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Kelly Replaced as Senate Republican Leader by Sen. Stephen Harding by Christine Stuart

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After four years at the helm of the Senate Republican caucus, Sen. Kevin Kelly, R-Stratford, was abruptly replaced Friday in favor of first-term Sen. Stephen Harding, R-Brookfield. Kelly, an attorney, served as the leader of the minority caucus for four years, endeavoring to maintain unity within the twelve-member group, which encompassed both moderate and more conservative lawmakers. His responsibility involved facilitating consensus among caucus members on legislative matters frequently advocated by the 24-12 Democratic majority. “I have been incredibly honored to serve as the leader of this caucus and will work collaboratively with Sen. Harding going forward,” Kelly said in a statement.

“Our caucus is made up of hard-working individuals who love our state and are ready to fight for it. Together we continue to stand up for policies that make our state more affordable for all people by reducing tax burdens on poor, working- and middle-class families, creating opportunities in education and jobs, and increasing health care access and affordability.” It’s unclear why he was ousted after a meeting today, but Republican columnist Kevin Rennie suggested on his blog that it may have to do with the firing of Chief of Staff John Healy. The last time a Senate Republican leader stepped aside was in 2007 when former Sen. Louis DeLuca admitted to asking a man with mafia-ties to beat up his granddaughter’s husband because he thought she was being abused. A six-member panel, three Senators from each party,

was appointed to determine whether to recommend a censure, reprimand, or expulsion. DeLuca ended up resigning before the committee made its final recommendation. Meanwhile, Harding will take over the caucus as it heads into a reelection cycle.

Senate Minority Leader Kevin Kelly on right Credit: Hugh McQuaid / CTNewsJunkie

“As leader, I will make sure our caucus remains unified and focused on standing up for all people, offering solutions and showing a better path forward,” Harding said in a statement. “From strengthening public safety, environmental, education, and health care policies to preserving fiscal discipline, we will work to give residents the stability and predictability they deserve. I thank Sen. Kelly for his leadership and look forward to the challenges ahead.”

Tenants To Fair Rent: Hear Our Cases by LAURA GLESBY

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Can the city’s Fair Rent Commission regulate federally-funded housing? East side tenants facing rent hikes of up to 45 percent are demanding a hearing — and raising that question in the process. The Fair Rent Commission has so far declined to hear rent hike complaints from tenants in federally-subsidized housing, including at Sunset Ridge, a 312-apartment complex in Fair Haven Heights. The complex is owned by a for-profit company and subsidized by the federal Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) program. “At this point, probably two thirds of the whole complex has gotten a rent increase,” estimated New Haven Legal Assistance Association lawyer Sinclair Williams, who helped organize a protest about the issue outside City Hall this past Thursday afternoon. Anecdotally, he said, most of the tenants he’s spoken with have received a $300 rent increase. Meanwhile, an affiliate of the Capital Realty Group, the private equity company that bought the complex for $17.7 million in June, has filed at least 27 eviction cases against Sunset Ridge tenants since September. When asked about the rent raises and evictions, Capital Realty Group forwarded questions to Samson Rosner, who wrote that “I am in charge of this project” and that “our property is not affiliated with Capital Realty Group.” He said in a statement, “We have just recently taken on Sunset Ridge Apartments and are in the midst of upgrading the Project. The rents are regulated by state and federal guidelines and we adhere to those requirements.” Asia Huff, an elderly care worker who

Mayor Justin Elicker offers to meet with Sinclair Williams, Asia Huff, and other tenants and lawyers.

lives in a one-bedroom at Sunset Ridge with her 1‑year-old, said her rent was raised at the beginning of February from $870 to $1,270 — a $400 increase equivalent to almost half of her former rent. “I have never been more scared of losing my home,” Huff said at Thursday’s protest. Does Fair Rent Have Jurisdiction?

At least one Sunset Ridge tenant who had filed a complaint with the Fair Rent Commission in August received a letter from the city rejecting her case on Dec. 29. The letter, signed by Fair Rent Depart-

ment field representative Lee Osorio, stated that the commission “does not have the authority to set rental amounts that are set forth by the Federal Housing guides, thus your case is now closed.” (The commission does hear cases related to unsafe housing conditions in federally-subsidized housing.) This policy against hearing rent increase cases from tenants of federally-subsidized housing prompted about ten Sunset Ridge tenants, housing activists, and legal aid staffers to protest outside City Hall on Thursday afternoon. “Hey, hey, we won’t pay!” they chanted as Tracy Chapman’s “Talkin’ Bout A Revolution” played in the background.

A Fair Rent hearing is “the only thing that can stop us from being homeless,” said Javier Esquilin. “We demand that you take our cases.” Assistant Corporation Counsel Joseph Merly, who advises the Fair Rent Commission, stood among the protesters and listened. “It’s not clear anywhere in Connecticut whether a local Fair Rent Commission has jurisdiction over subsidized housing,” Merly said after the group dispersed. Williams who helped organize the protest, disputed this claim. He noted after the protest that LIHTC doesn’t mandate particular rents, but rather “gives a maximum rent amount that

can be charged in order for the landlord to keep their money that they got from federal government.” And he argued that the Fair Rent Commission’s role involves assessing how much a landlord can increase rent “all at once,” irrespective of any federal rent caps. City attorneys are now looking into Williams’ claims that the Fair Rent Commission has jurisdiction over federallysubsidized housing, according to city spokesperson Lenny Speiller. “If there is a legal pathway to do so, the Fair Rent Commission will act accordingly with any potential unfair or excessive rent increases,” Speiller wrote. Speiller said that the Fair Rent staff has tried to schedule a meeting with the legal aid lawyers since before the protest. “Staff from the City’s Fair Rent Commission have spoken with several tenants at the Sunset Ridge apartment complex, proactively knocked on doors and engaged with tenants to better understand the concerns of residents living there, and are responding to complaints as they are submitted,” he said. A resource compiled by state housing experts supports the stance that Fair Rent Commissions can regulate at least some kinds of federally-subsidized housing. Shortly after the passage of a 2022 state law requiring all towns larger than 25,000 people to establish Fair Rent Commissions, the Partnership for Strong Communities, the Connecticut Fair Housing Center, Connecticut Legal Services, and Melville Charitable Trust compiled a “toolkit” explaining the law’s implications. According to the toolkit, “Unless the actual rents are set by the government

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Local Women Leaders Talk Taking Charge By Mindi Rose Englart The new haven independent

Women lead in ways that often differ from their male counterparts – at least that’s the argument a respected panel of local women leaders made during a recent discussion at the Yale University School of Management. The occasion was the “Women in Charge: A Conversation about Leadership,” event hosted by Yale SOM in collaboration with the Arts Council of Greater New Haven and the New Haven Department of Arts, Culture and Tourism. Artist Linda Lindroth, who produced the event, said that the discussion was designed to introduce the SOM community with leaders who interact daily with the New Haven Community. With Arts Council Executive Director Hope Chávez facilitating the discussion, the four panelists agreed that they didn’t pursue leadership. They took on responsibilities in communities they cared about and became leaders. "I’m not a born leader,” Arati Pandit, director of Cold Spring School, said. “There were people around me who saw something in me that made me a leader.” Julie Greenwood, executive director of Squash Haven, said helping people in the sports community she cared about helped her grow into a leadership role in that community. “Some people still call me ‘Coach Julie,’

From left to right: Arati Pandit, Julie Greenwood, Randi Rubin Rodriguez, Linda Lindroth, Ilona Somogyi, and Hope Chávez at the Yale University School of Management for the "Women in Charge: A Conversation about Leadership." Mindi Englart Photos.

because I help people feel their best and do their best,” she said. Unlike their male counterparts, the speakers said they were driven into leadership because they saw a need they could meet. Ilona Somogyi, executive director of Ball & Socket Arts in Cheshire, said it’s the idea of slowing down and focusing on what matters most instead of doing more. “It’s not intentional yet,” Somogyi said of

her leadership style. “I feel like I'm always still reacting, and sometimes, I can see myself and make an adjustment.” Pandit, who grew up in an Indian family, said she had 1,300 people at her wedding and she and her family cared for all of them, she said. In her role at Cold Spring School, she leads 38 faculty members and 156 students with that same energy by inventing and then reinventing herself for the people around her.

“We take care of people,” she said. The panelists agreed prioritizing collaboration over hierarchical structures, as well as the ability to self-reflect and pivot, were important parts of making their careers as women in leadership sustainable and effective. They also said change-making also is an important function of their leadership raison d’etre. The necessary change that Randi Rubin

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Daniels Welcomes Immigrant Wave by MAYA MCFADDEN The new haven independent

Forty-five native Spanish speakers have immigrated here and entered seventh and eighth grade at John C. Daniels School just over the past four months — and are getting up to speed fast thanks to a schoolwide effort to focus on language skills as well as family needs. The school’s K-8 multilingual student population has grown to 50 percent, reported Principal Yesenia Perez. Daniels, situated on Congress Avenue in the Hill, is a dual language school: Its K-4 classes are taught in English and Spanish. Some 5th-8th grade core subjects like language arts and social studies are also taught in English and Spanish. That has made it a welcome spot for the children continuing to come to New Haven as part of a wave of immigration from Spanishspeaking countries. This school year Daniels has reached its middle school student capacity as a large influx of fifth-through- eighth-grade native Spanish-speaking students have enrolled. Nearly all middle-grade levels have reached the 54-student capacity. The seventh grade is made up of 25 “multilanguage learners” (MLL); the eighth grade has about 20 MLL students. Perez said her goal is to prepare the students for high school, especially eighth graders who arrived this winter and have only just a few more months before moving on. “They came here looking for better lives, so we have five to six months to provide them with enough English acquisition to advocate for themselves and pick their right high school classes,” she said. The newcomer students bring rich culture, language, and experiences to the school, she said. “The Newcomer Students at JCD are eager to learn. They are attentive, communicative, and risk takers.” The influx of MLL students has caused the school to develop a Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP) instruction series for educators. It has established a newcomer class for students to temporarily attend and learn basic English words and phrases that will equip them to ask questions and self-advocate in other classes. The newcomer class focuses on developing oral English language skills and basic reading and writing skills. It also helps temporarily minimize full-capacity classrooms with large makeups of native Spanish speakers to support educators adjusting to instructional shifts. School District Supervisor of English Language Learner Programs Rosalyn Díaz-Ortiz has pitched in by enrolling MLL students in Saturday academies. Literacy coach Heather O’Brien said the Daniels dual language programming has been helping students not just to learn English but to improve their native Spanish, which in turn has proven to help students learn English more effectively.

MAYA MCFADDEN PHOTO - John C. Daniels newcomers with staff: Rosalyn Díaz-Ortiz, Heather O’Brien, Widny

Morel, Marlene Rosario, Kenia Wama Vargas, Iveth Shenoha Quintero Rodriguez, Deam Sebastian Barrozo Garzon, David Santiago Franco Chaparro, and Yesenia Perez.

