by Allan Appel IRIS Executive Director Maggie Mitchell Salem (right), with Sanctuary Kitchen directors Aminah Alsaleh and Rawaa Ghazi. Wilbur Cross High School IRIS summer intern Husna Hakimi (center) with U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal and State Sen. Marty Looney. Our nation’s semiquincentennial arrived a day early at IRIS on Friday, with fireworks...

BY ADELE HAEG A Civilian Review Board (CRB) member spoke out against investigating police-misconduct complaints filed by people who are not Black, according to recently published meeting minutes — prompting pushback from other board members, who argued that a complainant’s race should not factor in to such decisions. The comment at the center of...

BY PAUL BASS For one glimpse of how Max Webster is steering New Haven’s parks system into a new quarter-century, you could look at the old Edgewood Park soccer field. Make sure it’s not raining. Or bring boots if it is. Because the field gets soggy fast. You get there by walking down the...

BY ADELE HAEG Wildaliz Bermúdez can still remember testifying in state court at 6 years old — she was “so tiny” that her feet didn’t reach the floor of the witness box when she sat down in front of judges and representatives from the Board of Education. She recalls telling them in...