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Council Kneels to Stand for Justice

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Several members of New York’s city council took a knee outside City Hall Wednesday to push back “on a system of supremacy … and oppressive policies,” in the words of Councilman Jumaane Williams (D-Brooklyn), and, later, inside the chambers, a number of them remained seated during the customary pledge of allegiance.

Among those at the kneel-in were: City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito (D-East Harlem); Councilman Williams, holding a Colin Kaepernick jersey displayed between them; Majority Leader Jimmy van Bramer (D-Jackson Heights); and Council Members Helen Rosenthal (D-Upper West Side); Deborah Rose (D-Staten Island), Inez Barron (D-Brownsville); Bill Perkins (D-Harlem); Brad Lander (D-Brooklyn); Donovan J. Richards (D-Queens); Julissa FerrerasCopeland (D-Queens), Carlos Menchaca (D-Brooklyn), Antonio Reynoso (D-Queens/Brooklyn) and Andy King (D-Bronx), and Council Member I. Daneek Miller (D-Queens); Dan Dromm (D-Jackson Heights) and Anabel Palma (D-Bronx). See page 13

Congressman John Lewis kneeling as a young man in the Civil Rights era (1962). “The young people kneeling today are following a long tradition. During another period, we knelt. There is nothing wrong with kneeling down to stand up against injustice.

It’s protected by the Constitution.”

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Humanitarian Crisis in Commonwealth of Puerto Rico No Water, No Fuel, Pleas for Help

The worst of the storm hit the island and was the strongest hurricane to hit a U.S. territory in over 80 years.

The entire electrical grid was knocked out, homes, property, and lives were lost

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San Juan Mayor Carmen Cruz: ‘People Are Starting to Die’

week after Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, the island is devastated. The Category 4 storm struck Puerto Rico with winds of 155 mph. The island is now almost entirely without power, which threatens people at hospitals.

“People are going to die,” said Dorado Mayor Carlos López Rivera about dialysis patients in the town on Wednesday.

Gasoline, crucial for running electrical generators, is also hard to come by. Half of the country is without water and only 20 percent of Puerto Rico’s cell towers work.

Food and water are being shipped in by sea and by air by the Federal Emergency

Management Agency, but more is needed.

Rural areas, in particular, are not getting the supplies they need.

“It’s life or death,” San Juan mayor Carmen Cruz told CBS News Tuesday “People are starting to die already. People are really dying. I’ve put them in the ambulances when they’re gasping for air.”

At least 18 have died in the U.S. territory so far.

Puerto Rico’s governor has thanked the President Donald Trump for his response but said that the island needs more help.

“He has been acting proactively,” said Gov. Ricardo Rosselló to the New York Times Tuesday. “We still need more, and

Carmen Cruz, Mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico. the president understands that and his team understands that.”

M a n y hospitals have been put out of commission by the storm, and the ones that are operating are run by diesel generators.

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electrical grid, road and bridges have been washed out and ports are operating at a limited capacity. Puerto Rico’s main airport in San Juan has been devastated, and groups of people are stranded there with the hopes of getting out. There 10 flights in and of the airport Tuesday, and officials anticipate only around 18 on Wednesday.

“Let me begin by saying that our hearts and prayers go out to the people of Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands, who are suffering in the wake of yet another catastrophic hurricane,” Trump said.

“Their island was virtually destroyed,” said Trump at a rally introducing tax reform.Trump warned: send help or risk making Puerto Rico crisis ‘your Katrina’

View From Here ■■

By David Mark Greaves

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ith the hurricane devastation in Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Florida and Texas, a nuclear North Korea, the eternal war in Afghanistan, Russian interference in the elections and the repeated failures on legislation and in the courts, our Pop Culture President and his rallying rabble of Alabama yahoos had a good time whoopin’ and hollarin’ calling Black men “s.o.b.s” and screaming how they should be fired for kneeling during the national anthem-- in protest of the criminal justice system and police brutality.

And then, with 70% of the NFL being Black and the conclusive link between playing football and the brain injury known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), from repeated blows to the head, the president added to the insult by bringing his fists together to show a “beautiful hit” and says the league is being soft in their newfound concern for head injuries.

In disdain for human life in general and Black life in particular, Trump found a receptive audience in Alabama, where there were 347 lynchings between 1882 and 1968, according to information compiled by the Montgomery-based Equal Justice Initiative (EJI). Alabama had its last lynching in 1981 by the Ku Klux Klan in Mobile. “This was not ‘frontier justice’ carried out by a few marginalized vigilantes or extremists,” says the EJI report, speaking of the early lynchings. “Instead, many African-Americans who were never accused of any crime were tortured and murdered in front of picnicking spectators (including elected officials and prominent citizens) for bumping into a white person, or wearing their military uniforms after World War I, or not using the appropriate title when addressing a white person.”

And now the grandchildren and great-grandchildren of those picnickers were gathered around to hear what this loathsome, arrogant, preening and aggressively ignorant man, who is their champion, had to say. This is the base of his base, and after enduring eight years of the measured thoughtfulness of President Barack Obama, they finally could exult in having someone who says he loves them for the white supremacists they are and who speaks to them with respect and in language they can understand.

This is what the Presidency of the United States has come to, a bastion of white supremacy that leaves you sputtering for ways to describe the depths to where the country is being taken by this snake-eyed delusional huckster, who leads like it’s all TV. On the other hand, absent his divisiveness, we would not have felt the pride of watching Black men standing in support of each other. “We’re brothers. Mess with one of us, mess with all of us,” one said. “A man doesn’t often get a chance to stand for something. This was my chance and I took it,” said another player.

And these men don’t just stand with each other, they stand tall with the communities they come from as well.

The magazine Bleacher Report lists the following: Miami Dolphins defensive lineman Ndamukong Suh donated $2.6 million to Nebraska in 2011 and $250,000 to his high school in 2013.

The LeBron James Family Foundation focuses on children, with $41 million in 2015 to send 1,100 kids to school.

The Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson supports children with his “Why Not You” Foundation and the “Russell Wilson Hospital”.

Warrick Dunn has a Home for the Holidays

program, which gives single parents a home.

Dunn has provided more than 100 homes for these families.

After Hurricane Katrina, he challenged each NFL player to donate $5,000, resulting in about $5 million being raised for Katrina relief.

Writing for Black Voices on the Huffington Post, Zahara Hill reported that Martellus Bennett of the Green Bay Packers pledged to donate all of the sales from his jersey to after-school programs.

And his brother Michael said he’d be giving all of the money from his 2017 endorsement deals to charities that cater to minorities and the empowerment of Black women.

And Colin Kaepernick has donated $700,000 of his $1 million pledge to 24 organizations.

This is only the tip of the iceberg of men who compete on the field to win the game, and off the field to see who can be the most creative with their giving.

These are men in brotherhood with each other and with their people. And even when kneeling they are head and shoulders above that man in the White House.

And in all of this we see how unintended consequences are often lessons taught by the Lord working in mysterious ways. In throwing red meat to his hyena base, Trump has roused prides of lions who are stretching and flexing and hearing the call to come together. LeBron James has 38.6 million Twitter followers and Stephen Curry has 10.5 million. And one fact that cannot be contested is that these gentlemen know how to keep their eye on the ball. And when you add the players in all the leagues sending out Colin Kaepernick’s original message calling for racial justice to their fans of all races, even briefly, then we may see one of those unintended consequences that cause us to smile and say, “Oh, now I see what God was doing”.

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Trump to visit Puerto Rico Tuesday, as tweets offend officials Ed Pilkington and David Smith/The Guardian/

Donald Trump will visit Puerto Rico next Tuesday, to see some of the devastation wrought by Hurricane Maria on the lives of 3.5 million Americans. As the president announced the visit, however, one Democratic congresswoman who was born in Puerto Rico warned that his lack of attention to the disaster so far risked making it “your Katrina”.

The White House said on Tuesday Trump had also made additional disaster assistance available, “by authorizing an increase in the level of federal funding for debris removal and emergency protective measures”. But it took the president five full days to respond to the plight of the US territory. When he finally did so on Monday night, his comments on Twitter were so devoid of empathy it threatened to spark new controversy.

Hot on the heels of the billowing dispute he single-handedly provoked over African American sporting figures protesting racial inequality during the national anthem, Trump effectively blamed the islanders – all of whom are American citizens – for their own misfortune.

“Texas & Florida are doing great but Puerto Rico, which was already suffering from broken infrastructure & massive debt, is in deep trouble,” Trump wrote. The US territory was hit by Maria soon after the two states were struck by Harvey and Irma.

Trump acknowledged that “much of the island was destroyed” but caustically went on to say that its electrical grid was already “in terrible shape” and that Puerto Rico owed billions of dollars to Wall Street and the banks “which, sadly, must be dealt with”.

The following morning, the president

spoke to reporters at the White House before a bipartisan meeting on tax reform.

Next Tuesday would, he said, be the earliest feasible day to visit the island, due to the extent of the damage. The island has been “literally destroyed”, Trump said, expressing confidence “they’ll be back”.

Federal authorities were landing relief supplies “on an hourly basis”, Trump said, adding that he will also stop in the US Virgin Islands, also severely damaged.

Later, at a press conference in the White House Rose Garden, he denied that he had been preoccupied with the NFL issue, insisting that the government has had “tremendous reviews” for its response, which now includes the military. “We understand it’s a disaster, it’s a disaster that just happened,” he told reporters. “The grid was in bad shape before the storm and Puerto Rico didn’t get hit by one hurricane; it got hit by two hurricanes; and they were among the biggest we’ve ever seen.

Trump’s Monday night tweets were the first comments he had made on Puerto Rico since hours before Maria made landfall as a category 4 hurricane, pummelling the island and destroying its entire power network with winds up to 155mph (250km/h). On that occasion he told the people of Puerto Rico: “We are with you.”

But for many Puerto Ricans the reality five days after the hurricane struck was that the US president had not been with them. About 700 Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) staff were on the island in a total of 10,000 federal workers, carrying out search and rescue missions and supplying basic food and water. But Trump spent those five days mired in his self-made battle with African

Carlos Beltran of the Houston Astros broke down Tuesday afternoon when discussing the void of available drinking water in his native Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Maria.”It’s tough times,” an emotional Beltran said through tears.

American sports stars, seemingly oblivious to the plight of millions of Hispanic Americans in peril in a natural disaster zone.

“At the same time that he was doing all of that, we had American citizens in Puerto Rico who are in a desperate condition,” said Hillary Clinton, Trump’s defeated opponent in the 2016 election, in a radio interview which aired before Trump’s late-night tweets on Monday. “He has not said one word about them, about other American citizens in the US Virgin Islands.

I’m not sure he knows that Puerto Ricans are American citizens.”

The Trump administration has refused to waive federal restrictions on foreign ships carrying life-saving supplies to Puerto Rico – a concession it readily

made for Texas and Florida in the cases of hurricanes Harvey and Irma.

In the last of his tweets on Monday night, Trump said “food, water and medical are top priorities – and doing well”.

On Tuesday morning, while continuing to tweet about the NFL, he wrote: “Thank you to Carmen Yulin Cruz, the Mayor of San Juan, for your kind words on Fema etc. We are working hard. Much food and water there/on way.”

Most Puerto Ricans were spared the experience of reading Trump’s tweets as a result of the total blackout. But condemnation was swift in mainland US. Juliette Kayyem, a former senior official in the Department of Homeland Security ➔➔ Continued on page 15

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WHAT’S GOING ON ■■

By Victoria Horsford

THE WEEK IN REVIEW President Donald Trump has a cornucopia of problems, many of them self-created, others beyond his control. He has to countenance a divided nation, along class and race lines; the brinksmanship game with North Korea, securing borders for the US and its territories, a stalled legislative agenda; the aftermath of Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria on Texas, Florida, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands; and his bellicose tone addressing the family of nations at the UN, implying that Iran and Venezuela could be American military targets. He is always working to pacify his base and manufacture race divisions like his rants in Alabama on 9/22.

My four-year-old grandniece Jeannette Torruella, after listening to POTUS 45 on CNN on 9/22, asked her mother, “What is a son of a bitch?” She was parroting Trump’s words about a possible solution for NFL franchise owners concerned about football players who “take a knee” during the National Anthem. Trump’s talk evokes concern about Colin Kaepernick’s punishment by the NFL franchisers. Yes, Trump’s remarks were racist. About 80% of the NFL players are

Black, many of whom “take a knee”. All of the franchise owners are white and there is no equitable owner/player distribution of revenues from America’s highest-grossing sport. Ironically, Trump’s remarks united the owners and the players about the knee ritual.

That the football owner/player relationship has to change is inevitable.

On Monday, 9/25, LeBron “King” James called a press conference on September 25th to discuss and affirm how great America really is and it would be even better with a leader who unites people. Trump denies racist undertones in his “son on a bitch” speech.

