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entral Brooklyn celebrates in a big way this month – dressing up and stepping up to honor those who contribute and conserve. An institution, a legacy, a family of neighbors and a village of homeowners will all be saluted at a diverse offering of festivities. Community members are welcome to join in and have good fun and while supporting great work.

Tonight, Vanguard Independent Democratic Association, Inc. (VIDA) pays tribute to its founder, the Hon. Albert Vann, a decades-long City Job Mashariki Elizabeth Perez James Shaw, Hon. Albert Vann, Council Member representing Bedford Tohma Faulkner Awardee UFT Waffle House Hero Founder, Stuyvesant. The gala, marking the Bed-Stuy Alive!

VIDA Honoree Madiba Humanitarian Awards VIDA organization's 45th anniversary also honors seven labor leaders and two commu- principles – his idea of a just society, his Collective presents open its much-anticipat- House Tour! The popular self-guided tour nity servants. They are: Michelle Aykempong, exceptional dignity and unwavering sacrifices ed two weeks of exciting events. The 12th showcases the beauty, heritage and personalSocial Services Employees Union Local 371; for humanity. This year’s theme is “Education: Annual celebration kicks off with the Tohma ity beyond some of the facades of the neighShawn D. Francois, District 37, Local 372; A Forceful Weapon Empowering the World’s Y. Faulkner Community Awards Ceremony borhood. It also salutes the homeowners and Herman Merritt, Council of Supervisors and Children.” The honorees are: celebrated from 10am to noon in the Restoration Center area conservationists who help to maintain Administrators; Elizabeth Perez, United costume designer Ruth Carter; Rob Garris, lobby. Honorees are Lori Ayers, Stanley the integrity of community in a time of great Federation of Teachers; Earl Phillips, Transport CEO and founder of the Throwaway Children Kinard, Neil Clarke, the late Randy Weston, change. The event opens with a workshop on Workers Union, Local 100; Dell Smitherman, Foundation; Kevinee Gilmore, founder of Ramon Wal King, Job Mashariki, Clara home-ownership from 9-10:30am and Fulton 1199 SEIU United Healthcare Workers; Wanda #Fostercare; Minister Tony Muhammad, Hayes, Maurice Reid and Sharyi Ayers. Art Fair artists exhibit their beautiful work Williams, District 37; LaRay Brown, Interfaith creator of the anti-gang violence “United in Then from noon to 5pm on Fulton St. be- throughout the day. The tour starts promptly Medical Center and Noah Katz of Super Peace Movement” and James Shaw, Jr., the tween Marcy and Brooklyn Aves, attendees at 11am and ends promptly at 4pm and beFoodTown. The 45-year-old organization is hero who disarmed a gunman at a Tennessee will enjoy the annual Restoration Rocks! gins at Boys & Girls High, 1700 Fulton St., celebrating at Giando’s on the Water.

Waffle House. Performing artists include Performances this year include a musical Stuyvesant Ave entrance. Brochures needed The Brooklyn Museum is the venue for Broadway legend Lillias White, dancers from tribute to Aretha Franklin, as well as an array for entrance to homes will be distributed Saturday’s 4th Annual Madiba Humanitarian Dwana Smallwood Performing Arts Center, of dance, fashion, food, art and craft delights, there starting at 11:00, rain or shine.

Awards, presented by the Bedford Stuyvesant African stilt-walkers, gumboot dancers and a a Children’s Village, Health Zone and more.

Museum of African Art. It honors those Guro mask dancer.

On Saturday the 20th it’s time for the 40th More information on these events exemplifying the late Nelson Mandela’s Also on Saturday, the Bed-Stuy Alive! Annual Brownstoners of Bedford Stuyvesant starts on page 2.

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The New Starbucks and The Ghost of Cookie

By Akosua K. Albritton

rue to its name, BRIC TV’s #BHeard Town Hall is the monthly forum for average New Yorkers, community leaders, academicians, New York City employees and the elected to discuss pressing issues. Everyone’s opinion and plan for improvement is considered. All that is required is the will to travel to the BRIC Arts Media House, find a seat in the ballroom and wait to give your voice to what you know needs to be heard.

On October 3, 2018 BRIC TV and the Economic Hardship Reporting Project presented NYCHA, The Cost of Living. Brian Vines, BRIC TV Senior Correspondent, opened the discussion by stating the following facts: The New York City Housing Authority

(NYCHA) is the United States’ largest public housing authority. It employs approximately 11,000 people who service 100,780 apartments found in 2,500 buildings across the five boroughs. One out of 14 New Yorkers live in these residences. Vines asked the audience, “What is it about NYCHA which makes it a community worth fighting for?”

One boy who appeared to be a preteen responded by saying, “We live in a neighborhood that is so awesome…we fight for this country.” A NYCHA resident hailing from Harlem named Crystal referred to the Development and Privatization scheme which entails selling off public housing land to private developers for NYCHA’s stability. ➔➔ Continued on page 3

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hirty years ago, there was a supermarket that sat right at the intersection of Lafayette Avenue and Grand Avenue.

It was called Dan’s Supermarket. A laundromat sat next to it. That supermarket was an intersection of our community. Neighbors that owned brownstones would shop there. Neighbors from nearby Lafayette Gardens Housing Project would shop there, too. You knew the owners, the cashiers and the guy cutting lunch meat, and they all knew you, too.

If you ever shopped at Dan’s, you’ve probably met Cookie. Cookie was a bagger, a delivery man and the kindest nuisance

that ever trolled the checkout aisles of a supermarket. You’d go into Dan’s and shop for some groceries, and when you went to checkout Cookie would be there, standing at the end of your checkout aisle, greeting you, bagging up your groceries and lying through the few teeth he had about something or the other. You’d pay for your groceries and as you went to thank Cookie for bagging you up, he’d always ask you for a dollar, or a couple of dollars. If you had it, he’d take it and thank you, but if you didn’t have it he’d still thank you. Either way he was fine. ➔➔ Continued on page 5

“NYCHA residents are the laboring fighting force of this city—with that force being criminalized. We are basically the community that the City is built on.”

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nd then right in your face in Fort Greene/Clinton Hill, a national coffee chain sees the critical mass of potential customers has been reached and puts the certification on the ‘change of neighborhood’ notice to the area with their presence.

It will be interesting to see the effects of a national brand on the ecosystem of the community.

Personally, I believe the local people will stay local and the many tourists and visitors to the area will be drawn first by a familiar name and then with the second thought, ‘I drink that other stuff on the highway or in midtown, but I can only have the Choices or Urban Vintage experience here.’ Plus, it makes them Brooklyn Cool to be in the truly local coffee and sandwich spots. And that’s why they’re on the corner of Lafayette and Grand in the great Republic of Brooklyn in the first place.

Before…

Before the #METOO Movement and the era of women speaking out. Even before Anita Hill, there were those who spoke out and acted out against predatory men - men who had far, far fewer restraints than they have even now. Lena Baker a maid in Cuthbert, Georgia, convicted of capital murder of her white employer and executed in 1945. (see page 6) Ms. Baker prey for one such man. It was 1945 and she fought him off. In the telling of her story we can imagine how often she and all the others were always the prey, cornered and helpless facing the predator. And now with Brett Kavanaugh, who many allege lied about sexual misconduct, going to the Supreme Court, joining Clarence Thomas, also accused of sexual harassment, women are feeling deep vibrations of having their bodies cornered again.

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gap between Donald Trump and women and many attribute too much of it I think to the sexual harassment issue. In his election, Donald Trump lost the overall vote of women, but received 52% of the white women’s vote but lost 90% of the Black woman’s vot. And while it is the norm for groups that have been left out to support their own, White women were unique in rejecting their own, Secretary Hillary Clinton. It would seem there was an instinctive reaction of ‘Better the misogynist creep who boasts of grabbing women by their genitals and was cheating on his mistress while his wife was home having just given birth - better him than that hyper-qualified Clinton woman.

