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"La vida de la gente negra nos importa":Protestas violentas por muerto a manos de la policía

Miles de manifestantes se enfrentaron a la policía continuando así las protestas en la ciudad estadounidense de Minneapolis por la muerte de un hombre negro mientras un oficial lo retenía en el suelo Por Yuri Cunza con su rodilla en el Newspaper cuello causando así La Noticia Editor in Chief su muerte.

Las protestas y actos violentos se extendieron luego por todo el país, incluso llegando a motivar marchas solidarias internacionalmente.

La muerte de George Floyd, de 46 años, provocó la ira no sólo de la población de Minnesota, sino de cientos de miles de personas através de la nación, llegando a motivar una marcha también en Nashville con el nombre de “Respiraré” (I Will Breathe), el pasado sábado 30 de mayo, que lamentablemente y sin responsabilidad de los organizadores culminó con actos de vandalismo, incendios y destrucción de propiedad privada y pública ya entrada la noche.

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La policía disparó gases lacrimógenos y formó una barricada para evitar que los manifestantes se acercaran demasiado a la comisaría del centro de la ciudad donde ocurrieron estos actos violentos. Algunos de los manifestantes destruyer una patrulla policial y pintarla con mensajes de protesta contra la violencia y abuso de personas negras a manos de la policia.

En medio de los incendios y actos violentos ocurridos en la noche, aproximadamente 30 negocios sufrieron daños cerca de la zona donde se dieron lugar las manifestaciones. La policía anunció en los dias subsiguientes el arresto de varios sospechosos.

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6/4/2020 Black Lives Matter March in Nashville: Diverse people came together to protest racism and police brutality. Photo: John Partipilo. pacíficamente para exigir "justicia” por mente que la muerte de Floyd se debia a Rose Smith lideraron la protesta y marcha la muerte de George Floyd. condiciones de salud pre-existentes. junto a otras seis jóvenes embarcadas en Estos nuevos resultados llevaron a que crear un cambio con su organización llalos cargos en contra de los cuatro policias mada Teens 4 Equality, y que se encueninvolucrados en este penoso y trágico tran trabajando actualmente con Black acontecimiento escalaran en severidad. Lives Matter Nashville para lograrlo.

"No podemos tener dos sistemas legales, uno para los negros y otro para los blan- Después de ver lo que le pasó a George Floyd murió después de estar al menos cos", dijo Benjamin Crump, abogado Floyd en Minneapolis, supieron que tenían que actuar. "Eso es lo que real10 minutos boca abajo contra el suelo, representando a la familia de Floyd. mientras un policía lo inmovilizaba Mientras tanto en Nashville, la ge- mente abrió los ojos de la gente sobre lo apretandolo fuertemente con su rodilla neración más joven está tomando medi- que está sucediendo en nuestro país", en el cuello y con otros oficiales que se das contra la brutalidad policial, el dijo Jade Fuller. Ambas adolescentes unieron a mantenerlo en el suelo. "No racismo sistémico y la injusticia a través dijeron que el mensaje de la manipuedo respirar", suplicó el hombre muchas de un grupo de adolescentes que orga- festación del sábado en la Plaza veces como se pudo ver en un video filma- nizó la más reciente protesta del jueves Legislativa resonó con ellas. "Queríamos crear algo que fuera aún más inspirador, do por un testigo presente. en el Parque Estatal Bicentennial Mall especialmente para los adolescentes Una autopsia independiente llevada a consiguiendo que miles de seguidores porque les muestra que sí puedes, que cabo, a pedido de la familia de Floyd, marcharan hasta el Capitolio del Estado eres capaz de lograr cualquier cosa”. indicó que la causa de muerte, fue asfi- de Tennessee.

Envíenos sus sugerencias por e-mail: xia discrepando con la versión de la news@hispanicpaper.com autopsia oficial que indicaba original- Con tan sólo 15 años, Jade Fuller y Emma

Una marcha iniciada por un grupo de adolecentes consiguió mobilizar a más de 10,000 personas como se puede apreciar en videos y fotos captadas el jueves 4 de junio.

Kathryn Bigelow’s Detroit is La Noticia, one of the the movie you should be leading Spanish-language streaming right now. Joe newspapers in the nation, Conoce tus derechos: hacer en Nolan, film critic is¿Que here tocaso de una redada? brings Spanish content to explain why.

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A pocos dias, y en otros puntos de nuestra ciudad, manifestantes se reunieron

1. Mantenerse callado 2. Sólo dar nombre y apellido 3. No mentir 4. Nunca acepte/lleve documentos falsos 5. No revelar su situación migratoria 6. No llevar documentación de otro país 7. En caso de ser arrestado, mostrarla Tarjeta Miranda (llámenos si necesita una)

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NEWS BRIEFS

NEWS BRIEFS ‘The Contributor’ partners with Big Machine Distillery Big Machine Distillery and The Contributor are partnering to give paper vendors hand sanitizer to distribute alongside the newspaper.

“It will be a long while until vendors’ incomes move back up as streets will still be emptier and people have less cash,” says Cathy Jennings, director of The Contributor. “We are grateful that Big Machine is partnering with us and believe the city will benefit from having sanitizer easily available! We hope this effort gives our vendors another tool in which to earn income.”

Big Machine Distillery has committed to jumpstarting the effort by giving 1,000 individual-sized bottles of hand sanitizer to The Contributor.

“We continue to feel blessed during these challenging times to be able to support Nashvillians in need,” says Big Machine Distillery EVP, Mark Borchetta. “The Contributor has proven to be a light for so many in our community, and we are happy to be partnering with them to further their efforts.”

Big Machine Distillery started making hand sanitizer in March in response to the global COVID-19 pandemic. The sanitizer is 80 percent alcohol and made in accordance with FDA and WHO guidelines.

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er will be co-branded with The Contributor and provided to the newspaper vendors free of charge.

“Our vendors are concerned with keeping safe and making sure their customers are safe also,” says Jennings. “They are committed to doing everything they can to prevent the spread of the virus.”

Judge says all Tennesseans can vote by absentee ballot A Tennessee judge ruled to allow Tennesseans to apply to vote by absentee ballot because of COVID-19.

Tennessee election officials had earlier said fears of the virus would not be a valid reason to vote by mail.

Chancellor Ellen Hobbs Lyle cited that the state of Tennessee cannot compel voters to wear masks when they visit their polling locations in the upcoming August primary and November election.

“The Court concludes that the State‘s restrictive interpretation and application of Tennessee‘s voting by mail law … during the unique circumstances of the pandemic, constitutes an unreasonable burden on the fundamental right to vote guaranteed by the Tennessee Constitution,” Hobbs Lyle wrote.

The order says the state must allow any voter to cast a ballot by mail if the pearson finds it

“impossible or unreasonable” to vote in person.

Tennesseans can now buy food online with SNAP benefits Tennesseans who utilize the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program to feed their families can now purchase groceries online at Amazon and at Walmart.

The United States Department of Agriculture has approved Tennessee for a pilot program that allows SNAP benefits to be used to buy food online with Amazon and Walmart. More than 900 thousand individuals in Tennessee receive SNAP benefits.

SNAP recipients will be able to use their benefits to buy food on Amazon beginning June 1, 2020. Walmart will begin allowing SNAP benefits online on June 2. The USDA has additionally announced plans to expand online purchasing to more retailers in the future.

Families can access this new resource by entering their Electronic Benefit Card information on Amazon’s SNAP dedicated website or by following the guidelines Walmart has established for SNAP online purchasing.

“This change provides families who depend on SNAP for daily nutrition the ability to buy food without ever stepping foot in a supermarket.” said TDHS Commissioner Danielle W. Barnes.

“Online purchasing supports our mission to build a thriving Tennessee by helping flatten the

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curve during COVID-19 and making life easier for families once the emergency has passed.”

Tennessee is now one of 36 states where online purchasing is allowed in addition to the District of Columbia. SNAP benefits cannot be used for delivery fees and SNAP recipients who receive cash benefits on their EBT cards will not be able to apply those non-SNAP benefits to online purchases.

Secretary Hargett launches statewide recruitment effort for poll officials Secretary of State Tre Hargett announces a new statewide campaign to recruit poll officials for the August 6 State and Federal Primary and County General Election. Tennesseans can apply now to join the campaign, Be a Patriot. Become a Poll Official.

