The Atlantic City Free Public Library will hold its annual MLK Read-in program from noon to 2 p.m. Saturday at the Noyes Arts Garage of Stockton University at 2200 Fairmount Ave.
Atlantic City Council Vice President Kaleem Shabazz said he will hold a news conference Tuesday to address a sign that was recently removed from a residential area near the Inlet due to it having racial implications.
Black Art Matters programs will continue because the program will receive some of the money from a new $100,000 grant by the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation that has been slated for the Arts Garage and Stories of Atlantic City, both Stockton-affiliated organizations.
Civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer s legacy will continue to live on in Atlantic City through a statue gifted to the resort that will live inside Jim Whelan Boardwalk Hall, where she gave a famous speech in 1964.
Matt Doherty was terminated with 120 days notice at a special meeting Thursday night, after just four months on the job trying to turn around an agency that has been unable to provide basics such as heat and hot water to many residents.