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Oh Lord, Rutgers Hops on Trump Bandwagon Cancels A Major HBCU Event
The latest to follow President Donald Trump’s cancellation of DEI initiatives is Rutgers University.
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VP Kamala Harris Highlights Newark’s Progress of Lead Pipe Removal In A Visit To New Jersey
Vice President Harris took part in a roundtable as a part of her "road show" to draw attention to lead replacement initiative.
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It’s a YouTube Inauguration for Pittsburgh’s First Black Mayor
The surge in Omicron variant cases is forcing Ed Gainey's party online
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NJ Hypes $120 Million Plan to Slash the Time Needed to Replace Newark’s Toxic Lead Pipes
As concerns continue to grow about dangerous lead in Newark, N.J.’s drinking water, Mayor Ras Baraka, along with county and state officials, announced a plan to speed up replacement of the city’s lead pipes to about two years—down from about 10. Lead has been a concern for residents of New Jersey’s largest city for years,…
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Fears and Frustrations as Newark, NJ, Hands Out Bottled Water Amid a Lead-Contaminated Water Crisis of Its Own
Inspiring comparisons to the water crisis in Flint, Mich., New Jersey’s biggest (and predominantly black) city, Newark, is handing out bottled water to its residents amid a worsening contaminated water crisis. Like Flint, the problem in Newark is that much of its tap water is contaminated with lead. It’s a problem that first started percolating…
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Newark, NJ, Files Suit Against Opioid Manufacturers
I have an uncle who will tell anyone willing to listen about his history of drug use. He will unabashedly talk about using cocaine in every form. He lists barbiturates, hallucinogens and every imaginable mind-altering concoction in a history of drug use that dates to the ’70s. “But those Percs and Oxies,” he told me,…
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How a Family Tragedy for Newark, N.J., Mayor Ras Baraka Inspired a Haven for Domestic Violence Survivors
On a balmy summer night in 2003, 31-year-old Shani Baraka and her partner, Rayshon Holmes, 30, went to Baraka’s older sister’s house to retrieve some of her belongings. Her sister, Wanda Pasha, was separating from her increasingly violent and erratic husband, who lay in wait at her Piscataway, N.J., home. He shot and killed Baraka…
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Newark, NJ, Fraternal Order of Police Fights Hard to Stop Civilian Review Board
The idea of a Civilian Police Review Board has been touted as a solution to police brutality for the past 50 years. With 200 CCRBs in existence across the country, the idea is gaining traction. But will police unions allow the communities they serve to investigate it and to subpoena officers? The city of Newark,…
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Revolutionary Fire Fuels State of Black World Convention as Activists Prepare for Trump
The New Jersey Nation of Islam Vanguard Drill Team—serious-looking young sisters marching in paper-cut precision right in front of Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan and the masses who had gathered for the State of the Black World IV Conference—looked like something out of an old book on Pan-Africanist Marcus Garvey. The self-proclaimed “provisional president”…
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Black Intellectuals, Activists Assert Themselves in Trumpland
Activists and intellectuals in Newark, N.J., talked for two hours Thursday night about what to do now that President-elect Donald Trump is a reality. Because “Brick City” has a history of utilizing black and brown power to affect public policy, the city’s Mayor Ras Baraka—the son of late activist-artist Amiri Baraka—not only joined in but…
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