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Pistol-Whipped Woman Gets Upper Hand

by MARKESHIA RICKS NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT

A 24-year-old New Haven woman was lucky to escape a more serious end to a domestic dispute over the weekend. Her quick thinking also probably saved her from further harm.

At 1:22 a.m. Sunday, Officers Andrew Tomer, Omar Thomas and Michael Hinton were dispatched to investigate a reported domestic dispute at an apartment building in the 1100 block of Quinnipiac Avenue. Dispatchers reported a complaint of a man who had pistol-whipped his girlfriend, accord-

ing to a press release from police department spokesman Officer David Hartman.

The victim met the officers at the front door. She told them that her assailant was asleep in an upstairs bedroom and that she’d taken his gun and hid it from him. Officers Thomas and Hinton went upstairs and handcuffed the suspect while Officer Tomer confiscated the gun.

The victim said she had been visiting a friend when the gunman showed up. She said she didn’t want him causing trouble at her friend’s home, so the two went to her home. She said the 29-yearold man, who lives on East Rams-

dell Street in New Haven, was drunk. She said he pushed her several times, Hartman wrote in the release.

The victim told officers that the man demanded she retrieve something for him from the refrigerator.

When she went to get it, she said, he pointed a handgun to her head and threatened to kill her. She said when she turned around to face him, he pistol-whipped her in the forehead.

She said the man told her to go upstairs. He followed. Soon after lying in the bed, the victim said, her assailant fell asleep. She said she seized the opportunity to take

his gun from him and call police.

The victim has a restraining order against the man, according to Hartman. The gun, a Reck P8 KAL 6.35 mm, was loaded and reportedly stolen from Cedar Falls, Iowa.

The alleged assailant is a convicted felon. He was charged with threatening in the second degree, assault in the second degree, breach of peace in the second degree, violation of a protection order, carrying a pistol without a permit, criminal possession of a pistol and possession of a stolen firearm.

Blumenthal coasts to second term on bad night for Dems By: ANA RADELAT

Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal handily won re-election Tuesday night as his party fell short in its effort to wrest control of the U.S. Senate from the GOP. Blumenthal was declared the winner minutes after the polls closed at 8 p.m. in Connecticut. His challenger was Republican state Rep. Dan Carter With 61 percent of the vote counted, Blumenthal had 60.2 percent of the vote while Carter garnered 37.6 percent on a night when the Democratic party’s standard bearer, Hillary Clinton, performed more poorly than expected.

“I am fired up and ready to go,” Blumenthal told a crowd of about 100 people at a banquet hall in downtown Hartford.

Among the issues he promised to continue fighting for are women’s rights, consumer protection issues and veterans health care.

“One of the messages of this election is that the American people feel Washington isn’t working and one big reason is that special interests and corporations get their way and ordinary Americans get the short end of the stick,” Blumenthal told the Connecticut Mirror. “My job is to stand up to the special interests.”

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy thanked Blumenthal for his long tenure, reminding people “Dick has done something for everyone in this room… We should be proud of our great leader.”

Nick Balleto, the head of the Connecticut Democratic Party, also hailed the victory, which was ex-

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Sen. Richard Blumenthal speaks to supporters after winning his second term.

pected.

“Richard Blumenthal has spent his career fighting for women, middleclass families, and veterans,” Balleto said. “From the state legislature to the attorney general’s office to the United States Senate, he has never wavered in his commitment to taking on special interests and standing up for the core values of the Democratic Party.”

“Tonight’s decisive victory is a testament to Senator Blumenthal’s lifelong commitment to the people of Connecticut,” Balleto said.

Blumenthal’s campaign to win reelection was much easier than his first bid for the Senate in 2010, when he spent more than $8.7 million fending off GOP challenger Linda McMahon, the co-founder of the World Wrestling Federation.

McMahon poured about $50 million of her own money into that election, but Blumenthal won 54 percent of the vote.

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This time, Blumenthal spent about $4 million to defeat Carter, who raised only $364,000 in his campaign and was unable to fund television ads or a high-profile campaign.

University of Connecticut political scientist Vincent Moscardelli said Blumenthal’s time in the state legislature and his 20 years as state attorney general helped boost his popularity and name recognition in the state.

“He has been front and center in the minds of Connecticut voters for three decades,” Moscardelli said.

“Except for his gaffe about Vietnam, he’s not made any mistakes.”

When he first ran for office, Blumenthal indicated he had served in Vietnam, then clarified his remarks by saying he meant that he had served in the Marine Reserve during the Vietnam era.

Carter attacked Blumenthal for that misstatement, and for backing

a nuclear deal with Iran, but those criticisms fell short of damaging his opponent.

“Blumenthal is a Democratic incumbent in a state that has been trending Democratic,” Moscardelli said.

Blumenthal and fellow Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy will rise in seniority in the next Congress but will not be in the majority.

Republicans have a 54-46 Senate majority in this Congress, and Democrats needed to gain five seats to take control of the chamber from the GOP. But it looked late Tuesday like Democrats could pick up two, or possibly three seats, but would fall short of the majority.

In a Democrat-controlled Senate, Blumenthal had hoped to win the chairmanship of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, and Murphy, elected in 2012, hoped to win a coveted subcommittee chairmanship on the Senate Appropriations Committee. Heading a committee or subcommittee brings a larger staff and greater ability to raise campaign cash.

Blumenthal also had hoped a flip of the Senate would bring him a promotion to chairman of the subcommittee with authority over consumer affairs issues on the wideranging Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee. He would also move up on the Judiciary Committee.

Murphy, meanwhile, had hoped to win back a subcommittee chairmanship on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, a position he lost when his party lost the majority.

D Bus Riders Didn’t Make The Stop THE INNER-CITY NEWS November 9, 2016 - November 15, 2016

by MARKESHIA RICKS NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT

Ella Smith showed up to Stetson Branch Library to share her thoughts about how to improve the bus system. She wondered where her neighbors were.

Smith attended the second of two community meetings Wednesday evening held to get input from residents for the city’s new transit and mobility study called “Move New Haven”. The study launched in late September; the first community meeting was held at the main library branch downtown in late October. The city is conducting the study to help guide the state in its promise to fix the maligned, broken CT Transit bus system.

Organizers held this meeting at Stetson, right on the D line in the Dixwell neighborhood where many more people actually ride the bus in a part to get input from a broader sample of New Haveners than the crowd that usually shows up downtown.

The Stetson meeting attracted about 50 people. But many were retirees from other parts of the city, or working people with schedules flexible enough to allow them to come out in the early evening.

Smith, a retiree who takes the D bus, guessed that many Dixwell neighbors were still trying to get home from work. A relative of hers, who is a regular bus rider, clocks out at about 5 p.m. in Hamden and doesn’t get back before 5:30 p.m. most days.

“I think it’s great,” she said of the reason for the meeting. “But there are a lot of people missing.”

The study has the lofty goals of

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Smith surveying.

not only providing better connections to jobs, education and other communities in the Greater New Haven area, but also increasing CT Transit ridership and transforming public transit for the next generation. It’s funded by $1 million in city, state and federal money.

Lisa DiTaranti, Northeast director of transit and rail for VHB, the firm heading up the study, said that his was the last in-person community meeting for the first phase of the study. But there will be other opportunities over the next 16 months for public input including through virtual workshops. People can also continue to fill out this survey about their bus riding habits and submit comments here.

Smith said she didn’t have any

complaints with the D bus routes, which runs through the heart of the Dixwell neighborhood. But she was concerned about the long routes that many who work outside of New Haven have to traverse to get to work (it can take hours to reach cross-border jobs a few miles away) and the lack of bus shelters outside of the city.

“It’s that time of year where it’s getting dark early,” she said. “But people do what they have to do to get to work.”

East Rocker Marc Strickland came to Wednesday’s meeting to share his thoughts about how the bus system could be better connected to the train station. He said for those people in the city who can’t afford a car, a good bus sys-

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tem connected to the train helps people get better jobs outside of the city. He said it also would bring in more people who want to work in New Haven but don’t want to drive here.

“It’s a win-win,” he said.

Former Westville Alder Nancy Ahern said it’s time to move the bus transfer points from the Green, particularly at Temple Street, to wider, more transit-oriented street like State Street. A member of Center Church on the Green, she complained about blocked access to church parking, noise and the general chaos of that particular transit point.

