| From the Village of Brooklyn | OOURUR TTIMEIME PPRESSRESS THE LOCAL PAPER WITH THE GLOBAL VIEW | VOL. 23 NO. 25 Since 1996 June 20 – 26, 2019 | Settling Debts, Building Futures

DELIVERING KING’S Next week, Our Time Press recaps the event EMBRACING THE MANDELA Zinerman received the Baba Nkosi Kinard MESSAGE: At The Cooperative Culture where cultural arts takes center stage with SPIRIT:The leadership of Bed-Stuy’s Nelson Award (named after Baba Stan Kinard) for Collective’s 19th Annual Fort Greene, history, and awards are presented to com- Mandela School continues to live up to the mis- her commitment to the spirit of Harambee and Brooklyn Juneteenth Arts Festival, gifted munity standouts. sion of the great South African leader whose nme Ubuntu. Ms. Perou, CEO of Inspiring Minds twelve-year-old Javier Gooden stunned the Juneteenth is the oldest nationally cel- it bears. At a recent awards event for (a Youth Mentoring/Empowerment/Leadership audience in his delivery of poignant messag- ebrated commemoration of the June 19th, achieving students, a young middle Program) received the Community Ubuntu es of freedom, liberation and power through 1865 announcement in Texas that slavery school student, Miss Corbin, was in- Award for the great work she and Inspiring the speeches of The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther had been abolished. The TCCC event is vited to stand in this group shot with Minds have accomplished. But the biggest King, Jr. The gifted actor, dancer, singer the oldest event of its kind in Brooklyn principal Tabari Bomani and community leaders award may have gone to this young lady who and spoken word artist, in a commanding and Javier is the youngest honoree in Stefani Zinerman (left), Former Chief of Staff was invited to stand in the midst of education performance, channeled the walk, tenor and TCCC history. For more information, of Councilman Cornegy, NAACP Brooklyn greatness. The middle school student is the style of the late leader and orator, before visit: www.fortgreenebrooklynjuneteenth. Chapter Leader, and Ms. Katrena Perou, sister of a Mandela graduating senior who will an intergenerational audience of some 200, org. (Photo credit: Bernice Elizabeth CEO of Inspiring Minds (a Youth Mentoring/ attend Medgar Evers College in the fall. Saturday, June 14th in Cuyler Gore Park. Green) Empowerment/Leadership Program). Ms. ➔➔ See Page 10

An article printed in the June 6-12 edition of the Congressional Testimony paper objected to EMBER Charter School’s on Reparations Heard on Juneteenth submitting a request he House held on Juneteeth, apology and proposal for reparations for the to the Department Wednesday, June 19, the first institution of slavery, its subsequent de jure of Education for an hearing in more than a decade on and de facto racial and economic discrimi- expansion from K-8 to Treparations – the idea that the descendants nation against African-Americans, and the of slaves in the U.S. should receive some impact of these forces on living African- K-H.S. This week, EMBER kind of compensation for the suffering ex- Americans.” Sen. Corey Booker spoke in founder and Managing perienced by their ancestors. Among those favor of the bill, citing a national failure to Partner Rafiq R. testifying were presidential candidate Sen. address “the root causes of a lot of the ineq- Kalam Id-Din II responded, Corey Booker (D-NJ), writer Ta-Nehisi uities” that exist in the U.S. The senator said Coates and actor Danny Glover. the country has not yet confronted its long presenting the merits of The purpose of the hearing: The Judiciary history of racism and white supremacy, and the school and correcting Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil that establishing a commission to study the what he says are some Rights, and Civil Liberties is debating issue would provide an “historic opportunity inaccurate assertions. H.R. 40, a bill sponsored by Rep. Sheila to break the silence, to speak to the ugly past Jackson-Lee (D-TX), that would establish a and talk constructively about how we will ➔➔ See Page 8. Senator Corey Booker commission “to study and consider a national move this nation forward..” 2 OUR TIME PRESS June 20 – 26, 2019 VOL. 23 NO. 25

DBG MEDIA Publishers of Our Time Press, Inc. 358 Classon Avenue Compassion: Caroline Cohen's Strategy Brooklyn, NY 11238 aroline Cohen is a can- attorney and Senior Associate at maintaining her professional ob- (718) 599-6828 Web site: www.ourtimepress.com didate for Civil Court Crumiller P.C. At the practice, she ligations. Juggling these commit- e-mail: editors@ourtimepress. Judge, 6th Municipal works to fight against gender and ments, she feels it has endowed her com CDistrict. Her duties would include pregnancy discrimination, as well with a compassionate perspective Publisher presiding over general misde- as protecting the civil rights of needed on the bench. DBG MEDIA meanor criminal cases, traffic vulnerable tenants, including the She feels that new criminal Editor-in-Chief violations, evictions and most civil elderly and disabled. Some former justice reforms, taking effect David Mark Greaves small claims under 15,000. “As a employers included the New York in January 2020, are necessary. Copy Editor Civil Court Judge, I may be placed City Housing Authority (NYCHA), “I worked to elect progressive Maitefa Angaza in Housing Court, Family Court where she successfully litigated a candidates that would make such Columnists and Civil Court,” she said. variety of cases including dis- changes.” These reforms include Eddie Castro In our interview, I asked Ms. crimination cases brought before speedy trials, which prevent pros- Victoria Horsford Cohen to tell me what if would be children would be seen first. Cohen the New York State Division of ecutors from unnecessary delaying Michael Johnson Abigail McGrath like to walk into her courtroom, not explained, “Access-A-Ride will Human Rights, New York City of proceedings and the need for Marlon Rice represented, fearful and alone. “My not be able to come back and get Commission on Human Rights, them to present evidence sooner to staff would respectfully approach those that didn’t know that they’d the EEOC and the New York State the defense. It also includes cash Reporters and ask, ‘May I help you?’ I am be waiting longer than expected.” Supreme Court. bail for most misdemeanor and Akosua Albritton Margo McKenzie a big believer that I and the court- She also commented that parents She’s proud that along with her nonviolent felonies to be released room staff need to know what’s would likely be affected by having team of supporters they’ve collec- with no need to pay. Contributors going on with litigants in the room. their children in the courtroom for tively knocked on 25,000 doors. In September 2018, Cohen was Lisa Durden Fern Gillespie Everyone will have a degree of a period of time. “I’d see what their “It’s crucially important to person- reelected as Judicial Delegate of warmth.” numbers are and take them first. I ally knock on doors and speak with the 42nd Assembly District. She Web Editor Cohen then described the 10am have a feel for how to operate born the community,” Cohen says. “The is a member of the Park Slope www.ourtimepress.com Lauren Cullins calendar call may be followed by out of seeing judges.” hallmark of my campaign is trying United Methodist Church where her choosing to stand in front of Cohen attended the Benjamin to be as transparent as possible.” she’s been able to hold “Know Office Manager the court, greeting everyone with a N. Cardozo School of Law and Cohen is also a working mom. Your Rights” events, “how laws Joanna Williams “Good Morning” and an interpreter received her bachelor’s degree As a judicial candidate, she feels may change” and additional com- Advisor presenting rules of the courtroom. and Master of Arts from New York fortunate that every day on the munity-centered interests. She lives Bernice Elizabeth Green “It’s possible that you will not University. She is familiar with campaign trail she’s able to call in Ditmas Park-Flatbush with her KinEsthetics International speak English,” she commented. the needs of these litigants from on her friends, neighbors and husband Steve, their two children, The disabled and parents of her current position as civil rights family to watch her children while Daschel and CiCi, and dog Petey. © 2015, DBG MEDIA Publishers of Our Time Press, Inc., printed in New York City. All rights reserved. No part of the publication may be reproduced without prior Unsung Heroes permission of the publishers. Publishers are not responsible for any ad Proud Mother Spotlights Caring Son claims. MBE Certified in NYC, NYS ur unsung hero is my mother, I have not met anyone who grade level. The most recent friend with his peers at the prom although and the Port Authority of NY & son, Tony Curtis. He has experienced a classmate, assis- passed on in the Summer of 2018. his cancer was no longer in remis- NJ has endured numerous tant teacher, teacher, and/or family To help you with understanding sion. Unbeknownst to Tony, days Member: New York State Press Association Ochallenges since first grade. As his member, passing away at every the characteristics of our scholar, later, their friend lost the fight one of his classmates who needed against cancer. another credit was denied partici- Submitted by DK Pearson & pation in the high school prom and Family graduation. This friend asked the (Tony is currently in high school’s permission to participate school, graduating this year. He in the events, but was denied, requested his photo not be used.) prompting him to remind the staff To the community, if you have he was suffering from cancer. an unsung hero, man or woman, Tony and his friends talked to who deserves to be highlighted, mutual friends, a couple attending send text and image to unsung- the prom. The young man agreed [email protected]. Our to ask his girlfriend if it would be Time Press reserves the right to okay to take JD to the prom in his edit submissions for proofing and place. JD had a magnificent time length. Vote on Tuesday, June 25th in Key Primary Elections VOL. 23 NO. 25 OUR TIME PRESS June 20 – 26, 2019 3

Happy. Healthy. Loved. These are the dreams we have for our children.

So we cherish the moments when little giggles fill the room, imaginations take us on great adventures, and when it seems our hearts could burst with pride and love.

Here and now, we’d stop time if we could. Because when kids are being kids, we all feel better. Let’s get every child covered. If your child needs health insurance, Fidelis Care is just a call, click, or visit away. Wh

Call: 1-888-FIDELIS Click: fideliscare.org/everychildcovered Visit: A Fidelis Care community office near you. Search for locations at fideliscare.org/offices

1-888-FIDELIS • fideliscare.org (1-888-343-3547) TTY: 711

To learn more about applying for health insurance, including Medicaid, Child Health Plus, Essential Plan, and Qualified Health Plans through NY State of Health, The Official Health Plan Marketplace, visit www.nystateofhealth.ny.gov or call 1-855-355-5777. 4 OUR TIME PRESS June 20 – 26, 2019 VOL. 23 NO. 25

