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46 Future Grads Get Job Offers

by Mona Mahadevan Mayor Elicker accepts a manufacturing pathways quarter zip from Jones. On Thursday, Hillhouse senior Arrianna Jones stepped into one of the classrooms where she has spent four years learning how to weld, 3D print, and design machine parts. She left with a $23-per-hour job offer to help build the U.S. Navy’s nuclear submarines. Jones was one of 50 seniors...

Ribbon Cutting Recognizes SCSU’s Quantum Leap

by Thomas Breen Joshua Smith talks through how to repair a scanning electron microscope. That’s a very very closeup look at a wasp’s wing. Cool! A full house at 490 Fitch. In a below-ground laboratory off of Fitch Street, Maggie Blanchard is working with fellow Southern Connecticut State University (SCSU) students to study...

New Haven’s Lady Stout Soars In Nina Simone Tribute

by Lisa Reisman Lady StoutFlint Street TheaterNew HavenMarch 20, 2026 She strutted into the theater, clad from head to toe in bejeweled red. She spun. She twirled. Then came her breathtaking range, from whisper-soft to soulful to operatic seemingly in a single phrase. “I am unapologetic in my power,” Lady Stout, the...

Bridgeport Mayor Joe Ganim announces run for reelection, historic 4th consecutive term

By Brian Lockhart, Staff Writer Bridgeport Mayor Joe Ganim celebrates his reelection victory with supporters at Gather restaurant in Bridgeport, Conn. on Tuesday, February 27, 2024. BRIDGEPORT — Mayor Joe Ganim is seeking a fourth consecutive term and, should he win, will become the city’s longest-serving chief executive, beating out record-holder Jasper McLevy’s...

After $300M Child Care Investment in 2025, Connecticut Families Still Waiting As Lawmakers Push $70M Fix

by Karla Ciaglo HARTFORD, CT — Less than a year after Connecticut committed $300 million to overhaul its child care system, thousands of families remained on a waitlist for subsidies, exposing a gap between the state’s long-term investment and immediate need, advocates said. Lawmakers and advocates on Wednesday called for passage...

Family Seeks Answers After “Sizzla’s” Sudden Death In Prison

by Thomas Breen and Dereen Shirnekhi Pauline Jackson Mchayle received a call Sunday afternoon about her son Craig Whyte, a 45-year-old New Havener who was incarcerated at Osborn Correctional Institution. “They said he had a medical emergency,” she recalled, and that he had been taken from prison to the hospital. State police...

Tuskegee coach sues Morehouse for $1 million after humiliating arrest

By Atlanta Daily World Atlanta Daily World stands as the first Black daily publication in America. Started in 1927 by Morehouse College graduate W.A. Scott. Currently owned by Real Times Media, ADW is one of the most influential Black newspapers in the nation. Following the January 31 matchup between Morehouse College...

Meet the two women educators who taught a Black history marathon for 33 hours to break a world record 

by Dollita Okine, Face2FaceAfrica.com Anita Lewis and Gwendolyn Ebron, two dedicated Black women educators, are making Black history of their own after completing an astounding 33-hour teaching marathon...

Black Artists in America, Installation Three Wraps at the Dixon Gallery and Gardens

TRI-STATE DEFENDER — With 50+ paintings, sculptures and assemblages, the exhibit features artists like Varnette Honeywood from Los Angeles, whose pieces appeared in Bill...

‘There Is a Cost to Telling the Truth.’ But Georgia Fort Is Undeterred

A Minnesota journalist, arrested for covering a protest, reflects on standing up to power and how the Black press keeps the U.S. honest about...

Why Teaching Black History Is Sacred Work

By Word In Black The Word In Black Racial Equity Fund, a component fund of Local Media Foundation, supports the work of Black-owned and operated...

OP-ED: Black America’s 2026 Urban Challenges: Mayor Mamdani Case Study

NNPA NEWSWIRE — We are the Black Press of America. For the past 199 years, since the first publication of Freedom’s Journal in New...

