Tag: Malcolm X
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Opinion: There must be an end to systemic racism in Lawrence Township Public Schools
In response to the modern-day lynchings of Ahmuad Arbery, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Tony McDade, and in New Jersey, Maurice Gordon, that have all taken place within the first six months of 2020, the United States and the entire world have witnessed a resurgent demand for racial justice. The current protests and social revolution known…
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Red Bank library fosters conversation about race through film
RED BANK Striving to promote conversations about ethnicity, the Red Bank Public Library’s “Let’s Talk About Race” program held a film discussion event. The program showed the 2016 documentary “I Am Not Your Negro,” when more than 20 locals attended the film discussion event and were given refreshments, on Sept. 27, at the Red Bank…
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County College embraces Noble Expressions
BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer EDISON — In the shock, pain and grief of learning that his brother, Sidney Garrick, was killed during the Sierra Leone Civil War in 2000, Richmond Garrick was presented with a challenge. Garrick was in the Master of Fine Arts program at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at…