community space in Brooklyn’s Flatbush- WHAT’S GOING ON Caton Flats area, an anchor of Caribbean culture and commerce. Marshall enthuses: ■■ By Victoria Horsford eyes of “When They See Us” Director Ava “Caton Flats is an example of what can be DuVernay. The miniseries exemplifies the achieved when real estate development is WEEK IN REVIEW art and power of film polemics. custom-tailored to the needs and culture of The intersection of art and politics often- the local community.” times produces unintended consequences. NEW YORK, NY NYC Councilman Bill Perkins wants The fallout from the screening of the Netflix The Albany Democrats delivered on you to attend the “Community 2020 Census miniseries, “WHEN THEY SEE US,” about diverse items during this legislative season. Job Fair” on Monday, June 24 from 10 am-2 the Central Park 5, the Black and Latino The NYS budget has progressive footprints. pm at the Harlem State Office Building, teenagers – Korey Wise, Kevin Richardson, During the eleventh hour, just before its located at 163 West 125th Street. The US Raymond Santana, Yusef Salaam and official June 19, 2019 adjournment, the Census Bureau is recruiting people to assist Antron McCray - who were wrongfully Assembly and the Senate delivered bills with its census count. Jobs are temporary convicted of raping a white woman in with tenant protections which has the real with flexible hours and requires training. Central Park, has been dramatic. The 5 estate industry bristling.TheRealDeal.com [RSVP to Keith Lilly at 212.678.4505] Marlon Jones teenagers’ conviction and imprisonment, the called it “devastating.” The NY Times says result of NY police culture and faulty work the new rent laws agreement was a signif- CORPORATE CULTURE newsmakers including Alphonso David, by Manhattan District Attorney’s Office icant blow to the real estate industry. They Former US Attorney General Loretta counsel to NY Gov. Cuomo; Corey prosecutors, was a tragedy rooted in race passed the bill that would grant driver’s Lynch (during the Obama Administration) Johnson, and class. “WHEN THEY SEE US” invites licenses to undocumented immigrants. joins the New York law firm of Paul Weiss NYC Council Speaker; Councilman viewer anger, disgust and indignation. The The much-anticipated Cannabis legal- Rifkind Ritchie Torres; Chicago Mayor Lori Central Park 5 have all been exonerated ization hopes were dashed. Gov. Cuomo Wharton & Lightfoot; after a confession by the actual rapist. recommends that legalizing Cannabis sales Garrison as South Bend, Ind. Mayor Pete Two of the Central Park prosecutors should be the subject of a referendum. The a partner in Buttigieg; Historians John Reddick are taking the heat for their negligent work decriminalization of Cannabis is another its litigation and Michael Henry Adams; Jamaican on the Central Park 5 case and trial. One option. But that is another session, same department. writer Marlon James; actors/dancers is Linda Fairstein, no longer a prosecutor, time next year. ………. Rhonda Sykes, George Faison and Billy who has been dropped by her book pub- Meredith Marshall, co-founder of BRP, Retired Porter. lisher and has been stripped of many board a full-service US Navy The Annual Harlem Pride Celebration affiliations. The other is Elizabeth Lederer, real estate Admiral Day is on June 29 on 12th Avenue at who resigned from the Columbia University development Michelle J. 135th Street. The Bronx’ “1 World Law School faculty last week, due in part firm, broke Howard was Pride Festival” will be held on Sunday, to protests organized by disgruntled Black ground in named to the Loretta Lynch June 23 on Third Avenue at 149th Street. Columbia law students. Civil rights groups Brooklyn in IBM Board Brooklyn Pride event was held in early and Public Advocate Jumaane Williams are May for a of Directors in March. She is the first Black June. LGBTQ events culminate with the pressuring Manhattan District Attorney Cy mixed-use woman named to the IBM Board. African Pride March on Sunday, June 30. This year Vance to dismiss Lederer from his office. building American Mary Winston was named interim is the 50th Anniversary of the Stonewall He says no. He runs for reelection in 2021. with 100% CEO of Bed, Bath and Beyond. Riots, the infamous clash between NY’s The Central Park 5 real story is plot-twisting affordable Finest and gays in Greenwich Village and will be continued. If you are unfamiliar residential Meredith Marshall ARTS/CULTURE which launched the Gay Pride Civil Rights with the Central Park 5 case, subscribe units, 225 FILM/TV: Check out “Stories from the Movement. to Netflix and view the truth through the to be exact, and with 20,000 sq. ft. of Stage Weekend Bing-A-Thon,” a 24-hour marathon of memorable stories originat- CARIBBEAN- ing in diverse world settings, airs on the AMERICANS WORLD Channel on June 23-24. They WGO apologizes to Yussuf Khan, are 30-minute episodes of personal stories theshadowleague.com executive who from myriad backgrounds. “Stories from was mistakenly identified as a Network the Stage” can be accessed via social plat- Journal writer last week. Here are more forms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Caribbean-American notables: Bette WorldChannel.org, which has a marathon Byer; Ursula Burns, former Xerox programming schedule. CEO/Chair; Ambassador Harold Doley; THEATER: NTOZAKE Howard University President Dr. Wayne REMEMBERED: Woodie King’s New Al Frederick, MD; US Senator Kamala Federal Theatre presents the “Ntozake Harris, 2020 Presidential hopeful; and Shange Reading Series,” a free-admission writers Edwidge Danticat and Junot event every Tuesday in une at 7 pm at the Diaz. Castillo Theatre, 543 West 42nd Street, Manhattan. The NY Public SUMMER DATES Theater will revive the Shange choreo- Civil poem classic, “FOR COLORED GIRLS rights WHO HAVE COMMITTED SUICIDE legend Dr. WHEN THE RAINBOW IS ENUF.” Set Hazel Dukes to open in October, it will be the first NY will be revival of the play since its 1976 opening honored at at the Public Theater before it relocated to a plaque-un- Broadway. veiling BOOKS: History buffs would enjoy the ceremony at NY Review of Books essay, “Africa’s Lost 2332 Adam Kingdoms,” by Howard French and an Clayton African scholar/author who wrote the 2014 Powell, Jr. best-seller, “China’s Second Continent: Boulevard at How a Million Migrants are Building a New 137th Street, Hazel Dukes Empire in Africa.” The NYRB essay reflects Harlem, on Africa’s rich history that was obscured on June 30 from 3-5 pm. Special guest in Western academic circles. The books he speakers include local muckety-mucks critiques are: 1) “The Golden Gov. Cuomo, Rev. Al, Mayor de Blasio Rhinoceros: Histories of the African and Jumaane Williams et al. Middle Ages,” 2) “African Dominion: The Antigua Barbuda Progressive A New History of Empires in Early Society hosts its annual community fund- and Medieval West Africa,” 3) “African raiser, a Shop-and-Sip bus tour to Long Kings and Black Slaves: Sovereignty and Island to visit the Pugliese Vineyards and Dispossession in the Early Mid-Atlantic” Tanger Shopping outlets on Saturday, June and 4) “A Fistful of Shells: West Africa 29. Breakfast and lunch are included. Bus from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the leaves Antigua House, located at 12 West Age of Revolution.” All of the forego- 122nd Street, at 8am. For reservations, call ing titles are published by university 917. 841.7957. presses. Happy Summer Solstice begins on Friday, June 21st LGBTQ MONTH A Harlem-based branding consultant, June is Gay Pride Month worldwide. Victoria is reachable at Victoria.horsford@ Shout-outs to local and national LGBTQ gmail.com. VOL. 23 NO. 25 OUR TIME PRESS June 20 – 26, 2019 5

New to the city or moving to a new neighborhood? Our Family Welcome Centers will help you find a great school for your child and get the enrollment information you need.

schools.nyc.gov/NewStudents 311

SENATOR MONTGOMERY’S CREDIT UNION BILL PASSES NEW YORK STATE SENATE n Thursday, Senator Montgomery’s Credit Union Bill (S727-A/ OA3320-Zebrowski) passed the New York State Senate and now awaits a vote in the Assembly. It would allow credit unions to receive the same economic incentives as banks to operate in underserved communities Weeksville Heritage Center through the Banking Development District (BDD) program. Designated as a Cultural The BDD program was enact- ed to incentivize banks to locate Institutions Group branches in communities designated Senator Montgomery joined by credit union members from as underserved by the Department Cap-Com, SEFCU and Sunmark New York City to support African American of Financial Services. Participating Museum in standardizing funding banks are eligible to receive up to to quality, local financial institutions J. Mellin said, “Credit unions are $10 million in subsidized deposits that reinvest in communities.” not-for-profit financial institutions ew York City Council basic operating needs throughout from the State of New York to lower There are 355 credit unions in that are locally owned by their Majority Leader Laurie the year. The 19th Century pre- financial risk and encourage lending New York, serving over 5 million member-owners. Because of their A . Civil War Af- in these communities. Many of members and they are uniquely unique structure and mission, New NCumbo, along “Weeksville is rican American these areas have few to no banking positioned to advance the goals of York’s credit unions are, by their with support settlement is institutions and instead have to rely the BDD program. Credit unions very nature, well-positioned to par- from Speaker sacred sacred ground on alternative, costly and sometimes are nonprofit, locally owned institu- ticipate in the Banking Development Corey Johnson African-American which served predatory options to fill in the gaps. tions that answer to their members. Districts. Despite being the financial and fellow ground. For gener- as a commu- “There are entire communities They make less risky investments capital of the world, countless New Council mem- nity for freed across our state where major banking and earnings are returned to their Yorkers sadly lack basic access bers, officially ations, it served as Blacks is lo- institutions are nowhere to be found members through lower interest rates to the financial system. Thanks secured Weeks- a beacon of hope cated in Crown to provide financial services. This on loans and more favorable rates to this bill and the efforts of Sen. ville Heritage for those seeking Heights, leaves residents, many of whom are on savings and retirement accounts. Velmanette Montgomery, Banking Center as a Cul- Brooklyn. already low-income, to deal with Their structure makes them highly Chair and Senator James Sanders, tural Institutions refuge from the Weeksville operations that charge exorbitant responsive to the needs of their cli- Jr., Deputy Leader Michael Gianaris Group (CIG). vestiges of slavery." will also be- fees and interest rates,” said state ents and they prioritize being present and Senate Majority Leader Andrea Weeksville now Councilmember come the first Senator Velmanette Montgomery. “I and giving back to the communities Stewart-Cousins, New York is now joins three dozen Black CIG in believe in credit unions and I believe they serve. one step closer to ensuring every other groups Laurie Cumbo Brooklyn. in the role they can play in making New York Credit Union consumer has a shot at a better with such desig- sure more New Yorkers have access Association President/CEO William financial future.” nations who receive grants to meet ➔➔ Continued on page 13 Community Board 3 Education & Youth Committee presents BED-STUY’S BEST 2019 Award Recipients Student Award: Humble Humanitarian Parent CoorDiNator of the Year Serenity Dixon Pamela Tate-McMullen P.S. 5 The Dr. Ronald McNair School Bedford Academy High School

Julia Magee Deittra L. Wilder P.S. 25 The Eubie Blake School Brighter Choice Community School

Jahmaal Clarke Teacher of the Year: Elementary School Leadership Prep Bedford-Stuyvesant Middle Academy Janeese Carter P.S. 309 The George E, Wibecan Preparatory Academy Sherry Jones The Brooklyn Green School Teacher of the Year: Middle School Roland Pope Student Award: Incredible Improvement Leadership Prep Bedford-Stuyvesant Middle Academy Jada Warren P.S. 5 The Dr. Ronald McNair School Teacher of the Year: High School Evan Williams Isha Moseley P.S. 5 The Dr. Ronald McNair School Bedford Academy High School

Nijae Jordan Principal of the Year Leadership Prep Bedford-Stuyvesant Middle Academy Adofo Muhammad Bedford Academy High School Student Award: High school hero Tianna Brown Most Improved: Elementary School Boys & Girls High School P.S. 262 El Hajj Malik El Shabazz Elementary School Jada Gibson The Brooklyn Academy of Global Finance Most Improved: MIDDLE School School Safety Team of the Year Excellence Girls Middle Academy K258 (Leadership Prep Bedford-Stuyvesant Middle Academy & P140K) Most Improved: High School The Brooklyn Academy of Global Finance Support staff Member of the Year Sharon Brown-Hall Community partner for P.S. 21 The Crispus6 Attucks School OUR TIME PRESSEducationalJune 20 – 26, 2019 excellence VOL. 23 NO. 25 Lion- Hearted Sheltering Arms NY PARENT LEADERHealth OF THE YEAR Effort n collaboration with the Office of the Brooklyn Borough Standing -Malcolm McDaniel , Coordinator President, Brooklyn Bedford MagalieIStuyvesant Liautaud Lions Club joined in the pre- sentation of bringing to the community the Fourth Annual “Men’s Health and CB3 CELEBRATES BED-STUY’S Leadership Prep Bedford-StuyvesantWellness Fair”. The Middle event was Academy held June 14, 2019 at Brooklyn Borough Hall. BEST IN EDUCATION Continental breakfast followed by th free health screenings, free giveaways, On Thursday, June 6 at the Brooklyn Bank establishment third year, our village has cast nearly 10,000 ballots and this at DeKalb & Marcus Garvey, Community Board #3 Education year we had over 150 nominations. A community spokesperson “Good Things” sneaker giveaway, free & Youth Committee was honored to host the 2019 Bed-Stuy’s said, “We are thankful for the village that continues to support health workshops, yoga, meditation, Best Awards. Launched in 2017, this ceremony began with the and celebrate our best and we are proud to announce 2019 healthy eating. Healthy afternoon goal to recognize Bed-Stuy’s principals, teachers, students, Bed-Stuy’s Best Winners.” Our Time Press congratulates all of refreshments, some made while you parents and others that support an environment that makes the winners who are listed in the notice on this page. (Bernice watched. learning not only possible but full of love and fun! Now in its Elizabeth Green) Men’s Health Panelists medical and mental were Unni Mooppan M.D., Director of Urology at Brookdale University Hospital, Marc Wood, Community Board 3 Certified Nutritionist, and Antonio Education & Youth Committee presents Bascom, Cognitive Behavioral Therapist (CBT) Life Coach. The event was well attended. Attendees, both men and women took advantage of the free BED-STUY’S BEST 2019 resources and personal consultations that were provided. Standing are Lions Award Recipients William Crumpe, Shirley Maddox, and Anthony Cochran. Student Award: Humble Humanitarian Parent CoorDiNator of the Year Seated, Lions Douglas Alexander Serenity Dixon Pamela Tate-McMullen PID, Janet LaCroix, and Lottie Shannon. P.S. 5 The Dr. Ronald McNair School Bedford Academy High School