However, King James concludes: “He, Trump, doesn’t understand the magnitude,

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the power that he has for being the leader of this beautiful country.” More of the NFL, Black men and the plantation system played out in the 21st century.

VOTING/REGISTRATION The NY September 12 Primary was another low-voter turnout misadventure.

Mayor de Blasio clobbered his competition.

Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz won.

Councilman Bill Perkins, whose district spans Central Harlem, got 50% of the vote from a field of 6 contenders. Acting Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez won and will officially succeed his late boss Kenneth Thompson. A list of non-Democrat contenders (Republican, Liberal, et al.) for City Council seats in the November election is being prepared. The column will also report on NYS Supreme Court and NYC Civil Court contenders.

The NY Urban League’s Young Professionals group will host a series of voter registration drives throughout the five boroughs. It is a “Push for Millennial Votes”, which will be held on National Voter Registration Day, September 26-30, to qualify for the November 7th elections.

Bronx, 1600 Webster Avenue, 9/26, 4-6:30 pm; Brooklyn, 2221 Church Avenue, 9/26, 5-8 pm and at Nostrand and Fulton, A, C subway stop; Queens, 9/26, 5-8 pm at 9214 Roosevelt Avenue and 159-02 Jamaica Avenue; Staten Island, 9/26, 132 Canal Street, 5-7 pm; and Harlem, September 30, 2:30-5 pm at 253 West 125th Street in concert with the Apollo Theater’s Uptown Hall. E-mail: Ypcivicseconco@nyulyp.org

VOL. 21 NO. 39 The forum’s theme is “Growing the Middle: Investing in African Companies for the Continent’s Economic Transformation.”

IGD Forum and invitational, frequented by African and global business leaders, will focus on increasing greater US investment in Africa and investment in African mid-sized companies for sustainable development and inclusive growth. Forum’s featured speakers include Dr. Benedict Okey Oramah, Africa Export Import Bank; Kenroy Dowers, Atlas Mara Ltd.; Bunmi Akinyemiju, Venture Garden Group.

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ARTS SCENE Executive Producer of the Apollo Theater, Kamilah Forbes, announced its 2017-2018 season, which opens with the NY premier of chamber opera, WE SHALL NOT BE MOVED, inspired by the 1985 crisis in Philadelphia with the standoff between the police and a Black Liberation group resulted in the deadly bombing of a residential neighborhood. Opera credits include music by Harlem-based composer Daniel Bernard Roumain, libretto by Haitian-American Marc Bamuthi Joseph, directed and choreographed by Bill T. Jones (“Fela!” and “Spring Awakening”), conducted by Viswa Subbaraman. Opera is co-commissioned and co-produced with Opera Philadelphia and Hackney Empire.

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Boundaries include Empire Boulevard to the north and the crossing of Flatbush and Nostrand Avenue to its south. The brainchild of Shelley Worrell of CaribBeing, the Little

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Kamilah Forbes The “Barbara Chase-Ribaud Malcolm X: Complete” exhibit at the Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, located at 100 Eleventh Avenue at 19th Street, Manhattan, runs through November 4. Social critic and Pulitzer Award journalist Les Payne, whose book on Malcolm X will be published imminently, will lecture at the gallery on October 12.

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HEADS OF STATE President Donald Trump hosted a lunch for the African heads of state during their visit to NY for the new UN General Assembly session.

Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer and his Excellency Adama Barrow, President of the Republic of Gambia, co-hosted a Gambian Diaspora reception and Town Hall on Saturday, September 23 at PS 154, the Harriet Tubman Learning Center in Harlem.

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Shelley Worrell Caribbean neighborhood joins the city’s other culture pockets like Little Italy, Chinatown and Little Pakistan. The new Caribbean neighborhood figures prominently in the city’s tourism bureau, NY & CO. directory.

There is a new kid on uptown’s restaurant block. It is HARLEM RENAISSANCE, located on 132nd Street and Seventh Avenue, owned by Cisse, Senegalese restauranteur, who also owns Ponty Bistro on 139th Street in Harlem. Cisse started hosting Harlem Renaissance restaurant soft openings since September 18. Bon Appetit!

BLACK BUSINESS The Initiative for Global Development(IGD) Frontier 100 Forum convenes October 4-6 in Washington, DC.

Adama Barrow His Excellency Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, President of Ghana, was in town for the UNGA session. He received an Africa America Institute Award on behalf of the people of Ghana at the annual AAI Gala.

His Excellency Goodluck Jonathan, former Nigerian President, was one of the honorees at the Kechie Project’s First Annual Dinner and Awards Gala, held at the Club Quarters Rooftop Terrace on September 22.

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By Marlon Rice

he Italians are renowned for many things. For example, they are the pioneers of large-scale spas and hot bathhouses. Their cuisine is world-famous, with culinary inventions like pizza and neapolitan ice cream having become American staples generations ago. The Italians are also known for their elaborate and rhythmic style of swearing.

It is done with passion and bravado not unlike art, with each syllable fusing melodically with the next to form words that can offend, intimidate and charm a person all at once.

Upon their migration to America, Italians were met with the rudimentary language of English. Unlike the romantic language of Italian, English is more intricate and rigid, with less room for flair. This is very evident in the way that Americans swear. It’s nothing to it really, just a bunch of guttural snipes deprived of the honor and passion Italians bring to the sport. I mean, screaming Porca Puttana! is much more exciting than saying the American version.

During the turn of the 20th century, at the height of Italian migration into America, one of the most popular swear words in the English language was Son of a Bitch. It was used as a complete show of disrespect to whomever it was directed upon, invoking a slap in the face to both you and your mother, the latter being worthy of a fight at the very least. It was considered so disrespectful that Americans

coined the subterm Son of a Gun as a way to lessen the blow while still making the same point. To our new Italian neighbors learning the English language the same way we all learn a new language, curses first, it became indisputable that Americans were amateurs at being offensive, no style, no depth and absolutely no flair.

As a way to mock these cocky Americans for being so amateurish, Italians used the American term “son of a gun” as a term of

say, ‘Get that son of a bitch off the field right now! Out! He’s Fired’!”

Aside from being an obvious show of disrespect to the mothers of the athletes he singled out in his speech, our president’s language and tone at that rally and in most of his public speaking and Twitter rants is that of a hatemonger, a person bent on using negative emotive ideals and ignorance to incite division between those who think like him, and those of us who do not. It has

"He is the most dangerous person to ever hold the office of POTUS. How dangerous? North Korea feels like Trump declared war, through a Twitter post.

The Neo-Nazis and White Nationalist militias feel empowered because Trump has called them 'good people'" offense to describe Americans. La Merica Sanemagogna translates to “American son of a gun”, but it means a person who is backwards, a failure at doing what he thinks he’s good at.

While speaking at a rally in Alabama, in an environment that better resembled a Tea Party, Alt-Right, Neo-Con campaign than an event organized for a sitting president, Donald Trump called out those athletes who have chosen to silently and peacefully protest during the singing of the National Anthem, saying, “Wouldn’t you love to see one of these NFL owners, when somebody disrespects our flag and

become apparent in his 251 days in office that his motto of making America great again means to make it great for white men who still harbor radical racist opinions and values. He’s been doing a good job at it, too. According to Al-Jazeera, hate crimes against Muslims are up 91% versus this time last year. The Southern Poverty Law Center counted more than 900 hate crimes committed in just the first ten days after Trump’s victory on Election Day. In his short time in the White House, he has made Muslims the enemy, a majority of the Arab world enemies, transgendered military personnel the enemy, women’s marchers the

enemy, Arnold Schwarzenegger the enemy, the judge who blocked his ridiculous travel ban in February the enemy, and now it’s professional football players. Oh, let’s not forget Steph Curry, who Trump called out by denying his and his teammates invitation to the White House, an invite that the team was already rescinding. Anyone, at any time, can find themselves the focus of the wrath of our president’s Twitter fingers, something you’ve never said about any other president ever.

It would be quite comical if it wasn’t sadly so true.

We have a president that spends hours every day making aimless rants via social media, and then he doubles down on those rants with every public speech he gives.

He is the most dangerous person to ever hold the office of POTUS. How dangerous?

North Korea feels like Trump declared war, through a Twitter post. The Neo-Nazis and White Nationalist militias feel empowered because Trump has called them “good people”. Fires have been lit under potential rages that for generations we have worked collectively to quell, and all we can do as a people is keep our communities from burning from hate while we wait out this madman, hoping to God that something ends his reign now, before it’s too late.

Donald Trump is the textbook example of La Merica Sanemagogna. The American “son of a gun”, backwards in every way, a complete failure at doing what he thinks he’s good at. I can think of a bunch of other cuss words to use to describe him, in Italian and in English.

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hat we have in this country is the failure to study history; it’s not taught, it’s not studied.

Right there (pointing west) on the other side of the river is Wall Street. That’s where enslaved Africans were sold on the block in New York. The first (enslaved Africans) to come to this country were brought here to New York in 1626.

They were brought here before the Irish.

They were brought here before the Germans.

They were brought here before the Italians.

They were brought here before the French.

They were brought here before many of the people who think this is their country ever heard of this country.

Professional football is modeled after American slavery. You’ve got to think and analyze what’s going on. Where do these players start out? They start out on a farm team. What was a plantation other than a farm? Who worked on the field in that farm?

People that looked like us.

Colin Kaepernick was called for such a time as this. God did not call him to be … a man of enlightenment for the people of the country and also for other professional football players to see. Just because you’re getting a check does not mean that you’re free; athletes are bought and sold.

There’s a big event every year. They call it the draft. That’s the block! And when they trade you, they tell you to pack up, go there.

They don’t care about your wife, your family.

You go there. It’s a slave system.

This country is founded and rooted in slavery and when you take the time to step back and think, you will see how much slavery is going on: mental, psychological, educational, financial. Every aspect of your being is controlled by it.

There’s been a lot of talk about Nazis.

Adolf Hitler gave credit to where he got his thinking from. He wrote and said he got his ideas from the United States of America.

He got it from the U.S. Congress in 1924.

You wonder why you have quote-unquote Neo-Nazi. Because the chief Nazi developed his program by watching the people in this country.

Immigration laws were revoked in 1924 against people. Separatism. Racism -- that’s

Part IV of a continuing series

Ret. Detective Graham Weatherspoon, supporting Colin Kaepernick’s call for racial justice and the right to free speech, with NYPD officers. Photo: Barry L. Mason what he modeled his agenda after. So, when we think about Nazism, let’s think about the United States and how we have affected and infected lives of people across the globe.

I served as a police officer and as a detective. I sent police officers to prison because they were not qualified; they were criminals. You see what that fool on the Hill in Washington did in that tirade he ran on Long Island with the Suffolk County Police Department! You see how they applauded him. Their own chief is sitting in prison for brutalizing a prisoner.

So, the clergy had better wake up! These photo ops and all this nonsense! Wake up!

Your calling is to God. Not to America. Not to a flag. Not to anybody but God. And it is time people in this country stood up for

what is right.

The philosopher (Edmund) Burke said, “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men … and women … to do nothing”. You can’t be good doing nothing.

Because if you’re not standing against evil, you are for it.

Colin Kaepernick, you were given the platform of football to elevate you to the level for people to know who you are. Now that they know who you are--moving to another level because you are speaking out for what is truthful and what is just. And what is beneficial for people at-large. ******* * Last month, NYPD officers gathered in Brooklyn Bridge Park to show support for Colin Kaepernick, former quarterback for

LeBron James Speaks out: Trump should never "use sport platform to divide us"

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salute the NFL, the players, the coaches, the owners and the fans....it was unbelievable.

There was solidarity. There was no divide, no divide even from that guy that continues to try to divide us as people. Like I said on one of my social media platforms a couple of days ago, the thing that kind of frustrated me and pissed me off a little bit, is that he used the sports platform to try to divide us.

“Sport and sports is so amazing, what sports can do for everyone, no matter the shape or size or race or ethnicity or religion or whatever. People finds teams, people find players, people find colors because of sport. And they just gravitate toward that, and it just makes them so happy. And it brings people together like none other. We’re not—I’m not—gonna let, while I have this platform, one individual, no matter the power, no matter the impact that he should have or she should

have, ever use sport as a platform to divide us. “ If you voted for him, it’s okay...Can we sit up here and say that I’m trying to make a difference, can I look at myself in the mirror and say I want the best for the American people, no matter the skin color, no matter the race, no matter how tall or athletic you are, whatever the case may be.

Can we sit up here and say we are trying to make a difference?

“Because we know this is the greatest country in the world. This is the land of the free. But, we still have problems just like everybody else.”

James also said that the American people run the country, not Trump: “damn sure not him.”