DiTaranti and her team, which conducted a similar effort for the state, sought such impact to help

get a picture of transit in the city with an eye toward needed shortterm and long-term investments in the city.

City transit chief Doug Hausladen said that while the city is working to get a lot of buy-in from New Haveners, the study isn’t about just their transit habits and needs, but those of the entire region. In addition to public meetings in the Elm City, project consultants will meet with elected leaders in the region and hold public sessions in Hamden, West Haven, and East Haven, because the bus system serves 20 other municipalities.

“This is a regional system that needs to have a regional solution and dollars funding those solutions,” Hausladen said. “This [issue of transportation] has been mayor’s priority since the day she was inaugurated. Every conversation about transit always leads back to this study. It’s our generation’s opportunity to transform our transit system.”

But they’ve got to get people to participate. Luckily in Dixwell, they have people like Stetson Branch Librarian Diane Brown pushing on the city’s behalf. She said the turnout might have been a bit higher if the meeting had been held on a Saturday, when the library is often full of patrons.

Brown said she has a great relationship with CT Transit and keeps her library stocked with bus schedules. People know Stetson as a place where people can get them.

She said she plans to put surveys in patrons’ hands along with those schedules. She said she will also pass them out during non-transit related events at the library.

THE INNER-CITY NEWS November 9, 2016 - November 15, 2016

New Film Supports New Art For New Haven

by DAVID SEPULVEDA NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT

A new New Haven-based film, I Am Shakespeare (The Henry Green Story), not yet in its premiere phase, is slated to be screened at a Nov. 19 fundraiser.

The audience will not only get to see the film and participate in a talk-back with the film’s subject, Henry Green, and director, Stephen Dest; it will also be contributing to an exciting light installation project in New Haven by world-renowned artist Sheila Levrant de Bretteville.

The installation has been commissioned by Site Projects, the public arts nonprofit organization that has been creating meaningful public art throughout New Haven for the past 13 years. The project, entitled Way to Go, will illuminate part of the Route 34 underpass near Union Station. The installation is designed to remake a deteriorated urban space at one of New Haven’s busiest gateways, while helping to build on New Haven’s profile as a city that cares about art.

For Dest, the decision to collaborate with Site Projects to help raise funds was not difficult.

“Collaboration is so vital in the arts community, so working with Site Projects was an easy decision to make,” he said. “Filmmakers are so often left to their own devices (for better or worse), so when an opportunity to work with an organization like Site Projects comes along, it’s too good, and too important to pass up.” The film’s investors include the Pincus Family Foundation and private donors from the New Haven community. Neighborhood Music School served as the film’s fiscal sponsor.

On I Am Shakespeare a little less than a year ago. Dest, the film’s award-winning director, was initially hoping to re-create the true New Haven story as a full-length feature drama, following the success three years ago of his psychological thriller My Brother Jack, a film he wrote and directed.

I Am Shakespeare tells the story of gifted thespian Henry Green of Newhallville, whose remarkable talents made him a standout in the Cooperative Arts and Humani-

Director Stephen Dest.

ties High School theater program.

He skillfully portrayed the role of Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet for a Shakespeare in the Park production.

The film tells Green’s comingof-age story as he channeled several identities and coped with the challenges of straddling two worlds: one that recognized his special talents on stage, the other a rough-and-tumble existence that played out on some of New Haven’s toughest streets. Green has admitted that he “was no angel.”

His charisma and acting skills enabled a leadership position in his own gang.

Green’s challenging socioeconomic circumstances were always waiting for him after the accolades of every stage performance.

Under gang turf rules, getting off at the wrong bus stop in his own neighborhood could prove costly.

His specially honed survival skills proved insufficient one fateful evening as he and his posse were confronted by hooded gang members wearing ski masks. Flight was not an option for Green as he stared into an assailant’s eyes.

“The eyes of a lost child, confused hurt and angry… I saw a mirror in his eyes,” Green said. Seconds later, he was shot point-blank.

After much consideration by Dest and Green, it was decided that a documentary, told in Green’s own words, would be “far more honest and cinematic than what could’ve been recreated in a drama,” Dest said. Using Green’s insights into his own world, viewers could trace the story of his gritty journey from death’s door to a miraculous but protracted recovery, thanks to a rare small intestinal organ transplant, a strong support system, and Green’s own tenacious will.

“Although it’s a documentary, there’s a real arc of a performance in the film,” Dest said.

I Am Shakespeare represents the second in a trilogy of New Haven-based films for Dest. His third

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film, titled Grace, will look at the city’s architecture and city landscape as told through the fictional characters of architect Henry Cooper and his daughter Grace.

“It’s a story of one man’s obsession with design and legacy, but also the alienation of his own family,” Dest said. “My Brother Jack looked at the amazing and gifted arts community (with a psychological murder twist) and I Am Shakespeare looks at the innercity community and its struggle with identity and salvation. Grace will look at the third piece of our unique city: the university and its

historical significance to the world beyond the ivory towers.”

I am Shakespeare will be screened at Common Ground Springside Center, an award-winning architectural structure located at 385 Springside Ave. in New Haven, on Nov. 19 at 5:30 p.m. A dinner and cocktail hour for VIP and prime ticket fundraising tiers will precede the 81 minute screening, which will be followed by a moderated panel discussion with Dest and Green. Other activities include a fine art silent auction to benefit the Site Projects fund.

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Chief’s Contract Comes Under Fire

by MARKESHIA RICKS NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT

Alders praised the hiring of New Haven’s new fire chief but not the $2,000 monthly housing allowance that came with it.

The Board of Alders last month enthusiastically voted to approve the hiring of the new chief John Alston Jr., who retired from the Jersey City Fire Department in New Jersey to become New Haven’s top firefighter.

A hearing two weeks ago left alders on the board’s Finance Committee, many whom are part of the leadership team that meets with the administration weekly, feelinghoodwinked as they prepared to deliberate on whether to approve the contract. They ultimately voted to recommend approval of the agreement and the budget transfers to cover it; the contract now goes to the full board for approval.

But the clash was just the latest between the administration and alders who have sought to adhere to a 2013 charter revision that gives them more say in hiring top officials such as the chiefs of fire and police, the chief administrative officer, the community services administrator, the controller and the economic development administrator.

Alders felt hoodwinked because Mayor Toni Harp’s administration agreed to pay Alston more than the $125,000 that they had originally budgeted for the fire chief position. But Alston also was able to wrangle additional perks from the administration, including the $2,000 a month housing allowance.

The full Board of Alders already approved Alston as the new chief.

In fact, he was appointed interim chief and started the job early because of the dearth of top leadership at the fire department. But alders have not yet approved the employment agreement ,which calls for Alston to receive a salary of $158,500. In addition to that salary, Alston is to receive a retirement contribution of 7.5 percent of his salary, five weeks vacation per year, up to four weeks of paid

PAUL BASS PHOTO Colon: “We have been shaken down.”

Carter, left, with Alston at his confirmation hearing in September.

training time, and use of a cityowned vehicle. They told Harp administrators at the hearing that approving the appointment before they got to see the agreement is a backward process.

Alston is to receive the monthly housing stipend for his initial term and the first six months of

his second term should he be reappointed to the position of fire chief in Feb. 1, 2018. If for some reason he is not reappointed fire chief, the chief would receive a golden parachute in the form of a consulting fee agreement that nets him an amount equal to six months of his annual salary.

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The severance deal was another source of tension for alders who see such agreements as obligating the city to pay future money for people who no longer work for it like ousted Police Chief Dean Esserman, while also paying for that person’s replacement.

To cover the cost associated with Alston’s handsome salary, the full Board of Alders must approve a transfer of funds that amount to $103,000. The Finance Committee voted to recommend that the full board approve not only the terms of the agreement, but also an ordinance amendment authorizing a budget transfer of $51,500 from the fire department’s suppression holiday pay account; $33,500 from the department’s administrative salary account and another $18,000 from the department’s “administrative other contractual” account.

Alders gave Harp administration officials an earful about the fact that they had not seen the details of the contract until well after an offer was made to Alston, and still hadn’t seen the full details even after his appointment had been announced and sent to them for approval.

