An article today in the New York Times talking about steps that the International Court of Justice in The Hague on Thursday, including ordering Israel to take concrete steps to ensure humanitarian aid reaches Gaza. Famine is setting in.
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This is one of the many articles coming out every day about the war in the Middle East. I’m finding that one’s emotions are all over the place trying to figure who is most at fault. Looking to many different new sources. This is just one.
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Article by the Times Photography Staff about the different ways newspapers across the country represented the overturn of ROE. — Excerpt: Newspaper websites across the country covered the U.S. Supreme Court’s overturning of abortion rights with banner headlines and large photos. Some featured multiple stories, others fewer. Some sites downplayed, while others blew out the […]
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This image is an Instagram post by Bonnie Siegler whose firm designed the book – caption below. After the US Supreme Court overturned ROE and took away women’s rights, this book and its perspective seem very important. — “This incredible new book clearly and simply explains why and how men are responsible for every unwanted […]
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Photo from National Geographic about the Hindu celebration of spring, Holi. I am adding this image because Rutgers Newark Encourages students to embrace their religious celebrations. Holi: The Festival of Colors was celebrated on campus, It offered opportunity to teach others about Hindu culture and religion, which created a strong sense of community and belonging.
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Image is from the exhibition Rutgers African American Alumni Gallery: The Forerunner Generation by Beatrice J. Adams and Jesse Bayker. From the Exhibit: James Dickson Carr was the first African American student to graduate from Rutgers. He was born on September 28th, 1868, in Baltimore, Maryland, to Thomas Carr, a Presbyterian minister, and Mary Louise […]
Go to postI am adding this post in the context of the war in Ukraine and the threat to world peace caused by Russian foreign policy.
Go to postI feel as though this contribution is necessary to get other contributors/viewers to consider those who are most vulnerable really in any society. Once this shift in thinking is facilitated, then that's when we can truly begin to change as a society and give a seat to those who are most marginalized.
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On Saturday, June 27th 2021, the words “ABOLISH WHITE SUPREMACY” were painted in bright yellow 25ft high letters on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard between the Essex County Historic Courthouse and Veterans’ Courthouse. On Halsey Street, east of the Rutgers campus, the words “ALL BLACK LIVES MATTER” takes up another city block. These powerful […]
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In 1960 for federal Marshall’s escorted Ruby Bridges to a segregated school in Louisiana. This week (03/21/22) Ketanji Brown Jackson was escorted to Supreme Court Confirmation hearings as the first Black woman nominated to America’s highest court.
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Newark promotes being proud of who you are, to be their authentic selves, and proud of where they come from.
Go to postDialogue In A Time Of Fracture Workshop – Express Newark March 29, 2022
Go to postQuote from a political science student who participated in the Dialogue Workshop on March 29, 2022.
Go to postQuote from a political science student who participated in the Dialogue Workshop on March 29, 2022.
Go to postQuote from a political science student who participated in the Dialogue Workshop on March 29, 2022.
Go to postQuote from a political science student who participated in the Dialogue Workshop on March 29, 2022.
Go to postQuote from a political science student who participated in the Dialogue Workshop on March 29, 2022.
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Diversity can be impaired by split-second decisions triggered by biases. We all are capable of impeding diversity because of our narrow experiences and takes on the world. Family, culture and environment all play a part in how we make sense of everything. When it comes to the inability to practice empathy, lack of exposure to […]
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Members of the Rutgers community have come together to call for change as protests against police violence and racism sparked by the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody continue nationwide.
Go to postDialogue In A Time Of Fracture Workshop – Express Newark March 29, 2022
Go to postDialogue In A Time Of Fracture Workshop – Express Newark March 29, 2022
Go to postDialogue In A Time Of Fracture Workshop – Express Newark March 29, 2022
Go to postQuote from a political science student who participated in the Dialogue Workshop on March 29, 2022.
Go to postQuote from a political science student who participated in the Dialogue Workshop on March 29, 2022.
Go to postCommentary of how In order to be racist you have to have power for it to make an impact or affect.
Go to postA quote from a participant in A Dialogue in a Time of Fracture Workshop – Express Newark.
Go to postAn Anchor Institution is an institution that has roots in a community, has power whether that is economic power, cultural power, etc. Chancellor Cantor founded the Newark Anchor Collaborative and has lead Newark's Anchor institutions to collaborate on solving Newark's seemingly intractable problems.
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Apart from RU-N Dialogue at Express Newark, 03/29/22
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A common consensus on the falsehoods of the American Dream
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Will You Be My Monument is a collaboration between writer Salamishah Tillet of New Arts Justice at Rutgers University – Newark, designer Chantal Fischzang, and photographer Scheherazade Tillet. This public art installation was inspired by the City of Newark’s removal of the Columbus statue in Washington Park on June 25, 2020. Featuring a photograph by […]
Go to postDiverse students at Rutgers notice how Rutgers Newark openly promotes its diversity yet fails to offer inclusive, safe spaces and resources.
