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Criminal Justice Reform Needs A New Leader ■ By Michael Lambert Between 1890 and 1920, after the passing of the 13th Amendment, African American Reformers including social workers, journalists, educators, and politicians founded the Progressive Movement, based on the belief that great change was needed to protect everyday people. Injustices that impacted African Americans included racism, segregation, political disenfranchisement, lack of access to quality healthcare, education, and affordable housing, and the rampant lynching of black men in the South. This Progressive period gave birth to great African American Reformers and leaders such as Booker T. Washington, W.E.B Du Bois, and Ida B. Wells, and led to the formation of organizations such as National Association of Colored Women, the Niagara Movement, the NAACP, and the National Urban League. Organizations founded by and led by the nation’s original Progressives, African Americans. Fast forward to 2019, and to many blacks, the word “progressive” has taken on very different meanings than in 1890. Today’s Progressive champions for Criminal Justice Reform (CJR), are often not black. When the New Jim Crow, a book written by civil rights litigator and legal scholar, Michelle Alexander, went mainstream, many whites took up the Progressive mantle.
Our Time Press (OTP) and Kings County Politics join Greene Avenue residents in celebrating a victory over the Department of Transportation, which had towed their cars and taken away their parking spaces last month. It was Sharon Holliday who first sounded the alert and Renee Collymore who organized a press conference to get the word out. The DOT determined that Greene Ave between Cambridge Place and Grand Avenue would enter the “Residential Loading Zone Evaluation” program a mere seven days after an initial notice. This meant that cars could no longer park on the street in an area that has experienced a scarcity of parking with the swelling of numbers of residents. When the week was up, the Department placed “boots” on their cars with a $185 ransom to be paid within two hours or their vehicles would be towed. Thanks in part to an early warning by community media and an angry and outspoken community, the DOT backed down, abandoning the program.
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Michael Lambert at Rikers Island asks where is the torchbearer for Black and Brown people?
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(Foreground) Rahwa Haile with son, Jude Prosper, 5, at demonstration to preserve 227 Duffield St., an abolitionist home and Underground Railroad site. Page 2
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The late Joy Chatel, center, resident of the former Underground Railroad station home at 227 Duffield St., seen here celebrating saving the house from imminent domain and redevelopment in 2007.
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coalition of four community organizations rallied in front of the Manhattan Municipal Building at 1 Centre Street, to get the Landmarks Preservation Commission to preserve 227 Duffield Street in downtown Brooklyn. By merely adding it to its list of buildings to consider for landmark status, the developer’s request to demolish the building will be put on hold. So far, the Commission’s only response has been, the request for landmark status is “under review.” Not satisfied with the Commission’s response, the determined group of men, women and children shouted repeatedly, “Abolitionist’s home. Leave it alone.” DBG MEDIA Publishers of Our Time Press, Inc. 358 Classon Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11238 (718) 599-6828 Web site: www.ourtimepress.com e-mail: editors@ourtimepress.com Publisher DBG MEDIA Editor-in-Chief David Mark Greaves
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Among them was Aleah Bacquie Vaughn, “Director” of Circle for Justice Innovations, organizing to end mass incarceration and mass criminalization. She joined the 227 coalition after noticing a picture of Harriet Tubman in the window and a sign indicating the building was to be demolished. The disconnect motivated her to investigate. She discovered the previous owner Joy Chatell aka “Mama Joy” had been in a long-term struggle to obtain landmark status for her building. The building had once been the home of abolitionists Harriet and Thomas Truesdell. Although the City disputes the claim, many also maintain the building had been a refuge for runaway slaves and that escape tunnels connected to other buildings – all of which have since been demolished. Vaughn also learned that Mama Joy’s house was negatively impacted by the building of the Indigo Hotel next door and the Sheraton across the street. Both caused flooding in her building, which resulted in mold. Building violation and limited finances forced Mama
Joy to enter into a deal with a contractor: repairs on her home in exchange for partial ownership. With a renovated home, Mama was hoping to generate income from the site as an educational and cultural center. However, no violations were lifted because the work provided did not meet City standards. To sully matters even more, the contractor sold his share of the property. In 2014, Mama Joy died from interstitial lung disease often caused by household mold. According to the NYC Department of Buildings website, on August 8, Robert Bianchini of ARC Architecture & Design Studio of Forest Hills, has submitted a pre-filing request to demolish the building and erect a thirteen story, mixed-use building on the site for owner Samiel Hanasab. Over 3,000 have signed the petition to preserve 227 Duffield and extend its life and that number is increasing by the hour on the Equity for Flatbush (E4F) website. Another demonstrator, Raul Rothblatt of Five Boros to Freedom, a new organization to change the narrative about what NYC represents,
maintains 227 “is the last remnant of the history that this building represents.” After a few speeches and rallying cries, the demonstrators went through scanning in the Municipal Building and made their way to the ninth floor to the Landmarks Preservation Commissioner’s Office. Christabel Gough, secretary of Society for the Architecture of the City, summarized our cause with an administrator and others left literature. The coalition is hoping its luck is not running out. “We saved the building from eminent domain ten years ago,” said Michael Higgins of Families United for Racial and Economic Equality (FUREE). “Now we are in a fight to save it again. We want to make sure the building gets the recognition it deserves.” Some protesters brought their children along such a Rahwa Haile of Brooklyn Movement Center and Equality for Flatbush whose son Jude Prosper, 5 stood with the demonstrators because he, too, wanted to save “The Freedom House.”
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Michael Higgins, of FUREE, explains Mama Joy’s life work, “a museum for posterity.”
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Sanitation Garage site, across Nostrand Ave. from Marcy Housing.
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fter 34 years, the wait in Bed- to [Sanitation] Commissioner Bushwick as a rat population ford-Stuyvesant’s Community [Kathyrn] Garcia. She came to district. Board 3 to get its own sanitation the budget consultation meeting “This is an environmental garage is finally over. and she promised us she would safety issue we’re talking about That, after Department of Sanitation fight to get the funding back to here. We already know about sources confirmed to KCP that the city- the garage and she did.” environmental racism and we’ve owned property at 56 Nostrand Avenue beButler explained how Bedbeen trying to address this for tween Park and Flushing Avenues that have Stuy has utilized the sanitation Photo: Kelly Mena many years,” said Butler, addlong been slated to house a sanitation garage garage in Williamsburg, which Community ing with gentrification bringing for the CB3 jurisdiction is finally getting the is a small garage and can’t house Board 3 District a housing and population boom green light to move forward. a lot of garbage trucks. As a re- Manager Henry to the neighborhood, the sanita“We’ve requested this back in 1985,” sult, Bed-Stuy property owners Butler. tion garage is needed now more said CB District Manager Henry would often not get a than ever. Butler, who as former chair of the morning run of trash pickups and Many in the community thought the community board along with the instead would have to wait until problem was solved when a city-owned site late Nelson M. Stout, the former the p.m. pickup, he said. at 56 Nostrand Avenue was slated to house CB3 Sanitation Committee Chair, “We have trash out there a new sanitation garage and Capital City has been trying to address the isall day – for 12-16 hours that money was slated to build it back in 2011, sue for many years. “We’ve been doesn’t get picked up,” Butler but it was delayed and then delayed again trying to address this for many said, adding that this is a con- in 2013. years and a lot of credit goes Nelson Stout tributing factor to Bed-Stuy and The problem became more exasperated
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GOVERNOR CUOMO SIGNS LEGISLATION ENACTING SWEEPING PROTECTIONS FOR HOMEOWNERS
overnor Andrew M. Cuomo today signed three measures enacting a package of sweeping homeowner protections. The legislation includes enhancing consumer protections and closing loopholes to prevent deed fraud and mortgage scams requiring banks to continue paying homeowner's association fees on zombie properties that are part of a co-op and safeguarding homeowners by reforming the obligations of banks and financial institutions during sale of a mortgage. Preventing Deed Fraud and Mortgage Scams (A.5615/S.1688) This law provides better protections for homeowners whose homes are either in default or in foreclosure. It closes loopholes to prevent deed fraud and mortgage scams, increasing the likelihood that a victim will have the opportunity to seek recovery in court. Requiring Payment of Homeowners' Association Fees (S.4182/A.1800) This measure requires banks or mortgage
holders of vacant and abandoned residential properties to continue paying homeowners' association fees or cooperative fees as needed to maintain a property when it has been abandoned during the foreclosure process. This will help to ensure properties do not become dilapidated before the foreclosure is finalized. Reforming Bank Obligations During Sale of Mortgage (A.92A/S.5017A) Consumers are often in financial difficulty and acting to save their homes from foreclosure. This bill provides them with certain protections. First, if the loan is transferred during the application process for a loan modification, the original holder of the loan must provide the consumer with a list of all the application documents provided to the buyer or transferee. Second, the bill ensures that that if the loan is sold or transferred after a homeowner has been approved for a modification of their mortgage that the subsequent mortgage servicer honors the terms and conditions of the approval.