Absent that reflex, the majority of white women will default against Trump and all that he represents. When the president says that the #Metoo Movement is a scary time for boys and actually makes fun of and belittles Kavanaugh’s accusers, calling it all a hoax, white women will remember, and they will vote against his supporters and for other white women in droves, it’s only Hillary who made them go crazy. Trump opponents are going to run the table on the women’s vote.

So here we are now, on the brink of the yahoos inheriting control of the country. When the course of the nation is set by a couple of determined old white men, urged on by the odious President Trump and empowered by congresspeople who are cowered and safe in their gerrymandered districts designed by Republican think-tanks. And now those districts combined with voter suppression are what the supremacists are counting on to prevail so they can continue the remaking of the federal judiciary for generations. That is their goal and they are in ruthless pursuit and we must be ruthless in opposition. Call home. Make sure everybody votes.

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he Hon. Albert Vann will be honored tonight by Vanguard Independent Democratic Association, Inc. (VIDA), the organization he founded 45 years ago. Back then Vann was head of the African American Teachers Association, an organized group of educators active in the ‘60s campaign for Community Control of schools in Central Brooklyn. He worked Al Vann alongside fellow pioneers such as the late Jitu Weusi and was instrumental in the founding of Uhuru Sasa Shule, one of the first independent Black educational institutions on the east coast.

In 1972, at the urging of residents of the community, Vann ran for State Assembly under the Vanguard Independent Party, doing remarkably well for an upstart. He would win the next time around and end up serving the Assembly for over 25 years, after which he served in the City Council until term-limited out in 2013. He was a three-time past chairman of the Council’s Black and Puerto Rican Legislative Caucus and played a role in creating and supporting BedfordStuyvesant Restoration Corporation, Bridge Street Development Corporation and Medgar Evers College. The Vannguard Urban Improvement Association helped to rehabilitate housing in the area and helped residents to secure previously (and since) hard-to-come-by loans.

Vannguard ran educational programs for young people for decades, thousands of who got summer jobs and

Herman Merritt, Council of Supervisors and Administrators were mentored through its college prep programs.

VIDA, today’s organization grew out of Vannguard and is no longer officially affiliated with Vann, although he has been supportive of its civic-minded leadership and membership.

Community empowerment” is VIDA’s mission and it’s focused on: Developing maximum community participation in the political process through voter registration and political LaRay Brown education; Developing maximum community input in policy-making and decisions that affect our community; Developing and supporting political representation that is of, by, and for the community; Developing community control of elected officials and local institutions to ensure that they are responsive to the needs of the community, and; Organizing the community to gain and exercise power so that it will receive its fair share of goods and services.

Those to be honored at tonight’s celebration at Giando’s on the Water, (400 Kent Ave.), exemplify the VIDA ethos. They are engaged in service, sometimes facing challenging odds, but pressing on for the community.

Madiba Humanitarian Awards At Saturday’s 4th Annual Madiba Humanitarian Awards some community members will meet for the first time, people who have been championing the culture and the causes dear to their own hearts. Other honorees, both living and deceased, will be familiar and significant those in attendance.

The Bedford Stuyvesant Museum of African Art will all bring these intrepid souls into the spotlight as it honors the beating heart of Nelson Mandela alive and well in members of the community. honors those exemplifying principles the late Nelson Mandela’s principles – his idea of a just society, his exceptional dignity and unwavering sacrifices for humanity.

This year’s theme is “Education: A Forceful Weapon Empowering the World’s Children.” The honorees are: celebrated costume designer Ruth Carter; Rob Garris, CEO and founder of the Throwaway Children Foundation; Kevinee Gilmore, founder of #Fostercare; Minister Tony Muhammad, creator of the anti-gang violence “United in Peace Movement” and James Shaw, Jr., the hero who disarmed a gunman at a Tennessee Waffle House. Performing artists include Broadway legend Lillias White, dancers from Dwana ➔➔ Continued on page 7

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Getting NYCHA Housing in the Black ➔➔ Continued from page 1 She voiced her distrust of the NYC Council by saying, “You have two [NYC] Council members who will serve no purpose here tonight. You need to hear from the residents.”

Vines cautioned her to “not preempt them before they can talk.” Carolyn Cabbagestalk (sic), who lives in Brownsville Housing said, “What’s good is that we live there, we work there, we sleep there. We want our community to be better than what it is. We want beautification.” A young woman who did not give her name stated, “NYCHA residents are the laboring fighting force of this city—with that force being criminalized. We are basically the community that the city is built on.”

Brian Vines then switched the focus to the invited speakers who sat in the middle of the audience. All four people have a concern for the continued existence of NYCHA and the current administrative practices and failures.

The first person introduced was Lisa Kenner, Resident Association President of the Van Dyke Houses. Kenner stated, “My work starts off with me making sure NYCHA does what it says it’s going to do. People say that I think that Van Dyke is the White House and I say yes, I do believe it is the White House. We have to fight to ensure it is the most decent, clean and safe environment that it can be.”

Next introduced was Nicholas Dagen Bloom, who is an Associate Professor of Social Science and Chair of Interdisciplinary Studies and Urban Administration at the New York Institute of Technology. Bloom is the author of “Public Housing that Works.”

Bloom analyzes NYCHA’s operations and points out the weaknesses of it whether it is in design or functioning. The book reviews the value of NYCHA. He contends it has very important value to the City of New York; one being “it is the only bulwark to keep the city from being a city only for the elite.”

Following Bloom’s introduction was Greg B. Smith, Investigative Reporter for the New York Daily News. Smith affirmed that he was a reporter which was “a dying breed.”

Smith has been looking at how NYCHA is run for the past five years. He said he “was shocked by the mismanagement, the lack of transparency and the consistent inability of the tenants to have their voices heard.

There is a federal judge now involved in NYCHA operations.” One of Bloom’s missions is to have people pay attention to what is really going on. One crucial element to current NYCHA management is that it is the US Department of Housing and Urban Development that controls NYCHA and not NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development or the NYS Division of Homes and Community Renewal.

Next introduced was NYC Council member Alicka Ampry-Samuel (41st CD).

Ampry-Samuel is working her first term in the City Council and is “excited” about her role as Chair of Public Housing. “The reason why it makes sense for me to be here is that I was born and raised in NYCHA, in the Marcus Garvey Houses. My mother and grandmother live in NYCHA housing.”

Ampry-Samuel explained how as a child she watched her family “make a way out of no way.” She left for college, graduated and returned to New York City to assume a position within the executive office of

Nicholas Dagen Bloom NYCHA. She left NYCHA to run for City Council. She said, “I am not the exception in public housing. I and Ritchie (CM Torres, 15th CD) are the examples of what NYCHA produces.”

NYC Council member Ritchie Torres was the final panelist introduced. CM Torres previously was the Chair of Public Housing and now serves as the Chair of the Committee on Oversight and Investigations. Torres said, “One thing he counted on was his affordable home in NYCHA that provided stability to his

family. Torres affirmed he will partner with Ampry-Samuel in the New York City Council.

After the invited speakers were introduced and made their preliminary statements, Vines managed a Town Hall that had the speakers and audience members participate in a charged discussion. Two issues that were brought Lisa Kenner, Van Dyke Houses. Photo: Adi up consistently were the federal invesTalwar, City Limits tigation and resident participation. Lisa Kenner and Karen Blondell, an organizer in when she said, “I don’t think anyone cares South Brooklyn and resident of public housing about us. As an elected official, it is difficult. since 1982 both expressed concern for the low Looking at the in-fill deals and [Mayor Bill] de involvement of residents. Kenner encouraged Blasio’s housing plan, there’s no consideration all public housing residents to go to resident for NYCHA. What input did the residents have meetings and attend conferences. The youth in those deals? The Deputy Mayor of Housing ought to participate in youth summits. Similar Melissa Glenn won’t talk with NYC Council to Greg Smith, Blondell questioned how was members. The Chair of NYCHA won’t meet it possible for NYCHA to get away with with resident leaders.” CM Ritchie Torres the existence of lead and mold? Further, she recommended that NYCHA’s board include asserts “NYCHA is under investigation and NYCHA residents. This would require still falsified our reports of these conditions empowering them for the responsibility and but no one is criminally charged. How can independent of the mayor. they go forward with RAD (Rental Assistance Though the Independent Democratic Demonstration) or in-fill housing when they Conference has been disbanded, the nine-point are under investigation?

