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American Terrorism: The war on Children of Color, and Suppression of Citizen Rights

The Legacy Museum in Montgomery, Alabama, may hold the answers to the nation's current crisis.

Poor People’s Campaign Set for This Weekend in DC

Photo: Linda Peay

Young scholar and emerging writer Christopher Adams (right), a resident of Brooklyn, New York, bonds with his mentor Jonathan Kubakundimana, of Program Development with Bryan Stevenson’s Equal Justice Institute in Montgomery, Alabama.

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The View From Here

Saturday, June 23, 2018, Washington, D.C.

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housands of anti-poverty activists launched a campaign modeled after Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Poor People’s Campaign of 1968. It takes place this weekend, Saturday, June 23. Like the push 50 years ago, advocates are hoping to draw attention to those struggling with deep poverty from Appalachia to the Mississippi Delta, from the American

Southwest to California’s farm country.

Led by the Rev. William Barber of Goldsboro, North Carolina, chair, and the Rev.Dr. Liz Theoharis of New York City, co-shair, the Call has encouraged activists in 40 states to take part in acts of civil disobedience, teach-ins and demonstrations to force communities to ➔➔ Continued on page 15

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ake no mistake, these are bad times in America and it is small comfort to say, “I told you they were like that,” when others are horrified at acts of inhumanity, as though it’s never happened before. And doesn’t happen every day in criminal courtrooms across the country. And if the Republicans succeed with their voter-suppression strategy, it will happen again and again,

harder and faster, until it is drilled into the nation’s consciousness, that inhumanity has emerged from the background to take center stage as a symbol of America.

That Donald Trump does not have the capacity for, or even understand the nature of empathy, has been proven time and time again.

His callousness when speaking to the widow of Sgt. La David Johnson, killed in Niger, his ➔➔ Continued on page 12

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By Maitefa Angaza

une is for joy. And a time for reflection, observances and rites of passage, such as marriage and graduation. But for many, Father’s Day is the biggest of June holidays – a time to celebrate the love and protection we may have been fortunate to have, or to take the opportunity to give what we didn’t get.

These days, sons and brothers are more in the mix as people deserving of being celebrated as well. That’s a good thing, because all hands are needed. Young Black men are putting the lie each day to the stereotype of the uninvolved father. We see them on the train being loving and capable dads, in the park helping with homework or in front of the house providing that most crucial of childhood ingredients – goof-off time.

Fathers are stepping up more and more.

But what do fathers need? Black men, strong-minded and able-bodied though they may be, need advocates and allies – in some cases, they must learn how to be protected even as they remain protectors.

June is also Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder month. This society – where each day is a challenge to maintain peace and equilibrium amid institutionalized racism, economic injustice and widespread oppression – requires that we step up to claim and care for ourselves and our own. You don’t have to have been in a war or in a burning building to feel the weight of trauma. Our men, whether they be brothers or friends, spouses and/or fathers to our children,

are valuable and often vulnerable. They are a solid investment of our time and tenderness.

Those men who take the time to mentor our youth are the wings beneath our proverbial wings. We all breathe easier when we see a man pitching in to help a child feel important and to hep them focus. Other men are inspired, women are uplifted and those on the receiving end are better for the nurturing and good will that is shared.

Of course, these men are not rare, just deserving of mention, especially at a time like this, when children are being kidnapped from their parents and given neither a hug nor a clue, taken away by strangers following the dictates of despots. And at a time when Black children’s lives are not seen as precious and demanding of protection outside the walls of our homes, children thrive when they know we have their backs.

So, let’s give it up for men like Bryan Stevenson and his program assistant, Jonathan Kabakundimanda of the Equal Justice Institute in Montgomery, Alabama. They are building institutions and opened their doors and hearts to students from around the nation like the young men from Brooklyn’s Eagle Academy, who traveled down to see the much-talked about new museum. The students learned so much about the history of their people – the courage, perseverance and ingenuity from which they come. They learned also of the incomprehensible wrongs our people were faced with, some still today. A few of their short essays on the trip are included in this issue.

Our Time Press Jr. writers from left Christopher Adams, Nasir Peay, and Dwight Clark, on location in Alabama at the Booker T. Washington mansion.

Photo: Linda Peay. See Page 8.

Thirteen-year-old Kylen Ifield was amazed by Booker T. Washington’s home and by Tuskeegee Institute, which he founded. Christopher Adams, 12, put together the history of the slave patrols with modern day policing of Black people. Seventh-grader Dwight Clarke speaks of being overwhelmed

by a wall covered with letters from young boys imprisoned for life for nonviolent crimes – several of them younger than he.

This reminds me that June is music month.

Let’s make use of it to heal, to create, to communicate to celebrate. We are fortunate to have that magic.

Cuomo to File Multiagency Lawsuit Against Trump Administration

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esterday, Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced New York State intends to file a multiagency lawsuit against the Trump Administration on the grounds that the federal government is violating the Constitutional rights of thousands of immigrant children and their parents who have been separated at the border. “It’s illegal,” he said in an interview this week.

The governor is directing the Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance, the Department of Health and the Office of Children and Family Services to commence legal action against the federal government’s “Separation of Families” policy. More than 70 children are staying in federal shelters in New York State and that number is expected

to increase as other facilities are contacted.

“Following the callous and inhumane treatment of immigrant families at the border, New York is suing to protect the health and well-being of children being held at least 10 different facilities across the state and at others throughout the nation,” announced Cuomo in a bold statement.

“As everyone knows, the federal government, under the Department of Justice, changed their policy on April 7 to the ‘zero tolerance’ policy where they are now separating children at the border and I believe, personally, that the act is inhumane, it›s extortive, it›s un-American,” said the governor in an interview.

“I believe it’s politically motivated and they’re being used; the children are being

used, basically as a bargaining chip with Congress to get what the administration wants.

“The estimate is that 2,000 children are being held. Some of those children are being held in facilities in the State of New York. These are private facilities that provide services to children and the federal government has contracted with a number of facilities in New York and placed children in those facilities. They›re doing it under what›s called the UAC program, the Unaccompanied Alien Child program.

But these are not unaccompanied alien children. These are children who were separated from their parents. We know that there are over 70 children currently in New York facilities. Now there›s been a lot of

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talk about the morality of this practice. But we also believe that this practice is illegal, and we are intending to bring suit against the federal government on a legal course of action that is grounded in three theories.”

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Texas Nonprofit Houses Nearly Half Of America’s Undocumented Children In Custody

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he nonprofit Southwest Key Programs, whose headquarters is in Austin, is housing nearly half the undocumented immigrant kids in federal custody.

As the national debate over President Donald Trump’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy boiled into a crisis that is prompting the administration to end the controversial practice of separating children from their parents at the border, one Texas-based company is housing nearly half the undocumented immigrant kids in federal custody.

Southwest Key Programs is a nonprofit company hired by the U.S. government to house approximately 5,000 immigrant minors in Texas, Arizona and California. This year, the federal government gave the company almost $500 million to operate its shelters, according to The Dallas Morning News.

Until recently, the company, which was founded in 1987, cared for unaccompanied children who crossed the border alone. Now its founder and chief executive, Juan Sanchez, estimates that 10 percent of the kids living in Southwest Key facilities were separated from their parents, according to The Washington Post.

-Marilyn Haigh, Texas Tribune

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Civil Rights Leaders Demand End to Devastating Policy

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ashington, DC— From October 2017 to May 2018, more than 2,700 children have been separated from their parents and the rate of those separations have risen alarmingly—in the past six weeks alone, at least 1,995 children have been taken from their parents and placed in shelter facilities that are already nearing capacity. Compounding the cruel separation, the government does not have a formal process to reunite families, leaving the very real possibility that children spend extended periods of time away from their families and in a temporary shelter facility, causing irreparable harm and trauma.

«The gathering of major civil rights leaders is to underscore our outrage at the abhorrible, immoral the administrative directive to separate children from their parents. This must be resisted at all levels.

If Congress does not act today, we will begin as early as Thursday waves of visits to the border in efforts to have clergy and humanitarian visits to these children and to show the world that America has not lost its ➔➔ Continued on page 11

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By Victoria Horsford

MAKE AMERICA KIND AGAIN NY Attorney General Barbara Underwood joins 21 Attorneys General “calling on US Attorney General Jeff Sessions to end the Trump Administration’s cruel and illegal attacks on children and families lawfully seeking asylum in the US as they seek protection from domestic, sexual and gang violence.” Last week, Americans learned about detention centers for immigrant children, infants to teenagers, who are separated from their parents by US authorities once they cross the US border. In some instances, the parents have been deported and the children remain in detention centers. Is the USA already that “dystopian America” that Trump previewed in his inauguration speech last year, a place where the rights of people of color are ignored?

President Trump made a policy decision to apply these “draconian” measures, then blamed the Congressional Democrats for it. Trump’s surrogates have been justifying his recent “zero tolerance” stance towards immigrants from the Bible, (Romans 13), the same passages Dr. Michael Curry, Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church,

Dr. Michael Curry

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observes which were used by misguided Christian groups to justify slavery and the rise of Nazism. It is hard to foresee any meaningful immigration reform law in the USA under POTUS 45.

