Makeni, Sierra Leone, 4th December 2008 - Rugiatu Bangura, 16, of Bombali took her one year old son, Osman to the Makeni Town Hall, which had temporarily been converted into an health fair center for the Integrated Health Week or Mami en Pikin Well Bodi Week that was held nationwide in Sierra Leone between the 22nd and 29th November 2008.
Mothers and Babies Take Vaccines during Sierra Leone's Integrated Health Week Makeni, Sierra Leone, 4th December 2008 - Rugiatu Bangura, 16, of Bombali took her one year old son, Osman to the Makeni Town Hall, which had temporarily been converted into an health fair center for the Integrated Health Week.
It's accompanied by a calendar full of events: festivals, panel discussions on diversity and racism, concerts, contests, pop-up shops and book fairs centered around blackness and what it means in a country where over half the population identified as either "preto" (black) or "pardo" (multiracial) in the last census.
On a bright morning in early April at the Fair Hill center, the couple was out gathering dandelions from the roadside to feed to their horses.
The Winchester lawsuit arose from a complaint received by the fair housing center from Crystal Carter, an African-American single mother of six children.
Lawyers for the fair housing center say that such situations are all too common in Connecticut, even though the Fair Housing Act requires landlords to make reasonable accommodations to assist the disabled.
"When you cannot pay, this is called 'a breach of contract,' " Angelica Anaya Allen, director of the nonprofit Fair Lending Center, explained to a small but diverse group one recent morning.
"How else will younger people learn about this era?" Cuba Nostalgia runs from May 21 to 23 at the Miami-Dade County Fair Expo Center, 10901 Southwest 24th Street, Miami; (305) 856-7595; cubanostalgia.org.org
In Albuquerque, the three lawyers for the Fair Lending Center — a legal aid group that is paid for by the state — would be happy to see their financing merely remain the same.
But in its complaint, the fair housing center claims it was an increase in minority applicants and a decrease in white applicants that caused the authority to adopt the residency requirement in the first place.
Diane Houk, executive director of the fair housing center, said that her group found that all 14 buildings had interior apartment doors that were too narrow, 28 and 30 inches, thermostats as high as 63 inches from the floor and a lack of clear floor space in the bathrooms.
