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Two Fronts in the Same War: Voter Participation, Voter Suppression
This year marks the Centennial of Fannie Lou Hamer’s birth (October 6) and the 40th anniversary of her death (March 1977). Our Time Press remembers her as the personification of the reason Black America should vote, and one of America’s greatest examples of the class the country lacks in its leadership today. (OTP)
Remembering Fannie Lou Hamer, the Voting Rights Heroine of Freedom Summer
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he last of 20 children, the Mississippi tenant farmer, leapt to national prominence during the 1964 Democratic National Convention, when she eloquently challenged Mississippi’s segregated Democratic primary on national television. In 1962, she had become a leader of the African-American voting rights movement in Mississippi that culminated in 1964’s Freedom Summer. Forced off her land when her landlord demanded that she take her name off the voter registration list, Hamer was repeatedly jailed and beaten during her voting rights activities. “The only thing they could do to me was kill me,” Hamer said, “and it seemed like they’d been trying to do that a little bit at a time ever since I could remember.” I didn’t know anything about voting; I didn’t know anything about registering to vote. One night I went to the church. They had a mass meeting. They talked about how it was our right, that we could register and vote… about (how) we could vote out people that we didn’t want in office, we thought that wasn’t right. That sounded interesting
Universal Hip Hop Parade “The Unauthorized And The Legacy of Marcus Garvey Psychoanalysis of Donald Trump” ■■
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Prologue Section 7 of the American Psychiatric Association’s Principles of Medical Ethics of 1973 reads as follows: “On occasion, psychiatrists are asked for an opinion about an individual who is in the light of public attention or who has disclosed information about himself/herself through public media. In such circumstances, a psychiatrist may share with the public his or her expertise about psychiatric issues in general. However, it is unethical for a psychiatrist to offer a professional opinion unless he or she has conducted an examination and has been granted proper authorization for such a statement.” There is no rule I have ever been happier to have been accused of violating than this one when I published the first 7 chapters of my book, “The Unauthorized Psychoanalysis of Rudolph Giuliani” in the Amsterdam News and the Daily Challenge newspaper in the seven weeks between March 28, 2000 and May 12, 2000. That ➔➔ Continued on page 11
By Kazembe Batts
he Universal Hip Hop Parade (UHHP), an annual educational and cultural to be held this Saturday, August 12 (the Saturday before Marcus Garvey’s August 17 birthday event) celebrates the great activist’s enormous legacy of recognizing popular culture as a tool to empower people and encourage the growth of Black institutions. The parade holds the distinction of being the world’s longest celebration of Hip-hop culture. It covers all the traditional elements of Hip hop including rappers, break dancers,
singers and actors performing both on floats and on foot. Additionally, graffiti artists and deejay’s perform at different locations along the parade route. The parade also presents other examples of the vibrant artistic and cultural life of the community including stilt walkers, motorcycle & van clubs, graffiti banner displays, marching bands, sound trucks, dancers and more. Additionally Hip-hop legends, elected officials, community activists and legendary MC’s have participated. The parade also serves to display the emerging neighborhood of Bedford Stuyvesant, including its arts, culture and
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Bad Times There are two psychotic world leaders armed with nuclear weapons yelling at each other in evermore threatening rhetoric, such as attack by “fire and fury like the world has never seen before” is one such bellicose phrase. One of these is the president of North Korea, Kim Jong-un, from whom such words are not unusual and over the years have approached comedy, but coming from the mouth of the president of the United States, delivered with arms held tightly across his chest as though in a straightjacket, which unfortunately was not in use at the time,
they are bone-chilling and enough to make the military, the Congress and the people hit pause for a moment and think. The military has to look in the mirror and say they will not obey an unlawful order. The Congress has to confirm to the military and make public to the world that only they can authorize a war and any use of military force must be approved and nuclear weapons are off the table. The Congress then has to admit that the world can’t wait until 2020 to remove this man from office. There are 10 million people in Seoul, South Korea and another 160,000 in Guam
enough to me that I wanted to try it. I had never heard, until 1962, that black people could register and vote. . . Well, when I first tried to register it was in Indianola. I went to Indianola on the thirty-first of August in 1962; that was to try to register. When we got there—there was eighteen of us went that day—so when we got there, there were people there with guns and just a lot of strange-looking people to us. (When I got back home) the landowner said, “you’ll have to go down and withdraw your registration, or you’ll have to leave this place.” I didn’t call myself saying nothing smart, but I couldn’t understand it. I answered the only way I could and told him that I didn’t go down there to register for him; I went down there to register for myself. This seemed like it made him madder when I told him that.” (Source: Interviewed by Neil McMillen, 4/14/72 and 1/25/73; Courtesy of Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive McCain Library and Archive, University of Southern Mississippi HistoryMatters.gmu. edu) growing commercial district to the residents from other neighborhoods of New York City as well as other visitors to the area. Local organizations showcase their artistic creativity, membership and colors while promoting their services, events and products. Neighborhood businesses and institutions along the route play music and distribute giveaways to help create a festive environment. Residents and visitors alike are urged to participate and join the parade procession.. The Universal Hip Hop Parade was founded by this writer, Charles Barron, Freedom Williams and a host of activists in the fall of 1999 to celebrate the African American cultural social activist roots of hiphop culture. It is an outgrowth of the work ➔➔ Continued on page 6
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Mayor Proposes Tax on City's Wealthiest to Fund Half-Priced MetroCards for Low-Income Riders, and Upgrade Systems
EW YORK—Mayor Bill de Blasio unveiled today a progressive city tax proposal aimed at raising as much as $800 million annually for New York City’s deteriorating subway and bus system. The proposed tax adjustment – levied on fewer than 1% of the city’s wealthiest tax filers – would also allow the city to cut in half subway and bus fares paid by 800,000 low-income New Yorkers. “Rather than sending the bill to working families and subway and bus riders already feeling the pressure of rising fares and bad service, we are asking the wealthiest in our city to chip in a little extra to help move our transit system into the 21st century,” said Mayor de Blasio. “Instead of searching for a ‘quick fix’ that doesn’t exist, or simply forking over more and more of our tax dollars every year, we have come up with a fair way to finance immediate and long-term transit improvements and to better hold the state accountable for the system’s performance. Our subways and buses are the veins that make life in the greatest city in the world possible. This fair funding source will provide immediate help to straphangers – and it will help New Yorkers get around our city reliably for the
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Workers in the Greenpoint subway tunnel repair a section of track devastated by Superstorm Sandy. (Metropolitan Transit Authority/J.P. Chan, 2014, courtesy of the New York Transit Museum) next generation and beyond.” The new tax would increase the city’s highest income tax rate by 0.534%, from 3.876% to 4.41%, on taxable incomes above
$500,000 for individuals and above $1 million for couples. This tax will be paid by an estimated 32,000 New York City tax filers – 0.8% ➔➔ Continued on page 9
Andrew M. Cuomo on Healthcare
he reckless health care bill failed in Congress but the federal government is still trying to decimate our health care system. The agency that oversees Medicare and Medicaid released a new rule this week that dramatically changes how the federal government calculates the
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amount it reimburses our hospitals for the uncompensated care they provide to those in need. «These changes are designed to penalize New York and other states that expanded their Medicaid programs. Instead of compensating hospitals based on low-income patients served, the rule shifts funding away from states that expanded Medicaid to states that refused to expand coverage. In New York, it will cut $600 million a year from our hospitals when fully
phased in and $200 million next year alone. These cuts will wreak havoc on our health care providers, jeopardizing a critical driver of our economy and threatening New Yorkers› access to care. «In New York, we believe health care is a right, not a luxury, which is why we expanded coverage to so many New Yorkers who previously were uninsured. I demand that the federal government reconsider this cruel decision on behalf of the millions of people that this policy will affect.»
Congresswoman Yvette Clarke on Removing Confederate Generals Names From Ft. Hamilton Streets
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rooklyn, N.Y. – Congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke released the following statement on the refusal of the Department of the Army to consider renaming two streets at Fort Hamilton honoring Confederate generals, General Lee Avenue and Stonewall Jackson Drive. Congresswoman Clarke, joined by Congressman Jerrold Nadler, Congresswoman Nydia Velázquez and Congressman Hakeem Jeffries, formally asked the department to rename the streets in June following the removal of monuments honoring Confederate generals in New Orleans. “I am disappointed that the Department of the Army will not even consider renaming these streets honoring Confederate generals who waged war against the United States. The department claims that the streets were named ‘in the spirit of reconciliation’. But that ‘reconciliation’ was actually complicity by the North and the South to ignore the interests of African-Americans and enforce white supremacy, effectively denying the result of the Civil War for generations. We are still living with the failure of this nation to fully accept that result, as well as the post-Civil War amendments that were ratified to establish the freedom of women and men who had been held in bondage.
