New Jersey high school students learn how their communities shaped local Black history
For Rancocas Valley Regional High School students in Burlington County, New Jersey, their AP African American Studies class ...
137-year-old note found nailed to beam inside historic AME church in New Jersey
A remarkable piece of history was revealed in the rafters of a historic church along the Jersey Shore. A recently discovered ...
Contractor discovers 134-year-old note inside historic AME church in NJ
A construction job inside a historic African Methodist Episcopal (AME) church at the Jersey Shore led to a discovery 134 years in the making.
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First African American cardinal celebrates Black History Month
Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory, the first and only African American cardinal and retiring archbishop of Washington, D.C., ...
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History talk touts St. Luke's 125 years
About 100 people braved the snowy weather of Thursday, Feb. 20, to attend Gladstone historian and author Barry Thomson’s talk ...
They want to walk away from their criminal past. This N.J. county doesn’t make it easy.
Years ago, he had a good-paying job working from home as an accountant. But isolated from the office, he said he fell into a depression and began to lose himself in a shady corner of the dark web ...
Civil rights icon Willa Cofield hosts book signing for new memoir
On Saturday, Cofield, 96, hosted a book signing at Plainfield Library for her new memoir, “The Nine O’Clock Whistle,” before ...