“I will in my voice, I will in my passion, I will in my money, I will in my resources to my youth and my inner city and outside my inner city to let these kids know that there is hope, there is greater

walks of life, and not one individual, no matter if it’s the president of the United States...can stop your dreams from becoming a reality.” (Transcript from si.com)

July 21, 2017 Charlotte, NC, USA LeBron James watches his son, LeBron Jr.'s team during youth tournament action at the Charlotte Convention Center in Charlotte, N.C., on Friday, July 21, 2017, as son, Bryce James, right, gives him a hug from behind. (Credit Image: © Jeff Siner/ TNS via ZUMA Wire)

the San Francisco 49ers who has been, at this printing, banished by the NFL for sitting out the national anthem last season.

Organized by Sgt. Edwin Raymond, the rally featured speeches from retired NYPD officer Frank Serpico, City Councilman Jumaane Williams and others. The rally concluded with officers, supporters, media and others raising their fists and taking a knee in support of Kaepernick and his stance.

Part V of this series next week, October 5, 2017, presents the voice of Serpico, who was praised at the rally by Detective Weatherspoon. “Serpico inspired me to enter into law enforcement. A white man who I’ve respected for over 45 years! I will always respect him because he stood against the ills and the criminality in this country.”

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Thirteenth Annual Bed-Stuy Alive! Celebration SHINES LIGHT ON EDUCATION

he Bed-Stuy Alive! Collective is proud to present the 13th Annual Bed-Stuy Alive! Celebration, which will begin on Saturday, October 14th, and span several weeks of exciting happenings throughout the community. “We are pleased to be a part of this event, which will showcase our great businesses, schools, restaurants, artists and homes,” stated Dordy Jourdain, Executive Director of the Bedford-Stuyvesant YMCA. The project is designed to promote economic development, neighborhood pride, tourism, the community’s cultural richness and the unique heritage and diversity of the people who live in Bedford-Stuyvesant. This year’s theme, “Lighting the Path for Our Children: Education is Our Torch”, was selected by the members of the collective in order to highlight the importance of education at all levels in our community. “From pre-K to adulthood, our community must be continually engaged in lifelong learning. Groups are working together to help improve our public schools, and organizations all over the community are offering workshops and training programs that cover everything from financial literacy to job preparation,” said Lynette Lewis-Rogers, President of the Brownstoners of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Inc., which is celebrating its 40th Anniversary this year.

OPENING CEREMONY AND TOHMA Y. FAULKNER AWARDS

The excitement begins on October 14th at 10:00 a.m. with the Opening Ceremony in the main building of the Restoration Complex at 1368 Fulton Street. The 10:00 a.m. program is a special time that is set aside to honor those who have made extraordinary contributions to the community with the 9th Annual Tohma Y. Faulkner Awards.

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During Assembly member Robinson’s community celebration last March, over four hundred books were contributed by those who attended. Assembly member Robinson said, “As a participating parent and former staff member of the Bedford-Stuyvesant Early Childhood Development Center, I am most proud that the Annette M. Robinson Early Childhood Literacy Project will present books to the center, in recognition of the organization’s over fifty years of providing dedicated educational services to the children of Bedford-Stuyvesant and Crown Heights”.

FULTON STREET COMES ALIVE AT NOON

Fulton Street, between Marcy and Brooklyn Avenues, will be jumping. The large, outdoor stage will be the backdrop for Restoration’s annual Restoration Rocks live concert, which will take place all afternoon.

“RestorationROCKS brings forth a collaboration of edgy and thought-provoking voices through sound and revolution as we celebrate the Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation’s 50th Anniversary. Join renowned artists Talib Kweli, DJ Spinna, Les Nubians and Soul Science Lab in the cultural landscape we call Bed-Stuy,” commented Dr. Indira Etwaroo, Executive Director of RestorationART and the Billie Holiday Theatre, and Vice President of Restoration.

The Bed-Stuy Heritage Market and the Savor Bed-Stuy Food Court will entice everyone to shop at our local stores and find treasures among the crafts being sold by local artisans, and then relax and enjoy delicious food prepared by local chefs.

The lively Children’s Village will feature the award-winning Uni Project with its unique pop-up library. Superheroes will be on hand to greet the little ones, and there will be a host of fun and educational activities for every age

group. The village will be located on Marcy Avenue between Fulton and MacDonough Streets.

The Health Pavilion will be anchored by the Interfaith Medical Center, and the Veterans Administration, along with other health agencies, will provide screenings and information.

The Discover Your Neighborhood Resource Row, with representatives from a broad range of education and social service organizations, will be located on the sidewalk, starting in front of Restoration.

FEATURED EVENTS DURING ALIVE! WEEK

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 15TH – NOON – 5 FINE ART CRAWL Sponsored by Bridge Street Development Corporation … www.bsdcorp.org Starting Point: Richard Beavers Gallery, 408 Marcus Garvey Boulevard TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17TH – 4:00 – SEMINAR - KNOW YOUR RIGHTS AS PARENTS Sponsored by Brooklyn Legal Services WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18TH – 5

-9 – FEAST BED-STUY Sponsored by Bridge Street Development Corporation Foodies will enjoy menu offerings at a bounty of neighborhood eateries.

Get the list at www.bsdcorp.org SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21St DISTRICT 16 OPEN HOUSE – 10 - 1 Sponsored by School District 16, NYC Department of Education Visit schools in District 16 and learn about what they offer.

Call (718) 574-2834 for more information 39th ANNUAL HOUSE TOUR AND HOMEBUYERS’ SEMINAR Sponsored by Brownstoners of BedfordStuyvesant, Inc., Boys and Girls High School, and Bridge Street Development Corporation Visit some of Bedford-Stuyvesant’s beautiful homes. Get useful information at the Homebuyers’ Seminar.

Seminar begins at 9:00 … House Tour begins at 11:00 Starting Point: Boys and Girls High School www.brownstonersofbedstuy.org

MEC Community Council Honors Leaders

ast spring, the Community Council for Medgar Evers College honored top community leaders and Central Brooklyn’s finest young emerging lea­ders at its annual intergenerational Scholar­ship and Leadership Awards Luncheon.

Scholarships were given to Shari Baker, Keisha James, Jacqueline Marshall and Claythia Nicholas. The Youth Leadership Award went to Ashley Nurse of the Medgar Evers College Preparatory School and the 2017 Valedictorian. Since 1980, the Council has provided more than $250,000 for a variety of scholarships.

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haron Toomer, an accomplished media executive and nonprofit leader, is the new executive director of the

Community leadership honorees included the Rev. Dr. Herbert D. Daughtry, Sr., Minister of the House of the Lord Church (Ecumenical Leadership Award); the Honorable Annette Robinson recently retired from the 56th District of the New York State Assembly (Community Leadership Award); the Honorable Roger L. Green, former Executive Director of the DuBois-Bunche Center for Public Policy, Senior Fellow for Equity and Participatory Democracy (Business Leadership Award); and FDNY firefighter Regina Wilson, President of the Vulcan Society of

Black Firefighters (Community Service Leadership Award).

Judicial Leadership Awards went to the Honorable Lewis L. Douglas, former NYS Supreme Court Justice, Kings County; the Honorable Yvonne Lewis, former NYS Supreme Court Justice, Kings County; the Honorable Bert A. Bunyan, former New York State Supreme Court Justice, 2nd Judicial District; the Honorable Betty Staton, former NYS Family Court Justice; the Honorable Betty J. Williams, former NYS Supreme Court Justice of the Second Judicial District.

Dr. Rudolph F. Crew, President of Medgar

Evers College and former Chancellor of New York City’s public schools, received the Medgar Wiley Evers Champion of Change Award for his mission and efforts to improve student achievement.

Special tribute was paid in memory of the late Brooklyn District Attorney Kenneth Thompson with remarks by then-Acting, now newly elected, Kings County DA Eric Gon­ zalez speaking highly of Thompson’s legacy.

Next up on the MEC Community Council’s huge plate is a scholarship fundraising theatre party, November 3, in support of Brooklyn’s best and brightest.

NABJ Names Sharon Toomer, Former Journalist/ Nonprofit leader, as its Executive Director National Association of Black Journalists, the largest organization for journalists of color in the nation. The announcement came Monday after an extensive national search.

“We are excited that Sharon will be joining us at this critical time in NABJ’s history,” said Sarah Glover, NABJ President.

“Her combined fundraising, organizational, executive management, journalism and public affairs experience and skills make her a dominant force. Sharon is experienced, a visionary and passionate. We feel confident that she will serve us well in the implementation of NABJ’s strategic plan and be an impactful leader.”

For Toomer, joining NABJ as executive director, “is a rare moment in

my career lifespan when opportunity, preparedness, shared interest and timing intersect”.

Prior to joining NABJ, the Spelman graduate served as senior vice president for public affairs and policy at Matlock Advertising & Public Relations, where she led the agency’s Reputation Group in its work with a diverse portfolio of clients representing the corporate, nonprofit, academic and business sectors.

Toomer also served as chief of staff and senior policy advisor for U.S. Representative (D.C.-Shadow) Franklin Garcia and has also worked as an editorial producer for CNNfn and CNN Headline News and founded the award-winning digital news platform Black and Brown News.

As a communications professional, Toomer served two Kings County (Brooklyn, NY) District Attorney administrations. She also worked for the Association of Black Foundation Executives, the Brooklyn Borough President’s Office under Marty Markowitz and the City University of New York faculty union.

A past recipient of CUNY’s Graduate School of Journalism Political Reporting Fellowship, Toomer’s wide range of experiences and multicultural worldview has earned her awards in journalism excellence and appearances on television, radio, print and digital news outlets.

Toomer is expected to begin her work with NABJ on Oct. 9. For additional information, please visit www.nabj.org.

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A New Beginning: Brooklyn Neighborhood Services Honors Community Leaders and Celebrates Its “25 & 1” at 2017 Fundraising Event

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In the photo above, from left to right, are: Richard Trouth, Jeffrey Charles-Pierre, Bernice Green, Bessie Edwards, the Hon. Tremaine S. Wright, Carlton Brown, Cheryl Wright, Sundra Franklin ,Brena Bracey-Seals, James Durrah, Tory Netto, Paul Hawthorne, Rob Fields, Jayesh Gajjar and Fred Price. In the photo insets are law enforcers; Dr. Kim Best with Daniel Fisher; and Sam Pinn. (Photo: Courtesy of Brooklyn Neighborhood Services).

rooklyn Neighborhood Services celebrated two historic milestones during its elegant September 14th “25 & 1 – A New Beginning” Awards Reception at Weeksville Heritage Center: the organization’s first year as a fully independent community development organization and its 25th year serving the community llunder its former Neighborhood Housing Services umbrella.

BNS continues to provide, said Board president Jeffrey Charles-Pierre, “services to people in unserved neighborhoods by creating and preserving affordable housing opportunities for financial empowerment and homeownership. And we have more people doing a better job than the year before”.

Charles-Pierre and BNS Executive Director Richard Trouth praised the board, staff, volunteers and partners for working together, “doing good things” and “making a difference in the lives of families and individuals in the community”.

BNS’ 2017 honorees were praised “for making a major impact in the lives of many residents of the borough and beyond”, said Trouth, adding, “Their expertise spans across education, philanthropy, real estate, youth education, politics, senior advocacy and more”.

BNS’ Community Partner Awards were given to honorees Dr. Kim Best, currently

Chair, Restoration Alliance Club, 79th Precinct Council, and Daniel Fisher, President, 81st Precinct Council. Presenter Sundra Franklin cited them for providing “service to the community every day and pretty much every night and pushing their young people, The Explorers, to (engage in community work).”

Dr. Best expressed concern for our youth and urged the community to continue working with them. Mr. Fisher also expressed the need for organizations to get involved in youth projects “to make our neighborhood stronger.”

Board presenter Brena Bracy-Seals awarded the Neighborhood Recognition honor to Ms. Lena Scarborough Gates, Principal, Ronald E. McNair Public School 5, for her valuable work in education.

BNS’ Presidential Awards, the first ever, given by Charles-Pierre to Bessie Edwards, the real estate expert and visionary, and Mr. Fred L. Price, education advocate and philanthropist.

Both delivered messages describing their respective passions for the community; the award as an inspiration to continue doing the work they do; their personal journeys to arrive where they are and the importance of information-sharing and communication.

“The community is 2017.09.14-314.jpg my passion,” said Mr. Price. “My goal has been to serve my people, especially now that the challenges are all clear

great Brooklyn activists. He said, “I stand here on the shoulders of many others who came before me”, naming Joan Maynard, for whom he announced a street would be named, the second Saturday in October; the Reverends Milton Galamison (Siloam Presbyterian Church), William Augustus Jones (Bethany Baptist Church) and Gardner C. Taylor (Concord Baptist Church of Christ); Brother Sonny Carson, Sister Lucille Rose, Congressman Major Owens and Sister Janie Green. He also recalled his association for 16 years with Brooklyn CORE and his current work with community-based organizations, inSam Pinn cluding senior citizens and day care programs. and dramatically in front of us.”

