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Weeksville Heritage Center’s Executive Director Rob Fields is hopeful for the future.

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The Weeksville Heritage Center was founded in 1838 to preserve the history of Americans of African descent who formed the community they named Weeksville. These pioneers, whose spirits can be felt in the remaining Hunterfly Road Houses where they lived, are now honored with a contemporary Center that remembers their legacy and celebrates their culture. In February 1997, the founding executive director Joan Maynard told Our Time Press, “Everyone should know James Weeks.

According to the 19th century census, he could not read nor write, but he managed to inspire a resolution that was published in a newspaper so that we can read about it. When he acquired part of the vast Lefferts family estate and formed homesites for his friends and neighbors, I am sure he was thinking about passing something on to future generations… These buildings are a testament to that legacy.” Rob Fields, current President & Executive Director, continues Ms. Maynard’s journey to “preserve memories of self.” His appeal is on page 3.

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Human Society Under Urgent Threat from Loss of Earth’s Natural Life

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uman society is in jeopardy from the accelerating decline of the Earth’s natural life support systems, the world’s leading scientists have warned as they announced the results of the most thorough planetary health check ever undertaken.

From coral reefs flickering out beneath the oceans to rain forests desiccating into savannahs, nature is being destroyed at a rate tens to hundreds of times higher than the average over the past 10 years, according to the UN Global Assessment Report.

The biomass of wild mammals has fallen by 82%, natural ecosystems have lost about half their area and a million species are at risk of extinction – all largely as a result of human actions, said the study, compiled over three years by more than 450 scientists and diplomats.

Two in five amphibian species are at risk of extinction, as are onethird of reef-forming corals, while other marine animals are down by close to one-third. The picture for insects – which are crucial to plant pollination – is less clear, but conservative estimates suggest at least one in 10 are threatened with extinction and, in some regions, populations have crashed.

In economic terms, the losses are jaw-dropping. Pollinator loss has put up to $577bn (£440bn) of crop output at risk, while land degradation has reduced the productivity of 23% of global land.

The knock-on impacts on humankind, including freshwater shortages and climate instability, are already “ominous” and will worsen without drastic remedial action, the authors said.

“The health of the ecosystems on which we and other species depend is deteriorating more rapidly than ever. We are eroding the very foundations of economies, livelihoods, food security, health and quality of life worldwide,” said Robert Watson, the chair of the Intergovernmental Science Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (Ibpes). “We have lost time. We must act now.”

The warning was unusually stark for a UN report that has to be agreed by consensus across all nations. Hundreds of scientists have compiled 15,000 academic studies and reports from indigenous communities living on the frontlines of change. They build on the millennium ecosystem assessment of 2005 but go much further by looking not just at an inventory of species, but the web of interactions between biodiversity, climate and human well-being.

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species out there-- this is our life support system.”

The report paints a picture of a planet in which the human footprint is so large it leaves little space for anything else. Three-quarters of all land has been turned into farm fields, covered by concrete, swallowed up by dam reservoirs or otherwise significantly altered.

Two-thirds of the marine environment has also been changed by fish farms, shipping routes, subsea mines and other projects. Threequarters of rivers and lakes are used for crop or livestock cultivation. As a result, more than 500,000 species have insufficient habitats for longterm survival. Many are on course to disappear within decades.

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knock-on impact on water quality and bird life. Forests are diminishing, particularly in the tropics. In the first 13 years of this century, the area of intact forest fell by 7%, bigger than France and the UK combined. Although the overall rate of deforestation has slowed, this is partly an accounting trick, as monoculture plantations replace biodiverse jungle and woodland.

Oceans are no longer a sanctuary. Only 3% of marine areas are free from human pressure.

Industrial fishing takes place in more than half the world’s oceans, leaving one-third of fish populations overexploited.

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global population and generated jobs and economic growth. But this has come at a high cost. The meat industry has a particularly heavy impact. Grazing areas for cattle account for about 25% of the world’s ice-free land and more than 18% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Crop production uses 12% of land and creates less than 7% of emissions.

The study paints a picture of a suffocating human-caused sameness spreading across the planet as a small range of cash crops and high-value livestock are replacing forests and other nature-rich ecosystems. As well as eroding the soil, which causes a loss of fertility, these monocultures are more vulnerable to disease, drought and other impacts of climate breakdown.

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Weeksville Heritage Center in Danger Community Comes to Help May 8, 2019 Dear Friends: Weeksville needs you.

There’s no other way to put it: Weeksville Heritage Center is in danger of closing.

Rising operating costs and the plain fact of just how hard it is for black cultural institutions to get and maintain adequate funding is putting all the work we do in jeopardy.

Of course, we’re doing everything we can to avoid closing. But we need your help.

Earlier this week, we launched a crowdfunding campaign with the goal of raising at least $200,000.

This money will enable us to continue to operate through the summer and early fall while we develop a plan to fund Weeksville for long-term sustainability.

Weeksville Heritage Center is the only African American historic site of its kind in Brooklyn and preserves the history of one of the largest free Black communities of pre-Civil War America, Weeksville, Brooklyn. Weeksville was an incredible example of Black freedom, Black empowerment and Black self-determination. The focus of our work is maintaining three landmarked houses from the mid-19th and early 20th century and, through them, the rich history

they represent. Through our arts amd culture and educational programming, as well as collections and historic preservation work, we make this inspiring history relevant and resonant for folks like you and for future audiences.

In 2018 we welcomed over 14,000 visitors vs. 7,000 in 2017.

As those who love Weeksville know, the loss to Central Brooklyn-and to New York City -- would be devastating. We’re asking for your help to not only protect and preserve the Houses, but also ensure that we don’t lose: • Our ability to inspire over 6,000 NYC schoolchildren who tour our grounds annually • The means to preserve and make available collections that document and interpret historic Weeksville, its rediscovery, and our unique grassroots institutional history • The training and workshops that educate and empower the community to be the custodians of their own memories and history • The ability to bring high-quality arts & culture programming to an underserved Central Brooklyn community.

Help us protect the dream of James Weeks and those original black investors who bought the land that would become Weeksville.

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New structure is a gateway to historic houses on the premises, with state-of-the-art exhibition, performance and educational facilities.

Help us protect the dream of Dr. Joan Maynard and those working people from the community who found time to save the Historic Hunterfly Road Houses from demolition and envisioned a Black museum that would bring pride to Central Brooklyn.