because the Williamsburg-based Monroe Bus Company and Central United Talmudic Academy school buses also used the site to park their buses on a month-to-month lease with the city, according to a Department of Sanitation (DOS) source. The source said the bus companies tried to take the city to court to keep the site for bus parking, saying they had nowhere else to go but the court ruled against the bus companies and the Monroe Bus Company left on June 30 and the Central United buses left a few days later. The source said the new garage will be state-of-the-art with room to fit operation garbage collection trucks, mechanical brooms and snow removal equipment. Soil samples are being taken now and the building standing on the site will be demolished next year. It will take three to four years to build, the source said.
Attorney Letitia General James Leads Fight Against Trump’s ‘Dirty Power’ Rule Attorney General Letitia James, leading a coalition of 22 states and 7 local governments, today announced a lawsuit against the Trump Administration’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over its “Affordable Clean Energy” (ACE) – aka “Dirty Power” – rule. The ACE rule replaced the Clean Power Plan, the first-ever nationwide limits on one of the largest sources of climate change pollution – existing fossil-fueled power plants. The EPA’s rule rolls back these limits and will have virtually no impact on these emissions, prolonging the nation’s reliance on polluting, expensive coal power plants and obstructing progress of states toward clean, renewable, and affordable electricity generation. “The science is indisputable; our climate is changing. Ice caps are melting. Sea levels are rising. Weather is becoming
more and more extreme,” said Attorney General Letitia James. “Without significant course correction, we are careening towards a climate disaster. My office, and this groundbreaking coalition of states and cities from across the nation, will fight back against this unlawful, do-nothing rule in order to protect our future from catastrophic climate change.” Besides ignoring the science of climate change – the text of the ACE rule barely mentions climate change, much less recognizes the dire threat it poses to people’s health, the economy, and the environment – the rule disregards requirements of the federal Clean Air Act. In fact, the “Dirty Power” rule goes so far as to prohibit states from participating in cap-and-trade programs means of complying with the requirements of the Clean Air Act.
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By Victoria Horsford
WEEK IN REVIEW As the world turns, it gets crazier and more absurd. Once semiautonomous areas like Hong Kong and Kashmir may soon be swallowed up by Beijing and India, respectively. War and repression are traveling at breakneck speed like a bad contagion across the planet. President Donald Trump is on vacation for 18 days in August. Hope that it is a peaceful period for the world. He issued a new rule pertinent to legal immigrants and wealth requirement which can only be construed as blatantly racist. The courts will have to decide. The POTUS 45 actions are beyond my ken. On a more cheerful note, I was pleasantly surprised to view the photo op of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Congresswoman Ilhan Omar visiting the “Door of No Return” in Ghana two weeks ago. Guess that Omar took Trump up on his suggestion to go back home! Only in America!
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TALK OF THE TOWN BRONX: Since Bronx Congressman Jose Serrano announced that he is serving his last term, everyone has come out of the woodwork to succeed him. NYC Councilmen, Afro-Latinos Ruben Diaz, Sr. and Ritchie Torres; Assemblyman Michael Blake and Melissa Mark-Viverito, the former
NYC Council Speaker who lives in East Harlem and brags about her progressive bona fides. Then all of the local political listservs ran a story this week about a discriminatory practice while she was Council Speaker. She had an African American manager removed from a NYCHA building in the Bronx and demanded that a Latina succeeded her. The City&StateNY.com will host its first Bronx POWER 100 ceremony on September 16 from 6-8 pm at the Wave Hill Public Gardens, located at 675 West 252nd Street, Bronx. The Bronx Power 100 identifies the borough’s elites in politics, media, commerce, activism. QUEENS: Is the Democratic establishment vulnerable based on the Queens DA special election results? Tiffany Caban conceded in the Democratic special election to Melinda Katz. Tiffany said, “WE terrified the Democratic establishment.” But there is so much work to be done in Queens and beyond. Queens DA to incumbent Queens Boro President Melinda Katz, who after multiple recounts, won the race by 55 votes, which does not augur well for Queens Democrats. Who replaces Katz as Borough President? MANHATTAN: NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer hosted a Community Stakeholder Round Table at the First Corinthian Baptist Church on July 24, the first of many such sessions according to Nina Saxon, the Comptroller’s Office Harlem liaison. …. Two weeks ago, there was uncertainty about Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance’s interest in reelection in 2021. More than a handful of Democratic lawyers are in the wings waiting to challenge him. Vance’s office has been under attack for its mishandling of cases germane to the city’s richer and famous people like Harvey Weinstein, the Trump family and the late Jeffrey Epstein, billionaire pedophile sex offender. Their misdeeds and crimes go unpunished. With
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ARTS/CULTURE MUSIC: HOLD THE DATE: November 16 for the 35th Anniversary of the Premiere of Vy Higginsen’s “MAMA, I WANT TO SING,” America’s longest-running African American Off-Broadway musical. The 35th Benefit Gala Anniversary will be held at the restored El Teatro of El Museo Del Barrio, formerly the Heckscher Theatre, where “MAMA” got its start. BOOKS: When Ibram X. Kendi, professor and director of the Antiracism Research & Policy Center at American University talks, people listen. He won a National Book Award for his book, “STAMPED FROM THE BEGINNING,” about the history of racist ideas. He wrote the 5/29 NY Times
NEWSMAKERS Congratulations to newlyweds former New York State Governor David Paterson and Mary Sliwa, the former Mrs. Curtis Sliwa. They exchanged their wedding vows, a la black tie, at the tony Water Club. Mayor David Dinkins officiated. The new bride takes her husband’s middle and last name, hence Mary Alexander Paterson.
