| From the Village of Brooklyn | OOURUR TTIMEIME PPRESSRESS THE LOCAL PAPER WITH THE GLOBAL VIEW | VOL. 21 NO. 15 Since 1996 April 13 – 19, 2017 | The Role of the Artist in Telling Our Stories Four Black Authors Win 2017 Pulitzer Prizes; Second Achievement for Brooklyn’s Lynn Nottage Bernice Elizabeth Green with Priscilla Sawsani Mensah and Margo Janet McKenzie he 2017 Pulitzer Prizewinners, an- assassination in 1973, soldiers raided art- nounced in New York City on April ists’ homes and burned ‘Cubism’ because 10, recognized four Black writers they thought it referred to Castro’s Cuba Tamong the 21 authors. and ‘Revolution in the Arts.’ In the present At the announcement in New York City, climate, art challenges us to face our fears Pulitzer Award Administrator Mike Pride and get stronger. “ described the role of the literary prizes as There are many other dimensions to the “telling the story of America and the world.” artists’ role, and we will share our perspec- But for “our” contemporary post-Harlem tives on them in future stories. Renaissance artists – who are intent on Our Time Press also acknowledges the staying free of enforced perspectives that Pulitzers for the presence of other giants shade truth, there’s another level of action of African descent on its own committee. or service beyond the act of storytelling. They include: Dr. Tommie Shelby, Ph.D.; Artist Danny Simmons in the February Caldwell Titcomb, Professor of African and 2008 edition of Legacy Ventures’ Our Time African-American Studies and Philosophy AT HOME publication, commented to writer at Harvard University; 2009 Pulitzer Victoria Horsford on arts and activism: Prizewinning journalist Eugene Harold “Creative expression is an integral part of Robinson, former assistant managing editor the human experience. I don’t know if a of The Washington Post and member of the man can survive without art in any shape or National Association of Black Journalists; form. My work has a Black aesthetic in its Poet, essayist Elizabeth Alexander, former underpinnings… My activism is arts-related Yale University Professor and Chair of activism.” African-American Studies, and currently a And for writer/journalist/psychotherapist Columbia University faculty member; and Photographer E. Jason Wambsgans of the Chicago Tribune won the Laurie Nadel, this week explained why the Dominican-American writer Junot Diaz, Pulitzer Prize for feature photography for photos of elementary community must protect its artists: “Artists Creative Writing Professor at Massachusetts school student Tavon Tanner. In this picture we see Tavon, an are our canaries in the coal mine. The Institute of Technology and fiction editor at aspiring photographer himself, tearing up before surgery at Lurie president’s decision to cut funding for the Boston Review who received a 2008 Pulitzer Children's Hospital on Oct. 17, 2016, to remove a bullet that pierced National Endowment for the Arts and the Prize for Fiction. his body in August 2016. Humanities should remind us that dictators Role of the Artist continues: Page 8: are threatened by artists and writers. It is an James Forman, Jr. and Chris Hayes; Page 8: ominous sign. McKenzie’s Profile of Phyllis Bowdoin;Page “After the military seized power in 9: Mensah’s “as told to” with Eric Kusunoki Chile after President Salvador Allende’s on Barack “Barry” Obama. A Teacher Remembers the Young Barack eachers get satisfaction from seeing how their students have turned out, reading about them, hearing about them, or seeing them on Tthe street once in a while. With Barry, we have all been very blessed with Hilton Als for Criticism (The New Yorker Magazine). Mr. Als, a theatre critic, won for what he has done with his life. We revel in his his “bold and original reviews that strove to put stage dramas within the real-world success quietly and from afar. He has made us all, cultural context, particularly the shifting very proud, and what is most impressive is, he hasn’t landscape of gender, sexuality and race.” His work often furthers discussions on Tyehimba Jess for Poetry (“Olio”) forgotten his roots, and he hasn’t forgotten his old the intersections of theater, race, identity, (Poetry). “Olio” is Jess’ collection of friends and the people back “home” in Hawaii. sexuality and class in the United States. sonnets, songs and narratives that Specifically, he won for articles related to highlight the lives of “unrecorded African- See Page 9 “The Color Purple” and “Dear Evan Hansen.” American performers” before the Civil War up to World War I. Scott Joplin figures prominently in this book which also explores the worlds of little-known artists. Central Brooklyn JAZZ FESTIVAL Celebrates Jazz Appreciation Month at Jazzy Venues, Lynn Nottage for Drama (“Sweat”). With including: BAM café, Brooklyn Borough Hall, this year’s award, Nottage became the first female playwright to win the Pulitzer Prize Brooklyn Historical Society, Brownstone JAZZ, twice. “Sweat” is a nuanced yet powerful Brownsville Heritage House, Emmanuel Baptist Church, drama (currently running on Broadway) that reminds audiences of the stacked Jazz966, Milk River Café, Restoration, Sistas Place deck still facing workers searching for Colson Whitehead for Fiction (“The the American dream. It tells the story of Underground Railroad”). Whitehead’s and Williamsburgh Music Center, a group of friends who work with each novel, which also won the National Book other and follows their friendships as Award, tells the story of a teenage heroine, starting this weekend. talk of layoffs at the factory where they Cora, in 1850s Georgia who tries to escape work starts up. Lynn Nottage also won for a cotton plantation and start her journey See page 5 “Ruined” in 2009. toward freedom. 2 OUR TIME PRESS April 13 – 19, 2017 VOL. 21 NO. 15

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overnor Andrew M. Cuomo today receive certain forms of tuition assistance of Bedford Stuyvesant, Inc. signed legislation enacting the from the state to live and work here after they Invite you to Excelsior Scholarship, the first- receive their degrees is not unprecedented. Gof-its-kind in the nation program to provide Senator Bernie Sanders said, “Every A Spring Oldies but Goodies tuition-free college at New York’s public uni- American, regardless of income, must versities to families making up to $125,000 have the right to a higher education. In a Fundraising Dance a year. The legislation was passed as part of competitive global economy, with rapid the FY 2018 Budget, and was the Governor’s changes in technology, we must make To Benefit first proposal in his 2017 State of the State. public colleges and universities tuition-free. The Budget additionally includes $8 million I congratulate Governor Cuomo and New The Magnolia Tree Earth Center to provide open educational resources, York State for helping to lead the nation in including e-books, to students at SUNY that direction.» of Bedford Stuyvesant, Inc. and CUNY colleges to help defray the cost Secretary of State Hillary Clinton of textbooks. The Governor signed the leg- said, «New York State has long been a At the islation at LaGuardia Community College, pioneer in education. Taking this next step joined by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. to make college tuition-free for hardworking Beyond being a full time student, and main- families is the right thing to do, and the smart Historic Brooklyn Masonic Temple taining their grades, eligible students are also thing to do. I was proud to put this plan 317 Clermont Ave. expected to stay in New York following their forward during my campaign, and I›m thrilled Brooklyn NY 11205 graduation for the same number of years they that it›s become a reality in New York. I hope received funding. If they leave the state, their students, families, and educators across our scholarship will be converted into a loan, country will continue to speak out on this Friday May 19, 2017 which they will then be expected to repay. issue, and call on more states to follow suit.» “The basic point is that if the taxpayers Under the Excelsior Scholarship, nearly 7:00pm- Midnight are going to pay to educate you, you’re 80 percent, or 940,000 middle-class families Tickets $50 now an asset to the state and an asset to the and individuals making up to $125,000 per Light Buffet Served state’s economy,” said Cuomo. “It doesn’t year, qualify to attend college tuition-free make a lot of sense to have taxpayers pay to at all CUNY and SUNY two- and four-year Saluting: educate you and then you get up and move colleges in New York State. Prof. Safiya Bandele & Dr. Evelyn Castro to California.” The new program will be phased in over “It doesn’t say you can’t move out of the three years, beginning for New Yorkers state…it says you can move out of the state, making up to $100,000 annually in the fall Remembering: but if you do before four years, the grant of 2017, increasing to $110,000 in 2018, and Hattie Carthan, Founder becomes a loan and you repay the loan. So reaching $125,000 in 2019. Scholars must if you have to move, then move, but repay be enrolled in college full-time and average Please come to support the work and preservation the taxpayers for what they have invested in 30 credits per year (including Summer and of Brooklyn’s Oldest Center Dedicated to Increasing you,” Cuomo said. January semesters) in order to receive the As with many rules, there are exceptions, funding. The program, however, includes Community Awareness of Ecology and Environmental Concerns according to the governor, for hardships, built in flexibility so that any student facing and to have a good time! those who go on to the military, or to grad hardship is able to pause and restart the school. program, or take fewer credits one semester RSVP: www.magnoliatreeearthcenter.com Cuomo added, that requiring those who than another.

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racial grounds, Texas’ history of discrimina- U.S. Judge: Texas Voter ID Law tory practices and the law’s unusually swift Was Intended to Discriminate passage. Texas law that requires voters to In January, after the Supreme Court Kristen Clarke, show identification before casting declined to hear the case, Paxton said it was president of the ballots was enacted with the intent a commonsense law to prevent voter fraud. Lawyers’ Committee toA discriminate against Black and Hispanic The ruling on voter ID comes about for Civil Rights Under voters, a U.S. federal judge ruled on Mon- a month after two federal judges ruled Law, one of the plain- day. that Texas lawmakers drew up three U.S. tiffs, said the ruling The decision by U.S. District Judge Nelva congressional districts to undermine the showed other states Gonzales Ramos came after an appeals court influence of Hispanic voters. that discriminatory last year said the 2011 law had an outsized The measure requires voters to present laws would not stand impact on minority voters. The court sent the photo identification such as a driver’s license, up to legal scrutiny. case back to Ramos to determine if lawmak- passport or military ID card. “This is a good rul- ers intentionally wrote the legislation to be Plaintiffs have argued the law hits elderly ing that confirms what discriminatory. and poorer voters, including minorities, we have long known, Ramos said in a 10-page decision that hardest because they are less likely to have that Texas’ voter ID evidence “establishes that a discriminatory identification. They contend the measure is law stands as one of purpose was at least one of the substantial used by Republicans to suppress voters who the most discriminato- or motivating factors behind passage” of the typically align with Democrats. ry voting restrictions measure. The legislation has been in effect since of its kind,” she said. “The terms of the bill were unduly strict,” 2011 despite the legal challenges. In a shift from its she added. Spokesmen for Texas Attorney Ramos said the law had met criteria set stance under former General Ken Paxton Jr. and Gov. Greg by the U.S. Supreme Court to show intent President Barack Obama, the U.S. Justice said that the state legislature was considering Abbott, both Republicans, could not be that included its discriminatory impact, Department dropped a discrimination claim changing the law in ways that might correct reached for comment. a pattern not explainable on other than against the law in February. The department shortcomings. UniverSoul: “Using Humor to Beat Depression” your health. The circus that I am referring positive light. I especially looked forward emotional well-being. Doing so allows to is the UniverSoul Circus which largely to being thoroughly entertained each year. your mind to take a break from what may features African-American-themed acts. Research suggests that humor, which is be stressing you and refocus on something While attending this circus, you are sure to heavily present in the acts of the UniverSoul more positive. Under this context, humor jam to some of the hottest African-Ameri- Circus, can be beneficial in combatting acts as a distractor of sorts (www.health- can songs and dance to all the latest dance depression in children and seniors. Maybe central.com). moves. that is the real reason why I looked forward Comedian Kevin Hart is a great example In my household, going to the circus to the circus each year but was too young at of how humor can be beneficial in combat- ■■ By Priscilla Mensah meant one thing, and one thing only. This the time to realize it. ting depression. Hart draws from occurrenc- meant that we would be in Prospect Park Going to the UniverSoul Circus and es in his own personal life, both past and uess what everyone? The circus is for the UniverSoul Circus. My father loved watching various things such as men on present, to create his comedy skits. Many in town, and attending may be not that going to the circus meant we would see stilts, outrageously dressed clowns and Gonly entertaining but also good for ourselves on stage and be represented in a acrobats in the air can be great for your ➔➔ Continued on page 6 4 OUR TIME PRESS April 13 – 19, 2017 VOL. 21 NO. 15