He summed up the feelings of everyone Paul G. Hawthorne, Board Vice President, presented the Award of Appreciation to NYS attending the “25 & 1- A New Beginning” reAssembly member Wright, the evening’s ception with the mandate “to do the great work dynamic guest speaker. He thanked her for that you are doing of being BNS. I appreciate “representing us and taking our interests up to the fact that you are willing to get out there Albany”. In turn, Hon. Wright said, “I do look and do what you can do in your field to cut forward to working with BNS and the other (gentrification) off at the pass.”

Mr. James C. Durrah, BNS Treasurer and housing partners”.

Mr. Sam Pinn, considered the dean of fundraising chair, closed the awards segment community activism, was presented the cov- by acknowledging, too, the good works of the eted Catherine L. Arline Citizen Participation organization in enriching lives. He gave a nod Award by board member Tory Netto. Mr. to The Rev. Dr. Valerie Durrah, his wife of 40 Pinn, who knew Ms. Arline – the beloved years, and his good friend Carlton Brown. community leader and former BNS board Page 1 of 1Ms. Durrah and Brown shared honorary chair member -- for some 60 years of his 82 years, duties with David Greaves of DBG Media, delivered an emotional salute to her and other Publishers of Our Time Press, and Bernice Elizabeth Green, the evening’s host.

Also recognized during the evening was BNS board member Cheryl Wright; staff Madeline Roman; Gerard D. Miller, housing counselor, financial literacy and resiliency services; Courtney E. Corbin, foreclosure specialist; Kevin D. Washington, homeowner services manager and Andrea Green, the community outreach coordinator.

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NYS Assemblywoman Tremaine Wright (56th-District) Guest Speaker

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Weeksville Heritage Center 158 Buffalo Avenue, Brooklyn, NY. Thursday, September 14, 2017

am so proud to have been asked to speak at tonight’s event. I feel as though both Brooklyn Neighborhood Services and I are in our “plus one” year.

I applaud the 25 years of service that has brought us to this juncture; and celebrate the vision and willingness to take on the challenges of growth which guided Neighborhood Housing Services of Bedford Stuyvesant to separate from NHSNYC and to operate independently as Brooklyn Neighborhood Services.

The mission and work of Brooklyn Neighborhood Services focuses on preserving Affordable Housing, Home Ownership Education, financial empowerment, and community leadership. The fruits of their labor are evident throughout the Brooklyn community which they serve. It is reflected in the $7.1 Million in first mortgages which BNS facilitated; the 91 distressed home owners who saved their homes from foreclosure with loan modification assistance; and the $240,000 provided in down payment and closing costs assistance. And this was just in 2016.

Brooklyn Neighborhood Services has consistently and successfully worked to stabilize, undergird, and propel our community forward with tools to maintain, control and maximize our assets. While, we are celebrating a new beginning for BNS, they have been providing new beginnings for community for decades.

Over10 years ago, BNS helped me with my new beginning as a home owner and small business owner. My name was drawn in the housing lottery and I was given the opportunity to purchase a mixed use building here in Bedford Stuyvesant. I had not been looking for a building to purchase, I was in

my 3rd or 4th year of running around, chasing landlords in hope that one of them would give me a lease for a coffee shop idea. But as God would have it, the landlords faithfully gave me the run around and BNS pulled my name as a potential purchaser. That opportunity was major game changer. I received assistance securing a mortgage, I attended home ownership classes, I walked into a newly renovated building and had found a home for my business.

The opportunity provided by BNS to purchase a home and the skills learned from their classes and counseling gave me the necessary boost to anchor myself in the community I call home, to shift from renter to owner, to build net worth and consider asset building and transfers of family wealth. While the new beginning in this scenario is often characterized as the acquisition of the property, I’m here to remind us that it is actually the shift in mind set and the broad possibilities available to our people when they realize the power associated with ownership; and that money and credit are only tools which we can manipulate.

Home ownership and financial security have long been intimately connected. We’ve seen Bedford Stuyvesant heralded as the largest community of Black home owners in the country. During my school studies BedStuy was often used as a model of how Black communities could build and secure wealth.

Nonetheless, our homeowners have had to withstand community divestment, and then slow schedules of dribs and drabs of re-investment. Unfortunately, along with more recent interest and infusions of money into our community, we’re seeing in a lot more financial insecurity surrounding home ownership. The counseling and tools available through BNS

is designed to equip us to navigate this storm.

This storm, which is the direct result of the manipulation of money and credit.

We have to have a new lens to examine the new set of challenges and BNS is leading the way with loan modification counseling and foreclosure prevention services. I am sure many of you in the room recall the stories of neighbors and friends spending countless months and even years on the revolving mortgage loan modification cycle. Perhaps you have first-hand knowledge of the struggles to amass the necessary down payment and closing costs for a home purchase in today’s market. Or maybe you’ve watched as families that have been a part of this community for six and seven decades lose the family home or are priced off the block.

These are uncertain times and we need to support and celebrate BNS so they can continue to provide a path of opportunity for Brooklyn residents. As I said before, BNS has successfully worked to stabilize, undergird, and propel our community. We must do the same for them. Tonight’s honorees are a wonderful example of just how we can individually make an impact that directly supports these ideals and goals.

After purchasing my building from BNS, I went on to open a coffee shop. I opened on a block that had a corner store, a few illegal businesses and a few more shuttered storefronts. But with a new lens and vision we were able to operate for almost 10 years. We watched as Tompkins Avenue transformed and reinvented itself. Storefronts that sat idle were now being utilized. New shops opened, and sometimes closed, but soon thereafter another shop opened in the same space.

This revitalization, economic development, or dare I say New Beginning started

Rob Fields’ job calls for him to take long walks in and out of the past while strategically managing one-and-a-half acres of landscaped beauty plus a staff of caretakers. But Mr. Fields is more than a property manager or lord of the land. On September 14, just eight short days into his new role of Interim President and Acting Director of the Weeksville Heritage Center (and on his way home after some long hours), Fields learned that Brooklyn Neighborhood Services was hosting a fundraiser with top community leaders on site. He asked board members if they needed

with the sale of a renovated building which allowed a small business to thrive without the pressures of escalating rents or threat of displacement. The coffee shop was an example to other budding entrepreneurs that they could indeed open on Tompkins, and thrive on Tompkins. This is not to pretend that this was a quick fix or a fast process. It wasn’t. The development of the Tompkins Avenue is ongoing. And so, in the same spirit of growth, expansion and new beginnings, I secured a replacement business for the space once occupied by the coffee shop which I believed would add value to the avenue. A business in an industry that wasn’t already operating on Tompkins. Now it is occupied

by Life Wellness Center, an acupuncture and physical therapy center that is adding a jolt of life and vibrancy to the avenue.

I am proud when I walk down Tompkins Avenue -- and that avenue has become one of the busiest scenes in Bed-Stuy. This summer, I turned on to the block on the afternoon of our annual Summerfest, when we close 5 blocks. I was immediately greeted by a man that has been standing on the corner for more years then I’ve been on the block. With outstretched arms, he said “this is all because of you”. He and the lady with him gave me a hug. They were so proud!

And Brooklyn Neighborhood Services, you should be proud too. Your vision and your mission driven work made it possible.

Thank you for allowing me to play a small role in the transformative work that you do. I remain ready to support and assist as we move forward into years +2, +3 and beyond.

Thank you.

anything and they asked him to say a few words at the opening of the event.

“How much time do I have?” he responded.

The following remarks by Mr. Fields, prepared a brief time before the start of the event, reflect the reason some leaders are hoping this scholarly history buff, Tweeter - virtual Renaissance man - will be around Weeksville, Brooklyn and nearby for a long, long, long time.

Note: Mr. Fields also announced the naming of Joan Maynard Way after the Weeksville preservationist who passed at 77 in 2006. (BG)

A Special Place Rob Fields, Interim President and Acting Director, Weeksville Heritage Center, (spoken at Brooklyn Neighborhood Services’ 9/14/17 New Beginning “25 & 1” Reception) Good evening everybody.

I am literally 8 days into the job so I consider it an accomplishment that I have actually figured out where they hide the staples upstairs. Seriously though, on behalf of Weeksville Heritage Center, its Board of Trustees and its staff, I wanted to welcome you all here tonight.

In fact, I want to welcome you all back because this is the 4th time you guys have been here, so welcome. As long as we are here you guys have a place to continue to celebrate your successes and accomplishments. I want to compliment the BNS board under the leadership of Jeffrey Charles Pierre and the staff under the leadership of Richard Trouth for continuing to build on the important work that was started back in the

early 90s. I also want to compliment BNS on being close to completion its first year as a fully independent organization. That’s no small thanks so please give yourself a round of applause. My hats off to the honorees tonight. You would not be here had your work not risen to a certain standard so my hats off to all of you.

I want to welcome back our New York State Assemblywoman Tremaine Wright.

Thank you for your ongoing support.

You know Weeksville is a special place.

It’s not because of a building but rather what this place represents. It represents free black people coming together to build intentional Community like they intended to make this a community and in doing so they modeled a lot of characteristics that we

can be proud of and we can carry on to this day -- Self-sufficiency, self-determination, Civic engagement, political activism and Entrepreneurship.

That’s Weeksville and you are saying, “That’s great and what’s that got to do with Brooklyn Neighborhood Services?

Having access to Affordable Housing, Home Ownership means that you can focus on a few things other than “Will my family be safe and warm?”

It means you are not worrying about where your family can live but how you and your family can be a part of a neighborhood and help that become a community. Being financially literate -- something that no one should really take for granted -- means that you are willing to take on, and capable of

taking on, the responsibility of being a homeowner.

Once you own a piece of property no one can push you out. They can’t gentrify you out. So, the original investors and families who made up Weeksville came here for that reason: To have a place of Their Own. And they built (it). So, it is in that spirit that I wanted to applaud Brooklyn Neighborhood Services and again all of the honorees tonight. I encourage you all to -- if you have not been here before -- come back and see the exhibits, tour the historic houses that are from 1860, 1900 and 1930. They are sitting right there.

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Council Kneels on Sacred Ground …

esterday, 15 members of the New York City Council joined Jumaane Williams (D-Brooklyn), knelt in front of City Hall in a show of solidarity to denounce racism and uphold the Constitutional right of freedom of speech.

In 2016, Colin Kaepernick, former quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, began the silent protest of kneeling on the sidelines during the national anthem because of what he called the oppression of people of color in the United States -- particularly the police shootings of many young, AfricanAmerican men in the last few years.

He was met with resistance.

Last August 19, at Pier 1 in Brooklyn Bridge across from Wall Street, NYPD officers took a knee in African Burial Ground National Monument-Ancestral support of Kaepernick.

Chamber Councilman Williams did too.

Last Friday night (September 22) at Among the Council members who knelt a political rally in Alabama, Trump an- yesterday were: City Council Speaker nounced that NFL players should be fired for Melissa Mark-Viverito (D-East Harlem); kneeling during the playing of the national Councilman Williams (D-Flatbush), with anthem. He also said, in a reference to Mr. a Colin Kaepernick jersey displayed beKaepernick: “Get that son of a b____ off tween them; Majority Leader Jimmy van the field.” And he did this while hurricanes Bramer (D-Jackson Heights); and Council whipped the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico Members Helen Rosenthal (D-Upper West and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Side); Deborah Rose (D-Staten Island), The Councilmembers’ gesture yesterday Inez Barron (D-Brownsville); Bill Perkins happened on sacred ground – the site of the (D-Harlem); Brad Lander (D-Brooklyn); Colonial-era African Burial Ground.

Donovan J. Richards (D-Queens); Historians have determined that City Hall Julissa Ferreras-Copeland (D-Queens), is just a few feet south of the largest cemetery Carlos Menchaca (D-Brooklyn), Antonio for enslaved African people and ‘possibly the Reynoso (D-Queens/Brooklyn) and Andy largest and earliest collection of American King (D-Bronx), and Council Member I. colonial remains of any ethnic group.’

Daneek Miller (D-Queens); Dan Dromm These enslaved Africans – many, young (D-Jackson Heights) and Anabel Palma children, cleared the trees and made the (D-Bronx). pathways for the construction of the other “Many of us made clear that this was not buildings in Wall Street, including the about the flag, this was not about patriotism, Wall, itself, and City Hall. They lived to this was about pushing back on a system of work. And they are considered the city’s supremacy, a system of oppressive policies first municipal workers. It is estimated that that have been around in the country for from the 1690’s to 1794, both free and (but a very long time,” said Council Member mostly) enslaved Africans were buried in a Jumaane D. Williams.

6.6-acre burial ground in Lower Manhattan, For more information on the African outside the boundaries of the settlement of Burial Ground, reach out to New Amsterdam, later known as New York.