“Poll officials are the backbone of successful elections across Tennessee,” said Secretary Hargett. “By raising your hand to become a poll official, you will have a front-row seat to democracy during early voting and on Election Day.” Poll officials perform various tasks to help polling sites run smoothly, including greeting voters, answering questions, processing voters, explaining how to cast a ballot and counting votes. Any voter is eligible to apply, regardless of political affiliation.

For more information and to sign up to become a poll official, visit GoVoteTN.com.

The New Christian Year Selected by Charles Williams

Charles Walter Stansby Williams (1886–1945), the editor of the following selections, is today probably the third most famous of the famous Inklings literary group of Oxford, England, which existed in the middle of the 20th century, and which included among its ranks the better-known and longer-lived Oxford Dons J.R.R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis. First published in 1941, this series of profound quotations, encompassing all walks of life, follows the sequence of the themes and Bible readings anciently appointed for contemplation throughout the church's year. It is hoped that the readings reproduced here will prove beneficial for any who read them, whatever their place in life's journey. — Matthew Carver

The Feast of St Barnabas ALL the Church is Christ's Bride, of which the beginning and first-fruits is the Flesh of Christ, because there was the Bridegroom joined to the Bride in the Flesh.

St Augustine: On I John.

I SAW full surely in this and in all, that ere God made us he loved us; which love was never slacked, nor ever shall be.

And in this love he hath done all his works; and in this love he hath made all things profitable to us; and in this love our life is everlasting. In our making we had beginning; but the love wherein he made us was in him from without beginning: in which love we have our beginning. And all this shall we see in God, without end. Which may Jesus grant us. Amen.

Juliana of Norwich: Revelations of Divine Love.

1st Wednesday after Trinity THERE is no one first principle of evil as there is one first principle of good.

Aquinas: Summa Theologica.

CREATION in the creature is only a certain relation to its Creator as to the principle of its being.

Aquinas: Summa Theologica.

1st Thursday after Trinity WE should communicate, not for our souls' benefit, but also to satisfy Our Lord's exceeding longing for us.

Charles De Condren, quoted by Patmore: The Rod, The Root, and the Flower.

IF you are the body of Christ and his members it is the mystery of yourselves that is laid upon the altar. It is the mystery of yourselves that you receive. It is to what you are that you say Amen.

St Augustine: Sermons.

1st Friday after Trinity IT is not according to times or places that we say that the whole Christ is everywhere, as if He were at one time whole in one place, at another time whole in another: but as being whole always and everywhere.

St Augustine: On the Creed.

ADORED be thou, Lord, through our sister, the Death of our body.

St Francis of Assisi: Canticle of the Sun.

1st Saturday after Trinity BUT when does flesh receive the bread which he calls His flesh? The faithful know and receive the Body of Christ, if they labour to be the body of Christ. And they become the body of Christ, if they study to live by the Spirit of Christ: for that which lives by the Spirit of Christ, is the body of Christ. This bread the Apostle sets forth, where he says, We being many are one body. O sacrament of mercy, O sign of unity, O bond of love! Whoso wishes to live, let him draw nigh, believe, be incorporated, that he may be quickened.

St Augustine: quoted in Aquinas: Catena Aurea.

IN nature the body makes the place, but in grace the place makes the body.

Donne: Sermons.

First Sunday after Trinity IT is owned on all hands that we are baptised into a renovation of some divine birth that we had lost. And that we many not be at a loss to know what that divine birth is, the form in baptism openly declares to us that it is to regain that first birth of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost in our souls, which at the first made us to be truly and really images of the nature of the Holy Trinity in unity. The form in baptism is but very imperfectly apprehended, till it is understood to

have this great meaning in it. And it must be owned that the Scriptures tend wholly to guide us to this understanding of it. For since they teach us a birth of God, a birth of the Spirit, that we must obtain, and that baptism, the appointed sacrament of this new birth, is to be done into the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, can there be any doubt that this sacrament is to signify the renovation of the birth of the Holy Trinity in our souls?

William Law: Christian Regeneration.

2nd Monday after Trinity

as its author. Man ought to love the thing which is dear to God; the good which the Divine Majesty loves, it commends.

St Cyprian: On Patience.

PATIENCE, hard thing! the hard thing but to pray, But bid for, Patience is! Patience who asks Wants war, wants wounds; weary his times, his tasks, To do without, take losses, and obey.

Rare patience roots in these, and, these away, Nowhere.

Gerard Hopkins: Poems.

WHAT is 'spirit'? (for Christ is spirit, his religion that of the spirit). Spirit is: to live as though dead (dead to the world).

This way of life is so entirely foreign to man that to him it is quite literally worse than death.

Very carefully introduced for an hour or so in the distance of the imagination, natural man can bear it, it even pleases him. But if it is brought nearer him, so near that it becomes, in all seriousness, something required of him: the natural instinct of self-protection rises up so powerfully in him that a regular uproar follows, as with drink . . . And in that condition, in which he is beside himself, he demands the death of the man of spirit, or rushes upon him to put him to death.

Kierkegaard: Journals.

IF a man be in poverty and suffer need without through lack of worldly goods and therewith he desire with deliberation in his heart within more than he need, that man liveth not in virtuous poverty but in wretched need without reward. For the lust and the will within with full assent thereto sufficeth to the fulfilling of sin and to the love of reward. Wherefore he that would be perfectly poor, he must look that he neither have nor desire more than is needful to his living.

The Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ, tr. by Nicholas Love.

2nd Tuesday after Trinity

Second Sunday after Trinity

UNLESS a man saith in his heart, "Only God and myself exist in this world," he will not find rest.

The Paradise of the Fathers.

OUR relation to others, even when we name it a relationship of love, is governed by the law that we should render evil for evil. We do not perceive in the other the One—that is, the good which he is not. Rather, we hold him liable for being what he is . . . This making men liable for what they are is to render to them evil for evil . . . It is this failure of apprehension which makes of our whole behaviour and inherent mass of evil. Along this line of evil we all, without exception, move.

Barth: Epistle to the Romans.

KEEP thy conscience with thy brother and thou shalt find rest.

The Paradise of the Fathers.

2nd Wednesday after Trinity YOU do not know who you are, nor do you know whom you love, and above all you have no idea what Our Lord is going to ask of you.

Léon Bloy: Letters to his Fiancée.

ONE of the old men came to another old man who was his companion, and as they were talking together one of them said, "I have died to the world"; and his companion said, "Have no confidence in thyself that this is so until thou goest forth from the world, for although you sayest, 'I have died', Satan is not dead."

The Paradise of the Fathers.

2nd Thursday after Trinity THE terror of guilt, or sin, is certainly not at its strongest at first. On the contrary, it is not until some time has passed and there has been some progress in goodness—then, when such a man reads or happens by chance to hear that another man, who was guilty of the same thing, was lost; then terror awakes. At the time of sinning sin has the power of selfpreservation in a man, and gives him a certain strength, physical strength, the strength of despair, not to remain with the thought of guilt.

Kierkegaard: Journals.

THE free will of man is a true and real birth from the free, eternal, uncreated will of God, which willed to have a creaturely offspring of itself or to see itself in a creaturely state.

And therefore the will of man hath the nature of eternity and the nature of omnipotence in it, because it is what it is and hath what it hath as a spark, a ray, a genuine birth of the eternal, free, omnipotent will of God. And therefore, as the will of God is superior to and ruleth over all nature, so the will of man, derived from the will of God, is superior to and ruleth over all his own nature.

William Law: Divine Knowledge.

2nd Friday after Trinity WE have this virtue (patience) in common with God. From him patience begins; from him its glory and dignity take their rise. The origin and greatness of patience proceed from God

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3rd Monday after Trinity WHAT proportion of relief is due to him, that is thy brother in nature, thy brother in nation, thy brother in religion, if meat and drink, and in that, whatsoever is necessary to his sustenation, be due to thine enemy?

Donne: Sermons.

CERTAINLY it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.

Bacon: Essays of Truth.

The Feast of The Nativity of St John Baptist THE precursor (John the Baptist) confirms Christ as being he who is expected. But . . . that is not a respectful relationship, for in order to confirm something one must oneself be the stronger. It is therefore John the Baptist who sends disciples to Christ in order to ask him whether he is the one who was to come—so that it is Christ who after having answered the disciples ends by confirming John the Baptist, saying he is quite truly the precursor; it is not Christ who confirms himself by the authority of the precursor . . . no, it is he who draws the precursor within the sphere of his authority and by virtue of his authority confirms him as being the genuine precursor. The word of the precursor, that Christ is the expected, is only to be believed after Christ has confirmed the fact that the precursor really is the precursor.

