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PS 21/Crispus Attucks School Garden Club member offers flowers to welcome Spring at the School’s Annual Fundraising Carnival hosted by Principal Leslie Frazier. Page 9

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ong before Wakanda was a household word, Bethany Baptist Church was steeped in the rich culture of Africa. For the past 25 years, the historic church, located at 460 Marcus Garvey Blvd. in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, has proclaimed the theme “Unashamedly African, Unapologetically Christian” on its Annual Africa Day. This year’s celebration is set for Sunday, May 6 at 10:45 am with the Reverend Al Sharpton, founder of the National Action Network, as guest celebrant.

“While we have dedicated the first Sunday in May for the annual celebration of our heritage, Bethany has and always will proclaim our theme year-round,” said the Reverend Dr. Adolphus Lacey, Bethany’s Senior Pastor. “The celebration comes not just in the music, the garments or the décor, but as African people, it is ingrained in our hearts and in our spirit.”

In addition to the guest preacher, Bethany’s celebration will include African drumming, dancing and special choir selections. The church will be draped in cultural fabrics and members and friends will dress in African attire.

Everyone is invited to join Dr. Lacey and the Bethany Church family at Africa Day. African attire is requested but not required. For more information, please call the church office at (718) 455-8400.

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By Maitefa Angaza

The spotlight accompanying Bell’s release has served to bring attention to aspects of his story that the general public would not routinely know, such as concerns about how his case was handled, his contributions to society while an inmate, and the conditions under which he was imprisoned.

In 1973, Bell was arrested in San Francisco and extradited to New York City for the 1971 murder of NYPD Officers Waverly Jones and Joseph Piagentini. It was said that he and co-defendants Albert Washington and Anthony Bottoms lured the cops into a Harlem building with a bogus 911 call in order to execute them. Bell pled not guilty, the prosecution produced no eyewitnesses and his first trial ended with a hung jury. He was convicted in a second trial in 1979 after being held for six years and, along with his co-defendants, sentenced to 25 years to life. He charged that as a former Black Panther and member of the Black Liberation Army, he had been framed under the F.B.I.’s COINTELPRO operations.

Bell had no disciplinary infractions over the last 20 years of his incarceration.

He earned dual bachelor’s degrees in psychology and sociology, a master’s degree in sociology, mentored thousands of young inmates, taught English and Black History, and coached football and basketball. His charitable endeavors included co-founding the Victory Gardens Project in 2004, in which rural and urban dwellers worked

he parole of Herman Bell last week after 44 years has released a 70-yearold man from prison – Shawagunk Correctional Facility in Ulster County – and unleashed a torrent of outrage from various quarters. Backlash comes unanimously from the family of one of the cops he was convicted of killing. Diane Piagentini, widow of one of the slain officers, had petitioned the court for Bell to remain in prison but was told she had no standing in the matter.

Police Commissioner James O’Neill blasted the decision, as did Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association head Patrick Lynch.

Mayor de Blasio expressed his disapproval, and so did Governor Cuomo – who has been touting plans for prison reform and parolee rehabilitation. But a strident and potentially consequential outcry is coming from another quarter as well.

Among those claiming to be mightily aggrieved (in an election year) are Republicans in the state Senate. Majority Leader John Flanagan of Suffolk County announced the approval of new bills in reaction to Bell’s parole, including one mandating that persons convicted of killing a cop serve life sentences with no parole.

Flanagan also opposes Governor Cuomo’s recent (stated) decision to allow prisoners paroled on felony charges to have their voting rights restored.

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he last day for a property owner to pay or enter into a payment agreement to avoid the lien sale is Thursday May 17!

There are still 573 properties on the notice list that need to resolve their outstanding debt by Thursday, May 17th in order to avoid having their liens sold. Be sure to pay your debt or enter into a payment agreement before the deadline.

Outreach sessions where property owners can get one-on-one help are being held in all 5 boroughs. For more information: www.nyc.gov/liensale or contact councilman Cornegy: 718-919-0740

together to plant, harvest and distribute food in Brooklyn, Harlem, the Bronx, New Jersey and Maine. He created an essay contest with monetary prizes for middle school students and a calendar depicting historic struggles for justice, with the proceeds from sales donated to community-based groups.

Manny Jones, the brother of slain Police Officer Waverly Jones, decried Bell’s release by saying, “He should come home when my brother comes home.” But the officer’s son, Waverly Jones, Jr., communicated his wishes for Bell’s release at a meeting he requested with the Parole Board in 2004 and again in a statement he had Bell’s attorney Robert Boyle read at a press conference at the headquarters of the Center for Constitutional Rights on March 23rd: “The media-fueled hysteria concerning the Parole Board’s decision to release Herman Bell has caused me much distress.

It seems that individuals with no knowledge of Mr. Bell or the circumstances that led me to support his release many years ago have taken it upon themselves to drum up hate and vengeance.”

In September 2017, several prison guards, one of whom claimed to have been attacked by him, viciously beat Bell, who was then moved to solitary confinement despite his injuries. But in January of this year, Correction Officer Jeremy Saunders was suspended, accused, along with two other guards, of attacking Bell. Had he been

accused of assaulting the officers, it would have surely have jeopardized his chances for this recent parole after his eighth time before the board. And at his age, Bell is in a recidivism bracket of less than four percent.

Violent crime has been steadily dropping, but according to a January 2017 report from The Sentencing Project, the number of people serving life sentences has increased nearly fivefold since 1984 and, “… criminal justice reform has largely excluded people in prison with life sentences. This growing ‘lifer’ population both illustrates and contributes to the persistence of mass incarceration.”

As time served in prison for lifers has increased, the percentage of parole approvals dropped. The Parole Board denies three out of four applications, most predictably, high-profile cases such as Bell’s, where board chiefs are often removed from their $100,000, three-day-a-week jobs after a prisoner denigrated by loud and/or powerful voices is released. Having lost this round, those in opposition are surely preparing for a frenzied campaign against the release of Bottoms, up for parole in June. Albert Washington, who was convicted earlier than Bell in the same case, died of liver cancer in 2000. His co-defendant, Jalil Muntaqim, remains in prison.

Herman Bell is with his family. His attorney says he is declining to comment at this time out of respect for the victim’s families.

Letter to the Editor Bernice: What a fantabulous issue because you featured our little darlings at PS 21 (Leslie Frazier, Principal) and PS 81 (Dr. Cheryl Ault-Barker, Principal and Ms. Judith Daniels, Parent Advocate). Both of these principals, as you undoubtedly know, were mentored by Dr. Adelaide Sanford and Dr. Renee Young; Dr. Young referred me to the two schools.

I have worked with the principals and staff at both of these schools and they are delightful -- the principals and staff of both

schools are devoted to offering their students every opportunity to excel. For the last two years I worked with these students on a “Treat for UNICEFproject,” and while many of the students were living in shelters and/ or with grandparents or other relatives, each school raised more than $300 each year. I was so proud of them.

OUR TIME PRESS is to be commended for showcasing these fantabulous students and their schools.

Elizabeth Rankin Fulcher, Brooklyn

Correction: In the April 26 issue of OTP “Newsstand Notary in Lobby of 26 Court St. Refuses Service to Our Time Press Employee,” we implied the identification presented read Joanna Williams. The ID was actually Joanna Denise Goodwin Williams. I regret that editorial error on my part. David Greaves

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stock is so inflated in the area, that not many longtime residents would be able to purchase 591 Carlton. But some could.

Neither has much progress been made in locating any relatives of Clarice Gray or of Paula Sanford in Barbados, as no others were located her in the U.S. And readers will recall that efforts were made to find relatives in Guyana, as well. It is not known at this time if the Loraine previously named is the rightful owner. The property appears to be in limbo.

Our Time Press spoke with John Blackman of the Barbados Consulate.

“We have not made any progress in finding

any relatives of Miss. Gray,” he said. “I got a call from a neighbor of hers who apprised me of the situation. I asked him to write me on it. I got a letter from him and I spoke to someone from the district attorney’s office. So we have to try and find out if it’s a formal adoption. If it is it would be either after she arrived here from Barbados, or while she was still living I Barbados.