Congresswoman Yvette Clarke The department describes any possible renaming of these streets as potentially ‘controversial’. Nonsense! These monuments are deeply offensive to the hundreds of thousands of Brooklyn residents and members of the armed forces stationed at Fort Hamilton whose ancestors Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson fought to hold in slavery. For too many years, the United States has refused to reckon with that history. I commend the City of New Orleans for initiating this important and often difficult work. I will continue to petition the Department of the Army to contribute to that effort.”
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NEW YORK CITY New York Mayor Bill de Blasio’s Town Hall in Harlem’s PAL building on Manhattan Avenue was well-attended. It was a first for Hizzoner uptown. Electeds who attended were Manhattan Borough Prexy Gale Brewer, Councilman Bill Perkins and Senator Brian Benjamin. There was an air of eager anticipation. Our mayor should visit Harlem more often, not only during election years. The crowd was primed with a broad section of concerns from Community Boards 9,10 and 11. There were ostensibly special interest plans from the community and the mayor’s office. De Blasio arrived with a NYC cadre of commissioners: NYCHA, Sanitation, Education, Transportation, Health, HPD and others. He skillfully fielded questions on subjects ranging from sanitation, education, history of rent charges on apartments, protections for the immigrant population, enforcement of environmental justice, proliferation of liquor stores in the area, right to counsel for people facing eviction, the criminal justice system and the LGBT community. East Harlem attendees seemed to be in more dire straits than their Central/West Harlem counterparts, based on their comments and questions. Interestingly, many questions and grievances fell under the jurisdiction of the NYS Senator. BROOKLYN: Congrats to Brooklyn’s 35th City Council member Laurie Cumbo, 42, who gave birth to her son, Noah Oluwafemi, on August 4. She plans to get back to the Democratic primary race imminently. NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio and Governor Andrew Cuomo are at it again; this week’s animus centers on the NYS Transit Authority and NYC. The Transit Authority is controlled by the governor and the state underwrites the
lion’s share of the budget. The system is in great disrepair which impacts so many NYC residents; NYC could provide more money for the transit system with the provision that it also gets a greater share in its governance and board members.
USA SUMMER 2017 While catering to the base as he watches poll numbers travel south, President Trump announces more mind-numbing possibilities for the nation. He plans to exclude transgenders from the military, an announcement made before consultation with the Pentagon and the many generals who are part of his administration. Trump will introduce legislation aimed at reducing legal immigrants to the US. He wants only highly skilled English-speaking immigrants who can financially support themselves and families that will contribute to the American economy. This is a blatantly racist plan. The sun no longer sets in the British Empire. For your info, Mr. President, statistics prove that Africans are the best-educated foreigners to reach USA shores. Last week, it was announced that the US Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division will investigate and sue universities over affirmative action admission policies which discriminate against white applicants. Is this the LOOKING GLASS of America? Read the current Newsweek cover story with Trump in a reclining chair. Copy reads POTUS IS BORED AND TIRED: Imagine How Bored and Tired He’d Feel if He Did Any Work. LOOKING AT 2020: President Barack Obama and other members of the Democratic elite are throwing their 2020 presidential support behind former Massachusetts Governor Duval Patrick, whom few people, Democrats or others, know. The smart money and
deeper-pocketed Democrat supporters are focused on US Senator Kamala Harris, from California, a more credible alternative to The Donald. Deval Patrick Even Michael Moore concedes that Democrats need a celebrity to vanquish The Donald. That reasoning, methinks, is specious. After The Donald, no more reality show stars to run this republic and be leader of the free world.
CITY BUSINESS Newly opened Sugar Hill Creamery is the talk of the town, at least on Lenox Avenue in Harlem. An ice cream parlor, located at 184 Lenox Avenue, owned by Nicholas Larsen, a Telepan restaurant alum and his wife Petrushaska Basin Larsen, are being compared to Harlem’s Thomfords, an iconic sweet tooth venue on St. Nicholas Avenue at 125th Street which closed in the 1980s. The Harlem Business Alliance wants young women to DISRUPT HARLEM: THE CODE SQUAD, a free 16-week course for Harlem residents age 18 to 24 who are not enrolled in college. A GED is not necessary. Learn computer coding from September to December 2017. Apply by August 14. [Visit DISRUPTHARLEM.ORG or HBANY. ORG. Spread the word!]
VOL. 21 NO. 32 ARTS/CULTURE This year is the 50th Anniversary of the Detroit riots, which explains an explosion of interest in the arts in this American city. Herb Boyd, professor/scholar and prolific author’s new book, BLACK DETROIT: A People’s History of Self-Determination, an incisive look into MOTOWN, a city he called home for a few decades. The new film DETROIT, which is “set against the backdrop of Detroit’s devastating riots that took place over five summer days”, opened last week to outstanding reviews. Black Detroit today is an American wasteland. Blacks have lost their homes and all of the wealth acquired when Detroit flourished as the headquarters of the automotive world. This year is a mayoral election year in Detroit. Coleman Young, union organizer and firebrand, became the first Black mayor of Detroit in 1974 and served for five terms. His son, Coleman Young II, a Michigan state senator, is a 2017 Detroit Coleman Young mayoral hopeful. A Harlem-based management consultant, Victoria Horsford can be reached at Victoria.horsford@gmail.com.
Ellen Edwards: Civil Court Judge Candidate is "Here for the People" ■■ By Kelly Mena, Kings County Politics
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f you’ve been in the justice system in Brooklyn at any point then you’ve ran into Ellen Edwards. The veteran lawyer has served in all facets of the judicial system from starting out as a criminal defense lawyer to working on behalf of landlords and tenants in housing court to litigating contested trials in surrogate’s court, guardianship matters to working on appeals and briefings and even working as a mediator, Edwards has run the gambit. The Brooklyn native started her private practice almost 27 years ago on Montague Street where she still resides as the head of her law firm specializing in criminal cases as well as housing-related issues including guarding tenants against illegal evictions and protecting senior citizens living in rent-controlled apartments from harassment and saving homeowners from unfair foreclosures. “It’s not just my education, it’s my experiences. I have a wide range of experiences and I have been in all of the major courts in New York State,” said Edwards. Edwards, though at first considered an underdog, has gone on to become one of the front-runners in the race for one of the five open seats on the Brooklyn Civil Court bench. She prides herself on being an independent candidate, a quality she believes makes her that much more adept at understanding the issues of “regular, common Brooklynites”. “Sometimes that [party affiliation] can be problematic in terms of fairness and the justice that the regular people [seek]. They need someone who understands their issues, who understands what a certain amount of bail will mean for them, a person who understands how different types of arrests are made and what the basis of those arrests are. Understanding that the police don’t always tell the truth, the defendants don’t always tell the truth and you have to find a balance between those two,” said Edwards. A graduate of Jackie Robinson, Jr. High
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Kings County Civil Court Judge candidate Ellen Edwards.
School, Edwards knows the importance of community work and wants to bring what she calls “an integrated approach” to the bench. An approach that will bring a comprehensive and complete approach to the criminal justice system specifically through increased social work. “If you have someone who has a larger world view, who takes the person as an individual. They’re maybe a person with mental illness, they’re maybe a person that’s suffering from Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). There’s a lot of different people or just an innocent victim of circumstance. So when the people enter the system we give a more thorough evaluation of where they are so they don’t all wind up in the same place,” said Edwards. Edwards also believes it is her qualities as a person that have made her stand out in the race and have been the base of her loyal supporters who she has helped along the way. Edwards turned in over 16,000 signatures when she filed her petitions on July 13, four times the amount required. ➔➔ Continued on page 6
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very four years, the entire nation cycles its focus onto picking the next President of the United States. Candidates spend millions of dollars to catch your attention, hoping that the plethora of television and print ads, coupled with satisfactory debate performances and endorsements from your favorite celebrities will be enough to sway your vote in their favor. Social media is always abuzz around Presidential Election time, with folks pontificating on how people died for our right to vote and how important voting is. The Presidential Election cycle is a parade of strategic influence and peer pressure designed to either inspire you or shame you into voting. The marketing dollar is certainly not spent in vain. In 2016, 810,505 residents of Brooklyn went to the polls to choose the next president.
In New York City, the year after the Presidential Election is the year that we vote for our Mayor and City Council members. One can argue that this election means more to the day-to-day life of the residents of New York City than the Presidential Election does. Sure, the president is the leader of the free world. But the City Council makes decisions on all aspects of city life, including budgetary concerns for schools, decisions about land use and development, and even projects to support small businesses. Truthfully, your neighborhood is shaped more by the Mayoral/City Council Election cycle. However, bereft of the pomp and circumstance that goes into the Presidential Election and all of the commercials and the promotions and the talking heads demanding your vote, turnout for our Mayoral/City Council Election cycle is puny compared to the Presidential Election cycle. In 2013, our last Mayoral/City Council Election cycle, only 340,330 residents of Brooklyn came out to vote. That’s less than half of those who came out to vote for Hillary or The Donald.