Kierkegaard: Journals.

3rd Tuesday after Trinity THERE is nothing which the Lord hates; for He does not hate anything, and yet wish what He hates to exist; nor does He wish anything not to exist, and yet cause the existence of that which He wishes not to exist; nor does that exist which He wishes not to exist. If the Word hates anything, He wishes it not to exist; but nothing exists of which God does not cause the existence; nothing, therefore is hated by God, or by the Word, for both are one, viz. God. St Clement: The Paedagogue.

NEWS

HOMELESS SERVICE PROVIDERS ASK METRO TO BE IN ON COVID-19 RESPONSE

BY HANNAH HERNER The Continuum of Care Homeless Planning Council has asked Metro why they weren’t consulted in the city’s plans to address COVID-19 within the community they serve.

The 25 member council, which serves as the governance board for a collective of organizations in Nashville that serve people experiencing homelessness, sent a letter and a list of seven recommendations to the Mayor’s Office on May 27. A special task group was created during a Homeless Planning Council meeting on May 13 to put together this communication. At Metro’s urging to only meet for “essential business,” the council had not met since the stayat-home order began in Nashville in March.

The first recommendation in the letter, which was obtained

by The Contributor, is to include a member of the Homeless Planning Council, a member of Metro Social Services Homeless Impact Division and a person who has been homeless to be in on all discussions around the Fairgrounds emergency shelter and Metro’s response to COVID-19 related to people experiencing homelessness.

At the beginning of May, there was an outbreak of the virus at the Fairgrounds shelter and others in the city.

“We heard about the creation of a shelter at the Nashville Fairgrounds to address social distancing issues at the Nashville Rescue Mission, and then about the

unfortunate, but not surprising, reports that people sheltering at both places had tested positive for COVID-19,” the letter, signed by Homeless Planning Council chair Paula Foster, reads. “As these events unfolded, advocates who work tirelessly with people experiencing homelessness in Nashville were voicing concerns about our city’s approach to COVID-19 prevention and care among this vulnerable population. In hindsight, their warnings should have prompted the HPC to ask questions and offer our expertise to the Mayor’s Office, the Office of Emergency Management, and others involved in formulating Metro’s COVID-19 shelter and quarantine response.”

The Continuum of Care and its Homeless Planning Council were created in compliance with the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development, while the Homeless Impact Division serves within the Nashville Department of Social Services.

Four recommendations fall under “housing and services,” recommending a non-congregate shelter like hotel or dorm rooms for people who do not have a place to live during the COVID-19 outbreak. This section also recommends use of FEMA and CARES Act dollars as well as leveraging outreach workers to get resources to people experiencing homelessness.

The last two recommendations seek to prevent criminal arrest and engage communities

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of color in addressing racial disparities in COVID-19 deaths.

On May 7, a man staying at the Fairgrounds Nashville emergency shelter was arrested after fleeing quarantine.

“This arrest led to mistrust among our homeless neighbors and set back willingness to participate in testing,” the letter reads.

The council looks for a response from the Mayor’s Office

by June 1.

“We urge the city to work with us so that we can do even better moving forward,” the letter reads.

On June 2, the Mayor’s office gave the following statement: “We welcome and appreciate the feedback from the Homeless Planning Council. The Mayor’s Office has been in conversations with the Homeless Planning Council and has provided them with information addressing the items raised in their recent letter. Additionally, Renee Pratt, Director of Metro Social Services, which oversees staffing of the Fairgrounds shelter, has been in communication with the chair of the Council regarding the processes in effect with the Office of Emergency Management.

Everyone in Nashville deserves to be safe, particularly during this time of historic challenge. That includes our unhoused neighbors here in Davidson County. We’ll continue to work with the Council and our community partners towards this goal.”

LOCAL ACTIVISM

PHOTO BY MATT MASTERS

BLACK In the last week, cities across the nation have seen huge protests against racism and police brutality. In Nashville, thousands have marched downtown chanting, holding moments of silence, and demanding justice for Black lives. PHOTO BY MATT MASTERS

LIVES

MATTER

Thousands call for racial justice and an end to police brutality.

A group of six local teens, Teens for Equality, organized a massive march through downtown Nashville on Thursday, June 4. During the march, protesters walked behind a huge, Black Lives Matter banner and read the names of people who have been killed by police including George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. PHOTOS BY ALVINE

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COVER STORY

Four men sit inside an East Nashville building that was damaged during the March 3 tornado. PHOTO BY SUSAN ADCOCK

Chaos and Rain: Notes From a Homeless Pandemic

By Susan Adcock

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aul worked nights at the airport for nearly a year. He loved his job, despite the fact that he also slept there, sitting up in a chair as a lot of travelers do. It was safe and warm and temporary. The way Paul tells it, when word of the coronavirus began to spread, the company he worked for lost their contract and laid off employees. The new company didn’t hire him because he didn’t pass their security test.

He moved to a motel and when his money ran out, to a doorway downtown. Two months later his phone would be turned off.

When we first learned of the novel coronavirus and COVID-19 in early March, there was a learning curve for everyone, with and without housing.

Those without housing were often at the mercy of people with internet access. Those who were internet savvy were quickly cut off unless, of course,

they had a smartphone. As people became more aware of the danger, more businesses shut down and Nashville cleared out in a way that was visually stunning. The only people left outdoors to speak of were construction workers and those without homes.

In time, a new group appeared on the horizon: the newly unemployed. *** James regularly made enough money to live in a motel. He was working for Bridgestone as a dishwasher when the pandemic began. When he talks about his job, you can feel the passion he has for getting back to it. He was laid off in early March, moved back to the street, had no access to unemployment and didn’t know where to begin.

When asked why he doesn’t consider moving on he says: “They appreciate me there because I’m a great dishwasher. I work hard. I jump in.”

He knows that Bridgestone will be one of the last places to open, but remains hopeful that he’ll get his old job back. He recently learned that his stimulus check was mailed to an old address. He doesn’t know who lives there now or how to get it back.

The week everything closed, many people living on the street near food and a bathroom were forced to move on. It wasn’t exactly a new experience; they are regularly pushed out, but this time it was citywide.

Restaurants and libraries, government offices and landlords closed their doors. Social workers and mental health professionals (not working at hospitals) went home to adjust to the “new normal” and people without homes stood on the empty streets of Nashville with

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COVER STORY

Billy, Inez and Rodney. PHOTOS BY SUSAN ADCOCK

what felt like an invisible monster. Food stamps and medication were traded; people were robbed. There were lots of new faces as people looked for resources. It was a deeply exaggerated version of business as usual. *** Rodney sent me a message one day, asking for propane and water. When I arrived there was a panic in his eyes I hadn’t seen before.

“My Suboxone appointment was canceled, the office is closed,” he said shouting through the downpour of rain.

“Don’t they know what’ll happen to me when I run out?”

His appointment was later rescheduled, but Rodney couldn’t keep his phone charged and didn’t get the message for a couple of weeks. In the ensuing days he bought Suboxone on the street. When the supply ran out he got, in his words: “right back on that dope.”

“Stupid,” he said, referring to his habit. “I was doing good too.”

All but the scrappiest nonprofits and food banks closed their doors. People got hungry and called all the numbers in their phone, to see if there was someone who could help. Almost always they got a recording that began, “Due to the novel coronavirus and COVID-19, our agency is practicing an abundance of caution....” *** Early on in the stay-at-home order, Inez went to her first radiation treatment as a follow-up to breast cancer surgery. Due to the “abundance of caution” there, she did five weeks of daily radiation treatments completely on her own, while also sleeping on a concrete slab outdoors. Her nurses became her support system. She said no one had ever been as nice to her as

they were. In a way, it was a gift because she also got to wash up in their office restroom every afternoon.

One day she came back to the park from the hospital and Metro Park Police had ordered all of her belongings be hauled away in a trash truck. She lost her blankets, a sleeping bag and a new gym bag, which held her clothes, a new pair of hiking boots, some gifts she’d gotten after surgery (including a new set of colored pencils) and her follow-up medications.

That same week Room In The Inn closed its winter shelter for public safety reasons, and those who’d been attending all winter long suddenly needed a sleeping bag. Hell, everyone needed a sleeping bag.

It was mid-March and the rain hadn’t let up. Wet sleeping bags were disposed of and dry ones were stolen. Ponchos were gold.

