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Jun 22, 2017 3:00 pm
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Hunmae (in blue) and Hunyee McCollum, with parents Allen and Kathy and city culture commission chair Aleta Staton.
The half-Chinese and half-African-American McCollum sisters have been speaking Cantonese at home all their lives. Thursday morning they put their linguistic talents to inspirational use, only they had to switch to Mandarin, the national dialect of China.
The sisters were part of the cultural program on the occasion of formal signing ceremonies marking Changsha, the capital of Hunan Province, becoming New Haven’s eighth sister city.
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Lucy Gellman |
Jun 2, 2017 7:09 am
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Students Austina, Claudine, Noorhan and Rawan .
Something decidedly unquiet was transpiring in the Fair Haven branch library community room. Chins pressed themselves to chinrests. Tiny hands gingerly gripped equally tiny bows. A few feet spread out on the sun-bathed carpet, getting in position.
The room exploded in Pachelbel’s Canon. A handful of parents glued their eyes to the gaggle of youngsters before them.
The group wasn’t just playing together for the first time. Several of them were playing publicly for the first time in the United States.
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May 30, 2017 4:06 pm
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Iftar gets underway at 8:25 p.m.
As night fell at Brick Oven Pizza restaurant on Howe Street, Kadir Catalbasoglu lifted a steaming spoonful of şehriye çorbasi — a tomato-based soup with thin noodles — to his mouth. It was the first thing he’d eaten since 3:17 that morning.
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May 25, 2017 1:46 pm
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Rolling the grape leaves.
Afeefa dipped her hands into a bowl of crackly Egyptian rice, tomato paste and ground beef — and mixed together a dialogue as the women around her asked about the food she grew up eating.
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May 25, 2017 1:44 pm
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Adil Chokairy serves up raclette with potatoes, pickles and onions at Wednesday’s opening.
First there was a crepe cart. Then came the galettes and steaming mugs of cafe au lait. Now, there’s hot, fragrant cheese, and a wood-paneled room to eat it in.
If Mark Boughton proceeds with a run for governor, he plans to show his face in New Haven. Even though he’s a Republican. Who has made a national reputation as an anti-sanctuary city mayor.
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May 9, 2017 4:04 pm
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Maria Harris: “Wrong perception of right and wrong.”
Is publicizing the way the city’s public schools will respond to a federal immigration raid a reassurance to families they’ll be protected from the Trump administration? Or an overreaction sure to shake them with fright?
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Lucy Gellman |
May 8, 2017 12:21 pm
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José La Luz: Sí, se puede.
Amid fears of more arrests and detentions of undocumented immigrants, immigrant rights activists vowed to band together to fight to keep deportations at bay.
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May 8, 2017 7:56 am
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Smith-Holness christens new salon at the former G Cafe.
Never known to do things the traditional way, Karaine “Kay” Smith-Holness cut a ceremonial ribbon that was, in fact, a brightly colored track of red weaving hair.
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May 2, 2017 7:35 am
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Luis Barrios and his family, along with UNITE HERE, lead the protest down Elm Street.
Hundreds of protesters roared outside an Elm Street nail salon accused of underpaying its immigrant workers, while the shop’s manager leaned on a parking meter and filmed the scene through his smartphone.
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Apr 28, 2017 1:52 pm
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Rev. Hector Luis Otero.
If federal immigration authorities descend on New Haven, the undocumented now have a literal sanctuary in which they can find shelter: a 146-year-old church in Fair Haven.
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Apr 20, 2017 8:09 am
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Jose Crespo and Darryl Brackeen: two sides of the public safety coin.
From the lectern, Upper Westville Alder Darryl Brackeen Jr. recalled the time a New Haven police officer grabbed him and yelled at him about riding a red mountain bike.
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Apr 14, 2017 1:27 pm
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Mednick with members of her “family” of graduates.
Nine years after she started an innovative soccer-cum-academic mentoring program for immigrant and refugee students, Lauren Mednick threw a party to celebrate that first group of wings and strikers’ biggest goal yet: their graduation from college.
Lugo, center, with ULA’s Joseph Foran outside court after ruling.
The megaphone that John Lugo used in front of Atticus on Chapel Street was loud. Lugo admitted that he’d turned it all the way up for maximum effect — and because it was a cheap megaphone.
Its loudness got him a ticket from a New Haven police officer. But he won’t have to pay it, thanks to a judge’s decision.
New Haven’s ties to Brazil are getting a little stronger thanks to the start of a new venture that seeks to help businesses from that country gain a foothold in the U.S.
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Mar 30, 2017 8:05 am
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Connecticut opened an outreach campaign Wednesday to undocumented immigrants in the state who are the parents of an estimated 22,000 American-born children, urging them to select a “standby guardian” in the event they are detained or deported.
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Mar 28, 2017 8:19 am
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GOP’s Romano, Fernandez-Chavero mix it up at forum.
What makes a city a sanctuary? And what makes it a “sanctuary city” and thus a target for raids and cuts to federal funding?
Is it even necessary to label a city such to let immigrants, regardless of status, know they are welcome?
About 100 people gathered at Gateway Community College Monday to tackle those questions on the same day that U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions reiterated his plans to cut off U.S. Department of Justice funding to so-called “sanctuary cities” that refuse to cooperate with federal orders to detain undocumented immigrants.
Ten years before New Haven emerged as a “sanctuary city” in the crosshairs of President Donald Trump’s vow to take away federal millions, the city saw a problem — and came up with a solution.
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Mar 3, 2017 4:38 pm
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Morales-Sanchez and Davidson.
A group that formed to combat “wealth-based jailing” now has its sights set on helping a group of people in particular danger of being ensnared by pre-trial detention and unaffordable bonds: undocumented immigrants.
