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NAACP Wages War Against Voter Suppression 53k Voter Registration Applications Failed to Process in Georgia

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ALTIMORE—The nation’s foremost civil rights organization is closely monitoring possible voter suppression in the state of Georgia stemming from Secretary of State Brian Kemp’s ongoing failure to process over 53,000 voter registration applications.

“It’s a stain on our system of democracy when less than a month before an election which could produce the first AfricanAmerican female governor in our nation’s history, we are seeing this type of voter suppression scheme attempted by a state official whose candidacy for the governorship produces an irremediable conflict of interest,” said NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson.

“We are closely monitoring this situation with our Georgia State Conference President Phyllis Blake and demanding a complete investigation and full transparency prior to the election,” added Johnson.

The NAACP is asking for all voters to verify their status by going online to https:// www.naacp.org/vote/ According to a report from the Associated Press Sec. Kemp, who is also a candidate for governor has “cancelled over 1.4 million voter registrations since 2012. Nearly 670,000 registrations were cancelled in 2017 alone.”

In August the NAACP Georgia State Conference successfully fought against the closing of 7 of 9 polls in the nearly all Black area of Randolph County.

The NAACP Georgia State Conference earlier that month called for Sec. Kemp to step down from office due to possible unethical and conflict of interest issues. The group pointed to a report from the FOX 5 I-Team—Kemp, a Trump-endorsed candidate, utilized a taxpayer paid-for app to promote his gubernatorial campaign.

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ith Democrats furious over Donald Trump, and many Republicans furious over the treatment of Justice Brett Kavanaugh, the 2018 elections are likely to see the highest turnout of midterm voters in recent history.

But those voters will be confronted by a byzantine array of voter restrictions, voter-suppression efforts, and voter discrimination standing in their way. A review by The Daily Beast found at least five voter-suppression practices in active use today. All are led by Republicans, all have disproportionate effects on non-white populations, and all are rationalized by bogus claims of voter fraud. They include: • Closing polling places in communities of color • Purging eligible voters from the rolls without their knowledge • Barring felons from voting • Voter ID laws • Eliminating early voting Each one of these alone is troubling.

In the aggregate, though, they paint an unmistakable picture of Republican efforts to hold on to power in an increasingly

non-white nation by making it harder for non-white people to vote.

Closing polling places The simplest way to stop people from voting is to make it harder for them to vote, and the easiest way to do that is to close polling places. And since 2013, more than 1,000 polling places have been closed in nine Republican-dominated states alone.

2013 was pivotal for two reasons. First, it came after President Obama’s re-election, which shocked many Republicans and which depended—like Trump’s victory four years later—on new blocs of voters turning out in record numbers. According to Carol Anderson, author of One Person, No Vote: The Impact of Voter Suppression in America, the Obama coalition brought in 15 million new voters, mostly young people and people of color. 2012 was when the demographic writing was on the wall.

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The Serious Business of Voting

Voter Suppression

➔➔ Continued from page 1 municipalities to enact discriminatory measures. Prior to Shelby County, states with a history of racial discrimination had to secure advance clearance from the federal government before changing voting processes. But Shelby County did away with those requirements, opening the floodgates to voter suppression. In the case of polling places specifically, pre-Shelby County, states had to notify voters if their polling places had changed, but that requirement was removed in 2013.

Since then, a study by the Leadership Conference Education Fund found that 868 polling places had been closed in Alabama, Arizona, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Texas. A second study found 214 polling places (8 percent of the state’s total) have been closed since 2012 in Georgia, where Secretary of State Brian Kemp is now the Republican candidate for governor. He’s running in a dead heat with longtime voting rights activist, Democratic state representative Stacey Abrams.)

While there are legitimate budgetary reasons to close polling places, where they are closed tells a different story. In one Georgia county, local election officials announced plans to close seven of nine polling places in an overwhelmingly black area, plans that were stopped after a statewide protest arose. But according to a Pew Institute investigation, “10 counties with large black populations in Georgia closed polling spots after a white elections consultant recommended they do so to save money.”

As a result of Kemp’s closures, 53 of Georgia’s 159 counties have fewer precincts today than they did in 2012. Of those 53 counties, 39 have poverty rates that are higher than the state average, and 30 have black populations of more than 25 percent.

In other words, three-quarters of the counties affected are disproportionately non-white.

John Powers, an attorney with the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: “There’s no doubt that there is a pattern statewide. Many of the counties in which consolidations are being considered have substantial numbers of minority voters.

These precinct consolidations have a disparate impact on Georgia’s most vulnerable citizens.”

In sum, the 2018 report of the nonpartisan U.S. Commission on Civil Rights—a massive, 400-page tome based on voluminous statistical data—concluded that in states like Georgia “cuts to polling places resulted in decreased minority-voter access and influence.”

hyphens, or clerical errors cause voters to be purged unless they can prove the purge was in error.

As of Oct. 9, 53,000 voters are in limbo because of this requirement—and 70 percent of them are African Americans, AP reported. Georgia’s population is 32 percent African American.

Moreover, journalist Greg Palast laboriously combed through the list of purged voters and found thousands of names that were erroneously purged, such as people who had moved, or even switched apartments in the same building. Yet unless these voters actively take the step of contacting the state of Georgia, they may not be allowed to vote on Nov. 6.

There’s no doubt as to why Kemp is doing this. In a closed-door session of Republican politicians last July, Kemp said, “The Democrats are working hard. There have been these stories about them, you know, registering all these minority voters that are out there and others that are sitting on the sidelines. If they can do that, they can win these elections in November.”

Kemp cited the risk of voter fraud, but his own office’s investigation in 2014 found only a few dozen potentially fraudulent voter applications among tens of thousands that were investigated. While voter fraud is fake, voter suppression is very real.

With Georgia’s population of 10.4 million and an estimated 50 percent voting rate, those 53,000 purged votes represent a full percentage point of voters, enough to swing this close an election.

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Black seniors kicked off bus going to polls because Georgia officials were ‘uncomfortable’

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ozens of black senior citizens were asked to leave a bus that was taking them to the polls Monday in Jefferson County, GA., the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.