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he prestigious Nobel Peace Prize was awarded last week to Iraqi Nadia Murad, 25, and to Congolese Dr. Denis Mukwege, MD, 63, two soldiers in the front line of battle against sex abuse of women. A few days later, the US Senate confirmed Judge Brett Kavanaugh, an individual with clouds over his character, to the US Supreme Court.

Kavanaugh, it is alleged, has a history of sex assault. Despite Professor Christine Blasey Ford’s compelling testimony about a traumatic teen encounter with Kavanaugh before the Senate Judiciary Committee, the senators were tone-deaf and voted consistent with the will of Senate Majority Leader McConnell and POTUS 45, who wants to staff the court with conservatives. Professor Ford was later demonized by Trump, who suggested that she was guilty of falsehoods.

The GOP has won the SCOTUS war for now. Will that Senate vote have midterm consequences next month? How will American women process the Kavanaugh

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confirmation? Remember Anita Hill at the Clarence Thomas SCOTUS hearings.

Thomas was confirmed. Hill influenced women voters to start sending more women to the US Senate. By 1995, their Senate members included Diane Feinstein, Barbara Boxer, Carol Moseley Braun and Olympia Snow Today, 23 of the 100 US Senators are women.

The Trump GOP base is energized. The Democrats, progressives, independents, women and millennials are also energized, bolstered by the outcome of the Supreme Court circus to which we were subjected last week. The November elections will be revelatory. Impeachment of a Supreme Court judge is a possibility. Americans have a long list of Trump-era grievances, draconian immigration policy which separates parents from their children at the US southern border, gun violence, Obamacare withdrawal, white nationalism, the US criminal justice system, the tax cuts and climate change. The November elections are less than a month away. America’s anger and division are palpable. Now to get out the vote!

Andrew Gillum State races: Deputy Chair of the Democratic National Committee and Minnesota Congressman Keith Ellison is running for state Attorney General. AfricanAmerican Lori Lightfoot has tossed her hat into the Chicago mayoral ring since Rahm Emmanuel has announced that he will not run for reelection.

This is a year for American cultural and historical centennial celebrations.

1) This is the year of the centennial of the Harlem Black Renaissance. Harlem One Stop and the Harlem Cultural Collaborative Partners will co-host “The Harlem Renaissance 100, a Community Celebration, 2018-2020.” An Open House Launch, celebrating the Harlem Black Renaissance Centennial, will be held on Friday, October 19 at the Great Hall in City College, located at 160 Convent Avenue. Launch is an invitational. [Visit harlemrenaissance.org or call 212.939.9201] 2) This year is the centennial of the WWI Armistice dated 11/11/18. The 369th Regiment composed of Black American men, aka Hellfighters, who were assigned to fight with the French during WWI and who fought with distinction. The Dorrance Brooks Property Owners and Residents Association observes the WWI Armistice at Dorrance Brooks Square Park, Edgecombe and St. Nicholas Avenues at 136-137th Streets, Harlem on November 11 at 11 am.

A 369th Hellfighter, Dorrance Brooks, fought and died in France, a few days before the Armistice was signed. [Call 646.820.1476]

2018 MIDTERMS

Christine Blasey Ford

There are 36 governor’s races, including New York, Florida, Georgia, Illinois and Maryland. African-American Democratic gubernatorial candidates include: Andrew Gillum, Florida; Stacey Abrams, Georgia; and Ben Jealous, Maryland.

Democratic Reps and the US Senate: Ayanna Pressley, Boston; Johanna Hayes, Connecticut; Anthony Delgado, NY; Stephen Horsford, Nevada; US Senate and former Secretary of Agriculture Mike Espy, Mississippi.

Lori Lightfoot You don’t have to reside in a state to support candidates listed above. Money has been key to GOP victories nationwide!! The time is now for African-Americans to influence the US electoral map. Midterm elections are imperative. The Republicans and the US Supreme Court have taken the muscle out of the hard-fought-for Voting Rights Act. Further erosion of rights for people of color are forthcoming in statehouses if we do not alter the course of local and national GOP dominance.

BUSINESS MATTERS Read about Fortune magazine’s “The 50 Most Powerful Women list in the USA.” Three African-American women made the list, well sorta/kinda. They are Ann Marie Campbell, EVP, Home Depot, #16 and Roz Brewer, COO/Group President/Board Trustee, Starbucks, #33. Oprah Winfrey is the bonus pick #51. She was a staple on the list until 2012. In 2015, she invested in Weight Watchers and became its unofficial spokesperson. Its stock jumped from $6.79 to $103 today.

Read the newly published nonfiction book, “Black Fortune: The Story of the First Six African-Americans Who Escaped Slavery and Became Millionaires” by Shomari Wills.

The six millionaires are Mary Ellen Pleasant, Robert Reed Church, Hannah Elias, Annie Turnbo-Malone, Madame C.J. Walker and O.W. Gurley.

The Harlem Business Alliance hosts another event under the umbrella of its “Disrupt Harlem Innovation Series: Black Economic Empowerment Breakfast,” including an “insightful discussion with Shawn D. Rochester, author of “The Black Tax, The Cost of Being Black in America,” on October 17, 8:30 am to 10 am at Mist Harlem, located at 46 West 116th Street. [Visit HBANY.ORG to register] #BLACKTAXED The Terrie Williams Agency opened in 1988 and has been known as the premiere Black-owned public relations firm in the nation is closing. Terrie is retiring to focus on personal wellness, travel and the next chapter of her extraordinary life. Author of four successful books, including Black Pain a primer about Black America and depression--her memoir must be a “work in progress.”

BOOK/EXHIBITION: Gordon Parks: The New Tide Early Work 1940-1950 is a book and traveling exhibition which is a co-venture of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, the Gordon Parks Foundation and Steidl, the book publisher. The exhibition is on view at the National Gallery of Art on November 4 to February 18. Debra Willis is one of the exhibition catalogue co-authors. Debra Willis is a university professor and Chair of the Department of Photography and Imaging at the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. She is also the Director of the Institute of African-American Affairs Center for Black Visual Culture at NYU.

Deborah Willis MSNBC-TV moves Rev. Al Sharpton’s popular Sunday morning show, “POLITICS NATION,” to Saturday and Sunday at 5-6 pm, effective October 13-14.

A Harlem-based management consultant, Victoria is reachable at Victoria.horsford@ gmail.com.

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The New Starbucks and The Ghost of Cookie ➔➔ Continued from page 1 By the time you’d become a regular at Dan’s, or at C-Town, which was the new name of the supermarket after the name change in the early 90’s, you were a regular with Cookie, too. You’d speak to him and he’d say things like, “How’s your mother doing?” Or, “I saw you running for the bus this morning.” And you’d answer him while wondering how he knew the things he knew.

After a while, you’d just stop wondering altogether and you’d realize that Cookie was more than a vagrant earning food and beer money by bagging groceries and asking for spare change. Cookie was a part of the community, he was one of us. My sister Kyam worked at C-Town in the mid-90’s as a cashier. It was my job as big brother

to meet her at 8pm when the store closed, and to walk her home. Oftentimes, I’d be running the streets and not around to handle my brotherly responsibilities. If I couldn’t make it around the corner to get Kyam from work, Cookie would walk her home. My sister wasn’t the only C-Town worker that Cookie looked out for. He had this way about him, where you couldn’t help but to realize that he loved his community and the people in it.

Cookie passed away some time ago, 7, maybe 8 years ago. A few years later, C-Town was closed and the building that once housed the supermarket and the laundromat was torn down to make room for yet another new development.

I thought about Cookie this week because I happened to be walking down Lafayette Avenue when I came upon the new building.