Formerly incarcerated people are invited to convenes Friday, April 21st, 9 am to 5 pm apply. Scholarship application deadline date at Teachers College, Columbia University, WHAT’S GOING ON is April 30. [Visit JayZscholarship.com] 525 West 120th Street, Harlem. Founded by ■■ By Victoria Horsford contestants, including acting Brooklyn DA Why are 32nd NYPD Precinct patrol cars Mildred Johnson, The Modern School was a Eric Gonzalez. 48. All are running on a parked in front of the Frederick Douglass Black private school which opened in 1934. NYS BUDGET reform platform in the tradition of the late Academy, summoning and questioning Discussants are Melanie Edwards; Juanita NYS recently passed a $153 billion Kenneth Thompson. Contestants are African- random students before they enter the school Merritt, Ph.D.; Deidre Bennett Flowers, MA budget. The jury is still out about the bud- Americans Ama Dwimoh, 53, and Patricia grounds. Located on Adam Clayton Powell, in Philosophy; Daniel Perlstein, Ph.D.; and get narrative, its inclusions and exclusions. Gatling; Anne Swern, 61; Vincent J. Gentile, Jr. Boulevard at 151st Street, the Frederick Bruce Addington Williams, Jr., MS, MA Budget has enough muscle to satisfy a variety 58; Marc Fliedner and John Gangemi, 78. Douglass Academy is a college prep school OTR/L. Victoria Horsford will be moderator. of constituents. Real estate developers and The Gonzalez war chest is filled with almost attended by some of Harlem’s top middle and The 2017 Pulitzer Prizewinners of Color affordable housing advocates alike should $1 million and he has enlisted the support of high school scholars who attend and graduate include for FICTION: Colson Whitehead, be pleased that tax breaks have been restored Thompson’s widow LuShawn. from 4-year colleges; on-time school author- THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD; which will enable developers to construct ities say that these police car practices began DRAMA: Playwright Lynn Nottage for more lower-price, affordable housing units. EDUCATION NOTES about two months ago. SWEAT, currently playing on Broadway; Free SUNY and CUNY college tuition is a There is good news about the HS Class POETRY: Tyehimbi Jess for OLIO; and godsend to millennials, who must agree to of 2017. African-American quadruplets SISTAH WATCH CRITICISM: New Yorker Magazine theater work in NYS for about 5 years after college Zach, Aaron, Nigel and Nick Wade have Why are Black women under siege during critic Hilton Als for “The Color Purple” and graduation. Hazel Dukes, veteran NAACP “Dear Evan Hansen” reviews. firebrand and Ghanaian-born Edward Enningul, creative civil rights and fashion advocate, said director of the following W magazine, about the is set to be- budget: “We come British salute the Vogue’s editor Assembly in chief. He is and the Senate the first man leadership for and the first their work Black to helm involving the BV, a Conde RAISE THE Nast maga- AGE legislation. Although the bill is not been accepted by Harvard and Yale. Better President Trump’s era? Firstly, there is Fox zine in its 100-year history. perfect, it is a critical first step ensuring our news, the brothers are not looking for sports News TV host Bill O’Reilly, alleged serial Experience some of the wonders of youth and young adults have a real opportu- scholarships. All high-achieving young men, on-the-job sexual harasser, who says that African Antiquity with NY businessman Bill nity at a better future after making a mistake.” their college major choices are disciplines Congresswoman Maxine Waters looks like Burgess, who has organized a tour to Egypt She congratulates Senators Velmanette such as Artificial Intelligence, chemical she is wearing a James Brown wig, a reaction from November 18-28. View the ancient Montgomery and Andrea Stewart-Cousins, engineering and neuroscience. They live in to her comment about Trump being unfit for Pyramids, the Sphinx with an historically cen- Speaker Carl Heastie and Assemblyman Liberty Township, Ohio. Dad is a software the presidency. Then White House Press tric itinerary, including stops in Alexandria, Joseph Lentol for their continued support, architect and mom is a school principal. They Secretary Sean Spicer reprimands journalist Cairo, Aswan and a Nile cruise. [E-mail: ensuring that the voices of our communities met in math class while attending Jackson April Ryan for shaking her head too much [email protected]] and the children they represent were heard. State University, a Mississippi-based HBCU. during briefings. Last week, former US Nigerian-born Ifeoma White-Thorpe, 17, Ambassador to the UN and National Security APRIL: JAZZ MONTH BROOKLYN NEWS a New Jersey HS senior, has been accepted Advisor Susan Rice is cited by POTUS and April is Jazz Appreciation Month. The The Brooklyn Democrats and the District by all 8 Ivy League Schools: Harvard, a chorus of GOP legislators for reviewing International Communications Association Attorney race is a crowded field of seven Yale, Cornell, Columbia, University of records of President-elect Trump’s associates, and the Dwyer Cultural Center will co-host Pennsylvania, something well within her definition of her the 4th International Jazz Day in Harlem on Princeton, job description. Some GOP members want April 30 from 3-7 pm at the Dwyer, located Dartmouth and her to address one of their witch-hunting com- at 258 St. Nicholas Avenue, Harlem, where Brown. She will mittees. Okay, white men, enough is enough they will be honoring Ella Fitzgerald, major in biology. already! Leave Black women alone. BTW, Thelonius Monk, Dizzy Gillespie, Mongo The Sean CNN has hired Ryan as a guest commentator. Santamaria and (Jay-Z) Carter Ambassador Buddy Rich on Foundation pro- Alice Dear will the occasion of vides financial be honored by their centennial. support to HS Women’s eNews Amsterdam students and as one of the 21 News jazz critic college freshmen. Leaders for the Ron Scott will The ideal schol- 21st Century, also be honored. arship applicant East Coast, at This year is the must have a HS its Annual Gala centennial of the diploma or GED Benefit at Club first jazz record- with a GPA of 101on Park ing. Festivities 2.0, up to age 25. Avenue in Manhattan on Monday, May include dancing, The foundation 8th. A member of the Council on Foreign music listening sessions and art exhibits. was established Affairs, Ambassador Alice Dear represents The Cooper Hewitt Museum in NY and by Gloria Carter Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority at the UN in the Cleveland Museum of Art co-produce and her son Consultative-Status to the Economic and THE JAZZ AGE: American Style in the Jay-Z, targeting Social Council. [Visit womensenews.org] 1920s, which runs from April 7 through youngsters inter- Rev. Dr. Suzan Johnson Cook, founder of August 20 at 2 East 91st Street, Manhattan. ested in college. the Lunchtime Ministries in NY, will host its Exhibit exams taste what is often referred to 35th Anniversary Celebration as the “Roaring 20s,” the time between WWI on Holy Thursday, April 13, and The Depression. The National Museum from 12 noon to 1 pm at the of Jazz in Harlem is a Jazz Age collaborator historic Old John Street United by providing music and video clips for the Methodist Church at 44 John exhibit, and it will host two sold-out Walking Street in Brooklyn. Join the Tours of Harlem to popular jazz venues on You deserve many 500+ flock who attend this an- 5/18 and 5/24. Harlem historian John Reddick nual lunchtime ritual. [RSVP: is the tour guide. [Visit cooperhewitt.org] [email protected] happy returns! or call 212.269.001] SPRING BREAKS The Astoria Performing Arts Center Present this Ad for your ART/CULTURE/ presents a revival of RAISIN, the musical RACE based on the classic Lorraine Hansberry 10% discount on tax prep of 474 Marcus Garvey Blvd The Harlem Semester, play, A RAISIN IN THE SUN, for a lim- $150 or more and take Brooklyn, NY 11216 Barnard College; Teachers ited engagement on May 4 -27 at the Good Between Fulton & Decatur St. College, Columbia and Karen Shepherd United Methodist Church, located advantage of our P: 718­953­6455 Taylor’s “While We Are Still at 30-44 Crescent Street, Astoria, Queens. other incentives!! F: 718­735­7822 Here” will co-host a panel dis- [Visit APACNY.ORG] cussion, “Education and Class Open year round www.lilliansprofessionalservices.com in Harlem: A Historic Overview HAPPY PASSOVER!……….. of The Modern School,” which HAPPY EASTER! VOL. 21 NO. 15 OUR TIME PRESS April 13 – 19, 2017 5 Trump Administration’s ‘Attack on Black Women’ Evident, Says Congresswoman Recent incidents involving Maxine Waters, April Ryan and Susan Rice echo the treatment of Michelle Obama.