The bus was owned by Black Votes Matter, a non-partisan group that visited a senior center in Louisville, Ga., to encourage people to vote.

“This is voter suppression, Southern style,” said LaTosha Brown, a co-founder of the group, according to the progressive website ThinkProgress. “I’m very upset.

I’m angry. I’m frustrated. I’ve got a lot of emotions right now.”

Bottom of Form “They were fired up, high energy, excited to go spread the word to their folks, excited to go vote ... getting on the bus to go vote at the polling place,” co-founder Cliff Albright said in the video. But when folks got on the bus to go vote, a call came in for them to get off, according to the group.

“Someone had passed by and saw the seniors getting on the bus, and called the county commissioners’ office to tell them that we can’t do that,” Brown said in the video.

The video shows the organizers telling the seniors on the bus that they have to get off, but that it was okay because they were still going to get out and vote later.

“We are still going to vote! Can’t stop us!” some of the seniors say.

“There’s not a candidate on this bus, there’s not a party symbol on this bus, but I’m going to tell you what is on this bus: a whole bunch of black fists in the air with the word

LaTosha Brown power underneath it. That’s what scared them ... “Albright said later in the video.

The county released a statement saying there was a “long-standing practice” that political activities were not allowed “during normal business hours or at, County sponsored activities,” and that the senior center is a county service, reported WRDW. The county also said officials were “uncomfortable with allowing Senior Center patrons to leave the facility in a bus with an unknown third party,” and that the event was considered political because it had been organized by county Democratic Party president Diane Evans, according to the station.

“It was discouraging that they weren’t able to vote,” Evans said, according to the AJC. “When they’re suppressing votes, they’re going to come up with any kind of excuse about what your problem is.”

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Voter purges A second common voter-suppression technique is the purge of the voting rolls based on thinner and thinner pretexts.

Voter rolls are supposed to be maintained to ensure accuracy, but lately the criteria for being purged, and the difficulty of getting un-purged, have amplified considerably.

And as the Commission on Civil Rights report concluded, “voter roll purges often disproportionately affect African-American or Latino-American voters.”

Once again, Georgia and Brian Kemp provide a chilling example. This week, the Associated Press revealed that Kemp has implemented an “exact match” policy that disqualifies voters if their names do not precisely match records held by the Georgia Department of Driver Services or the Social Security Administration. Typos, missing

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“I Don’t Forgive This Woman at All,” Says 9-Year-Old Accused of Groping

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orough President Eric Adams recently indicated that he was considering pressing charges against Teresa Klein, 53, now known as Cornerstore Caroline. Although this label preceded her entry onto the public scene, she has, by her actions, made it her own. In the process, she’s also made it a lightJeremiah Harvey and his mom, Someko Bellile ning rod and a cautionary tale. Fortunately for her, he called a meeting Surveillance video was viewed the instead. next day when Adams gathered all parties In a display that brings white privilege involved at the store, and it was clear that to mind for many and heightens the conver- young Jeremiah was telling the truth. sation around the ills of gentrification, Klein Because Klein’s back was turned, she could confronted nine-year-old Jeremiah Harvey not see that it was his backpack that touched and his family outside the Sahara Deli her. But unless hers was malicious intent, as Market on Albermarle Road in Flatbush on witnesses speculated, it’s unclear how she October 12th, claiming that while in the store, would mistake the brush of a solid object for he had sexually assaulted her. The child, dis- a grab by a small hand. Many parents in this traught, repeatedly denied the woman’s claim community and beyond were enraged, citing as his mother, Someko Bellile, questioned the similarity to the 1955 Emmett Till case.

Klein, whom people gathered around and Klein apologized to the child after loudly berated. viewing the video. “I was wrong,” she said.

Klein proclaimed that she was calling “Young man, I don’t know your name, but 911 and admonished Bellile for having poor I’m sorry.” parenting skills. Bellile tells her to go ahead “I don’t forgive this woman at all,” said and call, to which Klein replied, “And I am Jeremiah. “And she needs help.” a cop!”

Klein’s neighbors, including a pastor who “I want the cops here right now!” cell- lives above her, say that she is a racist who phone video reportedly shows her telling has caused problems in their building. She a 911 dispatcher. “That’s right,” the son has since called the cops on a New York Post grabbed my a**!” But Klein never placed reporter and a PIX 11 reporter, both of whom the call, only pretended to, and she is not a attempted to question her about the incident. police officer – resulting in Adams consider- She also says that Bellile was aggressive ing calling for impersonating charges. toward her and she plans to press charges.

Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program Fails to Forgive

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cross the nation and multiple generations, student loan debt now surpasses $1.5 trillion.

The anxiety shared by borrowers from all walks of life seeking ways to lift this unsustainable consumer debt affects multiple life dimensions. In some cases, these burdensome debts threaten the future of America’s middle class.

Two recent developments hold potential for struggling consumers.

On September 28, the independent and nonpartisan General Accounting Office (GAO) released findings on the federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program. Eligible student loan borrowers who have dedicated their careers to public service and met other requirements, such as 10 years of qualifying payments, can have their loan balances forgiven. The first step towards forgiveness requires that interested borrowers are initially screened to certify their employment and loans meet threshold criteria. Once certified, borrowers submit a loan forgiveness application for a final check before forgiveness is approved.

Although PSLF legislation was enacted in 2007, September 2017 was the first time that borrowers became eligible for the application for forgiveness. And according to the GAO findings, forgiveness approvals are minute compared to those who qualify.

As of June 2018, more than 1.2 million student loan borrowers requested to be certified, with 890,000 ultimately certified eligible. 28,000 applied for loan forgiveness,

thinking that they had met the 10-year payment and employment requirements.

Shockingly, of these, only 96, less than one-half of one percent received forgiveness.

According to the GAO report, “Education has used various outreach methods to inform borrowers about PSLF, but the large number of denied borrowers suggests that many are still confused by the program requirements.”

