New Community Gardens Senior hosted a backyard barbecue at 265 Morris Ave. in Newark. Resident John Aytch, far left, puts his paintings on display.The laid-back afternoon gathering featured all the fixings: burgers, dogs, kabobs, sodas, chips, watermelon and an array of potluck items prepared by residents 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.
