Sister Pauline Echebiri and Social Services staff served residents lunch.
Malcolm Hayman, a former employee of Social Services, volunteered to man the grill.
New Community Health and Social Services organized a Father’s Day barbecue and luau on the back patio of NCC Douglas Homes at 15 Hill St. in Newark. A professional hula dancer provided the entertainment.
Sister Mary Prisca served watermelon during the barbecue, which included grilled hamburgers, hot dogs, chicken kabobs, macaroni salad, soda, chips and cake.
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.