In response, the Department of Education has now agreed to all GAO recommendations. These include: comprehensive guidance for borrowers and servicers alike; more information about qualifying employers; standardized payment information; and enough detailed information to help identify payment counting errors.

For much of Black America, still-soaring student debt brings yet another financial hurdle to overcome – in addition to other disproportionate and historic struggles to obtain the full benefits of being a citizen and consumer.

According to Jason N. Houle of Dartmouth College, and Fenaba R. Addo with the University of Wisconsin at Madison, disproportionate Black student debt makes for an even more fragile Black Middle Class.

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2018 MIDTERMS OPINION: I no longer listen to the TV political pundits babbling from dusk to dawn about midterm outcomes after their miserable performance and forecasting in 2018. We all know more than is necessary about POTUS 45 and his base, whose numbers are about 30%. How Americans will vote on November 6 is anyone’s guess.

These midterms are highly important if there is any hope of saving the Republic of the United States of America. Start by getting out to vote. New Yorkers should have info about their polling sites. It is important to monitor actions in other states as well.

Voter purges are useful tools and weapons for GOP-dominated states which have sizeable populations of color. Since the US Supreme Court took the muscle out of the Voting Rights Act, the South is working assiduously to purge voters. Georgia and the gubernatorial race is a case-in-point. There has been a surge in voter registration in Georgia this year. Brian Kemp, the Georgia Secretary of State, is running for Governor opposite a Black woman, Stacey Abrams.

He has invalidated lots of write-in votes, tilting the scales in his favor. A number of civil rights groups are urging Kemp to vacate his office until after Election Day. The GOP must not be allowed to steal any more American elections from Black people.

Other tactics employed in the American South, vis-à-vis elections, is closing polling places in predominantly Black, Latino and Asian-American neighborhoods. Abrams is “destiny’s child” and history-maker. When she wins next month, she becomes the first Black woman governor in America’s 50 states. Send money to her campaign and help petition legal eagles

to remove Kemp from his Secretary of State chores.

We must continue to financially support the gubernatorial candidacies of Ben Jealous in Maryland and Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum in Florida. November 6 will determine if the widespread American anger expresses itself at the polls….and that America is more blue/purple than it is red/autocracy.

NYC Public Advocate Letitia James seems destined to become New York’s first African-American and woman to be the state’s top lawyer. Her Republican opponent, Keith Wofford, 49, a Harvard Law School alum, pro-Trumpian, made $4+ million last year at Ropes and Gray, a law firm. He is the first Black to get the GOP nomination for Attorney General.

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NEW YORK Check out the NY Congressional race in the 19th District where Democratic hopeful Antonio Delgado, Harvard Law School grad, is running against incumbent GOP John Faso. Faso has resorted to lifting words from Delgado’s pre-college raps, saying that content makes him ineligible to run. Late August polls showed a tight race.

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ARTS/CULTURE Congrats to the 25 MacArthur Foundation Genius Awards 2018 recipients, which includes five Blacks. They are William Barber, pastor and social justice advocate; playwright Dominique Morriseau; John Keene, writer and Chair of R u t g e r s University Department of AfricanAmerican and African Studies; choreographer Okwui Okpokwasili; Rev. William Barber and fine arts painter Titu Kaphar. Each of the MacArthur Geniuses will receive a $625,000 cash prize.

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Concert is set for October 20 at 8 pm at the Apollo with Christian McBride as the musical director and Nona Hendryx as a special guest. [Visit Apollotheater.org] Margaret Troupe’s Harlem Arts Salon (HAS) hosts a special event with the publication of a new edition of the Quincy Troupe book, “MILES AND ME,” which includes a foreword by Rudy Langlais, producer of the soon-to-be-released motion picture, “MILES AND ME.” The book documents Quincy’s friendship with the acclaimed music virtuoso Miles Davis and his own awakening, artistic and personal. The “MILES AND ME” festivities on October 28, from 2-6 pm, begins with a special conversation with Quincy Troupe, moderated by Hakim Hasan followed by musical performances

Voter Suppression ➔➔ Continued from page 2 is Ohio, where a Supreme Court decision in June allowed a controversial voter-purge policy: If you fail to vote for two elections, you’re sent a notice; and if you don’t answer the notice, you’re purged from the rolls.

Once again, to get a sense of what that means, check the numbers. In 2016, 2.2 million Ohioans didn’t vote. In 2014, 4.6 million didn’t. If you assume that the 2016 non-voters probably sat out 2014 as well, that means 2.2 million people have now been

sent a single mailed notice that they had to send back to get put back on the rolls in time for the 2018 election.

We don’t know how many sent back that notice. We do know that Trump won Ohio in 2016 by 446,821 votes, just one-fifth of those who could be purged. And, once again, the Ohio process disproportionately affects those at or near the poverty line, who may not understand the legalistic notice, or may not receive it because they moved, or may be suspicious of sending any such form back to the government.

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The Enemy Under our Feet

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f you live anywhere within the five boroughs of New York City, I want you to answer the following questions for me. Yes, you can answer aloud. I promise that I will hear you. Here are the questions: When you are walking through your neighborhood at night, do you ever come across rats? Have you ever seen one in the garbage cans that your neighbor has pulled to the curb? Ever been walking home and get startled by the sight of a rat running along the sidewalk near you? Ever been waiting for the train and watched as rats crept through the train tracks, or even worse, on the platform?

If you answered yes to any of those questions, no worries. You’re a normal New Yorker. And the sick realization that we as New Yorkers have actually come to accept rats as part of our communal landscape is the topic of this week’s essay.

Growing up, I can remember my friends and I chucking pennies at the rats that often lurked on the train tracks at the Nostrand Avenue station. We never hit any of them, but each day we wasted about 10 cents trying. It was just a given to me, even as a child, that when you went into the subway there would be rats down on the tracks. While in high school, I worked for City Marshal Charles Sanchez. His office was on Court Street. I was a mailboy, so at the end of every evening

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I’d take a crate of mail up to the Cadman Plaza General Post Office. Over there, by Borough Hall, I’d see rats foraging under park benches or in the garbage cans. I’d cross over or take the long way around because the sight of a creeping rat would unnerve me. It still does.

