Mercy Center Turkey Drive With the goal of providing 250 Thanksgiving baskets, Mercy Center will be collecting 10 to 15 pound turkeys from 8:30 .m. to 4 p.m. through Wednesday. Located at 1106 Main Street, the support agency offers services and programs for economically disadvantaged and vulnerable children and families in Asbury Park. For more […]

Comedic greats Jon Stewart, Janeane Garofalo, and Colin Quinn join media well-knowns Rachel Maddow, Russell Simmons, and Soledad O’Brien in The Muslims Are Coming, a comedic documentary being screened 6:30 p.m. Thursday at Trinity Episcopal Church, located at 503 Asbury Ave. A part of The Racial Justice Project’s Dialogue Series, the free screening features guest […]

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 […]

Second Baptist Church, in collaboration with Trinity Church, will host a 7 p.m. seminar on racism at the former’s 124 Atkins Avenue location. The event will be followed by the 10 a.m. Saturday viewing of Mass Incarceration and Race in America. A round table discussion will follow with light breakfast. “It’s important to talk on […]