BLACK ENTERPRISE The Network Journal magazine story, “Venture Capitalist Arlan Hamilton Announces $36 million Fund for Black Women Founders,” is music to the ears of subject entrepreneurs. Hamilton owns

Arlan Hamilton Los Angeles-based Backstage Capital, the firm which funds start-up businesses. This project funds $1million per qualifying business. Rich in statistics, the essay reports that in 2017 female founders received only $1.9 billion of the $85 billion invested by venture capitalists. For Black women entrepreneurs, the funds received were considerably lower. In 2015, Fortune magazine reported that the number of businesses owned by African- American women grew 322% since 1997. Today, women own 30% of American businesses, about 9.4 million firms. Black women control 14% of them, roughly 1.3 million businesses.

LITTLE ROCK is the name of an OffBroadway play about the personal lives of nine courageous African-American teenage students who made history in 1957 by integrating the formerly segregated Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas. The play, by Rajendra Ramoon Maharaj, opened on June 8 at the Sheen Center for Thought and Culture, located at 18 Bleeker Street in Manhattan, and runs through September 8. I saw retired Wall Streeter Ernie Green, one of the Arkansas 9, attending the New York premiere.

Deborah Willis, Professor and Chair of the Department of Photography and Imaging at the New York University Tisch School of the Arts, was named Director of the Institute of African-American Affairs (IAAA), housed at NYU, effective September 1.

A renowned fine arts photographer and historian of African-American culture, Dr. Willis teaches courses at Tisch and the NYU College of Arts and Science and is a MacArthur Fellow and a Guggenheim Fellow.

Founded in 1969, the IAAA continues to research, document and celebrate the cultural and intellectual production of Africa and its Diaspora in the Atlantic world and beyond with an emphasis on the study of Blacks in modernity through the concentrations in Pan-Africanism and Black Urban Studies. Dr. Deborah Willis succeeds Professor Manthia Diawara, IAAA director for 26 years.

2018 with the concert FROM HARLEM TO BROADWAY on June 21 at 7 pm at the Richard Rodgers Amphitheater in Marcus Garvey Park, Harlem, with performances by vocalists Alyson Williams and Lacy Phillips, saxophonist Patience Higgins and tap dancer AC Lincoln. Show celebrates music by Harlem-based music legends such as Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn, Fats Waller, Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein and Eubie Blake. For the full schedule, visit jazzmobile.org.

The Omega Psi Phi Fraternity hosts its Annual Purple and Gold Tournament, 36 Hole Medal Play, on June 23-24 at the Fort Benning Golf Course in Georgia. [Call Robert Anderson @ 706.326.5668 or e-mail robloua62@gmail.com] 2018 NYC Weekend Walks in Hamilton Heights, Harlem USA. Join the Cultural Feast on June 24 from 12-5 pm, which includes restaurant-hopping and sampling, Jazz, Swing and Salsa music, Arts and Crafts, Walking Tour, all on Amsterdam Avenue between 139th-140th Streets. [Visit harlemonestop.com] The Margaret Porter Troupe hosts the “Mississippi Meets Harlem” Benefit for the Gloster Arts Project, which brings free arts to summer school in African-American rural Mississippi and which will be held at the Dinosaur Barbeque, located at 700 West 125th Street, Harlem. Benefit Gala includes a Dance Contest with George Faison as the judge, live music, a BBQ Buffet and much more. The Mississippi Blues and Dance Party will be held on June 25th from 6:30 to 8:30 pm and will be attended by special guests and celebs like Danny Glover, Quincy Troupe and Cassandra Wilson.

For more info visit the gloster project.org.

The Voza Rivers, New Heritage Theatre Group, in association with the H.A.D.L.E.Y. Players, presents SOME TALES OF WOMEN, A Festival of One Act, plays in memory of centenarian actress/producer

Dr. Deborah Willis

NEWSMAKERS Happy Birthday Cancerians: Dr. Betty Holmes-Anthony, Will Anthony, Joseph Bethune, Valerie Jo Bradley, Stewart Bosley, Goldie Watkins-Bryant, Dr. Bill Cosby, Stanley Gleaton, Kevin Hart, Desa Horsford, twins Lillian and Karen Horsford, Sandy Livingston, Harriet Michel, Malia Obama, Alyah Horsford- Sidberry, Kendall Sidberry, Carl Nelson, Deardra Shuler, twins Frances and Frank Savage, Barbara Sullivan, Akia Taylor, Bill Thompson, Mike Tyson, Jean Wells, Sabrina Williams, Wendy Williams and Eric Wingate.

SUMMER PLEASURES Don’t miss the largest gathering of New York City’s Community and Ethnic Media at the IPPIES JOURNALISM AWARDS 2018 on Thursday, June 21, 6-9 pm at the City College Center for Community and Ethnic Media at CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, 219 East 40th Street, Manhattan. Errol Louis, NY 1 TV politics anchor, is the IPPIES keynoter and Randall Pinkston is the Master of Ceremonies. [Call 646.758.7775] JAZZMOBILE kicks off its Summerfest

Gertrude Hadley-Jeannette Ms. Gertrude Hadley-Jeannette, founder of the HADLEY Players who died last year.

The festival will be held on June 25th at 7:30 pm, shortly after the Harlem Arts Alliance monthly meeting adjourns at the Harlem Hospital Cave Auditorium. The following is a list of the one-act plays and playwrights, which are: “Blood Cord” by Lee Hunkins, “Fortune Teller’s Blues” by Roger Parris, “Gertrude” by Ward Nixon, “Esmeralda & Isis” by Roger Parris and Cinnamon & Nutmeg by Lee Hunkins.

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Thinker’s Notebook

A Bag of Chips in a Cage

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By Marlon Rice

lavery was the main economy of the Antebellum South. Men, women and children were sold like chattel in auction houses filled with overseers and slave owners on a regular basis. In Savannah, the Race Course was the biggest auction block in town. On one occasion, they auctioned off almost 500 slaves in one day. In Memphis, the biggest auction house could be found at 87 Adams Street. They actually called the place the Negro Mart, which I thought had to be a joke before I saw the term in print on their posters. In New Orleans, the most well-known auction house was at the Banks Arcade. Joseph A. Beard was the owner and operator. He produced more posters announcing slave auctions than your favorite party promoter trying to promote an all-white party.

All of this is true. There is no need to dispute that humans were being sold as property because we have the documents and the eyewitness accounts to prove it. The entire family was sold. Mother, Father, Son, Daughter, and even the infants. More often than not, the family was broken up, the mother would be sold to one plantation and the children to an entirely different plantation. This occurred, not as happenstance but due to a strategic perspective. The breakup of the family weakened the entire race of people. Separating father from son, mother from daughter, removed any chance of the family becoming stronger through lineage.

History couldn’t be passed down. The heartbreak kept the slave mired in depression, too distraught to give intelligent thought to his position. It was a tool to keep the Black slave subservient.

From the late 1800’s all the way until the early 1970’s, indigenous children were routinely stripped away from parents on reservations. These Native American children were forced out of their homes and into camps called “Indian Schools.” At these Indian Schools, young Native Americans were routinely stripped of their language and forced to speak English. They were forced to cut their hair, get rid of their tribal clothes and to take on “Christian” names.

The kids hadn’t done anything wrong to be removed from their homes. The process was done to help weaken the Native American.

By removing the child out of the home and stripping their language and customs away, you weaken the entire community and significantly cut away at the opportunity to have lineage. Again, this is all true. It happened.

Since May, the Trump Administration has adopted the policy of removing children from parents who are detained after illegally crossing the border into the United States.

children from their parents does not solve the issues that lead to illegal immigration.

Donald Trump and his cronies know exactly what such a move does. It weakens the family structure and keeps Mexicans and other Latin Americans in a position of subservience. It is but one cog in his

In the 6 weeks since the policy was adopted, Border Patrol has removed 2,342 children from their parents. These children are being kept at Border Patrol facilities, and in most cases the parents are unaware of where the children are being kept. This week, photos were released of children being held in chain-link cages, empty bags of chips strewn around the cage, each child equipped with a foil sheet to use as a blanket.

This is happening. The website for US Customs and Border Protection states clearly that families caught trying to cross the border will be detained and separated.

The website goes on to explain that detained children are to be moved into shelters and then eventually sent to families or to sponsors. The move to separate children from their parents in instances of border detainment is a new one. Under the Obama Administration, family detention centers were established specifically to keep families together while the parents went through having their cases processed.

By and large, every immigrant that makes an attempt to enter America illegally does so for the same group of reasons.

They are either in search of the opportunities that America offers, or they are fleeing political upheaval, drug violence or a scarcity of economics. Separating the

program to marginalize and slander poor people. We’ve seen this play out before.

He calls Mexicans animals, says that their children are not innocent, and then he proves it to you by locking these children up in cages.

What a horrible man this guy is.

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Stop Ohio Before it Spreads; Take Back Our Vote ■■

By Greg Palast for Truthout

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onday’s Supreme Court decision blessing Ohio’s removal of half a million voters was ultimately decided on the issue of a postcard.

Now that little postcard threatens the voting rights of millions—but it can be reversed.

The instant-news media, working from press releases, not the Supreme Court’s decision itself, said that Husted, Ohio Secretary of State v. A. Philip Randolph Institute was about whether Ohio has the right to remove voters who failed to cast ballots in two federal election cycles.

Nope.

