Councilwoman Gloria Taylor is fond of saying “you have to count to four” when quoting her late husband, former Mayor Richard Taylor. Since Adrian Mapp has taken the Mayor’s Office, Assemblyman Jerry Green’s Regular Democratic Organization has been counting to five – five of seven votes on the City Council, that is. We’ve all seen how much…

Around two hundred people gathered into Abyssinian Baptist Church tonight for an empowering evening of heroines, an inspirational recognition of moral giants. Tonight, the People’s Organization for Progress (POP) used Women’s History Month as an occasion to recognize five extraordinary women and their roles in the fight for justice during the civil rights movement and beyond. It’s…

As some of you know, tonight is the first of three community meetings to be held this year about the Muhlenberg Hospital site. It will take place at 7pm at the Plainfield High School Cafeteria. I expect many of you to be there to express your concerns, as you should – and for at least a…

A look back at the life of Amiri Baraka will be one of three features of State of the Arts this evening on NJTV, along with a Newark-based filmmaking couple and their new 3D movie about the city, and the band Cowboy Junkies. See below for NJTV’s release about tonight’s program. It will air at 8pm…

In the second part of this interview with Carmen Salavarrieta, Director of Angels for Action, she addresses reaching out to Mayor Mapp and the lies and rumors being spread. She also talks about the usefulness of the ID cards, the Latin American Coalition’s President Flor Gonzalez, and the difficulties in identifying corpses. Like the first…

I’ll soon chime in again on this important matter, but sometimes its better to listen to the person at the center of it all. Here is the first portion of Carmen Salavarrieta’s discussion with Negros Americanos about the Angels for Action Community Identification Card program. The video runs around five minutes and covers the program’s…

Don’t get me wrong, I do have thoughts on what happened on Friday night at the Democratic City Committee meeting. But afterwards, I wasn’t in the mood to write – I’ll let them out over the next couple of days. That being said, Bernice’s play by play was very thorough, as usual. What I was…

As she gave hugs and shook hands following last week’s Cedarbrook Block Association Meeting, Third Ward Councilwoman Gloria Taylor wasn’t shy about voicing her opinion on being “set up.” She had been taken by surprise by the New Democrats’ announcement of Charles McRae as their Candidate for Mayor Mapp’s unexpired Third Ward City Council seat.…

It was a brutally cold morning typical of early 2014 – a Saturday in January, I believe. Because my car was snowed in, I decided to take a walk down to my barber shop, Herb’s Place on South Avenue and Berckman Street. As usual, I was going to see Chris the Barber. Chris, who hails…

Due to daylight savings time, it’s still dark outside right now at nearly 7:00am. However, with highs in the 50s and lows in the upper 30s, it’s that time of year again – at least Monday, Tuesday, and maybe Wednesday this week. It’s time to begin to ride 15 miles each way to my job.…