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Malverne snags top prize in the Metallica contest By NIColE FoRMISANo nformisano@liherald.com
Courtesy Malverne school district
More than a year of practice for the Pride of Malverne prepared them to take home first place in Metallica’s ‘For Whom the Band Tolls’ contest.
Families across Malverne clustered in front of their televisions last Sunday, anxiously awaiting Robert Trujillo, the bassist of Metallica, to announce the winners of their “For Whom the Band Tolls” marching band competition. And then, finally, it was official — the Pride of Malverne had come out on top. “Everyone was going insane,” Jasmine Lugo, a sophomore tenor saxophonist in the band, said. “We were all really excited, and really proud of what we’ve done.” The Malverne band was personally selected by two members of Metallica — tying with Boerne High School, in Texas, for first place in their division — for their rendition of “Enter Sandman,” which did anything but lull the audience to sleep. Their musical skills, combined with synchronized dancing that could give a lesser band whiplash, made the win all within their hands. “It was definitely surreal being chosen by famous peoConTinued on Page 11
MLK visit commemorated by Malverne neighbors By NIColE FoRMISANo nformisano@liherald.com
Mar tin Luther King Jr. walked down Woodfield Road to lead a peace march in the Malverne school district. Now, 59 years later, the community celebrated his lasting legacy. “That’s why we’re going to celebrate the importance of Dr. King’s visit here, to continue with living in peace and harmony with our schools integrated,” Doris Hicks Newkirk, president of the Lakeview branch of the NAACP, said. “The importance to me is that we’ve come so far. This community has come so very far.
“And I believe we probably still have some ways to go, but I just pray that we stay at least the way we are, and better.” Before 1966, the Malverne school district was heavily segregated. White children mostly went to Davison Avenue or Maurice W. Downing Primary School — then named Lindner Place School after Paul Lindner, a prominent Ku Klux Klan member — while Black children primarily went to Woodfield Road School. When, more than a decade after Brown v Board of Education was passed, the district was ordered to desegregate; there was significant backlash from the Mal-
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DoRIS HICkS NEwkIRk president, Lakeview NAACP verne community. Segregation is not ancient history — it’s living memory. Frederick Brewington, a civil rights lawyer of Lakeview, was one of the first Black students to attend Davison Avenue. He remembers fellow
9-year-olds holding signs protesting the school’s integration, he told the Atlantic in a 2020 feature. He also recalls the way white parents treated Black parents. Hicks Newkirk’s own father, she said, had to work very hard to make sure his children had the access to education that he didn’t have.
“We have to tell our children,” Hicks Newkirk said, “not just children of color, all children need to know the history of this country so that they can say, ‘you know what, p e o p l e h ave s u f f e re d a n d worked hard to get us where we are.’” Students, parents and civic ConTinued on Page 9