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ESPN Anchor Tells Kids How To Break Out

by MARKESHIA RICKS

NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT

The year was 1999. The place was a Freddie Fixer Parade. And the song was J.T. Money’s “Who Dat.” Friends Chaz Carmon and Darren Haynes were teens on the cusp of manhood, honoring a tradition for many African-American youngsters having a good time at the parade.

“We met somebody who had the same jeep,” Chaz Carmon, president of the anti-violence community group Ice The Beef recalled Tuesday as Haynes looked on.

“We were deep in two jeeps. We had guys on the top of the jeep, people hanging out the side of jeep, the windows of the jeep. We were all riding down the street, and we’d stop at a gas station and everybody would just jump out when we’d play this song and start dancing and running around.”

“We’d be riding,” he told a room full of New Haven teenagers at the Amity Teen Center, many of whom were likely born the same year the song came out.

“We’d be riding down the street.

When our part would come up, we’d stop, put it in park.”

Then Carmon, Haynes, and a bunch of guys whom neither man can readily remember jumped out of the jeep. They commenced to running around it in sync with the song.

The teen campers from New Haven and Amity attending an Entrepreneur, Business, Reading and Theater Camp, got a chance to witness that short reenactment of that day by Carmon and Haynes at the Teen Center Tuesday.

Haynes, a 1999 graduate of Amity Regional High School and now SportsCenter anchor at ESPN, stopped by to talk about defying odds, choosing friends wisely, getting out of “the hood,” and onto the national stage.

In part that meant thinking about who is, and isn’t, in your “circle.”

“Chaz and I could have broken up our friendship, lost contact years ago,” Haynes said. “But we stayed in contact. Back in 1996 playing basketball until 1 a.m. at my parents house, we never thought we would have this connection, where he would have kids like you to help out, and me to come in speak to them. We would have never thought of that, but we stayed in contact.”

Haynes strikes his signature photo pose with Hillhouse student Cole Edwards.

Haynes told the teens to be mindful of whom they keep in their circle.

He said of an original circle of eight friends he had as a teenager, he’s in contact with only four of them.

That’s because of the other four, one is in and out of jail, one is dead, one had such strong ties to the drug trade here that his life was endangered by the many beefs he had with rival dealers that he moved to Atlanta. The fourth friend lives in Los Angeles.

“Some of the people in your life you know, they’re positive and doing good things keep them in your life,” he told the teens. “My circle of friends now are people who make me better. So think about if your circle of friends makes you better. It’s real, deep in your heart, you probably care about each other. But do you actually make them better? Because if there is someone around you who makes you worse, they’re holding you back from what you can actually achieve.”

Eliza Vargas, 15, asked Haynes how to “get out the hood and make it to where they wanted to make it.”

“I think the last thing you just said, ‘Get out the hood,’ is key,” he said.

“I had to go to school in Detroit.

I believe that your family, your mom and dad, their ceiling should be your floor and you should build on that. And sometimes the best way to strive to achieve bigger and better things is to get out.”

Haynes said that means studying

hard to get into college, and in his mind, preferably a college out of New Haven unless it’s Yale University.

“Go to Yale. If you get into Yale, go to Yale,” he said. “But you’ve got to get yourself out of the situation.

If you’re in the situation, you have a greater chance of being involved in it. While you’re here I can’t stress how big it is to make sure you hang around the right people.”

The camp has brought together city and suburban kids this summer. It is sponsored by Jennifer Romanoff, director of the Amity Teen Center; Howard Boyd and Dexter Jones of the new Freddy Fixer committee; Felicia Shashinka from New Haven Parks & Recreation; Thomas Daniels of Fathers Cry Too!; Yoshi B.Child Models; the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven; and Liberty Bank.

Haynes, a former all-state, allSouthern Connecticut Conference and all-conference honors high school footballer, also played basketball and ran track. He went on to play football at the University of Rhode Island, the University of New Haven and Wayne State University, from which he graduated. After sports reporting jobs in Michigan, Texas and Boston, he landed at ESPN in 2014.

A lot of the people in his life told him along the way that he wouldn’t achieve all that, Haynes told the teens Tuesday.

“I basically had a bunch of people

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in my life who told me i couldn’t achieve things,” he said. “When I was your age somebody told me I was too small to play high school football. I ended up breaking records in college. It was my high school football coach who said, ‘If you’re not receiving [NCAA] Division I football letters, you’re not going to play Division I.’ I ended up getting D-I scholarships.”

He had a similar experience, he said, when he had the opportunity to ask the head person for hiring all of the people who now appear on the network if he might too work there some day. It was 2008 at a broadcasting conference.

“He said no,” Haynes recalled. “And that burned inside of me for years.

It’s almost like he said it yesterday; that’s how fresh it is in my mind.”

Six years later, when he got the call from ESPN, the same man who told him no was on the other end of the telephone. He asked the man if he remembered telling him that he wouldn’t ever work at ESPN. The man didn’t.

“I said, ‘I remember,’” he told the teens. “And I remember saying, ‘I’m not mad at you for saying it.

You sparked something in me to drive me to work harder, to prove him wrong. There’s a lot of people who can say that you won’t achieve something. You can get mad at them, you can fight them, you can curse them out I hope you don’t curse ‘em out, hope you don’t fight

them at all either but you can pay these people back by your success, by you doing things really well.”

The soon-to-be first African-American inducted into the Amity Regional High School Hall of Fame likened how the teens should look at their goals and how they should consider the naysayers the haters to a line from a Beyoncé song.

“Beyoncé has some part of her song and you ladies may have to help me out she mentions something about her bank account, or how much money she has is her pay back, you know what I’m talking about..” he said, trying to recall the line.

“Oh, she said ‘The best revenge is your paper,’” Co-Op High student Eliza Vargas chimed in.

That was the line Haynes was looking for. He wasn’t focused on the money aspect of the lyrics, but on Beyoncé‘s many accomplishments since she and early girl-group Girls Tyme a forerunner to Beyoncé hitmaker group Destiny’s Child lost on .

“If anybody tells you you can’t do anything, make sure you shut them down with your success,” he said. ” I shut down a lot of people who told me I couldn’t do things and I still see them this day and I just smile at them.”

And the teens have big hopes for themselves. Most of the campers are rappers, singers, dancers, actors and future fashion designers interested in working as performing artists.

Before Haynes gave his talk, a trio of three singers known as the Queen of Hearts performed a song a cappella and a trio of dancers known as BTD (Born To Dance) took to the stage to show off their skills.

At the camp, they get to hone their performance skills while also working on reading. Not only do they put on musical performances and act out improv scenes, they also read play scripts.

“They enjoy it, and encourages them to be better readers,” Carmon said.

Thinking back to that Freddie Fixer in 1999, Haynes asked Carmon if he still had ties to the other guys in the jeep. Carmon said he had no idea where any of them are now.

“Associate with people who will hold you accountable and do the right thing,” Haynes said. “It will change your path.”

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by Christine Stuart

NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT

Connecticut will get $1 million from the Obama administration to help curb opioid abuse. It’s part of an $11 million grant to 11 states to expand access to medicationassisted treatment services for people with opioid use disorder.

But Connecticut officials say the funds are a drop in the bucket and won’t help with the immediate problem access to an opioid reversal drug for those trying to kick the habit.

In Connecticut, between 2009 and 2014, over 2,000 opiate-involved overdoses occurred. Those were spread out through all but 17 of Connecticut’s 169 cities and towns. There were 697 accidental and undetermined opiateinvolved overdose deaths in the state in 2015, of which 639 involved Connecticut residents, according to data from the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.

As part of International Overdose

Awareness Day, state officials and lawmakers gathered to raise awareness of the crisis, to remember those who lost their lives, and to promote access to the life-saving reversal drug Naloxone, also known by its brand name, Narcan.

Hope Kuss Auerbach said her daughter would not be alive today if she hadn’t been carrying Naloxone, which was administered to her after she overdosed. Auerbach said her daughter had gotten sober and thought she was strong enough to hang out with her friends who were using. Turns out she wasn’t.

“It’s after times of abstinence that people are most susceptible to overdose,” Auerbach said.

She said she knows the argument that after getting clean they shouldn’t go back to using, but unfortunately addiction is a “complex, frustrating, and irrational disease.”

But “to me, OD and death seem like a pretty stiff penalty for a slip,” Auerbach said.

Connecticut has made great strides

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in fighting the epidemic over the past few years, including distribution of Naloxone by pharmacists, but “while so much good has happened it’s pretty fragmented,” Shawn Lang, deputy director of AIDS Connecticut, said Wednesday.

Lang said there’s a need for uniform data collection regarding overdoses. Currently, the state police are required to submit a form to the Department of Correction, but there is no such form for first responders.

Lang said Naloxone should be more widely available because it simply saves lives without any side effects.

U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal said he took a 15-minute course and is certified to administer the opioid reversal drug, which he carries with him in his vehicle.

“If I can do it, believe me, anyone can do it,” Blumenthal said.

He said it is an epidemic and an overdose is possible with anyone because of substances now on the street like fentanyl.

“This danger will only increase. It

won’t diminish,” Blumenthal said.

He said that’s why everyone has to be trained and ready.

However, accessing these opioid reversal drugs is not getting easier based on the pricing of the products.

Blumenthal said the price has doubled and in some cases tripled and it’s hindered the ability of first responders to maintain a supply of Naloxone.

“Families who want to be prepared, but don’t know when they may need this life-saving drug, price hikes are a major obstacle,” Blumenthal said.

Insurance coverage is still lagging and Blumenthal said he has yet to receive a response from the drug manufacturer regarding its pricing practices.

In April, Amphastar Pharmaceuticals Inc. reached a settlement with Connecticut, which gives the state a $6 rebate for every dose of naloxone bought by state.

There’s a new nasal spray as well as the auto-injector version of the drug. The prices on the drugs vary widely between $120 to $3,500, according to Lang and Blumenthal.

But an even greater enemy in the fight against addiction may be “stigma and shame,” according to Blumenthal.

“All that’s needed for the triumph of stigma and shame is for good people to do nothing,” Blumenthal said. “And we cannot be inert.”

The Connecticut Department of Public Health has distributed approximately 9,200 overdose prevention kits since 2014 through the agency’s overdose prevention, education, and Naloxone access campaign.

Naloxone, or Narcan, is a medication that reverses the symptoms of a drug overdose. Since 2014, over 60 overdoses have been reversed with the overdose prevention kits distributed through the Public Health Department’s Syringe Exchange and OPEN Access CT programs.

