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The Westchester Black Women’s Political Caucus (WBWPC), will host a semiformal Cocktail Reception and Dinner on Friday evening, October 20, 2023, from 6:00 to 11:00 P.M. at the Greentree Country Club in New Rochelle, New York, to celebrate the impact Black women have made in shaping legislative policies on the local, county, state, and national levels. The evening will begin with a reception at 6:00 P.M., followed by the program starting at 7:00 P.M.pm WBWPC leaders and

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Lacey Schwartz Delgado to be Guest Speaker at WBWPC Gala, Oct. 20th

By Sandra T. Blackwell

Hon. Tajian Nelson Democratic Commissioner Board of Elections

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other public officials serving our communities will be acknowledged.

This year’s guest speaker will be Lacey Schwartz Delgado, Esq., cofounder of the multimedia production company, Truth Aid Media.

Members of the Westchester Black Women’s Political Caucus are celebrating over four and one-

half decades of political activism.

The organization was co-founded in 1976 by Mount Vernon resident Alice C. Scott and White Plains/ Greenburgh resident attorney Joan Mosley, both now deceased. Since its inception, the mission of the Cau-

cus has held steadfast – to encourage greater participation of Black women in all phases of the political process and to project, pursue and support causes and issues which or persons who advance the socioeconomic and political position of

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Final Call for Voter Registration and Absentee Ballot Voting for the November 7, 2023 General Election REGISTRATION DEADLINES

sentee Ballot Application Portal By sending an email request to BOE-WestAbMonday, October 23, 2023 is the last day change sentee@westchestergov.com of address must be received by the Board of ElecBy sending a fax request to (914) 995-7753 or tions for the General Election.

(914) 995-3190 By going in-person or mailing a paper appliSaturday, October 28, 2023 is the last day a cation to the Westchester County Board of Elecvoter registration application must be received by tions, 25 Quarropas St., White Plains, NY 10601 the Board of Elections to vote in the General Election.

You can download a pdf version of the NYS Absentee Ballot Application Form: NEW ABSENTEE BALLOT PROCEDURE Download English Form Due to a recent change in law, New York State Download Spanish Form voters are no longer permitted to cast a ballot on Download Military/Federal/UOCAVA Form a voting machine if they have already been issued an absentee ballot for that election. Voters who *The letter must contain the following informahave already been issued an absentee ballot can tion: still vote in person using an affidavit ballot.

Name and date of birth of the voter Qualifications to vote by Absentee Ballot: The address where you are registered An address where the ballot is to be sent Absent from your county on Election Day. The reason for the request, and Unable to appear at the polls due to temporary The signature of the voter or permanent illness or disability.

An application form will be mailed with your Unable to appear because you are the primary ballot. The application form must be completed care giver of one or more individuals who are ill and returned with your ballot. or physically disabled.

A resident or patient of a Veterans Health Ad- If you cannot pick up your ballot, or will not be ministration Hospital. able to receive it through the mail: You have the Detained in jail awaiting Grand Jury action or right to designate someone to pick it up for you. confined in prison after conviction for an offense Only that person designated on your application other than a felony. may pick up and deliver your ballot. Please note: The maximum amount any person can pick up Absentee Ballot Deadlines: is five (5) ballots including their own. If you are permanently ill or disabled you have the right to Oct. 23, 2023 is the last day for Board of Elec- receive an Absentee Ballot for each subsequent tions to RECEIVE application or letter of applica- election without further application. Simply file tion* by mail or online portal for general ballot. an application with the Westchester County Board Nov. 6, 2023 is the last day for an applicant or of Elections indicating permanent illness or physagent to apply in person at the Board of Elections ical disability. You will then automatically receive for the General Election absentee ballot. an absentee ballot for every election until your Nov. 7, 2023 is the last day to postmark the registration is cancelled.

General Election absentee ballot by mail. The ballot must be received by the Board of Elections Accessible Absentee Voting: at 25 Quarropas St., White Plains, NY, 10601 no later than Nov. 14, 2023.

Voters with a visual impairment that require a balNov. 7, 2023 is the last day to deliver the Gener- lot with accessible features may apply using the al Election absentee ballot in-person to the Board online Accessible Absentee Ballot Application of Elections or at any poll site throughout the portal.

County, by the close of the polls on Election Day. In-person voting using an accessible Ballot MarkYou may apply for an absentee ballot in any of the ing Device (“BMD”) during early voting or on following ways: Election Day is still available to voters with a disability who do not want to vote by absentee ballot Electronically through the New York State Ab- using the accessible absentee ballot system.

Download the Accessible Absentee Ballot Application Download the Spanish Accessible Absentee Ballot Application How to cast an Absentee Ballot: Please carefully review and follow the instructions below. Each step is important and required.

Once you have received the ballot, mark the ballot according to your choices for each office following the instructions on the ballot.

Once you have completed marking your ballot, fold it up and place it in the Security Ballot Envelope. This envelope will have a place for your signature.