Inside Brittany Bowdren's eighth-grade English Language Arts classroom, a student looks up a map of Peru, his home country.

Daniels eighth-graders David Santiago Franco Chaparro, Deam Sebastian Barrozo Garzon, Widny Morel, Marlene Rosario, Iveth Shenoha Quintero Rodriguez, and Kenia Wama Vargas spoke with this reporter about their experiences at Daniels so far. Widny Morel immigrated to New Haven in August from the Dominican Republic. She said she has enjoyed how friendly Daniels staff and students have been to her since her arrival. She said so far this school year she’s felt more confident in her English speaking and proud of herself. She added that educators like Daniels seventh and eighth-grade Spanish Language Arts Teacher Aida Vales have supported her greatly. “She is love,” Morel said. Iveth Shenoha Quintero Rodriguez arrived in August from Colombia not knowing any English. She said now she gets the chance to learn every day from kind educators. “The teachers are very very good; it’s perfect. They make activities

in Spanish and English to help when we don’t understand,” she said. Rodriguez added that it has been “so important to have a good friend to help you progress” and that’s been possible for her and other MLL’s because of the growing community at the school. Kenia Wama Vargas arrived at Daniels in November from Ecuador. She said when she first got here she didn’t have any friends and didn’t know the country. But from the school’s teachers and students she has made friends and has been able to learn so much. Deam Sebastian Barrozo Garzon immigrated from Ecuador in November. He said in the past he would play around a lot in school but now he’s learned to pay attention and stay focused on his learning. Marlene Rosario came from the Dominican Republic with only her mom and sister. She didn’t know English or anyone but the family she came with. Because there are other MLLs at Daniels, she said, she has found people to relate to and help her when she struggles in her classes.

“It is important to invest in this growing population, because these students assist their families as translators, support classmates and teachers, and sometimes even care for their younger siblings at home,” said Principal Perez. “At JCD we want our newcomers to excel as we see their determination and perseverance to learn and succeed.” Half of Daniels’ faculty is bilingual. O’Brien said the students also learn from teachers who speak only English, when they see their educators trying to learn a new language with them. This showed to be true in Brittany Bowdren’s eighth-grade English Language Arts classroom Monday. Bowdren does not speak Spanish fluently but from her students has learned classroom Spanish to support them as she teaches them language arts. Bowdren said that in this work social emotional learning (SEL) support is “crucial because they’re arriving here overwhelmed with so many new things like a new language, school, and city.” Earlier in the year Bowdren visited an English learners’ class at Wilbur Cross, where she picked up strategies like providing students with dictionary definitions for words rather than just using Google translate. She learned to teach students common sentence starters like “I have a question about” to help them to learn the meaning of frequently used word clusters. She also noticed the Cross teacher spoke very little Spanish to her MLL students, introducing them to a English immersed classroom. Bowdren said she is working to pull away from speaking Spanish in her classroom now. At the start of the year she was speaking mostly Spanish to translate assignments to students. As Bowdren said words like “learn aloud” in class Monday, she pointed to her head and told the students, “Say it with me.” The students said “learn” in unison with Bowdren and then repeated the word back to her in Spanish (aprender) to confirm their comprehension. “The people,” Bowdren said, which was followed by the students repeating the English words. “La gente,” one student said afterwards and Bowdren gave them a thumbs up. Bowdren also tasked them with drawing pictures that represent each word in their notebooks. In a work packet students repeated “this is” phrases while completing the sentence with phrases like “my best friend” or “the soccer field.” The students repeated the sentences aloud with Bowdren practicing their pronunciation and recognition of words. Bowdren helped the students by animating the sentences with movements like kicking the air when mentioning soccer. “Your pronunciation is so good. I’m very proud of you,” Bowdren said.

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Work, Live, Ride Takes Another Shot At Legislative Approval by Jamil Ragland CTNewsJunkie

HARTFORD, CT – A diverse coalition of legislators, local elected officials, and advocates called Desegregate Connecticut came together Thursday at the Legislative Office Building to call for smarter growth in Connecticut’s cities and towns. The coalition, which represents over 80 organizations and has a mission of tackling segregation in land-use law, held a news conference to push for the passage of the “Work Live Ride” bill during the current legislative session. “We’ve talked about building on some of the successes we had last year, getting various pieces of the previous bill passed. We are looking to move forward with a bill this year that will really increase housing, and be important to the future of Connecticut,” Rep. Eleni Kavros DeGraw, DAvon, said in her opening remarks. Last year, the state legislature passed SB 998, which established and funded the Office of Responsible Growth inside the state Office of Policy and Management. The Work Live Ride bill would designate qualifying municipalities as Transit Oriented Communities (TOCs), which would make them eligible for state funds through the Office of Responsible Growth. The bill would encourage local and state planning that is centered around existing bus and rail service. Bloomfield Mayor Danielle Wong, a Democrat, spoke about how critical the Work Live Ride legislation would be to her hometown of Bloomfield. “I’ve seen firsthand how these concepts can come to life and benefit communities,” Wong said. “They increase op-

Bloomfield Mayor Danielle Wong speaks to reporters about transit-oriented growth while maintaining community culture at the Legislative Office Building in Hartford on Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024. Credit: Jamil Ragland / CTNewsJunkie

portunities by increasing access to jobs, education and healthcare, by lowering transportation costs, relieving traffic congestion and increasing economic development through investments in transportation infrastructure. Wong also said she was interested in de-

signing with the preservation of cultural identity in mind. “These developments and communities can be designed and customized in ways that respect and preserve the communities who choose to embrace them,” she said. Thursday’s news conference comes a

month after a report was released by the Office of Policy and Management that found that Connecticut is one of the most racially and economically segregated states in the country. Asked if there was a connection between segregation in Connecticut and the lack of

affordable housing, Sen. Saud Anwar, DSouth Windsor, didn’t mince words. “Fifty percent of all African Americans and Hispanic Americans in the state live on 2% of the land. Two thirds of African Americans and Hispanic Americans in the state live in low-opportunity areas,” Anwar said. “The chances of moving from a low-opportunity area to a high-opportunity area are the lowest in New England. The American Dream is alive and well in Canada. It is no longer alive and well in Connecticut, which means if you are born poor, you will die poor.” CT169 Strong, a nonpartisan organization dedicated to local zoning control, takes issue with the Work Live Ride bill, calling it an “end run” around local subdivision regulations and dimensional standards. The group released a statement: “The 2024 Work Live Ride bill appears to be a wolf in sheep’s clothing. The legislation appears intentionally vague as to the requirements of density and number of units of development to deflect from the hand-out that this bill appears to be to developers. The bill apparently, once again, uses as of right development, ending the public hearing process. “Our lawmakers should be creating laws that aid and empower our towns and provide more equitable allocations of state and federal grants, vouchers and low income housing tax credits to communities of all sizes to spur affordable development. Instead this bill removes local control, limits funding resources to communities unless they relent to onerous state mandated guidelines, thus disincentivizing towns from affordable development.”

Albertus Magnus College Graduates Are Career Ready For Second Year in a Row, 98% of Most Recent Class are Employed or Furthering Educa@on two in law school. This is significantly higher than the na3onal knowledge rate of 52-percent. Knowledge rates are defined as the percent of graduates for whom the ins3tu3on has reasonable and verifiable informa3on concerning the graduates’ post-gradua3on career ac3vi3es. The survey also revealed that 93-percent of Albertus graduates are working in the field of their chosen major. with the State of Connec3cut, Yale-New Haven Health, the City of New Haven, and Prac & Whitney being the top employers of the Class of 2023 Albertus graduates. Furthermore, 84-percent of these graduates are staying in Connec3cut, with another three-percent living in-state but working fully remote, contribu3ng to the state’s workforce and economic development. “Throughout my tenure serving as President, I’ve admired the dedica3on of the talented Albertus faculty and staff who are passionately focused on suppor3ng student success —

New Haven, Conn., February 21, 2024 – Here’s a posi3ve employment headline: For the eighth year in a row, Albertus Magnus College graduates outpace the na3onal average when it comes to finding jobs or con3nuing their educa3on within six months aTer earning their degrees. The Class of 2023 alumni achieved a 98-percent success rate — matching last year’s all-3me high for the College — versus the most recent 84-percent na3onal comparison rate, according to the Na3onal Associa3on of Colleges and Employers (NACE) First-Des3na3on Survey results. Each of the College’s last eight gradua3ng classes have achieved at least a 95-percent success rate in the important early career success and return on investment (ROI) metric, considerably outperforming na3onal comparison rates at mid 80-percent. Also notable, for the first 3me, Albertus hit a knowledge rate of 86-percent with four students in doctoral programs and

from enrollment and on through to gradua3on and beyond,” said Albertus President Marc M. Camille, Ed.D. “In today’s increasingly compe33ve higher educa3on marketplace and complex workforce, the value of an Albertus Magnus College educa3on con3nues to grow as our graduates achieve career success and serve as sources of posi3ve change and impact in their organiza3ons and communi3es in which they reside.” “The consistent results speak for themselves. They reinforce why Albertus graduates are what employers call ‘career and graduate school ready,’” said Albertus’ Director of Career and Professional Development, Patrick Clifford. “Albertus graduates develop the cri3cal thinking and career readiness skills, which when combined with their invaluable experien3al learning experiences such as internships, prepare them to succeed in life — especially on the job here in Connec3cut.”

Cancer Fighters Call On Faith THE INNER-CITY NEWS - February 21, 2024 - February 27, 2024

by ALLAN APPEL

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The same God that protected Steve Harvin in combat in Mogadishu, Somalia, in 1993, as a soldier with the 75th Army Ranger Regiment, is continuing to protect — and heal — him in an ongoing battle with cancer. Sunday evening Harvin raised his hand in praise, along with more than a dozen other cancer survivors in a moving, music and prayer-filled celebration inside a New Haven church billed as “Faith Over Cancer.” Organized by the Hamden-based Mt. Calvary Deliverance Tabernacle church under the leadership of Pastor Robert L. Smith IV and First Lady Minister Kristen Smith, and convened at the Agape Christian Center on Goffe Street in New Haven, the event drew more than 200 family, friends, and supporters to listen to survivors’ testimonies. They heard from Dr. Andrew T. Putnam of Smilow Cancer Hospital Palliative Care and Hospice Medicine who spoke on the importance of early testing, and they networked about cancer education, and, most of all,

partook in a faith-filled communal, emotional healing and restoration. “Only God brought me out, where I lost a lot of friends,” Harvin recalled during a pause in the ceremonies, describing his time in combat. “You can’t go through combat and die from cancer! That’s why I’ve fought like hell.” Harvin, who grew up in the Church Street South projects and graduated from Lee High School, served in the military from 1983 to 1999. Tours took him to Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and parts of Africa. Some of those assignments involved exposure to nuclear materials. That’s where he believes his bladder cancer originated. It began to assail him in 2006 and resulted in stomach removal the following year. He went to church as a kid, he recalled, but his faith really didn’t click in until his experiences in war and combat. That sense of being protected has stayed with him during his ongoing battles with cancer and in the taking care of close relatives, some of whom had cancer as well, while he was undergoing his own arduous treatments.

