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Neighbors Imagine Revived Armory

by Mona Mahadevan According to the city’s current plans, the building’s west wing will be dedicated to vocational training, while the east wing will serve as housing. As the city moves forward with allocating a $6.75 million state grant on repairs to the Goffe Street Armory, Alexandra Taylor, a New Haven resident of over 40 years, hopes it will become a...

Ex-Prez Sues Union. Twice

by Dereen Shirnekhi A workplace dispute between the carpenters union’s then-president and his future successor has resulted in two federal lawsuits — one alleging racial discrimination, the other defamation. The plaintiff in both cases is Ernest Pagan, a lifelong New Havener who also chairs the City Plan Commission and leads efforts...

CT Student Loan Reimbursement Program Accepting Applications For Payments Made In 2025

by Staff Report HARTFORD, CT — The Connecticut Student Loan Reimbursement Program has opened a new grant round and is now accepting applications for student loan payments that were made during the 2025 calendar year. Established in 2024, this program was created to provide direct financial relief to Connecticut residents burdened...

Tenant, Face Of Affordable Housing Redev, Faces Eviction Lawsuit

by Thomas Breen In an Instagram video posted by Mayor Justin Elicker to celebrate the opening of the Curtis Cofield II Estates, Reginald Blakey can be seen unlocking a front door, walking up a flight of steps, and standing in the kitchen of his new apartment. “They called me and they...

Let’s Go Swimming: An Argument For Building A Public Pool At English Station

by Mark Oppenheimer (Opinion) It is almost perverse, given the sheer poundage of snow accumulated outside my house, to pick this moment to talk about swimming in the summer months. But because the city is currently deliberating plans to convert the former English Station power plant, on Ball Island (which...

Connecticut Lawmakers, Housing Providers Seek $123.9M To Address Rising Homelessness

by Karla Ciaglo CTNewsJunkieCTNewsJunkie HARTFORD, CT — As subfreezing temperatures strain shelters and warming centers across Connecticut, state lawmakers and shelter service providers warned that the state’s homelessness system is operating beyond capacity, leaving thousands exposed to life-threatening conditions and prompting calls for expanded housing and prevention funding. The Connecticut Coalition...

Connecticut Lawmakers, Housing Providers Seek $123.9M To Address Rising Homelessness

by Karla Ciaglo CTNewsJunkie HARTFORD, CT — As subfreezing temperatures strain shelters and warming centers across Connecticut, state lawmakers and shelter service providers warned that the state’s homelessness system is operating beyond capacity, leaving thousands exposed to life-threatening conditions and prompting calls for expanded housing and prevention funding. The Connecticut Coalition...

Why Black Parents Should Consider Montessori

BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — I have found that there are some educational approaches that consistently provide a safer, more enriching, and more affirmative environment for...

NAACP condemns racist social media post shared by president

By Alexis TaylorAFRO Managing Editor On the fifth day of Black History Month the 47th president of the United States promoted racist content to millions...

Commentary: Court ruling forces No. 47’s administration to restore CFPB funding

Consumers lost more than $15 billion in 2025 due to weakened agency oversight by Charlene Crowell Over the past year, the Trump administration took a series...

‘Trump’s psyche’: The aide driving president’s most controversial policies

For years Stephen Miller has been a conservative firebrand in Donald Trump's political orbit. Now, he has become a lightning rod. His relentless, combative style...

Trump demands $1 billion from Harvard as university standoff deepens 

by Kofi Oppong Kyekyeku, Face2FaceAfrica.com photo: history.com President Donald Trump has intensified his clash with Harvard University, now demanding a $1 billion payment to settle the long-running dispute between his administration...

Don Lemon Made the Headlines, but Georgia Fort’s Arrest Shows No Journalist Is Safe

NNPA NEWSWIRE — Don Lemon, a veteran broadcaster and longtime critic of President Donald Trump, was arrested late Thursday night in Los Angeles after...

Black History

OP-ED: Economic Empowerment Has Always Been a Part of Black History NNPA NEWSWIRE — At OIC of America, along with our affiliates across the country,...

NNPA Stands With Georgia Fort, Don Lemon, And All Arrested, And Demands All Charges Be Dropped

Written by Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. History has a way of repeating itself. Today, it rhymes with the clicking of handcuffs on two of...

Democrat Christian Menefee wins special election for U.S. House seat in Texas

Democrat Christian Menefee won a Texas U.S. House seat in a special election Saturday that will narrow Republicans' already-slim majority, telling President Trump that...

Rep. John Larson joins effort to impeach DHS Sec. Kristi Noem

by Lisa Hagen U.S. Rep. John Larson, D-1st District, joined a growing number of House Democrats on Wednesday supporting impeachment efforts against Homeland Security Secretary...

History Will Remember Who Spoke and Who Hid

Journalists were arrested for doing their jobs. Not in some distant dictatorship. Not under cover of night in a failed state. In the United...

