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TELLING STORIES, CHANGING THE CONVERSATION

Crisis & Natural Disasters/Environment & Ecology 16.08.2019

Newark residents concerned about health, outraged over city’s “cover up” of lead water crisis

The looming water crisis comes to a head. Now residents demand answers and scramble for safe drinking water.

News & Current Affairs

August 9, 2019 Highlights/Immigration & Migration

650 ICE agents deployed to Mississippi to arrest chicken catchers and cleaners at poultry plants

This week, US Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) resourced millions of dollars to carry out Trump Administration’s, largest, single-state immigration sweep of undocumented … Keep Reading

August 7, 2019 Culinary Traditions & Food Ways/Highlights/Immigration & Migration

Stories and food at the margins have a seat at Tender Table

Between folds of fufu, phở and stews are stories as rich and layered like the flavors found in the dozens of culinary … Keep Reading

August 6, 2019 Highlights/In Memoria

Iconic Black writer, Nobel Laureate, and Presidential Medal of Freedom honoree, Toni Morrison passes

An African proverb goes, “When an elder dies, a library has burned down.” With the passing of American literary and cultural icon, … Keep Reading

August 4, 2019 Ark Weekender/Arts & Culture/Business & Technology/Highlights

Afrotectopia arts, culture and tech fest continues to create spaces and opportunities for Black folk on the margins

What began as a festival designed to recognize the contributions of Black artists, designers, technologists, entrepreneurs and activists, is now in full … Keep Reading

16 reasons why we fell in love with Baltimore

Published on August 2, 2019 in Arts & Culture/Politics & Social Justice by Ark Republic News Desk

There are many reasons why we bang hard for Baltimore. Here are a dozen and some change.

Puerto Rico’s secretary of justice prefers not to succeed as governor after party member resigns in disgrace

Published on July 31, 2019 in Politics & Social Justice by Ark Republic News Desk

Secretary of Justice, Wanda Vásquez Garced, is next in line to assume the governor’s role of Puerto Rico, but she refuses the succession.

Lincoln Park Music Festival plans to imbue the city of Newark for the culture

Published on July 26, 2019 in Ark Republic by Ark Republic News Desk

This weekend from July 26 to July 28, Lincoln Park Music Festival’s (LPMF) annual celebration of spirit and dance, gears up for three days of music, movement and Black culture joy.

Blockchain has found a new home, the prison industrial complex

Published on July 22, 2019 in Business & Technology/Currency by Duane Reed

Forget skew numbers, microchips and barcodes as monitoring systems. Now, governments and companies use cryptography, popularly known as blockchain, to trace everything from prisoners to potato chips.

It’s Monday. Get your home office organized

Published on July 22, 2019 in Business & Technology/Career & Retirement by Ark Republic News Desk

70 percent of people who work around the world, spend at least one day working from home. What’s your home office situation?

‘The Black Godfather’ documentary explores Clarence Avant and the ruling class use of black pop culture | Think Piece

Published on July 20, 2019 in Ark Weekender/Arts & Culture by Pascal Robert

Clarence Avant mastered pimping out Black identity to normalize the functioning of a nation premised on the oppression of his fellow Black citizens.

Reparations | The World is a Gamble Comic Strip

Published on July 20, 2019 in Ark Weekender/Arts & Culture by Matthew Gamble

Since reparations emerges again as a national conversation, so does the generational differences on restorative justice and the Black experience in the US.

Deciding to have an abortion was the right decision and a difficult one | The Man Project

Published on July 17, 2019 in Ark Republic by Charles Moss

Abortion is not my story to tell. It is hers, and theirs.

Women of Sudan’s diaspora channels ancient mothers to keep the fires of revolution burning

Published on July 15, 2019 in Africa & the Diaspora/World Affairs by Kaia Niambi Shivers

Sudan’s interim military council attempts to sequester communication of protesters calling for the end of military rule. Across the globe, the country’s diasporans keep the world watching Sudanese fight for change.

Los Angeles starts summer with carnival, shows the cities blooming culture and communities

Published on July 6, 2019 in Ark Weekender/Arts & Culture by Ayanna Shivers and Scotty Bryant

Carnival came to Los Angeles last week with its annual, Los Angeles Culture Festival and Hollywood Carnival Parade

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