Behind the scenes, city leaders and state officials scrambled to be in charge. Zoom meetings commenced. The buses kept running but the only human on there with a six-foot clearance was (and still is) the bus driver. *** On Thursday, March 12, Billy had a court date for a verbal assault he committed last July. On the way to court, he had a seizure in his outreach worker’s car and ended up at the emergency room instead. His court date was postponed indefinitely, as was his appointment to be removed from the ‘No Trespassing List’ at Metropolitan Development and Housing Agency. Homeless for 35 years, his appeal and thereby his housing, would be stalled for the third time in two years as Nashville began making plans to work from home.

It could be said that people without housing have already experienced an evolution of loss. In the big picture they’ve managed to get through this; because

they’re used to it — being isolated and doing without. They chuckled when the toilet paper ran out.

People with housing are generally used to doing as they please.

This last 11 weeks have given them a taste of that loss and how it might feel to go without, permanently.

Many of them rose to the challenge. They were spotted doing some wonderful, humanitarian things. They put turkey sandwiches in sack lunches and delivered them in person regularly. They picked up litter in the park and offered an old man a tent out the back of their truck so he could get out of the rain. They handed outreach workers cash money on the street to support the effort to feed people.

As for the un-housed people in this story, their struggle continues, but occasionally a little light gets in.

Rodney’s doctor finally got through and refilled his prescription. He’s back on track but has yet to master the Zoom appointment.

Billy continues to be hopeful about getting an apartment. A friend gifted him a new black hat he’s very proud of and he’s been eleven straight days without going to the hospital.

James found someone to help him track down his stimulus check and file for unemployment.

Paul got his phone turned back on and in a miraculous twist of fate he got his job back at the airport.

And a tiny group of subversive Jesus types executed a plan to raid a city dumpster and successfully rescue Inez’s bag, with all of her things in it — colored pencils and all.

Susan Adcock is an outreach worker for Open Table Nashville, a nonprofit, interfaith community that disrupts cycles of poverty, journeys with the marginalized and provides education about issues of homelessness.

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COVER STORY

Felicia R. PHOTO BY HANNAH HERNER

Vendor Quarantine Stories

By Hannah Herner

PAUL A. Paul A. normally sells papers at the corner of 5th Avenue and Church Street downtown Nashville. He’s strategically placed within a block of the Contributor office so that he can come in and visit with the volunteers and enjoy some temperature-controlled air. Pre-COVID, he was in the vendor office almost every day.

He has COPD, a disease that compromises his lungs. Last year at this time, he was camping under the Jefferson Street bridge. Paul has been self-isolating in his apartment since mid-March and hasn’t left except for trips to the doctor.

When the UPS driver told me the Batman building was shut down for heavy duty cleaning, and he told me it was probably COVID, I started staying in. Some of my customers work in that building. I was noticing that downtown was starting to dry out. I noticed less people.

It’s been miserable. It drives me nuts to be stuck in here. I’ve been watching T.V., that’s about it. I’ve been watching the mayor’s press conference every day. I’ve been watching a lot of movies, but that’s about it. You can’t go nowhere, can’t do nothin’.

It’s been important to stay up on the news so I know what we’re looking at. What scares me now is these kids are starting to

come down with respiratory disease after the COVID. That scares me a little bit. It really makes me wonder what’s really going on.

I miss my customers. I miss talking to some of these people and getting different perspectives.

I want to be back out there with my customers, but at this point I’m not taking any chances. But I will be back soon. I think if I had better protective gear than that I’ve got, I could get back out there. With my COPD it makes it hard for me to wear a mask, but if we could get the masks with the respirators on them, I think it would work better. It’s just harder to breathe when I have something over my face.

As far as getting tested, it burns a little bit when they do it. But it’s good to be tested. I got that first test, and went back this week to get another test. I go to the clinic over here.

It was free. It takes two or three days to get the results. People are not wearing masks like they should be. They need to make that mandatory.

I probably would have gotten sick and died if I was still out there camping.

ANTHONY G. Anthony G. has been consistently selling papers in the evenings outside of Osborne’s

Bi-Rite on Belmont Blvd. He says his sales have actually been up a bit. Even since the pandemic hit and non-essential businesses had to shut down, the grocery store stayed busy. He wears a cloth mask that he pulls up when a customer approaches.

I put my mask on, and I just make friends with the people. You aren’t selling just the paper, you’re selling yourself. I compliment them on their clothes — anything to start a conversation.

I’ve been a consistently high seller.

It’s a grocery store, so it stayed open. I buy 50 papers at a time. What does that tell you? It’s more than normal.

This is my honey hole right now, because all my other honey holes are closed down. All the bars are closed. I sell at Old Glory. I sit right there in the breezeway right by the gate and the girls tell the men to give me money, and the men do it because they’re trying to impress the girls. It works out for me. He gets laid, I get paid.

I’m in a hotel right now. I got off the phone with my caseworker today and went over to the [Veterans Affairs office] to fill out an application for a new apartment. I’m saving up my Venmo money and that’ll be my utility money.

I thank The Contributor because it keeps

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money in my pocket, but I be on my hustle.

You gotta admit I be on my hustle. If you’re buying 100 papers a week, you ain’t buying them for nothing. I can’t wait for this pandemic to be over with and the world can be back to what it used to be.

TYRONE M. Tyrone has been selling at the intersection of Gallatin Pike and Douglas Avenue consistently throughout the COVID-19 changes, though he’s cut back a bit on his hours and number of papers bought.

I wear a mask when I go outside, period, always. We were getting less traffic at first until they started opening up phase two of the city’s reopening plan. Most of the churches were online, but then they said it was all right to go back, and the churches started moving. Sunday is a good day for me because everybody is coming out of the church. I go to church on Saturday, which is the Sabbath day.

I know people don’t believe in it, but I always have to tell people to find out for themselves.

I’m not nervous about anything about the pandemic because first of all, I’m a kingdom child. God doesn’t give no spirit of fear, so there’s nothing for me to worry about. Now I wear my mask. I don’t worry about stuff. If

COVER STORY

Contributor vendors show off their masks while they sell the newspaper. CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: Johnny G., Shawn L., Josh H., and Maurice B. PHOTOS BY HANNAH HERNER

you’re fearing things, that spirit comes from the devil. So I stand on that and it’s real. I know sooner or later they’re going to find a vaccine. There’ve been 100,000 people that died and I’m still here and you’re still here, so we’re doing something right, you know?

It’s your faith in God, that’s what sustains us. And you might say, ‘a whole lot of people died, I wonder why they died?’ I don’t know.

God works in mysterious ways.

SHAWN L. Shawn L. has been selling throughout the pandemic, and now he will be selling Contributor masks along with his papers at the roundabout 16th Avenue and Division.

I’m hoping that about the masks, everybody thinks safety, and that it’s good to have them. You’re trying to protect others as well as yourself. They’re not itchy, they’re comfortable, and you can breathe a little bit better in these.

Plus it’s The Contributor! And they’re beautiful, so please come support.

NORMA B. Norma B. has gotten a number of latch hook rugs (one of her favorite hobbies) done while she’s been staying at home. She went back out

to sell again at Old Hickory Boulevard and Central Pike in Hermitage for the first time on June 2.

Yesterday was the very first time I’ve been out in 10 weeks, since March. The day before yesterday, I went down to get the new paper, and I usually get like 100-150 at a time. Everyone that’s down there has done my orders, and they’re like monster orders. Instead I got a whopping 75.

I can’t put any weight on my right foot, and I got up two or three times and I fell. I was pretty close to the road, so I can’t afford to fall.

I got up in my chair and people had to come to me. I was out there for seven hours. I looked like a lobster because I forgot sunscreen! I had 31 people stop in all, and I sold 24 papers, and six of those were bundles with all the papers that I wrote in. I had my little mask on.

When I do well, I don’t blow money. My rent was paid and my lights were paid and my phone bills were paid — important stuff. Some things I got three months deferment on. I’ve done pretty well. I always put money aside, so if something comes up I can hopefully cover it.

Ideally, I would rather have seen the number of cases go down for a consistent period of 14 days before I went out. That’s what I would have liked to have done.

I worry about my sanity if I don’t get back

out. I went into a dark place. I just didn’t function. I’d do good to get out of bed and do simple things. I’ve wondered, up until now, if I did go out, how they would perceive that. I could go out because it was essential, but how many people would you alienate? A lot of my people are older. I keep coming up with a scripture in Corinthians that says all things are lawful, but not all things are beneficial. It might be OK legally for me to do it, but it might backfire in the end.