ALLAN APPEL PHOTO Steve Harvin with his friend Rev. John Cotten at Sunday's event.

The faith Harvin developed to help him through combat, when bullets were ricocheting around, was of a different kind than when undergoing chemotherapy. Harvin told the large audience that filled the Agape Center’s balloon and flower filled hall, “the best testimony is that God is a healer.” The Mount Calvary Deliverance Tabernacle also organizes the annual Breast Cancer Musical event, which in October will be held for the 12th time, according to one of the organizers for Faith Over Cancer Missionary Nakia DawsonDouglas. In the past it had been restricted to breast cancer survivors, but after last year’s event, church member April JonesDeans let it be known that there were many survivors of other cancers in the church family. This included Jones-Deans’s mother Mae V. Jones, who passed in Jan. 2024. Because of her passing, the Jones family has gave permission to change the name of the annual event to The Mae V. Jones (Maevon) Faith Over Cancer Event and Rally! Continue on page 11

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Group Calls To Expand HUSKY For Immigrants by Jamil Ragland CTNewsJunkie

Enrollment in Medicaid coverage for undocumented children is exceeding expectations, but advocates say it still doesn’t go far enough. They are pushing for coverage of all undocumented immigrants regardless of age. HUSKY 4 Immigrants, a coalition of 23 health care and immigrant’s rights organizations, is asking the Lamont administration to expand state insurance access in two phases. First they called for additional money to expand coverage to all children 18 years old and younger. Secondly, they asked for all immigrants to be covered, regardless of age and documentation status. “We are moving the ball forward,” Sen. Matt Lesser, D-Middletown, said. “And I know we can move the ball forward again this year because what the Department of Social Services and Governor Lamont have shown is that this [expansion] does not break the bank.” Access to state health insurance has expanded in recent years. As part of the budget, HUSKY, which includes Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), was expanded to include children up to the age of 15 beginning July 1, 2024. The program was also expanded to include prenatal and postpartum care for pregnant undocumented immigrants. Even after these expansions, according to HUSKY 4 Immigrants, 58% of the roughly 110,000 undocumented immi-

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grants in the state have no form of health insurance coverage. An estimated 10,000 children are expected to be enrolled in the program by next December, which is more than double the budget projections. Meanwhile, many immigrants face challenges. Maritza Contreras of Make the

Road CT shared a story of the challenges she and her husband faced. “Last year my husband cut his hand. It got infected and it was so painful that we had no choice but to go to the emergency room,” she said through an interpreter. “He got the treatment that he needed, but after we left we received a bill for $1,500.

That is impossible for us to pay, and we still haven’t paid it.” The cost of not being able to access health insurance is troubling. “When you think of health inequitiesand we hear those words a lot- this is at

the root of health inequities,’ said Dr. Marietta Vazquez, a professor of pediatrics at Yale Medical School. “Not everyone has the same access to care. We have physicians who are incredibly committed to our children, but they are not able to treat all children because of something we can solve with dollars and cents.” A study published by the RAND Corporation in 2022 found that the cost of expanding HUSKY coverage to all undocumented residents of the state would cost approximately $83 million, but that it would have little effect on premiums for U.S. citizens and legally present immigrants. Additionally, the report found that the state could save between $63-$72 million from reduced spending on uncompensated care, such as unpaid emergency room visits. The state can also expect savings from fewer undocumented residents using the state’s emergency Medicaid program, which covers medical costs regardless of immigration status. “We say today let’s put the politics aside, let’s put the partisanship aside, let’s put fretting over costs aside because the money is there,” Rev. Josh Pawlek of the Greater Hartford Interfaith Action Alliance, said. “Healthcare is a fundamental human right and making HUSKY accessible to people regardless of immigration status is the just, moral, compassionate and faithful thing to do.”

ConnCAT Sends 23 Adults Back Into Workforce building in Science Park. The graduates and their families and friends heard from State Education Commissioner Charlene Russell-Tucker, who celebrated both the program and the students. “By earning your diploma today, you’re building your life blueprints, and bringing out your great in closing,” Russell-Tucker said. “Remember the journey, and embrace that journey.” “As you step out into the world know that you carry with you the support of this ConnCAT family. Graduation is not the end of the journey. Even though you celebrate, we celebrate really hard, but it’s only the beginning,” she added. Russel-Tucker applauded ConnCAT Founder and CEO Erik Clemons for helping found the institute to train New Haveners for good jobs. “I remember when Erik told me about this 12 years ago to tap into the community and help secure meaningful high-wage jobs,” she said. “This program is near and dear to my heart because it creates opportunities for all learners.” ConnCAT offers six-month-long adult job training programs, youth programs,

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Cameron Davis-Taylor is ready to reenter the workforce. This time around, she plans on being a chef. She had no professional culinary experience until she joined the ConnCAT Culinary Arts Academy half a year ago. Now she knows she is ready to start a business and begin working. Davis-Taylor graduated Saturday alongside 22 other students from ConnCAT adult academies. Two students graduated from the culinary program, eight students graduated from an inaugural “Biolaunch” program, and 13 graduated from their phlebotomy program. “ConnCAT showed me that I can go back to school at this age and rejoin the workforce,” Davis-Taylor said. “I have the confidence to start my own business.” Davis-Taylor and the other student in the culinary program had to take over the ConnCAT kitchen for the last segment of the program, and that “gave her the confidence” that she could succeed in the modern workforce. The ceremony took place at the ConnCAT

and career pathway programs to New Haveners, free of cost. Through the adult job-training programs, ConnCAT helps New Haveners gain the skills necessary to thrive in bioscience, phlebotomy and the culinary world. This graduation ceremony featured the first set of graduates of the Biolaunch program. “This program was launched by industries who wanted to develop a local workforce to be part of their businesses and industry leaders wanted to develop this force here in New Haven,” OrLando Yarborough, the ConnCAT lead for the program, told the Independent. “There is no pathway designed for people who do not go to college to go into these lines of work, and that’s what we did here.” The program was “life-changing” for its students, including Mohamad Abu Bakari. He registered because he wanted a boost in his career. He’s walking away with a job from an internship the program helped set him up with. His favorite part of the program? “All of the support and guidance … they’re just always there for me.”

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From a 4-year-old orphan to an international award-winning actress

The Other Side of Prospect An afternoon with author Nicholas Dawidoff and panelists Anthony Campbell, Babz Rawls-Ivy, and Ken Rosenthal

The inspiring story of Thuso Nokwanda Mbedu by Ben Ebuka, Face2FaceAfrica.com

Growing up in the early 1990s, Thuso Mbedu never dreamt of being an entertainment figure. At a very young age, she wanted to be a dermatologist, but after taking a dramatic arts class in the 10th grade, she became interested in acting. Her acting career has earned her fame and fortune locally and internationally, rising to become one of the most sought after actresses from South Africa. At 27, she was named in the 2018 Forbes Africa 30 Under 30 List, and one of the 100 Most Influential Africans by New African Magazine. Born on July 8, 1991, at the Midlands Medical Center in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa, to a Zulu mother and Xhosa and Sotho father, she never enjoyed the care of her parents who died when she was barely four years old. She was raised by her grandmother, a very strict Thuso Mbedu. Photo -IOL school principal in school and at home. Her name reflected the multicultural tribes ‘Black Reel Awards’ (Outstanding Actress of her parents – Thuso is a Sotho name, – TV Movie / Limited Series), the ‘HollyNokwanda is a Zulu name, and Mbedu is wood Critics Association TV Awards’ (Best Actress in a Limited Series, Anthropology Xhosa. Mbedu went to Pelham Primary School Series or Television Movie), the ‘Gotham and Pietermaritzburg Girls’ High School Awards’ (Outstanding Performance in New and graduated from the University of Wit- Series), the ‘Hollywood Critics Associawatersrand in South Africa in 2013, where tion TV Awards’ (TV Breakout Star), and she studied Physical Theatre and Perform- the ‘Critics Choice Television Awards’ (Bestimportant Actress in means a Miniseries or Television ing Arts Management. Earlier in 2012, shewhat’s At M&T Bank, understanding realiﬁing took a summer course at the Stella Adler Movie), all for her role ‘Cora Randall’ in the role a bank plays in people’s lives. And living to those Railthe 2021 TVthen series ‘Theup Underground Studio of Acting in New York City. responsibilities, businesses and road.’ Career by helping families, wondoing the ‘TV Breakout Star’ award Her acting career began thrive. in 2014It’s when she we’veShe communities what been for more than played a minor role of ‘Nosisa’ in the popu- from the Hollywood Critics Association 160 years. Learn more at mtb.com. lar South African Soap Opera ‘Isibaya’ TV and won the ‘Outstanding Performance from Mzansi Magic. In 2015, she played a in New Series’ award from the Gotham Awards. guest roleM&T as ‘Kheti’ in the is Second Season supporter Bank a proud of Black In 2022, Mbedu was nominated for the of the SABC 2 youth drama series ‘Snake ‘Independent Spirit Awards (Best Female Park.’ History Month. 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But rior unit protected the West African King- her role in Amanda Lane’s ‘IS’THUNZI’ dom of Dahomey in the 17 – 19th century. gradually renewed her hope in life. Equal⁻ousing⁻ender⁻©⁻T⁻Bank⁻ember⁻DC⁻ “…my world was that blur, until AmanShe played ‘Nawi’, a zealous recruit in the da Lane happened in 2016. The role that military unit. In 2017, Mbedu was nominated for the Amanda Lane gave me was the difference ‘DSTV Viewers Choice Awards’ and the between life and death for me. ReceivConnecticut’s first News 1990that ingUrban that audition brief,since I told myself ‘International Emmy Awards forchoice the ‘Best for Performance by an Actress’ for her role I would audition like it was my last audi‘Winnie Bhengu’ in the 2016 -2017 televi- tion. I gave it the last of everything that I had, that at the time I got the callback, I had sion drama series ‘IS’THUNZI.’ In 2018, she won the ‘South African Film nothing left. I secretly made the decision and Television Awards’ for ‘ Best Actress not to do the callback because I had noth– TV Drama’ for her role ‘Winnie Bhengu’ ing left to give. But fortunately, I received in the 2016 -2017 television drama series the callback. So I didn’t do the callback be‘IS’THUNZI.’ She was also nominated for cause the role was mine. I had given up. I the ‘International Emmy Awards for ‘Best was in a very dark place at the time, and the Performance by an Actress’ for her role character, the role, the opportunity, was a ‘Winnie Bhengu’ in the television drama much needed light. And I told myself that I will act as if it was the last character that series ‘IS’THUNZI.’ In 2021, she was nominated for the I will play. And through a great script and an amazing director,NEWS I earned two Interna‘Television Critics Association FIRST Award’CHOICE CONNECTICUT’S FOR URBAN (Individual Achievement in Drama), the tional Emmy Awards for that role…”