Last week, our local media teams converged on the Claremont Consolidated Housing Projects in the Bronx. A tenant of the housing project, Ms. Asia Clemente, reported that her 1-year-old son had been bitten by a rat in their home. Her report led to other tenants reporting their issues with large rodents in their apartments. One woman produced a video showing seven rats overtaking her kitchen, going through her pots and in and out of her sink. Another couple spoke about hearing the rats gnawing through the walls at night. Another man killed a rat and showed it to the camera crews while they were there. He said that the rat had bitten his stepfather. The Department of Health has since stepped in to oversee the issues in this housing project, but rat issues like this are prominent throughout the entire city.

The story in the Bronx got me to thinking.

Why have we accepted rats as part of the city for so long? And can’t we just kill them all and be done with them? I’m sure that animal rights folk will be upset at that question.

The rats that inhabit our city, specifically the brown rat and the black rat, originated in Asia. The tracking of the history and the migration of a rat is a study in commensalism. Commensalism means that there is an association between two organisms where one derives and benefit from the other. Rats are human-dependent. They eat from the garbage we accumulate. They nest in structures we build, or in the ground that we till. Rats reached our land by riding in the ships that came across seas. New York City is one of the biggest havens for rats in the entire nation. Part of the reason is that our topography is perfect for the nesting and mating of rats; concrete underground caverns with access to water, our housing construction standards, our public sanitation practices.

Figures put the rat population of New York City anywhere between 2.6 million and 30 million, depending on who’s counting.

This would mean that there are basically as many rats in the city as there are people. Why isn’t this considered some type of epidemic?

Rats are filthy creatures. Coming in contact with one can put a human at risk to catch any one of the dozens of pathogens that

rats carry. They bite humans, they’ve been known to attack cats and they even gnaw through wires and tubes underneath cars. A friend of mine was having electrical problems with his car. He took it to the shop and the mechanic showed him wires from underneath that had been totally chewed away by a rat.

A human’s greatest skill, and also his deadliest flaw, is his ability to adapt. New Yorkers don’t realize how dire the rat situation in our city is, because we all grew up seeing them in train stations and just accepting them as part of the whole. But to be living in a city where the rats might actually outnumber the humans is disgusting, alarming and quite possibly an awesome premise for a horror movie, except this is real life.

Last year, Mayor de Blasio launched a $32 million initiative to reduce the rat population. And yet, I still walk in the street when I come home late at night because of the rats moving with indemnity along the front of the homes and businesses. We should take this problem more seriously and demand a better response from our politicians because cutting checks obviously isn’t stopping rats from taking over an entire housing project in the Bronx.

VIDA Celebrates its 45th Anniversary

By Akosua K. Albritton

here’s no sweeter accomplishment than the one that comes from consistent effort and concentration on realizing a particular goal. Then when one looks to the right, and left to see others collaborating with you, one knows the mission will be accomplished.

Albert Vann and Annette Robinson are examples of such mission-driven effort. They and a cadre of community residents held fast, politically, economically and academically empowering the people of Central Brooklyn through the establishment of the Vanguard Independent Democratic Association (VIDA) in 1973. Albert Vann and many more people can look back on 45 years and wonder how did 45 years elapse so quickly. They also consider what more needs to be done.

The celebration at Giando’s on the Water in Williamsburg makes the case that VIDA is on task and has experienced victories due to collaboration, planning and plan execution.

There are still many people who need to be politicized, educated and enjoying a better standard of living for their households.

The night of October 11, 2018 was one filled with recognizing people in different fields of endeavor, starting with the cadre of people who made up VIDA’s board and moving on to congratulating professionals in their given fields for making positive impacts in labor, health, education, transit and the unions to name a few. VIDA counts 37 people as founders and 19 people as pioneers who are alive and acknowledge the 16 founding members and 12 pioneers who have since passed away.

VIDA’s current executive leadership and board includes Hon. Al Vann, Founder; Hon. Annette M. Robinson, Vice Chair, Kings County Democratic Party and Female District Leader; Hon. Robert E. Cornegy, Jr., CD 36; Henry L. Butler, President; Hon. Tremaine S. Wright, NYS Assembly, 56th District; Stefani L. Zinerman, Membership Vice President;

Babatunde Akowe, Political & Social Action Vice President; Tyrone Woods, Counsel of Elders Vice President; Chinyelu Udoh, Vice President and General Counsel; and C. Doris Pinn, Treasurer.

Many contend the importance of keeping labor unions in existence.

Photo: Courtesy of VIDA Working in unionized Front Row: Babatunde Akowe, Herman Merritt_, LaRay Brown, Annette Robinson, fields have moved many Tremaine Wright, Stefani Zinerman, C. Doris Pinn, Henry Butler households from poverty to middle class. The Vanguard Back Row: Robert Cornegy, Shawn D. Francois, Al Vann, Earl Phillips_Michelle Akyempong, Wanda Williams and Oma Holloway Spirit Awards for 2018 were bestowed upon the following labor professionals: Wanda men’s suits. Giando’s on the Water is known the people but how can that occur “when less Williams, Political Action & Legislation for its ceiling-to-floor-length glass windows than 50% are registered to vote in the United for District Council 37; Shaun D. Francois, where diners can effortlessly enjoy views States.”

In her introduction of Al Vann to the President of Local 372, District Council of the Brooklyn Bridge, Manhattan Bridge 37; Michelle Akyempong, Vice President, and Williamsburg Bridge as well as the podium Annette Robinson said, “They are working so hard to suppress our vote. Here Legislative & Political Action, Social Manhattan skyline.

Besides the business, civic, governmen- now to bring focus to the man of the hour, it Service Employees Union Local 371; Earl Phillips, Secretary Treasurer, Local tal, academic and political accomplishments is indeed an honor to introduce Albert Vann.

100, Transportation Workers Union; Dell acknowledged that night, longtime marital Al Vann is a man of deep thought, a man Smitherman, Downstate Political Director, and social relations were evident. There were of courage and stands up for his people."

