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Columbus Leaders Urged To Employ Somali Police Officers For Better Integration<\/strong><\/a>
\nHowAfrica: The Rise of Africa<\/em>
\nA university professor has asked the leadership of Columbus, Ohio, to recruit more Somali police officers for better integration of local Somalis into the American community. In her new book, Somalis in the Twin Cities and Columbus<\/em>, Stefanie Chambers<\/strong><\/a>, an associate professor of political science at Trinity College in Connecticut, says Somali migrants in Columbus don\u2019t feel well-represented in many sectors of the society like their countrymen in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
\n\u201cWe can go a long way to better serve our new Americans. We can go a long way to breaking down barriers,\u201d Chambers was quoted as saying by the Columbus Dispatch.
\nChambers pointed out that the Minneapolis Police Department has seven Somali police officers, with several others in the academy, while Columbus has none\u2026<\/p>\n

To Grease Wheels of Congress, Trump Suggests Bringing Back Pork<\/strong><\/a>
\nThe New York Times<\/em>
\nRemember the infamous \u201cBridge to Nowhere\u201d? The Montana Sheep Institute or the now-shuttered North Carolina teapot hall of fame?
\nCongress years ago eliminated funding for these types of pet projects, known as earmarks, after they became derided as government boondoggles, largess and a pathway to corruption.
\nPresident Trump now wants to bring them back.
\nIn a freewheeling meeting about immigration with congressional Republicans and Democrats this week, Mr. Trump lamented the gridlock that has gripped the capital in recent years and suggested that earmarks, the practice of stealthily stuffing funding for pet projects into legislation, be exhumed from the legislative graveyard\u2026
\n\u2026Proponents of earmarks, which often include lobbyists, argue that the elimination of the practice has led to greater gridlock and polarization in Congress and that it is a legitimate part of the job to be appropriating funds to local programs and projects.
\n\u201cIt might help a return to regular order in appropriations if they can put earmarks in there,\u201d said Diana Evans<\/strong><\/a>, a political science professor at Trinity College. \u201cThe problem is that the narrative, particularly among Republicans, has developed of earmarks being corrupt.\u201d\u2026<\/p>\n

The Challenge of Fair Housing in CT’s Suburbs<\/strong><\/a> [podcast]
\n\u201cGrating the Nutmeg: The Podcast of Connecticut History\u201d – A Joint Venture of the State Historian and Connecticut Explored – with support from the Sue B. Hart Foundation<\/em>
\nAmericans moved out of the cities and into the suburbs in droves after World War II looking for single-family homes. In this episode, we talk with the experts about Connecticut\u2019s history of steering certain people to certain neighborhoods through restrictive covenants, racial and religious discrimination, and federal housing policies\u2014all of which helped determine where African American and Jewish homebuyers could purchase homes.
\nUsing West Hartford as an example, learn what some common real estate terms really mean–\u201credlining,\u201d steering, and exclusionary zoning–and how they affected West Hartford\u2019s neighborhoods. Please note that this episode contains outdated language used in historical context.
\nView Trinity College\u2019s Dr. Jack Dougherty<\/strong><\/a>\u2019s accompanying presentation at http:\/\/bit.ly\/2017-11-02<\/a> and also visit his online book On The Line: How Schooling, Housing, and Civil Rights Shaped Hartford and its Suburbs<\/em> at OnTheLine.trincoll.edu.<\/p>\n

New Debate Stirs Over Hartford’s Residency Requirement<\/strong> <\/a>
\nHartford Courant<\/em>
\nBy the time Marilynn Cruz-Aponte accepted the top spot at Hartford\u2019s public works department, she thought she had proven her fealty to the city. \u2026 Her plight is one side of a growing debate over Hartford\u2019s residency rule, a mandate that spans more than four decades and has provoked heated discourse around its benefits to the city\u2026
\n\u2026Garth Myers<\/strong><\/a>, director of Trinity College\u2019s urban studies program, said he disagrees with the notion that workers must live in cities to signal devotion.
\n\u201cI think of it as a kind of vocation,\u201d he said. \u201cNobody is going to stay with a job for the city if they don\u2019t have that kind of commitment. You either care for the city, or you\u2019re going to move on.\u201d
\nHartford\u2019s unique rule puts it at a disadvantage in attracting skilled candidates, Myers added.
\n\u201cMy general perspective, especially when it\u2019s out of line with what other cities and towns in Connecticut have, is that it would make sense … to get rid of the rule,\u201d he said. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t hold that New Haven or Bridgeport or Waterbury are in a different situation than Hartford.
\n\u201cThey\u2019re all poorer, minority cities surrounded by wealthier suburbs. And they all have the same issues Hartford does with property taxes, mill rates and all of the things that might make it inconvenient to live in the city proper.\u201d<\/p>\n

An African country reckons with its history of selling slaves<\/strong> <\/a>
\nThe Washington Post<\/em>
\nOUIDAH, Benin \u2014 Less than a mile from what was once West Africa\u2019s biggest slave port, the departure point for more than a million people in chains, stands a statue of Francisco F\u00e9lix de Souza, a man regarded as the father of this city.
\nThere\u2019s a museum devoted to his family and a plaza in his name. Every few decades, his descendants proudly bestow his nickname \u2014 \u201cChacha\u201d \u2014 on a de Souza who is appointed the clan\u2019s new patriarch.
\nBut there\u2019s one part of de Souza\u2019s legacy that is seldom addressed. After arriving here in the late 1700s from Brazil, then a Portuguese colony, he became one of the biggest slave merchants in the history of the transatlantic slave trade.
\nIn Benin, where the government plans to build two museums devoted to the slave trade in collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution, slavery is an embattled subject. It is raised in political debates, downplayed by the descendants of slave traders and deplored by the descendants of slaves\u2026
\n\u2026Finally, the king arrived, surrounded by several wives wearing matching yellow-and-orange dresses. He shook de Souza\u2019s hand. Glasses of champagne were poured.
\n\u201cThis ceremony reminds us of the connection between Dahomey and de Souza,\u201d the king said, as a Beninese TV crew filmed.
\n\u201cI wish good health, a long life and peace to the king,\u201d de Souza responded.
\nSlavery was never mentioned.
\n\u201cIt\u2019s a memory both families would prefer to forget,\u201d said the professor escorting the students, Timothy Landry<\/strong><\/a> of Trinity College in Connecticut.
\nWhen the event ended, the de Souza family poured out of the building.
\nThey wore outfits of bright, traditional African fabrics. On some of the skirts and shawls, a white man\u2019s face had been printed, his eyebrows raised, his mustache curled.
\nIn case he couldn\u2019t be identified, the man\u2019s name was printed in big letters.
\n\u201cFrancisco F\u00e9lix de Souza.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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