The Department of Consumer Protection also unveiled a new interactive website Wednesday that allows residents to locate a pharmacist who is able to dispense Naloxone.

Consumer Protection Commissioner Jonathan Harris suggested those seeking the opioid reversal drug should call first to make sure the pharmacist who is trained to dispense the Naloxone is available and that it’s in stock.

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New Haven Age Group Track Athletes Shine At USATF Jr. Olympics

by STAFF NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT

Athletes from New Haven Age Group Track Club recently competed at the USA Track and Field Jr. Olympics in Sacramento, Calif. and brought home some impressive medals.

Parker Paragas won the gold medal in the Boys 11 to12-yearold 3000 meter race with a time of 10:02. He also competed in the 800 meter run and 1500 meter run. This was Parker’s 3rd national championship this year.

He had previously won AAU Cross Country Nationals in Alabama in December and the 3000 meter race at USATF Jr. Olympic Indoor Nationals in New York in March.

Alexis Holmes placed 3rd in the Girls 15 to16-year-old 400 meter dash with a time of 54.58.

She also placed 7th in the 200 meter dash (24.83) and 19th in the 100 meter dash (12.46).

Spencer Paragas came in 17th place in the Boys 15 to16-yearold 2000 meter Steeplechase (7:14), while Leilani Gibson came in 32nd place for the Girls 9 to 10-year-old 1500 meter (5:49).

She also also competed in the 800 meter race. She had previously placed 2nd for the 800 meter race and 3rd for the 1500 meter race at the USATF Jr. Olympic Indoor Nationals.

The New Haven Age Group Track Club is a local track club founded in 1975. They welcome athletes ages 8 to 18 and are comprised of athletes from several local towns.

$44M Ribbon Cut At Social-Justice High

by MARKESHIA RICKS

NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT

Alexis Holmes.

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Parker Paragas.

New laptops and Ghandian reminders about changing the world will greet New Haven Academy’s 265 students when they start their new school year in a bright new $44 million building Thursday morning.

State and city officials cut the ribbon Wednesday on the new 63,000-square-foot state-of-the art building that has been more than five years in the making at the corner of Orange and Bradley streets for a celebrated small high school geared toward churning out socialjustice leaders.

“This is more than a dream come true, and we are incredibly happy to be here,” Greg Baldwin, New Haven Academy principal and co-founder, told the crowd of officials, faculty and students gathered to get a peek at the finished school Wednesday. The new building stands where the former home of St. Mary’s Catholic Girls’ High School once stood. The site also was home to Co-Op High for years.

Baldwin credited the fight for a new school building that was waged by New Haven Academy alumni who knew they would never get a chance to take a class in the building. “They knew they would never come to this school, but they were so committed to this program to our vision, to our success,” Baldwin said.

Meredith Gavrin, the school’s program director and co-founder, said New Haven Academy has come a long way since it was founded in 2003. That first year, the school opened in a small office space with 60 students and eight staff members. Over the 13 years that the school has existed, it has been in four different buildings.

“But our mission has always remained the same: to prepare all of our students to be successful in college and to become active citizens, people who think critically, who participate in their communities, who stand up and speak up,” she said. “One of the most exciting things about this building is that our mission lives on the walls.”

The school’s motto, “Think critically. Be responsible. Get involved,” greets students on every floor, Gavrin noted. The walls of

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A New Haven Academy student gets interviewed with Superintendent Harries.

the school’s entryway and the library are emblazoned with words of Mahatma Gandhi, Bishop Desmond Tutu, Margaret Mead, and Albert Einstein.

New Haven Public School Superintendent Garth Harries said the district is striving to make sure that students start off the new school year strong, and with a new $44 million building, the students at New Haven Academy will have the opportunity to do just that. The school is equipped with technology throughout including one laptop for every student, two computer labs and state-of-the-art security. It also has a parent room.

“This facility is a great example of ways we can start strong, making sure that our students are equipped with the things they need to be prepared for the 21st, and dare I say, the 22nd century,” Harries said of the 41st completed school in New Haven’s construction program.

“We have a parent room because we recognize that we don’t do this work alone. We do this work in partnership with our parents and the community.”

Student performance on standardized tests has been a source of tension between Harries and the school board. At Wednesday’s ribbon-cutting, Harries, Mayor Toni Harp and Gov. Dannel P. Malloy all touted the district’s efforts to improve results on the state standardized Smarter Balanced test, to increase graduation rates and college going, while reducing absenteeism. “We have more work to do, but I am most proud of the ways that we are empowering our students to take control of their future in facilities like this and in classrooms all around the district,” Harries said.

Harp made a point to thank Malloy, who was on his third back-to-school stop of the morning, for his support of the city’s school construction program.

The state kicked in $33 million of the $44 million it took to build a new New Haven Academy.

“As the former mayor of Stamford, and now in his current office, the governor knows very well the importance of partnerships among Connecticut cities and state government when it comes to these large scale capital improvement projects,” said Harp, a former state senator and Appropriations Committee co-chair. “The partnership I mentioned is essential for local things to actually happen and to keep this city moving forward.”

Harp said the city was grateful for the state’s help and commitment to overhauling all of the district’s aging school buildings. Given that the city is 378 years old, it will continue to need that help, she said. “We’d like to think that we’re keeping our part of the bargain by improving schools inside of these classrooms and building a better public education system,” she said. “We hope that this will encourage you, Governor, to continue investing in New Haven.”

“We have other ideas about capital improvement projects we think would help New Haven move forward and this entire portion of Connecticut because we believe it is in New Haven that we move south central Connecticut forward,” she added. “We look forward to our continuing collaboration with you and your administration, and the state going forward.”

To which Malloy replied, “Mayor, thank you for your kind words, and your warning.”

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by PAUL BASS

NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT

Toni Walker has avoided using the first-person singular in public since she lost over $100 in one year for using it. But she has to figure out some way to call attention to herself if she wants to succeed in her quest to ascend to the state House of Representatives’ second-highest post.

Her solution:The first-person plural.

“We are all about Connecticut’s progress and development,” she said, trying out a slogan in an interview on WNHH radio’s “Dateline New Haven” program. “And we will make sure that happens.”

Walker, a Democrat, has represented New Haven’s 93rd General Assembly District in Hartford since 2001. The past six years she has held the powerful post of cochair of the legislature’s Appropriations Committee. In that time, she has rarely faced any real com-

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Rep. Walker.

petition for reelection. She hasn’t had to tout herself much in public, hasn’t had to hold press conferences, or issue many releases, or speak about how “I” accomplished great deeds. She has been able to work congenially with

her colleagues behind the scenes.

Now Walker faces a double challenge. Unlike most New Haven state legislators, she faces a Republican candidate this November, New Haven landlord organizer Doug Losty. Assuming

she wins that race, and assuming Democrats retain control of the state House, she will then face a fellow legislator, Matthew Ritter of Hartford, in a contest to become the next majority leader. As the chamber’s number-two position,

the majority leader is responsible for negotiating with and uniting party members to pass legislation.

“When I talk about myself, I have always talked about everything that I do as a ‘we.’ It’s an ‘us.’ I don’t talk about it as a singular person. That was part of my upbringing with my dad,” Walker said during the WNHH interview.

Walker’s dad was the late Rev. Edwin “Doc” Edmonds (pictured), the leading New Haven civil-rights figure and black political powerbroker of the second half of the 20th century. “I never want to hear you say ‘I’” because it takes people working together to accomplish great things, Walker’s father told her when she took office as a state representative.

Then he monitored her speeches from the floor on CT-N network.

Doc Edmonds was blind. But

State NAACP President Scot Esdaile Named Chairman of Connecticut’s Boxing Commission Special to The Inner City News

By TaShanna Edwards, Public Relations Assistant and Communications Intern Eastern Connecticut State University

On Aug. 25, more than 200 people converged on Terminal 110 at 240 Sargent Drive in New Haven to watch the swearing in of Scot X. Esdaile as new chairman of Connecticut’s Boxing Commission. Esdaile, who is president of the Connecticut state chapter of the NAACP, is the first African American chairman of the commission. Justice Lubbie Harper Jr., who swore in Esdaile during a reception at Terminal 110, thanked Governor Malloy for “his confidence and foresight” in making the appointment.

Harper and Esdaile both grew up within blocks of each other in the Newhallvile section of New Haven. Harper expressed great pride in swearing in Esdaile, saying the swearing in ceremony sends a message to inner city youngsters that you can succeed, and that you are not necessarily bound by the circumstances of your birth or where you live.

Justice Lubbie Harper Jr., who swore in Esdaile

Harper said Esdaile’s commitment to the struggles for justice for all and his particular interest in the welfare of young people reminded him of something the late, great heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali said: “Service to

others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth,” and “Impossible is just a big word. Impossible is not a fact. Impossible is potential and impossible is nothing.”

As chairman of the nine-member boxing commission, a unit within

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the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection, Esdaile will have the responsibility of leading the commission in ways that encourages, develops and promotes the sport of boxing in Connecticut, and identifying ways of

developing young boxers through amateur boxing clubs and other programs. Noting that boxing develops character, determination, discipline and fortitude,” Harper said he knows Esdaile will represent boxing’s values and beliefs: “You embody the qualities that encompass the mission of the Department; a mission that is referred to as “PRIDE”—Professionalism, Respect, Integrity, Dedication and Equality.

Esdaile said community involvement is a top priority for him.” I want to make sure that the commission is visible in communities throughout the state, especially, through a website and other social media.” Other goals include organizing a Connecticut Boxing Open, similar to the Connecticut Tennis Open; bringing the Golden Gloves Boxing Tournament back to Connecticut; having open public forums across the state to educate people on how they can get involved in the industry in careers such as promoters, managers, judges, referees, trainers; and organizing a “Gloves, Not Guns” Stop the Violence Campaign.

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If Dean Esserman had returned last month to his job as police chief from a forced paid leave, he would have lost his ability to discipline officers, at least for a while.

That was one of 10 conditions he agreed to in a document made public Thursday.

The document became public after a group critical of the chief, People Against Injustice, made a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for it. The group distributed the agreement to the Independent and the New Haven Register.

“PAI did this to serve the public’s interest in being informed, in being at the table in government affairs and to help maintain transparency in city government activities,” the group stated in a release. “The presumption under FOIA in fact is that personnel disciplinary matters are public, contrary to Mayor Harp’s statement, as quoted in the press, that the presumption is of confidentiality. The city knew this and produced this document in response to our FOI request.”