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Ibram X. Kendi essay, “An Antiracist Reading List,” which WGO referenced. His new book, “HOW TO BE AN ANTIRACIST,” will be published this month and it’s getting lots of mainstream media buzz. He tells Time magazine that his antiracist tome is hopeful because there’ve been so many times that the impossible has happened. FINE ART: Laura and Ray Palmer opened the AKWAABA GALLERY, located at 509 S. Orange Avenue, Newark, NJ, this year. The next exhibit, “ORIGINS: Memories from the Metropolis,” opens on August 16 to September 30, showcasing works by 8 fine artists who are New York- or London-based and boast Caribbean ancestry. Curated by Anderson Pilgram, “ORIGINS” artists include Ademola Olugebefola, Carla Armour, Carlton Murrell and Francks Deceus. E-mail: akwaabagallery@gmail.com or call 646.267.8831. FILM: NYC Councilman Bill Perkins presents MOVIE NIGHT UNDER THE STARS screening the Netflix miniseries “WHEN THEY SEE US, A TRUE STORY” about the Central Park 5 on two nights: August 30 at 7 pm, Parts I & II, and September 6 at 7 pm, Parts III & IV. Movies will be screened at the Adam Clayton Powell State Office Building Plaza, located at 163 West 125th Street, Harlem. [Call Keith Lilly at 212.678.4505]
The following includes the top 10 companies who made the cut for the 2019 Black Enterprise magazine’s 100 most prosperous companies. They are in order of importance: 1) Worldwide Technologies, 2) Act 1 Group, 3) Bridgewater Interiors, LLC; 4) CocaCola Beverages, Florida, LLC; 5) Modular Assembly Renovations, LLC; 6) Bridgeman Foods; 7) Thompson Hospitality Corp.; 8) The Anderson-DuBose Co.; 9) Urban One; and 10) Hightowers Petroleum Co. The combined Black Enterprise 100 companies generated more than $25 billion in revenues and employed more than 70,000. Dave Steward founded Worldwide Technologies, at the top of the list, and is its Board Chair. He is America’s second-wealthiest Black billionaire. The Brent Staples’ 8/13/19 NY Times Opinion piece, “The Radical Blackness of Ebony Magazine,” is required reading for all students, media and African American history in the USA. Story details what John Johnson’s goal was when he started Johnson Publishing, the umbrella of Ebony and Jet, the offspring of his Negro Digest. Johnson’s intention when he started his media empire was to create a platform for Black middle-class life, often eschewed by mainstream publications. Staples’ piece is Ebony/ Jet history and epitaph about the revolutionary media emporium which John H. Johnson built. A Ph.D. in psychology, John H. Staples is a member of Johnson the NYT Editorial Board who won a 2019 Pulitzer Prize. A Harlem-based brand and public relations consultant, Victoria can be reached at Victoria.horsford@gmail.com.
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The Fabric of Blackness ■■
“If what connects us is stronger than that which would divide us, the miles between, say the streets of Central Brooklyn and a beach on an island in the Atlantic, can fade in a moment with the sharing of a story or a close encounter.” - Bernice Green
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hat I’m writing at this moment is being written from a leather sofa on the ground floor of a three-level home on Bernard Circle in Vineyard Haven. At the time that this is being written, I have been on the island of Martha’s Vineyard for approximately 52 hours. Context is important when storytelling. I’ve just given you a tad bit of context. Prior to visiting Martha’s Vineyard for the first time ever this week, the stigma attached to the place that I received was that it was a place for the bourgeoisie: the boule, the talented tenth, frats and sorors, Black folk whose last name is Bentancourt or DuBois. Those were the kind of people that went to Martha’s Vineyard, not the grandson of a numbers runner and a barmaid like me. I certainly wouldn’t be accepted. And for some time, I believed the stigma. For 44 years, I’ve never set foot on the island. I can remember being in junior high school and seeing kids wearing those Black Dog shirts. I had no idea what this Black Dog meant or why a bunch of kids all had basically the same shirt. It wasn’t Guess or Polo, so it didn’t matter to the 13-year-old me.
➔➔ Continued From Cover In the Alexander’s book helped galvanize the Black Lives Matter Movement, and many new Progressives organizations like the Democratic Socialists of America, Brand New Congress, and Justice Democrats, became the leading voices for the CJR movement. Many organizations not founded or led by blacks or graduates of the Criminal Justice System. Groups often promoting non-black candidates who have not directly touched the Criminal Justice System but framed by their leaders and supporters as the true Progressive champions. While I believe allies in your fight are helpful, I must ask, why aren’t our own Progressive leaders leading this fight? Last week I read David Greaves' 1997 interview with Eddie Ellis, an African American Progressive pioneer of Criminal Justice Reform, who before his passing in 2014, had been a target of the FBI’s Counter
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Thirty-one (31) years later, I’m on the ferry traveling from Woods Hole to Oak Bluffs and I get a call from my mentor Bernice Green. I tell her that I’m on a ferry headed to Martha’s Vineyard and I can hear her smiling on the other end of the line. Martha’s Vineyard is one of my most favorite places, she says. You’re going to really enjoy it, she says. There is an energy here. I felt it as soon as we docked in the Bluffs. You drive off the pier, right into a Norman Rockwell illustration. The Flying Horses Carousel with its hand-carved wooden horses, Ocean Park with the gazebo in the center and the ornate Victorian mansions and gingerbread homes on its outer perimeter; these things haven’t changed in generations. Half an hour on the island and I’ve already greeted a few people I know from home: an independent film director, a retired officer who is a longtime family friend, a teacher, nothing bourgeois about any of them. Blackness is here, that cannot be debated when you stroll up Circuit Avenue or visit Back Door Donuts. We are here en masse, all shapes, sizes and demographics. But why? Why
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Martha’s Vineyard, a remote island off the coast of Massachusetts? On Monday morning, I got up and ran from the house I’m staying at in Vineyard Haven, five and a half miles down to Oak Bluffs, to the Inkwell Beach. The beach was dubbed Inkwell from whites who watched as Blacks began frequenting this part of the island in the late 19th century. Freed slaves, laborers, Black Methodists and Christians who came to the island for revivals - these were the first Blacks on the island. I arrived at the Inkwell to find dozens of Blacks in the water, singing songs and exercising together. It was the Inkwell Polar Bears. The story of the Polar Bears is that 73 years ago, Black service workers on the island would convene at the Inkwell early in the morning to exercise and fellowship before their morning shifts. This practice has been repeated every summer since, and on this particular Monday, I stripped out of my running gear and submerged myself with 147 others to experience being a Polar Bear. What we did I will not speak about because what happens in the water stays in the water. But it was a surreal experience knowing that I was taking part in a thread of African-American culture on this island that thousands of others before me had done. Quilts are said to represent family heritage. A patchwork quilt can have fabric
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Intelligence Program (COINTELPRO) for Ellis spoke to prison’s representation of his Black Panther Party activities, and had societies failures of society. He drew coralso spent 23 years of his life at one point or relations between the capitalist, materialist, another in every prison in New consumer-driven environment, York State. While incarcerated, and how the limitations of poor Ellis earned a Master’s degree people legitimately interacting from New York Theological with this environment, led Seminary, a Bachelor’s from to many impoverished men Marist College and a paralegal interacting with law enforcedegree from Sullivan County ment and the Criminal Justice Community College. System. Ellis noted that 7 The interview is a profound neighborhoods in New York read that gives the reader a firstCity provided over 75% of the hand look into the impact of state’s prison population. mass-incarceration on the black Eddie Ellis In Queens last week, and brown community from the Tiffany Caban, a 32 year vantage of a black leader who experienced old, self-proclaimed queer Latina, Public the direct impact of the system. Ellis was Defender resident of Astoria lost a close president of the Community Justice Center, Primary for the Democratic nomination for Inc., an anti-crime research, education, and District Attorney. advocacy organization. He’d also founded Running on a platform of and was president of the Brooklyn-based Decriminalizing sex work and fighting Center for NuLeadership on Urban Solutions. mass incarceration through decarceration,
pieces from various sources, all sewn together to create one quilt. The fabric of Blackness is like a patchwork quilt. Some of the pieces are affluent, well-educated, connected. Some of the pieces are hardworking and committed to family. Some of the pieces are torn and tattered. But when you combine those pieces, you form a most magnificent quilt, a true and living representation of our family heritage. This is what Martha’s Vineyard has taught me. On this island, the talented tenth arrived on the same ferries as retired civil servants and minimum-wage service workers. The grandsons of real estate barons and university presidents eat at the same pizza place as the grandsons of numbers runners and waiters. The affluent submerge in the same Inkwell as the struggling. Classism, it doesn’t exist on the Vineyard to be a deterrent. It exists here as a reminder of the complex and never-ending possibilities of Blackness. This place isn’t for the elite. This place is for us all to recognize what is elite in us. We are as multifaceted as the stories from this island, and as beautiful as Golden Hour over Ocean Park, or as the sunset at Menemsha Beach. And that’s what you feel when you arrive. You feel the presence of God in Man. When it is my time to leave this weekend, I will. But I will be back again next year, and the year after.