(212) 637-2019 Lost to history due to landfill and development, the grounds were rediscovered in 1991 as a consequence of the planned construction of a Federal office building A portion of the cemetery during an excavation along the short Elk Street – now African Burial Ground Way, was designated a National Historic Landmark by the Department of the Interior in 1993. A memorial was dedicated in 2007. Tenth anniversary celebrations take place at the memorial site next week.

By taking a knee within feet of the A 1697 law banned African burials in ABG councilmembers showed support for NYC’s public cemetery, so Africans and the continuing struggle of Africans in the their descendants buried their loved ones Americas, as well as for their storm ravaged at the ABG from the late 1600s through brothers and sisters in Puerto Rico, Mexico, the late 1700s. City Hall is within yards of and the Caribbean. They also remind of the this memorial to the largest if not one of backs and shoulders of the unpaid laborers the largest graveyards To formerly enslaved America and big business stand on.

Africans in the United States.

2007 - 2017 Everyone is cordially invited to attend the ceremonial re-dedication of the African Burial Ground Monument. Festivities will be held: Tuesday Oct 03, 2017 -Saturday Oct 07, 2017 Tuesday 11:00 am Opening Ceremony & Spiritual Blessings 2pm - Fusha Performance

Plan Your Visit

Wednesday 11:00 am Film Screening African Burial Ground: An American Discovery

African Burial Ground National Monument is located on the first floor of 290 Broadway in Manhattan close to Foley Square just north of City Hall.

Thursday 10:30am

The Visitor Center and Memorial are open Tuesday through Saturday 10:00 am to 4:00 pm.

Memorial Talk & Tour, African Drumming, & Cultural Lectures 7pm—Panel Discussion

Friday, 11:00 am 11am-Fusha Dance Performance 12pm Redhawk Native American Council Dance 12pm Memorial Talk & Tour 1pm Eclectic Butterfly Performance

(212) 238-4367 www.nps.gov/afbg Facebook.com/AfricanBurialGround Twitter: @AfBurialGrndNPS

Saturday 10:30 am Family Day Street Fair

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3rd Annual Concert REMEMBERING & REJOICING… IN SONG!! featuring The Addicts Rehabilitation Center Gospel Choir of Harlem & The Golden Chariots of The Bronx Saturday, October 28, 2017, 4:00PM Brown Memorial Baptist Church 484 Washington Avenue (Corner of Gates Avenue) Brooklyn, NY 11238

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NEW BUSINESS FORMATIONS 8780 Bay Parkway Realty LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 07/10/2017.

Office loc: Kings County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: C/O Stefano A. Filippazzo, 16 Court Street, Brooklyn, NY 11241.

Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Corporate Filings of NY, 90 State St., Ste 700 Office 40, Albany, NY 12207. Reg Agent: Sandeep Salter, 71 Orange St., #32, Brooklyn, NY 11201. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

SALTER LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 02/09/2017. Office loc: Kings

Notice of formation of SPICY PEOPLE LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of

LEGAL NOTICES

action is also being amended to remove Kreisler Borg Florman as a necessary party, as a Satisfaction of Judgment has been filed.

KINGS County is designated as the place of trial. The basis of venue is the location of the mortgaged premises. Dated: June 29, 2016 Mark K. Broyles, Esq. FEIN SUCH & CRANE, LLP Attorneys for Plaintiff Office and P.O. Address 28 East Main Street, Suite 1800 Rochester, New York 14614 Telephone No. (585) 232-7400 Block: 2165 Lot: 1168 NATURE AND OBJECT OF ACTION The object of the above action is to foreclose a mortgage held by the Plaintiff recorded in the County of KINGS, State of New York as more particularly described in the Complaint herein. TO THE DEFENDANT, the plaintiff makes no personal claim against you in this action.

SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS Index No. 506597/2015 STATE OF NEW YORK SUPREME COURT – COUNTY OF KINGS PNC BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO NATIONAL CITY BANK, Plaintiff, -vs- MOSES ROSNER; 580 WYTHE, LLC A/K/A 580 WHYTE, LLC; JACOB GOLDMAN, TRUSTEE OF 580 WYTHE BEARER TRUST; CHAIM BROWN, TRUSTEE OF 580 WYTHE BEARER TRUST; LEIBISH BOCHNER, , if living and if she be dead, and all Persons who are wives, lienors, heirs, devisees, distributees, successors in interest of such of them as may be dead, and their husbands and wives, heirs, devisees, distributees, and successors in interest all of whom and whose names and places are unknown to Plaintiff, TRUSTEE OF 580 WYTHE BEARER TRUST; THE BOARD OF MANAGERS OF THE 564-580 PARK PLAZA CONDOMINIUM; CITY OF NEW YORK NEW YORK CITY ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL BOARD; “JOHN DOE” AND “JANE DOE” said names being fictitious, it being the intention of Plaintiff to designate any and all occupants of premises being foreclosed herein, Defendants. Mortgaged Premises: 580 WYTHE AVENUE UNIT 8D, BROOKLYN, NY 11249 TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANT(S): YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in the above entitled action and to serve a copy of your Answer on the plaintiff’s attorney within twenty (20) days of the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service, or within thirty (30) days after service of the same is complete where service is made in any manner other than by personal delivery within the State.

The United States of America, if designated as a defendant in this action, may answer or appear within sixty (60) days of service hereof. Your failure to appear or answer will result in a judgment against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. In the event that a deficiency balance remains from the sale proceeds, a judgment may be entered against you, unless the Defendant obtained a bankruptcy discharge and such other or further relief as may be just and equitable. 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 to 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 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. That this action is being amended to include the possible heirs of Leibish Bochner, as said individual could not be located. That this

To the above named defendants: The foregoing summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an order of HON. NOACH DEAR, Justice of the SUPREME Court of the State of New York, dated September 5, 2017 and filed along with the supporting papers in the KINGS County Clerk’s Office. This is an action to foreclose a Mortgage. The Condominium Unit (the “Unit”) known as Unit No. 8D in the premises (the ”Premises”) known as and by the street number 580 Wythe Avenue, Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and State of New York, and being a unit of the Condominium plan known as THE 564-580 PARK PLAZA CONDOMINIUM, said Unit being designated and described as Unit No. 8D in a certain declaration made pursuant to Article 9-B of the Real Property Law of the State of New York (the “Condominium Act”), establishing a plan for condominium ownership of the Building and the Land (the “Property”) upon which Parcel II the Building is situation (which Land is more particularly described below), which declaration was dated October 31, 2001 and recorded on January 25, 2002 in Reel: 5451 Page: 14 of the Kings County office of the Register of The City of New York. This Unit is also designated as Tax Lot 1168 in Block 2165 of the Borough of Brooklyn on the Tax Map of the Real Property Assessment Department of The City of New York and on the Floor Plans of the Building, certified by Maurice Brezel, R.A. and filed with the Real Property Assessment Department of the City of New York as Condominium Plan No. 872.

Together with an undivided 1.358% interest in the Common Elements (as such term is defined in the Declaration) in; DESCRIPTION OF THE LAND ALL that certain plot, piece or parcels of land, consisting of Parcel I and Parcel II, 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 more fully described as follows (the “Land”): Parcel I (Lot 102) BEGINNING at a point on the South side of former Rush Street distant 84.58 feet West of the corner formed by the intersection of former Rush Street and Wyth Avenue; Running Thence West 94.99 feet; Thence South 92.52 feet; Thence East 41.83 feet; Thence South 4.35 feet; Thence East 8.0 feet; Thence South .33 feet; Thence East 45.16 feet; Thence North 97.20 feet

State of NY (SSNY) on 4/25/2017. Office location, County of Kings. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 358 Macon St., Apt 1, Brooklyn NY 11233. Purpose: any lawful act.

MY PIELOW LLC Art. Of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 08/01/2017.

Office in kings Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to My PIELOW LLC 1353 Bay Ridge Ave, to the point or place of the BEGINNING. Said Premises being known as 564 Wythe Avenue, Brooklyn, New York, Block: 2165 Lot 102 on the Tax Map of the County of Kings, State and City of New York. Parcel II (Lot 105) BEGINNING at a point on the North side of former Morton Street, distant 110.68 feet East of the corner formed by the intersection of Kent Avenue and the former Morton Street; Running thence East 86.98 feet; Thence North 107.48 feet; Thence West 41.83 feet; Thence South 6.98 feet; Thence West 45.15 feet; Thence South 100.51 feet to the point or place of the BEGINNING. Said premises being known as 580 Wythe Avenue, Brooklyn, New York, Block 2165 at Page 105 on the Tax Map of the County of Kings, State and City of New York. Mortgaged Premises: 580 WYTHE AVENUE UNIT 8D, BROOKLYN, NY 11249 Tax Map/ Parcel ID No.: Block: 2165 Lot: 1168 of the BOROUGH of BROOKLYN, NY 11249 NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF KINGS U.S. Bank National Association as Trustee for Merrill Lynch First Franklin Mortgage Loan Trust, Mortgage Loan Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 2007-5, Plaintiff AGAINST Nelson Moncion; et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated July 28, 2017 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Kings County Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, Room 224, Brooklyn, NY 11201 on October 26, 2017 at 2:30PM, premises known as 291 Ridgewood Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11208.

All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and State of NY, Block 4114 Lot 56. Approximate amount of judgment $796,122.49 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index# 507269/2014. Shmuel Taub, Esq., Referee Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, LLC Attorney(s) for the Plaintiff 175 Mile Crossing Boulevard Rochester, New York 14624 (877) 759-1835 Dated: August 23, 2017 48329 SUPREME COURT - COUNTY OF KINGS GGB CAPITAL IP ONE LLC., Plaintiff -against- MOSHE ADLER, et al Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale dated August 7, 2017, and entered on September 12, 2017, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Kings County Courthouse 360 Adams Street, Room 224, Brooklyn, NY on November 2, 2017 at 2:30 p.m. premises situate, lying and being in the County of Kings, Borough of Brooklyn, City and State of New York, known and designated as Unit No. 7-R, TOGETHER with a undivided 10.25 percent interest in the common elements.

Block 2264 Lot 1813. Said premises known as 555-557 FLUSHING AVENUE, #7R, BROOKLYN, NY Approximate amount of lien $46,628.76 plus interest & costs.

Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment and Terms of Sale. Index Number 504602/2014. ZVI STORCH, ESQ., Referee Jeffrey A. Kosterich, LLC Attorney(s) for Plaintiff 68 Main Street, 3rd Floor, Tuckahoe, NY 10707

VOL. 21 NO. 39 Brooklyn, NY 11219. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Application for Certificate of Authority for Perry’s Prestigious Protection LLC was filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/08/2014.

Office location: New York County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Perry’s Prestigious Protection, LLC, 472 Harvick Circle Stockbridge, GA 30281. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

SUPREME COURT – COUNTY OF KINGS THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON TRUST COMPANY, N.A., AS FHA QUALIFIED TRUSTEE FOR RESCAP LIQUIDATING TRUST, Plaintiff against JEAN LEON LOUIS, MARC LOUIS, et al Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered on June 28, 2016. I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction in Room 224 of the Kings County Courthouse, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. on the 26th day of October, 2017 at 2:30 p.m. premises described as follows: All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, situated, lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and State of New York. Said premises known as 3324 Clarendon Road, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11203. (Block: 4950, Lot: 0010).

Approximate amount of lien $ 472,085.81 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed judgment and terms of sale. Index No. 2758-13. Judy S. Mock, Esq., Referee. McCabe, Weisberg & Conway, P.C. Attorney(s) for Plaintiff 145 Huguenot Street – Suite 210 New Rochelle, New York 10801 (914) 636-8900.

SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS AND NOTICE Index No. 508083/2017 Date Filed: 9/18/2017 SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF KINGS U.S. Bank National Association as Indenture Trustee for Residential Loan Trust 2008-AH1 Mortgage-Backed Notes, Series 2008-AH1, Plaintiff, -against- Denise Charles, if she be living or dead, her spouse, heirs, devisees, distributees and successors in interest, all of whom and whose names and places of residence are unknown to Plaintiff; American Home Mortgage, Inc.; City of New York Environmental Control Board; City of New York Parking Violations Bureau; City of New York Transit Adjudication Bureau; State of New York; and “JOHN DOE”, said name being fictitious, it being the intention of Plaintiff to designate any and all occupants of premises being foreclosed herein, and any parties, corporations or entities, if any, having or claiming an interest or lien upon the mortgaged premises, Defendants.

PROPERTY ADDRESS: 1138 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11221 TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or a notice of appearance on the attomeys for the Plaintiff within thirty (30) days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service. The United States of America, if designated as a defendant in this action, may appear within sixty (60) days of service hereof. in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint. TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: The foregoing Summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an Order of the Hon. Noach Dear, a Justice of the Supreme Court, Kings County entered Sept. 18, 2017 and filed with the complaint and other papers in the Kings County Clerk’s Office.