“We all wanted to know what were the terms. Toni had come out and said there were 10 conditions for him to come back to work. We were all curious what they were,” said activist Barbara Fair, who has helped organize protests calling for Esserman to leave the department.

Mayor Toni Harp, Esserman, and, as a witness, Corporation Counsel John Rose Jr. signed the document on July 25.

It established that Esserman would take a paid leave for a minimum of 15 working days. He could return to work on Aug. 16 at the earliest.

But he would have to satisfy 10 subsequent conditions in order to return. At the time, neither he nor Harp made public what those conditions were; in fact, not making the agreement public was one of the conditions.

Much has changed since then. It is now widely believed that Esserman will not return to his job, that rather he and city officials are negotiating a deal to pay him some money and perhaps give him some other city work in return for his departure now. His contract runs out in January 2018. Esserman is now officially on sick leave while those newer negotiations continue.

The newly public July 25 docu-

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MARKESHIA RICKS PHOTO Citizens

vote to call for Esserman’s ouster at a recent meeting.

ment followed revelations of a scene Esserman allegedly caused at Archie Moore’s restaurant after he complained about a rude waitress. Since then, other revelations have been reported detailing a much more serious offense threatening to withdraw police security for First Lady Michelle Obama during a New Haven visit after a Secret Service member didn’t immediately inform Esserman of his place in the motorcade and detailing instances in which he failed to discipline a high-ranking cop who was found to have violated department rules by allegedly attacking a citizen who tried to photograph her and denying routine paperwork service to an immigrant mother whose daughter had been sexually assaulted.

The July 25 agreement called for all department discipline, as well as “closed door meetings,” to be approved by Corporation Counsel Rose and Chief Administrative

Officer Mike Carter, and forwarded to mayoral Chief of Staff Tomas Reyes, before being approved, for “a period of six months.”.

Among other requirements, the agreement forbade Harp or Esserman from giving interviews about the agreement. It called on the chief to “strive to build and maintain a department” that reflects New Haven’s “diversity” (i.e. hire more black and Latino cops); provide documentation from a doctor that he is able to perform his work duties; and disclose to Harp any and all other “disrespectful, threatening or harassing” incidents involving him. It warns that “[a] ny substantiated future display of intemperance and/or unwarranted unprovoked disrespect may result in termination of employment.”

The agreement barred him from having contact with any cops or police commissioners during his leave.

Benny & Dr. D Strike A Deal THE INNER-CITY NEWS September 07, 2016 - September 13, 2016

by MARKESHIA RICKS

NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT

Instead of sitting inside his thirdgrade classroom with his fellow students hours into his first day of school, Benny was standing in the hallway talking to two teachers.

He wasn’t in trouble. He was in distress. And he wanted to speak with “Dr. D.” Benny was convinced that there had been some kind of mistake. He was in the wrong grade. And he could prove it.

At least that is what the pintsized boy was trying to explain to the teachers listening patiently to him Thursday morning, the frenetic first day of the school year at Brennan-Rogers School of Communications and Media in the West Rock neighborhood.

The teachers tried to explain that Benny was indeed in the right grade.

But Benny said he could prove that he belonged in fourth grade.

With more dignity than most adults speaking to an unyielding customer service representative, Benny wanted to go above the teachers’ heads.

He wanted to speak to management.

“Can I talk with Dr. D?” he asked in earnest.

It just so happened that Brennan-Rogers Principal Gail DeBlasio, known to the students at the pre-K-8 school as “Dr. D” or “Miss Dr. D,” was making the rounds, headed Benny’s way.

When she walked up to the trio, Benny turned to her and made his pitch: Give him a week to prove that he could do fourth grade work.

“If I can get an 80, maybe you can let me go to the fourth grade,” he said.

DeBalsio squatted down to his height so she could look him in the eye.

“Prove to me that you can do third grade work for a week…,” she said.

“But…,” he tried to interrupt.

“Let me finish,” she said gently. “I’d rather you prove you can do third grade work than move you up to fourth grade and have you not do well and then have to move you back.”

Frustrated, but accepting DeBlasio’s solution as fair enough, Benny rubbed his eyes as if he might cry. No tears fell. “We’ll meet in a week?” he pressed.

“It’s a date,” she promised.

Benny went back to class.

MARKESHIA RICKS PHOTO Brennan-Rogers Principal Gail DeBlasio greets a parent and student on the first day of school.

In just the first few hours of the first day of school DeBlasio had already called on the “restorative practices” that her team has been training on and using for the last two years.

Before her encounter with Benny, she and Assistant Principal Monique Brunson and the rest of the staff were trying to manage a computer system mini-glitch just as hundreds of their students and their parents were walking through the doors .

But you wouldn’t know it, as faculty and staff greeted students and parents with big hugs and excited cries of “Look how much you grew!”

DeBlasio said during a quiet moment in her office later that while academics are a top priority at the Brennan-Rogers Magnet School, so is social and emotional learning.

In fact, the social-emotional learning was so important that two years ago teachers elected to come to school earlier to give students a extra half hour in the morning to meet in what is known at the school as “Crew.” In that 30-minute meeting, students are not only allowed to share their feelings, but taught how to identify and express them.

“Our feeling is if we teach our kids how to identify their feelings and articulate their feelings, and express their feelings appropriately that we’ll be able to have more peace,” DeBlasio said. “Kids

will be able to work out their differences in a more agreeable manner. And we’re teaching them a skill that will last a life time.”

The school, an original experimental site of Yale psychiatrist James Comer’s groundbreaking social-emotional learning methods back in the day, is once again becoming Comer trained. DeBlasio is a long time acolyte of the method which advocates addressing student social-emotional needs as a way of helping them succeed academically.

Brennan-Rogers also is one of the test sites for the district’s efforts to add “restorative justice” practices into several schools’ disciplinary procedures thanks to a two-year grant from the American Federation of Teachers.

Those restorative practices aren’t just for inter-student conflicts. They also guide faculty and staff in handling student discipline and distressed children like Benny. Even parents participate in restorative circles.

DeBlasio said the process requires everyone to go beyond the surface of a child’s behavior to see what might be getting in the way of learning, to create that behavior.

“Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t,” she said.

“But we have to give it a go.”

When it works, it looks a lot like what

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happened with Benny in the hallway.

His teachers had brought him out of the classroom when he was upset so that he could collect himself in the hallway while his classmates carried on inside. The teachers listened to his concerns and took them seriously rather than dismiss them. They didn’t force him back to class before a resolution that everyone could agree upon.

It’s a lot of negotiation to go through with a third grader, and DeBlasio admitted that there are some teachers who don’t like it, particularly on those days when a student’s behavior is over the top. Even she has to make a conscious effort to handle student behavior in this way, she said. It takes more time and effort. But it produces results.

“That’s why that is up there,” she said of a poster with restorative questions that she can see from her desk.

“It’s my way of keeping in mind that I need to be restorative as well.”

While the school is ever working on social-emotional learning, it also is under a mandate to keep showing academic improvement.

Brennan-Rogers has emerged from “turnaround” status, a designation reserved for Connecticut schools in the state with the worst overall student performance in a five-tier accountability system. The state had flagged Brennan-Rogers for

specific interventions including more professional development for teachers. Brennan-Rogers teachers have a full week of training the week before school starts. They have additional staff meetings during each month of the school year.

They have collaborative periods each morning. They also have three additional days of work for reflection after the school year ends.

“You have to have a high level of dedication to be here,” DeBlasio said. Teachers at Brennan-Rogers tend to be younger, and the time commitment means that the turnover is pretty regular, she said. This year the school has four or five new teachers. On average, there are about three new teachers each year.

“Predominately it’s people relocating and people with young children who need to go closer and have less of an obligation to come the week before and stay the week after,” she said.

Despite the turnover, the school has made strides to improve and is now a step above turnaround.

It has “focus” status; that means the school still demonstrates low performance but mostly among certain populations of students such as those from particular ethnicities and socioeconomic status.

The K-8 school has two buildings across the street from each other.

Its steady growth to 560 students prompted DeBlasio to move the third grade to the Rogers side of the campus and open up a third fifth-grade class on the Brennan side. It is made up predominantly of black and latino students of lower socioeconomic status.

Around 40 students from other nearby towns attend the school.

“People wear multiple hats and do multiple jobs around here,” she said.

That was demonstrated Thursday when an unexpected gift from Yale University showed up with no warning from the benefactor. Instead of DeBlasio rushing out to deal with the delivery of some 30 boxes of donated supplies, art teacher Jeffrey Summers radioed to say he’d take care of it.

“That’s what makes this school so unique,” DeBlasio, who first came to Brennan-Rogers as a magnet resource teacher. “We’re all in this Con’t on page 13

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EMERGING: Life After Incarceration with Keynote Speaker Shaka Senghor

EMERGING: Life After Incarceration - a special convening to highlight the impact of incarceration and barriers to successful reintegration into community life Organized by The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven in partnership with EMERGE Connecticut Inc. Keynote Speaker: Shaka Senghor Award ceremony to honor the following local individuals who supported formerly incarcerated persons and atrisk youth with the goal of their successful return to their families and their communities as law-abiding contributing citizens: The Honorable Mayor Toni Harp First Presbyter an Church volunteers Henry Dynia of Neighb hood Housing Services Bob Kreisler September 8, 2016, 4:00 pm – 6:30 pm

The Omni Hotel atYale, 155 Temple Street, New Haven, Conn. 06510 Every year, about 1,200 men and

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Wisdom Unveils New Wedding Line THE INNER-CITY NEWS September 07, 2016 - September 13, 2016

by LUCY GELLMAN

NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT

New Haven’s most sartoriallyminded can stop holding their breath for at least one big surprise in fall fashion: at Friday’s Design On9 “First Friday” showcase and fashion show in the Ninth Square, Neville Wisdom’s first standardized bridesmaid dresses will hit the runway.

Earlier this week, Wisdom took a moment to talk about the new line and his hopes for the show, weaving through bolts of fabric and plus-size mannequins in his Westville studio as he spoke.

Bottom line, he said: those dresses weren’t on his mind when he set up his 903 Whalley Ave. digs a year ago, or even when he established his Orange Street shop in 2012.

When a gaggle of bridesmaids came through a few years ago, the designer didn’t think anything of it. They asked for alterations to their dresses. He worked his magic. The wedding they attended was beautiful, and that was that.

Or so he thought. Bridesmaids kept coming through the showroom with dresses that needed to be altered, and brought with them stories about “the horror that they experience overall,” Wisdom said.

