie View A&M University in Prairie View, Texas, where she was scheduled to start a job August 3. Bland graduated in 2009 with a degree from Prairie View A&M’s College of Agriculture.

Sandra Bland died in a Texas jail for a minor traffic violation

The stop by Encinia quickly turned into a confrontation when he attempted to yank her from the car and threatened her with a taser. He is accused of violating the Texas Department of Public

Safety’s traffic stop and courtesy procedures. A dashcam video on Encinia’s patrol car captured the entire incident. Bland was found dead in a cell in the Waller County jail. Her death was ruled a suicide.

University of Illinois hires Lovie Smith as head football coach seriously and can’t wait to get a staff in place to start our move to make Illinois a contender for Big Ten titles.”

Lovie Smith, former head coach of the Chicago Bears and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, has been named head coach of the Fighting Illini, the University of Illinois’ football team that plays in the Big 10 Conference.

Whitman said naming Smith head football coach was the first step in taking the program to national prominence.

He signed a six-year contract with the University of Illinois. He will be paid $2 million annually in 2016 and 2017, $3 million for 2018, $4 million for 2019 and $5 million for 2020.

Tony Dungy, former head coach of the Indianapolis Colts, and a close friend of Smith’s, said: “This is a great move for Illinois. They are getting a good man, both as a coach and as a mentor to young men.” Dungy was the first AfricanAmerican head coach to win the Super Bowl. Under Dungy, the Colts defeated the Bears led by Smith in Super Bowl XLI.

Josh Whitman, Illinois Director of Athletics, announced Smith’s hiring on Monday during a live news conference on the Big Ten Network (BTN). Smith becomes the 25th head coach at Illinois and the second National Football League head coach to take over coaching duties for the Illini. John Mackovic was the first. He took over head coaching duties at the University of Illinois in 1988 after a career with the Kansas City Chiefs. Smith’s hiring at the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana had been rumored for weeks. School officials posted a photo of Smith, wearing a bright orange Illini shirt. The photograph’s background was solid orange with four blue slanted stripes-two on each side. Lovie

Smith’s name was written in white block letters. Excited about coaching the Illini “I am extremely excited to be named head coach of the Fighting Illini,” Smith said. “Josh approached me about the possibility, and I immediately seized the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of the young men who are part of the program today and in the future,” Smith said. “I take this responsibility very

Smith was head coach of the Chicago Bears from 2004 to 2012. During his tenure, he compiled a winning record of 81-63. After the Bears fired him, he couldn’t land another head coaching job for two years. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers hired him in 2014, but the team fired him after two years. Tampa Bay’s record was eight wins and 24 losses. Smith’s hiring by the Illini marks his return to college football after spending 19 years in the NFL. He is a native of Big Sandy, Texas.

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degree in early childhood education and petroleum engineering over an entire career. Black students end up with less savings and disposable income paying for educations that landed them low-paying jobs in the first place. It stifles the AfricanAmerican middle class and contributes to the country’s economic inequality.

By Kenya Downs, pbs.org More African-Americans are going to college than ever before. But according to new research from the Center on Education and the Workforce at Georgetown University, African-American college students are more likely to pursue majors that lead to lowpaying jobs, setting up many for future debt and underemployment. And over time these occupational choices contribute to the wealth and opportunity gap between whites and blacks that spans generations. “Basically, AfricanAmericans have been going to the right church but sitting in the wrong pew,” director Anthony Carnevale said. “In a way they are using education to climb the social and economic ladder, but they’re being steered toward majors that will make them lowearners.” African-Americans make up only a small percentage of some of the highest-paying of majors, including those in STEM and business. They’re only 8 percent of engineering, 7 percent of mathematics and 5 percent of computer science majors. Worse, Carnevale said even those who do major in high-paying fields, typically choose the lowest paying major within them. For example, the majority of black women in STEM typically study biology, the lowest-paying of the science discipline. Among engineers, most black men study civil engineering, the lowestpaying in that sector. African-American college students tend to have majors in public service which are also some of the country’s lowestpaying. As this chart shows, African-Americans are overrepresented in majors that are some of the lowest paying. Image from Center on Education and the Workforce