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Hookah Smokers at High Risk: CM Ydanis Rodriguez Passes Bill to Regulate

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ew York, at the city and state levels, has been successful in curbing cigarette use and its health impacts. Now we’re faced with similar challenges where the use of hookah is becoming prevalent; advertising makes it appealing to youth and the public knows little about the consequences of its use.

We must address the issue of non-tobacco shisha use in our city and we must do it now. We must get ahead of this issue before it gets out of our hands.

“Forty minutes of smoking hookah is equal to 120 cigarettes. As with cigarettes, our communities of color are most negatively affected. In the last decade, hookah smoking has more than doubled among Hispanic youth and more than tripled among Black youth. According to the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, New Yorkers between 18 and 20 are three times more likely to smoke hookah than people 21 and older. Bills 1075-A and 1076-A will require signage warning of the health risks associated with smoking shisha at non-tobacco smoking establishments and raise the age for hookah use from 18 to 21 years of age, respectively.

“We must also be mindful of the secondhand hookah smoke health impacts on workers of hookah establishments. They’re exposed to harmful particulate matter and toxicants that may cause cancer, cardiovascular disease and decreased lung function. I want to commend my colleague and Council member Gentile for addressing these dangers by introducing Bill 139-C, which would include non-tobacco shisha in the SmokeFree Air Act and regulate its use in bars, restaurants and other places.

“This package of bills, 139-C, 1075-A and 1076-A, puts the health and well-being of New Yorkers first. I want to thank Council Health Committee Chair Johnson, Council member Gentile, the members of the Committee on Health, Commissioner Dr. Mary Bassett and her team at DOHMH.”

The President vs. The Protest

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By Eddie Castro

’ve been in love with sports for as long as I can remember. I’ve had the ultimate pleasure to combine my love of sports and my talents of writing to build a 7-year tenure here with Our Time Press. This past week was the most emotional week in the world of sports in quite some time. It was not due to a player’s milestone, it was not due to a record being broken by a team.

It was revolved around an individual who is supposed to be our country’s leader.

The start of this past week, Warriors superstar Steph Curry said that he would exercise his right not to visit the White House. When he was asked about his decision not to go, he (Curry) simply said, “I don’t want to go. That’s really it. That’s the nucleus of my belief”. Donald decided to take Curry’s comments and respond via social media (Twitter) tweeting, “Going to the White House is considered a great honor for a championship team. Stephen Curry is hesitating, therefore invitation is withdrawn!”

Trump was not done with his Twitter antics criticizing the National Football League for having players kneeling during the National Anthem, calling for any team owners to fire any “SOB” caught down on one knee during the “Star-Spangled Banner”. His (Donald’s) comments have opened the eyes of many athletes, coaches and owners throughout sports. Backing up Stephen Curry was superstar LeBron James, widely considered the best basketball player on the planet, Spurs future Hall of Fame Head Coach Greg Popovich and New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady. James said, “The people run this country, not one individual. And damn sure not him”.

During his media day press conference on Monday, James referred to Trump as “That guy who is trying to divide us”.

Coach Popovich called Donald’s comments “disgusting” and “comical”.

Before free agent quarterback Colin Kaepernick made it a trend to take a stand to raise awareness about social justice, it was athletes like Paul Robeson, Muhammad Ali, Jackie Robinson and Arthur Ashe who attempted to use their platform not to create controversy, but to simply point out a matter that is an ongoing situation in this country. Kaepernick was

Trump ➔➔ Continued from page 3 under Barack Obama, said Trump’s response showed “a lack of empathy of epic proportions”.

On Tuesday Nydia Velázquez, a Democratic representative from New York, said she was concerned that Trump’s continued tweets about NFL players showed he did not grasp the severity of the crisis. Referring to criticism of George W Bush following a hurricane that devastated New Orleans in 2005, she warned the president: “If you don’t take this crisis seriously this is going to be your Katrina.”

Velázquez also said she was “offended and insulted” by Trump’s tweet that Puerto Rico’s public debt contributed to the crisis.

Joe Crowley, another New York Democrat, said it was “absolutely ridiculous” for

Trump to mention debt “when people are suffering and dying”.

“Here’s a president who’s used bankruptcy throughout his entire career,” he said. © Provided by IBT US Beltran spoke on a day when the Astros announced their foundation, in conjunction with Crane Worldwide, FedEx and Mayor Sylvester Turner’s office, will facilitate the transport of more than 240,000 pounds of supplies to Puerto Rico. The first delivery, which will include water, clothes and diapers, is scheduled to arrive Wednesday.

The devastation in Puerto Rico has been especially hard on the Houston Astros.

Puerto Rico is home to several members of the team, including Carlos Correa, Juan Centeno, and Carlos. A bench coach and the team translator also have ties to the island. Beltran has launched a Puerto Rico Hurricane Relief Fund.

willing to make sacrifices, willing to take any heat if it simply meant to find a way to stop racial inequality, police brutality amongst other tragic incidents that happen too often throughout the country. For him using his profession as a symbol and a platform to promote justice for matters that have been injustice, he (Kaepernick) does not have a quarterback job in the NFL currently, all for choosing to be ambassador for a topic he believes in. Yet, we have a president who is supposed to “lead” on Twitter at 3 in the morning with his concern being who to invite or not to invite to the White House? Meanwhile, situations like preventing this country from getting into a nuclear war with North Korea, incidents in Charlottesville, the deaths of Eric Garner, Trayvon Martin, Mike Brown and the disasters that are occurring in Houston, Florida and Puerto Rico seems to go unnoticed to him. Those states, cities and the Virgin Islands is a part of the United States, correct? People’s houses have been swept away, some are without air conditioning, food and water. This is what he should be working on.

Disrespect for the American flag was not Colin Kaepernick’s intention nor anyone who simply wants to make a difference. All he did was highlight a topic and a matter that needs to be discussed, to create a conversation regarding unity and social equality. The president’s behavior is unacceptable. I understand that the topic regarding race is the elephant in the room.

It may be a touchy and uncomfortable topic for some people, whether they share the same views as me or not. That’s the beauty

of our country. We have the right to say what we want to say as long as the people, no matter what race or background, have an equal measure when they raise their voice.

Popovich said it best, “There has to be an uncomfortable element in the discourse for anything to change, whether it’s the LGBT community or women’s suffrage, race, it doesn’t matter”.

I’m using my platform to be a voice for everyone, for all people of different races and backgrounds. Especially for the youth. I should not be having a conversation with my nephew when he gets older about how to stay alive, God forbid he ever gets pulled over. That’s why we’re trying to raise awareness to act before a tragic or controversial scenario is something we have to face.

The president needs to direct his attention to the situations that matter. Sports is one of the many things that keeps people in this country and other countries united, not divided. Let’s create a brighter future for the people that the past can be proud of, and youth can have something positive to look forward to. At the end of the day, we the people, are taking a stand and that’s the opening gates and path to get this country what it rightfully should stand for!

Sports Notes: (Basketball) Basketball star Carmelo Anthony’s time in New York has come to an end. The Knicks agree to trade the All-Star player to the Oklahoma City Thunder. (Baseball) Congratulations to Yankees right fielder Aaron Judge who broke Mark McGwire’s single-season rookie record hitting his 50th home run of the year.

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LEGAL NOTICES ➔➔ Continued from page 14 RELIEF SOUGHT THE OBJECT of the above captioned action is to foreclose a Mortgage to secure $536,000.00 and interest, recorded in the Kings County Office of the City Register on October 3 1, 2006, in CRFN 2006000607126 covering premises known as 1138 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11221 a/k/a Block 3273, Lot 21. The relief sought in the within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt secured by the Mortgage described above. ‘Plaintiff designates Kings County as the place of trial. Venue is based upon the County in which the mortgaged premises is situated.

NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME IF YOU DO NOT RESPOND TO THIS SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT BY SERVING A COPY OF TIIE 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 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: August 15, 2017 Frank M. Cassara, Esq. Senior Associate Attorney SHAPIRO, DICARO & BARAK, LLC Attorneys for Plaintiff 175 Mile Crossing Boulevard Rochester, New York 14624 (585) 247-9000 Fax: (585) 247-7380 Our File No. 16-059667 #93003 S TAT E OF NEW YO R K SUPREME COURT: COUNTY OF KINGS WELLS FARGO BANK, NA Plaintiff, vs. ROSE SEJOUR INDIVIDUALLY AND AS SURVIVING SPOUSE OF GERALD SEJOUR, et al., Defendants NOTICE OF SALE IN FORECLOSURE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT In pursuance of a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the office of the County Clerk of Kings County on July 18, 2017, I, Joel Eliot Abramson, Esq., the Referee named in said Judgment, will sell in one parcel at public auction on November 2, 2017 at Room 224 of Kings County Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, County of Kings, State of New York, at 2:30 PM, the premises described as follows:242 East 88th Street Brooklyn, NY 11236, SBL No.: 791253, ALL THAT TRACT OF PARCEL OF LAND situate in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and State of New York. The premises are sold subject to the provisions of the filed judgment, Index No. 502806/2015 in the amount of $496,925.26 plus interest and costs. Michael Jablonski, Esq. Woods Oviatt Gilman LLP Plaintiff’s Attorney 700 Crossroads Building, 2 State St. Rochester, New York 14614 Tel.: 855-227-5072.

REFEREE’S NOTICE OF SALE IN FORECLOSURE SUPREME COURT – COUNTY OF KINGS CITIMORTGAGE, INC. SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO ABN AMRO MORTGAGE GROUP, INC., Plaintiff – against – HENRY HERBST, et al Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered on August 21, 2017. I, the undersigned Referee will

sell at public auction, in Room 274 of Kings County Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201 on the 19th Day of October, 2017 at 2:30 p.m. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and State of New York. Premises known as 1247 East 13th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11230. (Block: 6733, Lot: 77) Approximate amount of lien $459,199.90 plus interest and costs.

Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed judgment and terms of sale. Index No. 18838/2009. Gregory T. Cerchione, Esq., Referee. Davidson Fink LLP Attorney(s) for Plaintiff 28 East Main Street, Suite 1700 Rochester, NY 14614-1990 Tel. 585/7608218 Dated: September 6, 2017 SUPREME COURT – COUNTY OF KINGS DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY, AS TRUSTEE FOR HOLDERS OF THE FIRST FRANKLIN MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST 2006FF7, MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006-FF7, Plaintiff against BARBARA LAWRENCE, ROBERT LAWRENCE, et al Defendant(s).

Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered on August 17, 2017. I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction in Room 224 of the Kings County Courthouse, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. on the 26th day of October, 2017 at 2:30 p.m. premises described as follows: All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and State of New York, bounded and described from an un-guaranteed survey made by Alphonse Pesce, Jr., dated May 4, 1999 and revised July 1, 1999 as follows: BEGINNING at a point on the southwesterly side of East 89th Street, distant 139.31 feet southeasterly from the corner by the intersection of the southwesterly side of East 89th Street and the southeasterly side of Glenwood Road, RUNNING THENCE southwesterly at right angles to East 89th Street a distance of 100.33 feet to a point located at the centerline of the block between East 89th Street and East 88th Street; THENCE southeasterly along said centerline of the block, a distance of 31.76 feet; THENCE northeasterly at right angles to East 89th Street, a distance of 100 feet to a point on the southwesterly side of East 89th Street; THENCE northwesterly along the southwesterly side of East 89th Street, 40 feet to a point or place of BEGINNING. Said premises known as 720 East 89th Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11236. Block: 8009 Lot: 47 Approximate amount of lien $ 929,063.65 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed judgment and terms of sale. Index No. 502840-12. Robert Washington, Esq., Referee.

Eckert Seamans Cherin & Merlott, LLC Attorney(s) for Plaintiff 10 Bank Street, Suite 700 White plains, N.Y. 10606 (914) 949-2909 NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF KINGS, WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB DOING BUSINESS AS CHRISTIANA TRUST NOT IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY BUT SOLELY AS TRUSTEE FOR BCAT 201513ATT, Plaintiff, vs. DIANA VILLARREAL A/K/A DIANA C. VILLARREAL A/K/A DIANA GUEVARA A/K/A DIANA C. GUEVARA, ET AL., Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly filed on August 17, 2017, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Kings County Supreme Court, Room 224, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, NY on October 26, 2017 at 2:30 p.m., premises known as 166 Glen Street, 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 4168 and Lot 22. Approximate amount of judgment is $398,425.96 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 503328/13. Shmuel D. Taub, Esq., Referee Knuckles, Komosinski & Manfro, LLP, 565 Taxter Road, Ste. 590, Elmsford, NY 10523, Attorneys for Plaintiff NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF KINGS, BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., Plaintiff, vs.

