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Jun 28, 2016 · ELIZABETH – The city may have about 20 listings on either or both the National and State Historic registers, but only one of them is in such dire need of help that it was placed on Preservation...
Sep 27, 2013 · The Brentano Quartet, consisting of, from left, violinist Serena Canin, violist Misha Amory, cellist Nina Marie Lee and violinist Mark Steinberg, will perform Steven Mackey's "One Red Rose ...
- Newark, Essex County: A Tale of Two Generations
- Morristown, Morris County: 'Someone Ought to Say Something'
- Jersey City, Hudson County: New Name, Old Community
- Elizabeth, Union County: 'Nothing Happens'
- Lakewood, Ocean County: 'Changed For The Better'
- Trenton, Mercer County: 'It Was Always A Nice Place'
- Atlantic City, Atlantic County: A Microcosm of The City
- Camden, Camden County: 'It's Not A Pretty Scene Always'
- Wilingboro, Burlington County: 'A Very Nice Street'
"Dear Black People, Let's Love Ourselves," reads a sticker, pasted on the parking meter on space 327A, Martin Luther King Blvd., Newark. A proud message. Also a poignant one. The subtext is: "No matter what they do to you." This Martin Luther King Boulevard bears witness to two generations who loved themselves. No matter what was done to them. The ...
The story continues below the video. It was 1970 — two years after the assassination — and there was still a sense of urgency on Evergreen Avenue. Someone had to bear witness. Eventually, the whole street did. "For six months, all you had to do is walk up and down the avenue and say, 'Someone ought to say something,'" recalled Dr. Felicia Jamison. ...
The story continues below the video. Skateboarders. Storefront churches. Orthodox Jews. A T-Mobile store. Street murals. The Mary McLeod Bethune Life Center. At least four police cars, lights blazing. A branch of the Jersey City Public Library. A possible drug deal. And Dr. Martin Luther King. He's presided over his street since April 22, 2000 — wh...
The story continues below the video. At 3:30 p.m. on a weekday, 1,060 budding artists, writers, painters, musicians, filmmakers and computer graphic designers clog the little 700-foot street in front of Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy on Martin Luther King Plaza in Elizabeth . Parents, in search of their kids, painfully nudge their cars up Martin Lut...
The story continues below the video. The apartments, duplexes and homes along Dr. Martin Luther King Drive tell the story of a growing township. The story continues below the gallery. Capping the residential street at the north end are the Lakewood Plaza Apartments, built more than a half-century ago. On the south end are homes and duplexes about 1...
The story continues below the video. Mercdes “Dee Dee” Bethea grew up in the neighborhood around Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in Trenton. It is unrecognizable now, she said. "It was always a nice place,” she said. “They were nice homes, nice people lived there. People who worked, had good jobs, they raised their families here. Now everybody’s t...
The story continues below the video. The scenery along Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard neatly sums up this city's multiple personalities. One end of the street gently rises to the Boardwalk, allowing pedestrians to reach the beaches, the casinos and glittering ocean. The other end strikes out from a tangle of highways almost 1.5 miles inland, ...
The story continues below the video. Many Camden residents still call Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard by its former name, Mickle Boulevard. The stretch that runs from the beginning of Camden’s reemerging downtown corridor to its waterfront, has other remnants of the city’s past — but it also bears the signs of what many hope Camden’s future wi...
The story continues below the video. Willingboro, a town of about 32,000 in Burlington County, renamed the former Salem Road Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. in honor of the late civil rights activist on April 22, 2012. The street is only 0.3 miles long and runs from Beverly Rancocas-Road to Levitt Parkway. The busy street houses the town’s muni...
Get Lost in the Music. Whether you’re a concert-goer or classical music lover, there’s something in Elizabeth for you. The historic Ritz Theatre and Performing Arts Center, for example, hosts Latin music concerts and artists year-round. Built in the 1920s, the fully restored theater, which still features its original art deco design, has ...
Dec 17, 2017 · The Elizabeth uprising began on the night of August 11 when three or four carloads of African American youths began throwing Molotov cocktails and other projectiles at stores and businesses in the waterfront area along the Hudson River setting off fires.
The singing of “We Shall Overcome” is a civil rights era staple as Essex County marks the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Student Shania Langford said, “It is essential that we finish where he left off.”
This changing cultural landscape and the assassination of the great civil rights leader MLK contributed to a spark in anger amongst African Americans, who used a variety of outlets, including music, to express their frustration.
