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uarterback Colin Kaepernick engaged and redirected the consciousness of sports when he knelt at the 49ers’ final 2016 game during the U.S. national anthem rather than sit as he had done previously.

In protesting the nationwide series of unpunished police killings and harassment of people of color, he was insisting that the nation acknowledge how far from justice we are.

Since a year ago, he has scored his greatest touchdown off the field and within the hearts of communities throughout the nation and around the world by casting a light on the conversation that America needs to have. But his actions have cost him his career.

Because of Mr. Kaepernick’s immense courage in holding up the banner of truth to American big business and big politics, his actions in taking a stand in one of the most hostile of environments, his philanthropy at the grassroots level, his inspiration to all races and his determination to follow in the traditions of the greatest athletes of our recent past–football All-American Paul Robeson facing down the House Un-American Activities Committee; runners Tommy Smith and John Carlos protesting racial injustice with blackgloved fists raised and heads bowed at the 1968 Olympics and Muhammad Ali sacrificing his heavyweight champion title by being a conscientious objector to the Vietnam War -- Colin Kaepernick is Our Time Press’ 2017 Man of the Year.

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“This stand wasn’t for me. I’m seeing things happen to people who don’t have a platform to have their voices heard and affect change. I’m in a position where I can do that, and I’m going to do that for the people who can’t.”

[Pages 8-9] Also inside: Our Time Press begins recurring series on State of Education in Our Community with Publisher’s View [Page 3] Segregated Education Profitable for some [Page 10]

Girls for Gender Equity’s Tarana Burke, Founder, ME TOO movement, Named TIME Magazine’s Person of the Year [Page 2]

"President Trump has placed us in a war for the soul and future of the nation, and the schools are where the battle is fought door-todoor."

VIEW David Greaves [Page 3, 14]

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Girls for Gender Equity’s Tarana Burke, Founder, ME TOO movement, Named TIME Magazine’s Person of the Year

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his year, girls and women across the globe made the media confront the reality of sexual assault and harassment by telling their stories with the hashtag #MeToo. Below, Tarana Burke, founder of Me Too, tells how the movement began.

“The me too Movement™ started in the deepest, darkest place in my soul.

“As a youth worker, dealing predominately with children of color, I had seen and heard my share of heartbreaking stories from broken homes to abusive or neglectful parents when I met Heaven. During an all girl bonding session at our youth camp, several of the girls in the room shared intimate stories about their lives. Some were the tales of normal teenage angst and others were quite painful. Just as I had done so many times before, I sat and listened to the stories, and comforted the girls as needed. When it was over the adults advised the young women to reach out to us in the event that they needed to talk some more or needed something else – and then we went our separate ways.

“The next day Heaven, who had been in the previous night’s session, asked to speak to me privately. Heaven was a sweet-faced little girl who kind of clung to me throughout the camp. However, her hyperactive and often anger-filled behavior betrayed both her name and light, high-pitched voice and I was frequently pulling her out of some type of situation. As she attempted to talk to me that day though the look in her eyes sent me in the other direction. She had a deep sadness and a yearning for confession that I read immediately and wanted no part of. Finally, later in the day she caught up with me and almost begged me to listen…and I reluctantly conceded. For the next several minutes this DBG MEDIA Publishers of Our Time Press, Inc. 358 Classon Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11238 (718) 599-6828 Web site: www.ourtimepress.com e-mail: editors@ourtimepress.com Publisher DBG MEDIA

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child, Heaven, struggled to tell me about her “stepdaddy” or rather her mother’s boyfriend who was doing all sorts of monstrous things to her developing body…I was horrified by her words, the emotions welling inside of me ran the gamut, and I listened until I literally could not take it anymore…which turned out to be less than 5 minutes. Then, right in the middle of her sharing her pain with me, I cut her off and immediately directed her to another female counselor who could “help her better.”

“I will never forget the look on her face.

“I will never forget the look because I think about her all of the time. The shock of being rejected, the pain of opening a wound only to have it abruptly forced closed again - it was all on her face. And as much as I love children, as much as I cared about that child, I could not find the courage that she had found.

I could not muster the energy to tell her that I understood, that I connected, that I could feel her pain. I couldn’t help her release her shame, or impress upon her that nothing that happened to her was her fault. I could not find the strength to say out loud the words that were ringing in my head over and over again as she tried to tell me what she had endured…

I watched her walk away from me as she tried to recapture her secrets and tuck them back into their hiding place. I watched her put her mask back on and go back into the world like she was all alone and I couldn’t even bring myself to whisper…me too.”

As the #MeToo movement gained momentum, Brooklyn-based Girls Gender Equity Senior Director, Tarana Burke, strove to ensure that women of color, transgender folks, and gender nonconforming folks across identities were not left behind.

She’s quick to point out that American Indians are 2.5x more likely to experience sexual assault crimes than members of any other race, or that low-income women experience some of the highest rates of sexual violence in the US. This week, Time honored women and men, from movie stars to farmworkers, who have boldly broken their silence about the sexual misconduct they’ve faced. But for over a decade, Tarana has been cautious, critical, and courageous in amplifying the harms of sexual violence marginalized folks have endured and the work they done in spite of it.

“We have to keep our focus on people of different class and race and gender,” she told TIME. She is continuing this work both as the founder of me too. and in her role at Girls for Gender Equity. GGE is the fiscal sponsor of Tarana’s me too. movement.

For information, visit: www.ggenyc.org/ (Tarana Burke Cover Photo: Courtesy of Just Be Inc.)

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David Mark Greaves

he many dynamics causing the shrinking enrollment and triggering the difficult recommendation to close P.S. 25 will move the process forward by their own inertia if community pressure is not brought to bear to change the course.

Given choices of public schools outside the district or even outside the system, these dynamics are as close as a parent’s trust in the teacher and the down the street school, and as far away as billionaire public education assassin Betsy DeVos and the education aspect of the Republican tax plan.

According to the DOE School Quality Snapshot 2016-2017 of the overall dismal performance of The community city schools on has to raise its State tests, PS 25 voice and be in ranks higher than the struggle here the city averages on the ground, across the vast majority of catebecause the Republican tax gories. The perplan is coming formance on state tests in English to take what shows 47% at P.S. resources there 25 meeting state are. standards versus David Greaves 29% for the district and 40% citywide.

When the challenges facing the students are taken into consideration, the Comparison Group achieves only 26% of state standards.

The same is true in math. 48% meeting state standards for PS 25 versus 27% for the district, 42% citywide and 28% by Comparison Group. The challenge is to double the enrollment, perhaps with an enthusiastic-current-parent-to-prospective-parent campaign of after-work buffets, coupled with a plan ➔➔ Continued on page 14

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State of Education in our Community Nothing makes cutting budgets easy, especially when there’s little left to cut. As school boards monitor this year’s budget and plan for next year’s, research can point the way toward which cuts will have the least negative impact. For instance, research shows where smaller class sizes are most effective. Before making decisions that may increase class sizes, districts should examine their student demographic and achievement data to pinpoint which classes need to remain small and which may be able to absorb more students without undermining achievement.