■■ By Sheryl Estrada, April 11, 2017 Mitchell on April 4, Rice said the allegations made against her are false. ichelle Obama has spoken can- “The allegation is that somehow Obama didly about her experience as the Administration officials utilized intelligence for nation’s first African-American political purposes,” she said. “That’s absolutely MFirst Lady, including the racist and sexist false.” insults hurled at her by Republican politicians But Trump and his allies have focused on and pundits. unsubstantiated reports that Rice disclosed During her 2015 commencement address the names of Trump aides swept up in U.S. at Tuskegee University in Alabama she said: surveillance of foreign targets. Republican “Over the years, folks have used plenty of Sen. Tom Cotton has referred to Rice as “the interesting words to describe me. One said I Typhoid Mary of the Obama Administration.” exhibited ‘a little bit of uppity-ism.’ Another The president said on Wednesday he thinks Cernovich’s articles, which “60 Minutes” didn’t hear a word she said. I was looking at the noted that I was one of my husband’s ‘cronies Rice committed a crime, but he declined called “fake,” have been promoted on Twitter James Brown wig.” of color.’ Cable news once (charmingly) re- requests for evidence, The New York Times by retired Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, who The Fox News host’s comment about Rep. ferred to me as ‘Obama’s baby mama.’” reported. resigned in February as the president’s national Maxine Waters is “no laughing matter,” rather Last week, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee He also declined to say in the interview security adviser. “a well-worn diversion and act of denigration,” (D-Texas) suggested that the racist scrutiny whether he had reviewed intelligence to bolster During the same New York Times interview a Rutgers women’s and gender studies profes- the former First Lady was subjected to (during his claim about Rice but said he would explain in which Trump made accusations against Rice, sor told DiversityInc. which time Obama nonetheless remained de- himself “at the right time.” he also came to the defense of Fox News’ Bill Nikol G. Alexander-Floyd, an associate termined to live out loud so that people could The day before President Trump stated his O’Reilly. professor of women’s and gender studies at see her authentic self) is publicly reemerging. claim against Rice, Donald Trump, Jr. tweeted “I don’t think Bill did anything wrong,” Rutgers University-New Brunswick, told Lee pointed to a pattern of behavior toward that Mike Cernovich, who runs the alt-Right Trump stated in regard to the revelation that the Diversity Inc, “For people like O’Reilly, a Black women including Susan Rice, who website DangerandPlay.com, deserves a TV host, Fox News, and its parent company, Black congresswoman is read as threatening served as former President Barack Obama’s Pulitzer Prize for a blog post he wrote accusing 21st Century Fox, paid $13 million to settle and counter to his very being.” National Security Adviser; Rep. Maxine Waters Rice of unethical practices. claims he sexually harassed them. The same day Waters was insulted, during a (D-Calif.) and journalist April Ryan. Trump, Jr. said Mike Cernovich, known The week prior to the Fox News scandal, news conference White House Press Secretary Lee tweeted on Wednesday: for once tweeting “date rape does not exist,” O’Reilly made a sexist and racist comment Sean Spicer accused April Ryan, a correspon- Five U.S. intelligence officials have said deserves a Pulitzer for attacking Susan Rice. against Waters. A veteran politician, Waters was dent for American Urban Radio Networks, that Rice followed standard procedure in re- Cernovich, who refers to himself as a elected to her 13th term in the U.S. House of of having a biased agenda. He told her at one questing the National Security Agency to reveal “lawyer, author, free speech activist and docu- Representatives in November 2014 and serves point to “stop shaking your head” as he was to her the names of American citizens who had mentary filmmaker,” has a history of racist and as a ranking member of the House Committee answering her question. been in contact with Russians whose commu- sexist tweets. He once tweeted advice on how on Financial Services. As a result of Waters and Ryan’s nications were monitored by U.S. intelligence, to “slut-shame” Black women. While watching footage on “Fox & shared experiences, the hashtag according to Reuters. According to CNN, he said in February Friends” of Waters giving her speech on the #BlackWomenAtWork began trending on The officials said it is unlikely she would 2016 in a now-deleted tweet: House floor, O’Reilly mocked her by raising Twitter. Black women used the hashtag to share have known that any unidentified American “Not being a slut is the only proven way his fist and mouthing the words, “Right on.” experiences of racial discrimination while at the had a connection to President Donald Trump. to avoid AIDS. If you love Black women, slut- And when asked his opinion of the con- In an interview with NBC’s Andrea shame them.” gresswoman’s comments, O’Reilly replied: “I ➔➔ Continued on page 14 6 OUR TIME PRESS April 13 – 19, 2017 VOL. 21 NO. 15 Mayor Reports Progress on Neighborhood Policing Efforts ayor Bill de Blasio and Chief of Patrol Terrence Monahan earlier this week announced Mfigures from a preliminary progress report on citywide neighborhood policing efforts. “Neighborhood policing has ushered in a new era of law enforcement built on mutual trust, understanding and cooperation. When New Yorkers know their local officers and trust their local officers, we are all safer as a city. Coupled with the retraining of the entire department and the introduction of body cameras, we’re giving officers the tools they need to do their jobs effectively and strengthening the bonds between police and community to make the safest city in the nation even safer,” said Mayor de Blasio. Police Commissioner James P. O’Neill said, “In addition, the release of this report demonstrates the substantial progress we have made in reducing crime and building trust in neighborhood policing commands. This new philosophy will enable us, by Bed-Stuy’s 81ST Precinct was number one out of 10 precincts in crime reduction for 2016. Last February, working collectively with the public, to Inspector Scott Henderson, center left, proudly told Our Time Press that, “The precinct’s success can be further reduce crime and keep New York the attributed to the Neighborhood Coordination Officer Program (NCO).” Some of the 81st family are from safest city in America.” left to right: Officer Anthony Fazio, Sergeant Joseph Edmund, Officer Shalisa Bland, Inspector Henderson, In May 2015, the de Blasio Captain Matt Bomparola, Officer Hemchandr Kuar, Sergeant Asdra Albert and Officer Kamrul Islam. Administration and the New York City Police Department began the next phase in making officers on patrol. All of that means more runs, coupled with the training they need to receive and the time they take to work with the safest big city in America even safer by officers and sector cars are available to successfully handle most situations, NCOs the neighborhood to identify and solve local introducing a new way of fighting crime: respond to calls from the public than at any can take a holistic approach to the crime problems. neighborhood policing. time before. and conditions a community faces. Before Communities with neighborhood po- Neighborhood policing is now in place in The preliminary results are in: neighborhood policing, officers on patrol licing commands experienced 30 percent more than fifty percent of the city’s precincts. Neighborhood policing works. typically would not have the time or training fewer shooting incidents in the first quarter In those precincts, the sectors – zones where to address many problems neighborhoods of 2017 when compared to the same period police officers are assigned – have been The Model face. Today, NCOs have the know-how to in 2016. It is likely that 48 fewer shooting redrawn to reflect natural neighborhood bor- The neighborhood policing philosophy is work with other agencies and engage in incidents in the area contributed to the ders. Officers are assigned week after week based on the simple concept that communi- advanced problem-solving. 8.5 percent reduction in homicides there. to the same sectors on the same shifts. When ties and cops will be safer if they know and For example, the 81st Precinct has been Non-neighborhood policing commands officers are consistently assigned to the same trust each other. Each neighborhood policing working with churches and community experienced an increase of three shooting sector, they develop a profound understand- command, comprised of three to five sectors, groups in the area to dialogue about how to incidents in the same time frame, but had ing of the community they serve: the people, has two specifically trained NCOs assigned reduce crime in the area. And it’s not all three fewer murders. the problems and the persistent issues. In ad- to each sector. about talk. Sitting down at the table in the The de Blasio Administration and the dition to the officers assigned to patrol, each In the past, officers concentrated on community with the community has resulted NYPD look forward to the continued rollout sector has two Neighborhood Coordination specific types of crime, or responded to a in getting to know community residents as of this innovative approach to keeping New Officers (NCOs), whose entire focus is on backlog of 911 calls. With redrawn sectors neighbors and partners. All of this was made Yorkers safe and making the safest big city learning the neighborhood and advising the and more officers on patrol to answer radio possible by the advanced training NCOs in America even safer. Community Alert “Using Humor to Brooklyn DA’s Office Starts 2017 Begin Again Beat Depression” ➔➔ Continued from page 3

Clearing of Open Summons and Warrants of the things that he jokes about, under normal circumstances, can easily cause de- @ Mt. Pisgah April 14 and April 15 pression. The comedian chooses to present serious issues in a way that is entertaining cting Brooklyn District Attorney impede one’s ability to obtain employment, provide on-site legal counsel and give New and humorous. Much like the acts of the Eric Gonzalez today announced housing, or affect their immigration status. Yorkers a chance to clear their outstanding UniverSoul Circus, Hart’s skits are great for that his office will host its first In Brooklyn, these warrants accumulate at a warrants. the soul and are sure to leave the audience “BeginA Again” event for the year and fifth rate of approximately 16,000 per year. The Individuals who appear for “Begin “weak,” as the young people would say in overall. This summons warrant adjudica- opportunity to clear one’s name will greatly Again” will first consult with on-site attor- referring to the state of extreme laughter. tion initiative – aimed at helping residents reduce these numbers and bring people out neys to make sure only eligible summons and This concept of using humor to combat address their open summons matters and of the shadows. The ‘Begin Again’ event warrants are heard. All participants will then depression is nothing new. I have come clear the staggering backlog of warrants in is a valuable way of providing a second enter a makeshift courtroom, where a judge across countless books that lists laughter as the New York City summons court system chance for low-level offenders, fosters better will be on hand to address the outstanding a remedy for anxiety. Moreover, I have seen – will take place tomorrow, Friday, April community relations with the NYPD, while summons and bench warrants that resulted several documentaries on prominent come- 14, and this Saturday, April 15, 2017 from reducing an overcrowded jail population. from the failure to respond to summonses dians that highlight the fact that many of 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Mount Pisgah Baptist We appreciate the Brooklyn DA’s Office for for a multitude of low-level infractions, them had difficult upbringings and turned Church, located at 212 Tompkins Avenue in returning to Bedford-Stuyvesant to help all including walking a dog without a leash or to humor and comedy for relief. Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. New Yorkers.” being in a park after closing. Equipped with this information, it Acting District Attorney Gonzalez said, Since its launch in June 2015, “Begin There are approximately 1.5 million open makes perfect sense that the UniverSoul “Our Begin Again initiative has been a Again” has been held in Clinton Hill, summons and warrants citywide. These Circus partnered with Interfaith Medical tremendous success in helping thousands East New York, Bedford-Stuyvesant and summons and warrants, when left unre- Center to host Health Night on April 11, of New Yorkers resolve their outstanding Bushwick. Nearly 2,600 people attended solved, subject those who have them to an 2017 at 7pm. Health Night, which took summonses. I am committed to giving the those previous events and over 1,700 automatic arrest when questioned by police place at Floyd Bennett Field @Aviator people of Brooklyn a new start by helping warrants were cleared. Everyone who on the street or during a traffic stop. They Sports, included LaRay Brown, CEO of them remove the threat of an arrest and other showed up received help and no one was also carry a number of negative consequenc- Interfaith Medical Center as guest ring- negative consequences associated with an arrested. Following the initiative’s success es, including impeding one’s ability to apply master. For those who entered the code open summons warrant. I encourage every- in Brooklyn, similar events have been held for citizenship, secure employment or obtain HEALTH, tickets were discounted 25%. one, including members of our immigrant in other boroughs. public housing. In today’s immigration en- Priscilla Mensah is an avid reader and communities, to take advantage of this pro- The District Attorney’s Office is partner- forcement environment by the federal gov- scholar who resides in Brooklyn, New gram, which also fosters trust between law ing with the Office of Court Administration, ernment, an open warrant can be particularly York. Her passions include community enforcement and the communities we serve.” the Legal Aid Society, the Kings County risky to undocumented immigrants. empowerment and improvement. Priscilla Council member Robert Cornegy said, Criminal Bar Association and the New More information about the event is can be reached at pmensahbrooklyn@ “We know an open summons or warrant may York City Police Department to once again available at: brooklynda.org/begin-again gmail.com. VOL. 21 NO. 15 OUR TIME PRESS April 13 – 19, 2017 7 When Mayor de Blasio released his plans to open over 90 homeless shelters, it sent shock waves throughout the city. Frankly, I felt that shock ■■ By Borough President Eric Adams perspective on life. Her phone call and her home due to increased rents, and in some recollection on how I kept a bag of clothing cases bad-acting landlords, was the woman mmediately after his announcement, by my bed brought the homeless fight full that used to babysit our children. The un- many residents from the communities circle for me. It brought up old feelings of employed male who stands on the corner at of Crown Heights and Prospect Lef- being teased at school for wearing clothing Bedford and Atlantic Avenues was the same Iferts-Gardens came out to an emergency that was too big, or having to use Tide laundry child that once played Little League Baseball meeting in order to voice their outrage over detergent to bathe because we couldn’t afford alongside us. The woman with three children another shelter being placed in their area. I to buy fancy bar soap. It also made me reflect who can’t find a landlord to take her Section shared that concern. When I was a state sen- on the role that the Salvation Army and other 8 voucher was once the cute little girl with ator representing the area, I actively fought community groups played to assist our family ribbons in her hair who attended our church to ensure the burden of homeless shelters in making it through those challenging years. service. These are not strangers in our midst; would be carried by all communities. I got the message from my mother loud these are our brothers and sisters who have A short time after the meeting, I received and clear. Although I still believe the city fallen on hard times. a call from a woman who shared with me should have opened the first of their new shel- I want to use this as a moment to change that throughout her life she had been on the ters in communities that don’t currently have the conversation on homelessness. Instead of verge of homelessness at least eight or nine any, my mom has assisted me in amending saying “we don’t want them here,” I want to hard times can use basic sanitary items such times. She talked about her son keeping a my thinking on this issue. move towards “adopting” shelters. My call is as soap, socks and undergarments; when we bag of clothing near his bed out of fear that As a former police officer, I have long for people of faith to invite homeless families go shopping for ourselves, how about adding the City Marshal would come during the advocated that it is not only the job of the to our houses of worship. High school and an extra item for someone in need? middle of the night to throw them out of their NYPD to make our communities safe. I college students can show shelter residents Brooklyn Borough Hall will be gather- home and he would lack clothing to wear to have also stated that it is not solely the role how to fill out the forms to get their Social ing local stakeholders to talk about how we school. Her conversation went on to express of ACS to fight child abuse. The community Security cards, driver’s licenses and other can come together and have a community the challenges of not having a home and the “at large” must do their share with these documents needed for education and employ- response to homelessness. The goal is not to traumatizing fear that comes with it. important initiatives. ment. Block associations and civic groups can replace the mayor’s plan, but to complement It was her belief that the trauma is com- This also is true for the homeless issue. embrace these sites and help integrate them it in the same manner that we have success- pounded when homeless people hear their City Hall has their part to play but we, the into the activities of an inviting community. fully addressed crime in our city. former neighbors state that they don’t want community, are also charged with a critical Those of us who have professional skills can We are a safer city because everyday them around. role. We must come up with a supportive assist and instruct. For our way-too-large people stood up and said, “let’s get involved.” After hanging up the phone with that plan, and throwing a “rock” of disagreement population of homeless children, we can People did this for my family as a child and, woman, my mother Dorothy, I was reminded is not a plan. provide tutoring services so they can be ready as my mother reminded me, I must do it for how much a mom can give you the proper The elder who was forced out of her for college. Our neighbors who have fallen on others as an adult. Hispanic Leader Responds to AG Sessions' New Immigration Memo n response to a new memo by Attorney his intention to criminalize immigrants to undocumented immigrants. General Jeff Sessions to further crimi- as much as he possibly can--in this case, “Today, it’s again clear that the Department nalize immigrant communities, Javier by recruiting federal prosecutors into the of Justice is now being guided by bigotry and IH. Valdés, co-Executive Director of Make Trump Administration’s reckless deportation intolerance, seeking (by all means) to harm the Road New York, issued the following dragnet and recommending criminal charges our communities and showing no regard for statement on behalf of the organization’s for any immigration-related allegation. He our families. This scare-mongering betrays 20,000 members: also seeks to intimidate those who stand core American values. We will stand firmly “Jeff Sessions’ anti-immigrant crusade with immigrant families by suggesting against these anti-American policies in the continues. Today, he has further signaled prosecution for those who provide housing streets and in the courts.” UN Refugee Committee: Starvation stalks Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan, Yemen he risk of mass starvation in four malnutrition rates are increasing, particu- countries – Nigeria, Somalia, larly among young children, the UNHCR South Sudan and Yemen – is rap- said on Tuesday. Tidly rising due to drought and conflict, the In South Sudan alone – where the UN UN Refugee Committee has warned. declared famine in some areas in February About 20 million people live in hard- – “a further one million people are now hit areas where harvests have failed and on the brink of famine”, Adrian Edwards,

