by | Jun 23, 2020 10:23 am | Comments (4)
During a bipartisan, police-civilian conversation on policing, a Republican leader, a police chief, and an ACLU activist all agreed on one thing: that policing in this country needs to change.
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by | Jun 22, 2020 9:41 am | Comments (2)
Kai Perry, Meredith Benson, and Babz Rawls Ivy.
Juneteenth on Ivy Street spanned centuries.
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by | Jun 22, 2020 9:21 am | Comments (5)
Drummer Brian Jarawa Gray peered into the camera from a room being Zoomed, a djembe stationed at his feet. “First of all, I want to salute the ancestors,” he said. “I’m glad we’re getting the opportunity to present ourselves. To be able to share what I have on another level.”
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by | Jun 21, 2020 4:35 pm | Comments (2)
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Early attendees of the event.
On Juneteenth, a day that is typically celebratory, Lee Lee and Mark McKnight hosted a vigil on the lawn of the Whitneyville Cultural Commons.
“I mean, we’re not black, so it’s really not our place to celebrate,” said Lee Lee McKnight. “We wanted to honor the lives of people who are no longer with us.”
by | Jun 19, 2020 11:52 pm | Comments (2)
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Jill Marks, with microphone.
Red, pink, white, and yellow flowers lay at the foot of the Amistad Memorial in front of City Hall Friday afternoon as Beaver Hills Alder Jill Marks broke into impromptu song.
by | Jun 19, 2020 10:53 pm | Comments (2)
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Marching up Orange Street to East Rock park.
One of the youth leaders of Friday’s liberation march.
Over 500 people filled the streets of downtown and East Rock to celebrate the 155th anniversary of the end of slavery — and to lift up the movement for black liberation that continues to this day.
by | Jun 19, 2020 3:56 pm | Comments (17)
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Message of recent 5,000-person youth-led march.
Public Safety Communications data
“Assault/Fight” is the only violent crime that breaks the top 25 most frequent police dispatch call types.
Newly released dispatch data show that New Haven police officers respond to a head-spinning diversity of calls every year — and that only a small percentage of those calls involve violent offenses.
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by | Jun 19, 2020 3:14 pm | Comments (3)
As at least four demonstrations were planned around town in conjunction with Juneteenth, Mayor Justin Elicker and Board of Alders Tyisha Walker-Myers announced that it will become an official city holiday.
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by | Jun 19, 2020 10:46 am | Comments (24)
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The current Christopher Columbus statue in Wooster Square.
(Opinion) The Christopher Columbus statue in Wooster Square Park is being removed.
In its stead, we should honor a Black entrepreneur who played a pivotal role in building a neighborhood that is now super-majority white. That man’s name was William Lanson.
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by | Jun 19, 2020 10:35 am | Comments (1)
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Eric Garner. John Crawford III. Michael Brown.
One by one, a man stepped up to the podium set in front of the Amistad memorial before New Haven City Hall and read the name of another black American killed by police.
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by | Jun 16, 2020 10:29 am | Comments (3)
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Assistant Supt. Keisha Redd-Hannans: We weren’t taught how to teach during pandemics.
New Haven teachers will have more formal guidance on how to handle distance learning this fall than when the Covid-19 pandemic started, along with helping kids wrestle with trauma, if all goes according to the district’s latest plan.
by | Jun 15, 2020 1:27 pm | Comments (24)
The panelists at Thursday’s affordable housing discussion.
Showing up to a Black Lives Matter rally in an overwhelmingly white suburb like Weston is nice.
Turning out to that town’s zoning meetings and supporting the construction of dense, affordable, multi-family housing would make more of a difference.
by | Jun 15, 2020 1:26 pm | Comments (0)
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Continue reading ‘Varick Church Prayer, Protest, and Peace March, June 14’
by | Jun 15, 2020 11:01 am | Comments (1)
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“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)
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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.
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by | Jun 14, 2020 10:01 am | Comments (7)
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New Haven and Hamden Saturday saw the fastest-moving protest of the spring.
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by | Jun 14, 2020 12:16 am | Comments (9)
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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 3:19 pm | Comments (3)
Airiqa Hoheb hit on a discovery: Police spend seven times longer in training on how to shoot than on how not to shoot.
by | Jun 11, 2020 10:24 pm | Comments (5)
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Fifty protesters silently marched single file Thursday evening along the Grand Avenue sidewalk to protest police brutality.
Instead of chants of “no justice, no peace,” the most prominent sounds were the honking cars that rushed by, and the “clip, clip” sound of staples sticking posters with police officers’ faces into telephone poles.
by | Jun 11, 2020 6:10 pm | Comments (3)
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Leslie Radcliffe, Rev. Steven Cousin: Seize the moment.
“Everything is on the table” as the state reexamines how policing is conducted, according to a New Haven minister who will help conduct that reexamination.
by | Jun 11, 2020 2:18 pm | Comments (2)
Police brutality is supported by “antiseptic” language in the Constitution and by several Supreme Court decisions, according to criminal law professor Ekow Yankah.
Continue reading ‘Cafe Take: Constitutional Interpretations Pave Way For Brutality’
by | Jun 9, 2020 10:20 am | Comments (1)
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Jada and Madison (Maddy) McAulay (pictured) started a neighborhood Black Lives Matter chalk event to turn West Elm Street into “West BLM Street” for a day.
by | Jun 8, 2020 5:42 pm | Comments (6)
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Around 200 white-haired New Haveners wore face masks and stood on the Green —at least six feet apart from each other — in solidarity Monday with the Black Lives Matter movement
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by | Jun 8, 2020 10:40 am | Comments (11)
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On any other Sunday, the whir of cars would drown out the birds and the crickets on the Wilbur Cross Parkway. On this Sunday, the only cars on that stretch of highway were those driven by protesters, carrying water and other supplies to keep people marching in the hot sun.
by | Jun 6, 2020 10:06 pm | Comments (5)
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Roughly 50 racial justice protesters rallied peacefully outside Good Nature Market on Broadway — two days after a now-fired employee turned away a group of black customers, and one day after someone allegedly threw a brick through the store’s front window.
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