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Descendants of slaves who built St. Louis University

demand $74 billion in reparations by Stephen Nartay, Face2FaceAfrica.com

Descendents of slaves involved in building St. Louis University have demanded $74 billion in reparations for their ancestors’ unpaid labor. However, the university’s endowment is only $1.5 billion, meaning the demand exceeds the school’s assets by over 70 times. Economist Julianne Malveaux suggests the descendants deserve $365 million, calculated based on the assumption that 70 enslaved individuals worked 24/7 from 1823 to 1865, according to the Daily Mail. The Descendants of St. Louis University Enslaved (DSLUE), a group organized by the great-grandchildren of slaves involved in building the university, are advocating for monetary reparations totaling $365 million. They argue that with interest accrued over time, this sum would amount to $74 billion. The group of descendants joined by economists and civil rights attorneys gathered outside the Jesuit university, founded in 1818, to unveil their demands for reparations on Tuesday. Civil rights attorney Areva Martin addressed a letter to University President Fred Pestello, urging the institution to improve. She said the university cannot be blind to its history of owning, selling, and trafficking slaves, to the extent that these individuals were denied wages, subjected to cruelty, and stripped of their humanity. She noted that slaves were relocated from Maryland to St. Louis specifically to construct the college. Martin, representing more than 200 descendants of Henrietta Mills and Charles Chauvin, expressed a desire to collaborate with university leadership to devise a plan for compensating the descendants. Robin Proudie, a great-granddaughter of Mills, said they’re not seeking a handout but rather payment of the debt owed to them. “We decided as a family that we would stand up not only for us but for all of the enslaved descendants of those who built this country.” Economist Malveaux said: “The calculations that we came up with and the method that we used are time-honored methods. The university, quite frankly, is overdue, negligent, and wrong.” Proudie established DSLUE upon discovering her ancestors’ enslavement in St. Louis. A statement from SLU conceded the university’s historical involvement in slavery which it described as a grave sin. According to the university, it regrets the slow progress in reconciling with this past, though it is aware of the hurt and frustration it has caused.

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Hear Our Cases agency, a commission can review charges that are harsh and unconscionable.” The resource explains that, for instance, tenants with a Section 8 or RAP voucher can appear before a Fair Rent Commission because “apartment rents are not set by these programs.” (The portion of rent that a tenant pays is set by the voucher program and cannot be adjusted by a commission, according to the toolkit.) A tenant in public housing, however, cannot contest rent raises before the commission because “public housing rents are set by government agencies.” The toolkit does not specifically address how Fair Rent Commissions can regulate a LIHTC-funded complex like Sunset Ridge, where rents are capped by the federal program but ultimately set by a private landlord. Read More Theinnercitynews.com Continue from page 07

The result: This year’s was the inaugural event of a celebration that recognizes survivors of a whole range of cancers and experiences which the honorees described in candid detail. “I was stricken with breast cancer and then brain cancer,” said Wanda Dawson. “For those of you without faith in God, I urge you to get some.” Valrica Fluellen said she has been fighting cancer — with four separate diagnoses — since 1996, including a bone marrow transplant: “I know He’s with me. He’s not leaving me.” “Thank you for letting me come out of my shell and give my testimony,” said Adrianna Douglas. When she received her first diagnosis of liver cancer, she went into the bathroom and cried, she recalled. “Why has God let this happen to me?” Then she flipped that with faith and declared to herself, “God, why not me! With faith in my God I did not let that thing hold me prisoner.” The other survivors, along with their families, who were honored for their battles included Robert Gallishaw, Cherrie Greene, Jessica Marks, Charisse McCotter, Ganyl Martin, Eric Rogers, Yul Watley, and Kali Williamson-Marshall. Diona Michael and Denzel Gethers were there in honor of Zoey Gethers, as was April Jones-Deans in honor of Mae V. Jones. Sponsors for the event included Yale New Haven Hospital, Hartford Healthcare, Bereavement Care Network, Inc, and Hillhouse Alumni Cheerleader Association. These days Steve Harvin is doing pastoral work with the New Bethel Church of God in Christ in Waterbury and continues to be sustained through a belief in God and in a greater purpose that gives him a faith that gets him through. He termed the evening’s public recognition of survivors necessary and “magnificent.”

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Wealth of America’s second-richest Black man David Steward surpasses $10 billion milestone by Abu Mubarik, Face2FaceAfrica.com David Steward is the second-richest Black man in America. In the last ten days, the billionaire has “reinforced” his position with his latest earnings. According to Billionaires.Africa, his net worth has climbed by $300 million in the last 10 days. His wealth tracked by the Bloomberg Billionaires Index shows his fortune has moved from $9.8 billion on February 9 to $10.1 billion. His current net worth means that he holds the 229th spot among the world’s wealthiest 500 individuals. Steward’s fortune is from his controlling interest in World Wide Technology, a closely held information services and hardware provider, Bloomberg said. It added that Steward holds a 59% stake while Jim Kavanaugh, his partner and co-owner, has a 36% stake. The self-made billionaire started his entrepreneurial journey from a humble background and worked his way up the ladder to become successful. Born in Chicago in 1951, Steward grew up in segregation with his seven siblings, and at one point, he was the only Black boy in his school. His father worked as a janitor, mechanic, and trash collector. Steward obtained a B.S. in business in 1973 from Central Missouri State University. He was also awarded Honorary

Doctorates of Humane Letters by Harris Stowe State University in 2002 and Lindenwood University in 2010. Steward started his career in St. Louis where he worked as a substitute teacher while applying for full-time jobs. He briefly became an associate executive for the Boy Scouts of America before joining Wagner Electric Corp. in 1974 as a production manager. When Wagner Electric Corp. went out of business a year later, he joined Missouri Pacific Railroad Company in 1975 and exited the firm in 1979. While with the company, he worked as a sales representative. He subsequently moved to Federal Express where he worked for five years. Steward was so diligent and hardworking, earning him the best salesman at Federal Express. The award, he said in an interview “was a defining moment. I asked myself, Is this what I want out of life?” “That vision sort of hit me then that there was an emptiness and a confinement to working for someone else. That’s when I really started thinking about buying my own business,” he told Horatio Alger Association. He approached his father for a $2000 loan which he used to launch Transportation Business Specialists, which audited and reviewed freight-bill and overcharges for the rail industry. He later established

David Steward is the second richest Black man in the U.S. Image via YouTube/Arch Grants

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owned IT providers in the U.S. with more than 20 locations across the world. The company provides services for both the American government and private organizations. WWT notes that it has more than 8,000 employees and generates more than $14.5 billion in annual revenue, according to Bloomberg. The technology services provider specializes in cloud capabilities, data center, and virtualization, security, mobility, and networking technologies along with voice, video, and collaboration solutions. Steward is also the founder of Kingdom Capital, a values-driven private investment firm with a focus on early-stage companies with technology-based health and medical solutions. What is more, the billionaire is also the author of two books — Doing Business by The Good Book, published in 2004, and Leadership by the Good Book, published in 2020. The entrepreneur has been married for over 44 years. He has two children and two grandchildren. In addition to his business success, Steward has won several awards. He was recognized as the 2012 Black Engineer of the Year (BEYA) and the 2015 St. Louis Post-Dispatch Citizen of the Year. He and his wife, Thelma, have received the Jane and Whitney Harris St. Louis Community Service Award.

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City Hires

The Early Childhood REGISTRATION OFFICE is located at:

New “Resilience” Chief

New Haven Public Schools

Tirzah Kemp.

by PAUL BASS New Haven has a new “community resilience” chief and will soon have a new tax collector. Those were among the latest moves recorded in the city’s weekly personnel report. The Elicker Administration has hired veteran social-services official Tirzah Kemp to head the department of Community Resilience started March 11 at an annual salary of $125,000. She succeeds Carlos Sosa Lombardo. The department oversees city agencies working on homelessness, violence prevention, and other issues facing vulnerable residents. Kemp’s previous jobs have included vice-president of community engagement and director of community and family engagement at Clifford Beers Clinic. She said her “passion lies” in crafting innovative approaches to helping people overcome trauma. She declared she’s ready to tackle challenges related to housing, hunger, violence, and poverty: “I am confident that by harnessing the strength of our community, alongside the dedication of service providers and the families we support, we can confront and overcome these obstacles together, ensuring a thriving future for all.” Sosa Lombardo said he and his wife decided to relocate to New York “to be closer to our families.” “It has been a true honor to serve the City of New Haven.” He called his job assembling the community resilience team “a life-changing experience.” Mayor Justin Elicker called Sosa Lombardo “an incredibly hardworking problem solver.” He credited him, along with former Community Services Director Mehul Dalal, with organizing the city’s COMPASS team to help people in trouble who might otherwise get arrested; and the creation of a motellike social services-supported facility for the homeless at a former Days Inn on Route 80. Meanwhile, city Tax Collector Maurine Villani has retired effective Saturday. Elicker said his administration has not yet chosen a replacement.

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Free 6-hour early childhood programs for low-income New Haven families in the following New Haven Public Schools:

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Clement Morgan, a Harvard first, attorney and activist by Herb Boyd

There is a classic photograph of 12 men, seemingly all Black, posing in front of what appears to be either Niagara Falls or a replicated background. At the center of the picture is W.E.B Du Bois, one of the founders of the Niagara Movement of which the men are members. In the front row, second from the left is Clement Morgan, and he is our featured luminary this week. Born into slavery January 9, 1859 in Stafford County, Virginia, Clement Garnett Morgan, along with his parents, achieved freedom with the passing of the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863. Almost immediately thereafter, the family moved to Washington, D.C. where Morgan attended the prestigious M Street High School. Trained as a barber, he moved to St. Louis, Missouri upon graduation and there taught for four years at an all-Black school. With a burning desire to gain higher education, Morgan moved to Boston and enrolled at the Boston Latin School, choosing a college preparatory curriculum. He distinguished himself as a student, earning a Franklin Medal and the Lawrence Prizes in declamation and reading. He was the adjutant of the school’s battalion during his senior year. In 1866, he graduated with honors and at 27 enrolled at Harvard University. To cover his tuition and other expenses at Harvard, Morgan worked as a barber, and this income was supplemented by various scholarships. As a senior he bested Du Bois in the competition for the Boylston Prize in oratory, thereby becoming a lifelong friend and colleague. He received his B.A in 1890 and his LLB from Harvard University Law School in 1893, and became the first African American to earn both degrees at Harvard. Of course, again Du Bois was right behind him the following year as the first African American to earn both a B.A. and a Ph.D. from Harvard.

