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Arts & Ideas Picks New Director

by Staff The International Festival of Arts & Ideas has tapped New Haven resident and experienced arts leader nico w. okoro to serve as its next executive director. See below for a Monday morning email announcement about okoro’s appointment, and click here to read a recent article in The Arts Paper about okoro’s new gallery space in Westville. New Haven, CT...

All Sunshine At Sunday’s Freddy Fixer

by Adele Haeg Luca Santell and Jeremy Yanza are both juniors in the Wilbur Cross Marching Band, which has about 40 members. Alders, including Jeanette Morrison, Angel Hubbard, Theresa Morant, and Brian Wingate wave at onlookers lined up along Dixwell. A group of organizers including Fred Christmas (left) and Manmita Dutta (right)...

Arts & Ideas Taps nico w. okoro As Its Next Executive Director

By Stacy Graham-Hunt   The following was submitted by Stacy Graham-Hunt. It includes additions from Arts Paper Editor Lucy Gellman. The International Festival of Arts & Ideas announced today the appointment of artist and curator nico w. okoro as its next executive director, following a competitive national search conducted in partnership...

OP-ED: Measure ER Offers an Opportunity to Vote Our Values

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After the Ruling: How Trump’s Struck-Down Tariffs Impact Black-Owned Businesses

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Automatic Draft Registration Raises Questions Among Young Americans

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Why Challenging Wrongful Convictions Act is back in front of state lawmakers

by Tandy Lau A bill overturning case law preventing innocent New Yorkers from challenging their guilty pleas with non-DNA evidence resurfaced in the state legislature...

URBAN AGENDA: Stroke Ain’t No Joke

by Dr. Olajide A. Williams Nearly two decades ago, while leading the newly certified Primary Stroke Center at Harlem Hospital, I partnered with hip hop...

Pope Leo XIV Apologizes For Vatican’s Role In Legitimizing Slavery

By Black Information Network “It is impossible not to feel deep sorrow when contemplating the immense suffering and humiliation endured by so many in stark...

Asian Store Owner Found Not Guilty in Shooting of Black Teen Over a Water Bottle

By courtesy of BlackNews.com Chikei Rick Chow, an Asian convenience store owner accused in the 2023 fatal shooting of 14-year-old Cyrus Carmack-Belton, who is Black, was found...

‘I regret’: Ex-head of Iowa schools says as he’s sentenced for falsely claiming to be a U.S. citizen 

by Dollia Okine, Face2FaceAfrica.com Ian Roberts, the former superintendent of Iowa’s largest school district, was sentenced to two years in prison on May 29. Roberts admitted...

National Leaders in Miami for First Black-Jewish Alliance in More Than 25 Years

By BlackPressUSA Newswire Historic gathering launched emerging national alliance to combat antisemitism, racism, and division through renewed Black-Jewish solidarity TV personality Van Jones and media executive...

Missing Black Girl, 16, Found Hanging from Tree in N.C.

LOS ANGELES WAVE — Area resident Kenneth Tolbert said he was near the United House of Prayer for All People Church on May 8...

Ledisi Gives Voice to Fats Waller’s ‘Ain’t Misbehavin’’

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Arts & Ideas Picks New Director

by Staff The International Festival of Arts & Ideas has tapped New Haven resident and experienced arts leader nico w. okoro to serve as its next executive director. See below...

All Sunshine At Sunday’s Freddy Fixer

by Adele Haeg Luca Santell and Jeremy Yanza are both juniors in the Wilbur Cross Marching Band, which has about 40 members. Alders, including Jeanette Morrison, Angel Hubbard, Theresa Morant, and...

After the Ruling: How Trump’s Struck-Down Tariffs Impact Black-Owned Businesses

HOWARD UNIVERSITY NEWS SERVICE — Approximately 90% of tariff costs were paid by businesses and consumers in the United States, not in foreign countries. Businesses that rely on imports...

Pedestrian Plaza Preserved

by Mona Mahadevan Matt Fantastic, the owner of Elm City Games: Plaza events “raise sales in a meaningful way.” Eddy Jabbour: The plaza is “the worst thing ever.” Ninth Square’s “Rainbow Road”...

Mosques Team Up For Prayer Service, Festival

by Thomas Breen Hundreds of Muslims from faith communities across Greater New Haven gathered at Yale’s Payne Whitney Gym — and then celebrated together in Edgewood Park — to mark...

Mary Wade CEO Retires

by Thomas Breen Mary Wade Home’s longtime leader David Hunter has retired after spending 45 years working for the Fair Haven-anchoring nursing home. See below for a Thursday email press release...

Next-Gen Gardeners Weed Their Way Thru Beaver Ponds Park

by Adele Haeg Hari Manchi, a URI intern, talks with Nan Bartow and another neighbor about improvements being made to the garden this summer. Nan Bartow holds out a mugwort root. “I...

LCI Descends On Q Ave Complex

by Mona Mahadevan Five city inspectors discovered 77 housing-code violations related to leaky ceilings, blocked gutters, and broken windows at a 40-unit apartment complex this week after conducting a mass...

DESK Receives Life-Saving Donation

by Adele Haeg A downtown drop-in center is that much more equipped to save the lives of clients in cardiac arrest — now that a Guilford-based medical-technology company has donated...

Bermudez Brings Primary Petition To The Cove

by Laura Glesby The New Haven independent Jet fuel fumes and park funding. Healthcare premiums and electric bills. Those environmental and cost-of-living concerns were on the minds of Morris Cove voters...

Anti-ICE Protest Targets Citizens Bank

by Thomas Breen The New Haven independent Outside 39 Church St. Friday. Andrew Rice and (below) Johnny Rivera. After 31 years as a depositor at Citizens Bank, local peace activist Joan...
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