Julia Magee Deittra L. Wilder P.S. 25 The Eubie Blake School Brighter Choice Community School

Jahmaal Clarke Teacher of the Year: Elementary School Leadership Prep Bedford-Stuyvesant Middle Academy Janeese Carter P.S. 309 The George E, Wibecan Preparatory Academy Sherry Jones The Brooklyn Green School Teacher of the Year: Middle School Roland Pope Student Award: Incredible Improvement Leadership Prep Bedford-Stuyvesant Middle Academy Jada Warren P.S. 5 The Dr. Ronald McNair School Teacher of the Year: High School Evan Williams Isha Moseley "On Thursday, June 6th at P.S. 5 The Dr. Ronald McNair School Bedford Academy High School the lovely Brooklyn Bank estab- Principal of the Year lishment Community Board #3 Nijae Jordan Leadership Prep Bedford-Stuyvesant Middle Academy Adofo Muhammad Education & Youth Committee Bedford Academy High School was honored to host the 2019 Bed- Student Award: High school hero Stuy’s Best Awards. Launched in Tianna Brown Most Improved: Elementary School 2017, this ceremony began with Boys & Girls High School P.S. 262 El Hajj Malik El Shabazz the goal to recognize Bed-Stuy’s Elementary School Jada Gibson principals, teachers, students, The Brooklyn Academy of Global Finance Most Improved: MIDDLE School parents and others that support an Excellence Girls Middle Academy environment that makes learning School Safety Team of the Year not only possible but full of love K258 (Leadership Prep Bedford-Stuyvesant Middle Academy & P140K) Most Improved: High School and fun! Now in it’s third year our The Brooklyn Academy of Global Finance village has cast nearly 10,000 bal- Support staff Member of the Year lots and this year we had over 150 Sharon Brown-Hall Community partner for nominations. We are thankful for P.S. 21 The Crispus Attucks School Educational excellence the village that continues to sup- Sheltering Arms NY PARENT LEADER OF THE YEAR port and celebrate our best and we Magalie Liautaud are proud to announce 2019 Bed- Leadership Prep Bedford-Stuyvesant Middle Academy Stuy’s Best Winners." Submitted by Natasha Cherry-Perez VOL. 23 NO. 25 OUR TIME PRESS June 20 – 26, 2019 7 CAROLINE COHEN DEMOCRAT FOR CIVIL COURT JUDGE • 6TH MUNICIPAL DISTRICT

Civil rights attorney protecting tenants pregnant mothers, workers, and immigrants. Found 4X qualified by judicial screening committees: Brooklyn Bar Association New York City Bar Association the LGBT Bar Association Kings County Democratic Party

ENDORSEMENTS

ASSEMBLY MEMBER PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION COUNCIL MEMBER WALTER MOSLEY FOR POLITICAL ACTION LAURIE CUMBO DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY ELECTION TUESDAY, JUNE 25, 2019 www.cohenforjudge2019.com Paid for by Caroline Cohen for Civil Court Judge 8 OUR TIME PRESS June 20 – 26, 2019 VOL. 23 NO. 25 Another Perspective on An Important Education Issue To the Editor: receive expansion to high school Ember ELA State Test Comparative Analysis (Overall): Let me begin by thanking the status?” CSD 16 New Yok New York New York New York New York State editors of Our Time Press for • “Why aren’t charter Year Ember (Bedford- City (Overall) State (Overall) State Black State Latino White Students providing us with the opportu- schools held to the same standard Stuyvesant) Students Students nity to address the misleading as [traditional] public schools?” 2016 38% 30% 39% 39% 28% 28% 47% and false information conveyed • “Are charter schools 2017 40% 26% 38% 38% 28% 28% 45% about our school in the letter really as strong and effective as 2018 48% 35% 47% 45% 34% 35% 52% from Nequan McLean, President reported?” of Community Education Council While it is clear that Mr. Ember Math State Test Comparative Analysis (Overall): 16. As a Black- founded and led McLean seeks to suggest that CSD 16 New Yok New York New York New York New York State community-based nonprofit or- Ember is a failing school being Year Ember (Bedford- City (Overall) State (Overall) State Black State Latino White Students ganization, we value highly our given special treatment, let me Stuyvesant) Students Students connection to and engagement state, unequivocally, that this is far 2016 19% 26% 40% 43% 27% 29% 54% with other Black-founded and from the truth. In fact, because of 2017 19% 23% 41% 43% 26% 29% 53% led organizations like Our Time the great success Ember has been 2018 32% 30% 43% 46% 29% 32% 57% Press, and thus, we are eager to able to achieve as an Afrocentric, set the record straight. culturally relevant and innovative The longer students are with us, the greater their success … The CEC statement and pre- public school (e.g., middle school Ember Middle School (Grades 6-7) ELA State Test Comparative Analysis vious article poses the following student achievement completely CSD 16 New Yok New York New York New York New York State questions as a means to criticize eliminates the achievement gap), Year Ember (Bedford- City (Overall) State (Overall) State Black State Latino White Students Ember and our proposed expansion we receive even greater push back Stuyvesant) Students Students to high school: and discrimination than our charter 2017 47% 13% 32% 32% 20% 21% 40% • “Why should [Ember] school peers from all sides—from 2018 62% 22% 46% 45% 32% 34% 52%

Ember Middle School (Grades 6-7) Math State Test Comparative Analysis D O N AT E YO U R C A R CSD 16 New York New York Year Ember (Bedford- New Yok City New York State State Black State Latino New York State Wheels For Wishes Stuyvesant) (Overall) (Overall) Students Students White Students benefiting 2017 56% 9% 36% 40% 22% 25% 52% Make-A-Wish® Metro New York 2018 57% 12% 40% 43% 25% 28% 54% * 100% Tax Deductible * Free Vehicle Pickup ANYWHERE the people who are invested in the vs. CSD16: 22% vs. NYC: 46% vs. efficacy every five years or risk * We Accept Most Vehicles Running or Not * We Also Accept Boats, Motorcycles & RVs current traditional public school NYS: 45%). being closed. There are traditional system in order to maintain their As for the other accusations public schools in our community WheelsForWishes.org Call:(917)336-1254 own power and jobs at the expense highlighted in the CEC’s letter, they who have been failing our kids * Car Donation Foundation d/b/a Wheels For Wishes. To learn more about our programs or financial information, call (213) 948-2000 or visit www.wheelsforwishes.org. of what’s best for kids to those who are similarly misleading and false: for many, many years without any claim to want to change schooling • Our suspension rates have accountability whatsoever. for our children yet treat them like NEVER exceeded 3% (we rarely “Are charter schools really they are in prison and need to be suspend, and do so only as a last as strong and effective as report- controlled. resort). ed?”: While I cannot speak for all Do you know We have and will continue to • Teacher turnover has charter schools, I can certainly ex- receive the greatest support and NEVER exceeded 20% (2016-18, press that Ember is most definitely THESE MEN? encouragement from those who it was less than 15%). as strong and effective as reported. care most about Black and Brown • We have never expelled We provide an empowerment and Herbert McElroy Ronald P. Petroski self- empowerment and liberation. any students (even when such love-based instructional environ- William McGlynn Adam Prochaski This is our mission, that is our behavior may have qualified for ment, one that centers the develop- John G. McLoughlin James E. Russo truth, and as Brother Malcolm X expulsion). ment of the whole person through Edward J. McNicholas Barry J. Ryan said, “We will make it plain.” We • ALL public schools are a deep investment in culturally will not be deterred, no matter how responsible for scoring the open responsive pedagogy, Socratic in- Francis X. Mulhall Joseph Schuck loud the voices of negative and response portions of the state quiry, critical thinking, game theory Cornelius (Neil) Otero Patrick Sexton doubting white government offi- exams. Like other public schools and mindfulness. We specialize in cials, no matter how clamorous the in New York State, we choose to supporting students who have been If you have information regarding alleged abuse jeers and rebukes from self-hating score in-house to save money on exposed to trauma and have built or its cover-up involving these men, CONTACT US. Black and Brown folks, all who outsourcing costs and ensure all our organization around being loathe Black and Brown people guidelines are followed to the letter responsive to children and youth The NY Child Victims Act may be able to help you! taking command and responsibility of the law. In fact, our scoring has most in need of our nurturing for the education, empowerment been audited by the state nearly environment. We offer everything and future of our community’s every year without any negative from STEM and integrated arts, to children. evaluation. study abroad, yoga and Capoeira. 57 West 57th Street, 3rd Floor “Why should [Ember] receive • Our student attrition is 100% of our leadership team and 646-493-1850 New York, NY 10019 expansion to high school sta- neither high nor unusual for our 95% of our lead teachers are Black tus?”: Ember was recommended to district given the skyrocketing and Brown, and we all live in Bed- expand to high school by the NYC rental costs and gentrification in Stuy/Central Brooklyn, the same Department of Education because Bed-Stuy. More than 50% of stu- communities as the students and we have been able to achieve very dents who leave our school have families we serve—we are deeply strong results and growth for our transitioned out of our district, city community-rooted and are among students as they spend more time and/or state. Yet, despite this attri- the most dedicated and committed enrolled with us, all without using tion, Ember’s enrollment increases social justice warriors walking our any test prep whatsoever. While it is significantly each year, more than streets. We are unapologetically unclear to us what data source Mr. 40% since 2016, an indication of engaged in education for liberation McLean used to inform his letter the very strong demand for our and will endeavor to do all we can from CEC16, the data available innovative, holistic and culturally to serve our people with honor and via the official New York State responsive approach. distinction. That is Ember, this is data site is clear: Ember’s state “Why aren’t charter schools who we are, and for the legion of test results exceed our district’s held to the same standard as reasons we’ve highlighted herein, (CSD16) in Math (Ember: 32% [traditional] public schools?”: we should be permitted to expand vs. CSD16: 30%), as well as in Charter schools are held to even to high school. Indeed, the many ELA (Ember: 48% vs. CSD16: higher standards than traditional hundreds of families and supporters 34%). In fact, unlike nearly every public schools. Unlike our tradi- here in Bed-Stuy demand it, and we traditional public school in our tional public school peers, charter will do all we can to answer this district, as students continue on schools must not only conduct an call. with Ember thru middle school annual third-party financial, oper- their results soar, with our middle ational and programmatic audit, school outperforming our district, provide extensive reporting to the city and state in Math (Ember: 57% city and state, and host monthly Amandla Awethu, vs. CSD16: 12% vs. NYC: 40% vs. public meetings with our leader- Rafiq R. Kalam Id-Din II, Esq. NYS: 43%) and ELA (Ember: 62% ship team, we must also prove our Founder & Managing Partner VOL. 23 NO. 25 OUR TIME PRESS June 20 – 26, 2019 9 Brooklyn Lawmakers Hold Speakout on Health Care & Soaring Costs of Prescription Drugs ■■ By Melissa Clark, Kings County Politics

