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City Braces For Immigration Raids by ALIYYA SWABY
In a press statement Monday, New Haven’s Unidad Latina en Acción urged the feds: “Don’t deport Central American women, men and children to their death.”
New Haven Independent
Immigration activists knocked on their mayor’s and Congresswoman’s doors to ask for help amid a wave of deportation raids more than eight years after federal agents swept through Fair Haven snatching undocumented immigrants from their homes.
“ICE may round up approximately 200 women and children in Connecticut who fled violence in Central America. 155 of those women and children never had a lawyer to represent them, and they received a deportation order without any chance to present evidence to an immigration judge,” the release stated.
The Unidad Latina en Acción (ULA) activists asked New Haven to take a public stand as the Obama administration’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency begins a nationwide sweep of undocumented immigrants. Sunday saw the first reported raids, in Georgia, Maryland and Texas.
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They asked Mayor Toni Harp and U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro to appear at a rally on Three Kings Day Wednesday to reassure people that police and city leaders would defend at-risk immigrants from ICE, not cooperate with the agency’s raids. Several groups including ULA, Junta for Progressive Action, and the Connecticut Immigration Rights Alliance plan to gather at Grand Avenue and Ferry Street Wednesday at noon to denounce ICE’s plans. “It’s not fair for people to be scared, to be indoors,” organizer Joseph Foran said, on his way to the mayor’s office Monday morning. Immigrants, especially those in other states, are worried about being deportation targets and looking to leaders in cities such as New Haven to set an example, he said.
ALIYYA SWABY PHOTO Activists press a point with mayoral aide Joseph Rodriguez.
The Guatemalan community is especially vulnerable, “refugees of wars funded by the U.S.,” Foran said. Guatemalan immigrants founded ULA and have contributed positively in many other ways to the New Haven community, he said. ULA helps immigrants get the requisite legal assistance and knowledge to be less vulnerable to the raids, organizer Rosario Caicedo said. But it’s impossible to get to everyone who needs the help. Harp said she will get someone to translate the “Know Your Rights” document from Spanish to English for her, and then talk with Superintendent Garth Harries about distributing it in schools.
Mayor Harp said the request was “consistent with what the policy has been” but that she will speak with Chief Dean Esserman before formally agreeing. (She later in the day agreed to appear at the rally.)
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Foran also asked the mayor to arrange for a “Know Your Rights” advisory document to be distributed in local public schools. “Part of the ICE campaign is going after children. Children should be able to know how to respond,” Foran said
“3) If you arrived from Central America after Jan 1, 2014 and:
“1) Don’t panic. “2) If you see an ICE agent or if you are detained by the police or ICE, stay calm and call us.
a) you don’t have immigration court dates or b) the immigration judge gave you a deportation order or c) you are going to immigration
court now to fight deportation Call us immediately for a free and confidential legal consult. “4) If the police or ICE knocks on your door, don’t open the door. Ask them to pass the arrest warrant under the door. If they don’t have a warrant, don’t open the door. If they have a warrant, take a photo of it and send it to us by phone. “5) If the police or ICE asks you a question, stay quiet. Tell them that you will only respond to questions in the presence of a lawyer. Don’t lie. Don’t give them any false documents. You have to tell them your name, but you don’t have to respond to any other question. “6) If the police or ICE pressures you to sign any document, don’t sign it. “7) Take photos and video of the officials. Take down the names and badges of the officials and call us.” After getting face time with the mayor Monday morning, the activists headed around the corner to DeLauro’s offices on Elm Street and waited to give the representative the same speech. They delivered the message instead to her staff, who promised to pass it along.
“The Guatemalan community in New Haven, many of who are indigenous Mayans, survived state-sponsored violence and genocide between 1960 and 1996, when over 200,000 Guatemalans were killed, 83 percent of them indigenous people. According to the UN-sponsored truth commission, 93 percent of atrocities were committed by the Guatemalan military, which was sponsored, trained and armed by the US government. Only a small fraction of the Central American families who sought refuge in the U.S. over the past two years were able to secure legal representation to argue on their behalf. These families’ claims for asylum are extremely credible. A recent study found that represented children have a 73 percent success rate in immigration court, as compared to only 15 percent of unrepresented children. Deporting them before they can make a proper case is an intolerable injustice.” City Hall’s then-DeStefano Administration publicly criticized ICE on June 6, 2007, when the agency sprang surprise raids that led to the detention of 32 undocumented immigrants. The raids, which separated parents from their children, occurred just 36 hours after the city passed a landmark immigrant-friendly municipal ID program. City Hall worked with immigrant-rights groups and attorneys to help the families fight detention and deportation, some of whom won reprieves in court.
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use his power and influence to insult and degrade those whom he believes are beneath him and whom he deems unworthy of his presence. Amongst those who have been insulted are members of the AfricanAmerican community. Trump uses half-truths and whole lies to buttress his agenda of relegating the least, the lost, and the left out to the outside of the American dream as written by the Founding Fathers of “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” Trump, in his most recent gaffe and insult against African-Americans, stated that maybe a Black Lives Matter protester who interrupted a rally in Birmingham, Alabama, “should have been roughed up, because it was absolutely disgusting what he was doing.” Perhaps Trump does not know that the exercise of his First Amendment right of free speech, which he uses to openly insult others, is the same amendment that allowed Brother ut_its black.html ”Mercutio Southall Jr. to rightfully interrupt his rally. While Trump seems to be a
bigot sounding more like Woodrow Wilson running in 1915 versus a candidate of 2015, my disgust is not with what he is saying, but more with who is supporting him. Trump is only being what he knows to be, a myopic, narrowminded, self-aggrandizing bully. My disgust, however, is with the black clergymen who seem to be willing to trade the service, sacrifice, and struggles of our forefathers and mothers to endorse a man who’s openly proclaimed his opposition to black people. If this were 1915 instead of 2015, Trump’s rhetoric would most probably be used as advertisement for the then-newly minted Ku Klux Klan propaganda film, ry.com/this-day-inhistory/birth-of-a-nationopens””Birth of a Nation.” His rhetoric in Alabama just a few weeks ago against Black Lives Matter advocate Southall could have easily been used at another rally in the same city and state a little over a century ago. Instead of demanding that a black man “be roughed up” he would have demanded that ”he should be hanging from a tree!”
Let me say that I believe in political freedom; we as individuals can support whom we want. However, when your support begins to collude in the very oppression of the people to whom you preach every week, perhaps one needs to re-evaluate one’s position. I encourage an encounter with God in earnest prayer to consider if endorsing such a candidate is best, not only for your parishioners, but also for the Kingdom of God on Earth. Paul reminds us in 2 Corinthians 4:2 that the call of the gospel is to renounce the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God. I posit that this endorsement of Donald Trump by these African-American clergy calls into question the validity of the gospel ministry in the lives of these men. Is an endorsement of Trump an endorsement for Christ, for the church, or for the community, or is it an endorse-
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Paul closes “his first letter to the church of Corinth with a treatise about the resurrection of Christ. Not only in this text, but in all of his epistles, Paul makes clear that Christ’s death and resurrection are imperative in the equation of salvation history. This rhetoric about Jesus as Lord and Savior and the truth of his resurrection proved to be toxic in the context of the first century Roman Empire. Those who believed in the resurrection in the first century Corinth were viewed as both disconnected from reality and ignorant about the higher thinking of their day. Those who did not believe could turn offensive towards those who believed. If believers were not careful about whom they were lending their ears to, they would find themselves in a quandary of faith regarding the resurrection. Seeing this effect, Paul writes, “Be not deceived, evil communication corrupts good manners!” Paul uses this maxim from the Greek writer Menander to illustrate that keeping company with morally corrupt or misinformed people has the potential to corrupt your own character. If we fast forward to the 21st century presidential race, we find hateful rhetoric is occurring not by pagans saying hurtful things about Christians, but by self-proclaimed Christians like Donald Trump spewing hateful things against others. The current political environment in America wreaks of both insensitivity and callousness when it comes to speaking truth to power in love. Donald Trump continues to
ment of cash in your pocket? These are the questions being asked around the black church community regarding this public endorsement. Let me close by saying this is not about Democrat or Republican but about fundamental and universal laws of love and grace which are foundational to both Christianity and the gospel in which we, as preachers, preach daily. Our savior stood firm against the wickedness of his day, whether confronting it in the synagogue or in front of the Sanhedrin. Not once did he endorse a man or a woman who went against the foundational morals of God’s holy and divine law of love. I am persuaded that the African-American clergy who have the gall to endorse Trump are being led by selfish motivations. They have neither the moral law of the bible nor care for the community as their motive. Trump’s rhetoric against not only our communities but other minority communities is toxic and unbecoming of a man in leadership of a nation, and especially unworthy of gospel preachers to endorse. Being in his presence does not enhance the quality of life for us. Quite to the contrary, it diminishes our value of love and further divides communities against each other. Paul said it then, and I say it now: Bad company corrupts good character! The Rev. Vincent E. Stokes II, a 2012 graduate of the Yale Divinity School, is an associate elder of the New Sardis Primitive Baptist Church in Cleveland and an administrator in the New Haven City Schools in Connecticut. He is a distant relative of the late U.S. Rep. Louis Stokes and the late Cleveland Mayor Carl B. Stokes.
