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In 2023, approximately 2.5 local newspapers shut down each week. This national downhill trend has continued in 2024 and is hitting home in New Jersey. Decisions made by the Newark Morning Ledger Co. and NJ Advance Media have led to the print closures and full closures of multiple local New Jersey news outlets.
Newark, NJ - The bustling intersection at Broad and Market Streets is a prime location for shopping, featuring a variety of department stores and street vendors. It’s also a public transportation thoroughfare making it an ideal spot to engage with folks.
About 15 members of the Major Taylor Cycling Club of New Jersey met up on a recent Sunday morning in downtown Newark. They set out on an epic five-day, roughly 500-mile ride that ended in Montreal. Award-winning photographer Brian Branch-Price met up with the cyclists as they launched on the first leg of the journey.
Placing stories in historical context and engaging young journalists in social justice movements to better understand issues and to write as a participant rather than a spectator are central elements of Public Square Amplified’s emancipatory journalism mission. A talk co-sponsored by NJ Urban News and Public Square Amplified and held on International Women’s Day, March 8, served as the basis to allow young journalists to examine the elements of emancipatory journalism.
Essex County College kicked off its inaugural Juneteenth event on Thursday, June 15, the start of three days of educational and cultural activities, all located on the Newark campus in the heart of downtown Newark.
To kick off the events, Dr. Akil Khalfani, director of the college’s Africana Institute, moderated a panel discussion on the historical significance of Juneteenth and its importance to the ongoing contemporary struggle for economic and racial justice. Panelists included Dr. Angela R. Garretson of the New Jersey Institute for Technology and Lawrence Hamm, the chairman of the People's Organization for Progress.
The ‘Mayor of Ivy Hill’ gets his flowers for years of service
More than a hundred community members gathered at the corner of Ivy Street and Tuxedo Parkway in Newark's Ivy Hill neighborhood for a street-renaming event in October. Locals, including friends and family members of Houston Stevens, made sure to give him his flowers while he is still alive.
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