Tucker & McKnight Measure to Establish Black Heritage Trail Clears Assembly Committee March 9, 2021, 3:20 pm | in
Tucker & McKnight Measure to Establish Black Heritage Trail Clears Assembly Committee
(TRENTON) – Black history, heritage, and culture has had a longstanding impact on New Jersey. Assembly members Cleopatra Tucker (D-Essex) and Angela McKnight (D-Hudson) sponsor legislation to bring that history to light with the New Jersey Black Heritage Trail. On Monday, the measure was passed by the Assembly Tourism, Gaming, and the Arts Committee.
The bill (A-4706) would direct the Division of Travel and Tourism in the Department of State to establish a series of Black heritage sites to promote Black history, heritage, and culture. Throughout the trail, sites and historic markers will connect the stories of Black life and resiliency in New Jersey.
Bills spurred by work done by panel called to hear testimony of abuse in politics
Feb. 11, 2020: The first hearing of the Workgroup on Harassment, Sexual Assault and Misogyny in New Jersey Politics. The measures that passed the Assembly Monday grew out of the group’s work.
A package of bills designed to protect and enhance the rights of survivors of sexual assault in New Jersey cleared its final legislative hurdle Monday. The measures grew out of the work of a group of women looking into sexual abuse and harassment in state politics and government.
If signed into law by Gov. Phil Murphy, the measures would give those who suffer assault more information about any criminal case related to their complaints and some control over those cases. The law would require them to have information explaining their rights, the availability of counseling, and the ability to review and submit corrections to case reports.
N.J. legislators, civil rights leaders call for task force on reparations over slavery
Updated Feb 27, 2021;
New Jersey legislators, including several members of the state’s Legislative Black Caucus, are once again calling for the passage of a bill (S322/A711) that would create a task force to explore reparations over slavery.
In a Zoom meeting, attended Thursday by several prominent religious leaders and heads of statewide civil rights groups, including the NAACP and the New Jersey Institute For Social Justice, legislators called for the formation of a reparations task force, which they said is necessary and long overdue to address systemic racism.