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City Halfway To Stop-Smoking Outreach Target by ALIYYA SWABY New Haven Independent
The city is getting better at helping people quit smoking and preventing others from starting the habit. So reported Harp administration officials Thursday. They updated the public at City Hall on their effort to make the city tobacco free, six months after passing an ordinance prohibiting the use of tobacco in public spaces. In mid-May the Board of Alders unanimously passed an ordinance outlawing tobacco products from government buildings, playgrounds, sports fields, school grounds and Lighthouse Park. The city can create and restrict smokers to specific spaces within the public areas.
ALIYYA SWABY PHOTO Okafor updates public at THursday press conference.
Better public health means “abstinence” from all tobacco products, Mayor Toni Harp said Thursday. “There is no safe level of exposure to tobacco smoke.”
Over the last year, since convening a taskforce to address the problem, the city has reached more than half its target number of 2,500 adult tobacco users, engaging them in
interventions to help them quit smoking. Officials have also ensured 13,615 students 91 percent of a target 15,000 are getting tobacco prevention education, so they don’t get addicted,
said Martha Okafor, social services director. Local universities have either made their campuses completely tobacco free or started to ban the substance from certain parts. The Housing Authority of New Haven made Monterey Place tobacco free this past September. Okafor said the city does not currently have specific plans to extend that ban to all public housing in the city. But a proposed federal law is pending that could require New Haven to implement and enforce a citywide ban in public housing. “We will take it one step at a time,” Okafor said.
Cop Stop Inspires A Finishing Flourish by ALIYYA SWABY New Haven Independent
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New Haven painter Kwadwo Adae gave Lady Justice a few extra swords after a state police officer brandished a gun in his direction at a minor traffic stop. After spending the last year protesting police violence against the black community, the painter and art instructor suddenly feared for his life at a stop sign close to home at the end of the year. Twelve days later, on his court date, Adae finished a 48-by-36 inch oil and spray paint rendering of Lady Justice (pictured in the above photo). She stands nude with four arms brandishing aikido swords and just one holding a balance scale weighed down on side with a vibrant blue and yellow heft. The model had asked him to portray her as Lady Justice. He readily agreed. In the summer of 2014, the model had moved to
Missouri. That August, Officer Darren Wilson “gunned down” Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, the first in a series of citizen-police encounters that would spark a nationwide Black Lives Matter movement. Adae doesn’t usually produce “politically-charged work.” He
paints enormous floral murals; he paints curvy nudes; he paints abstracts with swirls of color and prickly textures. At first he wondered why he was depicting Lady Justice, when justice seemed to elude black victims of police brutality. “Why am I making something that
doesn’t apply to me?” he wondered.
his own tense encounter with the law.
Then the killings of Brown, of pleas of Tamir Rice in Cleveland charged him up enough to drive him to contribute to the national discussion around police brutality with his art. With each new development another person killed, another officer not indicted he added more paint to his lady. And he joined New Haven and New York’s “peaceful protests” last winter to show solidarity with communities most victimized by a flawed justice system.
Driving from his house in Bethany to his downtown New Haven studio Dec. 18, Adae didn’t make it 100 yards before being pulled over by an officer.
The process of creating Lady Justice was cathartic and “constructive,” he said. On the back of the canvas, Adae began writing down the names of black people killed by the police over the last few years, as a way to memorialize each individual. “The painting won’t be finished until the names on the back of the frame are completely filled up.” Then in December, Adae had
The plainclothes state cop insisted he had not stopped at the stop sign. Adae disagreed. The officer approached the car, with his gun drawn. Adae asked why his gun was drawn during a routine traffic stop. The officer responded that he didn’t have his holster on him that day. He charged Adae with failure to halt at the stop sign and failure to produce proof of insurance, according to the ticket. Adae said his insurance was up to date, but he didn’t have the papers with him. The officer arrested him and released him on site, explaining that the arrest would be on his motor vehicle driving record, but not on a Con’t on page 22
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Reading School’s In Session extra day to their week?
by ALIYYA SWABY
Organizers incorporated highenergy games into the day to keep kids engaged and to promote social-emotional growth, teaching skills such as resilience and empathy. Ryan Kane heads a team of five ECHO coordinators who will facilitate the activities and intervene with students who need additional attention.
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Ron Coleman will now see Roberto Clemente students six days a week instead of five, since he signed up to teach at a Saturday reading and math academy launching this week and aimed at boosting test scores. Coleman (pictured) joined about 60 other teachers and paraprofessionals at Clemente Wednesday evening for technology training sessions and a chance to work out last-minute kinks before students roll up to their schools at 8 a.m. this Saturday.
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Part of Mayor Toni Harp’s 10point plan to improve academic success, the Saturday “technology and gaming academies” will receive kids at four K-8 schools Troup, Clemente, Wexler-Grant and Fair Haven to reinforce math and literacy skills using new technology. Those schools were chosen because they had posted some of the lowest scores in town on standardized tests. Harp has vowed to make New Haven “the city that reads.” Between 8 a.m. and 9 a.m., students will get breakfast and play character-building games. Between 9:05 and 11:05 a.m., they will practice literacy and math skills, with the help of technology such as laptops and tablets. During the last hour of the academy, they get lunch and play more games for social-emotional learning. A seventh-grade math teacher, Coleman said he is looking forward to getting to work with current, past and potential Clemente students in smaller groups. “It would be a shame not to be here when the kids are excited” about the academy, he said. He has not worked with Lexia, the online literacy program that students will use to independently develop their reading skills. But others who teach at his grade level work with it daily; he said he is not worried about getting the hang of it.
Curriculum leader Yesenia Velez said organizers want to “give students an opportunity individually express why they want to come to school on a Saturday” and which skills they want to focus on improving or advancing. Technology, such as the Lexia program, helps students monitor their own growth and ask for support from teachers and staff.
ECHO stands for “empathy, character, hope and opportunity” and is intended to build those values in students—and to make sure they have fun. “We put the Saturday in Saturday academies,” Kane said. After an ECHO training in midDecember, Coleman said he wanted to immediately bring some of the games and materials to his regular math class. One activity called Hills and Valleys divides students into two teams around a
table of cups, half of upside down and half right side up. The teams battle each other to turn all the cups over to one side. “The frustration is that as soon as you turn it over, someone is going to turn it back,” Coleman said. Students learn that they have to accept the rules and experience that frustration, “then move on,” he said. As teachers prepped in Clemente’s library, three parents showed up to the informational session; all had already signed up to send their kids to Clemente this Saturday. Gemma Joseph Lumpkin, the district’s chief of youth, family, and community engagement, and Adriana Joseph, her deputy chief, explained the structure of the academy and asked parents how they could be more responsive to their needs.
Jasmine Reed said she worries her fourth-grade daughter is not being academically challenged. They just moved to New Haven this year from West Haven’s district and her daughter had to be patient as she learned long division for the second time. Reed said her daughter loves math and outperformed her district on state tests last year she wants her to develop that love in the Saturday academy. “We’re not going to encourage kids who should be accelerated to slow down,” Lumpkin said. The program will help kids with remedial and accelerated work. Kelli McBride said her fourthgrade son needs extra help with reading and is excited to go to school on Saturday. “He thinks it will be all fun and games,” she said.
