New Jersey was the last Northern state to abolish slavery — and had enslaved people past Juneteenth. The New Jersey Institute for Social Justice wants to study the damages and what can be done.
On Monday, June 19, the People’s Organization for Progress (POP) will hold a march and rally in Newark calling on the state’s lawmakers to pass bills and begin the process of reparations for descendants of slavery.
The report, which analyzes 342 calls for service between December 2021 and January 2023, found that the ARRIVE Together program did not lead to significant differences in outcomes based on race.