SEIU Local 1199; Elizabeth Perez, Brooklyn tables filled by three generations of a family. Mr. Vann’s speech consisted of describing Borough Representative, United Federation Albert Vann had one such table. It is worth the conditions of Central Brooklyn, with of Teachers; and Herman Merritt, Assistant noting that so many business, marital and attention to Bedford-Stuyvesant, before Director, Governmental Affairs, Council civic relationships have withstood the test and after social and political activation by of Administrators. Community Partner of time. the Vanguard Independent Democratic Awards were given to Laray Brown, CEO Keeping an eye on the mission, CM Association. Vann has had a concern for the and President of Interfaith Medical Center Cornegy included in his celebratory state- quality of education provided in the commuand Noah Katz, co-President of PSK ment a request to “Call out to people, to nity as well as enervating residents to take Supermarkets – Foodtown. Mr. Katz said, contact family [in Midwestern states] to ownership of Central Brooklyn, regardless of “It is an honor to be here. It is an honor to encourage them to vote in the upcoming documented title to a particular block and lot. serve Central Brooklyn.” Katz gave kudos to elections” in order to reverse the direction He has striven to build a strong and lasting the employees of their stores. the nation is going under the President of the “Black political base.” In his retirement, he With all the tables and chairs in use, it United States. Similarly, Al Vann stated he stays active by heading the Boys and Girls is accurate to estimate approximately 400 will “contact people in his cell phone to de- High School Advisory Board. He is aware people enjoyed VIDA’s 45th year of com- termine whether they are registered to vote. that more needs to be done to galvanize and munity and political activism in grand style. Those who aren’t, I will delete them.” If they sustain the community, therefore, he continThe invited were donned in African print, are registered, he will attempt to convince ues to work and enlist others to take on the kente cloth and the latest cuts in gowns and them to vote. The issue is giving power to responsibility.

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powerfully enriching and wonderfully entertaining evening was enjoyed by attendees at the Fourth Annual Madiba Humanitarian Awards at the Brooklyn Museum on Saturday, October 13th. Presented by the Bedford Stuyvesant Museum of African Art (BSMAA) and organized by its Founder and Executive Director Vira Lynn Jones, the event commemorated what would have been the 100th birthday of courageous human rights icon Nelson Mandela, known affectionately as “Madiba” in his native South Africa.

Performances from a variety of stellar talents made the evening magical. Broadway phenom Lillias White sang a tribute to Miriam Makeba and the song, “We Are One,” trumpeter Ahmed Abdullah played the South African freedom song, “Mayibuye,” the Bongi Gumboot Dancers did a rare breakdown of the styles and meanings of this dance, the young women of the Dwana Smallwood Performing Arts Center were delightful, as was a dance duet by Sequoia Harris and Nathaniel Hall.

The evening began with a rousing drum processional of the honorees by Heritage O.P. and an electrifying performance of the South African National Anthem byu Phindile Mkhize Wilson. It closed with a performance by a masked stilt-walker in remembrance of Ivorian dance ambassador Mamadou Dahoue.

All honorees chosen this year are representative of Mandela’s spirit and dedication.

As their stories were told via video presentation, everyone was riveted; when they accepted their awards, some audience members were seen wiping away tears. At a time when cynicism and selfishness sometimes wins the day, bearing witness to the kindness and charity embodied by this remarkable selection of awardees was healing and uplifting.

Costume Designer Ruth E. Carter was the evening’s special honoree, recognized for her prodigious body of work in film, most of it on Black film projects. Her usual extensive research and imaginative prowess garnered rave reviews for the Black Panther costumes, particularly those seen on people gathered on the mountain in traditional dress from nations across the continent. Carter has done costume design for more than 40 films, including, Malcolm X, Selma, The Butler, Do the Right Thing, and Amistad (for which she

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Honorees and Founder from left to right: Vira Lynn, Jones, Founder Bedford Stuyvesant Museum of African Art; Minister Tony Muhammad, Ruth Carter, costume designer; James Shaw, Waffle House hero; Kevinee Gilmore, Founder #FosterCare and Ron Garris, Founder Throwaway Kids Foundation. received an Oscar nomination), among many others.

“Going in on a big Black Panther project is a big deal! Marvel’s like the CIA, you go in and doors mysteriously close behind you… But then I met with a young filmmaker named Ryan Coogler. And he kinda reminded me of a young Spike Lee. I wanna thank you for welcoming me home to Brooklyn. Cause when you talk about arts and education, I was educated right here. My first film was right here on Dekalb Avenue when I prepped School Daze for Spike Lee. And I had never done a movie before, but he trusted me. I had been educated in theater and I knew my craft. But he said, ‘Come on to Brooklyn. Come to the old firehouse.“ Rob Garris, a former amateur boxer has turned crusader for children in foster care, as he had once been. Through his Throwaway Kids Foundation Garris seeks to be a voice and a conduit to agency for these children nationwide. He’s monitoring the system and has paid for funerals for children who died in foster care. Garris also helps adults who’ve aged out of the system to gain employment

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and to find as much information as they can about their birth histories, which have medical significance.

“I’m shocked!” said Garris.” I’m not used to this. This is really special to share the stage with these people. I’m so touched and I feel blessed to be a part of this.”

People who’ve come through the foster-care system have another fierce advocate in Kevinee Gilmore. She was shuttled between 13 homes before aging out of the system at 18, when she was booted out, becoming instantly homeless. The founder of #FosterCare, Gimore takes on the $26 billion-dollar industry, created Foster Share House and intends to acquire 13 properties, (one for each of the homes she lived in), providing stable residences for agedout youth. Gilmore delivered sobering news among the festivities – true to the advocate that she is: “Seventy-six percent of girls who age out of foster care are mothers before their 21st birthday and they lose their children to the foster-care system. Fifty-four percent don’t have a high school diploma and 36% percent go to prison within the first year. In 2014, 60% of kids who aged-out were human-trafficked.

And less than 4% of kids get college degrees.