“The further back you go, the tougher it is to find records. So I suppose it will take

some time to find out if Miss Sanford had a formal adoption, which would make her the rightful heir, and subsequently any of Miss Sanford's relatives are heirs in turn.

In the old days, even today… people would raise children for a relative. Or someone who didn’t have any children, they would take in another person’s child and raise it as their own.”

591 Carlton awaits the person who will care for it as her or his own.

By Maitefa Angaza

he three-story home at 591 Carlton Avenue that has been the subject of curiosity and concern for some of its Prospect Heights neighbors has been removed from the City’s May 2nd auction roster. Upon arriving at the property on both Saturday and Sunday during the stated walkthrough hours, the house was found padlocked each day with No Trespassing signs prominently displayed.

When a neighbor called D.A. Kalenborn, it was stated that the house was no longer up for auction at this time. No further explanation was given. Perhaps the attention paid may result in some due diligence toward locating any legitimate heirs to the property.

At the very least, neighbors would like to be kept abreast of developments. They would find it a travesty to see the home, once lovely, now in need of TLC, or triage perhaps, fall into the hands of opportunist – official or otherwise. At a time when young married couples can no longer afford to live and raise families in the area in which they were born, neighbors feel that they and/or their offspring should at least be notified when a sale is imminent. True, housing

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If you owe property tax, water, sewer, emergency repair, or other property-related charges, the City of New York may sell a lien on your property.

Senior, Disabled, and Veteran Homeowners May Qualify for Exemptions, but Must Apply.

Look for your property on the lien sale list at nyc.gov/liensale.

You can also contact 311 to apply for an exemption or to see if your property is on the list.

Do Not Delay. Respond Today!

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WHAT’S GOING ON ■■

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BREAKING NEWS USA: This is news and American culture. The National Memorial for Peace and Justice opened last week in Montgomery, Alabama. Dedicated to “Black victims of white supremacy, the African-American Memorial and Museum honored the names of African-Americans who were lynched/ died because of racial killings between 1877 to 1950. NY Times Editorial Board writer Brent Staples observed: “It is America’s first major effort to confront the vast scope of the racial terror that ravaged the AfricanAmerican community in the South.” Inspired by the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin and the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg, the National Memorial for Peace and Justice was supported by the Equal Justice Initiative, a nonprofit with a disproportionately large number of Black lawyers. The memorial, which chronicles the lives of 4400 AfricanAmericans--revealing names, counties and circumstances--who were lynched or killed by white supremacists, was financed by $20 million in private funds.

Americans, Black and white, are beating a path to the Montgomery Memorial to look at the trauma that attended the lives of mostly Southern Blacks during some of the darker moments of America’s past, horrendous acts which must be acknowledged. Brent Staples laments: “The new museum and memorial in Montgomery are necessary first steps for a civil rights tour of the South. They vividly illustrate the terrorism that enforced that Jim Crow regimen into the 20th century. Beyond that, they show that the devaluation of Black lives upon which slavery relied did not just evaporate, but it haunts this country still.”

President Trump invited Nigerian

Kenneth Knuckles

Muhammadu Buhari President Muhammadu Buhari to the White House and President Buhari accepted, and the leaders met on 4/30. He is the first sub-Saharan President to visit the Trump White House. Nigeria is one of America’s largest trading partners in the region. The two leaders held a joint press conference.

Trump allowed that Nigeria gets over $1 billion a year and that Nigeria should lower its trade barriers. Trump talked about the sale of A-29 attack aircraft sold to Nigeria.

Buhari, who is running for reelection despite protracted health issues, praised Trump for his handling of the US economy and for U.S. forces in Nigeria for a “training mission!”

He adeptly dodged questions about Trump’s shithole remarks, saying that the best thing for him to do on that subject is to “keep quiet.”

past tense and Wadleigh Middle School and HS will remain intact.

Kenneth Knuckles, 70, longtime UMEZ Development Corporation President/CEO, eyes retirement after 15 productive years.

During that time, the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone provided $87 million in loans for real estate projects, $98 million in grants for the arts, culture and workforce from the original $249 million commitment, sourced equally by federal, state and city governments. UMEZ has been credited for providing seed money for more than $1 billion worth of projects that have transformed Harlem and Upper Manhattan. UMEZ is one of nine locales in the USA which were designated as “urban empowerment zones” under federal legislation authored by Harlem Congressman Charlie Rangel and signed into law in 1994 by President Clinton. From the onset, UMEZ stewards have been AfricanAmerican. A national executive search is in place to find Knuckles’ successor.

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It takes a village to save the community.

Early last week, the Wadleigh HS and Middle School was this close to being closed by the NYC Department Panel for Educational Policy. Thanks to the relentless efforts of politicos, educators and parents, the crisis is

Harlem Stage presents E-Moves, 4 Nights of Contemporary African Choreography, on May 2-5 at the Harlem Stage Gatehouse, 150 Convent Avenue. Choreographers whose works will be featured include Lacina Coulibaly, Burkino Faso; Ousmane Wiles, Senegal; and Nora Chipaumire, Zimbabwe.

Dance themes will be choreographers’ feelings about “What it means to be an African in America now.”

BRAG (Black Retail Action Group), a nonprofit organization which provides scholarships to students of color interested in the fashion trades, presents an evening with Constance White to celebrate the publication of her new book, “HOW TO SLAY: Inspiration from the Queens and Kings of Black Style.” World-renowned as an arbiter of culture and style, Constance White worked alternately as publisher, editor, journalist at the NY Times, WWD, W Magazine, Elle and Essence magazines. Evening is on May 10, 6-9, at WeWork Harlem, located at 18 West 126th Street. RSVP@bragusa.org is necessary.

There is more good news for the late Nigerian author Chinua Achebe, whose novel, THINGS FALL APART, a poignant story about the real clash of civilizations between the colonized and colonizer. The book, a part of a trilogy, which includes A MAN OF THE PEOPLE and NO LONGER AT EASE, is required reading in many American HS and college literature classes. The Encyclopedia

VOL. 22 NO. 18 Britannica considers it one of 12 novels which are the greatest books ever written.

King Mswati announced on 4/19 that the Kingdom of Swaziland has been renamed. It reverts to its original name of the Kingdom of eSwatini, which was changed when the British arrived and colonized the country. eSwatini is a landlocked African nation situated between South Africa and Mozambique.

The name change was to celebrate the King’s 50th Birthday and the 50th Anniversary of Independence from Great Britain.

NY Times Art & Design Festival Talks presents, “A Conversation with Sir David Adjaye,” O.B.E., one of the leading architects of his generation, and Studio Museum in Harlem director/curator Thelma Golden at the NYT Center, 242 West 41st Street, on May 18 at 1-2 pm. Sir Adjaye designed the National Museum of African-American History and Culture in Washington, DC, and has been commissioned to design the new and expanded home of the Studio Museum in Harlem. The new SMH breaks ground later this year.