t seems like getting sick will cost you from $373,000 to $475,000 a year. The price an arm and a leg, literally. The on-go- ranges have left many patients with a choice ing health care and prescription drug of having to pay an astronomical price for a Icatastrophe is a conversation and debate that lifesaving drug or take an alternative and hope will continue until Washington comes up to get better. Another factor in the equation is with some resolution. Who are the people the drug shortage, which increases the price. that suffer? You bet your bottom dollar, the “Drug shortages are a huge problem, American people. and health care workers are forced to either Congress members Hakeem work around it or pay top dollar for medicine. Jeffries (D-Fort Greene, Clinton Hill, Bed-Stuy, According to a recent study, drug shortages Brownsville, East New York, Canarsie, Mill cost the U.S. health system approximately Basin, Coney Island, parts of Queens), Nydia half-a-billion dollars every year. Due to drugs Velazquez (D-Brooklyn, L.E.S., Queens), being generic and on the market for a long and Yvette Clarke (D-Brownsville, Crown time, they experience a low-profit-margin, Heights, East Flatbush, Flatbush, Kensington, leaving them with less incentive for the man- Midwood, Prospect Heights, Prospect Lefferts ufacturers to produce them,” said Brown. Gardens, Sheepshead Bay, Park Slope) gath- One of the solutions discussed at the ered alongside employees of the health care event would be to speed up the Federal system at Long Island University in the Spike Drug Administration (FDA) drug approval Lee Screening Room on Saturday to discuss process. Some generic brands of drugs can the struggles individuals face when it comes to take anywhere from three to four years to get the soaring cost of prescription drugs. approval. LaRay Brown, CEO of 1 Brooklyn Health Congressman Jeffries made it clear that Maureen Hobbs, a retired health care “Anything that President Trump says and System and CEO of Interfaith Medical Center, all three federal lawmakers were elected to worker, spoke on behalf of the public’s does is to the benefit of him and the wealthy. explained that commonly used drugs have lower the cost of health care to protect people frustrations. At the end of the day, it’s not about research doubled in price between the years 2012-2016. with preexisting conditions, to strengthen the “Too many complaints are with the and development, it’s about profit and greed Patients who live with diabetes that need Affordable Care Act (ACA) and to deal with phone system and when a call is made to [P&G],” said Clarke. their insulin to live can expect to pay around expensive prescription drugs. either doctors’ offices, insurance companies Clarke went on to note the seriousness $630 a month for one month’s supply for the “We believe that in the United States or the pharmacies, it can be confusing to of the issue, anecdotally telling the crowd drug Novolog. Brown also went on to note of America no individual, particularly our seniors who are by themselves or a disabled how she wakes up every morning with a little the soaring cost of Morphine and Opioids seniors, should ever have to choose between person. Another problem that was men- anxiety about the “dishonest system,” yet she that is becoming a serious issue for Interfaith putting food on the table, paying rent or get- tioned earlier is the cost of prescriptions,” embraces the feeling, “Once we give in and Hospital. Interfaith uses the drugs for operat- ting access to the medicine they need to live said Hobbs. relax, we’ve lost.” ing rooms and the ER. with grace and dignity,” Jeffries stated. Hobbs went on to tell the audience that Jeffries went on to emphasize that his goal The increasing cost of health care is also Congresswoman Velazquez put the blame one of her medications cost $500 and the ge- is to work toward an agreement with President noticeable when it comes to certain types of on the Trump Administration for all the health neric $150, which was still too much for her. Donald Trump and the U.S. Senate to achieve cancer treatment. Like the newest cancer treat- care troubles; stating, “We work too hard for Congresswoman Clarke shed some light to better prescription drug pricing for all: “We ment, known as Chimeric Antigen Receptor the people, and we will fight them on the the crisis, voicing her opinion on the “rigged” are going to achieve this because it is shameful (CAR-T), first introduced in 2018, ranges streets and in the courts.” system. what is happening now.”

“I know my pet is welcome in a hurricane evacuation center.” ZONE 2 Carol MANHATTAN

Visit NYC.gov/knowyourzone or call 311 to find out what to do to prepare for hurricanes in NYC #knowyourzone 10 OUR TIME PRESS June 20 – 26, 2019 VOL. 23 NO. 25 View from the Street: Vaughn Jefferson Pain’s Cure: “Ideal” Walls of Love and Plenty of “Mick” Inspiration understand my people continue to be laughed. She even gave us some Japanese in a state of Post-Traumatic Slavery characters to add to the letter T and what Syndrome. But we continue to strive she would like to see stopped in society. Iabove it. Before the end of July, I intend to do This understanding has motivated me an unveiling of the murals on Lafayette to communicate my frustrations combined and Marcus Garvey. One major reason with love for the community via murals. is that July 9th makes 10 years since the This mirror on our lives, I believe, preserves passing of Dr. Frank Mickens, 20 years the BED-STUY culture while beautifying since I graduated from Boys & Girls and the neighborhood. Instead of creating 40 years since my mother graduated from murals only when someone dies, my friend Boys & Girls. The unveiling will draw from childhood, Kenya ‘Art-1” Lawton, an awareness and show the impact Dr. Frank air-bush artist and I, birth life with images Mickens left on us as a community. and colors. My intention: to carry on and utilize Three of the murals created are located his legacy to connect with my community at 830 Lafayette Ave (Marcus Garvey) and inspire us all to unify. Everyone that on the walls of Ideal supermarket. This knows what Dr. Frank Mickens stood for Supermarket is a work of art itself; it has and represented will awaken and tap into employed many of the youth in Bed-Stuy their higher selves. I personally, as part including Art-1 and me. Once I received of continuing his legacy, have taken on permission from the store manager we the moniker Franc Mick. I spell it Franc created the “I AM” mura,l which is my per- because just like he was about education, sonal logo and philosophy. We then created community, and self-love, I am empow- a mural in remembrance of the great Dr. ering a joyful community where people Frank Mickens, the late Principal of Boys have wealth consciousness, education, & Girls H.S. of which we are both Alumni. and unity. Currently, Art-1 and I are finalizing the A Picture of Pride & Joy: Boys & Girls H.S. alums Vaughn Jefferson As part of the unveiling we intend BED-STUY mural. B is for beauty, E is for (left) and his friend “Art 1” (far right), sons of Bedford Stuyvesant, are to raise funding to beautify the entire economics and education, D is for Divinity, dedicated to preserving the legacy of their late principal Frank Mickens wall of the Ideal Supermarket. So far, I S is for Symbols, TU in Spanish means You in the neighborhood where he also grew up. As they tell “our stories” have funded the completion of the lower so the T and U are dedicated to people as with their art on walls for sites like Ideal Supermarket from whom they eye level and we will go higher, which individuals. T is dedicated to things we, as have permission, The Cure Rater (Jefferson) and Art 1 take time from requires more equipment. We will also people, would like to see stop in society. U their mural-storytelling missions to inspire other young people, continue to include neighborhood to sup- is dedicated to Us as people or you as an like these two Bedford Academy students. port and be hands-on with the projects. individual and ways of being. And last Y Students from Bedford Academy learned is for Youth. One of my overall goals is to make she offered us some Japanese pancakes. how to airbrush and assisted with painting At 158 Lewis Ave (Lafayette) we creat- Lafayette Ave between Lewis and Marcus Ironically it was not the traditional ‘flap the dash in the middle of Bed and Stuy. ed a mural of Hip-Hop Legend Big Daddy Garvey into a historical block. The jack’ style of pancake we are used to, and The word TEAM is beautifully painted Kane and this happens to be the building in neighborhood of Bedford Stuyvesant has it was delicious! I appreciate how she as an acronym for Together Everyone which he actually lived. He was able to visit changed due to gentrification, however introduced us to her culture via food. We Accomplishes More and that was done and approve of our work and autographed there is a culture that still exists – no, even shared a joke when I asked if she by students of the community. the gate. I got permission from the owner thrives – and many of the ‘New Comers’ lived nearby and she said yes, a few hous- Vaughn Jefferson, 38, a filmmaker and of the corner store and I initially did my I walk in our grace. es down. She mentioned she lived here artist, calls himself, The Cure Rater. He AM logo on one of the gates. This particular An Asian woman stopped and spoke for five years before the ‘New People’ was born and raised in North Bedford- logo was rendered by artist Sosa, also an with us about her knowledge of the and I replied I’ve lived here since 1981 Stuyvesant and lives in a brownstone on Alumnus of Boys & Girls H.S. Aboriginal people of this continent and before the ‘New people’ and we all just Lafayette Avenue.

Nelson Mandela School For Social Justice Achievement Awards "BOYS & GIRLS" CAMPUS VILLAGE CONTINUES TO RAISE & PRAISE ITS PRIDE & JOY he award-giving continues for School's achievement awards ceremony at students at the Boys & Girls H.S. Brooklyn Borough Hall. Campus -- comprising Boys & Girls Congratulations to the principal, parent TH.S., The School of Research and Service coordinators, and support staff, and to Jordan and The Nelson Mandela School of Justice. Grant, Michael Washington, Ashley Nowlin, And Our Time Press is happy to be on the Brandon Charles, Sadira Philbert Fynn, Kiara scene for some of these events. We're still Mayers-Lorde, Shamere Padgett, Andre recovering from the euphoria of the Campus' Samuels, Tyriq Holland, Pamela McLean, stellar Athletics Gala of a few weeks ago ago. National Barnett, Ramel Vasquez, Nia Lubin and we were happy to attend the Mandela Alfred, Curtis Bryant; Curtis Bryant; Michael

Photo: Bernice Elizabeth Green Washington, Iyana Brown, Laquaniasha Boone, Malik Campbell, Al Hanifa Ruqayyah, Alex Dougles, Aquan Bowry, Emanuel Cruz, Brianna Pierce, Mylord Claurens Zephirin, Talynithia Riley Miller, Donald Darious, Justin Hamilton, Chamar Johnson, Nia Willis, Jada Perkins, Brandon CHarles, Bria Prince, Kenvin Bakker, Justin Noel, Nigel Parks, Elijah Brown, Nyquan Cooper, Kadeem Cox, Iyana Brown, Eric Kiazolu, Alaja Rickenbacker, Jonathan Decoteau-Briggs, Zaire Harley, and Ciarra Carroll. The stu- dents were given in categories ranging from personal growth to job well done. Photo: David Mark Greaves VOL. 23 NO. 25 OUR TIME PRESS June 20 – 26, 2019 11

ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE How ‘Freeway Revolts’ Helped Create the People’s Environmental Law ■■ By Teju Adisa-Farrar & Raul Garcia