I’m one of the 4 percent… So if you understand that culturally we’re all connected, you understand why it’s important for you to step up. The foster-care system is modern-day slavery.”

Minister Tony Muhammad inspired everyone present by what he’s achieved through unwavering commitment to ending gang violence. Over two decades he has brokered peace between the rival gangs of South Central Los Angeles, in the process, saving lives and safeguarding futures. He co-founded the United in Peace Movement, resulting in a historic truce – the Peace Treaty and Cease Fire Agreement between area Crips and Bloods and a reduction of violence by 40 percent. And his blueprint for taking this success national is breathtaking in scope and vision.

“They are the best generation we’ve ever produced,” he said of the young people. “All they need is guidance. Last year over 5,000 gang members came together who wanted to kill police officers. But God blessed me to change that by using two documents the Million Man March pledge and a pamphlet called “The Way of Happiness." And it was so big that next year we’re going to the Coliseum with 100,000! The gang members want to livestream it to the world, go to the stage and ask for forgiveness. It will be a day of edutainment

headed up by none other than sister Beyonce and her husband.“ Honoree James Shaw, popularly known as “The Waffle House Hero,” disarmed a crazed gunman in Tennessee last spring, saving many lives while risking his own. Then to compound his act of service, he created a GoFundMe campaign seeking to raise $15,000 to support the families of those who lost their lives in the incident. However, he raised $241,826 to date. After GoFundMe's fee we gave away $220,000 and I used $15,000 to start the James Shaw Foundation devoted to public health, mental health and ending gun violence.

“As I start my work to help people – all people – I realize that’s the only way I’m gonna pay my ticket here on Earth,” said Shaw.

“When I was in that hallway by myself, there was nothing but optimism and God that got me out of that situation. Young men come to me in the street now for words of inspiration.

And I want to thank Miss Vira for the award.

The recognition and the encouragement help the heart to keep pushing.”

Vira Lynn Jones could not be more pleased with how the fourth annual awards turned out.

“I am excited that I could celebrate the legacy of Nelson 'Madiba' Mandela by honoring individuals who embodied many of the principles he embodied in this life, especially his sacrifices toward helping humanity,” she said. “The BSMAA staff is so proud of the honorees this year. They bonded so well and admired what the other honorees were doing to improve the lives of others.”

Having the event take place at a venue such as the Brooklyn Museum was a milestone for Jones. “It really put BSMAA on many people’s radar. Most people did not realize that there’s an African art museum in Bedford Stuyvesant.

And I’m still receiving text messages from people telling me how fantastic the show was!

The most incredible feedback was from the audience member who thanked me for picking such incredible honorees who were full of compassion and showed a deep dedication toward the things they were doing to improve society.”

In addition to the awards and accolades, Brooklyn Designer Moshood gifted each honoree with a fabulous hat. This year, BSMAA was honored and delighted to receive official approval for the annual event from the Nelson Mandela Foundation in South Africa. (The Madiba Awards had previously been approved as an official event by the United Nations to be listed in its calendar from 2015 to 2024.)

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or new General Manager Dave Gettleman and Head Coach Pat Shurmur, the 2018-19 season has not gone as they thought it would out the gates. With last Thursday’s loss to the Philadelphia Eagles, the New York Giants fell to 1-5, making it the second straight year they have done so. Unfortunately, in the NFL, losing streaks are just a finger-pointing sign directed at the quarterback. In this case, it is Eli Manning. It is important to point out that Eli Manning’s numbers thus far are respectable.

It may be very hard for Giants fans to accept, but the era of Eli is perhaps coming to an end. There is a point in time where change is needed and we all know too well that Father Time is, and forever will be, undefeated (Tom Brady is looking to change that).

Since the start of the 2017 season, the Giants have an abysmal win-loss record of 4-18, second-worst record in that span. Do I really need to tell you what team has more? (Cleveland Browns) Let’s point out a few things before everyone starts bashing Manning.

In those Super Bowl-winning

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We played hard and we got a tie game. It was a good game. It was a lot of fun.

We play John Dewey High School later this week. And hopefully we will win the next game.

John Dewey High School Score: 1 Coach: Nicholas Barkley I think it was a pretty good game today.

Both teams are evenly matched. The defense was good today. We had a couple of defenders make some nice tackles and nice blocks that saved goals. It kept us in the game.

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seasons, Manning was in the prime of his career, but he also had a ferocious defense to rely on, as well as a decent offensive line who actually made the necessary efforts to protect him. Manning has been getting beat up all season long because the current O-line lacks the ability to give him the time to make plays. Although tough times have hit him and the rest of the Giants, and despite star receiver Odell Beckham, Jr. basically throwing his QB under the bus, Manning has gotten a vote of confidence from his head coach and team owner John Mara. “I think when you are 1-5, everyone needs to play better. We are still working,” Mara said. He (Mara) also said that he wishes Beckham, Jr. would make more headlines on the field instead of off it. I think it is safe to say he was not pleased with Beckham displaying his frustrations with the team two weeks ago in an interview with ESPN’s Josina Anderson. The team has no plans to discipline Beckham nor bench their quarterback. To sum it up Coach Shurmur said, “We still believe in Eli.” He also shot down rumors that were circulating that other players on the team had lost faith in the veteran QB. On a slightly bright side, the Giants are still mathematically in the mix to capture the NFC

East crown which appears to be shaping up to be one of the most up-for-grabs divisions in football.

The team will be getting some guys back who were injured and hopefully the O-line, which has been dreadful, can play much better than what they have shown.

If this is indeed the end of an era for Eli Manning, Giants fans must understand that things do change.

I love the old days such as when Patrick Ewing and how he ignited Madison Square Garden; former hockey great Mike Richter was the goalie for the Rangers, or even when it was the ninth inning in the Bronx and the Yankees had Mariano Rivera come in to close out games. The fact is those players are not walking back out to their respective teams. The Giants can still turn things around and hope that Manning does not end his career the way his father Archie did when towards the end of his career, he was a good player, just on a few bad teams. The G-men will look to turn things around on Monday night as they host the 2-4 Atlanta Falcons.