They were especially miffed that during the six-month search for a new fire chief, the administration asked for a $20,000 increase to bump the budgeted salary up to $145,000 to make the position more attractive. But at that time there was no mention of a housing stipend offer to sweeten the deal, or a generous future severance package; and the administration never came back to alders when stakes got higher. They also still don’t know whether Alston plans to accept city health benefits, which would further raise the cost of employing him, or make use of his retirement medical benefits from Jersey City.

Don’t Hate The Player Several alders raised concerns that the administration is setting a precedent for future top hires from outside the city by offering such a generous housing stipend. The city still has to hire two assistant fire chiefs; one of those positions will not be a union bargained and

tested position. The city also has to hire a new police chief.

“He has resigned or retired from his current job in New Jersey, and he will be getting a substantial pension he worked up to, so he will not be hurting for money from the New Jersey side of his financial resources,” Hill Alder Dolores Colon said of Alston. “It would seem to me that we have been shaken down. We have been played like a violin or something.

I think he’s holding us by the ankles and shaking us for whatever he can get out of our pockets.”

“Other cities would have paid a lot more, and I think we got the optimal deal,” responded city Chief Administrative Officer Mike Carter.

“Despite our ability to pay and besides having deficits and having to squeeze our budgets from other angles like a toothpaste tube to get ourselves in a budget,” Colon shot back.

“We’re going to work on that,” Carter replied.

Colon, who said she supports hiring Alston, was referencing a quarterly report that the committee had just received from city Budget Director Joe Clerkin.

Clerkin reported that if present trends continue, the fire and police department could end the fiscal year in the red to the tune of about $4 million, much of it caused by overtime. Carter responded that as top administrative positions are filled people would be working less overtime, so that deficit could be whittled down to between $100,000 and $200,000, or it could even turn into a surplus.

Annex Alder Alphonse Paolillo Jr. was not buying it. He asked how the administration justified making such transfers when it already knows the fire department is running a deficit.

He pressed an argument repeated several times during the meeting: That the administration had put the cart before the horse by making such a generous offer to Alston. And that they had done that assuming that alders would just go along.

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Health Clinic Helps School Turn Around

by ALLAN APPEL NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT

As the school day began, school nurse E.J. Antinozzi’s office was buzzing.

Two friends, Yeniel Cedeno and Ja’ven Smiley, came in to take their medications as soon as their bus arrived Then another little second grader entered, complaining of dry lips and itchiness all over.

He got words of comfort, some Vaseline on his lips, and cooling lotion rubbed on his belly and legs as the nurse asked, “Did you wash your face this morning?”

An older girl came in next complaining of fever and sore throat.

A scanning thermometer registered 99 degrees, which is pretty normal. Yet the sore throat made school nurse E.J. Antinozzi send her across a short hall to the Advanced Practice Registered Nurse Lisa MacMaster.

MacMaster examined the girl for strep throat, or as many of the kids in this heavily Latino school call it, “infectione de galgante.”

Luckily the test was negative.

The nurse gave the girl some ibuprofin, wrote a note to the girl’s mom, and the child was sent back to class. That was an average half hour in the life of the schoolbased health clinic (SBHC) at the Hill Central Music Academy on Dewitt Street.

Hill Central opened its fullfledged clinic two years ago, fully staffed and well equipped with daily medications for nearly 100 kids, four cots for kids to rest on, an examining room, a private office for social worker Blake to counsel kids singly or in groups, and much else. In that time it has proved one of the ingredients in the dramatic decline in absenteeism at the school.

It is one of of 18 such schoolbased health clinics throughout the New Haven Public Schools staffed both by school nurses who work for the city’s health department—and augmented by nurses and social workers from outside agencies whom the Board of Ed contracts to staff the

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Antinozzi applies the magic Vaseline at Hill Central.

Down the hatch for Yeniel and Ja’ven.

clinics.

In Hill Central’s case, the school nurse, Antinozzi is there four days a week, up from two days in previous years. MacMaster and the social worker Phillipa Blake are both employees of the Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center, on nearby Columbus Avenue; they spend most of their

time at the clinic keeping the K-8 school’s 483 kids healthy.

In addition to Cornell Scott, the New Haven Public Schools subcontracts with four other community partners to staff the SBHCs Fair Haven Community Health Center, Yale-New Haven Hospital, the Clifford Beers Clinic, and, of course, the city’s health 10

department. All have a nurse practitioner, a social worker, and an office manager. Eight of the 18 clinics also provide dental services. The state Department of Public Health provides grant money to fund 11 of the 18, with the remaining seven established and sustained by the partners through contributed services and

some billing, reported Susan Peters, the city’s director of schoolbased clinics.

“If you’re not feeling well mind, body, and spirit you’re not ready to learn,” said MacMaster.

You’re also not ready to learn if you’re not in school.

Antinozzi, who has been a public health nurse in the schools for 11 years, estimated that Hill Central clinic receives about 2,500 annual visits from the kids many, of course, repeat customers from among the 483 kids in the K-8 school.

Many visits involve minor fevers and small aches. “We’re big on mosquito bites,” she said. The kids often go back to class after a short sojourn on one of the clinic’s chairs or four comfortable cots.

However, Antinozzi also has on hand 65 individualized inhalers to treat kids with asthma, about 20 epi-pens for individual students who have allergies ranging from peanuts to seafood to milk, and other medications of the kind that Yeneiel and Ja’ven took with their little Dixie cups of water.

Almost 90 percent of the kids and their families are also signed up at the nearby Cornell ScottHill Health Center. So, in an abundance of caution, any issue presenting itself as slightly more than routine such as a fever of 99 combined with a sore throat, such as one little girl complained about during my visit Antinozzi refers to MacMaster.

That represents about 1,200 kids a year whom MacMaster sees for treating those seriously bad throats, if they emerge, and other matters bearing on kids’ well being; giving physicals; dealing with allergies, diabetes, weight management; immunizations; and so forth. She has a small lab in the facility where she can test immediately for strep, for example.

She in effect runs a branch of the Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center within the school. As an APRN, Con’t on page 29

Let The (Traffic) Calming Begin THE INNER-CITY NEWS November 9, 2016 - November 15, 2016

by MARKESHIA RICKS NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT

Drivers used to speeding through Westille Village on their way to downtown or back out to the suburbs had a slower commute Monday because traffic calming on Whalley Avenue has finally arrived.

After six years of community wrestling with the state Department of Transportation, construction of new medians on the eastern and western edges of the Village got underway Monday.

A number of the people who helped fight to make it happen gathered at the corner of West Rock Avenue and Whalley Avenue to note the milestone.

Cars could be seen approaching the intersection of Whalley Avenue and Fitch Street with a lot more caution than before. Bright signs and traffic cones narrowed the roadway down to one lane. Big construction trucks could be seen hauling dirt and digging up the center of the street.

Mayor Toni Harp called it “kind of cool” to see the $600,000 project finally begin. Harp was still a state senator when Westville business owners like Gabriel DaSilva of Da Silva Gallery Custom Framing & Fine Art and Lyric Hall owner John Cavaliere and neighbors started lobbying to slow down traffic along the stretch of state-owned roadway, a highly traveled main artery of the city.

She said the joint city-state initiative will improve the safety and vitality throughout the village and

Harp: Work underway six years in the making; kind of cool.

is just the latest example of New Haven’s efforts to make the city more pedestrian-friendly.

Harp and State Rep. Pat Dillon teamed up to get the project on the state bond agenda, securing about $424,000 from the state to pay for the project. The rest will come from the sale of city bonds.

Dillon, who has been a champion for the project from its inception, said it took about six years to try to get the state DOT to see Westville not as a drive-through for people from the Valley headed to downtown, but as a place where people walk to local businesses. She credited the business owners in the village for continu-

ously pushing for traffic calming even using their own money to hire consultants to study the issue and come up with solutions. “I’m thrilled its happening,” she said.

“This a new beginning for Westville Village.”

The construction is expected to last about 30 days—weather permitting, said City Engineer Giovanni Zinn. The slowed-down traffic that people are starting to experience will be the new normal going forward.

Though there are no bike lanes in this first phase of the project, the city has reserved road space on the shoulders of Whalley Avenue to add protected bike lanes in the

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future. But first it has to convince the state DOT to sign off.

A second phase of the traffic calming project also is in the works to address a more complicated intersection, where Fountain Street and Whalley Avenue meet.