Please support our fundraising

campaign. You can donate online here: https://bit.ly/SaveWeeksville Or you send your donations via a check made out to “Weeksville Heritage Center” to: Weeksville Heritage Center 158 Buffalo Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11213

Attn: Rob Fields With gratitude,

Rob Fields President & Executive Director

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By Victoria Horsford

WEEK IN REVIEW NY/BROOKLYN: Mayor Bill de Blasio has called a special election for NYC Council in Brooklyn’s 45 District, on May 14 to replace the seat vacated by Jumaane Williams, newly elected NYC Public Advocate. The vacant seat in the 45th councilmanic represents an area which spans Flatbush, East Flatbush, Flatlands, Midwood, Canarsie and Marine Park. Area is 76% Black and 10% white, predominately Orthodox Jews. It has the highest NYC foreclosure rates. In a crowded field of eight candidates, one is white. They include: Anthony A l e x i s ; Monique ChandlerWa t e r m a n ; V i c t o r J o r d a n ; Farah Louis; Attorney Jovia Radix; Jovla-Radix community activist Xamayla Rose; Adina Sash and Health + Hospitals executive R i c k i e Tulloch.

Many of their Xamayla Rose platforms overlap – emphasizing, education, landuse and affordable housing and addressing

the foreclosure crisis. Many have worked for local and state politicos like Marty Markowitz, Andrew Cuomo and Jumaane Williams. Election victor immediately becomes Councilmember who must get ready to defend that seat in the NY June Primary, then in the November 5 general election, before being ready to exhale. Visit www.vote.nyc.

USA: I have been reticent about American affairs …well sorta/kinda. It is hard to determine where we are in time and space under POTUS 45. Borrowing from the titles of late Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe’s novels, I think that the USA is somewhere between THINGS FALL APART and NO LONGER AT EASE; both deal with the dissolution of the Nigerian state and society once the Europeans arrive.

I watch and listen every day as our republic descends into an authoritarian state. Read that his surrogates are asking for an additional two years for Trump as reparation for the 2-year Mueller probe. Mr. T, can we talk! Don’t know if the nation can last intact until the 2020 November election.

Last week, the US was sending signals to the Venezuelans to start an insurrection, then there was a reversal after Trump spoke with Putin, whose footprints are all over Venezuela and its rich oil deposits, the same reason that US is engaged in its outcome.

What happens to immigrants and the border crisis with the new Homeland Security nominee? The Attorney General is flouting Congress, refusing meetings with Committee chairs. There is no longer separation of powers between the executive and legislative branch of US government.

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By stonewalling Congressional summons of executive branch staff, Trump is really nullifying the results of the November 2018 election and the Democratic Congressional victory. Will the House Democrats be more forceful with the executive branch invoking court intervention? Will the Republicans speak up about the chaos and dysfunction the has visited our government? We know that impeachment is not an option with the GOP Senate.

President Ronald Reagan’s daughter Patti Davis wrote a Washington Post opinion piece, saying to Republicans, “You have claimed my father’s legacy.

Patti Davis He called America “the shining city on a hill….. Trump sees America as another of his possessions that he can slap his name on. He is supposed to serve the American people. If you are going to stand silent as America is dismantled and dismembered as democracy is thrown into the ash heap of yesterday, shame on you.

But don’t use my father’s name on the way down.” Thanks, Patti Bronx Borough president Ruben Diaz, Jr extends an open invitation to New Yorkers to BRONX WEEK which runs from May 9-19. It is a rich calendar of events which celebrates boro’s business, cultural enrichment, diversity and community programs. During that week a blacktie Bronx Ball, will be held on May 18, culminating with the Bronx Wall of Fame induction ceremony on Grand Concourse followed by a Parade and a Food and Art Festival.

RITES OF SPRING Assemblymember Inez Dickens will host her annual spring fundraiser and garden party at her home, on Thursday, May 23, at 201 We s t 139 Street, H a r l e m .

Leaders who have impacted the communiCrystal D. ty positively Peoples-Stokes l i ke NYS Assembly Majority Leader Crystal D. Peoples –Stokes; One Hundred Black Men; Rev. Reginald Lee Bachus; and Orzo Thaddeus (OT) Wells, Esquire, posthumously, will be honored. RSVP Darren Rigger at 212.862.4990 Ethiopia-born restauranteur/ owner Leah Abraham plans a soft opening of Settepani Ristorante, on Thursday, May 16. Our favorite sidewalk café, located at Lenox Avenue at 120 Street, Harlem, Settepani is one of the oldest fine dining venues in the new Harlem.

free Black Community, during the 19th Century. Named after James Weeks, a Black freeman, who bought land in what is today’s Bed Stuy and then sold plots to other freemen. It was a place where Black excellence thrived and flourished.

The early Weeksville community opened businesses, churches, schools. Its denizens, for example, included professionals and entrepreneurs like Susan Smith McKinney Stewart, born in 1846, was the first Black woman physician in New York State and one of only three in the USA; and her sister Sarah Smith Garnet was the first Black female school principal in the NYC school system. The history of that free society has been preserved under the auspices of the Weeksville Heritage Society, WHS, a nonprofit where its documents and artifacts have been preserved., where community programs are held while it continues to promote race pride and respectability. It is a treasure trove for historians and curious New Yorkers alike. Like many cultural organizations, it has to deal with skyrocketing operating costs and a shrinking donor base.

The Society is struggling to stay afloat.

Earlier this week, Rob Fields, WHS President and Executive Director, launched a $200,000 crowd funding campaign, featuring Brooklyn-born actor Michael K. Williams, (Boardwalk Empire) to stay keep its doors open through the summer of 2019. Donations are welcome. Visit weeksvillesociety.org.

Michael K. Williams THEATER: Congrats to 2019 Tony nominees, Andre De Shields for best featured actor in a musical HADESTOWN, his third Tony nomination and to George C. Wolfe best director for GARY: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus. Again, congrats to AIN’T TOO PROUD, THE MUSICAL about Motown’s Temptations, the recipient of 12 Tony nominations. The 73rd Annual Tony Awards ceremony airs live on June 9.

Banana Puddin’s Rome Neal of “Round A b o u t Midnight acclaim, and playwright/ a u t h o r Ishmael Reed Ishmael Reed present a fundraiser/reading of Reed’s “The Haunting Of Lin-Manuel Miranda,” a play in two acts, which revisits another side of Andrew Hamilton, the protagonist of the runaway Broadway show HAMILTON, on May 11 at 7 pm, at the Dwyer Cultural Center, 258 St. Nicholas Avenue, on 123 Street, Harlem. Visit Romeneal.com or call 718.288.8048.