UNHCR spokesperson, said. “We are rais- operations in famine-hit northeast Nigeria, ing our alarm level further by today warning South Sudan, Somalia and Yemen were that the risk of mass deaths from starvation funded at between just three and 11 percent. among populations in the Horn of Africa, People are on the run within their coun- Yemen and Nigeria is growing.” tries and there are also greater numbers of Later on Tuesday, speaking to Al Jazeera South Sudanese refugees fleeing to Sudan from Geneva, Edwards said that lives will and Uganda, according to the UNHCR. be lost if help does not arrive. “Always the problem that we have with A preventable humanitarian catastrophe, humanitarian crises in sub-Saharan Africa is possibly worse than that of 2011 when that they tend to get overlooked until things 260,000 people died of famine in the Horn are too late,” Edward said. of Africa, half of them children, “is fast UNHCR is expanding its operations but becoming an inevitability”, he said. is blocked by a severe funding shortfall, Violent conflicts and increasing dis- with some of the country programmes placement have deepened food shortages only funded at between three and in many places, Edwards said, warning 11 percent. that the dangerous combination of factors Overall the UN has appealed for $4.4bn risked making the current crisis worse than for the four countries by the end of April, the 2011 drought in the Horn of Africa that but has received less $984m or 21 percent killed more than 260,000 people. to date, said Jens Laerke of the UN Office UN cautioned that the current crisis could be worse than the 2011 drought “A repeat must be avoided at all costs,” for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the Horn of Africa that killed 260,000 people [AP] he said, pointing out that UNHCR’s (OCHA). 8 OUR TIME PRESS April 13 – 19, 2017 VOL. 21 NO. 15

terms of erecting a monument or permanent Phyllis Bowdoin: Retired Educator commemoration of the time of the Middle Passage,” she told a reporter in 1994. More recently, she credits Mel Glen, a Makes an Encore Performance teacher at a United Federation of Teachers’ ■■ By Margo J. McKenzie and so much more. She masterfully shared writing workshop for nudging her into the her story to a thundering ovation at March oral storytelling arena. Glen repeatedly urged n oral tradition that goes back 29th event. her to pitch one of her stories to The Moth, a thousands of years to the ancestral So what’s the story behind how this 21st not-for-profit organization devoted to the art lands of Africa came alive last century woman found herself immersed in of storytelling worldwide. The organization’s monthA when Phyllis Bowdoin took center the ancient art form of storytelling? story slams the call for contestants to stand stage at Lincoln Center during the acclaimed Phyllis Bowdoin’s route to storytelling on the stage and tell their true stories within Moth* annual storytelling showcase. may first appear circuitous, but in fact it was five minutes without the aid of props or Bowdoin, a retired educator, is an heir to her destiny from the start. papers. the griots of long ago who passed down cul- In the 1960’s, Ms. Bowdoin began her With her mother’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis ture, music, philosophy, history, our stories career as a secretary/bookkeeper, and made and her own memory slipping, Phyllis flatly jewelry on the side. refused. She became a cast- Phyllis Bowdoin, Storyteller But later, when she learned The Moth ing director at ABC, planned to conduct a story slam in the Bronx, then moved on to of Korhogo. These apprenticeships contrib- her borough of residence, she attended out of adult public education uted to the skills she needed to tell a story in curiosity. She found the staff to be surprising- with the New York precious metal. She created what she called ly young, efficient and very friendly -- which City Department of her Middle Passage brooch, a piece of jew- made her feel right at home. Phyllis pushed Education. elry purchased by the Smithsonian Institute through stage fright and won that story slam, She traveled to in New York, along with her 18-by-24-inch her first, on January 13, 2017, her deceased Taxco, Mexico to poster. mother’s birthday. study silversmithing This was her first story in silver: the On February 20th, she competed against and to the Ivory Coast cramped quarters of the hull of a slave ship. 9 other story slam winners at a Grand to learn filigree from a “I decided to make the pin because I was The Middle Passage broach goldsmith in the town disturbed that nothing had been done in ➔➔ Continued on page 13

detail, Locking Up Our Own shows how the Books black community struggled to respond to rising crime, wrestling with dilemmas that So how do we understand the paradox remain pertinent today. It also reveals how incremental steps tak- of black officials perpetuating en in the name of the civil rights movement a system that largely disadvantages gradually eroded the rights and opportunities of the very people they were meant to help. black people? As a former clerk for Justice Sandra Day O’Connor and a firsthand witness to D.C.’s draconian criminal justice system during LOCKING UP OUR OWN his six years as a public defender, Forman Crime and Punishment in Black America is a terrific and humane guide through the thorny topics presented in his book. Locking Author: JAMES FORMAN JR. black officials perpetuating Up Our Own is a timely and essential work The past few years have seen an increase a system that largely disad- that begs to be read by anyone who craves a in awareness and outrage over the senseless vantages black people? way forward at a time when solutions seem killings of black men and women at the In Locking Up rare and out of reach. hands of law enforcement, and these deaths Our Own: Crime and James Forman Jr. is a professor of law at have also led to a renewed conversation about Punishment in Black Yale Law School. He has written for The New race in America’s criminal justice system. America, Yale Law School York Times, The Atlantic, numerous law re- It’s a given in this country that race professor and former D.C. James Forman Jr. views, and other publications. A former clerk plays a major role in that system, with black public defender James for Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, he spent people more likely than white people to be Forman, Jr. examines the fascinating and were proposed by the nation’s first black six years as a public defender in Washington, arrested for minor crimes, to be dealt harsher tragic historical roots of the war on crime, mayors, police chiefs, and city council D.C., where he cofounded the Maya Angelou sentences, and to be more unfairly impacted and the role that African Americans played members. These individuals came to power Public Charter School. by their criminal records. Yet the criminal in its escalation. at a historic moment when poverty, crime, Upcoming Forman Appearances, Book justice system is also staffed by thousands Using Washington, D.C., a largely drug addiction, and violence were on the Signings and Conversations: of black police officers, judges, corrections African American city, as a window into increase, and their stringent law-and-order 4/26 – NYU Law School / 12pm officers, and prosecutors. America’s response on crime, Forman shows tactics were seen as necessary to protect and 4/27 - John Jay School of Criminal So how do we understand the paradox of how tougher laws and harsher responses heal these communities. In heartbreaking Justice / 5pm Standing-Room Only at “Truth to Power” Journalist Chris Hayes’ book-signing: Not a Surprise. his household starts and closes the America likes to tell itself that it close to a police state. How and why did weekdays with the MSNBC news inhabits a postracial world, yet near- Americans build a system where condi- family. So, of course, we were in ly every empirical measure–wealth, tions in Ferguson and West Baltimore Tthe audience when veteran journalist Chris unemployment, incarceration, school mirror those that sparked the American Hayes discussed his searing new book, “A segregation–reveals that racial inequality Revolution? Colony in a Nation,” last Saturday at St. has barely improved since 1968, when A Colony in a Nation examines the Joseph’s College in Clinton Hill. Hayes has Richard Nixon became our first “law and surge in crime that began in the 1960s covered shootings throughout the U.S. Of order” president. and peaked in the 1990s, and the unprec- course, we agreed when he told the crowd With the clarity and originality that edented decline that followed. Drawing that when thousands of people all across distinguished his prescient bestseller, on close-hand reporting at flashpoints of America are saying the same thing, there’s Twilight of the Elites, Chris Hayes upends racial conflict, as well as deeply personal got to be some truth in it. But he doesn’t our national conversation on policing and experiences with policing, Hayes explores leave the rest of America off the hook: democracy in a book of wide-ranging his- cultural touchstones, from the influential he indicated that racial inequality hasn’t torical, social, and political analysis. “broken windows” theory to the “squeegee improved over the past 40 years, and all of Hayes contends our country has frac- men” of late-1980s Manhattan, to show how us – black and white – has a responsibility to tured in two: the Colony and the Nation. fear causes us to make dangerous and unfor- work towards a solution that’s not outside of In the Nation, we venerate the law. In the tunate choices, both in our society and at the justice system already exists-in a place we us. Following is information on the latest Colony, we obsess over order, fear trumps personal level. With great empathy, he seeks least suspect. work , A Colony in a Nation, by this New civil rights, and aggressive policing re- to understand the challenges of policing A Colony in a Nation is an essential York Times best-selling author and Emmy sembles occupation. A Colony in a Nation communities haunted by the omnipresent book–searing and insightful–that will re- Award winning news anchor. Our Take: It’s explains how a country founded on justice threat of guns. Most important, he shows frame our thinking about law and order in A Must-Read. now looks like something uncomfortably that a more democratic and sympathetic the years to come. VOL. 21 NO. 15 OUR TIME PRESS April 13 – 19, 2017 9 The Making of a President ■■ By Priscilla Mensah School that Obama attended from 1975-79 But there is something also important for many years. Though he is technically about how Barack, the younger, lives his ften, when we come across great retired he told us, “I still volunteer there life: he may be the consummate example leaders, whether it be through and I am on campus nearly every day. It’s of why quality leadership is rooted in history textbooks, on the televi- hard to leave.” learning very early in life the importance Osion or in our own lives, we wonder about Kusunoki generously shared his re- of valuing roots. Of his impression of the their beginnings. membrances of the young “Barry” from a “Barry,” the man, Kusunoki told me :“He One of the questions that we frequent- teacher’s perspective, from Obama’s class never forgot us ‘little guys.’ Whenever ly want answered is, who taught them? performance to his personality, and the ear- we (would) see him, the first thing Who is it that helped to shape, mold and ly signs that he would do something great. he asked was, ‘How is everyone back inspire them into the thinkers that they are My analysis of my interview with home?’ and the last thing he said was, or were. We want this burning question Kusunoki is that great leadership requires ‘Tell everyone back home I said Hello and asked because, perhaps, we can learn consistency. Consistently good behavior Aloha!’.” from the answers and become great leaders yields admirable results. I was not in any “That’s the kind of guy he is. He ourselves. In that sense, the answer to a way shocked to learn that Obama was a hasn’t changed. Still having that common seemingly simple question can be poten- great student and excellent classmate. touch, still very humble and down to tially life-changing. I do not think you can become good earth.” That question for me was, in large part, overnight. And remembering where he comes answered when I was given the opportunity If you are a highly successful person, from. to interview Mr. Eric Kusunoki, a former it is usually because you have lived a life Priscilla Mensah is an avid reader and high school teacher of a young man who that is reflective of your success. The scholar who resides in Brooklyn, New York. grew up to become President of the United person that we see in Obama today seems Her passions include community empow- States: Barack Obama. to be very much the same person that his erment and improvement. Priscilla can be Mr. Kusunoki taught at the Punahou teachers saw in him many years ago. reached at [email protected]. Barack "Barry" Obama

