Jia Lynn Yang
JIA LYNN YANG
For some, Dr. King’s words favor reparations

Two days before the national holiday celebrating his birth, the voice of Martin Luther King Jr. filled the Community Baptist Church: “It’s all right to […]

January 21, 2002

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Residents work together to turn vacant lots into gardens

  Before the garden, Greenwood Street in the Hill neighborhood was dismal, “a war zone.” “It looked like ‘Oh my God, what happened here?'” said […]

January 18, 2002

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Connecticut Limo in financial trouble

Connecticut Limo, the main source of transportation to and from local airports for students at Yale, has run into serious financial trouble in the aftermath […]

January 17, 2002

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City group urges Yale to make amends for past

Just two miles off the Yale campus, cries of “Reparations now!” rang through the Community Baptist Church in Newhallville one Friday night last December. Five […]

January 15, 2002

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Yale slavery report questioned by experts

It was August, the slowest month of the year for news, when the controversy broke. A report written by three Yale doctoral candidates and published […]

December 12, 2001

JIA LYNN YANG
Deadlines loom for welfare recipients

The stringent welfare deadlines touted by politicians five years ago are here. And for hundreds of the neediest families in New Haven — like 28-year-old […]

December 6, 2001

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Locals complain about poor Comcast service

The baseball season may be over, but Boston Red Sox fans were out in force Thursday night. Their opponent: Comcast Cable, the area’s sole traditional […]

November 30, 2001

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Planned Parenthood buys new facility

Since last December, Planned Parenthood of Connecticut has been preparing to consolidate its offices and clinic into one location on 345 Whitney Ave., squarely in […]

November 29, 2001

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City home cares for HIV/AIDS patients

Leon D., 52 years old, was so heavily sedated by his AIDS medications that his attempts at cooking in his apartment kitchen were, more often […]

November 16, 2001

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City takes over 4 day-care centers

Mayor John DeStefano Jr. edged closer to his vision of universal preschool in New Haven Tuesday as the city moved to consolidate day-care programs for […]

November 15, 2001

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Dwight Hall still making amends

After a unanimous decision by the Dwight Hall Cabinet more than two weeks ago to keep its name, Dwight Hall took a step Friday to […]

November 12, 2001