n the summer of 1969 a banner hung In many places, the protests forced city environmental impacts and the voices of a toxic waste site in the U.S. are people over a set of condemned homes in governments to change their plans, or even communities when federal agencies devel- of color. Children of color are dispropor- what was then the predominantly led to the removal of freeways that had oped infrastructure projects. NEPA was the tionately more likely to face the dangerous Iblack and brown Brookland neighborhood already been built. At the federal level, the first law to require the federal government to health effects of lead poisoning. Indigenous in Washington, DC. It read, “White man’s protests helped inspire a law that ensures the conduct an environmental impact study (EIS) communities like the Navajo Nation have roads through black men’s homes.” people get to weigh in on projects that affect when embarking on a project. It required been face-to-face with toxic water thanks Earlier in the year, the District attempted their health, homes and neighborhoods: the the federal government to tell the public to the legacy of uranium mining in the to condemn the houses to make space for a National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). what it wanted to develop and establish Southwest. In the Northern Mariana Islands, proposed freeway. The plans proposed a 10- This law has become one of the most im- time for communities to comment and offer indigenous and low-income U.S. citizens lane freeway, a behemoth of a project that portant tools to protect communities and our environmentally friendlier or less disruptive are using NEPA to compel the U.S. Navy would divide the nation’s capital end-to-end environment — and now, it’s under attack alternatives; alternatives the government to consider the effects that artillery, rockets and sever iconic Black neighborhoods like by the Trump administration. must consider under NEPA. and bombardment will have on their trop- Shaw and the U Street Corridor from the In 1969, after over a decade of relentless Over the years, it is communities of ical homeland and sacred sites. According rest of the city. pressure and public activism, Congress color — whose efforts made NEPA pos- to Cinta Kaipat, a resident of the island Today, Brookland is not home to an passed NEPA in a nearly unanimous vote. sible — that have invoked the law when Saipan, NEPA allows communities to “fight interstate. The community’s protest forced The aim of the law was to create a national seeking justice. After all, more than half of the government to cancel its construction environmental policy that equally weighed the people living less than two miles from ➔➔ Continued on page 17 plans. And the activists’ efforts helped spur MLT-OurTimeAd 6/18/2019 5:52 PM Page 1 the passage of a law that gives all people the right to weigh in on projects that affect their communities — a right that is now under attack from the Trump administration and its allies. Residents taking a stand in Brookland Re-elect Judge Margarita López Torres were the latest participants in the “Freeway Brooklyn’s Progressive Titan. Revolts,” a multi-decade effort to force federal planners to consider the impacts of Keep the political clubhouse out of the courthouse. large development projects on communities and ecosystems. During and after World Rated “APPROVED” by Endorsed by War II, 6 million Black people moved New York City Bar Association New York Daily News from the South to cities in the Midwest Brooklyn Bar Association Brooklyn Daily Eagle and California, drawn by employment op- Working Families Party portunities and driven by the violence and poverty of the Jim Crow South. Following t Judge this demographic shift and growth in cities re-elec s ... across the U.S., planners rewrote municipal ote to z Torre “V ta Lópe “Judge Margarita is an zoning ordinances and separated residential, argari M onesty, inspiration for so many. commercial and industrial development. e has h sh n and We need to re-elect her These policies promoted urban sprawl mpassio co e.” on June 25th.” and white flight, which fed the culture of perienc Congresswoman ex an — automobile dependency. gressm Nydia Velázquez The Freeway Revolts formed alliances —Con fries eem Jef across lines of race and socioeconomic Hak nce excelle status. In DC, wealthy white residents of rita is arita’s Marga e Marg serving Takoma Park and Georgetown allied with Judge n’s “Judg ent to “ rookly ommitm n is middle-class black and brown residents in ne of B and c Brookly o dges.” ople of Brookland. In Seattle, the Black Panthers finest ju t the pe residen nown.” te aligned with the Sierra Club in opposition —Boro P well k Advoca dams Public iams to highway widening proposals. In San Eric A — ne Will Francisco, Latinx communities joined Jumaa ta hands with white residents to protest the e Margari ined tru r Judge Central Freeway’s devastation to homes and s rema oting fo too.” communities. These various communities She ha s that “I’m v u will, “ rinciple ho hope yo realized how disruptive and destructive o the p t all w and I woman t y impac ngress these large urban planning projects are to ositivel me.” —Co rke p klyn ho ette Cla neighborhoods and communities. all Broo mber Yv c bly Me Assem y — Mosle Walter

Image courtesy of San Francisco History Center Activists demonstrate against proposed freeway construction in San Francisco in 1960.

Lacking a voice in the development process, residents and community members in cities across the country used tactics that ranged from picketing, petitioning and leafleting to directly occupying facilities. In each case, how- ever, the central message was the same: Government should not ransack homes, divide areas and introduce new sources of smog and noise pollution without the mlt4surrogate.com Paid for by Committee to Re-elect Judge Margarita López Torres Surrogate for by Committee to Re-electPaid Torres Judge Margarita López consent of those affected. NGA, GEBCO, Google, Landsat/Copernicus, NOAA Map Imagery ©2019 Data SIO, NOAA, U.S. Navy, 12 OUR TIME PRESS June 20 – 26, 2019 VOL. 23 NO. 25 Fathers/Fathering

Rediscovering Lost Values ounding Fathers: This year’s annual with fists raised. Beck’s journal excerpt five” mural, a vision of the Center’s Chief of human rights... They expressed perfectly May “Rediscovering Lost Values” also evokes a moment, the day before, in the Creative Officer, George C. Wolfe. their own need for equality and unity in this tour of South-based shrines to the lobby of Atlanta’s National Center of Civil Beck’s prose captures the moment: “They single powerful gesture. Certainly, no one FCivil Rights movement was -- in the words and Human Rights. stood proud with their fists raised high above was going to ever forget this trip, especially of diarist Glen Beck -- «particularly poi- This photo features Taharka Robinson, their heads. They instinctively marked this me.” gnant.» center; Bruce Paul Green, far right, organizers moment in time for themselves much like The journey continues next week, on Actually, those words were a description of the journey for the Brooklyn Anti-Violence Tommie Smith and John Carlos had done the way to the July 11 issue when the The of Tour students standing on the exteri- Coalition organization joined two other Tour during the playing of Star Spangled Banner Hon. Annette Robinson and other women, or landing of the Dexter Historic King fathers,, standing proudly with fists raised in at the 1968 Summer Olympics when they will have they say. (Photo and text: Bernice Memorial Church in Montgomery, Alabama, front of the Center’s famous large-scale “high each raised a black fisted glove in solidarity Elizabeth Green) Fathers/Fathering Superheroes do not have to defy gravity and wear a cape… mongst 18 siblings, Dr. Chris- Keith Boxe’s hard work, perseverance, rabbits, goats, and pigs as well. This allowed tophe Boxe’s father, Keith Boxe, high intellect, and excellent mentorship me to experience nature to the fullest, where I was raised on a farm in Stony Hill, enabled Dr. Boxe to attain an invaluable ed- attained a deep connection to Earth’s and our St.A Andrews, Jamaica. To help with the fam- ucation at Morehouse College and California Solar system’s ecosystem,(through star-gazing ily finances, he dropped out of high school Institute of Technology. Dr. Boxe’s father at Earth’s constellations and planets, such Mars and earned a trade as graphics and print taught him the true meaning of education as and Jupiter, which you could always see in the designer in Kingston, Jamaica. Dr. Boxe’s expressed by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., “The clear night skies of Above Rocks, St. Catherine, first memories were of his father’s boundless function of education, therefore, is to teach one Jamaica).These experiences made me gravitate energy and remnants of him being a short to think intensively and to think critically. But greatly toward STEM. I had bimodal passion sleeper. Keith Boxe is among the Sleepless education which stops with efficiency may for veterinary medicine and space science, Elite – the 1% to 3% of the population prove the greatest menace to society. The where space science inevitably won, as I could/ that function efficiently on a few hours of most dangerous criminal may be the man can engage the world more broadly through it sleep per night. Keith’s superhero powers gifted with reason, but with no morals… We -- thus having a greater impact in STEM). spearheaded his family toward attaining the must remember that intelligence is not enough. My father’s father taught me about farming “American Dream.” Intelligence plus character--that is the goal of to a great degree, but more importantly taught Achieving this undoubtedly came with true education… If we are not careful, our me how to respect Earth’s ecosystem and thus sacrifices. Keith was the first to migrate to colleges will produce a group of close-minded, each other. My grandfather always relayed to America, followed by Dr. Boxe’s mom and unscientific, illogical propagandists, consumed me how he learned from past mistakes which brother several years later. He worked 2 to 3 with immoral acts. Be careful, “brethren!” Be involved his own self-centered actions and dis- jobs at design and printing factories during careful, teachers!” Dr. Boxe’s father never de- regard for mutual understanding within Earth’s the week. Dr. Boxe vividly recalls his father fied any laws of physics and never wore a cape, ecosystem (and how that marginalized his Dr. Christopher Boxe (right) is seen coming home at 1 to 2 am in the morning and as exemplified by fictional superheroes, but impact and relationship within his immediate here with his father, Keith Boxe leaving the apartment at 5 to 5:30 am. On the he’s been Dr. Boxe’s best mentor and friend. family. After rectifying such behavior, he was weekends, Dr. Boxe’s father was fully and Further reflection from Dr. Boxe on his able to see the detrimental impact of his past Apart from being my best mentor, my always engaged with the family dynamics father: ways, but even more, [to see] that humans can father’s grace is the best thing he gave to me. – getting Dr. Boxe involved in baseball, bas- I worked with my father and his father on always do better if they choose to do so. It enabled me to attain a priceless education ketball, football, gymnastics and afterschool their farm. They taught me how to grow fruits My father was/is definitely an artist (with at Morehouse College (they paid out of activities, and incessantly emphasized always and vegetables and sustain a select crop size inherent mathematical proficiency in geome- pocket), which allotted me the opportunity to maintaining the highest standard toward one’s per growth and harvest season. I also helped try, architecture, and design/graphics). He lives attend Caltech for graduate school. The gift educational engagement. them feed and maintain cows, chickens, in the United States and Jamaica. of education from my father was a Blessing. VOL. 23 NO. 25 OUR TIME PRESS June 20 – 26, 2019 13 Fathers / Fathering Fathers / Fathering Father's Day Reflections ■■ By Fred L. Price

elebrate We celebrate with minds up, pants up being a and standing up for education, freedom and father justice. We stand up for teaching and tutor- Cwhile facing the ing, to be the leaders now and in the future. challenges of the We stand up for bringing people together world and culture not dividing and we teach and show that of today. Fathers to be the real father/man you have to treat must educate and the girls, ladies, mothers and daughters with be educated and be an example of what respect. a good and positive man can be. We must This Father’s Day, past and future, celebrate teaching our youth, sons, broth- we recognized that ignorance, bravado, ers and friends gangs, deny not to be bullies "We can teach love, climate change, or to be bullied. and cultural Fathers must culture and respect for our- derangement teach that we is not what don’t have to selves and others to be that we teach and talk street and/ man that can command celebrate. My dad, Albert Lee Walter Johnson, wife of Myrtle Sylvia, father of six or curse to be- We cele- daughters and one son. He rose to the rank of Lieutenant in the New York ’The Man.” We respect.." Fred Price brate our path Police Department, Transit Division. I can see him now sitting at his desk can teach love, to enlighten- writing checks or studying for a promotional exam. He wasn’t the type to culture and respect, for ourselves, and ment, despite ‘fake news’ and political compliment good grades; he questioned the lowest. At night, hearing his others to be that man that can command disarray. We celebrate our coming together wood-soled heels against hard-wood floors gave me a sense of security respect. Father’s Day-, we celebrate being our children, brothers and sisters, family, knowing Daddy Bert’s home from work. Though he passed in 2013, at on the road to enlightenment and positive community and country with our minds up 89-years-old, he remains a model of consistency, responsibility, high exchange. to celebrate-the fathers on this Father’s Day. expectations and diligence. Margo Johnson McKenzie Weeksville Heritage Edward VOTE Center June 25 Designated Democratic Primary as a Cultural King for Institutions Civil Court Judge Group Kings County ➔➔ Continued from page 5

“Weeksville is sacred African- American ground. For generations, it served as a beacon of hope for those seeking refuge from the vestiges of slavery. Supporting Weeksville as a Cultural Institutions Group is a recognition of African-American longevity My entire legal career and a commitment from the city has been devoted to ensuring writ large,” said Majority Leader Laurie A. Cumbo. “With the that everyone is treated help of Speaker Corey Johnson, fairly and justly inside and Cultural Affairs Chair Jimmy Van Bramer, Weeksville President outside of the court room. Rob Fields, fellow Council members Robert E. Cornegy, Nothing is more important. Jr., Inez Barron, Alicka Samuel, ” IT’S TIME Carlina Rivera and many other leaders and community supporters who have stood with us firmly, Weeksville will continue to serve as a learning center for many years to come. I am so proud that New York City has made this critical commitment.” Today’s victory has been a cul- mination of years of advocacy and determination. In 2013, Weeksville made its first attempt to become a CIG, but was denied. Since joining the City Council, Majority Leader

LIF UA IE Cumbo has been a champion of Q D the arts and Weeksville getting Endorsed by the proper support it deserves. Weeksville has faced financial the people we trust challenges over the years and Association of the Bar of the recently saw a rush of local and City of New York Finds Ed King international support. Today, we Qualified for Civil Court Judge trust Ed King can be rest assured that the city Kings County. has backed its struggle. 14 OUR TIME PRESS June 20 – 26, 2019 VOL. 23 NO. 25

ALLSTATE INSURANCE COMPANY NS Our Time Press for a complementary review & gift!

