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New York’s New York’s Beaconwebsite: E-Mail Showing the Way to Truth and Justice NewYorkBeacon.net [email protected] Vol. 24 No. 45 November 9 - November 15, 2017 75 Cents REMEMBER THE DRUM – OUR WAY TO SHARE INFO IN THE BLACK COMMUNITY SIGN UP FOR AFFORDABLE CARE ACT NOV 1 – DEC 15, 2017 The drum goes viral #SOULS2ENROLL No outreach to sign up from the Trump Admin. They hope people will be fooled and not enroll, then they can say Americans don’t want Obamacare. But faith leaders are using their pulpits, internet as a reminder. pg 3 This administration is hostile to civil rights 2 Mayor set to increase Unverified accusations senior housing availability against Dr. King By J. Zamgba Browne has gotten out of the business Chief Correspondent of building senior housing so New York City is jumping into ayor de Blasio this it in a big way,” said Mayor week announced an de Blasio. “We wouldn’t let aggressive citywide seniors be pushed out of the Mexpanded 300,000 housing plan neighborhoods they helped that includes 30,000 state-of- build,” he added. the –art affordable homes for Along with the Neighbor- senior citizens. hood Pillars program and the The number of seniors in Mitchell-Lama Reinvestment New York is projected to grow Program, the Mayor said “Se- 40 percent by 2040 and the nior First” is the third new Mayor said to meet the housing initiative designed to accelerate needs of older New Yorkers on the creation and preservation fixed incomes the city will in- of affordable housing across By J. Zamgba Browne States,” says the portion on The analysis includes mul- vest $150 million to make more the city. Chief Correspondent Dr. King. tiple pages about his sexual homes accessible to seniors and He said this will be done by The document was report- life as follows. “Dr. King has people with disabilities. financing 200,000 affordable ewly released FBI se- edly from March 12, 1968, continued to carry on his sexual In order to address the homes by 2022, and expand cret of the late Rev. Dr. some three weeks before his aberrations secretly while hold- problem, Mayor de Blasio that goal to 300,000 affordable Martin Luther King Jr. assassination in Memphis, ing himself out to public view said the city wills double its by 2026–enough to house the Nalleges that he had commu- Tenn. as a moral leader of religious commitment to senior hous- entire population of Boston. nist ties and extra marital One part of the document convictions.” according to the ing over the extended 12-year “Seniors First” is needed affairs. The secret was con- alleges financial improprieties document. Housing New York plan, serv- to address the shortage of af- tained in documents released by Dr. King America’s fore- In addition, the document ing 30,000 senior households fordable housing for low-in- by the Trump administration most civil rights crusader and repeatedly referred to some of by 2026. come seniors, who are the most on former President John F. head of the Southern Christian the alleged sex acts which Dr. As an immediate step, de rent-burdened and more likely Kennedy’s assassination. Leadership Conference which King engaged in as “natural” Blasio said the City will seek to live on fixed-incomes than “The course which Dr. he founded. and “abnormal.” proposals for 100-percent af- other New York City popula- King chooses to follow at this Another section of the docu- Meanwhile, critics say it is fordable senior buildings to- tions,” said the Mayor. critical time could have a mo- ment attempts to tie the nation’s unclear whether the FBI ever taling 300 new homes on three He added that through a mentous impact on the future leading civil rights leader to verified any of the allegations underused HYCHA sites at multi-pronged strategy, the of race relations in the United communist organizations. contained in the document. Sotomayor, Bushwick II (Group City will serve 25,000 senior BEACON, November 9 – November 15, 2017 newyorkbeacon.net 9 – November BEACON, November E), and Baruch Houses. households – in addition to the “The federal government 5,000 already reached. Texas church massacre By J. Zamgba Browne Chief Correspondent ffering his sincere con- dolences to families of last Sunday’s church Omassacre in the State of Tex- as, former president Barack Obama called for concrete steps to tackle mass shootings in the United States. “We grieve with the families in Sutherland Springs harmed by this act of hatred, and we will stand with the survivors as they ed. “It’s a very, very sad event,” his vehicle. recover,” he added. President Trump concluded. It was not immediately clear In call for action, the former Meanwhile authorities identi- if Kelley killed himself or of president added, “May God fied the armor-clad lone gunman if he was hit by gunfire by the Black children also grants all of us the wisdom as Devin Patrick Kelley. They resident. to ask what concrete steps we reported that the gunman opened Police said prior to the kill- can take to reduce the violence fire with an AR-15 assault rifle ings, Kelley texted his moth- discriminated against and weaponry in our midst. after entering the small church, er-in-law who worships at the In sharp contrast, Obama’s killing 26 worshippers ranging church occasionally. predecessor Donald J. Trump in age from five to 77. One of “It is a senseless crime, on Halloween said the attack was due to a the deceased was the pastor’s 14 but we can tell you that there By J. Zamgba Browne in the holiday “mental health problem” and year old daughter. And most of was a domestic situation going Chief Correspondent But when a white mother wasn’t a “gun situation.” the dead were children. on within this family,” said showed up with costumed “Fortunately somebody else Neighbors described gun- Freedman Martin, the regional trand Café, a popular children they were immediately had a gun that was shooting in fight and car chase with the director of Texas Department joint in Brooklyn’s Bed- served. “You got to be kidding the opposite direction. Texas gunman. Kelly was re- of Public Safety. “He had ex- ford-Stuyvesant commu- me,” Catlyn told him. “Little “This is a mental health prob- portedly fired upon and chased pressed anger toward his moth- Snity has been accused of racial Black kids walk in and you lem at the highest level,” he add- by a local resident and fled in er-in-law,” Martin continued. discrimination in distributing don’t have candy for them, but candy to children on Halloween you have candy for the white Day. kids. This is unacceptable, here According to published re- or anywhere.” ports, the café refused to give “ I am on the communi- candy to Black trick-or-treaters, ty board and understand he Subscribe to the New York Beacon, only to hand out treats to white doesn’t have to participate in children later. Halloween festivities, but to do 600 Third Avenue, A member of Community something so blatantly discrim- Board 3 in was quoted as say- inatory, is not acceptable and as 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10016 $35.00 ing that he and fellow board a patron I am not accepting it,” member Michael Catlyn heard a she added. per year 212-213-8585 café employee tell three groups Bedford-Stuyvesant is a his- of African-American children torically Black neighborhood, www.newyorkbeacon.net dressed up for Halloween that but it is reportedly becoming the shop does not participate gentrified in recent years. 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If you haven’t tions for faith leaders, a sample enrolled by December 15, bulletin announcement, PSA, you may have to wait a whole and social media tips. In other year before getting access to words, the faith community is affordable health care and being encouraged to treat health the subsidies available under care enrollment like any other ACA, and you may have to pay Foreign labor importer in chief grassroots organizing campaign a fine for not enrolling. Some and get involved in it. states (California, Washing- By J. Zamgba Browne moving manufacturing jobs to Back in the day, before so- ton, Minnesota, DC, Colorado Chief Correspondent Mexico. By Julianne Malveaux cial media, we used to talk and Massachusetts) will allow Mar-a-Lago was applying (TriceEdneyWire.com) about “the drum”, or the ways enrollment until January, but resident Donald Trump’s for the foreign workers visas we shared information in the most will close enrollment on Mar-ra-Lago resort in this past July when the Presi- or all of this Administra- Black community.