Birckhead-Morton in court with attorney David Grudberg: "I think there's a connection with policing, militarization" that inspires Black Lives Matter and pro-Palestine protesters alike.
Craig Birckhead-Morton took the train from Harlem to New Haven Thursday morning to close out one chapter of his on-campus pro-Palestine activism — before resuming his critique of state violence in the Middle East as a grad student in New York City.
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John Curtis | Sep 19, 2024 11:02 am
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Ibrahim Yusif: “I'm trying [to bring my family from Sudan to New Haven], but it's a difficult thing.”
Ibrahim Yusif grew up near the city of El Geneina in Darfur in western Sudan. One of five brothers and three sisters, he lived on the farm where his family grew mangoes, guavas, lemons, tomatoes, okra, sweet potatoes, millet, corn, and beans. “We harvest it over there and we take it to El Geneina to sell, before the war.”
Yusif is one of a growing number of Sudanese refugees who have relocated to New Haven — and are urging city residents and political leaders in their adopted home country to pay attention to, and to help stop, one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises.
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Judge Wax-Krell: "The plaintiffs were unfortunately let down by everyone who they trusted to get them the raises they were promised."
A state judge threw out a lawsuit filed by two retired city workers on the grounds that the Board of Alders dropped the ball when trying to provide those unionized employees with a pay bump — outside of the collective bargaining process.
Elm City Reentry Pilot participants Michael White (with son Micah) and Kevin Boyd: Cash transfer program was a "life saver."
An extra $500 a month didn’t cover every bill for Michael White as he reacclimated to life in New Haven outside of prison.
But it did allow him to stay home a bit longer with his newborn son; help him and his wife start their own “last-mile delivery” small business; cover some of the costs of groceries and diapers.
“You could rely on it. There was no hesitation. No withholding,” White said about those cash transfers. “You could count on that” regardless of what else may be going on. “It was everything.”
Two handmade signs, only one still legible, commemorate the Grand Avenue block where Malik Jones died.
Norm Clement joined a dozen public testifiers early in September to call for an official corner sign honoring Malik.
The words “Justice For Malik” have nearly faded from one hand-painted wooden board nailed to a Grand Avenue post.
A more durable sign bearing Malik Jones’s name may soon rise alongside it — inscribing the memory of a bright, adventurous 21-year-old whom an East Haven cop shot to death in 1997.
On issues ranging from the federal Department of Education’s existence to companies’ use of algorithm-based “targeted pricing,” New Haven voters have heard a clear choice this week from candidates for Congress.
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DuBois-Walton: A new top-level civic challenge.
(Updated) The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven, the region’s largest philanthropy guiding efforts to improve civic life, has tapped veteran community leader Karen DuBois-Walton to guide it into a new era.
Developer Jay Hakimian (center) at Tuesday's groundbreaking.
An $18 million infusion to a long-stalled downtown development means that 96 new apartments will finally soon rise at the site of the ex-Harold’s Bridal Shop — the latest step in a builder’s journey that began with a love for Louis Kahn’s architecture.
Finance Chair Marchand: "There’s a fair amount of money that has not been spent.”
More than three years after a flood of federal pandemic-relief aid started to make its way towards New Haven, the Elicker administration has spent less than half of the $115 million received by the city — and now has two years to get the rest out the door, or potentially have to give some of that money back.
(Updated) Angel Hubbard bested Miguel Pittman in Monday’s special election for Ward 3 alder — but by less than 20 votes, which means city election officials will have to recount the ballots by hand before the results are final.
U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro brought a progressive star with MAGA cred to town Monday to help craft an election season message about high food prices: Blame corporate price-gougers.
Local 217 Sec-Treasurer Josh Stanley: "We couldn't be prouder of each other."
More than 120 Omni hotel workers have put down their picket signs and gone back to work — without a new contract, but with a message sent to management that they’re “willing to do whatever it takes to win.”
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2022 Hall of Famer Shirley Neighbors (right) pins 2024 inductee Charles Williams for a half century of service to New Haven's public schools.
A public schools superintendent, a Pulitzer Prize-winning financial journalist, and a high school leader in points, rebounds, and blocked shots all now have at least one thing in common: They’re all newly minted inductees to Lee-Career High’s Hall of Fame.
Renderings for the future of the Church Street South site, including a "central green" pictured here, were revealed...
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...at a packed meeting on Thursday.
Townhomes shift into high-rises as the buildings transition from the Hill to Downtown, anchored by a “central green.” In the mix is a coffee kiosk, an outdoor theater, and a pedestrian promenade.
A team of architects and designers sketched out those ideas on Thursday for a future mixed-use, mixed-income development at the vacant site of the former Church Street South housing complex and the current Robert T. Wolfe public housing apartments.
NHPS Supt. Negrón (right) to fired I.T. boss (left): "You took no steps whatsoever to ensure BOE was protected from cyberattacks."
(Updated) The Board of Education’s I.T. network was “among the worst” a cybersecurity contractor had ever seen — and New Haven Public Schools’ (NHPS) top tech safety official misrepresented the work she had done to protect the district from future cyberattacks following a $6 million hack.
Those sharp rebukes are included in a three-page termination letter sent by NHPS Supt. Madeline Negrón to Gildemar Herrera. The letter offers the first publicly available insight into why the district fired its I.T. director, who also serves as a municipal union president.