Districts need to communicate how severe the longterm outlook is and work to ensure that students who are just starting school now will be able to compete with their international peers when they graduate from high school.

Asking schools to do more with less does not make sense.

How much less can schools have before they are unable to do more? How much erosion in the quality of public education can the nation sustain? -Center for Public Education -2010

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Tax Incentives to Secede from Public Education ■■ Richard D. Kahlenberg, Senior Fellow, The Century Foundation

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ith our democracy under great stress, we must do all we can to nourish and support American public education, not inflict on it greater damage. … Something even more serious than partisan politics is on the table: the viability of public education as an institution, one that educates nearly all—90 percent— of our country’s students.

For years, conservatives have been promoting publicly financed private school vouchers for low-income students. There doesn’t seem to be much to recommend them: not only do the vouchers divert public funds away from public schools, but the evidence

is very mixed about whether such programs improve the academic achievement of the vouchers’ recipients. Despite these concerns, Republicans in Congress are now proposing to spend billions of federal funds over time to subsidize private-school education for the children of higher-earning families. The provision, included in the Tax Cut and Jobs Act, expands Section 529 (which currently provides tax incentives that encourage parents of all income levels to save for college) to allow such tax-deferred savings to be used for private K-12 education.

Unlike existing programs, which allow families to put aside $2,000 a year for K-12 education, the new plan will allow for $10,000 per year to be set aside and grown tax-free.

Furthermore, the income limits of the existing

K-12 savings plans ($220,000 for joint filers) would be lifted entirely.

There are major problems with this proposal. First, in practice, the bill will likely simply subsidize private K-12 education for many families that were already planning, and can already afford, to send their children to private schools. Second, if the provision does induce a significant number of additional families to leave public schools, that will certainly undermine support for public schools generally, and potentially exacerbate even further the racial and class-based segregation that many public schools face.

Third, given that there is little evidence that these vouchers do any good for education ➔➔ Continued on page 14

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Bridgette A. Bryant Named CUNY First Vice Chancellor, University Advancement

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he City University of New York Board of Trustees today named Brigette A. Bryant as the first Vice Chancellor for University Advancement, a post in which she is charged with leading the development of a CUNY-wide advancement operation, essential to significantly increasing the university’s effectiveness in private fundraising. Ms. Bryant will work closely with the chancellor, Board of Trustees, donors, the college presidents and the senior advancement team throughout CUNY to increase the success of fundraising across the university. She will focus on the expansion of major and principal gifts, alumni relations and annual and planned giving, as well as best practices in resource development systems and infrastructure.

CUNY has been working for over a year on plans to build a successful university-wide platform for fundraising and the recruitment of new advancement leadership is a critical part of these ongoing efforts.

Ms. Bryant is currently Associate Vice President for Development at Seton Hall University and formerly held top fundraising jobs at Tufts University and Case Western Reserve University, as well as other development positions in higher education including at Columbia University. Ms. Bryant brings to CUNY a successful record of building fundraising infrastructure, securing large gifts and leading capital campaigns in higher education institutions.

“I’m a New Yorker by birth,” said Vice Chancellor Bryant, “and grew up on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. I watched my single mother work hard to balance college, work and the care of her two children. It took intense family sacrifice, but she graduated from John Jay College of Criminal Justice just two years shy of my own graduation from Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music and the Arts. CUNY supported her

Brigette A. Bryant determination. So, my interest in CUNY is personal, but also infused with professional commitment to providing access and opportunity to NYC students like my mother and me.”

At Seton Hall, Ms. Bryant more than doubled contributions and increased the number of donors by 35 percent. At Case Western Reserve, she also stepped into a position that had not previously existed, expanding a centralized fundraising team while unifying school-based fundraisers under a single university umbrella; she also managed her own portfolio, leading to a number of principal gifts. At Tufts, she led an alumni campaign, increasing by 25 percent the number of major gift donors and raising the giving level of existing donors.

Under her leadership, total school giving represented nearly 40% of the university’s overall achievement.

Ms. Bryant earned a Bachelor of Music in Music Production and Engineering from Berklee College of Music.

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No LIRR train service between Jamaica Station and Atlantic Terminal December 9–10 Ride Q trains between Atlantic Terminal and 34th Street/Herald Square instead The Long Island Rail Road will be installing new switches near Atlantic Terminal on the weekend of December 9–10. During this weekend, the following changes will be in effect: • No LIRR trains will operate between Jamaica Station and Atlantic Terminal • NYC Transit will accept LIRR tickets for rides on the Q train between Atlantic Terminal and 34th Street/Herald Square • Eastbound customers: make the short walk from Herald Square to Penn Station at 34th Street and Seventh Avenue, where you can board eastbound LIRR trains •

Brooklyn-bound customers: take your LIRR train to Penn Station, then walk to 34th St/Herald Square and board the Q train to Atlantic Terminal

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CDSC’s 2017 Holiday Toy Drive

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Many families live in poverty and are unable to celebrate Christmas.

A simple way to bring Christmas to these children is to donate a new, unwrapped gift for children between the ages of newborn – 12 years old.

Donate to CDSC’s Children’s Holiday Toy Drive from December 1 - December 21, 2017.

Gift Ideas: Dolls/Barbie’s Craft Sets Scarves/Glove Sets Toy Cars Music Players

Headphones Action Figures Education Toys Puzzles Board Games

Building Blocks Jewelry Sets Sports Equipment Gift Cards Movie Tickets

Book Bags Basketball/Footballs Coloring Books Electronic Toys Fashion Doll Clothes

Drop-off location 352 Classon Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11238 The distribution of toys take place at our annual Children’s Holiday Party on Thursday, December 21. Underwriters are needed to help with food, beverages, desserts, decorations and gift for the children’s parents.

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Paying Attention to Gradual Change ■■

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here is a parable that I’d like to share with you today, and it’s called “The Boiling Frog”. The parable says that if you were to take a pot and fill it with boiling hot water, and you tried to throw a frog into that pot, the frog would jump right out of it. However, if you took the same pot, filled it with lukewarm water, placed it on the stove and made it so that the temperature of the water would gradually increase, you could drop the frog into the water and he’d stay relaxed in the soothing water, oblivious to his fate until it was too late.

We have no doubt witnessed gradual change in our government over the past 14 months. We’ve gone from a President who was polished, reserved and obviously committed to his wife and family, to a President who tweets everything he thinks, speaks to people and about people without any filter, and has openly discussed womanizing on misogynistic levels.

We’ve watched as Trump called for the building of a wall to separate Mexico from America, called for Muslims to be banned from traveling into the country and called for transgender citizens to be banned from the military. We’ve watched as he tweeted threats to North Korea, and threats to James Comey, and threats to CNN, NBC and other news sources, plus anti-Muslim videos. We’ve watched him refer to Elizabeth Warren as Pocahontas while talking with the Navajo Code Talkers. We’ve watched him toss paper towel rolls like basketballs at Puerto Rican citizens whose lives were in calamity due to the Hurricane Maria. We’ve also watched as world leaders, who just 14 months ago shared great relationships with President Obama, now refuse to shake the hand of our

new President.