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ARTS/CULTURE/ HISTORY The Weeksville area in Central Brooklyn, New York was America’s second-largest

RIP: Norma Miller, 99, aka Queen of Swing, died at her home in Ft. Meyers, Florida. A quadruple threat Miller was a dancer, actress, author, comedian and the last survivor of the original Whitey Lindy Hoppers of Savoy Ballroom fame, a part of a career, which spanned 70 years.

She worked with Cab Calloway, Richard Pryor, Moms Mabley and Redd Foxx, in films, theater and TV. She will be buried at Woodlawn Cemetery on May 24th after a viewing at Benta’s Funeral Home in Harlem at 10:30 am to 1 pm.

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Thinker’s Notebook

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here was a protest in Harlem in July 1959 that most don’t even know about; it was called the “Whiskey Rebellion”. The protest centered on the plight of the Black liquor salesman. Back then, Black liquor salesmen were relegated to sell only to the smaller Black-owned liquor stores in Harlem and parts of Brooklyn, while white salesmen, often selling the same exact brands, could sell anywhere throughout the five boroughs including the larger, more frequented liquor stores in the same Black communities where the Black salesman couldn’t. At this time, Harlem was considered the most lucrative market for liquor, and when Black folk realized that Black salesmen were being boxed out of selling to liquor stores in their own community, they took to the streets and protested white-owned liquor establishments in Harlem.

Sixty years later, Black participation in the Wine and Spirit industry has reached the level of ownership. Scores of black-owned wine and spirit companies exist globally. But while Black brands are more prominent than ever, the problem now is how to get Black communities to support them.

Meet Jason Armstrong. Jason is the owner of Real Time Results Importing based in Park Slope. He is also the owner of two wine and spirit brands: Amber Notes Wine and Den of Thieves Whiskey. For Jason, wine and spirits started as a thing of leisure and not something that he could build a business around. “I lived in Italy for a few years. That’s how I got into importing,” said Armstrong. “While I was Italy I met the owner of a vineyard. It was a Lambrusco, which I fell in love with. I spent some weeks drinking it on a regular basis because it was really good. When I was moving back to New York, the owner asked me if I could import for him because he wanted his wine in the American market. I knew nothing about importing. My background is actually personal training and massage therapy. That’s what I was in Italy for. But I decided to take a chance because I loved the product.

“So, I came back to America and I did research on how to open an importing

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company. I found out that the process wasn’t difficult. I made an arrangement with him so that I could control the label and the brand.

Basically, it would be his wine being sold through my brand. I took my tax return from that year and bought three palettes and started importing. When it came to the whiskey, I did some research, went to Kentucky and found a couple of distilleries willing to source me some whiskey, found a flavor house to create my flavor and found a bottler who would bottle for me, and I created Den of Thieves Whiskey.”

And while his hustle and drive has yielded some amazing results in the Wine and Spirit industry, Jason is quite aware that being a Black owner of a wine brand is still an uncomfortable dish for many to swallow - both in his community and outside of it. “I can honestly say that my color has played a role in my experiences in importing. When I initially started, I was fortunate enough to meet people over the phone. That helped. But the people I spoke to over the phone would be very surprised to meet me in person. My race came into play when I started going into stores and trying to sell my own product. It was disheartening to see that I couldn’t sell my own product in stores. I found that my face wasn’t the face that would sell this wine.I actually had to hire a salesperson, he’s a great guy, a white guy, a musician, a very friendly guy, and he went into places that I went into and was told no – and he sold the product.

A lot of places, when I talked about being a brand owner there would be this strange reaction, as if there was a question as to how could I be an owner. But when I would say I was representing a brand, people seemed to be okay with that. I actually stopped telling people I was the owner. And I hate to say it, but it seems to be people of color who seemed more unwilling to take a chance on my product than white people were. I’ve found a lot more opposition from my own community.”

60 years after the community fought for the right for Black liquor salesmen to sell in liquor stores city-wide, Black liquor brand owners now find a system where brand recognition trumps Cooperative Economics. Fortunately,

Jason Armstrong is the owner of Real Time Results Importing based in Park Slope, and two wine and spirit brands; Amber Notes Wine and Den of Thieves Whiskey. there are other Black businesses looking to align with Black owners in the industry. One such business is Tap and Cork, the beer and wine festival started in 2013 by a group that includes Tai Allen. The next Tap and Cork event will be on Saturday May 25, 2019 at

the Kings Theater, and Jason and other Blackowned beer, wine and spirit brands will be available for your tasting pleasures.

Community power starts with economic power. Support community businesses and business owners when you can.

Life Outside of The EAST

ne of the highlights of my life was being involved in the EAST Cultural Center.

One of the eye-opening experiences was seeing an organization being grown from the ashes of an abandoned building into a world-class cultural and educational center.

I still have to wrap my head around the fact that the EAST organization was started by teenagers. When we think of teenagers, we usually think of self-absorbed individuals.

Looking back on fifty years, it still baffles me and gives me hope for things to come.

My thought is that if we could do it with the resources available to us then, there is a great possibility that the youth of today can far exceed our triumphs and expectations. It was under the tutelage of my former teacher Jitu Weusi who became the architect for my trying to replicate the EAST Cultural Center wherever I went.

Having participated in building an organization from scratch opened my eyes to the possibilities of replicating the EAST experience anywhere in the world.

My first experience outside of New York

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City in creating the EAST was at the State University of New York in Albany. We, the students, many from Brooklyn, were instrumental in creating “Black Weekend.”

This was a cultural and political extravaganza. We brought Pharaoh Sanders, Miles Davis, Aretha Franklin, The Heath Brothers, Mongo Santamaria and Gil Scott Heron to the school. It was through the inspiration of the East and Jitu Weusi that we were able to contact and negotiate with these artists. The foundations of the EAST were firmly planted in my consciousness. At SUNY-Albany, we named our newspaper, Kujichagulia (SelfDetermination), and our magazine, Umoja (Unity).

One of the observations one makes when they leave the crucible of New York is how far behind many residents are in these outlying states. Much of this cultural lag is due to the lack of exposure. In New York, you are bombarded by every cultural aspect of the Black World. After moving to California, I re-created aspects of the EAST at the local community college. I replicated all of the programs I was exposed to at the East.

