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MssN survives the pandemic
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Vol. 22 No. 29
JUlY 16 - 22, 2020
Sewanhaka mulls mascots School officials to look into racially insensitive logos this matter at future board meetings.” District officials previously Sewanhaka Central High refused to change Sewanhaka’s School District officials will re- Native American mascot after evaluate the mascots used at all former State Education Comfive schools for potential racial missioner Richard Mills called insensitivity, they announced at it “disparaging” in 2002, accorda July 7 Board of Education ing to the New York Post. “No meeting, after students ques- one wanted to change the school tioned the district’s logo,” then-Assisuse of the Indian tant Superintendent mascot at Sewanhafor Instruction ka High School. Edward Tronolone The other massaid. “We didn’t feel cots include the it was disrespectful Seahawks, at H. in any way.” Frank Carey High But the National School; the SparCongress of Amerit a n s, a t E l m o n t can Indians has Memorial High been campaigning School; the Knights, to end the use of steat F l o r a l Pa rk reotypical Native M e m o r i a l H i g h aUBReY peoples in sports School; and the brands since 1968, Gladiators at New phillips according to the Hyde Park Memori- Elmont organization’s webal High School. site. It explains that “As a result of Indian mascots some community concern, the were “born in an era when racBoard of Education and admin- ism and bigotry were accepted istration will be surveying each by the dominant culture,” and of the school mascots to gauge continue to perpetuate negative their appropriateness to the stereotypes about America’s school and their community val- indigenous population. ues,” Superintendent James Hundreds of tribal nations, Grossane said in a statement. national and regional tribal “We will be sharing updates on Continued on page 16
By Melissa KoeNig mkoenig@liherald.com
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Courtesy Brendan Li-A-Ping
Remembering a friend Friends and family held a candlelight vigil outside Alden Terrace Elementary School on June 28 for Christian Davis, 22, who was killed in a hit-and-run in Manhattan the previous morning. Story, more photos, Page 3.
Officials: Get screened for cancer Fewer residents have been tested during pandemic By Melissa KoeNig and TiMoThY DeNToN mkoenig@liherald.com
The number of Nassau County residents getting routine tests for breast, cervix and colon cancer has decreased by more than 86 percent during the coronavirus pandemic, County Executive Laura Curran announced at a news conference on July 7. “This is a nationwide trend, and raises concerns that deadly
cancers may go undetected if screening appointments aren’t scheduled soon,” Curran said before introducing Nassau University Medical Center’s new mammography van, which will travel to communities across the county to provide residents with greater access to breast cancer screenings. In Elmont, residents have complained about high cancer rates for years, pointing out that several residents of the same
street have been diagnosed with various forms of cancer. In one case, Mimi Pierre-Johnson said, a man who had lived in Elmont for more than 40 years was diagnosed with medullary thyroid cancer, despite having no family history of cancer. The disease accounts for only 1 to 2 percent of all thyroid cancers in the United States, according to the American Thyroid Association. Continued on page 5
t makes sense that we get rid of all these symbols that marginalize people.