“They can target skills they need to get them to the next level” using Lexia to help focus and build strategy, she said. A student who can explain what he or she is struggling with is already more advanced than one who cannot, said Lynn Brantley (pictured above right), who is also coordinating the literacy curriculum for the academy. At the end of the math and reading block each Saturday, students can choose to participate in one of five “special interest groups,” some coordinated by school staff. Ashley Ferrandiz (pictured right), K-8 instructional math coach, said they are encouraging teachers to choose science, technology, engineering and math-related activities, so students have a variety of options. Seeing their teachers outside of school in a more relaxed setting will let students “relax and realize everyone’s human,” Ferrandiz said. How are they making sure students don’t get tired adding an
The New Haven crew traveled to New Britain on Three Kings Day this week, to help McDonald’s franchisee Joseph Rodriguez throw a party for local kids, featuring toys and coats. Mayor Toni Harp, Dixwell top cop Lt. Sam Brown, and Metashar Dillon were joined by U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal at the event. Meanwhile, The James Hillhouse Best Buddies program handed out “Blessing Bags” to the homeless in New Haven the Wednesday before their winter break. Best Buddies is a program that fosters one-to-one friendships between students with and without intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). The bags were assembled from the many donations from the Hillhouse faculty. They contained hot chocolate, hand and foot warmers, toothbrushes and toothpaste, personal hygiene products, hats, scarves and gloves. The individuals who received these bags were extremely grateful. It was an event that the students who participated in will not soon forget.
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Feb. 15 at Quinnipiac University
Is Common Ground Color Blind?
Black History Month lecture
By Anthony Duff, CGHS Senior
Hamden, Conn. – Jan. 2016 Marc Lamont Hill, the host of BET News and a political contributor for CNN, will deliver the annual Black History Month address, “Promoting Diversity in Education,” at 7 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 15, at Burt Kahn Court at iac.edu/”Quinnipiac University, 275 Mount Carmel Ave. This event is free and open to the public. Hill, a distinguished professor of African-American studies at Morehouse College, has been a social justice activist and organizer since his days as a youth in Philadelphia. He is a founding board member of My5th, a non-profit organization devoted to educating youth about their legal rights and responsibilities. He also is a board member and organizer of the Philadelphia Student Union. Hill also works closely with the ACLU Drug Reform Project, focusing on drug informant policy. Over the past few years, he has actively worked on campaigns to end the death penalty and to release numerous political prisoners. An award winning journalist, Hill is the former host of the nationally- syndicated television show, “Our World with Black Enterprise,” and the inaugural host of “Huff Post Live,” as well as a former political contributor to Fox News Channel. Hill has received numerous prestigious awards from the National Association of Black Journalists, GLAAD and the International Academy of Digital Arts and
Hartford, CONN–Outspoken historian and social activist Rosa Clemente told a group of Common Ground Students– among other young people in a filled auditorium–that the movement known as Black Lives Matter “is breaking what needed to be broken.” Eight students attended “It’s Bigger Than Hip Hop” at the Mark Twain House & Museum in Hartford. Clemente was joined by Capital Community College professor Femi BogleAssegai, and author M.K. Asante. The students were accompanied by staff members Kerry Ellington and Jessie Delia. Sophomore Yaritza Santiago says she “learned that hip hop is supposed to be something that enlightens somebody.”
Sciences. In 2011, Ebony Magazine named him one of America’s 100 most influential black leaders. Hill is the author or co-author of four books: the awardwinning “Beats, Rhymes, and Classroom Life: Hip-Hop Pedagogy and the Politics of Identity;” “The Classroom and the Cell: Conversations on Black life in America;” “Nobody: America’s War on Its Vulnerable from Ferguson to Baltimore and Beyond” (July 2016); and
“Gentrifier” (June 2016). He has also published two edited books: “Media, Learning, and Sites of Possibility;” and “Schooling Hip-Hop: New Directions in Hip-Hop Based Education.” Trained as an anthropologist of education, Hill holds a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on the intersections between culture, politics and education. For more information, call 203-582-8652.
Jennifer Quaye holds the position of Post-High School Planning and is also a member of the Diversity Committee. She says these sorts of discussions are important on campus because: We spent the past 20, maybe 30 years NOT talking about race. The excitement of students after the event emphasized how infrequently these discussions take place. Santiago says that race is not openly discussed unless [Common Ground Teaching Assistant] Kerry Ellington is involved. At home it is barely
mentioned. To explore this more deeply, different staff members were asked the question, “where do you experience racial discourse?” For many staff members, it was through the Diversity Committee, a group whose aim is to “increase the cultural relevance of Common Ground’s curriculum, and provide targeted professional development to faculty that builds their capacity for culturally relevant teaching,” according to a recent charter school report. Brian Kelahan teaches social studies and organizes town hall meetings at Common Ground. Although his connection to the students is limited to classes and guidance, Kelahan says with certainty that it’s difficult for staff as well as for students. Nevertheless, “we sure make a conscious effort. If the subject comes up, I don’t avoid talking about it.” Miriam Sheffield, Student Affairs Assistant and member of the school’s Diversity Committee, sees racial discourse in meetings, from one teacher to another, and in hallway discussions. It also comes up occasionally in Professional Development. “Race should always be talked about,” Sheffield says. Jennifer Quaye says having a space for young people to interpret and digest information is important to the BLM movement, because “young people are really impressionable.” She says racial tension is increasing on college campuses as: People of color come onto predominantly white campuses and are not able to learn equally… They are now challenging that inequitable power structure … demanding from institutions that they create a safe space. The article originally appeared in the Hawk News, November 2015.
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Gun control alone can’t curb violence cides and 2,939 shooting victims, the worst of all U.S. cities.
BY JESSE JACKSON America may now have more guns than people. As President Barack Obama announces new executive action on gun control, U.S. gun manufacturing is a growth industry, almost doubling since the beginning of Obama Administration (5.6 million in 2009; 10.9 million in 2013). From 2001 to 2013, according to a Centers of Disease Control and Prevention report, 406,496 Americans were killed with firearms on U.S. soil. In contrast, the number of U.S. citizens killed by terrorists at home or abroad over the same years number 3,380. Chicago suffered a spike in gun homicides in 2015 with 470 homi-
Studies show a clear correlation: the more guns, the more homicides and the more people shot. Cities are racked by gun violence, yet gun ownership is much more prevalent in rural areas, as vividly displayed by the Bundy bunch that occupied an Oregon wildlife refuge over the weekend. According to a General Social Survey report, gun ownership is declining. About 35 percent of adults were estimated to live in a household with a firearm in 2014, down from over half in the early 1980s. As hunting has declined in the country, so has gun ownership. Gun ownership is higher among whites than among blacks or Hispanics, higher among men than women. Gun ownership rises with income. It is higher among those earning more than $90,000 a year than among those earning
less than $25,000. It is highest in the South Central U.S. and lowest in the Northeast and Pacific regions. Now weapons designed for the purpose of mass killing in war are available for purchase at gun shows, online and at many gun stores. These weapons are powerful enough to stop trains or strafe planes that are landing or taking off. These are tools for terrorists, easily available for sale in America. Obama has already delivered 15 national statements after shocking incidents of gun violence. Yet no national reforms have been passed or even gotten much consideration. After the Charleston massacre, the Economist magazine compared mass shooting in the U.S. with the grotesque air pollution in China: a horrible health hazard which the country appears incapable of addressing. Gun control doesn’t cost
much. America has another abiding challenge the explosive catastrophe of urban poverty that also goes unmet. The City Observatory, an urban policy think tank in Portland, Ore., reports that the number of highpoverty urban neighborhoods in the nation’s 51 largest cities tripled to 3,100 between 1970 and 2010. The number of poor persons living in those areas doubled over those years. The poor are more isolated and concentrated than ever. AfricanAmericans and Hispanics suffer the highest rates of poverty and are the most isolated into separate and unequal neighborhoods. Twenty percent of U.S. children lived in poverty by end of 2013; poverty among African-American children was nearly twice that (38 percent). To deal with our impoverished neighborhoods, it isn’t enough to get rid of the guns. The public squalor of our inner cities has to
be addressed: schools modernized, affordable housing built, mass transit supplied, available jobs created. Dealing with entrenched poverty costs real money, but less than we spend on the police, jails, drugs, alcoholism, and chronic illness the dysfunction that comes from poverty. Today’s politicians don’t want to spend political capital on guns or fiscal capital on poverty. They’d rather pay more on the back end from failing to act than risk the up-front political and economic costs of dealing with the problems. So the war on guns is lost; the war on poverty abandoned. And the hopes of millions are dashed by that failure. In the circus of the current presidential campaign, these are two fundamental challenges that ought to be at the center of our debate.