We’ve watched as hate crimes have increased in our country, and hate driven by ignorance has once again begun to fester. We’ve watched mass shootings become weekly occurrences, and the renewed resurgence of racism renamed white nationalism, or alt-right. We’ve watched as groups like Black Lives Matter have been labeled as terrorists, while the Ku Klux Klan marches through our southern towns again, sheets freshly pressed. Gradual changes that haven’t yet burned us.

This past week, the Senate passed a sweeping tax bill which will affect the middle class and the poor while giving even more tax breaks to the rich. Trump praised the bill as the biggest tax cuts in history, but he didn’t make it clear who was getting the cuts. The bill tells the tale though. Then this week, Trump took it upon himself to declare that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel, controversial because the decision about Jerusalem should be left in the hands of the Israelis and Palestinians and not decided by a new President looking to use his influence to cement Israel’s power in the region.

Slow, steady, incremental, successive changes that we have watched over the last 14 months. And though the common American is watching these events play out, it’s still from a spectator purview, our social media profiles and our jobs and our vacations still allowing for our comfort. Christmas shopping? Holiday cheer?

Many of us have the holiday ham on our minds, a thing far more important right now than some tax bill you’ve never read.

But make no mistake, our country is getting hotter, like a cast-iron pot sitting over the flame.

And if we don’t take action right now, we will be sitting in boiling water, still smiling, albeit too late to do anything about it.

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They Stood For Justice

Paul Robeson testifying at the House Unamerican Activities Committee, 1956.

TommySmith: US athletes Tommie Smith, center, and John Carlos stare downward in protest during the playing of the Star-Spangled , at the 1968 Olympics.

Rosa Parks booking photo, February 1956, Montgomery Bus Boycott.

(Alabama Dept. of Archives and History) Muhammad Ali refused the draft as a conscientious objector to the Vietnam War, in 1967.

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Colin Kaepernick Receives Muhammad Ali Legacy Award

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olin Kaepernick received the Sports Illustrated Muhammad Ali Legacy Award, which honors an athlete who uses their platform to further change, earlier this week.

Kaepernick’s decision to remain seated while the national anthem played back in 2016 sparked similar protests by NFL players that continue to incite controversy to the present.

During her presentation of the award to the athlete/social activist, Beyonce took a strong stance on Kaepernick’s actions to protest police brutality “Thank you Colin Kaepernick … for your selfless heart, and your conviction,” the singer said in her speech. “Thank you for your personal sacrifice.

“Colin took action with no fear of consequence or repercussion only hope to change the world for the better. To change perception, to change the way we treat each other, especially people of color.” . Kaepernick’s decision to remain seated while the national anthem played back in 2016 sparked similar protests by NFL players that continue to incite controversy in the present.

“We’re still waiting for the world to catch up. It’s been said that racism is so American, that when we protest racism, some assume we are protesting America. So, let’s be very clear. Colin has always been very respectful of the individuals who selflessly serve and protect our country and our communities and our families. His message is solely focused on social injustice for historically disenfranchised people. Let’s not get that mistaken.

In his acceptance speech, Kaepernick said that his “platform is the people.”

“I say this as a person who receives credit for using my platform to protest systemic oppression, racialized injustice and the dire consequences of anti-blackness in America,” he said. “I accept this award not for myself, but on behalf of the people. Because if it were not for my love of the people, I would not have protested. And if it was not for the support from the people, I would not be on this stage today. With or without the NFL’s platform, I will continue to work for the people because my platform is the people.”

The 2017 SI Sportsperson of the Year Show airs on NBCSN on Friday, Dec.8 and Sat., Dec. 9, at 8 pm, each night (Excerpted from Variety 12/6/17)

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Keeping US Education Segregated Is a Highly Profitable Business for Some

■■ By Mark Karlin, Truthout | Interview

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hy are schools in the United States more segregated than they have been since the mid-20th century? In Cutting School, a book that Naomi Klein calls “astounding” and Bill Ayers calls “smart” and “wise,” Noliwe Rooks delivers a timely indictment of the corporate takeover and dismantling of public education.

Noliwe Rooks argues that educational apartheid has existed throughout the history of the United States, and continues to this day. Not only is this segregated education an abomination, but it also has been a revenue source for white school districts, entrepreneurs and even philanthropy. Rooks sees hope for change in the resistance of young students who are demanding accountability.

Mark Karlin: How has “educational apartheid” changed, and how is it still the same in the United States?

Noliwe Rooks: When I first

thought about writing Cutting School I planned to begin in the 21st century. I knew that the racial and economic segregation I was seeing in this century wasn›t new, but I thought that the role that philanthropies, corporations, business leaders and politicians played -- in shaping how and why so many of our children today attend schools that are overwhelmingly segregated and that deliver idiosyncratic, often experimental educational forms that are very different from those wealthy students enjoy, and with teachers and curriculum and disciplinary methods that could only be found in poor schools -- was somehow a sign of our particular time. I didn›t understand that there was a disturbing continuity.

Noliwe Rooks. (Photo: Cornell Marketing) However, as I completed the research and writing for the book, I found that in this country we have had and continue to have a stubborn insistence on educating children who are economically vulnerable in completely different ways than

we do the children who are wealthy.

We try to convince students who are not wealthy that certain forms of education (such as those that are vocational in nature, or that include art, music and support for different learning styles) would work best for them. In this way, educational apartheid has remained constant.

At the same time, children of color, or poor children who are somehow able to live in school districts and neighborhoods that have high performing schools can actually attend them. So, that’s a definite change. The late poet, Amiri Baraka, referred to [the US] as a “changing same.” I think in many ways that construct aptly describes our nation’s educational system relative to students who are poor and of color. Educational apartheid is a changing same.

How is capitalism related to the “segrenomics” of education in the US? Segrenomics is a term I came up with to describe what I saw in so many discrete educational periods in [the US] where there was a consistent cycle for plundering

funds supposedly for our nation’s most vulnerable students and then hoarding those same funds to educate students who were either wealthy, or white and often times ... both.

I began to see that the separately unequal educations that define our nation were not merely the product of an apartheid imagination designed to educate different segments of our society into what a scholar named Horace Mann Bond termed the American social order, but was also a lucrative business model that from the 19th century on has aided the financial bottom lines of wealthy businesses. Looked at with that understanding, I began to see that the thicket of separate and unequal educational experiments described in the book (vouchers, charter schools, alternatively certified teachers and superintendents), many of which failed to educate the children they were created for, simply would not have been proposed if there was no money to be made from them.

Segrenomics explains how high levels of racial and economic segregation become a business strategy for companies providing educational strategies designed for children who are poor. It is a specific form of capitalism that relies on segregation to do its work.

In what way does this play itself out in white philanthropy and Black education?