I realized that not only were they pretty much done but they had already housed one of their new tenants. There’s now a Starbucks sitting right on the corner of Lafayette and Grand. It isn’t opened yet, but the awning is up. A Starbucks placed smack dab in the middle of our neighborhood. Choices Coffee Shop is right across the street. Urban Vintage is another coffee shop is right down the block on Clifton Place. Of all the things that could’ve been put there, did our community really need another coffee shop? And a Starbucks no less? Talk about a slap in the face to two, well-liked small businesses in that area.

The problem with hypercommercialism is that it sucks the life out of the symbiotic relationship between community and small business. The owners of Choices know my mother well. They’ve been in our

community now for well over Curtis "Cookie" a decade. At Rogers Starbucks, the closest that the staff will get to its client base is writing their names on the cups of coffee they sell, and they often get that wrong, too. I think, “Would Cookie be welcomed in that Starbucks? Would he be able to go into the place, talk with the people there and be well-received? Of course, he wouldn’t.”

Starbucks staff have called the police on young Black men for acting in a similar fashion--for just going in the place and needing to be well-received.

It’s good to see the growth in my community, but I think I’ll continue to support Choices and Urban Vintage and allow for Starbucks to cater to who the developers assumed they’d be catering to anyway.

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EW YORK—Mayor Bill de Blasio today signed a historic piece of legislation into law, creating for the first time a third gender category on New York City birth certificates. The new law also makes it easier for transgender and gender non-binary people born in the City to amend their birth certificates to more accurately reflect who they are by removing medical and administrative barriers. The law will go into effect on January 1, 2019.

Intro 954-A was recently passed by the New York City Council under the leadership of Speaker Corey Johnson and in close partnership with the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. This law continues the City’s work in championing the rights of the LGBTQ community.

“New Yorkers should be free to tell their government who they are, not the other way around,” said Mayor de Blasio.

“This new legislation will empower all New Yorkers – especially our transgender and gender non-binary residents – to have birth certificates that better reflect their identity, and it furthers the City’s commitment to defending the rights of our LGBTQ community.”

“For the first time, all New Yorkers will be able to get a birth certificate that reflects and affirms their lived reality,” said First Lady Chirlane McCray. “We will not stop there— we strive to extend that dignity to every aspect of life. We will stand strong against any attempt to deny members of the LGBTQ community the respect or safety they deserve as fellow human beings.”

“Today is a landmark day for our city,” said Speaker Corey Johnson. “New York is sending a clear message to people who are transgender, gender non-conforming and non-binary that we are here for you.

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The Legacies of Two Women Interpreted by Two Women

he new production American Captives: Lena Baker and Sandra Bland, a social justice piece influenced by Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow, focuses on the lives and deaths of Lena Baker and Sandra Bland, two Black American women who both died at the hands of the police state and an indifferent U.S. judicial system.

Activist-turned-victim Sandra Bland is more familiar to most people; however, Lena Baker is probably not. She was the first and only woman to sit in the electric chair in the State of Georgia.

Written and performed by veteran actor Connie Winston, and directed

by Audelco winner Rhonda “Passion” Hansome, the play will run at Dixon Place experimental theater the next two weekends through Oct 20. This experimental social justice piece combines the two stories of Lena Baker and Sandra Bland. After a oneday trial in 1945, an all-white male jury deliberates for under an hour and sentences Lena Baker to death for killing her abusive lover. Three days after being pulled over by a Texas State Trooper in 2015 for not using a turn signal, Sandra Bland was found dead in a Waller County jail cell.

American Captives: Lena Baker & Sandra Bland articulates how little has changed in the relationship between Black women and the United States justice system during the 60 years between the deaths of Lena and Sandra. This unapologetic personal accounting bares new awareness of

Actress Connie Winston, known to legions of TV fans for her role as Judge Shirley Taylor in “Law and Order,” offers compelling performances as the two women.: Lena Baker and Sandra Bland.” timeworn atrocities. The production will run on Fridays and Saturdays through October 20th at 7:30pm.

Tickets for American Captives: Lena Baker & Sandra Bland are on sale now at Dixon Place. Tickets are $18 in advance, $22 at the door, and $15 for students and seniors. Group rates are available. For tickets and further information please visit www.dixonplace.org or call 866-811-4111 for tickets.

Connie Winston has performed at numerous New York City venues and created numerous original ‘docu-drama’ performance pieces: My Name is Harriet Tubman (commissioned by Plays For Living), The Autobiography of Dorothy Dean (first presented by Dixon Place), Confession, and On Griffin Alley (workshopped with the Drama Department of Bennington College). She has directed productions of August Strindberg’s, The Stronger, Trifles by Susan Glaspell, and No Good War by Tali Ariav, developed with the Playwrights’ Workshop at the University of Iowa. She adapted Eudora Welty’s short story A Worn Path for the stage, and has been published in the African American National Biography (Oxford University Press) Black Masks Magazine, and Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art. Connie received her MFA in dramaturgy from the University of Iowa, an MA in performing arts from Emerson College and a BA in theatre from SUNY/New Paltz. Connie is seen on reruns of TV series’ Conviction and Law & Order in her recurring role as Judge Shirley Taylor.

Rhonda “Passion” Hansome has directed over thirty-five productions, including Saviour? (Dwyer Cultural Center), Another Man’s Poison, Antigone Asata Shakur, T’was The Night Before Kwanzaa (Black Spectrum and Billie Holiday Theaters), and Real Black Men Don’t Sit Crosslegged On The Floor (New Federal Theater, Best Ensemble AUDELCO

This Weekend …

Honor a Neighborhood and its Heroes....

Oct. 13, 10am-5pm: BED-STUY ALIVE! Gala tribute to Brooklyn’s bestknown neighborhood, its people, art & culture on Fulton St./Harriet Tubman Blvd. (Brooklyn/ New York Aves.) ***10 AM - 12 PM: Opening Ceremony and the 8th Annual Tohma Y. Faulkner

Community Awards Honoring Our Community’s Greatest @ Restoration Lobby (1368 Fulton Street) ***12 PM - 5 PM: CHILDREN’S VILLAGE - Have fun with the NYPD Rock Wall, FDNY Smokehouse, Face Painting, Arts and Crafts, Games, Book Mobile, Game Mobile and much more.

For more information: www.bedstuyalive.org/. *** Oct. 13, 7pm-9pm: MUSEUM of AFRICAN ART presents the 4th Annual Madiba Humanitarian Awards: Celebrating the Legacy of Nelson Mandela at the Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway. Honorees: Ruth Carter, Costume Designer, “Black Panther” movie; Rob Garris, CEO, Throwaway Children’s Foundation; Kevinee Gilmore, Founder, #Fostercare;

Minister Tony Muhammad, Creator, “United Peace Movement” to stop gang violence; James Shaw, Jr., Waffle House hero who disarmed gunman in Tennessee. Tickets: 646-338-2748 or seeuraven2011@gmail.com

Background on the Play

Lena Baker and Sandra Bland Remembered …

Rhonda Hansome Award.) At the National Black Theater Festival, Bermuda Festival and New Federal Theater she directed Melba Moore’s Sweet Songs of the Soul; and in the NY International Fringe Festival she directed Damon & Debra and Black Martian.

Other festivals include Voices From The Edge, NYU Festival of New Works, Chekov NOW, Potpourri, Estrogenius, and Going To The River. Hansome is a member of the Workshop Theater Company, Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab, Women’s Project Directors Forum, SDC and is an AUDELCO Outstanding Pioneer Honoree. (Cynthia A. Tate) convicted of capital murder of her white employer, Ernest Knight.

She said, “What I done, I did in self-defense, or I would have been killed myself. Where I was I could not overcome it.

God has forgiven me. I have nothing against anyone. I am one in the number. I am ready to meet my God. I have a very strong conscience.” She was executed by the State of Georgia in 1945. Baker was the only woman in Georgia to be executed by electrocution. In August 2005, Baker was pardoned posthumously by the state Board of Pardons and Paroles. The board acknowledged that the 1945 decision to deny Lena Baker clemency was “a grievous error”

Lena Baker was an African-American maid in Cuthbert, Georgia who was

Sandra Bland

"American Captives: Lena Baker and Sandra Bland"

and that she could have been charged with the lesser crime of voluntary manslaughter, which would have prevented the sentence of capital punishment.