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The Vietnam War From the Perspective of Black Soldiers — New Novel Tells a Familiar Story in a Different Way Nationwide — J. Everett Prewitt, an award winning author, presents his newest novel, A Long Way Back, an intriguing glimpse into the Vietnam War from the perspective of black soldiers. When a reporter for the Washington Post sees a group of wounded, half-starved, black troops disembark from a helicopter in Cu Chi during the height of the Vietnam War, he senses a story, but receives no cooperation from the army or the soldiers. The men, mostly noncombat soldiers, are the remnant of a squad sent on an illegal mission to Cambodia as punishment for their participation in a race riot at Cu Chi base camp. Led by a battle-fatigued sergeant, they fall under enemy fire. Their leader inexplicably disappears,
leaving the ill-prepared soldiers to fight the jungle and enemy on their own. Although forced to confront the shock of combat and a deteriorating family life, the re-
porter pursues the story hoping to uncover the truth about what happened to the soldiers. A Long Way Back is a tense journey merging the lives of the soldiers and the reporter as they
struggle to overcome their fear, and face the battles they must fight to survive. About the Author: J. Everett Prewitt is a Vietnam veteran and a former
Army officer. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, and a Master of Science degree in urban studies from Cleveland State University. Prewitt was awarded the title of distinguished alumni at both schools. Prewitt’s debut novel, Snake Walkers, placed first for fiction in four different literary contests, won the bronze award for general fiction in the ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year contest, and was also honored by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. Single and living in Shaker Heights, Ohio, Prewitt is the proud father of Lia and Eric. Learn more at his website at www.eprewitt.com
and the 2011 film, “Hidden Colors: The Untold History of People of Aboriginal, Moor, and African Descent.”
By Stacy M. Brown Special to the NNPA News Wire from the Washington Informer
Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr., the president and CEO of the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA), praised Welsing and her legacy.
Dr. Frances Cress Welsing, the famed 80-year-old afro-centrist, has died. Welsing’s death was announced by close friends on social media and later confirmed by family members. “RIP to the elder, Dr. Frances Cress Welsing, the inspiration behind ‘Fear of a Black Planet,’” said Chuck D, the leader of the groundbreaking rap group, Public Enemy, whose 1990 “Fear of a Black Planet” album sold more than 1 million copies in less than two weeks and is viewed as one of the greatest and most important recordings ever. Popular Democratic strategist Donna Brazile said Welsing died of complications from a stroke she suffered earlier in the week. “Our great teacher and leader has transitioned into the realms of the ancestors,” said designer Inl Vibez. “I give thanks for all the powerful word sound and knowledge she has shared. Let us
learn from the teachings of this divine queen and move accordingly.” Welsing was admitted Thursday to MedStar Washington Medical Center in Northwest and was eventually placed on a ventilator. It is believed that the decision to remove Welsing from life support machines occurred after the arrival from Chicago of her sister, Loren Cress Love. Born in Chicago on March 18, 1935, Welsing, a psychiatrist, is
noted for her “Cress Theory of Color Confrontation,” which explores the practice of White supremacy. In 1991, she authored the book, “The Isis Papers: The Keys to the Colors,” where she stated that a system is practiced by the global White minority, on both conscious and unconscious levels, to ensure their genetic survival by any means necessary. Welsing said this system attacks people of color, particularly
people of African descent, in the nine major areas of people’s activity: economics, education, entertainment, labor, law, politics, religion, sex and war. She said she believes that it is imperative that people of color, especially people of African descent, understand how the system of white supremacy works in order to dismantle it and bring true justice to planet Earth. Welsing appeared in the 2005 documentary, “500 Years Later,”
“May God bless the living legacy and memory of freedom fighter Dr. Frances Cress Welsing. On behalf of the National Newspapers Publishers Association, we mourn the passing of our beloved sister and freedom fighter,” Chavis said in a statement. “More than anyone else in the 20th and 21st centuries personified the intellect and courage to speak the truth about the pseudo ideology of white supremacy and its longstanding impact on the consciousness and lives of millions of Black people throughout the world.
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Famed Psychiatrist, “Isis Papers” Author Frances Cress Welsing Dead at 80
“Today we all must reaffirm our determination to keep the memory and legacy of Dr. Welsing alive in all that we do to continue to advance the struggle for freedom, justice and equality. RIP, Dr. Frances Cress Welsing.”
The 47th NAACP IMAGE AWARDS NOMINEES ANNOUNCED Live TV Special and Red Carpet Pre-Show to Air Friday, February 5 on TV ONE endeavors. Winners will be announced during the two-hour star-studded event, which will broadcast LIVE on TV ONE on Friday, February 5, 2016 at 9pm/ 8c as a two-hour special. A onehour pre-show will air live from the red carpet at 8pm/7c.
Entertainer of the Year Voting Opens ABC and BET Lead the Nominees in the TV Categories Columbia Records Leads in the Recording Category
Nischelle Turner (Entertainment Tonight). The NAACP Image Awards
celebrates the accomplishments of people of color in the fields of television, music, literature
and film and also honors individuals or groups who promote social justice through creative
“The Image Awards celebrates individuals who model principles of hard work, perseverance, and community empowerment and with the announcement of this year’s nominees the NAACP continues to spotlight the achievements of those in our community,” stated Roslyn M. Brock, Chairman of the NAACP National Board of Directors. “We have enjoyed a great collaboration with TV One and look 21
BEVERLY HILLS, CA (December 8, 2015) – The nominees for the 47th NAACP Image Awards were announced today during a press conference from The Paley Center for Media in Beverly Hills, CA. The categories and nominees were announced by Guillermo Díaz (Scandal), Tika Sumpter (The Haves and the Have Nots), Danielle Nicolet (Born Again Virgin), Marsai Martin (Blackish), and Miles Brown (Blackish). In addition, the event was live streamed and special commentary was provided by
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Cop Stop Inspires criminal record. “No One Would Know Why” Adae was shaken. He poured out his reflections in the viral Facebook post: I was arrested and released onsite today by a plainclothes police officer who approached my car with his gun drawn for an alleged running of a stop sign. (Yes, a stop sign.) The reality is that this man with no uniform, no badge, and no name, could have easily chosen to execute me today…and no one, including me, would have ever known why.
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I know what would have happened though, I’ve seen the narrative in the news countless times. My family and loved ones would be devastated and spend their precious time searching in vain for answers that would never bring me back or heal their pain. The white police officer that killed me would say he felt threatened by my terrifying blackness concealed in my handsome good looks and a vintage tuxedo, and he would be moved to desk duty and never see jail time. A few midwestern accented newscasters would be completely butchering my name for a couple of weeks on the 11 o’clock news. Perhaps my death would add a couple drops of fuel to the anti-police brutality movement for a week or two and then life would go on. When you are a black man in these United States, getting pulled over and seeing a gun drawn is analogous to having a near death experience. I am truly grateful to have a court date instead of a death certificate today. When I see you next, expect a longer hug, a tighter handshake, and don’t be alarmed if I tell you how much I love you and/or how much you mean to me. Then he got to work. Adae returned to his painting between the arrest and the court date, to add the finishing touches. He finished painting Justice’s feet, touching up the background, and adding finer details to the
scale. The four swords Lady Justice wields “accentuate the fact that it’s more punitive measures than actual evaluating of right and wrong,” Adae said. “That rings true in having to see a gun for an alleged traffic infraction.” Adae, who is black, has been pulled over at least once a year for the last four years. He has been harassed by police officers. But seeing the gun made Adae feel like he was part of a “hostage negotiation ... If you don’t stay really calm, you can end up dead.” In all the incidents he had memorialized on the other side of Lady Justice, the altercations “start with something small,” like a 12-year-old playing with a toy gun or a man selling loose cigarettes. “It’s never anything that seems to equal the taking of a life,” he said. A $25 Pass Adae received an “overwhelmingly positive display of love and support” on his Facebook posting. Meanwhile, he showed up in Superior Court on Dec. 30 to face his charge. He inquired with the prosecutor about the police report, which “described a different encounter than what happened.” The report said his attitude was “fair/poor” during the encounter and didn’t mention that the officer had drawn his gun, Adae said. After Adae told the prosecutor what happened, he was given the chance to clear his record if he donated $25 to the crime victims fund, “which is what I did.” With a “clear conscience and clear mind” in the new year, he made a few artistic resolutions to continue to contribute positively to the community by creating public art and teaching others to create. And, of course, to keep writing names on the frame of Lady Justice. “Who would have
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Black Online Marketplace Launches $100,000,000 Circulation Campaign Nationwide — 23-year old entrepreneur Shareef AbdulMalik of Washington, DC believes in doing for self. That’s why he created WeBuyBlack.com, an online marketplace for black-owned businesses and sellers.
such as the Black Wall Street which was burned down, ridding hope of family and community survival, financial independence, and the collective motivation to build for our next generation’s wellbeing,” says Abdul-Malik.