COMMENTARY: From Reconstruction to the SAVE Act

NNPA NEWSWIRE — Frederick Douglass understood something fundamental: identity is not granted by paperwork. It is asserted through presence, voice and participation. He claimed...

City of Atlanta continues supporting TSA officers during federal shutdown

Atlanta Daily World stands as the first Black daily publication in America. Started in 1927 by Morehouse College graduate W.A. Scott. Currently owned by...

AFUWI – Gala to Honor Outstanding Leaders

NEW YORK CARIB NEWS — As leaders of two of the nation’s most esteemed institutions serving minority communities, Dr. Wayne J. Riley and Dr....
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46 Future Grads Get Job Offers

by Mona Mahadevan Mayor Elicker accepts a manufacturing pathways quarter zip from Jones. On Thursday, Hillhouse senior Arrianna Jones stepped into one of the classrooms where she has spent four years...

Ribbon Cutting Recognizes SCSU’s Quantum Leap

by Thomas Breen Joshua Smith talks through how to repair a scanning electron microscope. That’s a very very closeup look at a wasp’s wing. Cool! A full house at 490 Fitch. In a...

Bridgeport Mayor Joe Ganim announces run for reelection, historic 4th consecutive term

By Brian Lockhart, Staff Writer Bridgeport Mayor Joe Ganim celebrates his reelection victory with supporters at Gather restaurant in Bridgeport, Conn. on Tuesday, February 27, 2024. BRIDGEPORT — Mayor Joe Ganim is...

After $300M Child Care Investment in 2025, Connecticut Families Still Waiting As Lawmakers Push $70M Fix

by Karla Ciaglo HARTFORD, CT — Less than a year after Connecticut committed $300 million to overhaul its child care system, thousands of families remained on a waitlist for subsidies,...

Family Seeks Answers After “Sizzla’s” Sudden Death In Prison

by Thomas Breen and Dereen Shirnekhi Pauline Jackson Mchayle received a call Sunday afternoon about her son Craig Whyte, a 45-year-old New Havener who was incarcerated at Osborn Correctional Institution. “They...

Community Health Worker Helps Women Rebuild Lives

by Lisa Reisman Members of Women Healing Hearts Group at Yale School of Medicine’s SEICHE Center, with Saunders (center, seated) in brown turtleneck. Over her 18 years of marriage, Monya Saunders...

Alders Advance Judge’s Appointment To Youth Commission

by Thomas Breen The New Haven independent State Judge Alayna Stone, who currently presides over New Haven’s housing court, is one step closer to taking on another title — that...

Flowers While Living

by Janday Wilson The New Haven independent Jesse Hameen II beating the drums. A rare time he’s not “cheesing”. Credit: Janday Wilson Photo 85 Years of Rhythm: Celebrating Jesse Hameen IINeighborhood...

Elicker Picks Zannelli To Be Next Police Chief

by Thomas Breen The New Haven independent Mayor Justin Elicker plans to nominate Acting Police Chief David Zannelli to serve as the city’s next permanent chief, more than two-and-a-half months...

Bridgeport to turn 100-year-old vacant school into 70 affordable apartments: ‘Meets a need’

BRIDGEPORT — A vacant Bridgeport school will soon be turned into 70 affordable apartments.  The former Waltersville School at 167 Steuben St. was built around 1900 and was in use for...

Bridgeport residents push for community space in Bassick High redevelopment

BRIDGEPORT — “They don’t make things like this anymore,” Margaret Judge said as she looked up at the high ceilings in the auditorium at the old Bassick High School.  The...

Meat King Buys Ex-Ferraro’s Site For $2.26M

by Thomas Breen The New Haven independent Roughly five years after moving their family’s grocery store to North Haven, the owners of Ferraro’s Market have sold the supermarket building at...
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