ABLE HEALTH CARE HOME HEALTH AIDE & NEW BUSINESS FORMATIONS PERSONAL CARE AIDES JM 31C LLC Art. Of Org. Filed Brooklyn, NY 11233. Purpose: Any of NY (SSNY) on 04/08/19. Office EXCELLENT PAY & BENEFITS Sec. of State of NY 5/7/2019. Off. Loc. lawful activity. location: Kings County. SSNY des- New Higher 2019 Pay Rates : Kings Co. SSNY designated as agent ignated as agent of LLC upon whom Aides needed in Brooklyn, Queens, Bronx upon whom process against it may be Notice of Formation of GREEN process against it may be served. Immediate work for HHA’s w/certificates served. SSNY to mail copy of process FLAMINGO DISPENSARY, LLC SSNY shall mail process to the LLC FREE Training Classes to The LLC, 10 East 39th Street, 10th Fl., Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of Jeffrey Porter, 182 Nevins Street, Apt Classes start July 1 in Queens, July 8 in Islandia New York, NY 10016. Purpose : Any NY (SSNY) on 05/08/19. Office loca- 1, Brooklyn, NY 11217. Purpose: Any and July 15 in White Plains lawful act or activity. tion: Kings County. SSNY designated lawful activity. Call for schedule in other areas & to Register! Full Time, Part Time, Weekends as agent of LLC upon whom process All Shifts - All Locations Notice of Formation of VALOR against it may be served. SSNY shall LRG EQUITIES LLC Art. Of Org. Great Benefits include Health Insurance LIFE & SECURITY, LLC. Arts. of Org. mail process to the LLC, 335 Winthrop Filed Sec. of State of NY 2/19/2019. Vacation, Sick Pay, Personal Days filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) St., Brooklyn, NY 11225. Purpose: Any Off. Loc.: Kings Co. SSNY designated EXTRA PAY FOR AIDES WITH CARS on 02/25/19. Office location: Kings lawful activity as agent upon whom process against County. SSNY designated as agent of it may be served & shall mail proc.: LLC upon whom process against it may Notice of Formation of c/o Leacroft Gordon, 648 Park Place, Certified HomeB HealthL AgencyE be served. SSNY shall mail process to VOLCANIC SELECTIONS, LLC Brooklyn, NY 11216. Purpose: Any A the LLC, 701 Herkimer Street, 1B, Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State lawful act or activity. Brooklyn 718-947-3693 Queens 718-947-3673 Nassau 516-634-2117 Suffolk 631-729-2384 Bronx/Westchester 914-470-9929 www.ablehealthcare.com Knapp, Lefkowitz & Hertzel, LLP, LEGAL NOTICES 200 John James Audubon Parkway, Suite 202, Amherst, New York DENTAL Insurance NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME day of July, 2019 at 2:30 p.m. 14228, Attorneys for Plaintiff Physicians Mutual Insurance Company FREE COURT - COUNTY OF KINGS premises described as follows: All CLOVER MILL ASSOCIAATES, less expensive INC. way to help Information Kit SRP 2012-4, LLC, Plaintiff, that certain plot, piece or parcel NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME 337 Merrick Road Lynbrookget the dental NY care11563 you deserve! • 516-568-1800 FAX 516-872-1398Against Index No.: 511696/2018 of land situate lying and being in COURT COUNTY OF KINGS CALL PRESTIGE PROPERTIES, the County of Kings, City and U.S. BANK NATIONAL NOW! 1-855-225-1434 INC., TREVOR MULLINGS, State of New York. Said premises ASSOCIATION AS TRUSTEE Get help paying dental bills and keep more money in CLIENT: ABLE HEALTHyour pocket CARE et al., Defendant(s). Pursuant to known as 596 Van Siclen Avenue; FOR STRUCTURED ASSET This is real dental insurance — NOT just a discount plan a Judgment of Foreclosure and Block: 4087, Lot: 38. Approximate INVESTMENT LOAN TRUST You can get coverage before your next checkup 1-855-225-1434 Visit us online at Sale, duly entered 5/15/2019, I, amount of lien $ 600,760.14 plus MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH Don’t wait! Call now and we’ll rush you a FREE www.dental50plus.com/nypress Ad for: NY Classified AdInformation Network Kit with all the(NYNT) details. the undersigned Referee, will sell interest and costs. Premises will be CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006- Insurance Policy P150NY MB17-NM003Ec 6129 at public auction, in Room 224 sold subject to provisions of filed BNC3, Plaintiff AGAINST MARIE NEW YORK CITY Zone ONLY of Kings County Supreme Court, judgment and terms of sale. Index HUGUETTE JEAN-BAPTISTE, Use this during week of Monday, JuneDiscover 17, the2019 world’s bestONL Y 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, NY No. 504304-15. AARON TYK, et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a walk-in bathtub from 11201 on 7/25/2019 at 2:30 pm, Esq., Referee. McCabe, Weisberg Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale premises known as 43 Dumont Ave, & Conway, LLC Attorney(s) for duly dated January 14, 2019 I, the 5 Reasons American Standard Brooklyn, NY 11212, and described Plaintiff 145 Huguenot Street – undersigned Referee will sell at Size: 2 column x 4” (3.125” wide x 4” high)Walk-In Tubs are Your Best Choice 1 Backed by American Standard’s as follows: ALL that certain plot, Suite 210 New Rochelle, New York public auction at the Room 224 140 years of experience piece or parcel of land, with the 10801 (914) 636-8900 of Kings County Supreme Court, 2 Ultra low entry for easy $1,500 FILE: NYNT061719_nyc.cdr entering and exiting buildings and improvements there- 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, New ® SAVINGS 3 Patented Quick Drain Includes FREE American StandardRight Height Toilet fast water removal system on erected, situate, lying and being NOTICE OF SALE York 11201, on July 18, 2019 at Revision 0 Limited Time O– er! Call Today! 4 Lifetime Warranty on the bath AND installation, INCLUDING labor backed in the Borough of Brooklyn, County SUPREME COURT COUNTY 2:30PM, premises known as 9024 Set: May 23, 2019 by American Standard 888-609-0248 5 44 Hydrotherapy jets for an of Kings, City and State of New OF KINGS, STATE OF NEW AVENUE L, BROOKLYN, NY Receive a free American Standard Cadet toilet with full installation of a Liberation Walk-In Bath, Liberation invigorating massage Program: CorelDrawShower, or Deluxe 14.0 Shower. O er valid only while supplies last. Limit one per household. Must be ­ rst time York, Block 3551 and Lot 53.The YORK MORTGAGE AGENCY, 11236. All that certain plot piece or purchaser. See www.walkintubs.americanstandard-us.com for other restrictions and for licensing, warranty, FREE IN-HOME and company information. CSLB B982796; Su olk NY:55431H; NYC:HIC#2022748-DCA. Safety Tubs Co. EVALUATION! LLC does not sell in Nassau NY, Westchester NY, Putnam NY, Rockland NY. approximate amount of the current Plaintiff, vs. ZENA MURPHY, AS parcel of land, with the buildings Judgment lien is $253,354.68 plus HEIR-AT-LAW TO THE ESTATE and improvements erected, situate, interest and costs. The Premises will OF CORNELL MURPHY lying and being in the Borough of be sold subject to provisions of the A/K/A CORNELL BILLY Brooklyn, County of Kings, City Saving a Life EVERY 11 MINUTES aforesaid Judgment of Foreclosure MURPHY (DECEASED), ET and State of New York, BLOCK and Sale; Index # 511696/2018 AL., Defendant(s). Pursuant to an 8255, LOT 40. Approximate I’m never Steven Z Naiman, Esq., Referee. Order Confirming Referee Report amount of judgment $763,183.05 Richland & Falkowski, PLLC, and Judgment of Foreclosure and plus interest and costs. Premises 35-37 36th Street, 2nd Floor, Sale duly filed on May 10, 2019, will be sold subject to provisions ASTORIA, NY 11106 Dated: I, the undersigned Referee will of filed Judgment for Index# 5/30/2019 PB sell at public auction at the Kings 511172/2014. Jeffrey R. Miller, alone® Life Alert is always County Supreme Court, Room Esq., Referee Gross Polowy, LLC here for me even when SUPREME COURT 224, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, Attorney for Plaintiff 1775 Wehrle away from home. – COUNTY OF KINGS NY on July 25, 2019 at 2:30 p.m., Drive, Suite 100 Williamsville, NY DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL premises known as 190 Cozine 14221 63540 One touch of a button TRUST COMPANY, AS TRUSTEE Avenue, Unit 6-1K, Brooklyn, NY sends help fast, 24/7. Help at Home OF THE INDYMAC INDX 11207. All that certain plot, piece SUPREME COURT – with MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST or parcel of land, with the buildings COUNTY OF KINGS U.S. BANK GPS! FIRST AID 2006-AR19, MORTGAGE PASS- and improvements thereon erected, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS ® KIT FREE! WHEN YOU THROUGH CERTIFICATES, situate, lying and being in the TRUSTEE FOR RESIDENTIAL ORDER! I’ve fallen and I can’t get up! SERIES 2006-AR19 UNDER THE Borough of Brooklyn, County of ASSET MORTGAGE Help On-the-Go Batteries Never Need Charging. POOLING AND SERVICING Kings, City and State of New York, PRODUCTS, INC., MORTGAGE AGREEMENT DATED JUNE Block 4415 and Lot 1163 together ASSET-BACKED PASS- For a FREE brochure call: 1, 2006, Plaintiff, against TINY with an undivided 0.0707 percent THROUGH CERTIFICATES, O’CONNOR, et al Defendant interest in the Common Elements. SERIES 2006-NC2, Plaintiff (s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Approximate amount of judgment against BEVERLY FIELDS 1-800-404-9776 Foreclosure and Sale; the under- is $142,027.35 plus interest and A/K/A BEVERLEY FIELDS, signed Referee will sell at public costs. Premises will be sold subject et al Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Follow us on and at auction in Room 224 of the Kings to provisions of filed Judgment Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale County Courthouse, 360 Adams Index # 517300/2017. Shmuel Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. on the 25th D. Taub, Esq., Referee Schiller, ➔➔ Continued on page 16 VOL. 23 NO. 25 OUR TIME PRESS June 20 – 26, 2019 15

STUDENT LOAN DEBT SHOULDN’T MEAN DEBT STRESS.

You didn’t plan to fall behind or default on student loans. But you can make a plan to manage your debt. NYC Financial Empowerment Center counselors can help you lower monthly payments, explore loan forgiveness, or get out of delinquency or default, depending on your loans.

BE REAL ABOUT STUDENT LOANS.