Thelma Golden

MAY/JUNE DATES The New York Urban League (NYUL) will host its 53rd Annual Frederick Douglass Dinner Awards at the Chelsea Piers 60 on May 15. One of the highlights of the NY spring season, the NYUL Awards gala honorees includes: Kyle Hagler, Next Management, President; Valeisha Butterfield-Jones, Global Head of Women and Black Community Engagement, Google; and Dapper Dan, Fashion Innovator. Corporate Awardee is to be determined. 2018 is the Bicentennial of Frederick Douglass’ birth. The NYUL, a chapter of the National Urban League, focuses on delivery of services to AfricanAmericans and other underserved ethnic communities to promote a first-class education, economic development and an equal respect of their civil rights. [Visit nyul.org]

Dapper Dan

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Brooklyn-based Neighborhood Technical Assistance Clinic, founded by Rev. Dr. Valerie Oliver-Durrah, will host its 11th Annual Awards Gala on June 6 at Giando on the Water, 400 Kent Avenue, Brooklyn. NTAC simultaneously celebrates local luminaries and Caribbean-American Heritage Month. The 2018 roster of honorees includes: Edolphus “Ed” Towns, former U.S Congressman, recipient of the NTAC Lifetime Achievement accolade; Earl Philips, Transport Workers Local Union 100; Judge Sylvia G. Ash, Kings County Supreme Court; Attorney Sanford Rubenstein and Metro-Plus, the insurance carrier. NTAC is a nonprofit which serves the needs of philanthropic organizers and worthy recipients. [Visit neighborhoodclinic.org]

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Thinkers Notebook PUB: India Abroad, The Jewish Press, NY Beacon, NY Daily Challenge, Out Time Press Police. February 2005 - Montgomery County District Attorney states that he will not be criminally prosecuting Cosby. A week prior, a woman named Mech Size: Composite D Tamara Green comes forLanguage: English ward with allegations that Cosby sexually Specs: 10” xassaulted 7” her in the 70’s.

Job#: N17LO126_416 ■■ By Marlon Rice asking Ms. Constant over to his home for March 2005 - Constant files a civil suit dinner. She accepted, and had dinner with against Bill Cosby. 13 women provide depoast week, a jury found Bill Cosby Mr. Cosby on numerous occasions, including sitions detailing alleged sexual assault. guilty of sexually assaulting Andrea taking a trip to New York City for dinner and Fall 2005 - In his deposition, Cosby Constant at his home in Montgom- to see him perform. November 2003 - Cosby admits to getting drugs to give to women for ery County, Pennsylvania back in 2004. The invites Constant up to Foxwoods Casino. She sex. He admits to hiding these affairs from verdict signified the fall of one of America’s agrees and drives up. They have dinner with his wife and routing payments to multiple biggest entertainment icons and the valida- Casino Manager Thomas Cantone. After women. tion of a decade of accusations set against dinner, Cosby allegedly calls Constant and November 2006 - Constant’s civil suit Mr. Cosby by dozens of women. For most invites her to his room. He claims to have against Cosby is settled for reportedly $3.4 of us, the idea of Bill Cosby being guilty “baked goods” he wants to share with her. million dollars. The depositions are sealed. of such heinous acts against women were She goes to his room and he allegedly lays October 2014 - Comedian Hannibal unthinkable at first. This is Cliff Huxtable on the bed next to her and falls asleep. After a Buress, while performing at a club in we are talking about, America’s favorite few minutes watching him sleep, she leaves. Philadelphia, calls Bill Cosby a rapist.

Dad. We grew up watching him, laughing Winter 2004 - Bill Cosby allegedly assaults November 2014 - Barbara Bowman, one at his jokes and being influenced by the Ms. Constant at his home. According to her of the women who filed a deposition in the positive images of the Black family that he testimony, Ms. Constant was visiting Mr. civil suit case in 2005, writes an Op-Ed piece helped bring to the television screen. “The Cosby at his home because she was anxious in the Washington Post titled, “Bill Cosby Cosby Show” and the spin-off “A Different about making a decision to resign from raped me. Why did it take 30 years for people World” have a direct correlation with the Temple University. Mr. Cosby gave her some to believe my story?” Two days later, while uptick in enrollment into HBCUs during the blue pills and told her to take them and that being interviewed on NPR, Cosby is asked years that they were on the air. So, we didn’t they would help “take the edge off.” She took about the Bowman allegations. He doesn’t believe at first, we couldn’t believe that the pills and drank a glass of white wine. In answer the questions, choosing to stay silent. someone who has given us so much would minutes, she was groggy and then she passed Over the next few weeks, 10 other women do something so wrong. out. She awakes to Cosby sexually assaulting come forward to make claims of sexual assault In an effort to make clear the sequence of her. She blacks out again, waking up around at the hands of Cosby. NBC employee Frank events that have led to Mr. Cosby’s convic- 5am. Her bra was around her neck, and her Scotti claims that he paid eight women on tion, and in order to shed light on this case pants were unzipped. She got herself togeth- Cosby’s behalf, sending thousands of dollars as objectively as possible, I have decided er to leave but Cosby put himself between in money orders to the women to keep them to provide a timeline of events for your her and the door. He asked if she was okay. quiet. Cosby resigns as honorary co-chair of review: Fall 2002 - Andrea Constant meets He gave her tea and a muffin. And then she the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

Bill Cosby. At the time, Ms. Constant was left. January 2005 - After experiencing nightDecember 2014 - Cosby resigns from the Director of Operations for the Temple mares about the incident and expressing what Temple University’s Board of Trustees.

Women’s Basketball team and Mr. Cosby transpired to her mother, Ms. Constant files Early 2015 - Over the first three months was a trustee of the university. They were a police report with the Durham Regional of 2015, another five women come forward introduced because Mr. Cosby asked to see Police outside of Toronto. This sparks a with allegations. the newly renovated Women’s Basketball criminal investigation in Montgomery July 2015 - Constant filed a motion team locker room. That meeting led to phone County, PA. At his lawyer’s office, Mr. to have the deposition unsealed because conversations, and that led to Mr. Cosby Cosby is interviewed by the Cheltenham Cosby violated a nondisclosure agreement

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Bill Cosby by responding to the newly surfaced allegations. The depositions are unsealed. The public learns that Cosby admitted to giving a woman Quaaludes. New York magazine photographs 35 women for an historic cover story in which these women tell their stories about their experiences with Bill Cosby.

November 2015 - Kevin Steele defeats Bruce Castor, Jr. in a heated race for Montgomery County District Attorney in PA. Steele chided Castor throughout the campaign for failing to prosecute Bill Cosby.

December 30, 2015 - Just two weeks before the statute of limitations would’ve run out in the case, Bill Cosby is formally charged with drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constant in 2004. By this point, over 50 women have come forward to tell stories about their experiences with Bill Cosby, detailing sexual assault and being drugged. The stories have some similarities - blue pills, drinks, women waking up and finding Cosby in various stages of molestation or sex. Cosby is found guilty on all three counts of sexual assault against Andrea Constant.

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FIRST LADY CHIRLANE MCRAY ANNOUNCES CITY INITIATIVE TO INTERVENE IN AND REDUCE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

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n Wednesday, First Lady Chirlane McCray announced Interrupting Violence At Home, a groundbreaking citywide effort to address domestic violence through services, training, and intervention for abusive partners who are not involved in the criminal justice system.

Recognizing that the vast majority of domestic violence is not reported to law enforcement, the City’s $3.3 million investment leverages national research and evidence-informed intervention models to address abusive behavior and reduce future abuse in intimate partner violence relationships. This groundbreaking initiative, which is the first of its kind in the country, will have the capacity to reach 1,600 individuals across all five boroughs.

“Any kind of violence is unacceptable.

But as we keep survivors and families safe, we must also do everything we can to intervene directly with their abusive partners, ” said First Lady Chirlane McCray, co-chair of the Domestic Violence Task Force and the Commission on Gender Equity. One of the tragic truths underlying domestic violence is that many offenders have themselves been victims of violence and abuse. Hurt people hurt people. But with this program, we will employ new methods of intervening, long before a call to 911.”

“With today’s announcement New York City is a taking another monumental step towards protecting more victims of domestic violence,” said Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services Dr. Herminia Palacio. “This approach will be the first of its kind to stop and prevent domestic violence, to provide a new and additional service, keeping more families together. I am proud to be a part of an administration that has this as a top priority.”

With these new programs, the City will: Create the first City-funded community-based program for abusive partners who are not involved in the criminal justice system. This groundbreaking trauma-informed program will be culturally and linguistically specific and will focus on both community and family accountability.

Create the first City-funded trauma-informed and culturally-competent accountability program for teens who have demonstrated unhealthy relationships with intimate partners and/or family members. The program will create safe, age-appropriate environments that focus youth offending and adolescent development behaviors such as impulse control and emotion management.