Phase one construction includes the installation of new crosswalks at the intersections of Whalley and West Rock avenues and Whalley Avenue and Philip Street. It also includes the construction of medians with trees and decorative lighting starting at the intersection of Harrison Street and Whalley Avenue and also at West Park and Whalley Avenue. Zinn said the decorative lighting might have to

wait for the spring.

“The philosphy here is to create these two gateways that will calm traffic as you’re coming into the Village,” he said. “People like to speed when the street is very wide and they feel they have an open right of way. The median will cut the apparent size of the street in half.”

Zinn said the changes help make the street safer for all users of the street, including pedestrians who are not only getting new crosswalks, but also refuges in the median to help them more safely cross the wider parts of Whalley Avenue. “We really cannot overemphasize how important it is to serve all the users of the road,” he said. “Our pedestrians are our most vulnerable users of the road right here at West Rock and Philip Street.”

West Hills/Amity Alder Richard Furlow, whose district includes a sliver of the village, said that project is instrumental in not only the revitalization of the village and efforts to bring more foot traffic into the village, but also in efforts to partner with Southern Connecticut State University to provide more amenities that would be attractive to students and faculty there. He said there are hopes that the university will wonder consider the village its main street.

“It’s an exciting time for Westville Village,” he said.

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New Poll: 84 percent of Black Voters Think Donald Trump is Racist

By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Contributor

It’s widely believed that Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump is a racist, according to results from the first-ever, national scientific study focused exclusively on voters who identify as African-American, Afro-Hispanic or another Black identity.

Respondents to the poll hit hard at the controversial New York businessman, who in recent weeks has tried to convince Blacks to vote for him, repeatedly using the widely-viewed offensive remark, “What have you got to lose?”

“Race was important and inequality came up as a separate issue in this poll,” said Lorenzo Morris, a professor in the Department of Political Science Howard University, who was among the principal investigators on the interdisciplinary Howard research team.

“To ask about race – and whether Donald Trump is a racist – seems to have been appropriate,” Morris said.

Researchers made more than 22,000 calls to Black registered voters. Among the 27 questions posed was, “Do you think Donald Trump is a racist?” An overwhelming 84 percent of the 900 individuals who responded said,”

yes.”

The findings were based on the sample taken between October 21 and October 30.

The poll tackled issues that have

largely been ignored by mainstream media during this election and during the presidential debates, including criminal justice reform, education, and jobs.

Interestingly, researchers with the National Black Voters Poll tracked the potential impact of FBI director James Comey’s announcement that his agency would be looking into new revelations related to the investigation of Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server.

While the effect that announcement might have on the election remains to be seen, it was apparent that Black voters were not swayed.

“It did seem that the FBI’s release only strengthened Clinton’s supporters,” said Dr. Terri AdamsFuller, the associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Howard University, who was also one of the principal investigators for the poll.

“Researchers found that [after the FBI’s announcement] favorable feelings toward Clinton rose and those toward Trump were cut in half,” Adams said.

The goal of the research, which found that 96 percent of respondents vowed that they would cast ballots in this year’s election, was to develop a profile of Black American voters in a year when race is believed to be a defining factor in the outcome of presidential and congressional campaigns, said Dr. Benjamin Chavis, president and CEO of the National

Newspaper Publishers Association, which aligned with Howard University to conduct the poll.

The research was conducted using social science survey methods at Howard University, a leading historically Black college and university (HBCU) in the United States.

Pollsters found a high degree of engagement by registered Black voters in the election and, based on their data, predict a high voter turnout among Black American voters who have expressed a strong preference for Clinton over Trump.

“A strong majority — 89 percent said they will vote for Clinton, and two-thirds — 67 percent — said they strongly favor Clinton,” Chavis told the assembled media gathered at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday for the release of the poll’s results.

“A slightly higher percent – 74 percent – said they have ‘overall favorable feelings’ for Clinton, compared to two percent who said they had favorable feelings for Trump,” Chavis said.

Howard University and NNPA officials said a detailed report about findings of the poll will be released on Friday.

In Jacksonville, Black Women are the Focal Point of Efforts to Elect Hillary Clinton

By Erika Adams, Women of Color for Hillary

With roughly one week until Election Day, Women of Color for Hillary, a national grassroots and digital network of women looking to help elect America’s first woman president, descended upon the River City to make a simple declaration: #ShesGotMyBack.

Led by Reta Jo Lewis, a former diplomat who served in the Department of State under Secretary Clinton, Women of Color for Hillary (or @WoC4Hillary, as it’s known online) assembled a cadre of national talent and some of Jacksonville’s finest during a recent rally. “We came together in solidarity, understanding the importance of this moment,” said Representative Mia Jones who represented Florida’s 14th District

for eight years. “This isn’t just about electing our country’s first woman president on the heels of two successful terms by our first Black president. This is about ensuring our continued progress as a nation.”

State Senator Audrey Gibson,

representing District 9, Pastor Debra Bernard Shaw, Senior Pastor at Believers in Christ International Christian Center, and Jacksonville’s Former First Lady, Mrs. Santhea Hicks-Brown were among the notable attendees who took part in this event. Former

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Secretary of Labor Alexis Herman spoke on the program, as did two of “The Colored Girls,” an intimate collective of five Black Democratic Women, Rev. Leah D. Daughtry, CEO for the 2008 & 2016 Democratic National Conventions, and Yolanda Caraway, President & CEO of The Caraway Group. The State Political Director for Hillary for America’s Florida operation, Keenan Austin, rounded out the cast of advocates who came with one primary message: vote for Hillary.

“We know what’s at stake in this election,” said Secretary Herman, who validated Secretary Clinton’s long-time struggle for the rights of women, children, and people of color. “She is committed, caring, and so willing, always, to roll up her sleeves to do the work that needs to be done. She…has

labored in the vineyard for us, our people, and our country. We could have no more wiser and experienced choice for President of These United States.” Caraway echoed the sentiment, noting that Secretary Clinton “has an amazing heart. From the time she was a young woman, she’s always done things for women and children.

And her heart has only grown bigger over time. She’s an amazing woman.”

Rev. Daughtry encouraged attendees to not only vote and take other people to the polls, but to stay engaged after Election Day. “We have to remain more engaged after the election if Hillary wins.

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He said in reality the board probably should turn down the agreement and the transfers that cover it, but it is likely going to support it because Alston was the best candidate. He also is already on the job.

“For a department that we have seen run deficits year after year after year to tell us that we have money in holiday pay line items they really need to do better than that,” Paolillo said. “We need to show a lot of caution this year.

These benefits transfers lead to deficits and increases this year.”

“He Knew He Would Have To Move” Carter and city Human Resources Manager Stephen Librandi told alders that in negotiations Alston brought up the idea of a housing allowance. Carter said Alston intends to buy a home in New Haven; he currently is renting in the city. Alston and his wife own a home in New Jersey, but can’t move fully until she is able to retire in another year and a half. The housing stipend covers the cost of maintaining two homes.

East Rock Alder Anna Festa said Alston was aware that he would have to move to New Haven if he was to be fire chief. Carter countered that during his time working for AT&T relocating scientists and engineers he made “offers similar and much richer.” Festa said that she too had worked in the corporate world, specifically GE Healthcare, where people were paid only for their moving expenses. The debate highlighted the wide latitude and differing approaches that corporations can take when hiring people who might be perceived as top candidates for a competitive executive position.

“He knew he would have to move to New Haven if he got the job,” Festa said. “It’s not our problem that he has two houses to support.”

“I Let You Down”

Festa: Not all corporations pay that much.

Because Alston was savvy enough to ask for the stipend and the city agreed to it, it’s definitely

the city’s problem now much to the consternation of alders, who know they can’t take it off the table if they want Alston to stay.

Festa said she was further upset that when Harp administration officials asked for the additional $20,000 because not only was no housing allowance mentioned, but alders were left with the impression that the salary wouldn’t go higher than that — and if it did, the administration would come back before signing any agreements. She said the administration had plenty of time to do that.

“I want to know who his negotiator is when I go ask for a job,” Festa said. “This is by no means an insult to Chief Alston. I don’t doubt he’s the best. He’s coming from New Jersey, which is an expensive state, but $2,000 a month is a bit steep. I’m a little disappointed in you guys that you didn’t come back to us before this when you almost promised us that you would do that. Personally, I’m a little upset by you not keeping your word as far as I’m concerned.”

