NEWARK SPEAKS

NEWARK - A man has given back in a big way to more than 1,000 people in Newark Saturday morning. Local transportation entrepreneur Kenneth Jones helped organize a trip to Six Flags for the people of...

By Barry Carter The girls from Newark went to the same camp five years apart, and both were crying for the same reason. Shaheedah Johnson, who was 12 years old, and Mariyam Kayjay, who was 7, had...

By Karen Yi Two incumbent Newark City Council members and a newcomer -- who all ran with the support of Mayor Ras Baraka -- won their respective races in Tuesday's runoff elections, and will serve four-year terms...

by Jerry Milani Newark Mentoring Movement, an organization with a network of Newark based youth mentoring programs, is holding their seventh annual charity golf outing on Monday, June 18 at Bayonne Golf Club in Bayonne, NJ. This...

by Nick Rummell NEWARK, N.J. (CN) – Announcing a new policy to protect religious groups from the biased application of municipal zoning and landmark laws, the Justice Department brought its first complaint under the initiative on behalf...

By New Jersey Stage (NEWARK, NJ) -- The Institute of Jazz Studies (IJS) at Rutgers University-Newark is now home to the collection of nearly 1,000 artifacts that belonged to late jazz icon William J. “Count” Basie Jr. The...

By Matthew Brown At 5 p.m. Monday afternoon, organizers from the People’s Organization for Progress, a grass-roots activist group, held the organization’s weekly Justice Monday event outside the Peter Rodino Federal Building in Newark. The...

https://www.facebook.com/CityofNewark/videos/885932314946889/ Did you know that you can help our Department of Public Safety reduce crime in the city by using the Citizen Virtual Patrol system? Visit cvp.newarkpublicsafety.org to see how for yourself!

By Eric Kiefer A trio of Baraka-backed candidates for Newark City Council prevailed over their opponents during the runoff to the 2018 Primary Election. NEWARK, NJ — A trio of candidates for Newark City Council backed by...