When your ancestors died for your right to vote, I believe that their intent was for your vote to be heard in every election, not just the ones that are popular. Smaller turnout numbers mean that every vote is crucial. Entire landscapes can be changed or altered by a few dozen citizens. For example, in 2013 the 36th Council District was decided by just 94 votes. Robert Cornegy, Jr. has done an excellent job in the Council, but just think that if one or two more apartment buildings had come out in support of his opponent we would have never gotten a chance to benefit from his work. This is how important this election cycle is. The city is in flux, with various parts moving in all directions. Neighborhoods are changing, demographics are changing and the voices speaking for your interests can be changed just as quickly. The truth is that the way Presidential Elections work, states send their electoral votes in for one candidate or another based on the total votes of that state. New York is a decidedly blue state. We’ve only given our electoral votes to the Republican Party three times in the last 50 years. So hypothetically, if you are a Democrat and you happen to not vote in the Presidential Election, unless the Republican candidate has an enormously strong showing in the state, New York will still deliver blue. However, if you don’t vote
for your City Council member, because of the low turnout figures your vote would be sorely missed. It could even mean the difference between the right person for the job winning or losing. The Primaries are approaching on September 12th. There are many hotly contested races in the City Council taking place. One of the hottest is in the 35th Council District, where incumbent Laurie Cumbo is facing Ede Fox. In 2013, Cumbo bested Fox by just 1,825 votes. That margin equates to about one square city block, a narrow margin for sure. Now more than ever, your voice is important. Many tag lines used to incite your vote are simply empty schemes for your attention. Diddy’s Vote or Die T-shirts from 2004, or the I’m With Her posters and the Make America Great Again hats, all of them marketing ploys to tug at your addiction to consumerism in an effort to steer your vote. But that attention is part of a voting paradox because your vote is needed more so now, voting for your judges, your District Attorney and your City Council members, candidates that don’t have cool T-shirts and fancy hats to support them. Vote because it is one of the most profound civic duties you have as a member of a democracy. Vote every year, for everything you can.
Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Condemns Latest Justice Department Action Condoning Voter Purge Programs
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esterday, in Husted vs. A. Philip Randolph Institute, the U.S. Justice Department filed a brief in a critically important case about whether the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) prevents certain types of purge programs. The brief represents a reversal of the Justice Department’s position on the NVRA and opens the door for purge programs across the nation. Kristen Clarke, president and executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law stated: “The Department of Justice’s latest reversal of its position in a critical voting rights case represents just the latest example of an agency whose leadership has lost its moral compass. The law hasn’t changed since the department accurately told the court that Ohio’s voter purge was unlawful. The facts haven’t changed. Only the leadership of the department has changed. The Justice Department’s latest action opens the door for wide-scale unlawful purging of the voter registration rolls across our country. We fully condemn the Justice
Department’s latest move to obstruct voting rights in the U.S.” The NVRA imposes limits on when state officials can remove voters from the registration rolls because they have moved. In particular, the NVRA states that before officials can remove a voter from the rolls because they’ve moved the voter must notify officials that they have moved, or the official has to send a forwardable notice to the voter and wait two federal elections to see if there is any activity from the voter before taking any adverse action. While most states will wait until there is some indication that a voter may have moved (i.e., return of a piece of mail or notice from the USPS) before turning to the process set forth in the NVRA, some states including Ohio and Georgia, send the notice based on mere voter inactivity alone. In yesterday’s filing, the Justice Department indicated that the new administration has reconsidered this question and now sides with Ohio. In its brief, the Justice Department indicates that it has “now concluded that the NVRA does not prohibit a state from using nonvoting as the basis for sending a
Section 20507(d)(2) notice”. The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law has been focused on this administration’s efforts to obstruct civil rights enforcement and has condemned repeated actions taken to reverse positions or delay action in active matters handled by the Civil Rights Division. Since Inauguration Day, the Justice Department has abandoned core claims in a long-standing case challenging Texas’s photo ID law and issued a letter to states concerning their purge policies under the NVRA and the Help America Vote Act (HAVA). The administration has also launched the so-called Election Integrity Commission, a body that appears aimed at promoting laws and policies that will make it harder for Americans to vote.
About the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law The Lawyers’ Committee, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization, was formed in 1963 at the request of President John F. Kennedy to involve the private bar in
Candidate for City Council Henry Butler Reacts to News of Trump Admin Request for Sensitive Voter Information Butler is outraged by the state Board of Elections’ decision to comply
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uring the state Board of Elections meeting on Wednesday, the commissioner said the board had received a request for the state’s voter records and the board has voted to release the requested information. In response, Henry Butler, candidate for New York City Council District 41, issued this statement: “President Trump’s request for voter
records and his allegations of voter fraud are a thinly veiled attack on the civil rights of America’s most historically disenfranchised communities. I am outraged by the Board of Elections’ decision to comply with this alarming request by the Trump Administration. The president is projecting his insecurity over losing the popular vote in last year’s election onto the people of New York State and his unfounded claims of widespread voter fraud should not be dignified by any respectable agency. Jim Crow policies have no place in New York
or anywhere, and I will not stand idly by as President Trump tramples on decades of progress in pursuit of his ignorant brand of prejudice. While this data release will not include sensitive information, including Social Security numbers, no New Yorker should take solace in that, especially if they’re a person of color. Black Americans have been historically targeted at the polls and we all saw the Republicans’ reprehensible but effective tactics to suppress the Black vote in 2016. The intention of this administration is
Kristen Clarke President and Executive Director Lawyer’s Committee for Civil Rights Under Law providing legal services to address racial discrimination. The Lawyers’ Committee celebrated its 50th Anniversary in 2013 as it continued its quest of “Moving America Toward Justice”. The principal mission of the Lawyers’ Committee is to secure, through the rule of law, equal justice under law, particularly in the areas of fair housing and fair lending, community development, employment, voting, education and environmental justice. to ramp up voter suppression tactics, and they will stop at nothing. The president’s voter fraud assertion will be proven to be an outright lie, but we cannot let our voting rights be a casualty in this madness. While he obsesses about a problem that doesn’t exist, let’s turn our attention to making it easier to vote by joining the ranks of other states with early voting periods and enacting automatic registration for those turning 18 years old. We must protect the sanctity of the private vote and there is no one I trust less with this information than President Trump. He proves on a daily basis that he is unfit for the office he serves, and I strongly condemn the choice made by the Board of Elections to put New York voters’ information in his custody.”
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Universal Hip Hop Parade And The Legacy of Marcus Garvey ➔➔ Continued from page 1 of an earlier group, the Universal Nubian Association (UNA). Organizers come from across the NYC metropolitan area and have agreed to organize the UHHP in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. In 2007 The Parade Made a Major Transition with Making the Mover and Shaker Out of Bed Stuy Brooklyn Mike Hollywood Christie aka Dj Dr Hollywood at the Helm and He took the Organization to New Heights with Monthly Open Mic’s and Helping the Parade Reach its highest viewing
numbers to date. Mike Hollywood Christie was the Parade Chairman from 2007 - 2011 and August 2013 - March 2014. In addition to running the parade itself the nonprofit group Universal Hip-Hop Parade Foundation, Inc. also organizes forums, concerts, open-mike’s, rallies, teach-ins and parties throughout the year.[1] The foundation is funded through private donations and grants including the Greater New York Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administrated by the Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC).
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Ellen Edwards: Civil Court Judge Candidate That Is Here for the People ➔➔ Continued from page 4 “You need to have someone who is levelheaded, who is rational, who listens to people, who has empathy for people, and who has sympathy for people. I have helped a lot of people and I believe that when I asked them to help, they were willing to help me. And I am very loyal to the people I have helped and they are very loyal to me,” said Edwards. Edwards maintains that her campaign is about the people and for the people. She claims that it’s about common sense and practical level changes that will really make
a difference in reforming the criminal justice system borough-wide. In addition, Edwards plans on establishing “night court” in civil court, restoring the independence of the judiciary from other branches of government and political parties, modernizing the court system with improved signage and technology, and creating more community courts in neighborhoods throughout Brooklyn. “I’ve seen the courts as time has gone on do a lot better but we can still do more. And I think if we add social workers to that equation it will help clear up calendars, it will help with recidivism and will just help with society as a whole,” said Edwards.
View From Here ➔➔ Continued from page 1 whose fate are in the hands of someone under criminal investigation and who may place his own family, fortune and vanity above their lives. Fortunately, any military order has to go through the chain of command and would have to go through the Secretary of Defense. However, it does not help that his nickname is “Mad Dog”. The people have to continue to have their voices heard nationally and as the great abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass said, “Organize, organize, organize,” all to demanding the president’s removal.