Now, those little plastic sleeves that I put my papers in when it rains — every paper I have goes in one of those. And people seem more receptive to taking it now. I pay 10 cents extra for those, but it’s worth it, because out of the 31 people who stopped yesterday, 24 took a paper.

I’m known for my smile. Well you can’t see that through that mask. And it’s really hard to sing. I’m known for smiling and singing.

All the things that I’m known for, you can’t really see. But you have to protect the people.

I miss my people. My people are hands on. I’ve had people run from the other lane of traffic to come over and give me a hug. Very rarely did I go out and not get at least one or two hugs, and handshakes and fist bumps — maybe a dozen a day. Those days are over.

I don’t know that it’ll ever get back to that. I don’t think it will.

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Being out there is the only place I feel like I belong. And it was proved yesterday. 31 people parked their cars. That’s a lot.

I’ll be better once I see everybody and know that they’re OK. RANDY M. Randy typically sells papers at 12th and Broadway and has kept selling throughout COVID-19 changes while he’s chosen to camp alone.

I don’t want to be around anyone who might be sick. I worry I might come down with it. My fears are about when will it end and how to keep surviving during this time.

Not getting sick and being able to eat, live.

Selling the papers has gotten slower. I had one customer ask me if my papers were clean. They are scared they might catch the virus from the papers. But on the other hand, I have had some ask me how I was doing and if I’m staying safe.

I feel safer alone. I don’t want to catch it.

I am hoping they don’t come and try to make me leave and go to the Fairgrounds.

What keeps me sane is selling the papers and hoping sales pick up. I look forward to when this is all over and everything opens back up and I sell more.

MOVING PICTURES

A Film About Film

in the middle of a live performance at the Fox Theatre when the show ground to a halt so the audience could exit safely return to their homes ahead of the looming chaos.

Detroit is epic and intimate, sweeping and precise. It’s a historic tapestry constructed from the individual dramas that made-up the everyday lives of people sometimes literally caught in a crossfire. Bigelow’s handheld camerawork peers and rushes and jumps and dances all through Detroit as her narrative shifts between story lines and real life characters realized on screen with intense performances: Larry Reed (Algee Smith), the lead singer of The Dramatics, and his bodyguard, Fred Temple (Jacob Latrimore) check-in to the motel after their Fox Theatre gig gets canceled and their bus is attacked by rioters. Julie Ann Hysell (Hannah Murray) and Karen Malloy (Kaitlyn Dever) are two young girls visiting Detroit from Ohio and staying at the Algiers.

Melvin Dismukes (John Boyega) is a security guard just trying to do his job and get home safe. Officer Philip Krauss (Will Poulter) leads the raid of the Algiers after a National Guard squad reports a possible sniper at the motel.

Bigelow also uses news footage and even animates artist Jacob Lawrence’s The Migration Series paintings to create context around the racial tensions that simmered to a scream in Detroit that summer.

Lawrence’s paintings of the Great Migration depict how Black Southerners migrated to cities like Detroit throughout the 20th century, abandoning agriculture in the Jim Crow South for industrial work in the Midwest. The 1967 riots resulted in another migration: White Flight saw throngs of safety-seeking middle class whites leave Detroit for affluent suburbs, precipitating the decades-long-decline of the city, which crashed into bankruptcy in 2013.

KATHRYN BIGELOW’S ‘DETROIT’ IS THE MOVIE YOU SHOULD BE STREAMING RIGHT NOW

BY JOE NOLAN, FILM CRITIC A few days ago I was watching television as protesters clashed with police, authorities barricaded neighborhoods, the National Guard deployed into a metropolitan area and generational tensions that have been building for years finally boiled-over in the language of riots, destruction and looting.

Of course I’m describing any number of YouTube channel live streams and even location reports by mainstream media who’ve been covering the social unrest ignited by the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minn. But, I’m also talking about Kathryn Bigelow’s 2017 film, Detroit which is currently streaming on Hulu. The film dramatizes the conflict that exploded in Motor City after a police raid of an after-hours nightclub erupted into the bloodiest of the riots that rocked 159 cities in the United States during the long hot summer of 1967.

Bigelow’s film is centered on the “Algiers Motel incident” which occurred about a mile east of the riot’s 12 street epicenter. The motel was built in 1952 when Detroit was at the height of its powers, an emblem of America’s post-war prosperity. The motel served as a place for businessmen to stay overnight between flights to and from Motown, but 15 years

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later, by the time of the riot, the Algiers had a reputation among local police as a flophouse for transients and prostitutes. And when the windows shattered and the fires broke out in Detroit on July 23, 1967, the Algiers became a refuge for a number of locals and out-oftowners seeking shelter away from the fray of arson and looting on 12th street.

Bigelow deploys vintage cars, costumes and hairstyles to evoke 1967 Detroit. She recreates the Algiers Motel’s gorgeous palm tree signage and fills storefront windows with kind of vintage consumer goods that once conferred a seal of domestic prosperity as much as they promised household convenience. Bigelow even recreates a Motown Records revue, which was

Detroit is currently streaming on Hulu. The film is available on DVD through the Nashville Public Library, which will begin offering curbside service at limited locations on June 8.

Joe Nolan is a critic, columnist and performing singer/ songwriter based in East Nashville. Find out more about his projects at www.joenolan.com.

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LA NOTICIA “The Contributor” está trabajando con uno de los principales periódicos en español La Noticia para llevar contenido a más lectores en Middle Tennessee. Nuestros vendedores de periódicos han pedido durante mucho tiempo que nuestra publicación incluya contenido que apele al interés de residentes de habla hispana en nuestra comunidad.

“The Contributor” is working with one of the leading Spanish-language newspapers La Noticia to bring content to more readers in Middle Tennessee. Our newspaper vendors have long requested that our publication include content that appeals to the interest of Spanish-speaking residents in our community.

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Año 18 - No. 307

Nashville, Tennessee

"La vida de la gente negra nos importa":Protestas violentas por muerto a manos de la policía

Miles de manifestantes se enfrentaron a la policía continuando así las protestas en la ciudad estadounidense de Minneapolis por la muerte de un hombre negro mientras un oficial lo retenía en el suelo Por Yuri Cunza con su rodilla en el Newspaper cuello causando así La Noticia Editor in Chief su muerte.

Las protestas y actos violentos se extendieron luego por todo el país, incluso llegando a motivar marchas solidarias internacionalmente.

La muerte de George Floyd, de 46 años, provocó la ira no sólo de la población de Minnesota, sino de cientos de miles de personas através de la nación, llegando a motivar una marcha también en Nashville con el nombre de “Respiraré” (I Will Breathe), el pasado sábado 30 de mayo, que lamentablemente y sin responsabilidad de los organizadores culminó con actos de vandalismo, incendios y destrucción de propiedad privada y pública ya entrada la noche.

La policía disparó gases lacrimógenos y formó una barricada para evitar que los manifestantes se acercaran demasiado a la comisaría del centro de la ciudad donde ocurrieron estos actos violentos. Algunos de los manifestantes destruyer una patrulla policial y pintarla con mensajes de protesta contra la violencia y abuso de personas negras a manos de la policia.

En medio de los incendios y actos violentos ocurridos en la noche, aproximadamente 30 negocios sufrieron daños cerca de la zona donde se dieron lugar las manifestaciones. La policía anunció en los dias subsiguientes el arresto de varios sospechosos.

