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Opinion: New Haven Must Stop The “Sweeps” Now

by Billy Bromage, Sean Gargamelli-McCreight, Carter Shannon, Alexis Terry and Tammy Varney The writers of this opinion piece are members of the Unhoused Activists Community Team (U-ACT), an organization of unhoused residents and housed allies fighting for the rights and dignity of unhoused people in New Haven. (Opinion) From across the New Haven Green, Bo saw city workers closing in around...

CT Officials Celebrate Return Of Cheshire Student Taken By ICE

by Donald Eng CHESHIRE, CT — Stuck in ICE detention after being seized on his way to school, a Cheshire High senior not only managed to assist his legal team in winning his release, he didn’t even fall behind on his homework. The student, identified only as Rihan due to concerns...

Step Afrika! Pushes Tradition A Step Forward

By Shaunda Holloway   As drums floated over the stage, it was as if thunder was coming right down from the heavens, stronger and more controlled with each powerful strike. Muscular arms pounded the taut drumskins, spreading percussive joy through the Shubert Theater. Shields and sticks alchemized into instruments. Bells...

Statewide ban on student cellphones in CT’s public schools moves a step closer to reality

HARTFORD — Student cellphones would be prohibited throughout the public school day under legislation approved Monday in the state House of Representatives aimed at stopping distractions from learning. Some minority Republicans said the bill is not needed at a time when many school districts across the state have already adopted cellphone-use policies. But Democrats said...

Ribbon Cut On Goodwill Reentry Center

by Mona Mahadevan Mary Loftus: “I tell people all the time: You’re not a felon. You’re not a criminal. You’re a person.” Richard Borer, the executive overseeing the Goodwill reentry center. After 22 years in prison and one-and-a-half years in a halfway house, Gilfredo Santiago now works as a community advocate at...

‘Slavery Was a Good Thing,’ Black Leader Says MAGA Told Him

LOS ANGELES WAVE — U.S. Rep. James Clyburn reveals that some MAGA Republicans expressed positive views on slavery and desire to reinstitute Jim Crow-era...

Pete Hegseth Was Roasted For Quoting Samuel L. Jackson’s Fake ‘Pulp Fiction’ Verse During Pentagon Prayer

 by Christopher Rhodes, Blavity.com US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth looks on during a press briefing at the Pentagon in Washington, DC, on March 31, 2026....

New find at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello largely built by enslaved workers shows the property still holds secrets

 by Mildred Europa Taylor, Face2FaceAfrica.com For many years now, archaeologists have been studying Monticello, the 18th-century plantation and home of Thomas Jefferson. They, however, keep making new finds. Not...

House Votes To Restore Protected Status To Haitians In US, Defying Trump

By Christopher Rhodes, President Donald Trump’s efforts to restrict legal immigration and paint negative, racist pictures of immigrant communities received a congressional rebuke on Wednesday. Democrats, as well...

Elon Musk summoned in France as X faces serious allegations over deepfakes and abuse material

 by Kofie Oppong Kyekyeku, Face2FaceAfrica.com French prosecutors have called on Elon Musk to appear in Paris this week as part of a widening investigation into activity on the social...

Dr. Erica Schwartz Makes History as the First Black Woman to Lead the CDC.

 BlackNews.com Dr. Erica Schwartz is President Trump’s pick to lead the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention. The nomination comes as vaccine policy...

Building Bridges of Support: How AAPI Equity Alliance Is Strengthening California’s Anti-Hate Network

OAKLAND POST — In May 2022, Patricia Roque said she and her parents were attacked after a late-night stop at a fast-food drive-thru in...
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Opinion: New Haven Must Stop The “Sweeps” Now

by Billy Bromage, Sean Gargamelli-McCreight, Carter Shannon, Alexis Terry and Tammy Varney The writers of this opinion piece are members of the Unhoused Activists Community Team (U-ACT), an organization of...

CT Officials Celebrate Return Of Cheshire Student Taken By ICE

by Donald Eng CHESHIRE, CT — Stuck in ICE detention after being seized on his way to school, a Cheshire High senior not only managed to assist his legal team...

Step Afrika! Pushes Tradition A Step Forward

By Shaunda Holloway   As drums floated over the stage, it was as if thunder was coming right down from the heavens, stronger and more controlled with each powerful strike....