Sign and date the outside of the Security Ballot Envelope.

Seal the Security Ballot Envelope.

Place the Security Ballot Envelope in the Return Ballot Envelope. (This envelope will have the return address of the Westchester County Board of Elections on the outside and should have a logo that reads, “Official Election Mail”) Seal the Return Ballot Envelope.

You may return the ballot in any of the following ways: Put it in the mail ensuring it receives a postmark no later than Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2023.

Bringing it to the Westchester County Board of Elections’ Office no later than Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2023 by 9 p.m.

Bringing it to any General Election day poll site within Westchester County on Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2023 by 9 p.m.

Mail time considerations when returning an Absentee Ballot When mailing your completed ballot, the USPS recommends that voters allow enough time for ballots to be returned to the Board, which is generally fifteen (15) days ahead of the General Election. New York State requires your ballot to be both postmarked by Nov. 7, 2023 and received by our Board Nov. 14, 2023. Voters who mail in their ballots on Election Day must be aware of the posted collection times on collection boxes and at the Postal Service’s retail facilities, and that ballots entered after the last posted collection time will not be postmarked until the following business day.

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LOCAL NEWS: Greenburgh • Mount Vernon • New Rochelle • Ossining • Rye • Peekskill • Port Chester • Tarrytown • White Plains • Yonkers •

Ten WCC Students Transition to Universities with $50,000 Scholarships from SUNY WCC/ PepsiCo Foundation Partnership Ten students from Westchester Community College (WCC) have recently been selected to receive a S.M.I.L.E. (Success Matters in Life and Education) scholarship from the PepsiCo Foundation. This scholarship is part of the PepsiCo Foundation’s Community College Scholarship Program – which was established in 2021 to address the issue of underrepresentation in high-demand fields.

The PepsiCo Foundation’s community college program includes two types of scholarships – Uplift Scholarships for students seeking two-year associate degrees or trade certificates and S.M.I.L.E scholarships for community college graduates transitioning to four-year colleges.

The PepsiCo Foundation S.M.I.L.E. Scholarship awards two-year scholarships of up to $25,000 per year ($50,000 total) to students from historically underserved communities. Each scholar also receives access to resources such as financial literacy courses and is assigned a professional mentor from PepsiCo to provide guidance and support along their educational journey. To qualify, students must be transitioning to complete their bachelor’s degree in a business or STEM field in full-time undergraduate study at an accredited four-year college or university in the U.S. WCC and the PepsiCo Foundation recently announced the latest cohort of 10 WCC 2023 graduates who were selected as S.M.I.L.E. Scholarship recipients.

The scholars and their current schools are: • Daniela Bloom-Pavon – SUNY Binghamton University • Wellington Castro – Pace University • Sashawn Francis – CUNY Lehman College • Adriana McFadden – CUNY Queens College • Shirley Montenegro – Pace University • Tyfanna Moulton – Kennesaw State University • Ramon Perez – Kennesaw State University • Jason Uyaguari – CUNY Hunter College • Joan Waldron – Columbia University • Khayri West – Pace University To learn more about this opportunity, please visit: https://www.sunywcc.edu/admissions/scholarships/pepsico-foundation-smile/ ”SUNY WCC is proud to continue its relationship with PepsiCo to further our shared commitment to diversity and access in higher education,” said Dr. Belinda S. Miles, President of Westchester Community College. “Those of our students who were selected for the S.M.I.L.E. Scholarship have distinguished themselves for their academic excellence and dedication. They are typical of the thousands of students who come to SUNY WCC for an affordable option before continuing their studies at a four-year institution.”

“Driving lasting change is our focus at the PepsiCo Foundation, and what better way to do that than to in-

WESPAC Silent Peace Vigil on Thursday in White Plains on Thursday, October 19th Let us come together to mourn, grieve, cry, and support one another in our pain. Our many years of working for a brighter, beautiful future for Israel/Palestine where all people live in safety, security, equality and freedom has not yet borne fruit.

at 4:30pm at the fountain in White Plains. Intersection of Main Street and Mamaroneck Avenue.

Silent gathering. Dress in black.

We will provide white peace dove pins. No outside signage permitted.

No flags permitted. We will fly only the earth flag and play sacred music.

We will continue to work for that WESPAC will provide placards that vision and with community partners say: who are committed to realizing that vision, but for now, we grieve, mourn FREEDOM and cry together. We join one another SAFETY to express our collective horror in the PEACE face of brutality and violence and to EQUALITY honor our collective longing for a just SAVE LIVES NOW! and lasting peace.

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DR. BELINDA S. MILES

vest in the education and future of the next generation,” said C.D. Glin, President of the PepsiCo Foundation and Global Head of Social Impact at PepsiCo. “A single scholarship can be the catalyst for these ambitious students to complete their education, build generational wealth within their families, and contribute to a stronger community for all.”

IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT VOTING The right to vote is one of our nation’s oldest and most important entitlements and with this right comes responsibility. Westchester County is always in need of Election Inspectors willing to work at one of various polling sites on Election Day. Election inspectors receive $350 for working on Election Day, plus $25 to attend a training class and pass an exam. Proficiency in English and Spanish is a plus.

Review the eligibility requirements to become an Election Inspector by visiting: https://citizenparticipation. westchestergov.com/election-inspectors or call: Jonathan Cannella (R) - (914) 995-8563; Ericka Sterling (D) - (914) 995-8568; Olga Rivera (R/Bilingual) - (914) 995-8559; or Ada Carden (D/Bilingual) - (914) 995-7810.

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TO BE EQUAL

By Marc H. Morial President & CEO National Urban League MARC H. MORIAL

PUBLISHER

1986-2009

M. Paul Tells All

By M. Paul Redd, Sr. August 11, 1928 - January 9, 2009

Letter to the Editor From Paul Feiner, Supervisor Town of Greenburgh

Can Alabama Finally Be Forced To Conduct A Fair Election With A If you are homebound or know of an elderly resident who is homeLegal Congressional Map? bound and you want to get a Covid “We are not aware of any other case in which a state legislature — faced with a federal court order declaring thorat its electoral plan unlawfully dilutes minority votes and requiring a plan that provides an additional opportunity district — responded with a plan that the state concedes does not provide that district.”

– U.S. District Court, Northern District of Alabama, Southern Division After giving Alabama legislators nearly two years to comply with its order and fix the state’s illegal racially gerrymandered Congressional map, a federal court has selected a non-discriminatory map for them.

Despite rebuke after rebuke Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall

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has vowed to keep fighting to restore the racist map. But for the 2024 election, at least, Black voters in Alabama voters will have the opportunity to elect a candidate of their choice in two of the state’s seven districts.

This is thanks to the unflagging efforts of plaintiffs Evan Milligan, Khadidah Stone, Letetia Jackson, Shalela Dowdy, Greater Birmingham Ministries, and the Alabama State Conference of the NAACP and the attorneys representing them: Legal Defense Fund, American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of Alabama, Hogan Lovells LLP, and Wiggins, Childs, Pantazis, Fisher & Goldfarb. They are to be commended, and the National Urban League will continue to stand with them should A.C. Marshall follow through on his threat.

The U.S. Supreme Court surprised most legal observers in June when it struck down Alabama’s map after allowing the state to use it for last year’s Congressio-

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booster shot, flu vaccine or need a home visit - you are in luck! Scarsdale Volunteer Ambulance Service has started a new service --housecalls like the old fashioned doctor.

It is a community paramedicine program. They will stop by at your house and provide you with the vaccines and booster shots. Email covid@scarsdalevac.com or call 914 722-2288. This service is available to anyone, anywhere in the county.

It’s a great service that many people will benefit from. My mom is almost 99 years old and has benefitted from the service. The paramedics are fantastic, caring and efficient. House calls for the elderly is also safer for the frail elderly. It’s a better option having someone go to your house than having to wait for a

HON. PAUL FEINER Greenburgh Town Supervisor

Doctor in a waiting room with other sick people.

Scarsdale Volunteer Ambulance Service provides the community with exceptional service - no lines, no waits, VIP service for all.

NYS SELF REPORT SURVEY In coordination with the New York State Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services, Westchester County is coordinating an Initial Damage Assessment to collect data related to storm-related loss. In addition to collecting information about damages to public infrastructure, New York State is also collecting data directly from residents and businesses regarding personal losses.

Residents and business impacted by the September 29, 2023 severe weather event should complete the online survey to help collect information that may help New York State and local officials identify damages and develop requests by the State for federal disaster recovery assistance programs. .

The survey is NOT an application for disaster relief programs. Complete the NYS Self-Report Survey online: https:// survey123.arcgis.com/share/74bf2f21895346d691156eadd2 690ccf

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COMMENTARY: Protecting Their Dream Homes from a Fracking Nightmare Forever home. That’s how folks from Aurora I met last week describe the houses they bought outside Denver.

Now those dream homes are caught in what may be America’s most dire urban fracking nightmare.

Over the last year, residents have discovered, and began a grassroots challenge against, a plan to erect 174 10-story-high oil wells that stretch horizontally underground for thousands of feet.

The project is to be built next to a pristine, vital reservoir that hugs ON the city’s edge and shares its name.

Nearby communities without reservoirs buy their water from Aurora.

The snowmelt-fed water is so clean you can drink it while you swim in it.

That all could change fast. Civitas, an oil company whose biggest investor is the Canadian equivalent of the Social Security Administration, wants to frack — inject water, sand, and toxic chemicals underground to free oil — under the reservoir, neighborhoods, and close to a Superfund toxic waste site. The entire area in the proposal is more than 33,000 acres with one drilling pad within 3,000 feet of a neighborhood.

