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Aug 30, 2021 3:09 pm
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Kwadwo Adae at work on the Bouchet mural.
As you drive through New Haven on Henry Street, you will notice something at the intersection of Dixwell: Across from a derelict lot is a magnificent mural in progress on a wall that was once pink.
The image consists of cascaded portraits of a Black man rendered in gradients of color. The man is Edward Bouchet, a New Havener who was the first Black man to get a doctorate in the United States. Bouchet got his Ph.D. in physics from Yale in 1876. Yet, most children in the Elm City don’t know about him.
Muralist Kwadwo Adae hopes to change that one brushstroke at a time.
Public updated, weighs in Tuesday night on pandemic-relief plans.
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Give small businesses and homebuyers needed cash. Encourage non-car transportation. Teach kids budgeting, saving, investing. Boost wages to keep up with the cost of living.
City Hall has heard those priorities about how to spend $90 million in federal pandemic relief — and is now crafting plans to convert those goals into action.
Babz Rawls Ivy with Prosperity Foundation Executive Director Orsella Hughes at Monday’s porch launch.
Babz Rawls Ivy kicked off Black Philanthropy Month with the launch of a fund to aid Black women exiting prison and reentering society, hoping to ease a path she herself has successfully navigated.
Dozens of New Haveners turned out Sunday to blast “blind leaders” for their handling of a public-school “n‑word” controversy — as one schools leader showed up to defend it and engage in dialogue.
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Jul 7, 2021 11:59 am
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Black Lives Matter protest, May 2020.
The Board of Education’s Finance & Operations (F&O) Committee voted unanimously to approve a grant proposal for a series of high school workshops on social justice next school year.
Alder candidate Shafiq Abdussabur detailing his 10-point policing plan at Wednesday event.
Landlords are ready to offer cops discounted rents to live in the city, according to a political candidate who unveiled a 10-point plan to address New Haven’s red-hot gun violence.
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Jun 15, 2021 7:08 pm
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Black Lives Matter New Haven Co-founder ala ochumare: The board chose white supremacy.
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Mayoral challenger Karen DuBois-Walton (center): Roblee investigation must be transparent.
Parents, protesters, and political leaders called for a transparent investigation and a public apology from the former Brennan-Rogers School principal, one day after the Board of Education narrowly voted to demote her for using the “n‑word” in an antiracism workshop.
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Moms cut ribbon Saturday for New Haven Botanical Garden of Healing Dedicated to Victims of Gun Violence.
More than 100 community members who have lost loved ones to gun homicides celebrated the opening Saturday of a new healing space that brings awareness to 45 years worth of city firearms victims.
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Jun 9, 2021 4:44 pm
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Marlene Miller-Pratt, Pamela Jaynez, and Celeste Fulcher prepare to welcome public to the New Haven Botanical Garden of Healing Dedicated to Victims of Gun Violence.
Three moms who lost children to New Haven’s gun violence have put the finishing touches on a four-year quest to shine light on the painfully difficult journey of healing with a stunning new memorial park.
Sharon Jones McCann, Malcolm Welfare, Jorge Lopez, Theodore Brooks, James Flaherty, and James Rawlings outside the Chapel Street headquarters of Sickle Cell Disease Association of America CT.
New Haven will soon learn more about the local impact of an understudied disease: sickle cell anemia.
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Maya McFadden |
May 3, 2021 1:15 pm
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A May Day “giveback” served as a coming-out event by the Connecticut chapter of an attempt at resurrecting the 1970s Latino activist group the Young Lords.
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Apr 29, 2021 9:37 am
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In the main room of Horizon Recording Studio on a recent afternoon, Phil E. Brown laid down a hard, swinging groove on the drums. Elijah White, Morris Trent, and Teddy Boyd — a.k.a. Dr. Bottom — filled out a smoky sound on keys, guitar, and bass. Fred Nobles, Jr., on saxophone, danced over the top.
But the star of the hour, approaching the microphone in an isolated booth, was Yvonne Monk Adams, of the Monk Family Singers.
In the course of her life she has sung gospel, funk, blues, and jazz, but that day she was there to turn the jazz standard “Summertime” into a cry from the heart about being Black in America that felt as old as the song itself and right up to the present moment.
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Apr 27, 2021 8:43 am
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(Opinion) We’ve been here before. Our hearts clenched in anxiety, anger and fear as we awaited a conviction of Derek Chauvin that was so uncertain — and so rare.
We use to assume that the slogan “to protect and to serve,” along with an officer’s publicly sworn oath, would be enough to ensure that they “do right” by those communities. We have more than enough examples of bad policing practices that date back from the Rodney King beating of 1992, to the more recent George Floyd killing, both of which were captured on recordings taken by bystanders. Not only do these wrongs resonate with the world, but seem to serve as America’s ongoing racially-based justice report card in evaluating the quality of protection police agencies give when serving marginalized communities.
A trio of Connecticut doctors said the route to addressing Black and brown communities’ Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy and historical distrust in healthcare systems begins with listening to personal experiences.
Hamden Legislative Council members Valerie Horsely and Justin Farmer; Mayor Curt Leng.
A controversy and debate have erupted in Hamden following an incident at the town’s Legislative Council, in which a white member insisted that a Black member refer to her as “Doctor.” Hamden Mayor Curt Leng and a group of local legislative leadersissued a public statement on the matter, which appears below. A group of civil-rights activists in town then wrote a response statement, which appears immediately following it below.
The uneven rollout of the Covid-19 vaccine has highlighted disparities in health care — and mistrust many people of color have in the health care system.
Public heath nurse Judith Medor gives Harper first Moderna dose at a pop-up clinic held at Newhallville’s First Calvary Baptist Church.
The author: Hesitant.
After listening to Leslie Douglas-Churchwell talk in depth about the severity of getting infected with Covid-19, I thought: Maybe I should get the vaccine after all.
