Rutgers-Newark Chancellor Nancy Cantor shares her thoughts on the loss of U.S. Representative Donald M. Payne, Jr., a fearless champion and stalwart advocate for education, for students, and the city.
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Tariq Trotter—aka Black Thought, founder of The Roots, and a critically acclaimed solo artist, actor, New York Times’ Best-Selling author, activist and creator––will be the keynote speaker at Rutgers University–Newark’s commencement ceremony.
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka will give the keynote speech at the April 26 “Equitable Growth in the City” conference hosted by Rutgers-Newark Center on Law, inequality and Metropolitan Equity (CLiME).
"Black Faces in High Places," a book co-authored by Rutgers University–Newark Provost Jeffrey Robinson and his long-time friend and fellow Rutgers alum, Randal Pinkett, has won an Axiom award, one of the most prestigious awards for books about business.
A consortium of organizations that advocate for immigrants have recognized Rutgers-Newark Chancellor Nancy Cantor as a higher education leader who supports undocumented students’ access and success on campus and beyond.
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka and his sister, art historian Kellie Jones, shared stories of a childhood shaped by their father, legendary Newark writer and activist Amiri Baraka, and reflected on the legacy of his seminal 1963 book “Blues People” at Express Newark.
The challenges for women in New Jersey politics are great. But their insights, drawn from real-life experience as mothers and daughters, can create laws that improve lives, said four female government leaders during a conversation with Rutgers-Newark students.
As the mother of an autistic son, Rosann Richards, a Rutgers-Newark staffer, knows there are few children’s books featuring characters on the spectrum. Although she never wrote a book before, she created “Tylor’s Authentic Smile: A Sibling Book About Autism.''
Legendary author and activist Amiri Baraka wrote more than 50 books before his death in 2014. His son, Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, will be celebrating one of them, along with his sister, art historian Kellie Jones, at Express Newark on April 3.
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A Rutgers-Newark program that helps parents provide literacy support in Newark schools has done more than improve children’s reading skills. The parents also serve as “cultural brokers,” bridging gaps between a teaching staff of mostly white suburban women and the district’s families, who are predominately Black.
Within three years, nearly half of Newark’s residential property was sold to corporate buyers, a model designed to enrich investors through returns from rent collection, and a nationwide trend that can displace residents and impede home ownership, according to a Rutgers University—Newark report titled Who Owns Newark?
For an organization that leans on collective work with many stakeholders, a global pandemic poses almost insurmountable difficulties. Yet the Newark Public Safety Collaborative’s (NPSC) work has not only continued to provide important resources for the greater Newark community but has added new areas of focus to its already expansive reservoir of information.
A collaboration between Rutgers-Newark neuroscience researcher Mark Gluck and Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences (RBHS) researcher Patricia Fitzgerald-Bocarsly, who studies immune systems and is RBHS provost, was featured in the Daily Beast as a potentially breakthrough study.
Thirty years ago, when Rutgers-Newark alumna Nancy La Vigne entered the field of criminal justice, policy makers paid little attention to data.
Rutgers Business School professor Jeffrey Robinson, an internationally known author and co-founder of the Center for Urban Entrepreneurship and Economic Development, has been named Rutgers University—Newark’s new provost and executive vice chancellor.
The challenges of navigating college and law school as an Afro-Latina woman have been a north star for Ednin Martinez, Rutgers-Newark’s new Assistant Dean and Director of Student Compliance.
Rutgers University has selected Dr. Consuella Askew as its new Vice President for University Libraries and University Librarian. On July 18, 2022, she became Rutgers’ 15th University Librarian and the first person of color in the institution’s 256-year history to hold the position.
Rutgers University–Newark Professor Salamishah Tillet was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in criticism for her New York Times essays on race in arts and culture, the Pulitzer Prize board announced.
April is Jazz Appreciation month, but Wayne Winborne can list the many reasons jazz should be appreciated every day. Winborne is executive director of the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers-Newark, the world’s largest jazz archive and library, where thousands of LPs are housed along with artifacts such as Miles Davis’ green trumpet and Billie Holiday’s rhinestone jewelry.
Rutgers University–Newark’s BOLD Women’s Leadership Network and Project for Empty Space will unveil a mural created by acclaimed artist Adama Delphine Fawundu and BOLD scholarship students on June 6 at 800 Broad Street in Newark from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. The seventy-foot, four-story mural, titled Courage, celebrates the power of womanhood, female identity and ancestral power.