Carter apologized. He vowed that going forward alders will be involved early when it comes to employment agreements and will participate in the screening process of candidates.

“I let you down,” he said. “I was doing the bench-marking, and looking at ranges, and I thought we were within the range. What we were going to offer Mr. Alston was significantly below what he was making in Jersey City. But it is tough to find people like Mr. Alston, who can basically do a lot of things for us and will save us a lot of more money. I apologize for disappointing you.”

Alders said they didn’t want apologies. They said they want the administration to change its behavior.

“We’ve done our due diligence and we’ve treated John Alston with respect,” Paolillo said. “The administration not submitting [this agreement] in the correct order actually does a disservice to your candidate. The mayor calls for community involvement, but there was no community involve-

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Trump wins the White House in victory for outsiders

But there are deeper, more fundamental questions about Trump’s presidency that will be key to his capacity to unify a deeply divided country and appeal to Americans who will feel outraged and disgusted by his victory.

He’s got the attention of the whole world Trump’s campaign was built on rage, falsehoods and singling out culprits for the ills of modern America, including undocumented migrants, foreign nations such as China and Muslim immigrants.

He mocked a disabled New York Times reporter, vowed to use the power of the presidency to put Clinton in jail and pledged to sue women who accused him of sexual assault.

Trump has promised to build a wall on the southern border and make Mexico pay for it, and to deport undocumented migrants. He has vowed to reintroduce interrogation methods for terror suspects that are more extreme than waterboarding.

So the demeanor that Trump will adopt as president and the manner in which he will behave will be closely watched -- not just in the United States, but among nervous

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leaders abroad.

One of the many uncertainties about Trump’s coming presidency is how his White House will interact with Republicans in Congress --- and whether he and GOP leaders will heal their rift from the campaign.

Republicans appeared on track to repel a Democratic bid to recap-

ture the Senate. That would give the GOP control over Capitol Hill and the White House.

That means it would fall to the GOP either to rubber stamp policies likely to mark a break from conservative orthodoxy or to provide a check on the power of Trump, who has shown every sign he will use executive power ag-

gressively.

House Speaker Paul Ryan will face intense pressure from proTrump members of his own coalition to cooperate with the new president.

Senate Republicans, meanwhile, are likely to hold Trump’s feet to the fire to ensure he lives up to his promise to appoint justices who

could ensure a generational conservative majority on the U.S. Supreme Court.

Clinton apparently failed to reassemble the diverse coalition that helped Obama win the presidency in 2008 and 2012.

The events of Clinton’s terrible final week on the campaign -- the revival of her email controversy

by FBI Chief James Comey and a damaging drip, drip, drip of revelations by WikiLeaks that her campaign says was orchestrated

by Russian intelligence -- could have helped consign her to defeat.

There also is the question of Trump’s temperament. Clinton repeatedly warned that he was unfit to control the nuclear codes because he could be baited with a tweet.

Obama passionately denounced Trump as intellectually and temperamentally unfit to succeed him in the Oval Office.

But now, he will be forced to greet his successor on the morning of Inauguration Day in January, and look on while he is sworn in as the 45th president of the United States.

Donald Trump Rides Wave Of White Anger To Victory Clinton did well among Blacks, Latinos and young voters—but not well enough to prevent a Trump victory.

It’s taking a while to sink in, but Donald Trump was elected the 45th president of the United States.

Many Democrats, anticipating a victory, started election night with a cautious sense of optimism that faded as battleground states, one-by-one, went to Trump.

In the end, it was Trump who crossed the finish line with 279 electoral votes and with the GOP holding on to both houses of Congress.

Early exit polls from CNN show that Hillary Clinton did well, but came up short in building a winning coalition of AfricanAmerican, Latino and young voters as President Barack Obama did in 2008 and 2012.

According to the network, Clinton won 88 percent of

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Black voters, compared to the 93 percent that Obama won in 2012. The turnout figures were not immediately available.

Although Trump made disparaging remarks about Mexicans that angered Hispanics, 29 percent of

Latinos chose him over Clinton.

At the same time, the Clinton campaign did not inspire young voters, age 18 to 29, as Obama did. She won 54 percent of that demographic, who flocked in large numbers to her primary election rival Sen. Bernie Sanders, a Vermont Independent.

Trump, on the other hand, ignited and rode a wave of angry working-class White voters who are fed up with the Washington establishment, openly express disdain for people of color, and see no hope in the economy.

From day one of his campaign, Trump promised to erect a wall along the southern border of the U.S. and make Mexico pay for it. Along the way, he called for a temporary ban on Muslims entering the country. He said

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that a U.S. born judge should be removed from his case because of his Mexican heritage.

He was caught on audio tape saying he would grab a woman “by the p–sy.” And despite the many things he said that would have ended badly for other candidates, they backed Trump’s populist message.

Trump opened his victory speech saying that Clinton called to concede. While divisive during the campaign, Trump made gracious comments.

“Hillary has worked very long and very hard over a long period of time, and we owe her a major debt of gratitude for her service to our country,” Trump said.

“I mean that very sincerely.”

He continued: “Now it’s time for America to bind the wounds of

division. We have to get together.

To all Republicans, Democrats and independents across this nation, I say it is time for us to come together as one united people.”

The shock waves of Trump’s victory were felt around the world. USA Today reported that global stock markets plunged.

Here in the United States, the Dow futures tumbled 800 points at one point. However, the numbers rebounded slightly by Wednesday morning.

In 2017, Republicans will have a lock on government by controlling the executive and legislative branches of government. One of Trump’s first moves will likely be nominating a Supreme Court justice, which will complete the GOP’s stranglehold on power.

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Kamala Harris makes history NAACP Statement on Presidential Election BALTIMORE, MD – NAACP with senate race victory National President and CEO

California voters made history on Tuesday, electing Kamala Harris to become only the second African-American woman in the U.S. Senate.

Harris, 51, also made history with a couple of firsts; she’s the first black politician in history to represent the state in the Senate as well as the first Indian-American senator.

The state attorney general beat out challenger Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-Orange) and was backed by President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and other top Democrats.

Harris, the daughter of Indian and Jamaican immigrants, is a graduate of Howard University and attended law school at the University of California.

Cornell William Brooks issued the following statement regarding the results of the 2016 presidential election: “Even as we extend our congratulations to President-Elect Donald J. Trump, the NAACP, as America’s oldest and largest civil rights organization, must bluntly note that the 2016 campaign has regularized racism, standardized anti-Semitism, deexceptionalized xenophobia and mainstreamed misogyny. Voter suppression, as the courts have declared, has too become rampant and routine.

From the day that General George Washington accepted the people’s charge to become their first commander-in-chief, to the day that we elected Barack Obama as our country’s first African-American president, America has come together to ensure a peaceful transition of power. This most recent presidential election must meet this distinctly American standard.

President-Elect Trump’s victory speech avoided a divisive tone and thus invoked this standard.

During this critical period of

“It’s hard to be a parent tonight for a lot of us.”

CNN’s Van Jones Perfectly Explains The Pain Of A Donald Trump Victory CNN analyst Van Jones gave a moving explanation of the pain and fear that many Americans feel as Donald Trump appeared to be on the verge of being elected the nation’s next president.

Jones called a Trump victory a “nightmare” and said it would be difficult for many parents to explain to their kids how a man who regularly insults and belittles others was the president-elect.

“People have talked about a miracle I’m hearing about a nightmare,” Jones said on CNN. “It’s hard to be a parent tonight for a lot of us. You tell your kids, ‘Don’t be a bully.’ You tell your kids, ‘Don’t be a bigot.’ You tell your kids, ‘Do your homework and be prepared.’

Then you have this outcome, and you have people putting children to bed tonight and they’re afraid of breakfast.

“They’re afraid of, ‘How do I explain this to my children?’ I have Muslim friends who are texting me tonight saying, ‘Should I leave the country?’ I have families of immigrants that are terrified tonight.”

Jones’ comments immediately drew praise on Twitter.

Many attributed Trump’s success to his ability to turn out white working-class voters. Jones said race also played an important role in the election.

“This was a whitelash against a changing country,” he said. “It was a whitelash against a black president in part. And that’s the part where the pain comes. And Donald Trump has a responsibility tonight to come out and assure people that he is going to be the president of all the people he insulted and offended and brushed aside.