“It allows small black-owned businesses to grow by being exposed to an international market; it’s the largest online marketplace for black-owned businesses and sellers,” says Abdul-Malik. “These blackowned businesses may hire and create employment opportunities for those in our local communities.”
“I didn’t come up with the idea of WeBuyBlack.com, I manifested the idea. I researched the needs in our community and the solution came to me by the words of ‘Do-for-self’ – A concept I have been raised upon.”
The website launched last year on June 19th, celebrating the 150 year anniversary of Juneteenth. Since its launch, the site has over 2,000 registered businesses and sellers; more than 4,500 products uploaded and have reached 500,000 page views.
Shareef Abdul-Malik, founder and creator of WeBuyBlack.com
In December, the site garnered over 105,000 page views, according to AbdulMalik. There is no fee to upload a product to the site.
says he’d been inspired by institutions such as the Black Wall Street of Tulsa, Oklahoma that served the needs of the black community.
“This is a long term result Abdul-Malik, who is a Howard University graduate, after inspirational institutions
that would allow for them to fully commit and launch their shops on the site,” added AbdulMalik. In response to this, WeBuyBlack.com hired a black owned engineering firm to reconfigure the website, adding features that will allow the black community to fully circulate its dollar within its own community. For example, the site will allow non-profit organizations to apply for a referral code. This code may be distributed to their congregations and supporters. When their supporters purchase from the site, they can enter that referral code and the organization will receive up to one percent of every purchase..
Starting Feb. 1, the company will launch its largest campaign to circulate $100,000,000 on the website through Feb. 1, 2017. African-Americans have a current buying power of $1 trillion which is forecasted to reach $1.3 trillion by year 2017, according to a report published by www.nielsen.com
Individuals may also apply for a referral code. “They are then able to sign up businesses and receive up to one percent
“The vendors asked for a more comprehensive platform
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The U.S. Supreme Court Rehearing Affirmative Action: Here We Go Again!
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military status, language spoken at home and race just to name some of them.
By Professor Kevin L. Antoine, JD
Nationwide — Every few years, the U.S. Supreme Court revisits the issue of admitting African Americans and other under represented groups into college. This issue goes by many names, equal opportunity, affirmative action, diversity, inclusion, and most recently holistic admission. The U.S. Supreme Court has let stand the practice of colleges using many factors when reviewing the credentials of students applying for admission. These factors include, gender, geography, family income, disability, gender identity, LGBT,
However the only factor that ends up in a lawsuit when a white applicant is denied admission is race, more specifically, the race of an African American student that was admitted. I cannot think of any affirmative action lawsuits where a white applicant that was denied admission because the college admitted another student who was a military veteran, or gender identity, or disability. No other population in America is so heavily burdened with the task of enjoying life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness than African Americans. This historical burden stems all the way back to 1776, the birth of the nation when white colonist won their freedom from Great Britain, but denied freedom to their African slaves. In 1807 America abolished the international slave
trade, however the institution of slavery continued in America for another 58 years. It took a Civil War, passage of the 13th amendment, and the assassination of a president to end slavery in America. After passage of the 13th Amendment, the newly freed population, though free, could not read or write, had no schools, housing or healthcare. The great emancipator Abraham Lincoln established the Freedmen’s Bureau, the first federal government office with oversight of education, housing, employment and healthcare. These programs exist today as agencies in the executive branch of the federal government (The Departments of Education, Housing, Labor, Health and Human Services). Though first establish to help African Americans, these federal agencies now assist all Americans. By 1876 reconstruction ended
with the election of Rutherford B Hayes as president. Hayes granted former confederates the right to hold political offices in the south. In short order southern states began to turn back the clock on all of the equal opportunities afforded African Americans under reconstruction. Sounds familiar. Here we go again! One hundred years after President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, President Kennedy sent his civil rights bill to the Congress. It took a civil rights movement and the assassination of a president to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Sound familiar? Here we go again! In the Fisher v. the University of Texas Law School at Austin case, the Supreme Court will decide if race can continue to be one of many factors colleges can
consider when reviewing student applications for admissions. Here’s the rub. For centuries in America, the law made it unlawful for a “whole race of people”, African Americans, to go to school, to learn, to read, to write, add and subtract. Now once again the law will decide whether race is a factor for keeping African Americans from obtaining a college education. Here we go again! Professor Kevin L. Antoine, JD is the Legislative Director for the American Association for Access Equity and Diversity. He is the Assistant Vice President for Diversity & Inclusion/Professor of Health Law and Policy at the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center located in Brooklyn. Professor Antoine can be contacted by email at kevinantoine@icloud.com
Is There Such A Thing As ‘Too Early’?
By Naomi MacKenzie, BlackDoctor.Org With the the possibility of politics dictating the future of free clinics like Planned Parenthood, R. Kelly’s sex crime allegations recently resurfacing and a spike in STDs among youth, sex education in schools is a hot topic. Just like other topics taught in school, sex education should be developmentally appropriate, sequential and complete, but the debatable question is what does this look like. There are some school districts that are starting sex education as early as elementary school. And with all that children are exposed to at such an early age through the Internet, TV, music and social media, do you blame them? A 2014 article in The Atlantic referenced a study published by the American Journal of Public Health that found, “On average, black and Hispanic adolescents receive less thorough educations on reproductive health and birth control than their white counterparts within the same income bracket.” On one side of the argument you have those who believe if you teach children about sex too young it will encourage them to
want to have it. The other side feels the exact opposite. In fact, a study done by the Obama Administration in order to support the President’s push for comprehensive sex education in schools suggests that in comparison to those who received abstinence-only education, “teens who received comprehensive sex education were 50% less likely to experience pregnancy, 40% likely to delay sexual initiation, 30% more likely to reduce the frequency of having sex, and 60% likely to reduce the amount of unprotected sex.” Perhaps when we raise the bar
for our youth, they’re inspired to meet or even exceed it. According to the National Campaign to End Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy, 95% of all Americans have sex before marriage, and 2 of every 4 kids under the age of 17 are sexually active. There’s no way around the fact that young people are having sex. But, lack of education and shame around seeking resources may be setting them up to engage in risky behavior. The Department of Health states that 1 in 4 teens contract a sexually transmitted disease each year, and less than 50% of
them have ever been tested. Although the rate of abortion among U.S. women is currently at its lowest since Roe v. Wade, The Atlantic reports, Black women are almost five times more likely to have an abortion than white women according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It appears that there needs to be some better education on prevention, protection and of options after conception. Many school districts are starting to teach sex education as early as kindergarten. “This school level may appear to be too early for such a sensitive topic. However,
with a slightly different focus, this type of early intervention potentially can reduce risky sexual behavior in later childhood and adolescence,” says LaKisha Mixon, M.S., M.A. of the Joseph J. Peters Institute. Mixon explains, “Developmentally, at the ages of 5 or 6, a child is unable to comprehend concepts such as cause and effect, time or comparison. Therefore, some aspects of sexual education in kindergarten such as contraceptive use to prevent pregnancy or contracting a sexually transmitted disease would be misunderstood by a child of this age. A child in kindergarten may not developmentally be able to comprehend the differences between gender, sexual attraction, or risky versus unrisky sexual behavior.”
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Sex Education In Schools:
Appropriate topics at such an early age, instead, could address inappropriate touching (e.g., good touch vs. bad touch), what a child can do or say if touched inappropriately, the need for consent to be touched, the ability to say someone is too close, or bathroom behavior such as peeping under stalls while another child is using the bathroom.