Since the earliest days of taxpayer-supported public education, there have been white foundations and philanthropic organizations that in the south joined with white elected officials to propose schools that offered unequal educations (although in the context of a situation where education is either separate or nonexistent, many people in poor communities will choose separate every single time).

“The folks running these foundations may think they are doing good in the world but often they are segregation’s bankers.”

One of the most impactful was called the Rosenwald Fund and was started by the child of Jewish immigrants who rose to become the president of Sears, Roebuck [and Company]. His name was Julius Rosenwald. Rosenwald used his fortune to aid in building over 5,000 schools for Black children in the rural south between 1912 and 1960 when the Fund ran out of money.

The Fund was a matching grant and the way it worked was, if a community wanted to apply to the Rosenwald Fund for support they first, as a community, had to raise $500. Then they had to find land on which to build the school and often had to deed that land to county educational officials. Then the community, many of whom were often sharecroppers, had to find the wood and other materials to build the school. Then they had to find the labor to do the work of building the schools.

Once all of that was done, the Rosenwald Fund would contribute the $500 in matching grant fees. County educational officials benefited financially because they

Noliwe Rooks got the deed to [the] land. The philanthropy benefited because, starting in 1917, there were huge financial benefits for charitable deductions. State coffers benefited because Black communities were often required to pay an extra tax to educate their children (many former slaveholding states forbade using “white” tax dollars to educate Black children so those communities had to pay to educate white children and then again to educate their own).

The only reason any of this was necessary was because white legislatures simply didn’t want to spend the federal money sent South to educate Black children. They took it for the education of white children.

Today, we see deep-pocketed foundations continue this pattern, in that they will fund 90/90/90 charter school chains (schools with 90 percent students of color, 90 percent students who fall below federal poverty levels and 90 percent failing to meet educational standards), contribute to Teach for America (which often charges highly segregated school systems a finder’s fee of between $2,000$5,000 per teacher to provide it with teachers), or fund experiments with educational vouchers that often enrich middle and upper middle class white parents at the same time that they disadvantage low-income students of color. The folks running these foundations may think they are doing good in the world but often they are segregation’s bankers.

Where does the wrecking ball to public education, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, fit in this current privatization of public education?

The first point I want to make about Betsy DeVos is that she holds extreme versions of educational views that are centrist in terms of what billionaires, millionaires and the political and financial elite believe. She is extreme in that she does not believe in “government schools” as she calls them and thinks that the government should just give parents educational dollars for them to go off and find whatever type of educational experience they think is best for their kids.

She literally doesn’t believe in the educational system that she was installed to run, or perhaps dismantle, depending on how you want to look at it.

She’s extreme in that, but in general, elected officials are sort of on this educational spectrum ➔➔ Continued on page 15

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Fourth Time a Charm?

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By Eddie Castro

n what has been the most anticipated high school football game in sometime, the rematch everyone was hoping to see finally took place. In what was a cool, mild day at Yankee Stadium, the young men of Erasmus Hall High School have made the championship game for a fourth consecutive season. Standing in their way is the team that broke their hearts last year, the boys from Curtis High School.

The Defending Champion Warriors came into Tuesday night’s contest with a 10-1 record as the No. 2 seed in the PSAL, with their only loss coming from the 11-0 number one seed Erasmus back on the opening week. Fans were lined up outside the gates waiting to witness the hottest matchup in town.

Curtis quarterback Quincy Barnes set the tone for the game as he got the Warriors out to an early 7-0 lead in the first quarter.

As Barnes flourished throughout the game, Erasmus kept coming back with a one-two punch of their own. Curtis led Erasmus by 7 at halftime. Whatever Dutchman Head Coach Danny Landberg said to his team at halftime, they responded quite swiftly as the team tied the game at 22 with 12 seconds into the third quarter. From there, it was a back and forth affair with both teams scoring at will. As Erasmus pulled within one point, the defense of Curtis made a big play to stop a 2-point conversion to hang on to a 36-35 victory in what was one of the most entertaining high school games of the year. Curtis wins back-to-back PSAL city crowns as the Dutchman suffered another heartbreaker coming so close to that championship that has eluded them for the past four seasons.

In this situation, it hurts the boys of Erasmus so much. Trying so hard to bring a city crown to the Borough of Brooklyn.

The phrase “maybe next year” just won’t cut it. I’ll say this: In the early 90s, it was the “Bad Boys” of the Detroit Pistons and the “Showtime” Lakers teams who were flexing their muscles throughout the league and continuously beating up every team in their way.

One team that had some “growing pains” during that process was a young Chicago Bulls team. Eventually, Michael Jordan and the Bulls would eventually change the culture of basketball and become the new champs in town in the mid-90s. Maybe the “growing pains” this current Erasmus team is going through is just a simple process of adapting to defeat and keeping the hunger and fire to one day become PSAL champions. A big congratulations! is in store for the Brooklyn Boys of Erasmus. Four straight championship games is pretty impressive.

Next year should be an exciting one with the team having a different roster with many of the senior class moving on to play Division I football next year, including their senior quarterback Keion Jones. The Dutchman will begin another chapter on the “road to redemption” next year.

Sports Notes: A Brooklyn boxing star is born? This past Saturday, 29-year-old Brooklynite Sadam Ali captured his biggest victory of his boxing career as he defeated Puerto Rican boxing legend Miguel Cotto at Madison Square Garden to capture the WBA Middleweight Title.

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Golden Krust CEO Lowell Hawthorne Mourned Nationwide

by Black Business Leaders, Politicians, Community Leaders ■■ by Samara Lynn, Black Enterprise Magazine (12/4/17)

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ecember 4, 2017Lowell Hawthorne, CEO and president of Golden Krust Bakery and Grill died Saturday as the result of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, reports USA Today. Hawthorne built a culinary empire with his national chain of Golden Krust bakeries heralded for its Jamaican beef patties.

BLACK ENTERPRISE has covered Hawthorne for decades, chronicling the rise of his company to be listed among the BE 100s—the nation’s largest black businesses—and one of the top black-owned franchisors in the nation.

He was also a major philanthropist, providing scholarships as well as aiding in the development of his native Jamaica.

In 2012, Hawthorne spoke with Black Enterprise about his journey from immigrant to food industry mogul—a journey he shared in his book, The Baker’s Son. “My family and I possessed the drive, determination, and tenacity to succeed. We also knew when to seek help and employed experts to guide us through the rigorous system. I believe every immigrant that comes to the United States has the vision to attain the American dream and many find that through entrepreneurship,” he said at the time about finding success as an entrepreneur.

Founded in 1989 by Hawthorne, his 10 siblings, and extended family, the Golden Krust business was inspired by the recipes passed down from Hawthorne’s father and master baker, Ephraim Hawthorne, who was known for his homemade baked goods featuring the finest ingredients, Caribbean spices, and signature flaky crust.

The business became one of the fastest growing franchisors in the U.S., giving a number of Caribbean entrepreneurs a chance to run their own companies in New York, Miami, Atlanta, and other cities in which more then 100 Golden Krust outlets could be found.