A pocos dias, y en otros puntos de nuestra ciudad, manifestantes se reunieron

6/4/2020 Black Lives Matter March in Nashville: Diverse people came together to protest racism and police brutality. Photo: John Partipilo. pacíficamente para exigir "justicia” por mente que la muerte de Floyd se debia a Rose Smith lideraron la protesta y marcha la muerte de George Floyd. condiciones de salud pre-existentes. junto a otras seis jóvenes embarcadas en Estos nuevos resultados llevaron a que crear un cambio con su organización llaUna marcha iniciada por un grupo de los cargos en contra de los cuatro policias mada Teens 4 Equality, y que se encuenadolecentes consiguió mobilizar a más involucrados en este penoso y trágico tran trabajando actualmente con Black de 10,000 personas como se puede acontecimiento escalaran en severidad. Lives Matter Nashville para lograrlo. apreciar en videos y fotos captadas el "No podemos tener dos sistemas legales, jueves 4 de junio. uno para los negros y otro para los blan- Después de ver lo que le pasó a George Floyd murió después de estar al menos cos", dijo Benjamin Crump, abogado Floyd en Minneapolis, supieron que tenían que actuar. "Eso es lo que real10 minutos boca abajo contra el suelo, representando a la familia de Floyd. mientras un policía lo inmovilizaba Mientras tanto en Nashville, la ge- mente abrió los ojos de la gente sobre lo apretandolo fuertemente con su rodilla neración más joven está tomando medi- que está sucediendo en nuestro país", en el cuello y con otros oficiales que se das contra la brutalidad policial, el dijo Jade Fuller. Ambas adolescentes unieron a mantenerlo en el suelo. "No racismo sistémico y la injusticia a través dijeron que el mensaje de la manipuedo respirar", suplicó el hombre muchas de un grupo de adolescentes que orga- festación del sábado en la Plaza veces como se pudo ver en un video filma- nizó la más reciente protesta del jueves Legislativa resonó con ellas. "Queríamos crear algo que fuera aún más inspirador, do por un testigo presente. en el Parque Estatal Bicentennial Mall especialmente para los adolescentes Una autopsia independiente llevada a consiguiendo que miles de seguidores porque les muestra que sí puedes, que cabo, a pedido de la familia de Floyd, marcharan hasta el Capitolio del Estado eres capaz de lograr cualquier cosa”. indicó que la causa de muerte, fue asfi- de Tennessee.

Envíenos sus sugerencias por e-mail: xia discrepando con la versión de la news@hispanicpaper.com autopsia oficial que indicaba original- Con tan sólo 15 años, Jade Fuller y Emma

Conoce tus derechos: ¿Que hacer en caso de una redada?

1. Mantenerse callado 2. Sólo dar nombre y apellido 3. No mentir 4. Nunca acepte/lleve documentos falsos 5. No revelar su situación migratoria 6. No llevar documentación de otro país 7. En caso de ser arrestado, mostrarla Tarjeta Miranda (llámenos si necesita una)

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Basados en la Quinta Enmienda de la Constitución, los derechos de guardar silencio y contar con un abogado fueron denominados Derechos Miranda luego de la decisión de la Suprema Corte de Justicia de Estados Unidos en el caso Miranda vs. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436, de 1966.

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CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: David Janković, Nataša Bojanić, Svetlana Petrović, and Bojan Vulović. PHOTOS BY SARA RISTIĆ

‘Liceulice’ Vendors on Their Experiences of Lockdown

By Vendors of Serbian street paper Liceulice

[Serbia has begun to ease lockdown restrictions and Liceulice vendors are slowly beginning to sell again] David Janković (Belgrade) “I miss being able to go out and walk, visiting my mom and meeting up with people outside the care home where I stay. I miss going to the youth center where I usually sell the magazine and meeting up with my friends. I also miss TV because the TV room has been closed here for some time due to refurbishment.

It’s getting seriously boring now.

The hardest thing for me is that I can’t make any money and buy things I need. I also miss my job and the sense of duty and routine that comes with it – knowing that I need to be at a certain place at a certain time to sell the magazine.

It means a lot to me to hear from Liceulice and to know that times

are difficult for others as well and that we are not the only ones locked down. All the support they are giving me now means a lot to me. I’m glad they haven’t forgotten me.”

Nataša Bojanić (Belgrade) “I miss exercising and my friends.

I also miss Terazije, the neighbourhood where I used to sell the magazine. Now, I am exercising at home for two hours every day. I also draw and listen to music. But it’s getting boring and I hope I will be able to go back to selling the magazine soon.

Without making money, it is very difficult for me. I am alone with my mother and our income has been reduced now. Every time someone checks in, it means a lot to me. But I will be the happiest when I can go back to work.”

Svetlana Petrović (Belgrade) “I miss selling the magazine. I

used to walk around the city and connect with people. That means a lot to me, both from a health and social perspective. I miss other vendors too as I used to meet them all the time. I get in touch with some of them by phone now. On 6 April I turned 65, and since then I have not been allowed to leave my house at all. I used to meet lots of people while I was selling the magazine, and now my day is empty. When I was selling Liceulice, my day seemed much shorter; I was engaged all the time, trying to accomplish all my ideas during the day. My mind was more occupied back then compared to now when I am locked at home because of the coronavirus. It means a lot to me that people from the magazine call us. It also means a lot to me that we get a care package from Liceulice, as that is our great need at this moment. Also, the attention means a lot to us.”

Bojan Vulović (Novi Sad) “The state of emergency has affected my everyday life a lot. I sit at home, I watch TV a lot, I watch news, listen to music, I play the guitar, trying to be OK. I live alone. I’ve lost contact with people and that’s hard for me. I miss freedom, freedom of movement, above all. I simply miss my colleagues. I miss my friends from Liceulice. I miss people from ‘Kompas,’ an organization that helps individuals with mental health difficulties. I also miss club CK-13 [a youth center] in Novi Sad and the people I used to meet there. Any earnings are welcome to me. My brother is helping me. He keeps asking if I need anything. I almost lost my income, so the financial aid and donations Liceulice has organised have been very important to me. It also means a lot that I am in contact with people from the organization, volunteers who are supporting us.

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I can’t wait to hang out with all of them.”

David Balić (Novi Sad) “I can’t hang out with people like I used to, I can’t go to Novi Sad, except once a week by bike, which is very difficult for me. What bothers me the most is that the curfew is from Friday night until Monday morning. I used to go to various cultural centers and bookstores and sales went nicely. Now, when those centres are closed, I am left without a nice hobby and part of my income.

I am frustrated because of that, especially since there are not many infected people in Novi Sad and Karlovac, so I think that the measures could have been milder.”

Translated from Serbian by Ivana Radanovic. Courtesy of Liceulice / INSP.ngo

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VENDOR WRITING

Covid-19 sucks — We are blessed

BY JEN A. , CONTRIBUTOR VENDOR We are human. We are flesh and blood.

And as the current COVID-19 global pandemic has proved, we are unimaginably fragile.

One day, most everything in our life met our expectations. We sent our children off to school, went to work, gathered in groups to mark life milestones, greeted friends with hugs and handclasps. Then the very next day, once we were aware that we were under mortal threat by the person standing next to us, all of our expectations were shattered.

Instantly, we hunkered down and sheltered in place. We physical distanced ourselves from our neighbors. Communities dissolved. We became little islands adrift in a terrifying sea.

When we looked to our leaders to help us out of this untenable situation, most proved to be inept. We were left to muddle through in our own way. Some picked up their guns, some fell to their knees, but the very best of us looked for ways to help our neighbors. When some in Tennessee ask what this pandemic is costing us, I hope the answer is not our humanity.

As I struggle to come to terms with our isolation, it is an old Hebrew creation myth that comforts me and gives me hope for our future.

At the command, “Let there be light,” 10 vessels filled with light were sailed into the darkness toward Earth. But the light was too unstable and powerful to be contained.

It exploded from the vessels and sent shards and sparks of light raining down like seeds on our world. It is the divine purpose of all of humanity to tirelessly hunt down these shards of light, no matter where they are hidden, and hold them up to vanquish the darkness. By holding up our own shards of light, we can heal the world!

The darkness visited upon us by the coronavirus has provided everyone with a wonderful opportunity. We are blessed to be able to take a clear-eyed look at the tragic inequities that plague our society. Inequities we have turned a blind eye to for far too long.

Inequities that have taken so many of our cherished neighbors.

When it was known that COVID-19 was hypercontageous, Gov. Bill Lee was quick to announce that Tennessee would step up to cover the cost of treatment of the dreaded disease for the hundreds of thousands of low-wage working Tennesseans who are un-

Unnamed Heros

BY NORMA B., CONTRIBUTOR VENDOR

Recently, I wrote an article about some specific customers, each one mentioned by name, and the many wonderful things they’ve done for me in my time selling The Contributor.

Now I’d like to call attention to those who even though I may not know their names their contributions are just as valuable.

There was a lady who stopped and asked what I was working for that day. I told her I was hoping to get enough for a good winter coat.

She returned a little while later with a coat that fit just right and in the pocket were matching gloves.

A gentleman stopped to check on me because he said I, “made his wife happy.” I told him I was doing OK except I had forgotten my hat and it was a bit chilly out. He spoke with his wife and told her what I said, and she told him to get me a hat, but make it a cute one. He returned a short time later with hat in hand, and it was cute! The only problem was that it was bright

pink and I was wearing bright red. I proudly wore it anyway, but I had a lot of people ask if I’d gotten dressed in the dark that day because it clearly didn’t match.

