New Community is supporting the City of Newark’s effort to clean up and beautify its neighborhoods as part of a campaign called “Slam Dunk The Junk.” From left, Harmony House staff Linda Washington, Terrence Dhainy, Lisa Chavis, Carolyn Andrews, Melvina Coleman, Angela Hall and Angela Potts don t-shirts provided to NCC by the city that promote removing trash from the streets and planting flowers.
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.