In many instances, transplants from New York bemoan the fact that there is a dearth of culture that they are used to. My experience from the EAST saw every opportunity to create where there was a need. I used to tell my students that whenever there is a need, it was their responsibility to fill it. People from New York who are engaged in “nation-building” have an open palette to create similar institutions in other cities. The EAST taught me that pioneering spirit. That spirit is available to those who are willing to build.

The EAST experience taught me that you build from home to home and community to community, expanding to an institution like the African Street Festival (International African Arts Festival) when the opportunity arises. It is the same spirit that the AfricanAmerican churches use when they are pioneering in a new location. There was a film that stated, “If you build it, they will come.”

I always welcome settling in a location where “there is nothing happening.” Many times, the mere concept of networking will help generate interest in building a cultural organization. I must admit coming home

to Brooklyn and experiencing the warmth and camaraderie of the EAST family makes me nostalgic for “the good old days.” You get charged up and continue the process of building from scratch. In the words of our great Booker T. Washington, “Cast down your bucket where you are.”

I look forward to reuniting with many of the sisters and brothers who made the EAST what it was as we celebrate our 50th Anniversary on May 18th in Brooklyn.

“All of these accomplishments were guided by the influence of my grammar school teacher Jitu Weusi. I would not have had the insight to initiate any of these things without the mentorship and wisdom of my former teacher and mentor.”

Raphael Jackson is a former New York City Public Schoolteacher, former Assistant Director of the Urban Media Education Institute at Columbia University Teachers College, retired Assistant Professor at Bethune Cookman University, a radio and record producer and the author/editor of three anthologies. He currently lives in Kentucky.

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THE NEW YORK CHAPTER OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF KAWAIDA ORGANIZATIONS (NAKO) & The INTERNATIONAL AFRICAN ARTS FESTIVAL (IAAFestival) Will Hosts the 50th Annual MALCOLM X BLACK UNITY AWARDS 2019 Awardees •

Imam Jamil Al-Amin aka H. Rap Brown • Elendar Barnes • Baruti & Nia Bediako • Roger Burwell • Jamila & Sewaa Codrington • Lloyd Weaver, • Ancestors Bill Jones • & Stan Kinard Program Includes Film and Speakers

Sun. May 19 3 – 5PM Skylight Gallery, 3rd Fl. Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration 1368 Fulton St., Brooklyn 11216 Suggested Minimum Donation $10.

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Human Society Under Urgent Threat from Loss of Earth’s Natural Life ➔➔ Continued from page 2 of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere passed the 415 parts-per-million mark for the first time. Even if global heating can be kept within the Paris Agreement target of 1.5C to 2C, the ranges of most species will shrink profoundly, the paper warns.

Our species now extracts 60bn tons of resources each year, almost double the amount in 1980, though the world population has grown by only 66% in that time. The report notes how the discharges are overwhelming the Earth’s capacity to absorb them. More than 80% of wastewater is pumped into streams, lakes and oceans without treatment, along with 300m-400m tons of heavy metals, toxic slurry and other industrial discharges. Plastic waste has risen tenfold since 1980, affecting 86% of marine turtles, 44% of seabirds and 43% of marine mammals. Fertilizer runoff has created 400 “dead zones,” affecting an area the size of the UK. Andy Purvis, a professor at the Natural History Museum in London and one of the main authors of the report, said he was encouraged that nations had agreed on the need for bitter medicine.

“This is the most thorough, most detailed and most extensive planetary health check. The take-home message is that we should have gone to the doctor sooner. We are in a bad way.

The society we would like our children and grandchildren to live in is in real jeopardy. I cannot overstate it,” he said.

“If we leave it to later generations to clear up the mess, I don’t think they will forgive us.”

The U.N. report “means that nature is collapsing around us, and it’s a real wake-up call to humanity,” said Andrew Wetzler, managing director of the nature program for the Natural Resources Defense Council, a conservation group.

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steemed humanitarian, poet, playwright, social justice activist and mother, SONIA SANCHEZ will be featured at a special event on Mother’s Day, Sunday, May 12, 2019 at Roulette (3pm). PEN World Voices Literary Festival will present “Revolutionary Art, Love and Family” with Sonia Sanchez, Mayor Ras J. Baraka and April R. Silver.

Sonia Sanchez teaches us that, “[In] order to be a true revolutionary, you must understand love.” Under her love and mentorship, Baraka (Mayor of the City of Newark, NJ) and Silver (founder of the AKILA WORKSONGS communications agency) have spent their lives dedicated to demonstrating love in all that they do. Scholar, writer and curator Rich Blint will serve as moderator for this family-friendly event.

This program is presented with production support from the Poetry Foundation. All are welcome!

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Literary Festival online at www.worldvoices. pen.org. Admission is $15. Use promo code AKILA2019 and save off the regular admission.

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s the community rallies to save its landmarks, it has not forgotten the work of those who came before.

On Earth Day,Monday, April 22, friends and supporters of The Magnolia Tree Earth Center on Lafayette Avenue gathered to celebrate one woman’s efforts during the 1960’s to save a tree and the houses that protected it from the North winds. They also paid homage through libations and heartfelt words to the start of a new era: the revival of urban ecologist Hattie Carthan’s dream to provide a full-service community environmental organization for children and families in her neighborhood and beyond.

Like most non-profits, the Center is struggling to stand tall. And MTEC’s new executive director Marlon Rice -- with the support of current MTEC chair David Mark Greaves and founding MTEC Board Member Nancy Wolf -- is determined to resurrect and activate Carthan’s original missions. He has been joined in the struggle by some of Brooklyn’s stalwart organizational leaders, including in alpha order, seen in these photos: Barry Cooper, Yonnette Fleming, Keith L. Forest,

All Photos: Qaasim Barefield

Renee V. Turner Gregory, Oma Holloway, Selma Jackson, Atim Oton, Aurora Robinson, Sakina Williams, Stefani Zinerman, Rice says his quest is not only to preserve the Magnolia Grandiflora designated, in 1970, as a landmark by NYC’s Landmarks Preservation Commission, but also its smaller neighboring tree, planted by the Brooklyn chapter of Delta Sigma Theta sorority and Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm, during the 1970’s.

(The tree was intended as a replacement in case anything ever happened to the older one.)

Now enfolded in scaffolding for protection – the trees bloom, every year, in June. But the spirit of preserving our legacies and saving our memories is a daily, life-long process for Black Brooklyn. This week, with the 100th anniversary of folk singer Pete Singer’s birth, we are reminded of the joint work Magnolia’s Hattie Carthan and Weeksville’s Joan Maynard in bringing the folk singer to Brooklyn Academy of Music to perform at a fundraising concert for the benefit of both cultural institutions.

