Vineyard Haven resident Arnold “Arnie” Reisman, a long time panelist on the NPR quiz show, “Says You!” died unexpectedly on Oct. 4. Reisman’s wife, Paula Lyons, confirmed his death, saying he passed at about 1 am Monday morning and that she was staggered by his loss. Reisman was active in the Vineyard’s nonprofit and writing […]
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To the Editor:
We must applaud the Martha’s Vineyard Chiefs of Police Association for its vision and proactive coordination in establishing a need for implicit bias training and seeking a pre-eminently qualified and experienced training team from Hilliard Heintze to facilitate sessions on-Island May 4-6.
We wish to thank the Martha’s Vineyard Community Foundation (also known as the Permanent Endowment) and the Martha’s Vineyard Diversity Coalition for joining our group, the Martha’s Vineyard Social Justice Leadership Foundation, in providing financial support for this training endeavor.
We also commend their sincere invitation of including a community segment in the Leadership Course to share the curricula framework presented to all police personnel this week, and listen to its feedback about racially just policing and recommendations for advancing a progressive agenda for action.
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Martha’s Vineyard mourns loss of Vera Shorter, Herb Foster
Both were civil rights icons on the Island.
Vera Shorter was a pillar for social activism on Martha’s Vineyard and beyond. Gabrielle Mannino
The Island lost two of its leading and longtime civil rights advocates Saturday, Vera Shorter and Herb Foster.
Shorter was born in 1923 in Huntington, Long Island.
Shorter’s life was devoted to family, career, and civil rights advocacy in New York. She attended business school, and became the first African American equal opportunity officer in the New York district of the IRS. Her activism led her to the Brooklyn chapter of the NAACP.