How North Star Academy’s In-Classroom TutoringStrategies Help Students Close Covid Gaps
Walk into any classroom at a North Star Academy school and you’ll often see students in small groups focused on ...
Essex County College Community Education Forum with Dr. Akil Khalfani and SGA Pres. Yahira Rosales
In this episode of Essex County College’s Community Education Forum, host Alfred Bundy speaks with Professor Dr. Akil Khalfani about ...
Bethune-Cookman University Damaged by Hurricane Ian
The Daytona Beach, Florida university, evacuated prior to the Hurricane Ian’s landfall over concerns about the safety of their students, ...
Newark Board of Education Superintendent Roger León
The Newark Board of Education began its transition to local control in 2018, beginning with the appointment of Superintendent of ...
Moving Education Forward in Newark
For too long we have not taken a holistic stakeholder approach to education in our cities, instead remaining in our ...
FBCLG Joins forces with NoirUnited International to Help African Refugees from Ukraine Continue their Education in the United States
First Baptist Church of Lincoln Gardens (FBCLG), in coordination with NoirUnited (NoirUnited) International, is actively leveraging its internal resources and ...
2022 Governor’s Conference on Housing
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The New Jersey Department of Community Affairs (NJDCA), New Jersey Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency ...
Newark 360 Shaping Our City Together
The Master Plan To develop Newark’s 10-year Master Plan, 10,000 voices spoke and what they ...
Revitalizing Newark’s Revitalizing Newark’s Black Barbary Coast
Lincoln Park Coast Cultural District’s 20th Anniversary By Barry Carter | Photos By Tamara Fleming ...
SEEDING A COMMUNITY IN THE COAST
Key Funders and Partners Light the Way Beans, snow peas, sugar snap, cabbage, and zucchini–more ...
Wells Fargo’s Rulon Washington on Homeowner Assistance Fund
Q&A: Wells Fargo’s Rulon Washington on Homeowner Assistance Fund Available for Homeowners with COVID-Related Financial ...
Documenting Good News Happening in Newark And Beyond
By LaMonica McIverPresident, Newark Municipal Council On a warm, autumn evening, downtown Newark’s arts and ...
Expanding Skincare into Total Wellness: Microbiologist Erin White Takes Therapeutics to Sisterhood
Erin White knew nature worked and botanical extract would stop inflammation. To that end, Thomas ...
AFFLICTION WAS GOOD FOR ME!
By Glenda Cadogan For two years, Fountain Baptist Church Senior Pastor Rev. Dr. J. Michael ...
Newark Beth Israel Medical Center and Children’s Hospital of New Jersey President and Chief Executive Officer Darrell K. Terry Sr.,
Receives the Integrity House 2022 Outstanding Leadership Award From Left to Right: Darrell K. Terry, ...
A Progress Report on Newark Beth Israel Medical Center’s
The excitement is building in Newark’s South Ward as the historic $150 million expansion project ...
You Are What You Eat
“You are what you eat.” Hearing this as a youth, I had visions of myself ...
From HOUSE to HOME
Tracey Phillips is grateful that she finally has a place to call home. Once homeless ...
Smithsonian African American Museum Honors Chadwick Boseman’s Black Panther Costume in New Exhibit
“Afrofuturism: A History of Black Futures,” opens on March 24, 2023, and features the late actor’s iconic gear. Black Panther ...
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Essex County Executive Dedicates the “Ronald L. Rice Sports Complex” in Vailsburg Park in Honor of Retired State Senator Ronald L. Rice
Essex County Executive Joseph N. DiVincenzo Jr. dedicated the Ronald L. Rice Sports Complex in Essex County’s Vailsburg Park in ...
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Rep. Karen Bass Makes History as L.A.’s First Black Woman Mayor
By Maxim Elramsisy “This is my home, and with my whole heart, I’m ready to serve, and my pledge to ...
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Black Playwright Legends Hit Broadway—At Last
By Fern Gillespie The sudden death of Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning Playwright and Screenwriter Charles Fuller (March 5, 1939–October ...
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Newark wins 2022 Planning Excellence Award for Newark360
NEWARK, NJ — Newark Mayor Ras J. Baraka announced Nov. 17 that the New Jersey Chapter of the American Planning ...
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The Arts Brings Residents and Tourists to Play and Chill in Lincoln Park
The Lincoln Park Coast Cultural District (LPCCD) non-profit unique business model in which community development meets the arts, culture, and ...
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From South Park to Lincoln Park
The Lincoln Park Façade Project Has A Story To TellBy Roger Smith, Assoc. AIA, LEED Green Associate There is a ...
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West Indian American Day Carnival 2022
The theme of this year’s Labor Day Parade was “Life,” said Anne Rhea Smith, a board member of the West ...
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A Raisin in the Sun at Newark Symphony Hall
Finds Triumph in its Debut Production Rutgers-Newark (RU-N) Law School alumna and retired Vice Chancellor Marcia Brown produced and directed ...
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