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ith the belief that an informed constituency is an engaged constituency, St. Senator Zelnor Myrie (D-20th SD) held the first of three town halls on Saturday, May 4, 2019 at St. Francis De Sales School for the Deaf, located on Eastern Parkway.

The topic was the annual New York State budget process; the goal to explain the budgetary process which funds various state offices and agencies in understandable terms so that people will be interested and able to engage in this process.

Financing state operations involves the Governor, the state Senate and the state Assembly. Each unit will develop a budget package and later wrangle about the final numbers. Myrie wanted attendees to understand the power that Governor Cuomo has in this operation.

The Governor’s Office prepares a budget separate from what the Senate and Assembly puts together. The state Senate and state Assembly will hold hearings on different parts of the budget, which usually are capital projects and services.

This process occurs between January 1st and April 1st each year.

April 1st is the day to vote on the budget--just one budget. Therefore, there is much negotiating occurring days and nights leading up to April 1st. Add to this, the Governor can attach non- budgetary items onto this multibillion-dollar plan.

For example, policy items such as congestion pricing and banning plastic bags are in this year’s budget.

The 2019 state budget is $168 billion, of which a significant amount was allocated for health care and education.

Myrie explained, “This year’s budget features such criminal justice reforms as eliminating cash bail, effecting speedy trials and discovery laws which ensures the presentation of substantive evidence.”

He went on to say, “Other reforms involve early voting, online voter

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registration and e-poll books. Further, establishing early polling sites has been bandied about and has been met with approval by the NYC Board of Elections that would manage sites and the City of New York is willing to cover the cost. The budget includes funding for the New York State DREAM Act, which gives stability or definition to young adults termed “Dreamers.”

If it takes three months to determine how much money each program and office requires to operate effectively seems daunting, one’s perception is realistic.

Myrie contends more time is required to read and examine all of the budget bills.

However, there is the concept of “message of necessity” that doesn’t permit “the budget to age.”

Other good news coming out of the budget includes an additional $500 million designated for people with disabilities and the passing of the Homeless Stability Act, which addresses New York’s homelessness epidemic. There are approximately 93,000 homeless people in New York State, of which 63,000 are concentrated in the five boroughs.

Another sticking point for the Empire State is segregation within the City of New York’s public-school system. Depending on the neighborhood and the racial and ethnic composition, certain programs and learning tools are not available. Further, this reporter was informed by a young female AfricanAmerican student attending the college fair held in April at Brooklyn Technical High School, that some Asian-American students are in the habit of referring to their African-American classmates as the “N” word.

Closing the town hall on positive notes, St. Senator Myrie said the Governor signed the executive order making it possible for ex-convicted individuals to regain their voting rights. This legislation was put together by St. Senator Comrie and garnered support from many other senators. An attendee of the meeting asked, “How can an average New Yorker have a say in New York State politics.”

Myrie’s response was, “By e-mailing, calling and most importantly, handwritten letters to the elected officials that explains what you want.”

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LEGAL NOTICES ➔➔ Continued from page 8 Lot 1522. Approximate amount of judgment $235,588.32 plus interest and costs.

Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index# 500849/2015. Jacob Gelfand, Esq., Referee Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, LLC Attorney(s) for the Plaintiff 175 Mile Crossing Boulevard Rochester, New York 14624 (877) 430-4792 Dated: March 15, 2019 62182 NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT KINGS COUNTY WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, D/B/A CHRISTANA TRUST, NOT INDIVIDUALLY BUT AS TRUSTEE FOR PRETIUM MORTGAGE ACQUISITION TRUST, Plaintiff against IOLANTA TYUTIN A/K/A IOLANTA TYUTINA, ET AL, et al Defendants Attorney for Plaintiff(s) Knuckles, Komosinski & Manfro, LLP, 565 Taxter Road, Suite 590, Elmsford, NY 10523 Attorney (s) for Plaintiff (s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered August 10, 2017, I will sell at public auction to the highest bidder at Room 224 of Kings County Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, New York, 11201 on June 13, 2019 at 2:30 PM. Premises known as 2041 Royce Street, Brooklyn, NY 112346220. Block 8416 Lot 19. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, City and State of New York. Approximate Amount of Judgment is $583,008.68 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index No 503382/2014. Cash will not be accepted at the sale. Gregory T. Cerchione, Esq., Referee 2296-002906 NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF KINGS, EMIGRANT BANK AS SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO EMIGRANT SAVINGS BANKBROOKLYN/QUEENS AS ASSIGNEE OF EMIGRANT MORTGAGE COMPANY, INC., Plaintiff, vs. GUSTAVO ALVAREZ, DORIS ALVAREZ, ET AL., Defendant(s).

Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly filed on September 25, 2017 and an Order Extending Time to File Conduct a Sale dated July 18, 2018, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Kings County Supreme Court, Room 224, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, NY on June 13, 2019 at 2:30 p.m., premises known as 28 Schenck Avenue, Brooklyn, NY. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and State of New York, Block 3919 and Lot 23. Approximate amount of judgment is $389,969.15 plus interest and costs.

Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 12679/2014.

Jageshwar Sharma, Esq., Referee Borchert & LaSpina, P.C., 19-02 Whitestone Expressway, Suite 302, Whitestone, New York 11357, Attorneys for Plaintiff NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF KINGS WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A., AS TRUSTEE, BANC OF AMERICA ALTERNATIVE LOAN TRUST 2006-9 MORTGAGE PASS THROUGH CERTIFICATES, Plaintiff AGAINST CARL L. DARRISAW, et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated March 13, 2019 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Room 224 of Kings County Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, New York 11201, on May 30, 2019 at 2:30PM, premises known as 326 MALCOLM X BOULEVARD, BROOKLYN, NY 11233.

All that certain plot piece or parcel of

land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and State of New York, BLOCK 1681, LOT 48. Approximate amount of judgment $919,367.87 plus interest and costs.

Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment for Index# 503100/2015.