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In keeping with a traditional practice at Harvard, Morgan was elected to deliver the “Class Day” speech. Thus, he was the event’s first African American speaker and he was further commended since he was the first to do so from the working class, an honor usually set aside for someone from the upper strata of society. Such a designation brought Morgan recognition from across the country, some of it derogatory, especially from racist publications who mocked his selection and viewed it as pandering. Officials at Harvard defended Morgan’s selection declaring it was based on merit, and merit alone. From the classic photograph some of Morgan’s physical features fit the descriptions printed of him at the time, and from his wide forehead to his broad shoulders “he radiated dignity,” a local newspaper reported. The great abolitionist Thomas Wentworth Higginson, who knew Morgan personally, said “I do not recall a single case in which a young man has shown

greater endurance in struggling against all kinds of opposition.” Unfazed by the attention he garnered in the press, Morgan offered no comment and merely went about preparing for the speech and the response. His was just one of 44 presentations during commencement, and on this occasion he was surpassed by Du Bois as he did all others. Morgan was ranked sixth. But the contest wasn’t over and was soon a source of controversy because there were two African Americans among the speakers. To resolve the situation Morgan was replaced by a white student, a move that infuriated at least one white faculty member who resigned from the committee. After graduation from law school, Morgan was admitted to the Suffolk Bar and then opened his law office on Court Street in Boston. All the while he continued to be active in the fight for civil rights and delivered a stirring speech on race unity in 1890 at the Charles Street AME church

in Boston. That speech was widely noted and included such remarks from Morgan that “I am glad to be a Negro and I mean it from the bottom of my heart. I mean to be a Negro. On the bottom of my heart is written Negro…If any of you are ashamed of your blood it is cowardice.” But it was his law practice that earned him the most enduring praise and notoriety, particularly his advocacy for a person’s civil rights. Some of his cases were documented in the press and given additional exposure via word-of-mouth, and he was soon viewed as an attorney for the downtrodden, one who was willing to stake his profession in the defense of an unjustly accused client. He was steadfast and forthright in coming to the aid of parents who insisted their children receive the best education despite the restrictions of segregation and discrimination, and Morgan was their unwavering counsel. When Du Bois set out to form his Niagara Movement in 1905, he had not forgot-

ten Morgan and his remarkable achievements as a student and his subsequent outstanding record as an attorney. He was invited to be among the 29 founding members of the organization. A staunch adversary of the policies of Booker T. Washington, a stance of considerable favor for Du Bois, Morgan was chosen to represent the Massachusetts chapter. In this position he was dutifully aligned with Butler Wilson, who headed the branch office of the NAACP. They worked together in 1915 in an effort to ban the then popular racist film “The Birth of a Nation.” The two were adamant in their opposition to the racist message of the film, and when the city’s mayor refused to ban the film they demanded a recall. It was not until 1921 that William Monroe Trotter, another Niagara member, was able to get the film banned in the city. Always active in the Republican Party, Morgan was elected to the Cambridge Common Council from Ward 2, a predominantly white one. He served two one-year terms. In 1896, the year of the heated debate over Plessy v. Ferguson, he became the first African American elected to the Cambridge board of aldermen, and the first Black alderman in New England. He was showered with honors during this phase of his career, including one from the Odd Fellows in Cambridge. His bid to serve on the state legislature was not as successful. As for his personal life, he married Gertrude Wright in 1897 and they belonged to several exclusive social clubs, including the Omar Khayyam Circle, an African American literary and intellectual group that met often in the home of Maria Baldwin. On June 1, 1929, as the nation endured the Great Depression, Morgan died at the Corey Hill Hospital in Brookline, Mass. He was 70. In 1991, a park in Cambridge was dedicated and named in his honor. A plaque and mural notes a few of many achievements.

Don Blackman, credited and uncredited roles in many films

Over the course of years, we’ve seen “On the Waterfront” (1954) numerous times, but never knowing who the Black man was often seen among the dock workers. Well, after a little research, we discover that Don Blackman was born May 12, 1912, in Alabama. Among his several credited and uncredited films, his role in “On the Waterfront” may have been his most significant one. Watching the film a few days ago on Turner Classic Movies revealed that Blackman has three speaking lines during various confrontations on the waterfront, most memorably when he

characterizes Marlon Brando’s beating by Lee J. Cobb and his henchmen as “a massacre.” For the most part, he and one other Black stevedore are merely faces in the crowd. Blackman is vaguely remembered as Umgala in “Bomba and the Jungle Girl,” in 1952, perhaps his earliest film. In one scene, Blackman has Bomba (Johnny Sheffield) in a chokehold, which recalls his days as a professional wrestler. The Bomba films, picking up on his role as Boy in the Tarzan movies, are typically a white man overcoming Continue on page 21

Don Blackman in “On the Waterfront.”

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This 1969 Music Fest Has Been Called ‘Black Woodstock.’ Why Doesn’t Anyone Remember? In October 1969, the writer Raymond Robinson took to the pages of the New York Amsterdam News, the city’s leading black newspaper, to pose a question. That previous summer, Harlem’s Mount Morris Park had hosted a series of free Sunday afternoon concerts, known collectively as the Harlem Cultural Festival, which featured a startling roster of artists, including Nina Simone, Stevie Wonder, Sly and the Family Stone, B.B. King, the Staple Singers, the 5th Dimension, and Gladys Knight and the Pips. “The 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival was, indeed, a meaningful entity,” Robinson wrote, “but was it fully appreciated?” The series had been an unprecedented success, with combined attendance numbers (roughly 300,000) that nearly rivaled those of that summer’s other unexpected musical phenomenon, Woodstock, which took place 100 miles north. As was the case with Woodstock, a filmmaker — Hal Tulchin — had captured the entirety of that year’s Harlem Cultural Festival, confident that the combination of the music (Nina and Stevie) and the setting (a post’68 Harlem reeling from the assassination of MLK) would add up to a feature-length film that could cement the series of uptown Manhattan concerts as generationdefining events. Robinson couldn’t have predicted that the summer concert series would cease to exist after the summer of 1969, and that, unlike the upstate New York rock festival, the legend of the Harlem Cultural Festival — sometimes referred to in later years, at Tulchin’s urging, as “Black Woodstock” — would become a largely forgotten historical footnote. The next summer, the fest was announced but never happened, with the founder later claiming that the event had been subject to millions of dollars of fraud by his white investors and that the mafia had been hired to kill him. But in October of ’69, Robinson was already hinting at the inevitable: The world would lionize Woodstock, and forget about Harlem. “The only time the white press concerns itself with the black community is during a riot or major disturbance,” he wrote of the shows, which had taken place during an eight-week period without a single report of violence. “Hopefully,” he wrote of the festival’s then-uncertain future, “[it] will continue to grow.” The Harlem Cultural Festival began in 1967, when a 30-something local entertainer named Tony Lawrence was hired by the city’s Parks Department to organize summertime programming in the neighborhood. During the next three summers, it grew into a vital crossroads of black music, culture, and politics. White politicians with national aspirations (RFK, New York mayor John Lindsay) and black community organizers and civil rights leaders (Jesse Jackson, Marcus Garvey Jr.) all felt compelled to appear at

The festival brought together some of the biggest artists of the late ’60s, from the Fifth Dimension (pictured) to Sly and the Family Stone. Photo from CBS / Getty Images.

the festival. It was a space where the era’s hitmakers, like the teenaged Stevie Wonder and the pop group the 5th Dimension, would perform the most popular songs in the country; it was also a space that bore witness to torch-passing moments in American music, such as when gospel legend Mahalia Jackson beckoned her mentee Mavis Staples to help her sing MLK’s favorite song, the iconic “Precious Lord, Take My Hand” less than three years before her death. “The festival was a way to offset the pain we all felt after MLK,” the Rev. Jesse Jackson, who spoke at the festival in 1969, recalls to Rolling Stone. “The artists tried to express the tensions of the time, a fierce pain and a fierce joy.” Fifty years after the Harlem Cultural Festival’s 1969 apex, its legacy, and the story of its unlikely origins, its momentous success, and, finally, its strange, devastating demise, has finally begun to resurface. In 2019, the city of New York revisited its own history with a week of panel discussions on the festival, culminating in a 50th-anniversary concert in Harlem on August 17th featuring Sly and the Family Stone guitarist/co-founder Freddie Stone, Talib Kweli, and Igmar Thomas. In 2018, British journalist Stuart Cosgrove published Harlem 69, a history of the neighborhood’s transformational year that includes the most comprehensive account of the festival to date. And a long-awaited documentary featuring Tulchin’s never-before-seen musical footage is finally slated to be released in 2020, after years of failed deals and brokendown negotiations. “This is a part of American history that deserves its own spotlight, and it’s crazy

The Harlem Cultural Festival in 1968. Photo from the NYC Parks Photo Archive.

it hasn’t happened before.” says Angela Gil, a concert producer who teamed up with the SummerStage concert’s primary curator and co-producer Neal Ludevig to put together the 50th-anniversary event. As film director Jessica Edwards once told the writer Bryan Greene, the Harlem Cultural Festival likely holds the distinction of “the most popular music festival you’ve never heard of.” Tony Lawrence had a big idea. Born in St. Kitts, the aspiring entertainer had spent his twenties working as a performer in music and television after moving with his family to Virginia as a child and later settling in New York. By the early Sixties, he was being referred to in the press as the “Continental Dreamboat,” singing a blend of Calypso, R&B, and soul ballads in a variety of languages. He recorded a series of forgotten singles between 1960 and 1962 for the obscure New York label Jude Records. “Tony’s biggest aim is to become a movie star,” wrote one newspaper in 1961, “which is probably the only career that can eventually support his expensive appetite for flashy sports cars, sleek motor boats, and extensive worldwide travel.” In 1962, Lawrence traveled to Jamaica to perform at the country’s independence celebration. “At one of his outdoor performances for 1500 people,” read one review of a show in Jamaica, “the management had to ask him to change his tempo or stop singing because the swinging audience was demolishing the grandstands and getting out of control.” By the mid-Sixties, Lawrence’s nightclub act had earned him a regional fan base on the East Coast. “One of Tony Lawrence’s greatest fans, Sammy Davis Jr., considers him a lad with a great deal of personality and first-rate singing versatility,” read one account of the singer from that time. Lawrence had began juggling his showbiz career with community-minded work in Harlem, where he began working as the Youth Director of a local church. In 1965, he used his minor celebrity to help raise funds for a playground and institute a Head Start program in the area. In 1967, Lawrence’s civic-minded work in Harlem led him to his most important job yet: working for New York’s Parks Department. That May, Lawrence and Parks Commissioner August Heckscher announced their plans for a new summer event series called the Harlem Cultural Festival. The festival, Lawrence said, is “about where the negro lives, physically and spiritually.” The Harlem Cultural Festival came just 16 months after the arrival of the city’s new mayor, John Lindsay, a progressive Republican who took a measured, handson approach to the city’s mounting racial tensions. “The Lindsay administration

Tony Lawrence at The Harlem Cultural Festival in 1969. Photo from the NYC Parks Photo Archive.