Voting This is a dangerous time for local candidates in the countywide civil court elections. A low voter turnout in our area makes it easy for candidates to garner votes across the borough and move our people out. This next election is particularly unsettled because of the high-profile District Attorney’s race that will bring out voters and a small increase can make a big difference. In the last election, the vote total of 19,290 represented only 17% of the 109,159 active voters in the 35th. Once they get in office there is a veneer of inevitability that covers the fact that we have the representatives we do by a thread. As Marlon Rice reminds us in his Thinker’s
Notebook, Robert Cornegy won by only 94 votes. And with the neighborhoods changing the way they are, a low voter turnout by African-Americans could cause a sudden change in leadership. Nationally, the Republican Party and white supremacists are aggressively and nakedly using voter suppression tactics to keep nonwhite people from voting wherever they can. The Department of Justice, under the leadership of Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III, is carrying out that agenda with a laser-like focus, and as more and more judges are appointed, recourse will become even harder to find. It would be a shame to do their work for them by not having the time to vote for the judges you’re most likely to face or council people who will see that your block gets plowed. Walking past the petition carriers and not having time for community meetings warms the heart of the white supremacist, knowing that in that vacuum their nature can come in quietly and smiling, coiffed and dangerous. If you don’t come out and vote, we will lose Black representation in the legislatures and in the courts. Come out and vote! It does not matter who you vote for or even if you know any of the candidates. You will be listed as an Active Voter and in the next election you can be sure all of the candidates will seek out and want to know you.
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We need to talk about “The Talk” ■■ By Tania Richard, chicagonow. com/writing-my-mind
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he Proctor and Gamble commercial “The Talk” has been a source of controversy and admiration. In a series of vignettes Black Mothers in different time periods have conversations with their children around discrimination, the n-word, how to handle getting pulled over by the police and having to be “better than the best” at everything they do. The video made rounds on Facebook last week. I avoided it the first few times it popped up in my feed because it gave me the “heebie jeebies”. Heebie Jeebies: A state of nervous fear or anxiety. The “fear and anxiety” (and also dread) came from my concern that the commercial was self-serving. I suspected that the commercial was “misery porn” and that millions of people would feel bolstered and “in the know” because they spent 2 minutes watching a commercial that only scratches the surface of what it is to be a Black parent. Some may argue that Proctor and Gamble is making an effort to “start a conversation” but this is where the nuance and complexities of racism come into play. There is deep seeded bias in this commercial regardless of the fact that Proctor and Gamble seemingly has good intentions. Here are some ways the commercial is biased: * There are no Black Fathers: The commercial only features Mothers speaking to their children which perpetuates the stereotype that Black Fathers aren’t involved. * The tone is melodramatic: Melodrama is “a dramatic or literary work in which the plot, which is typically sensational and designed to appeal strongly to the emotions, takes precedence over detailed characterization. Characters are often simply drawn, and may appear stereotyped. “ All of the Mothers are stoic, compliant and resigned. Basically you could superimpose Whoopi Goldberg’s performance in Long Walk Home or Viola Davis’ in The Help and get the same result. They are all the same. None of them express anger or defiance or any issue with the fact that they must discuss these issues with their child. They offer no other alternatives or solutions. * It panders to White people: If it were
meant for Black people it would go deeper than presenting “The Talk” in multiple vignettes. The result is that Black people are “guinea pigs” to help White America empathize and care. * It’s obvious: Procter and Gamble is stating the obvious for Black America while exposing an intimacy with our children that made me feel violated, infringed upon and used. * It’s exclusive: The commercial excludes other ethnicities who experience racial bias. Racial bias and inequity is not solely a Black and White issue. P & G started the hashtag #TalkAboutBias to continue the conversation on Twitter because everyone knows how well conversations about racial equity and discrimination play out on social media. Everyone knows some real in depth exchanges can occur within a 140 character limit. Remember how well it went when Starbucks wanted to “continue the conversation” by having it’s baristas write “Race Together” on customers to-go cups? (I’m being sarcastic. It didn’t go well.) I’ve looked up the hashtag on Twitter and it’s mostly used when an individual shares a link to the commercial with a brief negative or positive opinion. There’s not much going on in the realm of “conversation” but Proctor and Gamble is getting all sorts of press (not that they need it.) They are getting some backlash as well but as the saying goes, “There’s no such thing as bad press.” My concern is that “The Talk” creates a placebo effect where people think something has happened as if watching the commercial and sharing it is an action or anti-racist in itself. Proctor and Gamble is heralded and seen as progressive without really making any progress or changing the paradigm. Proctor and Gamble is using “The Talk” to relaunch their “Black is Beautiful” initiative. Black and Beautiful was started in 2006 to ““to spark a broader dialogue about black beauty.” With “The Talk’ their new goal is “to celebrate cultural identity and start a conversation about racial bias”. That’s all well and good but it bothers me that the “Black is Beautiful” has a separate; segregated website. It doesn’t make me feel special. It makes me feel “othered”. Seems bias to me. Let’s talk about that.
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These Youth of Color are Organizing to Address Climate Change
■■ by Jenna Gray August 05, 2017 at 05:53 PM EDT
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n Thursday morning, hundreds of young people of color received an urgent message: they couldn’t afford not to be leaders in the fight against climate change. “We are descendants of colonization and slavery. You are the children of extraction. Extraction is now taking over the planet,” Elizabeth Yeampierre, executive director of UPROSE, said. “I want to see those fists up!’” At the Climate Justice Youth Summit on Aug. 3 in New York City, speakers focused on the impact of climate change on people of color and called on youth of color to lead the fight against climate crises in their communities. The daylong event was the sixth of its kind hosted by UPROSE, a Brooklyn-based organization that promotes sustainability and cultural expression. A series of workshops about urban gardening, gentrification, climate refugees and policing featured throughout the day. A fashion show titled “Culture, Not Consumption” promoted sustainability and the expression of cultural identity within the fashion industry. “People of color have always had a history of being one with the land and finding the solutions that they needed in the land,” Samuel Blackwood, a student at Fordham
University and summit organizer, said. Actor and activist Danny Glover, the summit’s keynote speaker, spoke of the need for radical and immediate approaches to promoting environmental sustainability while emphasizing the role of youth in leading such efforts. “We have to change the soul of this country. We have to change the soul of the world,” Glover said. “Those most affected by climate change are not people who are the main perpetrators of climate change.” This year, the summit expanded its focus from local to national, partnering with the Climate Justice Alliance to welcome youth from regions across the country who have been on the frontlines of climate justice efforts. The summit organizers also sought to counter misconceptions about climate change and highlight its disproportionate impact on people of color. Toxic waste sites and power plants, which produce gases that contribute to climate change, are more likely to be located in low-income communities of color, subjecting these populations to health hazards and to air pollution at higher rates, according to the NAACP. After floods, hurricanes and other extreme weather events, people of color are less likely to be able to relocate safely. Some summit attendees spoke about the effects of Hurricane Sandy in 2012, which put a spotlight on the economic inequalities
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People attending the Climate Justice Youth Summit participated in workshops on urban gardening, gentrification, climate refugees and policing.
Photo by Jenna Gray
Actor and activist Danny Glover appears at the Climate Justice Youth Summit in New York City on Aug. 3, 2017. between different communities coping with the storm’s damage. Other environmental hazards also put people of color at risk. Black children experience higher rates of lead poisoning, according to the National Center for Environmental Health. A study published by the American Journal of Public Health in 2011 found that people of color have less access to clean water than their white counterparts. In addition, they have diminished access to healthcare services and are insured at lower rates, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. The disproportionate impact of climate change on poor communities and communities of color is a global phenomenon. According to Germanwatch, an environmental analytics organization based in Germany, the 10 countries most affected by climate change — in terms of deaths and economic losses between 1994 and 2013 — were predominantly developing and nonwhite countries. Organizers at the summit said the issue has become even more urgent under President Donald Trump’s administration, which has expressed resistance to climate science. On Friday, he formally notified the United Nations that the U.S. would withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord, though his letter carries no legal weight and U.S. representatives are still scheduled to participate in international climate talks later this year. The Trump administration has also rolled back environmental regulations put in place during the prior administration. “Community-based grassroots solutions
Leaked Government Report Sounds Alarm on Climate Change Before Trump Could Suppress It ■■
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By Andy Rowell, ecowatch.com
he Trump administration is getting more Orwellian by the day, but as fast as it tries to bury the truth about climate change, scientists are fighting back and showing that they will not be silenced by the climate deniers in the White House. So while the administration tries to suppress its agencies talking about climate change, a leaked report has concluded that millions of Americans are feeling the effects of climate change right now. “The last few years have seen record-breaking, climate-related, weather extremes, as well as the warmest years on record for the globe.” So said the executive summary of a draft report by scientists from 13 federal agencies, which was leaked to the New York Times after scientists felt it could be suppressed.
The report is a major rebuttal and rebuke to the climate-denying president. “Evidence for a changing climate abounds, from the top of the atmosphere to the depths of the oceans,” the report outlined: “Thousands of studies conducted by tens of thousands of scientists around the world have documented changes in surface, atmospheric, and oceanic temperatures; melting glaciers; disappearing snow cover; shrinking sea ice; rising sea level; and an increase in atmospheric water vapor.” It is explicit that humans are to blame: “Many lines of evidence demonstrate that human activities, especially emissions of greenhouse (heat-trapping) gases, are primarily responsible for recent observed climate changes,” and “Human activities are now the dominant cause of the observed changes in climate.”
