As a simple but visible tribute, students and staff from NCC Harmony House Early Learning Center honored the victims of Sept. 11, 2001, by marching in Newark on the 13th anniversary of the terrorist attacks.Led by Sister Maurice Okoroji, right, Director of Harmony House Early Learning Center, the students and staff waved flags, held banners and marched on the sidewalk. Okoroji said it’s important to teach the younger generations who weren’t born then about both the lives lost and the heroism displayed on that day.Sgt. James Massey of NCC’s Security Department escorted the group as they marched and ensured the safety of both students and staff.
For more than 50 years, New Community Corporation has walked the walk of social justice, helping residents of inner cities improve the quality of their lives to reflect individual God-given dignity and personal achievement. After all, NCC was birthed from the literal ashes of the civil disorders of 1967 by a core group of Black community leaders and White allies, including a young priest named William Linder. Together, they modeled through word and deed the moral principle and reality that Black Lives Matter.
Today, just as in 1967, NCC joins in solidarity with all those who seek justice and an end to police brutality and racism.