Caban fashioned herself as the Progressive champion of the black and brown men incarcerated on Rikers Island. Ellis’ interview made me further wonder…How does a 32yo queer Latina female from Astoria become the torch bearer for incarcerated black and brown men? How is it that we don’t have more Eddie Ellis’ leading this Progressive charge for CJR? How is it that on Social Media, the loudest voices claiming to speak on behalf of those suffering mass incarceration in New York State, are from neighborhoods like the majority white 36th Assembly District which voted six to one for Caban’s platform, when the most impacted neighborhoods would be those of the largely Black areas of Southeast Queens, some 10 miles away? How do we get the Progressive Movement to be led by the descendants of those brave African Americans who started the movement over 100 years ago? How do we elevate the next Eddie Ellis?
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ug. 17, 2010 marks the 123rd anniversary of the birth of Marcus Garvey. The legend of Garvey is based on his leadership toward Blacks’ pride and self-determination. When Garvey died in 1940, European countries dominated the world. But, it was his teachings that spurred uprisings and rising expectations among colonies. Though Garvey had passed, it was his ideology that was the basis of the 5th Pan-African Congress agenda in 1945 in Manchester, England. That event was attended by Black legends such as Kwame Nkrumah, W.E.B. DuBois, Kenya’s Jomo Kenyatta and, through the influence of Garvey, marked the first time Africans from Africa, the Caribbean and the United States got together to design programs for the future independence of Africa. Through his public speeches and newspaper the Negro World, Marcus Garvey became one of the most significant Black leaders of the 20th century. Born in 1887 and raised in Jamaica, Garvey traveled in Central and South America and England. In 1914, while still in Jamaica, Garvey started the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) and began speaking out in favor of worldwide Black unity and an end to colonialism. Garvey moved to the United
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States in 1916 and directed the largest massbased movement among African-Americans in history. During his time in America, Garvey’s visions became the procedural and conceptual models toward African American capitalism. He helped start the Black Star Line, which was both a business venture and a part of his “back to Africa” plan that AfricanAmericans should return to Africa and set up their own new country there. Post-racial Blacks shy away from Garvey. He’s always been a controversial figure: back in the day, he favored fiery rhetoric and elaborate uniforms and was considered “dangerous” by establishment-oriented politicians. He was jailed in 1925 after being convicted of mail fraud (related to the sale of Black Star Line stock), but his sentence was reduced and he was deported to Jamaica two years later. Garvey eventually returned to London, England, where he died in 1940. His body was sent to Jamaica in 1964, where he is revered as one of the country’s
heroes. Initially, Garvey was a student and admirer of Booker T. Washington and his approach toward business and self-reliance; encouraging former slaves “to work hard, demonstrate good morals and strong character” and not worry about politics as a tool for advancement. Garvey evolved Washington’s approach through use of collective decision-making and group profit-sharing techniques – the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA). It was eye-opening for Blacks across America when, in 1919, Garvey purchased an auditorium in Harlem and named it Liberty Hall. From that platform, Garvey and the UNIA established 700 branches in thirty-eight states. “If you want liberty you must strike the blow. If you must be free, you must become so through your own effort.” In his wake, groups such as Father Divine’s Universal Peace Mission Movement in the 1930s, and the Nation of Islam of the 1950s and 60s, drew members and philosophy from
Garvey. Garvey’s theory of racial separation was a stratagem to ensure Black self-reliance based on the philosophy and that commerce and industry are the props of economic life. The mantra was “Without commerce and industry a people perish”. Garvey’s economic impact in America included hundreds of profit-generating UNIA businesses; and his “never again” duplicated campaign that persuaded Black investors to purchase stock in an international shipping line to carry passengers and freight between America, Africa and the West Indies. The Black Star, incorporated in 1919, was capitalized exclusively by African-Americans. The name Black Star Line was a riff on the White Star Line, the British shipping company whose most famous vessel was the Titanic. Ownership give Garveyites pride and hope for prosperous returns. The BSL acquired three steamships, but by 1922, they were lost and the corporation collapsed. The BSL is noteworthy as the first large-scale business venture financed and managed by African-Americans. The “Back to Africa” man actually never set foot there, but many modern-day Liberians are Garveyite descendants. (William Reed is available for speaking engagements via BaileyGroup.org)
New Law to Prevent Decades-Old Plundering of Black-Owned Farms
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n Wednesday the USDA held a listening session to seek public input on the issue of heirs property, the leading cause of black land loss in the U.S. According to one estimate, 98 percent of black agricultural landowners were dispossessed during the 20th century, and heirs property owners continue to be subject to a number of practices that threaten their land tenure and property rights. Heirs property is estimated to make up more than 1/3 of Southern black-owned land. It is a form of property ownership through which land is passed down without a will to descendants of the original owner. Over many generations, hundreds of descendants can come to inherit a share of the property, even if they have never resided on the land or paid property taxes. Each of the heirs also benefits from being able to exercise a complement of property rights, including the right of disposition (or sale).
What does all of this mean? For families who have lived on the same land for generations, the economic, social and familial consequences of heirs property ownership can be devastating. Because heirs do not own any particular part of a heirs property parcel, but instead own a fractional interest in the undivided whole, courts generally force the sale of the entire parcel when one co-owner wishes to sell his or her share in the land. Developers have exploited these partition sales to identify heirs who are willing to accept a nominal sum for their interest in the property, forcing those who reside on the land to accept a buy-out that is well below market value. This practice is a major barrier to realizing the wealth-generating potential of property ownership. It also destabilizes communities. Partition sales can result in the separation of multigenerational families and sever the historical and sentimental ties that families have toward the land. This is not a new phenomenon. Some of
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the informal land transfers that resulted in the creation of heirs property date to the end of slavery. Black Americans lacked access to the legal system and were denied the opportunity to draft wills and to secure title to their property for future generations. Today, wealth disparities and other factors lead to significantly lower rates of estate planning among people of color, increasing the likelihood that their property will be informally transferred, and perpetuating the cycle of insecurity. According to a recent ProPublica investigation into heirs property, 76 percent of African Americans do not have a will, more than twice the percentage of white Americans.