Visit nyc.gov/studentloans or call 311 for information or to schedule a FREE financial counseling appointment. 16 OUR TIME PRESS June 20 – 26, 2019 VOL. 23 NO. 25

Help Wanted Technology. Stream Videos, Music and $14.95 High Speed Internet. Free Installation, CLASSIFIEDS The U.S. Census Bureau is now recruit- More! Call Earthlink Today 1-855-970-1623 Smart HD DVR Included, Free Voice Remote. ing thousands of Census Takers in your Some restrictions apply. 1-800-943-0838 Attorney June July area. Nobody knows your community better Home Improvement June July Lung Cancer? And Age 60+? You than you! Visit 2020census.gov/jobs to learn BATHROOM RENOVATIONS. EASY, Real Estate for May 27 June 3 10 17 And Your Family May Be Entitled To more! ONE DAY updates! We specialize in safe New York / Vermont Border $39,900. Significant Cash Award. No Risk. No bathing. Grab bars, no slip flooring & seated 12 acre Mini Farm with views, southern Money Out Of Pocket. For Information Help Wanted June 17 24 July 1 8 15 showers. Call for a free in-home consulta- exposure, stream, beaver pond. Call 877-225-4813 JOB OPPORTUNITY $18.50 P/H NYC tion: 888-657-9488. Easy access - Bennington VT, Albany $15 P/H LI $14.50 P/H UPSTATE NY If & Saratoga NY, Williamstown MA. Bank Auto Donations June you currently care for your relatives or Miscellaneous financing 802-447-0779 Donate your car to Wheels For Wishes, friends who have Medicaid or Medicare, A PLACE FOR MOM has helped over benefiting Make-A-Wish. We offer free you may be eligible to start working for a million families find senior living. Our Services June July towing and your donation is 100% tax them as a personal assistant. No Certificates trusted, local advisors help find solutions COMPUTER ISSUES? FREE deductible. Call (917) 336-1254 needed. (347) 462-2610 (347) 565-6200 to your unique needs at no cost to you. Call: DIAGNOSIS by GEEKS ON SITE! 1-800-404-8852 Virus Removal, Data Recovery! 24/7 Education / Career Training Home Improvement June July EMERGENCY SERVICE, In-home AIRLINE CAREERS Start Here - AFFORDABLE NEW SIDING! Miscellaneous June repair/On-line solutions . $20 OFF ANY Get trained as FAA certified Aviation Beautify your home! Save on monthly Get DIRECTV! ONLY $35/month! SERVICE! 844-892-3990 Technician. Financial aid for qualified energy bills with beautiful NEW SIDING 155 Channels & 1000s of Shows/Movies students. Job placement assistance. Call from 1800Remodel! Up to 18 months no On Demand (w/SELECT All Included TV Internet Phone May June AIM for free information 866-296-7094. interest. Restrictions apply 855-773-1675 Package.) PLUS Stream on Up to FIVE Spectrum Triple Play! TV, Internet & Screens Simultaneously at No Additional Voice for $99.97/mo. Fastest Internet. 100 Health June July Internet May June Cost. Call DIRECTV 1-888-5346918 MB per second speed. Free Primetime VIAGRA & CIALIS! 60 pills for $99. Earthlink High Speed Internet. As Low on Demand. Unlimited Voice. NO 100 pills for $150 FREE shipping. Money As $14.95/month (for the first 3 months.) Miscellaneous June July CONTRACTS. Call 1-855977-7198 or visit back guaranteed! Call Today: 800-4040244 Reliable High Speed Fiber Optic DISH TV $59.99 For 190 Channels + http://tripleplaytoday.com/press

Sale entered in the office of the County $852,493.88 plus interest and costs. Megan auction at the Kings County Supreme Court, Clerk of Kings County on June 7, 2017, I, S. Kale, Esq. Woods Oviatt Gilman LLP, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, NY on June LEGAL NOTICES M. Randolph Jackson, Esq., the Referee Plaintiff’s Attorney 700 Crossroads Building, 20, 2019 at 02:30 PM premises known as 75 ➔➔ Continued from page 14 named in said Judgment, will sell in one 2 State St. Rochester, New York 14614 Tel.: Franklin Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11205. All parcel at public auction on June 20, 2019 855-227-5072 that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with entered on April 3, 2018. I, the undersigned at the Kings County Supreme Court, Room the buildings and improvements erected, sit- Referee will sell at public auction in Room 224, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, County NOTICE OF SALE Supreme Court uate, lying and being in the County of Kings, 224 of the Kings County Courthouse, 360 of Kings, State of New York, at 2:30 P.M., County Of Kings HSBC Bank USA, City and State of New York, BLOCK: 1885, Adams Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. on the 25th the premises described as follows: 9 West National Association, as Trustee for Nomura LOT: 1. Approximate amount of judgment day of July 2019 at 2:30 p.m. premises 9th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11231 SBL No.: Asset Acceptance Corporation Mortgage is $690,394.48 plus interests and costs. described as follows: All that certain plot, Block 534 Lot 46 ALL THAT TRACT OF Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2006- Premises will be sold subject to provisions piece or parcel of land, with the buildings PARCEL OF LAND situate in the Borough AF1, Plaintiff AGAINST Chaim Meisels, 75 of filed Judgment Index # 028070/2008. and improvements thereon erected, situate of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and Franklin LLC, Broet al, Defendant Pursuant M. Randolph Jackson, Referee FRENKEL lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, State of New York The premises are sold to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly LAMBERT WEISS WEISMAN & County of Kings, City and State of New subject to the provisions of the filed judg- dated 7/24/2018 and entered on 8/14/2018, GORDON LLP 53 Gibson Street Bay Shore, York. Said premises known as 1520 East ment, Index No. 7136/10 in the amount of I, the undersigned Referee, will sell at public NY 11706 55th Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11234 (Block: 7879, Lot: 82). Approximate amount of lien $ 576,178.74 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed judgment and terms of sale. Index No. 508035-15. Shmuel D. Taub, Esq., Referee. McCabe, Weisberg & Conway, LLC Attorney(s) for Plaintiff 145 Huguenot Street – Suite 210 New Rochelle, New York 10801 (914) 636-8900

NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF KINGS JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association, Plaintiff AGAINST Ifeyinwa Ifemesia; et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated May 2, 2019 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Kings County Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, Room 224, Brooklyn, NY 11201 on July 11, 2019 at 2:30PM, premises known as 300 Van Buren Street, Brooklyn, NY 11221. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and State of NY, Block: 1615 Lot: 24. Approximate amount of judgment $1,166,952.63 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index# 3403/13. Helene Blank, Esq., Referee Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, LLC Attorney(s) for the Plaintiff 175 Mile Crossing Boulevard Rochester, New York 14624 (877) 430-4792 Dated: June 4, 2019 For sale information, please visit Servicelinkauction.com or call (866) 539- 4173 63733

STATE OF NEW YORK SUPREME COURT: COUNTY OF KINGS GREEN TREE SERVICING LLC, Plaintiff, vs. DAVID ZOIMEN, et al., Defendants NOTICE OF SALE IN FORECLOSURE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT In pur- suance of a Judgment of Foreclosure and VOL. 23 NO. 25 OUR TIME PRESS June 20 – 26, 2019 17 NYC Public Schools, a History of Systemic Racial Discrimination and Bias ■■ By Michael A. Johnson

here’s a reason why the book “Segregation”, “Racism”, “Bigotry” and standards that won’t be ‘racially-rigged’ just to stand in the ‘parental-gap’ and be that “The Emperor’s New Clothes” “Implicit Bias”, and the very willing ‘con- for them to pass. Further, their national and ‘pushy-activists’ parent for those disen- ended up in a lot of US elementary sultants’ will come running to (again) take international competition, who are being franchised children who have no effective Tschool’s classroom libraries over the years. us in the wrong direction. We get so excited taught to meet and exceed the test standards ‘parental-posse’ to support, protect and I know it taught this 1960’s Brooklyn P.S. by these admittedly bad words that we lose will leave them in the life-success dust! defend them. 9 kid the importance of acknowledging ‘a all sense of knowing the how, why, what and There’s a primary cause of NYC Black School districts must employ system- thing for what it truly is’. And yet, after when to ask the most important pedagogi- and Latino student chronic academic ic-wide expectations and operational prac- so many years of failed ‘school-improve- cal questions like: “How does this action underperformance; and that bias is found tices that empowers the affirmation: Having ment-schemes’, and so many billions of explicitly improve teaching and learning?” in a learning opportunity gap that exposes been properly prepared, students of color dollars ($773 million recently in NYC) (every initiative in schooling is measured these children to excessive years (1+ any) can and will master the most challenging wasted; we still refuse to listen to people by its ‘pivotal-effect’ on the quality of of inadequate and non-affirming misedu- academic work and assessments that’s pro- like: Ronald Edmonds, Lorraine Monroe classroom teaching and learning). We fail cational practices. Some of us wear our vided for their educational peers in NYC and Jaime Escalante; who identified ‘the in engaging sound inquiries into all types ‘institutional memory’ in our hearts. We re- or the World! Any belief to the contrary problems’ for what they truly were, and of incoherent and sometimes contradictory member many years ago the ugly opposition automatically cancels out any “committed then offered workable solutions to those systemic-initiatives. For example, as NYC that appeared when then Deputy Chancellor to equity and the equality of educational problems. Their collective diagnosis and tries to ‘cure’ teachers of ‘implicit bias’, at of Instruction Lorraine Monroe’s name was opportunity” rhetorical claims made by that ‘treatment-plans’ for our public-education the same time these teachers are being told simply ‘floated’ on the short-list of those school system. underachievement illnesses, are as true that Black and Latino children don’t have being considered to be Chancellor. The This will be my last article for Our Time today, as they were when they first pro- the ‘natural brains’ to perform well on a reasons for the huge political-pushback Press; as I take leave to complete my second scribed them. We ignore these thoughtful Specialized High School Admissions Test (and ultimate defeat of her “candidacy”) book on school leadership. I want to thank educators in part because their focus was (SHSAT). And having observed and evaluat- was that Dr. Monroe was known to take the Publisher David Mark Greaves, Co- totally on student learning and not on adult ed hundreds of classroom lessons, I suspect on and defeat the real racism that existed Founder Bernice Elizabeth Green, Maitefa (from classrooms to the highest level of that the later negative lesson of Black and in NYC public-schools. To her personal Angaza and the great OTP staff for making school-governance) job-satisfaction, finan- Latino student ‘natural inferiority’ will be and professional detriment she believed in this columnist experience one of the best cial enrichment and political covetousness. the one that will stick. The systemic work- the systemic-wide Integration of a quality learning opportunities of my life; please Three things public-education is good place-rules biases (the untouchable political learning environment and high instructional support OTP! at doing (hint: effectively educating Black ‘third rail’ here), is that those children never practices, regardless of a child’s zip code. and Latino children is not one of them) (1) had a chance to do well on the SHSAT, be- She also felt that children who arrived to our Michael A. Johnson has served as a Wasting money (2) Wasting time and effort cause they received a ‘mind-crippling’ K-8 schools with informal-learning experiences NYC public schoolteacher, principal, (3) Wasting money, time and effort doing education. Further, although capable, many disadvantages required the services of our school district superintendent and an things that sound ‘sexy’, but in actuality were denied access to gifted and talented most capable and efficacious school-leaders adjunct professor of education-St. John’s distracts us from the real work, that would programs. And yes, removing the SHSAT and teachers, beyond the many children University. His book on school leadership really work to successfully educate Black will provide an artificial ‘pass’, but it’s a harming ‘contractual’ rules restrictions. is titled: “Report to the Principal’s Office: and Latino students. Part of the problem is cynical ‘seeking-a-sucker’ move, because As one of Dr. Monroe’s mentees I be- Tools for Building Successful High School the knee-jerk reaction on the part of many lowering and/or removing any standardized lieve as she did, that rather than lowering Administrative Leadership.” [http://report- to jump on any ‘bandwagon-idea’ when exam standards won’t make those for whom standards so that more Black & Latino chil- totheprincipalsoffice.net/] certain trigger words are thrown into the the lowering pretends to benefit any smarter, dren could ‘appear’ to achieve academically, collective misunderstanding of how and or more capable to compete at the next level we should instead raise academic standards Tags: Implicit Bias, Racism, why schools work or don’t work. And (ACT-SAT, GRE, MCAT, LSAT, NTE, etc.); so that they could truly achieve. Further, Discrimination, NYC Department of so, all it takes is for some folks to hear: where they’ll be forced to face assessment like her school-based administrators need Education, Segregation, Bigotry, SHSAT.