Sandra Bland, 28, was pulled over on July 10, 2015 in Waller County, Texas for failing to signal a lane change. Ms. Bland, of Illinois, was headed south to start a new job. The officer said he asked Bland to exit the vehicle, she became “combative and uncooperative,” so she was ultimately “removed from the car.” The trooper said he placed Bland in handcuffs but she became physical, so he used force “to subdue Bland to the ground.” Bland was ultimately arrested for assault on a public servant. Bland was still incarcerated, awaiting posting of bond, when she was found dead on July 13 in her cell. A medical examiner ruled her death a suicide caused by asphyxiation.

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Tony Award Winner Kenny Leon to Direct Colman Domingo’s Dot Starring Denise Burse at Bedford-Stuyvesant’s Billie Holiday Theatre at RestorationART

he Billie Holiday Theatre at RestorationART, in association with Kenny Leon’s True Colors Theatre Company in Atlanta, presents Colman Domingo’s Dot. The Billie Holiday Theatre launches its 2018-2019 season with this compelling work under the direction of Tony Award-winning director Kenny Leon (American Son currently on Broadway starring Kerry Washington and Steven Pasquale, A Raisin’ in the Sun and August Wilson’s Fences on Broadway) and starring Emmy Award-winning Billie Holiday Theatre alumna Denise Burse (Black Mirror, The Old Settler). Previews begin October 20 - 24, 2018 with the opening on Thursday, October 25, 2018 and running through November 18, 2018 at The Billie Holiday Theatre, 1368 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY 11216.

Crackling with humor, Dot takes a

lighthearted look at an illness facing all communities and explores the interactions of widowed matriarch Dotty and her family and mental health in the Black community. As Dotty struggles to hold onto her memory - a result of her Alzheimer’s diagnosis - her children must fight to balance care for their mother with care for themselves.

“I’m thrilled to have the opportunity to partner with the newly reimagined Billie Holiday Theatre and to present True Colors’ production of Colman Domingo’s Dot to Brooklyn audiences,” remarked True Colors’ Artistic Director Kenny Leon. “The play allows us the opportunity to come together as a community; not just as individuals, but as two theaters committed to the best, wisest and most challenging parts of ourselves and our stories. Dot is a story that will hit close to home for so many.”

“To curate storytelling in the epicenter of the largest African-American community in the nation - Central Brooklyn – demands that we bring our audiences smart and soulful stories that matter,” stated Dr. Indira Etwaroo, Executive Director, The Billie Holiday Theatre.

Colman Domingo’s Dot, helmed by Kenny Leon with a cast led by Denise Burse, is an embarrassment of riches.

“Excellence and relevance are in the very DNA of this production and partnership and is a reflection of the kind of work we are committed to doing at The Billie.”

The cast for Dot also includes Tinashe Kajese-Bolden as Shelly, Rhyn McLemore Saver as Jackie, Gilbert Glenn Brown as Donnie, Lee Osorio as Adam, Amber A. Harris as Averie and Benedetto Robinson as Fidel.

The creative team for Dot includes

Jamil Jude (Associate Director), Andre C. Allen (Lighting Designer), Matt Head (Sound Designer), Kathryn Muse (Props Designer), Jarrod Barnes (Costume Designer), Day Byrd (Wig Designer) and Tracy Thomas (Production Stage Manager).

General Information: Dot will run from October 20 November 18, 2018 at The Billie Holiday Theatre, 1368 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY 11216 | A/C Train to Nostrand Stop and B25. Single Tickets range from $25 - $40 with Senior and Student Discounts.

Tickets at (866) 811-4111; www.thebillieholiday.org or in person at The Billie Holiday Theatre Box Office at 1368 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY 11216; Tues.

– Fri. from 4 - 7PM and Sat. from 10AM - 4PM. For Group Sales, call (929) 4323322 or (866) 811-4111. Subscriptions and memberships available.

VIDA Awards Celebrate Legacy and Service ➔➔ Continued from page 2 Smallwood Performing Arts Center, African stilt-walkers, gumboot dancers and a Guro mask dancer.

Bed-Stuy Alive!

Week Returns to Enliven the Community The 12th Annual Bed-Stuy Alive! is about to bring its joyful and massive block party back to Fulton Street in front of Restoration Plaza. Yes, there will be lots of great music, courtesy of Restoration Rocks! This year that means a tribute to Aretha Franklin is included. Yes, there will be dancing in the streets and on the stage. Yes, there will be people-gazing at the beautiful people of Brooklyn and their unsurpassed creative styles. And all this goes best with great food and beverages and wonderful art and fashion shopping opportunities. Bring the kids to play in the Children’s Village, complete with a rock-climbing wall, games, a book mobile, arts and crafts, face painting and more.

Visit the Health Zone for screenings and information for the entire family. This portion of the programming runs from noon to 5pm.

This year’s theme is “Lighting the Path for Our Children: Education is Our Torch Paved by Our Ancestors and Elders.”

Starting the day is an award ceremony from 10-12pm, kicking off two weeks of exciting Bed-Stuy Alive! events. The 10th Annual Tohma Y. Faulkner Community Awards ceremony will be held in the Restoration Center lobby. This year’s awards go to: the late, great Randy Weston (Arts and Culture Trailblazer); Lori Ayers (Education); Stanley Kinard (Education); Neale Clarke (Arts and Culture Trailblazer); Ramon Wal King (Special Achievement); Job Mashariki (Community Champion); Clara Hayes (Economic Development Trailblazer); Maurice Reid (Community Service) and Sharyi Ayers (Entrepreneur Award).

The week continues with: Monday, 10/15, Jazz Night at Tohma’s Place 1585 Fulton St. $10 cover.

Friday, 10/19, Jazz 966 at 966 Fulton St. 8pm. Saturday, 10/20, The Brownstone Tour, See page __.

Jazz at Sistah’s Place, 456 Nostrand Ave @ Jefferson, $20 in advance. A Restaurant Crawl, Tompkins Avenue btw Quincy and Hancock, 4-9pm, Thursday, 10/25, Brownstone Gala, Weeksville Heritage Center

Age Friendly Initiative Recently, at the First Annual Community Awards the AgeFriendly Initiative honored members of the community for their volunteer contributions in helping the organization expand its efforts in Bedford Stuyvesant and Crown Heights.

The Honorees were: Annette Alleyne-Merritt, Evelyn Collier, Maxine Cooper, Shelia Cox, Denise Drayton, Sundra Franklin, Victoria Graves-Cade,Linda Hawkins, Victoria Heath, Naomi Hunter, Selma Jackson, Brenda Johnson, Lynette Lewis-Rogers, Beatrice Logan, Sharon Lyons, Beverly Mapp, Veronica Morris, Thelma Reyes, Ernestine Riley, Merine Showard, Brenda Walls, Brenda Watts-Larkin, Jocelyn Wheattle, Renee Williams, Sandra Williams, Martha Works and Portland Zinerman

T H E B I L L I E H O L I D AY. O R G

october 20 – november 18 memory is a funny thing!

From the Tony® Award-winning director of Broadway’s A Raisin in the Sun and TV’s “The Wiz!” Dot, played by Emmy® Award winner Denise Burse (“Tyler Perry’s House of Payne,” Black Mirror, The Old Settler), struggles to hold onto her memory - a result of her Alzheimer’s diagnosis.

starring denise burse with Tinashe Kajese-Bolden, Rhyn McLemore, Gilbert Glenn Brown, Lee Osorio, Amber A. Harris, and Benedetto Robinson

tickets: $25 - 40 (718) 636-0918 | thebillieholiday.org | 1368 Fulton St, Brooklyn BOX OFFICE HOURS: TUES - FRI 4PM - 7PM SAT 9AM - 4PM

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On Education

Principals (and Parents), you just received an excellent lesson on how a school sexual assault allegation should not be handled ■■

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he principal must rule and play their role properly: Rule #1: Think (before you act) about who you are, your role and responsibilities in the present situation.

