by | Jul 28, 2020 9:36 am | Comments (6)
Thomas Breen photo
Their voices were heard: contractors protest outside Q House site.
Four local African American-owned contractors recently landed work at the Q House construction site, bringing the project’s share of subcontracting work awarded to Black-owned businesses past the city’s 10 percent goal, for now.
by | Jul 22, 2020 10:59 am | Comments (9)
Courtney Luciana photo
Catherine “CJ” John and Barbara Fair at Tuesday’s rally.
A third group of protesters held a rally outside at the construction site of the new Dixwell Community “Q” house to call attention to the lack of contracts for black-owned companies.
by | Jul 17, 2020 12:31 pm | Comments (9)
Maya McFadden Photo
Howard Lewis’s family at Ice The Beef rally in Goffe Street Park.
“You hurt us, in a way that it can’t be explained.”
So declared the daughter of one of New Haven’s latest homicide victims, as 100 people showed up to call for an end to the violence.
by | Jul 15, 2020 6:14 pm | Comments (47)
Thomas Breen photo
Crime scene tape left at site on one of Tuesday night’s homicides.
Homicide victim Howard Lewis (center) with family in early July.
Melissa LyTrelle: “The devil was busy in our city last night.”
Life went painfully on Wednesday for Howard Lewis’s family as they held an outdoor birthday party for his 10-year-old son — while top cops and city officials sought to figure out who killed Lewis and one other man the night before, and how to get a handle on New Haven’s worst stretch of violence in a decade.
New Haven has now surpassed the number of shootings it saw in all of 2019. It’s only July.
by | Jul 10, 2020 2:42 pm | Comments (4)
Dana King photo
The head and, behind, the body of the new William Lanson statue coming to the Farmington Canal.
Sculptor King working in her Oakland studio.
A seven-foot-tall bronze statue of William “King” Lanson will soon stand along the Farmington Canal — giving a permanent, public, and highly visible form to a Black New Havener who helped build the modern city.
by | Jul 7, 2020 9:24 am | Comments (4)
WFSB
“Black Money Matters! Brown Business Matters” protesters chanted at a rally outside City Hall, demanding more jobs for Black and Hispanic New Haveners on the Dixwell Community “Q” House project.
Continue reading ‘Q House Protest Cry: “Black Money Matters”’
by | Jul 3, 2020 9:57 am | Comments (0)
Paul Bass Photo
Chris “Big Dog” Davis signs his new CD at Thursday afternoon’s release party.
“Big Dog” stared down death. And discovered a new groove.
Continue reading ‘“Big Dog” Returns To Stetson For CD Release Party’
by | Jul 1, 2020 5:37 pm | Comments (1)
A local community-empowerment organization is stepping in where the federal and state governments failed: to help black-owned businesses recover from the Covid-19 pandemic.
Continue reading ‘ConnCAT Steps In To Help Black-Owned Businesses’
by | Jun 28, 2020 8:15 pm | Comments (12)
Maya McFadden Photo
Kashon Brown, Courtney Brown, and Brittany Odom at rally.
More than 100 New Haveners marched Sunday and released balloons in memory of murdered 19-year-old former Hillhouse basketball forward Kiana Brown and all other 2020 victims of gun violence.
by | Jun 28, 2020 2:45 pm | Comments (1)
Sophie Sonnenfeld Photo
Elders and staff at the Ella B. Scantlebury Senior Residence on Dixwell Avenue received essentials — including masks and Ricky D’s Rib Shack food — delivered Friday by the brothers of Chi Omicron Chapter of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Inc.
Continue reading ‘Brothers Deliver Masks, Ricky D’s To Elderly’
by | Jun 25, 2020 5:00 pm | Comments (15)
Thomas Breen photo
Carpenter Ernest Pagan and small business contractor Rodney Williams outside the Q House construction site Thursday.
City of New Haven
A third of the way through the construction of the new Q House, only 9 percent of subcontractors working on the project have been African American-owned companies, and less than 8 percent of the total construction workforce for the project has been Black.
A dozen local, Black small business contractors rallied outside of the future community center site to protest that lack of work, and to lambast a city-funded hiring initiative they argued benefits the county more than it does New Haven proper.
by | Jun 16, 2020 9:54 am | Comments (0)
Dr. Reginald Mayo Early Childhood School staff wanted a way to say goodbye to a school year that has been turned upside down by the Covid-19 pandemic, according to Principal Monique Brunson.