What started as a Facebook page grew into a full-fledged campaign involving residents and allied environmental groups pushing city, county, and state officials to stop the fracking proposal from moving forward. Residents only learned of the

By Ben Jealous

plan when Civitas started trying to acquire the mineral rights under their houses and common areas controlled by homeowners’ associations.

When they go to a hearing, “it’s the suits versus the t-shirts” says Marsha Goldsmith Kamin, referring to the blue shirts she and other opponents wear. Kamin and her husband learned about the fracking proposal after they moved in November to be closer to their three grandchildren.

Opposing the wells amounts to a full-time job for the retiree now.

In Colorado, like most Western, states access to water remains a contentious issue. As its name suggests, the leading opposition group Save the Aurora Reservoir leads with the threat to drinking water for much of metro Denver.

Beyond the direct threat of fracking under and around the reservoir, the proposed wells will demand billions of gallons of water that end up so polluted they’re lost to other uses.

So Aurora, which has experienced recent droughts, would see precious water used to produce fossil fuels that are accelerating climate change that can make water even more scarce.

The fracking would worsen Denver’s poor air quality as well. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) raised its concern about ozone levels in the Rockies’ Front Range from serious to severe last year. The proposed wells would emit thousands of tons of “volatile organic

compounds” and nitrogen oxide that make up ozone.

The Superfund site, created by a now-closed Air Force base and city and county dumping, could be an unlikely hero in the story. The EPA won’t allow fracking under the unlined landfill, and more recently has raised questions about the impact of fracking close by on the already leaking site’s structural integrity.

Opponents hope that federal concern will help sway regulators in Colorado.

Opponents have made progress.

Civitas agreed to move five well sites. The county commission, which narrowly defeated a drilling halt this week, is considering closing loopholes to its oil and gas ordinances to ensure no development within a mile of the reservoir. U.S. Representative Jason Crow wrote to commissioners reiterating residents’ concerns.

But Save the Aurora Reservoirs activists are learning how far powerful interests can tilt the playing field. Civitas needs mineral rights from fewer than half of the property owners to force fracking on the rest. While the city has a one-mile setback preventing drilling near the reservoir, opponents must fight for the same from the county.

“We think it’s so obvious that the downside is so much greater than the upside. But it feels like so much of the structure – the laws and regulations and approval process – are really working against us,” says Julie

BEN JEALOUS

Huygen, an Air Force veteran who moved to Aurora two years ago.

Kamin said she’s fighting for the grandchildren she relocated for.

She’s energized by her eight-yearold granddaughter’s desire to take part. “She asked me, if they do that to the ground, where are the prairie dogs going to go?”

Ben Jealous is executive director of the Sierra Club, the nation’s largest and most influential grassroots environmental organization.

He is a professor of practice at the University of Pennsylvania and author of “Never Forget Our People Were Always Free,” published in January.

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TO BE EQUAL, Cont’d. from page 4 nal elections. Despite being ordered to create a map with “two districts in which Black voters either comprise a voting-age majority or something quite close to it,” Alabama legislators in July passed a new map that maintained a single majority-Black district.

In response, the District Court judges wrote, “We are deeply troubled that the State enacted a map that the State readily admits does not provide the remedy we said federal law requires.”

The Court ordered a special master to draft new maps, and after the Supreme Court rejected Alabama’s emergency appeal last month, the District Court selected a new map last week.

Throughout Alabama’s nearly two-year crusade to adopt a map that blatantly violates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, the state has

insisted that the gerrymandered map could not be in violation because none of the two million its expert witness randomly generated using a “race-neutral” algorithm contained more than one majority-minority district.

As the Supreme Court noted in its June decision, one problem with Alabama’s argument is that the expert witness used outdated census data – from 2010 instead of 2020 – and ignored certain traditional districting criteria, such as keeping together communities of interest, political subdivisions, or municipalities.

The expert herself testified that when using the correct census data, the “randomized algorithms” she employed “found plans with two majority black districts in literally thousands of different ways.”

The other problem is that the number of possible districting maps in Alabama that can be randomly generated is at least in the “trillion trillions.”

“Two million maps, in other words, is not many maps at all,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote. “And Alabama’s insistent reliance on that number, however powerful it may sound in the abstract, is thus close to irrelevant in practice. What would the next million maps show?

The next billion? The first trillion of the trillion trillions? Answerless questions all.”

It’s appalling that Alabama had any expectation that such a bad-faith argument would succeed before the highest court in the nation, and a victory for both democracy and logic that it did not.

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Sen. Laphonza Butler Vows Unwavering Support for the Black Press and Black Communities

By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia

“Welcome to the newest member of the United States Senate!” Laphonza Butler being sworn in by Vice President Kamala Harris. (Photo: Office of the Vice President of the United States / Wikimedia Commons)

The Black Press has gained a powerful ally in the U.S. Senate, promising unwavering support for the historic voice of the African American community. Sen. Laphonza Butler (D-CA), appointed by Gov. Gavin Newsom to complete the late Senator Dianne Feinstein’s term, promises to be a transformative force in the United States Congress.

