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Cover Story: The Bookers on Booker Mayor Booker’s
parents talk about their son Mayor Booker talks about
his vision, his progress, and his family
By Jean Nash Wells and Robin S. Nash
Meeting with Mayor Cory Booker is no easy feat. He’s a mayor on the move always on the go. If you want to catch him, you have to run with him. Minutes before our scheduled interview, his office informed us of a change of venue. The Mayor was at the scene of a nursing home fire.
My View: Celebrating Black Music
By Rev. Theresa Nance
She waltzed into the restaurant wearing a stunning blue outfit with matching accessories. I'm referring to the Rev. Kim Yancey James, first lady of The Paradise Baptist Church in the city of Newark, NJ, where her husband, the Rev. Jethro James, sits at the helm as under shepherd.
From the Heart: Happiness is…
By Rosemary Sinclair
Despite the many setbacks, I have experienced, because of God’s grace I am an exceedingly happy person. My contentment has prevailed since I opened my heart to Jesus 34 years ago. Christ’s presence has carried me through sorrow, loss, and much physical pain and trauma.
The Way Ahead: Help Darfur Refugees
By Mwandikaji K. Mwanafunzi
The United States is rich. Our moderate-income population looks like “haves” to the “have-nots” in much of the Third World.
We store unused clothing in our closets. Inevitably, wear spring-cleaning, unpacking summer clothes, storing winter threads, and de-cluttering yield duds that have not been worn in years and may never be again. Darfur refugees in Sudan and Chad in Africa, who have escaped murdering, pillaging, raping Janjaweed militias with barely their lives, have neither closets nor sufficient clothing. Why not donate our unused vines to people who have lost everything?
The Fitness Doctor: Dads, Take Your Rightful Places
Kahlil Carmichael, C.P.T
There is an often-repeated joke that you can always find a seat at a restaurant on Father’s Day. The joke implies that unlike Mother’s Day, it is not a highly reverenced day. The joke might be funny except there is a bit of truth to it. Something has transpired in our society that makes it acceptable for there not only to be vacant seats at restaurants, but dads are also missing from dinner tables in our community.
The Last Word: Remembering the “Summer of
Discontent” Shedding light on Newark’s progress
By Linda Epps
In May 2006, a group of 22 arts, culture, education, government, and community organizations in Newark made history. They gathered at The New Jersey Historical Society to discuss another major historical event that, for the past 40 years, has dictated the political, social, and cultural identity of Newark: the 1967 “Summer of Discontent.”
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