“How difficult it is to get the color they want, when they get their dresses and then they have to turn around and pay us quite a bit to make the dress fit them.”

Word got around that Wisdom was careful with the alterations, that he turned dresses that were blah into things the women wanted to wear. Wisdom then thought a step further: Flattering bridesmaids’ dresses, minimal with a little bit of flair, could be crowd-pleasing at weddings and then could be worn again, many timesŸ dresses that weren’t just Wisdom-altered, but Wisdom-made, from start to finish. “We figured we might as well create our own,” Wisdom said.

“That way, when the customer buys their dress, it comes custom fitted for them.”

Thinking a step further, Wisdom realized that adding a small line of standard bridesmaids’ dress to his collection could bring the price point down and the potential for meeting demand up. Opening a new computer-aided design

LUCY GELLMAN PHOTO

Wisdom in his studio.

(CAD) file on his computer, he got to work.

He clicked and scrolled his way through a tentative design. A cowl here. A sexy back there. A shimmering, swooshing ball gown of a skirt that could become something more demure upon request. He worked away into the night, banging out four variations. Then he took a deep breath, turned on the sewing machines, and made some more magic happen.

The dresses are based on a somewhat minimal design, with a fun Wisdom-y touch: swooshy, stretchy crepe and a flexible color palette that distinguishes the pieces from something one might find at a big-box department store or bridal shop. From four sleek prototypes, already spun into size-four reality — cowl in the front, cowl in the back, short or long skirt — bridesmaids can mix and match, putting together a dress that is all Wisdom, and partly their own.

The bridesmaids’ line gels, he said, with a goal he has had since opening the 63 Orange St. shop four years ago: to “just make women feel beautiful.”

But it’s also bigger than the dresses themselves. At $275 a piece that’s Wisdom’s price point for most of the dresses in his collection the gowns underscore his autumnal mantra of wasting less.

And wasting less is achieved through those tech assisted, CAD-

rendered dresses, intended to cut down radically on the amount of extra material that every piece uses.

A showpiece destined to be revealed on Friday night hangs in the shop as a sort of proof that Wisdom is moving in that direction. It floats in the air across from an orderly row of almost 30 sewing ma-

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chines (the company only has 31, most of which have eco-friendly servo motors and live permanently at the Westville location). It is a deep velvet with splashes of bright color, and it is 100 percent CADdesigned.

“We’re trying to get as ecofriendly as we possibly can,” Wisdom said. “When I designed the

business for the expansion to keep manufacturing the clothes that we sell, it was with the hopes that we can expand even more in the future to a full-on manufacturing place.”

Wisdom said there are a few more surprises for Friday, all with an eye toward the importance of his customers in everything he does. In the past year, he has launched a Kickstarter to add more examples of “clothing made for every body type” to his line, which generally showcases clothes UK size 4 to 18 in-house (he is adamantly against vanity sizing, and will readily make something for a woman larger than size 18 or 20). He is trying to raise money for curvy, realistically-sized mannequins. He’s thinking differently about how much he designs, how he designs, the colors and fabric he uses, and what his customers think of the “fabulousness” reflected in his work.

Or, as he put it, they with both their purchasing power and input are having a say in the future of the brand. “What can I say?” he laughed. “We’re biased toward our people. They support us, and we love them.”

Police Chief Resigns THE INNER-CITY NEWS September 07, 2016 - September 13, 2016

by PAUL BASS

NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT

It’s official: Dean Esserman will no longer run the New Haven police department.

Esserman summoned at least 40 on-duty cops at police headquarters Monday afternoon to a fourthfloor meeting to inform them that he will not be returning as their chief.

In recent days he has been finalizing negotiations with Harp administration officials on a deal to leave his office even though his contract runs through January 2018.

The administration did not release terms of the final agreement. Mayor Toni Harp said in an interview that for now she will leave it to the chief about whether to disclose those terms. The resignation was effective as of Sept. 2.

Esserman has been on leave, first a forced paid leave and then a sick leave, since July 26, following a series of incidents in which he lost his temper in public and threatened to withdraw security for the First Lady of the United States.

Anthony Campbell is to continue serving as interim chief.

In an interview with the Independent, Esserman, who served almost five years as chief and brought community policing back to New Haven, said he wanted to let the cops at 1 Union Ave. Tuesday know he was leaving before they heard it elsewhere.

“I went to police headquarters because I wanted to speak to them before the press release came out, out of respect. I wanted to tell them the story of the New Haven police department is not about me.

It’s about them. The New Haven police department is a remarkable organization with remarkable people,” Esserman said.

“I feel such gratitude to New Haven for bringing me here 25 years ago, where I started my family, and bringing me back five years ago. I love New Haven. I was proud to serve here for all these years.”

He declined to discuss the terms of his agreement with the city. He said he plans now to “keep com-

MARKESHIA RICKS FILE PHOTO

Esserman at a recent announcement about crime drops.

mitments” he has to teach this fall while he “explores options” for his next career move.

Mayor Harp praised Chief Esserman’s tenure, noting that the crime rate plummeted for five years under his watch.Harp said that she hasn’t decided on a permanent replacement for Esserman. Nor has she decided how long Campbell will serve as interim chief.

She noted that department policy calls for the assistant chief in charge of patrol to fill in for a chief, which is why Campbell originally played that role. Harp said she wants him to continue playing that role now.

“There needs to be stability right now,” she said. “There has been stability since [Esserman] has been out on leave. I’d like to continue that stability.”

The “interim” in Campbell’s title is important because the charter limits the tenure of “acting” department heads.

Also, officials have to figure out whether Campbell, or other existing top cops, meet charter requirements for a police chief. The charter requires that the chief have a college degree. (Campbell has an undergraduate and a graduate de-

gree from Yale.) It also states that the chief must “have had experience of at least five (5) years in the management and direction of supervisors of operations of a police department with at least two hundred (200) employees serving a population of at least one hundred (100,000) thousand residents.” At issue is how to define “supervisors” whom the chief will have had to supervise for five years.

Steven Mednick, an attorney who specializes in municipal law and oversaw New Haven’s most recent charter revision, said that term is vague. So it requires interpretation.

For instance, would district managers qualify for having supervised other “supervisors,” if some of the people under the command had authority over other officers?

“You’d have to look at the specific job descriptions to see whether they have supervisory funcitons.

Then you determine if they have supervisory functions over people” who have supervisory functions, Mednick said.

Before becoming assistant chief two years ago, in which position he oversaw numerous supervisors, Campbell ran the training acad-

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emy and oversaw internal affairs.

New Haven Union President Craig Miller praised the job Campbell has done shepherding the department in Esserman’s absence. “I think he’d be a good choice to be chief,” Miller said. “He and I had issues where we butted heads a little bit, and we worked them out.

We treated each other fairly.” He also noted that at the training academy, which he began overseeing in 2012, Campbell “had sergeants working underneath him, and they were in charge of officers.”

Quinnipiac Meadows Alder Gerald Antunes, a retired city police captain, said he hopes Campbell gets the job permanently.

“I know his work ethic. He seems to be a good managers. Officers like him. That means the morale will pick up,” Antunes said of Campbell, with whom he worked in the police department.

Appreciation Amid The Controversy Officer David Hartman, who worked closely with the chief as director of department communications, said Tuesday that he “will not soon forget my working with Chief Esserman these past five years. I’ve learned a lot from that man and owe him a debt of grati-

tude. His position is not just a figurehead. It is that of a working, thinking, planning, strategizing man who has the great responsibility of assuring the safety of all that live and visit the Elm City.

“I’ve seen the pressures he allowed himself to be under and know few people who’ve shouldered such pressure without difficulty. Everyone thinks they know better – and they don’t. Everyone has a different plan and they’re sure it’ll work – it won’t. The life of a city police chief is sometimes a lonely and thankless one. You’re at the top. Who does a chief turn to for advice? How do you maintain stoic when there are things that distress you”?

“The chief has had difficulty from time to time. His transgressions are just those – transgressions.

We all have moments we’re not proud of but I can say this without question; That man never woke up planning to be curt or rude toward anyone. He truly cared about those he worked with and recognized his need to be apologetic to those he’d crossed.

A release issued by the mayor’s office quoted Esserman as saying: “It has been a privilege to serve Mayor Harp and work alongside the remarkable men and women of the New Haven Department of Police Service, who no doubt have earned the title, ‘New Haven’s Finest,.’ Last and certainly not least, it has been my privilege to serve the wonderful people of New Haven I am so very grateful for having had this opportunity to do so.

“I am confident in the future of the New Haven Police Department because of the excellent leadership, command staff, supervisors, detectives, and patrol officers who serve; day and night they earn the respect and gratitude of those who live in and visit New Haven.”

Union President Miller said Tuesday’s announcement by Esserman will now enable the cops “finally [to] focus on doing what we’re supposed to be doing working with the community and doing police work without any distractions.”

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together, and nobody says ‘That’s not my job. I’m not going to do it.’ So, when people leave here, they often tell me that they miss the level of collaboration and collegiality that we have here, because most of my teachers they’re not competitive. They’re collaborative. To be a new teacher here, you receive a lot of support from your grade level and from your coaches and hopefully from myself, too.”

She also credited the willing collaboration of parents who have answered the call when they were asked to help students improve their attendance and practice their basic math skills.

“Our scores are going in the right direction, and it’s not just the dedication of the teachers,” she said.

“We have great parents and families, too. They helped us to increase our math scores so we know it isn’t just us here. We know they’re helping us as well, whether or not they get the credit, we know it’s them. “ That spirit of collaboration extends to school leadership, which consists of DeBlasio and Assistant Principal Brunson, who is in her third year in that role. The two women share the same philosophy of pairing rigorous academics with social-emotional learning.

“We want students to really grasp all the concepts they need for the next grade level,” Brunson said while simultaneously trying to avert the mini-crisis that the computer system glitch had created for putting children on the right buses in the afternoon. “We’re using a workshop approach to learning, which gives them more opportunity for hands-on learning, more opportunities to apply the skills they’re being taught. That is really going to be a focus for the year as it has been in years past.”

“We’re pretty much on the same page,” DeBlasio said.

All things considered, the first morning went smoothly.

“We recognize that we have a long way to go,” DeBlasio noted. “It’s an uphill battle. Our goal is to have a growth mindset. If you want us to be at the top by next year, it’s not going to happen. But we need to propel ourselves forward by knowing we’re going in the right direction and feeling the success of that.”