As the school principal, you must also be its principled ethical and moral leader.

Therefore, your first priority is to model the “tone” for how all involved should be treated, as well as ensuring the quality and believability of the investigative process. That tone will be initially established by your verbal and body language. You are a “mandated reporter” and a 24/7 school leader, and so any “off-campus” or “out-of-school” sexually related criminal incident involving your students is not beyond your responsibility.

Principals must arrive quickly to one “very clear” understanding, and that is determining if a possible statutory crime has been committed. If a crime has possibly been committed in or outside of the school the police must be contacted. (Note: With any staff-student sexual incident, “consent” is never a factor, regardless of the age of the student.) It is always smart to consult first with the school district’s legal department; too often, it is the unasked questions that get principals into trouble.

Initial steps are critical, the parents of both the alleged student victim and perpetrator have a reasonable expectation that you will be fair and thorough when conducting the investigation. But further, all of your parents, who trust you every day with the safety and care of their children, should feel a sense of confidence in your ability

By Michael Johnson

to fully grasp the serious nature of these types of incidents and that you have the ability and temperament to respond properly.

There is a difference between a parent not liking an outcome versus them not liking an outcome because it was unfair or handled incompetently.

A principal exercises a great deal of discretionary power as to the “direction” of any school investigation. Thus, the large national racial gap in student suspensions, expulsions and police referrals in our public schools.

Your investigation must not only “look” and “feel” fair, it must in truth and actuality, be fair. Recently, I painfully listened to a parent recording of a high school principal joking, laughing and dismissing an alleged sexual assault incident. For sure, this type of situation occurring in a school is no laughing matter. Which leads me to, Rule #2: Check yourself!

As a principal, I approached any type of male-female sexual harassment or assault allegation reminding myself that I was bringing my “maleness” to the process.

Thus, I always sought as a lead or co-investigator, a female Assistant Principal.

Part of what we presently see playing out in the governmental and public square is an insensitivity and emotional disconnect from how young men and women should behave toward each other; the theme: “boys will be boys,” and men determining how women should behave and react to a male’s bad and/ or illegal sexual behaviors: “Why was she there?” “Was it one or two beers?” “Why was she wearing that ‘provocative’ outfit?”

These male-oriented “investigation-lite” discussions seem to be primarily focused on nullifying the female victim’s claims, while at the same time seeking to elevate and exonerate the male perpetrator’s personality.

A real investigation is characterized by its commissioned purpose of seeking the truth through factual findings.

But there is another problem. Women in America are subject to (infected by) the same biased cultural belief system as the men who practice and perpetuate sexist beliefs. Perhaps the most frightening exposure of recent weeks are the number of women in our nation who subscribe to the “boys will be boys” philosophy. Or, who are willing, like our right-wing evangelicals, to ignore evil or illegal acts done to women for the sake of political expediency. It is important to note that our previously referenced laughing and mocking high school principal was a woman. Women principals should not get an automatic “gender pass,” as they may need to “check in” on their own thoughts and beliefs when male-female sexual-related incidents show up in their schools!

Rule #3: Set a high operational “preventative standard” for sexually related incidents.

Most principals can follow a step-by-step “response to a crisis” script once an incident has occurred. But the best principals thoughtfully and strategically design a “prevent the negative” incidents from occurring plan. As with all proactive behavioral modification strategies, the key is to first eliminate or limit the “nurturing” spaces for the emergence of

The Bed-Stuy Alive! Collective presents the

a potentially negative event. Thinking, language and behavior are inextricably linked.

Physical sexual aggressions; e.g., “uninvited touching,” are often preceded by forms of sexual “verbal violations;” e.g., inappropriate and unwelcomed sexual comments. This behavior then comes full circle (especially in high schools) when it enters the unofficial “cultural language” of students, including on social media. This intolerable behavior could even be officially sanctioned and codified in places like a senior yearbook.

Principals must have a school-wide cultural-linguistics plan to confront, educate and eliminate all forms of sexually denigrating language and behavior. You must make “small things” “big things.” Any type of male physical, written or verbal sexist behaviors, even when delivered in “jest,” or if the girls are perceived as encouraging these acts, must be stopped, rendering the “boys (acting badly are) just being boys” theme unacceptable.

Establishing and enforcing a very high standard for any type of sexist language and behavior might earn you a little “doing too much grief;” for some people (including parents) will push back against strict behavioral standards; that is, until something goes terribly wrong with their child and then you will receive a greater amount of grief for not having and enforcing high behavioral standards. As principal, you should protect children by wisely choosing what form of leadership grief you want to own! ➔➔ Continued on page 12

OCTOBER 13-25, 2018 Join us on & and visit www.bed-stuyalive.org for details on a full week of exciting events!

L I G H T I N G T H E PAT H F O R O U R C H I L D R E N : E D U C AT I O N I S O U R TO R C H PAVED BY OUR ANCESTORS AND ELDERS

Gala Kick-off Festival STREET, BROOKLYN, NY 10.13.18 | 10 AM - 5 PM FULTON (BETWEEN BROOKLYN & NEW YORK AVENUES) FULTON STREET COMES ALIVE @ NOON!

JOIN US TO CELEBRATE OUR COMMUNITY’S GREATEST! Opening Ceremony and the 10th Annual Tohma Y. Faulkner Community Awards

10 AM – 12 PM RESTORATION LOBBY | 1368 FULTON STREET

TOHMA Y. FAULKNER AWARD HONOREES EDUCATION Lori Ayers EDUCATION Stanley Kinard

CHILDREN’S VILLAGE MARCY PLAZA 100 gift bags to the 1 100 children to participate at the Bed-Stuy Alive! Children’s Village st

BED-STUY HERITAGE MARKETPLACE DISCOVER YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD: RESOURCE ROW

ARTS AND CULTURE TRAILBLAZER Neal Clarke

HEALTH ZONE

ARTS AND CULTURE TRAILBLAZER Randy Weston

Information & Screenings

Enjoy 2 Weeks of Exciting Events!

MONDAY 10.15.18

JAZZ NIGHT AT TOHMA’S PLACE 1585 Fulton Street | Cover $10

FRIDAY 10.19.18 JAZZ 966

966 Fulton Street | 8 PM

SATURDAY 10.20.18 BROWNSTONE TOUR

Boys & Girls High School | 11 AM – 4 PM

SISTAH’S PLACE Jazz on Saturday nights @ 8 PM | Tickets $20

RESTAURANT CRAWL

SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT Ramon Wal King

“SAVOR BED-STUY” FOOD COURT

Tompkins Avenue Restaurants between Quincy & Hancock | 4 PM- 9 PM

COMMUNITY CHAMPION Job Marshariki

RESTORATION ROCKS! MUSIC FESTIVAL

THURSDAY 10.25.18

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT TRAILBLAZER Clara Hayes COMMUNITY SERVICE Maurice Reid ENTREPRENEUR AWARD Sharyi Ayers

SUPPORTED BY New York State Senator Velmanette Montgomery New York City Council Member Robert E. Cornegy, Jr.

A Tribute to Aretha Franklin

BROWNSTONE GALA

Weeksville Heritage Center

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t was quite the roller coaster-like season for the New York Yankees to say the least. There were extensive winning streaks to go along with some rough patches and key injuries. All and all, it added up to a 2nd-place finish and a 100-win season. This team had to deal with some adversity as the injury bug hit the team all year long. Young pitcher Jordan Montgomery was lost for the season after tearing the ulna collateral ligament in his pitching elbow. Gary Sanchez (groin), Aroldis Chapman (knee), Didi Gregorious (wrist), Aaron Hicks (hamstring) and Aaron Judge (wrist) had all spent some time on the disabled list. Still though, Aaron Boone’s first season as the team’s manager, he put things together enough to secure a playoff spot.

The Yankees had a Wild Card date with a dangerous Oakland Athletics team. With some timely hitting, the

By Eddie Castro

Bronx Bombers were able to get past Oakland feeding off the Yankee crowd.