REV. SHARPTON BLASTS TRUMP ADMINISTRATION’S HIGHLY POLITICIZED ARREST OF JOURNALIST DON LEMMON

New York, NY — Rev. Al Sharpton, Founder and President of the National Action Network (NAN), issued the following statement following the arrest of longtime...
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Sanctuary Kitchen Gets New Wheels

by Lisa Reisman Over the last 22 years, a 2004 Honda Element SUV has industriously pulled the CitySeed farmers market trailer around the city, transported market gear, and delivered Sanctuary...

Neighbors Imagine Revived Armory

by Mona Mahadevan According to the city’s current plans, the building’s west wing will be dedicated to vocational training, while the east wing will serve as housing. As the city moves...

Ex-Prez Sues Union. Twice

by Dereen Shirnekhi A workplace dispute between the carpenters union’s then-president and his future successor has resulted in two federal lawsuits — one alleging racial discrimination, the other defamation. The plaintiff...

CT Student Loan Reimbursement Program Accepting Applications For Payments Made In 2025

by Staff Report HARTFORD, CT — The Connecticut Student Loan Reimbursement Program has opened a new grant round and is now accepting applications for student loan payments that were made...

Tenant, Face Of Affordable Housing Redev, Faces Eviction Lawsuit

by Thomas Breen In an Instagram video posted by Mayor Justin Elicker to celebrate the opening of the Curtis Cofield II Estates, Reginald Blakey can be seen unlocking a front...

Let’s Go Swimming: An Argument For Building A Public Pool At English Station

by Mark Oppenheimer (Opinion) It is almost perverse, given the sheer poundage of snow accumulated outside my house, to pick this moment to talk about swimming in the summer months....

Connecticut Lawmakers, Housing Providers Seek $123.9M To Address Rising Homelessness

by Karla Ciaglo CTNewsJunkieCTNewsJunkie HARTFORD, CT — As subfreezing temperatures strain shelters and warming centers across Connecticut, state lawmakers and shelter service providers warned that the state’s homelessness system is...

Connecticut Lawmakers, Housing Providers Seek $123.9M To Address Rising Homelessness

by Karla Ciaglo CTNewsJunkie HARTFORD, CT — As subfreezing temperatures strain shelters and warming centers across Connecticut, state lawmakers and shelter service providers warned that the state’s homelessness system is...

Two Poets Laureate Get To Work

Lucy Gellman CTNewsJunkie Henry Mead didn’t know which poem to begin with. In front of him, words spilled out over the paper, tangles of language parsed into neat lines. He looked...

Cold Couldn’t Stop Refugee Run

by Laura Glesby Alex and David Guzhnay regroup inside the Wilbur Cross gym after running the 5k. Eight-degree weather and below-zero windchill had nothing on New Haveners determined to support immigrants...

Tong: CT Issued Dozens Of Warnings Of Data Privacy Act In 2025

by Donald Eng CTNewsJunkie HARTFORD, CT — The attorney general’s office took multiple actions under the Connecticut Data Privacy Act in 2025, according to Attorney General William Tong. Among those...

CT House Speaker Reprimands ‘Tomfoolery’ After Member Wears ICE-Related Message During State Of The State Address

by Donald Eng CTNewsJunkie HARTFORD, CT — House Speaker Matt Ritter had a stern warning for any representative thinking about violating the chamber’s rules of decorum Thursday. “This is the historic...
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By Alexis TaylorAFRO Managing Editor On the fifth day of Black History Month the 47th president of the United States promoted racist content to millions...

Commentary: Court ruling forces No. 47’s administration to restore CFPB funding

Consumers lost more than $15 billion in 2025 due to weakened agency oversight by Charlene Crowell Over the past year, the Trump administration took a series...

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For years Stephen Miller has been a conservative firebrand in Donald Trump's political orbit. Now, he has become a lightning rod. His relentless, combative style...

Trump demands $1 billion from Harvard as university standoff deepens 

by Kofi Oppong Kyekyeku, Face2FaceAfrica.com photo: history.com President Donald Trump has intensified his clash with Harvard University, now demanding a $1 billion payment to settle the long-running dispute between his administration...

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NNPA NEWSWIRE — Don Lemon, a veteran broadcaster and longtime critic of President Donald Trump, was arrested late Thursday night in Los Angeles after...

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OP-ED: Economic Empowerment Has Always Been a Part of Black History NNPA NEWSWIRE — At OIC of America, along with our affiliates across the country,...

NNPA Stands With Georgia Fort, Don Lemon, And All Arrested, And Demands All Charges Be Dropped

Written by Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. History has a way of repeating itself. Today, it rhymes with the clicking of handcuffs on two of...

Democrat Christian Menefee wins special election for U.S. House seat in Texas

Democrat Christian Menefee won a Texas U.S. House seat in a special election Saturday that will narrow Republicans' already-slim majority, telling President Trump that...
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