Even the Court’s right-wing majority concedes that federal law strictly forbids removing voters because they skipped some elections. The National Voter Registration Act of 1993 states that a voter purge program “shall not result in the removal of the name of any person … by reason of the person’s failure to vote.”

But here’s the trick: In 2002, the George W. Bush administration ginned up the Help America Vote Act. When a Bush tells you he’s going to “help” you vote, look out. Yet naïve Democrats passed the act into law. The Help America Vote Act is filled with buried land mines that are still exploding.

Monday’s decision is one of those land mines. The Help America Vote Act, the Court concluded, blew open a giant loophole in the National Voter Registration Act’s protections.

The trick is that Ohio does not remove voters simply because they missed a few elections.

According to the majority opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito:

Ohio uses a registrant’s failure to vote [only] to identify that registrant as a person whose address has likely changed.

The Court takes note that Ohio claims it had evidence that, in 2012, a whopping 1.5 million voters—an astronomical 20 percent of its total voter base—had moved their residence out of Ohio or moved from their county voting area. The 1.5 million voters were sent postcards asking them to confirm their mailing address.

It was a voter’s failure to return the postcard that cost them their right to vote.

The Court majority said that the Help America Vote Act trumps the National Voter Registration Act, arguing that act passed under George W. Bush “specifies that ‘nothing in [the National Voter Registration Act prohibition] may be construed to prohibit a State from using the procedures’—[such as] sending a return card.”

The Justices ruled that a voter’s failure to return a postcard (which asks the voter to confirm their address) constitutes solid proof that the voter had left Ohio or moved to another voting district.

The plaintiffs, a coalition of voting rights groups, were gob-smacked. Plaintiffs argued that there are many reasons folks did not return the postcard, most likely that they threw it away as junk mail or never received it in the first place. But the Court majority found that, without specific evidence, the plaintiffs’ claim that voters just threw away the cards was speculative and “dubious.”

Jim Crow Is in the Cards Writing for the four dissenters, Justice Sonia Sotomayor said the effect of the

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Court’s decision was to disproportionately wipe out the rights of “minority, low-income, disabled, homeless, and veteran voters.”

Sotomayor went on to cite an investigation revealing that Ohio’s purge operation had knocked out the registrations of 10 percent of African American-majority neighborhoods in downtown Cincinnati compared to only 4 percent of voters in a nearby suburban, majority-white neighborhood.

But that’s the point, Madame Justice.

But how? The Jim Crow result is in the cards.

I first discovered “purge-by-postcard” in 2014 while investigating mass attacks on voter rolls by GOP officials in a dozen states for Al Jazeera. I turned to direct mail experts, including Michael Wychocki, a Chicagobased adviser on mailing for Amazon and other companies that live or die by mail.

He directed me to the US Census Bureau’s massive study of mail return rates. Dig this: - While 90 percent of those 65 years of age and older return the Census form, only 55.4 percent of those 18 to 24 reply.

- Homeowners are 32 percent more likely than renters to return forms .

- Only 65 percent of Latino voters mailed

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And that’s the Census Bureau, which designs mailings to get the highest response possible. Not so for the purge-by-postcard programs used by Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted.

I showed Ohio voting rights attorney Robert Fitrakis a postcard on which one’s voting rights hangs, and he gave, word for word, the same response I got from another direct mail expert, Mark Swedlund (whose clientele includes eBay and AT&T): “Looks like junk mail, you’d throw it in the garbage.”

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back an initial Census form, as did 70 percent of Black voters—versus over 80 percent of non-Hispanic whites.

And crucially, according to the Census study, 12 percent of mailings simply go astray—especially, says Wychocki, in poor, urban communities, where the tenants hop between apartments in the same neighborhood. And let’s not even discuss students and the homeless.

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Ending of Ramadan Celebrated

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amadan: the ninth month of the Muslim year during which strict fasting is observed from sunrise to sunset. Such a simplistic definition for such a grand tradition. This year’s Ramadan began and ended on May 17, 2018-June 15, 2018.

It was during this time of fasting that Muslims all around the world reflected on their wrongdoings to ensure the same mistakes will not be made in the future. For a whole month, in addition to not being

able to eat or drink until late in the evening, Muslims had to abstain from sexual intercourse, vulgarity, violence and so much more.

This may seem a bit extreme, but with great sacrifice comes great reward and so at the completion of Ramadan awaited an amazing celebration known as Eid Ul-Fitr.

There were thousands of celebrations going on around the world, one of which was in the Bed-Stuy community at Masjid Muhsi Khalifah, located on Madison St. It was

Brooklyn Borough President Eric L. Adams, Council Member Rafael L. Espinal, the Broadway Junction Working Group, and the City of New York invite you to a

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a day filled with prayer, gifts, food, entertainment and so much more. But most of all, it was a day filled with love as families gathered in one common space to enjoy the festivities of the event.

This year’s Eid was held block party-style. The streets were closed off allowing free and open space for all people of all ages and ethnic backgrounds to enjoy.

The day kicked off in the morning with an Eid prayer, and because Eid landed on a Friday this year in the afternoon, a Jummah service followed. In Islam, the meaning of Friday is congregation and in Islam, this day is given the most importance than any other day of the week. Every Friday, Prayer of Jummah is offered and for this prayer special time is taken. It was during this service that the Imam of Masjid Khalifah, Adib Rashid, said, “It is important that we as a community come together to celebrate as one. We must put our differences aside for the better good.” Shortly after this, the outside festivities began. There were singers, pianist, poets and so much more.

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Muslim women offer Maghrib, sunset prayers, during an immigration rally and iftar during the month of Ramadan in Manhattan, New York, on May 23, 2018

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Rediscovering Lost Values … at the Equal Justice Institute in Montgomery, Alabama

Lessons Learned from an inside the Equal Justice Institute’s Legacy Museum and National Memorial for Peace and Justice, in Montgomery, Alabama

Stunned by Prison Letters

By Dwight Clark, 13, Eagle Academy in Brooklyn, NY.

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was in awe as I entered the Equal Justice Initiative’s Legacy Museum, on Friday May 18, during this year’s Rediscovering Lost Values’ journey. I was eager to find out the wealth of information behind the walls. And I learned and felt so much more than expected.

It saddened me to see that a whole wall at the museum was devoted to letters written by kids who are imprisoned. They plea to be set free, to be given a second chance or merely

just for someone to hear their case. In my observation some of these kids would not met the height requirement at most amusement parks around the country. Meanwhile, they are giving life sentences to prison.

On those walls were notes from teenage kids who were giving life sentences without any chance of parole for non-violent crimes.

Some of these children are in prisons – now -- with adults. How can you put a 13 or 14-year-old child in a prison or cell with

By Kylen Ifield, 13

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e know much about Booker T. Washington’s place in history, but history does not talk about the place where he lived. I got the chance to see and tour the famous educator’s home on the “Rediscovering Lost Values” tour last May. It was amazing.

Mr. Washington’s home is located on the grounds of Tuskegee University, the college Mr. Washington founded and built in Alabama.

What was interesting is how the Tuskegee students actually handmade the bricks that Mr. Washington’s house was built with.

In the living room area, the murals on the wall were painted by hand.

We learned that while Mr. Washington traveled on a six-month trip in Europe, he fell in love with various scenes and landscapes.

He commissioned an artist named E.W. Booran to paint two amazing murals in his Alabama home.

Also in his home, the lights in some areas like the dining room, were powered by gas and electricity.

Mr. Washington’s third and last wife, Margret Murry, was the only wife to live in the actual house and was the principal of Tuskegee University.

Since Margret was 4’-11” in height, Mr. Washington had the furniture custom-made to suit her needs.

In 1901, Booker T. Washington was the first African-American to dine at the most famous house in

-- In most cases first time non-violent offenders? I am a 13 years old African American boy who cannot understand or decipher how a system that is supposed to help us achieve justice can lock up children for life and see nothing wrong with it. I am finding it very hard to come to grips with the legal/judicial system of the United States.

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adults? This in itself can lead to sexual assault and other violence acts that no child should have to undergo. I cannot even imagine the fear these kids have being in a prison at all and let alone with adults.

So many questions came to my mind: why can’t the government pass a law to help these kids? What could that little boy have done so badly in his short life to be in handcuffs and taking off to jail for life? How can such harsh laws be passed and enacted against children

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Eagle Academy for Young Men II Can you believe that children can get incarcerated at 7 years of age?

The Slave Patrol made sure that the slaves did not learn how to read or write. They also made sure that the slaves did not run away. Understanding the Slave Patrol and that being the real reason why we have the police helps us understand so many of the problems Black people have with the police like being stopped, arrested and even being killed.

In 1865, slavery was abolished. Soon after

slavery “ended,” Jim Crow’s segregation laws took effect. These laws separated Black people and white people in many ways.

In my opinion, the Jim Crow laws which impacted the educational system and judicial system were most damaging. The “desegregation” in the educational system was supposed to provide relief to Black students who were affected by the racism of that time, however, it was still hard for them to learn.

In fact, the school-to-prison pipeline is one of ➔➔ Continued on page 10

Kylen Ifield the nation with President Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt of the United States. Mr. Washington’s house in Tuskegee was open to many, but the White House in Washington, DC was not. Roosevelt was very hesitant to invite Washington to the White House because he was Black.

The photographs on the walls and the furnishings show that he was a well-educated and well-traveled and very proud African-American man.

It is an historic museum where people go to visit and to learn to this day.

