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NEWARK, NJ–Corinne Bailey Rae is a time traveler.A cosmonaut. A historian of the future past. And this benevolent explorer wants her fans to see what she has seen. Her latest album, Black Rainbows, a 45-minute transmission released September 15, invites the listener on an immersive, sonic voyage traversing the American South, Ethiopia, and …
How the “Free Mumia” movement rocked Black ... - PUBLIC SQUARE
In 2024 and beyond, it might be hard for those who have grown up with the World Wide Web, and social media in particular, to understand that there was not an instant grapevine in 1995 for Black journalists from across the nation to immediately learn …
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Oct 19, 2024 · 7/11/24 Public Square Amplified. Hurricane Beryl, the strongest hurricane recorded in the Caribbean since 2005 and the earliest Category 5 hurricane ever observed in the Atlantic Ocean, devastated the lives of hundreds of thousands of people in its path across the Caribbean. The prime minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, a small island ...
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Public Square Amplified is a local nonprofit newsroom founded by a team of Black women with over 40 years of combined experience in the academic, nonprofit, journalism, and community organizing sectors. Public Square Amplified positions journalism as a civic tool and creates a pipeline for a new generation of local journalists. Our reporting ...
The Constitution: A tool for liberation — PUBLIC SQUARE
Sep 15, 2022 · In the spirit of Democracy Day, Public Square Amplified asked our colleagues Linda McDonald Carter, a community-based attorney and former professor and director of Paralegal Studies at Essex County College, and Gloria J. Browne Marshall, a Pulitzer Center grantee and Professor of Constitutional Law at John Jay College, to explore the themes of American Democracy and our Constitution.
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Oct 19, 2024 · In this exclusive column for Public Square Amplified, senatorial candidate Lawrence Hamm, founder of the People’s Organization for Progress, explains his decision to vote “uncommitted” in the upcoming New Jersey presidential primary, taking place June 4. Hamm is the only candidate in the primary who has said he will vote “uncommitted ...
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11/23/23 Public Square Amplified team. Temporary ceasefire reached: A young Palestinian-American’s voice is revisited. NEWARK, NJ –The world has been watching the latest war between Israel and the Occupied Territory of Palestine-Gaza for the past seven weeks. According to the latest reports, to date, over 14,500 have been killed in Occupied ...
2024 Overview — PUBLIC SQUARE
May 31, 2024 · Senior Editorial Advisor: Dr. Todd Stevens Burroughs . Overview: PSA's "Citizen as Journalist" class of 2024 took participants through an experiential learning process that inspires storytelling that centers the voice of activists, students, workers, and immigrants. The class opened the storytelling world to community members who are trained and untrained in journalism and news reporting and ...
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Aug 8, 2024 · In 2020, New Jersey legislators enacted a ban on single-use plastic bags. It's working, says Siva Jonnada in a new column for Public Square Amplified. Critics cite a flawed study
Reimagining our co-existence - PUBLIC SQUARE
Jun 20, 2024 · Indeed, closing gaps in four key areas - wages, education, housing, and investment – would have added $16 trillion to the U.S. economy from 2000 to 2024, according to one study undertaken by Citibank. Moving forward requires self-reflection and action. Black leadership has a crucial role to play. Those with resources and intellectual capital ...