The report outlines how the average temperature in the U.S. has risen rapidly since 1980, and recent decades have been the warmest of the past 1,500 years. One government scientist who worked on the report, Katharine Hayhoe, a professor of Political Science at Texas Tech University, told the Times that the conclusions were among “the most comprehensive climate science reports” to be ever written. Whether the Trump administration will ever officially publish the report remains to be seen. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), currently led by Scott “Polluting Pruit” is one of the agencies that has to approve it by mid-August. It is unlikely to be published unscathed. According to the Times, “Scientists say they fear that the Trump administration could change or suppress the report.”
are incredibly important because right now we have a federal government that denies that climate change is a reality and seeks to cut programs that would help us combat that,” Blackwood said. “We have to organize now at the local and state level in order to address this issue because we can’t wait around for federal government to come and help us … It’s happening right now, and we feel the impact in our communities right now.” PBS NewsHour spoke to summit attendees about how belonging to communities of color affects their involvement in climate justice.
Joseph Hernandez, 15, Sunset Park, Brooklyn Climate justice is standing up for lower income communities who contribute the least but are impacted the most by global warming.
Antoinette Martinez, 30, Brooklyn I didn’t understand how everything was connected until I became a part of UPROSE … I’m from Sunset Park in Brooklyn and climate change had a direct effect on gentrification that’s happening there. After Superstorm Sandy happened along the waterfront in Bush Terminal, a lot of those factory buildings got flooded, the property values dropped … there are people who have lived in that neighborhood their whole lives who are so disconnected from what’s going on there. ➔➔ Continued on page 8 As one commentator noted, “The leak of the report is a clear middle finger to Trump, Pruitt and their plan to derail federal climate research and policy, and it ensures the public has an opportunity to review it before they get their big, grubby mitts all over it.” Indeed, there is new evidence that the Trump administration is trying to suppress and distort the language around climate change, with the U.S. Department of Agriculture telling staff to avoid using the term “climate change” and instead use the term “weather extremes.” Emails obtained by the Guardian reveal that one senior official listed terms that should be avoided. Instead of “climate change adaption,” for example, staff are asked to use “resilience to weather extremes.” “These records reveal Trump’s active censorship of science in the name of his political agenda,” said Meg Townsend, an attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity, which is currently suing several government agencies to force them to release information on “censoring” of climate change language.
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NFL Hall of Fame Inductee’s Speech Addresses Race in America
LaDainian Tomlinson honored his great-great-great-grandfather, who was “brought here in chains in a slave ship from West Africa
■■ By Sheryl Estrada, diversityinc.com
speech in Canton, Ohio, Tomlinson, a former running back for the San Diego Chargers and the New York Jets, expressed his gratitude to the NFL. He also acknowledged the many people who helped him excel in the league, including outstanding pro Black football players who paved the way and his supportive family. Tomlinson said his faith-filled journey to becoming a pro football player was guided by
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aDainian “LT” Tomlinson, one of seven members of the NFL’s Pro Football Hall of Fame Class of 2017, used the final part of his acceptance speech on Saturday to address the history of racial inequality in the United States and to call for unity. In the first 20 minutes of his
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the “love, honesty and strength” of his mother. He also acknowledged the major role his wife of 17 years played in his career. But Tomlinson, 38, who was born in Rosebud, Texas, took the last six minutes of his speech to honor his great-great-great-grandfather George, who was enslaved in Texas. He used the origin of his last name — Tomlinson — to make commentary on the issue of race in American society. “If this was my last day on earth, and this my final speech, this is the message I’ll leave with you,” Tomlinson said. “The story of a man I never met. My great-greatgreat-grandfather George. “One hundred and seventy years ago, George was brought here in chains in a slave ship from West Africa. His last name, Tomlinson, was given to him by the man who owned him. “Tomlinson was the slave owner’s last name. What extraordinary courage it must have taken for him to rebuild his life after the life he was born to was stolen? “How did he reclaim his identity, his dignity? When he had no freedom to choose for himself. I grew up on a land of a former slave plantation. And although I didn’t know this as a child, it is where my great-great-great-grandfather tilled the soil. “A few years ago, I visited that same plantation in central Texas with my family and stood in the slave quarters where he lived. It’s now named Tomlinson Hill. “My name began with the man who owned my great-great-greatgrandfather. Now it’s proudly carried by me, my children, my extended family. People stop me on the street because they know me as LT the football player. “But after football, people have come to recognize me as LaDainian Tomlinson. Not simply for what I did as a football player, but for who I am as a man. The family legacy that began in such a cruel way has
LaDainian “LT” Tomlinson given birth to generations of successful, caring Tomlinsons. “I firmly believe that God chose me to bring two races together under one last name — Tomlinson. “I’m of mixed race, and I represent America. My story is America’s story. All of our ancestors, unless we’re American Indian, came from another country, another culture. Football is a microcosm of America. All races, religions and creeds living, playing, competing, side by side.” Tomlinson then received a standing ovation. He continued, “When you are a part of a team, you understand your teammates — their strengths and weaknesses — and work together toward the same goal to win a championship. “In this context, I advocate we become Team America. In sports, we’re evaluated on our desire, ability and given a chance to compete. America is the land of opportunity. “Let’s not slam the door on those who may look or sound different from us. Rather, let’s open it wide for those who believe in themselves, that anything is possible and are willing to compete and take whatever risk necessary to work hard to succeed. “I’m being inducted into the Hall of Fame because my athletic ability created an opportunity for me to excel in the sport I love. When we open the door for others to compete, we fulfill the promise
of one nation, under God, with liberty and justice for all.” Tomlinson again brought the crowd to its feet. “On America’s Team, let’s not choose to be against one another,” he said. “Let’s choose to be for one another. “My great-great-great-grandfather had no choice. We have one. I pray we dedicate ourselves to be the best team we can be, working and living together, representing the highest ideals of mankind, leading the way for all nations to follow. “One of the most eloquent orators of our time said it best in his farewell address. Paraphrasing and humbly building upon what President Obama said, ‘We all have to try harder, show up, dive in and stay at it’. “I am asking you to believe in your ability to bring about change, to hold fast to the faith and the idea whispered by slaves, ‘Yes we can’.” LaDainian Tomlinson was a running back for nine seasons with the San Diego Chargers and spent his final two seasons with the New York Jets. At the time of his retirement in 2012, his accomplishments included ranking fifth in career rushing for a total of 13,684 yards, second in rushing touchdowns (145) and third in total touchdowns (162). He was named the NFL’s Most Valuable Player in 2006, the year he made a total of 31 touchdowns, a league record.
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Joshua Otero, 27, Far Rockaway, Queens I’ve been in a process of rediscovery with the Latino community. I’m Puerto Rican. … I’m finding that within this movement for me, becoming more active as far as eco-awareness and climate justice goes, I’ve also been able to rediscover my roots, find power in that rediscovery, and it’s led me to become more educated and better-intentioned within an intersectional aspect of my growth.
Frances RobertsGregory, 27, Oakland, California I’m a student myself, a graduate student, but I was really interested to learn more about youth engagement in these issues because we often talk about how women and children and youth are on the forefront but we
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Frances Roberts-Gregory, 27, from Oakland, California, attended the Climate Justice Youth Summit on Aug. 3 in New York City.
don’t necessarily always hear their voices. As a person who’s studying climate justice activism from an indigenous and black perspective, I really wanted to understand how youth in this area as well as across
I’m here with the organization that I work for, the Staten Island Urban Center, and we all decided to come to the summit as a group. We’re looking at the redevelopment of the waterfront in Staten Island on the North Shore. Staten Island was really badly impacted by Hurricane Sandy. They’re building a seawall to try and protect the East Shore from the effects of other superstorms. Environmental justice intersects with our work there because we’re looking at how climate change is going to affect our community and we’re trying to advocate and raise awareness about that and get our local government to [enact] policy that’s going to build resiliency, storm resiliency and environmental resiliency on the island.