“Yeah, when you say you want to take your country back, you got a lot of people who feel that we’re not represented well, either. But we don’t want to feel that someone has been elected by throwing away some of us to appeal more deeply to others.”

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transition, we are now calling upon the next president to speak and act with the moral clarity necessary to silence the dogwhistle racial politics that have characterized recent months and have left many of our fellow citizens snarling at one another in anger and even whimpering in fear. The more than 120 million Americans who cast ballots in this election – as well as the more than 100 million more eligible voters who declined to vote – deserve no less.

The NAACP stands ready to work with a new administration to realize the racial justice concerns that not only compelled millions of people to go to the polls on Election Day but also inspired millions to protest in the streets in the preceding days and months. Depending upon the new administration’s fidelity to America’s ideals of liberty and

the NAACP’s agenda for justice, we will either be at its side or in its face. We will not let this election distract or dissuade us; the NAACP will continue to stand strong at the frontlines, advocating for voting rights, criminal justice reform and equality for all.

This election comes as a surprise to many, an affirmation to some and a rejection to others, and yet it is also a defining moment for the NAACP and the nation. Let us come together as a country – come together with the principled and practical unity that the needs of our nation and the need to govern demand.

Our beauty as a country shines brighter than the ugliness of this election. It is up to all of us to reveal the beauty of who we are as a people as we yet see the possibilities of the nation we can become.”

Thurgood Marshall College Fund Statement On The Election Of Donald J. Trump As The 45th President Of The United States of America “Thurgood Marshall College to find positive solutions and solve Fund (TMCF) congratulates Pres- important issues such as student ident-elect Donald J. Trump on loan debt and tuition costs. TMCF his historic election as the 45th stands ready to serve as a resource President of the United States of to the Administration and work as America. As a non-partisan higher a partner to strengthen the nation’s education non-profit organization higher education sector and HBadvocating for the nation’s pub- CUs. We look forward to having a licly-supported Historically Black productive and substantive workColleges and Universities (HB- ing relationship on behalf of our CUs), we work to ensure that HB- member schools with PresidentCUs remain part of the political elect Trump, Vice President-elect conversation. We are hopeful that Pence as well as the entire Adminthe incoming Trump Administra- istration.” Johnny C. Taylor Jr., tion will continue to engage with TMCF President & CEO. TMCF and the HBCU community

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The Myth of Low Black-Voter Turnout THE INNER-CITY NEWS November 9, 2016 - November 15, 2016

By William Spivey, noted Blogger and ICN Contributing Writer

There are many stories circulating regarding low Black-voter turnout in the 2016 Presidential race. The stories cite an “enthusiasm gap.” They suggest Black people have been discouraged by the negativity of the campaign.

They imply apathy to the candidates or a lack of interest. They offer many reasons except for the one we all know to be true. Voter suppression.

Voter suppression is not new. It began from the moment Blacks got the right to vote. Over the years we’ve seen literacy tests, poll taxes, limited access to polls, inability to register, lynchings and murders. Some of those still exist.

The same day the Supreme Court gutted enforcement of the Voter Rights Act of 1964. Texas, North Carolina, Alabama and others began implementing laws that could have never been passed if pre-clearance still existed. Florida had long been removing Black and Hispanic voters from the rolls.

Early voting in many places has been reduced. In North Carolina, early voting locations were re-

duced from 16 to 1 in the Blackest County in the State. In Alabama, in conjunction with a new Voter ID Law, they reduced the locations in several predominantly Black Counties to one per County. Back in North Carolina, a Clerk associated with a group whose purpose is to suppress votes got her County to remove voters from the rolls if a mailing from her group was returned to sender.

In Indiana, 45,000 Voter Registrations have been impounded by the State Police. The group registering voters complied with a State law requiring them to turn in all applications including those that are incomplete or have errors. Mike Pence shouts “Fraud” but none has been documented.

Trump and Pence have repeated

often from the stump their coordination with the RNC to institute poll watchers. When dragged into court to see if the RNC was in violation of a Consent Decree. Issued the last time the RNC used that tactic to suppress votes in New Jersey. The RNC denied any coordination with the Trump campaign making clear that one of them is lying.

Donald Trump has told his supporters to literally watch minority voters in Philadelphia, St. Louis, Chicago and elsewhere. Leaving no doubt who he intended to target. He said, “You know what I mean” and indeed his supporters did.

So now we get reports of low turnout among Black voters. In some cases it’s not an apples to

apples comparison against 2012 because of limited access to Early Voting now that didn’t exist then.

There is an increase in Hispanic voting but it reflects an increase vs a historically low participation rate. Reworded, it was easier for Hispanics to show an increase because they started from a much lower place.

There is evidence in North Carolina that in the County where only one location was initially available, Black voting was reduced vs the same time period by 85%.

When additional locations opened up, Black voting increased dramatically and they are almost caught up. This coming weekend will see pushes from Black churches and other organizations to get people out to vote. I suspect

one of two things is true: Black voters will come out in their traditional high numbers because voting is what we do. The cost was too high in blood to simply cede the right.

The cumulative effect of the Voter Suppression that has been coordinated over a period of years has finally worked to a degree and reduced minority voting.

The answer to low turnout if it comes to pass is not to blame Black voters. If it’s the case, let’s give credit where it’s due. The Republican Party, the RNC, the Supreme Court, the Right Wing Media and the rest of us who let it stand. The answer is a Democratic President and Senate. A Supreme Court that will enforce laws (and get rid of Citizens United along the way). A Congress that will take voting rights seriously and put American citizens ahead of Party. We can start making that happen on Tuesday. Whatever the obstacles we must vote; as if our future depends on it because it does.

William Spivey is a writer and blogger. He lives in Orlando, FL. www.enigmainblack.wordpress. com spiveywilliamf@gmail.com

What You Need to Know about the NAACP’s War on Charter Schools

By James Clingman, NNPA Newswire Columnist The call for a moratorium on charter schools by the NAACP is a case of “Throwing the baby out with the bath water.” While most Black folks are concentrating on Hillary and Donald, the largest and oldest “Colored” organization approved an internal resolution calling for a halt to the “expansion of charter schools” until those schools meet criteria set forth by the NAACP. The NAACP lacks the power to enforce its resolution, but their call for this draconian measure does come with the familiar stench of other positions they have taken—and not taken—because of political and, of

course, economic reasons, the latter of which seems to be the driving force behind this latest move.

One of this country’s leading educators, Dr. Steve Perry, who has operated charter schools for years and recently took over the new charter school opened by Sean Combs, Capital Prep Harlem, in New York City, had this to say: “The NAACP national headquarters has received a significant amount of money from the teachers’ union. The only organizations to call for a moratorium on charter schools in particular, because they are non-union, are the teachers’ unions.”

Perry went on to call the resolution, “absurd.” He further stated, “They couldn’t be more out of touch if they ran full speed in the other direction…the national [NAACP] is out of touch even with their own chapters.”

Shavar Jeffries, Democrats for Education Reform, said, “Indis-

criminately targeting all charter schools…while ignoring underperforming district schools undermines the quality and integrity of our entire education system. We should be fixing what’s broken and expanding what works, not pre-empting the choices of [Black] parents…”

Calling for a moratorium is indicative of the NAACP’s disregard for existing charter schools established, funded, and operated by Black people. The use of scare tactics, such as “privatization,” under the guise of concern for students, is either disingenuous or ignorant.

Charter schools are about creating better options for education—they provide a choice.

I know and have spoken with several esteemed Black educators and operators of charter schools.

Amefika Geuka, who founded and ran the Joseph Littles Nguzo Saba School in West Palm Beach, Florida for 16 years, was the largest Black employer of Black people in the

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county. He used his own funds to sustain the school and fought resistance by the district to keep his school opened despite the success of his graduates in college. One former student is now in law school and is the President of the Student Bar Association.

Another long-time friend and charter school founder is Kwa David Whitaker, an attorney in Cleveland, Ohio, who has managed as many as twelve schools. He shared with me the following: “It is the traditional system that has destroyed our children and nation. Putting this intense focus on charter schools is only an attempt to keep the focus off of the continuing ineptitude of our nation’s traditional public school system.”