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MEC Community Council Continues to Carry the Torch: Honors Students & Central Brooklyn’s Best at Annual Scholarship & Leadership Luncheon ■■ By Deborah Jacobs, CCMEC Fundraising Committee

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midst of the wave of community activism throughout Central Brooklyn in the mid-60’s, the Ad Hoc Planning Committee, predecessor of what’s known today as the Community Council for Medgar Evers College, joined the struggle to create CUNY College No. 7, now known as Medgar Evers College.

The ancestral legacy of the “Council” is rich in terms of its composition and contributions to the creation, academic evolution

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and present status of Medgar Evers College as a beacon of educational success and achievement in the Central Brooklyn community.

So once again, we can offer praises and thanks to our Council President Katie Davis for leading this group of committed council members to a successful completion of our 2018 Annual Scholarship and Leadership Luncheon.

Thanks to our Scholarship Committee, chaired by Dr. Joan Tropnas, and the tireless work of Gloria Wilson, Associate Treasurer, the council raised money for scholarships

Commissioner Zeigler Retires

Top Brass turn out for “walkout” (last day on the job) of NYPD Deputy Commissioner Neldra M. Zeigler, escorted by husband and Retired Chief Douglas Zeigler. Commissioner Zeigler retires from her 1998 appointment after serving three mayors and four police commissioners. Leaving behind a grateful city, her only son, Detective Nalik Zeigler, and a very different Police Department that she joined twenty-one years ago. Thankful to have been of service in the leading Police Department in the greatest city on the planet. She made it better and called it a day. www.citytech.cuny.edu/directadmissions

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from a combination of ticket, raffle and journal ad sales and annual standing awards such as the Lucille Rose Memorial, the Dr. Cecil Gloster Memorial and the Green– Chavis Scholarship Funds.

Our scholarship awardees were truly impressive this year. Youth Leadership Awards were given to two rising stars graduating from the Medgar Evers Preparatory High School and who also engaged in studies at the college. Codi-Ann Reid will be studying biomedical engineering at Harvard

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University and Dervin Johnson aerospace engineering at MIT this fall.

Medgar Evers College founder Job Mashariki and his presenter former Assemblyman and Councilman Al Vann reminded us of the history of their various struggles thereby emphasizing the importance of persistence in the face of ALL adversities. Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Paul Wooten inspired the youth through his anecdotal remembrances of the perseverance of his awardee, Rev. Taharka Robinson.

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cs, Tree Dedication and Fun ispus Attucks School Festival

Dr. Adelaide Sanford's Family Came

It Takes a Village

Reflections on a Garden Visit

by PS 270/ Johann Dekalb School

Magnolia Grow in Brooklyn

On April 19th, 4th and 5th graders of PS 270 visited the Hattie Carthan Community Garden and met with urban farmer and garden president, Yonnette Fleming. They shared their thoughts on the experience with Our Time Press.

I learned that they honor Hattie Carthan every Earth Day and in the Hattie Carthan Market they make bread. The scary part was when farmer Yonnette Fleming tried to pick up the chicken and it went flying! Thanks for the treat!!!

-Kiearah China Thank you for the Magnolia tree. The rocks were nice and I loved the chickens.

-Amber Santiago Dear Magnolia Tree Community Garden: Thank you for showing us the pine trees and the chickens are really big! Thank you again for the Magnolia trees. I really love it and hope your garden grows more, thank you.

-Juwain Osborne Thank you for showing us how chickens lay many different colored eggs.

-Chanel Nelson When I went to Hattie Carthan’s Magnolia Tree Garden, I was awestruck. I mean it was hard to find a beautiful garden and I am so grateful to be there.

-Kadhiza Choudhury

Natural Leaders

I was at the Hattie Carthan Garden and I saw rocks, plants, chickens and more.

We saw Mr. Haskin’s plants, then we saw an oven that made bread and they taught us how to make it. What I found shocking was a big Dream Catcher. What I found exciting was holding a chicken.

-Imani Ahadzi

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A Brooklynite NFL-Bound?

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By Eddie Castro

he NFL Draft has come and pass and as far as our professional sports teams, we now know that the New York Giants have selected Penn State running back Saquon Barkley with their No. 2 overall pick. The Jets then selected USC quarterback Sam Darnold with the No. 3 pick.

The City of New York is looking to add another New York product to the NFL family and he is from our borough.

Jefferson alum Ebenezer Ogundeko was expected to hear his name during the draft but unfortunately, he did not. He had been projected to be off the board on Day 3 of the draft, however, he did not have to wait that long afterwards as he received an invitation to the Kansas City Chiefs rookie mini-tryouts.

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Ogundeko had committed to Clemson University, but ran into a few legal troubles which then led to him being kicked off the football program. The defensive end would then land at Tennessee State for his final 3 years of eligibility and all he did was completely wreak havoc. Just ask the opposing quarterbacks.

Ogundeko, 22, who stands at 6-foot-3/ 256 pounds, led his team in sacks each year he played for Tenn. State.

Although it may not be the typical path it would be for a young man to fulfill his lifelong dream, there is something to admire about Ogundeko’s drive. Throughout all his legal troubles, he continued to play the game he loved while trying to repair his image which may have been a huge contributing factor as to why NFL general managers were hesitant to draft him. Will his dream of playing in the NFL come true with an opportunity with the Chiefs? The Borough of Brooklyn sure hopes so. He is an athlete whose talent can go under the radar and can be a steal for the teams who passed on him. We shall see how Ogundeko’s roller-coasting journey unfolds.

Sports Notes: (NBA Basketball) On Tuesday, it was reported that the New York Knicks have completed their interviews in search for their new head coach.

The team hopes to have a new coach by the end of the week.

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CITY INITIATIVE TO INTERVENE IN AND REDUCE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ➔➔ Continued from page 7 Coordinators at NYC Crisis Management System (CMS) sites to enhance the identification and response to domestic violence in communities served by CMS sites. The rate of domestic violence related calls to NYPD in the CMS precincts is 2.3 times higher than the rest of NYC. Work with an expert consultant to develop a blueprint for implementing restorative justice practices in community-based models to address domestic violence in NYC. Develop a specialized training curriculum to provide City agency staff working with offender populations with tools to understand offender risk factors, identify high levels of risk, and gain skills to engage with abusive partners.

In New York City, between 2010 and 2016, the NYPD had previous contact with the victim and the offender in only 39 percent of the intimate partner homicides. A key focus of the Interrupting Violence at Home program will be creating a baseline of information regarding the identification, engagement and intervention of abusive partners outside of the criminal justice

system. This information is critical in order to continue to drive down domestic violence incidents and enhance accountability for the abusive partners as well as survivor safety.

Earlier this year, First Lady McCray launched New York City’s first-ever, web-based portal, NYC HOPE, dedicated to providing resources to survivors and information to all City residents about how to help someone experiencing domestic violence. At that time, the City also unveiled its first domestic violence awareness campaign in more than a decade, “We Understand” – developed in conjunction with advocates and survivors to speak to the complexities of abusive relationships, highlight the availability of support and services in New York City, and share diverse testimonials from survivors of intimate partner violence.

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Review

"Yellowman" – A Must See! – at The Billie Through May 24 ■■ Text and Photos By Bernice Elizabeth Green

O

ver the past year, RestorationArt has presented compelling dramas of the Black experience, some snatched from the headlines, others from history. All performances have been no less than amazing.

“Yellowman,” the fifth production which closes this season of the new, renovated Billie Holiday theatre (The Billie), offers something more in its telling of a story set against the theme of “colorism.”

The 2002 Pulitzer drama finalist written by Harlem born dramatist Dael Orlandersmith explores intensely a painful narrative we willfully have kept out of the spotlight. And, in doing so, under the fine direction of Timothy Douglas, delivers on the promise of RestorationArt’s visionary executive director Dr. Indira Etwaroo: to not present to the community great art for the sake of great art, but also with the purpose of audience engagement and immersion in conversation.