Continue reading ‘Mayo Bids Kids Goodbye With Reverse Parade’
by | Jun 15, 2020 1:26 pm | Comments (0)
Maya McFadden Photo
Continue reading ‘Varick Church Prayer, Protest, and Peace March, June 14’
by | Jun 15, 2020 11:01 am | Comments (1)
Maya McFadden Photo
“We are responsible, strong and safe,” said Dixwell resident and neighborhood organizer Fred Christmas, whose vision to recognize and thank his neighborhood celebrated Saturday.
by | Jun 14, 2020 12:11 pm | Comments (18)
Courtney Luciana photo
Marching down Dixwell to the Green.
Empty caskets on the Green representing lives lost to police brutality.
Several hundred people rallied outside of Varick AME Zion Church in Dixwell in a prayer and protest rally commemorating the lives of those lost to police brutality — and detailing the work needed to realize a more just future.
Continue reading ‘Hundreds Rally In Dixwell For Racial Justice’
by | Jun 14, 2020 12:16 am | Comments (9)
Sam Gurwitt Photo
Justin Farmer and Ashleigh Huckabey lead march up Dixwell.
Echoing calls around the country to defund cops and reinvest in communities, 600 young protesters marched through Downtown, Dixwell, and Newhallville Saturday to demand that the university abolish its police department.
by | Jun 12, 2020 11:03 am | Comments (1)
Sophie Sonnenfeld Photo
Lt. Troy Frost and Alder Ron Hurt.
New Haven firefighters responded to help at a hotspot — a hotspot of Covid-19 in the Hill.
by | Jun 4, 2020 12:12 pm | Comments (15)
Officers on scene at Henry Street.
A 45-year-old New Haven man who allegedly held a woman at gunpoint then remained barricaded in a Henry Street apartment surrendered to police without incident around 11:45 a.m. Thursday.
by | May 28, 2020 3:01 pm | Comments (19)
Thomas Breen photo
Wahlburgers chef Paul Wahlberg (right) and Crescent Capital’s Mark Devincentis at Thursday’s burger giveaway.
A Massachusetts-based burger restaurant, a Los Angeles-based investment firm, and the state treasurer’s office teamed up with local clergy, politicians, firefighters, and labor organizers to distribute 750 free hamburgers with a side order of Covid-19 racial consciousness in Dixwell, the Hill, and Fair Haven.
by | May 26, 2020 10:56 am | Comments (1)
As many working class parents prepare go back to their jobs, they are also deciding not to send their kids to summer camps, out of lingering pandemic fears.
What’s to be done with 8 and 9‑year-olds confined to the house?
Provide an infusion of board games? Books? How about community-organized treasure hunts to pry them safely away from their screens?
Continue reading ‘Dixwell Brainstorms To Keep Kids Busy In Summer’
by | May 19, 2020 12:20 pm | Comments (2)
Courtney Luciana Photos
From left, Virginia Percy, son Todd Percy son, Earl Percy, Rev. Morton Percy, daughter Natalie Oliver (seated).
Reverend Morton and Virginia Percy and the NAACP teamed up to prepare a “family” dinner for 20 people — with a side of protective masks.
by | May 13, 2020 12:49 pm | Comments (1)
BEULAH LAND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION / HELP USA RENDERING
The proposed 4-story, 69-unit apartment building at 340 Dixwell.
A planned new four-story, 69-unit apartment building slated for a Dixwell lot formerly home to Joe Grate’s barbecue stand advanced with a unanimous vote of support from the city’s zoning commissioners.
by | May 5, 2020 1:24 pm | Comments (6)
Thomas Breen photos
Free mask giveaway on Winchester Avenue in Science Park.
Dozens of volunteers filled the median and sidewalks of Winchester Avenue in Science Park to give out tens of thousands of free masks to eager recipients who honked and cheered as they laid their hands on the hard-to-find protective face coverings.
by | Apr 29, 2020 2:07 pm | Comments (2)
Thomas Breen photo
Hill Health’s Dixwell site, now owned by ConnCORP.
Local developers behind a planned $200 million overhaul of Dixwell Plaza have purchased Cornell Scott Hill Health Center’s site there for $1.8 million, even as they temporarily postpone the rebuilding project to focus on raising money for neighbors during the Covid-19 crisis.
by | Apr 24, 2020 6:23 pm | Comments (16)
Williams, Carter and Pittman Friday on “Dateline.”
With $60 billion in Covid-19 relief headed to cities to boost hard-to-reach small businesses, Miguel Pittman, Rodney Williams, and Jayuan Carter stand ready to help New Haven get it right this time.
Continue reading ‘They’re Ready To Serve To Prevent Stimulus Repeat’