JEAN ROBERT SELAMY, JEAN GUY SELAMY, ET AL., Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly filed on April 06, 2016, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Kings County Supreme Court, Room 224, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, NY on October 26, 2017 at 2:30 p.m., premises known as 1315 Troy 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 4978 and Lot 64. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 13825/09. Deborah M. Marshall, Esq., Referee Berkman, Henoch, Peterson, Peddy & Fenchel, P.C., 100 Garden City Plaza, Garden City, NY 11530, Attorneys for Plaintiff At an IAS Part 72 of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, held in and for the County of Kings, at 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, New York, on the 38th day of September 2017. INDEX NO. 2429/2017 AMENDED. ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE WHY A MORTGAGE FULLY PAID SHOULD NOT BE DISCHARGED OF RECORD Present: Hon Ellen M. Spodek, Justice sc. In the Matter of the Application of Frances Miranda, petitioner against REGISTER OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK KINGS COUNTY AND FGC COMMERCIAL MORTGAGE FINANCE DBA FREEMONT MORTGAGE, AS MORTGAGEE,____X Respondents, Upon the annexed petition of Frances Miranda, dated the 12 day of August 2017, and the official search of the Register of the City of New York, County of Kings, City and State of New York, dated the 10th day of October 2016, the affirmation of Beverly Scotman, Esq., affirmed on August 14th 2017 and all other exhibits attached hereto, LET the Register of the City of New York, and all other persons interested Show Cause at the IAS Part 70 Room 438 of this Court to be held in and for the County of Kings, in the Courthouse at 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, New York, on the 8th day of November 2017, or as soon thereafter as counsel can be heard, WHY an order should not be made herein discharging of record a certain mortgage in the amount of One Hundred Seventy Thousand ($170,000.00) Dollar dated June 10, 1999, between Frances Miranda, as mortgagors, and FGC Commercial Mortgage Finance dba Freemont Mortgage as mortgagee, which said mortgage was recorded in the Register’s Office of the County of Kings, on December 28, 1999 in Reel 4702 of Mortgages at page 191. Which mortgage has not been further assigned, and has been fully paid and said mortgage is now an encumbrance on said premises designated as Lot 0002 in Block 3939, on the Land Map of the County of Kings, and commonly known and referred to as 119 Ashford Street, Brooklyn, NY 11207. LET service of this order, together with the petition upon which the same is based, be made on or before the 4th day of October, 2017, upon the Register of the City of New York by personally delivering to said Register, a copy of said Petition and Order to Show Cause and upon FGC Commercial

VOL. 21 NO. 39 Mortgage Finance dba Freemont Mortgage, its successors and or assigns, by Publication of said Order to Show Cause in two newspapers for 4 consecutive weeks to wit: Our Time Press and Brooklyn Daily Eagle and let said service upon all of the foregoing be deemed good and sufficient service thereof.

ENTER, Hon Ellen M. Spodek, J.S.C. NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF KINGS Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., Plaintiff AGAINST Mandisa Turner a/k/a Mandisa E. Turner; et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated June 8, 2017 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Kings County Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, Room 224, Brooklyn, NY 11201 on October 12, 2017 at 2:30PM, premises known as 601 Mac Donough Street a/k/a 601 Macdonough Street, Brooklyn, NY 11233. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and State of NY, Block 1496 Lot 66. Approximate amount of judgment $504,829.38 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index# 512258/2014. Gregory M. Laspina, Esq., Referee Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, LLC Attorney(s) for the Plaintiff 175 Mile Crossing Boulevard Rochester, New York 14624 (877) 759-1835 Dated: July 13, 2017 47339 NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF KINGS Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee for BCAP LLC Trust 2007-AA2, Plaintiff AGAINST Joseph D’Ornellas a/k/a Joseph Dornellas; Thelma D’Ornellas; et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated July 28, 2017 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Kings County Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, Room 224, Brooklyn, NY 11201 on October 12, 2017 at 2:30PM, premises known as 17-31 East 37Th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11234. 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 7720 Lot 31. Approximate amount of judgment $547,870.36 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index# 512019/2014.

Gregory Laspina, Esq., Referee Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, LLC Attorney(s) for the Plaintiff 175 Mile Crossing Boulevard Rochester, New York 14624 (877) 759-1835 Dated: August 23, 2017 48309 NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME C O U RT: KINGS COUNTY WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB D/B/A CHRISTIANA TRUST, NOT INDIVIDUALLY BUT AS TRUSTEE FOR PRETIUM MORTGAGE ACQUISITION TRUST; Plaintiff(s) vs.

IOLANTA TYUTIN A/K/A IOLANTA TYUTINA; ALFRED TYUTIN; et al; Defendant(s) Attorney (s) for Plaintiff (s): ROSICKI, ROSICKI & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 2 Summit Court, Suite 301, Fishkill, New York, 12524, 845.897.1600 Pursuant to judgment of foreclosure and sale granted herein on or about July 26, 2017, I will sell at Public Auction to the highest bidder in Room 224 of Kings County Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201. On October 12, 2017 at 2:30 pm. Premises known as 2041 ROYCE STREET, BROOKLYN, NY 112346220 Block: 8416 Lot: 19 ALL that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, City and State of New York. As more particularly described in the judgment of foreclosure and sale. Sold subject to all of the terms ➔➔ Continued on page 18

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The March to Single Payer

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Excerpted From Truthout

ou cannot play defense in a war of political vision. As anyone who has organized against Graham-Cassidy can tell you, people are already tired. Being menaced with the threat of millions losing health care, beating that threat back, only to face it again in a month or two -- this cycle would wear anyone down.

So, what’s the answer? The long game has to be what we know our society needs: Medicare for All. The majority of Americans support single-payer health care. Even establishment Democrats have begun to change their tune, with 15 senators endorsing Bernie Sanders’s Medicare for All plan. But supporting single-payer alone won’t secure health care, any more than believing in climate change will reduce carbon levels. We have to rewrite our society’s entire attitude toward health care. The war being waged against us and our survival, will not stop. And those who had reason to fear this bill still have great cause for concern in the months ahead. As writer and organizer Mariame Kaba -- whose work helped propel the words “Medicare for All” into the public consciousness -- told Truthout on Thursday, “It’s imperative that we understand the struggle for universal healthcare as an ongoing one. The GOP is committed to making sure that we never achieve this goal.”

Monday, during the health care protests in the Capitol, I met a woman named Nancy Harris, from Boise, Idaho. After serving for 32 years in the Navy, Nancy’s father had both insurance and a retirement fund, but neither were any match for the financial devastation of Alzheimer’s disease.

Nancy has confirmed that she carries the gene for Alzheimer’s and says she’s experienced what could be early symptoms. She is currently undergoing testing. In the meantime, she said, “I want to know how my family will be able to care for me when the long-term options are so limited.” If a Republican health care bill passes, she says, “I will leave my husband bankrupt.”

Unwilling to face the future on such terms, Nancy was one of the 181 people who committed to civil disobedience in the Capitol on Monday, giving us all a look at what it’s going to take to win the war: direct action and movement power.

To truly defeat Trumpcare, in all its zombie forms, we must create a culture of care in the US, wherein caring for people who are sick and/ or disabled is no longer a topic for debate, but a forgone conclusion. I know it seems like a distant goal. In June, as senators debated a version of Trumpcare that would have killed 29,000 people a year, I was astounded. Yes, we are living in a moment where officials lobby, in plain view, for actions that would kill 29,000 of us per year, and yes, in that same cultural moment, we must build an opposing vision -- and triumph.

It’s a tall order, but it’s possible.

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A New Beginning: Brooklyn Neighborhood Services ➔➔ Continued from page 10 Earlier in the evening The Reverend Gwen Dingle, pastor, the Pentecostal House of Prayer, delivered the moving invocation, and special guest Rob Fields, the new Interim Executive Director, Weeksville, welcomed BNS to the historic landmark site. In his remarks, which can be read in their full manifestation on page 12, Field drew a connection for BNS to, yet, another anniversary, Weeksville’s 180t,h which occurs next year. Mr. Fields said, “Having affordable housing and homeownership means that you can focus on a few

things other than “will my family be safe and warm? It means you are not worrying about where your family can live but how you and your family can be part of a neighborhood and help that become a community.

“Being financially literate means that you are willing to take on and capable of taking on the responsibility of being a homeowner. So, the original investors and families who made up Weeksville came here for that reason – to have a place of their own. So, it is in that spirit that I applaud Brooklyn Neighborhood Services and all the honorees tonight.”

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A Special Place

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it is on the National Register of Historic Landmarks.

This is a little jewel in the piece of Brooklyn that hopefully this time next year, so many people are going to know about Weeksville because YOU are all going to tell them what an amazing space this is.

There is a couple of things coming up that I do want you to encourage checking out.

Some fun things that we are doing.

On the 24th we are hosting MOCADA, 651 and Weeksville’s Soul of Brooklyn Festival.

There’s going to be films, panel discussions, live music and it is all free so come hang out with us.

On the 30th, the following Saturday, we are taking Weeksville over to Kingsborough houses and (for) a really cool interactive art installation where we are telling all of the residents of Kingsborough the reason we are here is because this is the nearest community, we are telling them to “Wear your Sunday Best. We’re going to do free portraits of either your family or yourself, and the photographer is the award-winning photographer Barron Claiborne. If you don’t know Barron you know his iconic photo of Biggie Smalls with the crown on.

He’s going to be there all day taking photos and this whole project has been brought to us. by the actor Gbenga Akinnagbe. Many of you know him from The Wire. He is also very politically active artist and he has tried to spearhead programs that bring back dignity and self-awareness to the community so those are two great programs we are doing.

On October 14th and the second Saturday of every month is Weeksville Weekends

LEGAL NOTICES ➔➔ Continued from page 16 and conditions contained in said judgment and terms of sale. Approximate amount of judgment $583,008.68 plus interest and costs. INDEX NO. 503382/2014 Gregory T. Cerchione, Esq., Referee NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF KINGS, MTGLQ INVESTORS, L.P., Plaintiff, vs. CORNEL COUSINS; TAMICA HOLLIMAN, ET AL., Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale, Order to Amend Caption and Request Other Relief duly filed on August 14, 2017, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Kings County Supreme Court, Room 224, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, NY on October 12, 2017 at 2:30 p.m., premises known as 986 Cleveland Street, 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 4381 and Lot 20. Approximate amount of judgment is $349,518.28 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 511185/2014.

Bartholomew M. Verdirame, Esq., Referee Knuckles, Komosinski & Manfro, LLP, 565 Taxter Road, Ste. 590, Elmsford, NY 10523, Attorneys for Plaintiff NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC AUCTION Supreme Court of New York, Kings County.

SRMOF II 2012-1 TRUST, U.S. BANK TRUST NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, Plaintiff, -against- CLEO CHARLESPHILLIPS; ROBERT PHILLIPS; CITY OF NEW YORK DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION PARKING

and you can come out and have a tour of various activities we’ve done: Vegan food Workshop, fashion drawing workshop, oral storytelling workshops. If anybody wants to capture their family history from an oral storytelling perspective we have an oral historian on staff and he is giving a lesson about how to do that.

There will be more through our Legacy Project but the second Saturday in October, in addition to all the other cool events we are renaming the street out here Joan Maynard Way. You should all join us for that. There’s a lot more that’s going to be happening here at Weeksville. 2018 is the 50th anniversary of the rediscovery of Weeksville. We want to celebrate that in a big way and we want you all to be part of it.

I wish I could tell you all of the amazing things that are going to happen but I am kind of coming up with them right now and it is going to be an amazing, 2018. It will be even better if you all join us so please know that this place is here and know that we see ourselves as a place to convene in the neighborhood.

We often offer the space up for community-based organizations particularly on Wednesday nights and we are open late. Community-based organizations can do meetings and things like that and we also have space rentals so if you want to do fantastic events like this then you can do that too but we are here to be a part of this community, be a part of the greater New York City Cultural community and just have a great impact so again I want to welcome you here on behalf of everyone here involved with Weeksville and hey let’s get this amazing show on the road.

Thank you all.

(More on Weeksville, next week).

VIOLATIONS BUREAU; CITY OF NEW YORK TRANSIT AUTHORITY TRANSIT ADJUDICATION BUREAU; NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION & FINANCE; SOPHIA JOHNSON, Index No. 2713/2013. Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated, February 21, 2017 and entered with the Kings County Clerk on April 6, 2017, Gregory Laspina, Esq., the Appointed Referee, will sell the premises known as 553 Lenox Road, Brooklyn, New York 11203 at public auction at Kings County Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, Room 224, Brooklyn, New York 11201, on October 12, 2017 at 2:30 P.M. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings and State of New York known as Block: 4845; Lot: 28 will be sold subject to the provisions of filed Judgment, Index No. 2713/2013.

The approximate amount of judgment is $1,047,226.32 plus interest and costs.

FRIEDMAN VARTOLO, LLP 85 Broad Street, Suite 501, New York, New York 10004, Attorneys for Plaintiff.

SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF KINGS INDEX NO. 0954/2017------X CREIGHTON R. BARBER, et al., Plaintiffs, - against - RED 4-1-4 FITNESS BUILDINGS SYSTEMS INC., et al., Defendants. ---X TO DEFENDANT CLARENCE LONDON BARBER a/k/a CLARENCE L. BARBER, JR.: 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 the summons, to serve a notice of appearance, on the Plaintiffs’ Attorney within 20 days after 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

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12’ Statue to Honor Octavius V. CattoErected in Philadelphia

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n recognition of the many contributions of Philadelphia’s own Octavius V. Catto, a prominent African-American intellectual, scholar, teacher, athlete, Civil War veteran and civil rights leader who was slain on Election Day in 1871, Mayor Kenney joined the Octavius V. Catto Memorial Fund co-chairs Carol Lawrence and James Straw and other dignitaries at the unveiling of the Octavius V. Catto Memorial -- “A Quest for Parity” - last Tuesday.

The memorial sculpture -- the first statue in the city’s collection dedicated to a sole African-American -- is erected on the southwest apron of City Hall.

In addition to erecting the memorial monument to Octavius V. Catto, the long-range goal of the Octavius V. Catto Memorial Fund is to educate the public about Catto’s life and accomplishments, as well as highlight the contributions of other African-Americans throughout Philadelphia’s history by creating educational programs aiming at broadening the public’s understanding and awareness of African-American history.

Born in 1839, Octavius Valentine Catto was a major in the Union Army during the Civil War, as well as a scholar, educator, athlete and member of the Union League, The Library Company of Philadelphia and The Franklin Institute. He was a prominent civil rights leader who fought for the right to vote for all men regardless of ethnicity [women were not allowed to vote at this time] and successfully led efforts to integrate street cars in Philadelphia in 1867. He was gunned down on Election Day -- October 10, 1871 -- at the age of 32 while on his way of New York); 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. This action concerns the ownership of real property known as 1079 Dekalb Avenue, Brooklyn, New York, and designated as Block 1599 Lot 56 on the tax maps of the City of New York. Through this action, Plaintiffs seek to quiet title to the subject Premises by having declared as void the fraudulent Deed dated December 23, 2016 and the fraudulent Correction Deed dated February 1, 2017 to Defendant Red 4-1-4 Fitness Building Systems Inc., and any and all subsequent deed transfers or mortgages other interests given in the Premises. LAW OFFICE OF MARK E. TULIP Attorneys for Plaintiffs 26 Court Street - Suite 400, Brooklyn, New York 11242. 718-624 5521 NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT: KINGS COUNTY. THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON F/K/A THE BANK OF NEW YORK, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS OF CWALT, INC., ALTERNATIVE LOAN TRUST 200513CB, MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2005-13CB, Pltf. vs. JEFFREY LARSEN A/K/A JEFFERY LARSEN, et al, Defts. Index #502021/15.

Pursuant to judgment of foreclosure and sale dated July 24, 2017, I will sell at public auction in Room 224 of the Kings County Supreme Court, 360 Adams St., Brooklyn, NY on October 12, 2017 at 2:30 p.m. prem. k/a 582 Throop Avenue, Unit 1A, Brooklyn, NY a/k/a Block 1840, Lot 1001. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, situate, lying and being a party of 582 Throop Avenue Condominium in the County of Kings, City and State of New York known and designated therein as Unit 1A, together with an undivided 8.31% interest in the common elements of the said Condominium hereinafter described, as the same is defined

Memorial Monument to Octavius V. Catto, a prominent African American intellectual, scholar, teacher, athlete, Civil War veteran and civil rights leader who was slain on Election Day in 1871. to the polls to serve in his official capacity as a National Guardsman assigned to protect newly registered African-American voters.

The memorial sculpture to Octavius V. Catto is a groundbreaking art installation in that it is the first statue of an AfricanAmerican on public land in the city of Philadelphia.

Renowned sculptor Branly Cadet created the work. in the Declaration of Condominium entitled “582 Throop Avenue Condominium by 582 Throop Condominiums, Inc.” under Article 9-B of the New York Real Property Law dated June 20, 1991, and recorded the 20th day of June, 1991, in Reel 2709 at Page 1699, covering the property therein described. The real property above described is a Unit shown on the plans of 582 Throop Avenue Condominium, filed in the Office of the Register of the City of New York, County of Kings, on the 20th day of June 1991 as Condominium Plan No. 376.

Approx. amt. of judgment is $197,132.19 plus costs and interest. Sold subject to terms and conditions of filed judgment and terms of sale. GREGORY LASPINA, Referee.

DRUCKMAN LAW GROUP, PLLC, Attys.

For Pltf., 242 Drexel Ave., Westbury, NY. File No. 35011 - #92711 NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF KINGS, CITIMORTGAGE, INC., Plaintiff, vs. FABRICE ARMAND, IRENE EDMOND, ET AL., Defendant(s).

Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale and the Addendum duly filed on August 12, 2016, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Kings County Supreme Court, Room 224, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, NY on October 12, 2017 at 2:30 p.m., premises known as 662 Riverdale 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 3842 and Lot 16. Approximate amount of judgment is $547,117.46 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 507303/13. Janet Brown, Esq., Referee Knuckles, Komosinski & Manfro, LLP, 565 Taxter Road, Ste. 590, Elmsford, NY 10523, Attorneys for Plaintiff

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The Black Lady Theatre Blossoms using Cooperative Economics

966 Fulton Street (bet. Grand Ave. & St. James Pl.)

Brooklyn, NY 11238 Tel: 917-593-9776 Email: spinn@ortgreenecouncil.org Host/MC: Harold Valle ("Ancestor") Drake Colley Sis.. Imani Parker

Sis. Akosua Cobb

September 2017

Lady Dee Stewart

Friday 29th Sar Ron Chenshaw

Featuring Fabulous Sar Ron Chenshaw Guitar/Vocals Classic Urban & Southern Blues & Soul/Funk Donation $15

October Friday 6th Ed Stoute Quintet

Featuring the Acclaimed Ed Stoute, Pianist, Composer Arranger Ed Stoute Donation $15

Performance space at the Black Lady Theater ■■

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By Akosua K. Albritton

he rehabilitation of The Black Lady Theatre, located at 750 Nostrand Avenue in Crown Heights North, is likened to the mythical phoenix bird soaring from a pyre to fly high in the sky. In less than two years, the theater has a glass front with two sets of glass doors; concrete was poured on the vestibule floor which is topped with porcelain tile; renovated the performance stage and audience seating as well as the installation of a new electrical system. Even the murals hung in the vestibule, originally painted by Kinrod Johnson, have been restored by Abdul Baldi to their original brilliance.

The revival of The Black Lady Theatre is a testament to the legacy of Judge John Phillips, who was the previous owner of The Black Lady Theatre and Slave One Theatre. The Hardy’s have said many times their diligent work on the theatre is a promise kept to this Civil Court Judge.

On Tuesday, September 19, 2017, this reporter had a sit-down with Omar Hardy and Zulika Bumpus. “At one point, no one wanted to step through the door because it was threatening,” explained Zulika Bumpus, the marketing director. “Now the patrons step through the glass doors and down the steps that lead to the performance space in the mezzanine to watch plays, listen to various musical styles, or be informed about natural health alternatives.

A current promotion is for “Jazz & Sip and Paint”. The intent is to make it a regularly scheduled monthly event. Ms. Bumpus plans to develop a number of children’s programs so that there is something that appeals to different age groups.

Consistent grassroots marketing is the key to growing their patron base and business partners. “We’re putting foot to pavement. We aren’t funded by anyone and can’t advertise [in major media],” explained Omar Hardy, who takes on many executive and construction responsibilities.

Turning his head toward Bumpus, Hardy explained that “Zulika Bumpus is behind our grassroots marketing. The activity centers on distributing flyers, sending e-mail notices and doing much word-of-mouth”.

“We have over 3,000 e-mail addresses and stretching for more. When people stop in front of the doors, I invite them in, explain what we do and answer their questions. I have each person sign the guest clipboard which rests on the same table as the event postcards,” is how Bumpus describes the audience development strategy.

Besides walk-ins, the group sets up booths

at such outdoor festivals as the Annual International African Arts Festival.

The Black Lady Theatre has several income streams to keep it afloat. The roof has an 80-person capacity and is rented for soirees. There is art framing and the sale of artwork. Talib Kweli and Yasin Bey rent space on the second floor to operate Black Star Recording Studio and Queen Afua moved her operations into the upper floor of the theater.

This theater is developing into a cultural magnet, particularly for those who are health or socially conscious. Set up in the foyer, visitors can choose from Supa Nova’s “Supa Mega Green Powder”, Kamuni Creek Drinks from The Uptown Juice Bar, Red Pill/Blue Pill’s Seven Heaven Sea Moss drink and from Ali Torain’s Global Nation of Wellness various raw vegan dishes. This offering of foods from various vendors under one roof is a demonstration of cooperative economics.

Omar Hardy encourages the trade because he has “an attraction to holistic health”.

The cooperative economics is one

Friday 13th Vic Washington Sextet

Featuring Mo‐towns’ renowned Vic Washington, Hammond B (3) Organ W/ Popular Soul vocalists/instrumentalists (APO) Donation $15

Friday 20th Danny Mixon Quartet

Featuring the Renowned Piano & Hammond (B) 3 Organ Virtuoso Danny Mixon Donation $15

Friday 27th Lonnie Youngblood Quartet Featuring “The Prince of Harlem” Lonnie Youngblood, Vocals & Tenor Sax – Custume Contest; prizes – (Masks etc.)

Donation $20 Shows subject to change without advance notice ▪ Doors open 7PM Music Sets 8:15PM & 10:15PM

source of financing for operations and building upgrade as is the ticket sales.

The other source is Byron Wilson, who is a partner and owns Zaiko Energy. Zaiko Energy produces renewable energy. Hardy is eager to achieve “energy sovereignty” by acquiring a 60-kilowatt generator that “has the capacity to power the theater and local area”. Its price tag is about $70,000.

The technology involves a combination

of solar panels and converting waste to energy.

Reflecting on the accomplishments to date, Hardy stated, “The things occurring at The Black Lady Theatre are plans and musings I’ve had that have come into reality”. In regard to the renewable energy project, Hardy says, “We’ll be producing so much energy that Con Edison will be crediting us”.

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OUR TIME PRESS September 28 – October 4, 2017

VOL. 21 NO. 39

Bedford Central Community Development Corp.

Presents The 12th Annual HOME BUYER SEMINAR SERIES Sponsored by: Chase Bank

16 Week Program; 4 Courses/4 Weeks Each Beginning Tuesday October 24, 2017 6:30 PM-8:30 PM at the

Bedford Central Presbyterian Church 1200 Dean St. Brooklyn New York 718-467-0740

Grants Available to those who Qualify

Down payment Assistance to those who Qualify

Certificates and a Pre-qualification letter for a Home Loan will be Given to Each Graduate who Qualifies

Course 1 1. Getting Ready for Home Purchase Week 1. 10/24 a. What are Banks Looking For & Benefits of Homeownership Week 2. 11/7 b. How to qualify for a Mortgage Week 3. 11/14 c. The Role of the Realtor, Attorney and Home Inspector Week 4. 11/28 d. Building Finance Basics Course 2 Sponsors 2. Repairing and Building Your Credit Week 5. 12/5 a. Money Attitudes & Budgeting Week 6. 12/12 b. Personal Financial Planning Nau Corp Realty Week 7. 12/19 c. Credit Building and Repairing Week 8. 1/2 d. Mortgage Payments versus Rent Santander Bank Course 3 Delta Sigma Theta Brooklyn Alumnae 3. Budgeting for your Home Purchase and Getting Pre-Qualified Week 9. 1/9 a. Getting Pre-qualified and Pre-approved Week 10. 1/16 b. Contract, loan application, down payment & closing Week 11. 1/23 c. Predatory Lending Week 12. 1/30 d. Choosing the Right House and Neighborhood Advanced Course 4 4. Minor Repair and Maintenance of your Home or Apartment Week 13. 2/6 a. Introduction to Residential Property Maintenance 1 Week 14. 2/13 b. Introduction to Residential Property Maintenance 2 Week 15. 2/20 c. Intermediate Residential Property Maintenance 1 Week 16. 2/27 d. Intermediate Residential Property Maintenance 2

Chase

www.BedfordCentralCommunity.org Registration Form

You can attend any number of sessions from one to sixteen Make check or Money orders payable to Bedford Central Community Development Corp.

Name___________________________________________________ Address____________________________________Zip_____________

Mail in form or register the night you attend 1200 Dean St. Bk.11216

Phone_______________________Cell______________________Email_____________ Contact Person Wayne Devonish 917-297-2365 or wmdkaos @aol.com Sponsored by: Bedford Central Presbyterian Church Reverend Dr. Clive Neil, Senior Pastor