NEWARK, NJ — Irvington’s NAACP hosted its 37th annual Freedom Fund Banquet at the B.F. Johnson Fellowship Hall in the Metropolitan Baptist Church in Newark on Friday, Oct. 4. Also serving as a fundraiser for the organization, the event helps subsidize organization expenses that arise in the course of the year, as well as the […]
NEWARK, NJ — When the Rev. William Rutherford II retired from the Greater New Point Baptist Church on Paine Avenue in December 2018, after 38 years of leading that religious institution, he said he wouldn’t stop preaching. And sure enough, Rutherford was in the pulpit of Franklin-St. […]
ORANGE, NJ — Reaction to the news of the alleged use of excessive force by an Orange Police officer against twin sisters, who are Orange High School seniors, and Orange High School Assistant Principal Mohammed Abdel Aziz on Thursday, Oct. 12 has been swift. The incident occurred outside a pizza parlor and corner store at […]
ORANGE, NJ — The claim that Orange had no homicides this year until Thursday, Aug. 24, when Malcolm T. Ford, 24, of Orange, was killed on the 200 block of Scotland Road in Orange, has recently proven to be incorrect. On Tuesday, Sept. 19, acting Essex County Prosecutor Robert D. Laurino and Essex County Sheriff […]
ORANGE, NJ — The Rev. William Rutherford Jr. of Greater New Point Baptist Church on Paine Avenue has a very simple leadership philosophy, which probably goes a long way toward explaining why he has always been so ready to open the doors of his church to those who needed somewhere to hold community-oriented events, such […]