Actors Jessica Frances Dukes (Alma)

and Tyrone Mitchell Henderson (Eugene), both deliver, with outstanding must-see and must-experience, multi-leveled

performances, hopefully on the way to Audelco and Obie recognition.

Of note Hollis King, The Billie’s creative director, once again begins the conversation around the play’s theme, as he has done for previous productions: in the theatre lobby.

King’s brilliant Restoration installation/ exhibition, “The Brown Paper Bag Project." nails “Yellowman’s” leitmotif in a most interesting and daring way (as seen on these pages). So, the conversation about “Yellowman” will keep going long after audiences leave The Billie for home.

Indeed, home is what The Billie IS about; a place where our stories and ourselves are on stage.

In the case of “Yellowman,” in addition to Duke's and Henderson's performances, some interesting props and scenery earn "big props": a couple of chairs and a “window blind” looking to this writer like a huge abstraction of a flag minus stars, stripes and … color. But that’s enough for now.

An Our Time Press-toned expansion on “Yellowman” is forthcoming.

The play is in production at The Billie, 1368 Fulton Street, Brooklyn (near Marcy) through May 20. Missing it is like missing out on stage-history-in-the-making.

Tickets range from $25 - $65, additional information at 866-811-4111 or www.thebillieholiday.org

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LEGAL NOTICES Name Change Notice is Hereby given that an order entered by Supreme Court, Kings County, on the 9th day of April, 2018 bearing Index number 789/18, a copy of which may be examined at the office of the clerk, located at 360 Adams Street, Room 189, Brooklyn, New York grants me the right to assume the name of Valerio Madiba Eugenio Zollo. The City and State of my present address are Brooklyn, NY the month and year of my birth are January 2004; the place of my birth is New York, NY; my present name is Valerio Madiba Eugenio ZolloKimboko.

NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC AUCTION Supreme Court of New York, Kings County.

SRMOF II 2012-1 TRUST, U.S. BANK TRUST NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, Plaintiff, -against- CLEO CHARLESPHILLIPS; ROBERT PHILLIPS; CITY OF NEW YORK DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION PARKING VIOLATIONS BUREAU; CITY OF NEW YORK TRANSIT AUTHORITY TRANSIT ADJUDICATION BUREAU; NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION & FINANCE; SOPHIA JOHNSON, Index No. 2713/2013. Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated, February 21, 2017 and entered with the Kings County Clerk on April 6, 2017, Gregory Laspina, Esq., the Appointed Referee, will sell the premises known as 553 Lenox Road, Brooklyn, New York 11203 at public auction at Kings County Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, Room 224, Brooklyn, New York 11201, on June 7, 2018 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 as Block: 4845; Lot: 28 will be sold subject to the provisions of filed Judgment, Index No. 2713/2013. The approximate amount of judgment is $1,047,226.32 plus interest and costs. FRIEDMAN VARTOLO LLP 85 Broad Street, Suite 501, New York, New York 10004, Attorneys for Plaintiff.

NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC AUCTION Supreme Court of New York, Kings County.

SRMOF II 2012-1 TRUST, U.S. BANK TRUST NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, Plaintiff, -against- CLEO CHARLESPHILLIPS; ROBERT PHILLIPS; CITY OF NEW YORK DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION PARKING VIOLATIONS BUREAU; CITY OF NEW YORK TRANSIT AUTHORITY TRANSIT ADJUDICATION BUREAU; NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION & FINANCE; SOPHIA JOHNSON, Index No. 2713/2013. Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated, February 21, 2017 and entered with the Kings County Clerk on April 6, 2017, Gregory Laspina, Esq., the Appointed Referee, will sell the premises known as 553 Lenox Road, Brooklyn, New York 11203 at public auction at Kings County Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, Room 224, Brooklyn, New York 11201, on June 7, 2018 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 as Block: 4845; Lot: 28 will be sold subject to the provisions of filed Judgment, Index No. 2713/2013. The approximate amount of judgment is $1,047,226.32 plus interest and costs. FRIEDMAN VARTOLO LLP 85 Broad Street, Suite 501, New York, New York 10004, Attorneys for Plaintiff.

NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF KINGS U.S. Bank National Association as Trustee for Merrill Lynch First Franklin Mortgage Loan Trust, Mortgage Loan Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 2007-5, Plaintiff AGAINST Nelson

OUR TIME PRESS May 3 – 9, 2018 Moncion; et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated July 28, 2017 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 31, 2018 at 2:30PM, premises known as 291 Ridgewood 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 4114 Lot 56. Approximate amount of judgment $796,122.49 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index# 507269/2014. Shmuel Taub, Esq., Referee Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, LLC Attorney(s) for the Plaintiff 175 Mile Crossing Boulevard Rochester, New York 14624 (877) 759-1835 Dated: April 12, 2018 53495 REFEREE’S NOTICE OF SALE IN FORECLOSURE SUPREME COURT – COUNTY OF KINGS U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR LEHMAN XS TRUST MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 2007-4N, Plaintiff – against – HATIM M. HANIF, et al Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered on October 17, 2017. I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction, in Room 224 of Kings County Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201 on the 31st Day of May, 2018 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. Premises known as 148 Hendrix Street, Brooklyn, NY 11207. (Block: 3933 and Lot: 44) Approximate amount of lien $754,383.26 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed judgment and terms of sale. Index No. 511988/2015. Sol Needle, Esq., Referee. Davidson Fink LLP Attorney(s) for Plaintiff 28 East Main Street, Suite 1700 Rochester, NY 14614-1990 Tel. 585/760-8218 Dated: March 5, 2018 NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF KINGS Nationstar Mortgage LLC, Plaintiff AGAINST Shenicole Tanner; et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated July 26, 2017 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Kings County Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, Room 224, Brooklyn, NY 11201 on June 7 2018 at 2:30PM, premises known as 56 Martense Street, 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 NY, Block 5089 Lot 28. Approximate amount of judgment $906,808.14 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index# 511854/2014.

Jeanne M. Hammock, Esq., Referee Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, LLC Attorney(s) for the Plaintiff 175 Mile Crossing Boulevard Rochester, New York 14624 (877) 759-1835 Dated: April 16, 2018 SUPREME COURT – COUNTY OF KINGS U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR RESIDENTIAL ASSET MORTGAGE PRODUCTS, INC., MORTGAGE ASSET-BACKED PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006-NC2, Plaintiff against BEVERLY FIELDS A/K/A BEVERLEY FIELDS, et al Defendant(s).

Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered on April 3, 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 31st day of May, 2018 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 1520 East 55th Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11234 (Block: 7879, Lot: 82).

Approximate amount of lien $ 576,178.74 plus interest and costs.

Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed judgment and terms of sale. Index No. 508035-15. Shmuel D. Taub, Esq., Referee. McCabe, Weisberg & Conway, P.C. Attorney(s) for Plaintiff 145 Huguenot Street – Suite 210 New Rochelle, New York 10801 (914) 636-8900 NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF KINGS WELLS FARGO BANK, NA, Plaintiff AGAINST EUCHARIA K. NJOKU AS ADMINISTRATOR TO THE ESTATE OF SALIFOU OUEDRAOGO, et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated January 18, 2018 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 24, 2018 at 2:30PM, premises known as 132 EAST 95TH STREET, BROOKLYN, NY 11212. 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 4613, LOT 26. Approximate amount of judgment $843,944.28 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment for Index# 3344/2013. Jeffrey Leon Saltiel Esq., Referee Gross Polowy, LLC Attorney for Plaintiff 1775 Wehrle Drive, Suite 100 Williamsville, NY 14221 53385 NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT: KINGS COUNTY FREEDOM MORTGAGE CORPORATION; Plaintiff(s) vs. ROSITA TORO; et al; Defendant(s) Attorney (s) for Plaintiff (s): ROSICKI, ROSICKI & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 2 Summit Court, Suite 301, Fishkill, New York, 12524, 845.897.1600 Pursuant to judgment of foreclosure and sale granted herein on or about September 29, 2015, I will sell at Public Auction to the highest bidder in Room 224 of Kings County Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, New York 11201. On May 24, 2018 at 2:30 pm. Premises known as 176 NICHOLS AVENUE, BROOKLYN, NY 11208 Block: 4121 Lot: 58 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. As more particularly described in the judgment of foreclosure and sale. Sold subject to all of the terms and conditions contained in said judgment and terms of sale. Approximate amount of judgment $519,666.58 plus interest and costs. INDEX NO. 10276/10 Michael F. King, Esq., Referee NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT KINGS COUNTY JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association, Plaintiff against Maxime Fleurimont, et al Defendants Attorney (s) for Plaintiff (s) Fein, Such & Crane, LLP 28 East Main Street, Suite 1800, Rochester, NY 14614 Attorney (s) for Plaintiff (s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale Entered August 17th, 2017 I will sell at Public Auction to the highest bidder at the Room 224 of Kings County Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201 on May 24th, 2018 at 2:30p.m. Premises known as 1260 East 84th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11236. Sec N/A Block 8062 Lot 67. 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 Approximate Amount of Judgment is $507,700.22 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment

VOL. 22 NO. 18 Index No 501689/2014. Jeffrey L. Saltiel, Esq., Referee NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF KINGS Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as Trustee for the Certificateholders of Banc of America Mortgage 2007-4 Trust, Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2007-4,, Plaintiff AGAINST Reynold Lavache; et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated March 21, 2016 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 10, 2018 at 2:30PM, premises known as 1162 E 99TH Street, Brooklyn, NY 11236.

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 8244 Lot 74. Approximate amount of judgment $912,416.49 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index# 13593/08. Julie Clark, Esq., Referee Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, LLC Attorney(s) for the Plaintiff 175 Mile Crossing Boulevard Rochester, New York 14624 (877) 759-1835 Dated: March 27, 2018 53122 NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT: KINGS COUNTY GREENTREE SERVICING LLC; Plaintiff(s) vs. DAVID ZOIMEN; et al; Defendant(s) Attorney (s) for Plaintiff (s): ROSICKI, ROSICKI & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 2 Summit Court, Suite 301, Fishkill, New York, 12524, 845.897.1600 Pursuant to judgment of foreclosure and sale granted herein on or about May 17, 2017, I will sell at Public Auction to the highest bidder in Room 224 of Kings County Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, New York 11201. On May 17, 2018 at 2:30 pm. Premises known as 9 W 9TH STREET, BROOKLYN, NY 11231 Block: 534 Lot: 46 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. As more particularly described in the judgment of foreclosure and sale. Sold subject to all of the terms and conditions contained in said judgment and terms of sale. Approximate amount of judgment $852,493.88 plus interest and costs. INDEX NO. 7136/10 M. Randolph Jackson, Esq., Referee SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS Index No.: 513225/2017 Date of Filing: April 6, 2018 SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF KINGS REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING LLC, Plaintiff, -against- KERRY BROWNE AS HEIR AT LAW AND NEXT OF KIN OF UNEEDA VIOLA BROWN; CISLYN BROWNE AS HEIR AT LAW AND NEXT OF KIN OF UNEEDA VIOLA BROWN.; COREEN BROWNE AS HEIR AT LAW AND NEXT OF KIN OF UNEEDA VIOLA BROWN.; CHANTELL CLAIRMOUNTFOLKES AS HEIR AT LAW AND NEXT OF KIN OF UNEEDA VIOLA BROWN; CHARLEEN GAMALDO AS HEIR AT LAW AND NEXT OF KIN OF UNEEDA VIOLA BROWN.; NEW YORK CITY PARKING VIOLATIONS BUREAU; NEW YORK CITY TRANSIT ADJUDICATION BUREAU ; “JOHN DOE” AND “JANE DOE” 1 THROUGH 50, INTENDING TO BE THE UNKNOWN HEIRS, DISTRIBUTES, DEVISEES, GRANTEES, TRUSTEES, LIENORS, CREDITORS, AND ASSIGNEES OF THE ESTATE OF UNEEDA VIOLA BROWN WHO WAS BORN IN 1928 AND DIED ON JANUARY 8, 2017, A RESIDENT OF THE COUNTY OF KINGS, WHOSE LAST KNOWN ADDRESS WAS 1 FAIRVIEW PLACE, BROOKLYN, ➔➔ Continued on page 13

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LEGAL NOTICES ➔➔ Continued from page 12 NY 11226, THEIR SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST IF ANY OF THE AFORESAID DEFENDANTS BE DECEASED, THEIR RESPECTIVE HEIRS AT LAW, NEXT OF KIN, AND SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST OF THE AFORESAID CLASSES OF PERSON, IF THEY OR ANY OF THEM BE DEAD, AND THEIR RESPECTIVE HUSBANDS, WIVES OR WIDOWS, IF ANY, ALL OF WHOM AND WHOSE NAMES AND PLACES OF RESIDENCE ARE UNKNOWN TO THE PLAINTIFF”; CITIBANK (SOUTH DAKOTA), NA; CRIMINAL COURT OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK ; FORD MOTOR CREDIT COMPANY; NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE ; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA O/B/O SECRETARY OF HOUSING & URBAN DEVELOPMENT ; NEW YORK CITY ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL BOARD; ‘’JOHN DOES’’ and ‘’JANE DOES,’’ said names being fictitious, parties intended being possible tenants or occupants of premises, and corporations, other entities or persons who claim, or may claim, a lien against the premises, 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(s) within twenty (20) days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service, where service is made by delivery upon you personally within the State, or within thirty (30) days after completion of service where service is made in any other manner, 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 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. YOU ARE HEREBY PUT ON NOTICE THAT WE ARE ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT, AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANTS: The foregoing summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an Order of the Honorable Noach Dear of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, signed on March 6, 2018, and filed with supporting papers in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Kings, State of New York. The object of this action is to foreclose a mortgage upon the premises described below, executed by UNEEDA VIOLA BROWN to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., AS NOMINEE FOR UNITED NORTHERN MORTGAGE BANKERS LIMITED, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS bearing date January 26, 2015 and recorded under CRFN 2015000049839 in the City Register of the City of New York, County of Kings ➔➔ Continued on page 15

OUR TIME PRESS May 3 – 9, 2018

NEW BUSINESS FORMATIONS Notice of Formation of Bridge Hudson, LLC. Articles of Organization. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/18/2018.

Office: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC c/o Sandeep Puri 50 Bridge Street Unit 515, Brooklyn, NY 11201 Notice of Qualification of LIFE BY ME JAY STREET, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/23/18. Office location: Kings County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 03/01/18.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 122072543. DE addr. of LLC: 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. filed

with DE Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St. - Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of 1700 Neptune Avenue LLC. Articles of Organization. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on March 19, 1999. Office location: Kings County.

Princ. office of LLC: 1700 NEPTUNE AVE LLC, 439 S. Governor Printz Blvd, Essington, PA 19029. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the princ. office of the LLC. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Qualification of 4DX VENTURES MANAGEMENT, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of

13 NY (SSNY) on 03/12/18. Office location: Kings County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 10/30/17. Princ. office of LLC: 178 N. 5th St., Apt. 3N, Brooklyn, NY 11211.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the princ. office of the LLC. DE addr. of LLC: Corporation Service Co., 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808-1674. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

THE SPINNING TOP LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 12/20/2018.

Office: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, c/o LEGALINC Corporate Services Inc. 1967 Wehrle Drive, Suite 1 #086, Buffalo, NY 14221 Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

The Black Lady Theater Draws Theatrical Talent ■■

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By Akosua K. Albritton

he Black Lady Theater in Crown Heights, Brooklyn continues to unfold like a dahlia flower. Its fragrance wafts to attract artists near and far. Take Sherese Parris, the theater’s first artistic director. Parris—a quintessential American free spirit—traveled from London, England to Brooklyn, USA the summer of 2017. Parris was urged by a colleague to visit Brooklyn to investigate The Black Lady Theater for work opportunities. Parris is a graduate of the University of Texas majoring in Theater Arts and Public Relations. She did visit the theater and negotiated being designated the director of a romantic drama called “From the Borough of Brooklyn.”