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Leon M. Goldstein High School Girls Varsity Soccer 10/14/2018 Brooklyn Technical HS Score: 2 Coach: Peter Schmidt Nowara We were frustrated, we had a lot of chances and scored two. I am happy we won.

The team’s defense was phenomenal. It was a frustrating game. Leon M. Goldstein HS played almost the entire game behind the line. In defense of half of the field, so there was no space to create an opening to shoot the ball or unlock, their defense was quick enough to move the ball.

We were taking a lot of shots and the goalie was solid. They had three girls on the 6-yard box, so they always had someone to step up to kick the ball out of bounds. The game is often played wide open, there is better space on the field.

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Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure, Sale and Discharge of Mortgage and Nunc Pro Tunc Relief, duly filed on August 13, 2018, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Kings County Supreme Court, Room 224, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, NY on October 25, 2018 at 2:30 p.m., premises known as 447 East 48th Street, New York, 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 4696 and Lot 50. Approximate amount of judgment is $817,188.22 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold

subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 21783/2011.

Doron A. Leiby, Esq., Referee Knuckles, Komosinski & Manfro, LLP, 565 Taxter Road, Ste. 590, Elmsford, NY 10523, Attorneys for Plaintiff. Cash will not be accepted.

SUPREME C O U RT – COUNTY OF KINGS U.S. BANK NATIONAL A S S O C I AT I O N , AS TRUSTEE, SUCCESSOR IN INTEREST TO BANK OF AMERICA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE, SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO LASALLE BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR MORGAN STANLEY MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST 2006-16AX, M O RT G A G E PA S S THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006-16AX, Plaintiff ➔➔ Continued on page 10

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LEGAL NOTICES ➔➔ Continued from page 9 against JEFFREY ALAN GANDELMAN A/K/A JEFFREY A. GANDELMAN A/K/A JEFFREY GANDELMAN, et al Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered on September 19, 2018.

I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction in Room 224 of the Kings County Courthouse, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. on the 15th day of November, 2018 at 2:30 p.m. premises described as follows: All that certain plot, piece or parcel land, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and State of New York. Said premises known as 948 Glenmore Avenue, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11208.

(Block: 4212, Lot: 16).

Approximate amount of lien $ 736,687.36 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed judgment and terms of sale. Index No. 511071-15. Philip Kamaras, Esq., Referee. McCabe, Weisberg & Conway, P.C. Attorney(s) for Plaintiff 145 Huguenot Street – Suite 210 New Rochelle, New York 10801 (914) 636-8900 NOTICE OF SALE Supreme Court County Of Kings 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: 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

VOL. 22 NO. 42 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 A/K/A IOLANTA TYUTINA, et al Defendants Attorney for Plaintiff(s) Knuckles, Komosinski & Manfro, LLP 565 Taxter Road, Suite 590, Elmsford, NY 10523 Attorney (s) for Plaintiff (s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale Entered August 10, 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 2041 Royce Street, Brooklyn, NY 11234-6220.

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. Approximate Amount of Judgment is $583,008.68 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index No 503382/2014. Cash will not be accepted at the sale. Gregory T. Cerchione, Esq., Referee 2296-002906 REFEREE’S NOTICE OF SALE IN FORECLOSURE SUPREME COURT – COUNTY OF KINGS THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON FKA THE ➔➔ Continued on page 11

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philosophies and expose racism built into emergent artificial intelligence technology.

Presented in collaboration with A Blade of Grass (ABOG) nonprofit.

Tuesday, October 23rd AFROBICS: BURN TO THE BEAT ARTs East New York, 534 Livonia Ave., 7-8PM, $12. Exercise while dancing and get your sweat on with Endurance Mome Burn to the Beat gets you moving with calisthenics and free weights. Build stamina, enhance flexibility and lift your spirits!

Advance discount card available.

Thursday, October 25th A HISTORY OF VOTER SUPPRESSION @ Schomburg Center,

Saturday, October 20th

Sunday, October 21st

BROWNSTONERS OF BEDFORDSTYUVESANT, INC. 40TH ANNUAL HOUSE TOUR

BROOKLYN USA HONORS BASKETBALL LEGEND FLOYD LAYNE @ El Caribe Country Club, 5945

Brownstoners of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Inc. Saturday, October 20, 2018 from 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM (EDT) Brooklyn, NY See the beauty behind the Brownstones of Bedford Stuyvesant! Our House Tour is self guided and starts promptly at 11am and ends promptly at 4pm. All ticket holders MUST come to the Starting Point (Boys and Girls High School: 1700 Fulton St., Brooklyn, NY) to exchange their ticket for a brochure. It is suggested that you print your e-ticket to exchange for brochure.

Only brochures will gain entry to the homes and has the map of homes listed for the tour. Go to the Brownstoners of Bedford Stuyvesant Facebook page for link to purchase tickets.

Ticket prices for the 40th Annual House Tour of Bedford Stuyvesant are: $20 in advance (till October 19th ) and $25 on the day of the tour!

WHAT WAS IS: A BED-STUY COMMUNITY ART PROJECT Sanctuary Art Gallery & Shoppe, 178 Lexington Ave., 1-4PM, Donation suggested. Take part in an art workshop inspired

by Brooklyn remembrances and storytelling with a facilitator for adults and children. Create through sharing your stories and assembling photos/media, artifacts, documents and found objects. Bring your images, artifacts or use ours. A vendor market featuring local artists will be held.

Sponsored by the Citizens Committee for New York City.

Strickland Ave., 12-4:30PM. Brooklyn United Scholarship Assoc.’s annual luncheon honors Floyd Layne, one of the outstanding members of the 1950 CCNY Basketball team, the only college team in history to win both the NCAA and NIT Championships in the same year.

The organization also honors its Hall of Fame inductees: Laddy Baldwin, John H. Bunyan and Wayne Morgan. Several high school students will receive scholarships for outstanding academic achievement.

Call Ron Cargill at 917-520-1842 for information.