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Welcome To Battleground U. THE INNER-CITY NEWS September 07, 2016 - September 13, 2016

by PAUL BASS & ALIYYA SWABY

UNITE HERE members handed out water bottles and flyers to the new students. The flyer noted that Yale has had 13 years of labor peace. (Before that it had at least seven bitter strikes in under four decades.) It previewed the on-campus issues and enlisted the students to sign up to a text-messaging list.

Within hours, the car traffic would dissipate. The campus and city tie-ups promise to continue, along with the students’ education in labor-management relations.

Students also stumbled on another sign of tension between the university and community on their move-in day. A couple of dozen community members stood in front of Calhoun College at noon, protesting the university’s decision to keep the residential college’s name, which comes from slaveowner and prominent slavery advocate John Calhoun.

Community activist Barbara Fair said the group largely made up of local non-Yale organizers has rallied in front of the college every Friday from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. for the last couple of months. This time a few students joined, lining up on both sides of Elm to oppose the Calhoun name.“It will be much bigger” when students and staff return to New Haven and get settled in, Fair predicted. Much of the Yale community has been protesting since Yale President Peter Salovey decided not to change the name in April. He argued it would “obscure” the history of slavery instead of “addressing it.” Since a controversial incident this summer involving the arrest of an AfricanAmerican Calhoun cafeteria worker, Salovey has convened a new committee to consider the renaming question again.

In the same correspondence to students last April, Salovey announced he was changing the term “master,” used for heads of residential colleges, to “Head of College.” In a welcome ceremony for students, Morse’s Catherine Panter-Brick introduced herself “Head of College” for the first time Friday morning, for instance.

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New Haven’s 1,373 newest downtown residents arrived to their new lodgings Friday morning welcomed by friendly cops, blaring music, free fruits and water and a notice that they’re about to live amid a labor-management showdown.

Traffic was at a near gridlock along Elm Street from Park Street to the Green as Yale’s freshman class arrived to move into dorms.

The town was ready. New Haven police sent out an advance survival guide for New Haveners coping with the annual day of disruption. An extra 12 city cops were assigned to help Yale cops keep things moving and calm through 2 a.m., according to Lt. Rob Criscuolo. Rather than have families park on both sides of Elm Street unloading belongings and tying up traffic, the city posted no-parking signs along the north side of Elm to add an extra traffic lane, and blocked off the southernmost traffic lane (which gets clogged with parkers no matter what the rules) for unloading.

Officers were observed rolling with the flow, greeting confused drivers with a smile and directing them to their destinations.

The freshman class’s members hail from all 50 United States as well as 50 foreign countries, according to a Yale release.

Yale staffers and members of student groups jammed the sidewalks to greet the freshmen and their parents Friday morning. So did a platoon from UNITE HERE, whose Locals 33, 34 and 35 are engaged in an increasingly contentious conflict with the university.

The conflict over the elimination of unionized jobs; over upcoming negotiations over new contracts for blue-collar and office workers; over race; over efforts to unionize graduate student teaching employees; over the parking policy for employees; over the university’s tax exemptions sparked numerous protests on campus over the spring and has entered multimilliondollar fights in city government, where UNITE HERE supports a majority of the Board of Alders.

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(pages x-xii) Do you believe in the power of prayer? If you are a person of faith, you might appreciate the case eloquently made for precisely that proposition in this enlightening opus by Reverend Dorothy Scott Boulware. The author has been preaching practically her entire life, having started at the age of four when she surprised her family with her first sermon.

“How can you say you love God who you haven’t seen and hate your brother who you see every day?” she asked back then. “You’re a liar and the truth ain’t in you.” And the precocious youngster matured into a sage sister who’s been selflessly

ministering to anybody who would who listen ever since.

And in her new opus, “Keep Walking in Prayer... Until You Can’t Come Back,” Reverend Boulware shares plenty of insightful pearls of wisdom she’s accumulated over the years. The title was ostensibly inspired by Genesis 5:23-24, a Biblical passage about how Enoch (Methusaleh’s father) maintained a constant companionship with the Lord.

The book basically consists of a mix of the author’s personal anecdotes and testimonies from folks she has interacted with in the course of living a life well lived.

Perhaps its most poignant entry involves a heartfelt remembrance of “The Day God Showed Up” to help Reverend Boulware’s homeless son who was on trial despite having been the victim of stabbing. Against seemingly-insurmountable odds, he prevailed in court with the help of a very wellprepared public defender.

Overall, this passionate how-to memoir has a moving message which might be best communicated by this quote: “While we don’t have the power to control outcomes... we do get to rest in the assurance that we are always and forever heard whenever we communicate with the Father.” Can I get an Amen?

Film Review: Hands of Stone THE INNER-CITY NEWS September 07, 2016 - September 13, 2016

By Dwight Brown, NNPA Newswire Film Critic

“Every boxer is someone’s hero.”

It’s a saying that’s been hard to attach to Roberto Durán. Most people assume that he is just an infamous Panamanian boxer who left a match against Sugar Ray Leonard, uttering the words, “No Más (no more).” There’s more to him than that controversial moment.

This very well-acted, entertaining and informative biopic reveals all: a rough childhood, abandonment issues, an international champion that rose to infamy, and the resurgence of a hometown hero.

First, you have to understand Roberto Durán Samaniego’s significance. After Jack Johnson, he was only the second boxer to have a professional career that spanned five decades. In his day, he held titles in four weight classes: lightweight, welterweight, light middleweight and middleweight.

He had a staggering 119 fights, winning 103, knocking out 70 of his opponents and losing only 16 bouts. He earned his nickname, “Manos de Piedra” (Hands of Stone), fairly.

Roberto Durán, born June 16, 1951, grew up on the streets of the Guararé District in the Los Santos Province in Panama. As a kid (David Arosemena), he lives with his mother and siblings. His dad, a Mexican-American marine in Panama during the U.S. occupation, left the family when his troop shipped out. Durán finds refuge in the sport of boxing, training at the Neco de La Guardia Gym. Duran, as a young man (Edgar Ramirez), gets a big break when he meets a wealthy local named Carlos Eleta (Rubén Blades) who backs him and helps him set up professional fights. His next stroke of luck is Eleta enlisting the aid of a Jewish boxing trainer Ray Arcel (Robert De Niro), who coached more than 2,000 fighters. The one hiccup with Arcel is that he has promised a local mafia don (John Turturro) that he will not train again, for money. So he tiptoes around that pledge by working with Durán for free.

Arcel, a philosophical trainer, adds a big picture strategy to

Durán’s sledgehammer fists. Their record of success together is amazing, which earns them a match against the very popular American boxer Sugar Ray Leonard (Usher Raymond). Before they even step into the ring, Durán gets into Leonard’s head by insulting his

wife Juanita (Jurnee Smollett-Bell, “The Great Debaters”). Durán is egged on by his spouse Felicidad (Ana de Armas), who tells him: “Destroy their idol and make them respect Panama.” As the big fight approaches, both men are ready for a brawl.

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Venezuelan writer/director Jonathan Jakubowicz (“Secuestro Express”) takes an in-depth look at an imperfect man who was a near perfect boxer. He focuses on the emotional state of a young boy who was abandoned by his father and also angry because Americans occupied his country. Durán’s love/hate relationship with the US follows him into adulthood.

The hostility and inner turmoil he feels is evidenced on the screen: The chip on his shoulder. Selfindulgent debauchery. Demeaning other men’s wives. Yet that same volatile attitude is the fuel he burned in the ring as he pummeled opponents.

Then there was Durán’s other side; the generous person who loved his country, neighborhood and family, almost to a fault. The press rarely showed that Durán.

Hard to believe from reading headlines and seeing news excerpts on TV that he was a hero in Panama, or anywhere else.

Jakubowicz’s script sticks to an easy-to-comprehend, chronological order: Childhood. Adolescent flirtation and first romance with his future wife. Professional life.

Career-ending default. Shame.

And resurgence. Editor Ethan Maniquis lines up scenes, cuts the fat and ties things up nicely in 105 minutes. The production design

by Tomas Voth and set decoration

by Denise Camargo and Amy Williams creates interiors that evoke the era. The musical score (Angelo

Milli) accents the proceedings.

The interiors and location shots look vivid thanks to cinematographer Miguel Ioann Littin Menz.

For fans of the art of acting, pull up a chair and watch the masters of the profession work their craft.

Ellen Barkin plays Arcel’s wife Stefanie with a New York City toughness that oozes the Bronx and Brooklyn. Smollett-Bell and de Armas add certain texture as the wives of the pugilists. Turturro is solid and dead-on as Frankie Carbo. Usher Raymond is a surprise casting choice, who is up to the challenge.

There is a scene at a dinner table when De Niro, as the fatherly Arcel, who loves Durán, and Blades, as the unscrupulous Eleta who thinks of the boxer as a commodity, argue over the soul, future and health of Durán, who is being drafted into a fight he’s not physically ready for. The raw emotions the two actors hurl at each are as lethal as any of the blows thrown in the ring. This is acting of the highest caliber. It’s a privilege to watch it.

It is fitting that the legendary Robert De Niro would be acting with Edgar Ramirez, one of the finest actors of this generation, which was evidenced by his Gold Globe-nominated role in “Carlos.” He was also superb in the lesser-known “The Liberator,” as the South American leader Simon Bolivar. The Venezuelan actor can bring any character to life and make it indelible. He, in this role, is handicapped physically because he doesn’t look like Durán. Yet he embodies him in spirit and mind.

Finally a smart team of creative people tells the story of a Latino sports figure. The surprise is that they focus their attention on a fallen hero, Roberto Durán. The bigger surprise is that Durán’s dramatic up and down life is more than worthy of all the attention.

This is an engrossing and compelling bio film.

Dwight Brown is a film critic and travel writer. As a film critic, he regularly attends international film festivals including Cannes, Sundance, Toronto and the American Black Film Festival.

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Ubor Wumbe Dawuni And Rocky Dawuni Lament Chinese Gambling in Local Communities Ubor Wumbe Dawuni, the Chief of Bunbong in the Yendi District of the Northern Region of Ghana and his 2016 GRAMMY-nominatedjunior-brother; Rocky Dawuni, have both lamented the negative impacts some Chinese businesses are having on their small community.

In an exclusive interview with theafricandream.net from Yendi, the Bunbong Chief said some of these Chinese businesses, especially the gambling companies have invaded the eastern corridor of the Northern Region where his chieftain covers. The introduction of gambling is badly hampering the progress of the community.