The college also was home to the scientist George Washington Carver and to the Tuskegee Airmen of World War II.

Photo: Circa 1960's Civil Rights Era

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Schools 256/Benjamin Benjamin Banneker School

Planting of Magnolia “Stars” Continue as Summer Solstice Approaches …

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S 256/Benjamin Banneker closed its school year and welcomed the summer season, a little earlier than expected this year, with the planting of a sapling on the school grounds at Kosciusko, between Nostrand and Marcy. Principal Sharyn Hemphill and Parent Coordinator Terry Henry, longtime friends of the nearby Magnolia Tree Earth Center, the organization that donated the baby tee and Herbert Von King Park programs, with plant-loving

science instructor Ruben McLoughlin, and skilled gardener/custodian Xu Bing dong; coordinated the event. It was attended by members of the school’s Garden: 256 is Magnolia Center’s first official school partner, and has participated in the organization’s green programs since 2008. The gardeners included students: Phoebe Acosta, Julian Barnett, Kimberly Cedeno, Dwhite Dubois II, Broklynn Goring Thompson, Aarin Hutchinson, Dwayne Joseph, Kris Lowe, Oluwatomilola Olusanya, Tawhidur Rahman, Malachi St. Jean, Jahiem Taylor and Marquese Washington; paraprofessional Mary Winns, Custodian Xu Bing Dong; Chief Custodian Kumar Rabinda and Offical Teacher, Ann Courtney.

The Royal Star Magnolia was planted directly across Kosciusko Street from where the home of the late nationally known Arturo Schomburg once stood at 105. Mr. McLoughlin announced a tree dedication is

being planned for fall 2018 in honor of Mr. Schomburg, whose collection of AfricanAmerican historical items and books forming the bulk of the current Schomburg Center in Harlem was housed at the site.

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onight, the lives of many college/ international basketball players will change forever as they will get to walk across the Barclays Center stage to hear their name called by NBA Commissioner Adam Silver. Tonight’s NBA Draft can very well determine who will change a team’s franchise for the next 10 years. This year’s draft class is stacked with a combination of sharpshooters and rim-protecting centers. A few weeks ago, I revealed my Brooklyn Nets Mock Draft to the Our Time Press universe. This week, we focus on the New York Knicks and who they can take with the No. 9 overall pick.

By now, it is hard to ignore all the jokes and cheap pops scene on sports television shows and the Knicks being the “center of attention” of those jokes with yet another losing season. By now, it is well-documented about the roller coaster of the 2 years it’s been for the franchise. From Carmelo Anthony’s time with the team over and done (traded to the Oklahoma City Thunder), and the team firing yet another head coach to Phil Jackson running away with owner James Dolan’s money for failure to improve the team during his stint as President of Basketball Operations. With a new VP and general manager in place, the team must rely on the draft to begin the reconstruction process in Madison Square Garden.

The team needs something or someone to be excited about and yes, even those few weeks that Jeremy Lin took over the city with his great play kind of excitement. With that said, if he is not selected by the first right teams ahead of the Knicks, the team should select Oklahoma’s Trey Young. Although the Knicks do not need a guard, if they decide to select Young, it is a message that the team is not yet all-in on the young Frenchman Frank Ntilikina. Young’s ability to lead a team and shoot from anywhere on the court has drawn comparisons to Warriors’ Steph Curry. If Young can even give the Knicks some flashes of Curry-like play, I think the Knicks will be very happy with that as he develops his game alongside Kristaps Porzingis, who is recovering from injury. Young was considered by many the best college basketball player last year and he himself considers himself the best player in the draft. The Knicks do hope he falls into their laps at No. 9 after swinging and missing on selecting Utah’s Donovan Mitchell and a few years ago they came one pick short of selecting Steph Curry. The Knicks fans hope they can get this pick right and hope Young can provide the excitement and winning pedigree this team desperately needs. Tonight could very well be that night!

Sports Notes: I want to take this time and dedicate this story to my Uncle/ Godfather Roberto Castro. As much as he loved a good meal as well as yours truly, he loved the Yankees and the Knicks. My uncle was a former boxer. In 1974, he captured the Golden Gloves with his sensational performance. He loved reading the weekly issue of Our Time Press. Sadly, due to his lengthy battle with diabetes, my uncle passed last Thursday. I want to take the time to acknowledge this incredible man.

This annual initiative honors young people who have given more than 100 community service hours in a number of areas, including leading the outreach for the Participatory Budgeting and voting process for Council member Robert Cornegy, volunteering for Assembly member Tremaine Wright’s Turkey Trot, participating in the “March for Our Lives” rally in Washington, DC; the NAACP Spring Luncheon, the Flower Bed-Stuy and other events where expert facilitation is needed.

Earlier this month, 2018 MYBASE Awards went to Vanessa Esteen and T’Ara Grant for Leadership; Janiyah Chatman and Aza Mae Smith for Academic Speaker, Assemblywoman Tremaine Achievement; Iesha Jackman, Wright.

Adeyeni Adewumi, Nickolas Regis and Dimitri Laroche for Community YBASE Recognition Cer- Service. emony annually celebrates Community Partner Awards went community servants whose to Clara Zawadi Morris of BK Reader, good works generally go unnoticed, partly Melissa Cohn of Modern MD and Frank because the honorees are so busy putting Dody of Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration. in on-the-ground time.

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Gregory, the Brooklyn DA’s 1st Assistant District Attorney of Brooklyn DA Eric Gonzalez’ Executive Team, will be RENEE V. GREGORY taking up a new role as Chief Diversity Officer.

Ms. Gregory will be responsible for designing, coordinating and implementing a number of diversity initiatives to keep the office’s policies in line with best practices. She also will be in charge of maintaining the DA’s diverse workforce.

Attorney Gregory is a resident of Stuyvesant Heights.

Cynthia Nixon's $7.4B Education Plan Would Hike Taxes On Upper Income Earners, Businesses

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he nearly $7.4 billion education proposal unveiled Wednesday by Democratic gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon would be paid for with a tax hike on upper income earners and corporations, starting with those who make $300,000 and above.

Overall, the income tax hike alone would generate $5.5 billion in additional revenue, with the money going to an infusion of aid for schools, especially those that Nixon contends have been left behind by the state’s existing education funding policies.

“In addition to being underfunded, schools that serve communities of color have become increasingly criminalized,” the Nixon campaign said in a statement.

“Some children now come into contact with the law at a very young age in school, where suspensions for children of color are inordinately high and police are often inappropriately involved for infractions that should be addressed through lesser disciplinary approaches.”

The education policy proposals would include a plan to expand diversity among the teaching workforce, reduce the reliance on state examinations and add $800 million to

public colleges and universities in the state and in New York City.

At the same time, she would boost foundation aid by $4.2 billion — a long sought goal for the education advocacy groups that are supporting her candidacy.

Nixon, an actress best known for her role on the HBO franchise Sex and the City, has also been a prominent advocate for public education in New York, working closely with the Alliance for Quality Education, an organization that has been critical of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s education policies.

Cuomo’s office has contended the state has boosted education aid, including foundation aid, to record levels since he has been in office.

It’s not clear how a tax hike starting at those who earn $300,000 — one amounting to a 0.5 percent increase — would fly in a Legislature with suburban and city lawmakers whose constituents feel middle class in a metropolitan area where the cost of living is generally much higher than the rest of the state and country.

Earners who make between $500,000 and $1 million would have their taxes increase 1.5 percent.

Mass Incarceration ➔➔ Continued from page 8 the present-day results of desegregation and it is the main pathway to the mass incarceration of juveniles.

Have you ever noticed when the Black children have their “off days” they get a severe punishment but when white children have their “off days” they get a warning? They are told that things are not their fault and they are encouraged. Black students’ punishment can be as severe as suspensions or even expulsion. They miss so much school that they are not up-to-date with the work, which leaves them feeling bad about themselves.

The education system and the judicial system negatively label Black students

The top tax rate for those who make more than $10 million would increase 1.28 percent to 10.25 percent.

“Cynthia Nixon has been wrong on the facts on every issue she discusses,” said Cuomo spokeswoman Dani Lever.

“The difference between advocacy and government is the difference between fiction and non-fiction. She’s been wrong on the facts on every issue she discusses.

There is no court ordered CFE debt although she touts it all the time, and funding tied to the Foundation Aid formula was a Spitzer promise that ended with him."

"The State has an annual education formula which it has exceeded for the past 7 years, and New York spends more per pupil than any state in the nation – a record $27 billion per year (a 36 percent increase since 2012). Governor Cuomo has now forced school districts like New York City to actually disclose how much they fund each school to ensure funding equity for all children, rich or poor. We urge Cynthia Nixon and her advocacy associates to support this measure and end the funding disparity that the system has perpetuated.”

From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration is situated on a site in Montgomery, Alabama where enslaved people were which causes the school-to-prison pipeline. once warehoused during the height of the So Black students are expected to fail. They Domestic Slave Trade. It is steps away from drop out of school, hang out in the streets an Alabama dock and rail station where and may get involved with the wrong crowd. children and families were trafficked during It’s assumed that most Black youth are affili- the 19th century. The 11,000-square-foot ated with a gang or doing something wrong, museum opened to the public on April 26, so they may be arrested for no real reason.

