"Connecticut activist goes on hunger strike" October 18, 2011|Associated Press
HARTFORD - Cornell Lewis is no stranger to activism.
He rallied Hartford residents to root out drug dealers in their neighborhoods. He organized a protest against the closing of a post office in one of the poorest sections of Connecticut’s capital city. And he formed a group mostly comprised of black and Latino men to escort fatherless children to school during a particularly dangerous time in the city’s troubled north end.
But Lewis’s latest demonstration is more personal. Yesterday, the minister, who works as a youth service officer at the state-run Connecticut Juvenile Training School in Middletown, began a hunger strike. He is trying to draw attention to what he says is a racist attitude toward minority employees at the state’s only secure facility for delinquent boys....
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Nothing about hunger in America in today's Globe.