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Image on the cover of HR40 & Reparations Tool Kit by the ACLU. Excerpt from the Tool Kit: HR 40: WHAT IS IT, AND HOW DO WE PASS IT? H.R. 40 is a Congressional bill that seeks to explore reparations for slavery and address how slavery and its legacy have deeply harmed generations of Black […]
Go to postA quote by Assistant Professor Diane Wong of Global Urban Studies/Urban Systems Ph.D., Women’s and Gender Studies, Political Science. Panelist on A Moment of Racial Reckoning
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Image from the Digital Archive: Scarlet + Black Citation: Neilson, James, “Bill of sale for Mark for $20 until he turns 25,” Scarlet and Black Digital Archive, Rutgers University, accessed March 5, 2022, From the Digital Archive: James Neilson (1784-1862) sells a black man named Mark to Abraham Veghte for a term of five years […]
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On Saturday, June 27th 2021, the words “ABOLISH WHITE SUPREMACY” were painted in bright yellow 25ft high letters on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard between the Essex County Historic Courthouse and Veterans’ Courthouse. On Halsey Street, east of the Rutgers campus, the words “ALL BLACK LIVES MATTER” takes up another city block. These powerful […]
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Radical Impermanence (2018) by Layqa Nuna Yawar, for a citywide mural project, honors famous artistic Newarkers like Sarah Vaughan, Whitney Houston and Philip Roth (who called “radical impermanence” an enduring American tradition.) Photo Credit: Simbarashe Cha for The New York Times.
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Image accompanying the article Reparations need to be part of the conversation about racial justice by Nichole Nelson published in The Washington Post.
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Abortion Is Normal is an exhibition organized by a collective of cultural practitioners as an urgent call-to-action exhibition to raise both awareness and funding in support of accessible, safe, and legal abortion. This show comes at a time when legal abortion is under acute attack throughout the United States. Simultaneously, the 1973 landmark ruling, Roe […]
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In the four years since NDN Collective officially launched as a movement-building organization, we have been honored to build Indigenous power alongside our People and our communities. Since our inception as an organization, we have taken an ecosystem approach to build Indigenous power with different entities within the collective working in tandem to support and […]
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Brooklyn-based artist, MILO MATTHIEU presents an organic introspection of the self, understood broadly in the academic field and brought straight to the canvas. Matthieu’s complex works check in with deep philosophical questions of identity and self-perception. Through a diverse palette of earth tones and primary colors, collage, and other forms of mixed media, Matthieu is […]
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Image published in the article Mapping a Plan for Reparations in the Twenty-First Centuryby Ashley Dennis, published in Black Perspectives, published by AAIHS.
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This Dorothea Lange image was included in the article “George Takei got reparations. He says they strengthen the integrity of America” by Neda Ulaby on opb.org
Go to postMy answer to the question What is the American Dream to you?
Go to postPromts from a tool kit created by Millions of Conversations for a dialogue workshop.
Go to postQuote from Listening Practice: A PTL Guidebook by Millions of Conversations. This is a prompt in this tool kit for dialogue.
Go to postLetter to Speaker Pelosi, Majority Leader Hoyer, Majority Whip Clyburn, Minority Leader McCarthy, and Honorable Members of the House of Representatives urged Congress to immediately bring House Resolution (H.R.) 40, the Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act, to a full vote on the House floor.
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Vice invited conservative and progressive women to their offices to discuss feminism.
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Image included in an article in Newark Arts about the Harriet Tubman Monument Project.
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The Declaration of Independence states the principles on which our government, and our identity as Americans, are based. Unlike the other founding documents, the Declaration of Independence is not legally binding, but it is powerful. Abraham Lincoln called it “a rebuke and a stumbling-block to tyranny and oppression.” It continues to inspire people around the […]
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This image accompanies the NPR article “Americans are divided on abortion. The Supreme Court may not wait for minds to change” by Julie Rovner. Image caption: “Demonstrators gathered in front of the U.S. Supreme Court as the justices heard arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, a case about a Mississippi law that bans most […]
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Joseph T. Baldwin sold a 26 year old man to James Neilson for $125. The date was 1814-04-20, in Newark, NJ. Here is the full text: Know all men by these Presents that I Joseph T. Baldwin of the Township of Newark in the County of Essex, For under consideration of the sum of One […]
Go to postWe hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
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Double-sided flyer for a December 22, 1969, event with Charles “Poppy” Sharp, chairman of the Black People’s Unity Movement (BPUM) in Camden, sponsored by the United Black Front. The front of the flyer has an image of Sharp and event details. The back of the page reads “Fight Racism Support the Black Community” and tells […]
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