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Boubacar Diallo momentarily locked up his furniture store Tuesday morning to run across the street to make a deposit at New Haven Bank. He’d be right back to try to keep commerce flowing on Whalley Avenue.
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by | Jan 16, 2023 11:45 am | Comments (6)
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Immigrant rights organizers, advocates at City Hall presser.
Immigrant workers spoke out against alleged wage theft and on-the-job abuse at a City Hall press conference focused on beefing up whistleblower protections.
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by | Dec 12, 2022 9:16 am | Comments (8)
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Semilla's Tortillería Collective co-founders: Ariana Shapiro, Elizabeth Gonzalez, Anabel Hernandez, Martina Perez, and Javier Gonzalez-Villatoro.
Freshly made tortillas, hot off the comal.
Standing over a hot comal filled with half-cooked handmade tortillas, Elizabeth Gonzalez pinched her thumb with her index and middle fingers to grip the corner of a puffy tortilla and flipped it over — showing in a single swift motion how she and a small group of worker-owner chefs hope to bring a Central American and Mexican staple to the streets of New Haven.
by | Dec 1, 2022 4:32 pm | Comments (0)
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Two customers were already in the barber chairs with two more waiting not long after Aaron Polanco opened the doors Thursday morning at the male side of Morena Salon and Barber Shop.
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by | Nov 23, 2022 1:30 pm | Comments (5)
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The homemade spice rack Tsering Yangzom draws from while cooking.
Tibetan Kitchen partners in business and life: Yangzom and Sherab Gyaltsen.
Sherab Gyaltsen and Tsering Yangzom weren’t willing to spill the secret of their homemade magical mainstay chili spice-blend — but they did plump eight dumplings into a sizzling pan to reveal how to make momos you won’t forget.
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by | Sep 12, 2022 4:45 pm | Comments (2)
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Top teams plunge for advantage at underwater rugby national championships.
Masked, fin-footed competitors traversed a chlorinated underworld in search of a salt water ball — and a chance to fly abroad to compete for a world cup.
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by | Aug 17, 2022 4:01 pm | Comments (7)
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19-year-olds Zahra and Malalay with Sen. Blumenthal and IRIS Director Chris George.
Five years after her father was murdered by the Taliban, and just three months after the extremist group burned down her family’s house, 19-year-old Malalay stood with U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal in front of a cluster of TV cameras and pleaded for the passage of new legislation that could help her and her relatives establish a permanent home in the United States.
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by | Aug 12, 2022 12:29 pm | Comments (19)
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Jocelin and community health volunteer José Antonio Armas Alvarez.
Jocelin hobbled through the doors of Unidad Latina en Acción’s Howe Street headquarters with a leg she had nearly lost, a mind spiraling with trauma, and a $64,000 medical bill.
Inside, she found a volunteer who had survived his own journey to New Haven as an undocumented immigrant — and who helped her find and afford the medical care she sorely needed.
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by | Aug 12, 2022 9:27 am | Comments (4)
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NOA on Crown (above), newest venture of Winyu Seetamyae (below).
Winyu “Win” Seetamyae, the chef and owner behind Upper State Street’s September in Bangkok, has opened his second restaurant at 200 Crown St. after managing to stay afloat, and profitable, during the pandemic.
by | Jul 29, 2022 5:53 pm | Comments (8)
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Lizzette Flores and Liz Johnston, in paradise.
Homeowners trying to turn their expanses of traditional turf grass into gardens for vegetables or flowers might take some cues from Elizabeth (Liz) Johnston and Lizzette Flores of Perkins Street: Their small yard is full of flowers, vegetables, and fruit trees and vines, and is described by some friends as “Paradise.”
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by | Jul 14, 2022 1:07 pm | Comments (8)
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Workers' rights groups rally to celebrate new protections and continue advocating.
Workers and activists rallied outside of City Hall Wednesday afternoon to celebrate the passage of a new federal immigrant-whistleblower rights policy, while vowing to put it into action.
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by | Jun 29, 2022 11:03 am | Comments (3)
Lt. Governor Susan Bysiewicz and SBA District Director Catherine Marx.
Chabaso Bakery offered Lt. Governor Susan Bysiewicz and U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) Connecticut Director Catherine Marx a taste of their manufacturing processes, their pandemic recovery effort, and, of course, some fresh bread, during a tour of the business’s James Street headquarters on Tuesday afternoon.
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by | Jun 27, 2022 9:10 am | Comments (1)
Refugees & descendants honor past, future at World Refugee Day picnic.