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Black Woodstock

was both dedicated to civil rights,” says Allen Zerkin, a professor at NYU who worked in the Parks Department in 1967, “and also concerned about the risks of rioting.” The Parks Department, under leadership from Lindsay, made efforts to appease the city’s aggrieved black population, reaching out to community leaders in neighborhoods like Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, to offer up summer Parks Department jobs that had previously been handed out to relatives and friends of the department. “The Harlem Cultural Festival has to be seen in that context,” says Zerkin, who speculates that the Lawrence-run concert series was another Lindsay-era initiative intended to quell a growing fear of uptown riots. “I was not privy to any conversations where that would have been made explicit, but it was clear to me that that’s what that festival was.” “It seemed appropriate at that time,” Heckscher would later write of the festival, “to give emphasis to a black community.” In its first two summers, the Harlem Cultural Festival immediately became a formidable local event, attracting artists like Count Basie, Bobby “Blue” Bland, Tito Puente, and Mahalia Jackson despite its tiny operating budget. By ’68, many of the summer festival’s Sunday evening shows, such as the “Gospel Festival” and the “Soul Festival,” were drawing 25,000 fans per night. “The Festival is a showcase for Harlem,” Lawrence said in 1967, “but talent and audience will come from all over New York, all over the Americas, and all over the world.” After the summer of ’68, Lawrence spent the off-season negotiating with various lawyers, businesses, and agencies in an effort to secure funding that would enable him to turn the ’69 festival into the biggest yet. Lawrence lined up a corporate sponsor, and the 1969 festival was set to be filmed for a series of national television broadcasts. A large, multi-colored stage was built in Mount Morris Park for filming purposes. “Since I had no money for lights,” Hal Tulchin, who filmed the ’69 shows, would later write, “I built the stage facing west so I would have light all afternoon.” With an increased budget and a growing reputation, the festival attracted an unprecedented level of talent for the 1969 season. “The 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival was one of the most exciting things that happened in Harlem,” says former congressman and Harlem native Charles Rangel. “And I know damn well that a whole lot of entertainers wanted to be part of the Harlem Festival.” “Every type of music was represented:,” says Ava Seavey, Tulchin’s daughter, who attended the festival as a young girl. “Gospel, blues pop, rock, everything.” Read More Theinnercitynews.com

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NOW ACCEPTING PRE-APPLICATIONS GREENFIELD COMMONS, 580 Villa Avenue Fairfield, CT Preliminary Applications will be accepted beginning on 02/16/2024 AND ENDS with a postmark date of 03/15/2024. Pre-Applications received after the end date as postmarked will be automatically rejected. Pre-Applications are to be mailed only to Owner’s offices located at 15 Pine Tree Lane, Fairfield CT 06825.

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NOTICE OF REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF DANBURY NOTICE Fee Accountant RFP NO. P24001

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Please register here to obtain Bid Package: https://ha.internationaleprocurement. com/requests.html?company_id=49968 HOME INC, on behalf of Columbus House and the New Haven Housing Authority,

is accepting pre-applications for studio and one-bedroom apartments at this development located at 108PROPOSAL Frank Street,SUBMITTAL New Haven.RETURN: Maximum income limitations apHousing Authoritywill of the of Danbury, 2 MillTO Ridge Rd,beginning Danbury, CT 06811 Ju;y ply. Pre-applications be City available from 9AM 5PM Monday Marked: RFP No. P24001, Fee Accountant 25,Envelope 2016 and Must endingbe when sufficient pre-applications (approximately 100) have Attn: Lisa of Gilchrist, Purchasing Agent been received at the offices HOME INC. Applications will be mailied upon request by calling HOME INC at 203-562-4663 during those hours. Completed preSUBMITTAL DEADLINE applications must be returned to HOME INC’s offices at 171 Orange Street, Third Floor, New Haven, CT 06510. March 4th, 2024 at 10:30am (EST)

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CONTACT PERSON FOR IFB DOCUMENT: Lisa Gilchrist – Purchasing Agent Telephone: 203-744-2500 x1421 VALENTINA MACRI VIVIENDAS ALQUILER PRE-SOLICITUDES DISPONIBLES E-Mail: DE lgilchrist@hacdct.org

HOME INC, en nombre la Columbus House y de laare Newencouraged Haven Housing Authority, está [Minorityand/or de women-owned businesses to respond] aceptando pre-solicitudes para estudios y apartamentos de un dormitorio en este desarrollo ubicado en la calle 109 Frank Street, New Haven. Se aplican limitaciones de ingresos máximos. REQUEST Las pre-solicitudes disponibles(RFP) 09 a.m.-5 p.m. comenzando Martes 25 FOR estarán PROPOSALS #2023-12-GC julio, 2016 hasta cuando se han recibido suficientes pre-solicitudes (aproximadamente 100) FOR en las oficinas de HOME INC. Las pre-solicitudes serán enviadas por correo a petición GENERAL COUNSEL/LEGAL SERVICES llamando a HOME INC al 203-562-4663 durante esas horas.Pre-solicitudes deberán remitirse a las oficinas de HOME INC en 171 Orange Street, tercer piso, New Haven , CT 06510 .

The Housing Authority of the City of New Britain (Authority)

is seeking competitive proposals for general legal services from experienced, area law firms. The RFP will be available on December 4, 2023, and can be obtained online at www. nbhact.org. Proposals must be received at the Authority Administrative Office no later than January 05, 2023, at 3:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. Late Submissions and facsimiles will not be considered.

NEW HAVEN

242-258 Fairmont Ave 2BR Townhouse, 1.5 BA, 3BR, 1 level , 1BA MONROE HOUSING AUTHORITY/FAIRWAY ACRES IS NOW All new apartments, new appliances, new carpet, close to I-91 & I-95 ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR ELDERLY HOUSING!

highways, near bus stop & shopping center APPLICATIONS WILL BE AVAILABLE FROM FEBRUARY 2024 – MAY 1st, Pet under 40lb allowed. Interested parties contact Maria @1st, 860-985-8258

2024. APPLICATIONS RECEIVED OR POSTMARKED AFTER MAY 1st, 2024, WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. Eligible applicants must be 62+ OR 18+ if disabled. CT. Unified Deacon’s Association is pleased to offer a Deacon’s Rent calculation is based on 30% of your income. Tenants cannot pay lower than the Certificate Program. This is a 10 month program designed to assist in the intellectual formation of Candidates base rent: $420/effi ciency, $430/one -bedroom and ADA. Applications can picked in response to the Church’s Ministry needs. The cost is $125. Classes start Saturday, August 20,be 2016 1:30Contact: DeaconWednesdays, Joe J. Davis, M.S.,and B.S.Thursdays from 9-2 pm at: 358 Wheeler up3:30 at the offiChairman, ce Mondays, (203) 996-4517 Host, General Bishop Elijah Davis, D.D. Pastor of Pitts Chapel U.F.W.B. Church 64 Brewster Road, Monroe, CT 06468, or by email at: housing@monroect.gov. Those that need St. New Haven, CT assistance with obtaining the application and/or applying can call 203-261-7685. Assistance in another language will be made available to those that need it. Eligible applications will be chosen by lottery system and subject to background checking. The Monroe Housing Authority does not determine eligibility based on age, ancestry, color, sex, race, creed, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, religion, lawfulSealed sourcebids of income, familial learning Authority disability, physical or mental disability, are invited bystatus, the Housing of the Town of Seymour sexual identity or expression, status. until orientation, 3:00 pm ongender Tuesday, August 2, 2016 or at veteran its office at 28 Smith Street,

SEYMOUR HOUSING AUTHORITY

Seymour, CT 06483 for Concrete Sidewalk Repairs and Replacement at the Smithfield Gardens Assisted Living Facility, 26 Smith Street Seymour. A pre-bid Listing: conference will be held at the Housing Authority Office 28 Smith Technician Pre-Apprentice Street Seymour, CT at 10:00 am, on Wednesday, July 20, 2016. Petroleum Company has an opening for a HVAC/Oil/Heating Technician Pre-Apprentice. resume HR Manager, O. Box 388, Bidding documents are Send available from to: the Seymour HousingP.Authority OfGuilford, CT 06437 or email HRDept@eastriverenergy.com fice, 28 Smith Street, Seymour, CT 06483 (203) 888-4579. **An Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer, including disabled and veterans**

The Housing Authority reserves the right to accept or reject any or all bids, to reduce the scope of the project to reflect available funding, and to waive any informalities in the bidding, if such actions are in the best interest of the

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QSR STEEL CORPORATION

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Preliminary Applications will be accepted beginning on 02/16/2024 AND ENDS with a postmark date of 03/15/2024. Pre-Applications received after the end date as postmarked will be automatically rejected. Pre-Applications are to be mailed only to Owner’s offices located at 15 Pine Tree Lane, Fairfield CT 06825.

Owner: Trefoil, LLC

Email Resume: Rose@qsrsteel.com Hartford, CT

Funded by:

Connecticut State Department of Economic and Community Development, and U. S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development through its Section 8 housing program NOW ACCEPTING PRE-APPLICATIONS GREENFIELD COMMONS, 580 Villa Avenue Applicants will need to meet the income Fairfield, CT requirements based on family size for 50% of Area Median Income, or less. Eligible applicant households must have a head, co-head, or spouse Preliminary age 62 Applications or older,willorbe aaccepted disability from beginning determination on 02/16/2024 AND ENDS with a the Social Security date of 03/15/2024. Pre-Applications received after the end date as postmarked Admin. to qualify. postmark Preliminary willarebeto received will be automaticallyApplications rejected. Pre-Applications be mailed only during to Owner’s the officesperiod noted above located be at 15made Pine Treethrough Lane, Fairfield CTrandom 06825. and placement on the wait list will the selection method, once the period has ended. The maximum number of pre-applications to be placed on the wait list is Owner: Greenfield Commons, Inc one hundred (100). Pre-applications will not beby: accepted by hand-delivery, facsimile, email Funded U. S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development through its Section 202 housing program or any other electronic transmission.

State of Connecticut Office of Policy and Management The State of Connecticut, Office of Policy and Management is recruiting for a Finance Director (OPM Assistant Division Director) in the Office of Finance. Further information regarding the duties, eligibility requirements and application instructions are available at:

Applicants will need to meet the income requirements based on family size for 50% of Area Median Income, or less. Eligible applicant households must have a head, co-head,

or spouse age 62One or older.Person Preliminary Applications will be received during the period noted Income Limits: - $41,000 Two Persons $47,000 above and placement on the wait list will be made through the random selection method, once

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(50). Pre-applications will not be accepted by hand-delivery, facsimile, email or any other Pre-Applications fifty will be provided to any & all interested persons. Individuals or families electronic transmission. may pick up a hard copy of the pre-application at the Owner’s offices located at 15 Pine Income Limits: One Person - $41,100 Two Persons $47,000 Tree Lane, Fairfield, CT or online at https://www.fairfieldhc.org. You may request a prePre-Applications will be provided to any & all interested persons. Individuals or families application be mailed to you by contacting us at 203-366-6578. may pick up a hard copy of the pre-application at the Owner’s offices located at 15 Pine

The State of Connecticut is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer and strongly encourages the applications of women, minorities, and persons with disabilities.