Since Ubor Wumbe Dawuni became Chief he and his about three thousand peopled community of Bunbong in the Yendi metropolis have been striving to push forward positive traditional and cultural values, education, good healthcare and improvement of the local economy. Something his younger brother and legendary Reggae musician and social activist confirmed to theafricandream.net Chief Ubor Wumbe Dawuni on Chinese Gambling issue “It is rather unfortunate that there are over 14 gambling centers in my community, all of which are set up and run by the Chinese. Their entry into our community was quiet and quick. The most disturbing part of the practice is that children of all ages are allowed to gamble provided they can afford the cost. This

has lead to truancy among schoolaged children and other social problems like abuse, moral decay, and prostitution among others” — Ubor Wumbe Dawuni The Chief said there was no way he and his people were going to condone this corruption of the soul

because the community leadership is of the opinion that it can negate the good effort to move the community forward. He felt this was a “violation of our space and culture and an attempt to break the social structure and our moral fortitude.”

The Chinese have enlisted the

help of assemblymen and chiefs in a lot of the communities in the northern region of Ghana to spread their gambling trade.

However, theafricandream.net can reveal that GRAMMY nominee; Rocky Dawuni is doing all he can to assist his big brother in curbing the trend. They both believe it is the duty of leadership to stand up and protect the people from this Chinese snare and appealed for government oversight on this issue.

Making progress despite Chinese problem on the brighter side though, the Chief pointed out some of the progress he has been able to make since his appointment, some of which include the institution of an annual cultural festival, the ‘Linujil Festival’; a harvest festival which is the largest of its kind in the eastern corridor of the northern region of Ghana. The festival enters its third year of celebration on September 16, 2016.

Come September 26, 2016, the Chief will lead his community to break ground for a library and a learning center for which funding has been acquired. When completed the project will create a great environment for learning, it will be stocked with books, computers and other materials to help raise the standard of education.

“We recently got a manual water filtering system donated by a USbased non-governmental organization named Water For The Global Community. This is helping aug-

ment the electrically operated water system that was built three years ago by the Canadian International Development Agency and the government of Ghana as part of the Small Town Water project” Chief said to theafricandream.net Though some form of progress is being made, the Dawuni brothers called on the Government of Ghana to help solve the problem their community is facing because it is important that Ghana protects her sovereignty. It is common knowledge that currently, some drinking bars across Ghana have these gambling machines installed.

Meet Chief Ubor Wumbe Dawuni Before becoming a Chieftain, Ubor Wumbe Dawuni used to be known as Robert Dawuni.

He completed studies in Chemistry with Geology at the University of Ghana where he earned his Bachelor’s Degree. He is an entrepreneur and owns a soap and cosmetics company.

The Chief is the executive director of Africa Live organization which he founded with his brother Rocky Dawuni and Cary Sullivan. The organization has been responsible for producing the Rocky Dawuni Independence Splash concerts.

He has also worked on projects with UNICEF, the Jimmy Carter Center and the European Union in the fight against guinea worm in Ghana. To find out more about his young brother Rocky Dawuni visit www.rockydawuni.com

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We Must Support the Freedom-Fighting Legacy of George E. Curry in the Black Press

By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. President and CEO of the NNPA The freedom struggle and Civil Rights Movement of Black people in America and throughout the world have lost another courageous, iconic, freedom fighter, journalist and leader. The National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) salutes, respects, and supports the freedom-fighting legacy of George Edward Curry.

NNPA publishers, editors, journalists, and photographers from across the nation attended the “Celebration of Life” home-going service for George Curry in Tuscaloosa, Alabama at Weeping Mary Baptist Church on Saturday, August 27, 2016. George at the age of 69 died from heart failure on August 20, 2016 in Takoma Park, Maryland.

George Curry was our beloved

Editor-In-Chief of the NNPA News Wire Service and after decades of outstanding contributions and service to the Black Press in America, George evolved to be admired by fellow journalists as the “Dean of Black Press Columnists.” As a foot soldier in the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s, I personally have been blessed to have known and worked with George Curry as a fearlessly effective freedom fighter.

If I could find one word in the English language to describe the professional and brotherly tenacity of George Curry, it would be “courageous.” He used his pen and his wit to openly challenge injustice in the face and presence of oppression.

George had the courage to both write and speak truth to power without compromise of principle or ethics.

Reverend Jesse Jackson and Reverend Al Sharpton both travelled to Tuscaloosa to pay tribute and to eulogize the memory and legacy of George Curry. Rev. Jackson affirmed, “George was a freedom fighter.” Dr. Charles Steele Jr, President of the Southern Christian

Leadership Conference (SCLC), also a native of Tuscaloosa and lifelong friend of George paid tribute to Curry’s leadership and activism as a “freedom movement” journalist.

In the eulogy rendered last Saturday, Rev. Sharpton said that, “George never knew he was much more of a minister to me than I ever was to him…George Curry not only helped to mentor and bring along students and the next generation, but he also did it to many of us that you see out there on the front line.” Sharpton concluded that Curry was “part of a long tradition, but he was one of a kind.”

Roland Martin, accomplished news anchor for TV One and former editor of the Chicago Defender, as well as a lifelong colleague of George Curry, passionately stated, “There was no newspaper, no magazine George Curry could not have worked for, but he chose to work in Black media…He chose to do that, because he said there has to be an independent voice that is unapologetic, that thinks about Black people from the moment they wake

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up to the moment they go to sleep.”

The passing of George Curry now raises the question of “Who will take his pen?” Who will step forward to keep the freedom-fighting legacy of George Curry alive today and into the future? Before George died, he had established EmergeNewsOnline.com. The NNPA supports George’s legacy and we encourage everyone to support Emerge News Online to ensure that what George envisioned and worked hard to establish will continue to grow and be successful in the marketplace.

In my remarks on behalf of the NNPA at the “Celebration of the Life of George Curry,” I shared that, “I have been in the presence of Malcolm X. I have been in the presence of The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. I have been in the presence of the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan. I’ve been in the presence of some of our giants, male and female, but I want to say on this public record, in my life, I’ve never met a brother that’s had more courage than George Curry.”

As we face the immediate future,

let us all first be thankful that we had the opportunity and blessing to work with George Curry. But we must show our gratitude by making sure that his courageous example of journalism continues. There is an African proverb that says “Freedom fighters do not in spirit pass away, their spirit lives to inspire the next generation of freedom fighters.”

We all know that George Curry supported mentoring and guiding the development of young journalists who are committed to the Black Press. That’s why the NNPA’s Discover the Unexpected (DTU) Journalism Fellowship program is so important. May these young journalists and others be guided by the great example of George Curry.

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Black voters have plenty to lose with Trump

by Jesse jackson Race — always a subtext in American politics has moved center stage in this year’s presidential campaign.

Republican Donald Trump called Democrat Hillary Clinton a “bigot.” Clinton responded by using Trump’s words of racial offense against him.

History suggests both parties have fallen short on racial justice. Jefferson Davis Democrats were slave owners, Confederates, against Reconstruction and members of the violent Citizens Councils and the KKK. They supported legal segregation, and Southern Dixiecrats opposed the Civil Rights Movement.

After the Civil Rights Act was signed July 2, 1964, Democratic Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina turned Republican in September and began the campaign to convert white Dixiecrats to Republicans. Many of today’s Republicans are old Jeff Davis Democrats!

In 1968 Nixon adopted this Southern Strategy as a road to the White House.

Reagan launched his 1980 campaign with a racial message of “states’ rights” in Philadelphia, Miss., where Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney were murdered for registering black voters.

In 1988, George H.W. Bush introduced us to Willie Horton.

After Barack Obama became president, Republicans introduced 395 new voter restrictions targeting blacks.

Trump continues this tradition not by using “dog whistles” but a foghorn of racism, religious bigotry, sexism and xenophobia.

Trump’s personal history of racial bigotry includes a federal housing discrimination lawsuit; an ad calling for the death penalty of innocent young black males in the Central Park Five rape case; an attempt to discredit Obama’s presidency with the “birther” issue; innuendo suggesting Obama became editor of Harvard’s Law Review because

of his race; a campaign demanding Obama’s educational transcripts, implying his admission to colleges rested on something other than intellectual merit; complaints that a judge was unable to treat him fairly in court because of his Hispanic heritage; and promoting false and stereotypical information about the black community.

What do blacks have to lose by electing Trump? He will appoint Supreme Court justices who do not support black interests. He will support racially discriminatory voting laws like North Carolina’s.

He will not fix the damage done by the Shelby court decision to the Voting Rights Act. And he will not support a $15 minimum wage.

Blaming black and Democratic officials, this is how Trump addressed their constituents: “You’re living in your poverty, your schools are no good, you have no jobs, 58 percent of your youth is unemployed.”

Who can deny there are many unmet needs and problems in urban areas, but that’s not primarily the result of black or Democratic will, ideas or leadership, but of Republican policies!

Democratic and black mayors find themselves governing “the hole” in the donut. The donut’s substance and sugar — the money for these cities — is controlled by congressional Republicans, governors and state legislatures dominated by rural and suburban constituencies.

Failing cities are not the result of liberal and progressive policies. Democratic ideas and programs that were working have been gutted and purposefully discredited, defunded and attacked ideologically by the very Republicans who did the gutting.

Conservative privatization and states’ rights ideologies undercut any ideas or programs that advanced the public good or made us a more perfect union.

There are more black elected officials, but their actual power has been weakened through redistricting schemes of stacking and packing. Policy and budget resources are controlled by Republicans, not Democratic and black mayors!

Blacks haven’t given “blind support” to either party; rather, they have supported both parties when they’ve earned it.

Lincoln and the Radical Republicans earned black support. Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, won the Civil War and ended slavery. Radical Republicans supported the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments and Reconstruction.

When Republicans wearied of advancing black interests, lessthan-perfect Democrats began earning black support with better opportunities under FDR’s New Deal. Today’s Democrats are more like Lincoln’s Republicans.

Truman desegregated the military; LBJ signed the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act, launched a War on Poverty and passed Medicare and Medicaid.

Blacks aren’t giving Democrats “blind loyalty” and don’t have permanent friends or enemies, only permanent interests.

Blacks support those who support them, as all intelligent voters do.

Blacks, in coalition, will demand that a Clinton administration more fully address the interests of those most in need as we work to make America greater.

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“We” Runs For A Top Spot

he could hear well enough to catch Walker saying “I.” “He actually charged me five dollars every time I said it,” Walker recalled. That first year in Hartford, Walker ended up paying her dad $150.