2018 in Montgomery, Alabama. It was While I was at the LEGACY MUSEUM, founded by Montgomery’s Equal Justice I learned that Alabama sentences more Initiative as a counterpart to the National Black children to life sentences than any Memorial to Peace and Justice, which is other state in America. Youngsters are dedicated specifically to the memory of the treated like adults. victims of lynching. The development and Black youth deserve the same opportu- construction of the museum and the nearby nities as white youth have. I am thankful memorial cost an estimated $20 million for a place like the Equal Justice Institute raised from private donations and charitawhich supports young people and fights so ble foundations. For more information, vishard for equal rights. it: eji.org. – Bianca Robinson, co-founder, (Editor’s note: The Legacy Museum: Rediscovering Lost Values)

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Civil Rights Leaders Demand End to Devastating Policy ➔➔ Continued from page 3 conscious or soul. The mutual aspect of this is that we more than are convinced that President Trump would not do this at the Canadian border to White children. This is selective administrative insensitivity,” said Reverend Al Sharpton, President & Founder, National Action Network “This policy is an abomination, but it is not an aberration. This policy is really part of an ongoing assault on Latino families which started day one of the Trump campaign. Trump has been deliberately and purposefully demonizing our community for three years. He calls us “criminals” and “rapists” and is trying to equate the 58 million Hispanics in this country and the 3.5 million citizens who live in Puerto Rico with violent gangs, criminals and the worst of the worst. Today we are demanding that the Administration end this policy now.

We are urging Congress to reject Trump’s demands. We are asking Republicans to state where they stand—for cruelty and inhumanity or for children and families.

This is not who we are or should be as a country,” said Janet Murguía, President and CEO, UnidosUS. “The separation of children from their parents at the border is not only cruel and inhumane but is evidence of a morally bankrupt administration. America›s promise to those who greet its borders and shores is one of opportunity and access to a better life. Instead, our government has met these families with traumatizing forced separation. Our history books will reflect on these abhorrent separations as some of the darkest times in this country›s history. The National Urban League will continue to stand steadfastly with our partners in civil and human rights to urge the Trump administration to end no

tolerance family separation immediately and we call on Congress to stop using children as pawns in a political game and pass comprehensive immigration reform,” said Marc H. Morial, President and CEO, The National Urban League “This is a catastrophe created by this administration, and this administration has full power to end it. The attempts to gaslight the public, to offload responsibility for this disaster, and to double down on the anti-immigrant rhetoric that has been the president’s mainstay, demonstrate that this administration will not act. That’s why we need a functioning Congress to pass legislation that will end this inhumane practice. There are 49 Senators who support legislation designed to end this nightmare for immigrant families. All of them are Democrats. This should not be a partisan issue. We call on thinking, feeling, humane and responsible members of Congress to support the Keep Families Together Act, and to convene immediate oversight hearings of both the Department of Justice and Department of Homeland Security, which have overseen and executed this terrible policy,” said Sherrilyn A. Ifill, President and Director-Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. “Ripping children from their parents is an immoral and horrific human rights violation. There is simply no law requiring the separation of families and the detention of young children. Reviving an old ploy, Bible verses are once again being incorrectly used to defend government oppression as was done to justify the atrocities of slavery.

Have we not learned anything from history?

This must end now. We urge all senators who believe in the importance of family and the values and ideals of this democracy to support S.3036,” said Derrick Johnson, President and CEO, NAACP.

Values ➔➔ Continued from page 8 perspective on imprisonment on all levels.

I learned that “EJI did a study and documented 73 cases where children between the ages of 13 and 14 years of age have been condemned to death in prison. Over 2,225 juveniles (17 years or younger) in the U.S. have been sentenced to life imprisonment without parole. Nearly, two thirds of these kids are African Americans that lack the means for legal representation. Seems most committed these non-violent crimes with an adult who was responsible for the crimes.

However, the courts were not willing to consider the child’s age or history. Therefore, these child are sentenced to life in prison.

Tears formed in my eyes when I saw a picture of a child that looked no more than 10 years old in handcuffs, being searched and heading off to jail. It broke my heart to see this because the little boy looked younger than myself. I also, learned that EJI did help one prisoner get released from prison. Kuntrell Jackson was sentenced to a mandatory life sentence without parole for a crime he committed at the age of 14.

Thanks to the Equal Justice Initiative, they were able to present his case to the Supreme court and won a “landmark ruling”. Jackson was released from prison in 2017 and is currently a part of the EJi re-entry program and a first year college student. This one story of early release for Mr. Jackson who didn’t even commit a violent crime made me say and believe, “There is hope”.

During the tour, I asked my Aunt, “What could that little boy have done in his short life to be in handcuffs and taken off

to jail for life? Who approves these laws?”

She replied, “You should do research on those questions.” She, then, added, “Most of the lawmakers don’t look like us, but they, create these laws based on what our culture does. That’s why it’s important to vote” Needless to say the visuals I saw will stay with me for life.

My hope is, when I become an adult I would like to go back to EJI museum and see if things have changed for the incarcerated children whose letters were on those walls at the Legacy Museum.

Mass incarceration is a term described by historians and sociologist to describe the substantial increase in the number of incarcerated people in the United States over the past forty years. In my head, I wonder what is causing this increase in incarcerations and why isn’t the government putting some reforms in place to lessen the number of people arrested and sentenced to life in prison?

My reflection on mass incarceration of children has lead me think about my own life as a 13-year-old African American male.

It could have been me as most of the kids are innocent.

The knowledge I gained from this tour has made me strong. I will not allow a system that is supposed to protect me as a citizen make me a statistic in its prison system. I will remain steadfast in my studies. I will take nothing for granted. I will always do what I know is right. I will encourage those around me to do the same.

Perhaps, a life sentence of a free college education or lifetime job would decrease the rate of mass incarceration.

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The View From Here ➔➔ Continued from page 1 dismissal of the post-hurricane conditions in Puerto Rico as a problem, and now his utter aggressive indifference at the cries of children. And when he says he “hates” the separation of child and parent, a policy he initiated and controls, one commentator said Trump sounds like a domestic abuser saying, “I hate hitting you. Why do you make me do it?”

Once again, the disbelief at the everyday cruelty and lying nature of the man proves the famous George Santayana quote: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” And we’d better pay attention to this man and this time. If you think on American history, and see Trump, Stephen Miller, John Kelly and Jefferson Beauregard Sessions, III as members of a modern-day lynching party, then you quickly understand that nothing is beneath him or them. When

their blood is up and they’re feeling their whiteness and faced with a weak opponent, there’s no talking to them. The president and his minion will have to be overruled and the question is will the Republicans in Congress find the courage to do that, even now? And the reason they’re having difficulty is simple: they are afraid of the millions of voters who fiercely agree with the president. And thanks to political gerrymandering this minority of American citizens are strategically placed to control the political destiny of anyone who stands against him.

This rabid few, who haven’t gotten over the Civil War or grown out of the meanness in their gut, are the ones driving the policy - the “base” as they’re called.

The good news is that for the same reason they lost the Civil War, they are a national minority, the overwhelming outcry against the policy has forced Trump to rescind the separation of parent and child and no

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doubt they will continue to look at Brown people who have made long, hard, journeys fleeing pain- and find more creative ways to punish them.

For the Republicans, being called a coward in the face of Trump and his base is very useful. They allow that epithet to be cited as their reason for not protecting Special Prosecutor Robert Muller, using their supposed cowardice as a cover for their treasonous inaction on the Russian election interference. After all, it was on their behalf and there are midterms coming up and the Republicans will need all the help they can get. Sort of like white folks and racism, they would speak out and take action against it, if it didn’t help them in so many little ways.

Now is the time to fight voter suppression, made harder in the courts because of the Supreme Court decision in favor of Ohio’s voter purge system. That means voters in counties conducting purges have to reconfirm their registrations after the purge has been completed. There is a lot of work to be done.

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LEGAL NOTICES Name Change Notice is hereby given that an order entered by the Supreme Court of King County on the 15th day of June 2018, bearing Index number 1090/2018, a copy of which may be examined at the office of the county clerk, located at 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, New York 11201, grants me the right to assume the name of Bradley Jay Silver. My present address is 62A Bainbridge Street, Brooklyn, New York 11233; the date of my birth is August 29th, 1985; my present name is Bradley Jay Teitelbaum.

NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT - COUNTY OF KINGS Santander Bank, N.A. f/k/a Sovereign Bank, N.A. f/k/a Sovereign Bank, Plaintiff -against- Paulette Wellington a/k/a Paula Wellington a/k/a Paula R. Wellington, First Federal Savings & Loan Association of Rochester, City of New York Department of Transportation Parking Violations Bureau Defendant(s) Pursuant to a judgment of foreclosure and sale entered on November 29, 2017 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction to the highest bidder at ROOM 224 F/K/A ROOM 274 OF KINGS COUNTY SUPREME COURT, 360 ADAMS STREET, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK 11201 on July 19, 2018 at 2:30 PM premises known as 930 East 101st, Brooklyn, NY 11236 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: 8208 Lot: 51 Approximate amount of lien $608,011.60 plus interest and costs.

Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed judgment Index # 502496/2015 Helene Blank, Esq., REFEREE STEIN, WIENER AND ROTH, L.L.P., ATTORNEYS FOR THE PLAINTIFF ONE OLD COUNTRY ROAD, SUITE 113 CARLE PLACE, NY 11514 DATED June 14, 2018 FILE #: SANTANDER 67255 NOTICE OF SALE Supreme Court Kings County BH EMMENS LLC (Plaintiff) v. IRINA SHELIKHOVA et. al. (Defendants) Index No.: 7491/2013.

Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale dated October 2, 2017, as amended, I will sell at public auction at the Kings County Supreme Courthouse located at 360 Adams Street, Room 224, Brooklyn, NY 11201 on July 19, 2018, at 2:30 p.m., the Units known as 3149 Emmons Avenue, Brooklyn, New York 11235, in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and State of New York (Block 8804, and Lot 1301, 1302, 1303).

Sold subject to terms and conditions of filed Judgment and Terms of Sale. Building sold as one unit. Joel Abramson, Esq., Referee.

Roberts & Fidler, P.C, attorney for Plaintiff, 26 Court Street, 11th Floor, Brooklyn, New York. 347-721-9022.

SUPREME COURT - COUNTY OF KINGS VALLEY NATIONAL BANK, Plaintiff -against- IZIBO IZYAGUYEV, et al Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered herein and dated May 7, 2018, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Kings County Courthouse 360 Adams Street, Room 224, Brooklyn, NY on July 26, 2018 at 2:30 p.m. premises situate, lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and State of New York, known as Unit No. 101 in the building known as “Tara Condominium” together with an undivided 10.2752% interest as to Unit 101 in the common elements. Block: 5853 Lot: 1001. Said premises known as 231 68TH STREET, UNIT 101, BROOKLYN, NY Approximate amount of lien $229,373.43 plus interest & costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment and

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SHMUEL TAUB, ESQ., Referee KRISS & FEUERSTEIN LLP Attorney(s) for Plaintiff 360 Lexington Avenue, Suite 1200, New York, NY 10017

SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK - COUNTY OF KINGS CIT BANK, N.A. F/K/A ONEWEST BANK, FSB, V. JEAN HULL, ET. AL. NOTICE OF SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to a Final Judgment of Foreclosure dated NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT March 12, 2018, and entered in the Office of COUNTY OF KINGS HSBC BANK the Clerk of the County of Kings, wherein USA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS CIT BANK, N.A. F/K/A ONEWEST BANK, TRUSTEE FOR NAAC MORTGAGE PASS- FSB is the Plaintiff and JEAN HULL, ET. THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2007- AL. are the Defendant(s). I, the under1, Plaintiff AGAINST SANDRA M. NEILS, signed Referee will sell at public auction DOREEN R. RIVERA, et al., Defendant(s) at the KINGS COUNTY COURTHOUSE, Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and 360 ADAMS STREET, ROOM 224, Sale duly dated May 08, 2018 I, the under- BROOKLYN, NY 11201, on July 19, 2018 signed Referee will sell at public auction at at 2:30PM, premises known as 1485 EAST the Room 224 of Kings County Supreme 55TH STREET, BROOKLYN, NY 11234: Court, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, New Block 7880, Lot 26: ALL THAT CERTAIN York 11201, on July 19, 2018 at 2:30PM, PLOT, PIECE OR PARCEL OF LAND, premises known as 533 CHESTER STREET, SITUATE, LYING AND BEING IN THE BROOKLYN, NY 11212. All that certain plot BOROUGH OF BROOKLYN, COUNTY piece or parcel of land, with the buildings OF KINGS, CITY AND STATE OF NEW and improvements erected, situate, lying and YORK Premises will be sold subject to provibeing in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of sions of filed Judgment Index # 12275/2012.

Kings, City and State of New York, BLOCK Philip Kamaras, Esq. - Referee. RAS 3614, LOT 19. Approximate amount of Boriskin, LLC 900 Merchants Concourse, judgment $541,680.61 plus interest and costs. Suite 310, Westbury, New York 11590, Premises will be sold subject to provisions Attorneys for Plaintiff. For sale information, of filed Judgment for Index# 510518/2014. please visit www.auction.com or call (800) Philip Kamaras, Esq., Referee Gross Polowy, 280-2832.

LLC Attorney for Plaintiff 1775 Wehrle Drive, Suite 100 Williamsville, NY 14221 SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF 55022 NEW YORK COUNTY OF KINGS INDEX NO. 506312/2015 Plaintiff designates SUPREME COURT – COUNTY KINGS as the place of trial situs of the real OF KINGS FEDERAL NATIONAL property. SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION, Plaintiff Mortgaged Premises: 2194 DEAN STREET against JYH WANG A/K/A JYH S. WANG BROOKLYN, NY 11233 District: Section: A/K/A JS WONG, et al Defendant(s). Block: 1447 Lot: 27KENRICK PINNOCK, Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF Sale entered on February 5, 2018. I, the un- THE ESTATE OF HUGH PINNOCK, dersigned Referee will sell at public auction in HUGH PINNOCK JR., AS HEIR AND Room 224 of the Kings County Courthouse, DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. on the 26th HUGH PINNOCK, JULIE PINNOCK, day of July, 2018 at 2:30 p.m. premises de- AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE scribed as follows: All that certain plot, piece ESTATE OF HUGH PINNOCK, WAYNE or parcel of land, situate, lying and being in PINNOCK, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, OF THE ESTATE OF HUGH PINNOCK, City and State of New York. Said premises LESHAWN TAYLOR, AS HEIR AND known as 385 Legion Street, Brooklyn, DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF N.Y. 11212.

(Block: 3595, Lot: 18). HUGH PINNOCK, AARON TAYLOR, Approximate amount of lien $ 576,084.01 AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold ESTATE OF HUGH PINNOCK, STEVEN subject to provisions of filed judgment and PINNOCK, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE terms of sale. Index No. 502407-15. Helene OF THE ESTATE OF HUGH PINNOCK, E. Blank, Esq., Referee. McCabe, Weisberg NICHOLAS PINNOCK, AS HEIR AND & Conway, P.C. Attorney(s) for Plaintiff 145 DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF Huguenot Street – Suite 210 New Rochelle, HUGH PINNOCK,; UNKNOWN HEIRS New York 10801 (914) 636-8900 AND DISTRIBUTEES OF THE ESTATE OF HUGH PINNOCK any and all persons NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT unknown to plaintiff, claiming, or who may - COUNTY OF KINGS Wells Fargo Bank, claim to have an interest in, or general or N.A., d/b/a America’s Servicing Company, specific lien upon the real property described Plaintiff -against-Giselle Solomon, Mortgage in this action; such unknown persons being Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nom- herein generally described and intended to be inee for Credit Suisse Financial Corporation, included in the following designation, nameCity of New York, Environmental Control ly: the wife, widow, husband, widower, heirs Board, Andrea Faraday, Dashawn Cummings at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, Defendant(s) Pursuant to a judgment of fore- administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, closure and sale entered on February 2, 2018 trustees, committees, lienors, and assignees of I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public such deceased, any and all persons deriving auction to the highest bidder at ROOM 224 interest in or lien upon, or title to said real F/K/A ROOM 274 OF KINGS COUNTY property by, through or under them, or either SUPREME COURT, 360 ADAMS STREET, of them, and their respective wives, widows, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK 11201 on July husbands, widowers, heirs at law, next of kin, 19, 2018 at 2:30 PM premises known as descendants, executors, administrators, devi1518 Ryder Street, Brooklyn, NY 11234. sees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, ALL that certain plot piece or parcel of lienors and assigns, all of whom and whose land, with the buildings and improvements names, except as stated, are unknown to thereon erected, situate, lying and being in plaintiff; ROLAND CUNNINGHAM;NEW the Borough of Brooklyn, County of KINGS, YORK CITY ENVIRONMENTAL City and State of New York. Block:7700 Lot: CONTROL BOARD; NEW YORK CITY 49 Approximate amount of lien $931,744.88 PARKING VIOLATIONS BUREAU; plus interest and costs. Premises will be LEXIET DUMAS, SR.; PEOPLE OF THE sold subject to provisions of filed judgment STATE OF NEW YORK, UNITED STATES Index # 6319/2013 Jageshwar Sharma, Esq., OF AMERICA;TIFFANY BRYANT, APRIL REFEREE STEIN, WIENER AND ROTH, MORALES, JASON GIBSON; APRIL L.L.P., ATTORNEYS FOR THE PLAINTIFF “DOE” (REFUSED NAME) ‘’JOHN DOE ONE OLD COUNTRY ROAD, SUITE 113 #11’’ through ‘’JOHN DOE #12,’’ the last ten

names being fictitious and unknown to plaintiff, the persons or parties intended being the tenants, occupants, persons or corporations, if any, having or claiming an interest in or lien upon the premises, described Defendants.

To the above named Defendants YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the complaint is not served with this summons, to serve a notice of appearance on the Plaintiff’s Attorney within 20 days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within 30 days after the service is complete if this summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York) in the event the United States of America is made a party defendant, the time to answer for the said United States of America shall not expire until (60) days after service of the Summons; and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint. NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT THE OBJECT of the above caption action is to foreclose a Mortgage to secure the sum of $420,000.00 and interest, recorded on March 16, 2007, at Instrument number 2007000142203, of the Public Records of KINGS County, New York, covering premises known as 2194 DEAN STREET BROOKLYN, NY 11233.