After the last performance, Parris intended to return to London, however, the Hardy’s—Omar Hardy (son) and Clarence Hardy Shabazz (father)—asked her to stay and serve as the artistic director, a position she had not held before but a challenge she accepted.

Just what are the artistic director’s responsibilities? Ms. Parris explained: “To curate all of the content from the theater. I read scripts, ensuring any content or piece of art selected is aligned with the vision of The Black Lady Theater. Whatever comes from [this theater] will affect the community in a way that is positive and life-changing. Most of what we do is new writing, original New York City premiers. We tend to premiere

Sherese Parris works that are new, edgy, challenging work.”

Like many community theaters, The Black Lady Theater’s staff wears many hats. While Zulika Bumpus, the marketing director, is on a leave of absence, Parris has assumed the marketing responsibilities and working in the box office. The time this reporter met Parris on April 21st, she was involved with the technical rehearsal of Brooklyn College’s Theater Department.

Laura Tesman, the Theater Department Director and a Crown Heights resident, approached Parris to negotiate the fee for rehearsal and performance space. The

technical rehearsal was in preparation of the premier of La Folie, a play concerning the life of an Algerian family fleeing from war that has found refuge on the outskirts of Paris.

About the productions presented, Parris said, “The theater’s staff strives to have the public feel comfortable and spiritually fed. Our doors are open for the public and artists to come in and express themselves in a safe environment. There is a need to preserve our culture and to honor our ancestors.” One of which is Judge John L. Phillips, who owned The Black Lady Theater and Slave #1 Theater for many years. Judge Phillips acquired the two performance spaces to foster the community’s creative talents. Possibly, Phillips sought to birth a Central Brooklyn Renaissance. One thing that is sure is the judge left a cultural institution for the community to make of it what it will. The theater’s presence has drawn complimentary businesses that include eateries, a juice bar and small clothes stores. Upcoming plays include, “Then Sings My Soul,” created by Wyomme Pariss. This musical production examines domestic violence. “What?” scripted by Kamilah Bush, is “a refreshing take on police brutality” that premiers in July 2018. “Stones in the Water”

by Nancy Fenelon, looks at the stigma of mental illness in the Haitian-American community. “Stones in the Water” premiers at the theater in November 2018. This play’s mark of distinction is being the winner of a recent “audience choice” competition.

Philly Bros. Turn Starbucks Fiasco into Good Deed

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ashon Nelson, (left) and Donte Robinson, the two young men who recently made worldwide headlines when they were handcuffed and forced to leave a Philadelphia Starbucks, are back in the news. They’d come to make a real estate deal that infamous day and were feeling excited about the future. But it appears they may have ended up making an even more significant deal. The two will settle damages against the city for one dollar each in exchange for the mayor’s commitment to a $200,000 pilot program for young entrepreneurs.

Choosing not to file a lawsuit against the city, the young men showed their caring and forward-thinking by putting Philly’s high-schoolers first. In the process, they’ve impressed upon everyone, including those who most need to know, the importance of checking one’s biases and refraining from making judgments about anyone.

In addition to an undisclosed settlement,

the two men have been “offered the oppor­ tunity to complete their undergraduate degrees through the Starbucks College Achievement Plan,” said a statement from Starbucks.

The young men have also made a perhaps unintended impact on local businesses across the country as people can be heard sharing information on the small coffeeshops they’ve discovered.

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Gold Street May Be Named after Classifieds Activist Journalist Ida B. Wells

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he was the gold standard whose memory may now reign over Gold Street. Not many people associate the name Ida B. Wells with Brooklyn, but that could soon change. Gold Street in downtown Brooklyn would be renamed in honor of the revered journalist and civil rights activist. According to the Brooklyn Heights Patch, Councilmember Stephen

Levin (D-Brooklyn Heights-Downtown) made an application to change the name to reflect the street the remarkable icon lived on for several years after fleeing the South.

A brilliant and uncompromising woman, Barnett lived in Memphis, Tennessee, where she published the Memphis Free Speech newspaper. Her paper routinely published the news – and when possible, the names – associated with lynchings in the South. Wells received death threats regularly from racists offended by her courage and her coverage. When her offices were ransacked and her partner attacked, she left for the North, settling near the water in Brooklyn.

Credit for the street-naming inspiration came from Jacob Morris, head of the Harlem Historical Society, who suggested it to Levin.

“People don’t know” said Morris, “…

how formative Brooklyn was in influencing her growth as an activist and as a thinker, and as a person.”

Wells’ great-granddaughter, Michelle Duster lives on the South Side of Chicago.

She’s very excited about the proposed street naming and looking forward to meeting Brooklynites there.

This honoring of Wells in Brooklyn comes when many more people are becoming aware of the ugly history and widespread incidence of lynching in both the South and the North. Crowds are flocking to the new lynching memorial at the Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Incarceration and the National Museum for Peace and Justice, side by side in Montgomery, Alabama. Visitors are bearing witness to the painful truth of our history and Wells’ name and heroic example are honored there as well, of course.

Opinion: Desegregating NYC Schools

Desmond M. Atkins, Crown Heights

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anguage and the Chancellor I am not someone who never studied Latin or had the opportunity to. Needless to say, I have learned a handful of Latin phrases. There is “e pluribus unum,” one out of many; “ipso facto,” meaning by the very nature of the deed; “carpe diem” means “seize the day.” But one Latin phrase has always dazzled me with its simplicity and elegance.

That phrase, “ipso locutor”-- the thing speaks for itself. And this past week, there may have been an occasion for the creation of a new phrase, “video ipso locutor.”

Mr. Richard A. Carranza, the brand-new Chancellor of the NYC Department of Education, tweeted that a video taken at an upper Manhattan educational council meeting “spoke for itself.” And what Mr. Carranza wasn’t ashamed, bashful, inhibited or afraid to say was that the video evidenced the racism of the community that held the meeting. The parents at the meeting offered many reasons why they shouldn’t have to admit students from certain areas for any reasons. The outside students didn’t need to be added to the school(s) demographics; there was no need for (further) diversification; the school already had (enough) minority students. No one specified which minority was already existing and which minority they had no need of. But all of their words were “ipso facto,” leaning towards an exclusionary, selfish, illegal attempt to steer the populations of their schools.

The parents used old streams of logic: they had worked hard to get where they were, the new students would cause irreparable harm to their already-existing student body, why should they bear the brunt of the failures

of previous educators/ parents/ society (pick any or all).

Mr. Carranza noted that he had, as a person of color, had all these excuses used against him during his life’s journey to his present position. And, as a man of color, he would not abide with any of this language, behavior or methodology. Curiously, we are waiting for our mayor to weigh in on the situation. The possibility that the nuclear bomb of the word “racism” is much too dangerous for a politician to have placed on the CV (more Latin), meaning “curriculum vitae, or the “course of life.”

In “The Color of Law” by Richard Rothstein, the author cites statistical and historical facts that show that the present state of schools and housing are the result of decades leading to centuries of “de jure” segregation: segregation by law and public policy. He made the point that everyone wants to say that they are American, and therefore entitled to all the rights that that confers on them; he then makes the point that if you assume to load all of the benefits, then you also load on all of the failures and the responsibility as a citizen to rectify them, not respective to the time frame in which they occurred.

While my educational experience lacked the enrichment of a Latin class, the students who are possibly being excluded from a richer educational opportunity could in the course of their curriculum learn how to decipher each and every Latin phrase and come to a deeper understanding of language. Language is a tool when used with logic, wit, brevity and excitement creates for many new opportunities in life.

And that is exactly what these students are being denied: a life of excitement and logic and achievement.

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ony McGrath, of Martha’s Vineyard, Palm Springs, and New York City, was a pioneer in producing theater on the streets of New York City, has died in his New York City home at the age of 90.

