A community unified in delivering a message that Love trumps Hate gathered for close to 3 hours at Springwood Avenue Park on Labor Day for a Stand Against Hate Rally. Two women – Nicolle Harris, a lifelong city resident, activist and minister, and Jess Alaimo, a comedian known for her organizing LGBTQ and other social […]

Tuesday night’s screening of I Am Not Your Negro, the Oscar-nominated documentary by Raoul Peck, and the Q&A discussion that followed is but the start of an ongoing forum on race relations in the city and the world, organizers said. Presented by the Racial Justice Project, the free event featured an after screening discussion led […]

Editor, Asbury Park Sun, “President Trump is rarely reluctant to express his opinion, but he is often seized by caution when addressing the violence and vitriol of white nationalists, neo-Nazis and alt-right activists…” [New York Sunday Times 8/13/17] President Trump’s reluctance and caution regarding racism is shared by many Americans and it seems to be […]

My family laughs at me when they realize that on many mornings I wake up early with a thought, an idea, a suggestion that I feel compelled to share with others. This morning it is 4:15 a.m. as I begin this letter. I hope my Asbury Park family does not laugh at me and dismiss […]