with his classmates. His birthday is in Mr. Kusunoki on Barack “Barry” August, so we never had the chance to celebrate his birthday then, so we cele- brated during the year. Obama: High School Years We did all of these things every year for four years and it never got old for (As Told to Priscilla Sawsani Mensah) these students. They were a good bunch first met Barack Obama in Septem- among all of the students. He was able to to work with. I am glad that I had them ber of 1975. Prior to the first day of negotiate well among the many cliches for four years and got to spend so much school, I received our homeroom list on campus, yet still had a tight core of time with them. Iand I went over all of the names. When I friends that he is close with till this day. As a teacher, when students graduate got to his name, I asked other teachers on They all shared a great love of basketball and leave, you don’t expect them to campus, if they knew who he was or how and were out on the courts every spare remember you and if they do, you never to pronounce his name. I thought it looked minute they had. Now they spend a lot know how they will remember you. It’s Japanese. There is a Obama, Japan. It’s a of time playing golf. I am glad to see part of the job. You just hope that they coastal city with nice beaches, I’ve heard. that they are still good friends, ever since will be OK and will have good lives, be Anyway, the people I asked didn’t know high school. good men and women, be good citizens, him or how to pronounce his name. Academically, President Obama, have nice families, and lead happy, pro- On the first day of school that year, I Barry, was a very good student. He got ductive lives. Teachers get satisfaction took roll and when I reached his name, I im- all A’s and B’s. I don’t recall him ever from seeing how their students have mediately mispronounced his name, saying getting a C or ever getting an interim fr turned out, reading about them, hearing Barack like “barrack”. He was sitting right anything. He never got into any trouble about them, or seeing them on the street across from me, smiled quietly and said for behavior, etc. that I can recall and he once in a while. simply, “you can call me Barry” and it was was pleasant to work with. Whenever we With Barry, we have all been very Barry all through his high school days. Till had class discussions, he would always blessed with what he has done with his today, whenever, he hears someone call him be a great listener, never dominating the Eric Kusunoki, educator life. We revel in his success quietly and Barry, he knows that it is someone from his discussions or being argumentative. He from afar. He has made us all, very high school and his high school days. would listen intently to everyone. Then heavy hand, but more with gentle guidance proud, and what is most impressive is, All of us in the homeroom, including when all was said and done, he might say and reason. People respected Barry because he hasn’t forgotten his roots, and he hasn’t Barry, stayed together for four years. We something that was very impressive and he could also be a good “indian” as well as forgotten his old friends and the people back met in the same classroom, pretty much, profound, and we’d all say, “Wow!” a “chief”. We’d always celebrate birthdays, “home” in Hawaii. No matter what he has had the same dean, and did things together Barry’s strengths, I would say were in Halloween, Christmas, and Ester in our done in his life, he is still the same humble everyday for four years, until they graduated English and History. Although he did well homeroom, along with other holidays like guy. He has “walked with kings” and hasn’t in June, 1979. We met every morning at in Math and Science, I didn’t think person- Valentine’s, Girls’ Day, St. Patrick’s Day, lost “the common touch”. That’s what has 8 am, however, I always liked to come in ally, he was a Math-Science guy. He was a and Boys’ Day, and Barry would always be a touched me and has impressed me about him early, around 7 am and open the room up, good writer but I didn’t know how good a willing and helpful participant, helping to set all this time. open the windows, turn on the radio, and get writer he was until I read his books. He was up or clean up and conscientiously involved (Eric Kusunoki’s father, a newspaper ready for the day. I was always impressed also a good speaker, but we all never knew in the activities we all planned. photographer, encouraged his son to keep with how many students arrived at school how good until he spoke at the Democratic Barry loved Halloween and especially a scrapbook when he became a teacher. so early in the morning. Many of them had National Convention in 2004, when he blew loved carving pumpkins. We’d always carve Fortunately, Eric did, for his lifetime as a to commute and come in with their parents everyone away. “Wow!” all over again. a couple of pumpkins that we would take teacher, including the years he knew Barry from the other side of the island, so they I felt then that he would be success- after school to the Shriner’s Hospital down Obama, 1975 – 1979. “When Barry visited came in early, caught up with some work, ful. to me, he had all of the qualities that the street for crippled children and help them our campus after nearly 25 years away, I socialized quietly, or even took naps before would enable him to be successful. He was decorate and celebrate Halloween. never expected him to remember me (such school started. Some went up to the snack bright, articulate, he had great people skills, He loved celebrating birthdays during is the life of a teacher), but he asked about bar to get breakfast or something to eat. I and he was humble. Some may argue that the year. We always had juice and cookies me and looked for me, which pleasantly would also go up to get coffee and also check because he could be gregarious and outgo- or doughnuts and he enjoyed them all along surprised me.”) my mailbox before the school day began. ing, but deep down inside, he never forgot This worked out well as the students got his friends and family, and he always had a Honolulu-based teacher Eric Kusunoki’s April 8 correspondence to writer Priscilla to know each other a dn do things together sense of humility. He never lost that and I Sawsani Mensah’s about Barack Obama’s high school years reveal so much about and I had a chance to talk with them indi- was always deeply impressed by that. student Barry, and just as much about him. We were not surprised that the leadership vidually and casually, too. Barry lived close We knew he would successful, but we qualities and scholarship that characterize President Barack Obama were evident in by, about four blocks down the street,so he never knew he would be President of the his younger years. We were not surprised about Mr. Kusunoki’s description of Barry’s would come to school just before 8 am usu- United States. However, after he was elect- workmanship and aptitude. Yet, in his description of Barry’s humbleness and generosity, ally, but he was always on time. He would ed, we could see it. We could see how he we saw similarities in Mr. Kusunoki’s willingness to be so generous to us. Like most always walk in the door with a big smile could do it and appeal to so many people. He good teachers, Kusunoki spots a student’s singular abilities and gets to work to create a and great me with a “Good Morning Mr. was older, more educated, more experienced, space in which the student can grow. Part of the job for the compassionate educator is Kusunoki! How are you doing?” He was but he was the same good person that we all to remove the layers obscuring essence and flight. And when their charges “take off,” always very well behaved and very pleasant, knew while he was growing up. they stand at a distance, with the understanding the job also requires, expecting not to not over bearing at all. Barry had that charisma and the ability be remembered. Mr. Kusunoki worked for 41 years in education before retiring in 2015. He was always neat and clean, nothing to get people to work together when reso- We suspect that every one of Mr. Kusunoki’s thousands of students remember him. And fancy, but dressed for school, not ratty or lution was necessary, whether it was on the we suspect he remembers every last one of them. disheveled. He never sought the spotlight, basketball courts with his friends or in our Bernice Elizabeth Green but he was very well known and popular classroom. 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tied the game at 53 while Philoxy helped pad the lead with six minutes to go. Although Tribute to the Trio the game was not in Canarsie, it sure had a Canarsie-like atmosphere to it. Ali dance around the ring one last time and Although the Brooklyn trio did not play Yes, the Lady Vikings did not go home Derek Jeter connect on a big-time hit for on the same team during this game, it was with the victory. However, the most import- the Yankees just one last time. For the Lady just the moment to be able to share the court ant part of the game was the ladies sharing Vikings of Brooklyn, South Shore seniors’ one last time that put things into perspective a sisterhood and all sporting smiles after the Valena Hickerson, T’shai Corbie and Selena for these three ladies. Valena Hickerson had game. We all wish the trio the best of luck Philoxy were able to share the same floor described the moment as a family reunion: towards their future endeavors. one last time a few weeks removed from “We knew it was the last time, so we all just Sports Notes: With the NBA Playoffs ■■ By Eddie Castro winning a state title. A few weeks ago, wanted to get out there and have fun.” The beginning this weekend and the first week the trio officially ended their high school three ladies have been teammates for two of baseball now in the books, how is your In sports, we would love to see our favor- careers at the All-Star contest at Baruch years and developed quite the chemistry New York team doing so far? What team do ite athletes lace their shoes up one last time. College, which featured a matchup between playing aside each other. The tone of the you have making a deep run into the NBA The satisfaction of seeing Michael Jordan the Catholic League and the Public School game was set by the Catholic squad early and Finals? E-mail me at castroeddie714@gmail. play for the Bulls one last time, Wayne Athletic League in what is known as the often. Then the three women made sure they com and tell me your thoughts on an upcom- Gretzky skate one last time, Muhammad Mayor’s Cup game. represented South Shore proudly. Corbie had ing, exciting week of sports! PA James Hears Affordable Housing Complaint ■■ By Eddie Martinez they couldn’t afford it anymore,” said Juan Robles, 32 of Cypress Hills. ffordable Housing as it relates to Robles did not mince words over what increased development, bike lanes is the underlying cause of development and and historic landmarking dom- gentrification. “It’s when the white people inatedA the discussion at Public Advocate moved in that the city started caring more Letitia James‘ town hall meeting held last about this community. When I noticed that, Friday at the YMCA, 570 Jamaica Avenue it sparked a passion in me that I don’t want in Cypress Hills. people to be displaced,” he said. Besides James, also in on the Town Hall A resident of Prospect Lefferts Gardens were City Council Member Rafael Espinal who attended the town hall feels that the Jr. (D-Bushwick, East New York, Cypress town hall provided reassurance that politi- one of the tallest buildings was opened over civically engaged who literally went house Hills) and Patria Frias-Colon, the Brooklyn cians were hearing local residents. But, she the summer. It’s on Flatbush Avenue and to house and looked for historic and original Borough Chief of the Family Court Division pointedly added, reassurance is different from Fenimore [Street]. I think it’s like 16 stories features and then presented an application to from the City’s Law Department. keeping a promise. and they said it was affordable. It mentioned me. I in turn went to landmarks,” said James, Residents of Cypress Hills and other According to the Census Bureau’s households that make $50,000, and I’m like recalling her days as a City Council member. subsections of East New York voiced their American FactFinder, more than 40% of peo- how many people in the area really make The discussion over what to be done concerns over the continuing pace of devel- ple who live in a particular tract of Cypress $50,000? It makes me wonder what is af- with landmark applications is indicative of opment that shows no signs of slowing down. Hills near Broadway Junction spend more fordable,” she said. a complex issue which is how to revitalize Yet James also pushed for greater commu- than 50% of their income on housing. For At one point, an audience member wished a community while maintaining a neighbor- nity initiative in combatting the effects of a resident of a neighborhood affected by for more community involvement towards the hood’s characteristics. development. gentrification, the data reflects her day-to-day placement of bike lanes, but also said that the “In Downtown Brooklyn landmark dis- Yet for some audience members, it re- struggles. community would be in favor of them. tricts, you got some developers, who because mains to be seen if community engagement “Housing takes the bulk of your income. James countered that if community it was landmarked, preserved the façade of is enough to stop or at the least, mitigate If you are unfortunate to have a large student boards had the final say over bike lanes, there the building and they developed the interior. gentrification. But for one audience member, loan like I do, so that’s basically your income probably would not be as many created. So that was a win-win for everyone,” James the issue is enough for him to take action. there,” said Dominique Jean-Baptiste, 52 Another audience member complained said. “In my block alone, I’ve noticed that sev- of Prospect Lefferts Garden. Baptiste also that the city simply used the community James and Frias-Colon discussed other eral of my neighbors have moved out because said that the talk about affordable housing boards as window dressing over the deci- issues affecting the community, including is sorely lacking sion-making process that largely ignored juvenile crime. in one important local neighborhoods. Jean-Baptiste said she thought James did aspect. James listened as a young woman asked a good job of listening to her audience, but “The only what could be done to protect local land- left the meeting guarded. thing I would marks. James answered that she can act only “It was a good meeting. She [James] was have loved to when the community does. willing to come out here and speak to the have them address “I landmarked parts of Fort Greene, parts people and hear what they have to say, but more is affordable of Crown Heights, parts of Prospect Heights long-term, I don’t know what it means. Are means what? For and parts of Bedford Stuyvesant. That wasn’t we really gonna see improvement? Are the example, in my done by me, it was done by the community. people gonna get what they want?” she asked neighborhood, It was a group of individuals who were rhetorically.