He believed in the theory that he and all people should live until 140. He based this theory on the premise that living creatures should live to seven times their age of maturity. People mature at 20, therefore they should live to 140.

A graduate of Balboa High School in San Francisco, he went to St. Mary’s College of California with a basketball and football scholarship.

McGrath lived in the Highlands section of Oak Bluffs since 1964, and was a member of Motley Crew’s “The Brain Trust” at Mocha Mott’s since 2001.

He produced the Frederick Douglass speech, “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” on the beach in Oak Bluffs for the past 15 years, as well as lectures, plays, and children’s theater on the Island.

Harlem Renaissance writer and longtime Vineyard resident Dorothy West immortalized him in her novel “The Wedding,” which was about an interracial marriage. She based the characters on McGrath and his wife of 50 years, Abigail McGrath, her niece.

The Academy awardwinning actor F. Murray Abraham said, “My work with Off Center Theatre keeps me in touch with honesty.”

McGrath was a veteran of the Broadway stage. He created the part of Big Eddie

Tony McGrath

Stover in Truman Capote’s original 1952 production of “The Grass Harp,” directed

by Robert Lewis. He also created the part of “the Stranger” in the original 1955 production of “The Cherry Orchard” directed by David Ross, and was in the acclaimed Joel Friedman production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” in the New York Shakespeare Festival in Central Park.

Friedman also directed McGrath in “The Odd Couple.”

He specialized in “bum” parts, and was featured in the film “Better Than Ever” opposite Bill Hickey, “The Luckiest Man in the World” by Frank Gilroy, and “Au Pair Chocolat,” directed by his son, Benson McGrath.

He was featured in many early television shows, such as “Route 66,” “77 Sunset

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Strip,” and “Death Valley Days.”

In 1968, he created Off Center Theatre to give new playwrights a platform and to promote out-of-the-box concepts within a proscenium setting. He produced performances inspired by his street theater experiences in the Bread and Puppet Theatre, through 2017.

His first theater was in the Good Shepherd Presbyterian Church on 66th Street. Lincoln Center was doing the excavation for its performing space at the time. When people would ask where his theater was located, he would say “Off Lincoln Center,” hence the name Off Center, which was doubly fitting given the type of political and social plays associated with it.

Playwrights such as Trevor Griffen, Barry Keefe, Neall Bell, Norman Wexler, and Tom Labar all had their works performed there.

Christine Baranski, Peter Boyle, Dominic Chianese, Ron McLarty, and a host of others, including F. Murray Abraham, performed there.

Off Center also produced plays for children. It was located near a low-income housing project, and it was clear that the children could not afford a ticket.

As a result, the children’s plays were performed on the streets, for free. “Theater is a right, not a privilege,” said McGrath.

These were “zany and irreverent versions of children’s classics”; the actor John Leguizamo got his start as Jack in “Jack in the Beanstalk,” S. Epatha Merkerson was the third pig in “Three Little Pigs,” and F. Murray

Abraham, who was quite well-known when he joined, was the prince in Cinderella. The children’s theater company used fairy tales to emphasize women’s rights, diversity, and social issues in a way that was an alternative to Disney.

Under McGrath’s direction, “Biting the Apple,” street theater done in comic book style, about the worm of apathy in the Big Apple, toured the city streets, and “Hope for Life” performed a different episode every week outdoors at lunchtime for those working people who missed their soap opera. It asked the question, Can a girl from a small Latin-American island find happiness as a secretary on Wall Street?

He is survived by Abigail McGrath, his wife of 50 years, Benson McGrath, his son, and Jason Rosen, his stepson.

A memorial will be announced at a later date. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to Off Center Theatre, 484 West 43rd St., No. 37E, New York, NY 10036, or electronically by PayPal: http://bit.ly/ McGrathdonation.

Things Are More Thorny than Rosie for Joy Ann Reid

by Maitefa Angaza

oy Ann Reid has been hailed as a brilliant and much-needed resource for those seeking a breath of honest fresh air in TV journalism. Her MSNBC weekend show AM JOY incisively tackles pressing political issues of the day with an impressive array of Black pundits along for the ride. Right now, though, Reid is fighting for her TV life, in a scandal of her own making that Olivia Pope might have a hard time spinning.

It’s reported that some years ago, posting on her blog “The Reid Report,” Reid cheered on Donald Trump’s fat shaming of Rosie O’Donnell: “How much longer till that chubbedout shrew Rosie O’Donnell gets her fat ass canned by Babwa [Barbara Walters]? ...

How much more kick-ass funny can Donald Trump be?” she wrote. O’Donnell, taken aback, wanted to accept Reid’s explanation that her old website had been hacked and that she had no recollection of making such out-of-character remarks. But then, last Saturday, O’Donnell posted the following: “heard from joy reid - apparently i was rude to her at an event in 1996 - when she was an intern and i was receiving an award i have no memory of the event- i apologized so did she - all is well.”

So… Reid did, in fact, remember writing the blog post, but not other things that were attributed to her. Those were surely the work of a hacker. What other things?

The website Mediaite says it accessed Reid’s defunct 2007-2009 blog though an online archiving service after someone posting as Not a bot @Jamie_Moz discovered close to 50 posts on Twitter commenting on the looks, lives and sex lives

of people assumed to be gay or lesbian.

Absurd “jokes” range from speculation about the private lives of powerful political figures, to hairstyles, to a supposed threat that gay men pose to “post-pubescent” youth.

Fun was made of Harriet Miers, George W. Bush’s nominee for Supreme Court: “… no, the really important question is whether this chick is a lesbian… Let’s face it, that’s one hellified lesbian hair-do she’s sporting.”

And another post mocks LGBTQI people who were offended that evangelical Pastor Rick Warren had been invited to speak at President Obama’s inauguration.

“If you were to ban everyone who opposes gay marriage from the Inaugural there would be no one but Barney Frank and the aforementioned Mr. Kucinich on the National Mall,” the post states. “Even Obama wouldn’t be able to show up… How is it that queers became the odd ones out at such a momentous turning point in history?

By pushing an agenda of stupid issues like gay marriage.”

As the posts made public multiplied in number, Reid and her attorney added more steps to the baffling dance. While not backing down from the claim of being hacked, Reid apologized to all she may have offended. Characterizing her decade-old comments as, “insensitive, tone deaf and dumb.”

“Re-reading those old blog posts, I am disappointed in myself. I apologize to those who also are disappointed in me. Life can be humbling. It often is. But I hope that you know where my heart is, and that I will always strive to use my words for good.

I know better and I will do better,” Reid wrote.

The FBI is supposedly probing whether

Reid’s blog was, in fact, hacked, though a hacker would have had to gain access to Reid’s blog before January 14th, 2007 at 06:52 a.m., which is when the Library of Congress began archiving “The Reid Report.” Reid’s attorney Jonathan Nichols, claimed to have, “both evidence of fraudulent posts and evidence of screenshot manipulation.” But that was before Mediaite.

The next day, he said, “I’ve become aware of some methodology issues,” and said, “We are looking to resolve the discrepancy.”

Joy Reid went on the air with a videotaped apology that was long, thorough and sounded sincere. Then a story on Newsweek’s website last week directed readers to the site of The Washington Free Beacon, which had discovered still more posts, including one anti-Islamic in tone the Reid had reposted from a Mark in Mexico: “My feeling is that the only reason that a world war between civilizations has not already broken out is that the vast majority of Muslims living in the world today are so desperately poor that they have the time, energy and resources for only the occasional burst of AK-47 fire into the air from the garbage and sewage laden streets outside of their mud huts. them resources and I fear that they will come after us everywhere that they can find us, which is to say everywhere.”

MSNBC is standing by Reid for now, though some have called for the station to investigate or fire its host. Fellow anchor Rachel Maddow came to Reid’s defense, saying that her voice is far too important to be lost. The result was that Maddow was attacked on Twitter as being a “hypocritical,” lesbian who condones disparaging remarks against other lesbians.

What a mess.

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