The food chain enjoyed such popularity that Lowell appeared on the national TV

show Undercover Boss, a show where CEOs move among their employees in disguise to get an employee perspective of the company.

Golden Krust also operates a retail division that provides Jamaican patties to New York City public schools, the penal system, military, and more than 20,000 supermarkets, club stores, and dollar stores nationwide.

Golden Krust Bakery and Grill ranked 76 on Black Enterprise’s annual BE 100s list, with a revenue of $36.6 million.

Black leaders across a spectrum of industries are paying tribute to the man who epitomized an entrepreneurial success story. New York Assemblyman Michael Blake issued this statement, “It was a shocking surprise to learn of the loss of Lowell Hawthorne. Our team is sending his family and the entire Golden Krust team love, prayers and strength. Golden Krust is a hallmark in our community, located in our assembly district, and employs hundreds of our residents.

I’ve had the honor of collaborating and spending time with the Hawthorne family, a pillar in the Minority and Women Business Enterprises space, and who regularly provides community support.

One never fully knows what someone is

11 going through, so please take this moment to check on your loved ones, friends and colleagues as we don’t know the pain the Hawthorne family is experiencing right now.

As a Jamaican American, I send my heartfelt blessings to his family. From our family to his own, Walk Good Mr. Hawthorne.”

Black Enterprise’s president and CEO Earl “Butch” Graves Jr. said, “We are saddened by Lowell’s untimely death and we offer our deepest condolences, support, and prayers to the Hawthorne family during this time of sorrow. We will all miss Lowell, who served as a source of inspiration for so many black entrepreneurs, especially Caribbean immigrants.”

“He demonstrated acumen, ability, and tenacity to grow Golden Krust from a single restaurant in the Bronx to a mainstay among the BE 100s—one of the nation’s largest black-owned businesses. Lowell and his embodiment of the entrepreneurial spirit will be missed but never forgotten,” Graves said.

Hawthorne’s death hits the Jamaican community particularly hard. “It has hit us like a rock,” Rupert Clarke, head of

the National Association of Jamaican and Supportive Organisations and Help Jamaica Medical Mission, said in a statement to the Jamaica Observer. “This is a huge loss; there is now doubt as to whether we will be able to fill the void his death has created,” Clarke continued.

Watch Hawthorne’s interview on Black Enterprise’s Business Report TV show.

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NEW BUSINESS FORMATIONS Notice of Qualification of 5540 - 409-421 14TH STREET BROOKLYN LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/21/17. Office location: Kings County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 11/13/17. Princ. office of LLC: 110 William St., Ste. 2402, NY, NY 10038. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington,

LEGAL NOTICES SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF KINGS SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS AND NOTICE Index No. 507210/2017 Date Filed: 11/27/2017 U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee for Structured Adjustable Rate Mortgage Loan Trust, Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2006-3, Plaintiff, -against- Sekou Reaves a/k/a Sekou Toure Reaves, if he be living or dead, his spouse, heirs, devisees, distributees and successors in interest, all of whom and whose names and places of residence are unknown to Plaintiff; Courtney Lewis; Charles Young; Jacqueline Young; Henry Young, if he be living or dead, his spouse, heirs, devisees, distributees and successors in interest, all of whom and whose names and places of residence are unknown to Plaintiff; Mildred Pierce; Denise Hawkins; Reginald Brathwaite; James Reaves; Sheila Bryan; Keandra Jones, if she be living or dead, her spouse, heirs, devisees, distributees and successors in interest, all of whom and whose names and places of residence are unknown to Plaintiff; Karen Young; Erika Young; Angela Edmond; Derek Reaves; Grady Reaves a/k/a Grady Reaves, Jr.; Any unknown heirs, devisees, distributees or successors in interest of the late Mildred Reaves, Gregory Young, and Grady Reaves, if they be living or, if they be dead, their spouses, heirs, devisees, distributees and successors in interest, all of whom and whose names and places of residence are unknown to the Plaintiff; Discover Bank; City of New York Environmental Control Board; City of New York Parking Violations Bureau; City of New York Transit Adjudication Bureau; New York State Department of Taxation & Finance; State of New York; and “JOHN DOE”, said name being fictitious, it being the intention of Plaintiff to designate any and all occupants of premises being foreclosed herein, and any parties, corporations or entities, if any, having or claiming an interest or lien upon the mortgaged premises, Defendants.

PROPERTY ADDRESS: 162 Madison Street, Brooklyn, NY 11216 TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or a notice of appearance on the attorneys for the Plaintiff within thirty (30) days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service. The United States of America, if designated as a defendant in this action, may appear within sixty (60) days of service hereof. In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint. TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: The foregoing Summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an Order of the Hon. Noach Dear, a Justice of the Supreme Court, Kings County, entered November 22, 2017 and filed with the complaint and other papers in the Kings County Clerk’s Office. NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT THE OBJECT of

DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy.

Of State, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Real estate.

2167 68th Street LLC, Arts of Org filed with SSNY on 04/20/2017 Office Location: Kings County, SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: 2167 68th Street LLC, 2167 68th Street, LLC, Brooklyn, NY 11204. Purpose: to engage in any lawful act. the above captioned action is to foreclose a Consolidation and/or Modified Mortgage (hereinafter ‘the Mortgage”) to secure $278,512.33 and interest, covering premises known as 162 Madison Street, Brooklyn, NY 11216 a/k/a Block 1822, Lot 26. The relief sought in the within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt secured by the Mortgage described above. Plaintiff designates Kings County as the place of trial. Venue is based upon the County in which the mortgaged premises is situated.

NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME IF YOU DO NOT RESPOND TO THIS SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE MORTGAGE COMPANY WHO FILED THIS FORECLOSURE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT, A DEFAULT JUDGMENT MAY BE ENTERED AND YOU CAN LOSE YOUR HOME. SPEAK TO AN ATTORNEY OR GO TO THE COURT WHERE YOUR CASE IS PENDING FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ON HOW TO ANSWER THE SUMMONS AND PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY. SENDING A PAYMENT TO YOUR MORTGAGE COMPANY WILL NOT STOP THIS FORECLOSURE ACTION YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. Dated: September 21, 2017 Frank M. Cassara, Esq. Senior Associate Attorney Attorneys for Plaintiff 175 Mile Crossing Boulevard Rochester, New York 14624 (585) 247-9000 Fax: (585) 247-7380 Our File No. 15-047193 #93620 SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS Index No. 509992/2014 STATE OF NEW YORK SUPREME COURT – COUNTY OF KINGS U.S. BANK TRUST, N.A., AS TRUSTEE FOR LSF9 MASTER PARTICIPATION TRUST, Plaintiff, -vsTHE HEIRS AT LARGE OF SHIRLEY JOHNSON, deceased, and all persons who are husbands, widows, grantees, mortgagees, lienors, heirs, devisees, distributees, successors in interest of such of them as may be dead, and their husbands and wives, heirs, devisees, distributees and successors of interest of all of whom and whose names and places are unknown to Plaintiff; JERRY JOHNSON, INDIVIDUALLY AND AS ADMINISTRATOR OF THE STATE OF SHIRLEY JOHNSON, DECEASED; EDMUND RIVERA; DONTRELL JOHNSON; CRIMINAL COURT OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK; KINGS SUPREME COURT; CREDIT ACCEPTANCE CORPORATION; CREDIT ACCEPTANCE SILVER TRIANGLE BUILDING; MIDLAND FUNDING, LLC; NEW YORK CITY TRANSIT ADJUDICATION BUREAU; NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE, PARKING VIOLATIONS BUREAU; NEW YORK CITY ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL BOARD; NEW YORK

POLISHED SERVICES BY DEE LLC, Arts of Org filed with SSNY on 07/21/2017 Office Location: Kings County, SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: The LLC, c/o Deydra Bringas, 1809 Albemarle Road, LLC, Brooklyn, NY 11226. Purpose: to engage in any lawful act.