majors and course offerings, but also lack personnel and academic resources for consistent mentorship. Often, the result is a black student being what Carnevale calls “risk adverse,” or shying away from the unfamiliar. Over time, low-paying majors affect economic prosperity. There’s a $4 million difference in earnings between a four-year students are over-represented in service-oriented fields: humanities, education and social work (shown in the chart below). One of the lowest-paying majors common among AfricanAmericans with a bachelor’s degree is early childhood education and the median earnings is only $38,000 annually compared to $65,000 for computer science (the lowest among high-paying majors for African-Americans). Carnivale says this is largely because American society overall “does not value service-oriented occupations.” Another reason for the disparity is merely personal choice. Many service-oriented majors lead to careers that are vital to political and social

“We don’t want to say education is a bad thing for African-Americans because it’s not,” Carnevale says. “On the other hand, to the extent that choices are limited and experience is limited, the pursuit of their passion needs to be informed. Chasing your dreams shouldn’t turn into a nightmare.”

movements in poor, minority communities around the country. And the study indicates that African-Americans who have strong community-based values enter into college majors that reflect those values. Despite comprising just 12 percent of the population, African-Americans are 20 percent of all community organizers. The center also points out that the majority of college-educated African-Americans earn their degrees from two-year institutions or open-admission four-year colleges and universities. Seventy percent of African-Americans who graduate from college attended an open-admission school. With a few exceptions, these institutions not only have limited

In contrast, black college

More African-Americans are earning college degrees than ever before. But a new study shows they’re over-represented in majors that lead to low-paying jobs.

So what’s the solution? The Center on Education and the Workforce recommends aggressive counseling of minority students early on, encouraging young AfricanAmericans to develop careers in tech, business and STEM that incorporate elements of community service. Carnevale points out that a black business executive could still be a community advocate by providing jobs and small business loans.

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The Glendower Group, Inc Request for Proposals Compliance Consultant The Glendower Group, Inc, an instrumentality of The Housing Authority City of New Haven is currently seeking Proposals for Compliance Consultant Services. A complete copy of the requirement may be obtained from Elm City’s Vendor Collaboration Portal https:/ /newhavenhousing.cobblestonesystems.com/gateway beginning on Wednesday, March 9, 2016 @ 3:00 PM.

The Glendower Group, Inc Request for Proposals

Real Estate Broker Services The Glendower Group, Inc, an instrumentality of The Housing Authority City of New Haven is currently seeking Proposals for Real Estate Broker Services. A complete copy of the requirement may be obtained from Elm City’s Vendor Collaboration Portal https:// newhavenhousing.cobblestonesystems.com/gateway beginning on Monday, March 7, 2016 @ 3:00 PM.

INNER-CITY NEWS March 14, 2016 - March 20, 2016

Seeking WBE drywall suppliers and subcontractors for New Haven housing authority project. Please email info@tecconllc.com if interested.

Drivers: Company Drivers. $5000 transition bonus. Paid out in the first 4 months Call us for details! New Home Time policy: 5 days out - 2 days off; 10 days out - 4 days off; 15 days out- 6 days off. We offer: average $1200-$1400 weekly. $1500 quarterly bonus. $5000 referral bonus. Dedicated lanes. Longevity bonus. Dedicated driver advocate team. Health, dental, vision benefits available. Paid layovers & orientation. Requirements: must have CDLA with tanker & hazmat endorsements. Have or be willing to obtain TWIC card. 1yr. tractor-trailer exp. Call Jessica: 866983-0855 or apply online at www.Work4QC.com

INNER-CITY NEWS March 14, 2016 - Match 20, 2016

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