During a Zoom call with publishers from the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA), Sen. Butler expressed her dedication to ensuring the long-term viability of the Black Press.

She also pledged to host a delegation of Black newspaper publishers on Capitol Hill to discuss advertising and other opportunities for Blackowned newspapers and media companies, whom candidates and the federal government have done very little business with. “The existence of your outlets is the lifeline to our community,” emphasized Butler during the 30-minute Zoom call. “I appreciate the work you do tirelessly.”

The NNPA is a trade association of more than 240 African American-owned newspapers and media companies in the United States.

As the first openly LGBTQ person to represent California in the Senate, Butler’s appointment marks a historic moment. Additionally, she’s the second Black woman to represent California in the Senate, following Vice President Kamala

Harris. Her appointment represents a significant milestone, and her unwavering commitment to the Black Press and the communities she serves is poised to bring about positive change for years to come.

Butler’s extensive experience as a senior adviser to Harris and her advocacy for women and the working class, position her as a formidable advocate. She has identified crucial issues facing the Senate, including robust support for Ukraine and Israel, particularly in these times of conflict. She also highlighted the pressing need for a Speaker in the House to prevent government shutdowns.

“I want to make sure that we as a community are talking about the importance and impact of this pending government shutdown and the consequences of a broken Congress, led by a Republican Party that can’t govern themselves and is putting the future of our country in peril as well as our national security,” Butler told the NNPA. The former CEO of EMILY’s List pledged to bridge the gap between the government and the Black Press. “I have spoken directly with the Biden-Harris campaign on several occasions about their commitment to communities of color and engaging directly with the most credible vehicles that speak with them,” Butler remarked.

She remained resolute when addressing concerns about prioritizing Black communities’ is-

sues. “I recognize that not only am I the only Black woman in the U.S. Senate, but I also know I’m the most junior. But here’s my commitment: by joining together and building partnerships with Sen. Cory Booker and Sen. Raphael Warnock, we can tell a very different story and have a much greater impact,” Butler asserted. “I intend to lead the same way I’ve led my entire life.”

Butler has an established history with the Black Press. Her ties to African American-owned media were demonstrated by her direct request to Los Angeles Sentinel Publisher and NNPA Chair Emeritus Danny Bakewell Sr. to convene a meeting with Black publishers.

Before ending the 30-minute meeting, Butler reiterated her pledge to work to ensure the longterm viability of the Black Press. “The existence of your outlets is the lifeline to our community,” Butler insisted. “I know that my being in this position is an important opportunity. As the only Black woman in the United States Senate, as our Senate and government are taking on issues that are critical to the future of our communities, I wanted to make sure I was in conversation with all of you as I start my tenure in my appointed role, I want to hear what the concerns of your readers are. I want to be a voice and a champion for those issues and for all of you.”

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Social Security Benefits to Increase Despite Republican Calls for Reform

By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia

In the face of increasing pressure from elected Republican officials to reform safety net programs, the Social Security Administration has announced a 3.2% increase in benefits for 2024. Starting December 29, recipients of Social Security will see an average boost of $50 per month in their retirement benefits, a change attributed to the annual Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) calculated based on inflation readings from July, August, and September.

“Social Security and SSI benefits will increase in 2024, and this will help millions of people keep up with expenses,” stated Kilolo Kijakazi, acting commissioner of Social Security.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W), which showed increases of 2.6% in July, 3.4% in August, and 3.6% in September, is where the adjustment comes from. Despite this positive news for Social Security beneficiaries, a political battle looms over the long-term fate of these crucial programs. During the 2022 campaign season, several Republican incumbents, and candidates, including Florida Sen. Rick Scott and Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson, advocated for significant changes, including cuts and the need for annual funding reauthorization.

Scott’s 11-point legislative agenda included a provision proposing the expiration of all federal laws every five years, which he argued

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would best serve to “preserve those programs.” Johnson, who narrowly won reelection, called for transforming all mandatory spending into discretionary funds, asserting this would enable better evaluation and problem-solving for programs facing financial strain. Unsuccessful GOP Senate candidates in various states also floated proposals to end at least one of the programs through privatization or significant cuts, highlighting a growing divide on the issue within the Republican Party.

tion of the American population, particularly seniors and those with limited means. According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Social Security alone accounts for most older Americans’ monthly income, with nearly a quarter relying on it for 90% of their income. According to the Social Security Administration, over 67 million people received benefits in 2023, with nearly 90% of those over 65 relying on the program. Stanford University’s white paper on Social Security outlines its historical development, emMedicare, Medicaid, and Social phasizing its role in safeguarding Security each constitute critical pil- retirees against financial insecurity. lars of support for a significant porWhile the program remains cru-

cial for many, the same Stanford paper highlights that demographic and economic shifts pose challenges to its long-term financial stability. The authors contend that policymakers must confront the issue and explore potential reforms to ensure the program’s continued viability. “Social Security is an essential program that provides critical support to millions of retirees, survivors, and disabled individuals,” the authors asserted.