The relief sought in the within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt secured by the Mortgage described above. KINGS County is designated as the place of trial because the real property affected by this action is located in said county. NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property. Sending a payment to the mortgage company will not stop the foreclosure action. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. Dated: January 31, 2018 RAS BORISKIN, LLC Attorney for Plaintiff BY: Matthew Rothstein, ESQ. 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 106 Westbury, NY 11590 516-280-7675 SUPREME COURT – COUNTY OF KINGS PNC BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, SUCCESSOR IN INTEREST TO NATIONAL CITY REAL ESTATE SERVICES, LLC, SUCCESSOR

BY MERGER TO 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, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Kings County Supreme Court, Room 224, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, NY on July 19, 2018 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 4170 and Lot 25. Approximate amount of judgment is $465,190.34 plus ➔➔ Continued on page 14

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NEW BUSINESS FORMATIONS BLACK MAGIC STUDIO LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on May 24, 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 BLACK MAGIC STUDIO LLC., c/o Bergstein Flynn & Knowlton PLLC, 142 W 57th Street, Suite 4A, New York, NY 10019. Purpose: To engage in any and all business activities.

22 ROUTE 6 LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 5/29/2018. 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 22 ROUTE 6 LLC., 47 N. Main Street

LEGAL NOTICES ➔➔ Continued from page 13 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, Ste. 590, Elmsford, NY 10523, Attorneys for Plaintiff Cash will not be accepted.

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 July 12, 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 NY, 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: May 24, 2018 54708 Supplemental Summons and Notice of Object of Action Supreme Court Of The State Of New York County Of Kings Action to Foreclose a Mortgage Index #: 521420/2017

- P.O. Box 186 Elenville, New York 12428.

Purpose: To engage in any and all business activities.

Three Dog Design & Build, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 05/07/2018.

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 Eric Ruggieron, 23 Marconi Place Brooklyn, NY 11233

Express Databases LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 03/30/2018. 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, 1035 Washington Avenue, Apt GR 9, Brooklyn, NY 11225. Purpose: Any lawful purpose

Avant Collaborations LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 02/20/2018. 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, United States Corporation of Agents, Inc. 7014 13th avenue, Suite 202, Brooklyn, NY 11222. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of ADVANCE IMAGING TRAINING LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/03/2018 Office location: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Hamlet Jaquez, 832 Ocean Avenue, 3D Brooklyn, NY 11226. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Best Buddys Dog Training, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 03/26/2018.

Office: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of

HUMBOLDT 123 LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 04/09/18. 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, 619 Humboldt Street, Brooklyn, NY 11222. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Nationstar Mortgage LLC D/B/A Mr. Cooper, Plaintiff, vs Keila Hamilton If Living, And If He/She Be Dead, Any And All Persons Unknown To Plaintiff, Claiming, Or Who May Claim To Have An Interest In, Or General Or Specific Lien Upon The Real Property Described In This Action; Such Unknown Persons Being Herein Generally Described And Intended To Be Included In Wife, Widow, Husband, Widower, Heirs At Law, Next Of Kin, Descendants, Executors, Administrators, Devisees, Legatees, Creditors, Trustees, Committees, Lienors, And Assignees Of Such Deceased, Any And All Persons Deriving Interest In Or Lien Upon, Or Title To Said Real Property By, Through Or Under Them, Or Either Of Them, And Their Respective Wives, Widows, Husbands, Widowers, Heirs At Law, Next Of Kin, Descendants, Executors, Administrators, Devisees, Legatees, Creditors, Trustees, Committees, Lienors, And Assigns, All Of Whom And Whose Names, Except As Stated,Are Unknown To Plaintiff, New York City Parking Violations Bureau, New York City Environmental Control Board, People Of The State Of New York, United States Of America Acting Through The IRS, John Doe (Those unknown tenants, occupants, persons or corporations or their heirs, distributees, executors, administrators, trustees, guardians, assignees, creditors or successors claiming an interest in the mortgaged premises.), Defendant(s). Mortgaged Premises: 100-02 Flatlands Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11236 BL #: 8208-36 To the Above named Defendant: 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 Supplemental Summons, to serve a notice of appearance, on the Plaintiff(s) attorney(s) within twenty days after the service of this Supplemental Summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within 30 days after the service

is complete if this Supplemental Summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York). In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. The Attorney for Plaintiff has an office for business in the County of Erie. Trial to be held in the County of Kings.

The basis of the venue designated above is the location of the Mortgaged Premises.

TO: KEILA HAMILTON Defendant In this Action. The foregoing Supplemental Summons is served upon you by publication, pursuant to an order of HON. Noach Dear of the Supreme Court Of The State Of New York, dated the Eleventh day of May, 2018 and filed with the Complaint in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Kings, in the City of Brooklyn. The object of this action is to foreclose a mortgage upon the premises described below, dated November 16, 2007, executed by Keila Hamilton to secure the sum of $532,800.00. The Mortgage was recorded at CRFN 2007000609960 in the Office of the City Register of the City of New York, Kings County on December 12, 2007. The mortgage was subsequently assigned by an assignment executed July 12, 2011 and recorded on August 1, 2011, in the Office of the City Register of the City of New York, Kings County at CRFN 2011000270392.

The mortgage was subsequently modified on August 23, 2014; The property in question is described as follows: 100-02 FLATLANDS AVENUE, BROOKLYN, NY 11236 NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home.

Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information

on how to answer the summons and protect your property. Sending a payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. DATED: May 29, 2018 Gross Polowy, LLC Attorney(s) For Plaintiff(s) 1775 Wehrle Drive, Suite 100 Williamsville, NY 14221 The law firm of Gross Polowy, LLC and the attorneys whom it employs are debt collectors who are attempting to collect a debt. Any information obtained by them will be used for that purpose. 54855-2

nifty Help America Vote Act-shaped hole in the National Voter Registration Act. That Kris Kobach led the way with the purge-by-postcard scheme is not surprising, given his long history of scams to disenfranchise voters of color, closely reported on by Truthout.

In 2012 and 2016, I filmed the single early voting station in Dayton, Ohio, where Black voters lined up for five hours to vote.

I also filmed the lines in a white Toledo suburb. Well, actually, there were no lines: white voters had a gigantic field of machines to choose from—plus cookies and coffee served.

The long lines for Black voters resulted from Husted’s order closing all but one single early voting station in each county.

That meant one polling station for the 13,000 residents and cows in Vinton County and one polling station for 1.3 million residents of Franklin County (Columbus).

Ohio attorney Robert Fitrakis says, bluntly, that Husted is purging voters of color to “make Ohio winnable [for Republicans] in the only way he knows how—by stealing American citizens’ votes. And he’s counting on bigotry to get away with it.

Ohio’s Junk Mail Purge Trick ➔➔ Continued from page 6

process to Best Buddys Dog Training, LLC, 176 S. 4th St. #5B, Brooklyn, NY 11211 Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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were taken from the infamous Interstate Crosscheck list given Husted by Kobach, acwith no images. He explained that the design cording to documents from Kobach’s office. violates every cardinal rule of direct mail For example, in 2015, leading up to the solicitation. While Wychocki would not presidential election, Kobach, secretary of speculate on the designer’s motives, he said state in Kansas, gave Husted the Crosscheck it looked as if the postcard was by someone list, obtained by my Rolling Stone team, who did not want the voter to respond. of 423,484 names of Ohio citizens who And one such someone is Kris Kobach. supposedly had registered in another state.

According to documents obtained by the Kobach and Husted had originally sold the ACLU, Kobach provided Husted (and other Crosscheck program to the public as a methGOP voting officials) a sample postcard to od of finding criminal “double voters”—those send to voters targeted for purge. actually voting in two states.

Why? There are two groups of voters in But Kobach himself told me in 2016— that 500,000 whom Ohio purged based on when I confronted him at a GOP fundraiser in “evidence” the voter has moved. Hundreds Wichita while working for Rolling Stone—that of thousands were purged who landed on the the primary use of his Crosscheck lists are to suspect list because they missed elections. identify voters who have moved and registered Second, there were those who supposedly in another state. Kobach’s office directs the have registered in another state. Names of national program to remove voters who fail to those identified as moving to another state respond to a postcard, taking advantage of the

History of Vote Suppression Which brings us to Sotomayor’s outrage that the majority “entirely ignores the history of voter suppression against which the [National Voter Registration Act] was enacted and upholds a program that appears to further the very disenfranchisement of minority and low-income voters that Congress set out to eradicate.”

We don’t need to look at all of US history.

Husted’s own long record of purging, blocking and not counting voters of color is a history lesson in disenfranchisement all by itself.

NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT KINGS COUNTY FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION (“FANNIE MAE”), A CORPORATION ORGANIZED AND EXISTING UNDER THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff against FRANK CASSATA, et al Defendants Attorney for Plaintiff(s) Knuckles, Komosinski & Manfro, LLP 565 Taxter Road, Suite 590, Elmsford, NY 10523 Attorney (s) for Plaintiff (s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale Entered May 9, 2018 I will sell at Public Auction to the highest bidder at the Kings County Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, Room 224, Brooklyn, NY 11201 on July 12, 2018 at 2:30 PM. remises known as 1406 Dahill Road, Brooklyn, NY 11204. Block 6556 Lot 37. 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. Approximate Amount of Judgment is $393,409.00 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index No 513272/2016. Cash will not be accepted at the sale. Steven J. Baker, Esq., Referee 2296-002853

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Community Calendar Thursday, June 21st PJ MORTON AT BAM R&B FESTIVAL,

2017 “BEST OF THE FESTIVAL” winner See You Yesterday, written & directed

by Stefon Bristol, produced by Spike Lee. MUSICIANS!!! To enter the competition, use this direct link: https:// bit.ly/2tcV1BC

R+R=NOW FT. ROBERT GLASPER, TERRACE MARTIN, CHRISTIAN SCOTT, ATUNDE, ADJUAH, DERRICK HODGE, JUSTIN TYSON. ALSO, TAYLOR MCFERRIN W/PAUL BEAUBRUN--FREE Celebrate Brooklyn Prospect Park Bandshell, PPW at 9th St. Robert Glasper returns to the Bandshell with an exceptional new collective of underground icons in R+R=NOW, which stands for Reflect+Respond=NOW.

MetroTech Commons, 12-2PM, Jay St, Myrtle & Flatbush. New Orleans-based singer/songwriter PJ Morton performs deeply soulful R&B with a passionate delivery that simultaneously comforts and entrances. A longtime keyboardist for Maroon 5 and music director for Solange, Morton boasts a roster of collaborators that includes Lil’ Wayne, Buster Rhymes and India. Arie. He now tours in support of his self-released studio album, “Gumbo,” which earned him nominations at this year’s Grammy Awards for Best R&B Album and Best R&B Song.

Meet @ Emic Playground, corner of 34th St. & 3rd Ave. We will march to the Metropolitan Detention Center. Bring your stroller, take a stand to keep children and families together. Your voice is needed.

WHOSE STREETS? SNEAK PEAK OF POV FILM ON PBS JULY 30TH

CELEBRATION OF AFRICAN CULTURE

Cinema Garden Party Outdoor Screening at First Quincy Street Community Garden, 397-401 Quincy St., 7:30PM, film @ Sundown.

Don’t miss this timely documentary screening which focuses on the Ferguson uprising and the new generation of freedom fighters who grow out of that necessary resistance. Told by the activists and leaders who live and breathe this movement for justice. Empowered parents, artists and teachers from around the country come together as freedom fighters. As the National Guard descends on Ferguson with military-grade weaponry, the young community members become the torchbearers of a new resistance.

Friday, June 22nd THE ART OF THE SCORE – LIVE OUTDOOR MOVIE SCORING COMPETITION @ Fort Greene Park, 300-310 Myrtle Ave., 6-11PM. Join NYC Parks and the HipHop Film Festival for The Art of The Score-- a FREE public event held at Fort Greene Park. The one-day event includes a live scoring contest where participants will score a movie scene LIVE using only turntables (and/or a mic). Celebrity DJ’s and the audience will vote for the winner. The scoring contest is followed by a screening of the Hip-Hop Film Festival’s

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Saturday, June 23rd STROLLER MARCH

CEMOTAP CENTER, 135-05 Rockaway Blvd., 2PM--FREE Poets Layding Kaliba, Lee Olive Tucker, Tony Mitchelson, E.J. Antonio, jazz

by Atiba Kwabena & the Befo Quartet, Gha’il Benjamin. [718-322-8454] Donation: $5, Children $2 Commodore Barry Park at Navy St. (Flushing & Park) Annual Opening Day Community Parade, Vocalist Elida Almeida of Cape Verde, Muntu Dance Theater of Chicago, The Reggie Workman Ensemble (jazz legend). Also, African Marketplace, Annual Symposium, Children’s activities, chess tournament and much more! [www.iaafestival.org]

Sunday, June 24th CENTRAL BROOKLYN ARTS & CULTURE WALK 2018 Eastern Parkway bet. Flatbush and Washington Aves., 12-5PM, FREE--Children’s Village, Live Entertainment, Giveaways from the Office of the Brooklyn Borough President in partnership with state Senator Jesse Hamilton, Council member Laurie A. Cumbo, District Leaders Geoffrey Davis and Shirley Patterson.

Monday, June 25th MICHAEL BENNETT: THINGS THAT

MAKE WHITE PEOPLE UNCOMFORTABLE Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture @ 1PM. Join the Schomburg Shop as we welcome NFL player and activist Michael Bennett for a lunchtime conversation and signing on the release of his new book.

Bennett adds his unmistakable voice to discussions of racism and police violence. Black athletes and their relationship to powerful institutions like the NCAA and the NFL, the role of the protest in history, and the responsibilities of athletes as role models to speak out against injustice.

Tuesday, June 26th NDABA TAKES US TO THE MOUNTAIN Central Library, Grand Army Plaza, Dweck Center, 7:30 PM, FREE-- Join BPL as we welcome Ndaba Min for a discussion of Going to the Mountain – a first-ever book to tell his grandfather’s life through the eyes of a child who was raised by him. On a scale both intimate and epic, the book details the gripping arc of Ndaba’s own extraordinary journey, which mirrors that of South Africa’s, from the segregated Soweto ghettos to the presidential mansion and the challenged times in which he now lives. RSVP @ https://bit. ly/2tnbW3K

Wednesday, June 27th CARIBBEAN-AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH CELEBRATION 2018 Brooklyn Borough Hall, 209 Joralemon St., 12-9PM FREE, The Office of the Borough President and the Caribbean-American Heritage Association cordially invites you to “Embrace Your Hyphen.” Caribbean Cultural Marketplace -12PM, Symposium, 2PM, A Taste of Caribbean Cuisine, 4PM, Concert on the Plaza, 6:30-9:30 PM, featuring: Derrick Barnett and The Statement Band, Something Positive Dance Company, vocalist Luis Negron, Dancer Anupam Persaud and a Steelpan Competition w/Pantonics and Harmony Steel Orchestras.

Thursday, June 28th THE BLUES PROJECT FEATURING DORRANCE DANCE WITH TOSHI REAGON & BIG LOVELY Celebrate Brooklyn Prospect Park Bandshell, PPW at 9th St. Powerful music accompanies inspired dancing! Created

by Michelle Dorrance, Derrick K. Grant, Toshi Reagon and Dormeshia Sumbry-Edwards.

Saturday, June 30th 47TH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL

Poor People’s Campaign Set for This Weekend in DC

AFRICAN ARTS FESTIVAL 10AM -9PM RAIN OR SHINE, Sugg.

Donation: $5, Children $2; Commodore Barry Park at Navy St. (Flushing & Park) Annual Opening Day Community Parade, Vocalist Elida Almeida of Cape Verde, Muntu Dance Theater of Chicago, The Reggie Workman Ensemble (jazz legend). Also, African Marketplace, Annual Symposium, Children’s activities, chess tournament and much more! [www. iaafestival.org]

NAKO 29TH ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM: CULTURE, COMMUNITY & STRUGGLE P.S. 287, 50 Navy St. near the Manhattan Bridge. $15 for adults, $10 for seniors & students before 6/25; $20 for adults, $15 seniors after. The theme is “Dekawowo” (Solidarity), and it originates with the Ewe and Mina People of Ghana and Togo. The day starts at 9AM with libation by Dr. Shahidi B. Kinsey and opening remarks from IAAF Board Chair Segun Shabaka, followed by a screening of the New York Chapter of the powerfully informative and inspiring documentary, Winnie, at 9:45.

A slide presentation and discussion on Haiti begins at 11:15. Three panels follow from noon to 4:30 – “Reflections on the African-American Student Association: Model for Current Student Activists” with Adeyemi Bandele, Ife Hibbler, Raphael Jackson, Maliki Oluwambi and Laura Ayesha Soaries; Dr. Debbie Almontaser on “The Crisis in the Middle East;” Media and Politics with Bernard White, Dr. John Flateau and Lloyd Weaver; Education Panel with Maisha Ongoza, Akil Parker, Dr. Iya Adjua Hetheru and Prof. Gloria Browne-Marshall. Payments @ www.iaafestival.org or at Festival ofc., 1360 Fulton St., Suite 401.

Sunday, July 8th MARK YOUR CALENDARS Barrington Levy, Third World, Kabaka Pyramid, DJ Gravy, Federation Sound @ Ford Amphitheater at Coney Island Boardwalk, 3052 West 12th St., 6-10PM—FREE. Five of Jamaica’s most acclaimed groups join together for a night of dancehall, reggae and more.

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➔➔ Continued from page 1 address poverty. They say poverty continues to be ignored and only a “moral revival” can bring it to the nation’s consciousness.

The new campaign also has brought new attention to the tumultuous summer of 1968 when the two leading backers of the campaign — King and Robert F. Kennedy — were assassinated two months apart.

For information, visit: Poor People’s Campaign - Official Site - www.poorpeoplescampaign.org

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DENTISTRY

Charles Grannum DMD

A Charming private dental office with a warm, friendly and professional environment located in Brooklyn’s historic Clinton Hill.

Where explaining and discussing treatment is as essential as the quality and long term commitment you receive, and if you thought dentistry had to be painful, you may be pleasantly surprised at how painless dentistry can be at the hands of knowledgeable and caring professionals.

• Complete & Partial Dentures • Fixed Crowns/Bridges • Dental Implants

• Cosmetic Dentistry • ConsuItations • Preventive Dental Care

136 St. James Place (btwn Gates & Greene) Near Pratt Inst.

718.783.6228

www.clintonhilldental.com

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