Black parents spoke out against the NAACP’s decision by protesting during its convention. Roland Martin, News One Anchor, questioned NAACP Washington Bureau Chief Hillary Shelton on whether the NAACP had invited any of those

parents to speak or if it had called upon Black charter school leaders to give their input before the resolution was passed. After asking three times without getting an answer, Martin answered it himself: “NO.” Music mogul, Mr. Kenny Gamble, who is now a leading force in economic development and owner of eleven charter schools in Philadelphia and Milwaukee, has invested millions into educating our youth.

He shared his experience with me and cited two factors in charter school operations: Academics and economics. My question: Why aren’t more Blacks engaged in ownership and control when it comes to the education of our own children?

The NAACP’s vote against charter schools is what Harold Cruse called “Non-Economic Liberalism.” Just as the NAACP will not allow its branches to purchase buildings for their offices and meeting space, via a Con’t on page 26

Loving

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Film Review by Kam Williams

Poignant Period Piece Recounts the Forbidden Romance That Led to Landmark Supreme Court Decision Mildred Jeter (Ruth Negga) and Richard Loving (Joel Edgerton) committed a crime just by falling in love when they were in the bloom of youth back in 1958.

That’s because she was black and he was white, and they were living in Virginia, one of the many Southern states with anti-miscegnation laws still on the books forbidding cohabitation, marriage, procreation or even sexual relations across racial lines.

Nevertheless, Richard was so smitten he proposed and, after Mildred accepted, he purchased a vacant plot of land where he promised to build their dream home.

However, when it came to time to wed, they had to travel north to Washington, DC, a city where they could secure a marriage license.

Upon returning to their tiny hometown of Central Point, they were promptly arrested during a nighttime raid staged by policemen tipped off about the recent nuptials. They charged the couple with violating section 20-58 of Virginia’s Racial Integrity Act, a felony punishable with up to five years in prison.

The Lovings were ultimately convicted, but fled to the District of Columbia rather than serve their sentences, especially since Mildred was expecting their first child by then. What a tragedy it was for them not only to be fugitives of justice, but to be forced to start their family in a strange big city, when they already had a place to live, if it weren’t for state-sanctioned racial intolerance.

Five years later, their plight came to the attention of Bernie Cohen (Nick Kroll) and Phil Hirshkop (Jon Bass) attorneys with the American Civil Liberties Union

(ACLU). The lawyers talked Mildred and Richard into lending their names as plaintiffs in a suit challenging the Constitutionality of Virginia’s longstanding statute prohibiting interracial marriage.

The beleaguered couple agreed, and the appellate process worked its way up to the U.S. Supreme Court which agreed to hear the case. “Tell the judge I love my wife,” Richard implored the ACLU legal team preparing the oral argument.

On June 12, 1967, the Court announced that it had arrived at a unanimous decision written by Chief Justice Earl Warren. He declared that Virginia had violated the Lovings’ rights to both Equal Protection and Due Process as guaranteed by the 14th Amendment.

Directed by Jeff Nichols (Mud), Loving carefully chronicles the life and times of an unassuming couple reluctantly thrust into the national limelight by a landmark legal case. The production features endearing performances by leads Ruth Negga and Joel Edgerton who generate a quiet, yet convincing screen chemistry portraying Mildred and Richard as modest working-class heroes.

A poignant period piece about a pair of practically-saintly role models well-deserving of their iconic status in the annals of American jurisprudence.

Excellent (4 stars) Rated PG-13 for mature themes and ethnic slurs Running time: 123 minutes Studio: Big Beach Films Distributor: Focus Features

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By Jarrett Carter, Sr. Founding Editor, HBCU Digest Data suggests surprising trends among black students and food access.

Alabama A&M University student Justin Franks was recently awarded WHNT’s ‘Pay It Forward’ recognition for starting a student food pantry at the university. With $40, support from the university and a viral Facebook post, Franks began handing out healthy snacks and small toiletry items to students who could not afford them.

His efforts have helped to feed more than 100 students on campus, which would surprise many, considering that most residential students are required to have a meal plan. But a new study suggests that even students who can afford the mandatory dining plan, along with non-residential students who opt out of campus living to save on costs, may be suffering from hunger.

And the numbers are even higher for African American students.

The Data on Hunger The National Student Campaign Against Hunger & Homelessness’ latest report, Hunger on Campus: The Challenge of Food Insecurity for college Students, draws insight from more than 3,700 students at two-year and four-year colleges throughout the country. More than 45 percent of respondents reported having at least one incident of food insecurity, defined as the inability to afford or to access nutritious food, in the last 30 days.

Among the same group, 57 percent of African American students taking the survey reported food insecurity, outpacing white students

by 17 percent. 64 percent of students reporting some incident of hunger, also reported challenges with stable housing while enrolled.

More than 50 percent of all survey takers said that hunger has, at least once, forced them to miss a class or a study session, to decide against participating in extracurricular activities, or to choose between purchasing food or a text book.

For students with meal plans, 69 percent reported eating nine weekly meals or less in the dining hall because of a lack of variety or extended access to the cafeteria.

More than 40 percent of students run out of meal points before the end of the semester.

What Does it Mean for HBCUs? The problem for HBCU students is two fold. For many students who can actually afford a meal plan, scores of them do not like or frequently do not eat the food offered in the dining hall. For some HBCU alumni, this is an incomprehensible reality in the face of hunger; many of us would eat Frosted Flakes three times a day rather than turn down a meal.

But what about students with dietary restrictions for health and religious reasons? And what about the operating hours and access of the cafeteria for students in class, or those who work jobs and are not able to eat at the dining hall or to afford food off-campus?

And even for the students who can afford meals off-campus, how many HBCUs are situated in cities with robust dining options beyond McDonald’s, Jack in the Con’t on page 26

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Instagram’s New Feature Could Be A Mental Health Life Saver

By Ruthie Hawkins, BlackDoctor.org Contributor

Instagram, arguably social media’s leading media sharing service, tackles mental health with the swipe of a finger. That’s right, according to the ‘Gram, a new feature will allow users to anonymously flag a photo in the event they think someone needs help.

Once the image is flagged, the individual will receive a message prompting them to select an “option” to get help such as contacting a helpline — which will vary by the user’s location. “Someone saw one of your posts and thinks you might be going through a difficult time. If you need support, we’d like to help,” a message will read.

As for how Instagram plans to execute, according to reports, they’ve partnered with organizations like the National Eating Disorders Association and the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline to create effective, rather than invasive, messages – instrumental to

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Additionally, users searching for a hashtag associated with selfharm will be directed to a support page. Though most dangerous hashtags have been banned, for those that are circulating, support options will be available.

The news goes hand-in-hand with Instagram’s announcement that they’ve partnered with Seventeen to launch National Body Confidence Day (Oct. 17) — aka #PerfectlyMe — highlighting “young women and men from the Instagram community who are rocking their self-confidence and embracing their own uniqueness,” the mag reads.

“#PerfectlyMe is a celebration of strength,” Levine says. “It’s about the strength of the support networks that we have seen grow steadily across Instagram, and the strength of individuals in these communities who are redefining beauty standards and building a culture of positivity.”

Though we seldom applaud the next big social media tool (as it seems like a new one drops every day), Instagram’s move to tackle mental health in such a capacity is definitely a game-changer! In addition to opening doors for entrepreneurs, and providing a space for people to connect across the globe, Instagram will likely soon be able to add “save lives” to their growing list of accomplishments!

In the meantime, for those in need of immediate help, please visit the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline or call 1-800-2738255. Although life may seem dark and dim right now, always remember, there’s a rainbow at the end of every storm.

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GirlTrek’s Black Girl Justice League Mobilizes To Get 50,000 Black Women Walking To The Polls

by Ruthie Hawkins, BlackDoctor.org Contributor This month, GirlTrek launched #TheBlackGirlJusticeLeague with the hope to mobilize 50,000 Black women to invade the polls together on Election Day. From Sacramento to Brooklyn and Seattle to Cleveland, the national nonprofit will train Black women in voter registration across the U.S. According to the largest health movement dedicated to African American women, volunteers will set personal goals of trekking 50 miles, registering 50 voters or hosting pop-up registration tables in their very own communities prior to August 31.

READ: #BlackGirlHealing: “I Have Been Afraid That Stress Will Kill Me” On the eve of the anniversary of the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote, August 20, GirlTrek will stage pop-up voter registration tables at churches, beauty salons and other neighborhood spaces across the nation.