Next was a Divisional Round date with the Boston Red Sox. The Red Sox won 108 games this year, which was tops in all of baseball. Out of 19 season meetings with the Yankees, Boston had defeated them 10 times.

Although the Yankees looked so good against the A’s in the Wild Card game, this past Tuesday night their chase for championship banner No. 28 came to an end. Boston seemed too much for New York as they hit, ran and pitched in dominant fashion winning the best of 5 series 3-1. The Achilles’ heel for this Yankees team was the inability to score with runners in scoring position. The team was known for being a “home run-friendly” ball club as the Yankees scored 50% of their runs via the home run. That could be a good thing, but in the divisional series against the Red Sox, it proved to loom for the Yanks on the wrong side of things. It was another rough ending of the season as the team and the home crowd had to endure watching the hated rivals celebrate on our home field twice in the past month.

Moving forward, the big question will be what will Yankees General Manager Brian Cashman do to improve the Yankee roster for 2019?

We all know about the big names that will be out there such as Bryce Harper, Manny Machado and possibly Clayton Kershaw. You can be sure that the usual suspects such as the Yankees, Red Sox and Cubs will be bidding for their services. The Yankees MUST address their starting pitching. For now, the Yankee fans could just reminisce on what could have been. The team must address and figure out why their offense was shut down the last two games of the year. This current Yankees team has a good balance of young players. It’s all about making it work all around to get to the number one goal in bringing a 28th championship back to New York.

Sports Notes: Who should the Yankees target in trades and free agency? E-mail me NOW at Castroeddie714@gmail.com.

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Girls Varsity Soccer Oct. 8th Murrow H.S. vs.

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oach Larry Blatt: It was the same issues we have had all year. The team doesn’t work well together.

Everyone is trying to do things on their own. We were not moving the ball well.

Abraham Lincoln High School played well. We have to do better. Defensively,

I think we played well. Lincoln scored one goal on a penalty, and the other goal on a really nice free-kick 30 yards out. The other goals

Photo: Nathaniel Adams

Photo: Nathaniel Adams

Photo: Nathaniel Adams

were scored because they moved the ball well.

Edward R. Murrow score: 0 Abraham Lincoln High School: (4) Coach Brian Vega: The game went well. I was telling the girls before the game we had to win the 50-50 balls; we knew that Edward R. Murrow was going to come out from the first game that we tied.

They were going to be aggressive and we had to match that.

We did that tenfold today and we ended up getting the win. We are making our own chances.

Our defense was solid and the major part was Shirley Cazerez because our goalie has been out.

Her appendix burst. She called me the night before and said she was going to be out. She has been out for a couple of weeks. She came back and that really solidified the back line. It gave everybody an extra boost. Our goalie ended up moving back into the field, she did a good job.

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LEGAL NOTICES Notice is Hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Kings County on 09/04/2018, bearing Index Number NC-001226-18/K1, a copy of which may be examined at the office of the Clerk, located at 141 Livington Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201, grants me (us) the right to:Assume the name of (first) Dylan (Last) Medina Flores. My Present name is (First) Dylan (Last) Medina (infant) The city and State of my present address are Brooklyn, NY The month and year of my birth are May 2013.

NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT - COUNTY OF KINGS DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE REGISTERED HOLDERS OF MORGAN STANLEY ABS CAPITAL I INC. TRUST 2007HE6 MORTAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2007-HE6, Plaintiff(s), Against Index No.: 4882/2008 BRIDGETTE STEWART, ET AL., Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale, duly entered in the Kings County Clerk’s Office on 2/15/2016, I, the undersigned Referee, will sell at public auction in Room 224 of Kings County Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, New York 11201 on 10/6/2016 at 2:30 pm, premises known as 2276A Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11233, and described as follows: ALL that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and State of New York, and designated on the tax maps of the Kings County Treasurer as Block 1435 and Lot 17. The approximate amount of the current Judgment lien is $1,061,837.53 plus interest and costs. The premises will be sold subject to provisions of the aforesaid Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale; Index # 4882/2008. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid.

The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or the Mortgagee’s attorney. Eric Adam Goldberg, Esq., Referee. Leopold & Associates, PLLC, 80 Business Park Drive, Suite 110, Armonk, NY 10504 Dated: 7/26/2016 GNS NOTICE OF SALE Supreme Court County Of Kings Citigroup Mortgage Loan Trust Inc. Asset-Backed Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2007-AMC4, U.S. Bank National Association as Trustee, Plaintiff AGAINST Zakiya R. Millar, et al, Defendant Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated 8/1/2018 and entered on 9/7/2018, I, the undersigned Referee, will sell at public auction at the Kings County Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, NY on November 08, 2018 at 02:30 PM premises known as 757 Monroe Street, Brooklyn, NY 11221. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the County of Kings, City and State of New York, BLOCK: 1638, LOT: 79. Approximate amount of judgment is $766,490.35 plus interests and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 511695/2015. Jageshwar Sharma, Referee FRENKEL LAMBERT WEISS WEISMAN & GORDON LLP, 53 Gibson Street, Bay Shore, NY 11706 NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT KINGS COUNTY U.S. BANK NA SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE TO BANK OF AMERICA NA SUCCESSOR IN INTEREST TO LASALLE BANK NA ON BEHALF OF THE HOLDERS OF THE WAMU MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 2005-AR 15,

Plaintiff against ALON FISCHER, et al Defendants Attorney for Plaintiff(s) Fein Such & Crane, LLP 1400 Old Country Road, Suite C103, Westbury, NY 11590 Attorney (s) for Plaintiff (s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale Entered September 19, 2018 I will sell at Public Auction to the highest bidder at the Kings County Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, Room 224, Brooklyn, NY 11201 on November 15, 2018 at 2:30 PM. Premises known as 1230 East 72nd Street, Brooklyn, NY 11234.

Block 8357 Lot 48. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and State of New York. Approximate Amount of Judgment is $648,914.15 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index No 501674/2016. Doron Leiby, Esq., Referee SPSJN181 NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF KINGS HSBC Bank USA, National Association as Trustee for Nomura Asset Acceptance Corporation, Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2005-AP2, Plaintiff AGAINST Angela Petersen; et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated July 5, 2018 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Kings County Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, Room 224, Brooklyn, NY 11201 on November 8, 2018 at 2:30PM, premises known as 431 Dewitt Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11207. 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 4318 Lot 35. Approximate amount of judgment $684,204.37 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index# 16538/14. Betty Lugo, Esq., Referee Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, LLC Attorney(s) for the Plaintiff 175 Mile Crossing Boulevard Rochester, New York 14624 (877) 430-4792 Dated: September 11, 2018 57228 NOTICE OF SALE Supreme Court County Of Kings M&T Bank, Plaintiff AGAINST Sherri E. Hailstalk, et al, Defendant Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated 2/18/2016 and entered on 2/22/2016, I, the undersigned Referee, will sell at public auction at the Kings County Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, NY on November 08, 2018 at 02:30 PM premises known as 604 Halsey 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 County of Kings, City and State of New York, BLOCK: 1666, LOT: 34. Approximate amount of judgment is $691,616.97 plus interests and costs.

Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 15167/09. James M. Caffrey, Referee FRENKEL LAMBERT WEISS WEISMAN & GORDON LLP 53 Gibson Street Bay Shore, NY 11706 NOTICE OF SALE Supreme Court County Of Kings HSBC Bank USA, National Association, as Trustee for Nomura Asset Acceptance Corporation Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2006AF1, Plaintiff AGAINST Chaim Meisels, et al, Defendant Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated 7/24/2018 and entered on 8/14/2018, I, the undersigned Referee, will sell at public auction at the Kings County Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, NY on November 08, 2018 at 02:30 PM premises known as 75 Franklin Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11205. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with

the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the County of Kings, City and State of New York, BLOCK: 1885, LOT: 1. Approximate amount of judgment is $690,394.48 plus interests and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 028070/2008. M. Randolph Jackson, Referee FRENKEL LAMBERT WEISS WEISMAN & GORDON LLP, 53 Gibson Street, Bay Shore, NY 11706 NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT - COUNTY OF KINGS Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., d/b/a America’s Servicing Company, Plaintiff -against-Giselle Solomon, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Credit Suisse Financial Corporation, City of New York Environmental Control Board, Andrea Faraday, Dashawn Cummings Defendant(s) Pursuant to a judgment of foreclosure and sale entered on February 2, 2018 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction to the highest bidder at ROOM 224 F/K/A ROOM 274 OF KINGS COUNTY SUPREME COURT, 360 ADAMS STREET, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK 11201 on November 8, 2018 at 2:30 PM premises known as 1518 Ryder Street, Brooklyn, NY 11234. 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:7700 Lot: 49 Approximate amount of lien $931,744.88 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed judgment Index # 6319/2013 Jageshwar Sharma, Esq., REFEREE STEIN, WIENER AND ROTH, L.L.P., ATTORNEYS FOR THE PLAINTIFF ONE OLD COUNTRY ROAD, SUITE 113 CARLE PLACE, NY 11514 DATED: October 2, 2018 FILE #: FWELLS 60927 NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT KINGS COUNTY JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, Plaintiff against MAXIME FLEURIMONT, et al Defendants Attorney for Plaintiff(s) Fein, Such & Crane, LLP 28 East Main Street Suite 1800, Rochester, NY 14614 Attorney (s) for Plaintiff (s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale Entered August 17, 2017 I will sell at Public Auction to the highest bidder at the Kings County Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, Room 224, Brooklyn, NY 11201 on November 8, 2018 at 2:30 PM. Premises known as 1260 East 84th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11236. Block 8062 Lot 67. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and State of New York. Approximate Amount of Judgment is $507,700.22 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index No 501689/2014. Jeffrey L. Saltiel, Esq., Referee CHC180 NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT KINGS COUNTY U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR CERTIFICATEHOLDERS OF BEAR STEARNS ASSET BACKED SECURITIES I LLC, ASSET BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2005-AC7, Plaintiff against VISHNU BANDHU, et al Defendants Attorney for Plaintiff(s) Fein, Such & Crane, LLP 28 East Main Street, Suite 1800, Rochester, NY 14614 Attorney (s) for Plaintiff (s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale Entered August 14, 2018 I will sell at Public Auction to the highest bidder at the Kings County Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, Room 224, Brooklyn, NY 11201 on November 8, 2018 at 2:30 PM. Premises known as 852 Belmont Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11208. Block 4039 Lot Part of Old Lot: 21 AND Part of Old Lot:

VOL. 22 NO. 41 20. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and State of New York. Approximate Amount of Judgment is $861,530.09 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index No 9502/2013.M. Randolph Jackson, Esq., Referee SPSNC486 SUPREME COURT – COUNTY OF KINGS WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. AS TRUSTEE F/B/O HOLDERS OF STRUCTURED ASSET MORTGAGE INVESTMENTS II, INC., STRUCTURED ASSET MORTGAGE INVESTMENTS II TRUST 2007-AR4, MORTGAGE PASSTHROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 2007-AR4, Plaintiff against ADRIAN JOI BROWN, et al., Defendants. Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered on October 3, 2017. I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction in Room 224 of the Kings County Courthouse, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. on the 8th day of November, 2018 at 2:30 p.m. premises described as follows: All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and State of New York, bounded and described as follows: BEGINNING at a point on the westerly side of East 7th Street distant 467 feet southerly from the corner formed by the intersection of the southerly side of Avenue Z with the westerly side of East 7th Street; THENCE westerly parallel with Avenue Z and part of the distance through a party wall, 100 feet; THENCE southerly parallel with East 7th Street, 22 feet; THENCE easterly parallel with Avenue Z and part of the distance through a party wall, 100 feet to the westerly side of east 78th Street; THENCE northerly along the westerly side of east 7th Street, 22 feet to the point or place of BEGINNING. Said premises known as 2658 East 7th Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11235.

(Block: 7243, Lot: 30). Approximate amount of lien $ 630,308.72 plus interest and costs.

Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed judgment and terms of sale. Index No. 22483-13. Steven Z. Naiman, Esq., Referee. Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC Attorneys for Plaintiff 10 Bank Street - Suite 700 White Plains, New York 10606 (914) 949-2574 NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF KINGS Wells Fargo Bank, NA, Plaintiff AGAINST Mary HewittSimeon; et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated July 24, 2018 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Kings County Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, Room 224, Brooklyn, NY 11201 on November 1, 2018 at 2:30PM, premises known as 9918 Avenue M, Brooklyn, NY 11236. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and State of NY, Block 8283 Lot 42. Approximate amount of judgment $763,281.65 plus interest and costs.

Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index# 502388/2015. Steven Naiman, Esq., Referee Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, LLC Attorney(s) for the Plaintiff 175 Mile Crossing Boulevard Rochester, New York 14624 (877) 759-1835 Dated: August 20, 2018 56923 NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT KINGS COUNTY WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, D/B/A CHRISTANA TRUST, NOT INDIVIDUALLY BUT AS FOR PRETIUM MORTGAGE ACQUISITION TRUST, Plaintiff against IOLANTA TYUTIN ➔➔ Continued on page 11

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Saturday, October 13th EDUCATOR BOOK TALK: TEACHING FOR BLACK LIVES

Saturday, October 20th

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 515 Malcolm X Blvd., 3-4:30PM FREE. Join in a discussion with the book’s authors who provide educators with critical perspectives on how schools perpetuate anti-Blackness and offers educators concrete examples of what it looks like to humanize Black people in curriculum, teaching, and policy. RSVP at Eventbrite.

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FREE FITNESS CLASS Shiloh Seventh Day Adventist Church, 449 Eastern Parkway, Pioneer Hall, 12-1PM FREE Certified Fitness Instructor Antonie Bonneau leads a workout consisting of aerobics, core and body and stretching activities. For information call 718-771-4103.

SMALL BUSINESS SUNDAYS hosted by Nicholas Brooklyn, 1368 Fulton St., 12-6PM FREE. Come and experience our collection of the very best local small businesses. Find an array of unique products and services, meet and fellowship with the creators and other customers, and have a grand time.

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BETWEEN THE LINES: FOR COLORED GIRLS WHO HAVE CONSIDERED POLITICS Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 515 Malcolm X Blvd., 6:30-8:30PM FREE. Known as the “Colored Girls”, Donna Brazile, Yolanda Caraway, Leah Daughtry, and Minyon Moore have made history as four of the most influential Black women in politics.

Although impactful strategists, organizers, CEOs, and more, their stories largely absent from the mainstream—until now.

Be there as they discuss their lives and political legacies, captured in the new book For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Politics, written with Veronica Chambers. Register at Eventbrite.

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Monday, October 22nd TOWN HALL ON HOUSING CRISIS in Brooklyn Billie Holiday Theater, 1368 Fulton St., 6-8PM, FREE. Join Rep. Hakeem Jeffries for a forum addressing this critical issue. This event is in collaboration with Council Member Robert Cornegy, State Sen. Velmanette Montgomery and Assembly Member Tremaine Wright.

Saturday, October 27th THE LEGACY PROJECT: ARCHIVES FOR BLACK LIVES Weeksville Heritage Center, 158 Buffalo Ave., 11AM-5PM, DONATION. Do you have a special physical photo of yourself, your family, or your community that you don’t know what to do with? Do you know the story or memory behind that photo?

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Saturday, November 3rd DOUBLE GIVEAWAY: FREE CLOTHING & A HOT MEAL Trinity Baptist Church, 179 New York Avenue, 11AM-3PM FREE. Those in need of an assist can enjoy a hot meal and leave with quality, gently used clothing for the fall and winter. Choose pants, jeans, shirts, dresses, hoodies, shoes and more.

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Cave Canem 20 Jay St., Ste 310-A, 6:308:30PM $10. Entire nations and histories, even categories of identity, come and go in both fluid and violent ways. Through a discussion of love, war and writing, this master class will focus on the means by which the practice of erasure saturates our literature, sometimes unintentionally, sometimes brilliantly, sometimes both.

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