Bedford Academy H.S. Walk- A-Thon he PTA of Bedford Academy H.S. is hosting a Walk-A- TThon on Sunday, April 23, 2017 9:00am-12:00pm to raise funds for the school’s tutorial programs. We are assembling at Cadman Plaza Park- North Lawn and walking across the Brooklyn Bridge to the African Burial Ground National Monu- ment (290 Broadway) and back across the Brooklyn Bridge to Cadman Plaza Park. VOL. 21 NO. 15 OUR TIME PRESS April 13 – 19, 2017 11 Ede Fox Enters Race for 35th Council District with Strong Coalition of Labor Support ROOKLYN, N.Y. - its members proudly endorse Standing with nearly Ede Fox for City Council,” said one hundred local res- Davon Lomax, Political Director Bidents and members from four of IUPAT District Council 9. “Ede of the city’s major construc- has the proven track record as a tion trades unions, Democrat defender of working families and Ede Fox officially announced strong supporter of organized la- her candidacy for Brooklyn’s bor. Her passion for public service 35th Council District at a rally and unmatched policy expertise today outside Bedford Union make her the clear choice in the Armory, setting the stage for race for the 35th District.” a rematch with controversial “The New York State Laborers incumbent Laurie Cumbo in endorse Ede Fox for City Council the September Democratic because it’s time we have leader- Primary. In declaring their ship in the 35th District account- early support for the longtime able to working families,” said community advocate, the Ma- John Hutchings, Director of the son Tenders’ District Council New York State Laborers PAC. PAC, NYS Laborers’ PAC, “Ede has a long track record of DC9 and Ironworkers Local government and community ser- 46 sought to contrast Fox’s vice, fighting for good pro-labor strong support for union caus- policies. With Ede in the City es with what they characterize Council, we know that our mem- as Cumbo’s disappointing bers will have a strong voice to labor record and reputation fight for their needs.” for ignoring community Fox comes to this most recent concerns. The announcement campaign with a long resume comes amid criticism over the BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Standing with nearly one hundred local residents and members from four in grassroots organizing and one-term Council member’s of the city’s major construction trades unions, Democrat Ede Fox (left, with microphone) community service. Fox is the conflicting stances on a num- officially announced her candidacy for Brooklyn’s 35th Council District at a rally today outside co-founder of Prospect Heights ber of high-profile housing Bedford Union Armory, setting the stage for a rematch with controversial incumbent Laurie Democrats for Reform (PHDR), a and development issues that Cumbo in the September Democratic Primary. political advocacy group dedicated have been the source of con- to encouraging transparency and siderable debate within the accountability in local govern- district. who will always be there for them and put has demonstrated a commitment to our ment. Fox is also a former member of “I am proud to stand here with our city’s their needs first.” members and the issues that concern them Brooklyn Community Board 8 and chaired construction trades unions and announce “On behalf of the 17,000 members of the the most - a safe job site, quality training, the board’s Environmental and Sanitation my candidacy for City Council in the 35th Mason Tenders District Council and their fair wages and respect and dignity on the Committee. District,” said Ede Fox. “These are the families, I am proud to endorse the candida- job. I am confident that as a member of the In addition, Fox has served as a policy men and women who have literally built cy of Ede Fox to represent the residents of New York City Council, Ede will continue advisor to Council Speaker Melissa Mark- Brooklyn, and yet the city has not given the 35th Council District in Brooklyn,” said to support the values and principles of the Viverito, and as Chief of Staff to Council them everything they and all working fam- Robert Bonanza, chairman of the Mason unionized construction industry.” member Jumaane Williams. ilies need to succeed. I’m running to be a Tenders District Council Political Action “The International Union of Painters The Democratic Primary will be held on strong representative in city government Committee. «Throughout her career, Ede and Allied Trades District Council 9 and September 12th. Mawuli Hormeku Challenges Inez Barron for East New York City Council Seat ■■ By Kings County Politics In going against the Barron juggernaut, develop the mind-set that we can’t depend which has controlled politics in the East New on the government and we have to learn to alling for a new direction in York area for close to 20 years, Hormeku handle responsibility ourselves. We can’t self-empowerment, Mawuli said he respects the Barrons for their passion, worry about how the Trump Administration Hormeku today announced he but that change now is desperately needed to will affect our community through budget Cwill challenge City Councilwoman Inez stem the tide of encroaching gentrification. cuts. We need leaders to create new revenue Barron (D-East New York, Canarsie, East “Under the guise of black nationalism, streams so we can do for ourselves.” Flatbush, Brownsville) in the upcoming the Barrons have been promoting poverty Hormeku draws inspiration from his 42nd District City Council Democratic through social engineering and panhandling father, Kofi Hormeku, who brought his young Primary. from the government instead of developing family from Ghana, West Africa and raised Inez Barron is the former Assembly social entrepreneurship and ownership,” said them in Brownsville, where he was one of the Mawuli Hormeku member representing East New York, and is Hormeku. original owners of a Nehemiah Home, an early wife to former City Councilman Charles “If we don’t find ways to own the 1980s cooperative effort between local church- The Kofi Hormeku Scholarship, a 10-year Barron. The spouses switched seats in 2013 neighborhood we will be displaced, and the es, community organizers and the city to build commitment of $50,000 to the Fund for after Charles Barron was term-limited out of only way to that is through education and affordable single- and two-family brick town Public Housing via a collaboration with office. economics,” said Hormeku. “We have to house homes in Brownsville, East New York CUNY, students residing in NYCHA housing and Spring Creek (the Starrett City area). in Ocean Hill-Brownsville and East New In 1994, the elder Hormeku founded York. The organization also awards $20,000 Nehemiah Economic Development, to graduating high school seniors attending Inc. (NED), 1168 Lenox Road, which a four-year college in the fall who live in the promotes social entrepreneurship via areas of Ocean Hill-Brownsville and East ownership. Meanwhile, Mawuli grew up New York. in the Nehemiah Homes and went on to Hormeku said rather than look to the gov- graduate from Brooklyn Tech, before earning ernment for help, the greater communities both a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and of East New York and Brownsville have to Master’s of Education from Boston College, begin “legacy building.” and a Master’s in Educational Policy and “We have to start making plans for our Social Analysis from Columbia University. children for years to come,” he said. “Right He then traveled the world extensively now, people are just passing down memories. to research and lecture on the topics of We have to change our mind-set through education and pedagogy before returning to vocational, educational and economic Ocean Hill-Brownsville and East New York self-empowerment.” to become NED’s executive director. The City Council Primary is slated for As part of this effort, NED established Tuesday, Sept. 12. City Council Member Inez Barron 12 OUR TIME PRESS April 13 – 19, 2017 VOL. 21 NO. 15

Himrod Street, Brooklyn 11221. Purpose: Office: Kings County. SSNY designated as NEW BUSINESS FORMATIONS Any lawful purpose. agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of CraftOPS, LLC Arts. of Org. filed LLC upon whom process against it may be DEVOCION LIVINGSTON LLC. process to the LLC, c/o Management Office, with the SSNY on 1/17/2017 Office: Kings served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 105 Clay Street, Brooklyn, NY 11222. County. SSNY designated as agent of the the LLC, 352 96th Street, Brooklyn 11209. 03/03/17. Office: Kings County. SSNY Purpose: Any lawful purpose LLC upon whom process against it may be Purpose: Any lawful purpose. designated as agent of the LLC upon whom served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to process against it may be served. SSNY shall DARK HORSE STUDIOS LLC the LLC, 10 City Point, Apt 20L Brooklyn Professional Accounting LLC. Arts. of mail copy of process to the LLC, 69 Grand Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State 11201. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. Org. filed with the SSNY on 12/21/2016. Street, Brooklyn, NY 11249. Purpose: Any (SSNY) 2/27/17. Office in Kings Co. SSNY Office: Kings County. SSNY designated as lawful purpose. desig. agent of LLC upon whom process may Carlton Legacy Properties, LLC Arts. agent of the LLC upon whom process against be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process of Org. filed with the SSNY on 3/23/2017 it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of Assumed Name LLC. Taylor Made to 35 Broadway, Brooklyn, NY 11249, Office: Kings County. SSNY designated as process to the LLC c/o Joseph Hayon, 1648 Services LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the which is also the principal business location. agent of the LLC upon whom process against East 14th Street, Brooklyn 11229. Purpose: SSNY on 11/08/17. Office: Kings County. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of Any lawful purpose. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon process to the LLC, 593 Vanderbilt Avenue, whom process against it may be served. PROGRESS LABS, LLC Articles of # 210 Brooklyn 11238. Purpose: Any lawful Christopher Palu New York LLC. Arts. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the Org. filed with the SSNY January 13, 2017. purpose. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 2/15/2017. LLC, 326 Bainbridge Street, 5C Brooklyn, Offc. Loc: Kings Co. SSNY desig. as agent Office: Kings County. SSNY designated as NY 11233. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. of LLC upon whom process may be served. Norge Realty LLC Arts. of Org. filed agent of the LLC upon whom process against SSNY shall mail process to Patrick Johnson, with the SSNY on 11/23/2016 Office: Kings it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of 92 NORMAN AVE MGT LLC. Art. 216 Smith St, Apt. 3, Brooklyn, NY 11201. County. SSNY designated as agent of the process to the LLC c/o Christopher Palu, 93 of Org. filed with the SSNY on 12/05/16. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