PAUL B. GROMAN, ESQ., Referee Gross Polowy, LLC Attorney for Plaintiff 1775 Wehrle Drive, Suite 100 Williamsville, NY 14221 62779 SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF KINGS _ SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS INDEX NO. 522391/2017 Mortgaged Premises: 1102 PROSPECT PLACE BROOKLYN, NY 11213 Block: 1237 Lot: 31Plaintiff designates KINGS as the place of trial situs of the real property FAREVERSE LLC I/L/ T/N FINANCE OF AMERICA REVERSE LLC., Plaintiff, vs. CARL BANNISTER, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF CRAIG BANNISTER; ALAN BANNISTER, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF CRAIG BANNISTER; UNKNOWN HEIRS OF THE ESTATE OF CRAIG BANNISTER; any and all persons unknown to plaintiff, claiming, or who may claim to have an interest in, or general or specific lien upon the real property described in this action; such unknown persons being herein generally described and intended to be included in the following designation, namely: the wife, widow, husband, widower, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors, and assignees of such deceased, any and all persons deriving interest in or lien upon, or title to said real property by, through or under them, or either of them, and their respective wives, widows, husbands, widowers, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors and assigns, all of whom and whose names, except as stated, are unknown to plaintiff; SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA – INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE; NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE; THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK; ‘’JOHN DOE #1’’ through ‘’JOHN DOE #12,’’ the last twelve names being fictitious and unknown to plaintiff, the persons or parties intended being the tenants, occupants, persons or corporations, if any, having or claiming an interest in or lien upon the premises, described in the complaint, Defendants. To the above named Defendants YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the complaint is not served with this summons, to serve a notice of appearance on the Plaintiff’s Attorney within 20 days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within 30 days after the service is complete if this summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York) in the event the United States of America is made a party defendant, the time to answer for the said United States of America shall not expire until (60) days after service of the Summons; and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint. NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT THE OBJECT of the above caption action is to foreclose a Mortgage to secure the sum of $750,000.00 and interest, recorded on November 21, 2011, at Instrument number CRFN 2011000406131, of the Public Records of KINGS County, New York, covering premises known as 1102 PROSPECT PLACE BROOKLYN, NY 11213. The relief sought in the within action is a final

judgment directing the sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt secured by the Mortgage described above. KINGS County is designated as the place of trial because the real property affected by this action is located in said county. NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home.

Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property. Sending a payment to the mortgage company will not stop the foreclosure action. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. RAS BORISKIN, LLC Attorney for Plaintiff BY: SAHAR HAMLANI, ESQ. 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 310 Westbury, NY 11590 516-280-7675 NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF KINGS U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee for SG Mortgage Securities Trust 2006-FRE2, Asset Backed Certificates, Series 2006-FRE2, Plaintiff AGAINST Juan Rosado; Juana Rosado; et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated February 26, 2019 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Kings County Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, Room 224, Brooklyn, NY 11201 on May 23, 2019 at 2:30PM, premises known as 2 Jardine Place, Brooklyn, NY 11233. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and State of NY, Block 1573 Lot 27. Approximate amount of judgment $624,603.63 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index# 512257/2014.

Aaron Tyk, Esq., Referee Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, LLC Attorney(s) for the Plaintiff 175 Mile Crossing Boulevard Rochester, New York 14624 (877) 430-4792 Dated: March 12, 2019 SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF KINGS Nationstar Mortgage LLC d/b/a Mr. Cooper Plaintiff,- against - Chiva Barlatier, as Administratrix and Heir to the Estate of Marie Jeannette Balatier a/k/a Marie Jeannette Barlatier a/k/a Marie Barlatier, Deana Barlatier, as Heir to the Estate of Marie Jeannette Balatier a/k/a Marie Jeannette Barlatier a/k/a Marie Barlatier if living and if any be dead, any and all persons who are spouses, widows, grantees, mortgagees, lienor, heirs, devisees, distributees, or successors in interest of such of the above as may be dead, and their spouses, heirs, devisees, distributees and successors in interest, all of whom and whose names and places of residences are unknown to Plaintiff , Hadiya Ruvia Barlatier-Johnson, as Heir to the Estate of Marie Jeannette Balatier a/k/a Marie Jeannette Barlatier a/k/a Marie Barlatier, United States of America, New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, New York City Environmental Control Board, New York City Parking Violations Bureau, New York City Transit Adjudication Bureau, Criminal Court of the City of New York, John Doe (Refused Name), John Doe (Refused Name), John Doe (Refused Name), Tewible Doe (Refused Last Name), Defendants.

Index No. 514574/2018 Filed: 4/17/2019 SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS Plaintiff designates Kings County as the place of trial. Venue is based upon the County in which

VOL. 23 NO. 19 the Mortgage premises is situated. TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANT(S): YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your Answer or, if the Complaint is not served with this Summons, to serve a Notice of Appearance on the attorneys for the plaintiff within twenty (20) days after service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within thirty (30) days after service is complete if this Summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York). In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT THE OBJECT of the above captioned action is to foreclose a Mortgage to secure $300,000.00 and interest, recorded in the Office of the Clerk of the County of KINGS on November 14, 2006, in CRFN 2006000631210, covering premises known as 1241 East 103 Street, Brooklyn, NY 11236. The relief sought in the within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt secured by the Mortgage described above. NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this Summons and Complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the Mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the Summons and protect your property. Sending a payment to your Mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. Dated: Bayshore, New York April 12, 2019 By: Linda P. Manfredi, Esq. Frenkel, Lambert, Weiss, Weisman & Gordon, LLP Attorneys for Plaintiff 53 Gibson Street Bay Shore, New York 11706 (631) 969-3100 Our File No.:01-088469-F00 SUPREME COURT – COUNTY OF KINGS U.S. BANK TRUST, N.A., AS TRUSTEE FOR LSF9 MASTER PARTICIPATION TRUST, Plaintiff against RICHARD BUCKHEIT, ESQ. AS PUBLIC ADMINISTRATOR OF KINGS COUNTY ON BEHALF OF THE ESTATE OF GREGORY BISCOMBE, et al Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered on January 17, 2018. I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction in Room 224 of the Kings County Courthouse, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. on the 30th day of May, 2019 at 2:30 p.m. premises described as follows: All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and State of New York. Said premises known as 40 Weirfield Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11207. (Block: 3401, Lot: 24) Approximate amount of lien $ 723,250.09 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed judgment and terms of sale. Index No. 6482-08. Angelique Moreno, Esq., Referee. Stern & Eisenberg, PC Attorney(s) for Plaintiff Woodbridge Corporate Plaza 485 B Route 1 South – Suite 330 Iselin, NJ 08830 (732) 582-6344 *For sale information, please visit www.auction. com or call 800-280-2832* NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT KINGS COUNTY WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, D/B/A CHRISTINA TRUST, NOT ➔➔ Continued on page 11

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LEGAL NOTICES ➔➔ Continued from page 10 INDIVIDUALLY BUT AS TRUSTEE FOR HILLDALE TRUST, Plaintiff against LIGAYA A. MUSA, et al Defendants Attorney for Plaintiff(s) Schiller, Knapp, Lefkowitz & Hertzel, LLP, 200 John James Audubon Parkway, Suite 202, Amherst, NY 14228 Attorney (s) for Plaintiff (s).

Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered March 26, 2019, I will sell at public auction to the highest bidder at Room 224 of Kings County Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, New York, 11201 on May 30, 2019 at 2:30 PM. Premises known as 3038 Brighton 7th Street, Brooklyn, New York 11235.

Block 8676 Lot 58. The land referred to herein below is situated in the County of Kings, City of Brooklyn, State of New York. Approximate Amount of Judgment is $68,452.78 plus interest and costs.

Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index No 513675/2016.

For sale information, please visit www.

Auction.com or call (800) 280-2832. Leo Salzman, Esq., Referee 16-09672 SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF KINGS SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS AND NOTICE Index No. 507548/2018 Date Filed: 4/12/2019 HSBC Bank USA, National Association, as Trustee, in trust for the registered holders of ACE Securities Corp. Home Equity Loan Trust, Series 2007-WM1, Asset Backed Pass-Through Certificates, Plaintiff, -against- Maria Miranda, if she be living or dead, her spouse, heirs, devisees, distributees and successors in interest, all of whom and whose names and places of residence are unknown to Plaintiff, Juan Rios, if he be living or dead, his spouse, heirs, devisees, distributees and successors in interest, all of whom and whose names and places of residence are unknown to Plaintiff; Chase Manhattan Mortgage Corporation; The Provident Bank (Of Cincinnati, Ohio); Department of Housing Preservation and Development; New York State Department of Taxation and Finance; Criminal Court of the City of New York; City of New York Environmental Control Board; City of New York Parking Violations Bureau; City of New York Transit Adjudication Bureau; State of New York and “JOHN DOE”, said name being fictitious, it being the intention of Plaintiff to designate any and all occupants of premises being foreclosed herein, and any parties, corporations or entities, if any, having or claiming an interest or lien upon the mortgaged premises, Defendants.

PROPERTY ADDRESS: 97 Vermont Street, Brooklyn, NY 11207 TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or a notice of appearance on the attorneys for the Plaintiff within twenty (20) days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the days of service, or within thirty (30) days after service is complete if the summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York. The United States of America, if designated as a defendant in this action, may appear within sixty (60) days of service hereof. In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint. TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: The foregoing Summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an Order of the Hon. Noach Dear, a Justice of the Supreme Court, Kings County, entered April 9, 2019 and filed with the complaint and other papers in the Kings County Clerk’s Office. NOTICE OF NATURE OF

OUR TIME PRESS May 9 - 15, 2019 ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT THE OBJECT of the above captioned action is to foreclose a Mortgage to secure $496,000.00 and interest, recorded in the Kings County Office of the City Register on September 18, 2006, in CRFN 2006000523822 covering premises known as 97 Vermont Street, Brooklyn, NY 11207 a/k/a Block 3662, Lot 1. Further, to secure the cancellation and discharge of (2) mortgages recorded in the Kings County Office of the City Register on December 30, 2002 in. The relief sought in the within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt secured by the Mortgage described above. Plaintiff designates Kings County as the place of trial. Venue is based upon the County in which the mortgaged premises is situated.

NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME IF YOU DO NOT RESPOND TO THIS SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE MORTGAGE COMPANY WHO FILED THIS FORECLOSURE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT, A DEFAULT JUDGMENT MAY BE ENTERED AND YOU CAN LOSE YOUR HOME. SPEAK TO AN ATTORNEY OR GO TO THE COURT WHERE YOUR CASE IS PENDING FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ON HOW TO ANSWER THE SUMMONS AND PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY. SENDING A PAYMENT TO YOUR MORTGAGE COMPANY WILL NOT STOP THIS FORECLOSURE ACTION. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER w1TH THE COURT. Dated: Jan. 23, 2019 Frank M. Cassara, Esq. Senior Associate Attorney SHAPIRO, DICARO & BARAK, LLC Attorneys for Plaintiff 175 Mile Crossing Boulevard Rochester, New York 14624 (585) 247-9000 Fax: (585) 247-7380 Our File No. 11-013180 #96892 SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK - COUNTY OF KINGS DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE REGISTERED HOLDERS OF MORGAN STANLEY ABS CAPITAL I INC. TRUST 2007-HE6 MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2007-HE6, V. BRIDGETTE STEWART, ET AL. NOTICE OF SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to a Final Judgment of Foreclosure dated January 28, 2016, and entered in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Kings, wherein DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE REGISTERED HOLDERS OF MORGAN STANLEY ABS CAPITAL I INC. TRUST 2007-HE6 MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2007-HE6 is the Plaintiff and BRIDGETTE STEWART, ET AL. are the Defendants. I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the KINGS COUNTY COURTHOUSE, 360 ADAMS STREET ROOM 224, BROOKLYN, NY 11201, on May 23, 2019 at 2:30 PM, premises known as 2276A ATLANTIC AVE, BROOKLYN, NY 11233: Block 1435, Lot 17: ALL THAT CERTAIN PLOT, PIECE OR PARCEL OF LAND WITH THE BUILDINGS AND IMPROVEMENTS THEREON ERECTED, SITUATE, LYING AND BEING IN THE BOROUGH OF BROOKLYN, COUNTY OF KINGS, CITY AND STATE OF NEW YORK Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 4882/2008. ERIC ADAM GOLDBERG, Esq. - Referee. RAS Boriskin, LLC 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 310, Westbury, New York 11590, Attorneys for Plaintiff.

REFEREE’S NOTICE OF SALE IN FORECLOSURE SUPREME COURT – COUNTY OF KINGS THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK AS TRUSTEE FOR THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS OF THE CWABS, INC. ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2007-9, Plaintiff – against – SADIQUE MALIK, et al Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered on February 27, 2019. I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Room 224, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York on the 16th Day of May, 2019 at 2:30 p.m. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and State of New York. Premises known as 100 19th Avenue, Brooklyn, (City of New York) NY 11232. (Block: 8284, Lot: 102) Approximate amount of lien $855,815.71 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed judgment and terms of sale. Index No. 504836/2014.

