Antoinette Dixon, program manager of New Start, smiles next to gift bags prepared for each New Start mother.New Start staff prepared a luncheon complete with pasta, pizza, salad, sides and a cake.Destiny, foreground, age 2, and her younger sister, Ebony, age 1, colored pictures while attending the event with their mother, Tamara White, not pictured.Jeronima Diaz, holding her son Jose, is a participant in New Start, which is a boarder baby prevention program that helps at risk mothers and their babies.Olguine Lovincy holds her 2-month-old daughter Olguina.The Family Service Bureau’s New Start program celebrated Mother’s Day by hosting a luncheon for families including, from left, Shaquanna Reddick, Zanovia, age 3 months, Zanilah, age 2, and Gerrell Henry.
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.