“While reforming Social Security is challenging, policymakers must act to address the program’s long-term funding shortfall and ensure that the program can continue to meet its important mission.”

Mayor Spano Guest of Honor at Opening of African Culture Exhibition at Philipse Manor Hall State Historic Site

YONKERS, N.Y. (10/14/23) — On Saturday, October 14, 2023, Mayor Mike Spano of Yonkers was the guest of honor at the opening of a new temporary exhibition on African culture at Philipse Manor Hall State Historic Site. Curated by the African Friends of the United States, the exhibition features historic and modern African art and cultural artifacts, especially related to the culture of Ghana. The exhibit opening featured live music, dance, and an entrance by Prince Sampson Afriyie-Fontomfrom, founder of the African

Friends of the United States. Speakers included Prince Sampson, Mayor Mike Spano, and others.

Mayor Spano spoke of the importance of history and of Yonkers’ cultural diversity. Representatives of the African Friends of the United States spoke of the importance of sharing African culture with their children and the residents of Yonkers and the surrounding area, to ensure the continuation of their cultural heritage.

The mission of the African Friends of the United

States is to provide cultural entertainment and educational programs that promote international friendship, cultural acceptance, and youth development.

The exhibition will be on display at Philipse Manor Hall State Historic Site (29 Warburton Ave., Yonkers, NY) now through Sunday, October 22, 2023.

Admission to the museum is $6 for adults, $3 for seniors and students. Children 12 and under and Friends of Philipse Manor Hall get in free.

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Our Stories Are Precious

The White Plains/Greenburgh Branch of the NAACP and Westchester Region ACT-SO will host “Our Stories Are Precious”, on Sunday, October 29, 2023, 2:00pm, at the Greenburgh Public Library, 300 Tarrytown Road, Elmsford, NY 10523. The free event will feature Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich, author of several children’s books, including Operation Sisterhood, It Doesn’t Take A Genius, a Kirkus Best Book of the Year; 8th Grade Superzero (an Amazon Best Book of the Month, and Two Naomis, co-authored with Audrey Vernick, which was nominated for an NAACP Image Award. Registration is required. Call (914) 721-8200 or visit greenburghlibrary.org for more information.

Financial Literacy and Legacy Series Join lively intergenerational conversations about positive personal finance habits and generational wealth. The Theodore D. Young Community Center Department of Community Resources (TDYCC) presents a 3-part “FINANCIAL LITERACY and LEGACY SERIES”, at 6:30pm-7:30pm: Part 1-Wednesday, September 27, 2023-Financial Literacy Fundamentals; Part Each workshop will be held at the TDYCC, located at 32 Man2-Wednesday, October 25, 2023-Making Sense of Dollars; and hattan Avenue, in White Plains, NY 10607. Seating is limited. AtPart 3-Wednesday, November 29, 2023-Money Yesterday, To- tend one, two, or three workshops. Reservations are required. Call day, and Tomorrow.

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Temple this week. A short excerpt from the piece is below: On Wednesday night October 11, ten local synagogues, representatives from Jewish organizations, Christian clergymen and political leaders joined together for a Vigil for Israel at Westchester Reform Temple. The event drew an overflow crowd to the synagogue. Traffic was backed up for miles on Mamaroneck Road and every seat inside the temple was filled. The audience included Scarsdale’s school superintendents and representatives of the Board of Education along with Scarsdale’s Mayor and several trustees… …Former Congressman Mondaire Jones said he was “devastated by the heinous attacks,” and said “As a Black American I stand in solidarity with the Jewish people here and in Israel.” He remembered a 2021 trip to Israel calling it the most “educational trip of his life.” He said, “America has a role to play in supporting Israel and called for the “end of chaos in Congress.”

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Good evening, everyone, and thank you for allowing me to share a few words of solidarity with you tonight.

Like all of you, I am devastated by the heinous attacks on the Israeli people over the past several days—attacks that continue to occur, and that would be unimaginable were we not privy to the video footage, the photographs, the witness interviews, the stories of our loved ones directly impacted. The actions by Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and Hezbollah are a category of evil I had read about, growing up, but had hoped never to witness in my own lifetime.

My heart goes out to every single person here and in Israel who has experienced loss during this ongoing tragedy. I stand in solidarity with the Israeli people and our Jewish brothers and sisters in Israel, here in America, and the world over. It is beautiful and encouraging to see so many in our community come together in solidarity tonight. I am with you.