Notice of Formation of Davis Row LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/24/2017. Office location: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA; “JOHN DOE” AND “JANE DOE” said names being fictitious, it being the intention of Plaintiff to designate any and all occupants of premises being foreclosed herein, Defendants. Mortgaged Premises: 980 EAST 105TH STREET, BROOKLYN, NY 11236 TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANT(S): YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in the above entitled action and to serve a copy of your Answer on the plaintiff’s attorney within twenty (20) days of the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service, or within thirty (30) days after service of the same is complete where service is made in any manner other than by personal delivery within the State.

The United States of America, if designated as a defendant in this action, may answer or appear within sixty (60) days of service hereof. Your failure to appear or answer will result in a judgment against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. In the event that a deficiency balance remains from the sale proceeds, a judgment may be entered against you, unless the Defendant obtained a bankruptcy discharge and such other or further relief as may be just and equitable. NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer to the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property. Sending payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. These pleadings are being amended to include The Heirs at Large of SHIRLEY JOHNSON, deceased, Jerry Johnson as Administrator of the estate of SHIRLEY JOHNSON, deceased and Edmund Rivera as possible heir to the estate of SHIRLEY JOHNSON, deceased.

These pleadings are also being amended to include United States of America and New York State Department of Taxation and Finance. KINGS County is designated as the place of trial. The basis of venue is the location of the mortgaged premises. Dated: August 24, 2017 Mark K. Broyles, Esq. FEIN SUCH & CRANE, LLP Attorneys for Plaintiff Office and P.O. Address 28 East Main Street, Suite 1800 Rochester, New York 14614 Telephone No. (585) 232-7400 Block: 8212 Lot: 77 NATURE AND OBJECT OF ACTION The object of the above action is to foreclose a mortgage held by the Plaintiff recorded in the County of KINGS, State of New York as more particularly described in the Complaint herein. TO THE DEFENDANT, the plaintiff makes no personal claim against you in this action. To the above named defendants: The foregoing

VOL. 21 NO. 49 be served. SSNY shall mail process to The LLC, c/o United States Corporation Agents, Inc. 7014 13th Avenue, Suite 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of OLLIE NY 251 DEKALB LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/04/17. Office location: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Andrew Bledsoe, 757 Third Ave., 17th Fl., NY, NY 10017. Purpose: Any lawful activity. summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an order of HON. NOACH DEAR, Justice of the SUPREME Court of the State of New York, dated October 16, 2017 and filed along with the supporting papers in the KINGS County Clerk’s Office.

This is an action to foreclose a Mortgage.

ALL that certain plot, piece or parcel of land situate lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and State of New York, bounded and described as follows: BEGINNING at a point on the westerly side of East 105th Street, distant 45 feet northerly from the corner formed by the intersection of the northerly side of Avenue J and the westerly side of East 105th Street; RUNNING THENCE westerly parallel with Avenue J and part of the distance through a party wall, 95 feet 6 inches; RUNNING THENCE northerly parallel with East 105th Street, 20 feet; RUNNING THENCE easterly parallel with Avenue J and part of the distance through a party wall, 95 feet 6 inches to the westerly side of East 105th Street; RUNNING THENCE southerly along the westerly side of East 105th Street, 20 feet to the point or place of BEGINNING. Mortgaged Premises: 980 EAST 105TH STREET, BROOKLYN, NY 11236 Tax Map/Parcel ID No.: Block: 8212 Lot: 77 of the BOROUGH of BROOKLYN, NY 11236 LEGAL NOTICE OF POSTPONEMENT OF SALE SUPREME COURT – COUNTY OF KINGS HSBC BANK USA, N.A., Plaintiff against DMITRIY VASILEVSKIY, et al Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered on September 26, 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 7th day of December, 2017 at 2:30 p.m. premises Lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn and State of New York. In the condominium known as “BRIGHTWATER TOWERS CONDOMINIUM.” Together with an undivided 0.13025% interest in the Common Elements. Said premises known as 501/541 Surf Avenue a/k/a 2985 West 8 Street, Apt/Unit 7J, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11224.

(Block: 7279, Lot: 1724).

Approximate amount of lien $ 548,654.07 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed judgment and terms of sale. Index No. 501878-12. Renaye Cuyler, Esq., Referee. McCabe, Weisberg & Conway, P.C. Attorney(s) for Plaintiff145 Huguenot Street – Suite 210 New Rochelle, New York 10801 (914) 636-8900 The above mentioned sale was originally scheduled for November 16, 2017 at 2:30 p.m. The new sale date is December 7, 2017 at the same time and same place. Renaye Cuyler, Esq., Referee.

NOTICE OF SALE Supreme Court County Of Kings Bank of America, N.A., Plaintiff AGAINST Ramon Burgos, Myrna Burgos, et al, Defendant Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly ➔➔ Continued on page 13

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dated 5/10/2016 and entered on 6/3/2016, I, the undersigned Referee, will sell at public auction at the Kings County Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, NY on December 14, 2017 at 02:30 PM premises known as 120 Bradford Street, 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 and County of Kings, City and State of New York, BLOCK: 3673, LOT: 33.

Approximate amount of judgment is $449,586.97 plus interests and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 504574/2013.

Angelicque M. Moreno, Referee, FRENKEL LAMBERT WEISS WEISMAN & GORDON LLP, 53 Gibson Street, Bay Shore, NY 11706

ET AL., Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly filed on September 25, 2017, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Kings County Supreme Court, Room 224, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, NY on December 21, 2017 at 2:30 p.m., premises known as 28 Schenck Avenue, Brooklyn, NY. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and State of New York, Block 3919 and Lot 23. Approximate amount of judgment is $389,969.15 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 12679/2014.