Despite these challenges, reform is underway both at the state and federal levels. Thirteen states and the U.S. Virgin Islands have enacted a law that provides greater protections to heirs property owners. The Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act (UPHPA) ensures that all co-owners of a property benefit from due process when another co-owner wishes to sell. It requires courts to consider a number of factors before
partitioning the property, including heirs’ historical and sentimental attachment to the land. This law has gained traction. In 2019, an additional nine states and the District of Columbia introduced the bill. At the federal level, the 2018 farm bill contains provisions that extend access to USDA resources for heirs property owners. Prior to the passage of the farm bill, farm numbers, which are required in order to benefit from a host of federal aid programs, were only allocated to those who could show a clear title to their land. Now, farmers and ranchers who operate on heirs property can obtain a farm number by demonstrating their right to the land in other ways, such as by providing tax returns or self-certification documents. Both the UPHPA and the farm bill provide more security for heirs property owners and help to strengthen communities across the country. And yet, despite this legal reform, much more can be done. Several states where the problem is among the most acute have not adopted the UPHPA. The bill was introduced this year in Mississippi and Virginia, but it died in
committee. In Kansas, where the bill is currently being debated, and in Florida, which has yet to take up the bill, lawyers have decried the UPHPA as “a solution in search of a problem.” An attorney for the mineral industry in Kansas claims that adoption of the UPHPA will hinder oil and gas exploration there. While it is each state’s prerogative to adopt the bill or not, it is incumbent that state lawmakers take measures to protect heirs property owners from those who wish to exploit them and profit from their land. Attempts to exploit the insecurity and vulnerability of heirs property owners fit into a broader historical pattern. From Reconstruction through the Jim Crow era and into the twenty-first century, black Americans have been subject to a number of exploitative and discriminatory practices that have jeopardized their land tenure and property rights. These include sharecropping, debt peonage, redlining, discriminatory lending and contract for deeds. Some of these practices persist and all of them have negatively impacted the ability of black Americans to own property, to remain secure in the property they acquire and to benefit from the wealth-generating potential that comes with property ownership. Wider adoption of the UPHPA, or alternatively, investment in land trusts and other types of co-ownership arrangements, are critical first steps to ensuring prosperity and security for heirs property owners. Heirs property is just one of a number of systemic obstacles that Black Americans face in building secure livelihoods. But the right to property is key to allowing individuals and families to build wealth for future generations and fundamental to the stability of American communities. Tim Robustelli is a program associate for the Future of Property Rights Program at New America. Andrew Hagopian is a researcher with the Future of Property Rights program at New America.
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and youth learn-to-ride biking classes. Bike East is completely free for all participants to remove as many barriers as possible from East Brooklyn residents developing an appreciation of active living. The event is co-sponsored by Bicycling advocacy consultant, Courtney Williams, The Brown Bike Girl, who encourages people to participate in bicycling and obtain the resources they need to enjoy cycling safely. Courtney Williams’ work is centered around increasing bicycling access and adoption within communities of color, and bicycling education for all. Anyone who wishes to participate and does not have access to their own bike may reserve a rental bike for a fee through Unlimited Biking. As part of Unlimited Biking’s partnership with Bike East, riders can reserve a rental bike in advance through
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Certificate of registration filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 4/22/2019. NY office location: Kings County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the LLC at 1022 Carroll Street, Brooklyn, New York 11225. Purpose all lawful activities. Notice of formation of 846 NEW LOTS AVENUE LLC a Limited Liability Company (LLC). Certificate of registration filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 4/22/2019. NY office location: Kings County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the LLC at 1022 Carroll Street, Brooklyn, New York 11225. Purpose all lawful activities. Notice of formation of 1022 CARROLL STREET LLC a Limited Liability Company (LLC). Certificate of registration filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 4/22/2019. NY office location: Kings County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the LLC at 1022 Carroll Street, Brooklyn, New York 11225. Purpose all lawful activities. Notice of Formation of 513 REALTY LLC. Arts of Org filed with Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/15/19. Office location: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy of process against LLC to: 1640 W. 6th St., Bklyn, NY 11223. Purpose: any lawful act. Hair We R Barbershop & Salon LLC. Art. Of Org. Filed Sec. of State of NY 6/19/2019. Off. Loc.:
LEGAL NOTICES STATE OF NEW YORK SUPREME COURT: COUNTY OF KINGS WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A., SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO WACHOVIA MORTGAGE, FSB, FORMALLY KNOWN AS WORLD SAVINGS BANK, FSB Plaintiff, vs. MARIE ARMOUR A/K/A MARIE E. ARMOUR, LENNOX C. QUILDON, et al., Defendants NOTICE OF SALE IN FORECLOSURE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT In pursuance of a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the office of the County Clerk of Kings County on March 29, 2019, I, Dominic Famulari, Esq., the Referee named in said Judgment, will sell
in one parcel at public auction on September 19, 2019 at Kings County Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, County of Kings, State of New York, at 2:30 P.M., the premises described as follows: 575 Crescent St Brooklyn, NY 11208 SBL No.: 4252-10 ALL THAT TRACT OF PARCEL OF LAND situate in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and State of New York The premises are sold subject to the provisions of the filed judgment, Index No. 20928/2013 in the amount of $675,661.30 plus interest and costs. Brittany J. Maxon, Esq. Woods Oviatt Gilman LLP Plaintiff’s Attorney 700 Crossroads Building, 2 State St. Rochester, New
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and teaching,” she added. “If you have an idea, please contact us at info@calabarimportscom.” Calabar is also inviting designers participating in Fashion Week, and Oton is continuing to curate and exhibit shows by visual artists she believes the community should know and might support. One such artist Cameroonian Shiri Achu, is on exhibition now whose heart beats through vividly colored celebration of traditional African culture conceptualized in her work. The show is on view now at the Harlem store at 2504 Frederick Douglass Blvd., extended until August 31st.
Both loyal customers and people who happen by and notice the stores are delighted when Calabar has a sale. It’s sometimes difficult to imagine why the unique and beautiful items are still there – what could have been better to sell faster?! It certainly inspires one to stop by more often. There’s a big sale on now across all three stores. (The store not mentioned thus far is the original Calabar at 708 Franklin Ave in Brooklyn.) Vibrant print clothing of all categories in a variety of ingenious designs is on sale now, as well as jewelry, home furnishings, crafts sculptures and more.
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11590, Attorneys for Plaintiff. SUPREME COURT - COUNTY OF KINGS STATE OF NEW YORK MORTGAGE AGENCY, Plaintiff -against- DENISE DRAXDORF AS ADMINISTRATRIX OF THE ESTATE OF ROBERT DRAXDORF A/K/A ROBERT JOHN DRAXDORF A/K/A ROBERT J. DRAXDORF, et al Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered herein on February 13, 2019, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Kings County Courthouse 360 Adams Street, Room 224, Brooklyn, NY on September 19, 2019 at 2:30 p.m. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and State of New York, known and designated as Block 6912 and Lot 70. Said premises known as 2656 MILL ROAD, BROOKLYN, NY Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment and Terms of Sale. We are a debt collector attempting to collect a debt. Any information obtained will be used for that purpose. Index Number 524570/2017. PHILIP KAMARAS, ESQ., Referee STAGG, TERENZI, CONFUSIONE & WABNIK, LLP Attorney(s) for Plaintiff 401 Franklin Avenue, Suite 300, Garden City, NY 11530 NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT, COUNTY OF KINGS, PENNYMAC CORP., PLAINTIFF against PATRICIA CAMPBELL, CHASE MANHATTAN BANK USA, N.A. ET AL., DEFENDANTS. Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale dated November 5, 2018 and duly entered thereafter, Steven B. Shapiro, Esq., the court appointed Referee will sell at public auction in Room 224 of the Kings County Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201 on Thursday, September 12, 2019 at 2:30 p.m., the premises known as 1301 St. Johns Place, Brooklyn, NY 11213; all that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the County of Kings, City of New York, and State of New York Block 1377, Lot 149. Approximate amount of judgment is $1,037,948.72 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of said Judgment. Index No. 27873/2009. Steven B. Shapiro, Esq., Referee Lawrence & Walsh, P.C., 215 Hilton Avenue, Hempstead, NY 11550, Attorneys for Plaintiff NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF KINGS NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC, Plaintiff AGAINST Josep Molyaev, et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly
dated June 13, 2019 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Kings County Supreme Court, Room 224, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201, on September 12, 2019 at 2:30PM, premises known as 291 MARTENSE STREET, UNIT 4J, AKA 281/291 MARTENSE STREET UNIT 4J AKA 1391/1421 NOSTRAND AVENUE UNIT 4J AKA 250/260 LINDEN BOULEVARD UNIT 4J, BROOKLYN, NY 11226. 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 4868, LOT 1053. Approximate amount of judgment $321,019.94 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment for Index# 506081/2017. Gregory M. Laspina Esq., Referee Gross Polowy, LLC Attorney for Plaintiff 1775 Wehrle Drive, Suite 100 Williamsville, NY 14221 64412 SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK - COUNTY OF KINGS US BANK, N.A., V. SYED AHMED A/K/A A. SYED A/K/A AHMED SYED, ET AL. NOTICE OF SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to a Final Judgment of Foreclosure dated September 29, 2015, and entered in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Kings, wherein US BANK, N.A. is the Plaintiff and SYED AHMED A/K/A A. SYED A/K/A AHMED SYED, ET AL. are the Defendant(s). I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the KINGS COUNTY COURTHOUSE, 360 ADAMS STREET ROOM 224, BROOKLYN, NY 11201, on September 19, 2019 at 2:30 PM, premises known as 2298 ATLANTIC AVE, BROOKLYN, NY 11233: Block 1435, Lot 29: 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 # 21876/2012. Lee M. Huttner, Esq. - Referee. RAS Boriskin, LLC 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 310, Westbury, New York 11590, Attorneys for Plaintiff. SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK - COUNTY OF KINGS REVERSE MORTGAGE SOLUTIONS, INC., V. PRISCILLA CYRUS, ET AL. NOTICE OF SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to a Final Judgment of Foreclosure dated June 14, 2019, and entered in the Office of the Clerk of the County of
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Kings, wherein REVERSE MORTGAGE SOLUTIONS, INC. is the Plaintiff and PRISCILLA CYRUS, ET AL. are the Defendant(s). I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the KINGS COUNTY COURTHOUSE, ROOM 224, 360 ADAMS STREET, BROOKLYN NY 11201, on September 12, 2019 at 2:30PM, premises known as 5811 SNYDER AVENUE, BROOKLYN, NY 11203: Block 4706, Lot 6: ALL THAT CERTAIN PLOT, PIECE, OR PARCEL OF LAND SITUATED IN THE BOROUGH OF BROOKLYN IN THE COUNTY OF KINGS IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 505277/2016. Angelicque Moreno, Esq. Referee. RAS Boriskin, LLC 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 310, Westbury, New York 11590, Attorneys for Plaintiff. SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK - COUNTY OF KINGS DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY AS TRUSTEE FOR INDYMAC INDX MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST 2006AR21, MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 2006-AR21, V. LORIAN KING-NURSE A/K/A LORIAN KING A/K/A LORIAN NURSE, ET. AL. NOTICE OF SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to a Final Judgment of Foreclosure dated January 14, 2019, and entered in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Kings, wherein DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY AS TRUSTEE FOR INDYMAC INDX MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST 2006AR21, MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 2006-AR21 is the Plaintiff and LORIAN KING-NURSE A/K/A LORIAN KING A/K/A LORIAN NURSE, ET AL. are the Defendant(s). I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the KINGS COUNTY COURTHOUSE, 360 ADAMS STREET ROOM 224, BROOKLYN, NY 11201, on September 12, 2019 at 2:30PM, premises known as 561 CHAUNCEY ST, BROOKLYN, NY 11233: Block 1511, Lot 45: ALL THAT CERTAIN PLOT, PIECE OR PARCEL OF LAND, 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 # 512387/2017. Helene Blank, Esq. - Referee. RAS Boriskin, LLC 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 310, Westbury, New York 11590, Attorneys for Plaintiff.
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Our Time Press August 15 – 21, 2019
Never Forget We are shocked by the sheer cruelty of the policies applauded by members of Donald Trump’s party, the old Republican Party. The family separation, caging children and now the acting director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Ken Cuccinelli “Give me your tired, your poor who can stand on their own two feet and will not become a public charge.” This goes against everything that we learned about the meaning and promise of this country. And we are surprised by it, and yet we shouldn’t be. Part of the problem is that white Americans have not been taught about the cruelty that is a part of their history, success and woven throughout the fabric of the nation. There are whole chapters left out or covered in a sentence. Had the truth been told about the birth of the nation and the blood spilled, perhaps we could have avoided the race-based carnage we see across the country today. The following letter was published in the New York Tribune in 1870. In it, Judge Albion Tourgee of North Carolina describes the outrages of the Ku Klux Klan to an acquaintance in the U.S. Senate. It gives insight into the wellspring of the “Send her back” chants and angry explosions of racial violence. DG
Judge Albion Tourgee on the KKK Greensboro, (N.C.), May 24, 1870 My Dear General, It is my mournful duty to inform you that our friend, John W. Stephens, State Senator from Caswell, is dead. He was foully murdered by the Ku Klux Klan in the Grand Jury room of the courthouse on Saturday or Saturday night last. The circumstances attending his murder have not yet fully come to light there. So far as I can learn, I judge these to have been the circumstances: He was one of the Justices of the Peace in that township and was accustomed to hold court in that room on Saturdays. It is evident that he was set upon by someone while holding this court, or immediately after its close, and disabled by a sudden attack, otherwise there would have been a very sharp resistance, as he was a man and always went armed to the teeth. He was stabbed five or six times, and then hanged on a hook in the Grand Jury room, where he was found on Sunday morning. Another brave, honest Republican citizen has met his fate at the hands of these fiends. Warned of his danger, and fully cognizant of the terrible risk which surrounded him, he still manfully refused to quit the field. Against the advice of his friends, against the entreaties of his family, he constantly refused to leave those who had stood by him in the day of his disgrace and peril. He was accustomed to say that 3,000 poor, ignorant, colored Republican voters in that county had stood by him and elected him at the risk of persecution and starvation, and that he had no idea of abandoning them to the Ku Klux Klan. He was determined to stay with them, and either put an end to these outrages or die with the other victims of rebel hate and national apathy: Nearly six months ago, I declared my belief that before the election in August next, the Klan would have killed more men in the state than there would be members to be elected to the legislature. A good beginning has been made toward the fulfillment of this prophecy. The following counties have already filled, or nearly so, their respective “quotas:” Jones County, quota full, excess, 1.; Orange County, quota full, excess, 2.; Caswell County, quota full, excess, 3.; Alamance County, quota full, excess, 4;. Chatham County, quota nearly full. Or to state the matter differently, there have been twelve murders in five counties of the district during the past eighteen months by bands of disguised villains. In addition to this, from the best information I can derive, I am of the opinion that in this district alone there have been 1,000 outrages of a less serious nature perpetrated by the same masked fiends. Of course, this estimate is not made from any absolute record, nor is it possible to ascertain with accuracy the entire number of beatings and other outrages which have been perpetrated. The uselessness, the utter futility of complaint from the lack of ability in the laws to punish is fully known to all. The danger of making such complaint is also well understood. It is therefore not unfrequently by accident that the outrage is found