Statewide ban on student cellphones in CT’s public schools moves a step closer to reality

HARTFORD — Student cellphones would be prohibited throughout the public school day under legislation approved Monday in the state House of Representatives aimed at stopping distractions from learning. Some minority Republicans said the bill...

Ribbon Cut On Goodwill Reentry Center

by Mona Mahadevan Mary Loftus: “I tell people all the time: You’re not a felon. You’re not a criminal. You’re a person.” Richard Borer, the executive overseeing the Goodwill reentry center. After...

Opinion: Food Aid Is A “Moral Necessity”

by Rabbi Eric Woodward Every year, when my family sits down for its Passover seder, we loudly recite these words, written nearly two thousand years ago: “Let all who are...

Farmer Kicks Off State-Rep Campaign With Activist Accolades

by Thomas Breen Saturday’s Zoomed campaign kickoff. A Black Lives Matter New Haven co-founder, a local civil rights attorney, and a democratic-socialist Hamden lawmaker gathered on Zoom — not to lead...

Bus Hits Bus

by Thomas Breen No people were injured in the smashing of this personal-injury-lawyer ad. Police temporarily blocked off a downtown intersection Monday afternoon after a city bus collided with the front...

7 Months Later, Dix Deli Reopens

by Thomas Breen Store clerk Nur Hossain: Business has been slow so far. Newly reopened, at 704 Dixwell Ave. A Newhallville corner store is now back open — roughly seven months after...

Union Election On Tap For Yale Postdocs

by Mona Mahadevan Yale postdocs will hit the polls next week to vote on whether or not to join the university’s graduate student-worker union, UNITE HERE Local 33. That vote is...

As Contract Negotiations Continue, Yale Unions Hit The Streets

by Mona Mahadevan Yale nurses are not unionized. Even so, Victoria Atkin-Dahm, a certified nursing assistant at YNHH’s St. Raphael’s campus, decided to show up in solidarity. State Treasurer Erick Russell...

T Officials Celebrate Return Of Cheshire Student Taken By ICE

by Donald Eng CTNewsJunkie CHESHIRE, CT — Stuck in ICE detention after being seized on his way to school, a Cheshire High senior not only managed to assist his legal...
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‘Slavery Was a Good Thing,’ Black Leader Says MAGA Told Him

LOS ANGELES WAVE — U.S. Rep. James Clyburn reveals that some MAGA Republicans expressed positive views on slavery and desire to reinstitute Jim Crow-era...

Pete Hegseth Was Roasted For Quoting Samuel L. Jackson’s Fake ‘Pulp Fiction’ Verse During Pentagon Prayer

 by Christopher Rhodes, Blavity.com US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth looks on during a press briefing at the Pentagon in Washington, DC, on March 31, 2026....

New find at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello largely built by enslaved workers shows the property still holds secrets

 by Mildred Europa Taylor, Face2FaceAfrica.com For many years now, archaeologists have been studying Monticello, the 18th-century plantation and home of Thomas Jefferson. They, however, keep making new finds. Not...

House Votes To Restore Protected Status To Haitians In US, Defying Trump

By Christopher Rhodes, President Donald Trump’s efforts to restrict legal immigration and paint negative, racist pictures of immigrant communities received a congressional rebuke on Wednesday. Democrats, as well...

Elon Musk summoned in France as X faces serious allegations over deepfakes and abuse material

 by Kofie Oppong Kyekyeku, Face2FaceAfrica.com French prosecutors have called on Elon Musk to appear in Paris this week as part of a widening investigation into activity on the social...

Dr. Erica Schwartz Makes History as the First Black Woman to Lead the CDC.

 BlackNews.com Dr. Erica Schwartz is President Trump’s pick to lead the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention. The nomination comes as vaccine policy...

Building Bridges of Support: How AAPI Equity Alliance Is Strengthening California’s Anti-Hate Network

OAKLAND POST — In May 2022, Patricia Roque said she and her parents were attacked after a late-night stop at a fast-food drive-thru in...

American College of Physicians Names First Black EVP & CEO, LeRoi Hicks

SAN DIEGO VOICE & VIEWPOINT — According to a press release from ACP, Hicks’ selection comes after a national search and recommendations for the...
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