Tree Lane, Fairfield, CT or online at https://www.fairfieldhc.org. You may request a preapplication be mailed to you by contacting us at 203-366-6578.

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to Bid: TRUCK DRIVERInvitation 2 Notice nd

HOUSING AUTHORITY of the CITY OF NEW BRITAIN SAYEBROOKE VILLAGE Truck Driver with clean THE

(Authority) Old Saybrook, CT (4 Buildings, 17 Units) Is soliciting proposals from licensed asphalt paving contractors under the Tax Exempt & Not Prevailing RateState Project lawsWage of the of Connecticut, to furnish all labor, materials, equip-

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and supervision necessary to complete all work as specified or Please send resume to Housing,ment, New Construction, Wood Framed, Selective Demolition, Site-work, Castreasonably implied in the RFP. attielordan@gmail.com in-place Concrete, Asphalt Shingles, Vinyl Siding, PJF Construction Corporation Flooring, Painting, DivisionAA/EOE 10 Specialties, Appliances, Residential Casework, must be received at the NBHA Ofﬁce no later than Mechanical, Electrical, PlumbingProposals and Fire Protection. This contract is subject to state set-aside and contract compliance requirements. Monday, March 04, 2024, at 3:00 p.m. To obtain a copy of the RFP visit www.nbhact.org Bid Extended, Due Date: August 5, 2016 Anticipated Start: August 15, 2016 Project documents available via ftp link below: http://ftp.cbtghosting.com/loginok.html?username=sayebrookevillage

POLICE OFFICER City of Bristol

IT SPECIALIST

FHI Studio is seeking an Information Technology (IT) Specialist to provide support $73,220 - $89,002/yr. for our operational and administrative environments. Responsibilities include managFax or Email Questionstesting, & Bids to: Dawn Lang @ 203-881-8372 dawnlang@haynesconstruction.com Required ing computer setup and configuration for employees, corporate software accounts, HCC encourages the participation of all Veteran, S/W/MBE & Section 3 Certified Businesses online meeting platforms, hosting platforms and providing project support and progeneral info, and apply Haynes Construction Company, 32 Progress Ave, Seymour, CT 06483 gramming. The candidate will also be responsible for developing training materials AA/EEO EMPLOYER online: www.bristolct.gov and providing training with non-technical employees.

DEADLINE: 12-04-23 19

Minimum degree: Associate’s degree with a minimum of 3 years of experience in an IT related field. Candidates with a valid driver's license preferred. The salary ranges from $52,000 to $83,200. Submit your cover letter and resume at https://fhistudio. isolvedhire.com/jobs/. Fitzgerald & Halliday, Inc. is an EEO/AA /VEV/Disabled employer.

THE INNER-CITY NEWS - February 21, 2024 - February 27, 2024 INNER-CITY NEWS July 27, 2016 - August 02, 2016

Senior Sales Representative

NOTICE Penfield Communications, Inc. Publishers of The Inner-City News Weekly Print Publi-

cation is seeking a Senior Sales Representative The Inner-City News is a legacy, Black owned print publication, celebrating 30+ years as Greater New Haven’s urban news and VALENTINA information outlet. MACRI RENTAL HOUSING PRE- APPLICATIONS AVAILABLE The Inner-City News is a weekly print publication with a readership spanning across Greater New Haven. Fromof Hamden, NewHouse Haven, West Stratford, Milford, BridgeHOME INC, on behalf Columbus and theHaven, New Haven Housing Authority, port. This free weekly print publication committed to sharing news and information is accepting pre-applications for studioisand one-bedroom apartments at this develimportant the Black community. opmenttolocated at 108 Frank Street, New Haven. Maximum income limitations apAdvertising and the cultivation existing and advertising is keyMonday to the growth ply. Pre-applications will beofavailable fromnew 9AM TO 5PMclients beginning Ju;y and continued success of The Inner-City News. The paper is delivered weekly to busi25, 2016 and ending when sufficient pre-applications (approximately 100) have nesses, schools, shopping outlets and wherever newspapers can be found. This is a remote been received at the offices of HOME INC. Applications will be mailied upon resales position.

quest by calling HOME INC at 203-562-4663 during those hours. Completed preapplications must be returned to HOME INC’s offices at 171 Orange Street, Third Senior Sales Representative Job Responsibilities: Floor, New Haven, CT 06510.

Work closely with the Publisher and editor to create a successful sales strategy. Must be a self-starter and highly motivated.

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• Builds and manages the sales pipeline.

• Creates monthly sales forecasts. VALENTINA MACRI VIVIENDAS DE ALQUILER PRE-SOLICITUDES DISPONIBLES

• Develops strategies to reach sales goals. • Writes sales pitches for all products and services. HOME INC, en nombre de la Columbus House y de la New Haven Housing Authority, está • Completes competitive analysis reports. aceptando• pre-solicitudes para estudios y apartamentos de un dormitorio en este desarrollo Presents monthly sales reports. ubicado •en Contacts la calle 109 Frankcustomers Street, New aplican limitaciones de ingresos potential andHaven. makesSe sales pitches. máximos.• Las pre-solicitudes estaránwith disponibles 09 a.m.-5 p.m. comenzando Martes 25 Develops relationships top customers. julio, 2016 cuando se hansales recibido suficientes pre-solicitudes (aproximadamente 100) • hasta Meets or exceeds quotas. en las oficinas de HOMEwith INC.customer Las pre-solicitudes seránand enviadas por correo a petición • Collaborates service, billing, other departments. Uses popular sales management software. llamando•a HOME INC al 203-562-4663 durante esas horas.Pre-solicitudes deberán remitirse a las oficinas de HOME INC en 171 Orange Street, tercer piso, New Haven , CT 06510 .

[Work Hours and Benefits]

Work hours Monday-Friday (Hours?) Salary (base pay) + Commission to be discussed Potential local travel. Senior Sales Representative Qualifications and Skills: Communicates well and has strong written and verbal communication skills. Knows effective ways to market products and services and learns about new offerings quickly. Works well independently and has advanced time management and organization skills. Potential to manage sales representatives and has good leadership skills. Builds relationships with customers and coworkers and has strong interpersonal skills. Education and Experience Requirements: A high school diploma or equivalent is required.

NEW HAVEN

242-258 Fairmont Ave 2BR Townhouse, 1.5business, BA,or3BR, 1 level , 1BA An associate or bachelor’s degree in marketing, a related major is a plus but not required.

At least [number] years of sales representative experience is preferred. All newInterested apartments, new appliances, new carpet, close to I-91 & I-95 candidates should apply to John Thomas, JThomas@penﬁeldcomm.com

highways, near bus stop & shopping center Pet under 40lb allowed. Interested parties contact Maria @ 860-985-8258

Municipal Services Coordinator or Director CT. Unified Deacon’s Association is pleased to offer a Deacon’s The South Central Regional Council of Governments (SCRCOG) Certificate Program. This is a 10 month program designed to assist in the intellectual formation of Candidates response to to the Church’s Ministry needs. The cost is $125. Classes start Saturday, August 2016 1:30is in3:30 seeking fill the Municipal Services Coordinator or 20, Director Contact: Chairman, Deacon Joe J. Davis, M.S., B.S. (203) 996-4517 Host, General Bishop Elijah Davis, D.D. Pitts Chapel U.F.W.B. Church 64 Brewster position. Visit www.scrcog.org forPastor theof full position description, St. New Haven, CT qualifications, and application requirements. Applications are to be submitted by noon on Monday, March 11, 2023, or until the position is filled. Questions may be emailed to jobs@scrcog.org. SCRCOG is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. Sealed bids are invited by the Housing Authority of the Town of Seymour until 3:00 pm on Tuesday, August 2, 2016 at its office at 28 Smith Street, Seymour, CT 06483 for Concrete Sidewalk Repairs and Replacement at the Smithfield Gardens Assisted Living Facility, 26 Smith Street Seymour. The South Central Regional Council of Governments (SCRCOG) is Aseeking to fill the Transportation Planner position. Visit www. pre-bid conference will be held at the Housing Authority Office 28 Smith scrcog.org for the position qualifi and apStreet Seymour, CTfull at 10:00 am, ondescription, Wednesday, July 20, cations, 2016. plication requirements. Applications are to be submitted by noon onBidding Monday February 2023 from or until the position is fiAuthority lled. Quesdocuments are 5, available the Seymour Housing Oftions may be emailed to jobs@scrcog.org. SCRCOG is an Affirfice, 28 Smith Street, Seymour, CT 06483 (203) 888-4579. mative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. The Housing Authority reserves the right to accept or reject any or all bids, to reduce the scope of the project to reflect available funding, and to waive any

SEYMOUR HOUSING AUTHORITY Transportation Planner

Town of Bloomfield

Salary Range:

$87,727 to $136,071 Deputy Finance Director/Controller Pre-employment drug testing.

AA/EOE. For Details go to www.bloomﬁeldct.org

Electric Apprentice Lineman - Electric utility is seeking candidates for a paid training program leading to qualification as a First Class Lineman. Applicants must be a H.S. graduate or an equivalent in experience and training. Also, must be in good physical condition to perform the duties of the position. Hourly rate: $26.01 to $37.35, plus an excellent fringe benefit package. The closing date for applications is March 19, 2024 or the date the fiftieth (50) application is received, whichever occurs first. Apply: Department of Human Resources, Town of Wallingford, 45 South Main Street, Wallingford, CT 06492, Forms will be mailed upon request from the Department of Human Resources or may be downloaded from the Department of Human Resources Web Page and emailed to wlfdhr@wallingfordct.gov. Phone # (203) 294-2080, Fax: 203-294-2084 EOE.