When The Klan Came Calling Walker’s father learned about collective action when he and other civil-rights activists organized a chapter of the NAACP in North Carolina. Walker was 5 years old at the time.

“I remember one night sitting with my mother in the closet when the Ku Klux Klan was burning a cross outside. Me and my sisters were sitting there. The only thing my mother could say was ‘I want to get through this one more time so I can take my children.’

“They were burning a cross.

Killed the dog. My father was organizing NAACP voter registration. And they told him if he went out and did this, they were going to get his family. My mother said, ‘That’s it. I have four babies.’

“That’s how we got to New Haven.”

Walker grew up to be a social worker, then leaped into politics at the dawn of the century. Since then, she has sought to make her mark as someone who helps legislators work together, she said. When she co-chaired the Human Services Committee, she drew up a “Medicaid 101” informational guide so legislators could participate more meaningfully in deliberations about the health care program, the state budget’s second-biggest expense. As co-chair of the powerful Appropriations Committee, she said, she has “learned how to empower more of my members” to form a “collaborative team.”

She said she’s now lobbying her colleagues to elect her the next majority leader so she can do that on a larger scale in tough budget times; the legislature had to cut an unexpected $930 million out of the most recent budget, and projections show more tight days ahead.

Walker said her experience as the Appropriations gatekeeper for how the state spends all its money prepared her for the challenge.

She now wants to focus as well on how the state raises its money, she said. She’s excited to work with “progressive” new Democratic House candidates like Hamden’s

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Joshua Elliott, who has called for bringing back highway tolls at state borders and raising the top tax rate of 6.99 percent to 7.3 percent on annual incomes above $500,000 and 7.7 percent on income above $1 million.

At the same time, she wants to use her knowledge of the budget to find inefficiencies in existing spending in order to free up more money for services that have taken a hit this year, including mental health and community colleges and adult education.She cited a potential inefficiency she discovered this week: It turns out that the state’s departments of children and families and of mental health and addiction services run separate teen suicide prevention programs.

She said she plans to see if combining those programs can save money while saving just as many lives.

She resisted the chance to take shots at State Rep. Ritter when goaded on the “Dateline New Haven” program. It was noted that Ritter has been in the legislature only six years; he hasn’t served a prominent role on a financial committee the way Walker has.

Yet some Democratic leaders supported Ritter from the start.

Walker was asked if race might play a factor. Ritter is white; if selected, she would become the first African-American majority leader in either state legislative chamber. She didn’t take the bait.

Instead, she said, “Matt is a nice young man. And I think he’s going to have an incredible future.”

Ritter returned the compliment when interviewed about the race by the CT Mirror’s Mark Pazniokas: “There is no question that Toni is someone who has mentored me and someone I’ve worked with on issues and have the utmost respect for. We’re good friends, and these things do happen.”

In the WNHH interview, Walker did make one contrast, the gist of her pitch. And it included a glancing use or two of the first person singular: “I think he needs more experience. ... The thing that’s most important, I think, why I’m running, is [that] the most pressing issue we’re going to have in 2017 is the budget. You need to have someone who’s been in the process ... to make sure when we go in there with the negotiations, we have people who understand the budget.”

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Black Unemployment Rate Falls to 8.1 percent in August

By Freddie Allen,

NNPA Newswire Managing Editor

The unemployment rate for Black workers improved from 8.4 percent in July to 8.1 percent in August, according to the latest jobs report from the Labor Department. Even though the Black jobless rate has decreased more than a percentage point since last year (9.4 percent in August 2015), it is still nearly double the White unemployment rate (4.4 percent).

Nationally, the economy added 151,000 jobs in August, but the unemployment rate remained steady at 4.9 percent, the same mark set in July and June.

The labor force participation rate, which measures the share of workers that are employed or looking for jobs, was 61.9 percent for Black workers in August, an increase from 61.2 percent in July and only a slight uptick from the Black labor force rate last year (61.7 percent in August 2015). The participation rate for White workers was 62.9 percent in August, July and June and has only edged up slightly since last August (62.6 percent) The unemployment rate for White workers was 4.4 percent in August, the same mark set in August 2015, and a slight increase from the 4.3 percent rate recorded

Rep. Bobby Scott (D-Va.) said that ensuring that all Americans have the opportunity to make a decent life for themselves and their families is the central challenge of our time. (Freddie Allen/AMG/NNPA) in July.

The unemployment rate for Black men over 20 years-old was 7.6 percent in August, an improvement from 8.2 percent in July. The jobless rate for Black women over 20 years-old was 7.1 percent in August, which was a step forward from the 7.3 percent rate a month ago.

The unemployment rate for White men over 20 years-old was 4.1 percent in August, the same as

July. The participation rate, which was 72 percent in July showed no improvement. The unemployment rate for White women was 3.9 percent in August slightly higher than the 3.7 percent mark set in July.

The unemployment rate for Hispanic workers was 5.6 percent in August 2016 a step back from the 5.4 percent rate set in July.

According to The Hamilton Project, an economic policy think

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tank at the Brookings Institution, the economy would need to add 204,000 jobs every month until May 2017 to reach pre-recession employment levels.

In a statement about the August jobs report, Main Street Alliance, a national network of small business coalitions, noted that growth in the retail and restaurant sectors signaled “increased consumer confidence and spending heading into the holiday shopping season.”

The Alliance also reported that Washington state led the nation in small business job growth and Seattle topped the list of metropolitan areas.

“With job creation and small business success widely attributed to consumer confidence and spending, it is hard to ignore Seattle’s rising minimum wage and the role boosting the wages of the lowest-level earners played in earning them the top spot on the list,” the Alliance statement said.

The Labor Department also reported upward trends in several service industries, including food services and drinking places.

Bill Spriggs, the chief economist for the AFL-CIO, a national group of 56 unions that represents more than 12 million workers, noted gains in fast food jobs and in health care in a series of tweets last Friday.

“Despite whining about minimum wage increases, fast food establishments gain 34,000 last month, 312,000 over the year,” Spriggs tweeted.

Spriggs suggested that the Black unemployment rate likely decreased, “for right reasons,” because the employment-population ratio, which is the share of the population that is currently employed. also improved from July (56.1 percent) to August (56.9 percent).

Spriggs also tweeted that Black workers that earn associate degrees experience a 5.4 percent jobless rate, which is only slightly better than the unemployment rate for White high school dropouts (5.6 percent).

In a statement recognizing the importance of Labor Day, Rep. Bobby Scott (D-Va.), said that although America has made significant strides toward an economic recovery in recent years, too many working people are still going without the basic necessities.

“It does not have to be this way,” said Scott. “Ensuring that all Americans have the opportunity to make a decent life for themselves and their families is the central challenge of our time. Whether we rise to meet that challenge will define us for generations to come.”

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15 Minutes of Shame THE INNER-CITY NEWS September 07, 2016 - September 13, 2016

By William Spivey, ICN Contributing Writer

I’m all for Pastors being involved in politics. Especially Black ones.

Their congregations are the ones typically affected by unfair laws or policies and the church has historically led the way in fighting injustice. It is only natural that individual Pastors would hold some views that differ from mine. Some might belong to a different political party. Some might vote for Trump.

I’m okay with all of that. It is those that have gone an extra mile and become Trump surrogates that I’m calling out for their embarrassing rhetoric and yes their lies.

Pastor Mark Burns is an Evangelical Christian televangelist and Pastor of The Harvest Praise and Worship Center in Easley, SC. Dr. Darrell Scott is head of the New Spirit Revival Center in ClevelandHeights, Oh. Pastor Burns

sent out a tweet picturing Hillary Clinton in blackface, defended the tweet for a whole day and suddenly partially apologized. Dr. Scott was part of the infamous “100 Pastor’s for Donald Trump” that never became a thing but he

grabbed the mantle as the leader of a failed movement. These two have traded their integrity for the opportunity to shill for a man who has a history of discrimination against Black people and is guilty of making several racist

comments for which he has never specifically apologized (not that an apology would wipe them away).

Being a Trump surrogate can’t be an easy job. He contradicts himself and changes positions, sometimes multiple times within a day. He advocates unconstitutional policies, attacks minorities, exaggerates greatly, and lies. You then are sent out to various media outlets to try to make him appear coherent, practical and sane. It’s a hard job, impossible some would say. Nobody made you do it.

Note to Pastor Burns: Check the usage of “do” vs “does” when speaking. It makes a difference.

When you do find yourself trying to explain away his positions and statements. You apparently don’t have the option of saying, “He was wrong.” So you do your best to characterize him in a positive light, change the subject, and when that doesn’t work you make knowingly

false attacks and lie too. When you go forth with the title of Pastor or Minister or Bishop, you are asking for credibility because of your title and your association with God. What you are doing is not of God but far more earthly. I hate to assign motives to people I don’t know. I don’t know if it’s for fame, or money, or a misguided belief that the ends justify the means, and integrity means nothing.

In November, the election will be over and you go back from whence you came, hoping the Trump stench doesn’t remain with you. You are getting your 15 minutes of fame, enjoy it now for you will be judged later. I amend that, you’re being judged now and found wanting. May God have mercy on your souls.

William Spivey can be read at EnigmaInBlack.wordpress.com email spiveywilliamf@gmail.com

Black-Owned Software Company Earns Inc. 500 Ranking Recognized as One of the Fastest Growing Private Companies in the U.S. and investors alike,” he continued.

Pensacola, FL — Pay Sell Co., a Black-owned software company based in Pensacola, Florida has earned the ranking of #484 on the prestigious Inc. 500. Published anually by Inc. com and Inc. Magazine, Inc. 500 and Inc. 5000 are globally recognized lists of the fastest growing private companies in the US.

founder Jibril Sulaiman

Although this is the first year for such recognition, founder Jibril Sulaiman has been working towards the success of the company’s platform, “Cell Pay”, for the past 5 years.

“We barely missed the deadline last year and I was excited that we actually made the list for 2016. However I figured we’d rank around four thousand not four hundred,” exclaimed Jibril, who is 35-years old. “2016 is a new year for our company, and I hope the publicity gives us the exposure we need to attract talent

photo: Jibril Sulaiman, founder of Pay Sell Co.

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Pay Sell Co (formerly Pay Cell Systems Inc.) has focused on the development of “Cell Pay”, its ecommerce platform for wireless stores, since the company launched in 2011. In 2015, the company was re-branded as Pay Sell Co. as a way to advance its commitment to develop ecommerce-based platforms in several niche markets.