Monday, October 22nd DECOLONIZING THE LAND, DECOLONIZING THE MIND BRIC, 647 Fulton St., 7-9PM, FREE. Imagine an inclusive future in which indigenous and POC communities thrive, creating alternative systems and technologies to protect people and the environment and disrupt biases. A discussion will be moderated by racial equity trainer Nayantara Sen. Enjoy a performance by artist Maria Hupfield of the Wasauksing First Nation. Screenings of short films demonstrate artistic practices that fight gentrification through Afrofuturist

YOUTH & YOUNG ADULT FAIR Brooklyn Neighborhood Improvement Assoc., 465 Sterling Pl., 10AM-2PM, FREE. Community Board 8 presents this event aimed at engaging and serving young people. Access info on and assistance with education, career readiness, finances and knowing your rights. To RSVP and for more info call 718-467-5574.

Carol Anderson

515 Malcolm X Blvd., 6:30-8:30PM, FREE. Dr. Carol Anderson, author of One Person, No Vote, discusses disenfranchisement efforts across history and the power of Black voices in politics. A professor of African-American Studies at Emory University, Anderson focuses on ways domestic and international policies intersect through race, justice and equality in the U.S. She’ll be in conversation with Dr. Khalil Gibran Muhammad, professor of History, Race and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School. Register at Eventbrite.

Saturday, October 27th FROM MASS INCARCERATION TO UNIVERSAL EDUCATION: UNLOCKING THE SYSTEM @ May Day Space, 176 Saint Nicholas Ave., Bushwick, 10AM-6PM, FREE. The Philosophy and Religion in Africana Traditions’ 5th Annual Conference explores difficult questions: Can universal education unlock an entrenched system of unjust laws? Can effective resistance be mobilized against harmful institutional models such as “zero tolerance” policies?

Are we suffering from a poverty of imagination among many educational reformers? (*The first day will be held on Friday, 10/26, 10AM-6PM at the CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave. in Manhattan.

AFRO-GOTHIC Pioneer Works, 159 Pioneer St., 5:308PM, FREE. The Afro-Gothic, as defined by scholar Kobena Mercer, is an aesthetic means of coping with the trauma of colonial slave history. A panel discussion is held in conjunction with the exhibit, “PÒTOPRENS: The Urban Artists of Portau-Prince.” A former slave colony, Haiti established itself as the only nation-state in the world led by nonwhites and former slaves after the Haitian Revolution. Co-curator Leah Gordon will be joined on the panel by Donald Cosentino, Jean Eddy Saint-Paul and Gina Athena Ulysse. RSVP at Eventbrite.

LEGAL NOTICES ➔➔ Continued from page 10 BANK OF NEW YORK, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS OF CWMBS, INC. CHL M O RT G A G E PA S S THROUGH TRUST 2006OA5, MORTGAGE PASS THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006-OA5, Plaintiff – against – FERDOSHI TAHER, et al Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered on July 30, 2018. I,

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the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction, in Room 261, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York on the 25th Day of October, 2018 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 435 Pine Street, Brooklyn, (City of New York) New York 11208. (Block:

4234 and Lot: 6) Approximate amount of lien $660,885.95 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed judgment and terms of sale. Index No. 505567/2014.

Leonard Spector, Esq., Referee.

Davidson Fink LLP Attorney(s) for Plaintiff 28 East Main Street, Suite 1700 Rochester, NY 14614-1990 Tel. 585/760-8218 For sale information, please visit Auction.com at www.Auction. com or call (800) 280-2832 Dated: July 31, 2018

Sunday, October 28th BUILDING COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT: CENSUS 2020 & THE BLACK VOTE IAAFestival Off., Suite 401, Restoration Plaza, 1360 Fulton St., 3-5PM, Sugg. min. donation: $10. NAKO & the International African Arts Festival host a lecture

by Prof. John Flateau, Ph.D., author of Black Brooklyn: The Politics of Ethnicity, Class and Gender. A professor at Medgar Evers College, Dr. Flateau directs the US Census Information Center, the DuBois-Bunche Center for Public Policy, the New York Clearinghouse on the 2020 Census, Voting Rights and Redistricting, and a team of CUNY Service Corps research assistants. For info call 718-7893264 or 718-638-6700.

MARK YOUR CALENDARS Thursday, November 1st BROOKLYN TALKS: WELL-READ BLACK GIRL WITH GLORY EDIM Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Pkwy., 7-10PM, $16. Celebrate the release of Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves, an inspiring new anthology of essays by Black women writers. Contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Jacqueline Woodson, Gabourey Sidibe and others on the importance of recognition in literature. Glory Edim, editor and founder of the popular Well-Read Black Girl Book Club, hosts a conversation with some of the contributing writers, followed by a book-signing and reception with music by DJ Reborn. Tickets at showclix.

Sat., November 3rd & Sun., November 4th BED-STUY ARTS STROLL Calabar Imports, 351 Tompkins Ave., 1PM & 3PM, FREE. Wear walking shoes for this self-guided stroll, which includes galleries, murals, other art-related spaces and a list of places to eat and shop. Participating are the Bishop Gallery, Calabar Gallery, Deanna Evans Projects, Bed-Stuy Provisions, Fulton Art Fair at Bailey’s Café, Peace & Riot, Richard Beavers Gallery, Sanctuary Spaces Gallery and Zion Gallery.

Afro-Gothic

Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program Fails to Forgive ➔➔ Continued from page 3 life course,” wrote the two scholars in a new report for the Russell Sage Foundation. “Some have argued that the student loan market is not unlike the mortgage market, where Blacks lack access to fair credit and are disproportionately steered toward high-interest loans that are difficult to repay.”

The esteemed scholars may be right. But in neighborhoods across

the country Black people do not need to theorize. We live that agony every day and nearly every year. Perhaps it is time to shift from research and data points to activist engagement.

To put it another way, what are we prepared to do about it? ### Charlene Crowell is the Center for Responsible Lending’s Communications Deputy Director.

She can be reached at Charlene. crowell@responsiblelending.org.

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