On another occasion I forgot my gloves and a lady stopped and took the gloves off her hands and gave them to me. I said, “But you might need them.” She responded, “But I am in a nice warm car and you’re outside in the cold.“ It was kind of hard to argue with that logic. She apologized because one of them had a small hole. I told her not to worry about it because they were so much better than what I had — nothing. It’s funny though, several people noticed and commented about the hole.

Along the same lines, there’s my Hot Hands guy. I love to see his truck come through!

When I first met him, he rolled his window down and said, “I don’t have any money but would you like some Hot Hands and Toes?” Would I ever! He said he’d never seen a lady

insured. Tennessee is one of the 14 states that has repeatedly refused to expand Medicaid to poor working families. According to data from the U.S. Census Bureau, over 10 percent of Tennessee’s population is uninsured. The other 38 states have expanded medical care to these hard-working folks through the Affordable Care Act. Many of these low-wage workers are folks we see every day. They are grocery clerks, gig workers, those greeting us at pharmacies, dry cleaners, and auto supply shops. They care for our children and our elders. They perform vital work and we shamelessly take them for granted. While we were able to work from home or paid by a PPP loan to just stay home, they risked sickness and death to get us our goods and services.

It is known that Covid-19 deaths are more common in individuals who have underlying medical conditions such as; diabetes, heart disease, and obesity. And while much is made of the outsized percentage of Blacks and Latinos who have died of the disease, the greater majority of the current 90,000 deaths have been white. It would be most interesting to

get so excited over Hot Hands before.

I explained that it was cold outside, and these make it bearable, and I was completely out and I’d never had Toasty Toes before — they were GREAT! One day a couple stopped for a paper and they told me I wasn’t my usual perky self. I told them I had run out of coffee and offered to give them their money back if they would go get me some. They asked if it needed to be Starbucks and I said no, just coffee. They told me to keep the two dollars but assured me they would be back shortly with some coffee, and they were! That had to be one of the worst cups of coffee I’ve ever had, but the fact that they went out of their way to go and get it and bring it back to me made it pretty special!

There’s a youth minister from a local church who rolled down his window and said he didn’t have any cash, but was headed to Taco Bell and asked if I wanted anything.

When he returned with the food, he parked his car and came and talked to me on the sidewalk for quite a while. He asked questions about the paper. I told him about my granddaughter Avani playing the flute in the school band. He related his own experience in band as a youth. We talked about how

know how many of all who died were uninsured. That would be a valuable and illuminating statistic.

Low-wage working people in Tennessee who are uninsured are told by our legislature that they don’t deserve proper health care. In the past, when you called a doctor because you were unwell, the first question asked was, “Where does it hurt?” These days, the first question asked is, “ What kind of insurance do you have?” That question has a chilling effect on a person’s ability to access our health care system. Uninsured workers ignore signs and symptoms of serious medical conditions. They just tough it out because they have no choice.

It’s past time to hold up our individual shards of light, Tennessee. Hold them up high to light up the darkness many of our neighbors are or will soon be legislated to live in by the powers that be. Use your privilege and voice to shine a bright health care light over the entire state. Low-wage workers have proved their great worth during our Covid-19 lockdown.

Providing them with proper health care is the least we can do to repay them for all the good they have done! Shine a light, Tennessee!

difficult it was to make ends meet these days, and away he went.

One lady stopped with a hot ham and cheese sandwich. She said she wasn’t sure what to get me because she was unsure of any dietary restrictions I might have. I told her I wasn’t sure I was in a position to impose dietary restrictions. The only restrictions I have are that it can’t be crawling off the plate because I’m obviously not able to chase it down! And NO LIVER. I hate liver! We had a good laugh and away she went.

There’s the lady who always stops and gives me a few cans of organic vegetables for a paper. She says that’s God’s way of keeping me healthy.

There’s my Nissan man who only comes through every 3-4 months because every time there’s a disaster he’s off helping someone else in need in one way or another, and there’s definitely been plenty to do lately!

There’s an older man who was in the area undergoing medical treatment and stopped and said, “I had to stop for the girl with the prettiest smile I’ve ever seen.” I looked around and asked, “Where is she?” He said, “I’m looking at her.” Needless to say, the smile got even bigger and brighter then.

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One of the sweetest gifts I ever got was from two young children.

They gave me a cornucopia. (My granddaughter calls it a witch’s hat and wears it like one when I don’t have fruit in it.) They’d obviously worked hard to wrap it themselves — you could tell. Inside was a one of a kind picture with a note that said, “Ms. Norma I hope you find home soon we love you!” It hung on my refrigerator at the hotel until it started getting messed up, but I’m sure I still have it somewhere.

Last but certainly not least are all those who roll down their windows and give us encouragement in the form of smiles and waves and kind words.

Many of you are quick to say, “I’m sorry I don’t have anything to give.” I say, “You’re wrong! The simple act of rolling down your window, acknowledging our existence, and making us feel valued is something!”

If you’re still not convinced, contrast that with others who see us out there and rather than be cordial and polite, they roll up their windows, lock their doors, and immediately check for their wallets.

Now maybe you can see the real value in what you do! So while I may not know your names — you’re still heroes to me just the same!

FUN

HOBOSCOPES GEMINI

The first time Vishnu came, he was as a fish. Manu (the first man) found the tiny fish who asked him for protection.

Manu accepted the task and cared for the fish as it grew and grew. The fish warned of an impending flood. The fish told Manu to build a boat. When the f lood came, Manu’s boat was ready and the (now gigantic) fish pulled the boat to safety with his horn (he had a horn). Sometimes there are small voices warning us of a flood to come. They’re easy to ignore. Nobody wants to hear that things are gonna get harder. But remember, Gemini, sometimes that voice is Vishnu himself. Sometimes the little voice knows what’s coming.

CANCER

I just live streamed my niece’s high school graduation. What a time to be alive, Cancer!

All those class valedictorians and salutatorians and mandalorians got up and talked about “these unprecedented times.” They know there’s something going on. They might even know what it is. It made me feel hopeful, like maybe a new generation will take new steps and make new changes. But it also made me remember, Cancer, that you don’t have to be in line for a diploma to graduate. You can move on to something else today. You can start doing things a different way.

LEO

So maybe you’re having a little bit of a realization right now, Leo. Maybe it’s not very comfortable. The world might look different than you thought it did. It might feel like a moment to take a breath, pat yourself on the back, and post something edgy on instagram. But it’s not that moment, Leo. It’s a moment to dig in deeper. Because you aren’t the first person to realize what you’re realizing. And you’ve still got a lot of work to do. Read about it. Ask questions. Ask yourself why you feel the way you feel. You’re doing great, Leo. But you’re not done yet.

VIRGO

Apparently, the transformer right above my bedroom window is leaking oil. The guy from the electric company came by and said it’s a fire hazard and they have to shut off my power until they can replace it. What’s weird to me is that I didn’t even notice. All this shiny, sticky goo running down the glass and onto my windowsill and I didn’t even know it was there, much less that it was dangerous. You might be noticing some things about the world you’ve

been living in Virgo. It might even be a situation that you have to fix immediately. While the power is out, why don’t you just sit in the dark and think about what those things might be.

LIBRA

Did it work, Libra? Did wearing your seatbelt work? It’s hard to say, really. There were no wrecks. There wasn’t even traffic. You got from home to work and back again without incident.

Everybody knows seatbelts save lives, but it seems like your seatbelt didn’t do much of anything today. Even so, you’re going to wear it the next time you go out, right?

Good. There are some decisions we make where we’ll never really know the outcome. We just have to work with the best information we’ve got. All the same, Libra, keep it up.

SCORPIO

Sometimes I get overwhelmed with all the junk in my place and I just have to do a quick clean. Y’know, do the dishes, sweep up the dust bunnies, recycle the mail that’s spread out all over the coffee table. But I always end up with a pile of junk that I don’t know what to do with. My tendency is to shove it in my closet. Then I don’t have to look at it or think about it or deal with it at all. But, as I’m sure you’re aware, Scorpio, if you keep shoving things in there, eventually it starts to come out under the door. And sometimes you can’t get the door shut anymore. Then you’ve really got a mess. Deal with the hard stuff now, Scorpio. Sit with it until you know what you have to do.

SAGITTA R IUS

I’m a lousy gardener, Sagittarius. One reason is that I never want to pull up anything.

