Community Bulletin Board: Criterion Sentinel (for May 19)
The Metuchen Recreation Commission is sponsoring a Pop Up Dance for current Metuchen eighth- and ninth-graders and their escorts at the Metuchen Pool from 6:15 – 9 p.m. May 20.
All state and CDC recommendations will be followed, including mask-wearing and social distancing. The event is limited to 200 attendees, including staff.
The dress code is business casual for the escorts and semiformal, “anything goes,” for the young ladies, according to the commission.
The recommendation is to bring flat shoes or flip-flops as the event will be held on grass. There will be no swimming.
Photos, favors, dancing and food will be supplied by Frescos By Jimmy.
The study will be complete in September, but preliminary findings were presented to City Council last week.
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People listen while several organizers speak outside St. Petersburg City Hall ahead of a march in solidarity against racism and police brutality in April. A new study is examining the role of structural racism in the city. [ IVY CEBALLO | Times ]
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ST. PETERSBURG â The takeaways from a study presented at Thursdayâs St. Petersburg City Council meeting werenât particularly surprising: Structural racism exists in the city. And it has for a long time.
Inequality and segregation have been longstanding issues in St. Petersburg, where only decades ago redlining forced African Americans to live in certain areas and where Central Avenue served to bifurcate the city. Those historic wrongs, and others, have a strong and persistent legacy today, according to the study.
Community Bulletin Board: Criterion Sentinel (for May 12)
The Terra Nova Flower Club of Edison will hold its annual flower sale from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. May 22 at the Thomas Edison Tower, 37 Christie St., Edison. Rain date is May 23.
There will be an assortment of annuals, perennials, house plants, herbs and honey from a local beekeeper for sale.
Current COVID-19 guidelines will be observed.
Purchases will be cash only.
New Jersey State Association of American Physicians of Indian Origin (AAPI) COVID Crisis Fund is supporting the rising demand for medical oxygen for hospitals in India.
Make a check payable to AAPI and mail to Dr. Binod Sinha, 4 Progress St., Suite A9, Edison 08820.
Chapel Hill and Carrboro’s historically Black communities especially the Northside community have a rich and abundant history with deep ties to civil rights and social justice.
Preserving that history is one of the goals of the Marian Cheek Jackson Center for Saving and Making History, located near Carolina’s campus on West Rosemary Street.
“The work that we do is rooted in oral history,” said George Barrett ’14, the Jackson Center’s executive director.
Carolina students have had an opportunity to contribute to the center’s work as part of the University’s “Race and the Right to Vote in the United States,” an APPLES Service-Learning course in the College of Arts & Sciences’ political science department. Through the class, the students get a firsthand look and listen at history by serving as oral history processors for From the Rock Wall, an oral history website about Black Life in southern Orange County, housed at the Jackson Center.