Tag: Maya Angelou

  • Old Bridge Library shows films focusing on black history

    Old Bridge Library shows films focusing on black history

    The Old Bridge Public Library is holding a four-part film series in honor of Black History Month. “Freedom Riders” was shown on Feb. 10. “W.E.B. Du Bois: A Biography in Four Voices” was shown on Feb. 12. “The March” will be shown at 7 p.m. on Feb. 21. The film centers around the story of the…

  • Long-time music educator Winston Hughes remembered in Edison

    Long-time music educator Winston Hughes remembered in Edison

    EDISON — Winston Hughes, who passed away last week, set the bar for every music teacher in the township, according to Board of Education member Theresa Ward. “For 40 years, he was head of the music department and part of the music department in Edison High School,” Ward said at a board meeting on Oct.…

  • County College embraces Noble Expressions

    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…