out, and unquestionably it is frequently absolutely concealed. Thus, a respectable, hardworking white carpenter was working for a neighbor when, accidentally, his shirt was torn and disclosed his back scarred and beaten. The poor fellow begged for the sake of his wife and children that nothing might be said about it as the Klan had threatened to kill him if he disclosed how he had been outraged. Hundreds of cases have come to my notice and that of my solicitor.... Men and women come scarred, mangled and bruised and say: “The Ku Klux came to my house last night and beat me almost to death, and my old woman right smart, and shot into the house, ‘bust’ the door down and told me they would kill me if I made complaint,” and the bloody, mangled forms attest the truth of their declarations. On being asked if anyone knew any of the party, it will be ascertained that there was no recognition, or only the most uncertain and doubtful one. In such cases as these, nothing can be done by the court. We have not been accustomed to enter them on record. A man of the best standing in Chatham told me that he could count up to 200 and upward in that county. In Alamance County, a citizen in conversation one evening enumerated upward of 50 cases which had occurred within his own knowledge, and in one section of the county. He gave it as his opinion that there had been 200 cases in that county. I have no idea that he exceeded the proper estimate. That was six months ago, and I am satisfied that another hundred would not cover the work done in that time. These crimes have been of every character imaginable. Perhaps the most usual has been the dragging of men and women from their beds and beating their naked bodies with hickory switches, or as witnesses in an examination the other day said, “sticks” between a “switch” and a “club.” From 50 to 100 blows is the usual allowance, sometimes 200 and 300 blows are administered. Occasionally, an instrument of torture is owned. Thus, in one case two women, one 74 years old, were taken out, stripped naked and beaten with a paddle, with several holes bored through it. The paddle was about 30 inches long, 3 or 4 inches wide, and 1/4 of an inch thick of oak. Their bodies were so bruised and beaten that they were sickening to behold. They were white women and of good character until the younger was seduced and swore her child to its father. Previous to that and so far as others were concerned, her character was good. Again, there is sometimes a fiendish malignity and cunning displayed in the form and character of the outrages. For instance, a colored man was placed astride of a log, and an iron staple driven through his person into the log. In another case, after a band of them had in turn violated a young Negro girl, she was forced into bed with a colored man, their bodies were bound together face-toface, and the fire from the hearth piled upon them. The KKK rode off and left them with shouts of laughter. Of course, the bed was soon in flames and somehow, they managed
to crawl out, though terribly burned and scarred. The house was burned. I could give other incidents of cruelty, such as hanging up a boy of nine years old until he was nearly dead, to make him tell where his father was hidden, and beating an old Negress of 103 years old with garden partings because she would not own that she was afraid of the Ku Klux. But it is unnecessary to go into further detail. In this district, I estimate their offenses as follows, in the past ten months: Twelve murders, 9 rapes, 11 arsons, 7 mutilations, ascertained and most of them on record. In some, no identification could be made. Four thousand or 5,000 houses have been broken open, and property or persons taken out. In all cases, all arms are taken and destroyed. Seven hundred or 800 persons have been beaten or otherwise maltreated. These, of course, are partly persons living in the houses which were broken into. And yet the government sleeps. The poor, disarmed nurses of the Republican Party-those men by whose ballots the Republican Party holds power--who took their lives in their hands when they cast their ballots for U.S. Grant and other officials--all of us who happen to be beyond the pale of the governmental regard must be sacrificed, murdered, scourged, mangled, because some contemptible party scheme might be foiled by doing us justice. I could stand it very well to fight for Uncle Sam, and was never known to refuse an invitation on such an occasion, but this lying down, tied hand and foot with the shackles of the law, to be killed by the very dregs of the rebellion, the scum of the earth, and not allowed either the consolation of fighting or the satisfaction that our “fall” will be noted by the government and protection given to others thereby, is somewhat too hard. I am ashamed of the nation that will let its citizens be slain by scores, and scourged by thousands, and offer no remedy or protection. I am ashamed of a state which has not sufficient strength to protect its own officers in the discharge of their duties, nor guarantee the safety of any man’s domicile throughout its length and breadth. I am ashamed of a party which, with the reins of power in its hands, has not nerve or decision enough to arm its own adherents, or to protect them from assassinations at the hands of their opponents. A general who, in time of war, would permit 2,000 or 3,000 of his men to be bushwhacked and destroyed by private treachery even in an enemy’s country without anyone being punished, for it would be worthy of universal execration, and would get it, too. How much more worthy of detestation is a government which, in time of peace, will permit such wholesale slaughter of its citizens? It is simple cowardice, inertness and wholesale demoralization. The wholesale slaughter of the war has dulled our nation’s sense of horror at the shedding of blood, and the habit of regarding the South as simply a laboratory where every demagogue may carry on his reconstructionary experiments at will, and
not as an integral party of the nation itself, has led our government to shut its eyes to the atrocities of these times. Unless these evils are speedily remedied, I tell you, general, the Republican Party has signed its death warrant. It is a party of cowards or idiots--I don’t care which alternative is chosen. The remedy is in our hands, and we are afraid or too dull to bestir ourselves and use it. But you will tell me that Congress is ready and willing to act if it only knew what to do. Like the old Irish woman, it wrings its hands and cries, “O Lawk, O Lawk, if I only knew which way.” And yet this same Congress has the control of the militia and can organize its own force in every county in the United States, and arm more or less of it. This same Congress has the undoubted right to guarantee and provide a Republican Government, and protect every citizen in “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” as well as the power conferred by the XVth Amendment. And yet we suffer and die in peace and murderers walk abroad with the blood yet fresh upon their garments, unharmed, unquestioned and unchecked. Fifty thousand dollars given to good detectives would secure, if well used, a complete knowledge of all this gigantic organization of murderers. In connection with an organized and armed militia, it would result in the apprehension of any number of these thugs en masse, and with blood on their hands. What then is the remedy? First: Let Congress give to the U. S. Courts, or to Courts of the States under its own laws, cognizance of this class of crimes, as crimes against the nation, and let it provide that this legislation be enforced. Why not, for instance, make going armed and masked or disguised, or masked or disguised in the nighttime, an act of insurrection or sedition? Second: Organize militia, National-State militia is a nuisance, and arm as many as may be necessary in each county to enforce its laws. Third: Put detectives at work to get hold of this whole organization. Its ultimate aim is unquestionably to revolutionize the government. If we have not plucked enough for this, why then let us just offer our throats to the knife, emasculate ourselves, and be a nation of self-subjugated slaves at once. And now, Abbott, I have but one thing to say to you. I have very little doubt that I shall be one of the next victims. My steps have been dogged for months, and only a good opportunity has been wanting to secure to me the fate which Stephens has just met, and I speak earnestly upon this matter. I feel that I have a right to do so, and a right to be heard as well, and with this conviction I say to you plainly that any member of Congress who, especially if from the South, does not support, advocate and urge immediate, active and thorough measures to put an end to these outrages, and make citizenship a privilege, is a coward, a traitor, or a fool. The time for action has come, and the man who has now only speeches to make over some constitutional scarecrow, deserves to be damned.
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Our Time Press August 15 – 21, 2019
Tuesday, August 20th Bed-Stuy Property Owner Clinic Restoration Plaza Community
Friday, August 16th Camille Gainer Jones & Band Medgar Evers College, 1638 Bedford Ave, rain or shine, 7-10pm, FREE. This year’s Dr. Mary Umolu Jazzy Jazz Festival honors reggae legend Eddy Grant and features musicians from a wide variety of disciplines through August 30th. Tonight’s feature is drummer Camille Gainer Jones, a protégé of Michael Carvin’s with opening her up to all styles of playing and most notably being aware of the feeling and language of different styles and her sight-reading prowess.
Saturday, August 17th 9th Annual TAMA SummerFest Tompkins Ave. between Halsey St. & Gates Ave., 12-7pm, FREE. This annual street party takes place on the avenue noted for more businesses owned by Black women than any other in the city. Enjoy music, food and fun for all ages, including: Yoga and Afrobeats fitness classes; the best DJs in Brooklyn; the VOICE of Brooklyn competition; family activities; local artists; dance party; beer & wine-tasting; Going Natural Hair Show; fashion show by avenue boutiques; back-to-school supplies and backpack giveaways, and more.
Bead On Bond Pop-Up Bead On Bond, 296 Bond St., 2-6pm, FREE. Treat yourself to a sensory experience in a welcoming bead haven. Anu-Essentials is the pop-up at Bead On Bond this month and will offer sniffs and sprays of its natural perfumes, resins, spritzers and more. And discover all sizes of beads and baubles and
tools for making jewelry and other crafts. On offer are semiprecious gemstones and new and vintage gold and sterling silver, etc. For info call (718) 935-0331, WedSun.