Jageshwar Sharma, Esq., Referee Borchert & LaSpina, P.C., 19-02 Whitestone Expressway, Suite 302, Whitestone, New York 11357, Attorneys for Plaintiff

N OT I C E OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF KINGS, EMIGRANT BANK AS SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO EMIGRANT SAVINGS BANK- BROOKLYN/QUEENS AS ASSIGNEE OF EMIGRANT MORTGAGE COMPANY INC., Plaintiff, vs. GUSTAVO ALVAREZ, DORIS ALVAREZ,

SUPREME COURT – COUNTY OF KINGS HSBC BANK USA, N.A., Plaintiff against RAMKUMARI SINGH A/K/A RAMKUMARI RAM, et al Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered on September 15, 2017. I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction in Room 224 of

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the Kings County Courthouse, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. on the 14th day of December, 2017 at 2:30 p.m. premises described as follows: All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and State of New York. Said premises known as 389 Crescent Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11208. (Block: 4170, Lot: 105). Approximate amount of lien $ 428,793.46 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed judgment and terms of sale.

Index No. 508896/2015. Jeffrey R. Miller, Esq., Referee. Fein, Such & Crane, LLP Attorneys for Plaintiff 28 East Main Street, Suite 1800, Rochester, N.Y. 14614 (585) 232-7400 SUPREME COURT – COUNTY OF KINGS WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. AS TRUSTEE F/B/O HOLDERS OF STRUCTURED ASSET MORTGAGE INVESTMENTS II, INC., STRUCTURE ASSET MORTGAGE INVESTMENTS II T RU S T 2007-AR4, MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 2007AR4, Plaintiff against ADRIAN JOI BROWN A/K/A ADRIAN J. BROWN A/K/A ADRIAN BROWN, et al Defendant(s).

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 14th day of December, 2017 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 Attorney(s) for Plaintiff 10 Bank Street - Suite 700, White Plains, New York 10606 (914) 949-2574

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Guest Opinion

Intensifying the Struggle in Turbulent Times: Resisting FBI’s New Racial Identity Targeting

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Dr. Maulana Karenga

t is the wisdom of the ancestors that “if you know the beginning well, the end will not trouble you”. Therefore, when we receive news that the FBI released a socalled “intelligence assessment” pretending a threat from a group of “Black Identity Extremists” that doesn’t exist, we need not be shocked, shaken or even surprised. For throughout history, it has been the devious way of oppressors to deny and divert attention from their own brutal oppression by constantly indicting and dehumanizing the oppressed. It is also their way to justify practices of repression already in place and to signal and drum up support for policies to be intensified and expanded to deal with Black dissent, defiance and resistance.

Thus, as we pass through these trying, troubled and turbulent times, let us reaffirm our continuing commitment to set aside all illusions about race and reality and intensify the struggle and stand steadfast and united in the storm rising on the horizon and sure to hit and make landfall in the days to come.

The FBI report, issued August 3rd, is titled “Black Identity Extremists Likely Motivated to Target Police Officers” (BIE).

It claims to be a report alerting the country to an emerging threat from “Black Identity Extremists” who are ideologically motivated to retaliate for “perceived police brutality” against Black people. However, Rep. Karen Bass (D-CA) did a masterful job in questioning U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions about it at a House Judiciary Committee hearing and read it into the record. She gave him no quarter as he hemmed, hawed and hedged, dissembled, pretended and demonstrated ignorance, and sought sanctuary in feigned confusion and mercy requests to be allowed to review and submit answers in writing later.

She forced him to admit there is no evidence of any Black identity extremist group which has targeted police; that there are white groups who do this and that the government has written no similar report on “white identity extremists”; and that “activists around the country are very concerned that we are getting ready to repeat a very sad chapter in our history where people, who are rightfully protesting injustice, are unjustly labeled as extremists and subjected to surveillance and harassment”. And she requested that he

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➔➔ Continued from page 3 to bring the school averages up to 100% on State tests.

Citywide averages 40% on state education tests is not only a civic emergency, in this hyper-competitive world, with the highly-educated from around the country and the world coming to Brooklyn, it is an existential threat to the well-being of the black and brown communities occupying the bottom rungs of the education ladder.

“essentially roll back what is listed in this report. Because it’s not accurate”.

The “sad chapter of our history” reference is to the history of the Counterintelligence Program (Cointelpro) of the 60’s and 70’s.

Initiated in the 50’s, it became especially focused on us as a people in the 1960’s when J. Edgar Hoover, director of the FBI, established it as a program to crush Black resistance. We of the organization Us are both victims and survivors of Cointelpro and have learned, in sacrifice, struggle and reflective study, lessons of defense, development and resistance under heavy suppression. And it is this costly and strength-through-struggle experience that gives us special insight into how this new established order policy will play out and how we should respond.

Hoover listed as his essential aims to “expose, disrupt, misdirect, discredit or otherwise neutralize Black nationalist organizations”.

And to “neutralize” still carries with it an open-ended range of means to achieve its end.

Above all, he wanted to prevent our unity, he said, because “in unity there is strength”. And that unity in struggle was the greatest threat to the established order, not a single group.

Black nationalist groups were identified, targeted and subjected to various forms of assault; infiltration and disruption; invasive surveillance; legal and extra-legal harassment and violence; media myth-making, attacks and disinformation; provocation of intragroup and intergroup fighting, etc. Among the major groups targeted were the Nation of Islam, Us, BPP, RAM, RNA, SNCC and CORE. Civil rights organizations were also targeted, but special attention and attacks were directed toward Black nationalist groups.

Us was early defined as a radical and revolutionary organization by itself and by the U.S. Government and its intelligence agencies and police departments. And it was placed on every surveillance and suppression list that any other group so considered was placed.

Indeed, the FBI stated in its files on Maulana Karenga its concerns about Us’ commitment to revolutionary struggle; that its leader, Maulana Karenga, “is a key figure on both the SI (Security Index) and AI (Agitators Index), and that Us “plans for revolution (and) is currently training its members in revolutionary tactics” and it is classified as an “organization whose aims include the overthrow or destruction of the U.S. by unlawful means”.

Therefore, it concluded the bureau should take counterintelligence measures against Karenga and the organization Us, including working to discredit Karenga within the community, the movement and his own organization; provoke conflict and fighting between Us and the BPP and alienate them from the community, and divide the movement through disinformation and staged incidents to sow fear and dissension.

When the SI and AI programs were reorganized, Karenga and Us were moved to KBE (Key Black Extremists) and ADEX (Administrative Index) Priority 1 lists. And as late as 1975, an FBI memo claims Us is

engaged in activities which could violate a series of U.S. codes dealing with “rebellion, sedition and advocating overthrow of the government”. As a result of this classification, targeting and attacks, we suffered police suppression, political imprisonment on trumpedup charges and were forced underground and in exile in other countries as other groups.

Surely, the BIE report is a beginning variation on the Cointelpro, revived with greater technological capacity for disruption and disinformation, and in a climate of seeded and cultivated racialized fear and hatred conducted by a man at the top of the heap addicted to name-calling, dog whistles to racists and early-morning twiddling and tweeting “while Rome burns” and he threatens to burn the world. It might seem to be about one group, but it is actually about the Black community.

