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| 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. 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