Board of Alders President Tyisha Walker-Myers delivering Monday’s Black and Hispanic Caucus state of the city address.
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The disproportionate impact of the virus on minority neighborhoods.
This year has taken everyone across the country by surprise and it is my obligation, as President of the board and member of the Black and Hispanic Caucus, to talk about the injustices that the African American and Hispanic communities face.
The Covid-19 pandemic has taken over our lives and has changed everything we know to be normal.
Questioners at Tuesday night’s meeting (clockwise from top left); Dawn Wright, Kerry Ellington, Deniqua Washington, Prakeen Doodala.
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One proposed layout for a new Dixwell Plaza.
Dixwell neighbors, business owners, and community organizers pressed the local developers behind Dixwell Plaza’s planned $200 million overhaul to prioritize affordable housing and to minimize the displacement of existing retail, in a project that will be led in part by an architect who helped design Washington D.C.‘s National Museum of African American History and Culture.
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Organizer Petisia Adger at Saturday’s gathering: Claiming stories that are too often left out of history books.
Nearly all seats were filled on Saturday in the New Haven Museum’s upper floor auditorium where over 90 guests arrived to listen to the stories of black women who pushed boundaries and made history in the greater community.
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Dixwell Alder Jeanette Morrison, with City Librarian John Jessen: Attending an HBCU was the “best decision that I made in my life.”
Dixwell Alder Jeanette Morrison knew almost nothing about historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) when she submitted an application to Morgan State University her senior year at Hillhouse High School.
After four years surrounded by peers, teachers, and administrators who looked like her, talked like her, and held a shared understanding of what it means to be black in America, she knew she had made one of the best decisions of her life.
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Mar 2, 2020 1:13 pm
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Deborah Elmore at Saturday’s event.
As over 50 people gathered on the floor at Wilson Branch Library, Deborah Elmore acted out a skit in which she played the role of a hospital doctor and a television news reporter.
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Feb 28, 2020 1:27 pm
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Members of the audience taste Terry’s recipe.
While cooking up a savory carrot soup, nationally known “vegan eco-chef” and cookbook author Bryant Terry diced up a history lesson on the flavors and ingredients of African American food for Black History Month.
Erik Clemons: “This is about us being a part of the social contract.” Below: A preliminary sketch of the redeveloped plaza.
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An ambitious planned $200 million redevelopment of Dixwell Plaza would bring a new performing arts center, banquet hall, grocery store, museum, office complex, daycare center, retail storefronts, and 150-plus apartments and townhouses to the neighborhood’s fraying commercial hub.
The local team behind the project received nothing but praise from longtime community members who heralded developers for striving to keep — and build — inter-generational wealth in the heart of black New Haven.
Alders President Tyisha Walker-Myers (center) with New Haven Rising leader Scott Marks and Varick Pastor Kelcy Steele.
Murder. Racism.
“We should call it out when we see it,” Tyisha Walker-Myers declared Monday night. And she saw it last week when a white state trooper fired seven bullets into the car of a 19-year-old African-American New Havener and killed him.
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The 50th Annual Love March makes its way down Lawrence Street.
Rev. Kennedy Hampton Sr. with a picture of his late father, Love March founder George Hampton Sr.
Young marchers saw a dream come true. Older marchers saw a dream turned nightmare.
Those differing perspectives on the successes of the Civil Rights Movement and on the persistence of racism, warmongering, and economic inequality permeated this year’s celebration of the city’s longest-running Martin Luther King, Jr. memorial birthday parade and church service.
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Dec 10, 2019 4:40 pm
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Teacher Nataliya Braginsky talks through primary sources.
Alyssa Washington couldn’t stop thinking about the multi-colored map of New Haven on her classroom wall: the narrow green around Prospect Hill and Westville; the swathed yellow, like a waning moon, from Beaver Hills to City Point; the foreboding red around Dixwell and Fair Haven — each section of the city walled in by fixed black lines.
Mrs. Mullins Shining Star panelists with siblings. Transatlantic Histories Program Director Thomas Thurston and teacher Waltrina Kirkland-Mullins in background.
The following article and photos came in from Davis Waltrina Kirkland-Mullins’ third grade students from the Davis Academy for Arts and Design Innovation let their academic light shine at the Harvard University Center for African Studies Association forum recently held in Cambridge, Mass.
William “Juneboy” Outlaw III was New Haven’s top cocaine dealer before he reached the age of 20. Then he spent decades behind bars, staring at death.
This week Outlaw, who’s now 51, hit the big time again — this time as a star street outreach worker featured on the Today Show and in a biography about to rock the nation with a tale of personal redemption.
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Brown-Dean reads from her new book at Kehler Liddell Gallery …
… and signs a copy for ConnCAT CEO Erik Clemons.
As you reflect on Veterans Day, Khalilah L. Brown-Dean asks you to think of Jimmie Lee Jackson and Leonard Matlovich.
And when you think of them she wants you to consider how their identities and the politics and policies that shaped their lives still have much to teach us today.
Marianne Williamson Friday afternoon at Balanced Yoga. Below: Campaign sign taped to supporter’s car’s bumper.
Sitting barefoot in a Westville yoga studio, Democratic presidential candidate and best-selling New Age author Marianne Williamson offered a guide for cleansing the soul of America’s corrupted body politic: through paying hundreds of billions of dollars in reparations to the descendants of enslaved Africans.
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Oct 7, 2019 7:57 am
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“Necessary Diva” Jackson, who performed a moving one-way biographical show Sunday night.
Dr. Tiffany Jackson began with her parents. Her mother was born in Alabama to sharecroppers who had “a lot of kids,” Jackson said, and raised them in a shotgun shack. Jackson recalled asking her mother why it was called that.
“If you stood in front, and you aimed a shotgun,” her mother told her, “it would go clear through the back door.”
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endawnis Spears, with other speakers at forum.
Teachers feel unprepared to buck the way schools have taught about race and culture, gender and sexuality. But they can start with small changes as they push the district to do more, activists said.
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Sep 24, 2019 9:34 pm
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Mayor Toni Harp with Sierra Leone President Julius Maada Bio and First Lady Fatima Maada Bio at the Amistad memorial outside City Hall.
The president of a West African country with nearly two centuries’ worth of historical connections to New Haven visited City Hall to pay the Elm City respect, and to revisit a statue dedicated to his countrymen that he last saw nearly three decades ago.
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Jul 6, 2019 9:45 pm
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Carte-de-visite images of Frederick Douglass from 1860 and 1865.
New Haven marked Independence Day with a different spin from the martial display in Washington: Three hundred people gathered at Beinecke Library for a public reading of the Declaration of Independence and Fredrick Douglass’ speech “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July.”
One hundred and eighty years after enslaved Africans revolted for their freedom off the coast of Cuba and made history, local African American elected officials set sail aboard a replica of that same ship off the coast of Long Wharf.
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Jun 27, 2019 4:48 pm
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Shayna Kendall with SCSU officer Kim Clare at the training.
When 16 female cops and soldiers assembled to brush up on their firearms training, they learned about alternative techniques and safe gun-carrying from the state’s first-ever black woman to be certified for the task.
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New Haven youth like Des’Tahnee Manick-Highsmith were given the opportunity to showcase their talents during a Juneteenth celebration on Saturday at Goffe Street Park.