Town of Bloomfield

Finance Director

Salary Range - $101,455 to $156,599 (expected starting pay maximum is mid-range) Fully Beneﬁted – 35 hours weekly Pre-employment drug testing. For more details, visit our website – www.bloomﬁeldct.org

Portland Police Officer full-time Go to www.portlandct.org for details

QSR STEEL CORPORATION

Maintainer I – Collections System The Town of Wallingford Sewer Division is seeking qualified applicants to perform a variety of skilled tasks in the operation, maintenance, repair and construction of sanitary sewers, including CCTV inspection and high velocity flushing. Applicants should possess 2 years experience as a laborer in construction work involving the operation and care of mechanical equipment, or 2 years training in one of the skilled trades and 1-year experience in construction work, or an equivalent combination of experience and training. Wages: $23.61 to $27.97 hourly plus on-call pay when assigned. The Town offers an excellent fringe benefits package that includes pension plan, paid sick and vacation time, individual and family medical insurance, life insurance, 13 paid holidays, and deferred compensation plan. Applications may be downloaded from the Department of Human Resources Web Page and can be faxed or mailed to the Department of Human Resources, Town of Wallingford, 45 South Main Street, Wallingford, CT 06492, or emailed to: wlfdhr@wallingfordct.gov by the closing date of March 5, 2024 or the date the 50th application or resume is received, whichever occurs first. Phone: (203) 294-2080; Fax: (203) 294-2084. EOE

Electric Utility Lineman The Town of Wallingford Electric Division is seeking highly skilled applicants for

InvitationFirst to Bid: Class Lineman. Applicants must be a H.S, trade school, or vocational high school nd 2 Notice graduate with 4 years’ experience in electric line construction/maintenance work with

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The State of Connecticut, Bid Extended, Due Date: August 5, 2016 Office of Policy and Management Anticipated Start: August 15, 2016 is recruiting for an Information Technology Technician hour). Project(40documents available via ftp link below:

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Faxinstructions or Email Questions & Bids to:at: Dawn Lang @ 203-881-8372 dawnlang@haynesconstruction.com The Glendower Group, Inc. is currently seeking proposals for Conare available HCC encourages the participation of all Veteran,struction S/W/MBE & Section 3 Certified Manager atBusinesses Risk 34 Level Street located in New Haven CT. https://www.jobapscloud.com/ Haynes Construction Company, 32 Progress Ave, Seymour, CT 06483 CT/sup/bulpreview.asp?b=&R1= A complete copy of the requirement may be obtained from Glendow230927&R2=7602FR&R3=001 AA/EEO EMPLOYER The State of Connecticut is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer and strongly encourages the applications of women, minorities, and persons with disabilities.

er’s Vendor Collaboration Portal https://newhavenhousing.cobblestonesystems.com/gateway beginning on Monday, February 12, 2024, at 3:00PM.

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Don Blackman,

hordes of so-called African savages. Blackman is the lieutenant to the beautiful Queen Boru, portrayed by Suzette Harbin, and neither gets as much screen time as Kimbro, the chimp. In “The Old Man and the Sea” (1958), Blackman’s prowess as a wrestler is once again highlighted when he demonstrates his strength as an arm wrestler. He is matched against Spencer Tracy, their arms locked in a contest in which they try to pin the other’s hand to the table (see the film to learn the outcome). Blackman, decked out in a beret, appears to be an artisan of some sort, although that may just be his way of dressing. In “Black Tuesday” (1954), starring Edward G. Robinson, Blackman is Selwyn, but mainly an uncredited role. There is a stock photo from the film where Blackman is standing next to Robinson, Peter Graves, and Jack Kelly. In “The Egyptian” (1954), Blackman shares the screen with Victor Mature, Gene Tierney, Edmund Purdom, and Jean Simmons, portraying a Nubian prince, unlike his extra role in “Jungle Drums of Africa” (1953). In this adventure, an intrepid explorer and a missionary’s daughter set out on a perilous journey through Africa, seeking the rights to a uranium mine (umm… shades of “Wakanda”). En route, they encounter spies, angry natives, lion attacks, and a brush with voodoo, and we needn’t tell you where Blackman appears. Blackman was a busy actor in 1954. In “Serpent Island,” he portrays Jacques and makes another appearance in a voodoo context. Oddly, he made no movies with Johnny Weissmuller (Tarzan), although he would have been a perfect physical counterpart to the great swimmer and swinger through the jungles. “Scream Blacula Scream” (1973) is one of Blackman’s last films, made with the stars were William Marshall, Bernie Hamilton, and Pam Grier. Blackman’s character is Doll Man, and once again there’s the voodoo connection. “Gunmen for Laredo” (1959), “The Birds and the Bees” (1956), “Champ for a Day” (1953), “Desert Legion” (1953), “The Royal African Rifles” (1953), and “Joe’s Apartment” (1996), round out Blackman’s filmography. Blackman was a versatile and busy actor, and we are sure that some of our more informed film buffs will fill in the blanks about this often-neglected actor. Blackman died on September 11, 1977, in San Fernando, Calif., after accumulating an impressive record of roles in Hollywood films. He was 65.

THE INNER-CITY NEWS - February 21, 2024 - February 27, 2024

Black-owned whiskey brand created to honor former slave on its way to unicorn status after latest raise by Abu Mubarik, Face2FaceAfrica.com Since its launch in 2017, the Black woman-owned whisky brand, Uncle Nearest, has achieved unrivaled success in the spirits industry. Not only is it the bestselling brand among black-owned wines, but it is also competing favorably with established brands. It, therefore, came as no surprise when, in 2022, it was announced that its sales had exceeded $100 million, cementing its position as one of the most successful black-owned distilleries in the world. The U.S. distillery also became the seventhmost visited in the world, with well over 200,000 visitors in 2023. In 2021, the brand became the best-selling African-American-owned and founded spirit brand in the U.S. after selling nearly 1.5 million bottles of its soughtafter super-premium whiskey. The company’s whisky portfolio of seven offerings is available at its distillery in Shelbyville, Tennessee, and in all 50 states, territories,

and districts nationwide, it said in a statement released at the time. Today, Uncle Nearest is approaching unicorn status, a feat few black businesses have been able to achieve. This follows the brand’s recent capital raise for its forthcoming French subsidiary, which was oversubscribed, according to Fortune. CEO Fawn Weaver has raised a total of $220 million since Uncle Nearest was founded, which values the company at $900 million, Fortune added. The latest capital round is crucial to scaling the first women- and minority-owned spirits conglomerate, according to Weaver. Uncle Nearest Premium Whisky was founded by Weaver to honor the memory of Nearest Green, an enslaved African American who helped Jack Daniel start his distillery. The distillery became the first in U.S. history to honor an African-American whisky maker and one of the few distilleries in the country owned and operated

by a black, female lead. The whisky brand debuted in 2017. “Built on its knack for sourcing the best of Tennessee whiskies and bourbons, the whisky is made using a non-temperaturecontrolled ageing process and a unique post-ageing double filtration method, which is then blended to perfection by fifth-generation Nearest Green descendant and Uncle Nearest’s master blender, Victoria Eady Butle,” the company wrote in a statement. Despite the effect of COVID-19 on many businesses, particularly black businesses, Weaver weathered the storm to top the chart of bestselling African-Americanowned whisky brands. “Our bottling and distilling partner did an incredible job of ensuring every area of the distillery was socially distanced and followed the strictest COVID-19 guidelines, which meant we could only move so quickly and had to cap our third full year at 120,000 cases sold,” said Weaver.

Uncle Nearest recently became the Best-Selling Black-Owned and Founded Spirit Brand. Photo Credit: Instagram / @unclenearest

Powerball player wins $340 million jackpot but lottery says winning number was an error by Stephen Nartey, Face2FaceAfrica.com

A Powerball player has alleged that he was denied a $340 million jackpot despite his numbers matching the lottery’s website, which Powerball dismisses as a “mistake.” John Cheeks, the plaintiff, purchased a ticket on January 6, 2023, during the jackpot’s rise, leading to a lawsuit against Powerball and the DC Lottery. Cheeks, who chose his ticket numbers based on family birthdates, missed the live drawing but checked the DC Lottery’s website the next day, according to the New York Post. He wasn’t in a hurry because he knew winning the jackpot was usually one in 292.2 million. But, to his amazement, when he checked the DC Lottery’s website, he saw his numbers matched, believ-

ing he had won the jackpot, despite the daunting odds. “I just politely called a friend. I took a picture as he recommended, and that was it. I went to sleep,” Cheeks said. He found his ticket numbers displayed on the DC Lottery website for three days after the drawing, only to realize they didn’t match the live broadcast numbers when he attempted to redeem his ticket on January 10. Despite his efforts, he was informed by a retailer and the DC Office of Lottery and Gaming prize center that he did not win the jackpot. “Hey, this ticket is no good. Just throw it in the trash can,’” Cheeks recalled to the outlet. “And I gave him a stern look. I said, ‘In the trash can?’ ‘Oh yeah, just throw it away. You’re not gonna get paid.

John Cheeks/Photo credit: NBC Washington

There’s a trash can right there.’” Cheeks has since placed the disputed ticket in a secure deposit box. His lawyer, Richard Evans, disclosed that a lottery contractor informed Cheeks that Taoti Enterprises, a digital advertising agency in DC managing the lottery website, made an error by posting inaccurate numbers. “They have said that one of their contractors made a mistake,” Evans told NBC 4. “I haven’t seen the evidence to support that yet.” Evans believes that despite Cheeks not having the correct numbers from the live drawing, action should be taken to address the situation for his client. “Even if a mistake was made, the question becomes: What do you do about that?”

Justice for Elijah McClain: Advocates Rally for Maximum Sentence for EMTs Involved in Fatal Encounter By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Senior National

More than four years after the tragic death of Elijah McClain, advocates led by Midian Holmes, a friend and supporter of Elijah’s mother, are intensifying their efforts to ensure justice is served. The focus is now on the upcoming sentencing of Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs) Peter Cichuniec, 51, and Jeremy Cooper, 49, scheduled for March 1, 2024. McClain, a young Black man, died in 2019 following a police encounter in Aurora, Colorado, which escalated into a chokehold and a severe health emergency. Cichuniec and Cooper were found guilty of criminally negligent ho-

micide, with Cichuniec also convicted of second-degree assault for administering a fatal overdose of ketamine, a potent sedative, during Elijah’s health crisis on the scene. Holmes, relentless in her pursuit of justice, emphasizes the gravity of the situation: “It’s a pretty horrific situation where police basically stopped this young Black man, ended up in a cop chokehold, went into a health emergency, was injected with a massive dose of the sedative from EMTs, and died.” Holmes and the McClain family advocate for the maximum sentence, viewing it as a crucial step toward accountability. In an email statement, Holmes urged supporters to join the cause by writing

McClain, a young Black man, died in 2019 following a police encounter in Aurora, Colorado, which escalated into a chokehold and a severe health emergency.

to Judge Mark Warner, the presiding justice in the Adams County Court. A template has been provided, urging the judge to impose the maximum sentence on the convicted EMTs. Holmes asserts, “It’s not a huge amount of time, but we must fight for every measure of justice we can get.” Holmes and the McClain family have already seen success in their pursuit of justice. Following Elijah’s death, changes were implemented within the Aurora Police Department (APD). In June 2020, the department banned carotid pressure holds, and the circumstances surrounding the case led to a 5-year-long consent decree with 68 mandates. A recent report indicates substantial compliance with 31 out of the

68 mandates as of October, two years into the independent review. At the state level, in July 2021, Governor Jared Polis signed a bill prohibiting police officers from directing paramedics to administer ketamine. The legislation mandates professionals to weigh individuals before injecting ketamine and bars medical providers from using ketamine to calm someone suspected of criminal behavior. As the sentencing date approaches, Holmes said the family remains steadfast in their pursuit of justice, hoping to send a powerful message that accountability and reform are crucial components in preventing similar tragedies in the future.

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