2540 Lot: 37 ALL that certain plot, piece a Notice of Appearance on the attorneys for LEGAL NOTICES or parcel of land, with the buildings and im- the plaintiff within twenty (20) days after provements thereon erected, situate, lying and service of this Summons, exclusive of the SUPREME COURT - COUNTY REVENUE SERVICE, NEW YORK being in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of day of service; or within thirty (30) days after OF KINGS LIBERTY DABAR STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION Kings, City and State of New York, bounded service is complete if this Summons is not ASSOCIATES, Plaintiff -against- JENNIFER AND FINANCE, CITY OF NEW YORK and described as follows: BEGINNING at a personally delivered to you within the State MOHAMMED, et al Defendant(s). Pursuant ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL BOARD, point on the southerly side of India Street, dis- of New York; or within sixty (60) days if it to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale dated CITY OF NEW YORK DEPARTMENT tant seventy-five (75) feet, westerly from the is the United States of America. In case of October 13, 2015 and entered on October OF FINANCE PARKING VIOLATIONS southwesterly corner of said India Street and your failure to appear or answer, judgment 19, 2015, I, the undersigned Referee will BUREAU, CRIMINAL COURT OF Manhattan Avenue; RUNNING THENCE will be taken against you by default for the sell at public auction at the Kings County THE CITY OF NEW YORK, KINGS southerly, parallel with Manhattan Avenue, relief demanded in the Complaint. NOTICE Courthouse 360 Adams Street, Room 224, SUPREME COURT, ANY UNKNOWN sixty seven (67) feet; THENCE westerly YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING Brooklyn, NY on May 18, 2017 at 2:30 HEIRS, DEVISEES, DISTRIBUTEES OR parallel with said India Street, twenty-five YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this p.m. premises situate, lying and being in SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST OF THE (25) feet; THENCE northerly, parallel with summons and complaint by serving a copy of the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, LATE KATHERINE KILICHOWSKI Manhattan Avenue, sixty-seven (67) feet, to the answer on the attorney for the mortgage City and State of New York, bounded and A/K/A KATHERINE M. KILICHOWSKI, the southerly side of India Street; THENCE company who filed this foreclosure proceed- described as follows: BEGINNING at a point JOHN KILICHOWSKI AND OTILLIERA easterly along the southerly side of said India ing against you and filing the answer with the on the southerly side of Liberty Avenue, dis- KILICHOWSKI IF LIVING, AND IF ANY Street, twenty-five (25) feet to the point or court, a default judgment may be entered and tant 60 feet westerly from the corner formed BE DEAD, ANY AND ALL PERSONS place of BEGINNING. Subject to easements, you can lose your home. Speak to an attorney by the intersection of the southerly side of WHO ARE SPOUSES, WIDOWS, covenants, and restriction of record. These or go to the court where your case is pending Liberty Avenue with the westerly side of GRANTEES, MORTGAGEES, LIENORS, premises are also known as 128 India Street, for further information on how to answer the Autumn Avenue; being a plot 100 feet by 25 HEIRS, DEVISEES, DISTRIBUTES, Brooklyn, NY 11222. WOODS OVIATT summons and protect your property. Sending feet by 100 feet by 25 feet. Block 4200 Lot EXECUTORS, ADMINISTRATORS OR GILMAN LLP Attorney for Plaintiff 700 a payment to your mortgage company will 18. Said premises known as 1088 LIBERTY SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST OF SUCH Crossroads Building 2 State Street Rochester, not stop this foreclosure action. YOU MUST AVENUE, BROOKLYN, NY Approximate OF THEM AS MAY BE DEAD, AND NY 14614 RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE amount of lien $438,954.67 plus interest & THEIR SPOUSES, HEIRS, DEVISEES, ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE costs. Premises will be sold subject to pro- DISTRIBUTES AND SUCCESSORS IN SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) visions of filed Judgment and Terms of Sale. INTEREST, ALL OF WHOM AND WHOSE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE Index Number 500771/2013. AARON NAMES AND PLACES OF RESIDENT OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF KINGS COURT. Dated: Bay Shore, New York TYK, ESQ., Referee The Law Office of ARE UNKNOWN TO PLAINTIFF, and INDEX # 15558/2010 Filed 03/21/17 March 2, 2017 FRENKEL, LAMBERT, Jason Chang, Esq. Attorney(s) for Plaintiff JOHN DOE, Defendants. To the above Plaintiff designates Kings County as the WEISS, WEISMAN & GORDON, LLP 252 West 37th Street, Suite 600, New York, named Defendants: You are hereby sum- place of trial. Venue is based upon the BY: Pamela Flink Attorneys for Plaintiff 53 NY 10018 moned to answer the Complaint in this action County in which the mortgaged premises is Gibson Street, Bay Shore, New York 11706 and to serve a copy of your answer, or if the situated. Nationstar Mortgage LLC Plaintiff, (631) 969-3100 Our File No.: 01-046959- NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME Complaint is not served with this Summons, -against- Kings County Public Administrator F00 TO: Kings County Public Administrator COURT COUNTY OF KINGS, BANK to serve a notice of appearance on the as Administrator for the estate of Norma as Administrator for the Estate of Norma OF AMERICA, N.A., Plaintiff, vs. JEAN Plaintiff’s attorneys within thirty days after Cummings, Norma Cummings’ respective Cummings 360 Adams Street, Room ROBERT SELAMY, JEAN GUY SELAMY, the service of this Summons, exclusive of heirs-at-law, next-of-kin, distributees, exec- 144 Brooklyn, NY 11203 New York City ET AL., Defendant(s). Pursuant to a the day of service, and in case of your failure utors, administrators, trustees, devisees, leg- Environmental Control Board 100 Church Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly filed to appear or answer, judgment will be taken atees, assignees, lienors, creditors, and suc- Street, 4th Floor New York, New York 10007 on April 06, 2016, I, the undersigned Referee against you by default for the relief demanded cessors in interest and generally all persons New York City Parking Violations Bureau 100 will sell at public auction at the Kings County in the Complaint. NOTICE YOU ARE IN having or claiming under, by or through said Church Street, 4th Floor New York, New York Supreme Court, Room 224, 360 Adams DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If defendant who may be deceased, by purchase, 10007 New York City Transit Adjudication Street, Brooklyn, NY on May 11, 2017 at you do not respond to this Summons and inheritance, lien or otherwise, any right, title Bureau 130 Livingston Street, Brooklyn, 2:30 p.m., premises known as 1315 Troy Complaint by serving a copy of the answer or interest in the real property described in the New York 11201 United States of America Avenue, Brooklyn, NY. All that certain plot, on the attorney for the mortgage company complaint herein, Leonard C. Spector Esq, New York State Department of Taxation and piece or parcel of land, with the buildings who filed this foreclosure proceeding against Guardian Ad Litem on behalf of Reinaldo Finance Rutland Nursing Home, Inc. 585 and improvements thereon erected, situate, you and filing the answer with the court, a Cummings as Heir to the Estate of Norma Schenectady Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11203 lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, default judgment may be entered and you Cummings, if he be living and if he be dead, County of Kings, City and State of New York, can lose your home. Speak to an attorney or any and all persons who are spouses, widows, SUPREME COURT OF THE Block 4978 and Lot 64. Premises will be go to the court where your case is pending grantees, mortgagees, lienors, heirs, devisees, STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment for further information on how to answer the distributees, or successors in interest of such KINGS INDEX NO. 508750/2016 Plaintiff Index # 13825/09. Deborah M. Marshall, Summons and protect your property. Sending of the above as maybe dead, and her spouses, designates KINGS as the place of trial situs Esq., Referee Berkman, Henoch, Peterson, a payment to your mortgage company will heirs, devisees, distributees, and successors in of the real property SUPPLEMENTAL Peddy & Fenchel, P.C., 100 Garden City not stop this foreclosure action. YOU MUST interest, all of whom and whose names and SUMMONS Mortgaged Premises: 3304 Plaza, Garden City, NY 11530, Attorneys RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE places of residence are unknown to Plaintiff, AVENUE J BROOKLYN, NY 11210 Block: for Plaintiff ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE New York City Environmental Control Board, 7615 Lot: 42 NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) New York City Parking Violations Bureau, LLC D/B/A CHAMPION MORTGAGE STATE OF NEW YORK SUPREME AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE New York City Transit Adjudication Bureau, COMPANY, Plaintiff, vs. HEIRS AND COURT COUNTY OF KINGS COURT. This is an attempt to collect a debt United States of America, New York State DISTRIBUTEES OF THE ESTATE OF SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS and any information obtained will be used Department of Taxation and Finance, Rutland BARBARA SOLOMON, any and all persons Index No. 509799/2015 WELLS for that purpose. The foregoing Summons is Nursing Home, Inc. Defendants. TO THE unknown to plaintiff, claiming, or who may FARGO BANK, N.A., Plaintiff, -vs- FRED served upon you by publication pursuant to ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANT(S): YOU claim to have an interest in, or general or KILICHOWSKI, KRISTINA KNECHT, an order of Honorable Noach Dear, Justice ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer specific lien upon the real property described RAYMOND MARCIAL, BENJAMIN of the Supreme Court of the State of New the Complaint in this action and to serve a in this action; such unknown persons being MARCIAL, UNITED STATES OF York, signed the 1st day of March, 2017, at copy of your Answer or, if the Complaint AMERICA BY THE INTERNAL Brooklyn, New York. Tax I.D. No. Block: is not served with this Summons, to serve ➔➔ Continued on page 13 VOL. 21 NO. 15 OUR TIME PRESS April 13 – 19, 2017 13

because she has many stories to share. She Morriseau has teamed up with told Our Time Press, “Everyone benefits RestorationART, Billie Holiday Theatre Bowdoin from a good story. People listen, relax, open and Frank Silvera Writers’ Workshop to ➔➔ Continued from page 8 of a lunchtime crowd and how she fought up and relate. Storytelling helps break down put out a call for 50 Black women and girls back. barriers and foster understanding. from all walks of life to submit a short work Slam, which took place in Brooklyn at the There were no judges to award her a tro- “It helps us see that we are all human, we (one page) for “Writing Ourselves into Williamsburg Music Hall. She didn’t win, phy, but positive responses from the founder are all one. This is what I want to do when Existence.” Selected works will be read by but Jennifer Hixon, the event’s senior pro- of The Moth and the audience convinced her I grow up.” This story about Phyllis’ encore an esteemed group of women actors at a ducer, liked her story so much she offered she was a winner. as storytelling continues to evolve. special event in the soon-to-open historic her a slot on The Moth’s Main Stage at Adding to her accolades, one of the What’s your story? Billie Holiday Theatre this spring 2017. “We Lincoln Center--her first gig! Lincoln Center contestants invited Phyllis to Reporter’s note: The Moth, now in its are in a global movement of Black Lives A month later, Phyllis performed a trial retell her story in New Haven, Connecticut. 20th year, is a nonprofit group headquar- mattering. We are also in a movement of run of her story at The Moth’s Main Stage Now, The Moth is sending her to do the tered in New York City dedicated to the art #sayhername,” says Morriseau. at UCLA in Los Angeles, California.. The Boston Main Stage on April 26-27th. and craft of storytelling worldwide. “So how do we as storytellers contribute Moth flew Phyllis to California and paid Though a retired educator who left the to a narrative that supports Black women’s all the other expenses for her March 20th stage of the classroom, Phyllis has found a 50 in 50: Writing Ourselves rights to live and exist without exploitation performance at UCLA. second stage on which to make her encore into Existence and terror and violation of their human A week later, back in New York, she performance in life: storytelling. Restoration initiative calls for works rights?” Deadline for submissions is Friday, stood on the stage at Lincoln Center and Moving forward, her goal is to put April 21, 2017, 5:00pm, ET. For information by women and girl writers captivated the crowd with her true story together a one-woman show. She wants to and other requirements please visit: resto- about a mime who molested her in front explore the professional storytelling circuit Acclaimed playwright Dominique rationart.org.