Philip L. Kamaras, Esq., Referee. Davidson Fink LLP Attorney(s) for Plaintiff 28 East Main Street, Suite 1700 Rochester, NY 14614-1990. Tel. 585/760-8218 For sale information, please visit Auction.com at www.

Auction.com or call (800) 280-2832. Dated: March 12, 2019 NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF KINGS JPMorgan Chase Bank, N. A., Plaintiff AGAINST Alexis Camacho; et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated March 18, 2019 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Kings County Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, Room 224, Brooklyn, NY 11201

11 on May 16, 2019 at 2:30PM, premises known as 1019 Sutter Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11208. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and State of NY, Block 4035 Lot 30. Approximate amount of judgment $62,922.15 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index# 511047/2016. Betty Lugo, Esq., Referee Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, LLC Attorney(s) for the Plaintiff 175 Mile Crossing Boulevard Rochester, New York 14624 (877) 430-4792 Dated: April 3, 2019 62490 NOTICE OF SALE Supreme Court County Of Kings US Bank National Association, as Trustee for CSMC M o r t ga g e - B a c ke d Pa s s - T h r o u g h Certificates, Series 2006-7, Plaintiff AGAINST Jack Esses, Laurie Esses, et al, Defendant Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated 1/11/19 and entered on 1/23/19, I, the undersigned Referee, will sell at public auction at the Kings County Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, NY on May 16, 2019 at 02:30 PM premises known as 504 Avenue N, Brooklyn, NY 11230. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the County of Kings, City and State of New York, BLOCK: 6587, LOT: 4. Approximate amount of judgment is $1,345,974.81 plus interests and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 13335/2009. Philip Kamaras, Referee FRENKEL LAMBERT WEISS WEISMAN & GORDON LLP 53 Gibson Street Bay Shore, NY 11706

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OUR TIME PRESS May 9 - 15, 2019

Temple 317 Clermont Ave @ Lafayette, 2-7pm $25 in advance, $30 @ door, $15 (ages 12-17) $5 (under 12) Celebrate a milestone Black Cultural Nationalist institution that influenced the nation from its home in Bedford-Stuyvesant.

The EAST opened one of the nation’s first independent Black

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conceived this award, named after Jane Lee Green and presented to an honoree who “gives meaning, strength, and life to the words “voice for the voiceless, advocate for the most vulnerable.”

Sunday, May 19th 50TH ANNUAL MALCOLM X BLACK UNITY AWARDS

Borough Hall Columbus Park Plaza 209 Joralemon St., 1pm, FREE. Bring your lunch and sit on the plaza for an interactive discussion on personal finances as related to housing. Topics will include Steps to Home Ownership, Negotiating Rent and Renters Insurance. The session is facilitated by News 12’s Kristie Reeter and financial expert Jamila Souffrant of “Making Cents with Kristie and presented by the Office of the Brooklyn Borough President. RSVP to Brooklyn-usa.org/FEplaza2019

Sunday, June 2nd Friday, May 10th BAIL BLACK MAMAS OUT OF JAIL FOR MOTHER’S DAY National Bail Out is working with the Movement 4 Black Lives to free Black mothers and caregivers in jail because of lack of bail money, allowing them to spend the holiday with their children. The organization then provides supportive services and fellowship opportunities for these mothers. National Bail Out (pictured above) is a Black-led and Black-centered collective of abolitionists. Give what you can to support the campaign in time for Mother’s Day. Visit nationalbailout.org.

Sunday, May 12th REVOLUTIONARY ART, LOVE, AND FAMILY Roulette 509 Atlantic Ave., 3pm, $15.

Honor an iconic maternal muse

on Mother’s Day! Spend time with legendary poet, playwright, humanitarian, and social justice activist, Sonia Sanchez. The beloved octogenarian will be in conversation with poet and Mayor of Newark, Ras J. Baraka, (son of the late, great poet Amiri Baraka), and with April R. Silver of Akila Worksongs, Inc., (cultural worker and editor of the Be A Father To Your Child anthology). They will talk with scholar, writer, and curator Rich Blint about revolution across generational lines and how the concept of family — in all its different forms — inspires and empowers their published writings, their use of art, and their pursuit of justice. Tickets at http:// bit.ly/sanchezbarakasilver.

Saturday, May 18th THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FOUNDING OF THE EAST Historic Masonic

schools, operated food, clothing and book stores, a jazz club and more, including the world renowned International African Arts Festival. Performances by jazz greats The EAST All Stars, featuring Reggie Workman, Danny Mixon, Curtis Folks, Taru Alexander and Ricardo Strobert. Jazz singer Tulivu Donna Cumberbatch and the Asase Yaa Dance Theater. Food will be sold and there will be a vendor and book market. For info call 718-638-6700. Tickets at Eventbrite Ist Annual Jane Lee Green Truthto-Power Award Boys & Girls High 1700 Fulton St., 9am FREE. The Adelaide L. Sanford Institute

Skylight Gallery, Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration 1368 Fulton St., 3-5pm, $10 minimum suggested donation. Imam Jamil Al-Amin aka H. Rap Brown, Elendar Barnes, Baruti and Nia Bediako, Roger Burwell, Jamila and Sewaa Codrington, Lloyd Weaver and ancestors Bill Jones and Stan Kinard are the 2019 awardees of this tribute, which includes films and speakers. Presented by the New York Chapter of the National Association of Kawaida Organizations and the International African Arts Festival. For info call 718-789-3264.

MARK YOUR CALENDARS Wednesday, May 22nd FINANCIAL EDUCATION ON THE PLAZA Brooklyn

LIBATION: OFFICIAL LAUNCH OF THE 48TH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL AFRICAN ARTS FESTIVAL

Restoration Plaza Amphitheater (Tent) 1368 Fulton St., 2-8pm, $20. This event salutes the 50th anniversary of The EAST organization and this year’s Festival theme, Ya Tond La Taaba (We Are All One) from the Mossi Nation of Burkina Faso. Julian Junior Marvin’s Wailers will headline as part of their “Message of Love’ tour, channeling the music and message of reggae legend Bob Marley, with whom Marvin played from 1977-1981.

The Woza Masakela ensemble, comprised of former members of Hugh Masakela’s band will perform a set in honor of the “father of South African Jazz.

Also performances by The IET band, Pan Evolution Steel Band Orchestra and DJ Hard Hittin’ Harry.