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8 Reasons Why Singer Natalie Cole is and Will Always Be “Unforgettable” Nationwide — Singer Natalie Cole passed away over the 2015/16 holiday season; She reportedly died from from congestive heart failure at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles at the age of 65. She had recently cancelled several tour dates because of her health issues, which included hepatitis C and complications from a kidney transplant in 2009 that she never fully recovered from. But the good news is that her legend lives on in many ways. Here are 8 reasons why she is and will always be “unforgettable”: #1 – She is the daughter of the late Nat King Cole: Her dad was a singer and jazz pianist widely noted for his soft, baritone voice. Although he died back in 1965, his songs are still played today on radio
stations around the world – especially around Christmas time. #2 – Although she was the daughter of a superstar, she tried to be herself: She told Jet Magazine in a 1976 interview. “People said when I started, ‘Why don’t you just copy your
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father’s style?’ I had to be myself, singing my songs in my own way.” Early on, she said people had started calling her Natalie “Queen” Cole. #3 – She achieved major, major accomplishments: Most people don’t know how big of an artist she was, but in fact, Natalie Cole sold more than 30 million albums and earned nine Grammy Awards. #4 – Her biggest song was with her dad: She made history with her 1991 album “Unfor-
gettable.. With Love,” in which she sang with her dad on a remake of his signature song “Unforgettable”. The song was a smash hit, and the album went on to sell 7 million copies. #5 – She was not a one-hit wonder: Natalie Cole’s success as an artist spanned four decades, from the 1970’s to the 2010’s. #6 – She was more than just a singer: In addition to being a successful singer, Natalie Cole made guest appearances as an
actress on TV series such as “Touched by an Angel” and “Grey’s Anatomy”. She also played herself in a “Livin’ for Love: The Natalie Cole Story” directed by Robert Townsend in the year 2000. She later won an NAACP Image Award for that performance. #7 – She was global: In 2013, Natalie Cole released an entire album in spanish called “Natalie Cole en Español”. The album was #1 on the Latin Pop Albums Chart for nine weeks, and went on to be nominated for Album of the Year by the Latin Recording Academy. #8 – She was human: Early in her career, Natalie Cole became addicted to heroin, and nearly derailed her successful music career. But she made a determination to rehabilitate herself, and had been clean from since 1987. What an inspiration for others! For more details about Natalie Cole, visit her official web site at www.nataliecole.com
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Patricia A. Maryland, Dr.PH, is the President of Healthcare Operations and Chief Operating Officer for Ascension Health. fight against the disease is over. means providing patients with it’s difficult to go for a run around Recently, the Centers for DisThere is more work to do to not relevant, reliable information that the block when you live in a highease Control and Prevention only overcome the diabetes empowers and engages them to crime neighborhood. It’s (CDC) announced the rate of new epidemic, but also eliminate the make choices for a healthier life. challenging to find fresh fruits and cases of diabetes in the United healthcare disparities that States declined by about 20 perThe truth is that all healthcare vegetables when you live in a food disproportionately plague our cent from 2008 to 2014. This repproviders should strive to provide desert. We must marshal our community. resents the first sustained decrease an environment where no one is communities around the policies in diagnosis since the disease To do that, we must redouble excluded—where everyone has that affect our environment’s emerged as a major threat to pubour efforts to create a culture of access to compassionate, ability to support a culture of health lic health over the course of the health in African-American personalized care and the and wellness. past two decades. But the fight is communities—one that removes opportunity for better health Diabetes has been—and will far from over, especially for comthe stigma of seeking care and regardless of their struggles or continue to be—a major public munities of color. helps our neighbors and family station in life. And that’s the right health issue in the U.S. We’re members access the opportunities model for all providers. Because making progress in the fight While the CDC report is good provided under the Affordable we must get to know our patients against the disease, but we need to news regarding an overall decline Care Act. Healthcare.gov is now on an individual, holistic level— do more to address the disparities Patricia Maryland NNPA in diabetes rates, it did not acavailable for the open enrollment not prescribe a one-size-fits-all felt by the African-American News Wire Guest Columnist knowledge a significant change in prevalence among the African- times as likely to suffer from period through January 31, 2016, approach—if we intend to truly population. With a focused effort from members of the Black American community, which con- health complications related to and taking advantage of the improve their health outcomes. options available today is the first tinues to be far more vulnerable diabetes, such as lower-limb amFinally, our policymakers, civic community, policymakers, civic step our community can take to to the disease than other racial and putation and kidney failure. leaders and all who have a stake leaders and healthcare providers to reclaim Black health and wellness. ethnic groups. in the health of our community create a culture of health, deliver It’s clear that the AfricanBut coverage alone isn’t enough must address the social compassionate, personalized care Consider the data: Black adults American community is and advance the policies that make are about twice as likely to have shouldering an unequal burden to guarantee better health determinants that influence and healthy lifestyles viable, I am diagnosed diabetes as non-His- when it comes to diabetes outcomes for African-Americans. widen the diabetes equity gap. For confident we can curb the diabetes panic White adults. They are also treatment, prevention, research Healthcare providers have a years, we’ve known that diabetes epidemic for good, for everyone. twice as likely to die from the dis- and education. And so the CDC’s responsibility to deliver inclusive, can be prevented and managed ease. What’s more, African- announcement—while welcome quality care that considers the with healthy lifestyle changes such Americans are more than three news—does not signal that the needs of the whole patient. That as exercise and good nutrition. But
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Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia Defends Racism from the Bench
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA News Wire Columnist On the same day that President Barack Obama gave a stirring and historically grounded commemoration regarding the 150th anniversary of the passage of the 13th Amendment, the one that “abolished” slavery, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia chose to disregard tenets of equality and opportunity from the bench during the hearing for Fisher V. University of Texas when he suggested that African American students would benefit more if they went to “lesser track” schools. His verbatim comments: “There are those who contend that it does not benefit African-Americans to get them into the University of Texas, where they do not do well — as opposed to having them go to a less advanced school, a slower-track school where they do well,” Scalia said. “One of the briefs pointed out that most of the Black scientists in this country don’t come from schools like the University of Texas. They come from lesser schools where they do not feel that they’re being pushed ahead in classes that are too fast for them.” What does Justice Scalia mean by “lesser schools?” Does he suggest that the African Americans, most at the top 10 percent of their high school class (as required by Texas law) can’t compete with
their peers, similarly situated students at the top of their classes? Abigail Fisher, who is bringing this lawsuit, was deficient, and judged as so. She was not in the top 10 percent at her Texas high school; according to the Top Ten Percent Plan any graduating senior in the top 10 percent of their graduating class receives admission to the University of Texas at Austin. More than three quarters of the slots at the University of Texas-Austin are reserved for that group of students – the best and the brightest of their high schools. What about Fisher? She didn’t make the cut. A middling student, she had not enough redeeming social value to be considered among the 8 percent whose admission is a function of the Personal Achievement Index (PAI) and Academic Index (AI). These are the folks who based on their race, socioeconomic status, family background, extra curricular activities and other factors stand out. These folks are not all African American; in fact of the 841 that make up the 8 percent, only 47 of them scored lower than Fisher and only five of them were African-American. They are folks whose portfolio deserved special consideration. Abigail Fisher is an ordinary White girl who was so seeped in White skin privilege that she fully expected to have her way. She is a whiner who has been enabled by the anti-affirmative action crowd. She is pushing a point because she cannot own her own deficiencies. She is attacking affirmative action because that is her excuse for being deficient and mediocre. Lots of students don’t get
into their first choice school. Most recover – they go to their second or third choice, graduate, and manage their lives happily. From time to time, they may ruminate that they would have liked to have their first choice. They may show up at football games, cheering for the school they weren’t admitted to, or they may relish the success that comes to them, despite their early disappointment. But they are grown people, used to a setback (who isn’t), and prepared to move on with their lives. They know they weren’t in the top 10 percent, and they are happy if they made the second cut at UT, or content to go to another school and excel. Not Fisher. Buttressed by the dollars that come from affirmative action opponents, she is willing to be the poster girl for inadequacy. From his remarks from the Supreme Court bench, Judge Antonin Scalia is willing to consider her point and exhibit his own racism. What does he mean by “lesser schools?” Is he familiar with the data on African American accomplishment? Does he share the same hubris that Abigail Fisher does, asserting that a deficient white student deserves an edge over a wellprepared black one? Scalia needs to look at the data before running his mouth. Both African American and white students go to schools that are less highly rated than the University of Texas (lesser schools, really). Most of them succeed. They would have succeeded at UT, too. Regardless of race, they accept the fact that, not in the top 10 percent of their class, they were not entitled to admission.
After that, their admission was a roll of the dice. While President Obama talked about freedom, invoking the history that made the 13th Amendment important, reminding us of “the preachers, black and white, (who) railed against this moral outrage from the pulpit. Where are these preachers now? They know that there are racial economic gaps, but they are silent. They know that there is a structural racism that perpetuates unfairness, but they are unwilling to fight against it. They will offer preaching, perhaps tepid, perhaps rousing. But they won’t step up and attack the systems that produce disparate economic results. They won’t condemn attacks on affirmative action. How would Justice Scalia’s respond to President Obama’s eloquence with his Whiteprivileged arrogance? If there is a poster girl for fairness, she isn’t Abigail Fisher. To lift her up is to embrace the arrogance of White skin privilege. To lift her up is a disgraceful rebuff to the University of Texas students who achieve against all odds. To denigrate the students who were admitted instead of Fisher is a laughable attempt by a so-called justice to justify his injustice, and it flies in the face that our President made when he spoke of the 13th amendment. Julianne Malveaux is an author and economist based in Washington, DC. Her latest book “Are We Better Off? Race, Obama and Public Policy” will be released in 2015 and is available for preorder at www.juliannemalveaux.com.