on the attorney for the mortgage company personally delivered to you within the State Esq., Referee Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, LEGAL NOTICES who filed this foreclosure proceeding against of New York) in the event the United States LLC Attorney(s) for the Plaintiff 175 Mile you and filing the answer with the court, a of America is made a party defendant, the Crossing Boulevard Rochester, New York ➔➔ Continued from page 12 default judgment may be entered and you time to answer for the said United States 14624 (877) 759-1835 Dated: March 7, 2017 can lose your home. Speak to an attorney or of America shall not expire until (60) days herein generally described and intended to be go to the court where your case is pending after service of the Summons; and in case of NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME included in the following designation, name- for further information on how to answer the your failure to appear or answer, judgment COURT COUNTY OF KINGS U.S. BANK ly: the wife, widow, husband, widower, heirs summons and protect your property. Sending will be taken against you by default for the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, a payment to the mortgage company will relief demanded in the complaint. NOTICE FOR PRIME MORTGAGE TRUST administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, not stop the foreclosure action. YOU MUST OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF 2006-1, MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH trustees, committees, lienors, and assignees RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF SOUGHT THE OBJECT of the above caption CERTIFICATES SERIES 2006-1, Plaintiff of such deceased, any and all persons deriv- THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY action is to foreclose a Mortgage to secure the AGAINST LOXLEY RODNEY, et al., ing interest in or lien upon, or title to said real FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE sum of $569,832.00 and interest, recorded on Defendant(s)Pursuant to a Judgment of property by, through or under them, or either COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER March 25, 2008, at Liber 2008000120194, of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated May 11, of them, and their respective wives, widows, WITH THE COURT. Dated: September 9, the Public Records of KINGS County, New 2016 I, the undersigned Referee will sell husbands, widowers, heirs at law, next of kin, 2016 RAS BORISKIN, LLC Attorney for York, covering premises known as 222A at public auction at the Room 224 of Kings descendants, executors, administrators, devi- Plaintiff BY: DANIEL GREENBAUM, SCHAEFER STREET BROOKLYN, NY County Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, sees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, ESQ. 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 106 11207. The relief sought in the within action Brooklyn, New York 11201, on April 27, lienors and assigns, all of whom and whose Westbury, NY 11590 516-280-7675 is a final judgment directing the sale of the 2017 at 2:30PM, premises known as 664 names, except as stated, are unknown to premises described above to satisfy the debt LINWOOD STREET, BROOKLYN, NY plaintiff; SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF secured by the Mortgage described above. 11208. All that certain plot piece or parcel of URBAN DEVELOPMENT; NEW YORK NEW YORK COUNTY OF KINGS Plaintiff KINGS County is designated as the place land, with the buildings and improvements STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION designates KINGS as the place of trial situs of trial because the real property affected by erected, situate, lying and being in the AND FINANCE; UNITED STATES OF of the real property SUPPLEMENTAL this action is located in said county. NOTICE Borough of Brooklyn, and County of Kings, AMERICA, “JOHN DOE #1” through SUMMONS Mortgaged Premises: 222A YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING City and State of New York, BLOCK 4066, “JOHN DOE #12,” the last twelve names SCHAEFER STREET BROOKLYN, NY YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this LOT 30. Approximate amount of judgment being fictitious and unknown to plaintiff, the 11207 Block: 3430 Lot: 14 INDEX NO. summons and complaint by serving a copy of $556,400.91 plus interest and costs. Premises persons or parties intended being the tenants, 513198/2015 NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE the answer on the attorney for the mortgage will be sold subject to provisions of filed occupants, persons or corporations, if any, LLC, Plaintiff, vs. JULIO RIVERA, if liv- company who filed this foreclosure proceed- Judgment for Index# 5007/13.Philip J. having or claiming an interest in or lien upon ing, and if he be dead, any and all persons ing against you and filing the answer with the Smallman Esq., Referee Gross Polowy, LLC the premises, described in the complaint, unknown to plaintiff, claiming, or who may court, a default judgment may be entered and Attorney for Plaintiff 1775 Wehrle Drive, Defendants. To the above named Defendants claim to have an interest in, or general or you can lose your home. Speak to an attorney Suite 100 Williamsville, NY 14221 YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to specific lien upon the real property described or go to the court where your case is pending answer the complaint in this action and in this action; such unknown persons being for further information on how to answer the NOTICE OF SALE STATE OF NEW to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the herein generally described and intended to summons and protect your property. Sending YORK, SUPREME COURT: KINGS complaint is not served with this summons, be included in the following designation, a payment to the mortgage company will not COUNTY- 21st Mortgage Corporation, to serve a notice of appearance on the namely: the wife, widow, husband, widower, stop the foreclosure action. YOU MUST Plaintiff(s) vs. Geremaine Lee, et al, Plaintiff’s Attorney within 20 days after the heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, ex- RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE Defendant(s). Index No. 22397/12. In pursu- service of this summons, exclusive of the ecutors, administrators, devisees, legatees, ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE ance and by virtue of a judgment of foreclo- day of service (or within 30 days after the creditors, trustees, committees, lienors, and PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) sure and sale in the amount of $531,876.51 service is complete if this summons is not assignees of such deceased, any and all AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH plus interest and costs duly granted by this personally delivered to you within the State persons deriving interest in or lien upon, or THE COURT. Dated: March 1, 2016 RAS Court and entered in the Kings County Clerk’s of New York) in the event the United States title to said real property by, through or under BORISKIN, LLC Attorney for Plaintiff BY: Office on the 19th day of January, 2017, I, of America is made a party defendant, the them, or either of them, and their respective NATALIA ROBAN, ESQ. 900 Merchants the undersigned Referee, duly appointed in time to answer for the said United States wives, widows, husbands, widowers, heirs Concourse, Suite 106 Westbury, NY 11590 this action for such purpose, will expose for of America shall not expire until (60) days at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, (516) 280-7675 sale and sell at Public Auction to the highest after service of the Summons; and in case of administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, bidder therefor in Room 224 of Kings County your failure to appear or answer, judgment trustees, committees, lienors and assigns, all NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, will be taken against you by default for the of whom and whose names, except as stated, COUNTY OF KINGS Wells Fargo Bank, NY, on the 20th DAY OF APRIL, 2017 at relief demanded in the complaint. NOTICE are unknown to plaintiff; NEW YORK CITY N.A., as Trustee for the Certificateholders 2:30 P.M., the real estate and mortgaged OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL BOARD; of Banc of America Mortgage 2007-4 premises directed in and by said judgment SOUGHT THE OBJECT of the above PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK; Trust, Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, to be sold and in said judgment described as caption action is to foreclose a Mortgage UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, “JOHN Series 2007-4, Plaintiff AGAINST Reynold follows: All that certain plot, piece or parcel to secure the sum of $922,500.00 and DOE #1” through “JOHN DOE #12,” the last Lavache; et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a of land, with the buildings and improvements interest, recorded on November 18, 2010, twelve names being fictitious and unknown to Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the at Instrument number 2010000388803, of plaintiff, the persons or parties intended being March 21, 2016 I, the undersigned Referee Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City the Public Records of KINGS County, New the tenants, occupants, persons or corpora- will sell at public auction at Kings County and State of New York, known and designated York, covering premises known as 3304 tions, if any, having or claiming an interest Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, Room as Block 4892 Lot 19. Said premises known AVENUE J BROOKLYN, NY 11210. The in or lien upon the premises, described in 224, Brooklyn, NY 11201 on April 27, as 278 East 39th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11203. relief sought in the within action is a final the complaint, Defendants. To the above 2017 at 2:30PM, premises known as 1162 E Premises sold subject to provisions of the judgment directing the sale of the premises named Defendants YOU ARE HEREBY 99TH Street, Brooklyn, NY 11236. All that filed judgment and terms of sale. SUBJECT described above to satisfy the debt secured SUMMONED to answer the complaint in certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the TO restrictions, covenants, etc. of record, by the Mortgage described above. KINGS this action and to serve a copy of your answer, buildings and improvements erected, situate, prior lien(s), if any, and an easement, if any, County is designated as the place of trial be- or, if the complaint is not served with this lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, contained in Deed recorded February 7, 2003 cause the real property affected by this action summons, to serve a notice of appearance on County of Kings, City and State of NY, in Reel CRFN 2003000013394. STEPHEN is located in said county. NOTICE YOU ARE the Plaintiff’s Attorney within 20 days after Block 8244 Lot 74. Approximate amount of M. ZEITLIN, ESQ., Referee Helfand & IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME the service of this summons, exclusive of the judgment $912,416.49 plus interest and costs. Helfand, Attorney(s) for Plaintiff, Office If you do not respond to this summons and day of service (or within 30 days after the Premises will be sold subject to provisions of address, 350 Fifth Avenue - Suite 5330, New complaint by serving a copy of the answer service is complete if this summons is not filed Judgment Index# 13593/08. Julie Clark, York, NY 10118 14 OUR TIME PRESS April 13 – 19, 2017 VOL. 21 NO. 15

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Center for Law and Social Justice Presents: The #BlackWealthMatters Series: Cooperative Economics in Black Communities Join CLSJ for the final installment of #BlackWealthMatters

In Part 4 of our series, CLSJ asks the following:

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This series is supported by the New York City Council SpeakerÕs OfÞce, New York City Council Brooklyn Delegation, New York City Council BLA Caucus, CM Inez Barron, CM Robert Cornegy, and CM Laurie Cumbo. Trump On Track to Outspend Obama’s Two-Term (8-years!) Travel Costs in One Year The president has spent an estimated $21.6 million on travel to Mar-a-Lago REUTERS When factoring in Trump ■■ By Kathy Donofrio April 11, 2017 also visiting for 20 days in one year, that total goes up resident Donald Trump’s travel The Associated Press reported that Palm to nearly $50 million. expenses are estimated to surpass Beach County is considering implementing The First Family began those of former President Barack a tax on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort because racking up costs much PObama in less than one year. Before taking his frequent trips there cost about $60,000 a greater than the Obamas office, Trump frequently criticized his pre- day every time the president is there. With a before Trump was even decessor for his golf outings. total of 21 days spent there since Trump took inaugurated, Politifact Trump has been in office for 81 office, that total exceeds $1 million in just a reported: days and has already spent an estimated few short months. “During the transition $21.6 million on trips to his Mar-a-Lago “We’re very honored to have the president period, the city took on property, CNN reports. Other estimates here, but at the same time, his travel here is most of the cost of pro- suggest the cost has been $24 million. such high frequency he’s not visiting Palm tecting the Trumps in New While it is difficult to calculate the exact Beach County — he’s governing from it,” York. A spokesperson for cost, the $21.6 estimate is based on a similar County Commissioner Dave Kerner said in New York mayor Bill de trip Obama took to Florida in 2013, which a recent interview. “Whatever our priorities Blasio told us Donald, reportedly cost $3.6 million, according to are, the taxpayers didn’t pay this money to Melania and Barron Trump CNN. Trump has spent a total of 21 days at us to protect the president.” ran up a $37 million bill for his Mar-a-Lago property since taking office. CNN reported that the Florida trips will security from Election Day In December 2016 Judicial Watch, a con- likely end in May when the weather gets to the inauguration Jan. 20. servative government watchdog, estimated much hotter, but it is assumed he will then (De Blasio has requested Tiffany Trump shopping in New York City Obama’s travel expenses over his two terms be visiting New York — where First Lady the federal government flanked by Secret Service agents - and to be $96 million. This includes business and Melania Trump still resides — and his New reimburse his city for secu- followed by three protective cars personal trips. Jersey-based Trump National Golf Club. rity costs, and Congress has (London Daily Mail) Incidentally, at the time the report came Security for Melania and Barron Trump doled about $7 million.) initially reported, but an agent with the OMB out Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said, while they stay in New York without the “In comparison, the city of Chicago spent then denied this claim: “President-elect Trump can immediately president, who has not yet visited New York at least $2.2 million to protect Obama’s home “After the article was posted online save taxpayers money by reforming presi- during his term, costs between $127,000 in Chicago from his election in November Wednesday, an OMB staffer issued a dential travel.” Prior to his election Trump and $146,000 a day, according to New York 2008 to his inauguration in January 2009, statement to The Post saying that the Secret frequently took to Twitter to slam Obama’s Police Commissioner James O’Neill. The the Chicago Tribune reported.” Service is continuing to refine its budgetary traveling and golfing. department estimates “an average daily rate Meanwhile, the U.S. Secret Service re- estimates. The staffer also said that the claim The unprecedented cost of travel for the of $308,000” when the president does decide quested an additional $60 million in funding that OMB denied the $26.8 million request president has also come under fire due to his to visit. for the next year, according to a recent review for Trump Tower and family expenses was many proposed budget cuts, including cuts Assuming the cost to protect Melania of documents by The Washington Post. ‘outright untrue’ and that OMB ‘supported of $9 billion (13 percent) for the Department and Barron Trump is the more conservative The agency did not provide the pub- its funding.’” of Education, $15.1 billion (17.9 percent) $127,000, a full year would cost the city of lication with comparison figures for past A 14-year Secret Service agent told The for the Department of Health and Human New York about $46.3 million — greater presidents due to security concerns. Post that Trump’s lifestyle was “an unantic- Services and $2.6 billion (31 percent) for the than the budget cut Trump proposed for The White House Office of Management ipated reality” and that the agency “had to Environmental Protection Agency. the Small Business Administration alone. and Budget denied the request, The Post quickly readjust operations.” 16 OUR TIME PRESS April 13 – 19, 2017 VOL. 21 NO. 15

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