“We organize for Sojourner Truth, Fannie Lou Hamer, Ida B. Wells, Septima Clark and every other Black woman who stood in the gap to secure our right to vote,” GirlTrek cofounder, T. Morgan Dixon said in a press release. “Voter turnout will be critical this presidential election. Black women — as a voting bloc — are a key constituency. From police violence to reproductive rights, our issues matter. With a mission of self-care, our goal to show up and show out by inspiring 1,000 Black women to lead walks on voting day.”

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NAACP’s War

clause in its original charter (no pun intended) written by Whites who founded the association, according to Dr. Khalid Al Mansour’s book, “Betrayal by any Other Name,” it now comes out against Blacks starting and controlling charter schools, which would add to our economic progress. I guess NAACP leaders realize that because Whites started the NAACP with their dollars, Whites can also end it by withholding their dollars.

The Wall Street Journal noted, it’s a “disgrace” that the NAACP’s idea of “advancement” is now to advance the interests of the unionized public school monopoly over the interests of their supposed constituents – Black students and their parents.

The NAACP must stop mimicking what it did in 1909 and support the new paradigm under which “Black” people operate. One charter school owner said, “The NAACP has outgrown its name; the only ‘Colored’ people left appear to be concentrated in the NAACP leadership.

James Clingman is the nation’s most prolific writer on economic empowerment for Black people.

His latest book, “Black Dollars Matter! Teach Your Dollars How to Make More Sense,” is available on his website, Blackonomics.com.

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Black Women Looking to become a GirlTrek #JusticeCrusader? The organization went on to say they’ll be publishing their crusade walks on a national map (searchable by zip code) found at girltrek.org.

“Picture it now: 10, 50, even 100 neighbors walking together to the ballot box on November 8th,” Dixon said.

“Our mission isn’t just to walk for fitness –it’s about coming together and walking together to heal, to inspire, to empower, and to take ownership of neighborhood streets and communities. This is a revolution. Our walking is our activism.”

Of course, with millennials anticipated to have a major impact on this year’s controversial race between Hilary Clinton and Donald Trump, GirlTrek’s initiative to incorporate health and the voting process is not only genius but crucial to the state of the union.

Looking to become a GirlTrek #JusticeCrusader? The organization went on to say they’ll be publishing their crusade walks on a national map (searchable by zip code) found at girltrek.org.

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November 8th,” Dixon said.

“Our mission isn’t just to walk for fitness –it’s about coming together and walking together to heal, to inspire, to empower, and to take ownership of neighborhood streets and communities. This is a revolution. Our walking is our activism.”

Of course, with millennials anticipated to have a major impact on this year’s controversial race between Hilary Clinton and Donald Trump, GirlTrek’s initiative to incorporate health and the voting process is not only genius but crucial to the state of the union.

By Erika Adams, Women of Color for Hillary

With roughly one week until Election Day, Women of Color for Hillary, a national grassroots and digital network of women looking to help elect America’s first woman president, descended upon the River City to make a simple declaration: #ShesGotMyBack.

Led by Reta Jo Lewis, a former diplomat who served in the Department of State under Secretary Clinton, Women of Color for Hillary (or @WoC4Hillary, as it’s known online) assembled a cadre of national talent and some of Jacksonville’s finest during a recent rally. “We came together in solidarity, understanding the importance of this moment,” said Representative Mia Jones who represented Florida’s 14th District

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Dexter Fowler, First Black Cubs Player In The World Series: “I Couldn’t Be More Proud To Represent Jackie Robinson” “I couldn’t be more proud to represent the Cubs, Jackie Robinson, who fought for my right to play, and for other black boys across America that are hoping to be in my shoes one day,” he continued.

by Jason Hughes If you don’t know by now, you really should read more – the Chicago Cubs are the World Series Champions, 108 years after their last Series win.

But, more importantly, the Wrigley Field team’s center fielder and leadoff hitter Dexter Fowler became the first Black player to play for the Cubs in a World Series.

In the 1945 World Series game, Black people weren’t allowed to play. That was two years before the legendary Jackie Robinson shook up the game as the first Black player in the major leagues.

In an extra-inning thriller, the Cubs beat the Cleveland Indians to take home the title Wednesday night.

And if Fowler’s history-making strides weren’t already enough, he solidified his legacy by hitting a homer in his first at-bat in the Game 7 matchup.

“It’s a random fact I stumbled across on Twitter,” Fowler wrote on his Instagram page last week.

He’s speaking about being the first Black man at bat for the Cubs in the Series.

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Box, Popeye’s, Chinese carryout, or 7–11?

The US Department of Agriculture breaks down food deserts through a visual map, showing the scope of inadequate food access throughout the mid-Atlantic and Southeastern United States; home to many of the nation’s HBCUs. And some schools, like Paul Quinn College, have become hubs of activism against food deserts.

As students, it can be funny to watch classmates and roommates live off of Ramen noodles, grilled cheese sandwiches and the dollar menu. But for institutions, could there be a stronger connection between hunger and the college affordability crisis for many black students?

Food access may not be an institutional crisis like enrollment or campus crime, but it is an emerging area demanding institutional response, as an effort to address elements which may impact student performance and retention.

The Cubs last won the title 108 years ago. Fowler’s other teammates, right field Jason Heyward and infielder Addison Russell, added to the team’s history for minorities playing for the Cubs in the World Series.

Famed Hall of Famer, Ernie Banks, was the Cubs’ first Black player in 1953. However, he never had the opportunity to play in the postseason. He died of a heart attack in 2015.

The Cubs came back from a 3-1 deficit to beat the Indians in the best 4-out-of-7 final. Even during the Game 7, the Cubs allowed the Indians to tie after leading for majority of the game. It took a rain delay for the Cubs to strike back in the 10th inning, winning the game by two runs.

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Health Clinic Helps School Turn Around

an advanced practice registered nurse, she can in addition, for example, prescribe antibiotics when necessary and have them delivered to the school.

That seamless service makes the life of parents of ailing kids, especially stressed out working parents, a lot easier, and a less stressful parent makes for a more healthy home life.

Hill Central’s nurses said that often when a parent comes to pick up children, they are resting in one of the comfortable cots in the clinic, needed antibiotics in hand, and all the information has been relayed already to the child’s primary physician at the health center.

“We can see them more frequently than their doctors and provide more frequent followup,” MacMaster said.

The arrangement provides a kind of continuity of care that also results in building relation-

ships with families, she added.

When children have emotional or psychological problems, that falls to the clinic’s social worker, Phillipa Blake. She helps kids referred to her to manage social skills, getting along with peers, and reducing disruptive behaviors. There are also kids whose ADHD medicines she helps manage, and she conducts therapeutic sessions with kids singly, in groups, and helps parents get over a sense of stigma if she has to identify a child as having some mental health problems to be dealt with.

Occasionally there are more serious issues, such as depression and other behaviors that emerge when, most frequently, kids are experiencing the divorce of their parents or the death of a relative, like a grandparent, she added.

Very very occasionally—perhaps once a year, Antinozzi

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estimated—a child really loses it, kicks, screams, and throws things even while being dealt with in the SBHC offices; in such instances the clinic staff calls in 911.

“It’s about the total child,” said Blake. “If they’re off, it’s going to show in their work.

Blake has prepared a form that all the school’s teachers have, and it is that form, filled out by the teacher, that results in a referral to Blake in the clinic. Usually the teachers are in touch with the child’s parents first.

Although MacMaster speaks some Spanish, if translation services are required, they are provided by the clinic’s third employee, office manager Leshla Nieves. Also a Cornell Scott-Hill Health staffer, she’s the one who told me how to say strep throat in Spanish.

The two other most frequent phrases she translates from the

staff to kids and especially from and to their parents: “sana” for scabies; and “piojos” for lice.

Just as I was writing this down, another little patient entered, and I heard Antinozzi say, “Good morning, my handsome friend.

Not feeling so good?”

With recent state cuts, the main grant funding the majority of the system’s SBHCs have been cut by 30 percent over the past two years, Peters added. She said all the partner agencies are determined to continue, billing where services can be billed to insurance companies but providing what’s needed regardless of reimbursement.

On the plus side, a recent oral health grant of $30,000 from the state is permitting the hiring of an additional hygienist to provide dental services to two more schools.

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