I am not Israeli or Jewish. I would not pretend to know precisely how you are feeling tonight—the depths of your sorrow and your anger. I will tell you that I became a better legislator when I visited Israel in November 2021. It was the most educational trip of my life. For several days, I glimpsed and got to experience the palpable anxiety that people feel on a daily basis throughout Israel. I have been to the Iron Dome facility in Sderot, just miles away from the Gaza border. I spent time at Zikim, a kibbutz that also sits along the Gaza border, and that exemplifies the principles of equality and communalism that the Jewish state of Israel was founded on. And of course I had the chance to visit, reflect, and pray at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem.

America has a profoundly important role to play in supporting Israel. I was happy to see President Biden last night reaffirm our government’s support of our greatest ally. In Congress, I was proud to vote to fund Iron Dome and to support the normalization of relations with Israel’s neighboring Arab countries. My strong desire is for Congress to overcome the dysfunction we are seeing in the House and, in a bipartisan way, provide Israel the aid she needs to defend herself and her people now and into the future.

The story of the Jewish people over millennia is the story of triumph over adversity. In the face of unspeakable horror, the Jewish people have responded with resilience, hope, and strength. As a Black American, I feel a close kinship with all of you, my Jewish brothers and sisters, and I want to extend my hand tonight in solidarity. I am reminded of Martin Luther King’s expression of solidarity to the American Jewish Congress in 1958: “My people were brought to America in chains. Your people were driven here to escape the chains fashioned for them in Europe. Our unity is born of our common struggle for centuries, not only to rid ourselves of bondage, but to make oppression of any people by others an impossibility.”

I know that I speak for all of our non-Jewish neighbors here tonight when I say that we stand with you, and we stand with the Israeli people. We must reject terrorism. We must reject hate. And we must never lose sight of peace, the goal that has guided us since the founding of Israel. Thank you.

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The Israeli/Hamas War: A Warning for America

By Dr. John E. Warren, Publisher, San Diego Voice & Viewpoint Newspaper

DR. JOHN E. WARREN

Those who follow the news know that in recent months, there has been an internal battle in Israel as the Prime Minister has sought to abolish the role of the Supreme Court, which serves as a check and balance over the legislation under Israel’s democratic form of government.

This struggle led to massive protests, including members of the military pulling back on service as an expression of objection to the proposed changes. The next result: the

conveyance of an internal conflict which led enemies of the State to decide it was a good time for an all out attack, especially during an important Jewish holiday. The result of that internal conflict has cost more than 1000 lives in Israel and hundreds of Palestinian deaths.

Fast switch to America’s democratic problems: A Legislative body unable to even pass a Resolution of support for Israel because of the lack of a Speaker in a Republican led House of Representatives, with a Democratic Party standing on the sidelines, with no will or incentive to help elect a new Republican Speaker.

While we argue over the much needed and necessary continued aid to Ukraine, our own military arsenal is being depleted; the Congress has no fewer than eleven appropriation bills bottled up without passage and the Senate is locked down on military funding and promotions in critical positions because of one Senator’s position on the use of military funds related to abortions and transgender care of military personnel. This is a recipe for our enemies to consider some first strike actions against us

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Mondaire Jones – a Democratic congressional candidate in NY-17 – is running to return to Congress to finish the work he started to lower costs for Lower Hudson Valley residents, make our communities safer, defend our democracy, raise wages, and stop Republicans from banning abortion.

He was raised in Section 8 housing in Spring Valley by a single mom and is a proud product of East Ramapo public schools. He went on to earn his bachelor’s degree from Stanford University, work at the Department of Justice during the Obama Administration, and graduate from Harvard

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women and minorities.

In 1976, with Alice C. Scott as its first president. the county organization served as the hub and set up chapters in Mount Vernon, Yonkers, New Rochelle, Greenburgh/White Plains, and Peekskill. Over the last year, the Caucus expanded its reach in the northern part of Westchester County by forming a new chapter in the Greater Bedford Area.

Subomi Macaulay is the countywide president of the Westchester Black Women’s Political Caucus. The Co-Chairs of the event are Angela Farrish, Ghia Clark and Lisa Marie Nero.

ABOUT THE GUEST SPEAKER: Lacey Schwartz Delgado is an award-winning writer, director and producer at Truth Aid Media, an in-

just as we experienced on 911.

The blame no longer falls on the conservative Right. The Right has denied elections, ignored the very Constitution they took an Oath to uphold and defend and they have sought to shut down our very government with all the related consequences because they are unable to override our democratic system of government as they attempted to do on January 6th in the assault on the U.S. Capitol.

The blame now falls on the American people who are beginning to drink the kool-aid of lies and destruction, reminding us of what it must have been like when Nero played his fiddle while Rome burned.

America has a crisis in leadership that is begging China, North Korea, Iran, Russia and all those who sympathize with them against the United States, to consider if this is not the time to become more aggressive with America. Like Rome, have we become so comfortable with our internal hate of those who don’t look like us and the degree to which we no longer wish to help

anyone but ourselves at the expense of all others, that we will destroy this nation from within rather than honor the democratic principles and Godly concern for our fellow man that brought us thus far?

