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North Frontage Is “MLK Boulevard”

by Thomas MacMillan | Jun 18, 2011 10:45 pm | Comments (6)

Two years ago, Alderman Yusuf Shah had a dream in which he searched unsuccessfully for Martin Luther King Boulevard among the streets of New Haven. When he awoke, he set about putting the slain civil rights leader’s name on the map.

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50 Years Later, Pioneer’s Mug Shot Lands On Award

by Jacob Cohn | Jun 13, 2011 1:14 pm | Comments (4)

When someone showed Lula Mae White a mugshot Saturday night, tears came to her eyes. It was her own picture—taken 50 years ago.

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Is “Freedom” Worth $5,000?

by Thomas MacMillan | May 17, 2011 11:30 am | Comments (16)

With $40,000 from the state, the city will hire a consultant to look into creating a waterfront exhibit on the Connecticut Freedom Trail. The city will kick in $5,000 in bonding to make it happen—too high a price for one alderman.

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‘Read-In’ Celebrates Black Voices

by Akimi Palitz | Mar 3, 2011 12:09 pm | Comments (3)

A group of seventh and eighth graders from Celentano Museum Academy were originally planning to spend their Saturday afternoon with friends at the mall. Instead, they spent it together at the Stetson Library. Credit the change of plans to President Barack Obama—not to mention Malcolm X, Phyllis Wheatley, and a range of other influential African-Americans.

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Kadiatou Meets Venture Smith

by Allan Appel | Feb 28, 2011 9:07 am

He was only a boy around 8 when he was brought as a slave to New England. At the same age she came with her family as immigrants to New York and then New Haven. Now an eighth-grader, Kadiatou Diallo discovered she and a freed slave and Colonial American success story named Venture Smith just might hail from the same part of Africa, Guinea, some 280 years apart.

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The Roots Of Healing

by Melinda Tuhus | Feb 24, 2011 11:57 am | Comments (7)

In a discussion among four African-Americans about how they can heal the emotional and psychological scars of slavery and Jim Crow, one man pointed to the advantages of living in a segregated community.

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Negro Leaguers Return To The Spotlight

by Allan Appel | Feb 7, 2011 8:27 am | Comments (6)

The “Negro” baseball leagues not only produced stars like Willie Mays and Satchel Paige; they fielded black women athletes like hurler Mamie “Peanut” Johnson. Those heroes have been brought back to life in New Haven thanks to some artists who feel they, too, are playing in a segregated league.

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Troup School Honors Judge Constance Baker Motley

by Allan Appel | Feb 6, 2011 11:13 am | Comments (3)

Prosecutor Kiyana Smith felt that the death of Jack in “Jack and the Beanstock” was hardly accidental. So she led the prosecution team on a charge of murder. Judge Angela Robinson commiserated and counseled her that one of the glories of our legal system is how hard the prosecutor must labor to overcome the presumption of innocence.

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Reyes, Kilpatrick, WIlliams Honored

by Staff | Jan 18, 2011 3:25 pm | Comments (9)

When a statewide commission looked for civil-rights heroes to honor in the Rev. Martin Luther King’s memory, the road kept leading it in one place: New Haven.

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MLK’s Memory Inspires Nonviolent Rap

by Melinda Tuhus | Jan 18, 2011 11:39 am | Comments (2)

Monique Jarvis came from New York to New Haven in honor of Martin Luther King Monday. She brought with her a performance piece about a noose and a gun.

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