Families who now call New Haven home gathered in East Rock Park to remember their journeys from Kenya, Burundi, Kurdistan, Afghanistan, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Sudan — and to build a community ready to welcome newcomers from all over the world.
by | Jun 23, 2022 1:17 pm | Comments (1)
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Sister Thi Kim Uyen Do, OP, melds traditional and modern Vietnamese dance techniques at Wecnesday celebration.
Internationally-minded New Haveners gathered in the Ives Main Library Branch’s Orchid Cafe to celebrate 45 years of sister-city relationships with eight communities around the world — and a local culture that welcomes immigrants and travelers amid rising xenophobia.
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by | Jun 17, 2022 9:59 am | Comments (7)
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Domestic workers Thursday calling for rights and recognition.
Over 20 domestic workers and their families gathered in a church sanctuary to call for sick days, maternity leave, and healthcare — and to celebrate their day-to-day work, without which “the world stands still.”
by | Jun 10, 2022 4:38 pm | Comments (4)
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Ruth-Ann Millwood (center left) at Friday's ceremony on the Green.
Reading from The Oath of Allegiance.
Ruth-Ann Millwood raised her right hand and, after pledging her “true faith and allegiance” to the country she has called home for more than half of her life, officially became a United States citizen.
by | Jun 1, 2022 4:36 pm | Comments (17)
Former tenants outside court Wednesday after case dismissal.
A local landlord has dropped two longstanding back-rent lawsuits against her former tenants, citing a recent protest outside of one of her rental properties as inspiring her change of legal course.
by | Apr 22, 2022 8:05 am | Comments (2)
Together again, at last. From left, Suzanne, Farah, Haitham (grandson), Lamese, Aboudi, Shiyam, Haitham (grandfather), Leila, and Wesam.
The long road from New Haven to the old industrial city of Erie, Pennsylvania, passes through Danbury, Binghamton, Damascus, Homs, Tripoli, Beirut, Chicago, and finally to the shore of the Great Lake that Erie is named after.
At least that’s the route we took in our minds when we undertook a ten-hour drive to, at last, meet the whole family of Haitham Dalati and Shiyam Daghestani, for whom, under the auspices of IRIS, we had helped ease their transition from the Syrian civil war to life in New Haven.
by | Apr 18, 2022 3:45 pm | Comments (0)
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Yaira Matyakubova and Lyala Stowe at gathering on Peck Street.
The room was hushed when Lyala Stowe began to speak. Her voice was soft. She is from Ukraine, and she was about to recite poems by Ukrainian poets.
Stowe apologized that most audience members would not comprehend the words, spoken in her native tongue. Regardless, the room held onto every syllable.
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by | Apr 10, 2022 9:23 pm | Comments (14)
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Yevgeny and Kristyna with baby Leonell Sunday at St. Michael's Church.
Yevgeny and Kristyna Biziaieva and their three children observed Palm Sunday on George Street, the first Ukrainian refugee family to be welcomed in New Haven since the war broke out.
by | Mar 26, 2022 9:46 pm | Comments (18)
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Housing activists protest outside City Hall.
Camila Guiza-Chavez and Norm Clement lead the rally.
Fifty people gathered on the front steps of City Hall to call for New Haven to allocate a majority of the $115 million it received in federal Covid relief funding toward affordable housing.
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by | Mar 16, 2022 4:53 pm | Comments (8)
Relied-upon newcomers: Moe Alshalpi and Ammar Chekhess at their year-old Howe St. bodega.
Griffin Rose burst into Andalouse Freshop at 7:15 p.m. hunting for a post-filming calorie boost. Soon her arms were full.
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Shamrocks, gingers, fifers and fedoras filled Chapel Street Sunday afternoon as New Haven’s annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade proudly recovered from a two-year pandemic hiatus.
by | Feb 28, 2022 12:15 pm | Comments (7)
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Officer Troche, defense attorney Paine, and prosecutor Strollo in court on Monday.
A state judge gave an arrested New Haven police officer and case attorneys another month and a half to review “literally thousands of pages of discoverable material” regarding the cop’s alleged pressuring of an undocumented 19-year-old Honduran immigrant to send him nude photographs and have sex with him in exchange for money.
by | Feb 23, 2022 4:25 pm | Comments (2)
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Clarion's Mariam Andino Pagán thanks a giveaway volunteer.
Supplies stored and distributed Wednesday in the Clarion basement.
Mariam Andino Pagán doesn’t earn enough money working at the Clarion Hotel to afford a place to sleep at night — but she did find clothing and supplies in the basement Wednesday, as a community rescue mission that began with a local fire expanded to more people in need.