October 2020

Connecticut is one of the most segregated places in the country. Despite widespread protests over racial inequities, Gov. Ned Lamont and other leaders are resisting calls to address the state’s affordable housing crisis. This article was produced in partnership with the Connecticut Mirror, which was a member of the ProPublica Local Reporting Network in 2019. by Jacqueline Rabe Thomas, The…

Read More One of America’s Wealthiest States Might Pass Up an Opportunity to Tackle Housing Segregation

By C. Dixon (from The Autism Site) Reginald “Neli” Latson is a young black man on the autism spectrum whose life changed forever after a stranger called the police on him when he was 18. This incident occurred in 2010. In the 10 years that have passed, Latson has still not achieved total freedom. His mental…

Read More Deemed “Suspicious” For Sitting Outside A Library, Autistic Black Teen Has Been In And Out Of Jail Since

October 5 marks the 102nd birthday of one of jazz’s most overlooked pioneers: the late great bassist Jimmie Blanton. Though his professional recording career was cut short by his untimely passing, Blanton’s two-year stretch fundamentally changed how the bass is played in jazz. Listen to playlist HERE.

Read More Jimmie Blanton

By ELIZA FAWCETT HARTFORD COURANT |OCT 14, 2020 AT 10:28 AM In the eyes of President Donald Trump and some Republicans, electing the Democrats in 2020 would lead to a clear and frightening outcome: tranquil suburbs in Connecticut and elsewhere would be overrun by crime, violent protests, and social decay. “Donald Trump’s appeal to European-American suburban women voters is intended…

Read More Unrest in Avon? Trump’s message of law and order, loaded with racist undertones, takes aim at safety and security in Connecticut suburbs

Emily Peck Senior Reporter, HuffPost October 10, 2020 Devon Kitzo-Creed, a 28-year-old African American woman, always planned on leaving the United States to live abroad. Definitely before she had children, but probably not until she was in her 30s.  2020 pushed up her timeline. Now she and her husband, who live in Wilmington, Delaware, are planning on relocating to Ecuador right after…

Read More Fed Up, These Black Americans Say It’s Time To Get Out Of The U.S.

The Church’s Black Exodus Pastors’ silence on racism and COVID-19 is driving Black parishioners away from their congregations. DARA T. MATHIS OCTOBER 11, 2020 Across the country, Black Americans feel under siege from the coronavirus pandemic and raw from the police brutality fueling Black Lives Matter protests. But some are nursing another intimate wound: their church’s…

Read More For Pastors of White Churches with Black Members

By Channon Hodge, CNN Updated 4:00 AM ET, Sun October 11, 2020 A new documentary, “Driving While Black,” digs deep to untangle a twisted reality. Black people continually face danger behind the wheel, and it’s rooted in history. The two-hour film, premiering October 13 on PBS, winds its way from slavery to Jim Crow to the advent…

Read More Filmmakers unearth a long trail of racism in ‘Driving While Black’

In late February, the Trump administration was publicly playing down the severity of the worsening coronavirus epidemic. But in private, White House officials had a different story — and that information was shared with top traders who made fortuitous bets against the market. Trump advisers conceded concerns about the coronavirus in private meetings with board members…

Read More Short everything