Author: The Positive Community
Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes at the Newark Museum of Art
NJPAC celebrated Max Roach’s centennial with a screening of the new documentary Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes at the Newark Museum of Art. Afterwards, a panel discussion was held include Max’s son Raoul Roach, daughter Dara Roach and the film’s director-producers Sam Pollard and Ben Shapiro.
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BAM hosts 38th Annual Brooklyn tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
On January 15, the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) proudly hosted the 38th Annual Brooklyn Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a deeply cherished event honoring the legacy of the civil rights leader. The gathering took place in the Howard Gilman Opera House and was accessible worldwide through a live-streamed broadcast.
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Activist Viola Plummer dies at age 86
Activist and Chairperson of the December 12th Movement Viola Plummer has died. Her passing was announced on Monday. She was
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Reginald Dwayne Betts Interview: Redefining Redemption by Finding Poetry in Prison
Reginald Dwayne Betts recalls being tried as an adult and sent to prison for carjacking when he was 16 and
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Mayor Adams, Chancellor Banks Announce $30 Million in Federal Funding to Create NYC’s First-Ever Magnet High Schools
New York City Mayor Eric Adams and New York City Department of Education (DOE) Chancellor David C. Banks today announced that the city has won two U.S Department of Education Magnet Schools Assistance Program grants totaling nearly $30 million, which will fund the creation of the city’s first three magnet high schools. Magnet schools support the development of special curricula aligned to a specific theme that, in turn, help attract a more diverse groups of students. The grants will be administered over five years and go to six existing schools in the public school system throughout the Bronx and Manhattan.
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Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz Art Collection at Brooklyn Museum
Call it an embarrassment of riches: The musician Alicia Keys and her husband Kasseem Dean, the producer and D.J. known
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Holy Name Announces New Leadership Appointments
Holy Name, the region’s leading independent health system, appointed Cynthia Ziegler as Vice President of Revenue Cycle Management, Suzanne Tammaro
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Consider it Pure Joy | Jennifer Jones Austin
When Jennifer Jones Austin, wife, mother, lawyer and child advocate, and the picture of good health, found herself burdened by a fever she couldn’t shake, doctors insisted it was merely viral and told her to sleep it off. Just days later she lay comatose with a 99% probability of imminent death.
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20-Bed Transitional Housing ‘Village’ Opens in Newark
Officials Say Hope Village II Improves on First Container Community A 20-bed “bridge housing community” is open for people in
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