It is a continuation of racializing crime and criminalizing the race, and thus an attack on Black identity and Black people, making us all suspects and offenders and subject to the harshest measures, especially activists.

It is also, then, to criminalize and discourage Black resistance, an attempt to intimidate and terrorize activists and potential activists, sowing fear, doubt and heightening concern for safety, security and stigmatization for work, career and life. It is also an attempt to redefine the emerging, overarching Black movements for racial and social justice as extremist rather than righteous struggle against injustice and oppression. And finally, it is an attempt to shift attention from state-sanctioned white supremacist and police violence against Black people and to justify increased police presence and repression in the Black community.

Now some and maybe many will come and counsel caution, cooling off, reconsideration and reconciliation, and others will shamelessly advise silence and surrender; introduce those willing to funders and granters of favors, suggesting that you think of a narrower and self-focused future with diminished integrity and whatever comfort, safety and security you can beg and bargain for yourself and those close.

But again, history and hard lessons of life and struggle have taught us: there is no substitute for freedom and justice with dignity; that these and safety and security come not from resignation but resistance; not from conceding in silence but confronting in audacious and effective ways; and not from surrender to evil, injustice and oppression but from united, righteous and relentless struggle on every level and every battlefield and battle line.

Dr. Maulana Karenga, Professor and Chair of Africana Studies, California State University-Long Beach; Executive Director, African-American Cultural Center (Us); Creator of Kwanzaa and author of “Kwanzaa: A Celebration of Family, Community and Culture and Essays on Struggle, Position and Analysis”; www.

AfricanAmericanCulturalCenter-LA.org; www.OfficialKwanzaaWebsite.org; www.

MaulanaKarenga.org.

The community has to raise its voice and be in the struggle here on the ground, because the Republican tax plan is coming to take what resources there are. In the accompany essay, “Tax Incentives to Secede from Public Education” Richard D. Kahlenberg says of the tax plan’s relation to public education “The stakes are high.

A 2011 report of the Center on Education policy estimated that complete elimination of the state and local tax deduction would deprive public schools of $17 billion—an amount greater than the entirety of Title I federal financing for public education.

Michael Dannenberg of Democrats for Education Reform estimates that the House bill “would whack about $250 billion in support for public education over the next ten years.”

President Trump has placed us in a war for the soul and future of the nation, and the schools are where the battle is fought door-todoor. As the late Bedford-Stuyvesant activist Janie Lee Green repeatedly said, “If you lose the schools you lose the community.” If we are to raise the standard and keep our local schools, we need that on-the-ground spirit now more than ever.

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It is flat-out fiscally irresponsible to spend potentially billions of federal dollars on a new education subsidy that is likely to have negative, not positive, effects on overall student achievement.

Another widely discussed provision of the Republican tax bill proposes to put limits on the deductibility of state and local taxes (SALT), which is likely to harm investment in public schools. Part of the reason that upper middle-class families currently use public schools, rather than private schools, is that public schools in upper-middle class areas are relatively well-funded. The public schools in upper-middle class areas can draw high-quality teachers with competitive salaries and can offer a rich curriculum and extracurricular activities because the families of their students are willing to support taxes on property and income at a level that will finance good schools. And those families are willing to support those higher state and local taxes because the federal deductions now in place make them more affordable. Taking that deduction away could make upper-middle class families reject future state and local spending on education.

The stakes are high. A 2011 report of the Center on Education policy estimated that complete elimination of the state and local tax deduction would deprive public schools of $17 billion—an amount greater than the entirety of Title I federal financing for public education. Michael Dannenberg of Democrats for Education Reform estimates that the House bill “would whack about $250 billion in support for public education over the next ten years.”

Public schools, even in more affluent neighborhoods, would decline as a result.

And coupled with the new tax incentive for parents to use private education, we could see the flight of upper-middle class families from public to private education accelerate even further.

If this happens, public education will lose much of its political muscle, and state legislators will be under less pressure to adequately fund public schools. In turn, public schools will decline even further, leading to a vicious cycle.

Observers have noted that the deductibility of state and local property taxes hits blue states most heavily, which surely plays into the proposal’s motivation. But something even more serious than partisan politics is on the table: the viability of public education as an institution, one that educates nearly all—90 percent—of our country’s students.

Something even more serious than partisan politics is on the table: the viability of public education as an institution, one that educates nearly all—90 percent—of our country’s students.

These privatization schemes began by picking off lower-income families, then worked their way up to the middle class.

And now they seek to encourage upper-middle class families to secede from the public-school enterprise. With our democracy under great stress, we must do all we can to nourish and support American public education, not inflict on it greater damage.

(Richard D. Kahlenberg focuses on education, equal opportunity, and civil rights.

He is the author of six books and editor of 10 Century Foundation volumes.)

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Keeping US Education Segregated Is a Highly Profitable Business for Some ➔➔ Continued from page 10 and believe we should make it easier for lightly regulated educational businesses to take a bigger and bigger share of the $500-$600 billion-dollar educational market, which is comprised of taxpayer funds often with very little oversight.

Schools almost function like ATM machines for folks who have figured out how to use them that way. We have not heard Betsy DeVos offer any type of critique at all about what is often just outright theft.

Taken as a whole, the education system is comprised of a majority of students who are of color and fall below federal set poverty levels. Those then are the students most negatively impacted by DeVos’ failure of oversight.

Describe your concept of “stealing school.”

Over the past five or so years, we have seen a real uptick in the numbers of parents who are trying to escape their public-school systems, which are populated with low-performing charter schools and dysfunctional and low-achieving traditional public schools. What they do is enroll their children in higher-performing schools outside of their districts using the addresses of friends or family. Many districts across the country have begun to hire private investigators to surveil their students and when they discover that the students are enrolled in schools outside of the district in which they live, they are arresting the parents and charging them with educational theft, or stealing school.

The dollar figures involved often make these charges felonies and so when convicted, these parents are faced with felony convictions on their records that can preclude them from voting, and make it

more difficult for them to get jobs. When wealthy parents are caught doing the same thing, they are never sent to jail. This is one of the ways that we can really see how education has become a commodity.

We are willing to send parents to jail for wanting the same type of education for their kids as wealthy parents get. We simply do not believe that economically vulnerable children deserve the same type of education.

What should we be aiming for in terms of resistance?

One of the things that I learned writing this book is that all over the country young people are demanding more from their educational experiences. They are winning.

They are pushing back against abusive disciplinary practices, against overtesting and against narrowing educational practices and experimental educational forms.

I end the book with the life stories of two of my former students (one from Princeton, another from Cornell) who went into the business of education following their graduations from college.

Their words and experiences end the book, not mine. They believe communities need to be consulted about the education of their children and not have outsiders come in and make top-down decisions.

They believe that teaching children about politics, sexism, racism and identity is as important for children of color in struggling schools as is science and math. They believe that children always need to be treated with respect -- and that how we discipline in schools matters as much as if and why we discipline. I think that resistance looks like us following where these young people want to lead us.

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