These brands include Rapfeatures. com (a marketplace for selling song features), RazSum.cash (an enterprise fundraising platform), Cutt.rs (a payments platform for barbers) and Spendwith.in (a marketplace for ethnic sellers).

Jibril says he has mentored with high profile startup expert and founder of the NewMe Accelerator, Angela Benton. “She’s been such a great resource over the phone and through the NewMe coaching platform,” he said. “I want to continue to grow my network, I

value the advice from Angela and likewise will value the advice of any other entrepreneur I meet.”

For more information on Pay Sell Co. visit www.paysell.co For more details about Jibril Sulaiman, visit www.jibrilsulaiman.com or call him at 872-222-8227.

THE INNER-CITY NEWS September 07, 2016 - September 13, 2016

Fusco Corporation is seeking a Project Manager for Construction Projects in the $ 15M to $100 M range.

DUTIES AND RESPONSBILITIES • Develops, monitors, and maintains Progress and Cash Flow Schedules for the project.

• Reviews invoices and approves payment to all subcontractors and vendors required for the project.

• Maintains proper contractual relations with owners, subcontractors and vendors, interpreting contracts, plans and specifications.

Facilities Manager:

Responsible for leadership, management & maintenance of plant infrastructure and all related/associated equipment. 5 plus years supervisory experience. Email: Info@redtechllc.com, Fax: 860-218-2433, RED Technologies, LLC is an EOE.

ELECTRICIANS

Semac Electric is seeking Electricians (CT Licensed Journeymen & Foremen, E1 and E2) to join our team for medium & large commercial construction projects thru out the State of CT: Hartford, Fairfield & New Haven Counties. We have excellent wages and benefits. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applications available at our main office at 45 Peter Court, New Britain, CT or send resume to P.O. Box 638, New Britain,

• Keeps a complete current record of work performed under the contract, and maintains the Cost Reports in conformance with the requirements of the corporation’s established cost system..

• Reviews and drafts monthly requisitions for final processing by the Owner. Monitors the payment requirements of the contract.

• Accumulates data and prepares statements covering extra work for the owner’s account; subcontractor and vendor claims, back charges and any data required by the Manager of Construction Administration.

• Reviews required procedures and develops systems necessary to close out all projects for which he/she may be responsible.

Administers processing of guarantees, warrantees, releases, maintenance and procedures manuals.

Insures collection of final payment from owner and proper final payment to all subcontractors and vendors.

• Produces customized Monthly Owners Progress Report

• Assists in Pre-construction Services, attend meetings, produce constructability and plan completion reports...

• Participates in formal presentations and interviews on qualification based project selection teams.

QUALIFICATIONS

• BS degree in Engineering or Construction Management would be helpful.

• Well rounded computer skills Fusco Corporation offers a competitive benefit package including medical, dental and 401k. Fusco is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer.

Resumes should be sent to openjobs.group@fusco.com. Phone calls will not be accepted.

Maintainer II Must have 2 yrs. exp. as laborer in field of construction work involving the operation and care of mechanical equipment or 2 yrs. in a skilled trade and 1 yr. exp. in construction operations or and equiv combination of experience and training. A valid Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) Class B and a clean driving record. Pay rate: $21.33 to $25.00 hourly plus an excellent fringe benefit package. Apply Personnel Department, Town of Wallingford, 45 South Main Street, Wallingford, CT 06492. The closing date will be that date the 50th application form/resume is received, or August 17, 2016, whichever occurs first. Candidates without a valid CDL should not apply. A copy of your license will be

City of Norwich Fire Department

FIREFIGHTER

Salary: $49,296 - $62,901 Visit www.norwichct.org/hr to apply and for more information. AA/EEO.

CT. Unified Deacon’s Association is pleased to offer a Deacon’s Certificate Program. This is a 10 month program designed to assist in the intellectual formation of Candidates in response to the Church’s Ministry needs. The cost is $125. Classes start Saturday, August 20, 2016 1:30-3:30 Contact: Chairman, Deacon Joe J. Davis, M.S., B.S. (203) 996-4517 Host, General Bishop Elijah Davis, D.D. Pastor of Pitt hapel U.F.W.B. Church 64 Brewster St. New Haven, CT

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FENCE ERECTING CONTRACTORS

Large CT Fence & Guardrail Contractor is looking for Fence Installer foreman and helpers. Foreman must have at least 5 years’ experience. Helpers-no experience required, will train the right person. Work available 10-12 months per year. Valid Ct. Driver’s license required and must be able to get a DOT Medical Card. All necessary equipment provided. Medical, vacation & other benefits included.

Must be able to pass a physical and drug test. Foreman rates from $22 to $28/hour plus benefits, helper rates from $18/hour plus benefits. OSHA 10 training is a plus. Please email resume to rhauer@atlasoutdoor.com AA/EOE

Portland Youth Services – Junior Staff

Town of Portland, CT (EOE) Junior Staff: High School Youth (age 15 to 18) part-time from August 31, 2016 to June 2017, Monday thru Friday 3:00 to 6:00 PM; Counselor I, $9.60 per hour. Individual schedule determined by need and availability. Based at Brownstone Intermediate School, the Kids Blast After School Program is a very structured team program. Working, interacting and supervising children ages 5 to 12. Help with homework by staff is required. Other creative activities are also planned. Previous experience working with children preferred.

Send Seasonal Recreation Employment Application to: First Selectwoman’s Office P.O. Box 71 Portland, CT 06480-0071 Deadline: August 29, 2016 or until filled

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Senior Construction Estimator for Fusco Corporation, NEW HAVEN, CT Provide cost estimating on a variety of project types including mixed use, commercial and tenant fit-out and education sectors.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

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

(Tractor/Triaxle/Roll-off)

Some overnights may be required. FAX resumes to RED Technologies, at 860.342-1042; Email: mandrade@redtechllc.com Mail or in person: 173 Pickering Street, Portland, CT 06480. RED Technologies, LLC is An EOE.

TOWN OF EAST HAVEN ASSISTANT TOWN CLERK

The Town of East Haven seeks qualified candidates to serve in the position of Assistant Town Clerk. The Assistant Town Clerk works under the direction of the Town Clerk and upon the absences of the Town Clerk, serves as such. The duties require knowledge of the laws, ordinances and charter provisions governing the duties of the Town Clerk and Registrar of Vital Statistics; some knowledge of legal instruments used in connection with the ownership and transfer of property; and strong computer skills. The Assistant Town Clerk also directly oversees and coordinates the operations of the offices as well as the employees in the office of the Town Clerk. Qualified candidates should possess a High School Diploma and one year of Business School or the equivalent and 4 years of experience in a responsible administrative position.

Experience in the Town Clerk’s Office is preferred. The salary range for this position is $47,848-53,181/ year, 35 hours per week and the Town offers an excellent benefit package. Please send resume with references to: Frank Gentilesco, Jr., Assistant Director of Administration & Management, Town Hall-250 Main Street, East Haven, CT 06512 or email to eh.gentilesco@att.net . Deadline September 23, 2016. The Town of East Haven is committed to building a work force of diverse individuals. Minorities, females, handicapped and veterans are encouraged to apply. The Town of East Haven is an equal opportunity employer.

Town of Bloomfield Town Assessor - Reposted $77,881 - $120,209

For details and how to apply, go to www.bloomfieldct.org. Pre-employment drug testing.

AA/EOE

Elm City Communities

Invitation for Bids Matthew Ruoppolo Manor Electric Generator Replacement DC-16-IFB-0003(C) Elm City Communities also known as The Housing Authority of the City of New Haven (HANH) is currently seeking Bids for Matthew Ruoppolo Manor Electric Generator Replacement. A complete copy of the requirement may be obtained from Elm City’s Vendor Collaboration Portal https://newhavenhousing.cobblestonesystems.com/gateway beginning on Tuesday, September 6, 2016 at 9:00 AM.

Elm City Communities Request for Proposals Housing Authority Independent Auditors Housing Authority City of New Haven d/b/a Elm city Communities is currently seeking Proposals for Independent Auditors. A complete copy of the requirement may be obtained from Elm City’s Vendor Collaboration Portal https://newhavenhousing.cobblestonesystems.com/gateway beginning on Tuesday, September 6, 2016 at 9:00AM

• Be able to work with minimal supervision to prepare estimates and bids for General Contracting / Construction Management, both new construction and renovation.

• Design-Build, Hard Bids and CM-R estimating will be the main focus of this person’s estimating role.

• Take a project from schematic design through CD stage working with Owner and design professionals.

• Present budgets and estimates to management and Owners.

• Assist with the development of the project schedule.

• Participate in design review meetings with Owners and Design Professionals.

• Ability to perform constructability reviews in conjunction with the project manager.

• Ability to incorporate new estimating systems and software as they are made available.

SKILLS REQUIRED:

• Presentation experience and ability to participate in proposal interviews with Owners.

• Working knowledge of structural and architectural building systems including a general knowledge of all trades.

• Experience in participating as member of a project based estimating team.

• Working knowledge of various software systems such as iSqft, on-screen take-off, MC2 or Timberline, Excel and Microsoft Office applications.

• Possess the analytical skills necessary to compare various building systems and configurations

MINIMUM YEARS OF EXPERIENCE:

12 + years of estimating experience working for a general contractor or construction manager.

Prior field experience a plus.

Prior experience in Design-Build a plus.

EDUCATION: BA/BS degree in related field REPORTS TO: Chief Estimator CONTACT INFORMATION: Interested candidates please email cover letter and resume to openjobs.group@fusco.com.

Candidates will be asked to provide references.

Competitive benefits include medical, dental, life and 401(k). Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer.

Phone calls will not be accepted.

DISPATCHER The Town of Wallingford is seeking responsible candidates to perform 911, police, fire and EMS emergency dispatching duties. Must be able to work under stressful conditions and be able to type information with a high rate of speed and accuracy. Must be able to work all three shifts including weekends and holidays and be able to work additional shifts beyond the regular shift schedule. Requires a H.S. or business school diploma with courses in typing and 2 years of responsible office work experience. $ 21.32 ~ $ 25.43 hourly plus shift differential and excellent fringe benefits. Closing date is September 14, 2016 or the date of receipt of the 50th application, whichever occurs first. Apply: Personnel Department, Town of Wallingford, 45 South Main St., Wallingford, CT 06492. EOE. 28

THE INNER-CITY NEWS September 07, 2016 - September 13, 2016

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