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Enfield Minority Contractor Opportunity - Silktown Roofing, Inc. is currently soliciting proposals from CT DAS Certified M/W/ Dis/SBE contractors for the Roof and HVAC Replacement Enfield Superior Courthouse Project located in Enfield, CT. Trades needed are as follows: Plumbing, HVAC/ Mechanicals, Electrical, Interior Protection, Ceilings, Painting, Misc. Metals/ Structural and Material Suppliers. All proposals due to Silktown Roofing by December 1, 2015 by 4:00pm. Please note this job is prevailing wage. Interested parties asked to contact Silktown Roofing at 860-647-0198 for further information. Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer
Housing Authority of the City of New Haven Invitation for Bids Tree Trimming, Removal and Disposal Services
The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven is seeking to fill the position of Development Associate. Please refer to our website for details: http://www.cfgnh.org/About/ContactUs/ EmploymentOpportunities.aspx EOE electronic su
Town of Bloomfield Mini Bus Coordinator – Reposted Position $32.55 hourly Previous applicants need not apply. For details and how to apply visit: www.bloomfieldct.org Pre-employment drug testing AA/EOE
The Housing Authority of the City of New Haven (HANH) is currently seeking Bids for Tree Trimming, Removal and Disposal Services. Bids will be received until Friday, January, 15, 2016 at 3:00 PM. A Pre-Bid Conference will be held at 360 Orange Street, New Haven, CT 06511 on Wednesday January, 6, 2016 @ 10:30 AM. A complete copy of the requirement may be obtained from HANH’s front desk at 360 Orange Street beginning on Monday, December 14, 2015 @ 3:00 PM. Additional questions should be emailed only to Karen DuBois-Walton at, bids@newhavenhousing.org no later than January 8, 2016 at 3:00 PM. All answers to the questions will be posted on HANH’s Website: lmcitycommunities.com”www.elmcitycommunities.com. Please click on the link for Vendors and then Current Bids.
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Prescott Bush Sanitary Line Replacement The Housing Authority of the City of New Haven (HANH) is currently seeking Bids for Prescott Bush Sanitary Line Replacement. Bids will be received until Friday, November 20, 2015 at 3:00 PM. A Pre-Bid Conference will be held at 360 Orange Street, New Haven, CT 06511 on Wednesday November 4, 2015 @ 11:00 AM. A complete copy of the requirement may be obtained from HANH’s front desk at 360 Orange Street beginning on Monday, October 26, 2015 @ 3:00 PM. Additional questions should be emailed only to Karen DuBois-Walton at, bids@newhavenhousing.org no later than November 12, 2015 @ 3:00 PM. All answers to the questions will be posted on HANH’s Website: www.elmcitycommunities.com. Please click on the link for Vendors and then Current Bids.
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The Wallingford Regional Solid Waste Project seeks a part-time Resource Recovery Project Coordinator (up to 19.5 hours/weekly). The coordinator provides a range of administrative services to member towns, the Policy Board and the Town of Wallingford, as host community. This is a responsible, professional position that requires a bachelor degree and five (5) years of increasingly responsible experience in the solid waste or related fields. Hourly Rate: $38.00 $42.00. Apply to: Personnel Department, Town of Wallingford, 45 South Main Street, Wallingford, CT 06492. Phone # (203) 294-2060, Fax # (203) 2942084. A downloadable application is available on the Town of Wallingford’s website (www.town.wallingford.ct.us) by going to the Personnel, Pensions & Risk Management page. Applications will be received until the position is filled.
INVITATION TO BID The Norwalk Housing Authority is seeking sealed bids, from qualified contractors, for the “Renovation of Lobby Area at Nathaniel Ely School”. Bids will be received, in triplicate, no later than 2:00 PM on Tuesday December 22, 2015, at the offices of The Norwalk Housing Authority, 24 _ Monroe St., Norwalk, CT 06854, at which time, they will be opened and publicly read aloud. Bid documents will be available for purchase from, Technical Reprographics Inc. 326 Main Ave., Norwalk, CT. 203-849-9100. A pre bid walk through will be held on Tuesday December 1, 2015 at 11:00am at Nathaniel Ely School, 11 Ingalls Ave., So. Norwalk, CT. Attendance is strongly encouraged. Norwalk Housing Authority is an equal opportunity employer and all Minority and Women owned businesses are encouraged to participate.
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LEGAL NOTICE The Housing Authority of the City of New Haven (HANH) is proposing to amend both its Low Income Public Housing Admission and Continued Occupancy Plan (ACOP), and the Housing Choice Voucher Program Administrative Plan. The proposed revisions to the ACOP & the Administrative Plan are available at HANH’s main office at 360 Orange Street, New Haven, Connecticut 06511. You are invited to provide written comments addressed to HANH, Attn: ACOP & Admin Plan Revisions, P.O. Box 1912, New Haven, CT 06509-1912. HANH will hold a public hearing to review comments and recommendations. The hearing will be on January 22, 2016 at 4:00 P.M. in the 3rd floor Board room at the Housing Authority of the City of New Haven, 360 Orange Street, New Haven, CT 06511. Any individual requiring a reasonable accommodation to participate in the hearing may call the Reasonable Accommodation Coordinator at 203498-8800 extension 1507 or at the TDD Number, 203-497-8434. GENERAL MANAGER-WATER & SEWER The Town of Wallingford is seeking a highly experienced leader to manage the Town’s, water and sewer utilities. Work involves responsibility for planning, directing, coordinating the activities for the efficient and effective operation of the municipality’s water and sewer divisions. The General Manager should possess a bachelor’s degree from a recognized college or university in civil engineering plus ten years of progressively responsible experience in the water/waste water field including at leave five years at the supervisory level. The Town offers a competitive salary range of$112,544 ~ $ 144,001 per year plus an excellent fringe benefit package. Applications or resumes will be accepted until January 22, 2016 (or the date of receipt of the 50th application) at the following address: Personnel Department, Town of Wallingford, 45 South Main St., Wallingford, CT 06492, (203) 294-2080. Fax: (203) 294-2084. EOE.
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The Water & Sewer Divisions are two of the three divisions of the Town of Wallingford’s Department of Public Utilities. Each Division is a self-supporting municipal entity. All of the Divisions operate under the jurisdiction of the three-member Board of Public Utilities Commissioners (the “PUC”) .The Wallingford Town budget for the 2015-2016 FY (ending June 30, 2016) contains funding for sixty seven employees who perform duties in support of the Water and Sewer Divisions; 27 Water Division Employees; 20 Sewer Division employees. 20 additional positions (clerical, accounting, engineering, inspection and laboratory services) perform duties in support of both Divisions. Other than the General Manager and the Executive Secretary, each of those employees is represented by one of four Unions. Water Division: responsible for administering and managing the water supply, treatment, transmission, and distribution systems to provide potable water service to residential, commercial, and industrial users throughout the Town. The Water Division operates a conventional surface water treatment facility and two groundwater treatment facilities. It provides approximately 88% of the Town’s population with potable water by means of water storage tanks, distribution pump stations and approximately 200 miles of transmission and distribution piping. The Water Division has approximately 13,400 active service meters, and 1,800 public and private fire hydrants. Operating Revenues for the Water Division in the Town’s 2015/2016 FY budget (July 1 – June 30) total $7,562,560. Sewer Division: responsible for administering and managing the collection and treatment of sanitary sewerage from residential, commercial, and industrial customers throughout the Town of Wallingford. The Sewer Division operates an advanced secondary wastewater treatment facility. It provides approximately 88% of the Town’s population with sanitary sewer service by means of twelve pump stations, 201 miles of gravity collection mains and trunk sewers, and 11 miles of force mains. The Sewer Division has approximately 13,300 active service connections. Operating Revenues for the Sewer Division in the Town’s 2015/2016 FY budget (July 1 – June 30) total $6,807,300.