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NEW BUSINESS FORMATIONS SOCIAL IMPACT CONSULTING LLC Art. Of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 06/21/2017. Office in Kings Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 1714 13th Avenue, Suite 202, BROOKLYN, NY 11228. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. Notice of Qualification of TSI LUCILLE RALPH AVENUE, LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 7/31/17. Office location: Kings County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on
LEGAL NOTICES SUPPLEMENTAL C I T A T I O N THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK BY THE GRACE OF GOD, FREE AND INDEPENDENT, TO: JOANNE COBB, if living and, if dead, to her heirs at law, next of kin and distributees whose names and places of residence are unknown and if she died subsequent to the decedent herein, to her executors, administrators, legatees, devisees, assignees and successors in interest whose names and places of residence are unknown and to all other heirs at law, next of kin and distributees of RUBY WHITE, the decedent herein who at the time of death resided at 4319 Snyder Avenue, Brooklyn, New York 11203, whose names and places of residence are unknown and cannot after diligent inquiry be ascertained A petition having been duly filed by Sheryl Christopher, who is domiciled at 4319 Snyder Avenue, Brooklyn, New York 11203, YOU ARE HEREBY CITED TO SHOW CAUSE before the Surrogate’s Court, Kings County at 2 Johnston Street, Room 319, Brooklyn, NY 11201, on September 19, 2017, at 9:30 a.m., why a Decree should not be entered: - Authorizing and empowering the Administration to compromise and settle a certain claim for personal injury against HOME CARE SERVICES FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING, INC. for the total sum of $150,000.00 - Modifying the provisions in the Letters of Administration heretofore issued to the Petitioner on November 10, 2004 which restrained the Administrator from compromising or collecting upon the aforesaid claim and permitting said compromise; - Dispensing with the filing of a bond; - Directing the defendant HOME CARE SERVICES FOR INDEPENDENT LICING, INC. itself or by its insurer THE CONTINENTAL INSURANCE CO. to pay the balance of the settlement proceeds in the sum of $150,000.00 as follows: To the Department of Health and Human Services; Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services the sum of $31,201.76 for full and final satisfaction of the Medicare lien; to Human Resources Administration; Department of Social Services the sum of $31,201.76 for full and final satisfaction of the Medicaid lien; to SHERYL CHRISTOPHER BRAITHWATE a/k/a SHERYL CHRISTOPHER for statutory commissions in the amount of $6,000.00 for serving as Administrator of the Estate of RUBY WHITE; to the ROBERT F. CRANFORD FUNERAL HOME in the amount of $371.00 for remaining payment of funeral expenses in full and final satisfaction of their claim; to SHERYL CHRISTOPHER BRAITHWATE a/k/a SHERYL CHRISTOPHER the sum of $3,675.00 for reimbursement of funeral expenses; to DUFFY & DUFFY the sum of $9,605.58 as reimbursement of disbursements incurred; to DUFFY & DUFFY the sum of $46,789.14 as and for their attorney fees; to the ESTATE OF JOSEPHINE COBB, the sum of $7,051.92 as and for their distributive share; to MAXINE RIVERS the sum of $7.051.92 as and for her distributive share; to the ESTATE OF ALICE NORRIS, the sum of $7,051.92 as and for their distributive share; - Granting such other and further relief as the Court deems just and proper
5/31/17. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011. DE address of LLC: 1209 Orange St, Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Formation filed with DE Secy of State, 401 Federal St. Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901. The name and address of the Reg. Agent is CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011. Purpose: any lawful activity. GO GREEN BIKES LLC Art. Of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 06/02/2017. Office in kings Co. SSNY design. Agent under the circumstances. DATED, ATTESTED AND SEALED Hon. MARGARITA LOPEZ TORRES, Kings County Surrogate (L.S.) Chief Clerk A T T O R N E Y Name of Attorney: SEAN M. DUFFY, ESQ. Address of Attorney: Duffy & Duffy, 1370 RXR Plaza, Uniondale, NY 11556 Telephone Number of Attorney: 516.394.4200 NOTE: This citation is served upon you as required by law. You are not obliged to appear in person. You have a right to have an attorney appear for you. If you fail to appear it will be assumed that you do not object to the relief requested. Supreme Court County Of Kings Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee for HASCO 2007-WF1, Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2007-WF1, Plaintiff AGAINST Corine McLean, Paulette McLean, et al, Defendant Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated 10/8/2014and entered on 10/14/2014, I, the undersigned Referee, will sell at public auction at the Kings County Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, NY on September 07, 2017 at 02:30 PM premises known as 3110 Snyder Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11226. 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: 4902, LOT: 4. Approximate amount of judgment is $771,210.52 plus interests and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 8391/2008. Domenick Napoletano, Referee FRENKEL LAMBERT WEISS WEISMAN & GORDON LLP 53 Gibson Street, Bay Shore, NY 11706 NOTICE OF SALE Supreme Court County Of Kings US Bank National Association as Trustee for SASCO Mortgage Loan Trust 2006-WF3, Plaintiff AGAINST Victor Inwang, et al, Defendant Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated 11/13/2014and entered on 11/21/2014, I, the undersigned Referee, will sell at public auction at the Kings County Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, NY on September 07, 2017 at 02:30 PM premises known as 31 Monaco Place Brooklyn, NY 11233. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough and County of Kings, City and State of New York, BLOCK: 1570, LOT: 2. Approximate amount of judgment is $1,049,420.70 plus interests and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 36334/2007. Scott Harris Klein, Referee, FRENKEL LAMBERT WEISS WEISMAN & GORDON LLP, 53 Gibson Street, Bay Shore, NY 11706 SUPREME COURT – COUNTY OF KINGS NATIONAL LOAN INVESTORS, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership, Plaintiff against KWESI FRASER, et al Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered on December 21, 2015. 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 September 14, 2017 at 2:30 p.m.
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of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to GO GREEN BIKES LLC United States Agents, 1510 OCEAN PKWY APT F2, BROOKLYN, NY 11230. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.
Office in kings Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to HUSH HOUSE LLC United States Agents, 7014 13th Avenue, Suite 202 Brooklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: Any lawful purpose
CAD4DENT, LLC, Art. Of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 07/14/2017. Office in kings Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to CAD4DENT, LLC 6813 21ST AVE APT 6F, BROOKLYN, NY 11204 Purpose: Any lawful purpose.
WELL NETWORK SOLUTIONS MSO LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 05/12/17. Amended to NETWORK SOLUTIONS MSO, LLC on 05/24/17. Office: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, c/o Inessa Sable, 3165 Emmons Avenue, Suite C2-C3, Brooklyn, NY 11235
HUSH HOUSE LLC Art. Of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 04/28/2017. premises described as follows: All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and State of New York, bounded and described as follows: Beginning at the corner formed by the intersection of the northerly side of Church Avenue, as legally opened and now existing, and the easterly side of East 56th Street; Running thence easterly along the northerly side of Church Avenue, 40 feet; Thence northerly parallel with East 56th Street, 45 feet 3 ¾ inches to the southerly side of Lot No. 20 on “Map of Rugby” Map No. 1446, filed August 2, 1904; Thence westerly along same and at right angles to East 56th Street, 40 feet to the easterly side of East 56th Street; Thence southerly along the easterly side of East 56th Street, 45 feet to the point or place of beginning. Said premises known as 5601/5603 Church Avenue a/k/a 181 East 56th Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11203. (Block: 4682, Lot: 51). Approximate amount of lien $ 278,455.61 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed judgment and terms of sale. Index No. 006251/13. Aaron Tyk, Esq., Referee. DelBello Donnellan Weingarten Wise & Wiederkehr, LLP, Attorney(s) for Plaintiff, One North Lexington Avenue, 11th Floor, White Plains, New York 10601. (914) 681-0200 SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF KINGS SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS Mortgaged Premises: 38 E 91ST STREET BROOKLYN, NY 11212 Block: 4593 Lot: 18 Plaintiff designates KINGS as the place of trial situs of the real property INDEX NO. 500682/2017 FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION (“FANNIE MAE”), A CORPORATION ORGANIZED AND EXISTING UNDER THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff, vs. HEIRS AND DISTRIBUTEES OF THE ESTATE OF WAYNE GRIFFITH; any and all persons unknown to plaintiff, claiming, or who may claim to have an interest in, or general or specific lien upon the real property described in this action; such unknown persons being herein generally described and intended to be included in the following designation, namely: the wife, widow, husband, widower, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors, and assignees of such deceased, any and all persons deriving interest in or lien upon, or title to said real property by, through or under them, or either of them, and their respective wives, widows, husbands, widowers, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors and assigns, all of whom and whose names, except as stated, are unknown to plaintiff; MURIEL GRIFFITH, HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF WAYNE GRIFFITH; PETER GRIFFITH, HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF WAYNE GRIFFITH; MELLISA GRIFFITH, HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF WAYNE GRIFFITH; SHILAH GRIFFITH, HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF WAYNE GRIFFITH, NEW YORK CITY ENVIRONMENTAL
CONTROL BOARD; NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA – INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE; JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION; SARAH GRIFFITH; “JOHN DOE” (REFUSED NAME); “JOHN DOE” (REFUSED NAME), “JOHN DOE #1” through “JOHN DOE #12,” the last twelve names being fictitious and unknown to plaintiff, the persons or parties intended being the tenants, occupants, persons or corporations, if any, having or claiming an interest in or lien upon the premises, described in the complaint, Defendants. To the above named Defendants YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the complaint is not served with this summons, to serve a notice of appearance on the Plaintiff’s Attorney within 20 days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within 30 days after the service is complete if this summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York) in the event the United States of America is made a party defendant, the time to answer for the said United States of America shall not expire until (60) days after service of the Summons; and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint. NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT THE OBJECT of the above caption action is to foreclose a Mortgage to secure the sum of $145,900.00 and interest, recorded on February 23, 2004, at CRFN 2004000106580 of the Public Records of KINGS County, New York, covering premises known as 38 E 91ST STREET BROOKLYN, NY 11212. The relief sought in the within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt secured by the Mortgage described above. KINGS County is designated as the place of trial because the real property affected by this action is located in said county. NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property. Sending a payment to the mortgage company will not stop the foreclosure action. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. Dated: April 6, 2017 RAS BORISKIN, LLC Attorney for Plaintiff BY: ___________ HEDVA D. HAVIV, ESQ. 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 106 Westbury, NY 11590 516-280-7675 NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF KINGS HSBC Bank USA, ➔➔ Continued on page 11
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Trump Analysis ➔➔ Continued from page 1 is, I have never been happier until now. My latest unauthorized psychoanalysis is “The Unauthorized Psychoanalysis of Donald Trump”.