Yes, the war now raging between Hamas and Israel, with Hamas knowing it can’t win but being willing to slaughter innocent people to draw others into a well orchestrated conflict with the end goal of destroying Israel, is similar to looking at the Republican Party. The insane loyalty of elected members of Congress, to a madman with multiple civil convictions and more than 90 criminal charges in State and Federal Courts, sounds much like Hamas. Once again, the blame falls on the American people who allow a small minority, much like Hamas compared to the Palestinian people, to destroy a nation because of its own hatred.

Wake up America! Wake up before our war comes unexpectedly to our own doors and perhaps from the enemy already within that small group which calls themselves Americans, too.

Law School. He worked as a litigator in the Westchester County Attorney’s Office before being elected in 2020 to represent the Hudson Valley in the US House of Representatives.

For more information about Mondaire Jones, please visit MondaireForCongress.com.

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Lacey is best known for writing, directing and producing the internationally recognized documentary, Little White Lie, about her defining journey to discovering her true paternity and race at age 18. Lacey’s innate and transformational resilience inspired an incredible gift for truth tell-

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burgh NAACP and Westchester Region ACTSO along with the Greenburgh Library on a Reading and Learning event for children of all ages. “Our Stories are Precious” Q&A with children’s book author Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich, Greenburgh resident and Woodlands High School graduate on October 29, 2023 at the Greenburgh Library, 300 Tarrytown Road, Elmsford NY 10523 at 2pm. Light refreshments will be served.

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Trinity United Methodist Church, 130 South Lexington Avenue, White Plains, New York 10606. Rev. Dr. C. Denise Pickett, Pastor. Women’s Day, Women Be Strong and Take Heart, All you who hope in the Lord.

Join Us on Sunday, October 29, 2023, at 11:00 am to Worship and Celebrate! Guest Speaker, Rev. Elizabeth C. Abel Long Island West District Superintendent New York Annual Conference. THE LORD IS MY STRENGTH AND MY SHIELD; MY HEART TRUSTS IN HIM AND HE HELPS ME. MY HEART LEAPS FOR JOY, AND WITH MY SONG I PRAISE. PSALM 28:7

the 55th Freedom Fund Dinner as they celebrate the Branch’s 100th Anniversary. The event will be held 5:00-10:00 p.m. at the Greentree Country Club, 538 Davenport Avenue, New Rochelle, NY. The evening will include recognition of individuals who have made significant contributions to the New Rochelle community. For tickets or additional information, contact the New Rochelle NAACP at (914) 576-4997 or NewroNAACP@aol.com.

Wednesday, Nov. 8

1619 Project Revisited – Episode 2: Race will be held at the Greenburgh Public Library at 6:00 p.m.

The 1619 Project, a book written by Nikole Hannah-Jones, explores the role of slavery in the United States and its legacy. A monthly viewing of six episodes will be held followed by a discussion. Facilitators for Episode 2 will be Sonica Dixon and Jordan Margolis. Doors open at 5:45 p.m. for refreshments. Registration is required; call (914) 7218227. The event is co-sponsored

by Bet Am Shalom Synagogue, Greenburgh Human Rights Advisory Committee, Greenburgh Public Library, White Plains/Greenburgh NAACP, and Woodlands CommuniThursday, Nov. 2 ty Temple. Episode 3: Music will be Enjoy an “Evening of Elegance” in held December 13, at 6:00 p.m. The your formal attire with the Mount library is located at 300 Tarrytown Vernon NAACP on Thursday, NoRoad, Elmsford, NY. Stay tuned for vember 2, 2023 at 6:00 p.m. at the updates on the series!

Greentree Country Club, 538 Davenport Avenue, New Rochelle, NY. Sunday, November 12 An evening of dancing, laughter, Celebrate at the Peekskill Branch and fun are awaiting all who at- Freedom Fund Awards Ceremony tend. Honorees to be celebrated in- on Sunday, November 12, 2023, @ clude Mount Vernon Mayor Shawyn 3:00 p.m., at the Paramount ThePatterson-Howard, Tajian Nelson, ater, 1108 Brown Street, Peekskill, Democratic Commissioner of the NY, as they join in the celebration Westchester County Board of Elec- of 50 years of Hip-Hop: Musitions, and Dr. K. Veronica Smith, cal Expressions and Culture. The Acting Superintendent of the Mount fun-filled evening will include enVernon School District. For tickets tertainment by Acute Inflections, or sponsorship information, visit the Faithlock Singers featuring http://naacpmv-gala11-2ticketleap.

Jeremiah, Bria the Artist, Noodle com/greentree. Kathie Brewington Noo, and the Legendary Kool Moe is President of the Mount Vernon Dee. Community activists will be NAACP Branch. honored for their service. Tickets Sunday, November 5 are available through Eventbrite.

Join the New Rochelle NAACP at Priscilla Augustin is President of

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