Electric Metering and Substation Maintenance Supervisor – The Town of Wallingford Electric Division is seeking a highly qualified supervisor who’s responsibilities will include the supervisory and administrative work involved in the supervision and management of the meter and electrical departments of the Electric Division, including substation operations and maintenance. The utility serves approximately 24,500 customers in a 50+ square mile distribution area with a peak demand of 143 MW. The position requires a bachelor’s degree from a recognized college or university in engineering, plus five years of progressively responsible supervisory or management experience in a utility, or an equivalent combinations of education and qualifying experience substituting on a year-for-year basis. Must possess and maintain a valid State of Connecticut Motor Vehicle Operator’s License. Salary: $79,982 to $102,333 plus an excellent fringe benefit package. Apply to: Personnel Department, Town of Wallingford, 45 South Main Street, Wallingford, CT 06492. Fax #: (203) 2942084. Closing date will be January 22, 2016 or the date the 50th application is received, whichever occurs first. EOE.
Listing:B Maintenance Assistant Immediate opening for a part time maintenance assistant for grounds and building maintenance. Position requires flexible work schedule. Some heavy lifting required. Computer knowledge a plus. Send resume to HR Manager, 401 Soundview Road, Guilford, CT 06437. **An Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer**
Housing Authority of the City of New Haven Invitation for Bids Emergency, On- Call and Preventative Maintenance HVAC Services The Housing Authority of the City of New Haven (HANH) is currently seeking Bids Emergency, On-Call and Preventative Maintenance HVAC Services s will be received until December 11, 2015 @ 3:00PM. A Pre-Bid conference will be held at 360 Orange Street, New Haven, CT 06511 on Wednesday December 2, 2015 @ 11:30 AM. A complete copy of the requirement may be obtained from HANH’s front desk at 360 Orange Street beginning on Wednesday, November 18, 2015 @ 3:00 PM. Additional questions should be emailed only to Karen DuBois-Walton at, bids@newhavenhousing.org no later than December 4, 2015 @ 3:00 PM. All answers to the questions will be posted on HANH’s Website: K “http:// www.elmcitycommunities.com” www.elmcitycommunities.com. Please click on the link for Vendors and then Current Bids.
TRANSFER STATION LABORER Off load trailers, reload for trans/disp. Lift 50 lbs., operate industrial powered trucks and forklift. Asbestos Worker Handler Training a +. Resumes to RED Technologies, LLC,173 Pickering St., Portland, CT 06480; Fax 860.218.2433; or Email to info@redtechllc.com. RED Technologies, LLC is an EOE.
Listing: Senior Accountant. Immediate opening for a degreed accountant w/ 2+ years public accounting experience in an extremely fast-paced petroleum environment. Duties include data transmission, tax prep, assistance w/monthly closing, account analysis/reconciliation, assistance managing network and system projects. Strong Excel and analytical skills a must. Great growth potential. Candidate must possess a high level of accuracy and attention to detail. Petroleum industry and propane experience a plus. Send resume to: Human Resource Dept. P O Box 388, Guilford CT 06437. **An Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer**
Water/Sewer Inspector Performs responsible inspection work involving the installation, connection, or repair of water and sewer lines for the Town of Wallingford, CT. Requires a high school or trade school diploma, plus 2 years of progressively responsible utility construction experience. Successful candidates must have a valid Connecticut driver’s license and be in possession of a P7 construction license issued by the State of Connecticut or obtain P7 license within one (1) year of appointment. The Town offers a competitive pay rate of $59,682 to $76,368 per year plus an excellent fringe benefit package. Applications or resumes will be accepted until January 4, 2015 (or the date of receipt of the 75th application) at the following address: Personnel Department, Town of Wallingford, 45 South Main St., Wallingford, CT 06492, (203) 294-2080. Fax: (203) 294-2084. EOE
Town of Greenwich, CT Executive Assistant to the First Selectman Performs highly responsible & confidential administrative work for the First Selectman, such as drafting correspondence for First Selectman in response to citizen inquiries, assisting with media relations, creating agendas and minutes of Board Meetings. Oversees the day to day operations of the Selectman’s Office. . Req: Bachelor’s degree + 4 yrs related exp. in public administration, public relations, business operations, administration in a non-profit organization or related field.; Master’s degree preferred. Visit www.greenwichct.org/jobs for info & to apply. Close date 1/5/16, 4 PM. EOE M/F/D/V
The Housing Authority of the City of Norwalk, CT is seeking bids for Janitorial Services. Bidding documents can be viewed and printed at www.norwalkha.org Norwalk Housing Authority is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Curtis O. Law, Executive Director
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Housing Authority of the City of New Haven Request For Proposals Leadership and Team Building Consultants The Housing Authority of the City of New Haven (HANH) is currently seeking Proposals Leadership and Team Building Consultants. Proposals will be received until Tuesday, January 19, 2016 @ 3:00PM. A Pre-Proposal conference will be held at 360 Orange Street, New Haven, CT 06511 on Wednesday January 6, 2016 @ 11:00 AM. A complete copy of the requirement may be obtained from HANH’s front desk at 360 Orange Street beginning on Monday, December 14, 2015 @ 3:00 PM. Additional questions should be emailed only to Karen DuBois-Walton at, bids@newhavenhousing.org no later than January 11, 2016 @ 3:00 PM. All answers to the questions will be posted on HANH’s Website: elmcitycommunities.com”www.elmcitycommunities.com. Please click on the link for Vendors and then Current Bids.
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Marshal Services The Housing Authority of the City of New Haven (HANH) is currently seeking Bids for Marshal Services. Bids will be received until Friday, January 15, 2016 at 3:00 PM. A Pre-Bid Conference will be held at 360 Orange Street, New Haven, CT 06511 on Wednesday January 6, 2016 @ 11:30 AM. A complete copy of the requirement may be obtained from HANH’s front desk at 360 Orange Street beginning on Wednesday, December 16, 2015 @ 3:00 PM. Additional questions should be emailed only to Karen DuBois-Walton at, bids@newhavenhousing.org no later than January 8, 2016 @ 12:00 PM. All answers to the questions will be posted on HANH’s Website: www.elmcitycommunities.com. Please click on the link for Vendors and then Current Bids.
Welder-Exp. Welder for structural steel Misc shop. Send resume:gwf@snet.net Town of Bloomfield Part Time- Non-benefited After School Activity Specialist $10 to $12 hourly After School Program Director $16 - $20 hourly After School Assistant Program Director $13 - $15 hourly
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Mechanical Insulator. Insulation Company offering good pay and benefits Please forward resume to P.O. Box 475. North Haven, CT
City of Norwich Department of Public Utilities Utility Construction Pipefitter Apprentice Salary: $58,843 – $71,552 Examination #2097
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CT Junior Republic CASE MANAGER (Waterbury) PT (M-F, 24hrs/wk) – works alongside Special Education Teacher to assess client’s academic needs; establishes immediate contact with the necessary academic programs to acquire school records, IEP’s, 504 plans, goes to statewide schools to pick up work, and collaborates with guidance or academic personnel. Bachelor’s degree required and 2 yrs exp in case management. CLINICAL COORDINATOR (Torrington) FT – Conducts client assessment and supervises intake process, develops service plans, provides clinical supervision, provides crisis intervention, prepares reports and co-facilitates service team meetings. Master’s degree required and 3 yrs exp in screening, assessment and treatment planning. FAMILY SOCIAL WORKER (Waterbury) FT - Works with families of voluntary and long term judicial clients to maintain or re-establish family connections and address family conflict as appropriate. Assess family needs, develop service plans, makes appropriate linkages to aftercare services and advocates for families in the community. Master’s degree and 2 yrs exp working with youth in the juvenile justice system. YOUTH COUNSELOR (Winchester) PT – TH/F, 4pm-9pm, Sat 10am-8pm, $15/hr. Seeking responsible, empathetic individual to provide a safe, secure environment for adolescent male clients in a therapeutic group home environment. Will be required to communicate with other staff, maintain awareness of all boys, closely monitor boys with specific problems, and provide crisis intervention as needed. Bachelor’s degree required and ability to obtain AdMed Certification. IT SUPPORT GENERALIST (Litchfield) FT IT Support for multi-site Human Services Agency. Skilled in Windows 7, Server 2012, HelpDesk and network troubleshooting. Watchguard and SEP skills are preferred. CJR offers a competitive salary and benefits package – EOE Bilingual (English/Spanish) encouraged to apply Apply at: www.ctjuniorrepublic.org or Email r@cjryouth.org”hr@cjryouth.org 31
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