Weak Disclaimer The book is my opinion about a man many other professionals have already labeled as narcissistic, sociopathic or just plain crazy and dangerous. In the case of Donald Trump, some of the brightest lights in white American Psychiatry and psychology have already gone on record labeling Trump as ill. Psychologist John Gartner, who taught psychology for 28 years at Johns Hopkins University, began his article published in USA Today with the words, “If you take President Trump’s words literally, you have no choice but to conclude that he is psychotic”. In a letter to President Obama, Judith Hermann, M.D., a Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Harvard University Medical School who is also the author of the former NY Times best-seller “Trauma and Recovery”; Nanette Gartrell, M.D., a former member of the faculty of Harvard University and Dianne Mosbacher, M.D., Ph.D. wrote,
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National Association as Trustee for Nomura Asset Acceptance Corporation, Mortgage PassThrough Certificates, Series 2007-1, Plaintiff AGAINST Merwyn Fraser; et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated August 26, 2015 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Kings County Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, Room 224, Brooklyn, NY 11201 on September 7, 2017 at 2:30PM, premises known as 220 Nichols Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11208. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough and County of Kings, City n and State of NY, Block 4134 Lot 44. Approximate amount of judgment $966,696.08 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index# 6045/2013. Anthony J. Lamberti, Esq., Referee Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, LLC Attorney(s) for the Plaintiff 175 Mile Crossing Boulevard Rochester, New York 14624 (877) 759-1835 Dated: June 26, 2017 47057 REFEREE’S NOTICE OF SALE IN FORECLOSURE SUPREME COURT – COUNTY OF KINGS CITIMORTGAGE, INC., Plaintiff – against – MARIA BURGOS, et al Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale filed January 19, 2016. I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction in room 224 of Kings County Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201 on the 7th Day of September, 2017 at 2:30 p.m. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and State of New York. Premises known as 640 Belmont Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11207. (Block: 4030, Lot: 118). Approximate amount of lien $205,577.44 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed judgment and terms of sale. Index No. 11589-11. Bernard M. Alter, Esq., Referee. Davidson Fink LLP Attorney(s) for Plaintiff 28 East Main Street, Suite 1700 Rochester, NY 14614-1990 Tel. 585/760-8218 Dated: July 6, 2017 NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF KINGS, WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB,
among other things, that Trump’s “widely reported symptoms of mental instability — including grandiosity, impulsivity, hypersensitivity to slights or criticism, and an apparent inability to distinguish between fantasy and reality — lead us to question his fitness for the immense responsibilities of the office (of President of the United States)”. These psychiatrists went on to recommend that Mr. Trump “receive a full medical and neuropsychiatric evaluation by an impartial team of investigators”.
Never Mention Fake Hair in a Psychiatric Report So the purpose of my book, deliberately overstated as a “psychoanalysis”, albeit “unauthorized”, is to offer a Black psychiatric perspective on a man who, if the U.S. was a hospital, could in the manner of Hair Club CEO Matt Heinz, boast that, “I am not just the CEO, I am a patient”. The perspective of this psychoanalysis has to be different from the above-mentioned doctors because I am (identifiably) a descendant, not of American but of African people who were held in chains (enslaved) by at least 18 former holders of that office. Until March of 2015, the official DBA CHRISTIANA TRUST, NOT INDIVIDUALLY BUT AS TRUSTEE FOR PRETIUM MORTGAGE ACQUISITION TRUST, Plaintiff, vs. KALI GUMBS, ET AL., Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly filed on July 06, 2017, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Kings County Supreme Court, Room 224, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, NY on September 14, 2017 at 2:30 p.m., premises known as 15 Vermont Street, Brooklyn, NY. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and State of New York, Block 3487 and Lot 40. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 2131/14. Gregory Laspina, Esq., Referee Berkman, Henoch, Peterson, Peddy & Fenchel, P.C., 100 Garden City Plaza, Garden City, NY 11530, Attorneys for Plaintiff NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF KINGS, CITIMORTGAGE, INC., Plaintiff, vs. FRED ERANI A/K/A FREDDY ERANI; VICKI ERANI A/K/A VICKI M. ERANI, ET AL., Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly filed on July 06, 2017, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Kings County Supreme Court, Room 224, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, NY on September 14, 2017 at 2:30 p.m., premises known as 1983 East 23rd Street, Brooklyn, NY. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and State of New York, Block 7302 and Lot 54. Approximate amount of judgment is $535,725.64 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 502673/2013. Marc Dittenhoefer, Esq., Referee Knuckles, Komosinski & Manfro, LLP, 565 Taxter Road, Ste. 590, Elmsford, NY 10523, Attorneys for Plaintiff NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF KINGS, CITIMORTGAGE, INC., Plaintiff, vs. FRED ERANI A/K/A FREDDY ERANI; VICKI ERANI A/K/A VICKI M. ERANI, ET AL., Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly filed on July 06, 2017, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Kings County Supreme Court, Room 224, 360 Adams
logo of the A.P.A., featured a picture of Dr. Benjamin Rush, a signer of the Declaration of Independence who is known as the father of American Psychiatry. Just to put the APA and their rules into perspective, consider this, Rush, considered a butcher by many of his colleagues, supported practices such as bloodletting and blistering as treatments, and wrote that Blacks suffered from a curable noncontagious form of leprosy called Negritude or Negroidism. He also wrote that Blacks do not feel pain as sharply as whites, a rationale that allowed other butchers such as J. Marion Sims, a former president of the American Medical Association, to do dozens of surgeries without the benefit of anesthesia on African women that he owned. So, quite naturally, it takes real pathology to cause me to distinguish Trump’s insanity from so many other presidents, be it of the AMA, APA or USA.