Sunday, August 18th Word Play MoCADA House Nolan Park, Governor’s Island, Noon-5pm, FREE. MoCADA (Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Art) hosts The Free Black Women’s Library at its summertime Governor’s Island residency. Join Ola Ronke’s library for a day of literacy, fun and games inspired by Black women’s literature, art, history and culture. Bring a book written by a Black woman to donate or trade. Play charades, Jeopardy and Pictionary with categories and questions inspired by Black women authors. Also Scrabble, Black Card Revoked, etc. Also, storytime for kids from 2-4. E-mail thefreeblackwomenslibrary@ gmail.com if you’re interested in volunteering or competing.
NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT: KINGS COUNTY. SK INDUSTRIES, LLC, Pltf. vs. MELVIN JACKSON, et al, Defts. Index #16925/2013. Pursuant to judgment of foreclosure and sale entered Jan. 14, 2019, I will sell at public auction in Room 224 of the Kings County Supreme Court, 360 Adams St., Brooklyn, NY on September 12, 2019 at 2:30 p.m. prem. k/a 1150 East 93 Street, Brooklyn, NY. Said property beginning at a point on the Southwesterly side of East 93rd St. distance 72 ft. southeasterly from the corner formed by the intersection of the Southeasterly side of Conklin Avenue, with the Southwesterly side of East 93rd St., being a plot 78 ft. x 30 ft. 6 1/4 inches. Approx. amt. of judgment is $908,384.57 plus costs and interest. Sold subject to terms and conditions of filed judgment and terms of sale. JAGESHWAR SHARMA, Referee. LAW OFFICE OF SAMUEL KATZ, PLLC, Attys. for Pltf., 4533 16th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY #97432 SUPREME COURT – COUNTY OF KINGS WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. AS TRUSTEE F/B/O HOLDERS OF STRUCTURED ASSET MORTGAGE INVESTMENTS II, INC., STRUCTURED ASSET MORTGAGE INVESTMENTS II TRUST 2007-AR4, MORTGAGE
Wednesday, August 21st
Get Free Summer Meals thru August 30th Hot breakfasts and hot
lunches are waiting for people 18 and under at many city schools. Cold breakfasts and lunches are available at pools, parks and libraries across the city. All menus are subject to change, but are pork-free with no artificial flavors, colors or sweeteners. Visit www.schools.nyc.gov/summermeals.
PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 2007-AR4, Plaintiff against ADRIAN JOI BROWN, et al., Defendants. Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered on October 3, 2017, 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 12th day of September, 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, bounded and described as follows: BEGINNING at a point on the westerly side of East 7th Street distant 467 feet southerly from the corner formed by the intersection of the southerly side of Avenue Z with the westerly side of East 7th Street; THENCE westerly parallel with Avenue Z and part of the distance through a party wall, 100 feet; THENCE southerly parallel with East 7th Street, 22 feet; THENCE easterly parallel with Avenue Z and part of the distance through a party wall, 100 feet to the westerly side of East 78th Street; THENCE northerly along the westerly side of East 7th Street, 22 feet to the point or place of BEGINNING. Said premises known as 2658 East 7th Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11235. (Block: 7243, Lot: 30). Approximate amount of lien $ 630,308.72
NYC Arts community in gathering together to allow our greatest asset – our collective voice – to affirm everyone’s right to be human and to be treated with human dignity!
15th Annual Fort Greene Summer Literary Festival Roulette Intermedium 509 Atlantic Ave., 3-5pm FREE. Celebrate a summer of storytelling with highly acclaimed poets and novelists: Tina Chang (Hybrida: Poems); Shira Erlichman, (Be/Hold: A Friendship Book); Ladan Osman, (Exiles of Eden); Nicole Sealey, (Ordinary Beast: Poems). Writer and poet Angel Nafis, (BlackGirl Mansion), is Master of Ceremonies. Enjoy the young dancers of Brooklyn Ballet and welcome the summer youth program writers, ages 6-18, who will also read. It all makes for an inspiring afternoon of literature, good times, and support. A reception follows at Greenlight Bookstore in Fort Greene with drinks, cake, and conversation.
A Night of Fitness & Wellness Bedford-Stuyvesant Resto-
ration Amphitheater, 1368 Fulton St., 6:308:30, FREE. Amida Care and Alwayz Fit 4 Lyfe hosts an evening of fitness and wellness as part of the Live Your Life program. The program is designed to help members learn new ways of staying healthy, whether that’s nutritious cooking, meditation, yoga, art therapy or African and Latin dance. Join this free session that’s appropriate for all bodies and experience levels, and learn to thrive, mind, body and soul.
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Saturday, September 21st Sistas’ Place Season Opener: Charles Tolliver All-Stars at 50!
Monday, August 19th
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Rm. 2, 1368 Fulton St., 6-7:30pm, FREE. Having a hard time keeping up with your property maintenance and taxes? The clinic can help with: Landlord-Tenant Mediation; Removing HPD Code Violations; HPD Financing for Repairs and Energy-efficient upgrades; Info on DEP water and sewer charges; NHS home repair loans and Foreclosure prevention; the SCRIE “Rent Freezing” program that your senior, income-qualified or rent-stabilized tenant might benefit from, at no cost to you, and more. Please E-mail bedstuy@hpd.nyc.gov 48 hours in advance for any reasonable accommodations you, or someone you know, may need.
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RestorationART 1368 Fulton St., 126pm, FREE. “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter,” said Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Join the
Sistas’ Place, 456 Nostrand Ave., 9 & 10:30pm sets, $75 per show. All tickets purchased in advance only. The Charles Tolliver All-Stars will perform, featuring trumpeter Charles Tolliver, saxophonist Gary Bartz, bassist Buster Williams, drummer Lenny White and keyboardist Keith Brown. Sistas’ Place is the peoples’ venue where “Jazz: A Music of the Spirit Lives and Culture is our Weapon.” For tickets and info call (718) 3981766 or visit sistasplace.org.
plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of the filed judgment and terms of sale. Index No. 22483-13. Steven Z. Naiman, Esq., Referee. Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC Attorneys for Plaintiff, 10 Bank Street - Suite 700, White Plains, New York 10606 (914) 949-2574 NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT - COUNTY OF KINGS GOSHEN MORTGAGE LLC, AS SEPARATE TRUSTEE FOR GDBT I TRUST 2011-1, Plaintiff, Against CARLTON EXILE A/K/A C. EXILE, ET AL, Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale, duly entered 5/9/2014, I, the undersigned Referee, will sell at public auction in Room 224 of the Kings County Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201, on 9/5/2019 at 2:30 pm, premises known as 123 Montauk Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11208, and 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, and designated on the tax maps of the Kings County Treasurer as Block 3,992, and Lot 5. The approximate amount of the current Judgment lien is $966,297.14 plus interest and costs. The premises will be sold subject to provisions of the aforesaid Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale; Index # 45556/2007. Nancy Schacher, Esq., Referee. SHELDON MAY & ASSOCIATES Attorneys at Law,
255 Merrick Road, Rockville Centre, NY 11570 Dated: 7/18/2019 File Number: 25672 MNB NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF Kings, Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB, d/b/a Christiana Trust, not individually but as Trustee for Pretium Mortgage Acquisition Trust, Plaintiff, vs. Dorothy Alexander, Nichole Alexander, ET AL., Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly filed on May 24, 2018 and an Order Pursuant to CPLR 2004 Extending the Time to Set Sale and to Ratify Sale Nunc Pro Tunc filed on June 21, 2019, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Kings County Supreme Court, Room 224, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, NY on September 5, 2019 at 2:30 p.m., premises known as 420 Autumn 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 04170 and Lot 00025. Approximate amount of judgment is $465,190.34 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 512372/2015. Helene Blank, Esq., Referee Knuckles, Komosinski & Manfro, LLP, 565 Taxter Road, Suite 590, Elmsford, NY 10523, Attorneys for Plaintiff Cash will not be accepted.
Sunday, August 25th SpeakFreedom