“Right away there was a community [in West New York] that welcomed us and nurtured us through the change,” Katie Perez said.
“With Zumba and ballroom I felt like my confidence went super high and ever since then I just feel unstoppable and I don’t care what people have to say about me. I know who I am and that is what I want to provide to everybody,” the West New York resident said.
What’s the importance of storytelling from a Black perspective? Here’s what the founder and head of editorial Black In Jersey said.
“You can be the people who graduate and serve our people. You don’t have to be someone who’s from out of town to come here and leave. You can be growing up in this community, in our system and come back full circle to be the person in leadership.”
Archangel Raphael’s Mission provides mobile barbershops and showers to New Jersey’s most overlooked communities since 2014 and intends to do more in the future.
Photo courtesy of nj.com. On June 4, New Jersey citizens from both sides of the political spectrum will be casting their ballots in the 2024 Primary election. While the General Election is not until November of this year, Tuesday’s Primary election will be used to determine which candidate from each
“… The people that criss-cross this campus, the ones that I love taking care for, are people who are pursuing something incredibly noble: a shot at a better life,” NJCU President said.
“There’s power in your voice. There’s power in community, and we’ve experienced the results of it,” Riley said. “There’s unity in community,” Community Board president MacCormack continued.
“We also want to start a conversation about the state of the print news industry- and the news industry in general- as well the rise of artificial intelligence in journalism and its contribution to the situation here in Hudson County,” former writer for The Hudson Reporter said.
Photo by co-founder Neidy Gutierrez. Julian Muscio grew up in the restaurant industry. A child of immigrants from Argentina, Muscio and his siblings grew up working in and out of their family’s restaurant, Paisano’s, a beloved Italian restaurant in Rutherford. When Muscio moved to Jersey City ten years ago, he