A Long Line of Sadistic Swindler Presidents For an instance, George Washington once asked with these lofty words, “How can we claim to be men of freedom while we willingly submit men to the chains based on a presumption of inferiority?” Yet, in spite of those words, Washington would twice (annually) move his enslaved African captives (slaves) back and forth from Pennsylvania to Virginia in order to avoid Street, Brooklyn, NY on September 14, 2017 at 2:30 p.m., premises known as 1983 East 23rd Street, Brooklyn, NY. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and State of New York, Block 7302 and Lot 54. Approximate amount of judgment is $535,725.64 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 502673/2013. Marc Dittenhoefer, Esq., Referee Knuckles, Komosinski & Manfro, LLP, 565 Taxter Road, Ste. 590, Elmsford, NY 10523, Attorneys for Plaintiff NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT - COUNTY OF KINGS DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE REGISTERED HOLDERS OF MORGAN STANLEY ABS CAPITAL I INC. TRUST 2007-HE6 MORTGAGE PASSTHROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2007-HE6, Plaintiff(s), Against Index No.: 4882/2008 BRIDGETTE STEWART, ET AL., Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale, duly entered in the Kings County Clerk’s Office on 2/15/2016, I, the undersigned Referee, will sell at public auction in Room 224 of Kings County Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, New York 11201 on 8/17/2017 at 2:30 pm, premises known as 2276A Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11233, and described as follows: ALL that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and State of New York, and designated on the tax maps of the Kings County Treasurer as Block 1435 and Lot 17. The approximate amount of the current Judgment lien is $1,061,837.53 plus interest and costs. The premises will be sold subject to provisions of the aforesaid Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale; Index # 4882/2008. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or the Mortgagee’s attorney. Eric Adam Goldberg, Esq., Referee. Leopold & Associates, PLLC, 80 Business Park Drive, Suite 110, Armonk, NY 10504 Dated: 6/29/2017 GNS NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT
11 the Pennsylvania law that would require they be freed if they stayed in Pennsylvania more than 6 months in a row. Thomas Jefferson wrote in his “Notes on the State of Virginia” that Black people, whom he called Niggers in the same text, “secrete less by the kidneys, and more by the glands of the skin, which gives them a very strong and disagreeable odor”. Yet, the married Thomas Jefferson tolerated that alleged odor enough to clandestinely sire as many as 6 children by a Black woman named Sally Hemings that he owned. She was also, by the way, his wife’s “half-sister”. That’s right, his sister-in-law. The same Jefferson wrote and signed, along with Benjamin Rush, M.D., that “all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness”. Yet, when Jefferson caught up to an African named Thomas Hubbard who had escaped Jefferson’s enslavement, Jefferson, in his own words, “had him severely flogged in the presence of his old companions”. Note, that is not just flogged but “severely” flogged. So, in some respects, it seems that Donald Trump should have to stand his place in a line of those presidents needing psychoanalysis. Nevertheless, this book will show that Trump is a quick study in crazy, doing all that he can to work his way to the head of that line. COUNTY OF KINGS MTGLQ Investors, Plaintiff AGAINST Jason Dupree; Makida Tomlinson a/k/a Makida S. Tomlinson; et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated March 4, 2016 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Kings County Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, Room 224, Brooklyn, NY 11201 on August 3, 2017 at 2:30PM, premises known as 592 Powell Street, Brooklyn, NY 11212. 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: 3847 Lot: 140. Approximate amount of judgment $358,898.41 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index# 10075/2013. Calvin J. Simons, Jr., Esq., Referee Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, LLC Attorney(s) for the Plaintiff 175 Mile Crossing Boulevard Rochester, New York 14624 (877) 759-1835 Dated: June 8, 2017 46582 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC AUCTION Supreme Court of New York, Kings County. SRMOF II 2012-1 TRUST, U.S. BANK TRUST NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, NOT IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY BUT SOLELY AS TRUSTEE, Plaintiff, -against- CLEO CHARLES-PHILLIPS; ROBERT PHILLIPS; CITY OF NEW YORK DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION PARKING VIOLATIONS BUREAU; CITY OF NEW YORK TRANSIT AUTHORITY TRANSIT ADJUDICATION BUREAU; NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION & FINANCE; SOPHIA JOHNSON, Index No. 2713/2013. Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated, February 21, 2017 and entered with the Kings County Clerk on April 6, 2017, Gregory Laspina, Esq., the Appointed Referee, will sell the premises known as 553 Lenox Road, Brooklyn, New York 11203 at public auction at Kings County Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, Room 224, Brooklyn, New York 11201, on June 15, 2017 at 2:30 P.M. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings and State of New York known as Block: 4845; Lot: 28 will be sold subject to the provisions of filed Judgment, Index No. 2713/2013. The approximate amount of judgment is $1,047,226.32 plus interest and costs. FRIEDMAN VARTOLO, LLP 85 Broad Street, Suite 501, New York, New York 10004, Attorneys for Plaintiff.
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The below essay is from the December 1971 issue of The Forum, a publication of the African-American Teachers Association
The Economic Aspects of the Marcus Garvey Movement
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By Dr. Milfred C. Fierce
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arcus Mosiah Garvey has most often been identified with Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism. To be sure, Garvey was a nationalist and a Pan-Africanist of the highest order. However, Garvey and Garveyism manifested a deeply rooted concern for the economic hopelessness of the world’s Black people. And Garvey’s carefully laid-out economic plans often go unnoticed because of his charismatic political militancy and his colorful chauvinistic cliches. Clearly endowed with semantic effervescence or the gift of gab, Garvey has invariably been described as the Black Moses of his race, a group psychologist and idealist planner, an iconoclast, an egotist, a zealot, charlatan and buffoon. He has also been portrayed as flamboyant, dynamic, bombastic, defiant, ruthless, a dreamer and a fool. Regardless of what history will write about him, and his personal shortcomings notwithstanding, Marcus Garvey was undoubtedly the peerless champion of his race. He was bulwark for the worldwide organization of people of African descent. During his brief period of popularity in the U.S., 1920’s and 1930’s, he rallied more Black people at home and abroad than any Black man before or since. Garvey’s major thrust was building Black economic power on the Black reservations of the United States, which to him was another form of “opting out of the majority society”. Through the Universal Negro Improvement Association, which he established in Jamaica in 1914 and brought to the U.S. in 1916, Garvey intended that Blacks should create their own economic institutions through such race enterprises as the Black Star Line and the Negro Factories Corporation. Once he organized the U.N.I.A., Garvey turned his attention to opening businesses of all kinds in Black communities across this country which would employ Black men and women thereby sapping unemployment, which would help to develop local self-sufficiency among them. Many of those businesses were the forerunners of enterprises founded many years later by Father Divine and still later by the Honorable Elijah Muhammad who, at present, represents the closest thing to a viable program of Black capitalism the United States has ever witnessed. Garvey proclaimed, “We must prepare now by organizing ourselves all over the world by building businesses, stores and factories to sustain our people and free ourselves”. The most phenomenal aspect of Garveyism was the unprecedented appeal Garvey had for the masses of Black people who, throughout their spurious history in the U.S., found themselves futilely locked into pernicious economic, social and political conditions--all the direct result of a monster called Racism. Garvey’s strength came primarily from the urban ghettos and it was distinguished from other movements by its appeal to the masses. “He gave them what they wanted, identification with something that makes them feel like somebody among white people who said they were nobody.” With his eloquent citations for race amelioration, the downtrodden Black masses, particularly in the U.S., found in Garveyism a temporary journey into a romantic world. The masses provided the U.N.I.A. with enviable sustenance and support. The greatest Black Nationalist movements in the U.S. have invariably come along at moments of high expectations among Blacks that change will occur, on the one hand, and of White America’s
unwillingness to permit it, on the other. This was precisely the situation after World War I when the Garvey Movement and the U.N.I.A. were at their apex. They assembled hundreds of thousands of adherents, and perhaps several million sympathizers to their banner, whose aim was to return to Africa. Of course, this would be made possible by the successful operation of the U.N.I.A. economic program. The Garvey Movement never returned any Black people to Africa, partly because of the inefficiency and corruption of its petty bourgeois leadership, and partly because of the nefarious role played by the United States Government vis-a-vis Marcus Garvey. Nevertheless, several U.N.I.A. envoys were sent to Liberia to lay the groundwork for the settlement of Black people from the United States and the West Indies. Once the Firestone Rubber Company, with their superior resources and American blessings, began to compete for land in Liberia, which had ostensibly been promised to the U.N.I.A., Garvey and his followers were unwelcome. Garvey’s efforts to gain a foothold in this African Republic was foiled, partly by British, French and American pressures on the Liberian president to repudiate the agreement between his government and the U.N.I.A. In any case, the U.N.I.A., under the resilient leadership of Marcus Garvey, displayed vividly that the Black man’s subterranean world possessed enough kinship with Africa to be
stirred by a Black Nationalist defense of her. And as we move toward the last quarter of the twentieth century, we find very prominent among America’s Black masses a “resurrection of race consciousness and identification with Africa and things African” - which has been all but shattered by the experience of almost 400 years of degradation in the U.S. - fifty or sixty years after Marcus Garvey sowed the seeds for reclaiming Mother Africa. It would be most difficult to understand Garveyism in any of its ramifications, economics included, without having a surface knowledge of Marcus Garvey the man. Marcus Garvey was born in 1887, in Jamaica, West Indies. Ironically, with his ideas for African redemption, this was two years after the leadership of the European world met in Berlin to “peacefully” dissect the African continent and create artificial boundaries by which exogenous white people would divide indigenous Black nations, which they called tribes, in half. Subsequently, this would be recorded as one of the most execrable periods in African history and, possibly, all of world history. Garvey received most of his early education in the local elementary schools in and around Kingston, Jamaica, and may have attended law classes as an occasional student at Birkbeck College, now a part of London University, during 1912 and 1913. Two years after leading an unsuccessful printers’ strike in Kingston, Garvey traveled
outside Jamaica, mainly to Costa Rica in 1909, to examine the conditions of Black people in the surrounding area. After visiting several Central and South American countries, Garvey was disheartened by the exploitation of Black people which he observed. Following a brief return to Jamaica in 1912, Garvey left for London. It was in London that Garvey first came in contact with the writings of the sage of Tuskegee, Booker T. Washington, who was to have a profound influence on him and the early development of the U.N.I.A. Much of his ideology and economic philosophy of Black self-help can be attributed to the teachings of Booker T. Washington. Lerone Bennett, Jr. in his work, “Confrontation: Black and White”, mentions that Garvey “saw himself as a conservator of Washington’s values”: With almost uncontrollable anxiety to commence with his plans for race improvement, Garvey returned to Jamaica and during the summer of 1914 established the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League with the general purpose stated as: “To unite all the Negro peoples of the world into one great body to establish a country and government absolutely their own.” The association’s motto was short and stirring: “One God! One Aim! One Destiny!” Dr. Milfred C. Fierce was the first head of the Black Studies Program for Vassar College, housed at the Urban Center for Black Studies.