The National Environmental Policy Act is a tool to help uplift the people’s environmental voice

➔➔ Continued from page 11 this fight without firing a shot. The military will sit up and hear our voices.” Right now, communities of color are using NEPA to challenge the Keystone XL pipeline, President Trump›s illegal border wall, waste incinerators in Puerto Rico, intrusive transit plans in Los Angeles and pollution from the KCI Airport in Kansas City. The Northern Cheyenne Tribe in Montana successfully used NEPA to thwart Trump administration›s plans to reopen coal-mining leases on public lands. Ill-conceived development along the I-70 Photo courtesy of U.S. National Archives and Records Administration Corridor near Denver stopped thanks to Community leaders heightened the national Photo courtesy of Dan Lin NEPA. It is community voices, not those of consciousness of the effects of environmental Communities in the Northern Mariana Islands are using polluting and profit-driven corporations with degradation on communities throughout the second NEPA to challenge the U.S. Navy’s plan to conduct live- armies of well-paid litigators and lobbyists half of the 20th century. fire training on the island of Pågan. that are most likely to be excluded or ig- nored in the decision-making process. And Put simply, the National Environmental and its allies want to stifle it, either by ex- and environmentally disruptive planning it is their voices that can help stop further di- Policy Act is a tool to help uplift the peo- empting certain proposals from oversight, processes. vision and destruction in our environments if ple’s environmental voice. That’s why it’s limiting the length of public comment As we fight to end environmental rac- they are made a part of the planning process. no wonder that the Trump administration periods or eliminating public comment ism, we cannot allow the Trump adminis- altogether. tration and its allies in Congress to retrench The spirit that drove communities of col- the people’s tools for access to justice. We That’s why it’s no or and neighborhood residents throughout cannot allow them to limit public comments the U.S. to hang banners, picket, sit in and and continue to shut communities out of the stand up in the 1950s and 1960s is alive NEPA process. It is through direct action wonder that the Trump today. Even though several communities of and community engagement that NEPA color across the nation have been displaced came to be; safeguarding it gives people administration and and burdened by pollution because of free- more power to be a part of the decisions way development projects in the 1960s, that determine what happens in their its allies want to stifle it NEPA helps to fight against exclusionary communities. 18 OUR TIME PRESS June 20 – 26, 2019 VOL. 23 NO. 25 A Community Organizer, A Moment in Time, and a Cross-Generational Movement: My Brother’s Keeper ■■ by Dr. Anael Alston

hat is an acceptable opening question, my follow up “Everything I’ve learned, I plan rate of: failure, ho- question is this: Does your current on not only taking back to apply to micide, high school programming include the identified myself, but to the work that I do.” dropout,W underachievement, and strategies that we know support Elliot K, student and MBK Rising! imprisonment for boys and young outcomes for boys and young men Participant men of color in your community? of color to achieve at higher levels What separates MBK Rising If all lives matter, the answer is and graduate at higher rates? from being part of a larger move- none. While the public rhetoric has ment as opposed to a singular been one of equality, meritocracy, A Moment in Time event? Sacrifice. There is tremen- and hard work all equals success, Prompted, in part after 17-year- dous buy-in and the willingness for boys and young men of color old Trayvon Martin was shot to people to sacrifice their time, effort, (BYMOC) have not been able to death by George Zimmerman, a resources, and share their platforms realize this ideal. Summarizing neighborhood watch volunteer in to change the conversation, influ- The Economic Costs of Youth Florida and his subsequent acquit- ence policy, programs, and practic- Disadvantage and High Return tal of criminal charges, in 2014 es because the plight of young men Opportunities for Change from the President Barack Obama began to of color is equivalent to the village Executive Office of the President plan a multipronged public-private being on fire. Fortunately, there of the United States, in a recent initiative aimed at closing the op- is a collective, cross-generational article Dr. Lester Young, a member Photo Credit: MBK Alliance portunity gaps and life achievement effort to extinguish the fire. For we of the New York State Board of Noah Moreno meeting President Obama gaps for boys and young men of know that in a global community, Regents, noted that boys of color color. Through the actions of the if one village is on fire, it impacts graduate at lower rates; drop out ous studies indicate that schools this population some might say 44th President of the United States, everyone. at higher rates; tend to have less serving this population tend to that after so many past efforts, and because of a tragic moment Where will you, your commu- access to, and as a consequence have the following inequities: the problem is not solvable. In in time, the My Brother’s Keeper nity, your state, and this nation participate less in accelerated and inadequate funding that negatively the absence of uproar and outcry, movement began. be when future generations look Advanced Placement courses. impacts resources; limited access one could reasonably surmise that I was inspired because I saw back on this moment in time? Will These young men also tend to be to quality early education; lack failure and underachievement for hundreds of influential adults in you be one of the ones who took suspended from school at consid- of teacher and leader diversity; males of color are normalized and, attendance from informal commu- action or someone who sat silently erably higher rates than their white less experienced teachers, less while not verbalized, seemingly ac- nity leaders like Sabrina Fulton, on the sidelines, as our country counterparts; are less likely to be Advanced Placement course offer- ceptable. In the absence of a plan, the mother of slain teen Trayvon took a long, slow, yet comfort- able to read and solve math prob- ings, and ineffective governance action, and resources, the unspoken Martin, education officials like able slide toward mediocrity and lems at grade level; and are more structures. response may well be Que Sera New York State Commissioner irrelevance? likely to encounter the criminal With the exception of a few Sera and there’s nothing strategic of Education MaryEllen Elia (my Today is a great day to choose justice system as either a perpe- voices, this data, by and large, or intentional about whatever will current boss), elected officials like the side of history that you will be trator or a victim. Additionally, has not been a part of any sig- be, will be. Unless of course, it is Congresswoman Lucy McBath, on. With over 250 My Brother’s Dr. Young points out in the Black nificant policy changes and no intentional. informal leaders and influencers Keeper Communities in America, Lives Matter: The Schott 50 State commitment of resources to proven School, district, civic, and com- like award-winning actor Michael today can be the day that you vol- Report on Public Education and strategies aimed at ameliorating munity leaders, since it is likely B. Jordan, award-winning film- unteer to work with an established Black Males, reports and numer- the inequities and outcomes for that you responded “none” to the maker Ryan Coogler, NFL All-Pro My Brother’s Keeper Community and Stanford graduate Richard or contact the Obama Foundation Sherman, former Essence Magazine at www.obama.org and find out Hattie Carthan Community Garden Editor-in-Chief Susan Taylor, NFL how YOU can do the work to Super-Bowl champion Victor Cruz create an MBK community. If Annual Food Heritage Festival and perhaps one of the biggest your personal politics don’t align influencers and role models of our politically, you can still make a THIS YEAR’S THEME: time, President Barack Obama. difference by becoming a mentor “OUR FOOD IS OUR CULTURE” To illustrate some of the energy with the National Cares Mentoring COUIT OFFERI OF FOODS FRO and passion evoked from MBK Movement at www.caresmentor- TE FRIC DISOR Rising, I thought sharing quotes ing.org. The future of this country from attendees would help you will be greatly affected by what – draw your own conclusions: happens to boys and young men of “The experience has been color today. You get to decide how M A electrifying...because there has we will move forward. S been so much energy that has been Dr. Anael Alston is an M A going around since I stepped in this award-winning educator and an building.” Lendrell M, student and Assistant Commissioner at the New A MBK Rising! Participant York State Education Department. T A : A A T A

A –

M – H S H S R S S S Brooklyn was NOT playing! On the opening day of this season’s Celebrate Brooklyn concerts in Prospect Park, S L someone said they’d gotten on the line at 10:30 am for L F R R S T the free 7:30pm Patti Labelle show that evening. The park was packed with peaceful and happy people brimming with anticipation of what was surely to be a night of beautiful and funky music. Though it need not be said, UESTIOS C Ms. Patti did not disappoint. It was a powerfully uplifting exchange with a music artist who loves her fans back. Celebrate Brooklyn continues through August 10th with a fascinating selection of music artists from many genres. – Maitefa Angaza, Photo credit: Hemamset Angaza VOL. 23 NO. 25 OUR TIME PRESS June 20 – 26, 2019 19

Friday, June 21st family and enjoy fun activities, Dwana Smallwood Perform- music, games, contests, tourna- ing Arts Center 857 Lexing- MAKE MUSIC NY ments and crafts. Total Praise ton Ave., 12-6pm, FREE. Ensemble, Uncle Majic, the Located right outside DSPAC CONCERT & CENSUS JOB Hip-Hop Magician, communi- on Lexington Ave, this street RECRUITMENT ty resources and more. festival extravaganza will ARTs East New York 534 feature dance workshops Livonia Ave., 12-5pm FREE. Sunday, June 23rd for kids, performances from See a lineup of performers local artists, family fun, and spanning Hip-Hop to Jazz. inventive crafts, fashion and Bring family and friends to THE JUNETEENTH culinary delights of more enjoy this grand opening of the BLACK BUSINESS EXPO Summer Solstice. Note: Arts Bedford Stuyvesant Res- than 50 local vendors. For East New York will host the toration 1368 Fulton St., info on how to become a NYC Census Job recruitment 1:30-5pm, FREE. Entrepre- vendor or performer contact: inside and visitors will also neurs and business owners http://bit.ly/MAMAFestival- have the option of filling out Khaiel Events and Ahm Zadik 2019Vendors their census forms there. provide a platform to help money circulate within the BOROUGH community. Meet, support and MARK YOUR DISTRIBUTION DAY FOR shop with local businesses CALENDARS and meet some extraordinary SHAKESPEARE IN THE ENID KNIGHT people from the community. th PARK Find handcrafted cultural ac- Sunday, July 7 Chronic Disease Care Manager Kenny Leon directed this all- cessories, handmade soaps and Black musical version of Much garments. Receive financial SOUL SUMMIT MUSIC on Food, Health,Wellness: What’s Eating You! Ado About Nothing, starring education, learn ways to travel FESTIVAL Danielle Brooks of The Color on a budget, and enjoy great Fort Greene Park, DeKalb Purple on Broadway and Or- food and music. Tickets at ange is the New Black. Coun- Eventbrite. Ave. 3-8pm, FREE. The an- DR. CHRISTOPHER BOXE tee Cullen Library 104 West nual outdoor music and danc- 136th St. Manhattan. Show is at th ing series returns, courtesy of Scientist 8pm at The Delacorte Theater Friday, June 28 the Soul Summit DJ Collec- vouchers (up to 2 per person) tive. Exercise and clean fun, on Jazz 966, distributed at noon (bring a JAZZ FOR UNITY heavy on the house music. chair and/or a book & get on 966 Fulton St., 8 & 9:45pm, Healthy Brain, Healthy Diets (doors at 7) $20. Closing out the line at 9:30), exchange th vouchers for tix at the Dela- the season at Jazz 96 with two Thursday, July 4 Kgt-12 and Beyond corte at7:30. The hilarity, high live bands. Presented by Jazz drama and masterful acting 966 and the Central Brooklyn 48TH ANNUAL Jazz Consortium. Group sales make it all worth it. INTERNATIONAL BROOKLYN BEDFORD- AFRICAN ARTS STUYVESANT LIONS CLUB FESTIVAL Men’s Health Initiative Commodore Barry Park Flushing Ave. & Navy St., Plus 12-10pm Sugg donation $5 at the gate, special pckgs Raffles! Coupons! Product! available. Opening day of Recipe Book Giveways! this landmark 4-day annual Information! Advice! event and this year’s theme is Ya Tond La and for the young people Fun Recycling, Taaba (We Are Emmanuel Baptist Church's Total Praise Ensemble All One). The Reusing, Repurposing Ideas with Chelsea! lineup on this nd Saturday, June 22 available. For info call 718- day includes Hypnotic Brass Healthy Treats!! 638-6911 Ensemble, Jones Family A CLINTON HILL Band, Clifton Anderson ‘BLESSING OUR BLOCK’ Sextet and Dinizulu Cultural th Coming Up on Saturday, June 29 ... 10:00am PARTY Saturday, June 29 Arts Institute, For info on vending and housing call Emanuel Baptist Church, St. - 12:00noon James P.l btw & Lafayette & ANNUAL M.A.M.A. 718-638-6700. DeKalb Aves., (rain or shine) FESTIVAL: MORE ARTS, For general info visit www. Literacy through BOOKMAKING 11am-5pm FREE. Bring the MORE ALIVE! iaafestival.org 20 OUR TIME PRESS June 20 – 26, 2019 VOL. 23 NO. 25