If a stray tomato plant pops up next to my squash, I just let it grow. If three marigolds pop up in the same tiny pot, I just leave them alone. Who am I to decide? The problem is, Sagittarius, that tomatoes and squash and marigolds all need room to grow. If I try to have a little bit of everything, I end up with wimpy tomatoes, frustrated squash and puny marigolds. But if I decide which one I want, I can nurture it. You can, too.

Decide what you want to thrive. Let the rest go.

CAPRICORN

You’ve heard it said, Capricorn, that when the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. I think you have some things coming up that may require a more diverse toolbox. In fact, once you get more

accustomed to using your new tools, you may need to go back and see if you’ve already hammered anything that just needed a good dusting.

AQUA RIUS

My peanut butter assures me that “separation is natural,” but I’m still always surprised by how distant I feel from the people I grew up with. How can they still be so much the same while I feel like I’ve changed so much? I see them on the internet, agreeing with each other about ideas I’ve long let go of. You might be just as baffled by the other people in your sphere, Aquarius. How can they believe that? All you can do is be who you are. Share what you’ve learned. And don’t be afraid to stir the jar a little bit.

PISCES

When it rains, it pours, Pisces. Sometimes it rains frogs. Sometimes it pours boiling oil from the castle wall. I feel like it’s all coming down right now. I could tell you to bring an umbrella. I could tell you to stay inside.

But I think it’s different this time. I think we’ve got to go to the source. What rains? What pours? Can we get to the source? Can we turn this around? This seems like a good time to find out.

ARIES

When we all got phones with cameras in them, I thought we would use them to share pictures of funny looking cats and birthday cakes. I didn’t guess that people would use them to expose humanity’s most deeply seated problems and kick off revolutions for justice and equality. It makes me excited about what we’re capable of when we have the resources. I think you might have more resources than you even know, Aries. I think you might be capable of an awful lot.

Use what you’ve got.

TAURUS

Though the FAA has never made it a rule, it is generally advised that pilots and copilots don’t eat the same meal on a flight. If they both get the chicken, you’ve got a whole planeful of people relying on that chicken.

But if one gets a chicken and the other one gets, let’s say, a banana split sundae, then you’ve probably got one well-fed pilot and one pilot who really feels cared for. So are you gonna go for the nutrition, Taurus?

Or are you gonna take the self care?

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VENDOR WRITING

Black Lives Matter

BY T YRONE M., CONTRIBUTOR VENDOR Fifty years ago Martin Luther King was in Washington on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. Here we are again. Not only has something not been done, it got worse. The police departments in this nation have a code. They don’t tell on each other. What they need to do is weed out these racist cops. And if they have a problem with stress and acting up, they don’t need to be cops. You have to stop it on the local level. Congress needs to enact some new laws about chokeholds, and that knee on the neck, that is illegal. When other comrades see this, they need to step up.

There’s no justice in America. When you have justice, everybody comes together. Everybody needs to come together and address this problem. You have a president that tear-gassed protestors who didn’t even have a bullhorn — they were just having an orderly protest. He gassed them and ran them out of the yard, so he could go across the street and hold up a Bible.

That’s idolatry is what he did. People say we gotta get him out. We could get him out and somebody else could still pop up at a local level.

Racism pops its ugly head up.

We all are God’s children. If just one race, or certain people address it, that is not going to help the problem. It’s going to add to the problem.

In my lifetime, I have never seen different colors and different races come together like

they did in Martin Luther King’s day. Everybody is getting tired. If somebody is a racist, they’re not just affecting me, they’re affecting you and me. It’s a horrendous thing. It shouldn’t have happened. But it happened. We as a people, we got to do something about it. Just staying at home and googling and hashtag this and hashtag that, that ain’t doing nothing. You got to step up and do something about it — any injustice.

You got to come like they are, can’t come one or two thousand, you got to come five, 20, 30 thousand. You got to come peaceful. You got some renegades, people running around here taking advantage, breaking into jewelry stores.

America has always been the bedrock of racism. Anybody over 15 know that. But what they don’t understand is when you try to keep a certain people down, you’re keeping your own self down. Nobody is better than nobody.

Why are these people acting like this? When regular people act like this we say he or she is racist. You got government officials acting like this, like our president and these racist cops — if you got a problem with people of color, get the hell off the police. They need to start screening more.

There’s a lot of racist people that are getting on the police force. They’re masquerading as police, when in their heart they’re hateful. Some people just hate people, it doesn’t matter the color. What we need to do as citizens is anytime we see racism

pop up its ugly head, we need to jump on it right then. Everywhere you’re at. Whether it’s at your workplace — somebody tell an off-color joke.

Ain’t no use in laughing. Say, “Hey, what’s wrong with you? You ain’t got nobody in your family colored?” Don’t stand for it. I don’t let nobody around me, friends of mine, kinfolk, talk about no other race and think it’s a joke. It’s not no joke.

There’s a lot of guilt in America too. Somebody recently gave the NAACP $500,000. Money is good to help fund a program, but it’s just an act of kindness unless when somebody else says something about another race of people you step up and say hey, that’s not funny.

A lot of people think racism is just like white people don’t like black people. I’ve straightened so many of my friends out over the years saying stupid stuff about Caucasian people.

America is a festering sore. You know you have a sore, and you may think it’s drying up, well it ain’t drying up! America is a big sore.

It’s not drying up. The puss is running out of it. And the pus that is running out of America from our leadership, with Donald Trump — the pus is running down on some of the citizens and causing them to act the same way he acts.

You research a house and it’s $200,000 and when you as a person of color go back and they tell you the house is $350,000 or somebody else had bought it, when nobody else bought it, they

T H E M E : ACROSS 1. Kind of lively dance 6. Greenwich time 9. Pilgrimage to Mecca 13. Belittle 14. A note to follow soh 15. Annie Oakley’s show 16. Hipbone-related 17. Chicago to Detroit direction 18. Historical period 19. *Most gifted Father’s Day gift?

21. *a.k.a. Father of the Constitution 23. Have a cold, e.g.

24. Bog deposit 25. Styling product 28. Not yet final, in law 30. Squirrels away 35. “Metamorphoses” poet 37. Antioxidants-rich berry 39. Text that precedes the main text 40. Car brand, e.g.

41. *”Full House” father 43. Brazilian indigenous people 44. a.k.a. dropsy 46. Precedes shine 47. Paving stone 48. Early TV manufacturer 50. Bayonet wound 52. “Zip it!”

53. Popular form of communication

T O N Y

55. Part of a match 57. *Christopher Robin’s father 61. *Father known as “oneshot” Finch 65. Largest deer 66. *Richard Bobbsey’s offspring 68. Precedes desist 69. Cuckoo 70. Friedrich Schiller’s “___ to Joy” 71. Personnel person 72. Job for a body shop 73. Parent’s order 74. Wrestling’s ___ the Giant DOWN 1. It’s equivalent to pain?

2. Sound mind, ____ body 3. Not of the cloth 4. Japanese port 5. Jelly ingredient 6. High school club 7. *Boy’s father in “The Road” 8. Recurring melody 9. Shoshonean people 10. Without further ____, pl.

11. 1920s art style 12. *John-John’s father 15. Cow’s favorite grass?

20. Homer’s classic 22. Pleasurable interjection

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just don’t want you in that neighborhood. That’s happening all over the country.

But you have a president that promotes this stuff. He called on the military. They hadn’t done that since 1982 when they had the riots in Chicago!

This should have stopped 50 years ago.

When they say something about somebody, get together. Get friends of different colors. They think people are just coming together to start trouble. No. We’re coming as a people. It’s gotta stop. I’m always about nonviolence. It’s hard to fight fire with fire. Breaking out windows and all that, what’s that going to solve? It’s making the unrest even worse and it doesn’t solve a thing.

We got to work together as a people to stop this. We gotta break this blue code that these cops got. I can imagine how the Afro-American cops feel in this country knowing that they killing Afro-American men and there’s nothing they really can do about it and they’re working with them every day. I would do some kind of protest. And say I’m not coming to work until somebody addresses this problem. And they say, well you’re fired. Fire me then. If you don’t stand for nothing you’ll fall for anything.

We gotta do better. We’re not doing enough.

We gotta start electing leaders that are more spiritual and the ones that don’t just care about themselves.

W I N N E R S

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42. Used for raising 45. U.K. Prime Minister,

1945-51 49. Lady lobster 51. “You ____!”

54. Xe 56. Make a connection, two words 57. In the thick of 58. Steak condiment 59. Express complaint 60. Antonym of is 61. All over again 62. *Popular Father’s Day greeting 63. Olympic cast-out 64. Bone-dry 67. Commotion

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